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on the cover Basketballs surround Michael Peterson owner of Power 2 Play, sports complex at 5699 Crooked Stick Dr., in Windsor. The massive gym complex took 15 months to complete & is now hosting a number of tournaments, pick-up games and events.

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Windsor's MIDDLE SCHOOL students launch streaming radio station

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Power To Play Sports

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4 Answers to the most-asked questions about Windsor

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Passion for refinishing

antique furniture turns into a full-time job, and a successful business

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Answers to the most-asked questions about the town of Windsor Have you wondered where to go to pay a ticket? Does the town have ordinances to regulate pet ownership? Who do I call about a big pothole?

And why is the sky blue?

Except for the color of the sky, the town of Windsor answers these and dozens of other questions to help Windsor residents navigate municipal government and be a well-informed citizen. Here is a sample of some of the useful information on the Windsor FAQ: Are there regulations for temporary signs in Windsor?

Yes. Most temporary signs require a permit, which you can obtain from the Planning Department. A temporary sign cannot be displayed for more than 60 days per calendar year. Temporary signs must be directly related to the use of the lot on which it is located and must be made from durable material that will not deteriorate in wind or bad weather. These signs cannot be attached to trees, landscaping, traffic signs, utility or light poles or other similar structures, and cannot be located within the road right-of-way. For specific requirements, please contact the Planning Department at (970) 674-2415 and refer to Sec. 16-9-130 of the Municipal Code.

Can I have a home occupation/business? What are the requirements?

All businesses in Windsor require an approved business license through the Town’s Finance Department.

Applicant’s looking to have a home-based business shall complete the Home Occupation Registration section of the business license application. Home occupations shall meet all requirements of Sec. 16-10-20 of the Municipal Code.

Do I need a building permit to work on my own home or if I am finishing my own basement?

Yes. Work that involves adding or removing walls, new structures, moving or installing plumbing or electric, or finishing a basement requires a building permit, even if you are doing all the work yourself. The town requires a building permit in order to conduct the required inspections and make sure that the construction meets the building code adopted by the town of Windsor. For additional questions, please visit the: Building Permit Information web page at http://windsorgov.com/137/Building-Permits.

Do I need a permit to re-roof my house?

Yes. The town requires a building permit in order to conduct the required inspections and make sure that the construction meets the building code adopted by the town of Windsor. Please contact our inspection company SAFEbuilt at (970) 686-7511 for any specific questions about the roofing code.

Do I need a permit to build a fence around my house?

Generally, no, as long as the fence meets the standard fencing regulations. For questions, please contact the Planning Department at (970) 674-2415.

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Do I need a permit to build a shed and where on my property can I put it?

In accordance with Section 16-8-30(d) of the Municipal Code, a permit is only required if: » the proposed shed exceeds one hundred-twenty 120 square feet; » is taller than 8 feet at the peak.

If a permit is required, the structure shall meet the Town’s setback and offset requirements. No accessory building, regardless of its size, shall be located any closer to the front property line than the rear corners of the principal building (accessory buildings are only allowed in rear yards).

Do I need a permit to build a deck, porch, pergola, or patio cover?

Yes.Any structure, including decks and porches less than 30 feet above the ground, require a building permit per Sec. 16-4-20 of the Municipal Code. Please note that any structure must be located on your property and meet the town’s setback and offset requirements. Prior to beginning any construction, it is recommended that you contact the town of Windsor Permit Technician at (970) 674-2436 to see if a permit is required.

Do I need a permit to install a sprinkler system?

Yes. A building permit is required to install a sprinkler system whether you are hooking up to town of Windsor water (potable water) or if you are hooking up to a non-potable system in your subdivision. A sprinkler permit generally takes about 5-10 minutes to issue on the same day you apply. If you have questions about the cost of a sprinkler permit, the permit process, or whether your subdivision is on a non-potable irrigation system, please contact the town’s Permit Technician at (970) 674-2436.

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Windsor Middle School students launch streaming radio station

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ersonality. The interests of others. Voice inflection. Technology.

These are all things a core group of students at Windsor Middle School are learning as they get the school’s very own radio station off the ground.

KWMS Wizard Radio is a streaming radio station, produced by four seventh-graders in the school’s successful media productions

program. Via computer, tablet, smartphone — anything with an internet connection — students, staff, families and community members can tune into the school’s station and get an inside peek at Windsor Middle School life.

“Our media productions program has been successfully running the past four or five years and our students partner with the Clearview Library District and the town of Windsor to do promotional ads and spots,” said Windsor Middle School Principal Eric Johnson. “We wanted to 8

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‹Logan Keener, 13, right, leans in to the microphone as he reads the birthdays for the week with Ian Mayhew, 11, left, on Tuesday at the Windsor Middle School radio station.

Joshua Polson//Staff Photographer

Travis Finning, 13, smiles as he gets ready to record for short promotion for the Windsor Middle School Radio Station.

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dive deeper into other avenues for kids as they

Keener and Ian Mayhew, all seventh graders — who

explored career options and got into things

Swafford said are “really driven and interested,” and

that really intrigued them.

wanted to take on the radio venture. It didn’t take long

“They’ve gotten really good at video, so

for them to be up to speed in what had to be done to

we started playing with the idea of a live

launch the radio station.

broadcast and that spilled into the idea of a

“Picking out the music was a lot of work, because

radio venture.”

we have to have it be middle school appropriate of

One of the radio students, Adam Lieber,

course,” Cassey said. “There was a lot of prep work

provided the springboard for the school’s

behind that, looking up things online and such. We

exploration into radio because his father, Karl,

started with all the new hits and tried to single out the

works in radio and has started many radio

ones that were maybe different or what we thought

stations both locally and regionally.

would be better on a school site and then narrowed it

Karl was happy to come and give the

from there.”

students a crash course in how to set things

Lieber explained that he and his fellow students

up for the radio station, take them on a field

created a spreadsheet and prescreened songs. Those

trip to tour the K99 station and really lend a

were passed along to the teachers to be screened again

beginning hand.

to ensure they were OK in language and content for a

“Karl is the guy who I connected with to get

middle school audience.

all of this started,” said Christy Swafford, the

From there, the songs — more than 100, Swafford

educational technology coach at WMS who

guessed — were grouped into different folders on

helped get the radio station up and running,

the computer, such as in-the-moment top hits or less

along with Doug Kathan, who teaches the

popular songs. The music is set up to automatically

broadcast class that the students are a part of.

loop from the various folders, and the students decide

“We had no knowledge of radio. We didn’t

how often a song should play.

know the vocabulary, the process, anything.

In addition to music, the radio station features

Karl taught us about things like liners —

weather reports for the week, as well as lunch

‘You’re listening to KWMS radio’ – and

information for the school.

showed the kids the real radio station. I think

With the basics under control, lately the students

they were surprised to see that it wasn’t as

have been able to work on other additions, changes

glamorous as they expected!”

There were four students in the broadcast class – Bree Cassey, Adam Lieber, Logan

ˆBreelyn Caffy, 13, fills out the schedule for her classmates on Tuesday at the Windsor Middle School radio station.

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“For me, it’s hugely gratifying to see these kids energized and passionate about what they’re doing and leaving a positive mark on the building.” and improvements to the station. Cassey, known as “Radio Rebel”

few middle schools, so she’s excited that the Windsor students are

on the air, is recording spots like “Trending topics” that explore

doing something cutting edge. She’s enjoyed watching them take

hot trends at the middle school level.

ownership of the station, working on finding their personalities and

“It’s really fun getting the segments on the air, and picking out

improving the inflection in their voices when they record segments.

the songs is fun too,” Cassey said. “It’s really cool to know that we

“Middle schoolers are shy, and blending is safer at this age, so

can put something in the school that other kids can work on, cool to know we helped create it.”

