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Family story is face-off of fear and faith

his is the girls’ story.

That’s what doctors told Kendal and Tyler Conley as they worried and prayed and waited for their twin babies, fighting a rare medical condition, to be born.

This is a story, too, about the marvels of medicine: That’s what Kendal and Tyler will tell you saved their babies.

But more than anything, this is a story about family. And love. And faith that a happy ending would be written.

••••• Ann Macari Meet the Conleys: Kendal is 33, an acHealey count manager for a wine and liquor distributor. Tyler, 38, in software sales, works from home.

They live in Golden and have a 2-yearold son, Beckham, whom they call “little man.”

Beckham now also has two little sisters, whose story began June 25, when Kendal’s home pregnancy test unequivocally read “PREGNANT.” Eight weeks later, the ultrasound technician began laughing. “Do you have twins in the family?” she asked Kendal and Tyler.

“Nooo....,” Kendal said. And then, “Oh, my gosh.”

“Yes,” the technician said, “there’s two in there.”

Tyler and Kendal Conley spend time with their twin babies in the neonatal intensive care unit of the Colorado Fetal Care Center at Children’s Hospital Colorado. The babies, born nine weeks premature, are six weeks old in these photos. They experienced the serious and rare Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome while they were in the uterus, which can be deadly if not treated.

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Kendal and Tyler were ecstatic.

Beckham ran around the doctor’s office in circles.

But a hint of concern shadowed the happiness when the ultrasound also showed the fetuses, who were identi-

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cal twins each in their own amniotic sacs — bags of fluid in which the fetuses grow and develop —were sharing one placenta. That meant a higher risk for the rare and serious Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, or TTTS, which in simple terms means babies share blood vessels that lead to one baby receiving extra blood flow and the other baby getting too little.

Untreated, one or both of the babies die 80 to 100 percent of the time.

But with treatment, the outcome is drastically different: One or both of the fetuses survive in 96.5 percent of pregnancies; both survive in 83 percent of pregnancies, a recent review of cases at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora shows. Most cases, however, have one or more complicating factors that can reduce survival rates.

At 12 weeks, the couple began consulting with specialists from Children’s Colorado Fetal Care Center.

“We know that when they share a placenta . . . almost all the time you’re going to see interconnecting vessels, but about 15 percent of the time, that will cause problems,” said Dr. Nicholas Behrendt, one of the maternal fetal medicine specialists working with the Conleys. “We watch these babies very closely.”

From then on, doctors ordered ultrasounds every three days to monitor any changes in the amount of fluid in the amniotic sacs and make sure kidneys, bladders and hearts were working properly. If TTTS were to kick in, the kidneys of the baby receiving too much blood flow would essentially work overtime, filling up the sac with the extra urine being excreted. The bladder would be larger; the heart would beat faster to help the kidneys work harder.

Anxiety began to consume Kendal.

A pit of worry settled in her stomach.

She didn’t want to name the girls: “I was scared to get attached.”

WHAT IS TWIN-TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME?

Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, or TTTS, is a rare and serious medical condition that occurs in about 15 percent of identical twin pregnancies in which the fetuses share a placenta and the blood supply becomes connected through shared blood vessels.

One baby, called the recipient, receives too much blood supply and the other baby, called the donor, receives too little.

“We watch these babies very closely, every two weeks at least, starting at 16 weeks to the end of pregnancy,” said Dr. Nicholas Behrendt, 37, a maternal fetal specialist and fetal surgeon at the Colorado Fetal Care Center at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

“If the imbalance occurs, both babies can become very sick from the disease,” he said. “If the disease progresses, then severe complications such as heart failure or death can occur.”

Left untreated, one or both babies die in 80 to 100 percent of pregnancies, statistics show. The number of deaths from TTTS exceeds those from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). But when treated, and without complicating factors, the center expects 96.5 percent for survival of one or both fetuses and 83 percent for survival of both babies, according to a recent review of cases at Children’s. But 90 percent of TTTS cases have at least one or more complications that can reduce survival rates.

Before ultrasounds, the condition was diagnosed only after the babies’ deaths, Behrendt said. The laser surgery to separate the blood vessels has been used since the 1980s. But he said survival rates have drastically improved over the past decade because doctors are better at the technically challenging procedure that requires a team of doctors and support staff to perform.

“It’s a satisfying feeling . . . to be able to take care of these patients,” Behrendt said.

The Colorado Fetal Care Center, which opened in 2010, performs between 100 and 130 TTTS laser procedures a year involving families from throughout the country.

“I get a lot of satisfaction out of being able to educate the families about what is going on with their pregnancy,” Behrendt said. “At the end of the day, it’s great to feel that we give as many families a shot in a pretty dire situation.”

— Ann Macari Healey Tyler, unsure the babies would survive, didn’t tell anyone, except for family and close friends, that Kendal was pregnant.

“Every time we went, we worried,” Tyler said. “How are their bladders?

Are there heartbeats? We were waiting for the bad, bad news.”

Between 13 and 17 weeks, the ultrasounds showed some discrepancy in fluid between the babies, but it would self-correct, and the worry would ease.

At 21 weeks, however, Kendal’s stomach became so swollen and taut she felt like a huge balloon. The ultrasound showed one baby floating in a pool of fluid. The other looked shrinkwrapped. Doctors said the condition had progressed so fast the only option was laser surgery to separate the blood vessels.

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What If Sellers and Their Agents Fail to Disclose Known Defects to Their Listings?

Last week I got a call from a reader who sold a house with structural defects last year, defects he had properly disclosed. He was concerned because he thought the current seller might not be disclosing those same defects to prospective buyers. He feared that the seller had simply covered up the defects when he finished the basement, hiding them from unsuspecting buyers.

What safeguards are in place to protect buyers from being sold a home with undisclosed defects? The primary safeguard, of course, is basic honesty - that most sellers and agents are forthcoming, as I’ve found, when it comes to disclosing defects. Another is that the listing agent could lose his real estate license if it can be proved that he or she conspired in failing to disclose a major defect. Unfortunately, should you purchase a property directly from a seller who is not himself a licensed agent, you don’t have that same protection.

A buyer’s recourse against an unlicensed seller for failing to disclose a defect is civil in nature. The buyer would have to sue the seller and rely on a judge or jury to decide in his favor and rule that the seller must provide compensation for their deceit. Even if successful, though, the buyer still has to deal with the defect, which can be a hassle. And what if they’re not successful? Well, along with having to fund the repair of the defect themselves, they’re out whatever time and money it

took to work their way through the court system. On the other hand, it costs virtually nothing for that buyer to seek damages from a licensed agent: just go to the Colorado Real Estate Division’s website and fill out an online complaint.

My personal experience is that both sellers and their agents have been forthcoming in disclosing known property defects using the very detailed Sellers Property Disclosure form provided by the Colorado Real Estate Commission.

This January, a simplified version of the disclosure was issued, and some agents, including myself, are not entirely pleased with it.

Prior to January 1st, the Sellers Property Disclosure asked sellers to answer “Yes,” “No,” “Do Not Know” or “N/A” to each item, as shown on the disclosure at right from one of my own transactions.

The Sellers Property Disclosure that all listing agents were required to begin using on January 1, 2018 asks only whether there is (or was) a problem, but doesn’t provide an opportunity for the seller to affirm that there is no problem. At right is the same section of the new disclosure from one of my 2018 listings..

What was nice about the previous version was that it required an answer to every item, even if that answer was “do not know” or “not applicable.” I’m not a lawyer, but it seems to me that if there were to be a civil trial over a failure to disclose a known defect, it would be more convincing to show that the seller answered incorrectly rather than simply remained silent

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on the issue at hand.

One reason agents are unhappy with the new form is that there will often be entire pages of the form with no checkmarks at all, raising the question of whether the seller even completed the form. (The above excerpt is from an actual completed disclosure form, with nothing checked.)

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Colorado Mills continues work as anniversary of storm nears About 155 businesses have opened in the mall

BY CLARKE READER CREADER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It’s been almost a year since the hail storm that closed the Colorado Mills mall for six months and Brenda Cleary, director of marketing and business development at the mall, still isn’t entirely sure how to refer to the storm and its aftermath.

“Do I call it the event? The storm?” she wondered, as she walked through the mall, which reopened on Nov. 21. “Whatever it was, it’s been a journey getting back to here.”

In a little over a month, it will have been a year since the May 8 hailstorm ripped open roofs and flooded stores, leaving millions of dollars in damages and lost livelihoods in its wake and siphoning nearly $3 million in sales tax revenue from Lakewood city coffers.

About 100 of the mall’s, 14500 W. Colfax Ave., 160 stores opened to customers during Thanksgiving week, and in the months since its reopening, there’s been a steady stream of reopenings, particularly in the first six weeks following Thanksgiving, Cleary said.

“Some businesses, like Bath and Body and Body Works and Victoria’s Secret, set up temporary locations to do business out of while their permanent locations are being finished,” Cleary explained. “We still have businesses opening and will for a while. We’re hoping to be closer to 100 percent reopened by the fall.”

More than 155 retailers and eateries are now open in the mall, with new businesses like restaurant Los Chingones filling in some of the spaces left by businesses that decided not to return. A full mall would have occupancy closer to 200 retailers and restaurants.

“We are so grateful to our tenants for working with us through this process. I hear a lot of optimism from them,” Cleary said. “Retailers are of course eager to return to our pre-storm occupancy, which we expect to achieve in the coming months.”

Not all retailers are happy about the missing businesses. The owner of the Dairy Queen and Orange Julius located in the mall is suing

The closure of the Colorado Mills Mall gave owner Simon Property Group an opportunity to update the decor style, with the aim of creating something more light and refreshing, according to Brenda Cleary, director of marketing and business development at the mall. C LARKE READER

A shopper pays for her purchase at the Colorado Mills Maurices location.

Maurices was one of the stores that reopened Nov. 21, in time for the holiday season. “We’re super excited about the new changes and the future here,” said Roxanne Maine, manager of the store.

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Simon Property Group, the company that owns the mall, in Jefferson County District Court for breach of contract, unjust enrichment, and constructive eviction.

The complaint, filed by attorney Milnor Senior, states the Dairy Queen owner shouldn’t have to pay for resources that went unused —

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like electricity and trash — while the mall was closed. The owner also wants to get out their lease.

Senior did not respond to request for comment, and a representative from Simon said the company has no comment on pending litigation.

But others like Roxanne Maine, manager at Maurices women’s clothing store, is excited about the mall be reopened, and the future of business at the mall.

“We were able to reopen in November with a lot of other retailers, and that really helped,” Maine said. “We hear from so many customers in person and on the phone that they’re so excited we’re back.”

Individual businesses and the mall as a whole have been using advertising and social media posts to bring attention to the fact the mall is reopen and more tenants are continuing to open.

“Foot traffic is good, and we see lots of returning and new shoppers with bags in-hand, which is always a good sign,” Cleary said. “We expect a higher volume as the year progresses and more retailers open.”

While there are a lot of steps being taken to get the mall back to prestorm status, work is still ongoing.

Simon recently installed all-new food court furniture, and Cleary anticipates completing the installation of 117,000 square feet of new floors

by mid-April.

And one of the first things construction workers tackled was the roof, with an eye on using the best technology to prevent this kind of situation again. The storm battered and breached the roof and shattered skylights. Rain poured into the mall, causing considerable water damage to common areas, retailers and their stocks.

“No one could have predicted the hailstorm and subsequent rain and snow that befell the center in May 2017,” Cleary said. “The new roof is the size of 21 NFL football fields and it incorporates state-of-the-art materials and new technologies that are designed to withstand the weather.”

In the long months since the storm, there have been a lot of lessons learned by everyone who works at the mall. One of the biggest lessons learned was the importance of communication.

“As the storm was hitting, the importance of communication was highlighted to the fullest level. While we plan and prepare for serious events all year round, our teams and tenants were faced with making the best safety, personal, and business decision they could in an extremely short timeframe” Cleary said. “It was inspiring to experience how supportive our shoppers and community were throughout the closure, and just how eager they were to have their mall open again.”

A representative from Simon said it could not release a cost for reconstruction because the process is still ongoing, but estimates it will be in the “multi-millions.”

The mall closure has cost the city about $300,000 to $350,000 a month in tax revenue, said Larry Dorr, Lakewood’s finance director. During Lakewood’s budget process in September and October, Dorr spoke about the closure’s effect on the city’s finances.

Taxes from mall sales contributed about 6 percent of Lakewood’s general fund in 2016, which pays for everything from police to community resources, Dorr said. In 2016 the mall generated about $7.12 million in sales taxes to the general fund.

“Right now, it feels premature to think of this as a past event. It’s still happening,” Dorr said. “We’ll have to wait until the holiday season to get a better sense of what the status of the mall really looks like.”

An exterior entrance to Colorado Mills, taken shortly after its November 2017 reopening.

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Elementary and middle school students can get their hands on science at the third annual Science Sunday event April 8 at Regis University.

The free event lasts from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Pomponio Science Building at the university’s Northwest Denver campus, 3333 Regis Blvd.

The United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense, becomes the science fair’s first industry partner. Its Women in Launch team will bring virtual reality headsets for visitors to try.

The many science stations are

planned to engage children in neuroscience, biology, astronomy, math and physics. For example, kids will learn about the planets while making solar-system bracelets and use math skills while designing their own hexaflexagons (folding paper strips in myriad ways to reveal different fronts and backs).

Children may earn a goody bag after visiting 14 activity stations, while supplies last. Weather permitting, telescopes will be placed on the campus’ Boettcher Commons for observing the daytime skies.

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Puma’s Corner BUFFALO ROSE UPDATE

Well, it’s time for the next installment of “Puma’s Corner.” As mentioned in last month’s issue, I am focusing on the big renovation at Buffalo Rose.

On March 9th, Chris Cone, CEO of Buffalo Rose, guided me on a tour of the buildings. Yes, that’s right, buildings – plural. Believe it or not, there are three buildings that make up Buffalo Rose, and they represent three different centuries. The oldest one is the one on the corner where a barber shop, and later, the State 38 Saloon, once stood. That corner building was built in the 1850’s. The Buffalo Rose Saloon was built in 1902, and the Buffalo Rose Venue building was built in 1922. The outdoor biker lounge was added in the 21st century.

Chris made a point that his goal in the renovation is to “Reveal and Preserve” the original buildings. One of the things that I saw, which I thought was impressive, was the preservation of some of the original wooden doors and brick work, which was revealed during the project. Chris will be preserving this, and it will be part of the historical charm of the new Venue building.

The old bar that was in the lower level Venue is being moved to a new upstairs lounge, where patrons will overlook the activity on Washington Street. There will be comfy couches, with the intention of creating a warm and inviting place to chat while having a drink. Patrons can walk back and forth into the main Venue area overlooking the event/concert from above.

If you followed the renovation earlier, then you know that a huge commercial kitchen is being added. It will be a state of the art, commercial kitchen, approximately 1,300 square feet. Surely this kitchen will be a huge benefit, resulting in quicker serving times.

The intended capacity of the Venue will be about 600 people. Chris said the whole Venue building will have a 1930’s feel to it. Should be awesome! I am really looking forward to frequenting the new Buffalo Rose, and I know you will too! The Grand Opening is still targeted for the Fall of this year. Chris will know a more specific date sometime in May or June.

Until next month-

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Engineering

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The South Metro High School Chapter of the Girls in STEM club enjoys a private tour of the Colorado School of Mines’ chemical engineering lab. The club was founded in 2014 and exists to inspire middle and high school-aged girls to visualize and empower them to pursue STEM careers. Learn more at www.gstemdenver.org.

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Numbers of women in STEM fields growing, but equality elusive

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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endy Weiman’s high school counselors suggested social work as a good career for her.

But even as a child, Weiman knew she wanted to become an engineer. And as she got older, her curiosity for how things work only grew.

“I just liked it,” Weiman, 49, said.

“I had a desire to learn math and science — specifically civil engineering. You get to design and see things happen. You get to be a part of it all.”

Weiman has done just that: She’s the project engineer for North Table Mountain Water and Sanitation District, overseeing the district’s projects and new development.

But the path to get there — in fields long dominated by men — wasn’t always easy.

“When you’re the only woman, sometimes it’s difficult,” Weiman said. “But as more women enter STEM careers, I anticipate that a lot of the prejudices will go away.”

Fighting culture, gender bias The number of women in the engineering field has grown since Weiman graduated with a civil engineering degree from Colo-

rado School of Mines in 1996, but women remain drastically underrepresented in science and engineering careers.

According to a 2017 report from the U.S. Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration, women in 2015 filled 47 percent of all U.S. jobs but only 24 percent of STEM — or science, technology, engineering and math — jobs.

Studies point to cultural and gender stereotypes and biases that eventually discourage interested girls from pursuing those careers and social and environmental prejudices that can make the workplace difficult for success.

“Not only are people more likely to associate math and science with men than with women, people often hold negative opinions of women in ‘masculine’ positions, like scientists or engineers,” a 2010 report by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) concluded. “When a woman is clearly competent in a ‘masculine’ job, she is considered less likable.

Because both likability and competence are needed for success in the workplace, women in STEM fields can find themselves in a double bind.”

But a growing awareness around the importance of supporting

Wendy Weiman, the project engineer for North Table Mountain Water and Sanitation District, checks the water clarity at the organization’s water treatment plant near Highway 93 and West 64th Parkway in Golden. CHRISTY STEADMAN and encouraging STEM interests among young girls, along with universities’ commitment to providing support systems and changing cultural environments are beginning to make a difference, academics and professionals say.

“We believe that teams having diverse perspectives and complementary skill sets generate the best solutions and innovations,” said Mines President Paul Johnson, who is driving an effort to increase

female enrollment from its current 29 percent to 40 percent by 2024, the school’s 150th anniversary. “Thus, we should have a STEM workforce that more closely mirrors our general population. This means we need to roughly double the number of women pursuing STEM careers.”

Many of the women entering the field say they are determined to make that happen.

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“Don’t be afraid of the reputation that there are no women in STEM because there are,” said Miranda Schiffbauer, a 2017 Arvada West graduate pursuing a degree in civil engineering at Mines, a world-renowned teaching and research university in the engineering and applied science fields that offers expertise in the development and stewardship of the Earth’s natural resources. “And it’s growing.”

Her fellow Arvada West graduate Leigh Robinson, studying chemical and biological engineering at Mines, agrees.

“If I can be somebody who is a strong leader in perhaps an area that is known to be male-dominated,” she said, “I’ll feel that that is a great accomplishment.”

Situations can be challenging According to the 2010 report by the American Association of University Women, girls and boys take math and science courses in roughly equal numbers in elementary, middle and high school, and graduate equally prepared to pursue science and engineering majors in college.

However, the report states that fewer women than men pursue those careers and only 20 percent of college graduates who earn a bachelor’s degree in physics, engineering and computer science are women. Their representation continues to decline at the graduate level and again in the transition to the workplace.

Percentages of women studying in STEM fields at several area universities vary, but overall indicate a higher number of women enrolling and graduating in those areas.

Of the 1,034 bachelor’s degrees in 13 different engineering disciplines that Mines awarded in the 2017 graduation fiscal year — which includes summer and fall 2016 and spring 2017 — nearly 27 percent of them were earned by women. At the University of Denver, 296 degrees in engineering, computer science, natural sciences and math-

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ematics were awarded in the 2017 graduation fiscal year, and slightly more than 52 percent of them went to women.

Graduation data show the number of female graduates has increased almost every year since 2014, and enrollment figures at several universities show more women are enrolling in STEM fields.

About 27 percent of Metropolitan State University of Denver’s 19,500 students are pursuing a STEM degree — 40 percent of those are female.

At University of Colorado-Boulder, 38 percent of students in first-year engineering classes are women.

These numbers suggest that more women pursue STEM degrees in Colorado in comparison to the rest of the nation. This could be because the state has a multitude of K-12 STEM school choices and excellent colleges and universities that offer science and technology degrees, said Ana Cross, who leads Lockheed Martin’s Crew Module Engineering Integration Team on Orion and is a director for civil programs at Stellar Solutions.

In addition, the state has a number of career choices that offer good pay for doing work in exciting areas, such as space exploration, Cross added. For example, she said, Jefferson County is ranked second in the nation for the private aerospace employment.

Young female students need “to know that working in a STEM field is an option for them,” Cross said.

Whether it be STEM or non-STEM, it’s important that society shows women that they can pursue and accomplish whatever they want, said Meagen Puryer, 24, a grad student at the University of Denver focusing on mechanical engineering with a concentration in fluids.

Puryer will be the first in her immediate family to earn a college degree.

“We don’t have to perform one way to fit into society,” she said. “There’s no reason it shouldn’t be equal in the workforce.”

Still, the stereotypes exist, showing up in sometimes small ways.

Puryer recalled a comment from a male student who sat next to her on her first day of college. Although

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he didn’t object to her presence, he did express surprise to see a woman studying mechanical engineering.

Since then, Puryer has twice been the only female in her classes. But none of her professors or fellow students has treated her any differently, she said.

Christine Reilly, 21, who is pursuing a master’s in aerospace engineering from the University of ColoradoBoulder, said people have told her certain opportunities were given to her because she’s a woman, rather than because of her qualifications.

Others expect her to be the note-taker on a project rather than doing a more hands-on job.

“It’s not that they intend to do it,” said Reilly, one of about 20 women of the 130 or 140 students in her senior project class. But they are surprised that a woman is pursuing a degree field primarily dominated by men.

Reilly also said she has been fortunate to have professors and mentors of both genders who are passionate about their students’ success.

“The amount of passion they bring really convinces me that we (women) belong here,” Reilly said.

Kylie Auerbach, 13, of Littleton, who says STEM subjects are a good fit for her, is counting on women such as Reilly and Puryer to lead the way.

“My parents always talked to me about the importance of STEM for the future,” Auerbach said. “Especially because they noticed I was interested in math and science more than any other subject.”

Auerbach’s best guess is that most of her classes at th e STEM School in Highlands Ranch consist of about 60 percent boys.

“But,” she said, “the girls tend to push themselves more and gravitate toward the more accelerated courses.”

Simi Basu, a middle school computer science teacher and cyber security coach for kindergarten through 12th grade at the STEM School, notes how important it is to encourage girls’ interests in science and technology areas.

“Girls really do want to make a difference, and we need to give them a hand to show them how relevant and how fun STEM can be,” Basu said. “Both girls and boys can explore curiosity and make a change in the world.”

Basu came to the U.S. from India after earning a master’s in information technology and an MBA in business administration. For about 14 years, she worked in the corporate computer science field for IBM. SEE STEM, P9

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Presenting a unified front Although gains still must be made to even the gender balance in STEM fields, the U.S. is at least open to women holding leadership roles in those careers as compared to some other countries.

That’s what Nikki van den Heever found.

She will graduate from the University of Colorado-Boulder this December with a master’s in civil systems engineering with a focus on engineering in developing communities.

Van den Heever runs CU-Boulder’s Engineers Without Borders, and in the summer of 2015, she was the project manager for a project in

Rwanda that implemented rainwater catchment systems.

The CU-Boulder team consisted of van den Heever and three men.

But in Rwanda, they worked with an additional eight or nine men on the project.

“I was making the calls and decisions, but I felt some resistance (from the Rwandan team) because of the cultural differences,” van den Heever said.

So she and the rest of her team discussed the issue and discovered the best way to resolve it was to demonstrate a unified approach to van den Heever’s lead.

Nikki van den Heever, center, plays with a group of children in Rwanda in the summer of 2015, when she and a group of University of Colorado-Boulder students involved with the school’s Engineers Without Borders visited the African country to implement rainwater catchment systems.

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“I really appreciated the support of my male teammates. We presented a strong team front and built our credentials as a whole team,” van

den Heever said.

“And by the end of our time there, they (the Rwandan team) recognized my jurisdiction as a project manager.”

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A life of research

she worked in the corporate computer science field for IBM. “We need to close that misconception that only men pursue those jobs,” Basu said. “If girls are engaged and motivated, it can help close the gap in the workforce.”

Support programs and role models key Mentors and and role models of females interested in STEM at a young age must take charge to keep the girls interested in these subjects as they grow older, educators and STEM professionals say.

Especially when they begin to think about their future career aspirations.

“Getting involved with a STEM career is different than sticking with a STEM career,” said Angela Fioretti, a former graduate research assistant at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden. She is now in Switzerland doing a postdoctoral fellowship where she works with electrical contact material for solar cells.

“It’s really important for younger women to see other women in senior positions in STEM careers so that they know it’s a viable path,” said Fioretti, who earned her PhD in material science from Mines in December 2016.

Beginning in about middle school, there are STEM-related clubs, extracurricular activities and academic programs that do just that. One of them in the Denver-area is Girls in STEM. After about 20 years working as a licensed mechanical engineer, Wendy Merchant realized there were still more men than women entering STEM careers. So in 2014, she founded Girls in STEM, a local nonprofit that works to inspire middle and high school-aged girls to visualize and empower them to pursue STEM careers.

Nowadays, big companies and colleges are looking at ways to attract and retain women to even the numbers in STEM professions, said Karen Ramon, director of operations and teacher adviser for Girls in STEM. “They’re doing their part, but it needs to start earlier than college,” Ramon said. “It’s important for younger girls to know they have a voice, and that they’re not being judged for enjoying STEM subjects.

Our goal is to expose them to everything. It’s all about the exposure.”

Kim Medina, director of admissions at Mines, agrees.

Through partnerships with local schools and community groups, Mines has implemented a number of outreach programs and initiatives to get younger girls more interested and involved with STEM subjects. Special events include Girls and Science at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, which took place March 3, and Girl Scouts Engineering Day. At the University of Denver, annual Engineering Summer Camps and CodeART Workshops aim to get students excited about careers in engineering, mathematics and other science-related fields through hands-on activities.

Both camps have specific weeks that

Sydney Toler, a 2017 graduate of Golden High School, knew biochemistry was the path she wanted to pursue because of her executive high school internship in 2016 when she worked with graduate students in Mines’ chemistry lab.

“I found out that I loved doing it,” Toler said. “I loved being in the lab, and that’s how I decided what I wanted to do as a career.”

Toler wants a career where she can do research and is most likely going to pursue a master’s degree or PhD, she said.

“Even though there aren’t a lot of women in (STEM) fields, I know there can be and I know there are plenty of capable women,” Toler said. “They’re proving to us that we have a place.”

Heather McKay is the Orion launch abort system manager at Lockheed Martin. McKay, 33, has known she would pursue a career in aerospace since she was 10, when she met astronaut Bruce McCandless.

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DID YOU KNOW?

“We believe that teams having diverse perspectives and complementary skill sets generate the best solutions and innovations.”

Paul Johnson President, Colorado School of Mines

they are offered exclusively to female middle and high school students.

Another successful program is Mines’ Discover-Explore-Create Technology (DECTech). It is led by female Mines students and designed to foster an interest in STEM among young girls through creative and interactive activities.

Florence Caldwell Jones, the first female student at Colorado School of Mines, graduated with a degree in civil engineering in 1898.

DECTech was founded in 2012 by Tracy Camp, a professor and the head of Mines’ Computer Science Department, in response to studies that show girls’ interest in science and engineering starts to decline the closer they get to middle school.

But Heather McKay, 33, defied the odds: She knew she wanted to pursue a career in aerospace since middle school.

“I just thought space was cool,” said McKay of Littleton, who pursued her dreams and graduated from Mines in 2006 with a degree in mechanical engineering and earned her master’s in systems engineering from Mines in 2007. She has worked at Lockheed Martin for about 10 years.

Being inspired by a relatable role model helped maintain her interest, McKay said.

McKay’s mother, Carol Angel, was an influencer in her life, she said.

Angel was a single mom when she started at Lockheed Martin as an administrative assistant and over her 30-year career there, she worked her way up and retired as an engineer.

One day, Angel brought McKay to work with her for Lockheed Martin’s annual Young Minds at Work day, which is similar to a bring-your-childto-work day. McKay, who was 10 at the time, got to meet the late Bruce McCandless, a former astronaut who in February 1984 became known for being the first person to fly untethered in space.

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Sydney Toler

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Work and play intertwined Arvada resident Jessica Olstad plays with a big machine at work every day. It’s called a Davison Circulating Riser and, basically, it’s a small-scale version of a very large piece of equipment used for petroleum refinery.

“It’s the closest thing to playing that I can get paid for,” she said.

Olstad, 30, is an engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). She interned at NREL in 2008 and became a fulltime employee in 2009 after earning a degree in chemical and biochemical engineering from Mines.

Olstad knows of “a million smart women” in STEM careers, she said. It’s not that they are any better than men, Olstad said.

It’s that they are equal — it’s important to have diversity in the workplace.

So for any young woman who wants to pursue a STEM career, Olstad says to “ignore all the naysayers and go for it.”

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in partnership with Mines and the Society of Women Engineers, during which, on average, more than 100 high school girls attend.

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abort system manager and works with a team of about 30 people. About 10 are women.

At Lockheed Martin, McKay said, men and women have equal opportunity to contribute and succeed in the workplace.

“I get to be a part of a team that is accomplishing something that has never been done before. We’re trying to go to Mars,” she said. “We need everybody. It takes a whole team to accomplish such a big goal like exploring the universe.”

Similarly, eighth-grader Sophia Eakes’ interest in STEM started in fifth grade.

She enjoys the teamwork aspect of her STEM courses at Bell Middle School in Golden.

“I get to do stuff that I have never gotten to do in any other class,” Eakes said.

“It’s so much fun and you realize you can do so many things.”

In the sixth grade, she started to learn some basic programming skills, and last year seventh grade, she and her fellow students in an engineering class built a high-quality video game. This year, Eakes is programming robots.

And, she said, she plans on continuing her STEM education until she someday becomes a surgeon.

Eakes has been involved with Bell Middle School’s Girls in iSTEM Club for about two years. In February last year, she and her friend Maddie Rice won the Jefferson County Public Library’s Girls in STEM Competition. About 50 girls presented 18 projects at the competition, which was judged by Mines’ DECTech.

Eakes and Rice won for a bionic hand designed for the biomedical engineering field.

“I like solving problems and putting things together,” Eakes said. “I enjoy applying my knowledge to real-world problems that scientists and engineers are working on right now.”

Combating misperceptions Despite all these efforts, a change isn’t going to happen overnight, Ra-

Maddie Rice, left, and Sophia Eakes, both middle schoolers at Bell Middle School in Golden, hold up their awards and bionic hand on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2017, after winning first place in the Jefferson County Public Library’s Girls in STEM Competition.

CHRISTY STEADMAN

WHEN DID STEM BECOME A THING? A 2015 blog post by Liana Heitin Loewus in “Education Week,” a national newspaper that covers K-12 education, notes that Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) became a common educational term within the first decade of the 2000s, but that educators were starting to group the subjects before 2001. mon said, noting that Girls in STEM is still too new of a club for one to know its effectiveness.

And even though Mines is slightly above the national average for women attending the school to pursue a STEM degree, the number of females in freshman and transfer undergraduate classes has plateaued in the past 10 years, Medina said.

In 2016, about 28 percent were women, and in 2015, the number was about 31 percent, she said.

Part of the reason for the plateau at Mines may be that female students might have a misperception of what

attending Mines would be like, Medina said. She added that females may think, because their male counterparts outnumber them, they would not have many as opportunities to get involved in extracurricular clubs or activities.

But it’s actually quite the opposite, Medina said.

Aside from its four sororities, Mines hosts an active Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics office on campus and is home to the largest membership of Society of Women Engineers compared to any other campus in the nation, Medina said.

The school also strongly encourages campus visits from female high schoolers to help combat any misperceptions, she added.

“We’re trying to get them on campus to show them what it’s really like,” she said. “Sometimes, it takes seeing it to believe it.”

One example is Girls Lead the Way at the Colorado School of Mines, which took place Feb. 10 this year. The event is an annual conference focused on women in STEM careers, put on

‘Diversity makes us richer’ Despite the work still to be done, there’s no doubt progress has been made, academics and professionals say.

When Barb Goodman was attending Mines in the 1980s, it was rare for a woman to pursue and enter a STEM career. She was often the only woman in her classes.

“Back then, if you liked science or math, you’d go to school to become a teacher,” Goodman said, “rather than a researcher or engineer.” Goodman But as a single mother, she wanted a viable career with which to support her two children. She worked two jobs while in college — tutoring math and waiting tables in a restaurant. Often, she and her children did their homework together at the kitchen table. And when Goodman had academic assignments that required a computer, she would hire a babysitter so she could spend the late-night hours — sometimes until 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. — using the school’s computer lab.

“It was a lot of hard work for the four years that I was there,” Goodman remembered. “But I was passionate.”

Goodman graduated in 1984 with degrees in chemical engineering and petroleum refining engineering.

Now in her 60s, Goodman is executive director of institutional planning, integration and development at NREL, where she has spent nearly 33 years.

As technology evolves, new thoughts and skillsets will become extremely important to solve future issues and challenges, Goodman said. And more women are needed to bring new and different perspectives.

“Diversity,” she said, “makes us richer.” she said, and that “will lead us to a better and brighter future.”

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A waterpark dream

Thanks to Girl Scouts

Back in fifth grade, Alex Flanagan, who grew up in Brighton and now lives in Arvada, had an assignment to write about what career she wanted to pursue and what college she hoped to attend.

“I wanted to design a waterpark,” Flanagan, 23, said. “Obviously, a lot has happened between now and the fifth grade.”

But a lot of her dreams did come true — she graduated in May 2017 from the Colorado School of Mines with a degree in mechanical engineering and now works at Lockheed Martin as a systems engineer.

Although she is “100 percent happy working in aerospace,” Flanagan said, there still is that dream to someday build a waterpark. “It’s limitless what we can do as engineers.”

Rhianna Dains’ favorite subject in school is science, but the eighth-grader at North Arvada Middle School says that when she gets to college, she’ll have Girl Scouts to thank for making her STEM courses easier.

Girl Scouts offers 23 new badges that focus on STEM and the outdoors that provide hands-on experience with designing robots and racecars, writing code and collecting data, among other skills.

These badges get girls using “fun math,” such as measurements, said Dains, who lives in Westminster.

“To a certain extent, all jobs will require some knowledge of math,” Dains said. “I think it would make life a lot easier if you enjoy it.”

Eighth-grader Rhianna Dains, a Westminster Girl Scout, says the 23 new STEM badges the Girl Scouts now offer will provide her with a step up in college and pursuing a STEM career.

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The importance of role models

An outer-space experience Rebecca Travers of Lakewood remembers her childhood when she would stand on top of the McDonald’s play place and reenact astronaut Neil Armstrong’s famous walk on the moon.

Fast-forward to present day to her career as a structural design and analysis engineer at Lockheed Martin. In this position, Travers spends a lot of time working on 3D models. And on Sept. 8, 2016, she got to see something she helped design go into space — the OSIRIS-Rex, a NASA asteroid study and sample-return mission.

Travers, 26, graduated from University of Colorado-Boulder in December 2015 and started an internship with Lockheed Martin about 4 1/2 years ago. She has been fulltime with the global aerospace, defense, security and advanced technology company for about 2 1/2 years.

“It’s a rewarding career,” Trav-

Rebecca Travers ers said.

“It’s seeing my designs come to life. All the hours I spent in

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school and at the job was all worth it for the five minutes I got to see the launch go off.”

Attending Colorado School of Mines runs in Marie Sullivan’s family — both of her parents, an uncle, an aunt and all four of her siblings hold degrees from Mines.

For a little while, though, Sullivan, who graduated from Lakewood High School in May 2017, considered pursing a different route. She was looking into studying English and becoming a teacher or a journalist.

“Although it would have been interesting to be the odd one out in my family, it wasn’t what I really wanted to do,” Sullivan said.

In mid-August, Sullivan completed a summer internship with the state in the budget department of the Colorado Parks and Wildlife division. She worked on cash flow models and Excel spreadsheets.

Her boss, Brianna Franco, became a role model, and had a big influence on Sullivan’s career choice.

“She was so knowledgeable about what she does,” said Sullivan, now studying economics at Mines. “I aspire to be that way when I enter the workforce.”

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spent several summers, years ago, working for my fatherin-law doing electrical work.

Most of the time, all he entrusted me with —wisely — was simple demolition. Do a whole lot less damage that way. But, along the way, learning what line to cut and what line to avoid (and, thus, to avoid being the source of humor for all the contractors in the room), you start to pick up on how things work. Such that, when we need something electri-

to come in the house and look at what I’ve done, there’s a distinct chance that citations might be written.

There is a design to how things work. I know just enough to know a few work-arounds, but that is not necessarily a good thing.

There is a reason things are designed the way they are: because they work best that way. Only the real craftsman should be entrusted to understand the design well enough to alter it; with anybody

cal done around the house, I feel fairly confident in my ability to make it happen.

The problem with that is that I know just enough to really get myself in trouble. No, nothing has burned down (yet), but I’m fairly certain that someday in the future, when the next guy is trying to get something to work in my house, he’ll take a look at what I’ve done and wonder what I was thinking. And, were an actual contractor or inspector

LETTER TO THE EDITOR An American problem A letter in the March 15 edition states that “Access to firearms exists in other countries as well, so why is it that our public-school students obtain and misuse these, and other weapons?”

Most other countries have much stricter (and better enforced) regulations about who can have guns, and what kind. Even where they are permitted for civilian possession, many hoops must be jumped through, and accumulation of an arsenal would be unacceptable. Even in Switzerland, where every person is a citizen-soldier, there are limits (and few exceptions) to how many guns a person can have, and what kind.

May I suggest that the author ponder the other end of that elephant in the room, that he says is not being confronted.

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Hello! I am a fourth grade student in North Carolina. In fourth grade we research a state for our state fair, and I have chosen your state! I am very excited to learn more about the great state of Colorado as I work on my report.

While we will research most of the information ourselves, we also like to get firsthand knowledge from people who live in the state. This is why I am writing to you. I was hoping that you would be willing to send me some small items to help me learn more about the best things in your state. It could be things like postcards, maps, pictures, general information, this newspaper article, or any other items that you think would be useful. You can mail items to the address below by April 30 for our state fair on May 18. I really appreciate your help and will do my very best to send a thank-you note to each and every person who takes the time and makes the effort to help me with this project.

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here are many psychologists, counselors and therapists trained to do individual counseling.

Some decide to expand their client base by branchSOUND ing off into offering marriage ADVICE counseling or couple’s counseling. These are not normally the people you want to choose if you want help with your relationship. You want trained, licensed Neil Rosenthal people who specialize in marriage counseling, relationship counseling or couple’s therapy — some designation like “Licensed Marriage and Family

Therapist” or the equivalent.

But there are so many people claiming to specialize in marriage/relationship counseling — how do you choose the very best one? Here is a guide to help you make a good decision.

First, you want someone experienced — who has done this for a number of years — not someone starting out. Experienced people tend to cost more than those who are just starting out, but this is one arena in which you are likely to get what you pay for.

Second, if you can afford it, longer appointments, or retreats that take several days, are often far more effective than weekly 45-60 minute appointments. You will have sufficient time to deeply delve into conflicts and emotions, and then you can create solutions

or resolutions in the same session.

If you do this, you won’t normally stay in therapy for many months.

Insurance may not cover the longer appointments, but you have a far greater chance of fixing the issues way more quickly.

Third, that you are looking for a therapist/guide/teacher/adviser, not a friend. A friend may not offer you adult supervision when the two of you need it. A good marriage therapist will.

Fourth, you want someone who demonstrates insight regarding the true problems and the dynamics in your relationship. As an example, a couple can enter marriage counseling presenting with poor communication problems, but the actual issue may be that

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How do Jeffco high schoolers compare to the world?

ast year, I had the same conversation with friends who are parents in Australia, Canada, Sweden and the UK. Probably just like you, we are all very GUEST worried about how COLUMN well our children’s schools are preparing them for the world they will face after they graduate from high school.

From our work, we are all painfully aware of the challenges our kids will face, due to inTom Coyne creased off-shoring of white collar jobs as well as the increasing threat to those jobs posed by the exponential improvement in artificial intelligence technologies that are increasingly able to automate higher levels of cognitive work.

To be sure, AI is not yet all powerful; its current strength is statistical prediction, and progress in acquiring more advanced cognitive skills like causal and counterfactual reasoning is still in its early stages.

But progress in those areas is accelerating.

In light of what we see all around us, we all want to know how our kids stack up to the rest of the world, not just in terms of the knowledge they

have acquired, but also in terms of their ability to use critical and creative problem-solving skills to apply their knowledge in real world situations.

If you share our concern, I have good news for you. For only $85,000, parents, employers and taxpayers can learn how students in each of Jeffco’s 17 district-run high schools compare to their global peers.

The gold standard in this area is the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which is administered to 15-year-olds (i.e., 10th-graders) around the world by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

PISA is a sampled, rather than “every student,” test and measures how well students can apply their reading, math and science knowledge in realworld situations.

With its emphasis on critical thinking and problem-solving skills, PISA differs from two other assessments that are more widely used in the United States.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is given to a sample of students in grades 4, 8 and 12 in every state.

It assesses the extent to which students have mastered knowledge and skills in reading, math and science that are appropriate to these grade levels.

The PARCC/CMAS assessments

are given to every student in grades 3 through 8 in Colorado. They measure the extent to which students have mastered state standards for these grades.

Neither the NAEP nor CMAS provides Jeffco parents with an assessment of how our students compare to their peers around the world.

While PISA is administered at the national (and optionally at the state) level, the OECD also offers a “Test for Schools” that uses the same sampled approach and globally comparable results scale to assess a demographically representative sample of students (about 85) in a given high school.

Learning how our kids compare to their peers around the world would cost Jeffco only $85,000 – a rounding error in the district’s billion-dollar budget (which this year is expected to receive a large increase in state funding).

When we lived in Canada, our provincial PISA results were an incredibly powerful source of feedback and spur to continuous improvement in K12 performance.

Our kids, schools and employers all got a clear signal as to their future global competitiveness, and taxpayers had a strong basis for evaluating our return on the money we spent on K-12.

In Alberta, that return was high.

Improvement in PISA achievement results led to greater taxpayer willingness to invest in K-12, and to higher salaries for teachers and much improved funding of their pensions.

There is no reason not to take the same approach in Jeffco.

Tom Coyne is a father of three Wheat Ridge High School alumni, and one in the works. He is the co-founder of K12Accountability.org.

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But only because Stravinsky was a master craftsman, who knew and understood Bach, Mozart and Beethoven inside out. You take your average musician, and, were they to take the same design and attempt to do with it something like what Stravinsky did, it would be horrible chaos!

Or, perhaps, disco.

Nature has a design to it, as well. I think the story of the wolves in Yellow-

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the two of you have grown disconnected, and you may be questioning whether your spouse still loves you.

You can see how that may lead to poor communication in a relationship, but the therapist that treats the issue as a communication problem may not fix

April 5, 2018A stone Park is instructive: the last of the indigenous grey wolves in Yellowstone was killed somewhere around 1926, and, over time, the ecosystem in Yellowstone started to suffer — the design had been altered. So, when the government reintroduced the grey wolf to Yellowstone in 1995, there were some who expected this predator to cause enormous problems. But, just the opposite happened: when the ecosystem was returned to its natural design, it started to thrive. Today, the grey wolf is alive and well in Yellowstone, along with an increasingly strong base of animals up and down the food chain.

There is another part of the natural design I’ve been thinking about lately: parenting. I see it every day in schools, I live it with my students. Moms and dads are supposed to protect their children, raise them, discipline them, guide them, support them and, in short, do everything in their power to make their children’s lives solid. That’s the design.

When that doesn’t happen, when there is a mess at home, there is, invariably, a mess in class. Whether that takes the form of simply disengaging or poor socialization, to the most extreme cases of violence, problems at home — by the way, whether by fault or circumstance

the larger dynamic, and then you will feel that although you have a great therapist, the therapy isn’t working.

Fifth, you want someone who who can articulate an effective game plan to resolve or fix what’s wrong—and very important—you want this game plan in the very first session. If the therapist cannot articulate an effective and realistic plan of action in the first session, you have the wrong therapist.

Sixth, the gold standard of marriage

counselors, couple’s therapists or relationship counselors is if the therapist can teach the two of you new skills that you can take home and use on your own. The goal is for the two of you to learn how to resolve conflicts or hurt feelings on your own, so you don’t need to forever be dependent on a therapist.

This will take some time, and does not happen quickly, but the counselor who can teach the two of you to resolve your own issues or emotions is worth

doesn’t matter — don’t stay at home.

If some part of life isn’t working well for you right now, consider the possibility that you’ve strayed from the original design too far. Life probably won’t give you a zap of 120 volts to mark that point (wouldn’t it be great if it did!), but you’ll recognize the problems, and it might be worth consulting your a owner’s manual to get back on track. a Michael Alcorn is a teacher and writeri who lives in Arvada with his wife and a three children. His novels are available d at MichaelJAlcorn.com. His opinions are not necessarily those of Colorado e y Community Media. a d his or her weight in gold. a Finally, we learn more effectively l when we are challenged. Look for t someone to challenge you to do what’s l hard, not easy. t Neil Rosenthal is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Westminster w and Boulder. He is the author of the #1 o bestselling book: Love, Sex, and Staying v Warm: Creating a Vital Relationship. a Contact him at 303-758-8777 or visit neil- i rosenthal.com.

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Soft skills trump hard skills every day of the week. How you relate with other people and your ability to get stuff done is what all organizations are looking for. The great leaders and entrepreneurs of Glenn Bott today’s world all posses excellent soft skills and pride themselves on their ability to relate well with others.

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Have a Positive Mental Attitude — begin each day with an overall positive attitude. Enjoy what you’re doing, have a smile, and help others to enjoy their day and contributions. Many folks you encounter will lack this attitude and have an overall dour outlook.

They aren’t fun to be with and they don’t value their contributions. Establish the ground rule that everyone working on your project will do so with a smile and a positive can-do attitude or they aren’t welcome. Before long your meetings and projects will become legendary and people will ask to join your team.

Speak in Sound Bites — practice the art of effective communication. Speak for maximum impact and in very strong and memorable statements. People want little snippets of dialogue they can

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When you come up with something unique and powerful write it down and wait for the perfect moment to use it. Have a few of these at your disposal and don’t be shy about sharing them with others.

Audit Your Communication Effectiveness — take a moment to video yourself.

Is your body language congruent with your message? Do your deliver your message concisely and powerfully? Is it focused? Practice this until it becomes second nature and always look to improve. In today’s hyper-media world — less is more.

Become a Lateral Thinking Master — find new ways to connect the dots and create powerful new solutions. When you achieve mastery level at this skill you become unstoppable. No matter what “obstacle” you encounter you have a handful of new solutions and work-arounds.

Be Present — no matter what the task at hand, be fully present and focused on what is before you. Whether it’s having

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Spread the Love — help others feel their value and contribution. Go out of your way to acknowledge someone else. Give them a well-deserved high-five and a smile.

No matter who it is or what the situation, train yourself in the art of the compliment. Always have a heartfelt compliment ready to voice. This helps you become legendary and people will flock to you.

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Irish band delivers unique blend of music

S Conservators working at the IAA’s Dead Sea Scrolls Conservation Laboratory. The scrolls were discovered in 1947, and are making their first visit to Denver.

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A once-in-a-lifetime reading assignment Dead Sea Scrolls make first visit to Denver

The Dead Sea Scrolls will be on display at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science through Sept. 3. Visitors can see 10 scrolls, and they will then be switched out to preserve them.

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At just a cursory glance, one could almost be forgiven for being unimpressed by the Dead Sea Scrolls. After all, they appear as indecipherable writing — unless one speaks Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek — on scraps of paper to the untrained eye.

But when one considers these papers survived for more than 2,000 years and contain excerpts from some of history’s most important documents, they start to look a lot more impressive.

For the first time, Denver residents have the opportunity to not only examine some of the scrolls up close, but also hundreds of other artifacts from the same era in Israel at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

“People say the discovery of the scrolls was one of the great archaeological discoveries of the 20th century,” said the museum’s archaeol-

An example of the kind of jar the Dead Sea Scrolls were kept in for thousands of years before they were discovered.

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ogy curator, Dr. Steve Nash.

“You can take away 20th century and replace it with all time.”

The scrolls can be seen at the museum, 2001 Colorado Blvd. in Denver, through Sept. 3. This is the first time these documents have stopped in the Mile High City — the closest they’ve come before was Salt Lake City in Utah. The exhibition is organized by the Israeli Antiquities Authority.

These oldest-known biblical documents were

discovered in 1947 by young Bedouin goatherders, who wandered into a cave along the shore of the Dead Sea, near the site of the ancient settlement of Qumran. They found an assortment of clay jars, inside of which were scrolls wrapped in linen.

Over the next nine years, archaeologists and Bedouins searched the surrounding caves. After extensive excavation, more than 900 remarkably preserved scrolls were recovered.

Before the discoveries of the scrolls, Nash said, the oldest biblical texts were from about 900 in the Middle Ages.

For the exhibit, the scrolls are presented within a massive exhibit case featuring carefully regulated individual chambers, along with the full English translation.

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t. Patrick’s Day weekend was a busy one for Adam Goldstein, CL Morden and Kenny Martinez. But that’s not much of a surprise when you’re in an Irish band.

Which makes the trio — better known as Avourneen — even more excited about its upcoming performance at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April COMING at Swallow Hill’s ATTRACTIONS 5, Quinlan Café, 71 E. Yale Ave. in Denver.

“We were playing pubs, and when that’s the case, you’re working extra hard to be heard and get people dancing,” Goldstein said with a laugh.

“But at a place like Clarke Reader this, which has been so significant to artists in the community, it gives us a chance to play some of the calmer, slower stuff.”

Avourneen started in 2014, when guitarist and vocalist Goldstein and violinist and pianist Morden met as part of another Irish band. They loved the music of the Emerald Isle, but came at it from different angles — that’s how Avourneen came to life.

“We wanted to blend trad (traditional), energetic music with some of the more ballady stuff and inject some pop into it,” Goldstein said. “When I fell in love with Irish music, it was that blend of musical chops and sentiments. You can have all this energy and then the most heartrending content.”

Goldstein and Morden were recently joined by Martinez on stand-up bass and vocals, which has given the group new creative avenues to explore.

They’re looking at new ways to explore the Irish music that audiences might be familiar with — songs like “Sparrow,” “Banks of the Liffey,” “Whiskey in the Jar,” “Come Out Ye Black and Tans” and “Drowsy Maggie.”

The band has discovered a passionate fanbase for this kind of music all over Colorado and have some exciting concerts this spring and summer, not only in this state, but also in Omaha, Nebraska and New Mexico.

“Irish music has made such an impact on the popular music people listen to today, from folk in the ‘60s and beyond,” Goldstein said. “I think some audiences are surprised at how engaging this material is and how complex and earnest it’s always been.”

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The Dead Sea Scrolls require all kinds of maintenance and protection to keep them safe. Due to strict preservation requirements, 10 different scrolls will arrive halfway through the run to replace the 10 initial scrolls.

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Ten scrolls will be displayed when the exhibition opens. Because of strict preservation requirements, 10 different scrolls will arrive halfway through the run to replace the 10 initial scrolls.

Each rotation includes a scroll that has never before been on public display. For this first rotation, the never-before-seen scroll is Tohorot (Purities) A. This text focuses on ritual purity, a common topic of the Hebrew Bible.

“If guests look only at the scrolls, they’re only getting one perspective on one religion at the time,” Nash said. “The goal is to give some context to what was happening at the time, to show how the writers of the scrolls were influenced, and the world they influenced.”

More than 600 artifacts from the ancient Middle East give visitors a background in the historic traditions and beliefs that continue to impact world cultures today.

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To learn more about Avourneen, visit www.avourneen.com. And for tickets to the Swallow Hill performance, go to www.connect.swallowhillmusic.org/EventTicket/EventDetail/3104/avourneen.

Chris Hardwick, talking, in Denver You might recognize Chris Hardwick as that guy you’ve seen talking about some of your favorite shows like “The Walking Dead” or “Better Call Saul.” Or, you might recognize his voice from the popular Nerdist podcast, one of the most downloaded podcasts online.

He also serves as host and executive producer of various shows including NBC’s “The Wall” and the upcoming “The Awesome Show.” Previously, Hardwick served as host and executive producer of Comedy Central’s two-time Emmy Award-winning nightly comedy game show @midnight, which aired its 600th and final episode in August 2017.

Hardwick has maintained a connection to his standup roots throughout his ever-changing career, and will be performing at Comedy Works in Denver’s Larimer Square, 1226 15th St. He has shows at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 5, at 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. on Friday, April 6 and Saturday, April 7.

For tickets, visit www.comedyworks.com/comedians/chris-hardwick.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week - Dan Auerbach at Paramount Theatre Most people are familiar with guitarist, singer and songwriter Dan Auerbach as half of the blues rock duo, The Black Keys. But Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney have been on hiatus for the past few years, taking

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Objects on display include inscriptions and seals, weapons, stone carvings, terra cotta figurines, remains of religious symbols, coins, shoes, textiles, mosaics, ceramics, jewelry and a three-ton stone from the Western Wall in Jerusalem, believed to have fallen in 70 CE (Common Era).

“Just like at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, guests are leaving notes and prayers in the cracks. When the exhibits is finished, they’ll be sent to Jerusalem, to the real wall,” Nash said. “There’s also a live feed where

time to do their own thing.

For Auerbach, he’s had the chance to embrace the rock and country sounds of Nashville, where his Easy Eye Sound Studio is located. Last year, he released his second solo album, “Waiting on a Song,” and he’s stopping by the Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Place in Denver, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 5.

Attendees will get more than a performance by Auerbach — the tour is named The Easy Eye Sound Revue and features Robert Finley, Shannon Shaw and Shannon and the Clams Date and Time, all who have played in the studio.

Auerbach has been making music with sessions legends like drummer Gene Chrisman and keyboardist Bobby Wood, musicians who have played with titans like Elvis. He’s taken that passion for honest music and brought it on his tour. Finley, 64, worked as a carpenter in Louisiana until three years ago, when he started going blind. He was performing on the street when he was discovered by the Music Maker Relief Foundation, according to an article in “Rolling Stone.”

For tickets, visit www.altitudetickets. com/events/detail/dan-auerbach.

Colorado Book Award finalist reading Every year, the Colorado Humanities organization hosts the Colorado Book Awards to celebrate the accomplishments of Colorado’s outstanding authors, editors, illustrators and photographers.

Awards are presented in at least 10 categories including anthology/collection, biography, children’s, creative nonfiction, fiction, history, nonfiction, pictorial, poetry and young adult.

This year, the winners will be announced on June 2.

Colorado Book Awards finalists in the Mystery, Science Fiction/ Fantasy and Thriller categories will participate in a reading at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 6, at BookBar, 4280 Tennyson St. in Denver. The emcee

people can watch what’s going on at the Western Wall in Jerusalem while they see the stone here.”

Unlike many exhibits that come through the museum, what each person takes away from seeing the scrolls depends on their own beliefs.

But there’s no contesting the impact these documents have had on the world and its three enormous faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

“This exhibit is really about the epic sweep of humanity,” Nash said.

“History is always more complicated, messier and more interesting.”

CLARKE AT THE MOVIES Clarke is headed to the Vail Film Festival this weekend! Check out Coloradocommunitymedia.com for his daily updates about all the scenes and stars to be seen. for the evening is two-time Colorado Book Award winner in the Thriller category, Carter Wilson.

Some of the authors reading will be Barbara Nickless, who will read from her mystery novel “Dead Stop;” Charlotte Hinger, who will read from her mystery novel “Fractured Families;” and Michael F. Haspil, who will read from his science fiction/fantasy novel “Graveyard Shift.”

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Join the Mile High Soul Club at the opera Soul and R&B music is one of the best and most overlooked genres in contemporary society. There was a time, in the ‘50s and ‘60s, when soul was the style of music for artists looking to explore the height of their creativity and simultaneously make music you could really dance to.

The Mile High Soul Club is one of the best ways for Mile High residents to tap into that energy, with their monthly soul nights. DJs Tyler Jacobson, DogBoy, Steve Cervantes and Jason Heller play classic soul, R&B and funk vinyl 45s that are guaranteed to get you on the dance floor.

This month’s Mile High Soul Club part is at 9 p.m. on Saturday, April 7 at the Syntax Physic Opera, 554 S. Broadway in Denver.

For more information, visit www. milehighsoulclub.com.

Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. A community editor with Colorado Community Media, he can be reached creader@ coloradocommunitymedia.com.

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Kenna, left, and Zoey Conley, born Jan. 4 — nine weeks premature after battling TwinTwin Transfusion Syndrome — left Children’s Hospital Colorado on March 2, just four days before their original due date. “They’re little miracle babies,” their mother Kendal said.

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The babies underwent a battery of tests to ensure their hearts and brains were healthy enough for the procedure. Behrendt and Dr. Henry Galan explained the condition, the plan, the risks, the options.

“Knowledge is power,” Tyler said.

“The more you know, the more you understand. We had so many questions.”

A week later, a team of specialists including Behrendt and Galan performed a successful 2-minute, 34-second laser surgery that separated 11 blood vessels. They also drained 2 1/2 liters of fluid.

But to separate those vessels, it was necessary to rupture the membrane that divided the babies’ amniotic sacs, which put the twins at high risk of entangling their umbilical cords.

As a precaution, Kendal went on bedrest at home. At 26 weeks, she moved to the maternal fetal center at Children’s, where she continued on closely monitored bed rest. Ultrasounds three times a day checked the babies’ heartbeats and made sure their cords remained untangled.

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And despite being afraid to get attached, Kendal and Tyler got to know their babies well: Baby A, as she was called, was a spitfire, a wiggle worm who kicked and hiccupped and rolled around all the time. Baby B was mellow. Quiet. Peaceful.

••••• On Christmas Eve, at about 30 weeks, Kendal’s water broke. But the goal was to reach 31 weeks — nine weeks before the original March 6 due date — to give the babies more time to grow and a better chance of surviving and developing without complications.

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On Jan. 2, fluid began to build up again, igniting concern that some vessels might still be attached. So two days later, on Jan. 4 at 11:25 a.m., doctors performed a C-section and delivered two little girls.

Kendal didn’t see the babies before they were whisked away — each with her own eight-member team of neonatologists, neonatal nurse practitioners, nurses, respiratory therapists and pharmacist — to the room next door. But when she heard them both cry, she cried, too.

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On March 2, just four days before their original due date, Kenna and Zoey left their side-by-side cribs in the neonatal intensive care unit and went home. Kenna weighed 8 pounds, Zoey 7 pounds, 6 ounces. Their parents brought with them oxygen equipment to help them breathe, a stethoscope to monitor heartrates, the meds and supplements needed to add calories to breast milk.

In the first 10 days home, the babies woke at night and slept during the day.

Kendal and Tyler estimate their sleep totaled 15 to 20 hours during that same time. But the babies are growing and will soon not need the extra oxygen help.

Life, Kendal said, “is beautifully chaotic.”

••••• When she and Tyler look back on the journey, they say they have witnessed two miracles.

The first is the medicine — the doctors that educated and included them in the process and the procedures and care that gave their children life.

“Seeing how these babies started and seeing how good they are — 20 years ago these babies wouldn’t have survived,” Tyler said. “What’s incredible is how medicine saved these girls.”

The second is the girls themselves.

“They’re little miracle babies,” Kendal said simply. “We are overjoyed.”

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Democrats underscore differences at forum in governor’s race Kennedy, Polis, Lynne, Johnston discuss energy, transportation, health care

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A crowded governor’s race that has seen more than three dozen declared candidates has pared down to a handful of top contenders, and those on the Democratic side carved out different niches for themselves just weeks away from the state assembly.

“I’m applying for a very small promotion,” said Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne, to laughs from the audience at the Democratic Governor Candidate Forum in Denver.

The event at the History Colorado Center on March 29 saw Lynne playing up her experience in her secondto-the-governor role, as U.S. Rep. Jared Polis of Boulder cast himself as keeping businesses on his mind and former state Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Denver, took the audience into the details on policy.

Former state treasurer Cary Kennedy — who is giving Polis a run for his money in polling and grassroots support — made the most plays for

REPUBLICANS APPEARED IN FEBRUARY The Denver Business Journal and the Colorado Business Roundtable hosted a candidates’ forum for the Republican gubernatorial candidates Feb. 21 at the History Colorado Center, 1200 N. Broadway, Denver.

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Polis also supports a single-payer option, which he said could take burden off of businesses. He also pointed to the issue of people going to emergency rooms and shifting costs onto others.

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“Twenty-six states already do this,” Lynne said, “opening it up to local communities, counties, towns, school districts.”

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He’s also for tax incentives to bring health providers to rural communities.

Modes of transportation All candidates acknowledged the importance of multimodal transportation — which generally means including mass transit like light rail — in bolstering Colorado’s infrastructure.

Polis supports efforts toward a rail line that serves the Front Range, potentially connecting places between Fort Collins and Pueblo.

Johnston brought up the “last-mile” issue, commuters needing a solution to connect to their destination after using certain transit.

Kennedy talked up more funding for transportation projects, lamenting the reliance on private fees to use roadways in lieu of tax increases, which must be approved by voters in Colorado.

“It can’t just all be private pay or user pay,” Kennedy said. “We have to make the investment in rural roads (and) highways.”

Lynne echoed that — saying that the state needs to pass a tax to prevent revenue problems that could arise when, inevitably, the next recession comes — and also said transportation needs may change.

“If we finance something with a 20-year view, which I’m not opposed to, we need to take technology into account,” said Lynne, adding that advancements like self-driving cars could be factors.

Move to renewables Polis and Johnston support moving Colorado to 100 percent renewable energy by 2040, while Kennedy and Lynne don’t go so far.

“It reduces long-term rates,” Johnston said, adding that drilling shouldn’t take place in “environmentally sensitive” places.

The move would bring green jobs that can’t be outsourced, Polis said.

“There are tremendous opportunities for job growth and savings for consumers,” Polis said of the plan that’s become the hallmark of his campaign, to much criticism from conservatives.

Colorado would be irresponsible to talk too far into the future, said Lynne, who has in the past highlighted efforts by Gov. John Hickenlooper’s administration to support renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions.

But, Lynne said, “We have to be realistic.” Similarly, Kennedy said Colorado “is and should continue to be” transitioning to renewable energy sources.

“That doesn’t mean the oil and gas industry aren’t important. We are one of the biggest producers in the country,” Kennedy said, adding, “I am not one of the folks you’d see wanting to do harm.”

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Northey Foundation drug take back scheduled for April 14 STAFF REPORT

The Northey Foundation is again partnering with the Arvada Police Department to offer metro area residents a Drug Take Back Event 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 14 at Arvada Police Headquarters, 8101 Ralston Road.

This is a free event, however, donations are accepted and will benefit the Northey Foundation which provides scholarships to Arvada high school seniors who want to further their education, and helps families of officers killed or injured in the line of duty.

Because of the underwriting of the Arvada Vitality Alliance, State Farm Agent Doris Stipech, Custom Environmental Services, Inc. and Sooper Credit Union, all donations will directly benefit the Foundation.

In 2017, the foundation awarded 16

scholarships totaling $25,500 and in the last two years, more than $49,000 in scholarships have been awarded.

When over-the-counter or prescription medications are expired or no longer needed, they should be removed from the home because of the risk they pose if obtained by young children and because they can be potentially dangerous if used.

Many people believe that the best way to dispose of unused or expired medications is to flush them down the toilet. However, this pollutes the waterways and adversely affects wildlife and plant life along streams and rivers.

Gather unused, unwanted and expired medications and bring them to the Arvada Police Headquarters parking lot, where you can drive up, hand them off and drive away.

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Program brings color, art to Alameda Corridor Lakewood-area artist will paint first mural at Village Roaster

A mock-up of a possible mural created by Ratha Sok on the Village Roaster’s north wall.

The Alameda Corridor Business Improvement District is launching a new program to put murals in the corridor.

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BY CLARKE READER CREADER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Lakewood artist Ratha Sok discovered graffiti when he was in middle and high school. It may not have seemed like there was much of a future in that, but as he grew older, he discovered a more positive route for his artistic impulses — making murals.

Now, thanks to a new program launched by the Alameda Corridor Business Improvement District, Sok is getting a canvas he would have probably never had as a teenager — a wall at the The Village Roaster coffee shop, 9255 W. Alameda Ave.

“At the time, I was using graffiti to express my experiences,” he said. “Now, I’m more interested in the message I’m sharing with the community I’m creating for.”

The Village Roaster mural is the first of what organizers hope will be a series

of murals along Alameda Avenue, one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares. At least partly inspired by similar mural projects along West Colfax, Tom Quinn, executive director of the business improvement district and Alameda Gateway Community Association, said

GET INVOLVED If any residents own or know of businesses in the Alameda corridor that would be interested in the Alameda Corridor Mural Program, contact Tom Quinn, Alameda Gateway executive director, at 303-2741807 or tom@alamedagateway.com.

The program can assist with selection of the artist and location for the mural and contribute to the cost. The district can also work with the business and the artist and provide graffiti cleanup if the mural is tagged. the goal is to use arts to unite the area.

“There are some great, great places on Alameda, and we want to highlight this through public art,” he said. “We don’t want to be exactly like Colfax.

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We want to create something that is specific to our corridor.”

The business improvement district is working on lining up several locations and seeking business participants by providing a space for a unique mural to be painted.

The Village Roaster, owned by Kathleen and Jim Curtis, has been a mainstay of the community for more than 35 years. Both Kathleen and Jim have made community involvement a key feature of their business model, and since she is also chair of the district, it wasn’t difficult for Kathleen to offer up the large north-facing wall of the shop.

“Garrison is a major travel route, so we thought this would be a good place to put the mural,” she said of the street. “The wall will be a great focal point and a way to start a conversation in the community.”

While the final design for Sok’s mural

hasn’t yet been finalized, he has been giving a lot of thought to potential designs and is considering one based on nature. What he ultimately decides on will include input from Curtis and the business improvement district, but he knows it has to speak to the community.

“I like to do a lot of research on a community when I’m creating a piece of public art. Even though I’ve spent most of my life in the Lakewood area, I still want to get this right,” he said.

“It’s an honor for me to be the first mural in this program, and I want to bring color to my showcase for the community.”

More mural locations will be announced in coming months, and Sok hopes to start his mural in May. Quinn said they’re searching for high traffic areas that will showcase the art and draw visitors to see what the corridor has to offer.

“We want to build a world-class corridor, and art is a big part of that,” Quinn said. “It helps inspire work in a destination where people want to spend their time.”

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Comic Book Artist: 7 p.m. Friday, April 6, and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, April 7 at Colorado ACTS Theatre, 11455 W. I-70 Frontage Road North, Wheat Ridge. Info: 303-456-6772 or www.coloradoacts.org.

Love/Sick: showing through Sunday, April 8 at Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen.

Nine whimsical vignettes on love, marriage and grocery store serendipity. Tickets: 303-674-4934 or www.evergreenplayers.org Musical ‘The Producers’: through Sunday, April 8 at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway. Shows at 7:30 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays. Additional show at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 5; no performance April 1. Go to www.lakewood.org/LCCPresents or call 303-987-7845.

Cinderella: 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, April 12-13, and 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 14 (tea time at 3:30 p.m.) at Arvada High School, 7951 W. 65th Ave., Arvada. Tickets: bit.ly/arvadahightheatre.

The Economy, Taking Stock: 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Saturday, April 7 at St. Anthony Hospital, south entrance, 11600 W. 2nd Place, Lakewood. League of Women Voters of Jefferson County program. Go to www.lwvjeffco.org. Call 303-238-0032 or email info@lwvjeffco.org.

Simplify Your Retirement: 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 7 and April 14 at Red Rocks Community College, 13300 W. 6th Ave., Lakewood.

Must attend both sessions. Registration required.

Go to SimplifyYourRetirement.com/lakewood or call 303-800-1999.

Perennials for Pollinators: 1-2 p.m. Saturday, April 7 at Echter’s Garden Center, 5150 Garrison St., Arvada. Call 303-424-7979 or go to www.echters. com. Learn what plants attract what pollinators antips for care and maintenance.

Ancestors Can Speak to us from Beyond the Grave: 1-2:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11 at Applewood Valley United Methodist Church, 2035 Ellis St., Golden. Go to www.foothillsgenealogy.org.

Alpine Chorale Concert: 7:30-9:30 p.m. Friday, April 6 and Saturday, April 7 at Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church, 7530 W. 38th Ave., Wheat Ridge. Denver East High School’s honors choir will join Alpine to present works by living American composers in “A New American Century.” Go to http://www.alpinechorale.org.

Mile High Community Band Spring Concert: 6:30-8:45 p.m.

Thursday, April 12, Red Rocks Community College, 13300 W. 6th Ave., Lakewood. Info: http://milehighcommunityband.org.

Garry Krinsky: ‘Toying with Science’: 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 13, Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway. Tickets: 303987-7845 or www.Lakewood.org/ LCCPresents.

Mozart and Scarlatti: Fathers and Sons: 7-9 p.m. Friday, April 13, Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 4500 Wadsworth Blvd., Wheat Ridge. St. Martin’s Chamber Choir and the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado. Info: www.

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The Sleeping Beauty: 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 14, and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 15 at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway.

Tickets: 303-987-7845 or www. lakewood.org/tickets. Denver Ballet Theatre production.

Let’s Go Fly! Make-A-Kite Classes: 4 p.m. Friday, April 6; 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.

Saturday, April 7, Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. Registration required: arvada.org or 720-898-7405.

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The 39 Steps: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and 2 p.m. through April 29 at Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Call 303-935-3044 or go to minersalley.com.

Olde Town Photographic Society: 6:30-8 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, Arvada Library, 8525 W. 57th Ave., Arvada. Info: 303-235-5275 or www.jeffcolibrary.org.

FILM/MOVIES

Book Signing: Don Ruggles: 1-3 p.m. Saturday, April 14, Barnes & Noble, 16249 W. 65th Place, Arvada. Purchase “Beauty, Neuroscience & Architecture: Timeless Patterns & Their Impact on Our Well-Being.”

Movie Time: ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’: 1-3 p.m. Saturday, April 14, Arvada Library, 8525 W. 57th Ave., Arvada. Info: 303-2355275 or www.jeffcolibrary.org.

WRITING/READING

Keto Diet 101: 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 14 at Natural Grocers Green Mountain, 12612 W. Alameda Parkway, Lakewood. Going “keto” is all the rage, but the diet is laden with conflicting ideas, disastrous oversimplification, and misinformation.

Learn the what, why, and how to succeed with ketogenic eating. Call 303-986-5700 or go to www. naturalgrocers.com

Denver Veterans Writing Workshop: 2:30 p.m. Sundays, April 15 and May 20 at the Denver Public Library Central Branch, 10 W. 14th Avenue Parkway. To sign up, or for more information, go to https://coloradohumanities. submittable.com/submit/89122/ denver-veterans-war-stories.

Contact Jason Arment at Jason@ coloradohumanities.org or call/ text 619-663-5247. Go to www. coloradohumanities.org.

Nonfiction Book Club, “A Fine Mess” by T.R. Reid: 1 p.m.

Wednesday, April 18 at the Columbine Public Library, 7706 W. Bowles Ave., Littleton; and 9:30 a.m. Saturday, April 21 at Brookdale Westland Meridian, 10695 W. 17th Ave., Lakewood. Read “A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer and More Efficient Tax System” by journalist T.R. Reid before the meeting and be ready for a discussion. Presented by Jeffco League of Women Voters. Call Lynne at 303-985-5128.

Native Trees and Shrubs: 9:3010:30 a.m. Saturday, April 7 at Echter’s Garden Center, 5150 Garrison St., Arvada. Call 303-4247979 or go to www.echters.com Xeriscape Gardening: 3-4 p.m.

Saturday, April 7 at Echter’s Garden Center, 5150 Garrison St., Arvada. Call 303-424-7979 or go to www.echters.com.

Kitten Shower: 1-3 p.m. Saturday, April 7 at Foothills Animal Shelter.

Drop off baby cat supplies at the shelter. Fun for the family. Go to https://foothillsanimalshelter. org/

Kite Festival: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, April 8 at Stenger Sports Complex, 58th Avenue and Quail Street. Info: ArvadaFestivals.com.

EVENTS

Roundtable Issues Breakfast Forum: 7 a.m. Friday, April 6, Wilmore Richter American Legion Post 161, 6230 W. 60th Ave., Arvada. Speaker is Ron Sandstrom, Jefferson County assessor. Go to https://alp161.org.

Let’s Dance: 1:30-2 p.m. Friday, April 6, Standley Lake Library, 8485 Kipling St., Arvada. Info: 303-235-5275 or www.jeffcolibrary.org.

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Lego Play and Build: 3-4:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 8, Standley Lake Library, 8485 Kipling St., Arvada.

Info: 303-235-5275 or www.jeffcolibrary.org.

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose: 1-2 p.m.

Sunday, April 8 at Echter’s Garden Center, 5150 Garrison St., Arvada.

Call 303-424-7979 or go to www. echters.com. Discover new varieties and learn the basics of caring for roses in your landscape.

The Fruit of the Garden: 3-4 p.m.

Sunday, April 8 at Echter’s Garden

Discovery Play: 10:15-11 a.m.

Monday, April 9, Standley Lake Library, 8485 Kipling St., Arvada.

Info: 303-235-5275 or www.jeffcolibrary.org.

Pond in a Pot: 6-7 p.m. Monday, April 9 at Echter’s Garden Center, 5150 Garrison St., Arvada. Call 303-424-7979 or go to www. echters.com. Create an aquatic garden in a container.

Dominic Dezzuti: 7-9 a.m. Monday, April 9 at Davies’ Chuck Wagon Diner, 10151 W. 26th Ave., Wheat Ridge. Jefferson County Republican Men’s Club program. Vice president of content, Colorado 12, public television, talks about what it’s like to produce a debate, especially in the season of national and local elections.

Orchids, Exotic and Easy: 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 10 at Echter’s Garden Center, 5150 Garrison St., Arvada. Call 303-424-7979 or go to www.echters.com. Tips and techniques for growing and maintaining healthy plants.

Protein + Purple: Healthy Cooking with Chef Elizabeth Buckingham: 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, April 11 at Echter’s Garden Center, 5150 Garrison St., Arvada.

Call 303-424-7979 or go to www. echters.com. Learn new recipes and techniques to improve healthy cooking routine at home.

Registration required.

Stories from Wartime: series that looks at the combat experience in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Presentations at 6 p.m. select Wednesdays through April 25 at Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. Registration required; go to https:// arvadacenter.org/education/ stories-from-wartime. Dates and topics are April 11, “The Othering of Perceived Enemies”; April 25, “The Complexities of Commemoration.”

See www.regis.edu/warexperience.

Teen Trivia Night: 6-7 p.m.

Wednesday, April 11, Standley Lake Library, 8485 Kipling St., Arvada. Info: 303-235-5275 or www.jeffcolibrary.org.

Girlfriends Night Out; A Party with a Purpose: 5-8 p.m. Thursday, April 12 at Echter’s Garden Center, 5150 Garrison St., Arvada.

Echter’s is partnering with Hope House of Colorado and other local businesses. Tickets for this event are limited. Call 303-424-7979 to purchase tickets in advance. Go to www.echters.com.

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Warm Hearts Warm Babies: 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 12 at King of Glory Lutheran Church, 10001 W. 58th Ave., Arvada. Volunteers sew, knit, crochet and quilt for premature infants and babies in need. Contact Glenda: 303-9756394 COLOKIDZ@aol.com or Jean Jones 303-239-6473. Bring a potluck dish, your machine, scissors, crochet hooks, and knitting equipment.

Let’s Dance: 11-11:30 a.m. Friday, April 13, Arvada Library, 8525 W. 57th Ave., Arvada.

Info: 303-235-5275 or www.jeffcolibrary.org.

Coffee with Constituents: 7-8 a.m. April 13 at Indian Tree Golf Course Restaurant, 7555 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Discuss concerns and hear status of key legislation with Sen. Rachel Zenzinger.

Buck-A-Bag Fundraiser: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

daily through April 14 at the ARC Donation Station, 12345 W. 58th Ave., Arvada. For every 13 gallon-sized garbage bag or copy paper-sized box of items donated to ARC, Shrine of St. Anne School will receive $1.

When dropping off items, let the attendant know you are there for St. Anne’s. Do not take items to the ARC retail site in Arvada; if you cannot make it to the donation center, items may be left at the school. Contact dappelha@regis.edu.

Chirp Chirp-Impromptu Bird Walks: Sometimes you just feel like you need to get out and enjoy nature. If you like bird walks and want to join fellow birders on short-notice bird walks, sign up to the Chirp Chirp list Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. A notification will be sent by email or text no later than 24 hours prior to the bird walk. Go to https://arvada.org.

Food Pantry: open from 9-11 a.m. Wednesdays at New Apostolic Church, 5290 Vance St., Arvada, rear entrance (across the street from Beau Jo’s restaurant). Contact Gertrude at 303-902-6794.

Fox Hollow Men’s Golf Club: welcomes new members for the 2018 season. The clubs spring Tee Off party is April 6, and golfing starts April 14 with the One Out Shamble. The top three scorers per hole are added to each team’s total for cash prizes. CGA members affiliated with Fox Hollow are invited. Season-long Race for the Red Jacket shares a $2,000 purse with the top 10-point finishers. All golfing events at Fox Hollow, 13410 W. Morrison Road, Lakewood. Go to fhmgc.com.

EDUCATION

Nano Day: 1-3 p.m. Saturday, April 7 at the Wheat Ridge Library, 5475 W. 32nd Ave., Wheat Ridge. Experiment with nanoscience. Go to http://jeffcolibrary.org.

Gardening in Colorado: Planting Trees in Colorado and Eradicating Grubs: 2-3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 8 at the Wheat Ridge Library, 5475 W. 32nd Ave., Wheat Ridge. Go to http://jeffcolibrary.org.

HEALTH

Nutrition Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar: 11 a.m. Saturday, April 7 at Natural Grocers/ Vitamin Cottage, 7745 N. Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Info: 303-423-0990.

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Arvada baseball Close to home, Arvada proved to have a potent offense over spring break. The Bulldogs beat Sheridan, Alameda and Thornton in tournament play, but did falter against Berthoud. The game against Thornton on March 31 was a close one, 15-14. The Bulldogs trailed most of the game, until a seven-run explosion in the fifth inning tied things up. Eight players had at least one hit, to help squeak out the win, including seniors Levi Mair and Jayson Peterson.

Senior pitcher Andrew Shin earned the win.

Arvada West track Wildcats raced in the Lyons Invitational, on March 31. The boys team ended the day in 11th place.

Top finishers included Andres Perez, who took second in the 1600 meters; Colin Berndt with a second place finish in the 3200 meters; the 4X100 relay team that earned seventh place; the 4X200 relay team that finished fifth; and the 4X800 team that finished fourth.

For the girls, Katie Doucette finished ninth in the 1600 meters. Claire Pauley finished second in the 3200 meters.

The girls 4X100 relay team came in fourth, as did the 4X800 squad. The 4X400 team finished in sixth. The girls 800 sprint medley finished in second place.

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Spring break report Chris Moon Memorial Invitational Both Arvada West and Pomona participated in this annual spring break tournament, held March 24 to March 30 in Tuscon.

A-West came away with one win and four losses, including heartbreakers to San Marcos (9-8) and Tucson High Magnet School (9-8).

The sole win was against Arizona team Rio Rico, 11-1.

Junior Liam Spaw hit his first home run of the season in that game.

The Wildcats sit at a record of 1-6, entering league play next week.

Pomona fared a bit better, with two wins and three losses. The wins came against Sahuaro (7-2), and Flowing Wells (13-8). Senior J. Ruedaflores went three-for-four with three RBI’s in the Flowing Wells game on March 30. The Panthers come out of the tournament with an overall record of 2-4.

Faith Christian baseball The Eagles enjoyed a statewide sixth-place ranking in the 3A poll that came out last week.

The team also enjoyed a trip south to Arizona for the Greenway Festival tournament.

The team returned to Colo-

rado with two wins and a loss for their trouble.

Friday’s game against Meridian ended in a 8-2 loss, but standout freshman Garrett Everrett had a good game, hitting a triple, scored once and was flawless on his fielding.

The team has a 3-1 record and began league play this week.

Green Mountain baseball The Rams also headed to Arizona for some tournament competition over spring break, this time to the Pride Classic. The resulting three losses and a win leave the team with a 2-4 record. The solo 11-2 win came on March 30 against the Hillsboro Spartans of Oregon.

Senior Reece Noel pitched the game for the Rams, allowing zero earned runs.

Golden baseball The Demons hit the road this week, beating the Widefield Gladiators, 14-3 on March 28. The McLauglins — Jack the senior and Ben the sophomore — had similar stat lines, with three hits on four at-bats, with two RBI’s each.

The team had a total of four doubles over the course of the offensive onslaught, including two from senior Jacob Douthit.

Douthit and Jack McLaughlin handled the pitching duties for the Demons, with McLaughlin earning the win after putting in five innings of work. The win moves the Golden dugout to a 4-2 record, as the team split a a pair of March 26 games in Pueblo.

Golden boys lacrosse The team headed to California for spring break, playing three games over three days. The Demons vanquished Mater Dei 16-5, but fell to Great Oak 9-2.

The third match was March 30 against Los Alamitos, and ended in a 11-10 overtime defeat. Senior Will Abbey made four goals and had two assists in the attempt. Junior Joe Brock added three goals. The team is 5-3, headed into league play, beginning next week.

Lakewood baseball The Tigers traveled to Arizona to participate in the Greenway Festival tourney over the break. The team came away with three wins and one loss.

Standout performers included junior Simon Baumgardt, who had two doubles and a single, with two RBIs in the

March 30 8-4 win against Saint Viator, and senior pitcher Will Gifford, with his 1.0 ERA and seven strikeouts against Libertyville in the 6-3 win on March 29. The Tigers currently hold a 3-4 record.

Lakewood lacrosse The team took their sticks down to San Diego for spring break, and brought back three road wins at the expense of Westview, Pacific Ridge and Rancho Bernardo.

The team has a 7-0 record and is ranked second in the state as it enters into league competition, beginning with a road game against Dakota Ridge on April 11.

Wheat Ridge baseball The Farmers headed to Oregon for some tournament play over spring break, but ended up losing some close games to end the tourney with one win and four losses. The team lost to Wilson 9-8, Sprague 10-9 and West Albany 13-6. The team ended on a high note though, beating Lakeridge 7-0 on March 29.

Sophomore Dominic Bronk earned the shutout on the mound, helped along by his four strikeouts.

Senior Payton Dietrich only had one hit out of four trips to the plate, but he made it count. His triple drove in two runs. The team, 1-5-1, starts league competition next week.

Spring weather causing hectic rescheduling spree

his is not breaking news because everybody knows by now that spring weather in Colorado can be unpredictable.

A warm pleasant day with the temperature in the 70s is followed by heavy, wet snow and rain the next day.

I once had an assignment to write a poem in elementary school and my rhyme OVERTIME went something like this: When it’s springtime in the Rockies and muddy on the streets, please help your mother and clean your feet.

That was the case a couple days last week when snow storms Jim Benton moved across the Denver area on March 26 and March 28, which forced six of the seven spring sports to scramble to secure indoor practice space. Boys swimming is an indoor sport and is not affected by the weather.

This involved mostly Douglas County schools last week since Cherry Creek, Littleton, Jeffco and Adams 12

schools were on spring break.

“We ended up creating an indoor weather schedule so teams come in and use the gym or the commons,” said Legend athletic director Kevin Boley. “Girls golf will go upstairs to the wrestling room. They have something like a birdie ball that they can hit. Indoor type things. The tennis team was hitting balls into the curtain in the gym or off the wall to work on technique. Everybody can do conditioning in the hallway.”

Baseball teams can sometimes rent a facility to take batting practice, and it isn’t unusual to see athletes running over hurdles in the hallways.

Rock Canyon athletic director Tom Brieske was at Shea Stadium on March 28 watching as the turf got covered with snow during a girls soccer game and wound up postponing the ensuing boys soccer game against Colorado Academy.

“It gets real hectic,” said Brieske.

“There are a lot of moving parts. The safety of the kids is the prerequisite.

You have to get creative. It’s a balancing act.”

Rescheduling for three levels of each

sport can be challenging for coaches and ADs. Available venues and officials have to be secured, and that’s just for the sports other than baseball. For baseball, Mother Nature needs to help dry off the diamonds.

Change to transfer rule proposed There are 27 proposals and 14 committee reports that will be voted on at the Colorado High School Activities Association’s Legislative Council meeting on April 26.

CHSAANow.com has listed the agenda and one noteworthy proposal is designed to create a clearer, consistent and stricter transfer rule. Mid-season and summer transfers are currently administered differently.

The proposal would give students junior varsity or below eligibility after 365 days from the date of transfer. The option of having 50 percent varsity eligibility would go away.

In other words, athletes that transfer without moving in a new district and not due to hardship would be ineligible for a year from the day they transfer.

The hope is the proposal would eliminate the rising numbers of sum-

mer transfers that could sit out for half the following season but still be eligible for the state playoffs.

However, the next step that needs to be taken is some kind of measure to curtail recruiting of middle school athletes who can open enroll at the school of their choice.

There is also a proposal, supported by the Equity Committee, that would extend the limit of softball games to 23 which would match the limit of baseball games that was approved in January.

The hockey committee recommended a new alignment and approved new varsity programs at Colorado Academy and Glenwood Springs.

The swimming committee is recommending a change from the top 16 for finals at state events to the top 20. Additionally the boys 4A and 5A championships would be at one site starting in 2019.

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.

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Boys and girls of all backgrounds and skill levels are invited to register for the PGA Junior League. The program offers team golf experiences with expert coaching and instruction from PGA and LPGA professionals in the Denver area.

The two-person scramble format encourages mentorship, builds confidence and promotes sportsmanship. The league is for ages 13 and younger, although some programs are for ages 16 and younger.

The PGA Junior League reported record-setting numbers last year, with 42,000 boys and girls playing on 3,400 teams nationwide.

Of those players, 80 percent were beginner or recreational golfers.

Open registration means that families do not have to have an

existing relationship with the golf course for the kids to participate.

Go to PGAJrLeague.com to search for a team by ZIP code or facility, and to register online.

Participating golf courses in the area include: • Indian Tree Golf Club, Arvada • Riverdale Golf Club, Brighton • South Suburban Golf Course, Centennial (16U) • Broken Tee Englewood, Englewood • Fossil Trace Golf Club, Golden • The Links Golf Course, Highlands Ranch • Highlands Ranch Golf Club, Highlands Ranch (16U) • Raccoon Creek Golf Course, Littleton • Legacy Ridge Golf Course, Westminster • The Greg Mastriona Golf Courses at Hyland Hills, Westminster

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Following the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) denial of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless plan to develop 59 acres near the Federal Center in Lakewood into a housing and resource center for the homeless, the coalition is contesting the denial and considering legal options.

“HHS’s determination that the application is not approvable ‘because it failed to meet threshold requirements related to the CCH’s ability to finance the development and operation of the approved program use,’ is erroneous, arbitrary and capricious,” wrote John Parvensky, president and CEO of the coalition, in a letter to HHS sent on March 27. He requested a response from the department within 10 days.

In that same letter, Parvensky wrote that HHS failed to provide the coalition with an opportunity to correct or supplement any information in its final application that HHS felt was incomplete, “even though other applicants under the Title V acquisition process have been able to provide such clarifications or supplemental information.”

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The 59 acres of undeveloped land near the Federal Center and St. Anthony Hospital may again be up for sale by the federal government, after a plan was rejected to use the entire space for housing and services for area homeless.

COURTESY PHOTO The General Services Administration, which owns the 59 undeveloped acres between St. Anthony Hospital and the Federal Center, has restarted the online auction for the property.

In the HHS letter of denial to the coalition, Theresa Ritta, program manager of Real Property Management Services for the federal department, wrote “the final application is not approvable because it failed to meet threshold requirements related to the

CCH’s ability to finance the development and operation of the approved program of use. More specifically … many aspects of the submitted financial plan are either incomplete or speculative.”

According to Ritta’s letter, the coalition failed to include sufficient cost information on electric service infrastructure, water expenses, creating a SEE COALITION, P32

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solar farm, and ability to finance the project.

In the coalition’s application, the plan was to utilize $5 million of an estimated $6,658,684 to be collected by organization related to the sale of apartments currently owned by the Renaissance 88 Apartments LLLP, of which CCH is a limited partner.

The Purchase and Sale Agreement between Renaissance 88 Apartments LLLP and Integra Housing Group LLC, dated June 27, 2017 that the coalition provided as supporting documentation, is only signed by the Renaissance 88 Apartments LLLP. Ritta wrote, “A partially executed document is not legally binding and is therefore insufficient to demon-

April 5, 2018A strate that CCH has $5,000,000 available to fund the development of the approved program of use.”

The final problem HHS saw, according to Ritta’s letter, is related to funding Phase 1 of the project. For this phase, the coalition proposed building temporary housing for about 250 homeless people that could include trailers, geodesic domes and large tents.

“CCH stated that the proposed $2,664,231 operating budget for Phase I is less than 5 percent of CCH’s 2017 operating budget and less than 73 percent of the net operating income for CCH in 2017,” Ritta wrote.

“However, CCH declined to designate specific funds for operations, stating that CCH ‘believe(s)’ that the ongoing cost of Phase I can be absorbed by existing revenue sources without specific designation. It isn’t clear why CCH would decline to designate

specific funds in order to demonstrate its ability to fund proposed operations.”

Despite the coalition’s assertion that it would undertake a capital campaign to support the program, Ritta wrote “CCH did not provide any information demonstrating past success with similar capital campaigns.”

Ritta was the point person on the HHS decision-making process, and as such, she was the person to whom neighborhood residents — who were both for and against the proposed project — wrote letters and messages.

A statement from Cathy Alderman, vice president of communications and public policy with the homelessness coalition, states “there are a number of documents that HHS deemed ‘incomplete’ which CCH could have easily provided to HHS,

but CCH was not afforded the opportunity to submit those documents.”

Alderman said if HHS refuses the appeal and further information, the coalition will have no option other than to return to the U.S. District Court of Colorado to settle the matter.

“Because HHS has not provided any guidance on what a ‘reasonable plan to finance the approved program’ requires, CCH submitted the best plan possible to HHS with the understanding that there might be some points of clarification required in the process,” Parvensky said in a statement. “By categorically denying the plan outright without specifying the threshold or standard, HHS has attempted to essentially deny us the opportunity to exercise our mission and provide housing and services to those experiencing homelessness in Lakewood and Jefferson County.”