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August 22, 2013

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Elbert County, Colorado • Volume 118, Issue 30

Do-over sought on oil, gas rules Expert who resigned says situation can be salvaged

By Deborah Grigsby

dgrigsby@ourcoloradonews.com

Performers with Circus-Your-Way provide entertainment during musical sets at the second annual Elizabeth Community Music and Arts Festival. Cooler weather and a stunning sunset made for a delightful backdrop for the Elbert-based youth entertainment group.

Celebrating all things creative One of the big attractions at this year’s Elizabeth Community Music and Arts Festival was a giant graffiti wall featuring the work of professional graffiti artists from coloradocrush.org. The organization strives to embrace the urban art form in a positive light, sharing its meaning and culture with others.

Music and art filled the air in Casey Jones Park on Aug. 17 as the second annual Elizabeth Community Music and Art Festival got underway. Area bands, artists and entertainers gathered to celebrate creativity and culture. Elizabeth Mayor Clay Hurst said the event’s success relies heavily on its sponsors and this year’s sponsors worked hard to nurture the program and help it find its place in the community. There were graffiti artists, circus performers and a variety of interesting culinary treats including Armenian falafels.

Photos by Deborah GriGsby

Retired petroleum engineer Grant Thayer says he acted hastily after Elbert County commissioners voted to reject an amendment to the land-use code and the accompanying memorandum of understanding that would have formalized the county’s process for oil and gas exploration.

Thayer resigned from the county’s allvolunteer editing committee — the group that helped prepared the controversial documents — shortly after the board’s July 10 vote, citing “lack of leadership” on the matter, resulting in what some have labeled an ambush vote.

But Thayer cedes that with clarity of time he’s been able to reflect.

“We can fix this,” Thayer told commissioners on Aug. 14. “I think we can take a lot of the negatives here and turn them into a positive, and the positive I’d like to suggest is that the BOCC return the regulations as written to the editing committee, recognizing there are some points that need either clarification or need to be rewritten.”

Thayer says the perhaps the biggest mistake made was the fact the documents in question have been referred to as oil and gas regulations.

“We don’t have oil and gas regulations,” he explained. “What we have is really an oil Gas continues on Page 5

thousands flock to Cabela’s for grand opening Hunters, campers and curious gather to formally open Lone Tree store

By Jane Reuter

jreuter@ourcoloradonews.com Parker resident Joe Folmar and Elizabeth’s Chris Alward suffered through a cold, windy Wednesday night in the Lone Tree Cabela’s parking lot. Thursday morning, that earned them spots near the front of a line a few-thousand-people in length.

“We slept in our lawn chairs, tucked into a little ball,” Folmar said. “It was probably about 50 degrees with 30 mph winds. I think it’s worth it. Now, it’s just what kinda goodies are we going to get?”

Cabela’s gave gift cards in varying amounts — one for $500 — to the first 500 people in line for the Lone Tree store’s Aug.

15 grand opening.

Campers started showing up at the store Aug. 13, store officials said. By the time the doors opened at 11 a.m., they estimated 5,000 people were waiting in a line that stretched all the way around the 110,000-square-foot building.

Another 5,000 more gathered several miles north at the Thornton store, which opened simultaneously. Lone Tree’s store, at 110,000 square feet, is slightly larger than Thornton’s, and even surpasses the 85,000-square-foot Sydney, Neb., store in size.

Most in line said they were longtime Cabela’s customers, many of whom previously had made the long journey to the Sydney store. Cabela’s is headquartered in Sydney.

Some were hunters, some campers and some just curious.

“I think we mainly came because it’s fun to people watch,” said Golden resident Kerry Bostwick. “This is really fun. Everyone is

so laid back.”

“I’m excited to look at the clothing and shoes and not have to guess at the size,” said Littleton’s Randy Alldridge, who in the past was a Cabela’s catalog shopper.

Rock music blasted across the parking lot, and cart-pushing Cabela’s employees doled out water bottles and doughnuts to the waiting customers.

While tour buses deposited customers at the back of the store and the overflow parking lot at Havana Street and RidgeGate

Parkway threatened to overflow, store employees rallied inside. Football in hand, Cabela’s regional retail manager Diane Uhlenkamp revved up the more than 200 staff members and corporate visitors crowded inside the store’s massive main hall.

“It’s Super Bowl time,” she said. “It’s gonna be big from here on out. Take great care of those folks out there because that’s what Cabela’s continues on Page 5

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Cabela’s staff high-five the Lone Tree store’s first shoppers as they enter the store moments after its Aug. 15 grand opening. Photo by Jane Reuter

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August 22, 2013

Go ahead, help make someone’s day They stand on a corner, three teenage girls in colorful summer dresses, their hands held high and clutching posterboards in neon green and pink scrawled with cheery messages: “Find the good.”

“Smile - U - matter.”

“Stay positive.”

“Honk if you’re happy.”

And many drivers do, creating an intermittent cacophony of horns of varying timbres and tempos. The girls respond with wide smiles and spirited fist pumps.

Kinzi Kuhloie gives a thumbs-up as one driver leans on the horn repeatedly in a long series of honks. “Yeah!” she says excitedly. “They’re really pumped!”

Kinzi is 17 and she’s been sign-holding, as she calls it, for two years. Her motivation is uncomplicated.

“Life can get overwhelming and so many things can build up that you don’t find the good,” she says. “This reminds you to look for the good . . . and remember that it’s there.”

Kinzi and her friends, Alyssa Hayne, 16, and Emily VonDongen, 19, have hit the streets in Highlands Ranch with their signs about twice a week this summer. The positive response, they say, keeps them coming back.

“We’re making people happy,” Alyssa says, “one sign at a time.”

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Kinzi, Alyssa and Emily are part of a growing grassroots crusade to spread positive thinking. She got the idea from a good friend, a student at Mesa State University in Grand Junction, who started a club to

promote positivity by holding signs.

In Anacortes, Wash., in May 2012, the Happiness Sprinkling Project was born when people gathered at a popular intersection and held signs saying “You are loved” and “Yes oh Yes.” The movement to “sprinkle happiness” through sign-holding events has since spread to 20 cities and two countries, according to its website.

Last year, in Washington, D.C., a 29-year-old man campaigned to make people smile by standing at street corners with friends holding posterboards declaring “Honk if you love someone,” “Be happy” and “Don’t be so hard on yourself.”

Passersby loved them back.

These spontaneous, informal events fit neatly into the emerging field of positive psychology and the study of happiness. Instead of trying to figure out why we feel sad or depressed, positive psychology focuses instead on how we can become happier and more fulfilled.

The world-renowned founder of positive psychology, Dr. Martin Seligman, directs the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. (You can take the free authentic happiness test on the center’s website at www.authentichap-

piness.sas.upenn.edu/Default.aspx.)

He contends that happiness can be analyzed into three measurable elements —positive emotion, engagement and meaning — and that the ultimate goal is to reach a state of well-being.

What Kinzi and her friends are doing may not be earth-shattering in terms of establishing lasting happiness, but creating moments that make us smile or laugh or lift our spirits can make a difference that matters.

Kateri McRae, an assistant professor at the University of Denver who researches emotions, notes that studies show our brains are wired in a way that tune in more quickly to negative information.

“Evolutionarily, negative information is usually more critical to deal with — and to deal with quickly — and so our brains process negative information a little bit faster,” she says. For instance, “If we discover there is something that wants to eat us out there, (the brain tells us) we should run as fast as possible.”

Our brains hone in rapidly on causes of negative emotion, too.

“We tend to pick out a `frownie’ face out of a sea of smiling faces pretty quickly,” McRae says. “Negative emotions can even further narrow our attention and . . . remind us of other negative things,” generating a feedback loop that keeps circulating unhappy feelings.

But those same reinforcing effects manifest themselves with positive emotion also.

“Being in a positive mood tends to make you more aware of the more positive things around you,” McRae says. “Remember-

ing positive things tends to remind you of other positive things.”

What Kinzi and her friends are doing, McRae says, can be clinically described as “benefit-finding” — encouraging people to look for the hidden benefits in life — a component of many therapeutic interventions.

“You never know what is going to send somebody up, flip around a downward spiral into an upward spiral,” McRae says.

“There is potential a sign could do that. My best guess would be that it helps a small portion of the people who drive by. You never know what’s going to turn someone’s day around. . . . Sometimes, you just need a reminder.”

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For Kinzi and her friends, much happiness comes from making others happy.

Yes, there have been people who flip them off or yell “You suck!” as they drive by. Kinzi’s reaction: “It’s really unfortunate you guys think that way, but you need the love the most.”

But by and far, reaction is overwhelmingly positive.

“Some guy pulled over last week and gave us $20,” Kinzi says. “He said, `You deserve some lunch.’ That was cool.”

Another driver once parked to say: “I was having a terrible day and your sign completely turned it around and gave me hope.”

And the driver of a Wonder Bread truck tossed out a box of muffins.

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August 22, 2013

Governor touts school-finance reform tax hike Rally brings out supporters, detractors of possible ballot measure

“It’s just more money going into a bloated system that’s failing,” said Kelly Maher, a coalition member of Coloradans for Real Education Reform, the campaign that’s fighting against the initiative.

“We need to reform the system first before we increase taxes on Colorado families.”

Initiative 22 ballot organizers claim to have turned in more than 160,000 signatures of registered voters, nearly double the 86,105 needed to qualify for this fall’s ballot.

However, the secretary of state’s office announced the day after the rally that it will have to review the signatures line by line to determine whether the measure makes the ballot. That’s because the verification of a random sample of petition signatures fell into a range that requires such a review.

The secretary of state’s office has until Sept. 4 to complete its review.

By Vic Vela

vvela@ourcoloradonews.com Gov. John Hickenlooper gave a full-throated endorsement of a school-finance reform tax hike at a Lakewood rally on Aug. 15, marking the beginning of a campaign behind what’s expected to be the most significant ballot question voters will decide on this fall.

Hickenlooper was joined by other education-reform advocates at a Green Mountain High School rally that drew more than 100 supporters of an initiative that will create $950 million in new taxes that will fund an overhaul of the Colorado school-finance system.

“I refer to this all the time as the single most comprehensive education-reform initiative in the history of the United States,” Hickenlooper said. “With this initiative, we’re building a public education system that’s going to serve as a model for the rest of the United States.”

By passing Initiative 22 this fall, taxpayers would fund full-day kindergarten for all Colorado children and would provide more support for at-risk students and English learners. The initiative also aims to reduce class sizes and provide greater funding equality for school districts across the state.

Hickenlooper was joined at the rally by other supporters of the Colorado Commits to Kids campaign. They included Jefferson County Schools Superintendent Cindy Stevenson, who said that “an additional 3,000 5-year-olds will have free full-day kindergarten” in the county, and that at least 1,000 at-risk Jeffco children will have access to free preschool, if the initiative passes.

Colorado Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia echoed Stevenson’s call to pass the ballot measure, saying, “We know that not all kids enter school on equal footing.”

“But if we want all kids to graduate and all be ready for higher education we need to be sure we can provide the level of individualized support that not all districts can afford to offer,” Garcia said.

Initiative 22 would raise taxes on all Colorado taxpayers.

The two-tiered proposal would raise income taxes to 5 percent on everyone earning $75,000 or less. Those who earn over that amount would pay 5 percent on the first $75,000 in taxable income and 5.9 percent on taxable income above $75,000.

Colorado’s current income tax rate is a flat 4.63 percent, regardless of income level.

Hickenlooper said that Colorado is one of the lowest-

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Gov. John Hickenlooper addresses supporters during an Aug. 15 rally at Lakewood’s Green Mountain High School. The governor spoke in support of a tax hike aimed at funding a school finance formula overhaul. Photo by Vic Vela taxed states in the country and will remain so, even if the initiative passes.

But opponents of Initiative 22 were quick to jump on Hickenlooper’s comments.

“I think it’s interesting that the governor comes to the county that will get the least return on its investment,” said Jefferson County Schools Board of Education member Laura Boggs, who attended Hickenlooper’s speech.

Boggs says that Jefferson County taxpayers will pay at least $130 million in taxes, but that the school district will only get about $60 million in funding if the ballot initiative passes.

“He stands in our backyard, where our children, if this passes, are worth less than 50 cents on the dollar,” she said.