Lieber said he loves working with the technology aspect, and he likes recording the liners from classmates or school staff.

He said he’d love to see the station become more advanced as it goes on, adding in sound effects and more “professional” bits to the broadcasts.

“There’s a lot of work in

“

seeing them come out of their shell and take ownership of it, to think about their voices is great,” she said. “They’re thinking of their audience too – they’re speaking to their peers, not just to a teacher like they would

“For me, it’s hugely gratifying to see these kids energized and passionate about what they’re doing and leaving a positive mark on the building.”

putting together a 30-second segment, more than you’d think,” he said. “It might take 10

in a classroom assignment.”

Within the radio program, Johnson sees manifestation of the school’s three fundamental principles – collaboration, community and critical thinking.

“They’re working together. And the media productions class is just

minutes to get the information, five to write it down and make it

one period a day, but how does the radio station run when you’re not

sound good, and then record it. It’s work.”

there? That’s solving problems. It’s making our school community and

It’s that work that Johnson and Swafford are so proud of,

the community at large better for having this program in it,” Johnson

watching the students put in so much effort to make the radio

said.

station successful.

“For me, it’s hugely gratifying to see these kids energized and

Swafford said when she began doing research, she found many

passionate about what they’re doing and leaving a positive mark on

high schools online that offer a streaming radio service, but very

the building.”

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‹ A poster welcomes people to the recording studio as Adam Lieber, 13, works on after class on Wednesday at Windsor Middle School. Joshua Polson//Staff Photographer

To listen If you want to listen to the Windsor Middle School’s radio station, go to wms.weldre4.org, and on the main page there is a link for the radio station. It's only available as an online service (not on the traditional radio dial).

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Power To Play Sports opens up 52,000-square-foot facility in west Windsor, fulfills owners’ lifetime dream Kristen M.White For Premier

Michael Peterson stands center court by the logo for the Power 2 Play sports complex in Windsor.

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ichael Peterson loves basketball.

It’s probably the one thing in his life that he loves most, besides his 15-month-old daughter, A.P. The Minnesota native played the sport in high school and continued throughout college “like a lot of guys out there,” he said, and then went on to coach at those same levels.

That was originally his main source of income — coaching. His own business, Power To Play, was something he did on the side. Power To Play organizes events for basketball and some volleyball. Peterson started it about 17 years ago to cater primarily to youth basketball through tournaments, leagues and club teams throughout Colorado.

Years ago, Peterson took a leap of faith and made Power To Play his main focus. It started with 16 teams in 2000. Now, Power To Play has about 3,200 total teams.

This year marked a huge landmark — literally — for the northern Colorado based company.

After 15 months of building and construction, Power to Play opened the doors for its new 52,000-square-foot facility at the beginning of February in western Windsor.

The complex — which sits on 4.7 acres of commercial land near the Budweiser Events Center — features six basketball courts with volleyball nets that swing down from the ceiling with a push of a buttom. There are 187 parking spaces, with 180 more on the way for the west side of the building, according to Peterson.

There is also an outdoor patio area facing north that Peterson has already rented out for graduation parties and other celebrations.

Three courts sit on each

side of the building, and between those is a lounge area that Peterson describes as “a sports bar without the alcohol.” Seven TVs and professional basketball memorabilia — featuring big-name players such as Larry Bird and Stephen Curry — hang on the walls, while bar tables and large sofas fill the area. The area also has fronts for concessions and Power To Play swag, as well as a kids’ play room.

Peterson has about 175 basketball and volleyball officials that work for the company, as well as 40 part-time employees,

and six full-time employees.

He said he had two partners in bringing the facility to fruition: Eric Greene, owner of Mail N Copy in Windsor and now

co-owner of the facility; and John Turner, who is the sport complex’s land owner.

Greene has printed items for Peterson’s business for years, and they’d sometimes play basketball with each other. One day, Greene said Peterson and he decided to follow through with building an official location for Power To Play. Since Greene The Best Of Windsor Magazine • premier • march 2017

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Basketballs surround Michael Peterson owner of Power 2 Play, a sports complex at 5699 Crooked Stick Dr., in Windsor. The massive gym complex took 15 months to complete and is now hosting a number of tournaments, pick-up games and events.

Joshua Polson//Staff Photographer

had previous business experience, he decided to help out with that aspect.

After all, his love for basketball was as profound as Peterson’s.

“I have a passion for kids and sports and basketball, so for me, it was an easy fit,” Greene said. “This (complex) puts Windsor on the map for competitive basketball.”

Power To Play is located across the street from the Budweiser Events

Center on the Windsor side of Larimer County Road 5. The exterior

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landscaping for the building will be completed come spring when the winter weather begins to disperse, Peterson said.

He said as much as he loves the sport of basketball, he tried to make the

facility more family-oriented than just player-focused. That’s why there are no bleachers, but rather 1,000 chairs with backs for support. It’s also why he chose Windsor as the facility’s location, after scoping out various locations near the Interstate 25 corridor.

“Windsor is a really good sports town and it’s really active,” he said. “If

you could pick a spot in the country to run our type of family destination

Hours The complex is open from 6 a.m.-10 p.m.

Monday through Friday, for “pick-up”,“drop-in” and “open gym” time. This includes volleyball and basketball play.

environment, there’s no better place in the country. You can do anything safe and family-driven here.”

He also said where the facility is located is easy to get to from all areas of

northern Colorado — Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland, Johnstown, you name it. That makes it a more convenient place to host large tournaments, and is easily accessible by teams all around the region for practices and more.

“It’s like the mecca of northern Colorado,” he said.

Peterson said more than 16,000 people have experienced the facility in its

first month. That number is from people visiting for weekend tournaments, pick-up games and practices.

Stacy Johnson, director of economic development for Windsor, said the

facility is a huge opportunity for the town to continue to capitalize on its youth sports programs. She said it will also likely draw in tourism regionally and nationally, which then spreads to Windsor’s other local businesses, 14

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restaurants and more. That’s obviously a good thing, she said, especially

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since Windsor officials will continue to grow the amenities on that I-25 corridor as much as possible.

Power To Play Sports is located on the east side of Larimer County Road 5, across the street from Budweiser Events Center. Its address is 5699 Crooked Stick Drive in Windsor.

“We knew it was an ‘if you build it, they will come’ scenario — we

just didn’t know how many,” Johnson said. “It’s a good testament for how powerful youth sports is in this region. … Everything we can continue to do to diversity our revenue streams and our industry is huge because it makes us more stable as an economy.”

Peterson attended the University of Northern Colorado for graduate

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school and got his master’s degree in sports management. That was his stepping-stone to the Front Range. He hasn’t looked back since then, even though sometimes he feels nostalgic for his small hometown of about 400 people in the Midwest.

He said 25 years of his life in the sports industry led up to the moment

of opening Power To Play’s complex. He always dreamed of owning his own basketball facility as a teenager, but he wasn’t sure if or when that day would come.

“This is all about having a passion, and loving it,” he said. “This facility

will open up avenues for everybody, whether that’s the kid casually playing basketball or the hardcore athlete.”

Future goals? Peterson said expansion. He eventually wants to grow up to

10 courts.

“We’re already too small,” he said with a laugh. “We need more space.”

Also on his to-do list is to build a 2,500-seat capacity college facility for highend training purposes and to attract more competitive playoff games at the

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state and collegiate levels.

But for now, he’s relishing in his basketball dream.

Peterson still makes sure to shoot some hoops to this day, obviously on

the shiny new courts in his new complex. Those shiny new courts are also where he enjoys watching A.P. sprint her little legs from sideline to sideline.

The facility is not only his dream-come-true, but a place where he can now combine his two greatest loves into one place.

“You always hear people say they wake up every morning doing what they

love,” he said. “I just can’t believe that actually am doing what I love.”

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Passion for refinishing antique furniture

turns into a full-time job, and a successful business

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s an industrial arts teacher at Windsor Middle School, Dan Stauss spent his nights in the late 1980s refinishing furniture, a passion he picked up from his brother.

As an industrial arts teacher at

members the day he turned his eyes

Windsor Middle School, Dan Stauss

to refinishing furniture.

spent his nights in the late 1980s refin-

ishing furniture, a passion he picked

on July 4 and said to my brother,

up from his brother.

‘You ought to buy furniture. You

could make more money doing fur-

“I got so busy, I thought, ‘I really

“I went to an auction with him

don’t have time to teach,’ ” Stauss, 56,

niture,’” Stauss recalled.

laughed. “It was kind of a passion that

turned into a vocation.”

his brother refinished antiques at

From that day on, Stauss and

In 1992, Stauss opened Memory

night and sold the antiques at flea

Lane Antiques, where he offers cus-

markets in Chicago and Milwaukee.

tom refinishing, refinished antiques

When Stauss opened Memory Lane

and home décor. While his brother

Antiques, the store was in a small

went to medical school at University

location that once belonged to a

of Wisconsin, Stauss joined him on

bakery. Over the years, his business

trips to find antique glassware to sell

has grown to include about 13,000

for extra money. Stauss vividly re-

square feet. Stauss credits his di-

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You start doing business with one person, you start talking, you find somebody else, so you go visit that person,” he said.“You start to develop relationships throughout the country. The best tool I have isn’t the table saw. It’s a cell phone.” verse inventory for keeping business booming.

“We have gifts and home décor for people who don’t

even like antiques. We have refinishing and custommaking of furniture. We also do commercial work, like we did the Pelican Lakes Sandbar restaurant,” he said.

“We’re the only place in the state that re-silvers mirrors.

We do upholstery also.”

But for Stauss, the best part of his job is the antiques.

Lately he’s been doing a lot of retrofitting, incorporating old materials into something new. He pointed to a bar built with reclaimed corrugated metal and reclaimed teak timber as an example of his work.

“Younger people like straight lines; they don’t like

real fancy stuff. They love the industrial look,” he explained. “That’s fun because it challenges your mind.”

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With an online store, Stauss has

customers as far as Florida and

Shad Hilzer carefully sands the edges of another restoration project on Tuesday as he helps at at Memory Lane Antiques, 426 Main St., in Windsor.

Joshua Polson//Staff Photographer

New Hampshire. People from Fort Collins, Denver, Wyoming and even Montana come to visit the shop inperson. Stauss said he’s had customers help him unpack antiques he just acquired and buy them on the spot.

At

Memory

Lane

Antiques,

customers can see the process the antiques go through. With antiques coming from the Midwest, the East Coast and the South, antiques are disassembled for safe transport.

After epoxying the antique back together, Stauss has it sanded by hand. The quality of workmanship means Stauss will spend from 2460 hours on average refinishing an antique.

Finding upper-end antiques to

work on is one of the greatest challenges in the business, according to Stauss. After 32 years in the business, he said it can be like navigating an “underground network.”

“You start doing business with

one person, you start talking, you find somebody else, so you go visit that person,” he said. “You start to develop relationships throughout the country. The best tool I have isn’t the table saw. It’s a cell phone.”

For MORE info Location: 426 Main St., Windsor Phone: (970) 686-7913 Hours: Mon-Sat: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

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Website: memlaneantiques.com Alex Roth leans down to varnish a chair that is being restored on Tuesday at Memory Lane Antiques, 426 Main St., in Windsor.

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CRITTER GITTER

Cisco uses pamphlets to educate public

By Allison Dyer Bluemel // For Premier Photos by: Joshua Polson

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ost mothers learn to lock their kids in the house when they know their kids get into mischief.

But the mother of Windsor resident

Scott Cisco learned when he was young to lock the door behind him at their Florida home.

