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Snow stretches deicing supplies Winter weather a strain on materials applied to streets By Tom Munds [email protected]

Englewood had to reorder more IceSlic-er, the material used to treat ice and snow on the streets, because the prolonged cold weather and frequent snow falls dropped the available supply below necessary re-serve levels.

“We have about 75 tons of IceSlicer on hand which is about what we use to treat streets after a normal storm,” said Brad Hagan, street maintenance manager on Feb. 10. “I placed an order for 300 tons of Ic-eSlicer last week. … The supplier said deliv-ery would be delayed because of the heavy demand for the material from Midwest and Eastern cities. I was told to expect the new supply next week.”

For years, Englewood used a mixture of sand and salt on icy and snow-covered roads. A few years ago they switched to IceSlicer, described as “a granular de-ic-ing product that is more environmentally friendly than sand and salt” that has been said to “provide better traction on icy roads and (be) less corrosive than the salt mix-ture.”

“During that stretch of January storms, we knew that keeping the streets in good shape was depleting our supply of IceSlicer so we began adding rock salt to the IceSlic-er to help stretch each load we sent out,” Hagan said.

When a storm hits Englewood, the street department has four trucks out treating the streets. The fi rst priority areas are the hos-pitals, schools and downtown areas.

“Our trucks apply IceSlicer through the spreaders mounted at the rear of the ve-hicles,” Hagan said. “We pretreat IceSlicer The driver of this grinder truck waits for a dump truck as city crews clear away the accumulated ice and snow created by

the series of storms that hit Englewood in early February. After the storms subsided, crews began work on ice patches, particularly those in tra� c lanes. Photo by Tom Munds

Trader Joe’s comes to area Opening of popular, Polynesian-themed grocery store attracts thousands By George Lurie [email protected]

More than 3,000 people shopped and gawked at the new Trader Joe’s in Green-wood Village on Feb. 14, the store’s fi rst day in operation.

Rhonda MacDonald made the drive from Castle Rock to check out the new store.

“We moved here from San Jose (Califor-nia) a couple of years ago and the thing I missed most, except for maybe the ocean, was Trader Joe’s,” she said. “None of the other grocery stores around here are quite like them.”

Centennial resident and Colorado native Tim Hunter and his daughter Julie spent more than three hours — and several hun-dred dollars — shopping at the new store on Feb. 14.

“I’d heard a lot about Trader Joe’s but had never been to one until today,” said Hunter. “It’s cool. I like the vibe here. And the prices are really good, especially on things like nuts and dried fruit. We’ll be back.”

Store manager Dan Guarjardo, whose business card lists his job title as “captain,” said his staff “wasn’t sure what to expect” on opening day.

“We’re prepared for a brisk turnout but honestly, I don’t know how many people will show up,” Guarjardo said. “Hopefully, we’re ready for everything and everybody.”

Three hours after the doors opened, crowd control was the biggest challenge. The parking lot was full and checkout lines

snaked the length of the store as employees, dressed in red T-shirts, answered questions about food items and directed custom-ers pushing overfl owing shopping carts to available check stands.

The Polynesian-themed, 10,000-square-foot store, located in the Cherry Hills Mar-ketplace on South University Boulevard at East Orchard Road, features more than a dozen murals of area landmarks, includ-ing Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater, the High Line Canal Trail and Dinosaur Park.

The California-based company, which started in 1958 as Pronto Markets and changed its name to Trader Joe’s in 1967, has stores in nine states.

The company, which opened its fi rst Colorado outlets on Valentine’s Day, has a cult following, fueled in part by its selection of low-cost, private label products.

But south metro-area wine afi cionados who visited the Greenwood Village Trader Joe’s were disappointed: Only the Denver store (at 8th Ave. and Colorado Blvd.) has a liquor license and sells the company’s pop-ular “two-buck Chuck” wine.

“Bummer,” said customer Phil Stevens of Highlands Ranch, when informed by a store employee there was no wine at the Greenwood Village Trader Joe’s. “If I have to drive all the way in to Denver for cheap wine, I’m going to buy a case or two. Not just a few bottles.”

Check-out lines were long but moved quickly at the Feb. 14 opening of Trader Joe’s in Greenwood Village. Photo by George Lurie

RTD nixes proposal for funds District says no to Englewood’s request for reallocation By Tom Munds [email protected]

A letter from the Regional Transporta-tion District dated Jan. 31 rejected Engle-wood’s proposal for alternative uses of Fas-Tracks funds earmarked for projects in the city.

