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Man sentenced in school vandalism Trickel’s agreement includes probation, restitution, community service By Tom Munds
tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com Michael Trickel, one of three suspects accused of vandalizing Englewood High School, won’t serve any more jail time. But he will serve five years on probation, do 1,000 hours of community service plus begin to pay for the more than $200,000 in damage the vandalism caused.
Trickel, who had been in Arapahoe County jail since he was arrested, was in court June 20 for sentencing wearing a blue jail jump suit and shackles. He confirmed he was entering a guilty plea to second-degree arson, a Class 4 felony, and second-degree burglary, a Class 2 misdemeanor. Trickel While Christopher Cross, 18th Judicial District Judge, accepted Trickel’s guilty plea, he told the 23-year-old this was a very difficult case and he considered rejecting
the district attorney’s sentencing recommendation because the crimes involved an attack on a school. The judge said a school is an institution established to help people and the defendants should spend considerable time behind bars. The judge eventually said, for a number of reasons, he would accept the recommendation for no additional jail time. But he then increased the length of probation from a recommended four years to five years. He ordered that, during the probation, Trickel must attend and complete drug, alcohol and mental health treat-
ments recommended by the probation office. Additionally, he must successfully complete a cognitive behavior program as well as intensive outpatient treatment programs. Trickle will be subject to random tests for drugs and alcohol and must complete 1,000 hours of community service. He must also begin to repay $201,566 in restitution to the Englewood School District. The judge said he and, if they are
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City seeks land-swap approval Residents must approve trade of city-owned Douglas County land By Tom Munds
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Tony Arnoldy, left, and Ashley Summer use cans of spray paint to cover up graffiti on a drain pipe in the Lincoln-Broadway alley. Arnoldy heads up the once-a-month paint-out program, where volunteers spend three hours moving around Englewood looking for graffiti they can paint over. Photo by Tom Munds
Volunteers paint out graffiti Crew seeks out, paints over markings made around city By Tom Munds
tmunds @coloradocommunitymedia.com A team of Englewood volunteers spent about three hours June 21 searching for graffiti and painting over it when it was found. Tony Arnoldy, Englewood Police community relations officer, organizes the graffiti paint-out once a month. Several people signed up to be members of the June 21 team but Arnoldy and two volunteers began the paint-out on their own. The team checked the Broadway-Lincoln alley from Yale to Hampden looking for graffiti. When graffiti was spotted, team members grabbed the appropriate color of spray paint and went to work. Ashley Summer said she volunteered
for the paint-out because she felt it was a good way to meet new people and to help clean up the city. “This is my first time to volunteer for a city project like this,” she said. “I have been in the city a couple years. I signed up for Next Door, a system providing information about city activities and events. I read about the paint-out and saw it an opportunity to get involved in my community.” The other volunteer was Meagan Eastin. “This is the second year I have volunteered to work with Tony,” she said. “I do it because I like to meet people and it is a good way to get out of the house. I wish more people would volunteer for projects like this. I guess the best way to get people interested in joining us is to talk about it and tell them what we are doing to make Englewood a nicer place to live.” Councilmember Steve Yates also joined the team on June 21. He said he
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was pleased to see the graffiti found was only on dumpsters and signs. “There was a time not too long ago when graffiti was a problem in Englewood. There is a lot less of it now,” Yates said. “Like Tony says, I guess the people who do the graffiti get tired of seeing it painted over so they go somewhere else.” Arnoldy agreed. She said when the program started several years ago graffiti was a problem, covering signs, trash bins and buildings. But there has been a lot of removal work and she said she has been seeing less graffiti recently. “I guess people don’t like seeing graffiti in their community because a lot individuals and groups work together to locate and paint out the graffiti,” she said. “When code enforcement officers find graffiti, they take pictures and forward the pictures and locations to me. I also have residents who do the same thing and frequently those individuals paint over the graffiti. Once a month, our volunteer try to clean up any that is left.” She said a lot of people are volunteering to help make Englewood look nicer. For example, she said the TNL Church and Pastor Phil Owens frequently organize volunteers who go out to pick up litter and paint out graffiti. “There was a time when there was so much graffiti that our paint-out crew would run out of paint,” Arnoldy said. “There seems to be less graffiti now than there used to be.”
Englewood plans to ask voters to approve a proposal to swap 12.3 acres of city-owned land in Douglas County for a nearby parcel of the same size and value. The city-owned land in Douglas County is part of the property Englewood bought in the 1950s to construct McLellan Reservoir. In recent years, there has been interest in developing portions of the cityowned land so the council appointed department directors to serve as members of the Englewood/McLellan Reservoir Foundation that manages the property. Rick Kahm, public works director and a foundation member, told the city council at the June 16 study session the proposal is to exchange 12.3 acres of the land Englewood own in northern Douglas County with a nearby parcel owned by Shea Developers. He said the parcels are the same size and the same value. “Our parcel of land has a slope on one end that would make it difficult to develop,” said Stu Fonda, foundation member. “However, the slope and the land would make a nearby Shea parcel more desirable for development. At the same time, the land we would get from Shea would be flatter so our whole parcel would be a more desirable location for development.” Dan Brotzman, city attorney, said swapping city-owned land falls under the same requirement for voter approval as sale of city-owned land therefore the land-swap question must be put on the November ballot. The city council gave consensus approval to put the issue on the ballot and to move ahead with land-swap negotiations. The city attorney’s office is developing the wording for the ballot issue so the council can approve placing it on the ballot. Englewood’s ownership of Douglas County land dates back to the Land swap continues on Page 9
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Sentenced: Former Arapahoe sheriff gets 15 months in jail. Page 5
Untreated: Help for mentally ill can be hard to find. Page 12
Children follow a performer at this Kidstage event from a year ago. Englewood Parks and Recreation sponsors the annual program and this year’s five-performance series begins July 1 and will be held at Pirates Cove. Those attending can swim free. File photo
Five free Tuesday night shows on this year’s schedule By Tom Munds tmunds @coloradocommunitymedia.com This year’s Kidstage, a series of free children’s entertainment programs, kicks off with a splash as, on July 1 the event will be held at Pirates Cove Family Aquatic Park, and it includes free swimming. The Kidstage is a series of free Tuesday night programs sponsored by the Englewood Parks and Recreation Department. The first Kidstage program of the year will be held at 6:30 p.m. July 1 at Pirates Cove, 1225 W. Belleview Ave. Magician Chad Wonder is the featured performer and swimming is free for those attending the event.
The scene then shifts back to the traditional location for the next four shows that will be held each remaining Tuesday in July at 6:30 p.m. at the Englewood CityCenter Amphitheater. The amphitheater is located at the base of the stairs to the light rail station and adjacent to the civic center at 1000 Englewood Parkway. If the weather turns bad, the performance will be moved inside to Hampden Hall, which is located on the second floor of the Englewood Civic Center Building. For the status of the performance, call the action line at 303762-2598. Chad Wonder is featured at the July 1 performance. The remainder of the lineup includes: • July 8 - Beekah Smith who will do a performance that includes circus stunts and comedy. • July 15 - Jeff and Paige will do a performance on nature and science with a musical
twist. • July 22 - Wayne Francis & Wingnut with the Red Hot Chile Puppets. The performance is a show with life-sized puppets, cartoon voices and music. • July 29 - Meghan Casey will lead a reading fun performance titled Fizz, Boom and Read. This is the 14th year Englewood has held a Kidstage program. Gerald Black, parks and recreation director, said during a discussion, the Kidstage program was suggested that because the concert program at the amphitheater were so successful, perhaps it would be a good idea to add a second series providing entertainment for children and families. “The initial year was a pilot program, it was successful and we have kept it going,” he said. “Programs like the concert and Kidstage provide entertainment and they bring people to CityCenter Englewood who might not get down this way otherwise.”
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Community celebration planned for July 4 Tens of thousands expected for day filled with good times By Tom Munds
tmunds @coloradocommunitymedia.com The joint community July 4 celebration at Belleview, Cornerstone and Progress parks is back this year, with most of the usual activities and fireworks planned for the annual event. “This has been such a successful event each year that we don’t plan to make many changes to something that is working so well,” said police Cmdr. Gary Condreay, one of the event organizers. “Again this year, there will be food vendors, for-a-fee activities like the climbing wall, as well as free events like the family field games. Of course, there will be a fireworks finale, which wraps us the day’s activities.” This is the 19th year agencies and communities have joined together to put on a July 4 celebration. For 2014, contributors and sponsors including Englewood, Littleton, South Suburban Parks and Recreation, Sheridan, Centennial and Arapahoe County. This year, the Colorado Credit Union, Herbaly Exploration and Land Rover of Denver have stepped up as private sponsors to help put on the event. Every year, the event requires a small army of volunteers. This year, that includes representatives from the Arapahoe Rescue Patrol and the Englewood Police Volunteers. Also, Englewood’s Country Buffet, an event sponsor, provides food to feed police officers, firefighters and volunteers. Belleview, Cornerstone and Progress parks are clustered near the intersection of West Belleview Avenue and South Windermere Street. The celebration is very popular, and an estimated 50,000 people were at the parks for last year’s event. That number possibly doubles as the
Inflatable bounce houses, slides and other attractions were popular at last year’s July 4 celebration at Cornerstone Park. Similar attractions will be back for this year’s July 4 event thanks to the sponsorship of several communities, agencies and businesses. File photo sun goes down and people begin parking and gathering along adjacent streets to watch the fireworks. The three parks are open all day and people generally start to arrive early, pick a good spot to watch the fireworks and set up for the day, even though the July 4 activities like the games and attractions at Cornerstone Park don’t get underway until about 3 p.m. But there are events that get started earlier, like the Fishing for Fun event that is held in the lake at Progress Park. Signup starts at 7 a.m. and the event runs until 11 a.m. Fishing is traditionally pretty good,
because the state typically stocks the lake the night before the derby with an abundance of trout. Anglers should bring their own gear, and those 16 and older are reminded they must have a valid fishing license to take part in the event. Other early-starting activities include Belleview Park’s miniature train and children’s zoo, which open at 11 a.m. A small fee is charged for both attractions. Pirates Cove Family Aquatic Park is also open and requires an admission fee. Event-goers are reminded that rules in all three parks prohibit glass contain-
ers of any kind, alcoholic beverages or setting off any type of fireworks — including sparklers. Police will be patrolling the park on bikes to enforce the rules. The AirLife helicopter is scheduled to land in the park about 6 p.m. and, about 7 p.m., entertainment begins on the stage in Cornerstone Park featuring the band Buckstein. The band will be on stage for about two hours. The day’s activities wrap up about 9:30 p.m. with a countdown that launches the annual fireworks display.
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Hickenlooper’s gun comments spark firestorm Anti-gun advocates still back governor, Republicans are ready for change at top By Vic Vela
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gun legislation from last year. “Words are one thing, but I’m action-based,” said Tom Sullivan, whose son Alex was killed in the July 2012 Aurora Theater shooting. “In the signing of the gun bills last year, the actions of the governor showed me exactly where he is on this — that he’s firmly with us on common sense laws.” But others point to Hickenlooper’s recent remarks to a group of sheriffs — followed by an interview in which he sought to clarify those comments — as an example of failed leadership. “We don’t need excuses and we don’t (need) different versions of the story,” said Rep. Chris Holbert, R-Parker. “I don’t need apologies. I need a new governor.” The governor created a media firestorm after he acknowledged to a group of county sheriffs who were meeting June 13 in Aspen that he had been conflicted about signing a law that placed bans on high-capacity ammunition magazines. Hickenlooper told the sheriffs that he signed the legislation — which banned the sale of magazines that hold more than 15 rounds — after a member of his “staff made a commitment” to signing it, according to video footage of the governor’s comments, which were obtained by the conservative website, Revealing Politics. The governor also said that he did not speak with former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg — a key financial backer of gun control measures — about the legislation. But phone records obtained by other media outlets show that calls between the two did in fact take place. A week after the fallout over his remarks, Hickenlooper clarified his comments and reaffirmed his commitment to the legislation. “If we went through the process again, I’d sign it again,” he told KDVR in an interview that aired on June 20. Hickenlooper also said in the interview that he made the decision to sign the legislation more than a month before the bill reached his desk and he acknowledged that he did speak with Bloomberg, but only after the governor’s mind was made up. Rep. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora, who sponsored the legislation in the House, told Colorado Community Media
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Robbery attempt A woman told police a man with a knife attempted to rob her as she was withdrawing money from an ATM. The 59-year-old victim called police about 11:35 a.m. June 22 to report the robbery attempt as she was using the ATM in the 3400 block of South University Boulevard. Officers arrived and the victim told them she was starting to withdraw money from the ATM when a white man with a handkerchief over the lower half of his face came to the side of her vehicle with a knife in his left hand. The would-be robber demanded money but the victim drove away in her vehicle. The woman described the suspect a 20- to 25-yearold white man. She said he was 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall. He was wearing a brown hoodie and blue jeans. Englewood police officers searched the area but were not able to locate the suspect.
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that she received no assurances from the governor’s office that he was planning on signing her bill. “I never had any assurance that my bills would pass,” she said. “It’s just too much of a sensitive issue for someone to make that kind of declaration.” Fields said she has been “pleased with what the governor has done to pass these measures” and that she’s not concerned with the events from last week. “My reaction overall is that I’m really proud of the work we’ve been able to achieve in Colorado in regard to gun safety measures,” Fields said. “We’re setting the tone for what other states are doing on this issue and the measures we took were very common sense.” Republicans don’t think that’s the case at all. Not a single Republican voted for the magazine ban at the Legislature in 2013. This year, they unsuccessfully failed to repeal that and a separate law that created universal background checks on gun sales. House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso, R-Loveland, took issue with Hickenlooper telling county sheriffs that he had no idea that the bills would be so controversial. “Prior to his signature, there were hundreds of people including sheriffs from around the state testifying at the Capitol in opposition to these gun control bills,” DelGrosso said. “I would think testimony from law enforcement along with thousands of protestors and hundreds of thousands of emails would have shown Governor Hickenlooper these gun control bills were controversial.” Holbert, who is leaving the House to run for a state Senate seat, sponsored the repeal effort in the House this year. He believes that Hickenlooper, who is running for re-election this year, has hurt himself on this issue many times and that it will cost him, politically. “There are now two or three versions of this story,” Holbert said. “But who made (the) decision? Did the governor make a decision as a leader or was it a staffer? Is he beholden to a staffer? And who is this staffer? “No one could have hurt John Hickenlooper more than John Hickenlooper.” But what happened last week was just all noise in the minds of key gun control supporters. “He signed the bills into the law and since that time it has saved lives,” Sullivan said. “I don’t see any of these (gun laws) as road blocks. I see them as see them as speed bumps, to slow the process down a little, to make us safer in a common sense way.”
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Police stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation and the investigation led to the arrest of the driver on an outstanding warrant as well as for possession of drug paraphernalia and a firearm. The police stopped the car about 9 p.m. June 18 in the 4200 block of South Broadway. When officers ran a routine check on the 49-year-old driver, they found he had an active felony warrant for his arrest. The suspect was arrested and, when the car was searched, the officers found drug paraphernalia and a firearm. The man was taken to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Detention Facility on the warrant and could face additional charges related to the items found in the car.
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the answer is not prison.” The judge agreed that Sullivan should be treated like anyone else. “Which is what I did, Mr. Sullivan, when I originally sent you to probation,” Sylvester said before handing down the sentence. The prosecution laid out what it called Sullivan’s history of deception, manipulation, lies and excuses. “He is now a public-safety issue,” said prosecutor Robert Shapiro. “This defendant was always in charge, and he was always trying to manipulate the situation. … The community can’t help him anymore. We tried to do everything possible to keep him out of the department of corrections.” According to his probation officer, Sullivan repeatedly blamed the failed drug tests on medical treatments he was receiving, but never produced a doctor’s note to that effect. He also continued to visit a home occupied by several men with known mental and legal issues, saying he was there on behalf of a state agency to help the men. When his brother died, Sullivan left a message with the probation officer that he was leaving to be with family in Texas but didn’t wait around for permission, despite the fact that not leaving the state was one of the conditions of his probation. “The manipulation and the untruths suggest that he believes he is above the law,” said Miller. Sullivan, a Littleton resident, was the Arapahoe sheriff from 1984 to 2002. The Arapahoe detention facility had been named after Sullivan, but county commissioners decided to change the name in 2012. “I ask forgiveness from those I have hurt,” Sullivan told the judge June 19. “All I can do is live a better life from today.”
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Former Arapahoe County Sheriff Pat Sullivan entered the courtroom using a cane and left it in handcuffs on June 19, on his way to the detention facility that once bore his name. Arapahoe County District Court Judge William Sylvester sentenced the 71-year-old Sullivan, who appeared gaunt but calm, to 15 months in jail for repeatedly violating the terms of his probation by missing or failing 46 drug tests, leaving the state without permission and continuing to associate with people involved in the case that got him in trouble in the first place. “Mr. Sullivan does not see the connection between his lifestyle choices and his substance abuse,” said his probation officer, Hallie Miller. “It’s almost as if he doesn’t think the rules applied to him.” The decorated former sheriff was originally arrested Nov. 29, 2011, when a sting operation caught him trying to exchange methamphetamine for sexual acts with a man, law enforcement officials said. He faced one felony count each of distribution of a controlled substance, attempting to influence a public servant and possession of methamphetamine. He also was charged with solicitation of a prostitute, a misdemeanor. If convicted of the charges, he could have faced between one and six years in prison, but in 2012, Sullivan pleaded guilty to Class 6 felony drug possession and a Class 3 misdemeanor of soliciting prostitution. He was fined $1,100 and sentenced to 38 days in county jail, with credit for eight days served. After his most recent arrest, Sullivan enrolled in a 28-day residential treatment program, which he was about halfway done with on June 19. He told the judge he was enjoying the program and felt better than he had in a long time. “I’m sorry that I did not succeed on probation,” he said. “I have a drug problem, and I have had a drug problem for some time. … I’m learning to deal with the shame and being honest with myself and my family.” Defense attorney Kevin McGreevy argued that Sullivan is succeeding in the program and was being persecuted because of his high profile as a former sheriff, for which he earned local and even national recognition. “There’s nobody denying that Pat Sullivan was not completely successful on probation,” said the defense attorney. “A lot of people are not completely successful on probation. But
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Beauprez grabs GOP nod in governor’s race Former Congressman also emerged from primary in 2006 By Vic Vela
vvela@coloradocommunitymedia.com Former Congressman Bob Beauprez emerged from a crowded field of Republican hopefuls to capture the GOP nomination for governor on June 24. The native Coloradan hopes to erase memories of an unsuccessful 2006 bid for the governor’s mansion by defeating Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper in the fall. Speaking to an enthusiastic group of supporters at the downtown Denver Athletic Club, Beauprez invoked themes of freedom and liberty and a direction toward fewer government regulations. “There is a difference between living and just kind of getting along and living free,” Beauprez said during his victory speech. Beauprez defeated fellow candidates Tom Tancredo, also a former congressman, Secretary of State Scott Gessler and former
state Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp to capture the Republican nomination. Beauprez garnered just over 30 percent of the more than 380,000 votes that were cast. Tancredo finished second with 26.6 percent. Gessler took third with 23.2 percent of the tally. Kopp trailed the pack with 19.8 percent. Beauprez tried to set aside any doubts about party unity when he told supporters that he had spoken with the other three candidates, who had called to congratulate him on his win. Beauprez said the contest has always been “about who the real opponent in this race was. It’s John Hickenlooper.” “Ladies and gentlemen, we are a team,” he said to hoots and applause from his supporters. Beauprez Beauprez took aim at Hickenlooper several times in his remarks to supporters. He called out the governor for signing laws that increase renewable energy mandates for rural electric cooperatives and for his support of gun
legislation, such as universal background checks and bans on high-capacity ammunition magazines. And, what is expected to be a key campaign issue, Beauprez blasted Hickenlooper for granting a temporary reprieve last year for death row inmate Nathan Dunlap, who killed four people at an Aurora Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in 1996. “If he won’t lead, if he won’t enforce the laws in the state of Colorado, I will and Nathan Dunlap will see justice served,” Beauprez said. Republican voters answered the question of whether they would give Beauprez another chance, following his double-digit loss in a 2006 governor’s race against Bill Ritter. Beauprez made no reference to that defeat during his victory speech. But in a prior interview he likened himself to John Elway, who had also lost badly prior to winning two Super Bowls. Beauprez and Tancredo were atop public polling leading up to the race. But a round of late campaign advertisements that questioned whether he was the right fit to win a general election may have hurt
Tancredo. Some Republicans were concerned that Tancredo’s polarizing and well-known views on immigration could hurt the party with moderates and Latino voters in November. Neither Tancredo nor Kopp could be reached for comment prior to Colorado Community Media’s print deadline. Gessler said he was disappointed with the results, but said he was proud of his “respectful” performance. “I thought we ran a great campaign overall,” he said. “Obviously, things didn’t turn out the way we wanted. It is what it is.” Hickenlooper congratulated Beauprez through an e-mailed press release in which the governor also touted the state’s recent uptick in economic numbers. “Over the past four years, we’ve seen Colorado go from 40th to fourth in job creation, and we’ve seen unemployment drop from 9 percent to 5.8 percent,” Hickenlooper said. “We’re committed to keeping the positive momentum going until Colorado is number one in the country for job creation.”
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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
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Literacy rate low among blind Professor seeks help in finding answers By Jennifer Smith
jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com Imagine a world without reading. Now imagine a world where you could read anytime, anywhere, even in the dark. Matt Maurer says 90 percent of blind people are living in the former world, and he hopes to help bring them into the latter. Maurer, a professor of instructional technology at Butler University in Indiana, visited the Colorado Center for the Blind June 10 to enlist the help of its students with his research into Braille, a language that is languishing on the vine. A 2009 study by the National Federation of the Blind found that fewer than 10 percent of the 1.3 million people in the United States who are legally blind can read Braille, and only about 10 percent of blind children are learning it. This leads to high dropout and unemployment rates in the blind community, which is likely to get worse as baby boomers age and the incidence of diabetes, a leading cause of blindness, skyrockets. Maurer is traveling to centers like CCB across the country, filming the hands of Braille readers along the way to see how the fastest ones achieve their speed. “We know a lot about good technique in Braille, but very little of it is documented,” he said. He’s looking for things like whether they use one or both hands, how many fingers they use and how much pressure they apply. He’s seen people who just use one finger, and people who read the beginning
of the line with their right hand and finish with the left while the right one finds the new line. He’s even seen people whose hands can read separately, and people who start with one hand on either side of the line and then meet in the middle. Few can really explain why they read the way they do, he said, and some can’t even describe what they do accurately. Jasmine McCandless, 8, told Maurer she reads with all 10 fingers — mostly joke books, her favorite — but then realized that she really only touches the paper with two at a time. Her teacher, Michelle Chacon, said her two hands usually read independently, unless she’s tired. Chacon reads about 180 words a minute. Maurer said it’s hard to know for sure what’s average, but he thinks it’s around 150 or so. Maurer’s interest in educating the blind is rooted in family. He is sighted, but his brother, Marc, has been blind since birth and president of the NFB since 1986. Both passionate about education, they worked together in 2006 on a project that examined best practices and common characteristics of outstanding educators for the blind. But the key to education for any child, sighted or blind, is, of course, literacy. “Braille is full literacy, audio is only partial literacy,” said Matt Maurer. He explained that many kids with visual impairment are steered toward visual reading in public schools with limited resources, even when they know the child’s sight will eventually get worse. And magnifying tools take away from the experience of reading, he said, kind of like sitting in the front row at a movie theater. But one of the biggest reasons Braille
Michelle Chacon, a teacher at the Colorado Center for the Blind, can read Braille at a rate of about 180 words a minute. Photo by Jennifer Smith is endangered is that technology meant to ease the lives of the blind has, perhaps, eased them a bit too much. “I don’t hear anybody saying sighted kids should give up print just because they have technology,” said Maurer. “We’ll give up Braille when you give up print.” Reading, whether done through the eyes or the hands, is a more active process than listening, he said — consider the difference
between reading a book and listening to a book on tape. “Print and Braille are about creating meaning from symbols,” said Maurer. The NFB agrees. “No one would seriously suggest that alternate sources of information, like television and radio, replace the need for a sighted child to learn to read; the same should be true for Braille,” says the NFB.
New coroner no stranger to the office Lear-Kaul views new position as medical one, not political By Jennifer Smith jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com Kelly Lear-Kaul, Arapahoe County’s new coroner, isn’t facing any competition this election cycle, but she certainly isn’t afraid of it. “I’ve always been an athlete,” she said. “It’s been a big part of my life.” Lear-Kaul, 41, won her age group in the 2007 Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii, but she says the political arena is a whole different world. “I still don’t see myself as a politician,” said Lear-Kaul, a Republican who is running unopposed for the office. “It’s part of the problem with the coroner system. It’s built in that you have to be a politician, but it’s really about the medicine. In our office, the coroner would be just an extra paycheck.” Lear-Kaul took over the coroner’s of-
fice on May 31, following the retirement of Michael Dobersen. He asked the Arapahoe County Board of Commissioners to appoint his second in command to serve out the remainder of his term, and Sheriff Dave Walcher also endorsed her. “She is well respected in the coroner’s office, in Arapahoe County and within the forensic pathology community, and we are confident in her ability to lead the men and women of the coroner’s office,” said Commissioner Nancy Doty. Like Dobersen, LearLear-Kaul Kaul is a licensed forensic pathologist, which is a rarity among coroners. She earned her undergraduate degree in biology, biochemistry and molecular biology from Cornell College and her doctorate from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. She will personally perform many of the hundreds of autopsies that go through the office each year. Last year, the county in-
vestigated 2,664 deaths and did 450 autopsies. On June 20 alone, she had performed eight before 2 p.m. “It’s been hectic,” she said. Fortunately, she didn’t have to spend much time getting used to her new job. She’s been with the office full time since 2004, and interned there before that. A Colorado Springs native who now lives in Columbine Valley, she said working in Arapahoe County was her dream job. She’s been there through some of the county’s toughest cases, including the Aurora theater mass shooting and the Arapahoe High School tragedy. “These are cases that touch us as an office and as a community,” she said. “… We see suicides and homicides all the time, but there are some that are emotionally challenging, although not medically challenging.” Child-death cases are always difficult, but she said they can also be the most interesting and rewarding. If the cause was an undiagnosed congenital condition, for example, the information she can provide might save another family member.
“Those are the cases I really feel we give something back,” she said. She doesn’t plan on making any major changes in the office, saying things have been running smoothly. It was nationally accredited for the first time last year, becoming one of just four counties in the state and 77 in the nation. Lear-Kaul could be there awhile, since Arapahoe County doesn’t impose term limits on the coroner as long as the person is forensic pathologist. Dobersen served five terms, the first four as a Republican and the last as a Democrat. “My whole platform is that it doesn’t matter what party I am,” said Lear-Kaul. “I don’t do a Republican autopsy or a Democrat autopsy. Obviously our issues are just making sure we’re serving our citizens and continuing our level of service. We know that we’re dealing with our citizens on the worst day of their life, when somebody has just died unexpectedly. We don’t want to use other people’s tragedy in our campaigns. We want people to know that what we care about is getting them their answers and taking care of the decedent.”