Cisco would wander out of the house and adventure,

returning with alligators and other critters, sparking his interest in wildlife early on.

Today, that love and interest has transformed Cisco

into the Critter Gitter of Northern Colorado.

His business works in humane, live-trap pest control

throughout northern Colorado, based out of his home and 50-acre ranch in east Windsor.

He prides himself in responding quickly and profes-

sionally to his clients and their needs, from raccoons to bats to snakes.

“It’s a real toss up between who is more wild, the

people or the wildlife,” he laughed.

Between Florida and Windsor, Cisco learned to trap

with his grandfather up in Cheyenne. However, Wyoming’s trapping regulations allow for non-live traps, unlike Colorado.

“Colorado sees that as inhumane,” he said.

His experience in Wyoming prepared him for all

types of wildlife, a resource that local code enforcement and Colorado Parks and Wildlife utilize from time to time around the region.

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Critter Gitter of Northern Colorado Owner Scitt Cisco holds a bat during a job.

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“(We’ll call him) if there’s something we’re not really

equipped to deal with,” Windsor Code Enforcement Of-

ficer Jeremiah Sauter said. “It’s not just that he’s going

said.

to go in and do whatever it takes to fix the problem. He’s

got that holistic approach to wildlife management.”

it’s the dream.

However, he prefers to steer clear of the Denver

“We don’t hate each other, we just ain’t friends,” he Though his work doesn’t seem glamorous to many, There’s no doubt he stands out in Windsor: tall and

metro area as much as possible.

a little wilder looking than most of the residents. But

spend five minutes with him in the King Soopers Star-

“I’m not really into the big city,” he said. “That’s wild-

life that’s out of control.”

bucks — where they know his order on site — and it’s

easy to tell how grateful Windsor residents are for his

To many, Cisco’s experience and confidence makes

him seem fearless.

services.

While he doesn’t mind the animals — laughing that

“I’ve been doing this my whole life,” he said. “I’ve

they’re sometimes easier to predict than humans — he

always been a people person.”

won’t work with insects.

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Many times, his customers call him in a panic after

they discover an unwanted guest. What sets him apart, Cisco says, is his quick response time.

Even if it’s 11 p.m., he’ll show up to help with a prob-

lem at someone’s house, offer them some advice on future pest prevention and do it all with enthusiasm.

“When people call me, I like to be able to respond as

quickly as possible,” he said. “I’m a talker. I love to talk and love to listen (to the customers).”

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As part of educating the public, Cisco carries with

him pamphlets of his making that cover wild animal and raccoon prevention, as well as literature from Colorado Parks and Wildlife and Larimer County Parks and Open Lands.

“To me it’s common sense,” he said. “It’s first na-

ture.”

There’s nothing else that Cisco would rather be do-

ing, he said.

“I dreamed of (doing this),” he said. “It’s my drug of

choice.”

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Critter Gitter of Northern Colorado Owner Scott Cisco holds three raccoons after trapping them. Joshua Polson//Staff Photographer

Whenever people ask him how he’s doing, there’s a

decent chance he’ll respond with a chipper “better than I deserve.”

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Working as northern Colorado’s resident Critter Git-

ter allows him to use “a God given gift” while also helping the people of the region.

“At Critter Gitter, we believe in three things: faith,

family and critters,” Cisco said. “To be able to do what I love and get paid for it is unbelievable.”

Though Cisco’s dedication to the job has remained

the same, he said the animals and problems he sees are getting wilder.

He said it’s the stuff of reality TV.

“If this doesn’t become a reality show, somebody’s

missing out,” he laughed.

“

It’s a real toss up between who is more wild, the people or the wildlife

Two skunks on a job worked by Scott Cisco of Citter Gitter of Northern Colorado. Joshua Polson//Staff Photographer

While that gives him more chances to chase the rush

of close encounters and adrenaline in the moment, it means more unease in the community itself.

With a wetter season, he’s seen more skunk and

snake calls this year.

“I’m running out of time,” Cisco said.

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