The city proposal would reallocate the money in the RTD FasTracks Plan to build a light rail station at Bates Avenue in En-glewood and to provide an additional 440 parking places the district promised to provide at the Englewood Light Rail Sta-tion. FasTracks is the mass transit expan-sion plan approved by voters in 2004. Both projects in Englewood were part of the Fas-Tracks Southwest Corridor Light Rain En-hancements.

The city requested the Bates Station and parking expansion funds be reallocated and made available now for other transit-related projects. Projects proposed for the reallocated funds would include building pedestrian-bike bridges over busy streets and adding enhancements to the Engle-wood Station.

However, the RTD letter said funding for the original projects have been re-pro-grammed to later in the FasTracks pro-gram. The reasons given for the new dates for funding for Englewood projects were the city had stated the prospects for build-ing the Bates Station were unlikely due to much increased costs and Englewood’s City Council asked RTD not to move forward with the proposed parking expansion proj-ect.

The letter signed by RTD General Man-ager Phillip Washington stated the funding for the proposed projects in Englewood were now identifi ed near the end of the Fas-Tracks program and are not expected to be available prior to 2035.

“RTD’s response to our proposal is a setback for us,” said Mike Flaherty, deputy city manager. “The RTD letter did suggest the city recommend including some of the projects as part of the Next Step portion of the Light Rail Corridor Development Plan.

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Pirates host student conference Englewood future business leaders welcome about 1,000 visitors By Tom Munds [email protected]

Englewood High School stu-dents and staff organized and hosted the Feb. 7 Future Business Leaders of America District 5 Lead-ership Conference and came away with 18 awards and 15 state quali-fi ers.

Scott Neff, EHS senior and Dis-trict 5 vice president, welcomed about 1,000 FBLA members and advisers from Englewood and 18 class 5A schools to the daylong event focused on business-related and leadership development that was held at Denver First Church of the Nazarene.

FBLA students competed in more than 65 events, vying to fi n-ish in the top three in their lead-ership and business challenges in order to qualify to take part in the state leadership competition later this spring in Vail.

Vickie Kennedy, Englewood FBLA adviser, said she had never supervised setting up a district conference.

“It was a lot more diffi cult than I thought it would be,” she said. “We had to arrange eight workshops, line up a guest speaker plus enlist two members of the business com-munity to be judges for each of the 65 competitions.”

Kennedy said she volunteered her time to have everything ready for the conference and the ar-rangements took up most of her time for about a month.

“We had a lot of our FBLA mem-bers who pitched in to help,” she said.

“We had the Englewood stu-dents and fi ve volunteers from Rock Canyon and their adviser Janha Robinette working until about midnight to complete the fi -nal setup the night before the con-

ference.”She said she was proud of the

work the students did preparing for the conference and the Engle-wood FBLA members perfor-mance in the competitions.

Scott Ne� , an Englewood High School senior and district vice president, worked with class-mates and advisers to organize and host the Future Business Leaders of America District 5 Leadership C onference. The c onference w as he ld F eb. 7 at D enver F irst Church of t he Na zarene. Courtesy photo

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nounced the awarding of a $3,500 grant to the Englewood High School band.

The band’s equipment and facilities suffered consider-able damage in January when vandals broke into the school, smashed windows and set fi res that triggered the sprinklers. Water fl ow from the sprinklers caused extensive damage.

Insurance will help pay for repairs and replacements but the grant will enable the instru-mental music department to purchase additional music and equipment.

Tax preparation assistanceEach Friday, low and middle-

income residents 60 and older can get free assistance prepar-ing their federal and state tax returns at Malley Senior Recre-ation Center at 3380 S. Lincoln St.

Appointments are required to get assistance during the program that is held from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. each Friday until April 11.

To make an appointment and get a list of items to bring to the session, call the Malley Center at 303-762-2660.

Crane to head up state association Arapahoe County Clerk and

Recorder Matt Crane was elect-ed vice president of the Colora-do County Clerk’s Association at its winter conference in January. He will be president-elect in 2015 and president in 2016.

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worked as the county’s deputy of elections and as its opera-tions/special projects manager. Crane has more than 13 years of experience in elections admin-istration, including with Denver County, Wyant Data Systems and the Colorado Department of State.

