Tributary October 14, 2020

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October 14, 2020

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Gardner, Baldwin, Moran, Reed, Stewart, Moulton Applaud House Passage of 9-8-8 Suicide Hotline Bill

Endorsement of Mike Welch for Weld County Commissioner District 3

by Bob Grand, Publisher, Lost Creek Guide The Republican candidate for Weld County Commissioner for District 3, Lori Saine, recently gave an interview to the Greeley Tribune, while when invited to offer her views to the Lost Creek Guide in the primary she declined.

Apparently, she believes that her power base among the Greeley area special interest supersedes the interests of the citizens of District 3. The Greeley Tribune has minimal distribution in Weld County Commissioner District 3 area.

In her Greeley Tribune interview, Ms. Saine refers to her “ higher level issues experience” and the fact she has dealt “with a lot of statewide issues”.

Perhaps most astonishing was her claim that she is “able to lead with bipartisan solutions across the board, across interests and subjects”.

Apparently, Ms. Saine does not understand she is running for Weld County Commissioner for District 3. Does she not understand her constituents are the citizens of District 3 not some higher level of whatever? Has she recently, if ever, had substantive meetings with her real potential constituents, not just the special interests’ individuals in the Great Greely area? Does Ms. Saine believe that the Commissioner District 3 position is nothing more than the next rung on her political ladder, coming with a much larger paycheck?

Although she may have extraordinary strong ties with the greater Greeley old guard Republican party members and certain special interests, what does that have to do with being the County Commissioner representing District 3? What does that have to do with the Heartland Biogas Energy facility, which is coming to the table again, or property right and health and safety issues surrounding the development of industrial properties close to major housing developments?

Ms. Saine would do well to listen to Perry Buck, Republican candidate for the At-Large-Commissioner a seat for Weld County., who states that she thinks “ it is absolutely important to listen to what the citizens have to say”.

Instead, Ms. Saine, operating at “ a higher level of experience”, does not feel it is important to listen to all her potential constituents. The voters of District 3 are comprised of a diverse group of unaffiliated, Republican and Democratic voters. The Republicans, by themselves, are not a majority. We, in District 3, need to send a message to Lori Saine and the Greater Greeley old guard Republicans, that it is time to recognize that District 3 citizens

are not to be treated as an orphan children but a group of citizens who expect their elected officials to represent their interests on the Board of County Commissioners as well as consider the health, safety, and welfare of all the citizens in the county.

For too long District 3 has suffered with a Commissioner who was more interested in pursuing higher state office than representing District 3. One could argue that Fort Lupton has received attention, likely because long time Fort Lupton Mayor Tommy Holton was a strong advocate for the City.

The Weld County 2021 budget will be under pressure because of the oil & gas revenue impacts. In a budget that already fundamentally favors the greater Greeley area what do you think will happen in next year’s budget process? District 3 cannot afford to have Lori Saine as its representative at the County Commissioner table. We require an advocate, a strong one. Do you really believe Lori Saine will be that advocate?

Mike Welch will be an independent voice at that table, advocating for all the citizens of District 3. He can be elected but you must vote. If you do not vote, and let Lori Saine win, you are giving up your voice at the County Commissioner table. Do not let that happen. Vote for Mike Welch for Weld County Commissioner for District 3.

Tool Thefts Continue to be a Problem in Weld County

Thefts of tools from construction sites and oil and gas facilities continue to be an issue in Weld County.

Last week, the Weld County Sheriff’s Office issued a public service announcement about a recent uptick in tool thefts. The sheriff’s office received several more reports of tool thefts over the weekend and into this week.

Although we are receiving calls from victims all over the county, the highest concentration of tool thefts has been reported in Del Camino, Hill-N-Park and on the south side of the county, from about Weld County Road 6 to the Adams County line.

The items thieves are targeting run the gamut of small hand and power tools to higher ticket items such as generators, air compressors, demolition tools and other large equipment. It appears in the last week thieves are focusing more on small tools that don’t carry serial numbers.