“I find that interesting.”

Curtis Hubbard, of the Colorado Commits to Kids campaign, countered Boggs, saying that the initiative will result in more than $600 in per-pupil funding for students in Jefferson County, “which is an investment that we believe taxpayers will support.”

Across the street from the rally, a small group of Initiative 22 opponents attacked the “ostensible reforms” that will occur if the ballot question passes. But mainly, they argued that Coloradans “won’t have the appetite for this type of tax increase.”

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vgrantier@ourcoloradonews.com There was this Parker family: The father lost his job. A couple months later, the wife lost her job. And they had a mortgage to pay. So ultimately they sold their two cars so they could save their home. So then they had to depend on friends for rides to job interviews and to run errands. And then they needed help so they could feed and clothe their kids, as well as help paying utility bills.

“I get emotional,” said Nani Lindig recently, a Douglas Elbert Task Force volunteer who choked up momentarily while relating that family’s situation.

The task force was there to help the family, as well as the roughly 15,000 other people per year it helps who need emergency services, said Lindig, coordinator for the Sept. 13 Sassy Soiree, a major annual fundraiser for the task force.

And that’s why she hopes people will be interested in attending the fundraiser. She said the task force is one of the few human service organizations in this area. And the task force, among those organizations, is the one that is a kind of a one-stop-shopping help center of emergency services — providing food, housing, short-term help with utilities bills and other services from their Castle Rock headquarters at 1638 Park St. That’s the main reason. The other reason to attend is because the event, the Sassy Soiree, is great fun, she says.

NEWS IN A HURRY Chamber needs golfers

Golfers are still needed for the 2013 Elizabeth Area Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament. Tee up with members of the business community on Sept.

13 at the Spring Valley Golf Course, 42350 County Road 17/21. Sponsorships are available and range from $100 to $700.

A barbeque lunch and awards ceremony will follow the tournament. For more information, contact Beverly Durant, executive director at 303-646-4287 or by email at director@ elizabethchamber.org.

Registration forms can be found online at www.eliza-

bethchamber.org, under the “events” tab.

Help available for victims

Help is available for victims of domestic violence at the Women’s Crisis and Family Outreach Center, Bank of the West Building, 440 Comanche St., Kiowa.

This free program teams a social worker from the Outreach Center with a volunteer attorney to assist victims with legal and other support needs. For more information or to set up a confidential appointment, call 303-621-2701.

The center serves residents of both Elbert and Lincoln counties.

There will be auctions, a fashion show, luncheon, clothing and jewelry boutiques. Some items are donated - such as cases of wine from local wine sellers, gift cards and golf excursions. But many of the items are treasures found from the task force’s thrift shop that volunteers have put aside for months for this event. Things like mink coats like the one knee-length coat that sold for $200 at last year’s event. And the diamond ring that a man bought for his fiancée for $100.

The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Douglas County Events Center on the Douglas County Fairgrounds. Tickets are $45, or $400 for a table of eight. The deadline to buy tickets is Sept. 6.

To buy tickets or get more information, call Kathy at 303-688-1114 at Ext. 14.

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Kinzi has plans to start a club that would take the positivity from the sign-holding to another level, something longer lasting — “the idea if I can change your day, you’ll change somebody else’s day.”

But, on this afternoon, the girls enthusiastically wave their signs in the hope of bringing a little joy to someone who could use a pick-me-up.

One driver shouts through a window: “Have a good day!”

“Yeah!” Emily shouts back, glee in her voice. “You, too!”

A car with two young men stops, waiting for the light to change. The driver leans over and yells: “What are you guys doing this for?”

Emily grins: “To make you guys happy!”

He pauses a moment, looks at her, then: “Thank you for making my day.”

And he eases the car into the intersection, the smile on his face celebrating a moment of unexpected and simple pleasure.

Ann Macari Healey’s column about people, places and issues of everyday life appears every other week. She can be reached at ahealey@ourcoloradonews.com or 303-5664110.

August 22, 2013

Study looks at dogs’ ability to detect cancer Idea is to create electronic device to identify compound Associated Press Researchers trying to develop a diagnostic tool for ovarian cancer are hoping dogs’ keen sense of smell will lead them down the right path.

An early detection device that combines old-fashioned olfactory skills, chemical analysis and modern technology could lead to better survival rates for the disease, which is particularly deadly because it’s often not caught until an advanced stage.

Using blood and tissue samples donated by patients, the University of Pennsylvania’s Working Dog Center has started training three canines to sniff out the signature compound that indicates the presence of ovarian cancer.

If the animals can isolate the chemical marker, scientists at the nearby Monell Chemical Senses Center will work to create an electronic sensor to identify the same

odorant.

“Because if the dogs can do it, then the question is, can our analytical instrumentation do it? We think we can,” Monell organic chemist George Preti said.

More than 20,000 Americans are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year. When it’s caught early, women have a five-year survival rate of 90 percent. But because of its generic symptoms — weight gain, bloating or constipation — the disease is more often caught late.

About 70 percent of cases are identified after the cancer has spread, said Dr. Janos Tanyi, a Penn oncologist whose patients are participating in the study. For those women, the five-year survival rate is less than 40 percent, he said.

The Philadelphia researchers will build on previous work showing that early stage ovarian cancer alters odorous compounds in the body. Another study in Britain in 2004 demonstrated that dogs could identify bladder cancer patients by smelling their urine.

Dr. Leonard Lichtenfeld, deputy chief

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Email your ideas to Elbert County Reporter Virginia Grantier at vgrantier@ourcoloradonews.com or call her at 303-566-4087.

South Metro Denver Chamber Announces New Board for 2013-14 The South Metro Denver Chamber has announced the new members of its Board of Directors for the 2013-2014 fiscal year. Made up of business leaders from large corporations, to small one-person businesses, the 25 member board meets monthly to discuss Chamber issues and will officially begin its work on September 1st.

Herm Brocksmith of Kuni Honda will take up the Chair position from Lisa D’Ambrosia of Minor & Brown who will continue serving on the board.

Rick Whipple of WhippleWood CPAs was named as Chair-elect. Other officer positions include Rick Koontz of Wells Fargo Bank continuing to serve as Treasurer and Peter Moore of Polsinelli, PC serving as Legal Counsel. Other Vice Chair positions are: Steve Roper, Roper Insurance - Membership; Jeff Wasden of PROformance Apparel - Public Affairs; and Wendy Nelson, Denver Scholarship Foundation will be the Executive Committee Member at Large.

Chamber President and CEO, John

medical officer for the American Cancer Society, said while the canine concept has shown promise for several years, there haven’t been any major breakthroughs yet.

“We’re still looking to see whether something could be developed and be useful in routine patient care, and we’re not there yet,” said Lichtenfeld, who is not involved in the study.

Cindy Otto, director of the Working Dog Center, hopes to change that with the help of McBaine, a springer spaniel; Ohlin, a Labrador retriever; and Tsunami, a German shepherd.

“If we can figure out what those chemicals are, what that fingerprint of ovarian cancer is that’s in the blood — or maybe even eventually in the urine or something like that — then we can have that automated test that will be less expensive and very efficient at screening those samples,” Otto said.

The ovarian cancer detection study is being funded by an $80,000 grant from the Madison, N.J.-based Kaleidoscope of Hope Foundation.

Brackney is excited to begin working with the new board and appreciates the work of the former board members.

“The South Metro Denver Chamber is rich in tradition for identifying talented leaders who are willing to serve. All of our outgoing and incoming members of the Board of Directors are proven leaders who are committed to serving our community and enhancing the lives of everyone they meet while improving the economy for all, most whom they will never meet. Please join me in thanking them for their volunteer service. Our future will Prosper because of their volunteerism,” said Brackney.

New, incoming board members include: Frederic de Loizaga, CBRE; Andrew Graham, Clinic Service Corporation; Tom Henley, Xcel Energy; Anthony Lambatos, Footers Catering (and 2013 Small Business of the Year award winner); Geoff Lawton, Littleton Adventist Hospital serving as Economic Development Group Vice Chair; Tom Puntel, Hyatt Regency DTC; and Cleve Wortham, FirstBank Arapahoe County serving as Small Business Development Center Vice Chair.

Continuing board members

Calendar of Events For a complete calendar of South Metro Denver Chamber events or more information, visit our web site at www.bestchamber.com or call 303-795-0142.

Thursday, August 22nd The South Metro Denver Chamber Board of Directors meeting during the recent Board of Directors Retreat and Leadership Conference held in downtown Denver.

include Mark Alpert, CH2M Hill; Gayle Dendinger, CAP Logistics; Joel Edwards, Gates Corporation; Keith Evans, Kaiser Permanente; Alex Hohmann, Anadarko Petroleum; Joe Rice of Lockheed Martin Space Systems; Norman Stucker, PADT; Becky Takeda-Tinker, CSU Global; and Mary White of Swedish Medical Center.

Outgoing board members are: Tom Anzia, Felsburg Holt & Ullevig; Jean Barker, J Barker & Associates; Cheryl Braunschweiger, ALMC Mortgage; Donna Wilson, Cherokee Ranch & Castle Foundation; Wendy Woods, Nexus Financial Services; and Bret Yoder of CliftonLarsonAllen. “Their service to our community has been outstanding and their legacy of building Remarkable Relationships with the Chamber will continue,” stated Brackney.

Meet Littleton School Board Candidate Carrie Warren-Gully The Chamber Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial Fix the Debt Now! Update & Action Plan The Chamber Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting Celebration for Hurricane Bar & Grill 8520 W. Bowles Ave., Littleton

Friday, August 23rd

Leadership Now! with Senator Michael Bennet The Chamber Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial President’s Leadership Forum The Chamber Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial Chamber Unplugged hosted by Construction Industry Networking Group The Chamber Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial

Monday, August 26th

Chamber Connectors Meeting The Chamber Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial

Tuesday, August 27th

Business Bible Study The Chamber Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial Exporting and Importing 101 The Chamber Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial

Wednesday, August 28th

Meet Centennial City Council Candidate Mike Hanbery The Chamber Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial Business Success Workshop: Get Your Arms Around Your Business The Chamber Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial Colorado Space Business Roundtable’s 5th Annual Beers & Brats Seakr Engineering, 6221 South Racine Circle, Englewood

Cell Phone Repair, CPR for short, opened their new headquarters at 5066 S. Wadsworth Way, Suite 114 in Littleton last week.

The two-day celebration included the traditional ribbon cutting ceremony, the band Parkside, prizes & raffle drawings, food and beverages. The shop specializes in repairing cell phones, laptops, tablets, video game consoles, iPods and most any other handheld electronic device. So don’t throw them away! Get them fixed with CPR! www.cpr-stores.com/littleton

Thursday, August 29th

19th Annual “Best” Golf Classic The Ridge at Castle Pines North, 1414 Castle Pines Pkwy., Castle Rock

Friday, August 30th

Park Meadows 17th Annual Pancake Breakfast Park Meadows Food Court, 8401 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone Tree

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and gas surface mitigation program…and the goal was to focus on the fact there will impacts to the county, to our roads, infrastructure and population.”

Thayer also explained many everyday words take on different meanings when applied to contracts in the oil and gas industry and that with another chance, and more guidance, the project could be salvaged.

“One of the things I’ve learned, looking back as an executive in the oil gas industry,” he said, “is that language is important; and that a lot of everyday terms have different meaning to the industry — and if you don’t understand the language, you’re not going to be able to negotiate a very effective MOU.” Board of County Commissioners Chairman Robert Rowland, who, at times, has questioned the legality of the editing committee’s work, reminded the packed room the county has a process for amending zon-

ing regulations, and that it should be followed.

“I think by recognizing reasons for the negative vote,” Thayer told Rowland, “and I think with some effort and willingness to accommodate each other’s ideas we can resolve this very easily and come up with a document that is uniquely Elbert County and that will work.”

Elbert County Resident Paul Crisan agrees that compromise is needed.

“Not only has this become a confusing issue in the county, it has also become a very divisive issue,” he said.

Lack of trust between the county and its residents, said Crisan, has contributed to the impasse.

“If we could just get this back on track and bring it through the process…because we have to,” Crisan said. “Right now we’re sitting here with nothing and it’s causing a lot of unrest in the county.”

While commissioners acknowledged the request, a decision on the matter is not expected until later.

“Of all the questions I’ve heard brought up about the oil and gas regulations,” said Thayer, “they are all easily resolvable.”

Coloradans without health insurance found out last week what it will cost them to comply with the insurance mandate taking effect next year.

The Division of Insurance released rates of plans that comply with the health care overhaul. Eighteen insurance companies will offer 541 separate plans for individuals and small groups.

For a 40-year-old individual customer, monthly premiums will range from $177 a month to $774 a month. The wide range of rates is because premiums depend on the level of coverage and where in the state a person lives. Insurers can charge smokers up to 15 percent more.

Colorado opens a marketplace Oct. 1 to help customers shop for insurance. The health insurance exchange, called Connect For Health Colorado, has hired “navigators” to explain the health insurance options at health fairs and community events, and the exchange has also taken out TV ads to get the word out about shopping for insurance.

Colorado has about 716,000 people without insurance. Many of them will be eligible for free health care through Medicaid, or subsidized health insurance depending on their incomes.

Coloradans who aren’t eligible for free health care but choose to skip health insurance altogether will be fined at least $95 next year, with fines going up dramatically in subsequent years. For now, health officials are hoping to lure the uninsured into the system, talking up new benefits under the overhaul.

For example, young and healthy customers can now find cheaper premiums for catastrophic health insurance. Health officials are trying to soften the sticker shock by talking up additional benefits those young

and healthy consumers will see under the new health insurance plans, such as lower out-of-pocket costs and free preventive care and cancer screenings.

“While it is tempting to compare the costs for the new plans to current ones, it is important to remember that these are new plans with new benefits and new requirements, so it is not an ‘apples to apples’ comparison.” Interim Insurance Commissioner Doug Dean said in a statement.

The rates released Aug. 16 show the complicated decisions facing Colorado’s uninsured.

First, rates and options will depend on where in Colorado a customer lives.

Let’s say 40-year-old customer seeking individual insurance through the exchange wants a “bronze” plan, meaning insurance would cover 60 percent of their health care costs.

That 40-year old would have 16 insurers to choose from, with monthly premiums from $186 to $364, if they live in Denver.

The same customer living in Grand Junction would have just eight insurers to choose from, with monthly premiums ranging from $237 to $400. And if the same customer is living in Greeley, they’d have 13 insurers to choose from, with monthly premiums ranging from $177 a month to $296 a month.

A 40-year-old customer who wants to use the exchange to buy an individual “platinum” plan, in which insurance would cover 90 percent of their costs, has even fewer options. That customer would have two insurers to choose from in Denver, one insurer to choose from in Colorado Springs, Pueblo and far Eastern Colorado, and no insurers at all through the exchange in Boulder, Fort Collins, Grand Junction or Greeley.

The Insurance Division also approved rates for small group plans, affecting businesses with more than 50 employees.

For the least expensive small group plan, monthly base rates for premiums range from $224 with Kaiser Permanente to $1,003 with Humana Insurance Co.

Thousands of people waited in line the morning of Aug. 15, in anticipation of Cabela’s opening its doors.

Cabela’s Continued from Page 1

we’re here for.”

“This has been (founder) Dick Cabela’s dream — to have a store in Denver,” Cabela’s COO Michael Copeland said, adding the opening of two stores simultaneously exceeded that vision. “We’ve already set some records this week. I don’t know what they put in the water in Denver.”

Copeland led employees in a cheer, ask-

ing, “Who are we?”

“Lone Tree, Lone Tree, Mile High Great,” the staff roared in return.

Moments before the doors opened, store, county and city officials addressed the huge crowd, most of whom were so far from the doors, they couldn’t hear the speeches.

Cabela’s is “a perfect complement to the world-class retail we have down here,” said Lone Tree Mayor Jim Gunning, urging the crowd to remember the day was a celebration of Cabela’s. “So when you walk in, don’t be stingy.”

County Commissioner Jack Hilbert

Archer Trevon Stoltzfus shot an arrow through a ribbon at the Lone Tree Cabela’s to signal the store’s Aug. 15 opening.

Photos by Jane Reuter took Gunning’s advice to heart. An avid outdoorsman, Hilbert said he spent about $1,000 during a preview event at the store and another $100 on opening day.

“This is fantastic,” he said. “You don’t see a grand opening in Douglas County like

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“Awesome,” County Commissioner Jill Repella agreed. “I’m extremely proud. The site exceeded my expectations, the store exceeded my expectations, the grand opening exceeded my expectations.”

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Make healthy homework a habit One of the questions my kids dreaded throughout their education was when I would ask this, “Do you have any homework tonight?” Of course they hated that question, I hated it too when I was growing up and my mother would ask me the very same thing.

Well it’s that time of year again when kids of all ages are settling back into the school routine and homework will be inevitable. And I think that many students get uncomfortable about the question because they would much prefer to say that there was no homework assigned or just a very little bit so that they can spend time with friends and doing anything other than their assignments.

At the end of the day the only person who really suffers is the student. Surely as parents we agonize over it a little too, but we can only do so much in the way of accountability. The student has to want to succeed and be an active participant in

their own learning and growth.

Homework is perceived as a “thing” that has to get done, when at the end of the day it’s really about work ethic and attitude.

Homework is a behavior that drives success whether we are in school, at work, or trying to grow personally or professionally.

You see, we can’t manage results, we can only manage behaviors. And it is in our school days that we develop this work ethic and positive habits that will propel us in our future endeavors.

Anyone reading this column can probably look back at a time when you or your child procrastinated or just avoided a homework assignment or maybe a few consecutive assignments. The outcome was that we fell farther behind and playing catch-up was infinitely harder. And we can also look back at a time when we took the time to do the homework, and how amazing it felt when we breezed through a quiz or test. Again, it’s about the behaviors that deliver results.

And as we fast forward past our school years and evaluate where we are today in our career we can probably point to specific times when we fell behind at work because we didn’t do the little extra things at the end of our day such as planning and preparing, making lists, looking at our goals, or checking off what we had accomplished. When we view this kind of work as productive we can view our homework as being healthy. It’s when we have the

attitude that we would rather avoid the behavior of a little extra work that we deprive ourselves of the feeling of accomplishment and we erode our beliefs in our own capabilities and what we can truly achieve.

Learning and growing is something that is a constant part of our entire lives not just during our years of schooling. We should always be “on the grow” as we look to raise the bar a little each and every day.

And healthy homework whether we are a student or enjoying a career is a great way to ensure our future success.

Are you keeping up with your healthy homework? I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com and together let’s continue to learn and make this a better-than-good week.

Michael Norton, a resident of Highlands Ranch, is the former president of the Zig Ziglar organization and CEO and founder of www.candogo.com

Average investors Something is hiding miss out on returns under the bed It is great when the stock market behaves … which means decent returns for the amount of risk an investor is willing to take. It can also mean that stocks are priced correctly based on fundamentals such as earnings, assets, and growth potential. But in reality, regardless of what the markets are returning or how appropriately stocks are priced, the average investor does not always benefit.

The reason for this is known as behavioral investing. No one can really predict what the emotions of those willing to take or not take risk at any certain time will be.

Therefore, sometimes emotions get in the way and cause people to make bad decisions.

The U.S. equity markets have hit highwater marks in most of July. It was also the month of July that recognized record deposits from investors into stock mutual funds. Sometimes this can be called “chasing returns.” In reality, the average investor’s emotions change at some point from fear of losing principal to fear of missing out on gains. This causes a behavior that is less than optimum, such as buying high and selling low.

This was brought to light again in a recent Dalbar ¹ study measuring investor returns compared to the stock market. The study shows that investors in U.S. stock mutual funds earned an average annualized return of 4.25 percent over the last 20 years. For that same time period, the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index returned 8.21 percent annualized. While we know one cannot invest directly in the S&P 500, this is a common benchmark for domestic stock equities.

The question is, what caused these investors to miss out on almost double the return? The answer lies in watching investor behavior when there is no formal portfolio strategy based on appropriate risk and time frame. Without an Investment Policy Statement (IPS), investors tend to flounder and move in one of several wrong directions: with the crowd; based on fear; or following the wrong information, such as the media, an uninformed friend, or choosing single hot picks.

The same study showed that more than 50 percent of the shortfall investors experience is due to physiological factors. This includes worrying more about short-term fluctuations than long-term results. This is one reason building a strategy based on the amount of time needed to reach your goal is so important.

Another recent characteristic in investor behavior is searching for yield. Many folks are fed up with no interest being credited

to their savings and money market accounts. This causes them to take on more risk in search of higher yields. The assumption is that savers deserve to earn something on their money. In reality, yields on short-term fixed-income accounts rarely pay more than current interest rates or inflation.

Based on the current interest rate environment, income assets producing higher yields are likely invested in riskier bonds.

Therefore a better strategy may be to see if you should add a diversification through other asset classes besides only those paying income. For immediate reserves, liquidity should be the main focus, not return.

There are many emotional trends being explored in investor behavior. This is one factor that adds to market volatility when there is no fundamental reason for markets to rise or fall on any given day. Often it is the perception of how markets will react that causes volatility, rather than fact. A recent example is the Federal Reserve announcement that drove both the bond and stock market down in June. There was no change in the commentary, but many investors perceived that it was time to pull out of bonds in case the Fed started tapering their easing program.

Since no one can predict the stock market, much less the behaviors of emotional investors, it is even more imperative that serious investors build a strategy for prudent, diversified investing first.

1. Dalbar is an investment research firm in Boston, President Louis Harvey Patricia Kummer has been an independent Certified Financial Planner for 27 years and is President of Kummer Financial Strategies, Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor in Highlands Ranch. She welcomes your questions at www.kummerfinancial.com or call the economic hotline at 303-683-5800.Any material discussed is meant for informational purposes only and not a substitute for individual advice. Investing is subject to risks including loss of principal invested.

Investors cannot purchase an index directly; these are used as a benchmark only.

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I have just returned from periodontal surgery and I am in no mood to labor my thoughts, but I have a deadline to meet, so I am going to plow forward with something. I may wander. I am still on painkillers.

Most people are afraid of the dentist. In fact, in some polls, going to the dentist is No. 1 on the list of things we fear most. It’s always one, or two, behind public speaking. Snakes, flying, and Rachel Ray round out the top five.

See what I mean? I’m daft.

I don’t fear the dentist. I should get a room in his office. I have had surgery and extractions and root canals. I had cavities drilled when I was a kid before Novocaine.

I don’t recommend it.

Maybe you read “A Million Little Pieces,” James Frey’s Oprah mess that has a chapter about oral surgery without an anesthetic.

It’s a lie, but it’s vivid.

I had a lot of dental care without an anesthetic, so being numbed now is a blessing, even though it seems like dental care in my life has been non-stop.

But it isn’t the dentist that I am afraid of.

I thought I would give you my list, while I am still comfortably numb.

And it’s all nonsense. Or drivel. Your next assignment is to read Pure Drivel.

Steve Martin.

All right, here’s my list, what scares me.

Country music. Joel Osteen. Flo. Nancy Grace. Pop Tarts. Lunchables.

Pat Robertson. Wayne LaPierre. Post-

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consumerism. The Dewey Decimal System.

Discount sushi. Transparency. Kierkegaard.

Buffalo Bob. Bologna. Kittens. This one is too easy, he scares everyone: Richard Simmons.

Family Feud. Kate Spade purses. Cosmopolitan. Gene Simmons. Paula Deen.

Chaz Dean.

Parakeets. Viagra commercials. ABBA. Guys and Dolls. Emoticons. Light jazz.

Non-dairy whitener. Plug-in air fresheners.

Joseph Prince.

Mississippi. Black Friday. Wind chimes.

Suncatchers. Perfume. Craig Ferguson.

Bowling shirts. John Travolta’s hair color.

Chick-fil-A. Spencer’s.

Shepard Smith. Misty May-Treanor.

Kerri Walsh Jennings. Marie Callender’s.

Aunt Jemima. Betty Crocker. Uncle Ben’s.

Martha Stewart. The View. This one is too easy too: Anthony D. Weiner. Florida’s Division of Elections. Speed trap on Yale Smith continues on Page 7

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2013 county fair results

Open Class DivisiOn

RhUbARb

3rD - Linda Almquist

PETUNIA, DOUbLE

3rD - Raylene Owen

DISh GARDEN

GARDEN, CROPS & FLORICULTURE

1st - Raylene Owen

DAhLIAS

1st - Betty Hood

yARROw

1st - Claudia Morgan

2nD - Doris Smith

1st - Claudia Morgan

PhLOx

1st - Raylene Owen

2nD - Deborah Maul

3rD - Mindy Webb

2nD - Raylene Owen

1st - Mary Slade

2nD - Brenda Atwater

ORNAmENTAL GRASSES

GREEN bEANS

SqUASh, SUmmER, NO zUCChINI

DAISIES

2nD - Ryleigh Tunink

3rD - Claudia Morgan

1st - Raylene Owen

1st - Mindy Webb

1st - Shirlene Roberts

1st - Linda Ehmann

ROSES, mINIATURE

3rD - Ryleigh Tunink

2nD - Shirlene Roberts

2nD - Jackie Lewis

2nD - Raylene Owen

1st - Linda Almquist

ORNAmENTAL GRASS

3rD - Nathan Klein

3rD - Nathan Klein

3rD - Jackie Lewis

2nD - Raylene Owen

1st - Raylene Owen

bEETS

SqUASh, SUmmER, zUCChINI

DELPhINIUmS

ROSES, OPEN

ANy OThER, CUT FLOwER

1st - Brenda Atwater

2nD - Raylene Owen

1st - Linda Almquist

2nD - Linda Ehmann

FLOwERING ShRUb OR vINE

2nD - Brenda Atwater

1st - Brenda Atwater

2nD - Claudia Morgan

ThUmbELINA FLOwER ARRANGEmENT

2nD - Raylene Owen

1st - Raylene Owen

2nD - Doris Smith

2nD - Jackie Lewis

2nD - Ryleigh Tunink

2nD - Doris Smith

AFRICAN vIOLET 1st - Mary Hudson

PATRIOTIC FLOwER ARRANGEmENT

2nD - Joan Roy

1st - Raylene Owen

GERANIUm

ChILD, 7 & UNDER FLOwER ARRANGEmENT

APPLES, ANy vARIETy 1st - Betty Hood

1st - Audrey Steffan 2nD - Jackie Lewis 3rD - Nathan Klein bRASSICA FAmILy 1st - Nathan Klein CAbbAGE, ANy type 1st - Shirlene Roberts CARROTS 1st - Shirlene Roberts 2nD - Audrey Steffan 2nD - Mindy Webb ChOkEChERRIES 1st - Julie Page 2nD - Dave Ehmann 3rD - Linda Ehmann CUCUmbERS, SLICING 1st - Shirlene Roberts hERb COLLECTION, fresh 1st - Ryleigh Tunink 2nD - Audrey Steffan 3rD - Raylene Owen LETTUCE 1st - Doris Smith ONIONS, DRy, any 1st - Audrey Steffan 2nD - Shirlene Roberts ONIONS, GREEN bunched 1st - Raylene Owen 2nD - Mindy Webb PEAS 1st - Audrey Steffan 2nD - Doris Smith EDIbLE PEAS, sugar peas 1st - Shirlene Roberts 3rD - Ryleigh Tunink PEPPERS, hOT 1st - Audrey Steffan POTATOES, ANy variety 1st - Shirlene Roberts 2nD - Raylene Owen RASPbERRIES 1st - Jackie Lewis

1st - Shirlene Roberts 2nD - Betty Hood

2nD - Betty Hood

3rD - Mindy Webb

GAy FEAThERS

SUNFLOwER

1st - Ryleigh Tunink

1st - Jackie Lewis TOmATOES, RIPE 1st - Linda Ehmann TOmATOES, SmALL, RIPE 1st - Ryleigh Tunink GARLIC 1st - Raylene Owen ANy OThER GARDEN PRODUCT 1st - Raylene Owen UGLIEST SPIDER 1st - Ryleigh Tunink bIGGEST GRASShOPPER 1st - Nolyn Lewis 2nD - Seth Conner ASTERS 2nD - Raylene Owen bAChELOR bUTTONS 1st - Linda Ehmann bLACk-EyED SUSAN 1st - Linda Ehmann bLANkET FLOwER 1st - Audrey Steffan ChRySANThEmUm 1st - Ryleigh Tunink COLUmbINES 1st - Doris Smith CONEFLOwER 1st - Raylene Owen 2nD - Audrey Steffan 3rD - Ryleigh Tunink COREOPSIS 1st - Jackie Lewis 2nD - Mary Slade 3rD - Betty Hood COSmOS 1st - Linda Ehmann 2nD - Ryleigh Tunink

Smith Continued from Page 6

between I-25 and Colorado Boulevard. The Sixth Step.

Fajitas, Mojitos. Carly Rae Jepsen. Hallmark cards. Sigfried and Roy. Pinky Lee. Crocs. Skip Bayless. Dinger. Buddy Hackett.

Aimee Semple Mcpherson.

Hamburger Helper. Brent Musburger.

Lower back tattoos. Flavor Flav.

Jimmy Dean sausage patties. Texas politicians. Chuck E. Cheese. Chuck Norris.

It’s a long list and it’s getting longer all the time. It’s crazy out there, man.

When I was a kid, my biggest fear was skeletons that were alive and running around. I would have nightmares and go climb in bed with my mother and father. I am sure they loved that.

Years later in a film class at UCLA, I watched Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon and there they were: lots and lots

DIANThUS

GLADIOLUS 1st - Linda Ehmann FLOwERING bULb 1st - Raylene Owen

2nD - Doris Smith 3rD - Raylene Owen SALvIA 1st - Raylene Owen 2nD - Doris Smith SNAPDRAGONS

2nD - Doris Smith

1st - Doris Smith

FLOwERING hERb, NOT CULINARy

2nD - Ryleigh Tunink 3rD - Linda Almquist

1st - Doris Smith

SEDUm

2nD - Linda Almquist

1st - Raylene Owen

3rD - Claudia Morgan

2nD - Claudia Morgan

hOLLyhOCk

3rD - Linda Almquist

1st - Ryleigh Tunink

3rD - Ryleigh Tunink

2nD - Linda Ehmann

SwEET PEAS

ImPATIENS

1st - Brenda Atwater

2nD - Raylene Owen

2nD - Linda Ehmann

LILy

wILD FLOwERS, ANy OThER

1st - Audrey Steffan 2nD - Doris Smith 3rD - Ryleigh Tunink

1st - Doris Smith 2nD - Linda Ehmann

2nD - Betty Hood

1st - Claudia Morgan ANy OThER plant in bloom 1st - Mary Hudson CACTUS 1st - Hagen Ellefson 2nD - Raylene Owen FERNS 1st - Raylene Owen

FAIR ThEmE flower ar-

rangement

1st - Raylene Owen OLD TO NEw FLOwER ARRANGEmENT 1st - Doris Smith 2nD - Raylene Owen

1st - Maizie Lewis 2nD - Fionna Lewis 2nD - Ryleigh Tunink FOODS mUFFINS 1st - Sharan Anderson 2nD - Deb Gardner qUICk bREAD, recipe

ANy OThER PLANT NOT IN bLOOm

1st - Sharan Anderson

1st - Linda Almquist

whOLE whEAT bread

2nD - Mary Hudson

1st - Julie Mizak

2nD - Raylene Owen

Fair continues on Page 8

2nD - Joan Roy

DAyLILy 1st - Raylene Owen 2nD - Claudia Morgan 3rD - Linda Ehmann mARIGOLDS, DwARF 1st - Donna Reese 2nD - Linda Ehmann 3rD - Mary Slade NASTURTIUm 1st - Linda Almquist PANSy 1st - Betty Hood 2nD - Raylene Owen 3rD - Linda Ehmann PETUNIA, SINGLE 1st - Linda Ehmann 2nD - Betty Hood 3rD - Mary Slade

of living skeletons running around like maniacs.

Turbulence. Chinese talapia. Top Ramen. PT Cruisers. Olive Garden’s Never Ending Pasta Bowl. Peep toe wedges. Flipflops on my insurance agent. Dulcolax.

Marilyn Monroe said, “Fear is stupid.

So are regrets.” She’s right, but it’s a tough call. The past is always ready to visit me, reminders are on stand-by.

It takes work to look forward, otherwise I am dragged at the ankles by something I can’t change.

There is one place I can go where I have no fears at all, and even though it’s just off of the dining room, it took years and years to get there.

I was fearful I would never make it. My studio.

There is one final fear. Sometimes I scare myself. To be honest, I kind of like it.

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast. net

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1ST - Emily Tackett

1ST - Mindy Webb

SOURDOUGH YEAST BREAD

JR. YOUTH, COOKIES, ANY 6

2ND - Faleena Coleman

1ST - Betty Hood

1ST - Sarah Kubala

SOURDOUGH ANY OTHER SOURDOUGH PRODUCT

JR. YOUTH, DECORATED CAKE

1ST - Mindy Webb

1ST - Betty Hood

1ST - Rose Barber

BUTTER CAKE

JR. YOUTH, DECORATED

1ST - Deb Gardner CARROT CAKE 1ST - Sharan Anderson CHOCOLATE CAKE 1ST - Sharan Anderson

ANY OTHER PICKLED SPAGHETTI SAUCE 1ST - Mindy Webb ANY OTHER SAUCE

cookie

1ST - Mindy Webb

1ST - Sierra Angel

YOUTH PICKLE & RELISH

JR. YOUTH, ANY OTHER FOOD

1ST - Faleena Coleman

1ST - Sarah Kubala

DECORATED CAKE OR COOKIE

BAR COOKIES

CHILD 7 & UNDER, COOKIES ANY

1ST - Tyler Grant

1ST - Mary Hudson

1ST - Caitlyn Leach

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

1ST - Mary Hudson

CHILD, DECORATED COOKIE/CUPCAKE

2ND - Sara Hudson

1ST - Becky Leach

1ST - Michael Barber

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

CHILD 7 & UNDER, ANY OTHER FOOD

1ST - Sharan Anderson

1ST - Ryken Angel

2ND - Deb Gardner ANY OTHER cookie

CANNED, ANY OTHER VEGETABLE

2ND - Sharan Anderson

1ST - Mindy Webb

PEANUT BRITTLE

2ND - Faleena Coleman

1ST - Betty Hood

BUTTER

JR. YOUTH, COOKIES, NO BAKE

1ST - Faleena Coleman DILL PICKLES

SOAP

3RD - Linda Almquist FAVORITE CHOCOLATE DESSERT 1ST - Brenda Atwater ARTS & CRAFTS ARTIFICIAL OR DRIED FLOWERS 1ST - Natalie Shafer 2ND - Carol Kirwin Fair continues on Page 9

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2013 county fair results

Continued from Page 8

Jr. youth, lego model

1st - Kaylea Carothers

memory pages

Beading

1st - Sierra Angel

1st - Mindy Webb

1st - Deborah Maul

2nd - Robert Wagner

sr. youth, any other art

2nd - Melissa Smith

3rd - Tanner Grant

3rd - JulieAnn Schafer Birdhouse, hand made 1st - Jimmie Almquist 2nd - Jimmie Almquist doll 1st - Teresita McIntosh handmade greeting

Jr. youth, any other craft 1st - Jordan Eccles 2nd - Colby Webb 3rd - Bailea Carothers child, homemade toy 1st - Makenzie Swan

cards

child, lego model

1st - Sharan Anderson

1st - Ryken Angel

holiday decoration

ceramics, glaze

1st - Deborah Maul

1st - Julie Page

2nd - Carol Kirwin

ceramics, underglaze

leathercraft

1st - Mary Louise Link

1st - Tanna Boyle

ceramics stains

2nd - Paul Kuran

1st - Mary Louise Link

shadow/memory Box

sr. youth, ceramics

1st - Carol Williams

1st - Mallory Link

2nd - Tanner Grant

Jr. youth, ceramics, any

stained glass 1st - Carol Kirwin 2nd - Julie Page textile painting 1st - Sara Hudson woodworking 1st - Jimmie Almquist 2nd - James Emig 2nd - James Emig 3rd - Jimmie Almquist 3rd - Charles Reese any, other craft 1st - Jimmie Almquist 2nd - Mary Hudson 3rd - Mary Hudson sr. youth, leathercraft

1st - Tanner Grant refinished item 1st - Sara Hudson

2nd - Sara Hudson

1st - Nancy Orth Jr. youth, home acces.

2nd - Chistopher Long

1st - Gretchen Denner-Adams

sr. youth, any other craft

pastel

SAU 2x2

1st - Tanner Grant

2nd - Lori Ellefson

2nd - Mackenzie Swan

apron

3rd - Lori Ellefson

1st - Deborah Maul

8x10, color digital camera

2nd - Kay Jensma

1st - Duane Johnson 2nd - Torrie Boyle 3rd - Torrie Boyle

3rd - Kay Jensma Basic or street dress 1st - Deborah Maul

Jr. youth, pottery

5x7, B&w digital camera

1st - Kodi Henderson

1st - Duane Johnson

2nd - Tanner Grant

2nd - Lori Ellefson

child, crayon

3rd - Torrie Boyle

1st - Mikaela Wagner

5x7, color digital camera

1st - Kinsey Bitterman

1st - Duane Johnson

3rd - Kinsey Bitterman

1st - Debbie Motenson

youth, color film camera

1st - Deborah Maul

1st - Kinsey Bitterman

Jumper or sleeveless dress

child, watercolor 1st - Kaycee Swan child any, other art 1st - Kaycee Swan

2nd - Leanne Conner

antique photo with story

2nd - Sara Hudson 3rd - Torrie Boyle

1st - Sarah McFarland

3rd - Sara Hudson

8x10, sepia digital camera 2nd - Duane Johnson panoramic, any 2nd - Kade Bitterman

youth, color digital camera

2nd - Betty Hood Blouse or shirt 2nd - Betty Hood coat or Jacket 1st - Nancy Orth costume 1st - Deborah Maul doll clothes

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What’s on the horizon.

Lone Tree, Colorado

Lone Tree, Colorado

2nd - Deborah Maul

charcoal drawing

Jr. youth, woodworking

1st - Sydney Eccles

5x7, color film camera

2nd - Torrie Boyle

any other home item

1st - Chistopher Long

1st - Tanner Grant

Jr. youth, watercolor

clothing & sewing

2nd - Mary Hudson

2nd - Gretchen Denner-Adams

Jr. youth, modelcraft

1st - Carol Williams

1st - Kodi Henderson

1st - Duane Johnson

1st - Carol Williams

sr. youth, woodworking

2nd - Tanner Grant

Jr. youth, color drawing

2nd - Grace Adams

rug/wall hanging

1st - Torrie Boyle

1st - Tanner Grant

self-puBlished memory Book

8x10, B&w digital camera

youth, sepia digital camera

1st - Deb Gardner

1st - Tyler Webb

Jr. youth, leathercraft

2nd - Sarah McFarland

2nd - Polly Ehlers

2nd - Andrew Tackett

hot dish mats

Black & white drawing

1st - Sierra Angel

1st - Donna Reese

2nd - Kade Bitterman

1st - Richard Gonzalez

sr. youth, modelcraft

Jr. youth, flower arrangement

memory alBum

Jr. youth, Black & white drawing

woodworking

1st - Bailey Martell

2nd - Kimberly Page

3rd - Colleen Grant

2nd - Kaylea Carothers

1st - Duane Johnson

1st - Jessi Dodge

2nd - Sara Hudson

1st - Travis Grant

1st - Sierra Roy

2nd - Mindy Webb

1st - Jake Freeland

5x7, sepia, digital camera

3rd - McKenna Henderson

1st - Carollyn Hall

Put us on your summer and fall calendar.

The RidgeGate community is thriving this season, with many fun, free events that will inspire you and your family to reconnect with nature, move your body, and meet your neighbors. Plan now to join us.

Friday, August 23, 7– 8:30pm

each of our five senses - sight, smell, sound, touch

The Wildlife Experience: Nature Nights Campfire Series

and taste. Test out the strength of your night vision as

Location: Schweiger Ranch

family-friendly hike.

Come gather around a fire for an evening of s’mores, stories and activities. This month, get to

darkness falls. Register at ridgegate.com for this free,

Friday, September 6, 6:30 – 8pm

2nd - Teresita McIntosh

who grew up on a ranch. Meet one of his horses,

The Wildlife Experience: Nature Nights Campfire Series

sr. youth, acrylic or oil

try roping, and learn about the history of Schweiger

Location: Schweiger Ranch

Ranch. Visit thewildlifeexperience.org to register.

Come gather around a fire for an evening of

know The Wildlife Experience CEO Gary Debus,

2nd - Kaylea Carothers

s’mores, stories and activities with The Wildlife

sr. youth, Black & white drawing

Tuesday, August 27, 6:30 – 7:30pm

Experience at RidgeGate’s historical Schweiger Ranch.

Free Yoga in the Park

Meet Don Brehm as Teddy Roosevelt, who will tell

1st - Alex Burns

Location: Belvedere Park (between RidgeGate Parkway and

us about his days as a hunter in the wild west. Visit

2nd - Kaylea Carothers

RidgeGate Circle on Belvedere Lane)

3rd - Kaylea Carothers

Join RidgeGate, South Suburban Parks and Recreation

3rd - Jake Freeland

and the Lone Tree Recreation Center for a free yoga

sr. youth, watercolor 2nd - Kaylea Carothers sr. youth, pastel

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Saturday, September 14, 10 –11:30am

Free Nature Hike Series: The Beekeeper’s Revolution Location: Register online to receive location details

Join an 1800’s beekeeper high up in the RidgeGate bluffs as she evaluates the surrounding land to determine its uses for farming, ranching and settlement.

Get hands - on with the tools of her ancient and noble trade. Register at ridgegate.com for this free, family- friendly hike.

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10 Elbert County News August 22, 2013

Bob Schoene, in red, the B&B Cafe’s new owner, was a longtime customer first who loved the history and charm of the place. Now he said he hopes he’s a longtime owner. Photo by Virginia Grantier

A story of life, death and rebirth Cafe, site of 1946 shooting of marshal, still has bullet holes

By Virginia Grantier

vgrantier@ourcoloradonews.com At 6 a.m. July 14, Castle Rock’s historic B&B Café, closed for months because of a dispute between the café owner and landlord, reopened.

New owner, Robert Schoene, didn’t plan for his opening time to be quite that early — but some longtime B&B customers, rancher types and others, kept telling him they needed their cup of coffee at 6 a.m.

And they were there.

“Mr. Anderson came in at 6 a.m.,” he said. And soon the round table, which over the years has been an essential morning gulp-and-gossip gathering spot, was full.

Schoene — who was a longtime Castle Rock resident until moving to Parker recently for family reasons — has another restaurant, Great Beginnings, in Englewood. So why take on the B&B? “Who wouldn’t?” he asked. And he raised his arms, and gestured toward the stamped-tin roof, and the marble backbar originally from Leadville, and the old booths — and the bullet holes in the ceiling and back bar.

There’s all of the history through the years, in this circa-1918 building at 322 Wilcox St., which has been a café since the 1930s.

And there’s all of the tragedy that happened on one day: Feb. 14, 1946.

Son recounts events

The bullet holes were left that day, the day that Castle Rock Town Marshal Ray Lewis was killed trying to subdue a Denver fugitive, leaving a wife and four children.

In a 1991 Douglas County News-Press article, some of Lewis’ relatives, primarily son Bob Lewis, then 48, recounted that day’s events: Bob Lewis then, in 1991, still lived in same white-frame house, 104 Fourth St., that in 1946 his father walked away from one night and never came home.

Ray Lewis was town marshal for a much smaller town of 400 people, who all knew each other. He had no office, no uniform and no gun. No need to because there was no crime. His main responsibility was to check business doors to make sure they were locked, said George Gammon, then 75, Ray’s nephew, a Castle Rock resident.

“The biggest crime was turning over outhouses on Halloween,” Gammon said.

Ray Lewis, 44, an average-sized man with dark wavy hair, was thought of as a

good-hearted man who helped neighbors in his spare time. He was the father to four, ages 2 to 12, and husband to Ruth — and was a jack of all trades who did handyman work.

He also worked for the town, watched over the water tanks, was a volunteer fireman and known as a skilled carpenter. He and his father built one of the town’s most beautiful old homes on Lewis Street, Bob Lewis said.

The marshal’s last day

On Feb 14, 1946, Ray told Ruth that he had to check the water tanks. Apparently after doing that he went to his friend Ross King’s grocery store, located in the rhyolitestone building on the northwest corner of Fourth and Wilcox streets, kiddy corner from the B&B. He was there when cafe customers noticed someone who looked just like Manuel Perez, 17, pictured in the Rocky Mountain News, who was wanted for shooting two Denver police officers several days before.

According to a 1946 magazine, Timely Detective Cases, the officers were shot after responding to a house on Denver’s Lawrence Street, where Perez was arguing with his girlfriend. He pulled out a pistol, shot both in the kidney area and escaped. Both would survive and a massive manhunt began.

Perez had headed south working his way along creek beds. One night he slept in a Douglas County haystack and eventually ended up at the B&B Café ordering some hamburgers.

Two Castle Rock men, recently returned war veterans, were having a cup of coffee and noticed him.

According to the magazine, Dale Ridenour, 22, nudged the other.

“Hey, Martin, look at that bird in the third booth!”

Martin Nelson, 23, glanced toward the third booth.

“Queer-looking duck,” Nelson said.

“And acting strangely, too.”

Perry Ridenour walked in and the three of them decided it was Perez. They told Mrs. Barker, the café owner, to stall Perez while they went to find Lewis and Undersheriff Duncan Lowell. So the hamburgercooking process became very slow while Perry went for help and Nelson went to get his gun.

Perry found Ray Lewis at King’s and brought him back. Ray sat at the counter, ordered coffee and watched Perez by looking at him in the café’s mirror behind the counter.

Perez seemed to sense he was being watched and got up quickly and headed for the front door. Dale leaped up, bolted the door and Ray stood in front of the door.

Ray told Perez he was under arrest and to

put up his hands. Perez instead yanked out his revolver and shot Lewis directly in the heart.

Lewis, clutching his chest, crumpled to the floor near the café’s front window. Perez fired again, this time glancing Lewis’ shoulder.

Nelson, with an exclamation, leaped on to the gunman’s back, throwing him to the floor. Dale Ridenour and Gene Dodge, a railroad station employee who had entered the café shortly before the shooting, closed in to help. Perez was putting on a terrific struggle.

Nelson fired twice, one of the slugs clipping Perez in the ear lobe, another nicking a finger. Perez fired twice, one bullet wounding Nelson in the hand. Perry meanwhile had seized a heavy potted plant and was maneuvering around the three thrashing men on the floor trying to get a throw at the gunman’s head.

Dodge finally managed to get out his hunting knife, held it to Perez’s throat and ordered him to “drop that rod.” He did.

Angry crowd wants lynching

Lewis’ relatives told the News-Press that a call over the telephone about the shooting reached the telephone operator’s ears first, Grace Prescott, Ray’s sister. She immediately called their sister, Lenore Prescott, to tell her Ray had been shot. They didn’t know he was dead.

Gammon and Lenore, Gammon’s mother, who lived on Lewis Street, hurriedly drove to the B&B. They got there before the undersheriff had arrived.

“Ray was on the floor, a sheet over him,” Gammon said in the 1991 interview. “A couple, three people were holding Perez.”

He remembers Lenore saying to Perez, “Why did you kill my brother, he never hurt anybody.”

About that time, Ruth received a knock on the door. When she opened it, she was told Ray had been killed. She though he must have fallen off a water tank. She couldn’t imagine something like this, Bob Lewis said.

Douglas County Sheriff H.R. Campbell was on vacation in California and before Lowell arrived on scene, an angry crowd had gathered and taken Perez across the street to the trees in the front of the old courthouse where they were going to hang him, Bob Lewis said.

Lowell arrived just in time to stop it and had him taken to the El Paso County Jail so the angry crowd wouldn’t have an opportunity to yank Perez out of the courthouse basement’s county jail.

Community mourns for days

Town businesses were closed for several days after Ray’s death and the courthouse was filled with hundreds of mourners as

Ray lay in a casket banked with flowers.

“If Ray, as everyone called him, could speak, he would say for us to carry on,” The Rev. Cardin reportedly told the crowd. “The greatest tribute we can pay him is by carrying on.”

Stacks of shingles, part of the remodeling job Ray never got to finish on his house, lay in the yard. Relatives remember one of Ray’s sons, 6-year-old Wayne, looking at the incomplete work and ladder leading to the roof, saying, “I guess I better get up there and finish the job.”

Ruth, a homemaker, with a $2,000 house mortgage to pay, would receive offers for jobs, but she was adamant about staying home with the children, so she started a telephone-answering service. She also did laundry for the DeSpain’s Motel, at Third and Elbert streets.

To help the family, a fund was established and many, including Adolph Coors and May Bonfils Berryman, contributed.

Perez was sentenced to life in prison and was later killed in a knife fight behind bars.

Bob said he had always planned to visit him in prison to ask if he was truly sorry, and thought he might have felt a little sorry for Perez because he was so young at the time of the shooting.

The B&B Café and the penny candy stores next door to the north were the hot spots for local children. Kids loved the café’s pinball machine, which was near the spot where his father had lain. Bob said it didn’t really bother him to spend time at the café when he was a child, but “it does now.”

Ruth, who died at age 85, is buried next to Ray in Castle Rock’s Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Ray’s son Wayne Lewis, a general manager in Texas for Continental Airlines in 1991, said he remembered seeing her cry, even in recent years, about Ray. She never remarried. She didn’t want another man raising them, Bob said.

She kept the clothes that he died in that day. Bob remembers seeing some of his father’s shirts, lots of his tools.

“She missed him the rest of her life,” Bob said.

In later years, Ross King gave teenager Bob a job in his grocery store, and he continued in the grocery business and was working for Albertson’s in 1991.

Today, Bob Lewis, 69, still lives in the area and works part-time as a meat cutter at Sprouts grocery store in Castle Rock. He said the bullet-hole story has become kind of a wild-west tale for customers walking into the B&B. But it’s also important to remember that unlike today when such an event would soon be forgotten, in 1946, for little Castle Rock, “It was a devastating thing, a big thing…those things didn’t happen,” Bob said.

And he lost his Dad.

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Elbert County News 11

August 22, 2013

New art guide in galleries, museums “Artscape 2014” is published and being delivered to galleries and museums in the Denver-Boulder area and the Pikes Peak region; southern Colorado (Trinidad is new this year), plus Estes Park, Fort Collins, Longmont, Loveland for art lovers to enjoy.

The free 128-page, pocket-sized guidebook includes more than 100 full-color art reproductions, maps and special indexes.

Charles Whitley of Centennial publishes the guide each fall through his Spotlight Publications. Nice to have in the glove compartment of your car. (spotlightpub@yahoo. com).

`Springtime for Hitler’ and more…

Inspire Creative of Parker presents “The Producers—A New Mel Brooks Musical” from Aug. 23 to Sept. 7 at the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., downtown Parker.

Performances are at 7 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays.

Gary Lewis is director and Brandon Bill and Tait Wynkoop play Max Bialystock and Leopold Bloom in this spoof of old fashioned musicals.

Tickets: $27.50/$32.50/$37.50 ($5 senior discount) 303-805-6800 PACECenteronline. org.

Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame

“Women of Consequence: Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame” is Jean Varnell’s topic from 2 to 3 p.m. Aug. 26 at Bemis Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton.

Mary Manley of Littleton is co-facilitating. Varnell had written a book, which will be available. 303-795-3961.

AUG. 23-25

Storytelling festival

Reminder: Douglas County Libraries’ free Storytelling Festival will be held at 6 p.m. Aug. 24 at the library’s Community Bandstand at the Phillip S. Miller Branch, 100 Wilcox St., Castle Rock. A series of smaller daytime sessions, also free: “Stories in Rhyme,” “Tales From Tribal Nations,” “Folktales, “Stories in a Flash” and more are listed in a complete schedule at the library.

No registration is needed. Information: 303791-7323, DouglasCountyLibraries.org.”

Bill Hill and Friends

Colorado Symphony percussionist Bill Hill and Friends will perform jazz on Sept.

6 at Cherokee Ranch and Castle, 6113 N. Daniels Road, Sedalia. Ensemble members are jazz, rock and classical musicians and include Hill’s daughter, Nadya Hill, a vocalist and violinist and son Colin Hill, who will attend CU this fall as a jazz and electronic composition student. Tickets: $65, include castle tour, buffet dinner, concert and dessert and coffee with the musicians. Reservations: 303-688-5555, chreokeeranch.org.

CAMPDRAFT EVENT. A campdrafting clinic and competition is Aug. 23-25 at Elbert County Fairgrounds in Kiowa. Be sure to be in Elbert County for the first ever in the United States Campdrafting event. Learn how to do this Australian sport at the clinic (champions coming from Australia to show you how it is done) and then test your skills at the first competition in the US. Don’t miss this unique opportunity.

Contact Mary Harris at kiowacountryc@earthlink.net or 303621-5836. Visit http://campdraft.us.

the tournament shotgun start will be at 12:30 p.m.. Play will be followed by cocktails, dinner, live auction and prizes.

Foursomes are $1,600, individual registration is $400 and limited sponsorships are available. Proceeds will support the children, youth and families of Adam’s Camp, of Centennial, which provides intensive therapy camps to children with developmental disabilities and their families as well as recreational camps for youth and young adults with disabilities.

To sponsor, register or to learn more, visit www.adamscamp. org, call 303-563-8290 or email sarah@adamscamp.org.

AUG. 25

OCT. 26

MONTHLY BREAKFAST. The Elbert Woman’s Club will have its monthly breakfast from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, July 28, and Sunday, Aug. 25, at the Russell Gates Mercantile Community Hall. Biscuits, gravy, sausage, ham, scrambled eggs, coffee/tea and juice are served for $6/adults and $3/ children under 12. The hall is located in Elbert on Elbert Road between Highways 86 and 24, 11 miles south of Kiowa.

Proceeds support the maintenance and renovation of the hall, built in 1906.

HARVEST FESTIVAL. The Elizabeth Area Chamber of Commerce presents the Harvest Festival from noon to 3 p.m.

Oct. 26 on Main Street in Elizabeth. Food, music, games and more. Spend an afternoon in Elizabeth for a safe Halloween by coming for trick-or-treat street throughout the town and enjoying games, vendors, food, and more on Main Street.

Visit www.elizabethchamber.org.

ANNIVERSARY OPEN house. Elbert Lincoln School 42 will celebrate 100 years at an open house from 1-4 p.m. Sept. 7.

SEPT. 13 GOLF TOURNAMENT. The Elizabeth Area Chamber of Commerce presents the chamber golf tournament on Sept.

13 at Spring Valley Golf Club. A scramble format starts 8 a.m.

Registration begins at 7 a.m. Enjoy a continental breakfast, 18 holes of golf, and a barbecue lunch. Awards will be given out for many levels. Fun surprises at some holes this year with special awards. Contact Beverly for information 303-646-4287 or go to www.elizabethchamber.org and look under events for forms.

SEPT. 14 BOOT CAMP. A family fun boot camp to benefit Bright Pink, a nonprofit group focused on the prevention and early detection of breast and ovarian cancer while providing support to individuals at high risk for these diseases, is planned for 10 a.m. Sept. 14 at Lincoln Park, across from Chaparral High School in Parker. The event includes a family boot camp, fitness expo, free massages, temporary tattoos for kids, raffle prizes and music. Registration cost is $15 at 4EverBeFit.com.

Free men’s bamboo tee or women’s sports bra to the first 50 registrants.

SEPT. 30 GOLF TOURNAMENT. Mark Wiebe will again host the 8th annual Adam’s Camp charity golf tournament, presented by Retirement Plan and Investment Providers, to raise funds for the children, youth and families of Adam’s Camp. The tournament is on Sept. 30 at the Colorado Golf Club in Parker, and 132 golfers will have the opportunity to play the exclusive course, home to the 2013 Solheim Cup. Lunch, provided by Noodles and Company, will begin at 11 a.m. and

Screw Tooth is new

and 10/4. Tickets: $15-$20, Spark Theater.org.

“Some Kind of Fun” is the first production by the new Screw Tooth, founded by the versatile Adam Stone, who has collaborated with Buntport on several musicals. The new company will share Buntport’s venue at 717 Lipan St. in Denver and promises a “wild visual and sonic world…” “Some Kind of Fun” includes writing by Erin Rollman of Buntport and plays Aug. 30 to Sept 14. Performances are at 8 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Monday, Sept. 9. Tickets: $15, 720-946-1388, screwtooth.com.

`Trilogy of Terror’ begins

THINGS TO DO

SEPT. 7

CURTAIN TIME

THE OUTBACK Express is a public transit service provided through the East Central Council of Local Governments is open and available to all residents of Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson and Lincoln counties and provides an economical and efficient means of travel for the four-county region. Call Kay Campbell, Kiowa, at 719- 541-4275. You may also call the ECCOG office at 1-800-825-0208 to make reservations for any of the trips. You may also visit http://outbackexpress.tripod. com.

”Evil Dead: the Musical” plays Aug. 23 through Sept. 14 at the Bug Theatre, 3694 Navajo St., Denver. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays. Tickets: bugtheatre.org. This is the first of the “Trilogy of Terror,” followed by “Night of the Living Dead” based on Sam Rami’s classic film, returns for a fifth year, Oct. 4-26. Finally: “Carrie: the Musical,” based on Stephen King’s novel, plays Nov. 8-30. A combined ticket for all three is available for $45.

303-477-9984, BugTheatre.org.

Much Ado at Spark

Shakespeare’s comedy “Much Ado About Nothing,” plays Sept. 6 through Oct. 5 at Spark Theater, 985 Santa Fe Dr., Denver. Roger Winn is director. Performances: 7:30 p.m.

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, except 9/20

Mythology for the 21st century

“Metamorphosis” by Mary Zimmerman presents nine related tales based on Greek and Roman mythology, played around a large pool of water. Geoffrey Kent is director at the Aurora Fox Studio Theatre, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, through Sept. 22. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets: $26/$22, 303-739-1970, AuroraFox. com.

The hills are alive…

“Sound of Music” by Rodgers and Hammerstein continues through Sept. 1 at Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Dr., Johnstown- (I-25 Exit 254 just south of Johnson’s Corner). Performances: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays evenings; Saturdays and Sundays matinees. Tickets: $49.50-$59.50 dinner and show; adult show-only tickets $29.50. 970-744-3747, ColoradoCandlelight. com.

No small wonders

“Wonder of the World” by David LindsayAbaire plays through Sept. 1 at Miners Alley Playhouse, 13th and Washington, Golden. Directed by Robert Kramer, Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 6 p.m. Sundays (2 p.m. only Sunday Sept. 1). Tickets: $19, 303935-3044, MinersAlley.com.

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DOUGLAS-ELBERT COUNTY Music Teachers’ Association meets at 9 a.m. every first Thursday at Parker Bible Church, between Jordan and Chambers on Main Street. All area music teachers are welcome. Call Lucie Washburn, 303-814-3479.

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12 Elbert County News

August 22, 2013

Goodbye grass, hello lower water use Homeowners in lengthy process of xeriscaping

By Virginia Grantier

vgrantier@ourcoloradonews.com Al and Denise Quartararo, raised in Brooklyn, working in Manhattan — where they said you could only see the sky if you looked straight up past the huge skyscrapers — wanted so much to live in Colorado.

And so years ago, the newlyweds left their jobs and just moved, driving across the country in a green Ford Torino. Al, a lead systems analyst, IBM computer guy, quickly re-established himself.

And more than 20 years ago they built their dream house in a big-sky spot next to a pasture of horses in the then sparsely populated Castle Pines North, now the incorporated city of Castle Pines.

They hiked, they fished, they wanted to be part of nature, not against it. But they distinctly remember the person they had designing a landscape plan for them, who stood on their porch and proclaimed that “you want grass from one end to the other.”

So they put in 8,500 square feet of that needed and beautiful bluegrass sod.

Now, they’re ripping out most of it, quite a bit at a time.

“This is a precious resource,” Al Quartararo said, referring to water. “You don’t use 50,000 gallons of it (in a month).”

Denise (left) and Al Quartararo of Castle Pines stand in their backyard near some of their new plantings in a xeriscaped area that’s part of their ongoing efforts to replace most of their blue-grass sod. Photo by Virginia Grantier But back when they still had all 8,500 square feet, that’s what they were doing.

Now, they only have 2,900 square feet left, since through the past nine years they’ve been switching section by section to xeriscaping.

Last month’s water bill showed they only used 17,000 gallons of water.

The Quartararos said they moved from an area that had plenty of water, so they don’t think they were as sensitive as they should have been to the water issues here.

But they also were raising kids, who used the backyard along with the neighbors for athletic competitions. So the grass was good then. But the children are grown and gone and the Quartararos are retired.

They first started pulling out their sod from the side yards, and started redesigning.

They’re self-taught, plus they do things like attend Castle Pines North Metro District xeriscaping workshops.

They’ve learned the importance of Triple X plants, which in the xeriscaping world means those plants that only need a half- inch of water every two weeks.

Xeriscaping’s Double X plants, not quite as desirable, only need a half-inch of water every week.

“If it’s not two x or three x, I don’t want it,” Denise said.

Denise pointed out a large area of living and colorful plants that hasn’t been watered since June.

Their accomplishments have led to a chance to win a contest.

The Quartararos are entered in this year’s Castle Pines North Metro District xeriscaping contest.

A qualifying Castle Pines yard needs only 400 square feet of xeriscaping, said a metro district spokesman.

Winners, who are already saving water, will save more — with big credits on their water bills.

For more information and to enter before the Sept. 2 deadline, go to www. cpnmd.org.

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Elbert County News 13

August 22, 2013

2013 county fair results

Continued from Page 9

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MARIJUANA ESTABLISHMENT OPERATIONS; ESTABLISHING PROCEDURES FOR THE ISSUANCE, SUSPENSION, AND REVOCATION OF A LICENSE ISSUED BY THE LOCALITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH (h) OR (i), SUCH PROCEDURES TO BE SUBJECT TO ALL REQUIREMENTS OF ARTICLE 4 OF TITLE 24 OF THE COLORADO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION; ESTABLISHING A SCHEDULE OF ANNUAL OPERATING, LICENSING, AND APPLICATION FEES FOR MARIJUANA ESTABLISHMENTS, PROVIDED, THE APPLICATION FEE SHALL ONLY BE DUE IF AN APPLICATION IS SUBMITTED TO A LOCALITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH (i) AND A LICENSING FEE SHALL ONLY BE DUE IF A LICENSE IS ISSUED BY A LOCALITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH (h) OR (i); AND ESTABLISHING CIVIL PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION OF AN ORDINANCE OR REGULATION GOVERNING THE TIME, PLACE, AND MANNER OF A MARIJUANA ESTABLISHMENT THAT MAY OPERATE IN SUCH LOCALITY. A LOCALITY MAY PROHIBIT THE OPERATION OF MARIJUANA CULTIVATION FACILITIES, MARIJUANA PRODUCT MANUFACTURING FACILITIES, MARIJUANA TESTING FACILITIES, OR RETAIL MARIJUANA STORES THROUGH THE ENACTMENT OF AN ORDINANCE OR THROUGH AN INITIATED OR REFERRED MEASURE; PROVIDED, ANY INITIATED OR REFERRED MEASURE TO PROHIBIT THE OPERATION OF MARIJUANA CULTIVATION FACILITIES, MARIJUANA PRODUCT MANUFACTURING FACILITIES, MARIJUANA TESTING FACILITIES, OR RETAIL MARIJUANA STORES MUST APPEAR ON A GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT DURING AN EVEN NUMBERED YEAR.

the unincorporated areas of Elbert County, Colorado.

ordinance shall be made payable to Elbert County and submitted to the Elbert County Treasurer’s Office and deposited into the general fund of Elbert County.

8.3 In addition to the fines and penalties prescribed in this Ordinance, any person convicted of a violation of this Ordinance shall be subject to the statutory surcharges of ten dollars ($10.00) for the Victims and Witnesses Assistance and Law Enforcement Fund, and ($15.00) for the Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund. These surcharges shall be paid to the clerk of the court by each person convicted of violating this Ordinance. The clerk shall transmit the moneys to the respective funds in accordance with C.R.S. § 30-15-402(2).

8.4 The remedies provided in this Ordinance shall be cumulative and in addition to any other federal, state or local remedy, criminal or civil, which may be available.

Nothing contained herein shall be construed to preclude prosecution under any other applicable statute, ordinance, rule, order or regulation.

Section 9. Severability.

9.1 If any section, subsection, clause, sentence, phrase or part of this Ordinance is declared invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect, impair or invalidate any remaining provisions of this Ordinance.

Section 10. Conflicting Provisions.

10.1 Where any provision of this Ordinance conflicts with any other provision of this Ordinance, or any other law or Ordinance, the more stringent shall apply.

Section 11. Interpretation.

11.1 This Ordinance shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to prohibit the operation of marijuana cultivation facilities, marijuana product manufacturing facilities, marijuana testing facilities or retail marijuana stores within the unincorporated areas of Elbert County, Colorado.

Section 12. Effective Date.

12.1 This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon adoption on the second and final reading and shall remain in effect until such time as this Ordinance is amended, temporarily suspended or repealed.

STATE OF COLORADO} }ss COUNTY OF ELBERT} At a regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners for Elbert County, State of Colorado, held at the Courthouse in Kiowa on Wednesday, the 14th day of August A.D. 2013, there were present: Robert Rowland, Commissioner Chairman Larry Ross, Commissioner Kurt Schlegel, Commissioner When the following proceedings, among other, were had and done, to wit:

THE HEARING WILL DETERMINE IF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD ARE TERMINATED. IF YOU DO NOT APPEAR AT THE HEARING THE COURT MAY ENTER AN ORDER IN YOUR ABSENCE TERMINATING YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS.

WHEREAS, pursuant to C.R.S. § 30-11103, the Board of County Commissioners of Elbert County, Colorado (hereinafter the “Board”), has the authority to exercise all County powers for the Unincorporated Areas of Elbert County; and

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ORDINANCE NO. 13-01 AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE OPERATION OF MARIJUANA CULTIVATION FACILITIES, MARIJUANA PRODUCT MANUFACTURING FACILITIES, MARIJUANA TESTING FACILITIES OR RETAIL MARIJUANA STORES WITHIN UNINCORPORATED ELBERT COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO

Dated this 30th day of July, 2013 by, CHERYL BROWN, Grays Harbor County Clerk.

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TO: JAMES EDWARD HOUDEK A Petition to Terminate Parental Rights was filed on June 13, 2013: A Fact Finding hearing will be held on this matter on: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2013 AT 10:00 am at the Juvenile Court located at 103 Hagara Street, Aberdeen, WA 98520. YOU SHOULD BE PRESENT AT THIS HEARING.

To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and Termination Petition, call DSHS at 360/537-4300. To view information about your rights in this proceeding, go to: www.atg.wa.gov/TRM.aspx .

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SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY JUVENILE DIVISION

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Virgil H. Hedlund, Deceased Case Number: 2013 PR 29 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Elbert County, Colorado on or before December 23, 2013 or the claims may be forever barred.

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WHEREAS, on November 6, 2012, the voters of Colorado approved the adoption of Amendment 64, Personal Use and Regulation of Marijuana; and WHEREAS, Amendment 64 added a new Section 16 to Article XVIII of the Colorado Constitution; and WHEREAS, Article XVIII, Section 16, paragraph 2(e) of the Colorado Constitution defines “Locality” in paragraph 2(e) of Section 16 to include a county; and WHEREAS, Article XVIII, Section 16, paragraph 5(f) of the Colorado Constitution states the following: (f) A LOCALITY MAY ENACT ORDINANCES OR REGULATIONS, NOT IN CONFLICT WITH THIS SECTION OR WITH REGULATIONS OR LEGISLATION ENACTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, GOVERNING THE TIME, PLACE, MANNER AND NUMBER OF

WHEREAS, at the November 6, 2012 election approximately 54% of Elbert County voters rejected the proposed adoption of Amendment 64; and WHEREAS, consistent with the authority granted to the Board in Amendment 64 and the will of the Elbert County voters, the Board desires to adopt this ordinance prohibiting the operation of marijuana cultivation facilities, marijuana product manufacturing facilities, marijuana testing facilities or retail marijuana stores within

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Elbert, State of Colorado, as follows: Section 1. Purpose.

1.1 The purpose of this Ordinance is to protect and promote the public health, safety and general welfare of the citizens and residents of Elbert County, Colorado, by prohibiting the operation of marijuana cultivation facilities, marijuana product manufacturing facilities, marijuana testing facilities or retail marijuana stores.

Section 2. Authority and Effect.

2.1 This Ordinance is authorized pursuant to, inter alia, Article XVIII, Section 16, paragraph 5(f) of the Colorado Constitution.

2.2 Nothing in this Ordinance shall prohibit the continuation of previous enforcement actions undertaken by the County pursuant to previous regulations, provided that the violation is also a violation this Ordinance.

Section 3. Applicability.

3.1 This Ordinance shall apply throughout the unincorporated area of Elbert County.

Section 4. Definitions.

4.1 Unless otherwise specified or the context otherwise requires, any terms used herein shall have the same meanings as provided in Article XVIII, Section 16 of the Colorado Constitution.

Section 5. Marijuana Establishments Prohibited.

5.1 The licensing and operation of marijuana cultivation facilities, marijuana product manufacturing facilities, marijuana testing facilities and retail marijuana stores is hereby prohibited.

Section 6. Enforcement.

6.1 This Ordinance shall be enforced by the Elbert County Sheriff.

Section 7. Violation.

7.1 It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision of this Ordinance.

Section 8. Disposition of Fines and Forfeitures.

8.1 Violations of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be punishable by a fine for a first offense and for any subsequent offence in the amount of one thousand dollars ($1000.00) per violation and each day shall be deemed a separate violation.

8.2 Unless otherwise provided by law, all fines paid for the violation of this

Legal Notice No.: 927751 First Publication: August 22, 2013 Last Publication: August 22, 2013 Publisher: The Elbert County News

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Caroline Hedwall sports a fist pump after sinking a winning put on the 18th green. Hedwall defeated American Michelle Wie in their singles match Aug 18 at the 2013 Solheim Cup held at the Colorado Golf Club in Parker. Photos by Deborah Grigsby

Europeans dominate in Colorado U.S. team loses Solheim Cup for first time on American soil

By Jim Benton

jbenton@ourcoloradonews.com It was a historic day on Aug. 18 at Colorado Golf Club in Parker, but it didn’t involve a miracle on the greens.

Team Europe retained the Solheim Cup with an 18-10 victory over the United States and won for the first time in seven events played in America. The win marked the first time a team from Europe has won back-to-back Cups and the margin of victory was the largest in the history of the event, which began in 1990.

The United States went into the final day staring at a substantial five-point deficit.

The Americans could not pull off a miracle comeback as the Europeans won 7½-4½ in the 12 singles matches played on Aug. 18.

There were five singles matches that were halved, the most in history.

“We took it to them and they couldn’t answer,” said Europe’s Suzann Pettersen who resides in Oslo, Norway.

Pettersen was right. Team Europe played superior golf and putted much better on the quick greens.

“They played some great golf this week and really deserved to win,” said U.S. captain Meg Mallon. “I give credit to them, they played well, had a hole-in-one (Anna Nordqvist on Aug. 17), a chip-in and we just didn’t have putts drop for us. The team gave it their all. I love my team.

“This (Solheim Cup) is the greatest show in women’s golf. The way we played 16, 17, and 18 is what made the difference.

It wasn’t for the lack of preparation because we played the golf course quite a bit.

So it wasn’t like a surprise for us. It was just a matter of dropping putts on those holes and unfortunately it was the Europeans.”

Overcome with disappointment, Michelle Wie drops to the green after missing a putt on the 18th green. Wie was defeated by Swede Caroline Hedwall, who sunk a putt on the same hole to ensure that Europe would retain the Solheim Cup. Over the last three holes, the Europeans held a 17-10 edge in holes won.

“We just did not make the putts,” added Mallon. “I saw more putts go over the hole on our side. It wasn’t for lack of not having good rolls. We just didn’t make them. With such a young team (six European Solheim rookies) with nothing to lose, it just seemed like they were a bit looser, they were making more putts and we were not. And that’s what it came down to.”

The Europeans wrapped up their second consecutive Cup victory on the 18th hole in the fifth singles match when Caroline Hedwall, a captain’s pick from Sweden who won a crucial half point to secure Team Europe’s victory over the United States two years ago in Ireland, once again delivered the clinching blow. She defeated Michelle Wie, 1 up, after coming back from a 56-minute lightning delay, with a 4½-foot birdie on the final hole.

There were still seven matches left to be completed and all the Americans could do was play for pride.

“I just can’t tell you how proud I am of all the players,” said European captain Liselotte Neuman. “They really played well. They just played tremendous golf.”

Hedwall won all five of the matches she played becoming the first player in Solheim Cup to do so in a single tournament.

“I don’t know what to say,” said Hedwall, 24. “It’s unbelievable. We knew we could win here. I was really pumped up on 17 when they blew the horn (for the lightning delay). I went in and gave a little talk to myself and I went out there and I was just as pumped up as I was before.”

Stacy Lewis and Sweden’s Anna Nordqvist had the honors as the first twosome to tee off and wound up halving an upand-down match.

“I was hitting good putts, they were just lipping out,” said Lewis. “That’s golf for you. You have to stay patient, stay positive.

I hit a lot of really good shots. I felt fortunate to get a halve.”

Charley Hull, the 17-year-old from Kettering, England, who is the youngest player

in Solheim Cup history, picked up a point for Team Europe with a 5-and-4 win over Paula Creamer.

“After the first day, I really got used to the golf course and I just relaxed and made quite a few birdies over the last two days,” said Hull who went 2-1-0 in her Solheim debut. “I really didn’t feel nervous. Because this is how I always look at golf, I’m not going to die if I miss it. Just hit it and find it and hit it again.”

Creamer, one of America’s top players, didn’t have much positive to say.

“I just didn’t bring it,” she admitted.

“The Solheim Cup brings the best and worst out of you.”

Europe’s Carlota Ciganda whipped Morgan Pressel, 4 and 2, to set the stage for Hedwall’s decisive win.

Team USA trailed the Europeans the entire three days of the competition, falling behind 5-3 after Foursomes and Four-ball on the opening day. The Americans closed to within 6½-5½ after the Foursomes Aug. 17, but disaster struck when the Europeans swept all four best-ball matches in the afternoon.

The U.S. played well at times but not good enough. The Europeans made most of the big shots and big putts. The Americans had myriad putts roll inches past the cup or lip out.

“Obviously, yesterday (Aug. 17) afternoon hurt us a lot,” said Lewis. “They holed putts when they needed to and hit the shots. There’s always pressure to win, whether we won it two years ago, whether we didn’t, whether we’re home, whether we are away. They’re (Europeans) getting better every year and they’re making this (Solheim Cup) what it should be. It’s good for the event.”

The U.S. still leads the Solheim Cup alltime standings, 8-5, with the 2015 Solheim Cup scheduled to be played in St. LeonRot, Germany.

“We have two years to get ready for Germany and we’re going to get that Cup back,” said Wie.

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August 22, 2013

Cardinals girls team making strides Cori Small helps set pace for Elizabeth High cross country

‘I think we’ve got some girls to enable us to have a fine and enjoyable season.’

Coach Alan Small

By Scott Stocker

Special to Colorado Community Media Elizabeth’s Cori Small is quick to say that she finds cross country refreshing. And, the main portion of the refreshment may come from the fact that her father, Alan Small, is the head coach.

Small, along with the Cardinals’ Caya Baher, hopes to help continue the rebuilding process for Elizabeth.

And, it’s good to have Baher on hand as she attends Elbert, a school in the district that does not have a cross country program.

“It’s good to run with my dad as my coach,” said Small, a sophomore. “He pushes me hard. I ran 22 minutes, 16 seconds last season. But I think I can get it down around the 20:30. I’m excited and I’ve been working hard and pushing hard this summer.

“I certainly like cross country,” said Small, who placed 21st in the Colorado 7 League conference meet last season.

“It may sound a bit weird, but I find this sport refreshing and fun. I will always battle to do the best I can. I think we’ve got some girls to enable us to have a fine and enjoyable season.”

No doubt, good words from the coach’s daughter.

“The girls are still extremely young, but with the capabilities of becoming a strong team,” coach Small said. “We only lost a couple of girls off the varsity, but were still short on numbers. We only had eight girls last season, but I hope we can make it up to at least 15 this time around.

“I think Cori and Caya are going to have solid seasons,” Small said. “We are counting on them to be leaders. We’ll just have to see how it goes.”

Baher was on the cross country courses for the first time last season and it turned out to be an enjoyable experience.

“I certainly expect to do better than last year and get in the 20-minute range,” Baher said. “Last year I was running the 22-minutes. I just want to keep up and pass as many runners as I can, push as hard as I can and overcome any pain that may come with it.

“I feel good about coming over from Elbert,” Baher said.

“I ran for the first time last year and, yes,

I felt good about it. I know I have a ways to go, but I’m ready for the challenge. It could definitely be a good year for us and I think we’re ready to go.”

While the team is on the young side, coach Small is pleased with the youngsters he is working with. Helping to bolster the squad will be junior Maria Lee and sophomores Mary Ann Hughes and Anisa Samori.

“This is a solid trio and we’re certainly glad to have them back,” Small said. “They all know what our situation is with the team and they are ready to put out. They certainly will help make for an enjoyable season.”

The Classical Academy, Coronado and the Air Academy High, finished one-twothree in the team race last season. Niwot’s Elise Cranny, now a senior, won the title, edging Air Academy’s Katie Rainsberger, now a sophomore. Cranny won with a time of 18:41.2, with a lean at the line that nipped Rainsberger’s 18:41.4. Can’t get any closer than that.

The four-classification state meet is scheduled for Oct. 26 over the 5,000-meter course at the Norris Penrose Events Center in Colorado Springs.

Elizabeth boys look to improve their times Senior Cardinals runner Gus Terry leads team into new season

By Scott Stocker

Special to Colorado Community Media There was somewhat of a lonesome feeling for Elizabeth’s Gus Terry in last year’s Class 4A state cross country championships. That was because he was the only Cardinal qualifier running on the course.

It’s a new season and one in which Elizabeth coach Alan Small has high hopes, not only for Terry, but for the Cardinals throughout the lineup. And Terry is certainly out to improve on his 75th-place finish that he earned with a time of 18-minutes, 19.7 seconds.

The four-classification state meet is scheduled for Oct. 26 over the 5,000-meter course at the Norris Penrose Events Center in Colorado Springs. The 4A boys will begin competition at 10:30 am. Coronado is the defending 4A boys champion defeating Cheyenne Mountain and Thompson Valley.

“I think the pressure is on myself,” said

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Terry, a senior. “Last year was not as good as I thought it could be or how I would do.

I just want to keep working hard and gain more strength. I just need more push.

“I think we’re going to have a good team and I think we will be able to make huge accomplishments. I’m happy to be here and I think we’re all pleased with the team and we’re ready to move forward. We know there are going to be tremendous challenges, but I think we’re going to be ready this time around.”

No doubts, these are also the thoughts of Small as he begins his second season at the helm for Elizabeth.

“Gus is known for his abilities and he brings a heavy amount of energy with him,” Small said. “He is just a natural. We all expect a lot from him and his leadership abilities. The guys like to run with him and we would certainly like to see the others right up there with him.

“I think the boys are going to be strong,” continued Small. “We do have a great group this season and I’m proud to be coaching them. Zach Rodriquez and Jake Vanderlinden should also come through with strong seasons. They both have strong competitive desires to do well. But this year, that’s what I can say about all the boys.”

Staying healthy is a key factor and it’s also nice to know for the coach and team members that they will have two meets on the state course.

“I think this should be a good season.”

Rodriquez said. “I’ve been running every week since school was out. I just want to do my best and keep up with Gus. He’s a leader.

17:56 was my best time last season and I’m ready to do better. I’d say that our top five are solid and we should do well. We’ll see how the rest of the team comes along as the season goes along.”

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There’s also a fine trio behind the Elizabeth front runners that Small is high on, all seniors. Gave Houston, Brandon John and Vanderlinden should all fill in just fine for the Cardinals. Vanderlinden, by the way, transferred last year from Elbert and only competed half the season for his new team.

This time out, he has full flight.

A new individual champion is assured as last year’s winner, Eli Hemming of Ponderosa, has graduated. Only four of the top 10 finishers return, paced by Coronado’s runner-up, Baily Roth.

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Indians return four starters, eight letter winners

‘We have a lot of talent coming back and the girls are excited as to what we can accomplish.’

By Scott Stocker

Coach Matt Smith

Special to Colorado Community Media A solid six can actually be counted as a large number when it comes to volleyball.

And it’s certainly a solid six the Indians, coached by Matt Smith, will be counting on.

“Overall I think we’re going to be fine this season,” said Smith, who begins his fifth season at the helm for Kiowa. “We have a lot of talent coming back and the girls are excited as to what we can accomplish. We have the hitters up front and the girls are all solid on defense. We have a lot of options in the directions we can take this season.”

Eight letters winners, which includes four starters, return for Kiowa.

And, it’s good to note the two moving up to the starting lineup are pretty solid themselves, hence, the solid six.

This certainly bodes well for 5-foot10-inch seniors Rebecca Sewald and Taylor Upchurch. Especially for Upchurch, who comes over from Elbert, a school which does not compete in volleyball.

“I think we’re going to have a big year as we have a lot of talent,” said Sewald.

“And, we’ve got a real good freshman class coming in. I definitely feel that this could be one our best years ever at the school. We are solid and we know how to work together. And, when you get down to it, there is just a lot of leadership on the team.”

Those certainly are the thoughts that Smith likes to hear and have his

players thinking about.

“Overall I think we’re going to be fine this season,” Smith said. “Indeed, we do have a lot of talent coming back and the girls are excited as to what we can accomplish. We have the hitters up front and the girls are all solid on defense. I think we have a lot of options in the directions we can take this season.”

“Rebecca is real exciting and her maturity is awesome,” Smith said.

“Just a great all-around attitude with exceptional talent. She’s just so strong in the middle as well as the outside, a fine hitter and blocker. Taylor is tall for a setter. She has confidence at the position and can also come through with the tough hits at the net.”

Upchurch, too, is excited to get the season underway, and for her, there is yet another reason. Her mother, Stacey, is the Kiowa assistant volleyball coach.

“I think we’re all going to come out strong,” Upchurch said. “I think we have a solid six to start and I think our bench is pretty deep, too. Plus, we have a ton of freshmen. With mom as the assistant, that just makes me all the more excited.

“Matt and mom are such good coaches,” Upchurch said. “We just want to come out and crunch people.

This is my senior year. I don’t know if I’ll play in college, but right now I just want all of us to have a good year and have fun.”

As mentioned, this looks to be a

pretty good year for Kiowa. Sophomore Julie Smith, 5-6, has come on strong.

“Julie is the heart of the team,” Smith said. “She just has a great attitude and the girls look up to her for leadership and encouragement. She has flow and is such an excellent defender. What is nice is that her attitude is a reflection on the entire team.”

While there are no 6-footers on the team, the overall height is something Smith is very pleased with. Senior Cheyenne McKenzie (5-9), senior Ashley Sandoval (5-8) and junior Reilly Weatherby (5-10) should be forces up front.

“Cheyenne is not really tall for her position at middle blocker, but there is such a heap of heart and desire,” Smith said. “She just gets up and down so well. Ashley has turned her game up a knoth from last season, too. She’s a plus on the front row. And Reilly is such a threat to catch people off guard. Like the others, she is loose and fast and just does a great job above the net. “ Ronnie Wallden, 5-6, returns at lobero to complete her fourth varsity season on the court for the Indians.

“This is a youngster who works so well in the backcourt,” Smith pointed out. “She just has that defensive and passing excellence.

“Yes, I’m more than pleased with what we are going to be able to put out on the court,” Smith said. “This should be a fine season.”