Police receive grantThe Englewood Police De-

partment has received a grant of more than $7,000 from Fire-house Subs Public Safety Foun-dation for the purchase of four automated external defi brilla-tors (AED’s) and accessories.

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Craig nurses recognizedCraig Hospital has received

the American Nursing Associa-tion’s top honor in the reha-bilitation category, marking the third time in four years the hospital has received the award.

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Englewood FBLA award winners Members of the Englewood Future Business Leaders of America won

18 awards and 15 members qualifi ed for the state conference during the Feb. 1 District 5 FBLA Leadership Conference hosted by the Pirates.

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Woman thrives with experimental cancer drug Centennial’s Ellen Smith, a pioneer’ in groundbreaking clinical trials By George Lurie [email protected]

In March 2008, Willow Creek resident Ellen Smith developed a nasty cough.

“My doctor treated it as pneu-monia but it just wouldn’t go away,” Smith says. “Finally, he sent me to the emergency room, where they discovered a large mass on one of my lungs. I never was a smoker so it was a big shock.”

After Smith had a lung removed in August 2008 and then spent the following year battling lung can-cer, her doctor told her the disease had progressed to Stage 4 and nothing more could be done.

“It was a death sentence,” says Smith, 64, a former Douglas County kindergarten teacher. “But my family and I just didn’t accept it.”

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In June 2009, Smith was ac-cepted into the CU Center’s pro-gram and became one of the fi rst

people in the world to receive the experimental drug.

“It was exciting, but it was also frightening,” Smith says. “There were no precedents.”

Almost immediately after start-ing the drug regimen, Smith began to feel better. While the Crizotinib did have a number of side effects, it kept her cancer in remission for two years.

Smith took full advantage of her new lease on life: She got mar-ried again, watched her daugh-ter get married, traveled with her husband to Europe and welcomed three new grandchildren to the world.

“I’ve had a fantastic support system,” she says. “There’s a rea-son I need to be here. There’s a lot to live for.”

Smith’s remarkable story of sur-vival is inspiring — and encom-passes many “fi rsts in the world of lung cancer research,” said Dr. Ross Camidge, director of the lung cancer program at the University of Colorado and Smith’s oncolo-gist.

“Ellen originally came to see me for a second opinion,” Camidge explains. “When we ex-amined her, we found she had this very specifi c molecular abnor-mality in her cancer. Even if you look within the lung cancer, there are very specifi c subsets of cancer on the molecular level.”

Smith’s subsets responded very favorably to Crizotinib.

“It’s not a cure but it’s a great way of controlling the cancer,” Camidge said.

While Camidge marvels at Smith’s tenacity, Smith is also a big fan of her doctor.

“He is brilliant and yet so down to earth,” she says. “I couldn’t ask for a better doctor.”

In 2011, when Crizotinib stopped working, Smith again became a medical pioneer, un-dergoing a new kind of “targeted chemotherapy” that Camidge says kept her cancer at bay for another 18 months.

“After we learned how the can-cer evolves to get around the drug, that’s when we started the new chemo program we call `weeding the garden,’ ” Camidge said. “El-len has been the fi rst to get these new types of treatment. They have beaten her cancer back — and proven new fi ndings that will ben-efi t many others.”

These treatments include what Camidge calls “re-challenging” the cancer with the original tar-geted drug after intervening with chemotherapy, which the doctor says allows the cancer to “forget” about its previous resistance to the drug.

Recently, a very small spot of Smith’s cancer has returned and Camidge has begun treating her with a second-generation version of Crizotinib.

Smith remains upbeat and ex-tremely hopeful that the medical advances she is helping prove will once again save her life.

“There is so much research and discovery going on right now,” Smith says. “If you have to have cancer, this is the time to have it.”

The Anschutz-University of Colorado Hospital and Cancer Center’s thoracic oncology pro-gram is among the top in the na-tion, with fi ve-year lung cancer survival rates almost four times higher than the current national average.

“We in Colorado are so lucky to have the Anschutz Center right here on our doorstep,” says Smith.

Patients travel from all over the

U.S. and from as far away as Asia and South America to be treated at the facility. For many who re-ceive treatment, Camidge says, lung cancer isn’t a death sentence but rather a chronic condition.

“If Ellen hadn’t come for that

second opinion, she would be dead,” Camidge said.

“Sometimes it’s scary to be a pioneer. But Ellen has real steel in-side her. When she agreed to treat-ment, she told me: `Somebody’s got to go fi rst.’ ”

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Citizen survey being planned Random sampling of residents will be asked to take partBy Tom [email protected]

Englewood City Council gave consensus approval at its Feb. 10 work session to con-tinue efforts needed in order to conduct a citizen survey that will ask the opinions of 1,200 residents about the city and its re-spective services.

“Englewood has done citizen surveys before,” said Mike Flaherty, deputy city manager, while introducing the subject. “Most recently, the city did surveys in 2007 and again in 2009. If we go ahead with the proposal, we will work with the National Research Center in Boulder that did the previous two surveys.”

He said the survey would be sent to 1,200 random residents and divided into 13 gen-eral topics with a series of questions related to each topic. Residents would be asked to circle a number representing opinions ranging from excellent to poor about such things as ease of bicycle travel in the city to the ease of accessibility to city parks.

Englewood has the option to add three specific policy questions plus, for an ad-ditional $1,500 fee, the city could add an open-ended question requiring a written response.

The cost of the survey without the open-ended question is $10,900.

Flaherty said that the Boulder center would randomly select 1,200 residents to receive the survey and would send an initial postcard to all individuals selected, letting them know they are being asked to partici-pate in the project.

“According to the center’s timeline, the

survey will be mailed to residents in May,” he said. “A second postcard will be sent a month later reminding residents to com-plete and return the survey. The center will provide the city the results of the survey by late July.”

The margin of error is plus or minus 5 percent and the results include the com-parison of the results of the Englewood sur-vey with the results from about 500 other cities in 45 states that use the center’s resi-dential survey.

Flaherty said that the response to the city’s 2009 survey was 31 percent, which is on par with the national survey response average of between 25 percent and 35 per-cent.

Councilmember Steve Yates asked at the work session what benefit the city would re-ceive by doing the survey.

Flaherty said the results of the opinion poll would help the council as they begin

the process to update the comprehensive plan.

Councilmember Linda Olson said she supports doing the survey, saying that the survey is a good way to hear resident’s opin-ions about city services.

She said she carries the 2009 survey with her and often refers to it when discussing issues with residents.

Mayor Randy Penn said the city has un-dergone changes since the last survey in 2009 and he felt the proposed survey would provide a good sampling of responses from residents about city services and customer satisfaction.

He said he favored having the staff gath-er information from councilmembers and department directors to craft the three pol-icy questions so that the survey could move forward.

The councilmembers gave consensus approval to his suggestion.

Sterne Park project four months behindDrainage work was to be complete last NovemberBy Jennifer [email protected]

Although it looks like a tornado hit the south side of Sterne Park and traffic in the neighborhood has been diverted for months, those responsible are asking for just a little more patience.

“I can appreciate everybody’s impa-tience, but we’ll get a good project up at the end of the day,” said Richard G. Borchardt, senior project engineer with the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District.

The work started in July 2013 and was originally anticipated to wrap up by No-vember of that year. Delays came in the form of weather and some utility work cost-ing more than expected, said Borchardt. He says they’ll finish the majority of construc-tion in the first week of March, and go back when the temperature reaches 50 degrees and rising to complete the paving and land-scaping.

“We are committed to landscape res-

toration and paving before the project is complete and final payment is made to the contractor,” said City Manager Michael Penny in an email to Councilman Jerry Val-des, who is not pleased with the pace or the progress.

“It drives me nuts,” he said. “If it was a private company doing it for profit, they would get this done. They just keep drag-ging it out.”

The project is being managed by UD-FCD and the City of Littleton. When it’s done, there will be new culverts on Little’s Creek at Lake and Parkhill avenues and Crocker Street.

“Hopefully it looks better than it did be-fore, that’s our goal,” said Borchardt. “And it will improve the drainage through that area of Littleton. There was a risk of flooding on Little’s Creek and local street drainage around the park.”

Valdes hopes calling attention to the situation will light a fire under the contrac-tors.

“There is just no sense of urgency with this thing,” he said.

“I wish I could click my heels and get this done.”

Improvements at Sterne Park are taking longer than expected. Photo by Jennifer Smith

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Magazine ammo ban repeal efforts failGOP lawmaker takes heat for Aurora comments By Vic [email protected]

As expected, