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Valor Christian’s Patrick Routzon (4) slips the puck past Castle View’s Parker Fromin (33) for a goal to start off the third period. Valor defeated the Sabercats 10-1 on Jan. 26 at the Ice Ranch. For more sports coverage, turn to pages 24 and 25. PAUL DISALVO
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Library renovation on track for April completion New facility is expected to wow residents of Highlands Ranch BY ALEX DEWIND ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Douglas County Libraries is making progress on a $6.5 million renovation to the James H. LaRue Branch that staffers say will bring the facility in line with a new era of libraries. The library district strives to create an interactive, multigenerational hub in the community for a variety of activities — public events, reading, kids’ storytime and more. “It’s a place for families to have fun,” Douglas County Libraries Executive Director Bob Pasicznyuk said. “It’s about doing things and learning things.” The 18-year-old Highlands Ranch library, 9292 S. Ridgeline Blvd., has been closed since Dec. 19, while areas of the interior are gutted and new features are added. At completion, it will resemble newer Douglas County Libraries locations in Parker, Lone Tree and Castle Pines, which all opened in 2016.
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During the three-month closure, a portion of the library is open for book rentals, and residents can access a book drop-off located on the north side of the building. Fransen Pittman General Contractors, headquartered in the Meridian area of Douglas County, and OPN Architects, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are heading the project. The renovation is on track to open April 1. An all-day grand-opening celebration is scheduled for April 6. Amber DeBerry, director of community relations at Douglas County Libraries, is optimistic about the community’s response to the renovation at completion. “I really think people are going to go ‘wow’ when they walk through the front doors,” DeBerry said. The project will open up the interior of the building and add more natural lighting. A 4,500-square-foot civic center space on the second floor will accommodate up to 350 guests, more than double the amount previously allowed. The library sees a range of uses of the space, from celebrations of life to naturalization ceremonies to best-selling author speakers. A radio transmitter that hooks into hearing aids will be installed for guests to use during public speaker
A rendering of James H. LaRue library in Highlands Ranch reveals a new staircase. The building is in the midst of a three-month long renovation. COURTESY OF DCL events. A donor is funding the feature, according to library staff. Book collections will be spread out on mobile shelves under 60 inches high to increase accessibility, Pasicznyuk said. Study rooms and nooks will be added. Outdated technical features, such as HVAC systems and lighting, will be replaced with more efficient options. The first floor of the library will be geared toward kids and families, with a designated room for storytime. A den on the second floor will provide a “classic library feel” for patrons
who prefer to work or read in silence, Pasicznyuk said. A pergola for shade will be added to the second floor’s outdoor space. Existing metal furniture that quickly heats under the sun will be replaced with Adirondack chairs and tables. The goal is to raise the quality of service while lowering costs, said Rick O’Dell, facilities manager at Douglas County Libraries, who is heading the project. The design team took into consideration feedback from library employees and the community.
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Teaching fitness classes I was a dancer and athlete in high school and college. I got into health science right when aerobics were becoming big. My teacher invited me to lead a class and, having the sports and dance background, it came naturally to me, so I got my first license to teach aerobics as a part-time job. I’ve continued to teach it ever since. I’ve taught in Montreal, San Fransisco, Los Angeles, Lake Tahoe.
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Coffman looks back on Congress, his changing party Republican reflects on GOP’s future, representing diverse district
Former U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman speaks in the Aurora City Council chambers last year at an event called the Innovative Housing Symposium.
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In Ethiopian churches and Spanishlanguage radio segments, former U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman built what could have been the future of the Republican Party. The Republican who represented the 6th Congressional District for a decade made so many inroads with immigrant communities that he can list the mosques and churches he visited — right down to the cross streets — and rattle off the political concerns of each group: the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for the MexicanAmerican community, temporary protected status for Salvadorans, highskilled visas for Asian Indians. He caught the attention of Newt Gingrich, former House speaker and a prominent Republican strategist, in Gingrich’s report to prepare the party for the 2016 elections. The analysis pointed out the GOP’s shortfalls in 2012 and its successes afterward, and Coffman was one of the politicians Gingrich highlighted. “He pointed out to me specifically in the report: You need to watch Coffman, the way he reached out to the Hispanic community,” Coffman said. “Republicans need to take a look at it. “That all got washed away,” Coffman said, “with Donald Trump.” The five-term congressman finally met defeat in the 2018 midterms amid a “blue wave” in Colorado that he chalks up partly to the polarizing effects of the president, but Coffman is confident his party will come back from its recent “rebranding.” “I think both political parties are dynamic in competing with each other in the market of ideas,” said Coffman, sitting in a coffee shop near Interstate 25. “We always have changes. I think the Republican Party will find itself in that balance that I think is necessary.” The military veteran, who grew up in and still lives in Aurora, is weighing a run for the mayor’s seat in 2019, after serving as a representative who evolved with the district as it changed. “It changed me a lot,” Coffman said. “As a person, I think we’re what we know. And if what you know is only the people who look like you, then that’s your world. You break out of that, you start to understand people who don’t look like you and live like you because they come from different experiences.” ‘I was pretty shocked’ Coffman, 63, came from deep roots in the region, going from attending Aurora Central High School and starting a small Aurora-based property management company to serving in several state political offices for nearly two decades. “In 2005, I resigned from the Office of State Treasurer to come out of retirement to the Marine Corps in Iraq,” said Coffman, who had served in the Corps
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and the Army. “I returned in 2006. From then on, I think I had real interest in national security and veterans’ issues.” Those issues spurred him to a race for the U.S. Congress, and he won election in 2008 when the 6th District was a safely conservative region, including suburban and rural areas south of Denver and only part of Aurora. After a redrawing of the lines in 2011, the district includes all of Aurora and stretches north through parts of Adams County — cut off were some conservative areas like Castle Rock, Parker and Elbert County. Conservative-leaning south suburbs Littleton, Centennial and Highlands Ranch remained part of the district. “I was pretty shocked,” Coffman said with a laugh. “It was a clear effort to get rid of me, to flip the district. It went from an area Sen. John McCain carried (easily) in 2008 to an area President Barack Obama carried (widely).” Coffman struggled in the 2012 election because although he was the incumbent, he couldn’t yet provide services to residents in the newly added parts of the district. But once he pulled out the win, he got to work, fielding requests for meetings and also reaching out on his own to immigrant communities. “I remember in 2013 going to a grocery store on Colfax, a Hispanic grocery store,” Coffman said. “‘Mi Pueblo.’ And just hanging out and talking to people. And once people knew about me there, their families came to talk to me.” For Coffman, it was those kinds of conversations that put a face to the issues — he got to know the needs of pastors at the Ethiopian Evangelical Church near Havana Street in Aurora. “A lot of it was, what I was doing on human rights in Ethiopia, leveraging change with U.S. support?” Coffman said. “Their issue was not immigration — it was human rights.” Coffman was the only politician Aurora Mayor Bob LeGare knew of that took time to learn Spanish to communicate with constituents, LeGare said. “The times I’ve flown to D.C. on city business, flying back, at Reagan airport, I’d run into Coffman in the airport sitting and reading his flash cards, and I’ve heard other people say the same thing,” LeGare said. To critics who might say Coffman’s pivot was just a shrewd political calculation, Coffman said it was an effort to accurately represent the district. “I thought it was important to learn Spanish not just as a point of communi-
cation, but also just as a sign of respect for their community,” Coffman said. ‘Like Sanders on the left’ The shift to a harder-right party — headed by a president who has supported curbing even legal immigration — finds Coffman going against the grain, but he’s hopeful the tables will turn again. “I think (Trump) goes too far, but I think there is a concern about illegal immigration,” Coffman said. But “you can still be pro-immigration and against illegal immigration. I think that’s where the balance has to be.” Amid the federal government shutdown over funding for Trump’s proposed border wall, Coffman hopes an opportunity is at hand for immigration reform. Asked if he supports a wall, he said he wants a barrier — adding that the Border Patrol wants something it can see through — and for the “Dreamers” issue to be solved. He has supported a path to citizenship for those undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. Coffman wasn’t always viewed as a figure to build bridges with minorities: He once told an Elbert County conservative audience that “in (Obama’s) heart, he’s not an American” and questioned where the president was born. He said he regretted that statement and noted he walked it back at the time in 2012. Years later, he’s ended up butting heads with Trump, including on the recent policy of separating families on a large scale at the U.S.-Mexico border. He believes a more moderate party is still in the cards. “I think what the president brought in, just like Sen. Bernie Sanders on the left, was populism. It was certainly a rebranding of the Republican Party. But I look at things in a long-term perspective,” Coffman said. “I think things will eventually change again.” And he said there’s still a place in the party for a Republican like him. “I’m not saying it isn’t without challenges,” Coffman said. “But the fact is, I believe in limited, constitutional government. And the place for that belief is in the Republican Party.” Leaving a legacy Still living just miles south of where he grew up, Coffman resides in southwest Aurora, spending his time working with nonprofits. One such effort is to help raise money for the Comitis Crisis Center in Aurora, which assists homeless individuals, including veterans.
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING “We appreciate Rep. Coffman’s service. He regularly supported our military veterans by speaking at our annual Veterans Day celebration. We wish him well.” — Jim Worley, chair of Highlands Ranch Metro District Board of Directors “Community Development Block Grants are a critical piece of our revitalization plan in the south area of Thornton, and Rep. Coffman continuously advocated for funding of the important grant. In the past six years, we have either received the same or increased funding of the CDBG funds.” — Thornton Mayor Heidi Williams
“Mike never lost sight of the people he served … He was always available and ready to listen. When I was first elected as mayor, Mike called and invited me to lunch. I was surprised how much he knew about what was going on in Littleton — not just the stuff anyone would know by reading the paper or website but things that showed he was paying real attention and had a genuine interest.” — Littleton Mayor Debbie Brinkman
“I’m getting overwhelmed with requests,” he said with a laugh. “I’ve got to pace myself.” He’s gotten calls about running for mayor in Aurora in the 2019 elections, too. “That’s something I’m considering,” Coffman said. “I haven’t made a decision on that.” Whether he runs or not, he’s left a mark on the district, from residents to elected officials. People “come up to me all the time and thank me for hard work,” Coffman said. He felt he made a difference in helping constituents individually. “Working with a lot of the individual cases that came to my office on immigration concerns, or people who were applying for disability — veterans in terms of being able to get their benefits — a lot of those activities that involve individuals confronting challenges in government were very rewarding,” Coffman said. He bridged the gap between Washington and local Colorado cities, mayors in the district said. “Congressman Coffman’s dedication to the small-business community was evident in the actions he took to meet with local business owners and his ability to bring their story back to Washington,” said Stephanie Piko, Centennial mayor. LeGare, Aurora’s mayor, recalls Coffman being involved in the Aurora community since he’s known him. The two met in 1983, he said. “I’m curious to see what Mike’s going to do next,” LeGare said. “Obviously, the national wave didn’t help him this year, but I think he’s committed to staying involved in the community.” Heidi Williams, mayor of Thornton, said Coffman instilled a faith in bipartisanship. He leaves behind “the true understanding that Colorado has wonderful representatives in Washington,” Williams said, “that reach across the aisle and work hard for their constituents.”
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Art Encounters Call for Entries Are you a sculptor? Have you considered submitting your artwork to the Douglas County Art Encounters public art program? All applications for entry must be received via online entry at www.callforentry.org no later than Feb. 15. Selected work will be on display from May 2019 - June 2020. For more information visit www. douglas.co.us/artencounters/
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Board OKs funds for senior center’s next steps, but more talks slated Some residents have voiced concerns over the site BY ALEX DEWIND ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The timeline for building a senior center in Highlands Ranch is being decided by the Highlands Ranch Metro District Board of Directors. At its Jan. 29 meeting, the sevenmember governing board approved some funding for the project’s next steps, but also decided that more discussion was needed before plans could be finalized. The board had been scheduled to vote on whether to approve a proposal from an architecture firm at the meeting, but held off on making that decision. The Chicago-based architecture firm, Perkins+Will, specializes in public recreational facilities. For the past two years, it has worked with the metro district on studying the need for a senior center in the community. The proposal in question would require the metro district to pay $430,000, which would cover architect fees and contingency costs associated with the senior center, according to a presentation from metro district staff at a Jan. 23 study session. The metro district’s capital projects fund — funded by developer fees — would cover the portion. Some board members feared moving forward with the Perkins+Will proposal. To approve what called for nearly a half-million public dollars, board member Nancy Smith said at the Jan. 23 study session, would be “unethical.” “I think it’s not fiscally responsible,” Smith said. At the beginning of the Jan. 29 meeting, when the board was to vote on a decision, Terry Nolan, general manager of the metro district, advised the metro district to send out a request for proposal (RFP) to three qualified architecture firms. Nolan said he was not comfortable moving forward with the Perkins+Will proposal because “the board was split” on the decision. Last December, the Highlands Ranch Metro District, in partnership with Shea Properties, announced plans to build the community’s first senior center, with attached apartments that Shea calls affordable senior housing, on a plot of land adjacent to Town Center. Preliminary plans called for construction on the building next door to James H. LaRue library, at the corner of Ridgeline Boulevard and Dorchester Street, to begin early-to-mid 2020, according to the metro district. The
proposal calls for opening the building in mid-to-late 2021. The RFP could slow the process down a few months, Nolan said. Shea Properties is on a schedule. To use bonds to fund its portion of the project, the building company — which is the developer behind the master-planned community of Highlands Ranch — has to file a site improvement plan with Douglas County and pull a building permit by the end of 2019, Carrie Ward, director of parks, recreation and open space at the metro district, said at the study session. The 22,000-square-foot senior center, owned by the metro district, would house a lounge, café, kitchen, event space, activity rooms and exercise room. Metro district staff members say it’s too early in the process to put a price on the overall cost. Shea Properties would cover the cost of land and all costs related to the upper four levels of the facility. Preliminary plans call for 150 apartments. Board members agreed that despite some loose ends and unknowns, the planning process must continue. At the Jan. 29 meeting, the board approved an amount of $55,000 to go toward next steps. Of that amount, up to $25,000 is to be spent on Perkins+Will — a representative from the firm will continue to work with Shea Properties on the design of the building until a final architecture firm is selected — $15,000 will go toward a parking study, $10,000 will go toward contingencies and $5,000 will go toward capital engineering, according to metro district staff. About two dozen seniors attended the Jan. 29 meeting to voice concerns over the site. They worry about inadequate parking in the busy area, where several community events take place, and overcrowding of the senior center with the tenants of the affordable housing. Some neighbors of the proposed site also spoke out, concerned that a five-story building would disrupt thier views. “We are asking you to do it right – to think about everything,” Gary Herbella, a senior, said. “We want people to think it was worth the money.” Board members recognized the pushback from seniors in the community. “There is one question here: Will this site work?” board member Mark Dickerson said. “Let’s find out some answers here and find out if this is going to work.” The discussion will continue at a Feb. 20 study session, when the board will detail plans for a traffic study, a cost-sharing agreement with Shea Properties and a timeline for the project.
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Businesses wax and wane in Highlands Ranch
Code: Poke opens The Hawaiian-Asian fusion restaurant, 1601 Mayberry Drive, at the corner of Lucent Boulevard and Highlands Ranch Parkway, serves the poke bowl — a trendy dish that has grown in popularity in recent years. Poke means “to slice or cut” in Hawaiian. The poke bowl is typically a combo of chunks of raw seafood, vegetables and rice. The restaurant is the first of its kind in Highlands Ranch. The Ranch closes The Ranch, a barbecue joint at 1164 Sergeant Jon Stiles Drive, near Town Center North, lasted about a year before closing its doors. Three months in, the owners, a married couple, said they were feeling the effects of high rent, which was about $30 per square foot. Rent at their first pub in Genesee was roughly $15 per square foot. The building in Highlands Ranch remains vacant.
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In recent months, a handful of businesses in the Highlands Ranch community have indefinitely closed their doors and others have moved in. Some business owners say high rent prices and little foot traffic pushed them out. In Highlands Ranch, commercial rent costs can be higher than in neighboring communities, depending on the market and the shopping center a space is located in, according to Heather Taylor, principal of Impact Commercial Real Estate, based in Lone Tree. Retail businesses, for example, tend to struggle due to a nationwide shift to e-commerce shopping. The restaurant industry, Taylor said, has always been competitive. “Some centers have great cotenants that bring good traffic and activity to the area,” Taylor said in an email correspondence. “Many tenants are changing from retail locations to event/entertainment type of tenants. Some landlords are seeing that customers want to have an ‘experience.’” Across the Denver metro area, commercial rent costs have increased in the last five to 10 years, with an influx of people moving to the region. The population in Douglas County alone grew by 17.5 percent from 2010 to 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In the third quarter of 2017, the last time Douglas County released a report, the average office space in Highlands Ranch was $26.99 per square feet. That’s more than in Castle Rock, at $25.92, but less than in Lone Tree, at $28.88. According to CoStar Group, a company that provides commercial real estate information, analytics and online marketplaces, the vacancy rate in Highlands Ranch currently stands at 8.1 percent, which is notably lower than surrounding regions, including Denver, at 11.4 percent. “One could look at this data and say that Highlands Ranch has lower vacancy because it is in higher demand,” Taylor said. Below is a look at some businesses in central Highlands Ranch that have recently closed, opened or relocated.
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ness tended to be slow on that side of town due to poor visibility from the road and a growing amount of vacant spaces in the shopping center, the owner said. Currently, three spaces are unfilled. The toy store’s second location in Southwest Plaza mall, 8501 W. Bowles Ave., will remain open. The owner has plans to expand to a Colorado Mills location this April. “We are sad because it was my first store and very close to my house,” the owner wrote on Facebook. “But very optimistic about where we are heading as a business.”
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Officials hope to split up 18th Judicial District Proposed 23rd District could bring more specialty courts to Douglas County BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Colorado’s most populous judicial district could soon become two. Some state lawmakers and county officials are declaring it’s time for the 18th Judicial District, marked by rapid population growth, a lopsided disbursement of serious crime and ideological differences, to break up. A bill to split the 18th Judicial District has not been introduced at the state Legislature but may be in the next month. Four sponsors are ready to see it through: Rep. Mike Weissman, D- Aurora; Rep. Kevin Van Winkle, RHighlands Ranch; Sen. Rhonda Fields, D- Aurora; and Sen. Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Springs. “I’m working with a broad number of other interested folks,” said Weissman, “to explore whether the idea of a new judicial district serving Arapahoe County makes sense.” Reports show about one in five state residents live within the 18th Judicial District. Another document predicts that if legislation to split the district is not passed this session, plans could be delayed another four years. In 1965 the 18th Judicial District comprised Arapahoe, Douglas and Elbert counties. The district added Lincoln County in 1969, and hasn’t been changed since. In 1970 its population was 180,000 and by 2018 it exceeded 1 million people. The district is projected to grow by another 350,000 people in the next 30 years. The next largest of the 22 judicial districts is the 4th Judicial District (El Paso and Teller Counties), with a population of 737,684. In the 18th district, Arapahoe
A section of the Colorado Judicial Districts map. County is the largest in population. It contributed 64 percent of the judicial district’s 2018 budget while accounting for nearly 70 percent of all felony crime in the district. The 23rd District The proposal calls to make Arapahoe County its own judicial district and Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln into another. The three counties would likely become the 23rd District while Arapahoe remained the 18th, although exact titles aren’t set in stone. Douglas County officials including Commissioner Lora Thomas began researching a potential split of the 18th Judicial District in August. Thomas
said Douglas County wasn’t getting a fair return on investment. Much of that perspective is anchored in a report compiled by Douglas County officials and provided to Colorado Community Media. The report found Douglas County pays roughly 33 percent of district costs but accounts for less than 25 percent of felonies. About 20 percent of district prosecutors are allocated to the county. In 2017 and 2018, Douglas County was the only county in the district that paid a percentage of the budget that was greater than its percentage of felony crimes, according to the report. Counties within any district contribute to the budget based on population,
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but resources, namely manpower and time, are allocated based on the number of severe crimes. Simply put, serious felonies require more prosecutors than misdemeanors. The county’s report shows 81 percent of serious felonies and about 70 percent of all felonies occur in Arapahoe County and based on that, 78 percent of prosecutors are allocated there. The report also estimates Douglas, Lincoln and Elbert would pay about $857,000 less if put into a 23rd District than what they’ll contribute to the 2019 budget. SEE JUDICIAL, P28
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Teacher on leave following Twitter post Michelle Grissom emailed apology for controversial posts BY ALEX DEWIND ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A Douglas County teacher was placed on paid leave after screenshots of controversial Twitter posts went viral. Michelle Grissom, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Mountain Ridge Middle School in Highlands Ranch, apologized for the tweets in an email on Jan. 25. On Jan. 20, a tweet by Grissom called out a Kentucky student, claiming he participated in a controversial rally in Washington, D.C., over the weekend that made national headlines. The post referred to the student as training to be part of the “Hitler Youth.” The student she mentioned by name, however, was not actually at the rally. Grissom — whose Twitter account has since been deleted — also served on the local teachers’ union. Kallie Leyba, president of Douglas County Federation, confirmed that Grissom resigned from her position on the union’s executive board the morning of Jan. 23. Leyba said she could not further comment on the matter due to
the union’s policy on personnel issues. On Jan. 25, Grissom emailed an apology to the family of the boy she mentioned in the tweet, a statement she also sent to media outlets. In her statement, Grissom expressed remorse for her actions and for not making a public apology sooner. “I would like to formally apologize for tweets I posted on Saturday, 1/20... I have not been able to make statements or comment on the matter, but I need for you to know how repentant I am about what happened,” the statement says. “As an educator, I care deeply for children and would never want to cause harm.” When Colorado Community Media responded to the email, Grissom replied that she has no further comment and directed questions to the Douglas County Federation. Videos from the D.C. rally show a group of students — many wearing red, “Make America Great Again” hats — from Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Kentucky, hollering and cheering school chants while an Indigenous Peoples March took place. One of the students drew national attention by standing face-toface with a Native American, who was playing a drum during the march. The Kentucky students were in D.C. for a March for Life anti-abortion rally. After Grissom’s tweet that called out the student by name, the youth’s
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‘As an educator, I care deeply for children and would never want to cause harm.’ Michelle Grissom, social studies teacher at Mountain Ridge Middle School
father responded to the post, stating that his son had been traveling for a basketball game at the time of the rally. The father asked Grissom to remove the post. After a chain of tweets back and forth, Grissom apologized to the family for misidentifying a “racist and disrespectful student.” The student’s father went on to call Grissom’s behavior “totally abhorrent” and her actions “inexcusable.” In an email to parents on Jan. 21, Shannon Clarke, principal of Mountain Ridge Middle School, addressed the matter. “I have been made aware of comments on social media that involve a member of the MRMS community,” Clarke wrote. “We are addressing this situation, as appropriate. If you have questions or concerns specific to your student, please contact me.” Clarke sent another email to parents on Jan. 23, confirming that “Michelle
Grissom is currently on leave” and ensuring a smooth transition for students. A substitute teacher would be in the classroom as needed, Clarke wrote in the email. The district declined to provide further details. The district’s policy on social media encourages employees to be thoughtful about what they post online and to avoid using statements, photos, videos or audio that could be viewed as malicious, unprofessional or threatening. The full policy is listed in the district’s employee guide, at https:// bit.ly/2FLqv9U, under the tab “Social Media.” Through social media, dozens of Douglas County parents have raised concerns about Grissom and the Twitter incident. Many have publicly demanded Grissom be fired or sued. Some social media users have backed Grissom, commending her teaching style.
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Shutdown deal offers little relief for prison workers BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The longest partial government shutdown in United States history may be over for now, but the news isn’t relieving tensions at FCI Englewood, the sprawling federal prison on the southwest side of the Denver metro area. “We’re going to catch up on mortgage payments and bills, but if they shut it down again, we’ve exhausted our savings,” said Chris Janssen, the president of Local 709 of the American Federation of Government Employees, the prison’s union. President Trump and Congress agreed on Jan. 25 to fund the government through Feb. 15, meaning federal employees like Janssen and roughly 300 other staffers at the prison will get back pay owed to them following the 35-day shutdown, but what happens after that is unknown. “If elected leaders keep playing games, we won’t have anywhere to turn,” Janssen said. “It’s a pressure release for right now, but it’s almost more terrifying because we can’t replenish our savings while we wait for the other shoe to drop.” The shutdown was hard on prison staffing, Janssen said, as correctional officers increasingly called in sick after coming into work for weeks without pay. Teachers and plumbers were guarding sex offenders as officers called in sick, Janssen said. “These people are supposed to be
keeping the lights on or helping inmates get ready to re-integrate into society, and instead they’re guarding blocks of 200 prisoners,” Janssen said. The prison near the intersection of West Quincy Avenue and South Kipling Street houses roughly 1,000 inmates across three main camps, Janssen said. The population covers all security levels, and includes hundreds of sex offenders, he said. “We’ve got everyone from embezzlers to cop killers,” Janssen said. “The worse staffing gets, the greater the likelihood of riots, murders and suicides. We have seen all of those here in the past.” The situation at the prison could grow worse if the shutdown resumes, Janssen said, as logjams at the Department of Justice could mean that offenders who are sentenced by judges in Denver’s federal court aren’t able to be sent to their designated prisons. Staff members are facing scary situations in their personal lives, Janssen said. “Our standards of employee conduct mandate that we have to maintain good credit and pay our debtors on time. If we don’t, we’re automatically subject to discipline, from letters of reprimand up to firing.” Many prison staffers called in sick to drive for Uber and Lyft, Janssen said, because they could get quick cash to pay bills. “Federal employees don’t make as much money as people think,” Janssen
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said. “A guard here starts at $44,000 a year, but for someone paying a mortgage and raising a family, that’s not a lot. You’ve got guys in their 30s borrowing against their retirement accounts, knowing they’re not going to be able to pay it back.” Janssen, a Navy veteran and 12-year employee of the Bureau of Prisons, said he accepted the help of friends and neighbors to feed his two young children. “It’s disgraceful,” Janssen said.
“People say, ‘Oh, you’ll get your back pay eventually,’ but that doesn’t put food on my table tonight. I’ve got people dropping off soup at my house like it’s the Depression.” Janssen said he doesn’t want to wade into the politics of the shutdown. “We’re hoping the government comes to their senses and does the right thing,” Janssen said. “If I do the work, I want my pay.”
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Longtime pastor to step down at Centennial Covenant Church Steve Thulson led church since early days, handing reins to Karl Helvig BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
After 31 years, Steve Thulson has decided it’s time to step down as the lead pastor at Centennial Covenant Church. Thankfully, Thulson said, he feels pretty good about his replacement. Karl Helvig, the church’s youth pastor, will step in to take Thulson’s spot at the pulpit in early February. Thulson Thulson said the decision to step down was emotional. “It’s a lot of mixed feelings,” said Thulson, 67. “It’s the right thing to do, and I love what I’ve done. But at the same time, the feeling isn’t dissimilar from when I gave my Helvig eldest daughter away at her wedding. Here I am, giving away my church.” Helvig wasn’t appointed, said David Dillon, the worship pastor for the church in south Littleton that sees regular attendance of about 325 parishioners. “About a year ago, when Steve let us know he’d be stepping down, we started searching,” Dillon said. “A lot of us felt Karl would be great, but we
put a lot of prayer into this. We needed to check in with God.” When the congregation finally voted on Jan. 13, the results were overwhelming: 180 to 1 in favor of Helvig. Longtime church attendees won’t be put off, Helvig said. “Overall the core and fundamental values and culture of the church will stay the same,” Helvig said. “The differences will come in my style and personality. I’m highly energetic and wildly creative. I like to try things that haven’t been tried before.” Helvig said he’s excited to bring his background in Classical Greek and Biblical exegesis to the church. “I’m focused on the text itself,” said Helvig, 37. “I take the history of the language and culture, and I do all I can to make it engaging and lively. Storytelling is a great way for people to learn.” Centennial is an Evangelical Covenant church, Dillon said. “We’ve got more than 800 congregations around the U.S.,” Dillon said. “The thing we hear consistently is how welcoming we are. It’s very vibrant worship.” Thulson’s retirement is bittersweet, Dillon said, since he led the church from its early days. The church was chartered in 1985, and Thulson took over in 1987. Helvig was a great choice to continue the church’s legacy of liveliness, Thulson said. “The church is in good hands,” Thulson said. “It gives me a lot of peace.” The topic of Thulson’s final sermon? “I’m out of here, so here’s what I really think,” Thulson joked.
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The Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office Youth Education & Safety in Schools (Y.E.S.S.) Program has two free safeTALK (suicide alertness for everyone) trainings coming up in February and March. The safeTALK trainings are open to anyone ages 15 and older and last about three hours. Trainings will prepare attendees to identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first aid resources. Most people who have thoughts of suicide invite help to stay safe, according to a news release. Alert helpers know how to use these opportunities to support that desire for safety. A safeTALK-trained suicide alert helper will be able to move beyond the common tendencies to miss, dismiss or avoid suicide; identify people who have thoughts of suicide; and apply the TALK steps (Tell, Ask, Listen and KeepSafe) to connect a person with suicide thoughts to suicide first aid, and intervention caregivers.
Video clips will illustrate both nonalert and alert responses. Discussion and practice will help stimulate learning. Upcoming trainings are • Feb. 22, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Sky Ridge Medical Center, 10101 RidgeGate Parkway, Lone Tree. Lunch is provided. Partners are Sky Ridge Medical Center, Douglas County Government Philip S Miller Grant, Rotary of Castle Pines and Denver Springs. • March 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Canyons Community Church, 4825 Crowfoot Valley Road, Castle Rock. Lunch is provided. Partners are Canyons Community Church, Douglas County Government Philip S Miller Grant, Rotary of Castle Pines and Denver Springs. Registration is required for both sessions. Email pharvey@dcsheriff.net. This program is not designed for those who have experienced a recent suicide loss. Those grieving a recent loss of a loved one to suicide can find a support group or visit www.afsp. org/coping-with-suicide for coping information.
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Picture-perfect pictures aren’t always a good look QUIET DESPERATION
Craig Marshall Smith
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f you were born after World War II and before Apple, you might have some out-offocus family photographs around the house. Unless you had a Nikon or a darkroom, and not many of us did. We had Brownies and other crummy Kodaks that took rolls of film that had to be taken to a drugstore. A week later, you’d get an envelope with 12 crummy prints and your negatives. Some of those prints were better than others, and miraculously captured a moment. You took what you got. There was no improving the prints. That’s all changed.
Almost anyone can point and shoot a camera or a phone these days, get a high resolution image, and then improve it with Photoshop or a variety of other applications. There’s even one that lets you take a clean and clean contemporary image and turn it into a crummy one that looks like it was taken after World War II and before Apple, complete with scratches. Oh, there are still some among us who couldn’t take a good photograph if Ansel Adams was standing next to them, and take pictures outdoors at high noon when the sun makes anyone’s nose look like mine. Professional photographs of my artwork
once required a controlled environment with all kinds of equipment, tripods, special lamps and filters. Now? Angela shoots in my living room with a handheld camera and nothing else nearby, except Harry at her ankles. If a color is slightly off in the resulting image, she can correct it. She does that on a computer, not in a darkroom. She doesn’t have a darkroom. I took a number of photography classes when I was in college, and everything had to be developed in a darkroom in the dark, amid trays of pungent and dangerous liquids. SEE SMITH, P13
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W LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DCSD no place for radical agenda Referring to Alex Dewind’s Jan. 24 online article “Douglas County teacher on leave following Twitter post,” most of us who follow the news are aware of Michelle Grissom, a seventh-grade social studies teacher who described a Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky student as training to be part of the “Hitler Youth.” A vile Twitter post that went viral, joining a social media mob falsely accusing students wearing “Make America Great Again” caps of harassing a Native American at a DC March of Life. Those of us who are property owners are also receiving our annual property tax bill increased by the 5A mill levy override and the 5B bond issue that in addition to funding maintenance increased
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teacher salaries. A major argument for the bill was to decrease the teacher pay disparity between Douglas County and Cherry Creek, the second highest average teacher salary district in the state. Well guess what? We shouldn’t be afraid of losing teachers as long as we have teachers like Ms. Grissom to offer Cherry Creek, and if we had an accountable school board, there are probably a host of socialist teachers we would be better off unloading. Ms. Grissom was on the union’s liberal left executive board, where she felt very comfortable in this school district and secure in her position pushing her radical agenda against American values — polarizing, and to many, un-American. Smith Young Parker
and players and we talk about hether you are a the mistakes and errors that we football fan or not, all make. There is no question there is a high likelithat the mistakes and errors hood that you have made over the weekend heard about the “blown in the Championship calls” or the “no calls” WINNING Games will create new that took place durWORDS opportunities for more ing the recent NFL replay capabilities and Championship Games. rules changes. And the Everyone from the fans to television and radio same should hold true for programs continue to us, shouldn’t it? share how things went I mean, when we screw so horribly wrong and up, make a mistake, make how these missed calls a bad decision or error impacted the teams who in judgment, doesn’t that are now not going to the create an opportunity Super Bowl. Michael Norton for us to make changes There are even some in our own lives for the who are pointing the finger of better as well. blame on specific players and The answer is obviously yes, coaches for poor decisions and isn’t it? And if we are going to ineffective play calling or the make those changes and create ability to score when they had new opportunities for ourselves, the chance as the reason for the it must start with owning our loss instead of the poor officiatmistakes and errors. What I am ing. And we all know how this talking about here is accountworks too, right? It’s usually the ability, personal accountability. fans of the teams that lost who You see, just like fans who end have the most to say about the up on the losing side of a bad call bad calls and refs, and the fans of or game, there are some people the teams that won who place the who will look at everyone else blame on the players and team’s and point the finger of blame inability to score. It’s just how it everywhere else when things go goes. wrong in their own life. There Well here is where we stop are a lot of tips and techniques talking about the mistakes and errors made by referees, coaches, SEE NORTON, P13
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that people can use to learn how to create new opportunities that are born out of mistakes and mishaps, but believe it or not, what happens many times is that people who make mistakes look for a trick of some kind, or magic way out of the problem. Well here’s the trick and the magic: taking ownership and having personal accountability. Even if by chance, our misfortune or loss came at the hands of someone or something else, out of each and every mistake, error, and failure we can find new opportunities. As many have said before, “It’s not what happens to us in this world that matters, it’s how we handle what happens to us that matters.” Mistakes were made in both games, mistakes have happened in all of our
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There were darkroom tricks to achieve special effects, but it was nothing like current options that can swap my head for John’s on the cover photo of “Abbey Road” and make it look authentic. All of this means a number of things. For one, everyone on Earth can be a good photographer. For another, photographs can no longer be trusted. Ostensibly, I could document my paintings myself. But I don’t and won’t because of the cost of a camera like Angela’s. The other reason is more human, and it’s why I don’t stretch my own canvases or do my own taxes. I like to work with Angela. I like to work with Pat at Meininger, who stretches my canvases, and I like to work with Harley and Amy, who do
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lives, and mistakes and errors will continue to happen in life because we are human. So, we can choose to react or overreact, or we can choose to respond and look for ways that we can learn from our mistakes and create opportunities for changes, changes for the better. How about you? Are you still caught up in the mistakes and bad calls that have happened in your life, or have you figured out how to create opportunities out of those very same mistakes? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail. com, and when we take ownership and personal accountability to create opportunities from our mistakes and errors, it really will be a better than good week. Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the president of the Zig Ziglar Corporate Training Solutions Team, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.
my taxes. Nothing is better than working with someone who knows what they are doing. Those bad photos we all have are beloved by art galleries and collectors, precisely because they are primitive and grainy. Imagery of all kinds has changed. Films and commercials are full of truly unbelievable special effects. However, if you check out the Rotten Tomatoes rating for the 1933 “King Kong” and compare it with later versions, you’ll see a big difference: 1933 wins. Sometimes, in fact very often, technology does not improve art. You might even have a drawing taped to your refrigerator of crooked animals and flying pirates that you appreciate more than you would if a Chagall were taped to it. Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.
