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PICTURE AN ESCAPE Several theaters offer series events for all tastes P16

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COLLECTING COLFAX

Jonny Barber’s made a career out of collecting bits of Colfax history, and now it’s on display P4

BELMAR STANDOFF

A domestic violence call became a SWAT siege Saturday night

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LABOR LOUNGES

Lutheran Medical unveils new maternity ward rooms P10

START HORSING AROUND

New program lets children and families learn about what it takes to own a horse P6

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Longtime community leader “Len” Perlmutter dies Father of congressman Ed Perlmutter was 92 STAFF REPORT

Leonard Perlmutter, a successful businessman, one-time state economic-development chief, longtime ambassador for National Jewish Health and father of rep. Ed Perlmutter, passed away on July 8.

“He was an innovator, business man, educator, civic leader, dog lover, Broncos fan, Democrat from the top of his head to the tips of toes, and a wonderful father, husband, grandfather and great-grandfather,” Ed Perlmutter, a six-term Democrat representing Colorado’s 7th congressional district, said in a public statement.

Leonard Perlmutter was an enthusiastic supporter of his son’s political campaigns. In 2012 Ed Perlmutter was running for reelection against Republican challenger Joe Coors, made interesting by the fact that Leonard Perlmutter was next-door neighbors with the Coors’ family in the Applewood neighborhood where the two families had been longtime friends.

According to his obituary, Leonard Michael Perlmutter was born in Denver on Oct. 6, 1925. He and his

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wife moved to Jefferson County in 1953. In his time in the community Leonard Perlmutter was organizations in the community such as the Westminster Rotary, Foothills Arts Center, Rolling Hills, PTAs with Reed Street Elementary and Wheat Ridge Junior High.

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Concrete of Colorado, later known as Standley Structures. He worked closely with National Jewish Health for more than four decades, serving on the board of directors both as the chairman, but also as the organization president and CEO from 1991 to 1993. In 1993 he was given the National Jewish Health Arthur B. Lorber Award for Distinguished Service, the Institution’s highest award.

Former Governor, Roy Romer appointed Leonard Perlmutter to serve as Colorado’s CEO of Economic Development in 1987-1988, to strengthen the state’s ties to the business community.

He was also a patron of the arts, giving his time to serve on the leadership boards of the Santa Fe Opera Association and was the president of the Denver Symphony Association.

Leonard Perlmutter is survived by his wife Alice Perlmutter; children Ed Perlmutter, Joe Perlmutter and Cassie Levi; grandchildren Alexis Perlmutter, Abby Miller, Zoe, Aaron, Braden Perlmutter; and greatgranddaughter Lily.

“His passing will leave a void in the lives of many,” said Ed Perlmutter. “However his guidance, love, and good works will always be remembered.”

“He was an innovator, business man, educator, civic leader, dog lover, Broncos fan, Democrat from the top of his head to the tips of toes, and a wonderful father, husband, grandfather and great-grandfather,” Ed Perlmutter Leonard Perlmutter’s son

Nonprofit gets $1,000 grant to help refugees Teach By Tech offers free 9-week class in Denver area STAFF REPORT

An Arvada based nonprofit has been awarded a $1,000 grant to help provide financial literacy training to refugees in the Denver area.

Teach By Tech and its founder Linnie Pawlek received the award from The Pollination Project, a nonprofit foundation that gives $1,000 a day to individual change-makers and activists worldwide.

“Thank you, Pollination Project, for believing in the mission of Teach By Tech and the impact we can have on the refugee community in Colorado,” Pawlek said in a news release. “This grant will help provide free 9-week financial literacy courses to refugees in the Denver metro area. We work with local partners, Project Worthmore and Hope Communities, to identify refugee needs and organize classes.”

Teach By Tech was founded to

empower vulnerable populations, especially women and girls, by using technology to increase their accessibility to education, according to the news release.

The nonprofit uses a hybrid model of education that allows participants a greater opportunity to attend classes and learn concepts.

Its goal is to equip the underserved with the resources they need to attain economic empowerment and realize self-sufficiency, the news release said.

The Pollination Project gives seed grants to projects that benefit people, the planet, and animals in areas like environmental sustainability, social justice, community health and wellness, arts, and education, according to the release. To view a full list of recipients to date please see: https://thepollinationproject. org/ To learn more about the Financial Literacy for Refugees in Colorado project see https://thepollinationproject.org/grants-awarded/ teach-by-tech-financial-literacy-forrefugees-in-colorado/

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Domestic violence call leads to SWAT standoff in Belmar Wyoming man identified as the barricaded suspect STAFF REPORT

The Lakewood Police Department reports that officers responding to a domestic violence call on the evening of July 14 were met with gunfire, triggering a SWAT standoff, and neighborhood lockdown. Hours later, the body

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of Dale Gordon Bush, 48, a resident of Cheyenne Wyoming was found inside.

At approximately 8:30 p.m., the Lakewood Police Department received a domestic violence call at an apartment in the 7300 block of W. Kentucky Dr. A woman was reportedly able to get out of the apartment and call for help, leaving a male inside the apartment. As officers arrived in the area, they reported a shot fired from what was believed to be from

the apartment in question.

Police called SWAT to the scene in response. By 9:39 p.m. the department had asked residents of the apartment building to shelter in place for their safety. Surrounding roads were shut down for a few hours during the standoff.

According to the department press release, the SWAT team took over the scene and made contact with the Bush in the apartment.

After several hours of talking

throughout the night, contact was lost. A Jefferson County Sheriff ’s bomb squad robot entered the apartment and found Bush “deceased from a self-inflicted injury.”

Mark Reeves with the Lakewood Police Department said Monday that the robot was used to help keep law enforcement officers safe, and not because of any threat of explosive devices.

According to Reeves the investigation is still ongoing.

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Federal Law Unfairly Burdens Buyers When Buying From a ‘Foreign Person’

This week’s column is about a federal law that makes home buyers responsible for paying withholding tax owed when buying a home from a “foreign person.” If you’re not careful about this law, you could, for example, buy a home for $500,000 only later to receive a bill from the US government for $50,000 withholding owed by the seller. Pretty scary for a buyer, isn’t it?

This law is 38 years old, but it only came to my attention this year because it is featured in the 2018 Real Estate Commission update class that all licensees must take. Most agents like to wait until year-end to take this 4-hour class, but it is our policy at Golden Real Estate to have all agents take it in January — a private class in our own office. Most of us were a bit shocked to learn about this law and its implications.

Researching it further, I discovered that most title companies have the seller sign an affidavit at closing attesting to their legal status at closing. It’s my understanding, however, that not every title company takes this step, hence the need for buyers and their agents to perform their own due diligence Because of this provision of the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act of 1980, buyer agents would be wise to insert in all contracts to buy and sell real estate a paragraph such as the following one inserted in a contract for one of my listings: Seller shall inform Buyer in writing whether Seller is a “foreign person” as defined by the Foreign Investment in Real

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Property Tax Act (“FIRPTA”) no later than 10 days after Seller signs this Contract. If Seller is not a “foreign person” pursuant to FIRPTA, Seller shall provide to Buyer and Closing Agent, no later than 20 days after signing this Contract, a written certification of non-foreign status under FIRPTA, under penalties of perjury, certifying to Buyer and Closing Agent that no withholding is required by Buyer pursuant to FIRPTA. If Seller does not provide such certification of non -foreign status to Buyer and Closing Agent on or before twenty (20) days after signing this Contract, then Buyer, at buyer’s sole option, may 1) withhold, pursuant to the provisions of FIRPTA, a portion of the Purchase Price as required by FIRPTA or, 2) terminate this Contract pursuant to Section 25 hereof. Buyer and Seller are advised to seek legal counsel and tax advice regarding their respective rights, obligations, reporting and withholding requirements pursuant to FIRPTA. I surveyed the owners of three title companies and the broker/owners of the three largest real estate brokerages in the Denver metro area and none of them have heard of a buyer being stung by this issue… yet. The unfortunate fact is, as long as FIRPTA exists then so does the possibility that someone will be. One broker/owner, who is on the Forms Committee for the Colorado Real Estate Commission, says that the 2019 version of the Contract to Buy & Sell will contain language regarding FIRPTA. Copies of new forms are typically made available in September but can’t be used until January 1st.

Land Title has an excellent web page — www.ltgc.com/articles/firpta-increase — where it explains, among other things, how FIRPTA exempts from withholding homes sold for less than $300,000 that will be used by the buyer as a residence. The withholding rate is 10% on homes between $300,000 and $1 million if it is to be used as the buyer’s residence, but is 15% otherwise. The withholding rate is 15% for homes above $1 million, whether or not used as a residence.

To qualify as a “residence” the buyer or a member of his/her family must occupy the property at least 50% of the days that the property is occupied. Thus, if you buy a vacation home and you don’t let others occupy it for more than the number of days your own family occupies it, the home is considered a “residence” no matter how few days that might be.

One tricky item is that if the buyer does not take title in his own name but in the name of an entity — for example, a family trust — then the rate would be 15%, irrespective of the sale price.

Sometimes a buyer will change plans and arrange at the last minute to take title in the name of an entity. That requires last-minute work by the title company and might delay closing briefly, so the appropriate forms can be prepared and signed. Don’t forget that this withholding tax applies only in a situation which no one I know has yet experienced — that they unknowingly purchased a home from a “foreign person” and the withholding

tax was not paid from seller’s proceeds at the closing. Nevertheless, it’s important to be aware of that possibility.

Land Title reports that they collect FIRPTA withholding 6 to 10 times a year, primarily on resort properties. Still, with foreigners purchasing more and more American real estate each year, this could become more of an issue in the future.

Buyer agents need to keep in mind that if that worse case situation arises and they didn’t alert their buyer to the possibility, they could be at risk of having an errors & omissions claim filed against them.

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This 2-Story Home Backs to Bear Creek Greenbelt If there’s any house for which the mantra “location, $595,000 location, location” applies, it would be this one at 2976 S. Garrison Way in Lakewood. It has one of the best lots you’ll find backing to the Bear Creek greenbelt, with a gate connecting its amazing backyard to a walking path into the open space. And because of its elevated location above that greenbelt, it also offers great views of the mountains to the west. The home has 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, and 3,132 square feet. You’ll love the hardwood floors and granite counters. It faces southwest, providing excellent shading for its flagstone patio during summer afternoons. That flagstone patio is truly a work of art — so much so that I plan to hire the same Vietnamese contractor to landscape my own backyard! In addition to backing to that greenbelt, the home’s cul-de-sac is across the street from Rampart Park, one of Lakewood’s nicer neighborhood parks. See more picture and take a narrated video tour at www.BearCreekHome.info, then come to my open house, Sat. 1-3 p.m.

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Colfax Museum rolls down the road to Lakewood Move is part of effort to develop Pasternack’s 40 West Arts Hub

HOW TO HELP For more information on the Colfax Museum and to support the famous street, visit: www.colfaxave.com www.thecolfaxmuseum.org

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Jonny Barber was long a fan of members of the beat generation — figures like Jack Kerouac who greatly influenced American culture in the postwar years. And when many of these figures came to the Denver area, they spent their time on Colfax.

“I love a good story, and Colfax is just an endless stream of history and stories that you can’t make up,” Barber said.

“That is part of what inspired me to start the Colfax Avenue website and collecting things from the street’s past.”

Over the years, Barber’s collection of memorabilia, neon signs and historic photos grew so large that it spilled over from his basement, and he decided the best thing to do would be to share it with the world. In November 2017, he started the Colfax Museum in a small space at the Ed Moore Florist shop on East Colfax Avenue. But a recent change in landlords and the metro area’s increasing costs caused Barber to look for a new home.

What better place than West Colfax?

The museum is in the process of making a new home at 6851 W. Colfax Ave., which sits inside Lakewood’s 40 West Arts creative district, in a space previously used by the Pasternack Pawn Shop “We’re really excited about the museum coming to 40 West Arts,” said Bill Marino, executive director of the

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The Colfax Museum founder Jonny Barber, right, visits with a guest at his temporary pawn shop and pop-up Colfax Museum on July 6. The event was part of an effort to give residents a taste of what to expect and raise awareness about the work Barber is doing.

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Lakewood residents Maddie Nichols and Kathi Hasfjord visit the new Colfax Museum’s pop-up exhibit on July 6. The museum held the event to give residents a taste of what to expect when the museum opens.

Lakewood West Colfax Business Improvement District and board chair of 40 West Arts. “We’re going to work hard with Jonny to grow the museum and make it an iconic destination here on West Colfax.”

The museum’s relocation to the former pawn shop’s

location is part of an effort by property owner Scott Pasternack to turn the building into Pasternack’s 40 West Arts Hub. The NEXT Gallery, which serves as an artist cooperative, moved to the building in late April 2017, and Pasternack is remodeling the building to house more

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The Colfax Museum founder Jonny Barber speaks at a pop-up event for the museum’s new location on West Colfax on July 6. time on Colfax now and that used to never be the case,” Barber said. “It’s a beautiful street with an amazing history, story and culture. I hope people who know it now will come to the museum and see it in a new way.”

For Marino and the organizations he works with, striving to bring West Colfax back to life, the relocation of the museum is affirmation that Lakewood’s most famous street is on the upswing.

“It’s a really exciting time to bring this kind of pop culture and historical facility to West Colfax,” Marino said. “This museum, just like Colfax, is quintessentially Colorado.”

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gallery and studio space, as well as stages for live music and even a classic car or two.

“Denver is changing and it costs too much money to operate there,” Pasternack said. “Here in Lakewood, we want these kinds of creative businesses to come.”

Barber is still getting the museum off the ground at its new location and is so dedicated to the project that he’s opened up a temporary pawn shop selling some of his own collectibles in its future location to raise the necessary money to get things off the ground. The aim is to have the museum open by autumn.

The change in location for the museum is part of a longrunning trend on Colfax — where there once were bright neon signs and thriving businesses, some parts of the avenue have taken significant hits over the years.

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Horse Protection League preps youth for horse ownership

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Lots of kids dream of owning a horse, but many of them don’t know what a great responsibility it is.

But a new program called the Youth Equine Program offered at the Horse Protection League developed by the nonprofit’s barn manager Margaret Blaha helps families learn the basics of horse ownership.

“It’s a mock adoption,” Blaha said, “designed to simulate owning a horse.”

If the family feels ready to become horse owners after successful completion of the monthlong program, all fees are waived to adopt a horse from the Horse Protection League.

How it works is, students first attend an orientation to be accepted into the program. Then, they do a walk-through of the grounds with Blaha and pick out the horse they will work with for the 30 days. The responsibilities include doing 50 percent of the feedings throughout the month, keeping the horse’s water trough clean and filled, mucking the pen for a minimum of three days a week and providing $50 a week to cover feed and other horse-care costs.

The program is free and offered to children ages 5 to 18. A parent or guardian must accompany the child but are not allowed to do the work for them.

LEARN MORE To learn more about the Horse Protection League, visit www.thehorseprotectionleague.org. To inquire about the Youth Equine Program, contact Margaret Blaha at 303-216-0141.

“The parents will have to be very involved,” Blaha said. “But the idea is for the kids to experience and learn.”

After the 30 days, the family can either take the horse home with them if they have horse property, or board it at the Horse Protection League for up to five months.

The Youth Equine Program is a win for everyone, Blaha said, because the families get hands-on experience with horse ownership, and the horses go to capable, forever homes.

The program began in February, and Blaha’s first student — 8-year-old Gracie Misik of Golden — graduated in April. Misik adopted a 10-year-old grade paint mare that she named Rain.

But for Arvada residents Tiffany Harrold and her daughter Charley, 12, it wasn’t just about getting a horse at the end.

“We learned more than I ever imagined,” Tiffany Harrold said. “It opened my eyes to horse ownership.

It’s huge to know what you’re getting into.”

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Charley Harrold, 12, of Arvada rides Sport, an 18-year-old Oldenburg warmblood, during her 30-days as a student in the Youth Equine Program — a new program designed as a mock adoption to give youth and their parents hands-on experience with horse ownership.

COURTESY PHOTOS Charley has been taking riding lessons from a family member for the past few years, and together, the mother and daughter have been volunteering at the Horse Protection League for about a year and a half.

Charley worked with a horse named Sport, an 18-year-old Oldenburg warmblood.

“She bonded with her horse beautifully” and took her responsibilities of caring for him seriously, Tiffany Harrold said. “If it were up to her, we’d be bringing him home to live in our backyard.”

But that’s not what is best for Sport,

Tiffany Harrold said. The family does not have horse property, and the program helped Harrold learn the true commitment it would take to own Sport — the expenses of boarding, feed and any medical costs, and the time commitment needed so Charley could spend time with her horse.

So, for now, the two will do more volunteering at the Horse Protection League and Charley will continue to spend time with Sport.

“The program was invaluable to learn that we’re not ready for horse ownership,” Tiffany Harrold said.

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Look before you leap.

Many in Colorado are gathering signatures to amend the state’s laws and constitution. But before you sign, we urge you to look a little deeper and consider the consequences. Did you know that some of these amendments would eliminate tens of thousands of jobs and billions in economic activity across the state? Not a pretty picture.

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China seeks new technology to help clean the environment Golden company offers solutions to Chinese cleantech industry

requested by the central government.”

Deal gave two speeches at the summit. He spoke on the treatment of contaminated water in the oil and gas industry and on remediation of soil in oil and gas fields.

“It gave us an opportunity to be introduced to hundreds of influential people in the Chinese cleantech industries,” Deal said. In China, “there’s a greatest sense of urgency for new technology to help clean up the environment.”

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John “Grizz” Deal, the CEO of IX Power Clean Water based in Golden, is no stranger to China.

He’s been travelling there for more than a decade to conduct business.

But on June 6 and 7, his travels served a different purpose — the US Department of Commerce selected him to represent American industry at the 2018 International Cleantech Summit at the Beijing International Convention Center.

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John “Grizz” Deal, center, the CEO of IX Power Clean Water, stands with Rachel Li, to Deal’s left, the general manager of IX Power Clean Water China, and SinoSteel executives in Beijing, China, at the 2018 International CleanTech Summit, which took place June 6 and 7 at the Beijing International Convention Center.

COURTESY PHOTO The summit is organized by the China Ministry of Ecology and Environment with a purpose to “promote exchange and cooperation among national and international environ-

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The IX Water OG is a machine that can remove harmful contaminants from produced water from oil and gas operations. The treatment system offers the least expensive solution for cleaning produced water, both onshore and offshore, either at the site of origination or at a centralized facility.

Why is it important to clean up the oil and gas industry’s produced water?

The oil and gas industry uses a lot of water for its everyday operations. Water produced along with the mining of oil and gas introduces hundreds of billions of gallons of contaminated water into the environment each year.

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Not to be confused with fracking water or frack flowback water, produced water is naturally occurring water that comes up with the oil and gas from a drilled formation, after the well has been fracked. Produced water is the largest class of waste product generated by the oil and gas industry, and it is dangerously contaminated.

We have a finite amount of fresh water available to us. Only two percent of the global water is available for use by humans. Given that, we think it’s important to treat the oil and gas industry’s contaminated water rather than throw it away.

What is cleantech?

Cleantech is much more than solar panels and electric cars — it’s advances in technology that enable people to live on the planet in a more environmentally sustainable manner. Cleantech is an industry term and it means having more efficient processes for manufacturing, a better use of resources, less environmental damage and lower cost.

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First, China needs cleantech innovations. Concerning cleantech, China is moving at light speed, while the US is still in horseand-buggy mode.

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The Chinese people I interact with are in no way adversarial.

Educated Chinese people look at America as something to strive for, in a big brother/little brother manner.

The more acerbic people I meet see America’s current federal administration and its misguided trade policies as a signal that the US is declining in its prominence in global markets.

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Lutheran’s new birthing suites a place to labor with love Rooms focused on providing natural birth experiences

BY SHANNA FORTIER SFORTIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Lutheran Medical Center is now offering the birth center experience to mothers who want a more natural childbirth.

An open house July 14 revealed two birthing suites featuring queen size beds and aids that help with labor including labor support slings, birthing balls, jacuzzi tubs and aromatherapy.

“There’s a lot of women now that really want that natural birth— no medication just support through labor,” said Marcia Teague, manager of mom, baby gyn and lactation at Lutheran Medical. “We’re really excited about offering this service within the confines of the hospital.”

The birthing suites are for low-risk patients who want family support and natural childbirths.

In the birthing suites, moms are not strapped to a monitor, rather the medical staff performs intermittent listening of the baby’s heartbeat. If a woman or baby develops issues along the way, they are transferred to a

OTHER BABY FRIENDLYDESIGNATED HOSPITALS IN THE METRO AREA Saint Joseph Hospital, Denver St. Anthony North Health Campus, Westminster University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora tradition labor and delivery room for more medical care.

“This just allows us to have another service to offer our community,” Teague said. “Lutheran is very innovative and willing to stretch our bounds to meet the needs and wants of our patients.”

The open house also celebrated the hospital’s recent designation as a Baby-Friendly facility.

“We’ve gone through a thorough program to make sure that all of our nurses can help with breast feeding,” Teague said. “We have practices that support the baby being in the room 24-7 so mom gets to know the baby.”

The hospital also has a donor milk program, a partnership with Mothers’ Milk Bank in Arvada, and a breast feeding support group.

“We were always baby-friendly,” Teague said. “But now we have the designation.”

Adeline Belanger, 2, spends time with the donkey at the petting zoo at Lutheran Hospital’s open house held July 14.

PHOTOS BY SHANNA FORTIER The two new birthing suites feature fullsize beds and labor support slings to aid in childbirth.

The birthing suites are for low-risk patients who want family support and natural childbirths.

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Small companies hit hard by import, export tariffs Businesses with narrow profit margins are feeling the squeeze

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Time and effort have gone down the drain for Steve Gould, who is scrambling to find new customers for his gin, whiskey and other spirits since the United States has taken a tough stance on trade issues.

Before the European Union retaliated against new U.S. tariffs with taxes of its own, Gould expected revenue from the EU at his Golden Moon Distillery in Golden to reach $250,000 or $350,000 this year. Now, he’s concerned that European exports will total just $25,000. Golden Moon already saw an effect when then-candidate Donald Trump made trade an issue during the 2016 campaign. Gould lost one of his Mexican importers and an investor, as overseas demand for small-distiller spirits was growing.

“We’ve lost years of work and hundreds of thousands of dollars in building relationships with offshore markets,’’ says Gould, who’s hoping to find new customers in countries like Japan.

President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade policies are taking a toll on

In this photo from 2016 Carly Raemer, assistant manager and bartender at the Golden Moon Speakeasy, located in Golden, pours a glass of the Golden Moon Colorado Single Malt Whiskey, which is made locally at the Golden Moon Distillery.

FILE PHOTO small U.S. manufacturers. The president has imposed tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum imports from most of the world, including Europe, Mexico and Canada, driving up costs for companies that rely on those metals. And he has slapped 25 percent taxes on $34 billion in Chinese imports in a separate trade dispute, targeting mostly machinery

and industrial components so far.

Trump’s tariffs have drawn retaliation from around the world. China is taxing American soybeans, among other things; the European Union has hit Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Kentucky bourbon; Canada has imposed tariffs on a range of products — from U.S. steel to dishwasher detergent.

More businesses could be feeling the pain as the trade disputes escalate — the administration on July 10 threatened to impose 10 percent tariffs on thousands of Chinese products, including fish, apples and burglar alarms. And China responded with a tariff threat of its own, although it didn’t say what U.S. exports would be targeted.

Small businesses are particularly vulnerable to tariffs because they lack the financial resources larger companies have to absorb higher costs.

Large companies can move production overseas — as Harley-Davidson recently announced it would do to escape 25 percent retaliatory tariffs in Europe. But “if you’re a small firm, it’s much harder to do that; you don’t have an international network of production locations,” says Lee Branstetter, professor of economics and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College.

Shifting manufacturing away from items that use components that are being taxed is also harder since small businesses tend to make fewer products, he says. And if tariffs make it too expensive to export to their current markets, small companies may not be able to afford the effort of finding new ones.

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VOICES Being tailgated — there’s something stupid behind it

QUIET DESPERATION

Craig Marshall Smith

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he first recorded incident of following at an unsafe distance occurred about an hour after the invention of the automobile.

Understandably, that wouldn’t have been possible, but it probably didn’t take long after automobiles were first on the roads in America before one driver tailgated another driver.

In the 21st century, following too closely is inevitable, likely, honored, addictive and routine.

There are tailgating associations and clubs and cults.

I am not a member, but I suffer the consequences of their missions nevertheless.

Their mission statements all start with the same mantra: “Trust your brakes.”

I despise tailgaters.

I have no recourse. Agitating a tailgater, who has zero sense of road intelligence to begin with, furthers the problem, solves nothing, and leads to unwanted consequences.

The opposition to this thinking is that I am an elderly, overly conservative driver who forgets to turn off his turn signal, and loiters in the left lane.

It’s not true. I am — still — a conscientious driver.

Conscientious drivers make up less than half of the drivers on I-25.

Everyone is in a hurry.

Would that everyone left for work five or 10 minutes earlier and didn’t mash the gas pedal, but it doesn’t work that way.

We are stimulated to speed by glamorizing advertisements and glamorizing films.

Have you ever seen Steve McQueen in “Bullitt”?

Varoom with a view.

In 1966, my father bought a second car for my sister and me. It was a midnight blue Mustang.

There was a small plate on the side of the car SEE SMITH, P14

Take a focused approach to information overload

T LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Regarding Alcorn’s immigration comments I supported President Reagan’s immigration law as a reasonable approach to the roughly three million illegal aliens in the country at that time. Years later, 11 million. A law designed to solve a problem provided incentives for greater problems down the road. Give Americans reasonable assurance that the border is secure and immigration reform becomes possible.

Rick Perry’s debate remark that you can’t build a fence on a river bank and your comment about securing right-of-way shows it’s complicated. But I can’t blame the people of Arizona and Texas for insisting something be done about drug-runners, traffickers and families with children scrambling across their ranches. In a recent broadcast Jeh Johnson, former Homeland Security Secretary, agreed that there are currently

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1,000 crossings a day, not a trivial number. I’ve read that the wall outside San Diego has been successful and is locally popular. We need to continue such efforts to convince Americans and their representatives what can be done is being done. We are perfectly justified to expect an honest effort and honest answers.

With that confidence, we can adjust our immigration policies to accommodate the labor shortage that economic growth will likely soon generate. We can deal with illegal immigrants fairly and humanely. I don’t believe anyone wants open borders, any more than they want our respective law enforcement agencies crossing the Rio Grande to apprehend suspects.

Build reasonably effective barriers, build confidence, then write the legislation.

Bruce Ellis, Arvada

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sion and more frustration. If this is the hanks again for the tremendous case, what is the answer? support from the community.

Here are a few ideas.

I really do love receiving your Focus on what is to be considered a emails, thoughts and questions, must-have and not what is so please keep them coming. a nice-to-have. I know that One of the more common emails WINNING at almost every conference I receive lately is this: “Help, I am WORDS I attend, I have a colleague suffering from communication or peer share with me the overload.” Most people go on with newest and coolest app or greater detail about the amount of service they have found. At emails, posts, tweets, voice mails, first, I get excited and think I breaking news flashes and sports need to download it, but then updates that they receive. They I remember that it really is share that the noise is deafening. just one more nice-to-have, I explored this a little further and not a have-to-have. So, I with my own network, family and stay focused on my essential friends. I wanted to know how avenues of information. just how common this feeling was Michael Norton A couple of business asinside my own circle of friends sociates shared with me that they gave and colleagues. And what I got back was consistent with our community’s emails up their online news apps more than a year ago. They took the apps off of their — there is simply too much information phones and tablets so that they could coming our way at any one moment. I determine when and how they wanted heard expressions like “information to consume the news. As it turned out, overload,” “information fatigue” and all that “breaking news” wasn’t so “noisy nonsense.”

As new apps are developed, and new breaking after all and would be available technologies are built to help us streamto them when and how they wanted to line our lives and make access to inforconsume it. mation easier, they also bring with them Another best practice is the way we the unintended consequence of too read our email. Set up three times a day much noise, too much information, and only and stay committed to the practice. fatigue. There is a population of people Check it once in the morning, once who have figured out how to maximize mid-day, and once in the later afternoon these technologies and love the efficienor evening. We can all argue that we are cies that they create, but for the greater population, my research tells me that it is only creating more noise, more confuSEE NORTON, P14

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How pets help keep us healthy as we age

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appiness is a warm puppy.

Who doesn’t love the feel of fur between your fingers, or the nicker of a horse when they see you come into the barn?

The importance of the human-animal bond has been increasingly recognized and studied LIVING AND in the last 30 years.

AGING WELL For those of us who have felt the nuzzle of a cold nose in our hand, or warmth of a cat settled in our lap, we have firsthand experience of the power of an animal’s love.

In an increasingly fractured and hectic Kelly Diehl world, where family can be separated by long distances and busy schedules, pets can help fill an important role in providing companionship and purpose for seniors.

Although it seems intuitive that pet ownership would be beneficial, what do we really know about the health benefits of pet ownership?

There are many documented health benefits to pet ownership. Several studies have shown that interactions with animals (not necessarily pet ownership) can decrease blood pressure, lower cholesterol, and help treat depression.

A very recent study showed that Alzheimer’s patients who interacted with animals had improved cognition.

Of course, many studies suggest that people who own dogs get more exercise, although other studies contend that people who are active tend to exercise more with their pets.

Although the jury is still out on the effect of pets and exercise, there is no question that interactions with animals improve many measurements of well-being. A few lesser known, but equally important benefits of pet ownership include eenhanced self-discipline and selfworth, and more opportunities for meeting people. As one recent AARP article put it, “Pets are natural born ice breakers!”

Pet ownership is not without its downside for seniors.

Although there are many documented benefits, there are some downsides to pet ownership. Veterinary care can be expensive, and, for folks on a fixed income, can be a drain on limited resources.

As seniors elect to move into assisted living or other types of housing, they can encounter restrictions on size or type of pet, or whether pets are allowed at all.

Many physicians are concerned about the potential for injuries or falls for older pet owners — and sometimes a pet can be injured if stepped or fallen on.

Thinking outside the box of traditional pet ownership can provide alternative options. As mentioned above, many studies show that

OBITUARIES PERLMUTTER

Leonard Michael Perlmutter In Loving Memory October 16, 1925 - July 8, 2018

Leonard Michael Perlmutter, born October 16, 1925 to Phil and Belle Perlmutter in Denver, Colorado died July 8, 2018 in Denver. Leonard (or “Len” or “Laz” as he was known to many) was married for 66 years to his college sweetheart Alice and they had three children Ed (Nancy), Joe, and Cassie (Joe Levi), six grandchildren (Alexis, Abby, Zoe, Ian, Aaron and Braden) and one great-granddaughter (Lily). He was predeceased by his mother and father, his sister Ann Reinstein, brother Jack, and sister Roz Altenberg.

Pets and their owners enjoyed costume contests and more at the 2018 Furry Scurry.

COURTESY PHOTO simply interacting with animals on a regular basis can have positive health effects.

Volunteering at a shelter or rescue can be a rewarding experience — not only can it give you your animal “fix,” helping out also provides much-needed support to our most vulnerable animals.

Many shelters and rescue groups also need volunteers to foster pets for a short time before permanently placing them in a forever home. This can be a great way to get the benefit of having an animal in your home without a long-term commitment.

If you travel frequently to visit family members you may find fostering dogs and cats a rewarding experience and one that fits with your lifestyle. You can even foster guinea pigs!

Adopting an older pet is another option for people who love pets but worry about a long-term commitment or don’t want the hassles associated with raising a young animal.

Many older pets sit unwanted in shelters, but they can make great companions for seniors. A senior that has had a series of older pets since retiring shared the following, “These animals are so deserving of love and care. I’m happy we can share our golden years together!”

Pets can fill an important void in seniors’ lives. They provide unconditional love and companionship, can be a stimulus for exercise and social interaction, and improve our health.

It’s a win-win for everyone!

Kelly Diehl, DVM MS Dipl. ACVIM, is the senior scientific programs and communications adviser for the Morris Animal Foundation — Bridging Science & Resources to Advance the Health of Animals. For more information, email kdiehl@morrisanimalfoundation.org or visit www.morrisanimalfoundation.org. This column is hosted by the Seniors’ Council of Douglas County. For more information, go online to MyDougCoSeniorLife.com, email DCSeniorLife@ douglas.co.us or call 303-663-7681.

Laz was a lifelong Coloradan and lived in Denver and Jefferson County. He attended Colfax Elementary, Lake Junior High, West High School and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He played all manner of sports from baseball to tennis to skiing to squash and handball. As a kid, he fished pretty much every stream Colorado has to offer.

Laz was a true citizen of the West in business and civic matters. In 1951, with family members and a close friend, he helped start and build Perlmutter and Sons, a prestressed and precast concrete company. In 1952, the company bought property at 58th and Pecos in Adams County.

Perlmutter and Sons became Prestressed Concrete of Colorado before eventually becoming Stanley Structures, which spanned the Rocky Mountain West, Texas, Arizona and Canada, and employed more than 2,000 people. Laz served as CEO of Stanley Structures for many years. It was a union business from top to bottom and was instrumental in building thousands of structures including airports, resorts, roads and bridges, federal and state installations and laboratories, military bases, apartments, warehouses, office buildings, shopping centers, and hospitals. Laz also served as Chairman of the international trade and standards organization, Prestressed/Precast Concrete Institute.

Laz was a dedicated ambassador for National Jewish Health for more than 40 years. He became a member of the Board of Directors in 1978 and served in a variety of key leadership roles, including as Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1983 to

1986. He was on the Executive Committee of the Board since 1980 and was a Lifetime Director. He also served as the head of Economic Development in the Roy Romer Administration, founder and lifetime member of the Colorado Forum, President of Colorado Open Lands, and Board Member of the Foundation for Colorado Community Colleges.

Laz was very involved in Jefferson County, serving as Board Member of the Foothills Art Center; Trustee of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; President of Reed Street Elementary and Wheat Ridge Junior High PTA’s; and precinct committee man and district captain for the Democratic Party in Jefferson County.

He was an early member of Rolling Hills Country Club and presided over the move from the original location (now Applewood Golf Course) and the construction of the new club and golf course on the north flank of South Table Mountain. He was a member of RHCC for well over 50 years.

He was a fixture on the tennis courts at the club and was known for his big, slicing lefthanded serve.

He loved and respected everyone, no matter their station in life or their background. He had time for everyone, especially his family and friends. Laz was a Democrat from the top of his head to the tips of his toes. Even so he had friends all over the political spectrum.

He was egalitarian and communityminded. He loved Denver, CU, the Rocky Mountains and the West. He had a great sense of humor with a big wide smile and a twinkle in his eye for just about everyone.

He was a great Coloradan and a wonderful husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, uncle and cousin. Laz’s passing will leave a void in the lives of many, however his guidance, love, and good works will never be lost.

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that said “289.”

That meant nothing to me, but it seemed to mean something to my friends.

One asked, “What’s your zero to 60?”

“Huh?” People change in their automobiles. A demure secretary the size of a Pimlico jockey becomes Danica.

I have never watched or attended an automobile race. Complete waste of time.

Millions of others don’t see it that way.

There have been auto races as long as there have been autos. Starting in the 1950s, drag races were popular and popularized in films like “Rebel Without a Cause” and “American Graffiti.”

It wasn’t a coincidence that a slew of car-related songs came out not long afterwards. The most prominent ones were recorded by the Beach Boys, but there were others by Jan and Dean, the Rip Cords, and Ronnie and the Daytonas.

Life imitated art in 1966, when Jan Berry suffered a severe head injury in a

road accident not far from “Dead Man’s Curve.”

(Berry died in 2014; Dean Torrence is 78.)

Nothing good happens when someone is tailgated, and many bad things can happen.

Road rage, accidents, injuries, inconvenience, rental cars, insurance rates. Oh, and death.

It doesn’t seem to matter.

I know, I know. There’s a warning on a pack of cigarettes, but close to 400 billion cigarettes are smoked in America every year.

Alcohol comes with many of the same warnings, and similar consequences, but we continue to drink.

Here’s the difference, unless you drink and drive, you’re only affecting your own health.

If you tailgate me, you’re affecting my health, and Jennifer’s and Harry’s.

This little dab of words won’t change anyone’s behavior. I know that. We’re simply not that smart.

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

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so important that we need to be available all day, 24/7, but the reality is that if there is something that important or urgent happening, the other person or company knows how to reach us by telephone.

“Focus” is a big word for some.

Many of us believe we can multitask, but we really can’t. When we give up our commitment to focus and spread ourselves too thin, our attempts at multi-tasking become even less effective. So as information comes at us so fast and in so many ways, the best thing we can do is slow down, shut down, so that we can apply our focus on the right things at the right time.

A lack of focus is hurting our family time too. Look around at a family traveling together at the airport, or dining together in a restaurant, they will all be heads down on the devices.

Emails, texts, games, news, scores,

and other things. A lack of focus is killing our productivity at work. Not saying that we shouldn’t use technology to connect. But when we have way too many sources of communication, tools, systems, processes, initiatives, and requirements, what happens is that everything we put in place to create enablement and efficiencies for our teams at work is actually fostering inefficiencies and disablement in the workplace.

So how about you? Is the noise deafening? Do you have a strategy for how you deal with information overload and fatigue? Whether you need some help and coaching in this area or you have it all under control, I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com. And when we can apply our focus to the right areas of life, including our consumption of information, it really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the president of the Zig Ziglar Corporate Training Solutions Team, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.

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Playing and moving with drums helps relieve stress in kids, boosts mood

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oung children are drawn to drumming sounds and love to move with the beats found in every culture. Just observe young children at powwows, band concerts, weddings, and parades. They are jumping and twirling to the beat. Drums are also a fun learning tool.

All you’ll need are purchased drums, homemade drums, drumsticks, or outdoor steps.

To make your own drum sets help children gather cardboard, plastic, wooden, and metal containers of different sizes and shapes. Include a discussion that walls and furniture are NOT drums.

away from high-pitched sounding pots and pans, but include one pizza pan covered with paper for a realistic cymbal.

Wooden spoons and chopsticks make excellent drumsticks. Music stores also have inexpensive ones.

If desired, muffle LIFELONG sounds by wrapping cloth secured with LEARNING around the Esther Macalady string tips. Children can also just use their hands.

Use the different sizes, shapes, and materials to explain that large containers make a deep sound and small ones make a higher sound. Drums, like all other musical instruments, produce sound by vibrating air molecules. These air molecules push together and pull apart until the sound finally reaches the ear. Air molecules have more space and move slower in a

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large drum chamber. Slower movement creates a deeper sound. Place your children’s hands on a container while you drum. They can feel the vibration.

Follow a Beat To avoid a crazy riot of banging, drum with your children. Teach them to follow a beat so later they can make their own. Can they imitate different rhythms you make? Can they beat fast, slowly, loudly and softly? Can they drum to songs like that have a soft steady beat? Familiar songs like “Old MacDonald” and “Itsy Bitsy Spider” have varied rhythms. ”Little Drummer Boy” is beautiful at any season.

Create a drumming circle so adults and children can drum together, take turns, and imitate each other.

YouTube is filled with college and high school marching bands, drum

circles, and Pow-Wow’s to inspire drumming and dancing.

You may want to include drumsticks on your next neighborhood walk and explore the different sounds children can make drumming on trees, pipes, and rocks.

Summer time has many outdoor live performances where they can experience the power of percussion.

Energize a dreary day by marching around your house to the music of a college band playing fight songs.

Drumming, like other kinds of music, helps children focus, relieves stress, elevates sad moods, improves listening skills, increases coordination, and provides exercise.

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Attendees at the Summer Scream Event at Lakeside Amusement Park have some fun before horror films are screened.

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MOVIES offer ESCAPE from heat and traditional fare Theaters have something for all tastes in series events

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he summer months are some of the busiest of the year for the major movies studios — it’s when they release the bulk of their massive blockbuster films, and audiences eager to escape the summer heat flock to the cool dark of the theater.

But face it, a good portion of these summer films are subpar at best. Luckily, there are options for those looking for a movie experience that has a little more to offer — film series.

“Our mission is to develop opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences,” said Kevin Smith, marketing director with the Denver Film Society, a nonprofit that works to engage people in a lifelong relationship with the medium. “A primary goal for our series and festivals is to build upon the communities around different subjects, ideas, and cultures.”

The Cinema Q Film Festival is the state’s leading LGTBQ film event. This year’s event runs through July 22.

PHOTO BY JAMES DIMAGIBA The film society is part of several film series all over the metro area during the summer. Perhaps the most famous is the Film on the Rocks series at Red Rocks, which includes crowd favorites like “The Goonies” and recent hits like “Black Panther.”

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science also gets in on the fun with its Sci-Fi Film Series. As the

title implies, this series screens genre fiction films like “Blade Runner 2049” and “Annihilation,” and pairs them with presentations by museum scientists and Vincent Piturro, English and film professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

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s someone who has spent several years working in a bookstore can attest to, readers of the romance genre are some of the most dedicated and voracious readers one will come across.

Which means it’s no surprise that these same readers and writers would be fervent COMING supporters of ATTRACTIONS literacy and want to do something to ensure needed resources are available to all.

Fans of the genres and believers in the power of reading won’t want to miss the annual Clarke Reader Romance Writers of America’s 28th annual Readers for Life autographing in support of adult literacy. The event will be from 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 21, at Sheraton Downtown Denver Hotel, 1550 Court Place, downtown.

“Readers will have the chance to meet their favorite authors, find authors who could be their new favorites, and be around hundreds of other readers who love the same books they do, all while supporting a great cause,” said Jessie Edwards, marketing and public relations manager with the Romance Writers of America.

The group is a nonprofit trade association whose mission is to advance the professional and common business interests of careerfocused romance writers.

More than 300 romance authors, including Sylvia Day, Beverly Jenkins and Suzanne Brockmann, will meet with and sign books for fans.

Copies of the books have been donated to the event by publishers and authors. One hundred percent of proceeds from book sales benefit ProLiteracy and the Colorado Literacy Coalition, helping these groups create lifelong readers.

According to information provided by the Romance Writers, the raised funds have supported 28 U.S. literacy programs and Laubach Literacy Canada, have supplied 18,882 adult educational materials to adult learners, and have helped provide training for an estimated 930 tutors annually.

“Increasing adult literacy is a cause that reflects one of the essential tenets we stand for — that literacy is individually and culturally vital,” Edwards said.

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“We’re able to have a discussion after the move about the filmmaking and then our scientists are able to talk about their area of expertise in relation to the movie,” said Dr. Steve Lee, a space scientist at the museum, who has participated in the series when space-related movies have been shown. “Our goal is to get people talking about what they’ve seen and there’s always an interesting discussion. It’s a fun way to make people a little more aware of how science impacts their daily life.”

Even Denver’s most famous bookstore, the Tattered Cover, taps into the power of films to tell stories through series hosted in partnership with the film society. These films are selected

by Howie Movshovitz, director of film education at the College of Arts and Media at the University of ColoradoDenver and are often foreign or classics from the medium’s history.

“There are no themes or anything like that I’m thinking about when I select films for the series,” Movshovitz explained. “I like introducing people to films they haven’t seen and have a good conversation after. It is important to me that we don’t lose the habit of talking about movies.”

Over the years, even chain theaters have discovered the draw of screening classics. AMC theaters host Fathom Events screenings and Harkins Theatres, like the newly opened location in Olde Town Arvada, have Tuesday

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“To date, we’ve raised more than $1 million for this cause and are proud to have helped an estimated 40,800 adult learners gain high-school educations, get jobs, and support their families.”

For information, visit www.rwa.org/ literacy.

Parker celebrates the King of Pop The world lost Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, a little over nine years ago.

In the ensuing years his musical stature has only grown, and people are still clamoring to experience his music live.

Fans can get a taste of the live show

SUMMER MOVIES SERIES IN METRO AREA CINEMAQ FILM FESTIVAL WHERE: Sie FilmCenter 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver WHEN: July 18 through 22 INFORMATION: www.denverfilm.org/cinemaq

film.org/summer-scream/ TATTERED COVER CLASSICS WHERE: Sie FilmCenter 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver WHEN: Year round INFORMATION: www.denverfilm.org/tattered-coverclassics/

SCREAM SCREEN WHERE: Sie FilmCenter 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver WHEN: Last Saturday and remaining Fridays in July INFORMATION: www.denverfilm.org FILM ON THE ROCKS WHERE: Red Rocks Amphitheatre 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison WHEN: Through Aug. 13 INFORMATION: www.redrocksonline.com/fotr/

The Cinema Q Film Festival is the state’s leading LGTBQ film event. The annual slate of films aims to share stories of and pay tribute to important and iconic figures in this community.

SCI-FI FILM SERIES WHERE: Denver Museum of Nature & Science 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver

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and Sie FilmCenter 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver WHEN: Through Aug. 15 INFORMATION: www.denverfilm.org/sci-fi-series/

SUMMER SCREAM WHERE: Lakeside Amusement Park, 4601 Sheridan Blvd., Lakewood WHEN: 6 p.m., Aug. 30 INFORMATION: www.denver-

TUESDAY NIGHT CLASSICS WHERE: Harkins Theatres WHEN: 7 p.m. on Tuesdays yearround INFORMATION: www.harkins. com/movies/tuesday_night_ classics THE 37TH CHAMBER (KUNGFU), GRAVEYARD SHIFT (HORROR) AND EVENT SCREENINGS WHERE: Alamo Drafthouse 4255 W. Colfax Ave., Denver 7301 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton WHEN: Year round INFORMATION: www.drafthouse.com/denver

Night Classics at 7 p.m. every week for just $5.

The Alamo Drafthouse, with locations in Littleton and Sloans Lake, takes a blended approach — they have genre film series like The 37th Chamber (kung-fu) and Graveyard Shift (horror) that screen rare movies most aren’t aware of, but they also have event screenings where filmmakers participate in discussions afterwards.

The theater has hosted notables like

Bryan Cranston, director Rian Johnson and Macaulay Culkin, who was in town on July 18 for a screening of “Big Trouble in Little China.”

“Sometimes there’s an anniversary or something culturally or politically important happening that leads to a screening,” said Steve Bessette, creative director with Alamo Denver.

“There are so many ways to watch movies, but streaming something on your couch and experiencing it with

other people in a theater are totally different things.”

In the end, all these different movie series are ways for people to experience new things in an art form that has been around for more than a century.

“I hope these movies find a way to get audiences,” Movshovitz said. “I like the fact that there are options for people to come to a theater in a group and have a dream together.”

at the Michael Jackson Tribute Experience Event at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 21, at the PACE Schoolhouse Theatre, 19650 Mainstreet in Parker.

Based in Colorado, the nationwide touring company has already had sold-out shows in the state, including Denver, Salida, Pueblo, Greeley, Colorado Springs, Lafayette and Boulder.

Colorado native Sonny G. will be playing Jackson.

He is a national touring entertainer and portrays several artists.To get tickets, visit www.parkerarts.org.

heard them. For a while there, that’s all Third Eye Blind knew how to write.

The band was responsible for radio staples like “Semi-Charmed Life,” “Never Let You Go,” and “How’s It Going To Be,” and I can still sing along without missing a line. And I do anytime I hear them out in the world.

If you’re anything like me, you’re not going to want to miss Third Eye Blind at Littleton’s Hudson Gardens and Events Center, 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive, at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 22.

To purchase tickets, visit www.hudsongardens.org.

fanciest robes and make sure their wands are in good shape, because it is a certain famous wizard’s birthday.

To mark the occasion, the Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., is celebrating 20 Years of Magic with Harry Potter. The event runs from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, July 28.

The evening will feature a range of activities, including Harry Potter trivia, try-outs for Quidditch, and more magical fun. The event is free but signup is required. Visit www.tatteredcover.com/celebrating-20-yearsmagic-harry-potter to save a spot.

Tattered Cover celebrates Harry Potter’s birthday Witches and wizards in the metro area are going to want to dust off their

Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached creader@coloradocommunitymedia.com.

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Hundreds audition for ‘Amazing Race’ Hordes of would-be adventurers line up to try out for reality show

Chris Kenry, left, and Illene Roggensack make their pitch in hopes of winning a spot on “The Amazing Race,” the hit CBS reality show approaching its 31st season. PHOTOS BY DAVID GILBERT

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Sometimes a race around the world starts with waiting in a really long line.

Hundreds of potential adventurers lined up outside the K1 Speed go-kart racing track in northern Douglas County on July 12 to audition for the 31st season of “The Amazing Race,” the hit CBS reality show that pits 11 teams of two against each other to race around the world for a million-dollar prize.

Decked out in wild costumes and adventure gear, the duos made their pitches for why they would make good globetrotters.

Lauren and Emily Bolejack, sisters from Elbert, said their childhoods spent hunting and fishing make them solid candidates, even though they don’t always get along.

“Our family has zero faith in us as a team,” Emily Bolejack said. “Help us prove them wrong. We’re small-town girls with big goals.”

Another twosome, Illene Roggensack and Chris Kenry, said being in the over50 set gave them an advantage.

“We’ve seen people kicked out because they can’t drive a stick shift

or read a map,” Roggensack said. “We can do both.”

The pair met decades ago when Roggensack was Kenry’s track coach at Columbine High School, Roggensack said. The two said they were ready to show the whippersnappers a thing or two.

“We’re pretty proud we can still do all this in our 50s,” Kenry said.

Auditions are held at spots around the country, said CBS spokeswoman Danielle Dascalos. Teams often try more than once, and selected teams might not even get the nod until a couple seasons down the road, Dascalos said. Teams can also send in homemade tapes.

Hopeful roundthe-world racers line up outside K1 Speed to audition for the CBS reality show “The Amazing Race.”

Holding the auditions at K1 Speed was a natural partnership, said K1 general manager Jack Czarnecki.

“We’re all about going fast and

getting in front of everyone else, and that’s what ‘The Amazing Race’ is about too,” Czarnecki said. “It’s a match made in heaven.”

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‘Kaleidoscope’ juried exhibit opens at college Artworks will be on display at Littleton campus through Aug. 3

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The annual community exhibit, “Kaleidoscope,” is open through Aug. 3 at the Colorado Gallery of the Arts at Arapahoe Community College/Littleton, offering a varied look at works by artists in the community — bringing together many, sometimes combined, media, interests and techniques — the open entry format invites works both traditional and a bit edgy.

The juror was ACC Art Department Chair Angela Faris Belt, who combines fine art photography with

her administrative skills. Her eye for fine detail is apparent in her choices of ribbon winners.

Linda Schmale won first place for a screen print called simply “Tulip.” It has the pristine look of a carefully drawn black ink rendition — which is how it started out in this world, one suspects. The artist has several related artworks near it on the wall and I liked the decision to hang works submitted by a given artist together. It’s a nice way to take in the range of work by a particular person, or refinements on a given approach or vision.

Second place was awarded to multi-talented Littleton artist Michelle Lamb, who has an exhibit of her assemblage work, “Altered Alchemy,” coming up in Boulder soon at Bricolage Gallery. Her winning piece, “Capricorn” is sculpture created from epoxy-resin clay. The

IF YOU GO The Littleton campus of Arapahoe Community College is at 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive. The “Kaleidoscope” exhibit is in the Colorado Gallery of the Arts in the Annex building at the northeast end. Admission is free. charming goat figure with a fish tail exudes confidence and an air of being in charge. (Lamb is the artist who painted the mural at the downtown Littleton light rail station, commissioned by Littleton’s Fine Art Board before the train started running.)

It was a pleasant surprise to see the name of Michelle Lamb’s daughter, Emily Lamb, on the thirdplace winner, “Kindred,” a pair of beautifully crafted, classicallooking porcelain heads, connected at the crown by a colored glass

piece. (Emily graduated with a fine arts degree a little over a year ago, where she focused on glass as her material of choice and she has been working and traveling, perfecting her skills.) Fun to see a young community artist touch base again.

She also has a smaller work, “Infinity,” depicting two ethereal classic figures — again connected with a bit of glass.

Honorable mentions were awarded to Barbara Veatch and Bobbi Shupe, both longtime local figures in the art world.

This exhibit is a pleasing combination of very approachable works of art, with paintings, prints, photographs, sculptural works and color and texture both subdued and noisy.

There will be a closing reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Aug. 3, and the show is open Mondays to Fridays from noon to 5 p.m. until then.

Tour immerses visitors into life in foreign country STAFF REPORT

More than 700 million people in developing countries live on less than $1.90 per day, facing challenges most Americans never will.

Compassion International’s The Compassion Experience will make a three-day stop in Highlands Ranch to take visitors on a journey into the lives of two children living in Ethiopia and the Dominican Republic, it announced in a news release.

The event July 27-30 is hosted

by Mountainview Christian Church, 40 E. Highlands Ranch Parkway, Highlands Ranch.

A self-guided tour will immerse visitors in the lives of the children. Through the use of an iPod, a headset and 1,700 square feet

of interactive space, visitors will see the children’s homes, walk through schools and markets, and hear life-changing stories of hope.

The free event is appropriate for all ages and is an opportunity for anyone who has never had the chance to travel outside the United States to get a small glimpse of what life can be like in developing countries.

Visitors are encouraged to make a reservation, but walk-ins are welcome. Groups of 20 or more should email changetour@ compassion.com to reserve their space.

For information, visit www. compassionexperience.com and www.facebook.com/compassionexperience on Facebook.

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Wednesdays Music Teachers Association Suburban Northwest meets 9:30 a.m. to noon the first Wednesday of the month at Community in Christ Church, 12229 W. 80th Ave., Arvada.

Meetings are open to the public and include refreshments, business meeting and program featuring music teaching professionals from around the state lecturing on the latest teaching developments.

New Apostolic Church Food Pantry: Open from 9-11 a.m. every Wednesday at 5290 Vance St., Arvada, rear entrance. All are welcome. We provide food to anyone in need. Please visit us once a month. Call 720722-FOOD (3663) or email foodpantry@nacdenver.org. Go to http://www.nac-denver. org/foodbank.html.

Order Sons of Italy in America/Denver Lodge 2075 meets every third Wednesday of the month at 5925 W. 32nd Ave., Wheat Ridge. Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. and meeting follows at 7 p.m. Lots of fun activities planned for summer meetings. Everyone welcome. Call 303-238-8055.

Professional women NW Metro Business and Professional Women meets the first Wednesday of each month from September to May. Our mission is to achieve equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education and information. Call Marcia at 303-827-3283 to RSVP. Wheat Ridge Quilt Circle: 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. the fourth Wednesday of each month in the red brick house at Historic Park, 4610 Robb St., Wheat Ridge. Info: 303-421-9111 or www.wheatridgehistoricalsociety.org.

Thursdays All Comforting Things of Colorado Inc. We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing comfort and encouragement to individuals by providing them items made by hand. We encourage you to bring your skills and enthusiasm to our fun group. We meet at 10 a.m. the third Thursday of each month at Phillips Methodist Church, 1450 S. Pierce, Lakewood. Contact actofcolo@gmail.com for more information.

Arvada Associated Modelers hosts training night from 4-8 p.m. Thursdays from May to September (weather permitting) at the Arvada Airpark, 7608 Highway 93, Golden (use the Pioneer entrance between Leyden Road and 64th Avenue). Anyone interested in learning to fly radio control models is invited to take a no obligation, introductory flight with an instructor. No previous experience is needed, and the club provides radios and airplanes. Training is free and open to everyone. It’s fun for the entire family. Go to www.arvadamodelers.com/pilot-training/.

Business spirituality Business Honoring Spirituality meets 7-9 a.m. every Thursday at the Community Center of Mile Hi Church, 9079 W. Alameda Ave., Lakewood. Meetings include networking, a brief meditation by a licensed practitioner, guest speaker and breakfast. For additional information, visit www.bhsmilehi.org or call Patty Whitelock at 303-274-0933.

CERTUS Professional Network meets for its Lakewood networking event from 9:30-11 a.m. the third Thursday of the month at Panera Bread, 650 S. Wadsworth Blvd., Lakewood. Build your network, grow your business, network less. Our events are structured to connect professionals with the resources, power partners and leaders to expand their

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Community Coffee Join Rep. Tracy KraftTharp on the fourth Thursday of each month to talk about issues that are important to you. Community Coffee will be from 7-8 a.m. at La Dolce Vita, Ice Cream Room, 5756 Olde Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada; and from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Panera Bread, 10450 Town Center Drive, Westminster.

Current Events Discussion: 1 p.m. the first and third Thursday of each month at Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Call 303-425-9583 or go to www.apexprd.org. Discuss local, national, and international issues while sharing your views in a non-judgmental environment.

Drop-In Discovery: 10 a.m. first Thursday, third Monday, Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. Explore different themes using hands-on activities, books, puzzles, crafts and more. Info: arvada.org or 720-898-7405.

Golden Lions Club meets at 6:30 p.m. the first and third Thursdays at Old Capitol Grill and Smokehouse, 1122 Washington Ave., Golden. Contact Ed Dorsey at 303-829-5195, or go to www.goldenlionsclub.org Golden Men’s Support Group meets from 7-8:45 p.m. Thursdays near the National Renewal Energy Lab. Call Roger at 720-2896396 or Terry at 303-748-3748.

Kiwanis Club of Belmar: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursdays at Sunrise Sunset, 1424 S. Wadsworth Blvd., Lakewood. Our group is service-minded, community-based, and most of all, kid-focused. Our Kiwanis group formed 12 years ago and supports Patterson International Elementary, Karlis House and more. Contact Shirley Otto at 303-985-5596 or otto187@comcast.net. Learn more at http://kiwanisclubofbelmar.org/.

Lakewood Rotary Club meets at 7:15 a.m. the first, second and fourth Thursday of each month at the Egg and I, 7830 W. Alameda Ave., Lakewood. The club meets at Baker Street, 7260 W. Alaska Drive, for happy hour social at 5:30 p.m. the third Thursday.

Rotary is a service organization dedicated to helping children in the community. If you are interested in speaking to the club please contact Genie at 303-506-3923. Visitors are always welcome.

NEW Connection: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Thursdays, at the Arvada Public Library, 7525 W. 57th Ave., Arvada. Networking and support group for job seekers and budding entrepreneurs. Contact Jane Grogan at JGrogan@ career-match.com. LinkedIn group page: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/6753121.

Parkinson’s Support Group: 1-2:30 p.m. the third Thursday of each month at Apex Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd. Led by HomewatchCareGivers. Share ideas and resources. Call Melinda Yeary at 720-524-4192 or e-mail MYeary@HomewatchCareGivers.com for information.

Rocky Mountain Inventors Association meets 6:30-8:30 p.m. the fourth Thursday of every month (excluding November and

December) at Vesta Technology, 13050 W. 43rd Drive, Suite 300, Golden. Presentations in marketing, manufacturing, engineering, finance, business and legal, followed by networking. Go online to www.rminventor. org for details.

Rocky Mountain Team Survivor, a health, education and fitness program for women of all abilities who have experienced cancer or are currently in treatment, offers weekly free, fun, supportive activities. Tuesdays, 10 a.m., Boulder Creek Walk (meet at Boulder Public Library main entrance). Tuesday, 11-11:30 a.m., Yoga, Boulder Senior Center, 909 Arapahoe Avenue. Thursdays, 6-7 p.m., Fitness Training, Boulder Center for Sports Medicine, 311 Mapleton Avenue (entrance on Maxwell Avenue.). Learn more at rockymtnteamsurvivor.org.