Ham radio operators to set up station Littleton-based group takes part in global field day By Tom Munds
tmunds @coloradocommunitymedia.com Members of the Littleton Radio Amateurs, often called ham operators, will set up their equipment at the senior shelter in Cornerstone Park on June 28. For 24 hours, they will join others around the world in the Amateur Radio Relay League’s field day activities. The focus of field day is to demonstrate emergency communications without the use of phone systems, the Internet, power grid or any other link that could be knocked out in case of an emergency. Locally, the Littleton club members will set up and operate a number of positions and use a number of methods to
make contact with other amateur radio operators. Operators will use voice communications as well as Morse code to transmit the messages. The operators at the station will not use commercial power nor communicate by telephone or the Internet. Many men and woman take up amateur radio as hobbies. The first step is to pass the tests and obtain a license. Then, it is up to the newly licensed operator to obtain the equipment that will operate on the frequencies set by the Federal Communications Commission for amateur radio operations. Contacts for an amateur radio operator can range from someone across town to an operator in a country halfway around the world. Field day is an annual ARRL event. The league is an international amateur radio organization, and its website states more than 35,000 amateur radio opera-
tors around the world will be operating and communicating from remote locations during field day activities. Amateur radio operators, often called ham operators, have stepped up to provide emergency communications for years. When an emergency knocks out phones and other regular communications, amateur radio operators often set up and operate their equipment to pro-
vide a communication link for emergency personnel. Another service is sending “I am OK” messages to families of area residents. All the services are provided free of charge. Amateur radio operators provided communications links during last year’s floods, plus they have provided backup communications for the American Red Cross and even the International Space Station.
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Trickel sentenced, new court dates set for both Meany and Delgadillo By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com On June 20, when a judge sentenced Englewood High School vandalism co-defendant Michael Trickel, the judge also set dates for the next court appearances for the other two defendants, Anthony Meany and Chad Delgadillo. The three men are suspects in the January vandalism spree that smashed windows and set fires that triggered the sprinklers. Meany Water from the sprinklers contributed to the more than $200,000 in damage to the newly constructed section of Englewood High School. The morning of June 20, Trickel entered a guilty plea and Christopher Cross, 18th Judicial District Judge, sentenced the 23-yearold to five years on probation, 1,000 hours of community service and to begin making
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1950s when the city was establishing its water system. It became clear there needed to be a raw-water storage area nearby so Englewood purchased about 280 acres of Douglas County ranch land in order to get the desired portion of the property to construct McLellan Reservoir. When the reservoir was built, most of the remaining property was vacant land with little value for development be-
restitution payment. Conditions of the probation include a long list of programs Trickel must pay for, attend and complete. Later in the morning, Meany was scheduled for arraignment before Cross. An arraignment hearing is held for a defendant to enter a plea before the case goes to trial. Meany has been charged with a total of 10 felony counts. The most severe charge is first-degree arson, a Class 3 felony. The 26-year-old was arrested with his co-defendants on Jan. 21. On Feb. 10, Meany posted $50,000 bond and was released from jail. Nicholas Sarwark, public defender representing Meany, asked for a continuance Delgadillo because there were 1,100 pages of evidence he was still studying. Laura Anderson, representing the people, objected to the continuance and asked for the arraignment to proceed. Judge Cross said he would grant the continuance and ordered Meany to return to court at 10 a.m. on Aug. 29 for arraignment. The judge said the continuance offers a fi-
nal opportunity for the attorneys to work out a plea agreement. In the afternoon, Delgadillo, his mother and his girlfriend had a lengthy meeting with his attorney, Shazam Kainpour, before the 29-year-old was to appear before Judge Cross for arraignment. Delgadillo had posted $15,000 bond soon after his arrest on Jan. 21 and was released from jail. When the case number was called, Delgadillo, through his attorney, told the judge he would enter a guilty plea to second-degree burglary, a class 4 felony, and second-degree arson, a class 2 misdemeanor. The judge advised Delgadillo of the sentence he handed down to co-defendant Trickel but said that sentence is a starting point and the guilty plea is no guarantee the sentence he receives will be the same as Trickel’s. The judge did say the sentence probably will include making payments on the restitution to the school district of $201,366.49 Judge Cross said there needed to be time for a pre-sentencing report to be prepared so he ordered Delgadillo to be back in court at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 1 for sentencing.
cause of a lack of access. Over the years, the city sold land to the state for construction of C-470 and upgrades to County Line Road. As construction and development began to happen in the surrounding area, roads have been built and the city-owned land became accessible and available for development. The city council established the Englewood/McLellan Reservoir Foundation in 1999 to manage the property, including working with potential developers. The council established that land would be leased instead of sold in order to provide revenues for the city.
An exception was made in the sale of 10 acres of land to the Regional Transportation District as the future site of the Lucent Light Rail Station. Much of the money from land sale was placed in the long-term asset reserve fund. There now is about $2.6 million in the reserve fund. The foundation has negotiated longterm leases for number of city-owned sites. Tenants leasing city-owned land include car dealerships and a school. Last year, about $600,000 in Douglas County lease payments was added to the general fund as revenues.
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convicted, the other two defendants in the case must continue to make payments until the full restitution is paid. The sentencing came at the end of the court appearance. George Brauchler, district attorney for the 18th Judicial District, spoke first. He said Trickel has constantly blamed associates and alcohol for his participation in the vandalism. The district attorney also said the defendant showed disrespect for our country when he set fire to the flag. However, the district attorney said Trickel should be given an opportunity to turn his life around. Jesse Hall, Trickel’s attorney, said his client changed tremendously since he began serving as his lawyer. He said Trickel admitted he was aware he was an alcoholic and attended Alcoholics Anonymous classes while in jail. “He now realized one drink will ruin his life,” Hall said. “He plans to live with his girlfriend, take a job with his uncle and continue AA treatments.” Trickel addressed the court. He said he never believed he could or would take part in the school vandalism. “What I did was an act of drunken stupidity,” he said. “I accept the responsibility and consequences of my actions. I offer my deepest apologies to the residents of Englewood and the students at Englewood High School. I am sorry for what I did and now I pray for the opportunity to make it right.” The judge then told Trickel he was going to agree to no more jail time. He told the defendant to take advantage of this opportunity to get his life straight and warned him that, if he violated any terms of his probation, the judge would put him in prison. “You have started to clean up your life,” Cross said. “You need to follow up on what you have done so far. You talk about being a father to your children. You need to know you must be healthy, sober and not in jail to be a father to your children.”
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Tune in to major life lesson from TV Now, I am not typically a huge fan of television shows. Maybe I should say it differently: My preference has always been to read when I have downtime, or write, or just take some quiet time instead of watching TV. And I would say that for most of my adult life that has been consistent. Of course, there are the exceptions to the rule, such as the Weather Channel, where Jim Cantore has been bringing great stories and keeps us hanging on the edge of our seats with his live action shots for so many years. Then there is the Discovery Channel, and really, what is better than shows about Vikings or Shark Week? And I love local news broadcasts and catching up on everything that is happening locally and around the world. Lastly, I enjoy having baseball on in the background as I read or write — I love the game and will watch or listen to almost any game that may be on. This past year, I have been introduced to a few programs such as “Person of Interest,” “The Good Wife,” and “24.” For this column I wanted to focus on the last one, “24.” If you are familiar
with the premise, you understand that every show for the entire season happens one hour at a time. Meaning it can start at 4 p.m. and every event that takes place during that show will be completed by 5 p.m. Each episode, tons of action and loaded with drama, all takes place each week within 60 minutes. So as I watched the most recent intense, action-packed and dramafilled one hour of Jack Bauer’s life on “24,” I was caught up in thinking about a program based on a philosophy that Zig Ziglar used to promote and embody himself, the idea of being a 24 Hour Champion. So what does that mean? Zig would remind us that we are not just eight- to
10-hour per day employees or business people: We are moms and dads, we are community volunteers, we are part of groups and associations, and we have our circles of friends. So it’s not just about what we do to earn a living or support our family, it’s about who we are in each hour of each 24-hour day we are blessed enough to spend here on earth. How do we do this? We have to focus on our self-confidence and healthy selfimage; we have to maintain a positive attitude; we have to build and develop relationships at home and at work; we have to set goals and pursue those goals; and we have to live with hope. Now back to why this resonated with me during a recent viewing of a television program. The concept in the show “24” is that we see everything that is going on in a window of 60 minutes. So I thought about if someone was viewing my efforts, actions, words and, yes, even drama, would they see someone who is caught up in the moment or would they see someone who is maximizing each minute of each hour to work on mind, body, and spirit? As much as we believe we are not in control of our time or
maybe even question our control over our own future, it really is in our grasp to live the life we want to live. When we live as 24 Hour Champions we are truly set up and empowered to succeed. Becoming a 24 Hour Champion does not mean we are awake for 24 hours. What it means is that we stay wellrested, work hard, play hard, volunteer when and where we can, laugh hard, learn hard, and love even harder than everything mentioned above. We, not anyone else, we alone are responsible for how we see ourselves and attempt to live up to becoming a 24 Hour Champion based on how we treat our minds, our bodies, and our spirits. I would love to know more about your own 24 Hour Champion efforts, and I would love to share more about the concept with you if you would send me an email at gotonorton@gmail.com. When we aspire to be better than good, it really will be a better than good week. Michael Norton is a resident of Highlands Ranch, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation and the CEO/ founder of www.candogo.com.
letter to the editor Coffman shouldn’t take votes for granted Dear Mr. Mike Coffman: Obama Care is the worst law passed by a Congress/president if not in our nation’s history, certainly in my 66-year lifetime. The Obama Care Law is unconstitutional, infringes states rights, severely restricts individual rights and freedoms, unnecessarily expands the pervasive reach of the federal government into our daily lives, and is extremely expensive adding to the country’s children and grandchildren’s debt. Mr. Coffman, you had the opportunity to vote to de-fund Obama Care and you did not! My “NONE” vote cast in the Colorado Republican primary is to emphatically express my dissatisfaction with your vote and to inform you that you cannot take my vote for granted even though you are the only Republican Party candidate in the 6th Congressional District. Just as Mr. Eric Cantor, U.S. House Majority Leader, could not count on a majority of his constituencies’ primary votes in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, you cannot take my vote for granted in the upcoming November 2014 general election. I will encourage my friends, colleagues, acquaintances, neighbors, and fellow voters residing in the Colorado 6th U.S. House Congressional District to also vote “NONE” in the November 2014 general election.
Napping is a decision I don’t have to sleep on This is a tribute to naps. W. C. Fields said that the best cure for insomnia was to “get plenty of sleep.” I have never had insomnia, but I know people who do, and it must be very depressing. Sleep is one of the best things there is, and it is free. Naps are gifts to ourselves. I take at least one a day, and sometimes two. When I take a nap, it is like having two days in one. If I take two naps, I will get up at 2 or 3 a.m. and start my day. Napping is different than sleeping at night. It’s more intense. The dreams are different. I subscribe to NapDreams, and always ask for the same ones. Either UCLA is humiliating USC, or Grace Kelly and I are in a remake of “Rear Window.” I take my chances with late-night dreams, and usually wind up dreaming about someone I haven’t seen in 25 years. For some reason, I never dream
about Jennifer or Smitty. Maybe because I don’t have to? But I do dream about my mother and father, especially my father, all the time. And they are very vivid and real. How do little kids feel about naps these days? I can’t remember how I felt. I might have balked. I don’t balk now. Give me half an hour or an hour, and I wake up with clarity I didn’t have before I fell asleep.
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What happens in the interim? As a state Senator, I am often asked what I do when we’re not in session at the Capitol. In Colorado, we originally designed a “citizen legislature,” to be in session January to May, and then go back to our “citizen” jobs in the interim. However, now, we are called a “hybrid legislature” since our legislative commitments have increased due to more complicated policy issues and larger populations with more constituent needs. Now, many of us serve on policy committees, task forces, and commissions all year long. So, you might want to know what your state senator is doing during the 2014 interim and year-round. This year, I serve on: • Colorado Workforce Development Council — finding policies and methods to assist with economic development for businesses from the people side; connecting candidates to job skills training and job placement assistance in order to transition back into the workplace or transfer skills into another industry.
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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.
ENGLEWOOD CHAPTER of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce (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.
LETIP INTERNATIONAL, local chapter, is a
professional referral organization 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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They always tell drunks in films to sleep it off. But if you’re a drunk and you sleep it off, you might not be able to get to sleep again for days. Unless. Unless you get drunk again. And then the cycle begins. I don’t recommend it. Sleep deprivation is a serious thing. I have other things, but I don’t have sleep deprivation. If I am feeling sleepy, I take a nap. It helps to be retired. My “jobs” are to paint and to write, and I am always way ahead on my painting schedule, and way ahead on my column schedule. I do yard work and grocery shopping, and that’s about it. So if the arms of Morpheus are reaching for me, I fall into them. If flights of angels come to carry me to my rest, I gladly go with them. My roommate appreciates my naps too. I think Smitty sleeps about 18 hours a day, and he is always happy when I join him. He is so quiet when he sleeps that I sometimes have to hold a mirror to his nose. He never snores, but now and then he makes little sounds as if he just met Miss Dachshund October. Or for some
• Child Protection Ombudsman Advisory Work Group — Now in the third year of operation, the Child Protection Ombudsman serves as an objective resource to receive concerns, complaints, and compliments about the child welfare system. It’s now time to revisit the set-up of the office and its relationship with other agencies and its governance model, ensuring its autonomy and accountability. • Joint Technology Committee (vice chair) — This is a new joint legislative committee that will have oversight of our state information technology investments. Our goal is to save potentially millions of
dollars as we utilize best practices from the private sector into State IT projects and hardware/software acquisitions. • Office of Dispute Resolution Advisory Council — make recommendations to the Office of Dispute Resolution and Judicial branch regarding the court-appointed mediators. Due to some consistency issues affecting citizens, we’re currently looking at requiring minimum qualifications and training standards for the court mediators who now may be paid or volunteer. • Capitol Building Advisory Committee (chair) — overseeing and making recommendations regarding the State Capitol building complex; the current restoration of the Capitol dome and maintenance of the building and grounds, while preserving our state history. • Conflict Resolution Month — This “synergizers” group coordinates activities throughout the state during Conflict Resolution Month, October. Year-round, we work to educate and influence elected officials and communities about the high costs of conflict and the tools and tech-
niques of managing conflict. • The Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System (chair) — With almost 80 percent of Colorado inmates with mental illness or substance abuse, and who will end up back in our communities, this is critically both a human and fiscal issue. Year-round, I also work on my monthly town halls in Littleton and Aurora, constituent needs, community projects, and preparation for legislation. Also, some of us occasionally, try to have part-time work on the side to supplement our annual salary of $30,000. Ah, the interim life of a state Senator. Any questions, feel free to contact me or come to one of my town halls each month.
wealth 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.
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 303-7891145 with any questions.
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CHERRY CREEK Anglers meets at 7 p.m. every sec-
ond 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 303-7594862. 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 303798-4472.
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HOMECOMING INC. offers caregivers of low-income seniors who are frail, disabled or unable to live alone without care in Adams, Arapahoe, Jefferson and Denver counties respite care. Assistance includes personal care and homemaking. Call Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson or Trini Martinez at 303-526-2318 for an application and information.
SERTOMA CLUB of DTC meets on Thursdays at Mangia Bevi Restaurant, Englewood. Contact David Oppenheim at 303-850-7888 or captdso@aol.com. 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 303-791-9334. 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
Linda Newell is the State Senator of Senate District 26; Littleton, Englewood, Sheridan, Cherry Hills Village, Greenwood Village, west Centennial and parts of Aurora. She can be reached at (303) 866-4846 or linda. newell.senate@gmail.com or SenLindaNewell.com.
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 303-7216845, 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.
Social
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. 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. 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 citizens or residents of the U.S. who are of British Common-
reason he wags his tail, or he kicks his left hind leg. I can nap on the bed, on the couch, on the floor, on the kitchen counter — it doesn’t seem to matter. And I don’t have a Sleep Number bed. I know I am lucky. I don’t have a bad back. I have a good back. I don’t toss and turn. I wake up in the same position that I fell asleep in. Smitty moves around though. He’ll start out near my legs, and winds up next to the pillow. When I wake up in the morning, he wakes up, and comes nearer and puts his two front paws on my chest. You can’t do any better than a dachshund. “Researchers found that men who took naps at least three times a week had a 37 percent lower risk of heartrelated death.” I’m in. And there is a name for the way I nap, nap, and sleep. It figures. I can’t invent anything. It’s called “polyphasic sleep,” meaning that you sleep multiple times in a 24-hour period. That’s Smitty. And that’s me. Sweet dreams. Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@ comcast.net.
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Help for mentally ill can be hard to find Untreated: How ignoring mental illness costs us all (Part 3 of 3) By Kristin Jones
Rocky Mountain PBS I-News Danielle Nordeen drives a 16-year-old Toyota Camry that doesn’t handle well on snowy mountain passes. In January, Nordeen had to make the drive from her home in Grand Junction to Pueblo often enough that she developed a strategy: Find a semi with its hazard lights on and follow it closely, prompting the other drivers to direct their wrath toward the trucker rather than her. A 300-mile solo drive across the state in winter can be stressful under the best circumstances, but Nordeen’s reason for making the drive twice a week for three weeks was devastating: She was visiting her son in a psychiatric ward, after he lashed out at school and later threatened to kill himself and staff at a crisis-stabilization center. Her son is 7. Across the state, the same story plays out. A shortage of treatment options for people with mental illnesses means waiting months to see a psychiatrist, or driving hundreds of miles for a psychiatric bed. Police and emergency rooms bear the brunt of a splintered system that juggles crises, but falls short on treatment. The questions that swirled after the brutal massacre at an Aurora movie theater in 2012 are the same ones that followed Jared Loughner’s attack on Gabrielle Giffords and her staff in 2011. They came even louder after the Newtown Elementary School killings in Connecticut. They circulate privately after suicides. The signs of mental illness and the threats were apparent: Why didn’t anyone intervene?
Danielle Nordeen, right, plays a board game with her 7-year-old son at their Grand Junction home on Monday afternoon, April 14. In January, Nordeen’s son was sent to psychiatric ward hundreds of miles from their home, after he lashed out at school and later threatened to kill himself and staff at a crisis-stabilization center. A shortage of treatment options for people with mental illnesses means waiting months to see a psychiatrist, or driving across the state for a psychiatric bed. Photo by Joe Mahoney/Rocky Mountain PBS I-News Medical professionals and advocates cite a combination of barriers: Adults have the right to refuse intervention. Parents are often reluctant to call 911, when it can mean that their children are cuffed by police. Schools, employers and hospitals are too quick to say it’s not their problem. Acquaintances and friends feel ill-equipped
to act. “We regularly hear people say things like, `I knew something was wrong, but I didn’t know what to do,’” says Carl Clark, who heads the Mental Health Center of Denver, which counsels workplaces after suicides. In response to the mass shooting in Aurora, the state recently passed a law that
expands the duty of therapists to warn of threats against an institution like a school or theater, not just against a person. A plan for new crisis centers in Colorado — while stalled — is intended to relieve the burden on first responders.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO IS NOW OFFERING CLASSES IN THE WILDLIFE EXPERIENCE College courses don’t just teach, they empower. If you’ve been thinking about continuing your education, we’re about to make it a lot easier. Starting this fall, the University of Colorado will be offering select classes just east of Lincoln and I-25 in the areas of business, education, computer science, public health and nursing. Because we believe it’s the curriculum that should be challenging, not the commute.
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Legal improvements, better education and increased capacity “don’t guarantee that bad things won’t happen,” says Clark. “But we’re going to decrease the likelihood it’s going to happen.” Routine care can also be hard to come by, particularly in rural areas where psychiatrist shortages are acute. “There are people saying there’s something going wrong and I have to get treatment,” says Clark. When treatment isn’t immediately available, “they throw up their hands and give up.” For some people who live with mental illnesses and their families, efforts to make intervention easier can miss the point. They want help, they say. What they need is more support for treatment and recovery in the communities where they live. Jennifer Hill, who manages a mentalhealth advocacy organization called the Colorado Mental Wellness Network and has personal experience with recovering from illness, says that recovery is stymied by a system that can seem to offer being locked up or nothing. “You’re in or you’re out,” Hill says. Better treatment requires more than an infusion of resources and improved access, says Hill. People won’t sign up for treatment that isn’t therapeutic. “It’s treating people with dignity and respect,” says Hill, “and not treating them like they’re dangerous and horrible people.”
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The other second-graders have watched the police take Danielle Nordeen’s son away in handcuffs before. The latest crisis was set off when one of the other children reminded him of that very fact. The 7-year-old tore posters from the wall, kicked and hit the teachers, flooded the toilets. The Grand Junction elementary school went on lockdown. Nordeen showed up to find her boy rolling around in dirty water in the bathroom. When a local crisis center placed him on an emergency psychiatric hold for his threats, only Parkview Hospital in Pueblo had a bed available. Nordeen works a low-wage job in Grand Junction, and had to return to work after leaving him there, or risk losing her apartment. “I literally just felt like I was dropping him off and walking away,” says Nordeen, holding back tears, “which as a mom, that’s the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.” The number of people placed into involuntary mental-health treatment has jumped in recent years. Court filings show a 35 percent jump in 72-hour holds, shortand long-term certifications, and other court-ordered treatment between fiscal years 2009 and 2013. Mental health providers reported 31,317 emergency mental-health holds in fiscal year 2013, according to state officials, a 21 percent increase from just a year earlier. But the growing demand for beds hasn’t been met by an increase in availability. Instead, the options for low-income Coloradans in particular have shrunk as beds at the two state psychiatric hospitals have closed. In 2014, the state mental health institutes at Fort Logan and Pueblo have 553 beds, down from 734 in 2000. All told, there are only 1,093 inpatient psychiatric beds in all hospitals around the state, according to the state Department of Human Services, around 20 percent fewer than five years ago. That’s about 21 beds for every 100,000 Coloradans, among the lowest rates in the U.S. The state is in the process of evaluating what services might be lacking across its various regions. In part, says Dr. Patrick Fox, an official with the state Office of Behavioral Health, the hope is that privatesector psychiatric hospitals will meet some of the need. He gave the example of Clear View Behavioral Health, which broke ground in April on a 92-bed hospital east of Loveland expected to open in 2015. For now, hospital administrators and family members describe large geographic swaths of scarcity. In Grand Junction, West Springs Hospital is the only psychiatric hospital between
Salt Lake City and Denver. The hospital, which has 32 beds, opened in 2005, at the same time as neighboring St. Mary’s Hospital closed its inpatient psychiatric beds. Like other private-sector hospitals across the state, St. Mary’s found that providing psychiatric services on top of other medical services was too costly. Even after closing its psychiatric department, the hospital absorbs about $300,000 in unreimbursed expenses each year related to providing mental-health services, says Dan Prinster, the hospital’s vice president for business development. Now, West Springs finds that it’s often filled to capacity, and has to turn people away. Kim Boe, the hospital’s vice president, says the wait list generally hovers between six and eight people each day.
Most not violent
The vast majority of people with mental illnesses are not violent, but those who are receive more than their fair share of headlines and news broadcasts. The rate of violence among people with severe mental illnesses ranges from 8 percent for those receiving outpatient treatment to 37 percent among patients in the throes of their first episode of psychosis, according to a research review by Jeffrey Swanson, a Duke University psychiatry professor whose work on the issue is widely cited. Suicide has a much closer tie with mental illness. More than 90 percent of those who take their own lives have depression or another mental disorder, or a substance abuse issue, according to one epidemiological study cited by the National Institute of Mental Health. Much of the demand for psychiatric beds comes from people who pose a danger to themselves. The scarcity can make an already precarious situation even more traumatizing. Grand Junction resident Rebecca Edwards has had a long history of mental illness, including depression, and has been through the whole gamut of available care. After she was administered electro-convulsive therapy a few years ago at Porter Hospital, she didn’t recognize the symptoms of a stroke that permanently affected her speech. She thought she was experiencing the side effects of shock therapy. Edwards says she’s grateful for the mental health treatment that has allowed her to live in the community, supported by her peers. But when the stress of moving to an assisted-living situation last July sent her into a deep depression, she needed more intensive treatment. What she got instead was a disorienting ride across the mountains with strangers in the middle of the night. Placed in an involuntary mental-health hold because she was suicidal, Edwards was handcuffed. She landed at a hospital in Colorado Springs. “I felt very afraid, very alone,” says Edwards. “When you get taken away from that support, it’s hard to deal with. It made me feel a lot more hopeless, like I was alone in my struggle with depression.”
Boarding in ER
If people at the receiving end of flawed mental-health services feel frustrated, it’s a feeling often shared by those at the giving end. Matt Skwiot is an emergency room doctor at Grand River Hospital in Rifle, an oil and gas town between Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction with a population of less than 10,000. He sees workers injured by explosions, car accident victims, elderly people with broken hips And like other ERs, this one has become a holding pen for people in a psychiatric crisis. About once a week at Grand River Hospital, there’s just no psychiatric facility available to take a patient. So a room in the ER is cleared of equipment with cords and other tools that could be used in a suicide attempt. Security is called, and a camera is monitored. For as long as three days, the patients are kept alone in the room. None of them see a psychiatrist, says Skwiot. And then, once they’re stable, they’re sent home. “You’re trying to provide a safe place, you’re trying to provide the best care that you can,” says Skwiot. But ER doctors don’t have the training or skills to give people the therapy and other support they need. “If it was me locked up in this room for 72 hours, with minimal interaction, minimal stimulation, I’m already depressed and suicidal, that seems like it … would make things worse,” Skwiot says.
Before the violence
On a sunny Monday in April two months after her son came back from the hospital in Pueblo, Nordeen was playing with him at a park behind their home. The gap-toothed kid was affectionate and energetic, alternately asking for and receiving hugs from his mom, and shouting captain’s orders in a game of pirates. Things were calm and happy. But Nordeen felt like the family was in a holding pattern. Her son was out of school, with a psychiatrist’s note saying that school’s stresses would be too much for him. Nordeen was apprehensive about sending him back, and worried about the future. “What’s scary,” says Nordeen, “is that who’s to say he’s not going to be one of those kids that follows through on his threats?” Echoing complaints of people in similar situations, she says she can’t find the support she needs. “I almost feel like I’ve exhausted every option in Grand Junction,” says Nordeen. “Because there’s not a lot of options available.” Community-based mental health treatment and support is chronically underfunded, mental health advocates say. An analysis by Rocky Mountain PBS I-News found that overall funding for mental health in the state hasn’t kept up with inflation since the 1980s. A well-intentioned push to remove people from institutionalized care led to the closing of state psychiatric hospital beds, but equal attention was never given to creating a replacement. As a result, community mental health services continue to defer to first responders and emergency services when the threat of violence looms. In Colorado Springs, the mother of Anthony Martinez says she has struggled for years to help her son get adequate treatment for schizophrenia.