The sheriff’s office would like to reiterate residents take the following steps to prevent and protect themselves from tool theft: • Take an inventory of your tools, noting the serial numbers for high-ticket items.

• Mark low-ticket items with your name or company logo for easy identification.

• Do not leave tools out in the open at the jobsite or in the bed of your pickup.

• Store tools securely, whether that’s in a storage container at the site or by bringing tools into your garage at the end of the workday.

• If storing tools onsite, be sure to purchase high-quality locks.

• Be wary of your surroundings and report suspicious people and activity by calling 911.

Email: Public_information@co.weld.co.us Phone: 970-400-2802 Anyone with information regarding this or any other crime is asked to call the Weld County Sheriff’s Office at (970) 356-4015 or Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Tips can also be submitted through the Crime Stoppers website at www.crimeshurt.com. Those submitting tips through Crime Stoppers that lead to the

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Gardner, Baldwin, Moran, Reed, Stewart, Moulton Applaud House Passage of 9-8-8 Suicide Hotline Bill

Bipartisan bill designates 9-8-8 as the suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline, now heads to President’s desk

Washington, D.C. – Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed S. 2661, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act, which was introduced by U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Jerry Moran (R-KS), and Jack Reed (D-RI). This bipartisan legislation designates 9-8-8 as the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline, and companion legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by U.S. Representatives Chris Stewart (R-UT) and Seth Moulton (D-MA).

“With approval from the House of Representatives today, our bipartisan bill to create a three-digit suicide hotline and make it easier for Americans dealing with a mental health crisis to receive life-saving support is now another step closer to becoming reality,” said Senator Gardner. “I’ve held countless meetings and roundtables with families, students, mental health care professionals, law enforcement officials, and others to address our state’s mental health needs. The tragic fact is we lose a Coloradan to death by suicide every seven hours, and we must keep fighting to provide mental health support to Coloradans in need, particularly in this time of crisis. I applaud the House for approving this bipartisan, commonsense legislation, and I look forward to the President signing it into law in order to save lives.”

“In America, we lose about 45,000 people every year to suicide, including more than 6,100 veterans, making it one of the leading causes of death in this country,” said Senator Baldwin. “We need to do everything we can to prevent suicide and that means improving the tools we have to help people who are suffering from depression or other mental health concerns. I’m very proud our bipartisan legislation has passed the House of Representatives so we can make it as quick and easy as possible for Americans in crisis to get the help and support they need through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the Veterans Crisis Line.”

“This legislation provides an easy-to-remember number and easy-to-access service for people in need of a helping hand,” said Senator Moran. “I commend members of the House for passing this legislation, and I look forward to continuing to work with my Senate colleagues and the FCC to make certain 9-8-8 is implemented quickly and effectively once signed into law.”

“The national suicide hotline is a proven lifesaver and this legislation will connect more people to the help they need, when they need it. The simplified, nationwide, three-digit number will expand the lifeline’s reach and link people to professional assistance,” said Senator Reed. “People know 9-1-1 is for emergencies and 3-1-1 is for local services. Now we must raise awareness to ensure people know 9-8-8 is for suicide prevention. Just as importantly, we need to back the hotline up with adequate resources and appropriate staffing levels.”

“This is a great day for our nation. Those who find themselves in a mental health crisis will now have the extra support that they need. I’ve met with many across Utah whose loved ones have taken their own life. I’ve heard their stories, I’ve heard their pleas for help, and today, I am proud that we are able to provide a vital resource to those who need it most. This easy-to-remember hotline will save lives and give us additional tools to help reverse the tragic trend of suicide. Every life matters and we can all do our part to prevent suicide by providing love and support to our neighbors who may be struggling,” said Representative Stewart.

“When your house is on fire, you can get help by calling 9-1-1. A year-and-a-half ago, we set a goal to make it just as easy to get help in a mental health emergency. Today we finished the job and made 988 the national number for mental health emergencies,” said Representative Moulton. “This is a win for every American who has been affected by a mental illness. It is a national step forward out of the shadows of stigma that prevent too many people from seeking help into a new era where mental health care is easy to get and normal to talk about. I’m so proud of my team and the partners that got this done. This will save tens of thousands of lives every day.”