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State’s economy needs moderation, taxes, say experts Economists: Fixing infrastructure will require voters to tax themselves more
‘People feel disconnected from the state government.’
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Colorado’s economic star is rising, but promoting continued growth will require addressing the state’s government funding paradox, according to leading economists. “What’s wrong with public finance in Colorado isn’t bad people, it’s bad systems,” economist Henry Sobanet, chief financial officer of Colorado State University, said at the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce’s annual Economic Forecast Breakfast on Jan. 18. Colorado’s economy is booming, but the state’s infrastructure — think roads and bridges — is lagging, which could start to weigh on the state’s business prospects, Sobanet said during the event at CU South Denver in Lone Tree. The problem is a trio of contradictory laws, Sobanet said. TABOR, or the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, limits how much revenue the state government can take in. Meanwhile, Amendment 23 mandates ever-increasing funding for K-12 education, while the Gallagh-
Henry Sobanet, chief financial officer of Colorado State University, speaks during the economic forecast breakfast at the CU South Denver campus in Lone Tree Jan. 18. PHOTOS BY NICK PUCKETT er Amendment holds down the growth of property tax revenues, which offset how much the state needs to spend on schools. The logjam means that the state is perpetually on the hook for a massive education bill, meaning there’s little left over for roads. If voters really want to fix the roads, Sobanet said, one of the best ways would be to raise gasoline taxes, which have sat at 22 cents per
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J.J. Ament, CEO of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, speaks at the Economic Forecast Breakfast Jan. 18. gallon since 1991. Inflation-adjusted revenues from gas taxes have been falling for years, Sobanet said, as cars’ gas mileage has improved. Meanwhile, concrete, steel, asphalt and labor all cost more. Gas taxes would have to be 44 cents per gallon to have the same purchasing power as they did in 1991, he said. “I’m going to say something extremely controversial: The users of the transportation system should pay for its upkeep,” Sobanet said. “Over half the states have adjusted their gas tax or added sales tax to deal with a model that doesn’t work. In Colorado, to get more money requires a vote of the people.” Elected officials need to have the guts to ask voters to tax themselves more, said Lone Tree Mayor Jackie Millet. “We continue to have a fight at the Capitol that there’s enough money to fund all the things we must fund, you just need to spend it differently,” Millet said. “There isn’t enough money. These are obligations written into our constitution… It’ll take the courage of elected leaders to go out and say, `This
is what we need and this is how we will spend the money.’” The partisan political divide in what has traditionally been a moderate state could hinder efforts to fix funding problems, said JJ Ament, the CEO of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. “We have to find a way to cram some space between utopia — be it liberal or conservative — and apocalypse,” Ament said. “Business happens between those two things… With all this bitterness, can you focus on what’s happening, and decide if the person across from you is not valid to interact with?” Voters have tended to respond positively to calls from local governments to override TABOR revenue caps, Sobanet said, allowing municipalities to fund needed infrastructure projects. But the lift seems to get heavier at the state level. “People feel disconnected from the state government,” Sobanet said, adding that political heavyweights stand ready to pounce on policy officials who suggest tax increases. “You ask the voters and you’re an apostate,” Sobanet said. Collaboration and moderation built the state’s economy to where it is today, said Mike Fitzgerald, president of the South Denver Economic Development Partnership. “We run the risk of hollowing out the center,” Fitzgerald said. “But the center is where decisions of collaboration get made.”
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Are you a sculptor with a desire to have your work on public display? Have you considered submitting your artwork to the Douglas County Art Encounters public art program? Founded in 2007, Art Encounters is a year-long, outdoor sculpture exhibit that showcases a number of sculptures, in various media and styles, displayed in highly visible areas in Castle Rock, Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, Parker and Roxborough. The project is designed to promote public interest in art, develop community pride and draw visitors to the retail or civic areas where they are displayed. Selected sculptures are viewed by thousands of visitors annually.
All chosen sculptors receive an $800 stipend and have the opportunity to be considered for the $1,000 people’s choice honorarium and the $1,000 judge’s prize. Additionally, since the program’s inception, seven pieces have been purchased and two have been donated. All applications must be received online at www.callforentry.org no later than Feb. 15. Selected work will be on display from June 2019 to May 2020. To read about submission requirements, go to www.douglas. co.us/artencounters/rules-andrequirements/ Art Encounters is funded by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, as well as the Philip S. Miller Trust for installations in Castle Rock.
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Airport school possible at Wings Over Rockies site Centennial Airport educational facility continues to develop BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Eventually, the new campus at Centennial Airport will be a sprawling, multi-facility effort to solve an ongoing problem in the aerospace industry: It needs more qualified hands. “We just want to be part of the solution,” said Ben Theune, spokesman for Wings Over the Rockies, a nonprofit focused on education about aviation and space. The great need for air and space personnel — pilots, aircraft maintenance workers, engineers, air-traffic control and the like — has a helper in motion at the Boeing Blue Sky Aviation Gallery, the first facility to open at the Exploration of Flight site at the airport. That site is Wings Over the
Rockies’ new location, in addition to its museum in the Lowry area of Denver. The Blue Sky Gallery is a 19,000-square-foot hangar that offers visitors a chance to use flight simulators and even experience flying in a real plane. After opening in July, the site is still a ways out from filling its 15-acre property at the airport: The Ozmen Black Sky Space Gallery, the next addition, could open in 2020 or 2021, Theune said. It’ll be based around cutting-edge space technology and concepts. More tenuous is the planned opening of Colorado Skies Academy, a potential aerospace middle school proposed for the development. The charter school plans to open under the Cherry Creek School District, but the district halted its application in November, only to have the decision reversed by the state Board of Education in January. “The decision by the state board was very positive for
Colorado Skies,” Theune said. “That is, at this point, the reassurance we were looking for.” The airport sits mostly in unincorporated Arapahoe County just south of Centennial and extends south into Douglas County. The airport’s name predates the city’s. Here’s an update on developments at the site that Wings Over the Rockies wants to make, as Theune put it, “an ecosystem for aerospace education.” Passing through turbulence Cherry Creek Schools said it supports Colorado Skies Academy — the school just failed to meet a necessary condition, said Abbe Smith, spokeswoman for the school district. “Our goal is for Colorado Skies Academy to be a successful school that ultimately reflects the high standards” of the district, Smith said. Colorado Skies was required to provide by Nov. 15 documents from prospective students indicating their
intent to enroll, but the school submitted only 24 letters of intent at that point, Smith said. The school’s application said it intended to open with 225 students, she added. The airport said its relationship with the potential school and the school district is “a natural evolution,” but also a response to industry wants and needs, said Robert Olislagers, CEO of the airport. “The status quo is simply not good enough if Colorado wants to maintain its prominent role in aviation and aerospace,” he added. “We believe the 190-plus kids looking to enroll in 2019 should not be held up by a technicality.” Current attractions The aerospace-exhibit arm of the development has a lot to offer on its own, though — the Blue Sky Gallery houses everything from decades-old but still-operational planes to virtual reality experiences, and several experiences in between.
On its first floor, visitors can use Federal Aviation Administration-approved flight simulators, fly drones through a small course and learn about weather’s effect on flying. On the second floor, they can use a large touch screen to plan a flight route like professionals do, learn about aviation careers and even listen to what pilots hear from Centennial Airport’s air-traffic control tower. Facilities aside from the Blue and Black Sky Galleries and the potential school are to be determined, Theune said. The Wings nonprofit also runs the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum at the former Lowry Air Force Base grounds. The new site sits at 13005 Wings Way near East County Line Road and South Peoria Street, on the southeast side of the Centennial Airport, one of the busiest general-aviation airports in the nation.
Middle schoolers learn about engineering in the real world 13 teams compete in regional Future City Competition BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The middle schoolers that competed in the Future City Competition can tell you exactly how their city functions — how people travel or how the city is powered, for example. “They really get into the role of what their city is all about,” said Dr. Rebecca Spearot, a retired professional engineer and current regional coordinator for the Future City Competition. “It’s neat to hear their ideas.” On Jan. 19, 13 teams of middle schoolers from across the state competed in the regional finals of DiscoverE’s Future City Competition, which took place on the Colorado School of Mines campus in Golden. “They got to learn about engineering as a career field,” said Heather Haberman, a science teacher at Excel Academy Charter School in Arvada, which had two teams enter the regional competition. “They learned information in a real-world context. That made the learning meaningful for them.” The first-place team, a group from Liberty Classical Academy in New Castle, won an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., and will compete in the Future City Competition National Finals Feb. 17-19. This year, the theme is Powering
Our Future, and the students were tasked with designing an electrical grid that can withstand and quickly recover from the impact of a natural disaster. The competition “got the kids to think outside the box, using their imaginations,” Haberman said. The national Future City Competition is in its 27th year. Colorado did regional competitions in the early 2000s, but stopped having them for a number of years, Spearot said. She was one of the professionals who brought it back, and it is now in its second year, Spearot said. As a retired engineer, she said, it is her passion to bring competitions such as Future City to the younger generation. For the competition, the students’ overall project entailed writing a 1,500word essay, using SimCity software to demonstrate their city’s growth, coming up with an original project plan, building a scale model of their city with recycled materials and presenting their project at the competition. In addition, the teams were not permitted to spend more than $100 on their projects. Simi Basu, a computer science teacher and cyber security coach at STEM School Highlands Ranch, which had one team enter the regional competition, noted that the competition gave the students an opportunity to dream, make a change in the world and discover their passions. “The students learned to celebrate accomplishments,” Basu said. “They understand it’s not always about winning. The sense of accomplishment is the best award.”
From left, Ethan Friend, Taekyung Kim, Kayley Kingman and Jatin Potnuri, all middle schoolers at the STEM School Highlands Ranch hold up their award noting a fourthplace win at the regional finals of DiscoverE’s Future City Competition on Jan. 19 at the Colorado School of Mines campus in Golden. Their coach for the competition, Simi Basu, a computer science teacher and cyber security coach at STEM School Highlands Ranch, is pictured on the far right. COURTESY PHOTO
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touch Harry Potter fans celebrate fictional books, movies in real-life ways BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
rivia nights. Beer festivals. Running clubs. Theme parks. Symphony concerts. Quidditch teams. All are present-day examples of groups and activities inspired by the magical world of Harry Potter in which people can participate in the real world. The book and film series forged a lasting legacy — the last book was released in 2007 — and created a global community of people connected by their love of the story. Local enthusiasts say it boils down to author J.K. Rowling’s use of a wide range of characters that the reader, or film viewer,
can relate to. Strong themes of working together, standing up for what’s right, living as an outcast and never giving up inspire people in the books and in daily life, they say. The story of a young wizard caught in a battle of good versus evil spans seven books and later came to the screen in eight films (the final book was split into two movies). In 2007, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” took the Guinness World Record top spot for fastest-selling book of fiction in a 24-hour period. In 2016, Harry Potter became the most liked fictional character on Facebook. Aside from inspiring, the story
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Matthew, Kim and Ruby Reeder, wearing Harry Potter costumes, celebrate Harry Potter as a family in numerous ways, Kim says. Ruby’s nursery is Harry Potter themed and they attend Harry Potter themed events in the Denver metro area.
also galvanizes people. Take for example, Fanthropy Running Clubs. The organization is a virtual running group managed by the nonprofit Random Tuesday. It includes a Denver-based chapter of the Harry Potter group called Potterheads. Random Tuesday began as a Harry Potter-based running group in 2014 but has expanded by offering groups for other “fandoms” like Doctor Who and Gilmore Girls. “We are currently recognized by Facebook as the largest Harry Potter independent community,” said Keir Hansen, the organization’s communications director.
or most artists, there’s nothing about them outwardly that gives them away. You might never realize how creative a person is until you see their name next to a piece on a gallery wall. Shining a light COMING on the talents of students and memATTRACTIONS bers all around us is one of the goals of the Foothills Art Center’s two new exhibits — the 2019 Members’ Show and The Power of Process, A Jeffco Student Exhibition. Both exhibits are on display at the Clarke Reader center, 809 15th St. in downtown Golden. The Members’ Show runs through April 21 and The Power of Process is on display until March 31. “The Members’ Show is really like open mic night for the Foothills Art Center,” said Eriq Hochuli, curator at the center. “It’s a super diverse show that remains mostly a showcase for local artists.” “More than any other, this show requires a strategy. Before we’ve grouped the show on things like genre or medium, but this year we decided to go with color,” Hochuli explained. “We thought color is similar to how a person would lay it out at home.” The Power of Process exhibit showcases 70 works of county student from kindergarten through 12th grade. Not only does it highlight just how talented students are, but it gives many a first taste of the professional art world. “The size restrictions are no more and emphasis is placed on the creative journey that students travel to create their work,” Hochuli said. “We want all the of work from both shows to balance out each other rather than competing.” For more information, visit www. foothillsartcenter.org/current. Clarke’s Concert of the Week: JJ Grey at the Boulder Theater Some of the best musicians are those who can take elements of other styles and organically blend them into something new. Florida’s JJ Grey and Mofro have been making an endlessly listenable blend of blues, rock, gospel, funk and R&B since their 2001 debut. The group will be bringing their special Americana blend to the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St. in Boulder, at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8.
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ctor and scholar Becky Stone will portray American poet and author Maya Angelou (1929-2014) at 2 p.m. Feb. 21 at Bemis Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. Presented by SONYA’S Colorado Humanities as part of Black SAMPLER History Month, Stone will talk about Angelou’s autobiographical “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and more about her multi-faceted life in theater and literature. Angelou was one of the first Sonya Ellingboe African-American women to discuss her personal life publicly and wrote seven autobiographical volumes, as well as poetry, plays, movies and television shows. Stone’s performance is presented by Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book, located in Greenwood Village. Coloradohumanities.org. Stone will also appear at: Denver Public Library, Corky Gonzales Branch, 1498 N. Irving St., 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 23; Metropolitan State University, 890 Aurora Parkway, Tivoli Room 329, at 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 26; and Community College of Aurora, 16000 E. Centre Tech Parkway, Fine Arts Building F100, at 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 28. Free. Underwater photography The Englewood Camera Club will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 12 at Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S.
for snorkeling and scuba diving, explain the needed equipment and show examples.” Guests and new members welcome. Bernstein presentation Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree, presents “One Hand, One Heart: 100 Years of Leonard Bernstein” at 7 p.m. Feb. 10, with a cast of Broadway singers. Tickets: lonetreeartscenter.org, 720509-1000. Also coming up at LTAC: “The Choir of Man,” nine guys who perform in a working pub with a wide range of music, at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21 and 8 p.m. Feb. 22.
Actor/scholar Becky Stone will portray American poet and author Maya Angelou at 2 p.m. Feb. 21 at Bemis Library, a Colorado humanities program. COURTESY PHOTO University Blvd. Centennial. The speaker will be Bill Knoll, about whom the group said: “If you plan to travel to warm waters yet this winter, you may want to attend the Englewood Camera Club’s February meeting, which will feature a presentation on underwater photography by Bill Knoll. Knoll is an engineer, scuba instructor and amateur photographer. He will present the basics of underwater photography
Littleton Symphony The Littleton Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jurgen de Lemos, will perform the “New World Symphony”; Haydn’s “Sinfonia Concertante,” featuring four of the orchestra’s principal players; and “Capricio Espagnol” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22, at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. Tickets: $22/$19/$5. Littletonsymphony.org, 303-933-6824. Jewish Film Festival The annual Jewish Film Festival runs Feb. 6 to 18 at the JCC Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Films will show at JCC, Alamo Drafthouse/Sloan’s Lake and the Sie FilmCenter. Forty-four films will be shown — 30 of them Colorado Premieres. Opening-night VIP reception at 6 p.m. Feb. 6, with a screening of “The Last Suit” about an elderly Jewish tailor who runs away from Buenos Aires to his native Poland. Website: jccdenver.org/arts-culture/
Denver-jewish-film-festival. Wonderbound troupe “Cupid’s Playground with the Colorado Symphony” plays at 7:30 p.m. Feb 23 and 2 p.m. Feb. 24 at PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. Wonderbound Dance Company will again perform with members of the Colorado Symphony. ParkerArts.org, 303-805-3377. Benefit for elementaries Voices West Chorale has for many years offered support and musical training to choral students at East and Field elementary schools in Littleton. A concert for the community will present young singers with the chorale at 7 p.m. Feb. 1 at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. Tickets are free/pay what you are able at the door. These kids develop a lifetime love of music trough this generous program, which has raised thousands over the years. Art of the State 2019 The third iteration of Arvada Center’s juried “Art of the State” exhibit fills three galleries at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. The call for entry brought in 1,555 entries from 566 artists. Jurors Colin Parson, Joy Armstrong and Daisy McGowan selected 154 pieces by 135 Colorado artists, which will be displayed through March 31. Admission is free. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Mondays-Fridays; 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturdays; 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. SEE SAMPLER, P20
Two theaters stage unflinching plays Aurora Fox, Curious productions provide cause for contemplation BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The Aurora Fox is presenting “Hooded or Being Black for Dummies” by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, while Curious Theatre stages “Gloria” by Brandon JacobsJenkins. Both playwrights are award-winning, highly skilled, prolific black writers who have Julliard connections and a number of recent plays produced. Regional premieres, both plays address social issues and are very much worth a visit — and contemplation afterwards. (Be warned: guns appear in both ...) • “Gloria” opens in a competitive magazine publishing office, where four desks are occupied by Dean, Kendra, Ani and Miles — the intern who is about to leave. Snarky conversation ensues as competitive writers
IF YOU GO Curious Theatre is at 1080 Acoma St. in the Golden Triangle, Denver. Performances of “Gloria”: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Curioustheatre. org. Box office: 303-623-0524. Aurora Fox is at 9900 E. Colfax, Aurora. Performances of “Hooded or Being Black for Dummies”: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Aurorafox.org. Box office: 303-739-1970. talk shop and gossip. It seems that Gloria, who also works in this office, had a party last weekend and Dean was the only one who showed up. Director Chip Walton and associate director Jada Suzanne Dixon have worked with a skilled cast to look at the range of personalities in each of three acts (most play several parts) and the range of possible responses to a tragedy. Of course, writing a book about what happened is an expected outcome. Several of these folks are in that process. Is it OK to profit from a tragedy? Who will get published
first? How do you deal with a traumatic event? Desiree Mee Jung plays the harsh, super-competitive Kendra in Act 1 and the boss, Jenna, in Act 2, while Brian Landis Folkins, the fact checke/boss in Act 1, becomes the newly hired low-level employee later — he stands out in both situations. Candace Joyce plays editor Nan in Act 2 after starting out as conflicted Gloria. Brian Kusic (Dean/Devin) is argumentative and hung over, but draws one’s sympathy for his frustration. He voices opinions that lead us along in forming judgments ... Rakeem Lawrence, who plays Miles the intern at first and a Starbucks guy in Act 2, progresses to VP Rashaad in a TV/film studio in Act 3, when the story, of course, goes to film. Sydnee Fullmer plays Ani/Sasha/Callie — all more likable characters ... Kusic commented that the playwright was specific in saying which characters were to be played by the same actor. The audience gets mini pictures of today’s society — none especially inviting. A cynical look at a segment of society? Yes, but so very well-written and
acted. Kusic called “Gloria” a “modern masterpiece” in the talk-back session that followed. There was general agreement that there was no one answer to the issues the play raises ... Kusic also commented on the especially well-put stage directions that were included in the script ... and added “it’s kind of wonderful being in a play that’s not about love or rich people.” • After one is seated at the Aurora Fox, for “Hooded or Being Black for Dummies,” a cocky, funny Officer Borzoi (Laurence Anthony Curry) struts onstage and warns the audience he’s keeping an eye on them ... then we meet two teenage guys in a jail cell — one stretched out face down — “Trayvonning,” Marquis calls it. Marquis (A.J. Voliton) is an uptight prep school type, adopted by a white family, and Tru (Randy Chalmers) is a streetwise Baltimore kid, with very special red sneakers, who says he “was arrested for being black in the wrong place at the wrong time.” SEE PLAYS, P20
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Live your best retirement without a mortgage payment BY KATHY MUNI SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
If you have paid off your home and have no mortgage, you have done well and should feel proud of your accomplishment. It took faithfulness and sacrifice to achieve that mile marker. Your home is likely your greatest asset, and yet the money that is in the home, your housing wealth, is tied up with no way to access it unless you sell the home. However, most seniors want to stay in their home forever. Other seniors are well into retirement and have a monthly mortgage payment that, as the years go on, feels like it is strangling them. If you have a large monthly house payment and would like to eliminate it, then you can also use the wealth in your home
to eliminate your monthly mortgage payment. Many people are in the situation where they are “house-rich, and cashpoor.” They have paid off the house, but are not enjoying retirement due to the constraints of a fixed income. The equity in your home is YOUR money. Why not access it and put it to work for you? A Home Equity Conversion Mortgage converts some of your equity into Muni a usable asset – either as a lump sum of cash, a growing line of credit, a monthly income stream, or a combination of the three. At least one borrower must be 62 years old or older, and you need to have around 50% equity in your home, so if
you have a mortgage you can still tap into your housing wealth. Income and credit qualifications are adjusted to accommodate senior homeowners, and bruised credit is often no problem. The amount of equity you can draw is established by the age of the youngest borrower, the value of the property and what is owed. Substantial equity always remains in the home. This is your housing wealth. No one owns the home but you, and you will the property to your heirs who never inherit any debt. The proceeds of a reverse mortgage are not taxable like other investment accounts, and may be used for any purpose. Many people do a reverse mortgage to plan ahead to be sure that the surviving spouse will always be able to live in the home without a mort-
gage payment. For others, the line of credit provides a safety net and easy access to funds if-and-when needed. The guaranteed growth of around 5 percent y a year, compounding annually means a that there will often be a large sum of c money for use in the future to pay for h home health care or anything else. c The house you paid into for so long s can become an asset that pays you back u for the rest of your life. Call your local s Reverse Mortgage Specialist for the specifics of how this will benefit you. o You owe it to yourself and your family p to know your options so that you can l t live your best retirement. Editor’s Note: Kathy Muni is a reverse t m mortgage specialist with Silver Leaf c Mortgage in Centennial. You can contact her at (720) 485-4041, or eamil at 1 KathyM@SilverLeafeMortgages.com. m
c d a i Closing unnecessary accounts e In this day in age of identity theft- it’sb just not a good idea to keep unneces- p sary accounts opened. Keep it simple. i s Know where your money is. Consolidate accounts to ones you look at frequently so you can keep your eye on any suspicious activity. It just makes sense. Plus, most accounts charge fees to keep them open. Don’t pay unnecessary fees for accounts you don’t use.
Get financially healthy in 2019 – Define it, develop a plan and be disciplined BY NELISHA FIRESTONE SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
When it comes to New Year’s resolutions, getting family finances under control is a big one. Whether you are retired and looking to stay on track, or managing a family and full household, there are plenty of areas to consider in putting finances on the right course. Prioritizing debt Not all debt is created equal. There’s good debt and bad debt. Good debt increases your net worth or has future value such as a home loan. If it doesn’t do that and you don’t
have cash to pay for it, it’s bad debt. Bad debt can get out of hand if not addressed. There are 2 schools of thought on prioritizing paying down bad debt. 1. Pay off highest interest debt first. This way you’re chipping away at the debt that’s costing you the most to finance. 2. Pay off lowest balances first. This gives you a sense of accomplishmentlike you’re making headway towards your goal to become debt free faster. IRA accounts (opening a new one and managing a current one) IRA’s are a great way to build a nest egg especially if you don’t have
an employer plan. The contribution limit for 2019 is increasing to $6,000 for people under age 50 and an extra $1,000 “catch up” contribution for those over 50 making their maximum contribution $7,000. Automatic savings plans The best savers are disciplined. To automate your savings is a great way to become a disciplined saver. Just like your 401K you can autosave in just about every type of account. Figure out what you can afford monthly and pay yourself first! If you don’t have it in your checking account, you’re likely to not spend it.
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Eliminate high-interest debt, do home improvements with a cash out refinance BY KATHY MUNI SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
“Our debt had been growing over the years as we financed three weddings and put multiple children through college. Being able to refinance our home and pay off the high-interest credit cards was a blessing. It not only simplified our financial lives, it saved us money!” ~ KC Many homeowners are in a similar situation. When they become aware of the high interest rates they are paying on personal debt such as car loans, credit cards, and student loans the interest rates can be much greater than doing a refinance of their home mortgage. The average interest rate for credit card debt at the end of 2018 was 16.71 percent while the average 30-year mortgage rate was 4.3 percent. The average American household carries about $16,000 in credit card debt, approaching $30,000 in car loans, and many 10’s of thousands of dollars in student loans. The savings in interest can be significant. The difference between the credit card debt (16.71 percent) and the average mortgage rate in the 4 percent is over 12 percent in savings. Doing a cash-out refi can help solve
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this problem of overwhelming debt. A refinance allows you to tap into the equity tied up in your home putting it to work for you. When you refinance and access some of your money, you may use it for any purpose. Many pay off debt, which means optimizing their finances. Others want to do upgrades to their home, take a vacation, buy an investment property or pay for a wedding. The choice is yours! Some of our clients save $100s and even $1,000s per month restructuring their debt by refinancing. If you are concerned that your mortto the penny to help you assess where you can cut some fat in the New Year. Saving for children’s college fund With college costs soaring- the sooner the better when it comes to saving for Jr’s college. Today, a 4-year degree at an in-state school will cost you between 25K-30K per year. Those costs are rising faster than inflation at 4 percent. Colo-
gage will start over at 30-years, we have programs that offer flex terms, so you can keep your current term. We can do just about any term between 10-30 years. If you want 23, 18 or 12 years, we can do it. If you currently have mortgage insurance, you may be able to eliminate that portion of your payment if your value has increased enough in the past few years. Refinancing is an easy process and can have the added benefit of boosting your credit score when all is said and done. If your cards are maxed out or are higher than the recommended 30 percent usage, paying them off with proceeds from a refinance can help your credit score. Also, if you have an FHA loan, refinancing has never been faster or easier with an FHA Streamline. You can lower your monthly mortgage payments - in some instances, even if you owe more than your home is worth. No appraisal is required, rates are low, and there is no income documentation required (W-2s and pay stubs). The benefit to you must be at least a 5 percent drop in your mortgage payment, and there are 15, 20, 25, and 30-year terms available, with Primary Residence and Non-owner Occupied properties
allowed. An FHA Streamline can lower your monthly mortgage payment as well as your interest rate. If you have not refinanced since HUD lowered the MIP in 2015, now is the time! You may also be able to refinance out of an FHA loan, if you qualify for a Conventional loan eliminating the mortgage insurance, assuming your home value has increased enough. The VA has a streamline process to lower your rate. You can also take advantage of this rising real estate market using a VA cash out refinance with a loan up to 100% of the current value. Interest rates are still at historical lows, but may be set to rise soon. Silver Leaf Mortgage is a broker, which means that we can seek out the very best options for you offered by a variety of lenders whether you are self-employed, or W2. Our loan officers have years of experience and will work closely with you to be sure that the refinance loan you select will best meet your needs. Editor’s Note: Kathy Muni is a reverse mortgage specialist with Silver Leaf Mortgage in Centennial. You can contact her at (720) 485-4041, or eamil at KathyM@SilverLeafeMortgages.com.
rado has made it easy to save in the state sponsored 529 plan at www.collegeinvest. org. The money you put into the 529 plan is also state tax deductible. Colorado is one of few states that doesn’t cap that deduction. So, your savings for college is working for you 2 ways.
without a plan is just a wish. If you document your goals you are 80 percent more likely to achieve them. Define it, develop a plan, and be disciplined. Editor’s Note: Nelisha Firestone is an LPL Financial Advisor for Properion Financial Advisors, located in Greenwood Village. Visit their website at www.prosperionfinancial.us.
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About 65,000 have participated in the group’s Facebook discussions and events. They schedule race events online and members complete them on their own time from wherever they’re based. Proceeds go to charity. Hansen said the storyline and universe in Harry Potter revolve around creating a better world, and that appeals to people. There are also examples of groups from different backgrounds joining forces. But what is it about Harry Potter that motivates them to run for a cause? “They all found ways to be able to work toward their common goal and to better the world,” Hansen said of the series’ characters. “Our community does the same thing.” The same lessons that drive people to do philanthropic runs are ones that Kim Reeder, of Parker, passes on to students in her classes. Reeder teaches social studies for an online public school. She said the books and movies helped her when life got tough. “It’s just kind of the arc of the whole story about perseverance and what’s right and never giving up, even when all of the obstacles are stacked against you,” she said. Reeder, 35, began reading the books in high school and fell in love with the world’s aesthetic, she said. She found the books cleverly written, with enough detail that she could visualize the places, and she enjoyed the characters. “They’re really human,” she said. “They’re flawed. They’re not perfect.” Denver woman Alex Hatch, 30, said Harry Potter became her escape at age 11 when her parents were going
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A familiar tale, unfortunately ... Marquis’ fierce white lawyer/mother Debra (Jacqueline Garcia, who also plays schoolgirl Prairie) soon appears to bail them out. They talk through some time at Marquis’ home, at the prep school, dealing with cheerleader-type girls: Meadow (Tara Kelso), Clementine (Adeline Mann), and not-so-pleasant guys Hunter (John Hauser) and Fielder (Drew Hirschboeck) ... Well-known Denver actress Betty Hart is director for this well-crafted play — and will play the lead in “Caroline, or Change” this spring at Aurora Fox.
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New from Buntport Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver, has developed new editions of its live sitcom “Magnets on the Fridge,” which will run on the first Thursday of the month from
Members of the Front Range running club, a Denver chapter of the Potterhead Running Club, meet for a movie. COURTESY PHOTO through a divorce. She hasn’t connected to any other series like she has Harry Potter. “I think there’s a lot of correlation with what happened in the books and what happened with today’s day and age,” she said. “In the books, good prevails, so that’s a message of hope for people.” Fans flock to the Colorado Symphony when it shows the Warner Bros. and CineConcerts Harry Potter Film Concert Series, which travels globally. Spokesman Nick Dobref said by email it has been an audience favorite since it began in 2017. The concerts allow audiences to “relive the magic of the film” on a 40-foot screen “while hearing the orchestra perform each unforgettable score.” “Each installment has drawn huge crowds to Boettcher Concert Hall,” he said, “and it’s always a hot ticket with fans of all ages.” Fanthropy isn’t the only competitive way Harry Potter enthusiasts are celTru determines to write a guide for Marquis that will teach him how to be black — “you talk like a white person,” he tells Marquis. And he follows with instructions on posture, speech and attitude as situations arise. Funny and sad at the same time, with solid acting from beginning to end. Marquis is interested in fellow student Clementine and romance enters the picture. Dialogue is especially well-written as this story develops and the boys become friends. Hart says in her Director’s notes: “I invite you to lean in, laugh, love and embrace that which is uncomfortable...” New artistic director Helen R. Murray has selected an interesting series of plays for her first season at the Aurora Fox. We look forward to returning. Feb. 6 to June 5. Tickets cost $10. Buntport.com. Also to be repeated is “Rembrandt Room” from Feb. 15 to March 2, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sunday Feb. 24 at 3 p.m.; Monday, Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. (paywhat-you-can performance, aimed at the theater community). (It will also play March 8-9 at the Longmont Museum and Culture Center.) Tickets: buntport.com, 720-946-1388.
ebrating their fandom. Alex Bihlmeyer, of Denver, leads the local Mile High Quidditch Club, part of the US Quidditch league. They play the fictional game of quidditch made famous by Harry Potter that’s turned not-so-fictional. During the game’s season, Bihlmeyer and the team of about 16 people practice for three hours every Sunday. “I loved the books when I was growing up,” Bihlmeyer said. He related to the plots involving Harry Potter growing up as an outcast but “finally reaching a good place with a good group of friends.” When Bihlmeyer moved to Colorado roughly two years, ago, quidditch helped him find community. Reeder said she and her family celebrate in many ways. They read the books for her 2-year-old daughter. They’ve seen the Colorado Symphony play the film concert series. They visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida. It’s all a fun family experience she’s glad to share with her
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Grey’s most recent album, “Ol’ Glory” is one of their strongest creations yet. It’s full of songs that tell personal stories of southern life through gritty songwriting and eclectic instrumentation. For a concert sure to provide a stomping good time, get your tickets at www.bouldertheater.com. Take a walk through the forest with the LSO People may not think of classical music as the go-to genre for earworms that can prove almost impossible to get out of your mind, but as someone who first heard Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf ” in elementary school, I can assure you that melody never leaves. Not only is the piece impeccably crafted from first note to last, but it’s an elegantly simple way to introduce young listeners to the pleasures and range of orchestras. The Lakewood Symphony Orchestra will be bringing this iconic work to audiences at its family concert, held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2 at the Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway in Lakewood. Joel Hillan of CBS4 will play the role of
Here are key characters and terms connected to the Harry Potter books and movies. J.K. Rowling, author of the record-breaking novels. Harry Potter, known as “The Boy Who Lived,” is Lord Voldemort’s rival and the main character. Lord Voldemort, also known as “He-WhoMust-Not-Be-Named,” is the most powerful dark wizard of all time. Hermione Granger is one of Potter’s two closest friends and fellow member of house Gryffindor. Ron Weasley is the second of Potter’s two closest friends and a Gryffindor member. Albus Dumbledore is headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts and considered the most powerful wizard of his time. James and Lily Potter, Harry Potter’s parents, were killed by Voldemort during Harry’s childhood. Muggles are non-magical people. Dementors are the guards of Azkaban, a prison for dangerous witches and wizards. Shaped like humans and dressed in cloaks, they feed on happiness and extract souls. Butterbeer is a wizard drink. Horcruxes are objects used to conceal parts of Voldemort’s soul. The Deathly Hallows are three legendary objects — a wand, stone and cloak — that when combined make one a “master of death.” Expecto Patronum is the only known defense against Dementors. It is a difficult, defensive spell. Expelliarmus is a spell used to remove an object, including wands, from someone’s grasp. *Source: Pottermore.com daughter, she said. “Throughout history, throughout modern times, there’s a few select books and/or movies,” Reeder said, “that really resonate with people. I think it’s kind of something that hadn’t been seen before.”
the narrator. This is one of those rare pieces of music that has the power to delight all ages. Get your tickets by calling 303-987-7845 or visiting www.lakewoodsymphony.org. Little house on Colorado’s prairie The life of a homesteader could never have been an easy life, but doing it by oneself adds a whole level of difficulty to proceedings. Yet that is just what Estelle Siglin did in Akron, Colorado, at the turn of the 20th century. History fans will have the chance to learn about rural life in the state at Dr. Rena Fowler’s Colorado Women Lecture: A Woman Homesteader in Eastern Colorado at the Center for Colorado Women’s History at ByersEvans House, 1310 Bannock St. in Denver. The lecture will be from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2. Dr. Fowler will be sharing Siglin’s experiences as a homesteader while a single woman in the plains of eastern Colorado, all of which she detailed in letters to her fiancé in Iowa. For more information on the lecture, visit www.historycolorado. org/center-colorado-womens-historybyers-evans-house. Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears weekly. He can be reached at
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Light rail extension in Lone Tree to open in May The project will bring the E, R and F lines to three new locations
‘The Southeast Rail Extension allows RTD a unique opportunity to be an integral part of an overall plan to address access and mobility needs prior to development in this region,’
BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Officials from the Regional Transportation District announced Jan. 25 that the Southeast Rail Extension Project for the E, R and F lines to three locations in Lone Tree will officially open for service May 19. Light rail passengers will be able to access new stations at Ridgegate Parkway, the Lone Tree City Center and Sky Ridge Medical Center in south Lone Tree. The project has taken three years to complete at a cost of $233.1 million. “The Southeast Rail Extension allows RTD a unique opportunity to be an integral part of an overall plan to address access and mobility needs prior to development in this region,” said RTD General Manager and CEO Dave Genova. “The unprecedented collaboration and partnerships that made it possible to complete this line illustrate this region’s strong commitment to transportation.” m Key figures in the development of the project spoke at the announcement about the project’s potential impact on the community. Lone Tree Mayor Jackie Millet said the promise of the project was integral to attracting key employers in the city, including Sky Ridge Medical Center and Charles Schwab, both of which will be within walking distance of one of the new stations. “We recognize that not only is it important for the mobility of our residents and visitors and guests — that it really is a link to economic development,” Millet said. “We know it will bring more success, not just to the City of Lone Tree, but to the entire region.”
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away from the podium nor ask her to cease speaking because she appropriately responded to the reminders.” The board faced backlash from some community members on the policy, which some people say limits free speech. “No one knows the inner workings of a school district better than a school board. So a parent should be able to go to their representative and present an issue,” Brad Wann, a parent from Highlands Ranch, said in a Facebook message. “Nowhere (in the policy) does it say you could be removed for saying someone’s name.” Superintendent Thomas Tucker addressed the matter near the end of the
Dave Genova RTD General Manager and CEO Doug Tisdale, chair of the RTD board, speaks at the grand opening announcement of the Southeast Rail Extension Project into three stations in Lone Tree Jan. 25. The three stations will be open for service May 19. NICK PUCKETT Keith Simon, executive vice president of Coventry Development — the development group responsible for much of the RidgeGate area — said the project is a “game-changer” to stimulate economic development and reduce highway congestion. Simon announced Coventry plans to build an office park on a one-square-mile area near the RidgeGate station, which is projected to eventually be home to more than 10,000 employees. Simon said Coventry will build transit-oriented, mixed-use commercial and one “attainable” housing project in the 30 acres of land surrounding the RidgeGate station. The 300 acres surrounding the Lone
Jan. 24 meeting. He emphasized that personnel matters cannot be publicly discussed, as it puts the district at risk for a lawsuit. Ray added: “Sometimes we have to make tough decisions to protect the district from vulnerability. I think that’s what we did tonight. It was very uncomfortable, I have to say, because we certainly have always wanted to hear from our public. But as soon as individual names are mentioned, they are making us vulnerable to possible litigation, for defamation, for slander.” Gary Colley, a retired Douglas County teacher, has regularly attended board meetings since 2010. During public comment, he said, he’s brought concerns to the board “many times” without using names. “You can address your concerns, just do it properly,” Colley said. “Things get resolved — it’s just not attacking anyone in the process.”
Tree City Center Station — a subarea between Ridgegate Parkway and Lincoln Avenue, east of I-25 — will be developed with urban density and a downtown feel. Overall, he estimated the area east of I-25 will include 8,000 new homes and 8 million square feet of commercial development and create 30,000 jobs. Genova said the 2.3-mile rail extension will have an estimated economic impact on the community of about $22.4 billion. The City of Lone Tree contributed $25 million to the project, with an additional $3 million of inkind contributions, land and right-ofway. The Federal Transit Administration granted RTD $92 million for the
project. Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality contributed a $9.4 million grant. Overall, the 2,400-square-mile transportation district encompasses an area with a population of 3.1 million people and includes almost 100 miles of track, commuter rail and light rail. Mike Fitzgerald, CEO of the Denver South Economic Development Partnership, said the project is indicative of the leaders who collaborated on the project. “This is an amazing achievement for an area that really didn’t exist 30 years ago,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s a phenomenal success story that’s helping develop this state and the whole Front Range.”
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Irish Tenor Emmet Cahill Live in Littleton:7:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12 at Light of the World Catholic Church, 10316 W. Bowles Ave., Littleton. General admission tickets are $30 and may be purchased online at emmetcahill. com/tour-dates/, and at the church or at the door. It’ll be a special night of songs and stories with the Emerald Isle’s most exciting young tenor! For more information about this concert, contact the church office at (303) 973-3969. The New World and Our Own Brilliant Soloists:7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22 at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. Join the Littleton Symphony in this concert presenting Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol, Dvorak’s Symphony No. 5 - From the New World, and Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante, featuring four out our principal musicians as soloists. More information available at www.littletonsymphony.org or by phone at 303-933-6824.
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Father-Daughter Ball: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2 at Highlands Ranch Mansion, 9950 E Gateway Dr., Highlands Ranch. Create wonderful memories full of fun, laughter, love and dancing with your sweetheart at the Father and Daughter Sweetheart Ball at the Highlands Ranch Mansion. Enjoy refreshments, dancing, a corsage and a special gift for each little sweetheart. In addition, you receive a commemorative photo of you and your little lady. Call 03-791-2500 or visit hrcaonline. org for more information.
Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina:Runs through Feb. 3. Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. at the Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 West Main St., Littleton. Reserved seat tickets are currently
this week’s TOP FIVE Walk with a Doc: 9-10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2 at South Denver Cardiology Associates, 1000 Southpark Drive, Littleton. Participation is free, and registration is not required. Walk with the cardiologists of South Denver Cardiology and other healthcare professionals who will provide support to participants and answer questions. Visit southdenver.com/eventregistration/. Acrylic Exploration with Lance Green: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2 at First Presbyterian Church, 1609 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton. Lance Green is a colorist and expressionist. Go to heritage-guild.com/membership. html. Celebrate the Year of the Earth Pig: Noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2 at the Recreation Center at Southridge, 4800 McArthur Ranch Rd., Highlands Ranch. A Cultural Fair and Taste of China will feature traditional folk art displays, Chinese costumes, crafts, authentic Chinese calligraphy
on sale, priced $24.00-$44.00 at the Town Hall Arts Center box office, 303-794-2787 ext. 5 (Monday - Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., 1 Hour prior to Shows) or on-line at www.townhallartscenter.org/ casa-valentina. Call 303.794.2787 for more information. Jedi Academy:2 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9 at Douglas County Libraries in Roxborough, 8357 N. Rampart Range Rd., Littleton. Put your Jedi skills to work on making a Cantina Band spoon instrument. Costumes are encouraged! All ages. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DCL.org. Vintage Hollywood Daddy Daughter Ball:6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Douglas County Events Center, 500 Fairgrounds Drive, Castle Rock. Fathers, daughters, grandfathers, and granddaughters of all ages, come dressed in your best for an evening of dancing, games, refreshments and fun. A professional photographer will be there to help capture sweet memories. Advance tickets are $25 per couple ($30 for nonresidents). Admission at the door is $40 per couple. Tickets for additional family members are $8 each. The Parks and Recreation Department’s Teen Advisory Group also hosts a raffle each year at the ball. The Teen Advisory Group is a group of young residents who play an active role in planning events for the community’s youth. More information and ticket details are available at CRgov.com/DDball19. Celebrate Valentine’s Day at the Highlands Ranch Mansion: 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13 at
and brush paintings, numerous Chinese shops, delicious Chinese New Year refreshments and food. Info: HRCAonline.org or 303-791-2500. Slick Science:4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5 at Douglas County Libraries in Roxborough, 8357 N. Rampart Range Rd., Littleton. Learn the science of identifying and counting birds in your own backyard at the Great Backyard Bird Count with Audubon. Ages 6-12. Registration is required at 303-7917323 or DCL.org. Online Genealogy Resources: 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5 at Family History Center, 9800 B Foothill Canyons Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Learn about research programs that can help you with your genealogical research. Show up at 6:30 p.m. to network with Highlands Ranch Genealogical Society members and guests. Go to hrgenealogy.
Highlands Ranch Mansion, 9950 E. Gateway Dr., Highlands Ranch. Spoil yourself, come with your sweetheart, grab a friend or bring your kids and come indulge with a visit to the elegant home during this open house event. For more information about Valentines at the Mansion, visit highlandsranch. org or contact AAPS Coordinator Jodie McCann at 720-240-4922. Fashion Show & Afternoon Tea:2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13 at the Malley Center, 3380 South Lincoln St., Englewood. Sit along the runway, New York style and take-a-look at the latest fashions. Whether you are looking for an outfit for a casual day or an evening out, you will enjoy watching your fellow Malley members model Taylor Marie’s clothing line. A mobile retail clothing store of easy to wear, stylish and affordable attire plus accessories. A shopping opportunity, door prizes and an afternoon of tea, sandwiches and dessert are in store for you. Visit englewoodco. gov for more information. Project Linus National Make A Blanket Day: 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Feb. 16 at Pax Christi Church, 5761 McArthur Ranch Road, Littleton. Fleece blankets and comfort quilts will be constructed and donated to various children’s organizations. Sewing skills are not necessary, however it is helpful to bring a scissor and a friend. Open to all ages; satisfies community hour requirements. For information on Project Linus check out www.projectlinus.org for information on this event contact Colette at 303-706-0442.
7th Annual Castle Rock Bull Riding Challenge:2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16 at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 500 Fairgrounds Rd., Castle Rock. More than 100 bulls will buck and be scored individually no matter if the rider stays on for the required 8 seconds. The owner of the winning bull will be awarded a championship Tres Rios silver buckle. Food concessions are available and parking is free. Tickets prices are: $20 Adult $15 Youth (ages 6-12) Youngsters under the age of 5 are admitted free. For further information: tntevents@msn.com or 719-641-3233. Family Fun: Support Children’s Hospital Colorado at the Main Event:11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17 at Children’s Hospital Colorado, 64 Centennial Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Bring your family and friends for a few hours. A portion of all sales will benefit Children’s Hospital Colorado. Fees vary by activity. Visit mainevent. com/location/colorado/ highlands-ranch/80129 for more information. Black History Live Tour - Meet Maya Angelou portrayed by Becky Stone: 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21 at Bemis Public Library, 6014 Datura St., Littleton. This living history portrayal will give insight into how Dr. Angelou wrote, and why, and reflect on her philosophy of life, which included a strong belief in the power of words. To learn more, visit coloradohumanities.org or call 303.894.7951. Ballet Ariel presents Ballerina by Degas:7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28 at
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the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Avenue, Parker. Ballerinas by Degas enchants as his paintings come to life, by telling the story of a young dancer, Simone, her rapid rise within the Paris Opera ballet company and the Impressionist artists, Degas, who records it all. Discounted ticket prices are available for Seniors (65+), Students, and Children (12 & under) by using dropdown menus by the appropriate seats in your shopping cart prior to checkout. For information on purchasing these tickets visit www.balletariel.org or call (303) 945-4388. Seasonal Slim-Down: 9-11 a.m. Wednesdays at Centennial Lutheran Church, 3595 W. Belleview Ave., Englewood. Presented by TOPS, a 70-year-old organization that helps members take off pounds sensibly. Contact Jack Boettcher at 303-399-6665.
EDUCATION
Practice Your English:10:30 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Feb. 2 at Douglas County Libraries in Parker, 20105 East Mainstreet. Adults of all skill levels, cultures and language backgrounds converse in English in a relaxed environment, facilitated by a trained volunteer. Ages 17-plus. Registration is required at 303-7917323 or DCL.org.
Lifetree Cafe: “What Your Atheist Friend Wants You to Know: The Conversation No One is Having”:6 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3 at Castle Rock Adventist Hospital, 2350 Meadows Blvd., Castle Rock. A group discussion about a film featuring honest insights from atheists about their beliefs and their experience with people of faith. Contact Roy Koerner 303-8140142 roykoerner@msn.comfor more information. Meet Libby!:10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5 at Douglas County Libraries in Parker, 20105 East Mainstreet. Learn how to download and stream e-books and audiobooks for free using the Libby app. Presented by guests from OverDrive. Adults. Registration is required at 303-7917323 or DCL.org.
How To Manage Chronic Pain Without Opioids: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6 at PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. Chronic pain is a common and complex medical problem. Historically, opioids have been a mainstay of treatment for patients with pain, however their inappropriate use has revealed serious consequences, without demonstrating evidence of benefit, especially with long-term use. In contrast, there are many distinct non-opioid therapies that have been shown to produce sustained improvements in both SEE CALENDAR, P26
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‘Wizard of Oz’ premieres in Colorado Ballet shows L. Frank Baum tale from 1900 is adapted for classical dance
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“Wizard of Oz,” presented by the Colorado Ballet, showing at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Denver. Dates and times: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1, 2, 8, 9; 6:30 p.m. Feb. 3, 10; 2 p.m. Feb. 2, 3, 9, 10. Call 303-8378888, ext. 2 or visit coloradoballet.org. Prices: $35 to $155. (Colorado Ballet asks that you buy tickets directly from them.)
BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
As a forward to his original “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” published in May 1900, L. Frank Baum wrote: “A time for a newer set of wonder tales ... without stereotypic genie, dwarf and fairies ... together with all the horrible and blood curdling incidents created by the authors to put a fearsome moral to every tale ... Modern education includes morality, therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incidents.” Baum’s thoughts are a good lead into thinking about his wonderful storytelling more than a century later. From Feb. 1 to 10, the Colorado Ballet will present a new classical ballet, “Wizard of Oz,” based on Baum’s stories, at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts downtown. (Baum published 14 Oz books.) A concept floated by famous choreographer Septime Webre (presently artistic director of the Hong Kong Ballet, formerly with the Washington National Ballet) led to Colorado Ballet’s collaboration with the Kansas City Ballet and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
Cast members in Colorado Ballet’s “Wizard of Oz,” running through Feb. 10. to bring those Oz characters dancing along the Yellow Brick Road again. Gil Boggs, Colorado Ballet artistic director, observed that “a company of our size might be able to contribute to the creation of a new full-length work every 20 years ... this is an extremely exciting time for Colorado Ballet to be part of something so special and extraordinary ...” American composer/violinist Matthew Pierce, who has found his groove in composing scores for ballet com-
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panies, was commissioned to create a score, and a team from across the nation was assembled to create the additional stage magic. Liz Vandal designed costumes; set and lighting design were developed by Michael Raiford and Trad Burns; and puppeteer Nicholas Mahon added his skills to the new production, while video and projection skills of Aaron Rhyne round out a package. The resulting production package, owned by the three companies, can in the future generate
revenues as it is rented to other ballet companies who are looking for new material. Colorado Ballet hosts its annual gala on Feb. 7 in the Land of Oz, with cocktails along the Yellow Brick Road, an auction and meal in the Emerald City. Attendees will be invited to click their heels together in dancing on the Ellie stage. Call for tickets. The 10 performances are grouped on weekends and tickets cost $30 to $155. Some dates are sold out, so advance reservations are in order, to avoid the prospect of a dismayed little dancer, dressed up in her special outfit, being told “No seats are available.” Or a grownup wonder tale fan! The season continues with two additional productions: • March 8-10: “Tour de Force,” featuring Colorado Ballet, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance and Wonderbound at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. • April 5-14 “Ballet Masterworks” at Ellie Caulkins Opera House.
‘Casa Valentina’ offers skillful storytelling Fierstein play makes major impression on stage at Town Hall Arts Center BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
It’s June 1962 and we’re in a bungalow colony, outside Hunter Mountain in the Catskills, as we take our seats at Littleton’s Town Hall Arts Center for a performance of Harvey Fierstein’s play, “Casa Valentina.” A screened porch looks to the outdoors. Fierstein, a well-known Broadway writer, actor, activist tells us a story … Based on a poignant true story, the play tells of a group of heterosexual men, business types from New York, who head for a weekend stay with others who want to cross dress and become a woman for the weekend. Valentina/George (Phil Luna) and his wife, Rita (Melissa McCarl) have started a weekend business, which is not in good shape financially. They anxiously await the expected guests, who soon filter in, starting with young Jonathan/Miranda (Archie Archuleta), very nervous as he starts his first venture into a new experience-- to meet a bewildering need he feels. “I’m not sure I belong … I met Michael …” Rita graciously greets him, puts him
somewhat more at ease and tells him where to find his room, interrupted by a loud, bossy Bessie/Albert (Bill Kahn), who says “The world is my oyster — but I always use the wrong fork!” Bessie has good lines throughout and is well past the newbie uncertainty of young Miranda. IF YOU GO An exasperated, “Casa Valentina” conservatively suited plays through George/Valentina Feb. 3. Perfor- arrives after an upsetting meeting with the mances: 7:30 postal inspector over p.m. Thurssome questionable days, Fridays, (pornographic) mateSaturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. rial in his mail. With Rated R. Tick- Rita’s help, he transets: $24-$44: forms into Valentina. 303-794-2787, “Ask the judge” about ext. 5 or town- the mail, Rita urges. hallartscenter. Stage magic occurs as he sputters. org. As others gather, conversation continues hard and fast: Isadore/Charlotte (Sam Gilstrap) wants to take this “sorority” national, with the attendant publicity, which could mean business for Casa Valentina — and she wants for each person to swear that they are not homosexual. Michael/Gloria (Tim Howard) and reserved, older Theodore/Terry (Robert Wells) appear. All are terrified of having word about this “escape” activity become public and are focused on privacy and security … As is Amy/the Judge,
Mark Collins as Amy and Phil Luna as Valentina in Town Hall’s production of “Casa Valentina,” which plays through Feb. 3. PHOTO BY LUCK E PRODUCTIONS
played by Mark Collins. Skillful director Nick Sugar’s challenge is not only to help each actor develop a distinctive character, but really two characters — one of which is a woman — who must maneuver in a wig and high heels! Costume designer Linda Morken has really done a sensitive job of dressing each with a different personality and color. All are experienced performers, but vary a bit in confidence with these outfits. I’m certain that will become more comfortable with a weekend of performances under the belt. Bessie has the idea of doing a “makeover” for the worried young Miranda, which is greeted with enthusiasm and a generous attitude — and cosmetics, eye makeup and padding come forth ... and voila! Rita manages to serve dinner,
although her cook has been hired elsewhere for the weekend and various conversations pad out the story as the well-crafted script proceeds. “When God created Woman, he overestimated his abilities,” surfaces along with “there is no black and white …” And Rita, who owns a wig shop, has a carefully written monologue about meeting and marrying George, knowing this part of his life … The playwright really tries to show all sides as well as entertain us, and I feel he succeeded. As Gloria says: “There is no black and white!” Park preconceptions on the street and enjoy skillful storytelling for the evening. I’d congratulate Town Hall’s planning committee for this choice in an otherwise predictable season including “Dames at Sea” and “Sister Act.”
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Who is your favorite athlete and why? Steve Nash. He is more of a team player and likes to encourage his teammates more than be the actual team star. He is really good at passing, and that is one of my weaknesses. What or who motivates you most to excel in sports? I would say just my team. What is your favorite class in school and why? Lunch, would that be OK to say? I had chicken, rice and green beans today. What are your plans after high school? I want to go to college but I don’t know where yet. And I don’t know about basketball. What is the secret to being a good three-point shooter? Every time you shoot, you just have to know that you are going to make it. If you don’t think you are going to make it, then it definitely is not going to go in. You have to have the same form. Do you or the team have any traditions or habits? As a team, we always play three songs before we play or on the bus for away games. One is the Avett Brothers. We belt it out and it kind of pumps us up. Another one by Froggy Fresh called “Dunked On” and then from “High School Musical” we all belt out “Bet On It” by Troy Bolton.
COACH’S TAKE: ‘She is a great kid and a really hard worker. She is always first in the gym and she has a good jump shot.’ Mickey Devries, SkyView Academy girls basketball coach
SkyView Academy’s Natalia Miller-Forrest.
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Her shooting is really far out Natalia Miller-Forrest works hard to build three-point proficiency BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
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t was not long ago that Natalia Miller-Forrest struggled to dribble and shoot a basketball. Now the 5-foot-6 senior is one of the top players on the SkyView Academy girls basketball team that won 10 of its first 12 games this season. She is one of the leading three-point shooters in the 3A Metro League. She just started playing competitive basketball and joined coach Mickey Devries’ program at SVA as a sopho-
more. She became a regular last season and averaged 11 points a game. Her hard work under the tutelage of Devries has paid off. “I have just worked hard,” said Miller-Forrest. “I played recreational basketball and not competitive until I got to high school. I used to have trouble just dribbling the ball and shooting. I worked just about every day, even during the summer and over break. We would for about two hours.” Have a suggestion for whom to feature in StudentAthlete Spotlight? Email Jim Benton at jbenton@ coloradocommunitymedia.com
Key stats | Miller-Forrest was averaging 15.4 points after nine games and collected three rebounds and 1.2 assists per game. She was the second-leading scorer in the 3A Metro League and her 24 three-pointers ranked third in the league.
oy Halladay gained fame wearing a Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies baseball uniform, but in these parts he looked very familiar in purple-shaded Arvada West OVERTIME baseball garb. The late Halladay was a dominating pitcher for the Wildcats, then pitched for 16 seasons in the major leagues and on Jan. 22 was elected into Jim Benton Baseball’s Hall of Fame with 85.4 percent of the vote, with 75 percent needed for election, on the first time his name was on the ballot. The two-time Cy Young winner died at the age of 40 when the light aircraft he was flying crashed into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2017. The Hall of Fame ceremonies are set for July 21 in Cooperstown, New York, and he will join Goose Gossage, a member of the 2008 class, as the other Coloradan in the Hall of Fame. Jim Capra was Halladay’s coach at Arvada West and keeps having to answer the question if he sensed he was coaching a potential Hall of Famer when Halladay played for the Wildcats between 1992-95. “Everybody asks that question, but at the time as he progressed through high school you knew he was going to be pretty good,” said Capra. “Then when he was a firstround draft pick you knew he was going to be a major leaguer but who could estimate he would be a Hall of Famer? “He was pretty coachable. He always wanted to get better. My big job was not to screw him up. It’s an honor and a privilege to be associated with him. He was pretty level-headed all the time. He was not full of himself and not arrogant.” In fact, Halladay could be a prankster at times. “Roy came to practice one day with a cast on his arm,” recalled Capra. “He told everybody he fell down trying to dunk a basketball. He got our trainers to put a full type cast on his arm. SEE BENTON, P25
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Bailey Verk and Austin Holt each had 16 points and Colton Sanders chipped in 10 points in the victory. • The girls basketball team lost a 45-38 Continental League game to Castle View on Jan. 25 and Green Mountain pulled away in the second half to earn a 40-32 non-league win on Jan. 26.
News and notes from local high school sports programs Highlands Ranch • The girls basketball team, second in the CHSAANow.com Class 5A poll, took charge early and raced to a 63-25 Continental League win over Legend on Jan. 23. Kasey Neubert led the team with 14 points, and Autumn Watts returned from the injured list and scored 11 points. The Falcons jumped ahead 32-7 at halftime and went on to beat Chaparral, 58-26, on Jan. 25. Neubert scored 15 points to lead the team. • Senior Aimee Burton was ranked high in the state’s best Class 4A swimming times compiled by Prepswimco.com. She was second in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 24.26, second in the 100 butterfly with a 58.49 clocking and fifth in the 100 freestyle with a 54.46 time. • The boys basketball team had top-ranked Chaparral on the ropes in their Jan. 25 Continental League game but was outscored 25-14 in the fourth quarter and lost, 66-56. Mountain Vista • Garrett Looney is the new football coach. He replaces Ric Cash, who was the school’s only football coach for 18 seasons. Looney was the interim head coach at Eaglecrest in 2018 and led the team to a 9-2 record. A former quarterback at Columbine, he also was an assistant coach at Cherry Creek, ThunderRidge, Valor Christian and Cherokee Trail. • Jacob Strawn scored twice and had an assist in a 10-5 hockey loss to fifthranked Chaparral in a game played
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“Everybody was panicking. At the end of practice he cut it off. We always told kids not to play basketball because they were going to get hurt so he comes to practice with a cast on. He played on the varsity basketball team. He was a heck of a basketball player.” Halladay was 26-2 in three seasons at Arvada West and the Wildcats were state champions in 1994 and runnersup the next season. Ralston Valley baseball coach Brad Madden was a teammate of Halladay’s and friend. “He was just one of the guys,” said Madden. “His seriousness was dedicated when he was on the mound. When he played first or got to DH that’s when he was just part of the squad and got to let loose a little bit. He had great sense of humor, and like everyone says he was hardest worker
Rock Canyon • The boys basketball team collected two Continental League wins with
ThunderRidge • The boys basketball team grabbed a 19-point lead early and cruised to a 66-55 win over Castle View on Jan. 25.
Valor Christian • Head volleyball coach Kaitlyn Hastings has decided to step away from her position after three seasons to attend to the needs of her growing family. She guided the Eagles to a 7115-0 record. The 2018 team won the 5A state championship and finished with a 27-2 record. • The girls basketball team, sixth in the CHSAANow.com Class 5A rankings, notched a 57-47 win over No. 8 Ralston Valley on Jan. 23 in an important Jeffco 5A contest as freshman Raegan Beers led the way with 21 points and 18 rebounds. Beers, the league’s scoring and rebounding leader, scored 19 points and had 11 rebounds in a 62-56 win over Lakewood on Jan. 25. The team got scoring contributions in the two wins of 23 points from Sydney Mckibbon, 22 from Jenna Siebert and 16 from Sara Nealy. • Colton Carson had three goals and two assists and Mason Hoehn had a hat trick and four points in a 10-1 hockey win over Castle View on Jan. 26. The team, ranked second in the CHSAANow.com poll, lost 2-1 to third-ranked Cherry Creek on Jan. 25. Carlson scored a second-period goal but Cherry Creek responded with two goals later in the period. • The boys basketball team recovered from an 82-75 loss to Ralston Valley on Jan. 23 with an 86-49 win over Lakewood on Jan. 25. Amondo Miller and Micah Leslie each had 14 points as two of the four players to score in double figures in the Lakewood victory.
and loved being part of it, and that’s why he did basketball and ran cross country. “He liked being a part of a team atmosphere. He ran cross country just to stay in shape and then he became pretty good at it. Everything he did he was good at. He never ceased to amaze us. He could have competed in football but he didn’t want to get hurt.” Halladay and Madden played together with mostly the same group of players from little league to high school. “We had been together a long time and we all played for each other,” added Madden. “When he got on the hill he gave you a sense of relief, actually, because every game he pitched you had a better than good chance of winning, so we kind of went out and ripped and that’s why we had so much success at A West when he was there. “He kind of put you at ease. For me playing shortstop it was kind of boring because no right-hander could ever pull him. They would hit it to the
other side because they could never get around it. He made my life a lot easier at shortstop. He was dominating from about 10 years old. When he joined our Little League team that was the end of my pitching career.” Madden got a chance to hit against Halladay once in a while. “When we would scrimmage and stuff,” he explained. “Everybody talked about his fastball in high school and he had a dominating fastball. But he would kind of give you that little smirk when he had that knuckle curve coming. At that age, that knuckle curve he threw was pretty scary.” Halladay was the 17th overall pick in the 1995 MLB draft. He had a career 203-105 record with a 3.38 earned run average, with 2,117 strikeouts in 2,749.1 innings pitched. He tossed a perfect game for the Phillies on May 29, 2010, and followed with a post-season no-hitter on Oct. 6, 2010, against Cincinnati in a National League Division series. Halladay’s wife, Brandy, expressed
thanks for herself and sons Braden and Ryan to the baseball writers for the overwhelming support in the Hall of Fame vote, and released the following statement. “Being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame is every boy’s dream,” she wrote. “To stand on that stage in Cooperstown and deliver your acceptance speech in front of baseball’s most enthusiastic fans is something every baseball player aspires to achieve, and Roy was no exception. But that was not Roy’s goal. His goal was to be successful every day of his 16-year career. Tonight’s announcement is the end result of that effort. If only Roy were here to personally express his gratitude for this honor, what an ever more amazing day this would be.” Jim Benton is a sports writer for Colorado Community Media. He has been covering sports in the Denver area since 1968. He can be reached at jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com or at 303-566-4083.
Castle View’s Austin Hall (2) tries to guide the puck to the Valor Christian net but is met by defenders Patrick Routzon (4) and Jameson Charles (12) along with goalie Brendan Williamson (32). Valor defeated the Sabercats 10-1 on Jan. 26 at the Ice Ranch. PAUL DISALVO Jan. 21. Top-ranked Regis Jesuit outshot the Golden Eagles, 30-13, in the first two periods and recorded a 4-0 win on Jan. 23. Josh Cox’s third-period goal gave the team, ranked sixth in the CHSAANow.com poll, a 1-0 victory over Battle Mountain on Jan. 25. Goalie Tanner Stromberg made 28 saves in the shutout. Mason Anderson’s thirdperiod tally was the game winner in a 2-1 win over Aspen on Jan. 26. • The boys basketball team bounced Heritage, 71-49, on Jan. 23 and then topped Ponderosa, 57-41 on Jan. 25. Senior Simon May had a double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds, Rhys Pulling scored 13 points, Ben Grusing added 12 points and Corban Gamble had eight steals to highlight the win over Ponderosa. • The girls basketball team downed Heritage, 52-32, on Jan. 23 and turned back Ponderosa, 56-43, on Jan. 25. MacKenzie Gamble was high scorer for the Vista in both games with 13 and 16 points.
a 55-35 triumph over Ponderosa on Jan. 23 and a 51-41 victory over Heritage on Jan. 25. Senior Jaylen Eikenberg led the team with a combined 26 points, eight rebounds, 10 assists and seven steals in the two games. Grant Figueroa had 22 points and Nick Fallin 19 points in the pair of victories. • After a 57-43 loss to Ponderosa on Jan. 23, the girls basketball team rebounded with a 46-22 win over Heritage on Jan. 25. SkyView Academy • The girls basketball team started slow, falling behind by 25 points at halftime, in a 63-34 loss to Lutheran on Jan. 23. • The boys basketball team also had trouble keeping up with Lutheran and was dealt a 68-37 setback on Jan. 23.
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High Line Canal group seeks to enhance waterway BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
If you live in Littleton or Cherry Hills Village, you might know the High Line Canal as a bucolic, winding path beneath shady trees. But if you live in Aurora, you might know the canal as a concrete ditch beside a sun-baked sidewalk. If the High Line Canal Conservancy has their way, the 71-mile canal will become a far more cohesive and attractive recreational amenity in coming years, as the philanthropic organization puts their labored-over plans into action. Formed in 2014, the Conservancy aims to protect and enhance the 19thcentury canal, in partnership with the 11 jurisdictions along its length, and Denver Water, which owns the waterway. The canal begins near Waterton Canyon above Chatfield Reservoir, and winds through the metro area’s south-
ern and eastern suburbs before petering out near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. “The canal is already incredible,” said Meredith Wenskoski of Livable Cities Studios, the lead planner on the project. “The task ahead of us is increasing its environmental health, and making it comfortable, continuous and connected.” The Conservancy held a pair of open house meetings on Jan. 23 and 24 to wrangle a final round of public comment on the Framework Plan, a comprehensive document that outlines a couple decades’ worth of projects to improve the canal. The group hopes to begin putting the plan into action in coming years, to augment dozens of already-completed projects like new trailheads. Some of the shorter-term tasks include improving signage and wayfinding, Wenskoski said. Others include building seating ar-
eas, improving road crossings — there are 81 along the canal’s length — and creating underpasses where possible. But other projects are more focused on the diversity of landscapes along the canal. The quality of the canal varies widely, said Harriet LaMair, the Conservancy’s executive director. Along its southern portion, it’s been well-kept. “Anybody who’s walked it for any length loves it” in the Littleton and Cherry Hills Village stretches, LaMair said. “It goes behind backyards and alleyways — it’s a very intimate way to see the area.” But farther north, LaMair said, the canal is more bleak, with fewer benches and less tree cover. The Framework Plan identifies seven “opportunity areas,” each with a set of recommendations. For northern stretches, providing shade and areas of respite can reactivate the canal in residents’ lives, LaMair said. Another challenge is keeping water
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Centennial Active Seniors | An Afternoon with Abraham Lincoln:1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7 at South Suburban Family Sports Center, 6901 S. Peoria St., Centennial. Join us for a living history experience as Lincoln talks through the fifteen presidents that preceded him, describing their importance and his own connections with them. He also shares highlights from his own presidency, including the Civil War, emancipation and the Gettysburg Address. Reserve your spot by following the “Event Registration” link below. Call (303) 325-8000 or visit centennialco.gov for more information. Auditions for “Sleeping Beauty”: Spotlight Performing Arts Center is auditioning 3-9 year-olds for the musical “Sleeping Beauty” on Feb 7 at 4 pm. This 12-week class will teach singing, dancing, and acting techniques while preparing a short musical production! Classes will be held on Thursdays from 4-4:45 pm. Check out www.spotlightperformers.com or call 720-44-DANCE for more info and current tuition rates.
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Castle Rock Historical Society and Museum’s Monthly Presentation:6:45 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13 at Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Please join us on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019 for a presentation by Mary Lou Fenton about Wellspring. Did you realize that there is a thriving community in Castle Rock that serves people with Down Syndrome, Autism and other special needs? And these special people are incredibly artistically gifted! You’ve probably passed their special place dozens of times and not known it. Visit castlerockhistorical-
in the canal. Though originally built to provide water for agriculture, there are only a handful of water users left along the canal’s length, said Jeannine Shaw, Denver Water’s senior community relations specialist. “It’s not an efficient way to move or provide water,” Shaw said. “We lose 60 to 80 percent of the water in it to evaporation and ground seepage. This is more about providing a community asset.” But maintaining thriving tree cover will require water, which can be achieved by thoughtfully channeling stormwater runoff toward the canal, according to the Framework Plan. Creating a landscape of diverse water-wise plants along the canal will also help filter out contaminants in stormwater, the plan says. The enthusiasm around the project is encouraging, Shaw said. “With people not agreeing on much these days, it’s impressive that everybody’s stepping up to the plate,” Shaw said. society.org for more information. Life Ready; Skills Not Taught in School:5 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20 at Castle View High School, 5254 N. Meadows Dr., Castle Rock. the Academic Booster Club of CVHS will present a special evening of community involvement and student opportunity. We have set up a schedule of classes taught by community members for middle and high school students that cover a range of topics from auto maintenance to healthy relationships, credit cards to job skills. The evening is free to students and will also have a business expo component and three food trucks to handle dinner. Call (303) 387-9000 for more information. Business Start-Up Basics: 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21 at Englewood Public Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway. Learn the steps to starting a business. Free. Go to englewoodco.gov/doing-business/businesstraining for registration. Free safeTALK (suicide alertness for everyone) trainings:11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22 at Sky Ridge Medical Center, Room: Sky Ridge Auditorium, Garden Level, 10101 RidgeGate Pkwy., Lone Tree. safeTALK, about three hours in duration, is a training that prepares anyone over the age of 15 to identify persons with thoughts of suicide and connect them to suicide first aid resources. Anyone wishing to attend either training must register, by emailing pharvey@ dcsheriff.net, prior to attending so we know how much food to have available. Auditions for “Greatest Showman”: Spotlight Performing Arts Center is auditioning 3-9 year-olds for the musical “Greatest Showman” on Feb 26 at 3:45 pm. This 12-week class will teach singing, dancing, and acting techniques while preparing a short musical production! Classes will be held on Tuesdays from 3:45-4:30 pm. Check out www.spotlightperformers.com or call 720-44-DANCE for more info and current tuition rates. Editor’s note: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week. To place a calendar item, go to eventlink.coloradocommunitymedia. com.
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Lumineers band member ends tour in Castle Rock Stelth Ulvang books show at Maddie’s Biergarten BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The Lumineers band member Stelth Ulvang will wrap up a solo tour showcasing his personal music with an upcoming concert in Castle Rock after weeks on the road, bringing with him both whimsical and dark folk songs inspired by personal experiences. Ulvang, of Fort Collins, joined The Lumineers as a touring band member and works on personal projects when not busy with the band. He put out three albums in 2018, two EPs and a full-length LP, dubbed “Greetings from Perpetual Summer,” “And as Always,” “The Infinite Cosmos” and “American Boredom.” Ulvang comes to Castle Rock on Feb. 3. Yes, that’s Super Bowl Sunday. Kickoff is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Mountain Time, or 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time, and airs on CBS. Ulvang plays at 2 p.m. at Maddie’s Biergarten ahead of the game. “I have this drive to play every town in Colorado,” Ulvang said while speaking to Colorado Community Media on Jan. 21 from a stop in Nashville. “There are so many little spots and little scenes where people go see music and so I’m excited to add Castle Rock to the list.”
Stelth Ulvang of The Lumineers will bring his personal work to Castle Rock on Feb. 3. He wraps up a personal tour at Maggie’s Biergarten in downtown Castle Rock. COURTESY PHOTO
The weekend he comes to Castle Rock he’ll also play shows in Leadville and Silver Plume. Paul DeHaven is the supporting artist for Ulvang’s Castle Rock show. “People expect me to be similar to The Lumineers,” Ulvang said of the Denver band known for tracks like “Ho Hey” and “Ophelia.” He played music prior to joining The Lumineers — which opened for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on Petty’s last tour and joined U2 on their Joshua Tree Tour in 2017 — and
says his personal style hasn’t changed much. Fans could expect to hear “more intimate songs” rooted in his love of nature and drawing from his travles or past relationships. Ulvang also gets personal. “American Boredom” was recorded in between tour stops with The Lumineers and takes a darker turn from his previous work, Ulvang said, reflecting on growing up in Fort Collins, knowing friends and family who struggled with substance use and losing friends to suicide.
“Most people,” he said, “can have dark feelings growing up in suburbia, especially growing up with friends or family dealing with substance use.” Ulvang comes to Castle Rock via State of Flux booking, run by Parker man and former Castle Rock resident Tyler Kellogg. Kellogg’s name may sound familiar to those familiar with the Colorado music scene. He’s also a former member of the disbanded Colorado group You Me & Apollo. He now runs State of Flux part-time. Kellogg became a regular at Maddie’s Biergarten while living in Castle Rock from 2016 through 2018 and has known Ulvang for years. The two went to high school together in Loveland. “One thing that I really like is that he, and he’s always been like this, he is constantly in the moment,” Kellogg said. “It creates a truly unique show. Every time I’ve seen him it’s been completely different.” Talent coordinator for Maddie’s Biergarten Bart Dahl said the restaurant and music venue has made a concerted effort this year to attract high-caliber music artists, including Wildermiss on Feb. 8 and Brent Cowles on March 9. When it comes to Ulvang’s show, he said, they “couldn’t be more excited.” “Just because he’s obviously talented on his own but he’s also a member of frankly one of the biggest bands in the world,” Dahl said. “So, we’re over the moon to have him come to the stage.”
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Local students to compete in Science Bowl STAFF REPORT
Students from Rocky Heights Middle School will compete Feb. 2 in the regional competition of the Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl. Teams of four students face off in fast-paced, question-and-answer sessions that test their knowledge in all areas of science and mathematics. The winning team from each of the 47 middle school and 64 high school regions will compete in the national finals April 25-29 in Washington, D.C. The regional competition is Feb. 2 at Mountain View High School in Loveland. At the finals, winning teams can score adventure trips to Alaska and national parks across the country to learn first-hand about science in the field, as well as trophies, medals, and supplies for their schools’ science departments.
Since the first competition in 1991, more than 290,000 students have faced off in the national finals. The knowledge that former competitors have acquired, as well as the collaborative skills and study habits they learned along the way, have led them to success in a variety of fields. Many have become researchers; others are science and math professors at some of our some of our nation’s most prestigious universities. Teams include four students, one alternate, and a teacher who serves as an advisor and coach. The competition tests the students on a range of science disciplines including biology, chemistry, earth science, physics, energy, and math. The Department of Energy Office of Science manages the National Science Bowl and sponsors the final competition. Learn more at http:// science.energy.gov/.
Home-modification tax program launched by state STAFF REPORT
Colorado residents who need to make modifications to their homes for health or safety reasons may qualify for the newly launched Home Modification Tax Credit program. The Income Tax Credit for Retrofitting Home for Health Bill (HB181267) became effective Jan. 1. The vision of the new law is that those with an illness or disability be able to modify their homes without
having to worry about financial constraints, according to a news release from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs. HB18-1267 created a state income tax credit, up to $5,000 per qualified individual per year, available tax years 2019 through 2023 for eligible costs incurred while retrofitting a residence. Learn more about the bill and eligibility requirements at www. colorado.gov/pacific/dola/homemodification-tax-credit.
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All of the 18th Judicial District’s specialty courts, or problem-solving courts, are run in Arapahoe County. In Colorado, specialty courts include adult drug courts, juvenile drug courts, veterans treatment courts POPULATION and more. The 18th JudiBREAKDOWN cial District offers drug courts, A look at the popuveterans courts lation of each of and a mental the four counties health court. in the 18th JudiDouglas Councial District: ty has a Commu- Arapahoe County: nity Justice Ser655,902 vices program, Douglas County: which oversees 345,342 programs like Elbert County: community 27,773 service, the mulLincoln County: tiple offender 5,623 program and the Source: Douglas electronic inCounty home detention program. Distance to the 18th Judicial District’s specialty courts, located in Centennial, creates a barrier for people utilizing them from outside of Arapahoe County but so does docket capacity, said the Community Justice Services Director Scott Matson. “Having a new judicial district,” Matson said, means the ability to do a full analysis of what issues are in Douglas, Lincoln and Elbert counties and then being able to “set up our specialty courts around that.” Still, it’s too early to know precisely what a 23rd Judicial District would look like. Specialty courts are created at the direction of the district’s chief judge and available funds, Matson said. Executive Director of the Colorado District Attorney’s Council Thomas Raynes said by email that the council supports breaking up the 18th Judicial District for numerous reasons. Population growth is one, but “equally important is consideration of the demographic differences and growing political dispariteis between the two largest counties in the 18th,” he said. Splitting the two into separate districts will give Arapahoe County voters “a stronger voice in choosing the criminal justice philosophies implemented in their community,” he said, as well as in Douglas, Lincoln and Elbert counties. “Quite frankly, it probably creates a very competitive election in the district that would be Arapahoe County, in which either a (Democrat) or (Republican) candidate could win,” Raynes said. The Colorado Constitution requires any bill that creates a new judicial district get a two-thirds supermajority vote in each legislative chamber to pass. Van Winkle said he is optimistic the bill will be successful this session. “It wouldn’t be introduced unless it had bipartisan support,” Van Winkle said. “It does require twothirds majority to pass but we think the support will be there.”
JUDICIAL DISTRICT FUNDING The following is a breakdown of the money each county contributed to funding the 18th Judicial District in 2018, along with data on the felony crimes each county accounted for that same year. Arapahoe County: $14.5 million (64 percent); 3,746 (69.5 percent) Douglas County: $7.5 million (33 percent); 1,350 (25 percent) Elbert County: $573,534 (2.5 percent); 145 (2.7 percent) Lincoln County: $126,950 (0.56 percent); 153 (2.8 percent) Sources: Douglas County, 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office ‘Closer to home’ An assessment completed by the Secretary of State’s Office and obtained by Colorado Community Media found passing a bill this session is crucial to creating a new district soon. If the 23rd District is created in 2019, its district attorney could run in the next election cycle of 2020. District attorneys are all elected in the same year to four-year terms. Under this timeline, the 23rd District could be up and running by 2021. However, legislation passed in 2020, even fast-tracked bills, would give candidates little to no time to make the 2020 ballot, according to the Colorado secretary of state’s assessment. There would be other avenues toward instating a district attorney into the 23rd District if a bill doesn’t pass in 2019. A bill would need to outline a method for electing or appointing the district attorney outside the regular 2020 election, but “aside from adding potentially complicated one-time procedure to statute, there may also be constitutional issues” to this strategy, the secretary of state’s assessment says. As a result, legislation passed in 2020 or later would likely require waiting to elect the new district attorney until 2024, delaying the 23rd District by another four years. Creating a new district would require hiring more personnel than a new district attorney alone. Douglas County’s report says the number of staff now allocated to the three counties is not sufficient to run the 23rd District. It outlines 15 additional positions in total, including the district attorney’s at a salary of $91,000. Van Winkle said passing the bill this session would give the new district ample time to set itself up. Raynes said breaking up the district would cause a shake-up to the delivery of criminal justice services, but temporarily, calling it “short-term pain for long-term gain.” “Justice should be accessible and close to home and I’ve always believed that government closer to home is more accessible and efficient,” Van Winkle said. “A judicial branch is no different.”
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Facility helps make homes more accessible Interaction lab assists seniors, residents of all ability levels in finding solutions BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
What’s a livable home as you age in place? That’s the question the City of Centennial and the Arapahoe Libaries District set out to help residents answer with the Interaction Lab at Southglenn Library, an interactive room that displays design strategies and technology to make homes accommodating for a senior or those with different ability levels. The library district looks for ways to highlight technology that’s not always available to everyone, said Oli Sanidas, executive director for Arapahoe Libaries. “We’re trying to democratize information,” Sanidas said, “through experiences as well.” The interactive room offers a drawing board that currently depicts what an accessible kitchen looks like: lowered countertops that allow for seated meal preparation, D-shaped handles for easier access, an under-the-counter microwave drawer and lighting under the cabinets for more visibility. It’s all part of showcasing what Sanidas explains is universal design, a concept that emphasizes environments that are accessible to everyone, no matter their age or ability. It’s geared especially toward seniors who want to age in place — being able to live in their own homes and maintain independence. The lab, expected to be a fixture
A drawing board in the Interaction Lab at Southglenn Library Jan. 23 depicts an accessible kitchen setup with a lowered counter, allowing for meal preparation from a seated position.
Oli Sanidas, executive director of the Arapahoe Libraries District, points to a shelf of devices that include touch-screen and voice-activated applications Jan. 23 at Southglenn Library’s Interaction Lab. The City of Centennial is focusing on helping residents, including seniors, make their homes more accommodating. PHOTOS BY ELLIS ARNOLD for at least a year, comes through a partnership between the city; the library district; Arrow Electronics, an engineering and technology company; Colorado State University; and the Denver South Economic Development Partnership, a nonprofit that works to improve the regional economy. Patrons can have hands-on — or hands-free — experiences with “smart” appliances like the Google Home Hub and Amazon Echo, devices that can turn the lights off, play music, give the weather forecast and more with voice control. The Facebook Portal, also on display, makes video calls that are voice controlled,
too. The lab even has a robot: a videoconference tool that moves around the room so a person can see what a caller is looking at during conversation. “It could be for parents who work late,” or a senior showing a medical caregiver around a house, Sanidas said. The lab may offer other accessible displays, such as a bedroom, in the future. “It is important to the city to provide resources and information to residents so they can remain in their homes as long as they wish,” said Stephanie Piko, Centennial mayor, in a news release. “The Interaction Lab
will continue to evolve as partners work together with patrons to understand the most desired smart-home features and universal design concepts to include.” Southglenn Library sits at 6972 S. Vine St. at The Streets at SouthGlenn shopping center. For more information, visit centennialco.gov/lifelonghomes or call 303-542-7279.
order. It is locally owned and operated by Greg Adams. “We’re thrilled to bring handcrafted, high-quality meals and desserts to the community of Castle Rock,” Adams said in a news release. “I have lived in the area since 2002 and think it’s a wonderful area and we are excited to become a contributing and active member of the business community.”
National recognition Handyman Matters has been recognized as part of Newsweek’s inaugural list of America’s Best Companies for Customer Service. Handyman Matters is the top brand in the list’s Home Referral Services and Home Repairs category. The independent study used data from a survey of more than 20,000 U.S. customers and focused solely on customer service. “What an honor,” owner and founder Andy Bell said in a news release. “We cannot be more thrilled for the recognition our
owners earned by being ranked first in our category. It’s so gratifying to see the efforts our owners deliver to our customers day in and day out rewarded by those they are serving.” Handyman Matters’ locally owned and operated locations provide professional and multi-skilled craftsmen, trained to handle a homeowners’ to-do list in addition to larger, more critical projects like a bathroom refresh or remodel. Handyman Matters of South and West Denver services Centennial, Castle Rock, Littleton and more.
Oli Sanidas, executive director of the Arapahoe Libraries district, talks about accessible kitchen-drawer handles Jan. 23 at the Interaction Lab at Southglenn Library in Centennial.
IN THEIR BUSINESS Chocolate Factory returns After a major facelift and under new ownership, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Cafe has opened at the Outlets at Castle Rock. The cafe, which had been closed since April 2018, reopened in December and is the first Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory store in the United States to feature a cafe concept. “When we were given this opportunity, we absolutely had to take it. It was an easy decision,” co-owner Brianna Blaylock said in a news release. “We’re so passionate about what Rocky does and what they stand for and we can’t wait for people to come hang out in the café and see that for themselves.” The store reopened Dec. 21, but its official grand opening is Jan. 29. This event will feature a 150-pound fudge mountain, and free 12-ounce coffee will be given out with any purchase. Culver’s opens in Castle Rock Culver’s of Castle Rock opened Jan. 14 at 654 Genoa Way. The restaurant serves fast-casual food, cooked-to-
Mici’s to open in Parker Mici Handcrafted Italian, a familyfounded fast-casual chain based out of Denver, will open its sixth location, and its largest to date, at 11290 Twenty Mile Road in Parker. The Parker site is slated to open in spring 2019. The 2,500-square-foot restaurant will have seating for 70 and a 20-seat patio. It will offer dine-in, carry-out, catering and delivery. The company also lauched a new point of sale system, which includes an online ordering tool that is mobile optimized, an accompanying loyalty rewards program and a new mobile app. Mici’s has locations in Denver, Highlands Ranch and Lafayette.
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To Whom It May Concern: On 11/28/2018 3:39:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.
To Whom It May Concern: On 11/14/2018 8:15:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.
To Whom It May Concern: On 11/14/2018 10:56:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.
Original Grantor: THU TRAM LAM Original Beneficiary: OPTION ONE MORTGAGE CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR SOUNDVIEW HOME LOAN TRUST 2007-OPT3, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-OPT3 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 5/25/2007 Recording Date of DOT: 6/13/2007 Reception No. of DOT: 2007047206 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $531,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $550,437.94
Original Grantor: CHRISTOPHER GRADFORD Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN BROKERS CONDUIT, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-22 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 10/3/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 10/26/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005103304 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $795,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $720,921.38
Original Grantor: PETER J MCKENNA Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR NMC MORTGAGE CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/8/2007 Recording Date of DOT: 7/16/2007 Reception No. of DOT: 2007056223 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $376,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $400,570.84
Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower's failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.
Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 350 HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 122-X, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, SATTE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 10950 Glengate Cir, Highlands Ranch, CO 80130-6976 NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.
First Publication: 1/24/2019 Last Publication: 2/21/2019 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 11/30/2018 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee
The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JOSEPH D. DEGIORGIO Colorado Registration #: 45557 1199 BANNOCK STREET, DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 350-3711 Fax #: Attorney File #: 00000007978844
*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website : http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2018-0273 First Publication: 1/24/2019 Last Publication: 2/21/2019 Publisher: Douglas County News Press
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 78, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 54-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 78 Falcon Hills Drive, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 6, 2019, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended. First Publication: 1/10/2019 Last Publication: 2/7/2019 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 11/15/2018 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ALISON L. BERRY Colorado Registration #: 34531 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 18-019791 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website : http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2018-0256 First Publication: 1/10/2019 Last Publication: 2/7/2019 Publisher: Douglas County News Press
Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: A default in payment required by the Deed of Trust.
The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 57, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 122-E, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 3751 East Charterwood Circle, Littleton, CO 80126 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 6, 2019, at the Public Trustee's office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended. First Publication: 1/10/2019 Last Publication: 2/7/2019 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 11/15/2018 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: KAREN J RADAKOVICH Colorado Registration #: 11649 4750 TABLE MESA DRIVE, BOULDER, COLORADO 80305-5575 Phone #: (303) 494-3000 Fax #: Attorney File #: 7192-12570 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2018-0257 First Publication: 1/10/2019 Last Publication: 2/7/2019 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2018-0259 To Whom It May Concern: On 11/14/2018
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NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2018-0259 To Whom It May Concern: On 11/14/2018 2:37:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: LYLE W. CHALUPSKY and JILL D. CHALUPSKY Original Beneficiary: HOMECOMINGS FINANCIAL NETWORK, INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: REAL TIME RESOLUTIONS, INC. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 12/1/2000 Recording Date of DOT: 12/5/2000 Reception No. of DOT: 00087618 Book 1930 Page 1699 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $100,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $91,394.24 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Violations including, but not limited to, failure to make full payment of all principal, interest and other charges at the maturity date as required by the Deed of Trust. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 19, BLOCK 3, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 8665 South Meadowlark Circle, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 6, 2019, at the Public Trustee's office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended. First Publication: 1/10/2019 Last Publication: 2/7/2019 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 11/15/2018 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ALISON L. BERRY Colorado Registration #: 34531 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 17-014039 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website : http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2018-0259 First Publication: 1/10/2019 Last Publication: 2/7/2019 Publisher: Douglas County News Press
Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2018-0266
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To Whom It May Concern: On 11/15/2018 4:23:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: NADINE M. HOSMER and RYAN M. HOSMER Original Beneficiary: COMPASS BANK Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: COMPASS BANK Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/31/2014 Recording Date of DOT: 4/2/2014 Reception No. of DOT: 2014015876 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $277,400.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $211,651.51
Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower's failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 25, BLOCK 2, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 71-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 7051 Palisade Drive, Highlands Ranch, CO 80130 NOTICE OF SALE
The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 6, 2019, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended. First Publication: 1/10/2019 Last Publication: 2/7/2019 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 11/21/2018 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee
The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ALISON L. BERRY Colorado Registration #: 34531 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 18-019833
*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2018-0266 First Publication: 1/10/2019 Last Publication: 2/7/2019 Publisher: Douglas County News Press
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Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2018-0266
Separate sealed bids for 2019 CONCRETE PAVEMENT REPAIR PROJECT, DOUGLAS COUNTY PROJECT NUMBER CI 2019-004 will be received by the Owner, Douglas County Government, Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104, until Tues-
To Whom It May Concern: On 11/15/2018 4:23:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relat-
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January 31, 2019Public Notice PUBLIC INVITATION TO BID
Separate sealed bids for 2019 CONCRETE PAVEMENT REPAIR PROJECT, DOUGLAS COUNTY PROJECT NUMBER CI 2019-004 will be received by the Owner, Douglas County Government, Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104, until Tuesday, February 19, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. This project consists of the removal and replacement of concrete pavement and curb and gutter at various locations throughout Douglas County. Bid items include hot mix asphalt for patching, unclassified excavation and aggregate base course.
Bids and Settlements
The Contract Documents will be available after 10:00 a.m. on Monday, January 28, 2019, through Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System Website (www.rockymountainbidsystem.com) or they may be obtained at the above address. Electronic versions of the Plans obtained by any other means than as described above may not be complete or accurate, and it is the Bidder’s responsibility to obtain a complete set of the Project Plans and Specifications. Douglas County will not be held responsible for misinformation received from private plan rooms. A PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, at the Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104. All questions are due to Daniel Roberts, P.E. Project Engineer by 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 12, 2019. The Bid Opening will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 19, 2019, at the same address. The Project includes the following major items and approximate quantities: • 7,500 square yards of concrete pavement • 10,000 linear feet of curb and gutter Prior to submitting a Bid Proposal, Bidders shall have received prequalification status (active status) with the Colorado Department of Transportation to bid on individual projects of the size and kind of work as set forth herein. Any questions on the bidding process shall be directed to Daniel Roberts, P.E., Project Engineer at 303.660.7490.
Any questions on the bidding process shall be directed to Daniel Roberts, P.E., Project Engineer at 303.660.7490.
The Project includes the following major items and approximate quantities:
Plan holder information, can be found on the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System Website.
• 559 square yards Concrete Pavement • 3 Variable Message signs • 488 linear feet Guardrail • 3,075 linear feet Fiber Optic Cable
Legal Notice No.: 934690 First Publication: January 24, 2019 Second Publication: January 31, 2019 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Account Number: 00012184
Prior to submitting a Bid Proposal, Bidders shall have received prequalification status (active status) with the Colorado Department of Transportation to bid on individual projects of the size and kind of work as set forth herein.
Bids and Settlements
Public Notice PUBLIC INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed bids for the VARIABLE MESSAGE SIGNS INSTALLATION PROJECT, Douglas County Project Number TF 2009-023 will be received by the Owner, Douglas County Government, Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104, until Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. This project consists of installing three variable message signs and structures, associated ITS equipment, and one concrete maintenance pad with guardrail in northern Douglas County. The Contract Documents will be available after 10:00 a.m. on Monday, February 4, 2019, through Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System Website (www.rockymountainbidsystem.com) or they may be obtained at the above address. Electronic versions of the Plans obtained by any other means than as described above may not be complete or accurate, and it is the Bidder’s responsibility to obtain a complete set of the Project Plans and Specifications. Douglas County will not be held responsible for misinformation received from private plan rooms. A PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 13, 2019, at the Department of Public Works Engineering, Traffic Shops, 3080 N. Industrial Way, Castle Rock, CO 80104. All questions are due to Duane Cleere, P.E., PTOE, Project Manager by 12:00PM on Tuesday, February 19, 2019. The Bid Opening will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 26, 2019, at the Phillip S. Miller building, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, CO 80104. The Project includes the following major items and approximate quantities:
Plan holder information, can be found on the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System Website.
• 559 square yards Concrete Pavement • 3 Variable Message signs • 488 linear feet Guardrail • 3,075 linear feet Fiber Optic Cable
Legal Notice No.: 934690 First Publication: January 24, 2019 Second Publication: January 31, 2019 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Account Number: 00012184
Prior to submitting a Bid Proposal, Bidders shall have received prequalification status (active status) with the Colorado Department of Transportation to bid on individual projects of the size and kind of work as set forth herein.
Bids and Settlements
Any questions on the bidding process shall be directed to Duane Cleere, P.E., PTOE, Project Manager at 303.660.7490. Plan holder information, can be found on the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System Website. Legal Notice No.: 934722 First Publication: January 31, 2019 Second Publication: February 7, 2019 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Account Number: 00012184 Public Notice REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) #005-19 BROKER SERVICES – PROPERTY, CASUALTY & RISK MANAGEMENT Douglas County Risk Management is seeking qualifications from insurance brokerage firms. Services provided will include, but not be limited to, marketing liability, workers compensation and property lines of coverage. Additional service qualifications to be evaluated will be claims and loss control services and support. Firms may propose optional risk management services for the County’s consideration. The RFQ documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. The RFQ documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the abovementioned website. RFQ responses shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “RFQ #005-19, Broker Services” prior to the due date and time. Electronic and/or faxed responses will not be accepted. RFQ responses will be received until 3:00 p.m., on Friday, February 15, 2019 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Responses will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any responses so received will be returned unopened. Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all responses, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said response and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items and/or services with the successful firms.
Public Notices Any questions on the bidding process shall be directed to Duane Cleere, P.E., PTOE, Project Manager at 303.660.7490.
Plan holder information, can be found on the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System Website. Legal Notice No.: 934722 First Publication: January 31, 2019 Second Publication: February 7, 2019 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Account Number: 00012184
Please direct any questions concerning this RFQ to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor at 303-660-7434 or criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.
Public Notices are a way for government agencies to get information to the public. State law requires that these notices be printed in a “Legal Newspaper” allowing the public to be informed.
Services” prior to the due date and time. Electronic and/or faxed responses will not be accepted. RFQ responses will be received until 3:00 p.m., on Friday, February 15, 2019 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Responses will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any responses so received will be returned unopened.
Bids and Settlements
Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all responses, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said response and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items and/or services with the successful firms. Please direct any questions concerning this RFQ to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor at 303-660-7434 or criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Legal Notice No.: 934729 First Publication: January 31, 2019 Last Publication: January 31, 2019 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press
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OL D HURTT AKA CAROL DARLENE HURTT SCOTT A FOUNTAIN AKA SCOTT FOUNTAIN - RICHARD R DIECKMANN - FCM CUST FOR FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13 LLC BLUE SPRUCE SERVICING COMPANY LLC LAWRENCE MATTHEW WOOD - GAIL A FOUNTAIN & LAWRENCE M WOOD AS COPERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET T WOOD - GAIL A FOUNTAIN - LAWRENCE M WOOD - SCOTT FOUNTAIN - SHARON L SANBORN - BARRY D WOOD - CHERYL J PETERSEN - GAIL A FOUNTAIN CO-PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET T WOOD DECEASED - LAWRENCE M WOOD, CO-PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET T WOOD DECEASED - GORDON S FOUNTAIN - BARRY D WOOD AKA BARRY D WOOD V - STEVE R PETERSEN - GAIL ANN FOUNTAIN AKA GAIL A FOUNTAIN AKA GAIL FOUNTAIN - STEVE AND CHERYL PETERSEN - STEVE AND CHERYL PETERSEN AKA STEVE R AND CHERYL J PETERSEN
Misc. Private Legals
You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 12th day of November 2013 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to RICHARD R DIECKMANN the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit:
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Misc. Private Legals Public Notice NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to: OCCUPANT - GAIL A FOUNTAIN & LAWRENCE M WOOD & SCOTT A FOUNTAIN & CAROL D HURTT - LAWRENCE M WOOD AKA LAWRENCE MATTHEW WOOD - GAIL A FOUNTAIN AKA GAIL ANN FOUNTAIN - CAROL D HURTT AKA CAROL DARLENE HURTT SCOTT A FOUNTAIN AKA SCOTT FOUNTAIN - RICHARD R DIECKMANN - FCM CUST FOR FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13 LLC BLUE SPRUCE SERVICING COMPANY LLC LAWRENCE MATTHEW WOOD - GAIL A FOUNTAIN & LAWRENCE M WOOD AS COPERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET T WOOD - GAIL A FOUNTAIN - LAWRENCE M WOOD - SCOTT FOUNTAIN - SHARON L SANBORN - BARRY D WOOD - CHERYL J PETERSEN - GAIL A FOUNTAIN CO-PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET T WOOD DECEASED - LAWRENCE M WOOD, CO-PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET T WOOD DECEASED - GORDON S FOUNTAIN - BARRY D WOOD AKA BARRY D WOOD V - STEVE R PETERSEN - GAIL ANN FOUNTAIN AKA GAIL A FOUNTAIN AKA GAIL FOUNTAIN - STEVE AND CHERYL PETERSEN - STEVE AND CHERYL PETERSEN AKA STEVE R AND CHERYL J PETERSEN
and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to RICHARD R DIECKMANN. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2012. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of GAIL A FOUNTAIN & LAWRENCE M WOOD & SCOTT A FOUNTAIN & CAROL D HURTT for said year 2012
That said RICHARD R DIECKMANN on the 25th day of October 2018 the present holder of said certificate, has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 16th day of May 2019 unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 31st day of January 2019 /s/ David Gill County Treasurer of Douglas County Legal Notice No.: 934727 First Publication: January 31, 2019 Last Publication: February 14, 2019 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press
Categories Categories of of Public Public Notices Notices You and each of you are hereby notified that on
the 12th day of November 2013 the then County In these legal pages you Treasurer of thewill Countyfind: of Douglas, in the State
Legal Notice No.: 934729 First Publication: January 31, 2019 Last Publication: January 31, 2019 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press
of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to RICHARD R DIECKMANN the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit:
Public Trustee Notices: These notices include foreclosure properties and public
trustee sales.
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and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of
purchase therefore RICHARD R DIECKName Changes: These notices runtofor three weeks when someone wants of MANN. That said tax lien sale was made to sat-
isfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said legally change their name. real estate for the year 2012. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the
Your right to know about governmental changes and decisions are embodied in these notices. This newspaper urges each citizen to read these public notices.
name(s) of GAIL A FOUNTAIN & LAWRENCE Notice to Creditors: These notices are required to clear the estate of a deceased M WOOD & SCOTT A FOUNTAIN & CAROL D HURTT for said year 2012
person.
That said RICHARD R DIECKMANN on the 25th day of October 2018 the present holder of said certificate, has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 16th day of May 2019 unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 31st day of January 2019
Private Legals: These legals include divorces, adoptions, property being sold by the Sheriff ’s office and sales by storage companies of abandoned property.
Government Legals: These legals include new or changed ordinances by the city or county; public hearings; requests for contracter bids on public buildings or land; Gill settlement payments /s/ forDavid work performed those properties; salaries of government County Treasurer of Douglas County employees; and payments made by governmental agencies; budgets and elections. Legal Notice No.: 934727 First Publication: January 31, 2019 Last Publication: February 14, 2019 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press
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