When he’s stable, Martinez, 34, is goodnatured and loving. When he’s not, he can be violent. He’s been in and out of the state hospital in Pueblo, and sometimes jail, for years. In August, Martinez was released from the state psychiatric hospital to live with his mother, along with his sister, her husband and their two young children. The family was told that no other place — including group homes — would take him. The state hospital said they couldn’t discuss a patient’s case, said Dan Drayer, spokesman for the state Department of Human Services. He said that Martinez was not available for an interview. In November, the family called 911 after Martinez threatened a family friend. When he returned home, they consulted with a community mental health center, expressing fears about their safety. They were told to call the police again if they felt unsafe. By January, Martinez was holding a large kitchen knife up to his mother’s face, threatening to kill her. With coaxing, Martinez laid down his knife, and was taken back to the state hospital. The experience left Martinez’s mother, Patty Blakney, shaken and angry that her son had been discharged from the hospital while he was still unstable. “I’m scared to have him living with me,” she says. “I’m not saying cage him. But what would help us would be a place where he’s going to live, where he’s not going to hurt someone, where they’re making sure he’s on his medication.” They haven’t found it yet. Colorado Community Media brings you this report in partnership with Rocky Mountain PBS I-News. Learn more rmpbs. org/news. Contract Kristin Jones at kristinjones@rmpbs.org.
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Just plane fun
Glass artist is man of darn few words Dale Chihuly, the “it man” in the world of art glass, clearly prefers to let his stupendous pieces of spectacular art speak for themselves rather than pontificating on his work. During a five-minute media meet-andgreet recently, Chihuly politely posed for pictures in front of the Monet Garden Pool at the Denver Botanic Gardens where an installation of the artist’s genius dots the grounds. The exhibition runs through Nov. 30. He answered a couple of questions while cameras, notebooks and voice recorders pressed in. This man of few words lets his art do the talking, and it has a lot to say. The exhibit, which features installations (some designed specifically for the Denver Botanic Gardens) at 14 sites, is a don’t-miss opportunity to bask in colorful beauty. Now that I’ve seen the show during the day, a nighttime return is on my short list. This is the Rocky Mountain Region’s first major outdoor exhibition of artwork by the celebrated American artist. Chihuly’s sculptures — ranging in size and form — add bold colors and dramatic beauty to the Gardens’ 24-acre urban oasis. Chihuly is credited with revolutionizing the Studio Glass movement and elevating the perception of the glass medium from the realm of craft to fine art. He is renowned for ambitious architectural installations around the world, in historic cities, museums and gardens. While I was oohing and aahing over the Saffron Tower & Cattails in the Ellipse Garden, a 30-foot-tall creation made of 312 hand-formed yellow neon tubes, the artist, along with “handlers,” rode up to the site in a golf cart. I asked him what he was thinking as he gazed at the Saffron Tower. “It has a lot of power, especially at night,” Chihuly said. Well said. For more information and to buy tickets, go to botanicgardens.org/exhibits/outdoor/chihuly/about.
Changeable Chihuly
The artist who earned his chops in the international glass art world wanted to stay at The Ritz-Carlton or The Four Seasons during his Denver visit. I’m told by an impeccable source that The Ritz graciously offered the Seattlebased iconic artist the Presidential Suite gratis as a donation to the Denver Botanic Gardens, but when Chihuly arrived at the Denver digs, he was taken aback by the Chihuly-knockoff glass piece installed on the hotel’s second floor. So he switched to The Four Seasons.
Art gets out
The Arvada Center’s summer exhibition, “Unbound: Sculpture in the Field,” creates a new outdoor visual arts area on the south grounds of the center. “Unbound: Sculpture in the Field” began by re-imagining the existing open space with the intent to create a compelling and engaging outdoor sculpture exhibition. In partnership with Englewood’s Museum of Outdoor Arts, which Parker continues on Page 17
The “Aluminum Overcast” was the guest of honor, again, at The Wings Over the Rockies annual hangar dance. The 1940s-era event pairs some of the area’s best foods and wine with a nostalgic World War II feel. Colorado general aviation supporters closed the hangar door on this year’s General Aviation Appreciation Week. The annual event strives to showcase how general aviation and community airports play a major role in the lives of not only Coloradans, but also the operation of businesses, farms and the state’s emergency response efforts. The celebration kicked off June 19 with the Colorado Aviation Business Association luncheon held at The Wildlife Experience. The event was punctuated with keynote speaker author and former U.S. Air Force Thunderbird leader, Brig. Gen. Dan Cherry. Friday followed with a charity golf tournament at the Lone Tree Golf Course, and Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum kept things swinging with their annual 1940s annual hangar dance held at Centennial Airport.
Photos by Deborah GriGsby smith, Centennial airPort
ABOVE: Linda Styles of the Miles Apart Band belts out classic jazz hits from the 1940s at the Wings Over the Rockies Hangar Dance, held June 21 at Centennial Airport. The entire event was a step back in history with guests, as well as entertainers, donning period dress and attitude. RIGHT: Costumed guests and re-enactors helped create a World War II-type feeling June 21 at Centennial Airport. Wings Over the Rockies hosted its annual charity hangar dance to raise funds for their new air and space museum. BELOW: Keeping with the swing of things, guests in period attire danced the night away to the sounds of Pink Champagne on June 21. The annual event held at Signature Flight Support in Centennial, helped wrap up Colorado General Aviation Week and served as a fundraiser for the new Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, which, along with a STEM-based charter school, will be built at Centennial Airport.
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Botanic Gardens exhibit is glass act Chihuly’s standout pieces join forces with nature By Sonya Ellingboe
sellingboe @coloradocommunitymedia.com In 2001, renowned Seattle-based glass artist Dale Chihuly began what has become the “Garden Cycle,” which involves placing his astonishing creations among the flower, shrub and tree collections in large public gardens in the U.S. and abroad. His installation at Denver Botanic Gardens opened June 14 and will remain until Nov. 30, as plants grow and change through the seasons. It will look different at different times of day, in sun or shadows — and sensational when lighted after dark. Some, such as the “Perennial Fiori” sprouting from formal flower beds, or the orange, tree-like “Summer Sun” one sees near the entrance, are obviously inspired by plant forms. The “Blue Icicle Towers” that greet the entering visitor with a burst of glitz and glamour perhaps speak more of rock crystals — still in the realm of nature. Just beyond is “Summer Sun,” a treelike blaze of 1,901 orange, red and yellow glass elements. As one enters, a turn to the left will pass through formal flower beds with sleek “Perennial Fiori” amidst the lupines, daisies and echinaceas: sleek, striped, curvy shapes and slender pointed ones in varied colors. Near the Waring House, where administrative offices are found, is a pond with “White Persian Towers” and “Turquoise Reeds and Marlins.” A look to the right brings one to the 30-foot-tall “Saffron Tower and Cattails,” with neon tubes. Walk past a pond and the “White Tower” and return to the main walkway, headed west towards the main water gardens, where floats, in and around boats, as well as the “Blue and Purple Bat and Walla Wallas” await discovery. At the western edge in the Porter Plains, in prairie grass, is a series of tall, thin “Red Reeds,” with some of the longest hand-blown glass elements Chihuly and his team created. One will want to return at dusk when lights give a magical glow to these art pieces. Special night programming is planned in October and November from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Tour guides will be available Fridays through Sundays at 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. and family-oriented tours will be offered
“Float Boat” by Dale Cihuly is in the Monet Pool at Denver Botanic Gardens Photos by Sonya Ellingboe
ABOUT DALE CHIHULY Dale Chihuly was born in Tacoma, Wash., in 1941. He discovered glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington and enrolled in the nation’s first glass program at the University of Wisconsin, continued at Rhode Island School of Design, and then taught there. In 1968, with a Fulbright Fellowship, he went to Venice, Italy, and learned the team method of glassblowing. In 1971, he founded the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state, which has become an international glass center.
on Saturdays from 10-11 a.m. and 2-3 p.m. Children must be accompanied by an adult. See the website for other programs for photographers and painters. Chihuly’s studio shipped six 53-foot containers to Denver for the show, and it took 11 team members 11 days to install all the works. There are 14 sites with installations in the Botanic Gardens, and maps are available to find them all. While we realize that some consider the Chihuly art glass works a distraction from the plants, we feel that the Botanic Gardens is also proud to be a certified museum, and its annual inclusion of art elements is an entirely appropriate way
CURTAIN TIME Just one night
“Artistes Nouveau — Modern Vaudeville at the Historic Aurora Fox” plays at 8 p.m. June 28 on the Aurora Fox Mainstage, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora. An evening of vaudeville-style variety acts: burlesque, comedy, acrobatics, juggling, music and more. Included: Professor Phelyx, Tatiana Tata, Miss Orchid Mei, Naughty Pierre, SMIRK, and Aurora’s favorite “Irish Jew,” Adam Goldstein. Recommended for over 18. Tickets: $24/$22, 303-739-1970, aurorafox.org.
This Bug’s for you
“Company” by Stephen Sondheim plays June 27 to July 19, presented by Equinox Theatre Company at the Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Colin Roybal is director. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays. Tickets: $20 advance/$25 at the door, EquinoxTheatreDenver.com.
Western Slope
“American Buffalo” plays through July 5 at Thunder River Theatre, 67 Promenade, Carbondale (south of Glenwood Springs). Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2:30 p.m. June 29. Thunderrivertheatre. com, 970-963-8200.
Grim tale “Who Will Sing for Lena” plays July 17 to Aug. 3 at the Aurora Fox Studio Theatre, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora. Directed by Libby Arnold, featuring Adrienne Martin Fullwood. It is the story of the only woman in Georgia’s history convicted of murder and electrocuted. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: $22/$20, 303-739-1970, andtototoo.org.
Heroic doings “Lobby Hero” plays through July 6 at Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Directed by Linda Suttle of Littleton. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: vintagetheatre. com.
Bard bash Colorado Shakespeare Festival at CU Boulder now includes “I Hate Hamlet” by Paul Rudnick, “Merry Wives of Windsor” by William Shakespeare, “Henry IV Part I and Part II.” See coloradoshakes.org or call for exact dates and times: 303-492-8008, cupresents@colorado.edu.
“Blue Icicle Towers” by Dale Chihuly greets visitors at the entrance to Denver Botanic Gardens. to entice more viewers for gardens and art. It’s just a most happy place to spend a few hours on any given day — on more than one occasion, since the plants are constantly growing and changing. Relax and smell the flowers!
IF YOU GO Denver Botanic Gardens is at 1007 York St., Denver. The Chihuly exhibit runs through Nov. 30. Information: 720-865-3500, botanicgardens.org. Admission: $12.50, adults. See website for related programming.
HAVE A STORY IDEA? Email Englewood Community Editor Tom Munds at tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com or call 303-566-4108.
St. Andrew United Methodist Church presents the denver premier
With Composer and Guest Conductor Mark Hayes Narrated by retired Arapahoe County Sheriff, Grayson Robinson Featuring a 150-voice community-wide choir and orchestra. Free and open to the public! www.st-andrew-umc.com | 303-794-2683 9203 S University Blvd | Highlands Ranch | 80126
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Longtime artist’s work on display in library Bentley continues to create new pieces year after year By Sonya Ellingboe
sellingboe @coloradocommunitymedia.com There’s an advantage to being a veteran artist: One has accumulated a lifetime of images and experiences that feed into the creative juices as they flow out into a new artistic endeavor. Painter Rita Bentley of Littleton is one of those who has stayed in the field consistently, producing new and different works year after year. And she is a founding member, eight years ago, of CoArt Gallery at 846 Santa Fe Drive in Denver’s Arts District. The gallery is artist-owned and -operated and follows her experiences with similar galleries in Littleton in earlier years. She will hold an exhibit called “Abstract Express” in Koelbel Library’s west gallery during the month of July. A reception is planned for 2-4 p.m. on July 13. Bentley says she “startBentley ed in the Chicago area,” drawing a lot as a child. She recalls imitating the art from Saturday Evening Post covers — including those by Norman Rockwell. She has an associate degree from the College of Du-
IF YOU GO Rita Bentley’s “Abstract Express” exhibit will be at Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly St., Centennial, July 1-31. Open during library hours. Her art can also be seen at CoArt Gallery, 846 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. (Open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and first and third Friday evenings.) Page in Glen Ellyn, Ill., and became interested in Native American history and art — which seemed to fit when she moved to Colorado in 1979. Those familiar with her earlier work will recall a Southwestern flavor and images. She creates in multimedia and maintains a working studio at Macy Dorf’s Artists on Santa Fe, a block south of CoArt at 747 Santa Fe. (Dorf, also from Littleton, is a longtime ceramics professional, who bought an old commercial building some years ago and converted it into showroom space plus artists’ studios for himself and others. It stands out with its colorful decoration by Hispanic muralists.) Bentley said the painting “Tavira,” which will be in the show, resulted from an April trip to Tavira in Portugal where “the colors inspired me. The big turquoise in the middle is the ocean … I’m concentrating on abstracts and have done a variety.” She is proud of her five children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild and enjoys visiting a son in London, who accompanied her to Portugal recently.
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Colorado premiere coming to Ranch Mark Hayes, composer of the 2011 choral/orchestral work “The American Spirit,” will perform on the piano and conduct a mass choir in the Colorado premiere of his work at 3 p.m. June 29 at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Grayson Robinson, retired Arapahoe County sheriff, will narrate the text that uses quotes from Henry David Thoreau and from songs such as “Simple Gifts,” “Zion’s Walls” and “Materna.” St. Andrew United Methodist’s anchor choir will be joined by several area church and community choirs and a professional chamber orchestra. Admission is free. A free-will offering will be welcome. 303-794-2683.
