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January 21, 2016

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A DA M S C OU N T Y & J EF F ER S ON C OU N T Y, C OLOR A D O

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FIREFIGHTERS AND ICE

SPORTS ACTION The roundup for North Metro sports teams can be found on PAGE 19.

SCHOOLS: PARCC TEST

South Metro Fire Rescue’s Rich Arbuckle gets direction from his tenders, from left, Mark Grafitti of West Metro Fire Rescue and Jack Rainalter of South Metro Fire Rescue, during the yearly ice dive. The regional dive team training exercise, which took place this year at Big Soda Lake at Bear Creek Lake Park in Morrison on Jan. 11, also included firefighters from Westminster Fire Department. For more coverage on the ice dive, turn to PAGE 8. Photos courtesy of West Metro Fire Rescue

Affordable housing a legislative priority

ALL IN THE FAMILY

Adams County legislators will hold monthly town hall meetings to address issue By Ann Macari Healey ahealey@coloradocommunitymedia.com Sen. Jessie Ulibarri — a Democrat from District 21, which includes parts of Westminster, Arvada and Federal Heights — will be focusing on affordable housing as a major priority. The expansion of light rail into Adams County has made it more difficult in those areas “for folks who have lived there forever to afford that part of town,” he said. People need to be able to “afford to live where they’ve usually lived.” Ulibarri was among 100 state legislators gathered Jan. 13 to open Colorado’s 70th General Assembly amid ritual and patriotic ceremony at the state Capitol in Denver. And in keeping with the day’s positive tenor of bipartisan workmanship, Ulibarri is looking forward to finding common ground with his Republican counterparts. “”I’m optimistic,” he said. “We’ve proven we can work together.” Opening-day speeches from leaders of the House and Senate underscored their varying philosophical approaches to dealing with the major issues of budget, affordable housing, transportation and education. Legislature continues on Page 5

The Ciancio family had the opportunity to chat and re-establish connections during a lunch attended by six generations of the Italian family. To read more about the family gathering, turn to PAGE 4. Photo by Clarke Reader

Release of data causes dismay

Recently released results delay preparation for spring test By Crystal Anderson Canderson@coloradocommunitymedia.com

School officials are dismayed by the release of 2015 PARCC results just four months before students will take the standardized test again in April, saying teachers have no ACT SWITCH time to interpret the POSTPONED data to help State education officials prepare stuhave made a decision on dents. when students will switch “ T h e taking college entrance delay in exams. To read about the getting inchange, flip to PAGE 6. formation – on how to administer the test, training on the test – it was a lack of communication about it and that doesn’t help school districts,” said Oliver Grenham, chief education officer for Adams County School District 50. “Once the results came back, well, it’s a post-mortem piece of data from an instructional point of view.” On Dec. 11, the Colorado Department of Education released the initial results of the Partnership for Academic Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) assessments in English and

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