Salty Dog Sailing Club If you love to sail or want to try, if you don’t have a boat, if you have a boat but don’t sail enough because you cannot find a crew, the Salty Dog Sailing Club is for you. The club meets the second Thursday of the month at members’ homes.

Members come from all along the Front Range because this is the only such club available. Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. with the business meeting commencing at 7 p.m. Go to www.saltydog.org for meeting locations and directions.

South Suburban Toastmasters is a high energy, fun, supportive learning place to practice speaking and leadership skills. Group meets from 7-8:30 a.m. Thursdays at Toast Restaurant, 2700 W. Bowles Ave. in Littleton.

Contact Leigh Miller at 720-272-2853.

Stuck in the Middle, a social support group for spouses and caregivers of those with chronic illnesses, meets at 10:30 a.m.

Thursdays. Perhaps you’ve been a caregiver for years, your spouse or family member has moved to a facility and now you are faced with the isolation of living alone. Or your loved one is at home and you would like an opportunity to relax and talk with people who understand the pressures caregivers face. Would you like to meet others in similar situations? SITM meets in member’s homes.

E-mail Bonnie at bonnieforsitm@earthlink. net, for information.

TEN (The Entrepreneurs’ Network), a business minded women’s networking group, meets from 7:30-8:45 a.m. Thursdays at Fox Hollow Golf Course, 13410 W. Morrison Road, Lakewood. Contact Joy Hinshaw, 720-2711496 or joyofcolo@comcast.net. Membership dues includes weekly breakfast plus a one-time new member’s fee.

Wheat Ridge Kiwanis Club invites you to breakfast at 7 a.m. Thursdays at Davies’ Chuck Wagon on 26th Avenue just west of Kipling. Come join us for speakers, comradery and community service. We are a small club and we have a great time serving the children of our community and more. Call David Colson at 303-507-2919, email info@ wheatridgekiwamis.com or go to www. wheatridgekiwanis.com.

Widowed Men and Women of America, Come join us and make new friends and share in a variety of activities. Our monthly meetings are the third Wednesday of the month at 5 p.m. at Rox Bar and Grill, 12684 W. Indore Place, in Jefferson County. For more information call Mel at 303-973-8688or Nan at 728-981-1841.

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Widowed Men and Women of America, Link 10, social hour is from 4-6 p.m. Thursdays at the Innsider Bar and Grill, inside Holiday Inn, 7390 Hampden Ave., Lakewood. Group offers friendship, understanding, and opportunities to participate in various activities. Contact Bob, membership chairman, at 303-9790181 or go to www.widowedamerica.org.

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year as the economy has been strong, and they’ve been hiring at a steady if not robust pace. But those hurt by tariffs are can lose their optimism and appetite for growth within a few months.

“They have narrow profit margins and it’s a tax,” says Kent Jones, an economics professor at Babson College. “That lowers their profit margins and increases the possibility of layoffs and even bankruptcies.”

Bertram Yachts is one company finding it trickier to maneuver. The U.S. has put a 25 percent tariff on hundreds of boat parts imported from China, where most marine components are made. And European countries have imposed a 25 percent

7: 4:15 p.m. Thursdays at Chad’s Grill, 275 Union Blvd., Lakewood. Group also meets every second Tuesday at the Elks Club, 1455 Newland St., Lakewood; cocktails served from 5-6 p.m.; catered dinner ($16) served at 6 p.m. Meeting begins at 7 p.m.

Wilmore-Richter, American Legion Post 161 has it Veterans Helping Veterans membership meetings at 7 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at 6230 W. 60th Ave., Arvada.

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tariff on U.S.-made boats. Last year, Bertram exported about a third of its boats, with half going to Europe.

“We have been squeezed on both sides,” says Peter Truslow, CEO of the Tampa, Florida-based boat maker.

Truslow doesn’t know how the tariffs will affect the company’s sales and profits, but dealers he’s spoken to in Europe have already gotten cancellations on boats that run into the millions of dollars. Bertram plans to try to build up its strong U.S. business and seek more customers in countries that aren’t involved in trade disputes with the U.S. including Japan and Australia.

The ripples are being felt across the industry, says Tom Dammrich, president of the National Marine Manufacturers Association trade group. He estimates there are about 1,000 manufacturers, almost all small

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American Legion Post 161 Bingo: 12:30 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays at 390A N. Sheridan, Arvada. Bingo events help raise money to support the post’s many charitable programs. Contact 303-424-0324.

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Golden Gate Community Grange, 25201 Golden Gate Canyon Road, has meetings at 7 p.m. the second Friday of the month. Activities include yoga, dances, eggmania, special wildlife programs, holiday craft fair. Grange hall available for rental for weddings, parties, reunions, etc. Call Rich Phillips at 303-2771933 or go to www.goldengategrange.com.

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or mid-size businesses, and says some parts can only be bought from China.

Matt Barton’s metal fabrication company, which makes custom replacement parts for farm equipment, outdoor signs and people who race hot rods, is paying its suppliers up to 20 percent more for metals than it did a year ago.

Prices had actually soared as much as 40 percent months ago amid expectations of U.S. tariffs on aluminum and steel. They have since steadied, but are expected to remain high for three to six months.

Barton’s Pittsboro, Indiana-based company, The Hero Lab, is absorbing part of the increases. Some racing customers are still delaying orders.

“What they budgeted to cost $1,000 now is now $1,200 or $1,500,” Barton says. “They’re pushing their orders back four to six weeks, waiting for a

few more paychecks to come in.”

Jeff Schwager’s cheese company, Sartori, is selling products to Mexico at break-even prices because of that nation’s retaliatory 25 percent tariff.

Twelve percent of the Plymouth, Wisconsin-based company’s revenue comes from exports, which is the fastest-growing segment of the business.

But some small manufacturers believe they can benefit from a trade dispute. Greg Owens, president of flatware maker Sherrill Manufacturing, says if his competitors in China are hit by U.S. tariffs, he could see revenue increase.

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A quick and quirky look at little-known bits of history is a lot of fun

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hat’s done is done.

You can’t go back and erase the past, as much as you might try. You can alter its affects, make excuses for it, or pretend it BOOKWORM never happened, but what’s done is done. And as you’ll see in the book “When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain” by Giles Milton, Terri more was Schlichenmeyer done than you think.

Every good historian knows that history’s filled with dates, battles, and facts that can be mind-numbing for the average person. Those are things your high school history teacher tried to make you memorize – but there’s a lot that textbooks never tell.

Did you know, for instance, that Adolf Hitler might’ve had a love child that would “quite possibly still” be alive? Or that Hitler’s brother joined the U.S. Army in World War II and

fought against the Germans?

There are things in history that we know, almost. A corpse’s clues suggest how explorer George Mallory died, but nobody knows if he made it to the top of Everest. After the Titanic sank, a kitchen worker survived hours in icy water, perhaps due to the two bottles of whiskey he drank earlier. That Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days is a fact; but the ‘why’ is her biggest mystery.

But unknowns aren’t the only surprises from the past: in this book, you’ll read about history’s “most prolific murderess” and a monk that wouldn’t die. You’ll learn about a nine-year-old who dedicated his life to an Emperor in a very drastic way, and you’ll see stories of the most unsavory meals.

And then there are history’s little-known but astounding people: the man who survived two hydrogen bomb-drops and lived to be ninety-three. The captain who chose cash over “chattels” at sea. Men who talked in code to foil the Japanese. And the Polish Catholic woman who single-handedly saved more than 2,000 Jews.

There’s a lot of good read-

THE BOOK “When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain” by Giles Milton c.2016, Picador $16 272 pages ing inside “When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain.” And a lot of fun, too.

Half the enjoyment in this book comes from the quick, short tales that author Giles Milton has collected: tales that lean heavily toward World War II, but are still varied throughout history and the world. The length of these stories is perfect for this kind of book: each can be read in a few minutes’ time and you won’t feel guilty for jumping in, mid-book, for a good-at-the-moment browse.

The other great thing is that Milton invites readers to look at the past with curiosity and even a little humor. While it’s true that some of the chapters you’ll read here are made of serious stuff, Milton also includes stories that are on the lighter side.

I enjoyed this book with the consternation that comes when you know something’s

going to end, but you don’t want it to – and that’s the feeling I think you’ll get, too, when you read “When Hitler

Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain.” Start this book, and you’ll want more when it’s done.

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Bennet constituent advocate plans meetings STAFF REPORT

Sen. Michael Bennet’s constituent advocate Kwon Atlas will meet one-onone with residents who need help with IRS, the Social Security Administration, the VA or other federal agencies.

Atlas plans four sessions in the Denver area in July and August: • July 24, 1-2:30 p.m. at the Blair Caldwell Public Library, 2401 Welton St., Denver • July 31, 1-2:30 p.m. at 2914 Coffee,

2914 W. 25th Ave., Denver • Aug. 7, 1:30-3 p.m. at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch • Aug. 21, 1:30-3 p.m., Candis’ Coffee Table, 236 E. Bridge St., Brighton Appointments are requested. Send an email that includes a brief description of the issue you want to address to Kwon_Atlas@bennet.senate.gov.

Contact Atlas at 303-455-7600. It is not necessary to wait for the office hours to get help or to share opinions.

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Bands that will play throughout the day include Thunder and Rain, The Beloved Invaders, Classic Vinyl Band

and Bird Dawgs. Local brewers will offer samples for ages 21 and older who have purchased a souvenir beer bug.

Festival hours are noon to 7 p.m.

To purchase tickets, and for more information, go to ArvadaCenterArtsandAles.com.

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Colorado driver license services, both in-office and online, will be unavailable Aug. 2 and 3, and state driver license offices will be closed.

The closure will allow the state to replace the Colorado State Titling and Registration System (CSTARS), originally installed between 1983 and 1986, with a new system called Colorado DRIVES, according to a news release.

The new system will allow for better county-to-county integration, the release said. The system was implemented in February 2017 for driver services.

New online services will be available at mydmv.colorado.gov beginning Aug. 6. Among those services are: • Improved online vehicle registration renewal • Out of state emissions extension • Emissions waiver application • Generate prior receipts • Duplicate registration receipt request • 2 percent rental upload spreadsheet fee estimator • Document uploading • Personalized plate request • Change of address • New registration Individuals whose driver license, identification card or motor vehicle registration expires in July or August 2018 are encouraged to renew early.

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THINGS to DO

THEATER

Pride and Prejudice: 7 p.m. July 19-21 at Red Rocks Community Theater, 13300 W. 6th Ave., Lakewood.

Tickets and information at www. tinyurl.com/RRCCTickets.

Story Telling with Cleo Parker Robinson Dance: 2-3 p.m. Tuesday, July 31 at Wheat Ridge Library, 5475 W. 32nd Ave. Enjoy an hour of interactive story telling led by a Cleo Parker Robinson Dance member.

Evergreen Players Presents “9 to 5 The Musical”: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays through Aug. 5 at Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen.

Call 303-674-4934 or go to www. evergreenplayers.org.

‘Lend Me a Tenor’: 7:30 p.m.

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays through Aug. 19 at Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Contact 303-935-3044 or minersalley.com.

MUSIC

Percussion Jam: 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, July 20 at Wheat Ridge Library, 5475 W. 32nd Ave. Learn a variety of rhythms and try instruments in this basic introduction to percussion with School of Rock.

Parents and friends attend the last half-hour of the program for a concert.

Susie Knight Cowgirl Singer/Poet: 7-8 p.m. Saturday, July 21 at Maple Grove Grange, 3130 Youngfield St., Wheat Ridge. Benefit for Darden Pomona Grange (Granges in Jefferson County).

Intro to Line Dance: 2:15-3:15 p.m.

Thursdays through Aug. 30 at Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Call 303-425-9583 or go to www. apexprd.org.

Mile High Community Band: Thursdays in August in the community room at Red Rocks Community College and after that at Denver North High School. For more information go to www.milehighcommunityband.org/

ART

“Lost in the Woods”: juried exhibit by the Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists is on display through Sunday, July 22 at Valkarie Gallery, 445 S. Saulsbury St., Lakewood. Learn more at www. valkariefineart.com/ Band Art: 3-5 p.m. Tuesday, July 24 at Wheat Ridge Library, 5475 W. 32nd Ave. Use your favorite musical genre or band to create an original work of band art. Instructors from the Lakewood Cultural Center help you turn that inspiration into a piece of art to take home. All supplies will be provided. Limit 15.

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this week’s TOP FIVE German Fest: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 21 and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, July 22 at Lakewood Heritage Center, 801 S. Yarrow St., Lakewood.

Celebrate German-American heritage and culture. Life music, authentic food and beergarden. Go to www.

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will also be an Italian bicycle display, children’s activities, a gourmet Brunch Italiano. Visit www. automezzicolorado.com

Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra featuring Steve Lippia: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 21 at Arvada Center Amphitheatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Basie and Sinatra at the Sands. An homage to the songs of Frank Sinatra.

Learn more at www.arvadacenter.org or 720-8987200.

The Automezzi Exotic Italian Car Show: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, July 22 at Jeffco Fairgrounds, 15200 W. 6th Ave., Golden. Nearly 150 vehicles featuring marques such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, and Vespa will be on display. There

Jeffco Rocks the Outdoors: Trailside Geology: 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Monday, July 23 at Wheat Ridge Library, 5475 W. 32nd Ave. Enjoy a guided ranger tour of Jeffco’s trailside geology. Explore the past through rock formations, outcrops, fossils, traces and everyday geologic processes.

Western Heritage Show: 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Wednesday, July 25 at Fort Westernaire, just south of the Jeffco Fairgrounds. Celebrating National “Day of the Cowboy.” Free Wild West Show featuring some of the Westernaires Red and White division teams and specialties. Indoor show is a one-hour extravaganza with interactive activities for all ages. RSVP to this event by sending an email to WHeritageShow@yahoo.com. Go to http://www.westernaires.org/events/

“Mountaincholia” by Aria Fawn: exhibit on display from July 25 to Aug. 19 at Valkarie Gallery, 445 S. Saulsbury St., Lakewood.

Opening reception is from 5-8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 28. Go to www. valkariefineart.com.

Lunchbox Express/Free Summer Lunch for Kids: 11-11:30 a.m.

Monday through Friday, through Aug. 17 at Wheat Ridge Library, 5475 W. 32nd Ave. Open to anyone ages 18 and younger. First come, first served.

Ann Lincoln’s Boogie Woogie Bunnies: 1-2 p.m. Thursday, July 26 at Wheat Ridge Library, 5475 W. 32nd Ave.

EVENTS

Get Creative with Concrete Geopots: 1-3 p.m. Saturday, July 28 at Wheat Ridge Library, 5475 W. 32nd Ave. Make a concrete planter to embellish your garden.

Create unique geopot molds and pour quick drying cement into it.

Once the concrete sets, it’s easy to finish this project at home and begin using your-one-of-a-kind planter.

Photography by Jeff Strahl: exhibit of Strahl’s Vallari series, which explores modern-day goddesses representing music, painting, sculpture, architecture, literature and photography. Exhibit runs through July.

FOOD

Food Truck Fridays: 5-9 p.m.

Fridays at Lamar Street Center, 5889 Lamar St., Arvada. Bands, drinks, automotive gallery and more. Donations accepted for a different organization at each event. Friday, July 27 (National Police 9 Association); Friday, Aug. 10 (Morgan Adams Foundation) and Fridays, Aug. 24 and Sept. 14 (Jefferson County Business Education Alliance). Donation amount is up to each guest. Learn more at www.lamarstreetcenter.com or call 303-424-0208.

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.

Blues and BBQ for Better Housing: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, July 21 at Citizen Park in the Sloan Lake area of Edgewater. Fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver features local bands, food trucks, a beer garden, vendors and a kids’ zone play area. Go to www. bluesnbbq.com.

Town Meeting: 10:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, July 21 at Standley Lake Library. Join Reps. Tracy Kraft-Tharp and Lang Sias and Sen. Rachel Zenzinger for a discussion about the fair drawing of Congressional and Legislative district maps ballot initiative, called Fair Maps Colorado.

Kitten Palooza: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, July 22, at Balefire Goods, 7417 Grandview Ave., Arvada. Help feed and shelter the Cat Care Society kittens until they find forever homes. Go

to http://Catcaresociety.org Party Bridge: 1-4 p.m. Tuesday, July 24 at Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Call 303-425-9583 or go to www. apexprd.org.

Teddy Bear Tea with Grandma and Me: 1:30-3 p.m. Wednesday, July 25 at Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Grandparents, bring the grandkids and their favorite teddy bear to enjoy a kid friendly tea. Afterwards partake in a fun craft together. For ages 3 and older. Register by July 20. Go to www.apexprd.org.

Coffee Talk: Lakeside History: 1-2:15 p.m. Thursday, July 26 at Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Call 303-425-9583 or go to www. apexprd.org. Author David Forsythe shares the history of Lakeside Amusement Park, which opened in 1908.

Buffalo Bill Days: July 26-29. Event dates to the 1940s as a trail ride up Lookout Mountain to Buffalo Bill’s grave. This is the largest community festival in Golden and includes Cody’s Wild West, the Best of the West theme parade, muttin’ bustin’, live music, an orphan car, a classic car show, a golf tournament, food, merchandise vendors and more.

Learn more at www. buffalobilldays.com/ BINGO: 1 p.m. Friday, July 27 at Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Call 303-425-9583 or go to www.apexprd.org.

Healthy Back Workshop: 12:30-1:30 p.m. Saturday, July 28 at Damselfly YogaSpa, 12500 W. 58th Ave., Unit 102, Arvada. Learn more at www. damselflyyogaspa.com/ Natural Hacks for Attention Support: 1-2:30 p.m. Saturday, July 28 at Natural Grocers, 3333 S. Wadsworth Blvd., Lakewood.

Go to www.naturalgrocers.com/ events. Discover how nutrition and lifestyle tweaks can support your attention and help learning and cognition.

Kids’ TRYathlon: 7:30-11 a.m. July 29 at the Apex Center, 13150 W. 72nd Ave., Arvada. Ages 5-13 begin with an indoor swim, then hop on their bikes for off-road cycling on the Ralston Creek Trail and finally run to the finish line at the center’s new outdoor splash pad. Register at ApexPRD.org.

Yogalates: 6:30-7:45 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 30 at Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Call 303425-9583 or go to www.apexprd. org. Experience health benefits of pilates and yoga.

WRITING/READING

Exploring Business of Publishing: 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Saturday, July 21 at Red Rocks Community College, 13300 W. 6th Ave., Lakewood.

Registration required. Go to www. writemarketpublishsell.com.

Nuts and Bolts Summer Writing Book Camp: 8 a.m. to noon July 23-27 at Lakewood High School.

Participation limited to incoming ninth grade English honors students who will attend any high school in 2018. Contact TigerBoots4749@gmail.com for details and registration.

EDUCATION

Public Transportation Training: 2:30-3:30 p.m. Monday, July 23 and noon Monday July 30 at Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Call 303425-9583 or go to www.apexprd. org. Learn to safely and confidently use RTD. Coffee Talk: Lakeside History: 1-2:15 p.m. Thursday, July 26 at Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

Lakeside opened in 1908; join author David Forsythe to hear about the history of the amusement park.

Register by July 24. Go to http://apexprd.maxgalaxy.net/Registration. aspx?ActivityID=4131 Editor’s note: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week. To place a calendar item, go to eventlink.coloradocommunitymedia.com.

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Spread of ash tree-killing insect deemed unavoidable In just five years, the Emerald Ash Borer has spread south from Boulder and Weld counties into Superior.

Experts said they expect tree-killing pests to reach the northern ranges of the Denver Metro area within three years.

BY KATIE PARKINS SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

The green beetle blamed for killing thousands of ash trees continues to spread south, most recently to the town of Superior.

This marks the fifth Front Range community the Emerald Ash Borer has infiltrated in five years.

Westminster foresters said they expect the Emerald Ash Borer to continue to spread into the Denver Metro area, including Westminster, over the next one to three years.

“I’ve been encouraging residents and the (Home Owners Associations) that if they want to save their healthy ash trees, the Emerald Ash Borer is close enough to Westminster, it’s time to give the trees the pesticide,” said Westminster City Forester John Kasza.

There are pesticides that can be used to treat and protect ash trees from the Emerald Ash Borer, but a licensed professional must administer the insecticide on residents’ personal ash trees.

The Emerald Ash Borer in Superior was first found on the town’s public property, which the Colorado EAB Response Team could take care of directly. However, the insect was later reported on private property ash trees nearby, and residents are responsible for deciding what to do with those trees.

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The Colorado State Forest Service does not know if this most recent spread was natural or from humans accidentally providing transportation for the pest.

“We had a quiet time from August of last year until March,” said Keith Wood, the Urban and Community Manager for the Colorado State Forest Service.

In March of 2018, the Emerald Ash Borer moved into Lyons, Colorado before making its way to Superior.

“It’s hard to curb the spread of it.

We do try to discourage the movement of firewood. That is one of the main ways that Emerald Ash Borer is spread,” said Kasza.

The City of Westminster Forestry Section provides firewood at the Standley Lake campgrounds in an attempt to discourage guests from

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bringing in wood from other places.

The beetle is not an insect native to Colorado.

Wood said the state forest service and the City of Boulder did identify the Emerald Ash Borers in Colorado fairly early on, compared to communities in the north and Midwest where the pest originated.

The state forest service established a quarantine area for Boulder County and part of Weld County in 2013 when the EAB was first detected in an attempt to prevent humans from accidentally spreading the insect.

“It’s not going to spread as quickly as it did in the Midwest because we don’t have the ash tree forests between town to town,” Kasza said. “Between Boulder to superior to Westminster, there’s not a lot of ash trees. The insect can only fly about a half mile

each year. The spread is primarily by humans.”

As of now, the EAB hasn’t been confirmed outside of the quarantine area in Boulder County. Once CSFS and the Colorado EAB Response Team are able to get a positive detection outside of Boulder County, the quarantine area will be expanded.

“This isn’t something we’re going to stop or eradicate, ,” said Wood. “The quarantine is designed to contain it.

Let’s try and slow the spread of this as much as we can, whether that’s with pesticides or biological controls.”

Over the last five years since the ash borer was first found in Colorado, the state has spent $9 million on management the pest, according to Wood. Approximately 17,000 public trees have been treated and removed, and 17,000 replacement trees have been planted.

“In Westminster, we’ve had to spend extra time treating our ash trees, extra time removing trees, planting new trees, and also just the extra time to educate the public,” said Kasza.

Experts encourage residents to be proactive, treating their ash trees early. Once the ash borers have killed an ash tree that tree becomes unsafe to climb and can be difficult and expensive to remove.

“If you have a valuable tree, they can be saved with some of these pesticides. Without that, we could be talking about the extinction of ash,” said Wood.

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LOCAL

SPORTS Mile High Nationals a showcase for speed

BY TOM MUNDS TMUNDS@OURCOLORADONEWS.COM

Powerful engines will emit deep-throated growls and shake the ground July 20-22 when the Mile High National Drag Races take center stage at Bandimere Speedway in Morrison.

Although time trials and racing don’t begin until July 22, teams were arriving as early as July 16 at Bandimere Speedway for the 13th race in the Full Throttle Drag Racing Series.

Over the three days of

racing, about 100,000 fans are expected to come to Bandimere for the Mile High Nationals, which is the only National Hot Rod Association national event in the Rocky Mountain area.

“We began preparations for the Mile High Nationals about a month ago,” said John Bandimere III, track president. “We have had crews in sprucing up the entire track area.”

He said, for the event, they will hire about 200 additional people.

“We hire people to handle parking, to work conces-

sions and do the other jobs needed to accommodate our fans,” he said. “This is our major event of the year and we want all our fans to come to a first-class facility to watch championship drag racing.”

Annually, many of the racers will be regional or local drivers but a major attraction at the Mile High Nationals is the drivers in the pro classes — top fuel dragster, top fuel funny car, pro stock and pro stock motorcycle.

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The Make-A-Wish funny car does a burnout during the 2016 Mile High National Drag Races at Bandimere Speedway. Most of the major teams are expected at the Mile High event July 20-22 which is one stop on the 23-race National Hot Rod Association annual schedule.

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Toddler Tour de France welcomes tiny striders

Sunday workout sessions help football players fine-tune talents

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wide racing spectacular, the Strider Cup World Championship, which draws families from across the world, including Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, Thailand, China, Ecuador and more. The youngest rider, 21-monthold Eddie Meyer, is making the trip with his family from Overland Park, Kansas, for his racing debut.

he midday sun was hot as some parents and even a couple players during a water break found shade under the bleachers at the Lutheran High School football field in Parker.

It’s still the offseason for high school football, but is also the time for players to review the basics, improve strengths, work on weaknesses and do a little fine-tuning.

Many playOVERTIME ers and teams attend a variety of camps and clinics, and some hire private coaches. Each Sunday a group of quarterbacks and wide receivers gets together during a Jenkins Jim Benton Elite training session under the tutelage of a group of former college players to sharpen physical and mental skills for the upcoming season.

Kenneth Saunders, who will be a senior quarterback at Douglas County, completed less than 50 percent of his passes last season.

He says his confidence has been restored thanks to the Sunday workouts.

“I played quarterback until I got to high school and I didn’t play quarterback my first couple years,” explained Saunders.

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Hundreds of enthusiastic toddlers — some still in diapers — will ride in family-friendly bike races and play experiences at the Strider Cup World Championship July 20 and 21 at Central Park and Civic Area in Boulder.

For parents and spectators alike, the event provides opportunities to take captivating photos and videos.

“Our two sons Aidan (7) and Axel (4) transitioned to pedal bikes with no training wheels due to starting on Strider Bikes,” Adele Sakich, of Arvada, said in a recent news release.

“It’s amazing to see the progression from tiptoeing along on the bike, to zooming down a hill with their feet up. Riding Strider Bikes has been a great confidence booster. Our favorite part of the Strider experience is the Strider Cup races. We love the energy at all the events.”

Strider Cup series events take place across the United States and around the globe. The series is powered by the design of Strider Bikes, which empowers toddlers and young children to safely enjoy two-wheel biking at an earlier age than any prior generation, the release said.

Three-year-old Huxley Fair of Morrison gets ready to race in the 2018 Colorado Junior Cup stride bike competition May 12. His parents say he’s in training to compete in the Strider Cup World Championship July 20-21 at Central Park and Civic Area in Boulder.

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“It is a sight to see toddlers from all over the world leaning into turns with huge grins on their faces, exhibiting excellent balance and control,” Strider founder and chief enthusiast Ryan McFarland said in the news release. “Parents who are on the hunt for ways to get their kids to put down their tablets and screens, and enjoy the outdoors, need look no further.”

Each year Strider has one world-

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“I came back and everything was rusty. I always said I knew where to throw the ball, I just couldn’t get it there,” Saunders continued. “I wasn’t comfortable, and when you’re not comfortable throwing the ball it is hard to have comfort in the rest of your game.

Coming here has helped me gain the comfort.”

Cherry Creek quarterback Alex Padilla, who has verbally committed to play at Iowa, was the second leading Class 5A passer in the state as he threw for 2,678 yards and 40 TDs last season.

Padilla has been fine-tuning his game this summer and has worked before with Jenkins Elite CEO and founder Tim Jenkins.

“I’ve been training with Tim since I was in the seventh grade,” said Padilla.

“He has helped me with the mental side of the game and cleaning up the mechanics but it’s been more of the mental side of the game that has helped me a lot.”

Matt Francis, a senior at Horizon, has been hampered by injuries and claims he is learning something every training session after seeing limited action a year ago.

“The most basic thing is completions and consistency,” said Francis.

“That’s what we come here every week to work on. That’s the biggest goal for me to take away from Sundays.

Everyone here has a pretty good base to start with. For a quarterback there is a whole new world of biomechanics and footwork drills and everything to perfect your game.”

Cherry Creek wide receiver Marcus Miller says he absorbs what he observes from others in the camp.

“You can see what they are doing and kind of incorporate it into your game,” said Miller. “You can pick up off everybody else.”

Jenkins, the former ThunderRidge and Fort Lewis quarterback who was on NFL and CFL rosters, never had the opportunity to incorporate what he needed and wanted to make sure young players understand the advantages and

‘For a quarterback there is a while new world of biomechanics and footwork drills and everything to perfect your game.’

Matt Francis, Horizon High School senior pitfalls of the different levels when he founded Jenkins Elite.

“I felt I got overlooked a little bit,” said Jenkins. “I didn’t know what I was supposed to know going from level to level. When I got let go with the Rams, I just decided this is probably the best way to correct a little bit of that.”

Student athlete Any description of a student athlete should probably include the name of Clara Larson.

Larson, the 2015 Colorado Community Media South Metro Softball Player of the Year from Douglas County, is an electrical engineering student at Colorado School of Mines and has made the dean’s list for the past two years.

She is a shortstop on the softball team and hit .425 during her sophomore season with a .839 slugging percentage, 15 home runs, 24 doubles and a single-season school record of 64 runs batted in.

Larson was a first-team all Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference selection, the team’s Most Valuable Player, and garnered three All-American softball honors, plus the college sports information directors named her to the Academic All-America team.

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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Annually, many of the racers will be regional or local drivers but a major attraction at the Mile High Nationals is the drivers in the pro classes — top fuel dragster, top fuel funny car, pro stock and pro stock motorcycle.

There will be a lot of attention paid to the pro categories because, as of July 13, Steve Torrance was leading in points but former top fuel champion Tony Schumacher was only 190 points back in the standings. Courtney Force, daughter of John Force, who won the national funny car championship a number of times, is leading in the points standings with Matt Hagan trailing by 190 points.

There is a pitched battle going on for points in pro stock. Erica Enders is in first place but Greg Anderson trails by only 16 points and Tanner Gray is in third place 19 points behind Enders.

National drag racing events are special because a ticket includes a pit

pass, allowing fans to watch mechanics prepare the cars for action and even to talk with and get autographs from their favorite drivers. It equates to allowing football fans access to a pro football team’s locker room.

The Mile High Nationals action and fan interest pick up July 20 and 21 when the pro-class entries are on the track for qualifications runs. Top fuel funny cars and dragsters qualifying sessions are at 6 and 8 p.m. July 20 and at the same time July 21. The eliminations begin at 11 a.m. July 22.

Drag racing is about harnessing horsepower and torque to produce speed as quickly as possible. The top fuel dragsters are at the top of the list of achieving those goals. The powerful 10,000-horsepower engine is behind the driver in the long, low-slung dragster. The engine idles at about 2,100 revolutions per minute and gulps fuel at about 1.2 gallons per second to generate the power needed to accelerate the car from the starting line to 100 mph in about one second, and the car can be traveling more than 320 mph as it crosses the finish line.

Funny cars are powered by the same high-performance engines as the dragsters. But, instead of the slingshot-style dragster body, funny cars use bodies fashioned to resemble production-model automobiles. The speeds and times for funny cars are just a little less that of the top fuel dragsters.

Pro-stock cars are powered by 500-cubic-inch engines and the bodies must be production models. Teams use bodies such as the Chevrolet Cavalier and the Dodge Stratus. The cars run times in the seven-second range for a quarter-mile and hit speeds of about 190 mph. The cars are very evenly matched, and frequently a win or a loss is determined by one thousandth of a second.

Motorcycles are part of the pro classes, too. The drivers guide the bullet-like motorcycles as the machines cover the quarter-mile in 7.5 seconds and hit speeds of 180 mph.

For information on tickets or the Mile High National schedule, call Bandimere Speedway at 303-697-6001 or visit www.bandimere.com.

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A typical race involves toddlers, some only 18 months of age, kicking their legs to propel the bikes along a 650-foot plus journey over ramps, obstacles and through tunnels. Racers delight in the podium ceremony afterward, where the fastest tykes earn trophies and all racers take home medals. The previous two years saw riders from Japan sweeping all of the world titles.

The Strider Cup World Championship takes place from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

July 21 and will include race classes for registered riders 6 years old and younger, as well as a free learn-to-pedal area with demo bikes and helmets for all children.

During packet pickup July 20, Strider will present Imagine Colorado with 10 Strider 14x Sport Bikes, designed for children 3-7 years old.

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The Nuggets are coming off a season in which they won 46 games, but the season came down to a winnertake-all scenario in Minnesota, where the Nuggets came up short in overtime to miss out on the playoffs. Jokic is trying to help the Nuggets reach the postseason for the first time since 2012-13 — an even more difficult task with LeBron James joining the Los Angeles Lakers.

“We’re not too worried about what anybody else is doing,’’ Kroenke said.

“We’re worried about what we’re doing and our process of winning. We started to hit on a few of those things the last couple of years. A very underrated aspect of sports is continuity.

These guys have played for several years now, that’s only going to benefit us.’’

Especially the bond between Jokic and Barton, who was acquired in a trade with Portland on Feb. 19, 2015.

Barton averaged 15.7 points, five rebounds and 4.1 assists as he alternated between coming off the bench and being a starter.

A big reason he elected to stay in Denver was coach Michael Malone not trying to rein him in.

“Coach Malone lets me be me as a player,’’ Barton said. “The style of play I have, a lot of coaches are scared of that, and they won’t let me be me.

Coach Malone never boxed me in.

“I knew this is where I wanted to be.’’

routine goes something like this: Work traded for him and became a versatile out, lunch, go to the stables to check on reserve player/occasional starter. his two horses and then work out some “I don’t think we are a team that can more. He doesn’t like the attention. follow other archetypes in how teams “He’s got this huge contract and lifeare built,’’ Nuggets president of baschanging money and everything, but ketball operations Tim Connelly exhe’s going to still be with his horses, plained. “We have to find and develop guys. We have to find and develop guys still wear sweatpants, even though we tell him to wear a button-up shirt,’’ who want to be here long term.’’ cracked his Jokic is an unasbrother, Nemansuming star in the ja. “He feels commaking. His 10 fortable. I don’t triple-doubles last think anything is season were the going to change most in a single seaabout it.’’ son for a Nuggets It won’t. Conplayer since Fat Lenelly and Barton ver in 1987-88. In adwere recently dition, Jokic is the talking about that fifth player in NBA very subject. history with 3,000 “I’ve never or more points, seen a guy less 2,000 rebounds and about 1,000 assists in their Tim Connelly enthused a contract this first three seasons, Nuggets president of big — and I say joining names such as Oscar Robertbasketball operations that in a positive sense,’’ Connelly son, Larry Bird, said.

Maurice Stokes and Jokic even said Sidney Wicks. as much with “To see how Josh Kroenke, the vice chairman of quickly he’s made the jump and how Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, comfortable he is producing against flanked to his right. the elite of the league, it’s something “When I was younger, my dream I’ve never seen,’’ Connelly said. “He’s was not to sign a big contract. My one of the best players in the NBA.’’ dream was to have fun and win big The spotlight really isn’t his thing. games, some championships,’’ Jokic He’d much rather be back home in said. “Winning is the most important Serbia this time of year, where his

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Nikola Jokic and Will Barton grew up worlds apart.

Their paths, though, followed a similar route to a big payday with the Denver Nuggets. Jokic signed a max contract worth around $147 million for five seasons, and Barton returned on a four-year deal that could earn him more than $50 million.

As bench players a few years ago, Barton made a comment that stuck with his center.

“He called us Kobe and Shaq,” Jokic recounted July 9 at a news conference for the pair. “We kind of grew together.’’

“I don’t think we are a team that can follow other archetypes in how teams are built.”

Bonded by similar roads From Serbia, Jokic was a secondround pick by Denver in 2014 (41st overall) — a 6-foot-10 project who needed to lose about 30 pounds. He did and has blossomed into one of the top big men in the league.

From Baltimore, Barton was a second-round pick by Portland in 2012 (40th overall) — a sharp-shooter buried on the Blazers’ bench and just needing a chance. He got one when Denver

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