Call for artists
The Depot Arts Center Gallery invites entries for its 2014 All-Colorado Art Show, with a deadline of July 7 for entries. Enter: callforentry.org. A prospectus is available at Depot. Show dates: July 30-Aug. 24. Open to all Colorado artists of 2-D and 3-D work, the exhibit is part of 2014 Western Welcome Week in Littleton. Juror is Denver
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specializes in the placement of site-specific sculpture in Colorado, 27 sculptures were chosen of various sizes and media by 15 Colorado artists. This creative endeavor evolved into a visually dramatic exhibition spread over a quarter-mile that creates a dedicated area to showcase modern and contemporary sculptures. The newly created sculpture field changes the landscape of Arvada Center and brings the programming of the center galleries inside, out. Participating artists include: Vanessa Clarke, Emmett Culligan, John Fergu-
artist Joanne Burney.
That’s Keen Artist Michael Keen has joined the staff at Museum Outdoor Arts as the new program director. He will oversee the Design and Build internships and other MOA programs and partnerships. He will work with master artist Cory Gilstrap on the 2014 Design and Build program now underway.
Art show taking entries The annual Kaleidoscope Juried Art Show will run from July 7-29 in the Colo-
son, Erick C. Johnson, Andy Libertone, Nancy Lovendahl, Robert Mangold, Patrick Marold, Dave Mazza, Andy Miller, Charles Parson, Carl Reed, Joe Riches, Kevin Robb and Bill Vielehr. “Unbound: Sculpture in the Field” will open with a free public reception from 6 to 9 p.m. June 26 and runs through September 2015. The sculpture area is free and open to the public during daylight hours. The Arvada Center is located at 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. For additional information, go to arvadacenter.org/galleries or call 720-898-7200.
Red Rocks hosts Chappelle
Dave Chappelle performs one night only at 8 p.m. Aug. 24 — Chappelle’s 41st birthday — at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Chappelle has been making the talk-
rado Gallery of the Arts at Arapahoe Community College, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. The juror will be ACC art instructor Nathan Abels. Entries will be accepted (actual work) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on July 5 at the Gallery. Jurying will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and unaccepted art can be picked up from 1 to 3 p.m. that day. Eligible: ceramics, drawing, jewelry, glass, metals, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, woodworking. Entry fee: $10 per entry (exact cash only). Information: contact gallery director Trish Sangelo, Trish. Sangelo@arapahoe.edu. Opening reception will be 5-7 p.m. July 11. Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.
Get down with the guild
Members and prospective members are invited to Denver Lyric Opera Guild’s Summer Party at 11 a.m. July 15 at Mount Vernon Country Club, 24933 Clubhouse Circle, Golden. The program will be presented by soprano Anna Christy, who is appearing with the Central City Opera this summer. Tickets: $35. Reservations must be received
show circuit lately to promote his standup act and to make light of his decision to walk away from a $50 million Comedy Central contract. Tickets, available at livenation.com and all Ticketmaster outlets are $55 and $65 plus applicable service charges. To charge by phone, call 1-800-745-3000.
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Rockmount Ranch Wear supplied much of the wardrobe for the new A&E Western series “Longmire.” Series costar Lou Diamond Phillips and much of the cast wear Rockmount. In other news, Rockmount announces the rollout of its new website, rockmount.com. More than a catalog, the website features celebrities who wear Rockmount and archives the press coverage the family business gener-
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by July 10: Send check to Barb Sileo, 3845 Dudley St., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033-4328, with name, phone and entree selection (steak medallions or chicken/broccoli crepes.) The DLOG has many south area members.
Large-scale sculpture “Unbound: Sculpture in the Field” opens June 26 on the south grounds of the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., and will be in place through September 2015. Museum Outdoor Arts in Englewood is a partner and sponsor, calling on its special strength in large outdoor sculptures. Fifteen sculptors will exhibit 27 works, changing the landscape of the Arvada Center’s property. Opening reception: 6-9 p.m. June 26. Open during daylight hours. Admission is free. Three related exhibits will be at the center’s indoor galleries through August. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays to Fridays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays; 1-5 p.m. Sundays and until 7:30 p.m. on nights with theatre performances.
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Overheard Eavesdropping on a woman during the Elway’s 10th Annual Summer Music Series’ opening concert with The Railbenders: “Someone call Noah and tell him to send the ark.” 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 Blacktie-Colorado.com. You can subscribe and read her columns (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) at www.blacktiecolorado.com/pennyparker. She can be reached at penny@blacktie-llc.com or at 303-619-5209.
SALOME’S STARS FOR THE WEEK OF JunE 23, 2014
ARIES (Mar 21 to Apr 19) A change of season reinvigorates the Lamb, helping to overcome the effects of a recent slower-paced period. This is a good time to restate your feelings for that certain someone. TAURUS (Apr 20 to May 20) You might not like using your authority to correct a workplace situation, but that’s what being placed in charge is all about. Besides, you have people ready to lend support if need be. GEMINI (May 21 to Jun 20) Your creativity continues to run high and helps guide you to make some fine choices in the work you’re doing. Keep the weekend free for those special people in your life.
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GALLERY OF GAMES
CANCER (Jun 21 to Jul 22) Don’t be surprised if you experience a sudden spurt of energy strong enough to pull you out of that recent period of indecision and put you back in charge of your own goals. LEO (Jul 23 to Aug 22) This is a good time for Leos and Leonas to set new goals regarding health, educational choices and possible career moves. The plans you make now could be a blueprint for your future. VIRGO (Aug 23 to Sept 22) You might have much to offer a potential employer, but it can all be overwhelmed by too many details. Let the facts about you speak for themselves without any embellishments. LIBRA (Sept 23 to Oct 22) This is a good week to balance your responsibilities to your work-a-day world with your obligations to the people in your private life. Expect news that could lead to a change in plans. SCORPIO (Oct 23 to nov 21) A changing attitude on the part of a once determined adversary could cause changes down the line. Be prepared to take advantage of an unexpected new opportunity. SAGITTARIUS (nov 22 to Dec 21) You’d be a truly wise Sagittarius to be skeptical about an offer that doesn’t answer all your questions. Even a colleague’s testimonial doesn’t replace facts that aren’t there. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 to Jan 19) It’s a good idea to avoid spending on unnecessary purchases this week in order to keep a money reserve against a possible upcoming (but, fortunately, temporary) shortfall. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 to Feb 18) More information is what you should demand regarding that workplace situation that recently came to light. Don’t be surprised at who might turn up as one of your supporters. PISCES (Feb 19 to Mar 20) You might still be in a “treading water” mode, but by midweek, a shift in your aspect favors taking a more active role in pushing for the changes you feel are necessary. Good luck. BORN THIS WEEK: You exude a warm, caring attitude that comforts everyone who comes into your life. © 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
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IN THE DISTRICT/SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL
PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Florence Mabel Cyboron, Deceased Case Number: 2014 PR 174 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 31, 2014 or the claims may be forever barred. Shari L. Knoll Personal Representative 7838 S. Poplar Way Centennial, Colorado 80112 Legal Notice No: 4894 First Publication: June 27, 2014 Last Publication: July 11, 2014 Publisher: Englewood Herald
Notice To Creditors PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of EDWARD J. LASKOWSKI, Deceased. Case Number: 2014PR30384 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe, County, Colorado on or before October 27, 2014, or the claims may be forever barred. Virginia A. Frazer-Abel, Esq. Special Administrator 165 South Union Boulevard, Suite 450 Lakewood, Colorado 80228 Legal Notice No.: 4868 First Publication: June 27, 2014 Last Publication: July 11, 2014 Publisher: Englewood Herald
Snider, Dale, Plaintiff, vs. Newtson, Cortney, Defendant Case No. 3AN-13-11246CI
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NOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANT TO DEFENDANT: Cortney Newtson-Snider You are hereby summoned and required to file with the court an answer to the complaint filed in this case. Your answer must be filed with the court at: Nesbett Courthouse 825 W. 4th Ave, Anchorage, AK 99501, within thirty (30) days after the last date of publication of this notice. In addition, a copy of your answer must be sent to the plaintiff Dale Snider, whose address is 700 Quartermaster Rd Box 844, JBER, 99505.
Government Legals Public Notice
The regular meeting of the Board of Adjustment and Appeals is scheduled for July 9, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at Englewood Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado.
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Patricia A. Lacey Personal Representative c/o Barbara Cashman, LLC 7955 E. Arapahoe Ct., #3000 Centennial, CO 80112 barb@DenverElderLaw.org Legal Notice No.: 73080 First Publication: June 27, 2014 Last Publication: July 11, 2014 Publisher: Englewood Herald
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/s/ Nancy G. Fenton Nancy G. Fenton Recording Secretary Legal Notice 4893 PUBLISHED: JuneNo.: 27, 2014 First Publication: June 27, 2014 Last Publication: June 27, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald
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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Linda Beth Riegel, Deceased Case Number 2014PR30450 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 27 October 2014, or the claims may be forever barred.
PREMISES: 3500 South Sherman Street and 250 East Hampden Avenue
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All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 27, 2014, or the claims may be forever barred.
Case #2014-004. APPLICANT: Gemstar Properties, LLC. The applicant is requesting variances to reduce the required ground floor commercial space from the required 50.1 percent to 0 percent to develop a senior housing project; and to increase the maximum allowable front setback from 5 feet to 10 feet to include detached sidewalks. These are variances to section 16-61.C.4 and table 16-6-1.1 of the Englewood Municipal Code.
Copies of the application is on file in the Community Development Department and may be reviewed upon request. Anyone interested in this matter may be heard at the Public Hearing at the previously cited location, date, and time.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ALICE KATHLEEN SMITH, Deceased Case Number 2014-PR-30445
Case #2014-003. APPLICANT: Gary W. Smith The applicant is requesting a variance to construct an addition to an existing garage, increasing the total square footage to 1300 s.f. The proposed addition would exceed the 1000 s.f. maximum for a garage by 300 s.f. This is a variance to Table 166-1.2 Summary Table of Dimensional Requirements for Accessory Structures of the Englewood Municipal Code. PREMISES: 4895 South Huron Street
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If you fail to file your Answer within the required time, a default judgement may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This is action for divorce without complaint (no children, property shared.)
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Purpose: To consider approval of the Kloppenberg Minor Subdivision for the property located at 4040 South Clay Street. The legal description is: Beg 304 Ft N Of Sw Cor Ne 1/4 Se 1/4 Sec 5-5-68, Th N 250 Ft Th E 300 Ft Th N 694 Ft To Swly Line D & Rg Rr Rt/Way, Th Sely Alg Sd Line To Intersect Of S Line Ne 1/4 Ne 1/4 Se 1/4 Th W 47.94 Ft Th S To A Pt 50 Ft N Of Se Cor Of Sw 1/4 Ne 1/4 Se 1/4 Th W 360 Ft, Th N 254 Ft, Th W 300 Ft To Beg Ex Rds 5-5-68, City of Sheridan, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. Applicant: Kloppenberg Investment Company represented by Frank Stasko Owner: Kloppenberg and Company
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The City of Sheridan Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, July 9th, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. at the Sheridan Municipal Center, 4101 S. Federal Blvd., City of Sheridan, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado:
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Leslie Shohet Benedict, a/k/a Leslie Benedict, a/k/a Leslie S. Benedict, Deceased Case Number 2014PR30440
On or about July 15, 2014 the City of Englewood will make final payment to: Colorado Lighting, Inc. 2171 East 74th Avenue Denver, CO 80229
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 October 27, 2014, or the claims may be forever barred.
For construction of: L/E Wastewater Treatment Plant Lighting Replacement Project
Charles V. Shohet Personal Representative 568 Belair Drive Colchester, VT 05446 Legal Notice No: 4891 First Publication: June 27, 2014 Last Publication: July 11, 2014 Publisher: Englewood Herald
Legal Notice No.: 4882 First Publication: June 27, 2014 Last Publication: June 27, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Courtney Leonore Rogers, Deceased Case Number: 2014 PR 30431
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Legal Notice No: 4895 First Publication: June 27, 2014 Last Publication: July 11, 2014 Publisher: Englewood Herald
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NOTICE TO ABSENT DEFENDANT TO DEFENDANT:
ORDINANCE NO. 9-2014 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO, ENACTING SECTION 10-55, ARTICLE IV OF CHAPTER 10 OF THE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE TASTINGS
Frank Gryglewicz Director of Finance & Administrative Services City of Englewood, Colorado Legal Notice No.: 4887 First Publication: June 27, 2014 Last Publication: July 4, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT On or about July 8, 2014 the City of Englewood will make final payment to: Casey’s Construction, LLC 1418 Clermont St Denver, CO 80220 For construction of: Foundation and Civil Works for Pre-Manufactured Office Building Project ITB-13-002
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.
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, July 3, 2014
Legal Notice No.: 4872 First Publication: June 27, 2014 Last Publication: June 27, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald
Frank Gryglewicz Director of Finance & Administrative Services City of Englewood, Colorado Legal Notice No.: 4888 First Publication: June 27, 2014 Last Publication: July 4, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald
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Snider, Dale, Plaintiff, vs. Newtson, Cortney, Defendant Case No. 3AN-13-11246CI
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On the 9th day of June, 2014, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Ordinance:
Elizabeth Rogers Personal Representative 8 Pond Street Topsfield, MA 01983
IN THE DISTRICT/SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA THIRD JUDICIAL
Legal Notice No.: 4886 First Publication: June 27, 2014 Last Publication: June 27, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald
CITY OF SHERIDAN NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE
PUBLIC NOTICE
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 27, 2014 or the claims may be forever barred.
Any claims relating to this contract must be filed with Frank Gryglewicz, Director of Finance & Administrative Services, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110-2373 (303) 762-2401, prior to July 9, 2014.
Legal Notice No.: 4883 First Publication: June 27, 2014 Last Publication: June 27, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald
Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO MAY 2014 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1
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storage points within the existing or future water service area of the City of Aurora located in Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas Counties or any extra-territorial area in which the City of Aurora contracts to provide treated or raw water service or any area in which Aurora Water has augmentation or delayed return flow obligations. (8) Facility Descriptions. (a) Surface area at high water line: (i) Surface area of Aurora Reservoir at high water line is 820 acres. (ii) Surface area of Quincy Reservoir at high water line is 155 acres. (iii) Surface area of the East Reservoir(s) at high water line. The final surface area is not yet known. (b) Maximum dam height. (i) Maximum height of Aurora Reservoir in feet is 131. (ii) Maximum height of Quincy Reservoir in feet is 70. (iii) Maximum height of the East Reservoir(s). The final height is not yet known. (c) Length of Dam: (i) Length of Aurora Reservoir Dam is 8,400 feet. (ii) Length of Quincy Reservoir Dam is 2,432 feet. (iii) Length of the East Reservoir Dam(s): The final length is not yet known. (d) Capacity of the Reservoirs: (i) Capacity of Aurora Reservoir in acre-feet: 32,129. (1) Active Capacity in acre-feet: approximately 31,679. (2) Dead Storage in acre-feet: approximately 450. (ii) Capacity of Quincy Reservoir in acrefeet: 2,693. (1) Active Capacity in acrefeet: approximately 2,693. (2) Dead Storage in acre-feet: approximately 0. (iii) Capacity of the East Reservoir(s) in acrefeet: 25,000. (1) Active Capacity in acrefeet: The active capacity is not yet known. (2) Dead Storage in acre-feet: The dead storage is not yet known. (9) Provide a detailed outline of what has been done toward completion or for completion of the appropriation and application of water to a beneficial use as conditionally decreed, including expenditures: (a) Pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4)(b), the measure of reasonable diligence is the steady application of effort to complete the appropriation in a reasonably expedient and efficient manner under all the facts circumstances. When a project or integrated system is comprised of several features, work on one feature of the project or system shall be considered finding that reasonable diligence has been shown in the development of water rights for all features of the entire project or system. Pursuant to paragraph 29 of the decree in Case No. 03CW415, the Water Storage Reservoir facilities are part of Aurora Water’s integrated system of water rights and structures the comprise Aurora’s Prairie Waters Project (“PWP”). Therefore, Aurora Water’s work on any part of the PWP constitutes reasonable diligence on the conditional water rights decreed in Case No. 03CW415. Since receiving the decree in Case No. 03CW415, Aurora Water has diligently prosecuted the following additional features of the PWP: (i) Aurora Water spent approximately $700 million dollars completing the construction of ARR-A, the PWP well fields, the 34 mile pipeline from PWP to Aurora Reservoir, and the Peter Binney Water Treatment Facility. The ini-
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For construction of: LE/WWTP Miscellaneous Repairs Project 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 Friday, July 25, 2014. Frank Gryglewicz Director of Finance & Administrative Services City of Englewood, Colorado Legal Notice No.: 4896 First Publication: June 27, 2014 Last Publication: July 11, 2014 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Not consecutive weeks
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Notices ation of effort to complete the appropriation in a reasonably expedient and efficient manner under all the facts circumstances. When a project or integrated system is comprised of several features, work on one feature of the project or system shall be considered finding that reasonable diligence has been shown in the development of water rights for all features of the entire project or system. Pursuant to paragraph 29 of the decree in Case No. 03CW415, the Water Storage Reservoir facilities are part of Aurora Water’s integrated system of water rights and structures the comprise Aurora’s Prairie Waters Project (“PWP”). Therefore, Aurora Water’s work on any part of the PWP conTo advertise your publicstitutes notices call 303-566-4100 reasonable diligence on the conditional water rights decreed in Case No. Public Notice 03CW415. Since receiving the decree in Case No. 03CW415, Aurora Water has diDISTRICT COURT, ligently prosecuted the following additionWATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO al features of the PWP: (i) Aurora Water MAY 2014 spent approximately $700 million dollars WATER RESUME PUBLICATION completing the construction of ARR-A, the PWP well fields, the 34 mile pipeline from TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN PWP to Aurora Reservoir, and the Peter WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER Binney Water Treatment Facility. The iniDIV. 1 tial capacity is 10,000 acre feet. (ii) Aurora Water began PWP deliveries in OctoPursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all ber 2010 and the system became fully opwater right applications and certain erational in June 2012. (iii) Case No. amendments filed in the Office of the Wa03CW414: conditional underground and ter Clerk during the month of MAY 2014 surface storage rights for Aquifer Refor each County affected. charge and Recovery Site B (“ARR-B”), decreed August 1, 2007; finding of reas14CW3065. City of Aurora, Colorado, onable diligence decreed in Case No. acting by and through its Utility Enter13CW3088, April 22, 2014. (iv) Case No. prise (“Aurora Water”), 15151 East 06CW104: conditional storage rights for Alameda Parkway, Suite 3600, Aurora, ARR-A/Gravel Pit Reservoir A; conditionColorado 80012-1555, Telephone: 303al tributary ground water rights for the 739-7370. Please send all pleadings PWP Well Field; conditional appropriative and correspondence to Applicants rights of exchange for 28 exchange counsel: Steven O Sims and John A. reaches on the lower South Platte River; Helfrich, Brownstein Hyatt Farber and a plan for augmentation for the PWP Schreck LLP, 410 17th Street, Suite Well Field, decreed May 6, 2009. (v) Case 2200, Denver, CO 80202: Phone NumNo. 02CW330: conditional storage rights ber: (303) 223-1100; Fax Number: (303) for Aurora-Everist Reservoir No. 1, de223-1111; E-mail ssims@bhfs.com, creed June 7, 2012. (vi) Case No. 06CW129: findings of reasonable dilijhelfrich@bhfs.com. APPLICATION gence for conditional storage rights for the FOR FINDING OF REASONABLE DILIRobert W. Walker Reservoir, decreed GENCE, IN ADAMS, ARAPAHOE, June 9, 2009. (vii) Case No. 06CW130: DOUGLAS AND WELD COUNTIES. (1) findings of reasonable diligence for condiName of the structures: (a) Aurora Resertional storage rights for the Stillwater voir (aka Senac Reservoir). (b) Quincy Ranch Reservoir, decreed June 9, 2009. Reservoir. (c) East Reservoir. (2) Legal (viii) Case No. 07CW37: change in the description of Structures. All reservoirs type and place of use of 9.023 shares of shall be referred to collectively as the Brighton Ditch Co. from irrigation to muni"Water Storage Reservoirs." (a) Location cipal purposes by Aurora Water, decreed of Aurora Reservoir: The Aurora ReserMarch 23, 2011. (ix) Case No. voir is an off-channel reservoir located on 13CW3042: pending application to add inSenac Creek, an intermittent stream, in Sections 15, 16, 20, 21 and 22, T5S, fill wells to the PWP Well Field and to the R65W, 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorplan for augmentation decreed in Case ado. The outlet works is located 1900 feet No. 06CW104. (x) Case No. 13CW3080: south, 52° west of the NE corner of Secpending application for conditional stortion 16, T5, R65W, 6th P.M., Arapahoe age rights in Aurora-Everist Reservoir No. County, Colorado. (b) Location of Quincy 2. (10) If claim to make absolute: N/A. (11) Reservoir: In the following portions of SecNames and addresses of owners or retions 9 and 10, T5S, R66W, 6th P.M. puted owners of the land upon which any (within the 18300 Block of Quincy Avenue new diversion or storage structure, or in Aurora, Colorado): The NE1/4, modification to any existing diversion or E1/2NW1/4 and N1/2SE1/4 of Section 9, storage structure is or will be constructed and the S1/2NW1/4 and N1/2SW1/4 of or upon which water is or will be stored, Section 10. The approximate latitude of including any modification to the existing the outlet works is 39° 38' 13" N and the storage pool: (a) Aurora Reservoir and approximate longitude is 104° 46' 53" W. Quincy Reservoir are located on land This reservoir is an off-channel reservoir. owned by the City of Aurora. (b) Landown(c) Location of East Reservoir Complex: ers of the East Reservoir sites are listed The reservoir will be constructed in one or on Exhibit A. more of the following off-channel locaTHE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY tions (See Figure 1): (i) Site 1: (a) Site 1A: THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN In sections 14 & 23 and N1/2 of section PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS 26, T4S, R65W, 6th P.M. in Arapahoe CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICCounty, Colorado. (b) Site 1B: In sections ATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND 9, 10 & 15 and S1/2 of sections 3 & 4 and OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS N1/2 of section 16, T4S, R65W, 6th P.M. MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN in Arapahoe County, Colorado. (ii) Site 2: THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR (a) Site 2B: In sections 26 & 27 and N1/2 BE FOREVER BARRED. of sections 34, 35, 36, T4S, R65W, 6th P.M. in Arapahoe County, Colorado. (3) YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any Location of Points of Diversion from the party who wishes to oppose an applicaSouth Platte River. (a) Brighton Ditch: The tion, or an amended application, may file headgate of the Brighton Ditch on the west bank of the South Platte River in the with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, SE1/4SE1/4, Section 11, T1S, R67W, 6th Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement P.M. in Adams County, at a point approxof Opposition, setting forth facts as to why imately 780 feet north and 1,120 feet west the application should not be granted, or of the SE corner of Section 11. (b) Brantwhy it should be granted only in part or on ner Ditch: The headgate of the Brantner certain conditions. Such Statement of OpDitch on the north bank of the South Platte position must be filed by the last day of River in the NE1/4SW1/4, Section 4, T2S, JULY 2014 (forms available on R67W, 6th P.M., Adams County at a point www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s approximately 2,721 feet south and 2,140 office), and must be filed as an Original feet east of the NW corner of Section 4. and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of (4) Source. South Platte River. (5) Approeach Statement of Opposition must also priation Date: December 8, 2003. (6) be served upon the Applicant or Amount of Water Claimed. (a) One annuApplicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or al fill and refill, conditional, for each of the certificate of such service of mailing shall Water Storage Reservoirs in the following be filed with the Water Clerk. amounts: (i) Aurora Reservoir: 18,707 acre-feet; (ii) Quincy Reservoir: 2,693 Legal Notice No.: 73073 acre-feet; (iii) East Reservoir: 25,000 acreFirst publication: June 27, 2014 Last publication: June 27, 2014 feet. (b) Diversion flow rates: (i) Brantner Publisher: Englewood Herald Ditch: 110 c.f.s., Conditional. (ii) Brighton Ditch: 60 c.f.s., Conditional. (7) Uses. All municipal and domestic purposes includPublic Notice ing without limitation fire protection, irrigation, commercial and industrial use, recreNOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT ational purposes, fish and wildlife On or about July 31, 2014 the City of propagation, stock watering, reservoir Englewood will make final payment to: evaporation replacement, storage and maintenance of storage reserves, exchange and augmentation purposes, for The Industrial Group, Inc. use and reuse until extinction. The loca651 Corporate Circle, Suite 104 tion of use will be any area Aurora Water Golden, CO 80401 is capable of serving by its diversions and
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Book captures ski-town flavor ‘The Possibilities’ set in Breckenridge
buying sprees from TV shopping networks. The relationship between father and daughter is a nice feature of this book. Neither depiction is at all cliBy Sonya Ellingboe che. sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia.com Sarah’s best friend, Suzanne, is going through a messy divorce, but helps Sarah cope with her need to As Kaui Hart Hemmings’ carefully crafted new novel move on in her life. While Suzanne’s daughter at Coloraopens, Sarah St. John is trying to re-enter the world she do College holds a memorial event for Cully, the young knows after suffering the loss of her beloved 20-some- man’s charming but unreliable father, Billy, reappears thing son, Cully, to an avalanche. She had and perhaps has matured. raised him as a single mother and is finding A young girl named Kit shows up on Sarah’s mixed support from others in her loss. doorstep, wanting to shovel snow, she says. But “The Possibilities” is set in Breckenridge, she brings a secret — additional insights about a seemingly idyllic ski town, where HawaiiCully and emotional complexities for Sarah born Hemmings once lived. Tragedy is an unand others in her life. expected visitor here. The novel proceeds mainly through diaThe Colorado College graduate’s descriplogue, which is consistently engaging and at tions of Rocky Mountains scenery and life- Hemmings times bitterly funny, as Hemmings’ characters style almost make the book a movie-in-waitstruggle to heal. ing, and Hemmings, who also wrote “The Hemmings was born and raised in Hawaii, Descendants” (made into an Oscar-winning film) about has degrees from Colorado College and Sarah Lawanother family’s experience with grief, has an early film rence, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. commitment. She lives in Hawaii and is a young writer we will want The author has created a cast of ski-town characters, to watch as she develops a body of work exploring the starting with Sarah, a native, as commentator on the many facets of the human condition through her fine light, sale-oriented TV commentary piped into hotels. command of language. A single mother, Sarah lives with her widowed father, “The Possibilities” was published May 13 by Simon who was an original ski-area founder and now deals and Schuster in hardcover. It is listed at $25 and should with his grief over the loss of a grandson by going on be available at libraries and bookstores.
HAVE A STORY IDEA? Email Englewood Community Editor Tom Munds at tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com or call 303-566-4108.
of Events The River - Littleton’s Past, Present and Future Calendar For a complete calendar of South Metro Denver By Natalie Harden On Thursday, June 12 the South Metro Denver Chamber’s Littleton Business Coalition and the Economic Development Group joined forces at Hudson Gardens to discuss Littleton’s past, present and future. Over 100 Chamber members attended the presentation, sponsored by Hudson Gardens. The morning began with networking followed by presentations by Rich Meredith, executive director of the Hudson Gardens and Event Center, who presented the history and future of Hudson Gardens. His remarks were followed by Dave Lorenz, executive director of South Suburban Park and Recreation District (SSPRD), who discussed the role of SSPRD along the Mary Carter Greenway trail. “This event was a great way for two of our strongest Chamber groups to collaborate on Littleton’s continued growth and economic development,” said Marcia McGilley, interim CEO of the South Metro Denver Chamber. Laura Kroeger, assistant program manager
at Urban Drainage and Flood Control District, spoke next regarding the coordinated planning that is occurring along the South Platte River and future economic development opportunities. City Manager Michael Penny then spoke about the existing activity along the river, from the Breckenridge Brewery development to planning for the Ensor site development. Finally, Mayor Pro Tem Bruce Beckman introduced Jim Taylor, board chair of Littleton Invests For Tomorrow (LIFT) (formerly the Riverfront Authority), who presented the city’s plans to use the Urban Renewal Authority for future economic revitalization. Closing remarks were provided by David Shefte, CEO of HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital-Littleton. Norman Stucker, member of the Chamber Board of Directors and both groups, commented on the event. “The future is always about tomorrow, not yesterday; in that light I look forward to transitioning from the Chair of the Littleton Business Coalition (LBC) to a
regular member of the Executive Committee Chamber events and for more information, in support of initiatives like the approval of visit our web site at www.bestchamber.com an Urban Renewal Authority in Littleton; supporting community efforts like Clarity or call 303-795-0142. Commons; and others to participate in other Business, Retention and Expansion programs in Littleton,” said Stucker. “The special spirit Sunday, June 22: that exists in Littleton is the ability to create APSIRE Summer Tea: Celebrating Denver’s Women of Distinction infrastructure and institutions that invest in 3:00 pm, The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa, 321 17th St, Denver, CO the next generation, Hudson Gardens, South RSVP by June 21 to Denver.events@trilogyfs.com Suburban, Littleton Public Schools, Littleton Hospital are great examples of this; I envision Littleton Invests For Tomorrow playing a similar Monday, June 23: role along the river corridor and throughout the Mad Greens Ribbon Cutting and Open House city.” 10:30 am, 7300 E Arapahoe Rd, Centennial For more information regarding Littleton Invests For Tomorrow (LIFT) visit www. Tuesday, June 24: littletongov.org For more information regarding the Business Bible Study South Metro Denver Chamber’s events and 9:00 am – 10:00 am, South Metro Denver Chamber membership opportunities, please visit www. 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial, CO bestchamber.com
Wednesday, June 25: Health & Wellness Council Series: Colo Insurance Commissioner Marguerite Salazar 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, South Metro Chamber of Commerce – Whipplewood CPAs
Shredding Event raised $4,000 for Littleton Boy Scout troop and several hundred pounds of food donations for Cabrini’s Cupboard A Littleton Boy Scout troop collected $4,000 in donations. Cabrini’s Cupboard at St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church added several hundred pounds of donations to the food it provides to people needing a meal. And hundreds of residents from the South Metro area unloaded more than 10,000 pounds of documents to be shredded and more than 40,000 pounds of used electronics gear for recycling.
The event was free to the public but people taking advantage of shredding and recycling were encouraged to provide cash donations to Boy Scout Troop 4 of Littleton or non-perishable food donations that went to Cabrini’s Cupboard. “I can’t say enough about the scouts who showed up to help,” Braunschweiger said. “They really pitched in to help make the day a huge success.”
Those were the highlights of the free shredding and electronics recycling event held June 7 in Highlands Ranch by members of LEADapalooza, one of the South Metro Denver Chamber’s leads groups. The group has been meeting since 2009 and has 34 highly dedicated members. “As one of our longest-running and most successful leads groups, LEADapalooza is a vital part of the South Metro Denver Chamber,” said Marcia McGilley, interim CEO of the South Metro Denver Chamber. “They embody our brand promise of “Remarkable Relationships & a Thriving Community.” “This is the most successful event of any kind that I’ve ever been involved with,” said Cheryl Braunschweiger of ALMC Mortgage at NOVA Home Loans, primary organizer of the event. “The shredding truck provided by SHRED-
IT was so full that the sides were bulging,” Braunschweiger said. “And Techno+Rescue had to bring in several extra trucks because of the tremendous volume of items we collected for recycling. Everyone involved was blown away by the amount of material we collected.”
Sponsors included 22 LEADapalooza companies: 303 Denver Chiropractic; A Cleaner Carpet; ALMC Mortgage at NOVA Home Loans; Arrow B Architecture; Brickyard BBQ; C Squared Computer Consulting; Centennial Leasing & Sales; Experience Pros Radio Show; Handyman Matters; Holly Mullins, Farmers Insurance Group; JerryBrownPR; Major Mom; Mark Thomas, RE/MAX Professionals; Nexus Financial Services; PearleVisionStreets@SouthGlenn; PROformance Apparel; Riviera Finance; RMK Cartridge; SG Associates; Cathy Reilly, Silpada Designs; SuperMedia; and Weksler Benefits. For more information regarding LEADapalooza and the South Metro Denver Chamber’s events and membership opportunities, please visit www.bestchamber.com
Conference Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial, CO
Thursday, June 26: Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting for Synergy HomeCare University 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Synergy HomeCare, 5721 S Spotswood St, Littleton, CO
Friday, June 27: The Rocky Mountain Energy Council Presents: The Energy Management Program at DIA 10:00 am – 11:00 am, South Metro Chamber of Commerce – Whipplewood CPAs Conference Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial, CO
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Englewood quarterback Sean Bowering lines up to throw a short pass to Morgan Stepanich during the school’s June 20 game against Montbello at the Bronco 7-on-7 tournament. The Pirates finished 2-1 in pool play and missed advancing to the championship playoffs by two points on a tie-breaker determined by total points scored in the three games. Photos by Tom Munds
Pirates just miss 7-on-7 playoffs Two points cost Englewood spot in Denver Bronco tournament By Tom Munds
tmunds @coloradocommunitymedia.com Englewood came within two points of being one of 16 teams advancing to the June 21 Bronco 7-on-7 championship playoffs at Dove Valley for a chance to represent Denver in a national tournament. The June 21 single-elimination playoffs capped off this year’s 64-team Bronco 7-on-7 tournament played at Denver South High School. The 64 teams were divided into four-team pools for round-robin play with the team with the best pool record advancing to the playoffs. Andy Cornell, Pirate offensive coordinator, explained that three teams in the pool with Englewood finished 2-1 so the tiebreaker was total points scored. Boulder scored 95 points and advanced to the playoffs, edging out the Pirates for the honor because Englewood scored a total of 93 points. “We would have liked to go to the championship playoffs so it was a tough break coming up two points short,” the coach said. “But that is how it goes and I am proud of the fact our kids played well in all three games.” The 7-on-7 game is all about passing. A completed pass and the yardage gained after the completion are the only way to move the football. The offense is made up of backs and receivers and the defense is made up of linebackers and defensive backs. There is no one rushing the quarterback but the pass must be thrown in five seconds or the play is rules a sack. The Pirates bested Montbello 24-10 in the first game of the morning then engaged in a tough battle with Boulder. The score was tied at 14 at halftime. Boulder went up 21-14 to open the second half. The teams then traded interceptions, which scores three points for the team making the interception. Englewood tied the score with 1:30 left in the game but Boulder scored about a minute later. With time running out, quarterback Sean Bowering connected on a long pass with Nick Bersagel to tie the score at 31 and force overtime. Overtime rules for 7-on-7 is each team gets four plays from the 20-yard-line. Boulder went on offense first, scored a touchdown and passed for the extra point. When they went on offense, Englewood drove to the 1-yard line but missed on two tries to score the touchdown so Boulder won 38-31. “We only brought nine or 10 kids today and we played well,” Cornell said between games. “Our defense has
Englewood High offensive coordinator Andy Cornell talks to his players during a break in the action at the June 20 Bronco 7-on-7 tournament. The Pirates finished 2-1 in pool play but lost on a tie-breaker to Boulder for a spot in the June 21 championship playoffs. played very well most of the time.” He said the starters are very athletic but the concern is the roster is very thin. “Our offense should move the ball well,” he said. “We’ll have some different looks like a wishbone but flexing the two backs out to the end of the line. We will run the ball but, as you can see, we can pass pretty well too.” Cornell said Jakey Wade has played well as a receiver plus he played strong defense in the 7-on-7 games. “The season is going pretty well so far,” Wade said. “I am about where I want to be physically but I do need to do more work on conditioning to be ready for football season.” Wade has good hands and is quick. But he said his biggest contribution to the team is being a leader, telling all his teammates to have short memories so they don’t hang their heads when they give up a big play. He said he has always been a receiver and a defensive back. “I like being a receiver best. It feels great to catch the pass and help the team move the football,” he said. “I like playing defense too because I like hitting people.”
Englewood receiver Jakey Wade stretches out to try to reach the goal line before getting touched during the June 20 7-on-7 game against Boulder. Wade was short of the goal line but caught a short pass on the next play to get the TD. The Pirates lost to Boulder 38-31 in overtime .
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Lyons artist John King and his wife Sally were celebrating the completion of his massive Lone Tree work, “Tree of Life,” last September as floodwaters rose outside their home and art studio. Hours later, the studio was destroyed, the couple’s home badly damaged and their community was devastated. All that remained of the “Tree of Life” was the brilliantly colored seed pod, “The Seed,” the base piece of the five-element work King created for Kaiser Permanente’s Lone Tree medical office building. “We walked back in the next day and I saw it,” King said. “Here’s this seed pod, standing upright in the water. It was really uplifting, very emotional. The metaphor became literal.” King’s work includes five interactive pieces, each representing a phase of life and nature. The 80-foot-tall complete work was designed to fill the glass, five-level staircase of Kaiser’s Park Meadows Drive building. Only “The Seed” was installed for the building’s December grand opening. The remainder of the rebuilt work was unveiled during a special June 23 ceremony. “The Seed” sculpture standing outside the Kings’ Apple Valley home became a symbol of hope and inspiration for the community of Lyons. As the Kings began the restoration of their home, rebuilding of the studio and started anew on the four lost elements of “Tree of Life,” the seed pod was visible to passers-by. Lyons still is rebuilding in the wake of floods that affected 2,000 square miles in northern Colorado between Sept. 11 and 15, 2013. In Lyons, located at the confluence of two creeks, lives, businesses and homes were lost. The Kings don’t view the floods’ impact with bitterness; they consider living next to a moving body of water a choice, a privilege and a risk. Even as the creek swelled Sept. 11 to devastating levels, the Kings saw the amazing beauty in the moment. Just before they evacuated the area, the couple sat in their car and witnessed a large cottonwood careening toward the bridge that connects their home to the artist’s studio. “We were there looking at it in the headlights; a cottonwood tree snapped it in half,” King remembered. “We love rivers. We go on vacations and go down rivers in a boat. This little creek became as big as the Grand Canyon. It was fantastic. “We’re over the shock at this point. What hasn’t left us is the beauty.” He hopes the beauty of nature, represented in “Tree of Life,” also inspires those who come to the Kaiser building. “There’s a lot of adversity that comes through the doors here,” King said. “Everyone has their story and challenge. This is one of many.” Each piece of “Tree of Life,” which includes the seed pod sculpture, a set of six leaves, trees, a work of overlapping circles and the flower, is designed to be touched and to move independently. It’s intended not only to provide aesthetic value, but as a health incentive that encourages people to use the stairs. Kaiser Permanente officials would not say how much the piece, or the other numerous works of art included in the Lone Tree building, cost the company.
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Soap Box Derby racers turn up the heat Youths compete at Arapahoe County Fairgrounds By Anna Sheffer
Special to Colorado Community Media Summer means the end of school, but for Soap Box Derby drivers, it has an additional meaning: racing season. The eighth annual Sertoma Mile High Soap Box Derby took place at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds on June 22, with drivers ages 7-18 competing to bring home first place and attend the World Championship finals in July at Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio. The Mile High Soap Box Derby had a rocky start until Sertoma began sponsoring the event eight years ago. Sertoma, which helps people with speech and hearing disabilities, partnered with the derby, and both organizations have had better exposure as a result. This is the second year that the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds hosted the derby. Previously, it was held in Littleton. Diane Oppenheim, one of the volunteers from Sertoma, said the fairgrounds benefited the event. “That was our longtime goal,” she said, “to get a permanent place to block off the street.” The competition consists of two weight classes — stock cars, which weigh 200 pounds, and super stock cars, which weigh 230 pounds. Drivers race in heats consisting of two one-one-one races. Racers swap two wheels with their competitors before phase one of each heat and then swap all four wheels before phase two of each heat in order to discourage unfair tampering with the cars’ wheels. And though factors like the weight of the car impact the outcome of a race, drivers still race strategically. “It’s really about the drivers and not about the cars,” said Buzz Pankoff, Soap Box Derby director. In order to increase speed, each racer hunches as close to the wheel as possible while still looking over the hood of the car. The difference in times between two competitors can come down to fractions of a second,
Super stock finalists Aly Corvin and Camden Martin compete for first place in the Sertoma Mile High Soap Box Derby at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds on June 22. Photos by Anna Sheffer so racers make themselves as aerodynamic as possible — even tucking their hair into the backs of their shirts. And the racers are as varied as they come. They include veterans, firsttimers and one unique car, Caidn Matthews, who races using a handbrake. Every racer worked hard, but at the end of the day, only one driver per weight class could win. First-year racer Camden Martin, 10, won the super stock division. “[Winning] feels great ‘cause it’s my first year ever,” Martin said. In the stock car division, siblinga AJ Sipres, 8, and Chaelyn Sipres, 11, went head-to-head for first place. Chaelyn took home first and AJ second. “It felt fun because he always thinks he’s the winner and I showed him better today,” Chaelyn said with a grin.
The top five super stock racers pose with their trophies. From left to right: Adam Smith (fourth place), Aly Corvin (second place), Camden Martin (first place), Clare Mahoney (third place) and Elena Martinez (fifth place).
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