The National Suicide Hotline Designation Act, S. 2661, designates 9-8-8 as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which would include the Veterans Crisis Line for veteran-specific mental health support. The current National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and Veterans Crisis Line is 10-digits long, which is a barrier to Americans in crisis seeking support. The bill includes a report to improve support services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and other highrisk populations. Until the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finalizes the technical implementation of 9-8-8 as the nationwide number, anyone seeking help should still call 1-800-273-8255.

Calls to the mental health crisis line in Colorado have spiked 48 percent due in part to COVID-19.

Roughly 60 percent of calls to the crisis line are related to the ongoing pandemic.

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October 14, 2020

TRIVIA What part of the body is most often injured in fireworks accidents.

THE EYES What theme park celebrated its 10th birthday on October 1, 1981 WALT DISNEY WORLD What river is known in Mexico as the Rio Bravo del Norte?

THE RIO GRANDE What kind of store does Prince work at parttime in Raspberry Beret?

A FIVE-AND-DIME Who had more money when they pooled their resources in 1921 - Walt or Roy Disney ROY DISNEY Who first appears as Donna Duck?

DAISY DUCK What berry did Rudolph Boysen lend his name to?

BOYSENBERRY What land at Disneyland depicts life from 1770s to the 1880s?

FRONTIERLAND What Christmas figure lends his name to an Indiana city?

SANTA CLAUS What word does Mary Poppins use to describe winning a horse race?

SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS What did the Pony Express lose on every letter it delivered - three cents, $3 or $13?

THIRTEEN DOLLARS What Disney character stars in The Simple Things, Symphony Hour and Orphans’ Benefit?

MICKEY MOUSE What season is it in Australia when Santa Claus drops in?

SUMMER Whose face appears on the double domino that starts a game of Disny Dominos?

MICKEY MOUSE’S

October 14, 2020

Also on This Day

ART, LITERATURE, AND FILM HISTORY 1957 “Wake Up Little Susie” becomes the Everly Brothers’ first #1 hit. Harmony singing was a part of rock and roll right from the beginning, but the three- and four-part harmonies of doo-wop, derived from black gospel and blues traditions, would never have given us Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles or the Byrds.

U.S. PRESIDENTS 1912 Before a campaign speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt is shot at close range by saloonkeeper John Schrank while greeting the public in front of the Gilpatrick Hotel.

GREAT BRITAIN 1066 King Harold II of England is defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings, fought on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, England.

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This Day in History - October 14, 1947 Chuck Yeager Breaks Sound Barrier

U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.

Yeager, born in Myra, West Virginia, in 1923, was a combat fighter during World War II and flew 64 missions over Europe. He shot down 13 German planes and was himself shot down over France, but he escaped capture with the assistance of the French Underground. After the war, he was among several volunteers chosen to test-fly the experimental X-1 rocket plane, built by the Bell Aircraft Company to explore the possibility of supersonic flight.

For years, many aviators believed that man was not meant to fly faster than the speed of sound, theorizing that transonic drag rise would tear any aircraft apart. All that changed on October 14, 1947, when Yeager flew the X-1 over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California. The X-1 was lifted to an altitude of 25,000 feet by a B-29 aircraft and then released through the bomb bay, rocketing to 40,000 feet and exceeding 662 miles per hour (the sound barrier at that altitude). The rocket plane, nicknamed “Glamorous Glennis” (after Yeager’s wife), was designed with thin, unswept wings and a streamlined fuselage modeled after a .50-caliber bullet.

Because of the secrecy of the project, Bell and Yeager’s achievement was not announced until June 1948. Yeager continued to serve as a test pilot, and in 1953 he flew 1,650 miles per hour in an X-1A rocket plane. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1975 with the rank of brigadier general.

BLACK HISTORY 1964 African American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America. At 35 years of age, the Georgia-born minister was the youngest person ever to receive the award.

VIETNAM WAR 1968 U.S. Defense Department officials announce that the Army and Marines will be sending about 24,000 men back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours because of the length of the war.

COLD WAR 1964 In the midst of the conflict in Vietnam, Nikita Khrushchev is ousted as both premier of the Soviet Union and chief of the Communist Party after 10 years in power. He left office the next day, October 15, 1964.

U.S. PRESIDENTS 1890 Future president Dwight D. Eisenhower is born in Denison, Texas on October 14, 1890. After graduating from West Point in 1915, Eisenhower embarked on a stellar military career–he would eventually become the supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II.

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October 14, 2020

Suicide Hotline Bill

Cont. from Page 2 Background: Gardner and Baldwin sent a letter to House leadership in July 2020 calling the U.S. House of Representatives to pass S. 2661 without delay and wrote, “As our country is facing an unprecedented challenge in responding to COVID-19, this three-digit hotline would play a critical role in saving the lives of many vulnerable Americans who are facing mental health emergencies during this period of isolation and uncertainty.”

In July 2020, 48 mental health groups sent a letter to House leadership calling for swift passage of S. 2661 and wrote, “This bicameral, bipartisan legislation is urgently needed and, under your leadership, could save lives.”

Every single commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) endorsed S. 2661 at a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in June 2020.

On May 13, the Senate unanimously passed Gardner’s National Suicide Hotline Designation Act. In April 2020, Gardner led a bipartisan, bicameral call to include the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act in the next COVID-19 relief package.

Gardner sent a bipartisan letter to Senate Majority Leader McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Schumer requesting $80 million to support critical suicide prevention activities amid the public health crisis that is upending the social and financial stability of countless Americans.

In February 2020, Gardner held a behavioral health roundtable at the Cherry Creek Innovation Campus (CCIC) to discuss Colorado’s mental health needs and his work across the aisle to increase mental health support in Colorado.

Gardner invited mental health advocate and 2018 Air Force Spouse of the Year Kristen Christy from Colorado Springs to be his guest at the President’s annual State of the Union Address and highlighted the need for more mental health support in Colorado.

In December 2019, the FCC approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to designate 9-8-8 as the three-digit number for a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline.

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation unanimously passed Senator Gardner’s bipartisan bill to designate 9-8-8 as the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline in December 2019.

At a press conference in November with Senator Gardner, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced the FCC would consider establishing 9-8-8 as the national suicide prevention hotline at their meeting on December 12, 2019.

Nearly 50 mental health organizations and veterans support organizations announced their support and urged Congress to pass the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act. In November 2019, Gardner met with Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners in Denver to discuss his bipartisan push to establish the three-digit hotline, which the organization said “will definitely be easier to remember and will result in significant utilization for a whole continuum of questions and needs related to behavioral health.”

In October 2019, Senators Gardner, Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Jerry Moran (R-KS), and Jack Reed (D-RI) introduced S. 2661, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act, which designates 9-8-8 for a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline and ensures states have the flexibility to strengthen local crisis call centers. The bill ensures states are able to collect fees for the line, similar to the way they do for the 911 emergency line, and requires reports to Congress to help ensure effectiveness and operability of the line.

During his annual Colorado Farm Tour, Gardner held a roundtable in Julesburg regarding rural healthcare and mental health needs in rural areas in August 2019.

In August 2019, the FCC released their report, which found that a national three-digit line would improve suicide prevention and recommended a simple number that Americans could dial in times of crisis: 9-8-8.

In July 2019, Gardner participated in the Voices for Awareness event at Colorado Mesa University about the need to destigmatize mental health support and suicide prevention services.

In April 2019, Gardner held a roundtable in Mesa County focused on teen suicide rates in Colorado and what the federal government can do to support students.

In 2018, Gardner voted for the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act, which directed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to evaluate using a three-digit dialing code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

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Cory Gardner is a member of the U.S. Senate serving Colorado. He sits on the Energy & Natural Resources Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, the Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee, and is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy.