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School district enacts new fees Englewood charging for athletics, other programs By Tom Munds
tmunds @coloradocommunitymedia.com Englewood High School now charges a fee for students participating in athletics and has enacted fees for special classes including technology, cosmetology and culinary arts.
The Englewood Board of Education approved the resolution enacting the fees at the May 6 meeting. The decision came following a number of board discussions over the past two months. The fee schedule requires a student participating in athletics to pay $40 per sport, with a maximum of $80 per school year per athlete. There is also $169 maximum per family per school year. Brian Ewert, school superintendent, sent a letter to EHS parents. In the letter he said the fees are the lowest of any school district along the Front Range. “We will make sure no student is excluded from athletic participation because
of the fee,” Ewert said in a phone interview. “Our plan is to deal with those cases individually.” The school board also enacted fees for other activities. The fee for culinary arts students is $25 for materials and the fee for cosmetology students is $60 for supplies and materials. The technology class fee is $50. “Circumstances made it necessary for our district to enact these fees,” Ewert said on May 28. “Basically, our district is in a financial crisis, plus we continue to be seeing declining enrollment. I believe we became the last district in the Front Range to enact fees for athletic participation.”
Ewert said the other fees were enacted to cover the cost of materials used in the specific courses. “All students will be enrolled to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the basic STEM classes,” the superintendent said. “There will be students who will enroll in the advanced STEM programs and will use specialized materials. We enacted the fees to help cover those costs for specialized materials, because the district doesn’t have the funds to pay for the materials and technology up-
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City gets grant for turf field Englewood parks and rec department awarded funds By Tom Munds
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Brett Sprague portrays Romeo and sings a song to Juliet, who is portrayed by Colleen Jackson in the Opera Colorado Young Artist presentations of two abridged renditions of the opera on May 29 at Englewood’s Hampden Hall. The free performances were presented jointly by the City of Englewood and Greenwood Village and both performances were well attended. Photo by Tom Munds
Crowds applaud opera performance Opera Colorado’s Young Artists stage ‘Romeo and Juliet’ By Tom Munds
tmunds @coloradocommunitymedia.com Hampden Hall’s walls echoed with talented performers singing arias May 29 as members of Opera Colorado’s Young Artists twice performed “Romeo and Juliet” with a decidedly modern twist. Tricia Williams brought her 12-yearold daughter Gaia to the performance. “I studied the play in school so I know what the opera is about,” Gaia said. “I have seen one other opera. I think opera is different and it is cool.” The Littleton girl said she likes to sing
and, for the second year, is a cast member of the Englewood drama production. “I expect the music to be exciting and, from the story, I expect there will be a lot of dead people on the stage today,” Gaia said. Opera Colorado’s Young Artists presented two performances of “Romeo and Juliet” on May 29 at Hampden Hall, located on the second floor of the Englewood Civic Center. The Englewood Cultural Arts Commission and the Greenwood Village Arts and Humanities Council joined forces to bring the opera production to Hampden Hall. There was no charge for admission, but since seating in the hall is limited, a ticket was required and there were about 400 free tickets. The audience, about half of which were children, occupied about 60 percent of the seats for the 4 p.m. performance, while nearly all seats were taken for the
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evening performance. The five members of the “Romeo and Juliet” cast included Colleen Jackson as Juliet and Brett Sprague as Romeo. The other three cast members, mezzosoprano Louise Rogam, baritone Jared Guest and bass Benjamin Severding, each played several characters during the performance. The play “Romeo and Juliet” was written by William Shakespeare about 400 years ago. Frenchman Charles Gounod adapted the play into an opera in the mid1800s. The Young Artists performance had modern twists. For example, cast members wore modern attire for the hourlong performance, with Juliet receiving a cell phone for her 16th birthday. In one scene, Romeo and Juliet exchanged text messages on their cell phones. The voices of all five cast members were exceptional and blended well together. Props were few but effective, including the famous balcony scene and speeches. Judging by the enthusiastic applause, the crowd that included many children enjoyed the performace. Cherity Koepke, director of education and of Opera Colorado’s Young Artists, said the Englewood performances wrapped up the company’s 2014 tour. “We have five artists in our company
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Englewood Parks and Recreation Department received notice of approval of their application for a $250,000 Arapahoe Open Space grant to be used to build a turf practice field in partnership with the school district. “One of the athletic fields in Hosanna Sports north of Englewood High School was lost when the softball field was built,” said Joe Sack, Recreation Services Manager. “The field was heavily used by the school district, recreation department and the public. We began looking for a way to replace it and the result is this plan.” The new turf field will be built in the area north of the Englewood High School Stadium. “That field was just a field. There were a lot of weeds and the turf didn’t grow very well,” Sack said. “It was uneven, there were pot holes and it saw limited use for football practice, the discus throw at track meets and the site of the homecoming bonfire.” The recreation department and the school district evaluated the situation and joined forces to put in the turf field. The $250,000 grant will help pay the cost of preparing the field and installing the turf. The estimated cost of the project is $722,000. Sack said the new turf field will be available for many different uses. “The field will have line markings for soccer, football and lacrosse,” he said. “The school district has first priority for scheduling use of the field and the recreation department has the second priority for scheduling. The field will be available for members of the community for sports activities when no activity is scheduled.” Dave Lee, open space manager, told the city council about the grant during the June 2 study session. Turf continues on Page 18
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Englewood Class of 2014 garners honors Students compile long list of academic and citizenship achievements By Tom Munds
tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia. com A number of school history pages belong to the Englewood High School Class of 2014. “This is a great group of students,” said Brooke Davis, assistant principal. “For example, Principal Jonathan Fore
told the students during the senior farewell assembly that 95 percent of the members of the class of 2014 indicated on their exit surveys that they plan to continue their education at two- or four-year schools.” She said those planning to enter military service today are scrutinized to almost the same extent as students who plan to attend college and this year, five EHS graduates will be entering the services. “Our students have won honors, qualifying for state and even nationals in a
number of activities such as Future Business Leaders of America and our music programs,” Davis said. “Four students will attend college on athletic scholarships and one EHS graduate, Colin Owens, has been named a Daniels Scholar and will attend Colorado State University.” Owens also was awarded the Doc Stabler Lacrosse Award. The winner is selected by coaches and players based on character, ability and citizenship. Owens is the first EHS student to win the lacrosse award.
NEWs iN a hurry Sprouts set to open The newly constructed Sprouts Farmers Market at Belleview and Broadway will open its doors at 7 a.m. June 11. The store at 5001 S. Broadway will celebrate the opening of the 27,000-square-foot store with a ribbon cutting ceremony. As part of the celebration, muffins and coffee will be served to everyone in line before the doors open and the first 200 shoppers will receive 20 percent off their total purchases. The store will also give away a coupon book to every 15th shopper going through the checkout stands. There will be other giveaways and specials during the celebration and for a couple of weeks after the store opens.
Park groundbreaking slated
The ceremony symbolizing the major renovation of Duncan Park will be held at 6 p.m. on June 24 in the park at 4880 S. Pennsylvania St. The Englewood Parks and Recreation Department will host the ceremonial groundbreaking that will also include a barbecue with free hot dogs and hamburgers. The event marks the start of the twophase project. The first phase will be in the south end of the park where a playground, pavilion, basketball court and restroom will be built. The north end of the park will
remain available for public use during the construction. Phase two will be on the north end of the park to create sports fields and plant landscaping. The project is scheduled to be completed by September.
Drug drop box The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office offers the public to safely and anonymously dispose of unused prescription and nonprescription drugs by placing them in the Drug Drop Box. The Drug Drop Box is located in the lobby of the Sheriff’s Office Headquarters Building, 13101 E. Broncos Parkway, Centennial. It will be available to the public year-round during normal business hours, which are from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. The office is closed on holidays. The items collected in the box will be stored and arrangements will be made for safe and legal destruction in cooperation with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)-sponsored National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The sheriff’s office cannot accept certain items. Please visit the link below to see a list of items that cannot be accepted. For information call 720-874-3750 or 720-874-4040. The information also is on the website at www.arapahoegov.com.
ENGLEWOOD hiGh schOOL Graduation: 9 a.m. June 7, Englewood High School Stadium Graduating class: About 130 Class officers: President Jolie Baty, Secretary Fannah Pham, Treasurer Miah Scott Class song: “Best Days of My Life” by American Authors Class flower: Rose Class motto: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you do so throw off the bowlines, sale away from the safe harbor and catch the trade wins in your said. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain Honor teachers: Mark Fonnarino, Beth Hankle, Rachel Hankle, Samuel Irving and Grace Poll
schOOL caLENDar District June 12 The final day of school for students is June 12. Teachers return to school June 13 for a teacher work day. Bishop Elementary School 3100 S. Elati St. Ph: 303-761-1496 June 6 A Spotlight Assembly will be held to recognize individual students for academic and citizenship achievements. June 9 Fifth-graders will take a field trip to the Englewood Library. Students with birthdays in June will have lunch with the principal. June 10 The Bishop Talent Show will be held at 6:30 p.m. June 11 The annual community day and barbecue will be held all day at Cushing Park. June 12 Continuation ceremonies are scheduled at 9 a.m. Charles Hay World School 3195 S Lafayette Ave., Ph: 303-7618156 June 6 A Cougar Roar Assembly will be held to recognize individual students for academic and citizenship achievements. June 11 Continuation ceremonies for sixth grader will be held at 1 p.m. Cherrelyn Elementary School 4500 S. Lincoln St. Ph: 303-761-2102 June 6 The opportunity to have coffee and chat with the principal will be held at 7:45 a.m. June 12 The celebration of kindergartners moving to first grade will be held at 8:30 a.m. The continuation ceremony for sixthgraders moving on to middle school will
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be held at 10 a.m. Clayton Elementary School 4600 S. Fox St. Ph: 303-781-7831 June 10 The sixth-graders class picnic will be held at Belleview Park. June 11 The celebration for sixth-graders moving to middle school will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the garden. June 12 The celebration ceremony for kindergartners moving to first grade will be held at 9 a.m. in the garden. Englewood Middle School 300 W. Chenango Ave. Ph: 303-7817817 June 9 Students will take part in career day. June 12 There are no classes for eighth graders. Classes for seventh-graders end at 1 p.m. Continuation for eighth-graders will be held at 5 p.m. in the auditorium. Englewood High School 3800 S. Logan St. Ph: 303-806-2266 June 6 Graduation rehearsal will be held in the stadium. June 7 The Englewood High School commencement ceremonies will be held at 9 a.m. in the stadium. June 9 Department awards will be presented during ceremonies at 7 p.m. in the auditorium. June 11-12 Freshmen, sophomores and juniors will be taking final examinations.
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Mentally ill add to jail populations Untreated: How ignoring mental illness costs us all (Part 2 of 3) By Kristin Jones
Rocky Mountain PBS I-News In unit 4C of the Pueblo County jail, any human presence draws inmates to the narrow windows of their solitary cells. They bark requests and complaints, or just grin and make small talk. One man’s ceiling is leaking; another wants to know how many more days he has left in segregation. “Ma’am, do you work here?” asks a tall African-American man with a steady, serious gaze, who wants to know when his glasses will be delivered. “I’m the warden, Darlene Alcala,” she replies to the man needing glasses. Alcala is small and elegant in black, and sports a friendly smile at odds with the cinderblock bleakness of the jail. “You can call me chief.” Though they live on opposite sides of the jail’s heavy doors, these two have come to see eye-to-eye on a crucial point: Inmates like him don’t belong here. The man has been in 23-hour-a-day lockdown for a year and a half. Like most of his fellow residents in what’s known as administrative segregation, he is mentally ill. Brief interactions with the staff are nearly the only contact he has with the world outside his cramped cell. As a shortage of funding has depleted options for those in need of treatment for mental illnesses, there’s still one place that can’t say no: jail. Inpatient psychiatric beds have dwindled to 1,093 for the state’s entire population, according to
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state human services data, a decrease of 20 percent from five years ago. People with mental illnesses are more than five times as likely to wind up in jail or prison. “Years ago we deinstitutionalized mental-health treatment,” says Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle. “People felt it was shameful that we had people in custody or locked up in mental health facilities. Now, instead, we lock them up in jail.” The burden on jails is growing. A 1992 jail survey found that 11 percent of Colorado inmates had a serious mental illness, according to research by Public Citizen’s Health Research Group and National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. This year, 10 county jails surveyed by I-News reported that, on average in 2013, 18 percent of their inmates were mentally ill. Sheriffs say the trend is noticeable from year to year. At the Douglas County jail, for example, the number of mentally ill inmates has grown 10 percent in the past three years, even as the general daily population has dropped 28 percent. Once they’re in, inmates with behavioral health problems have more trouble getting out. The seven metro Denver counties in 2008 found that mentally ill inmates stayed an average of five times longer than other inmates. In Pueblo, an inmate detained for a misdemeanor stays an average of 28 days; mentally ill inmates jailed for similar offenses stay between 171 and 180 days. “Jails and prisons have become the warehouses for people who aren’t getting treated elsewhere,” says Attila Denes, a captain at the Douglas County jail. “It’s among the most expensive and least humane” ways to provide care. Solitary confinement is routine. Even as Colorado’s new state prison chief, Rick Raemisch, has pledged to remove mentally ill prisoners from isolation because of concerns that it is counterproductive and inhumane, jailers say they still use 23-hour lockdown to keep staff and other inmates safe. Denes, a student of history, sees patterns in American soci-
ety’s treatment of people with mental illnesses. As early as the 1650s, the plight of so-called “lunatics” in prisons attracted a call to the colonial legislature to find alternative housing. “We’ve gone full circle,” says Denes. “We’re back today to where we were in the 1650s.”
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The confinement of thousands of mentally ill Coloradans in jails and prisons can make a striking contrast with the sensibilities of the people whose job it is to confine them. Alcala first took a job as a receptionist at the Pueblo jail 30 years ago to get health insurance for her newborn son. Her ambition to become a deputy was stoked by a supervisor who told her she was hired “to look pretty and answer the phone.” It was in the 1990s that she became aware of the prevalence of mental illness in the jail; There was a woman who smeared feces on the wall, and an inmate who licked the floor. Alcala recalls that the detention officers had no real tools for handling what they simply saw as strange behavior. Alcala and other staff have worked to acquire the skills to communicate with inmates in the throes of a crisis. She enrolled in crisis intervention training eight years ago, says Alcala, adding: “I wish I’d had it 15 years earlier.” Sheriffs are increasingly enlisting mental health professionals to improve care for the mentally ill in jail, by training detention officers to communicate through a crisis and by offering therapy to inmates. John Parsons, who was released from the Pueblo jail in March, says he got help from a jail-based program called Moral Reconation Therapy — a type of cognitive behavioral therapy — to handle his depression, anxiety and alcoholism. “MRT told me how to handle the stresses and pressures of
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Bitner memorial run scheduled Registration open for event benefiting fallen officers fund By Tom Munds
tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia. com The 2014 Jeremy Bitner Fallen Officer Fund event will be held June 14 at Cornerstone Park. The event includes 5K and 10K runs, a 5K walk and a fun run and walk. All activities are held to raise money for the Jeremy Bitner Fallen Officer Fund and will be used to assist families of officers who sacrifice
their lives in the line of duty. The event will be held at Cornerstone Park, at the corner of South Windermere Street and West Belleview Avenue. Registration begins at 6:30 a.m. on race day. The gun starting the 5K and 10K runs goes off at 8 a.m., with the 5K walk stepping off at 8:05 a.m. Bitner The children’s fun run and walk will begin at 9:30 a.m. Awards will be presented at 10 a.m. When the runs and walks are completed, there will be a midway-like area with vendors and children’s activities, including inflatable attractions.
For more information or to sign up to take part in the event, go to www.bitnermemorialfund.org. This is the second year for the event. Last year, hundreds of feet followed the marked trails to raise money for the fallen officer fund. Englewood police officer Chad Read, one of the organizers, said last year that 387 people took part in the event, about three times the number of people expected. He credited a group of volunteers who worked to organize the event and sign up participants. “It was a good event,” he said as he watched the 2013 event wrap up. “The goal
today was to remember Jeremy with a fun day for all those who attend and to raise money to be used to help families of fallen Colorado law enforcement officials, and I think we did that.” Bitner died May 28, 2012, when the Englewood police officer was making a traffic stop. He suffered fatal injuries when he was hit by a car with a drunken driver at the wheel. Bitner had been with the Englewood Police Department for eight years. He was a patrol officer, member of the SWAT team and served as a training officer for new members of the department. He is survived by his wife and two children.
Fire trucks will roll for muster Parade kicks off day of displays, demonstrations in Littleton By Tom Munds
tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com The wail of sirens and clang of bells will announce the annual Fire Muster Parade in Littleton. This marks the 29th year for the event sponsored by Mile High Hook and Ladder, a Brighton-based nonprofit made up of antique fire-truck enthusiasts. This year’s event, in keeping with tradition, begins with the parade that rolls into action from Broadway and Littleton Boulevard at 9 a.m. June 14. The parade heads south on Broadway to Rafferty Gardens Avenue, turns west, then goes south on Bannock Street to Littleton Boulevard. The vehicles head west on Littleton Boulevard through the downtown area to Curtis Street before turning south as they head for the end of the parade at Arapahoe Community College. Littleton Fire Department’s century-old 1914 Federal Chemical Truck will lead the parade. The remainder of the parade is made up of firefighting and rescue equipment of different ages, sizes, shapes and colors. When the parade is over, vehicles will remain on display in the ACC parking lot. There will be vendors selling food and other items, plus there are free activities such as fire-truck rides and volunteers helping children spray targets with a fire hose. “This is such a cool event,” Lane Bumbgartner said as she checked out the poster about the muster. “I grew up
Littleton’s antique fire equipment leads last year’s Fire Muster Parade into downtown Littleton. The same truck will lead this year’s parade when the muster comes to town June 14. File photo in Littleton and we always came to the fire muster. Now I bring my kids because they all love fire trucks. My son has fire-truck sheets on his bed.” The Centennial resident said she has invited a number of neighbors to the muster. She said most of them didn’t know about the event but several seem interested and said they probably would attend. “I urged them to go because it is fun for the parents and for the kids,” she said.
Monthly financial report favorable Rising revenues, limited spending fit city’s budget forecasts By Tom Munds
tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com Englewood continued receiving favorable reports as Frank Gryglewicz, finance director, told the city council the revenue growth and limits on spending mean the city financial picture is better than at this point in 2013, which was a good year. Gryglewicz presents the city council a detailed financial report each month and, at the May 19 council study session, he said Englewood continued to see revenue collections that exceed the first four months of revenues last year. “City revenues are made up of a number of sources. A major revenue source is sales and use taxes. Sales and use taxes account for about 78 percent of all taxes collected by the city and by about 58 percent of total city revenues,” he said. “The sales tax collections through April are about $648,000 higher than for the same period in 2013.”
He told the council that spending is following budget estimates. The result is, revenues so far this year are about $1.3 million more than spending. At this time last year, revenues exceeded spending by about $909,000. Councilmember Joe Jefferson said the sales and use tax growth, primarily from businesses inside the city, is a good sign. “I feel the fact the businesses in our city are showing sales growth is important because it can be a sustainable revenue source for Englewood,” he said. Gryglewicz and his staff prepare a detailed financial report for the city council each month. Typically, the report is about 25 pages long. It contains charts, graphs and information such as a breakdown of how each revenue source generates funds and details of the collection of sales and use taxes from the different areas of the city. Councilmember Bob McCaslin thanked Gryglewicz for the financial report. “The Englewood City Council is lucky,” he said. “I talked to people from a number of communities around the country at the National League of Cities conference and they were amazed at the fact we got a financial report each month and that each report was so detailed.”
Groove Toyota marks reopening Event held to celebrate completion of $14 million rebuilding project Staff report The June 2 event celebrating the grand reopening of Groove Toyota included balloons, guest speakers from Toyota, comments by the Englewood mayor, live music and a ribbon cutting. The event marked the official conclusion of the 18-month project that demolished the former showroom to make room to expand and rebuild the dealership at 5460 S. Broadway.
Construction added about 10,000 square feet to the dealership that now covers almost 69,000 square feet. The completed $14 million project includes a new showroom that is double the size of the former showroom, a retail parts counter area and a customer lounge. Service facilities were also expanded and remodeled. The expansion and renovation also created 25 new jobs at the dealership. “It was a good celebration,” Englewood Mayor Randy Penn said later in the day. “It is an impressive project and comments were made that, now that the rebuilding of Groove Toyota is completed, the company soon will begin work to expand and improve the Groove Subaru dealership just to the south.”
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Take some steps for uncommon results This is not a “hot off the press” news flash, but rather a simple yet powerful reminder: “Common sense is not always common practice.” You have certainly heard this before, and I have absolutely heard it myself and even repeated it in classroom training, keynote speeches, and from time to time have shared it in this column over the past few years. What I wanted to do in this column is take this principle to the next level. Recently I shared how important fundamentals are to success in both our personal and professional lives. However, now let’s talk about not just common sense, but those lesser-known best practices that actually deliver uncommon results. For a few of us, we are exactly where we want to be in life. We are settled, content, happy and may have no desire or need to look for anything that elevates or disrupts our splendid contentedness. Now for the rest of us who truly desire
“uncommon results,” we need to continue to follow the blocking and tackling fundamentals that have gotten us this far, but now we need to look beyond the basics and proven fundamentals and search out the advanced ideas and best practices to help propel us as we continue on the upward journey of our success. So where do we go or how do we search for those best practices that can add value to our lives? Here are three ideas that have helped me over the years and that you may also find useful and
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Sports cartoonist Drew Litton recently showed a crowd at the Denver Press Club how to draw John Elway. Litton talked about his career as a sports cartoonist and shared examples of his work at this casual presentation that was open to the public. Litton was the popular sports cartoonist for the Rocky Mountain News for 27 years until its closing in 2009. His cartoons will appear in all of Colorado Community Media’s 22 newspapers beginning the week of June 16. Photo by Julie Rasmussen
$50 billion fund would boost infrastructure Last month, I had the honor of attending the grand opening of Denver’s Union Station. The new transit hub pays homage not only to the miners and pioneers who — more than 150 years ago — envisioned our city’s bright future, but also to our parents and grandparents who had the foresight and generosity to build the highways, waterways and energy infrastructure that helped make the American economy the largest in the world. Unfortunately, we have not had the dignity to maintain the assets that they built for us, much less build the infrastructure our children will need to compete in a 21st-century economy. At a time when other nations are constructing cutting-edge road, rail, Internet and education capacity, our public infrastructure investment has dwindled to half of what it was 50 years ago. The Highway Trust Fund, the funding vehicle that pays for most of the bridge, highway and road construction in this country, is expected to run out of money this summer. Last year, the U.S. received a D-plus letter grade on the Infrastructure Report Card from the American Society of Civil Engineers. To make matters worse, the bill that authorizes transportation projects called MAP-21, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, is set to expire September 30. It’s clear that we are falling woefully behind. We can and must do better. Rather than arguing over which party got us into this dire situation or pointing fingers
help lead you to uncommon results. 1. Identify the person, group, or team that you believe excels in the area you are trying to advance in or improve. Upon connecting with them, invite them to coffee or arrange a call or meeting and just ask them what they have found to be the differentiators or best practices that have helped them to achieve uncommon results. You will be amazed to find out just how open and willing they will be to share their success story with you. 2. Get out of your comfort zone and try something new. Even as you are enjoying the benefits of your success or achievements, push yourself to try something new that will stretch you and push you to the next level. 3. Look for biographies, articles, stories, and case studies of people, companies, or groups that achieved greatness or exceeded expectations by doing something out of the norm or beyond common practices to realize uncommon
results. Again, if you are content and happy with where you are with the achievements of your goals and dreams, that is awesome. But if you have ever dreamed of going higher, further, or faster and truly desire more in the way of achieving uncommon results, apply all or at least one or two of the above best practices and see if you too can be one of those people whose achievements shout out “uncommon results.” Whether you are in the land of contentment or on the road to uncommon and better results, I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com. And as we appreciate where we are or pursue uncommon results, it really will be a better than good week.
One of my pet peeves is “pet peeves.” Is that fair? It’s kind of like saying that you are opposed to flavored coffee because it is flavored. I am opposed to flavored coffee because it is flavored. Coffee has to be black, and strong enough to clean my paint brushes. We begin to have dislikes at an early age. It probably starts with vegetables. Especially vegetables that have been turned into a pudding, like beets. I’m not sure what comes next. Being told to go to bed when you want to stay up. Getting dressed up on Sunday morning. Entertainment options were very limited when I was a kid. I don’t know what it would be like to have had a time limit on video games, because we didn’t have video games. We had Buffalo Bob Smith. Now I have more dislikes than likes. I admit it. No es bueno. But I know myself, and what is and isn’t beneficial. The Cheyenne Frontier Days would not be beneficial. It would do me harm. This year there is a double feature: Kid Rock and special guest Joan Jett and the Blackhearts on July 25. Tickets are $39. No thank you. I flew into LaGuardia a few years ago and waited for a cab right next to the Blackhearts’ gear. The girl I was with almost passed out, she was so thrilled. Joan has had quite a career. She had one big hit a long time ago, but she is still rocking. I don’t know anything about Kid Rock, except that he is from Michigan, and that he is loyal to Michigan, which is fine with me. I was born in Michigan. The rodeo part of Frontier Days is some-
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enough to stay away. I helped out at the Highlands Ranch Rodeo a few years ago, and said to myself, “Never again, Smith.” I have said “Never again, Smith,” many, many times. It means that I know better. When I was younger, I went where I didn’t belong, because I had an open mind. I no longer have an open mind. Chances are if there are people there, I am not there. Isn’t that charming? “Mildred, this here writer is a stiff.” It’s true. See if you can guess where I would rather be: The Indy 500. A New Year’s Eve party. The grand opening of an Ikea. Right here writing. My ex always wanted to be somewhere. I always wanted to be nowhere. You can probably guess what happened. She wanted to surprise me — a mistake to begin with — on my 50th birthday. She had tickets to San Francisco to spend the weekend with my best friend and his wife. I was very unhappy, and showed it. One Marshall continues on Page 7
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life in the way normal people do,” Parsons said in April. Jagruti Shah runs the state’s offender mental health programs, overseeing a budget of about $2.7 million to help connect inmates with treatment for substance abuse and cooccurring mental health disorders. The programs run in 33 counties, reaching about 90 percent of the state’s jail population. Shah says the programs have had some success in treating inmates while they’re jailed. But the short-term stay of most inmates means they walk out with only a few days’ worth of medication. Outside, care can be hard to come by — both before and after incarceration. “Quite often people don’t have the opportunity to engage in these treatment programs until they hit the front door of the jails,” says Denes. Pueblo inmate Erin Hedden says she tried. After symptoms of bipolar disorder emerged when she was 28 years old, Hedden was prescribed a laundry list of drugs. Each one failed until she found a combination that worked: Prozac and Zyprexa. But when she left a job as a nursing assistant to work on her mother’s ranch, Hedden lost her insurance. At $1,000 a month, the medication was out of reach. It took three months for the symptoms of mania to resurface, and Hedden says she sought refuge in crystal methamphetamine. Three years later, Hedden is in jail on a four-year sentence for drugged driving. She was behind the wheel in a crash that killed Linda Sue Sublett, a 69-year-old woman she never met. The county now pays for her Prozac and Zyprexa.
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Two miles northwest of the jail, on a road spiked with wind-driven tumbleweed, is the campus of the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo, one of only two state psychiatric hospitals. Beds at the state hospitals have disappeared steadily even as Colorado’s population has boomed, the victim of federal and
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detail she left out was money. She had none. I don’t know how she afforded the airfare. I had very little, and I knew my credit card would have had an infarction. We didn’t go, and she refused to see me for weeks. I can’t think of too many things that are worse than surprise parties. Oh, there are hundreds of things in life that are worse, but not when it comes to my perception of a good time.
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jobs across the nation. The fund itself would not be created by taxpayers, but by U.S. companies. The act encourages businesses to contribute to the fund by creating an incentive to bring a limited amount of their earnings back to the country from overseas. This bill is not a cure-all. It is not a permanent fix to the insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund, nor will it take the place of MAP21, both important legislative vehicles that Congress needs to address in the next four months. Whether it’s an interchange reconstruc-
state budget cuts and a change in philosophy that emphasized removing people from institutions. In 1980, there were 1,103 public psychiatric beds in Colorado; in 2014, there are 553, many of them earmarked for those charged with or convicted of crimes. Pueblo Sheriff Kirk Taylor says the state psychiatric hospital sends its patients to the jail when they lash out or act violently, including people who have previously been found not guilty by reason of insanity. At the same time, Taylor and other county jail officials complain that the state hospitals frequently turn away inmates who have been put on emergency mental-health holds for posing a danger to themselves or others. “These people don’t need to be in jail,” says Taylor. “They need to be in a therapeutic community.” Bill May, who heads the state hospital in Pueblo, believes it’s appropriate for some of the hospital’s patients to be arrested and sent to jail if they commit a crime while stable in treatment. Meanwhile, state psychiatric hospitals can’t receive people on mental-health holds unless they’ve been treated and cleared first for any physical problems, says Dr. Patrick Fox, a Colorado Department of Human Services official who oversees the hospitals. He suggests taking inmates to the emergency room. At issue, in part, is the question of who bears the high costs of housing mentally ill inmates. Psychotropic medications, additional security and lengthier stays all add to the costs. A seven-county study in the metro Denver area found the cost of accommodating seriously mentally ill inmates to be around $44.7 million a year in 2010, up from $36.5 million in 2006. Costs haven’t declined since then, and are likely to have increased, says Regina Huerter, the director of Denver’s Crime Prevention and Control Commission. The influx of ill inmates has contributed to overcrowding in Boulder, say jail officials there. Boulder is reconfiguring its cells to expand the special management unit where mentally ill inmates are housed. But that means taking space from other areas, says Division Chief Bruce Haas. In Denver, the construction of a new jail in 2010 took into account the extra medical resources and supervision demanded by an increasingly ill population, says Sheriff Gary You might be planning a surprise party right now. Good for you. People, other people, love them. That moment when your boyfriend walks in the door and his friends and marginal friends jump up and say, “Surprise!” and “Speech!” — now you’re talking. I went to one about 25 years ago, and the guest of honor almost walked. She was appalled. Later that night, she and her girlfriend had words. And they weren’t words of love. Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast. net.
tion in El Paso County to improve traffic flow, or a road-widening project in Alamosa County to improve visitor access to the Great Sand Dunes, this bill will provide a valuable tool in the toolbox so that local mayors, county commissioners and city councilors don’t have to wait on a dysfunctional Washington to get moving on much-needed infrastructure projects. As Denver’s Union Station shows, we’re a nation and a state that builds big things, and builds them to last. Each generation has labored to leave more behind for their kids. Ours should be no exception. This commonsense, bipartisan legislation will help us take a step in that direction. Democrat Michael Bennet has represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate since 2009.
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Wilson. Like the homeless, mentally ill inmates often have trouble meeting judges’ standards for bail, which take into account qualifications such as stable housing, employment and family support, says state public defender Douglas Wilson. This is despite the fact that their crimes may be low-level offenses. “The reality is, most of the time what we’re talking about is trespasses, the guy who roller-skated into somebody’s garage because he thought it was a roller rink, public urination,” says Wilson. Denver recently found that the 99 people most frequently jailed for low-level offenses had a high rate of mental illness — around 35 percent. They were also frequently homeless and addicted to alcohol or drugs, adding to the complexity of treating them. Some get into more trouble behind bars, committing crimes that lengthen their stays, says Sheriff David Walcher in Arapahoe County. “They commit crimes on the inside; there are assaults on staff. They tend to get more charges when they’re in jail,” says Walcher. “They’re a more challenging population overall.”
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From their stark walls to their locked doors to their narrow, light-deprived spaces, jails are meant to confine criminals, not promote recovery. “There’s nothing soft about what we do,” says Alcala. “We’re built for offenders.” Hedden has sharp memories of her episodes in 23-hour lockdown. The 35-year-old inmate, who is being treated for social anxiety and depression along with bipolar disorder, says her last 12-day stay there led her to a breakdown. “All day long it’s a cacophony of voices, of screams, of shouting,” says Hedden. “There is no human interaction except for what’s between you and the guard, and who you can yell at next door through the wall. The loneliness is overwhelming. I get a sense of intense anxiety like I just want to claw at the door. I just want to get out. I would do anything to get out. I beg to get out.” A growing understanding of what it means to isolate people who have mental illnesses is leading to changes in the state prison system. When former prisoner Evan Ebel shot
dead prison chief Tom Clements last year, the incident raised questions about Ebel’s time in solitary confinement and his direct release into the community. Clements’ replacement, Raemisch, has criticized the overuse of solitary confinement nationwide, and has pledged to stop placing mentally ill inmates in administrative segregation. And the state legislature recently passed a bill — now pending Gov. John Hickenlooper’s signature — banning long-term solitary confinement for seriously mentally ill prisoners. But 23-hour lockdown is still widely used as a tool to control mentally ill inmates in jails. Jailers in Douglas County, Arapahoe County, Boulder, Pueblo and elsewhere say they try to minimize the use of it, but none said they were considering doing away with it. “Most jails are pretty close to full if not overflowing,” says Denes, in Douglas County. “Sometimes when you have people classified as dangerous offenders and you have people packed into a housing unit, the reason that you use (23-hour lockdown) is to prevent victimization of inmates from other inmates.”
Staying out of jail The best hope for cutting the costs of jailing mentally ill inmates may be to keep them out of jail in the first place. Some jurisdictions have built mental health courts — also called wellness courts — intended to divert people from jail to treatment. Some, like Denver, are pushing to enroll inmates in health insurance so they can get the care they need once they leave jail. The state’s flagship project for improving mental health treatment — a planned network of crisis centers, now stalled amid a lawsuit — may help direct people to settings more appropriate than jail, says human services official Fox. For now, Colorado’s jailers and their inmates are stuck dealing the best way they can with a broken system Colorado Community Media brings you this report in partnership with Rocky Mountain PBS I-News. Learn more at rmpbs.org/ news. Contract Kristin Jones at kristinjones@ rmpbs.org.
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jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com If there had been a prize for guessing the number of crabapple trees in the city of Littleton, Larry Borger would not have claimed it with his estimate of 2,000. As it turns out, there are 6,727. “I was astonished how many flowering crabapple trees there are in the city when you actually begin looking for them,” said Borger, a former city manager. “What started 40 years ago as a city beautification program for street rights of way has mushroomed with community support. Literally thousands of property owners have planted them on private property over the years.” By Borger’s calculations, that’s one crabapple tree for every six and one-quarter residents. “The number is staggering,” said Cole Hancock, the Eagle Scout who organized the effort to count them all in his quest to get Littleton in the Guinness Book of World Records. “It’s really great to see the community come together for this project, and I am excited to see if we can really break a world record.” Hancock recruited 16 volunteers who spent a total of nearly 97 hours combing the streets for the brightly flowering trees that are becoming a symbol of the city. He’s has been tending to the trees since 2011, when he took on the cause for his Eagle
Scout project. That’s the same year signs went up marking the city’s Crabapple Route, conceived of by former Mayor Vaughn Gardinier. It was his idea 45 years ago to line Littleton’s streets with the hardy, colorful crabapple trees not just to make them pretty, but to give the city something unique. Gardinier died in 2012, but his wife, Mary, still sits on the board of LCTI with Borger. She says he was hoping to arrange for horse-drawn carriages to someday trot the trail. Hancock and others from Littleton Boy Scout Troop 361 planted about 30 new trees along the seven-mile Crabapple Route in April, adding to the 100 they’ve planted since 2011. These days, they plant trees that flower but don’t bear fruit, making for a less messy flourish of beauty each spring. “The Littleton Crabapple Trail is currently working to get the city council to approve the acknowledgement of these numbers to become the `Crabapple Capital of Colorado,’ or maybe even the nation,” said Hancock. To that end, they drafted a resolution for council’s consideration. It reads, in part: “Given all the positive public attention to its beautification program and participation by countless individuals and groups, and given that no other municipality in Colorado can match that effort, Littleton modestly but proudly declares itself the ‘Flowering Crabapple Capitol of Colorado.’” For more information and to see a map of the trail, visit www.littletoncrabappletrail.org.
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Hospital PR team recalls darkest day Two, both new to community, served as the voices of Davis family in December By Jennifer Smith jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com Jason Dunkel and Lauren Brendel are relatively new to the south metro community, but last December, they found themselves thrust into the middle of one its most horrific days. “When it happened, I texted a friend and my parents, and I said, `This is the worst day of my professional career,’” remembers Brendel. She is the marketing manager at Littleton Adventist Hospital, and Dunkel is the director of business services. They’d both been there for just about a year on Dec. 13, 2013 — the day the ambulance arrived with Claire Davis. What followed for them was a frenzy of staying strong enough to deal with the onslaught of local and national media such as neither had ever experienced, interspersed with stolen moments alone to shed the inescapable tears. “You had to take those moments when you needed them, and then do what needed to be done,” said Brendel. “I had to try and separate my personal feelings from what I needed to do on behalf of Claire and her family.” While it’s Brendel’s everyday job to deal with the media, Dunkel feels like it was providence that led him to stand beside the Davis family, to be their objective voice. “My background is ministerial, but now I’m on the business side of things,” he said. “I was just in a position to be there for them during their time of need. It was kind of amazing. It just was meant to be. I can’t put it any other way. … So I canceled my schedule, and all I did was basically try to protect them from the media and all the outside noise. I said, `Let us take all that off your plate so you can focus on your precious daughter, who is fighting for her life.’” In another stroke of fate, both Brendel and Dunkel had participated in an active-shooter drill the month before with local law enforcement, first responders and other agencies. “We essentially went through everything that happened a month later,” said Dunkel. “By the time Claire got there, everything was lined up and ready for her, which we felt good about, because we gave her the best chance we could.” Brendel said about 300 staffers attended a remembrance ceremony the hospital hosted for them on Jan. 3. “It profoundly affected the staff,” she said. “Even the kitchen staff did everything they could to make sure they had even the smallest comforts,” said Bob Lembke, a Davis family friend, recalling that they even made and delivered Christmas dinner for the family, all on their own time. Dunkel made special note of the nurses who tended to Claire on that first day. “People don’t realize what our nurses went through,” he said. “It’s a very difficult conundrum, pouring heart and soul into caring for the innocent victim, and the thought of having to give the same kind of care …,” he said, letting the sentence trail off. Lembke finished it for him. “...to the person who caused the harm. A life is irretrievably shattered, and, though they would have done it, imagine trying to save the person who did the shattering,” he said. It never came to that. Karl Pierson, a senior at Arapahoe High School, died in the school library from a selfinflicted gunshot wound less than two minutes after firing the shot that ultimately killed Claire Davis. She died on Dec. 21. After Brendel sent out the press release with that devastating news, she got sympathy messages from reporters who were as upset as she was. “I had to try and separate my personal feelings from what I needed to do on behalf of Claire and her family,” she said. She said it’s still hard for her to drive past the school, but she and Dunkel have found some peace helping to make Clarity Commons a reality on its campus. They envision a quiet, reflective garden where students can find some solace. Lembke, too, is a driving force behind the project. “The group of people that coalesced was providential,” said Lembke. “You helped the Davis family get to the forgiveness condition as soon as they did.”
An artist’s rendering of what Clarity Commons will look like upon completion. Courtesy image
Clarity Commons: A tribute to Claire Friends of Claire Davis’ family plan an acre of peace on Arapahoe High campus By Jennifer Smith
jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com Bob Lembke can’t talk about Claire Davis without tearing up. “She just had a certain spark to her. Most young children do, she just had a little different something,” he said on May 29. Lembke had known Claire since his two children, Adrienne and Corinne, befriended the two Davis children, Alexander and Claire, in preschool. The two sets of parents hit it off, too, and they all became lifelong friends. After the Dec. 13 shooting at Arapahoe High School that ultimately claimed Claire’s life, Lembke knew he had to do something to help his friends through their grief. “They’re still grieving deeply the loss of their daughter and the loss of their future plans with her,” he said. “They’re holding firm in their message of forgiveness, and developing their new normal day by day. … It changes the future, and they’re slowly coming to grips with that and understanding what that means. They’re trying to make sense of the senseless.” Lembke says Jason Dunkel, the director of business services at Littleton Adventist Hospital who served as a buffer between the Davis family and the onslaught of the outside world, played a key role in bringing the family to forgiveness as quickly as they were able. “My wife and I forgive Karl Pierson,” Michael Davis, Claire’s father, told the world on Jan. 1, during a memorial service at the National Western Stock Show Complex. Pierson is the student who shot Claire moments before killing himself in the Arapahoe High School library. It is with that attitude of grace that Dunkel, working with Michael and Desiree Davis and Lembke, conceived of Clarity Commons, a peaceful respite on the AHS campus that they hope to unveil on Claire’s birthday, Aug. 16, two days before school starts. Lembke stresses it will be a tribute to life, not a reminder of tragedy. “It should be about life and vitality and joy, and not about
death. So this is not a memorial. We hope it’s a place of mindfulness, to ponder where you are, who you are, what’s your place in the cosmos. To be aware of the moment you’re in...” Claire is only mentioned by name once throughout the plaza, on a pillar with the following Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Littleton Public Schools donated an acre at University Boulevard and Dry Creek Road, and agreed to maintain it for at least 35 years. Littleton Adventist Hospital and its foundation kicked in $50,000 each, and another $75,000 has been raised from private donations. Local businesses are donating services, and Lembke hopes lots of people will take the opportunity to leave a message for the future by buying a brick paver for the walkway. “We’re really looking for members of the community to put their stamp on this place,” he said. “Kids hopefully will leave messages for others or for their future selves. … Every one of them, to some degree, has been changed by this. Some profoundly, some positively, some maybe not. It’s been a consistent drumbeat about how to deal with the worst side of life.” They hope Clarity Commons will be a place where kids can feel safe and at peace. “It would be great if kids could have a place to go and have time out, almost like a mental-health checkup,” said Dunkel. “… It’s the beginning of good. It’s just the beginning. I think the Davises are going to have a lot to say at some point, so this is just a springboard. I think this project is helping get them through, and is part of how they’re maintaining. The fact that a silver lining even exists from this scenario is a miracle. But they’re trying to find all the good that can come from something so tragic.” Lembke believes that ultimately, Claire’s purpose in life might have been to get others to think, to love, to care, to forgive. “We want this to be a history lesson without being preachy, to say that tolerance and forgiveness is the normative expectation for an Arapahoe High School student,” he said. “It’s an attempt to connect with the future.” For more information or to purchase a brick, visit www. rmahf.org/rmahf/claritycommons/.
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crime report Burglary suspect sought
Police found two windows smashed in when they went to a store in the 4000 block of South Broadway because of a report a burglar alarm going off. The alarm was reported about 1:25 a.m. June 2. The officers found the broken front windows. When they went inside to check the building they found no suspects. But the police did find that several display cases had been knocked over and damaged. Police called the business owner to the scene. The owner said the store would be secured and a full inventory would be done so the police could be supplied with a list of all items stolen or damaged.
Felony menacing investigated
A 46-year-old man called police about 5:55 a.m. June 2 to report a man had pointed a gun at him. The victim told police he was in the area of South Broadway and U.S. Highway 285 when a man in a vehicle pointed a silver-colored revolver at him out of the window of the suspect’s car. The man said the suspect with the gun appeared to be in his 20s. He said the suspect was driving a silver-colored
Nissan Altima with front-end damage. The victim said the car had a New York license plate and the plate number was VF80677. Officers checked the area and didn’t find the car or the suspect.
Arrest assist leads to more arrests Englewood Police officers went to assist Denver Police officers arresting a man wanted on a felony warrant, which led the Englewood officers to make additional arrests. Englewood received the call about 9:35 p.m. May 29 from Denver officers asking for assistance making the felony warrant arrest in the 3000 block of South Broadway. Officers arrested a 37-year-old man on the felony warrant. Englewood officers then arrested a 36-year-0ld man and a 26-year-old woman after they found heroin, methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia in the residents. Police also arrested a 42-year-old man because a warrant for commission of a felony had been issued for his arrest. The four individuals were processed and were later transported to the Arapahoe County Detention Facility.
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Splash Dash remembers a life cut short Parents hope to prevent drowning accidents Staff report Drennen O’Melia’s parents want everyone to not remember their son with sadness, but with the same joy he lived his short life with. “While we will always grieve the loss, he left our hearts filled with lessons about how to live life to the fullest and to love with no boundaries,” Bill and Melissa O’Melia write on the website for the Drennen’s Dreams Foundation, formed after their 12-year-old son drowned during a pool party in Centennial in 2010. Last year the foundation hosted the inaugural Splash Dash 5K in Drennen’s honor, with proceeds benefiting drowning prevention and other children’s causes. Thanks to its success, the second annual event is set for June 8, beginning and ending at Arapahoe High School. “Neighbors along the route put out sprinklers, slip-n-slides and other fun and cool activities to keep the runners hydrated,” reads the website. “We are expecting 900 runners at our event and we already have a ton of vendors and corporate sponsors, including Children’s Hospital,” said Jennifer Darling, president of the foundation and senior vice president of philanthropy at Children’s. “Of course our larger goal is to promote the mission of Drennen’s Dreams Foundation and raise awareness for water-safety issues. This is obviously an important time of year for getting that message out and, ideally, preventing another tragic drowning this summer.” Bill O’Melia spoke publicly about his son for the first time during a recent training session for new lifeguards in Highlands Ranch. “After four years, there are good days and bad days,” he said. “There’s not been one single day since June 6, 2010 that we don’t think about Drennen. All of this
Bill O’Melia, the father of 12-year-old Drennen who drowned in a guarded pool in 2010, speaks publicly for the first time to a group of new lifeguards in Highlands Ranch during a May 18 training session at Southridge Recreation Center. Photo by Hannah Garcia
tragedy because of the choices made.” He implored the new hires to be evervigilant on the job. “You are the last, best defense against drowning incidents,” he told them. “Fair or not, this is the world you’ve chosen to participate in. Patrons are counting on you.” Registration for the Splash Dash 5K is $40. For more information, visit www. drennensdreams.org.
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Elizabeth Stampede is ready to ride Rodeo, parade among events set for weekend
LEFT: The bareback-riding competition is always full of ups and downs at the Elizabeth Stampede. BELOW: Mutton Bustin’ allows the youngsters to compete at the Elizabeth Stampede. File photos
By Mike DiFerdinando
mdiferdinando@coloradocommunitymedia.com The Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo will provide a weekend of rodeo riding, mutton bustin’ and a parade. This will be the 50th year for the annual rodeo in Elizabeth. This year’s event is June 6-8 at Casey Jones Park. “We feel really honored that we’ve made it this many years and the rodeo is still going strong,” said Traci Swisher, Elizabeth Stampede Rodeo community relations chair. “We understand that it has taken 50 years of the community coming together to make this happen.” This year’s rodeo will feature the stock of Summit Pro Rodeo, a new partnership created by J.D. Hamaker from the original Burns Rodeo Co., along with two other new partners, Jesse Hill of H&H Rodeo and Greg Talbert of Talbert Bucking Bulls. As the primary stock contractor, Summit Pro Rodeo will provide some of the most feared buckers in professional rodeo today, having supplied bulls for many NFR and Mountain States Circuit Finals, Xtreme Bulls and PBR. The arena is tucked in a ring of 75-foot-tall pine trees with an open view of the Rocky Mountains. There will be professional bull riding on Friday night, a parade Saturday, three PRCA performances on Saturday and Sunday, and a dance with a live band on Friday and Saturday night. “When people come they are guaranteed to see the top in the nation regardless of which performance they go to,” Swisher said. There will be free public admission to Vendor Alley throughout the weekend. Vendor Alley is open 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. There are more than 250 volunteers that help put on the Elizabeth Stampede each year. The following is a more in-depth look at some of the various attractions of the Stampede:
Western legacy of providing support and assistance to those in need.”
Red, white and blue
June 8 at 2 p.m. there will be a red, white and blue rodeo to honor members of the military past and present. The Marine Corps Mounted Color Guard will be in attendance.
Vendors offer food, wares
There will be more than 65 vendors on hand over the weekend selling goods and food. There will also be live music each day. “We have a lot of vendors we love that come back each year, but we also have some new ones,” Swisher said.
See a full schedule of events
Visit www.elizabethstampede.com to learn more.
What’s on the horizon.
Mutton bustin’
This is an event held at rodeos similar to bull riding or bronc riding, in which children ride or race sheep. In order to compete, children must weigh less than 65 pounds and be younger than 8 years old. Contestants must be registered for the event beforehand. Mutton bustin’ will take place at each of the rodeo performances over the weekend. “It’s always a crowd favorite,” Swisher said.
Parade and royalty
The 2014 Elizabeth Stampede Queen is Bailey Volock. Volock is the 21-year-old daughter of John and Jane Volock of Kiowa. She is currently finishing her degree online in agricultural sciences with minors in chemistry and psychology from Oregon State University’s E-campus. She competes in reining, roping, Western riding events and English riding events, among other things, in organizations such as the American Quarter Horse Association, the American Paint Horse Association, the International Buckskin Horse Association and the American Buckskin Horse Association. Madison Russell is the 2014 Elizabeth Stampede Attendant. She is 18 years old and attending the University of Wyoming. The parade will start at 10 a.m. on June 7, and the course is about a mile long. There will be a free pancake breakfast before the parade at the corner of Main Street and Highway 86 in Elizabeth. While the breakfast is free, the Elizabeth Stampede Foundation will be accepting donations. The foundation enables the Stampede to “preserve the
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Put us on your spring and summer 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, June 6, 6:30 – 8pm
beautiful outdoor setting at the state-of-the-art Lone Tree
Free Nature Hike: Botany of the Ute
Arts Center. Find the full schedule and purchase tickets
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To those who know Colorado’s botanical secrets, there’s a bounty waiting in the hills. Learn about the sources
Saturday, June 21, 7:30 – 9pm
of food, shelter, tools and pigments that were available to the Ute tribe, who lived in this area for hundreds of
Free Nature Hike: Celebrating the Summer Solstice
years before Western settlers arrived. Ages 5+.
Location: Register online to receive details
Register at ridgegate.com/events.
Experience the spirituality of nature on a summer solstice hike up to the bluffs trail summit. We’ll learn about how
Friday, June 13, 4–5:30pm
RidgeGate Walk Concert: 17th Avenue All-Stars Location: Prairie Sky Park (just west of the Rec Center)
Enjoy a concert out on the grass with free live music,
the solstice has been celebrated throughout history, and in a variety of cultures. It’s a beautiful way to mark the first evening of summer, and the longest day of the year. Ages 8+. Register at ridgegate.com/events.
food trucks and activities. This month, hear longtime Denver favorite a capella group, 17th Avenue All-Stars. Take a walk on the one-mile paved path around the park, grab something to eat at a food truck and enjoy the summer sounds.
Bailey Volock is the 2014 Elizabeth Stampede Queen. Courtesy photo
June 20– August 1 (multiple dates)
RidgeGate Presents Tunes on the Terrace
Tuesday, June 24, 6:30 – 7:30pm
Free Yoga in the Park Location: Belvedere Park (between RidgeGate Parkway and RidgeGate Circle on Belvedere Lane)
Show off your best tree pose! Grab your yoga mat for this free Yoga in the Park class in Belvedere Park. No yoga experience is necessary, and no registration
Location: Lone Tree Arts Center Terrace Theater
is required! Classes take place on the last Tuesday of
This summer, RidgeGate is proud to again sponsor
each month throughout the summer. In case of heavy
Tunes on the Terrace, a series of summer evening
rain or lightning, class will be cancelled. Ages 8+.
concerts featuring performances ranging from the symphony to Motown and everything in between. Enjoy dancing under the stars to live music in a
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A look at the West
Weight-loss season gets glitzy kickoff The fourth season of ABC’s reality series “Extreme Weight Loss” debuted May 27 with a red-carpet reception at The United Artists Denver Pavilions Theatre downtown. Charita, the Colorado Springs contestant, was guided on her yearlong weightloss journey by Anschutz Health and Wellness Center’s Dr. Holly Wyatt along with other participants who spent the first three months of their quest at the center in Aurora. Wyatt, alongside fitness specialist Chris Powell, was the guiding force behind steering participants toward their yearlong goal of safely losing up to half their body weight. ABC will air 13 two-hour episodes of the hit show locally from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays on Channel 7. Charita, who is featured with Oklahoma resident Ty in the first episode, and Wyatt attended the red-carpet premiere along with more than 200 community and Anschutz medical campus leaders and CEO/ executive producer JD Roth. During the run of the show, Wyatt is writing a blog at www.thedenverchannel. com/entertainment/extreme-weightloss-medical-director-holly-wyatt-blogsabout-charita-ty-weight-loss-journey.
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“Wyoming Sunrise,” a watercolor batik by Martha Hepperd, will be shown in “Four Perspectives” at Elements 5280 Gallery in Greenwood Village through June 27. Courtesy photos
Greenwood Village show highlights works of area painters By Sonya Ellingboe
sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia. com “Four Perspectives” is an exhibit of artworks by four experienced area painters: Lora Witt, Peggy Judy, Martha Hepperd and Victoria Ekelund. It will be displayed through June 27 at Elements 5280 Gallery in Greenwood Village. An opening reception is planned from 6 to 8 p.m. June 6, where visitors can meet the artists. “The concept behind the exhibition was to showcase these talented artists whose work is so different from one another. And it’s this diversity in how each artist executes their work that has shaped a strong show,” said gallery director George Rentz. The subject matter may overlap, but method and approach make each artist unique as they produce intimate landscapes, contemporary Western images, watercolor batik and urban plein air landscapes/cityscapes. Witt grew up in Colorado with a deep interest in the natural world — Western botany and geology. She received her training at Colorado State University, the University of Denver and the Art Students League of
Denver. Her website says: “The mundane part of nature that shies from notice; given a second glance presents its beauty. This is what I paint.” Peggy Judy, a Colorado native, started painting as a child and continued through her high school and college years, when she attended Colorado State University, where she concentrated on illustration. Judy, who lives in Broomfield, is married to an equine veterinarian and raises, breeds, trains and sells warmblood sport horses. Her paintings reflect her interest in horses and wildlife. Victoria Ekelund of Denver describes herself as an oil painter and impressionist painter who specializes in cityscapes, still life, figurative works and landscape paintings. She also accepts commissions to portray a special place, person or pet from photographs. “When I create a piece of art, I first block in large basic shapes. Then I look for where I want movement within the piece, where I want my viewer to go,” she writes. Dr. Martha Heppard, of Centennial, who paints in a complex watercolor batik technique on rice paper, grew up in Honolulu and attended Harvard for undergraduate study and University of California School of Medicine and UC-Irvine. In 2004, she began to study oil painting with Molly Davis and then watercolor with Rick Brogan. She has added Boris Shoshensky and Kevin Weckbach as instructors and currently teaches the watercolor batik technique to others.
“That Far Off Day,” painted by Lora Witt, will be included in “Four Perspectives,” an exhibit at Elements 5280 Gallery through June 27.
if you go Elements 5280 Gallery is located at 5940 S. Holly St., in the shopping center at Holly and Orchard. It is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 303-804-5280, elements5280.com.
Thrillist (www.thrillist.com), a national website that has an opinion on all things food and drink-related in the U.S., has bestowed “bests” to three Denver eateries. Included in The 21 Best Southern Restaurants Outside of the South is Tom’s Home Cookin’, 800 E. 26th Ave., a Denver favorite for Southern fare. Thrillist recommends the fried catfish paired with green beans and fried okra. “The name here says it all — this is home cooking, and even if you’ve never met Tom, you’ll be begging to be adopted so you can inhale this instead of whatever you’re hacking at your house.” Sweet Action Ice Cream, 52 Broadway, was included in Thrillist’s 21 Best Ice Cream Shops in America. Here’s the scoop: “What you’re ordering: Pocky and Red Bean if you’re feeling interesting, Milk Chocolate if you’re feeling boring. Our man in Denver tried every single one of the flavors at Sweet Action, and, although he didn’t care much for vegan Maple Walnut or Vanilla Rose, he can vouch for nearly every other flavor as being worth at least several samples. But as sexy as Salted Malt Butterscotch and Cinnamon Roll sound, the champion of the taste was a simple milk chocolate described as `a scoop of goodness ...’” If you prefer drinking your calories instead of eating them, check out Williams & Graham, 3160 Tejon St., the Denver speakeasy that made Thrillist’s The 33 Best Cocktail Bars in America. “A cocktail-themed bookstore is the front for this barely-lit speakeasy coowned by a guy named the 2014 Bartender of the Year by the Nightclub and Bar Awards. Before you order from their finely curated cocktail menu of
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Ranch gets sounds of swing, big band “Kickin’ Into Summer” with the Highlands Ranch Concert Band’s big band group, Swing Shift, will get the season underway at 6:30 p.m. June 14. Swing Shift will perform a variety of swing and big band arrangements in this free concert at Civic Green Park, 9370 S. Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. For information on how to join the Highlands Ranch Concert Band and/or Swing Shift, visit hrconcertband.org or contact band president Kelley Messall, 303-683-4102.
Kiddie movies
The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at Aspen Grove in Littleton announces a series of classic family movies at 10 a.m. Mondays through Fridays, with a $1 admission, which will go to the Denver Film Society’s Young Filmmakers Workshop. June selections: June 2-6: “Charlotte’s Web”; June 9-13: “Jumanji”; June 16-20: “Karate Kid”; June 23-27: “Annie”; June 30-July 4: “Space Jam.” Later films will be listed at drafthouse.com/denver/littleton.
Denver Comic Con
The Denver Comic Con will be held
professional artists will be held at 6 p.m. June 13 at the Denver Tech Center Hyatt. Included: live music, a walkaround feast, silent and live auction items and meeting with professionals who donate art. Tickets: alz.org/co, 303-813-1669.
Summer reading June 13-15 at the Colorado Convention Center, with exhibits, panels and people who create comics that will interest fans of all ages, including the Comic Book Classroom. Tickets and information: DenverComicCon.com.
Sunset artists
The Artists of Sunset Studio (Julie Mason, Beth Samuelson, Lydia Digby, Ruth Work, Sherry Sherman, Linda VG Kelley, Marlene Sanderson) will hold an exhibit at Solid Grounds Coffee House, 6504 S. Broadway, Littleton, with a reception on June 6 from 5-8 p.m. 303-209-7494.
Magical memories
Memories in the Making Art Auction of works by artists, families and
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The Arapahoe Library District’s Summer Reading Program begins June 7 and runs through Aug. 3. Babies, toddlers and children through age 11 will enjoy the science-related “Fizz Boom Read” and those age 1117 will “Spark a Reaction.” Kick-off events at all branches: arapahoelibraries.org. Register at 303-LIBRARY.
Fire muster and party
The Annual Fire Truck Parade and Muster will roll into downtown Littleton on June 14, traveling down Main Street and then mustering from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Arapahoe Community College parking lot for demonstrations. About 6 p.m. the same day will be the annual Littleton Block Party on Main Street, with food, entertainment and fireworks.
Swing Shift, the big band offshoot of the Highlands Ranch Concert band, will perform a free concert, Jazz on the Green: Kickin’ Into Summer, at 6:30 p.m. June 14 at Civic Green Park in Highlands Ranch. Courtesy photo
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classic ‘tails (helpfully organized by spirit) and a wealth of specialty cocktails, you first will have to be led through a bookcase that doubles as a secret entrance. Once inside, don’t forget to pair your drink (go for the Sexual Chocolate with rye, vermouth, Cynar, maraschino liqueur, and chocolate mole bitters) with a steak burger that uses beef from a top-notch butcher shop down the street.”
Parker fun The inaugural JAM OUT Blast is a professionally designed teen event providing a fun, safe dance party for high school students. A DJ will kick off the party with the latest dance hits. The event will be 6 to 10 p.m. on June 7 at Parker Fieldhouse, 18700 E. Plaza Drive. Tickets are $20 per person.
Hogan Lovells lawyer and Democratic insider Cole Finegan and Congressman Ed Perlmutter (along with other muckety-mucks) leaving the reception May 27 at a Cranmer Park home for Vice President Joe Biden.
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Eavesdropping on a trash-talking preschooler during a recent tornado warning: “I’m going to hit that tomato right in the eye!” Penny Parker’s “Mile High Life” column gives insights into the best events, restaurants, businesses, parties and people throughout the metro area. Parker also writes for BlacktieColorado.com. You can subscribe and read her columns (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) at www.blacktie-colorado.com/pennyparker. She can be reached at penny@blacktie-llc.com or at 303-619-5209.
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Computer Technician Level 1, for member school districts of East Central BOCES. Minimum associate degree in a computer related major and three years experiences or commensurate. The Computer Technician will provide trouble ticket response and corrective action to document and track support issues. Technician will be expected to support Windows, Mac OS X, a variety of mobile and desk phones and basic networking equipment. Salary range $35,000-$40,000 depending on experience. Generous benefit package also included. Application can be accessed on the East Central BOCES website – http://www.ecboces.org. Click on employment opportunities on the homepage. Questions about application process contact Don at (719) 775-2342, ext. 116 or email dona@ecboces.org. ECBOCES is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Questions about job details contact Jarred Masterson at (719) 7752342 ext. 118 or email jarred@ecboces.org . Local company is looking for drivers to transport railroad crews up to a 200 mile radius from Denver. Must live within 20 minutes of Coors Field & 31st railroad yard, be 21 or older, and pre-employment drug screen required. A company vehicle is provided, paid training, and benefits available. No special license needed. Compensation is $.20 per mile or $9.00 an hour while waiting. Apply at www.renzenberger.com
Full-Time licensed Speech Language Pathologist (CCC’s
preferred) for school year 20122013 with East Central BOCES. Students PreK-12th, competitive salary, excellent benefits. Access to company vehicle or mileage reimbursement. Possible tuition reimbursement if currently in or eligible for a master’s program in speech language pathology. Questions contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext. 101 or email tracyg@ecboces.org. ECBOCES is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Savio House needs foster parents to provide temporary care for troubled teens ages 12-18. Training, 24 hour support and $1900/month provided. Must complete precertification training and pass a criminal and motor vehicle background check. Call Michelle 303-225-4073 or visit saviohouse.org.
LEGITIMATE WORK AT HOME No Sales, no Investment, No Risk, Free training, Free website. Contact Susan at 303-646-4171 or fill out form at www.wisechoice4u.com
LPN,MA or RN part-time 25-30 hours per week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Hours 8:30-5:30. Some Saturdays/Sundays 9-1pm. Fun/Busy Pediatric office near Park Meadows area and Castle Rock location. Please fax resume to 303-689-9628 or email a.lane@pediatrics5280.com
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Full-time, benefited Project Specialist $55,792 - $69,740 /year, closes: 6/9/14 Electrical Inspector $52,003 - $66,569 / year, closes: 6/9/14 Hourly, non-benefited Retail Shop Clerk $8.39 - $9.65 / hour, Closes: 6/9/14
Must have own tools and experience in various maintenance skills. Apply in person: Castle Rock Apartments 432 S. Gilbert, Castle Rock, CO 80104. 303-688-5062 or email resume castlerockpat@gmail.com
Medical Tech/or MLT Full time for pediatric office in Highlands Ranch and Ken Caryl area. Fax resume to Nita @ 303-791-7756
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area and looking for 25 great drivers to grow with us in our planned expansion. Clean driving record required. Full time and weekends available. This is a great career to make money if you are independent and money motivated. 303-333-8294
Colorado Community Media, Colorado’s second largest newspaper group and publishers of 22 weekly local community newspapers and 24 websites is seeking to find a Classified Sales Representative & Territory Sales Representative.
TERRITORY SALES REPRESENTATIVES Candidates will receive: • Unlimited earning potential (no commissions cap) • Salaried Position • Benefits package offered • Sell multiple programs to a wide array of clients – print, digital, direct mail, inserts, special projects and much more! (did we mention no commissions cap?) • Current established accounts Helpful skills include: • Strong outbound contact with new & existing clients • Handle a fast paced environment in an ever changing industry • Be able to multi-task
Now Hiring full time Residential Service & Maintenance Technicians and Apprentice positions Benefits, Hiring Bonus, Competitive Pay. Fax: 303-421-3572, info@lakesideheating.com: Phone: 303-421-3572 Physician Needed Jefferson County Detention Facility, Golden, CO! Part Time Physician EXPRESS your INTEREST and CALL Angela Stevens 720-458-3525 www.correctioncare.com Equal Opportunity Employer/ Drug Free Workplace
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Join the Team CLASSIFIED SALES REPRESENTATIVE Candidate will receive: • Unlimited earning potential (no commissions cap) • Hourly pay • Benefits package offered • Sell multiple programs to a wide array of clients • Current established accounts Helpful skills include: • Strong outbound contact with new and existing clients • Handle a fast paced environment in an ever changing industry • Be able to multi-task
Please send cover letter, resume to eaddenbrooke@coloradocommunitymedia.com. Please include job title in subject line. ColoradoCommunityMedia.com
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Panda saga comes to screen in 3-D National Geographic film shown at museum By Sonya Ellingboe
sellingboe @coloradocommunitymedia.com Starting on June 6, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science will present a new National Geographic nature film, “Pandas: The Journey Home,” which sounds like a fine way to start a summer vacation focused on exploration. It tells a hopeful story of the effort to save these charismatic creatures, which are extremely endangered, with only about 1600 left worldwide. The film, directed by Nicholas Brown, was shot in China at the Bifengxia Panda Base and the Wolong National Nature Reserve — in 3-D, which made shooting terribly difficult, due to the weight of the cameras. After decades of successful captive breeding, the reserve has hit a target of 300 giant pandas. The next step is to reintroduce breeding animals to the wild in the reserve. The 40-minute film, presented by National Geographic Entertainment, was made after the filmmakers were given access to the Wolong National Nature Reserve, with the support of the Chinese Wildlife Conservation Association and the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. It can be hoped that this success story provides a model for other megafauna threatened by man-made factors: expansion and habitat destruction. Perhaps other governments will be inspired by the Chinese example.
Filmmakers recorded birth, nursery care and teaching of panda cubs and were granted special permission to record the release of Tao Tao, a panda bred in captivity, and to follow a group of wild pandas in their mountain habitat. Director Nicholas Brown (a Colorado native who lives in London) compared the Chinese efforts to save the panda to the space program in scope and expense. In China, the panda is the symbol for the whole environment. “When you save the panda, you’re saving a vast amount of old-growth forest and bamboo forest ecosystems in the Sichuan Province, which is the place known to be the cleanest and environmentally pristine. Saving the panda means waters will run clean again and wildlife will thrive. That’s all being done under the banner of the panda,” he said. The Chinese professor leading the program, Zhang Hemin, is affectionately known as “Panda Papa.” His advice helped the American crew navigate political niceties on several occasions. Doors were opened when the project associated with the China Wildlife Conservation Association. The production crew took three trips to China, starting in August 2012 when they filmed newborn pandas, weighing in at only 90 grams. They returned to shoot 3- or 4-month-old pandas and again when the animals were moved to semiwild enclosures and left alone to learn how to be wild again. Documenting the apparently successful release of Tao Tao into the wild was “a profound moment in conservation history,” Brown said. “Conservation is usually about trying not to make things worse. Here, for the first
time, was an opportunity to make things better. It could be seen as the moment when the tide turned.” It is noted that the film is more than a family-friendly entertainment about cuddly pandas. This positive story has optimistic and surprising ramifications for conservation and the planet.
IF YOU GO “Pandas: The Journey Home” will be shown at 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., with additional shows at 7 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver. For ticket prices and other details, visit dmns.org/imax/current-films. (One can purchase film-only tickets or a combination that includes a museum visit.)
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June 6, 2014
Writer salutes national park’s 100th birthday Castle Rock woman has strong ties to state’s jewel By Sonya Ellingboe
sellingboe @coloradocommunitymedia.com As a young child, Mary Taylor Young of Castle Rock spent stretches of the summer at her grandparents’ cabin in Rocky Mountain National Park — back when private cabins were permitted. She watched animals and birds among the trees and undergrowth, learned the names of flowers and rocks — and the rhythms of those splendid surroundings. Her future was set. The author of 15 books about Colorado, Young has recently published a handsome coffee-table book: “Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years,” which she will present to readers at two Arapahoe Library District branches during June. From 11:30 am to 12:30 p.m. on June 13, she will be at Eloise May Library, 1471 S. Parker Road (Parker Road and Florida Avenue), and from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. June 25, she will repeat her program at Koelbel Library, 5955
S. Holly St. in Centennial. She spent two weeks in 2012 as the park’s artist-in-residence, researching and writing in the historic William Allen White cabin in Moraine Park, and has taught nature-writing classes and been involved with the Rocky Mountain Nature Association. She tells the story of Rocky Mountain National Park from not only 100 years ago, but a billion years ago — and stretches into the future. Ute and Arapaho hunted game, trappers and explorers followed a call and settlers moved into the Estes Park area and discovered that they needed to attract tourists. Enos Mills, Joel and Patsy Estes and Abner and Alberta Sprague were among them. Roads were engineered and constructed and visitors came by the thousands. Recent concerns are that the park might be “loved to death.” The book contains more than 250 historical and landscape photographs, including images by photographers William Henry Jackson, John Fielder and Erik Stensland and paintings by Charles Partridge Adams and Birger Sandzen.
Actual centennial celebrations for the park are scheduled starting this September and concluding a year later in Estes Park, in Rocky Mountain National Park itself and in Grand Lake. A lengthy list of activities is available online — and it cautions that this is a work in progress and will grow considerably, with special hikes, wildlife studies, and art events such as plein air painters “paint-out” and show at the Fall River Visitors Center. Young is scheduled to speak about her book at 7 p.m. Sept. 26 at the Kawuneeche Visitor Center on the west side of the park and at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium on the east side. See www.nps.gov/romo/planyourvisit/events.htm. Nature writer Mary Taylor Young of Castle Rock will appear at Eloise May and Koelbel Libraries in the Arapahoe Library District to introduce her new “Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years” in June. Courtesy photos
“Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years” celebrates the park’s 1915 opening and its story of evolution over a century.
Trinity
Franktown Lutheran Church & School
Sunday Worship 8:00 & 10:45 a.m. Trinity Lutheran School & ELC (Ages 3-5, Grades K-8)
303-841-4660 www.tlcas.org Castle Rock
Castle Rock
Lone Tree
First United Methodist Church
Lone Tree
1200 South Street Castle Rock, CO 80104 303.688.3047 www.fumccr.org
Services:
Sunday 8am, 9:30am, 11am Sunday School 9:15am Little Blessings Day Care www.littleblessingspdo.com
Church of Christ Sunday Worship - 10:00am Bible Study immediately following Thursday Bible Study - 7:30pm Currently meeting at: Acres Green Elementary School 13524 Acres Green Drive Serving the southeast Denver 303-688-9506 www.LoneTreeCoC.com area
Highlands Ranch
Non-Denominational 9:00 am Sunday WorShip
Pastor Paul Flannery “It’s not about us... It’s about serving others... T hen God gets the Glory!”
2121 Dad Clark Drive 720.259.2390 www.HFCdenver.org
Parker
Parker
Joy Lutheran Church
Where people are excited about God’s Word.
Sunday Worship: 10:45AM & 6PM Bible Study: 9:30AM Children, Young People & Adults 4391 E Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado 80134 Church Office – (303) 841-3836
www.parkerbiblechurch.org
Sharing God’s Love
SErviCES:
Saturday 5:30pm
Joyful Mission Preschool 303-841-3770 7051 East Parker Hills Ct. • Parker, CO 303-841-3739 www.joylutheran-parker.org United Church Of Christ Parker Hilltop
Greenwood Village
10926 E. Democrat Rd.
Sunday Services 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.
Worship Sunday · 8:00 am & 10:30 am sunday school
9:15 am · for children and adults
preschool
Serving the community ages 21/2 – 6 years “Love, Learn, Laugh”
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Littleton
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Cowboy Church with Kevin Weatherby Line camp - Castle Rock Sundays 10 am DC Fairgrounds – Kirk Hall www.savethecowboy.com
Alongside One Another On Life’s Journey
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Congregation Beth Shalom Serving the Southeast Denver area
Call or check our website for information on services and social events! www.cbsdenver.org
303-794-6643
Highlands Ranch
303 N Ridge Rd. • Castle Rock • CO
Weaving Truth and Relevance into Relationships and Life
worship Time 10:30AM sundays 9:00am Spiritual Formation Classes for all Ages 90 east orchard road littleton, co
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First Presbyterian Church of Littleton
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Sundays at 10:00 am
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303-798-8485
Parker evangelical Presbyterian church Connect – Grow – Serve
Sunday Worship
8:45 am & 10:30 am 9030 Miller road Parker, Co 80138 303-841-2125 www.pepc.org
Abiding Word
Open and Affirming Lutheran Church
Sunday Worship
8:00 am Chapel Service 9:00 & 10:30 am Sanctuary 10:20 am St. Andrew Wildflower Sunday School 9:00 & 10:30 am
303 798 6387 www.st-andrew-umc.com
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“The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.”
Weekly children’s classes, devotions and study DouglasCountyAssembly@gmail.com 303.947.7540
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303.805.9890 www.ParkerCCRS.org
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Auction on 6/6/2014 at 11am Units:64,82,13: Home appliances & furniture, misc items U-Store-It CO 3311 W. 97th Ave Westminster, CO 80031
Centennial Community Garage Sale @ Georgetown Village located off Holly between Arapahoe & Orchard. Friday, June 6th & Saturday, June 7th, 8AM-3PM
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Misc. Notices Want To Purchase minerals and other oil/gas interests. Send details to: P.O. Box 13557 Denver, CO 80201
Farm Products & Produce Grain Finished Buffalo
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Feed, Seed, Grain, Hay Horse hay for sale
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Garage Sales Arvada
Multi Family Sale 57" Pioneer TV, Yamaha Stereo, Lots of Furniture, including Sofa, Chairs and Antiques. Snap On Tool Box, Tools, Household Items, Child Car Seats, Strollers, Christmas Decos and clothing. Something for Everyone! 6785 Xenon Drive Friday 6/6 & Saturday 6/7 8am-3pm
Arvada COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE Skyline Estates (From I70 go North on Kipling to 58th go West on 58th Ave. to Oak Street, go South on Oak) Saturday June 7th 8-5pm Questions, call Katie 121 Realty (720)412-2238 Stop by the community information table for a map Arvada
Maplewood Estates Annual Neighborhood Garage Sale Friday & Saturday June 6th & 7th 8:00 am
50 -75 Families Lots of Great Stuff! Lucky Dog Hot Dog Stand located at 70th & Quail St. Follow the Signs From W. 64th or W. 72nd Ave. Between Kipling & Simms in West Arvada Sponsored by
DON & ROBYN SIKKEMA RALSTON VALLEY REAL ESTATE 303-200-4657
Lone Tree
Garage Sale, 15+ families The Enclave in Lone Tree Yosemite St, N. of Lincoln Or one mile S. of C-470 Fri. June 6 & Sat. June 7 8am-4pm, Sat.- 2p Signs at entry
Castle Rock Moving Sale Furniture, Electronics, Clothes, Books Etc. Friday 6/6 - Saturday 6/7 8am-4pm both days 3286 Cherry Plum Way
COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE
Fri. & Sat., June 6 & 7 • 8a – 3p Pine Creek West Subdivision, Franktown, CO 80116 (between Elizabeth and Franktown) 5 miles east of light at Hwys 86 & 83, go to Hwy. 86 and North Rocky Cliff Trail, turn north. • Tools and equipment including never-used diesel generator • Furniture, antiques, and miscellaneous household items • Clothing and toys • Art/glass/ceramics/frames • Chop saws/welding/power and hand tools • '66 Chevy Impala SS Convertible • Pop-Up Camper GARAGE/ESTATE SALE Must vacate entire house Furniture and possessions Lamps, tools, sports, games, toys, pictures, frames, microwave, much more. 6010 TAFT CT. ARVADA Fri. & Sat, June 6 & 7 9-5 Huge Annual Antique, Collectible & Horse Drawn Farm Equipment Sale Horse Drawn Farm Equipment, Wagons, Buggy, Misc. Farm Collectibles, Tons of Glasware June 5, 6,7,8 Thurs-Sun 8:00AM-4pm 10824 E Black Forest Dr Parker 80138 Huge Community Garage Sale Seller's Galore! Bargain Hunters Paradise Quail Valley 144th & York St. Fri. June 6th & Sat. June 7th 8am -5pm Lakewood Multi Family Yard Sale Friday-Saturday June 6 & 7 8am-4pm 9110 West 2nd Avenue Trampoline, Household Items, Tools, Furniture Great Deals Come See! Arvada Multi-Family Garage Sale Saturday & Sunday June 7th & 8th 10-5 7342 Queen Street Uncluttering houses 3 family sale Arvada Multi Family Garage Sale Fri. & Sat. June 6th & 7th 8am-4pm. 6224 Brooks Dr. Antiques, Christmas, Household, linens, Indoor and Outdoor furniture, Mens Suits, Bicycles, 33 1/3 records, shoes and so on!
Multi-Family Mid-Lakewood
Neighborhood Garage Sale. Fri-Sat June 6-7 from 8am-4pm. Boundaries are N. of Alameda, E. of Garrison, W. of Wadsworth and S. of 6th Ave. Westminster NEIGHBORHOOD GARAGE SALE 650 HOME COMMUNITY WESTCLIFF SUBDIVISION, 98TH & OLDE WADSWORTH, WESTMINSTER, FRI & SAT JUNE 6 & 7, 8AM TO 4PM.
Verona Community Garage Sale Fri. June 6 Sat June 7 8am to 4pm North of C-470 between Lucent Blvd and Santa Fe on County Line Road. Follow the signs. Some items for sale are gas grills, walnut desk, area rugs, bike rack, floor lamps, garden tools, clothing & small kitchen appliances. Westminsteer Annual Community Sidewalk Sale Autumn Chase Community located at the corner of W. 107th Pl. and Federal in Westminster. Friday, June 6th & Sat June 7th from 8 am to 2 pm
Arvada
Village of Five Parks Community Garage Sale
(86th & Alkire) Saturday June 7th 8am-2pm
Golden
Big Estate Sale in Applewood area Drexel mid modern dining room set, Drexel mid modern walnut bedroom set, and other antiques, many picture frames and other misc. items. Thursday, Friday, Saturday June 5th, 6th & 7th 9am-4pm 1700 Willow Way
Health and Beauty
Gigantic Moving/Estate Sale June 6 & 7 8am-4pm 8034 W. 78th Way, Arvada All must go! (near 80th & Wadsworth)
Estate/Yard Sale 6113 Dunraven Street North of North Table Mountain Saturday & Sunday June 7th & 8th & 14th & 15th 8-4pm Recliner, Rocker, JVC 5 Disc Player & Receiver, Speakers, Cedar Chest, 2 end tables, 32" Sony Trinatron TV, TV Cabinet, washer/dryer Like new
Littleton Huge estate sale going on this Friday and Saturday, June 6th-7th. 5750 South Julian Street, Littleton 80123 Vintage items, antiques, and a TON of unique and collectible items (70's era), clothing, furniture, and a piano. This is an ESTATE sale with YARD sale prices! Items will go fast! Saturday 8am-3pm Sunday 9am - 4pm Thornton 1621 Phoenix Court Thornton 80229 Friday, Saturday & Sunday June 6, 7 & 8 8am-4pm 1960's stereo unit, Thomas Hill Dining Room Table w/hutch exc. cond., Hover Round D, Wrought Iron king size bedroom set w/nightstands, Electric Lift Chair, Dressers, kitchen table 6 chairs w/matching buffet, dresser matching chest w/ night stands, desk, refrigerator, washer/dryer, microwave, lots of household items & much much more.
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Jacquie Jo Billings plays young Luisa and Rory Pierce portrays the magical El Gallo in the Miners Alley Playhouse production of “The Fantasticks.” Courtesy photo
Illusions rule in Fantasticks’ Play has gentle fun with romantic life By Sonya Ellingboe
sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia.com The setting is “any time, any place,” according to the program of “The Fantasticks” by Tim Jones and Harvey Schmidt, on stage at Miners Alley Playhouse in Golden. Lights go up and we meet the magical El Gallo (Rory Pierce), with red scarf and jaunty feather in his hat, singing: “Deep in December, it’s nice to remember …” as he sets the stage for an evening that “celebrates romanticism and mocks it at the same time,” according to lyricist Tom Jones; the play seeks “to touch people and then make them laugh at the very thing that touched them.” Jones is further quoted in a short bio: “The Fantasticks is a musical about illusions: the illusions of young lovers, the illlusions of their parents, the illusions of the old actors. But most of all, it is about theatrical illusion itself, that tacit agreement between the artists and the audience to create an imaginary world together, to draw moonlight from a cardboard disc and to transform a few scraps of torn paper into gently falling snow … “To that end, we have borrowed theatrical devices from many cultures and many times: the Narrator `Chorus’ from early Greek drama, the platform stage and stock types from Italy’s Comedia dell’Arte, the `invisible’ property man from Oriental theater and perhaps, most important of all, the robust traditions of our own homegrown musical comedy.” Director Brenda Billings (who is now artistic director of Miners Alley Playhouse, working with managing director Jonathan Scott-McKean and executive director Len Matheo) quotes from Jones’ comments as she remembers more than 50 years of the history of this charming show. Written in 1960, it concerns two neighboring fathers, Hucklebee (Tim Fishbaugh) and Bellomy (Steve Klein), who cultivate their gardens and plot to make their children, Luisa (Jacquie Jo Billings) and Matt (Mark Lively), fall in love by pretending to feud with each other and building a wall to keep the young people apart. “If you plant a radish, you get a radish,” they sing, expecting life to be that straightforward. They plan to stage a mock abduction in which Matt will save Luisa. This involves El Gallo and a pair of over-the-hill actors: Shakespearean Henry (Don Deveaux) and Mortimer, The Man Who Dies (Clark Brittain), who make fun of all sorts of stage history. The young pair discover the ruse and, angry, decide to separate. Each has bad experiences in the real world and they eventually reunite. Of course, we knew it would end well. Backing the actors is a live band, led by musical director Mitch Samu on keyboards. It includes harpist Don Hilsberg, who subbed in the original New York production in the 1980s, when he was a student. Also performing: Tag Worley, drums; Burt Singleton, bass. The New Miners Alley crew has produced a gentle, sweet, thoughtful work that would seem to be an ideal lead-in to summer.
if you go “The Fantasticks” plays through June 29 at Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 6 p.m. Sundays, except June 29, when the performance will be at 2 p.m. Tickets: $26/$23, 303-935-3044, minersalley.com.
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and we do about 20 road performances around the state,” she said. “We also have a second five-artist company touring and doing ‘Barber of Seville.’” Koepke said the artists are also the stage crew, setting up and taking down the sets. “The Young Artists performance is an abridged version of ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ They sing much of the music in English but also do parts of it in French as it was written,” she said. The purpose of the program is to bring a taste of opera to as many people as possible. Koepke said the performance may be the first time many in the audience have seen and heard opera. Sprague, who portrayed Romeo, said the cast viewed each performance before an audience as an onstage rehearsal so what was learned can be used to make the next performance better. “This traveling company is a great experience for us because we do it all,” the native of Washington state said. “I think it gives all of us a better appreciation for the work the behind-the-scenes crews do to get everything ready for a performance.” He said his goal is to have constant work and to strive to be a selfsupporting artist.
Romeo (Brett Sprague) and Juliet (Colleen Jackson) exchange text messages on their cell phones during the Opera Colorado Young Artists presentation of an abridged version of the opera. The music was sung in English and French and the Young Artists added modern twists like the cell phones during two performances at Englewood’s Hampden Hall. Photo by Tom Munds
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John Kvale, finance director, said the fees will bring some additional revenues to the district but will not begin to cover the cost of the programs. He said the district spends about $300,000 a year on athletic programs, about $60,000 on supplies and materials for the cosmetology programs and about $25,000 for materials for the culinary arts programs. “Our estimates are the district will receive a total of about $53,000 from the new fees,” he said. “It won’t offset the costs, but it is new revenues that are welcome.” Mayor Randy Penn said it is a good decision to put turf on the field because it saves money. “When Englewood High School put turf on the stadium field, the estimate was the school district saves about $80,000 a year that traditionally was spent on irrigation, sod replacement and maintenance which included lining the field for each athletic event,” he said.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Delores Mary Howard, a/k/a Delores M. Howard, a/k/a Delores Howard Case Number: 14PR30369
NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT On or about June 16, 2014 the City of Englewood will make final payment to: The Industrial Group, Inc. PO Box 19157 Golden, CO 80402
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All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before September 26, 2014, or the claims may be forever barred. Michael P. Howard Personal Representative 6603 Beryl Drive Arlington, TX 76002 Legal Notice No.: 4838 First Publication: May 23, 2014 Last Publication: June 6, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald
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For construction of: Broken Tee Golf Course Pump House and Wet Well Any or all claims relating to this contract must be filed with Frank Gryglewicz, Director of Finance & Administrative Services, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110-2373 prior to Thursday, June 12, 2014. Frank Gryglewicza Director of Finance & Administrative Services City of Englewood, Colorado Legal Notice No.: 4867 First Publication: June 6, 2014 Last Publication: June 6, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald
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Notice is hereby given that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Education of Sheridan School District Number Two, Arapahoe County, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, and has been filed in the office of the Superintendent of Schools, where it is available for public inspection. Such proposed budget will be considered for adoption at a regular meeting of the Board of Education of said District at 4107 S. Federal Blvd. on June 24, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. Any person paying taxes in said district may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget file or register his objections thereto. Date: May 22, 2014 Board of Education Sheridan School District Number Two Sally Daigle, Secretary Legal Notice No.: 4850 First Publication: June 6, 2014 Last Publication: June 6, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald
NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 27th day of May, 2014, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on final reading the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. 8-2014 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO, AMENDING ARTICLE VII OF CHAPTER 22 OF THE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODE AND ENACTING ARTICLE VII.5 OF CHAPTER 22 OF THE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101 South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado. Legal Notice No.: 4851 First Publication: June 6, 2014 Last Publication: June 6, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald
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Pirates begin gridiron preparation Englewood finishes third in 7-on-7, fourth in hog relays at tourney By Tom Munds
tmunds @coloradocommunitymedia.com The Pirates proved poor hosts as they mounted a storybook finish to finish third in the May 31 Englewood 7-on-7 football tournament and fourth in the accompanying hog relays. “We are young again this year but the kids have worked hard in the first week of camp,” said Englewood Coach Jay Graves during the event. “In our 7-on-7 games, we are completing passes on offense and our defense is playing well. This is a good first look at our kids going against other teams to help us evaluate them. Now we have four days practice before our summer full-contact scrimmage.” Because Englewood’s school year goes into June, Graves was able to hold the stateapproved summer camp sessions after school. The final practice is scheduled for June 5 and, on June 6, the Pirates travel to Littleton Public Schools Stadium for fullcontact scrimmages with Jefferson and Littleton. The scrimmages start at 5:30 p.m. and they are free to attend. In 7-on-7, teams compete on 50-yard fields in an all-passing competition between one team’s quarterback, running backs and receivers and the other team’s linebackers and defensive backs. To advance the ball, it must be thrown downfield within five seconds. The receiver may continue to gain yardage until touched by a defender. A total of 15 teams competed in three pools during the May 31 round-robin competition. Teams with qualifying records were then seeded in a tournament bracket based on their pool record. Englewood went 3-1 in pool play to advance to the tournament. The Pirates lost in
Englewood’s Kyle Robideau flips a heavy truck tire down the field as part of the hog relays hosted by the Pirates on May 31. The hog relays are a series of physical challenges for offensive and defensive linemen. The Pirates finished fourth in the 15-team field. Photo by Tom Munds the first round to D’Evelyn but went into the consolation bracket, where they beat Front Range Christian to advance to the thirdplace game against Elizabeth. With third place on the line, the Cardinals had the lead with time running out. But, the Pirates connected on a 40-yard halfback pass play from Nick Bersegal to Jake Ward for a touchdown. Quarterback Sean Bowering then completed a pass for the extra conversion to give the Pirates a 23-22 win. Bowering played receiver last season and
said he agreed to play quarterback because no one else stepped forward to fill the position. “It was a steep learning curve going from getting open to catch the ball to throwing the ball on time and accurately to complete a pass,” he said. “I am getting used to the position but I still have a lot to learn and a lot of things to work on. For example, I want to work on being able to accurately throw the ball on the run.” And while Bowering and his teammates
were busy playing 7 on 7, the hog relays, a series of physical challenges for offensive and defensive linemen, were in full swing. Each event is a relay where teammates take turn completing challenges ranging from individual sled pulls to flipping a huge truck tire over and over from the starting line to the finish line. The competition continues until all the linemen have completed the task. Englewood’s linemen finished fourth.
Englewood youth teams face off Under-10 squads get together for league affair May 31 By Tom Munds
tmunds @coloradocommunitymedia.com Players for the Englewood Blue and Englewood White teams did battle May 31 on the diamond at Brent Mayne Field in the squads’ only scheduled matchup this season. A good crowd turned out on what was a perfect night for baseball to watch the two Englewood Youth Baseball Association teams in the under-10 division. Many players had friends on the other team, which if anything, only upped the intensity of the competition. Players on both teams looked for hits or bases to steal, and both groups of youngsters made great plays on defense. Both Englewood Blue coach Nate Johnson Englewood White coach Jeremy Dever both helped players be in the right position in the field and gave them tips about not swinging at pitches out of the strike zone. The coaches each later acknowledged they were working with teams made up primarily of 8- and 9-year-old players. Organizers made an effort to make the teams as even as possible when they were formed. While most of the teams they play are made up almost entirely of 10-yearolds, each Englewood team has only four 10-year-olds on its roster. That indicates both Englewood teams face opponents that generally have more competitive baseball experience. However, both coaches said the Englewood players do their best and battle hard without re-
TOP: Englewood Blue runner Isiah Segoviano dives into third base as Englewood White third baseman Dan Gutierrez awaits the throw during the May 31 game between the Englewood Youth Sports Association under-10 baseball teams. Segoviano scored a run but Englewood White won the game. LEFT: Englewood White first baseman Hunter Labbe scoops up a ball that was thrown to him during a May 31 game against Englewood Blue. The two under-10 Englewood Youth Sports Association teams played the league game at Brent Mayne Field. The Blue team scored first but the White team went on to win. Photos by Tom Munds gard for the score. “We are hanging in there, playing hard but we are not winning games,” Dever said. “I knew when we started practice this would be a learning season for our players. This was the first competitive baseball experience for most of the players and the first organized baseball experience for some of them.” He said the joy of coaching has been watching the improvement of the players. “When we started, the kids knew little about fielding, throwing or hitting the ball,” he said. “Each game, I see the improvement as they get better and better. When I see their improvement as they learn to play
in a competitive baseball league it makes it fun to be out here coaching the kids.” Johnson had similar comments. “I have coached youth baseball for several years and this year is fun because I am seeing most of these kids experience their first year of competitive baseball,” he said. “The difference between their skills at the first practice and their practice today is like night and day. Every day they improve their skills and become better. “I have great assistant coaches, the kids are eager to play so, as head coach, I get to sit on a bucket, watch the game and keep score.” The Englewood Blue team came into
the game with a 3-6 record while the Englewood White team was winless. The Englewood White team struck first on May 31 as leadoff hitter Isiah Segoviano drove a double to the outfield and stole third. After the next batter walked, Tegan Erickson doubled to left center to score his two teammates. The Englewood Blue team came to bat and got those runs right back and then some. Paced by a double by Dan Gutierrez and runs by Billy Ward and A.J. Burton, they quickly took a five-run lead, and went on to record their fourth win on the season.
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Elephant Rock draws 6,500 cyclists Director calls event the best ever in its 27-year history By Jim Benton
jbenton @coloradocommunitymedia.com Cyclists surrounded Scot Harris on a warm morning at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Castle Rock. The music was loud and the winds that regularly pound the area were light. Harris, the director of the Subaru Elephant Rock Cycling Festival, claimed the June 1 event was one of the best yet in its 27year history, despite fewer riders. “This year it looks like (we had) about 6,500 riders which is kind of right in the range,” Harris said. “We’ve had as many as 7,800, and last year we were at 7,000. Although our numbers weren’t as big as they have been, this was absolutely the best. “We just wanted to do some things differently this year. Parking has always really been hard coming into the Events Center with just the one way in. We worked super hard to make that work better and it totally worked. We added an Italian lunch, we had live music this year and the weather was beautiful. There’s no question this was a really a good one if not best ever. It just wasn’t our biggest.” Cyclists had the option to ride 100-, 62-, or 32-mile courses or take on the 27-mile fat tire track and there was also an eight-mile course for families and a ride for kids. “It was not a race,” Harris said. “We try to create a course for cyclists of all ages and abilities. It has kind of become a little bit of an institution for the cycling community. Everybody kind of looks at it as the kickoff to the season. When we started the event that’s what we wanted. We wanted to have an early season training ride. One of the riders that trekked the 62-mile course was Janet Rost of Greenwood Village. Rost, 60, had a liver transplant in May 2012 but participated in her second Elephant
Rock Ride this year. She finished the 32-miler in 2013 and moved up to the 62-mile course this year. “Never in a million years did I think I would be doing this,” she said. “Two years ago I could hardly go to the grocery store. I could hardly walk to the mailbox to get my mail. I have always been pretty active as an adult but when my liver started failing, I couldn’t do anything. “A year after surgery I did the Elephant Rock. I was feeling so good and wanted to participate to raise money to help other transplant recipients and donors.” Others, such as Kurt Lausman of Westminster, use the race to prepare for a busy summer of biking and running races. “They call this the unofficial first start to the biking season,” said Lausman, who rode the 32-mile course. “It’s always beautiful in Castle Rock and I do it every year. This is usually my first big ride of the year. This is always well organized and everything is really well done here and that’s what makes it so nice. “There’s just an excitement about being here. There are tons of bikers all over, there’s great energy and a good feel. That’s what David Dickey of Littleton gets a pre-race adjustment from Aaron Docter of the Highlands Ranch-based BikeSource. gets me ready for the season. I’m primed BikeSource had a number of mechanics on hand to make sure riders were ready for the courses. Photos by Paul DiSalvo and ready to go mentally and physically for a good year.” Jonah and LuAnne Sperando of Colorado mile course. Reagan is 21-months old and rode in a Springs rode 62 miles on a tandem bike. “It’s something fun that we can do togeth- trailer behind her Dad’s bike. Chris Benger of Highlands Ranch is an er,” related Jonah Sperando. “And the tandem bike, we think is more fun than a single avid cyclist who plans to race in the Ride The bike. The hills are more challenging but that Rockies and his wife Monica accompanies makes it more rewarding. Communication him but usually doesn’t ride except for in is key. We wear headsets, kind of like you see events like the Elephant Rock Ride. “I ride all the time,” said Chris. “This is on motorcycles. We can sort of plan our steps along the way. In 14 years of riding a tandem my hobby. I do it all the time. I’ll do the Ride we haven’t had too many arguments. We the Rockies next week. It was a chance to have witnessed a fair amount of arguments get Reagan out and ride in the trailer. It was tough pulling it uphill and into a head wind.” on a tandem but we’ve been fortunate. Monica claimed everybody had fun on “We enjoyed the atmosphere with all the folks out. It’s early in the summer and it’s a the ride. way to get out and get motivated early in the “Reagan slept for a while,” she said. “It was season. It motivates you perhaps for the rest fun. It was a family day. I’m the one cheering of the summer. We had a lot of fun.” at the end on the Ride the Rockies. I’m not Ella DeRosa of Littleton cruises to the finish line of the 8-mile family fun ride. Reagan Benger literally got to ride the 32- riding that.”
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ARIES (Mar 21 to Apr 19) There’s nothing an Aries Lamb likes less than having to tackle a humdrum task. But finding a creative way to do it can make all the difference. A more exciting time awaits you this weekend. TAURUS (Apr 20 to May 20) Finishing up a job on time leaves you free to enjoy your weekend without any Taurean guilt pangs. A romantic attitude from an unlikely source could take you by surprise. GEMINI (May 21 to Jun 20) Moving in a new career direction might be seen by some as risky. But if you have both the confidence to see it through and the facts to back you up, it could prove rewarding.
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CANCER (Jun 21 to Jul 22) Holding back on a decision might be difficult, considering how long you’ve waited for this opportunity. But until you’re able to resolve all doubts, it could be the wiser course to take. LEO (Jul 23 to Aug 22) You still need to move carefully where financial matters are concerned. Better for the Lion to move slowly than pounce on a “promising” prospect that doesn’t keep its promises. VIRGO (Aug 23 to Sept 22) A rejection of an idea you believe in can be upsetting. But don’t let it discourage you. Get yourself back on track and use what you’ve learned from the experience to try again. LIBRA (Sept 23 to Oct 22) The early part of the week could find you looking to balance your priorities between your family obligations and your career responsibilities. Pressures begin to ease by week’s end. SCORPIO (Oct 23 to nov 21)An associate’s problem could cause unavoidable delays in moving ahead with your joint venture. If so, use the time to look into another project you had previously set aside. SAGITTARIUS (nov 22 to Dec 21) Although a financial problem could be very close to being resolved in your favor, it’s still a good idea to avoid unnecessary spending for at least a little while longer. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 to Jan 19) Support for some unwelcome workplace decisions begins to show up, and continues to build, so that by week’s end, the gregarious Goat is as popular as ever. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 to Feb 18) Congratulations. Deciding to attend a social function you might have earlier tried to avoid could turn out to be one of the best decisions you’ve made in a long time. PISCES (Feb 19 to Mar 20) Getting into a new situation could prove to be a more difficult experience than you expected. Don’t hesitate to ask for advice in coping with some of the more irksome challenges. BORN THIS WEEK: Your strong sense of duty makes you a valued and trusted member of your community. Have you considered a career in law enforcement? © 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
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CLUBS in yoUr CommUnity
Editor’s notE: To add or update a club listing, e-mail calendar@coloradocom-
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ArApAhoe sertomA club meets on Thursdays at the Englewood Elks Club, 3690 S. Jason, Englewood. Contact Ken Kelley at 303-789-9393 or kenkelley@ allstate.com.
Professional
AmericAn AssociAtion of University Women, Littleton-englewood Branch invites baccalaureates to participate in activities that further the goals of equity for women and girls, lifelong education and positive societal change. Meetings usually are Mondays each month, September through May, at Koelbel Library, Orchard Road and Holly Street, Centennial. Social time is followed by business meeting and informative program on subjects ranging from public policy issues to poetry. Call Linda Shell at 303-796-7702. Denver investor club meets the first Thursday each month at 7:30 p.m. at the IHOP on Clinton Street in Englewood. Call Gail Segreto at 303-810-9015 or e-mail gailsegreto@starband.net. This is a nonprofit educational club.
DAUghters oF the American revolution, columbine chapter meets at 1 p.m. every second Saturday at Castlewood Library, 6739 S. Unita St., Englewood. Call Michelle Brown at 303-979-7550.
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citizens or residents of the U.S. who are of British Commonwealth birth or ancestry or who are married to men of British Commonwealth birth or ancestry. There are six chapters in Colorado, including chapters in Littleton, Englewood, Centennial, Evergreen and Boulder County. Call Chris at 303-683-6154 or Olive at 303-347-1311, or visit www.dbecolorado.org and use the contact form available.
sertomA cLUB of Dtc meets on Thursdays at Mangia Bevi Restaurant, Englewood. Contact David Oppenheim at 303-850-7888 or captdso@aol.com.
DAUghters oF the British empire is a national organization with a philanthropic purpose. For almost a century, DBE has been a common bond for women of British heritage living in the United States. DBE is open to women who are
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Letip internAtionAL, local chapter, is a professional referral organiza-
As needs change, our residents continue to receive quality care surrounded by caring professionals in a familiar environment.
merce (Jaycees) needs men and women between the ages of 21 and 40 to help re-establish the chapter. Jaycees work to help chapter members grow professionally and to help serve the community through hands-on projects. To become involved, call 303-914-0180 or visit www.coloradojaycees.org.
tion that meets at Maggiano’s at the Denver Tech Center, 7401 S. Clinton St., in Englewood. A Highlands Ranch chapter meets at LePeep’s, 7156 E. County Line Road. Call 303-789-7898 or visit www.letip.com.
nArFe (nAtionAL Active and retired Federal employees), Chapter 1089 was merged into Chapter 81. The membership meetings are from noon to 1:30 p.m. the third Friday of every month, with an optional lunch at 11 a.m., at the American Legion Post 1, at the Southeast corner of I-25 and Yale Ave (5400 E Yale). All current and retired federal employees are invited to attend. For information call, Hank at 303-779-4268 or Darlene at 303-771-2024.
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cherry creek Anglers meets at 7 p.m. every second Thursday in the Lodge Meeting Room at Gander Mountain Sports, 14000 E. Jewell Ave. Call Dennis at 303-841-3612.
kiLoWAtt eights is for people interested in square dancing. Dances are the first, third and fifth Friday each month at Malley Senior Center in Englewood. Call Ron at 303-759-4862. moUntAineers sqUAre Dance club meets the first, third and fifth Saturdays of the month at the Valley View Church of God, 4390 S. Lowell Blvd., Englewood, to square dance. Dances start at 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome to come and watch. This is a healthy activity for all. Call 303-798-4472.
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Services Concrete/Paving
Drywall
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FBM Concrete LLC.
Sanders Drywall Inc.
blood drivE Craig Hospital blood drive, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m.
June 12
FrACKinG Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is a controversial method of extracting previously unavailable oil and gas reserves from the ground by fracturing rock by injecting pressurized fluids. Proponents claim that it opens up vast amounts of natural gas within the United States and could play a key role in the United States gaining energy independence within the not too distant future. Opponents claim that the chemicals used in fracking represent a significant environmental risk to ground water and other elements of the environment. Join Active Minds from 1-2:30 p.m. Thursday, June 12, as we explore the risks and benefits of fracking and put it into the broader context of U.S. Energy Policy. This Active Minds program is brought to you by Health to You (H2U). Program is at Swedish Medical Center, Spruce Room A/B/C, 2nd Floor, 501 E Hampden Ave., Englewood. RSVP at 303-788-7400.
June 14
Summer Special $275 Five Star Renovations 720-999-7171 We refinish shower surrounds, shower pans, tile and sinks
June 14-15
sprinG ConCErT Columbine Chorale presents “A Spring Mix,” a potpourri of choral works new and old, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 14, at Grace United Methodist Church, 4905 E. Yale Ave.; and at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 15, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1600 Grant St. Go to www.columbinechorale.org.
June 17
blood drivE Pulte Mortgage blood drive, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 17, inside the bloodmobile at 7390 S. Iola, Englewood. Contact Bonfils Appointment Center at 303-363-2300 or visit bonfils.org.
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June 17
AudiTions young Voices of Colorado will have auditions for children in second grade or older for the 2014-15 season. To sign up for an audition, visit www. youngvoices.org. Auditions are from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 17, at the Young Voices office at 99 Inverness Drive East, Suite 150, Englewood.
June 23
GolF TournAmEnT A charity golf tournament to benefit AFA Wounded
Airman Program and the local Air Force family is planned for Monday, June 23, at Heritage Eagle Bend Golf Course, 23155 E. Heritage Parkway, Aurora. The tournament is a scramble format and begins at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start. Sponsorships are available and donations for a silent auction are welcome. Registration for players and sponsors can be found at www.defensetournament.golfreg.com.
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blood drivE DirecTV blood drive, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, inside the bloodmobile at 161 Inverness Drive West, Englewood. Contact Bonfils Appointment Center at 303-363-2300 or visit bonfils.org.
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EmbroidErErs Guild of America Colorado Chapter meets at Bethany Lutheran Church at Hampden Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Englewood the fourth Tuesday each month from 9:30 a.m. to noon, excluding December and July. Meetings include needlework projects, needle art education, lectures and workshops of all levels. Guests are invited. Call Marnie Ritter at 303-7919334.
Residential • Commercial Move Outs • New Construction
30+ years experience Clem: 303-973-6991
EnGlEwood lions Club, serving the Englewood community since 1926, meets at 7 a.m. Thursdays, except the first Thursday when the group meets at noon, at the Englewood Meridian, 3452 S. Corona St., Englewood. If you’re interested in working to improve our community as a member of the world’s largest service club, come and look us over. We invite men and women to join the Lions for a meal, good fellowship, a weekly program and to learn more about Lions Club International and the activities of our local Lions Club. Call Dave Newman at 303-237-0751 or Bruce Nordwall at 303-789-1145 with any questions. ThE roTAry Club of Englewood meets each Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. at the Wellshire Inn, 3333 S. Colorado Blvd, Denver. For information, contact Josh Staller at 303-721-6845, or visit rotaryclubofenglewood.org. FriEndships ArE Golden, a Precious Moments collectors club, meets the fourth Thursday each month at Castlewood Library in Englewood. Dinner provided by club members at 6 p.m., meeting from 7-9 p.m. Give back to the community by doing local charity work. Talk and share stories about Precious Moments. Call Leota Stoutenger, club president, at 303-791-9283.
KiwAnis Club of Englewood believes it has an obligation to be involved in community projects. Members meet Wednesdays 7 a.m. at The Neighborhood Grille 1500 W. Littleton Blvd. Everyone is welcome to join and have breakfast on Kiwanis. Call 303-783-9523.
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spACE ExplorATion With the end of the Space Shuttle program, the
Obama administration has laid the groundwork for its policy regarding the future of space exploration. Join Active Minds from 2-3 p.m. Saturday, June 14, for a look at the future of manned and robotic space travel at this pivotal juncture. We will cover the future of the International Space Station as well as the debate over how to prioritize investing in NASA versus other pressing needs. Program is at the Englewood Library, Anderson Room, 1000 Englewood Parkway. RSVP at 303-762-2560.
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Friday, June 6, inside classrooms 1 and 2 at 3425 S. Clarkson St., Englewood. Contact Sarah Miller at 720-987-7594 or visit bonfils.org.
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• Sprinkler Start Ups $40 • Aerations $40 • Fertilization $30 • Power Rakes $60 & Up • Fence Repair & Painting • Power wash decks & houses • Clean Up / Tree service • Laminate/Hardwood Floors • Licensed Plumber
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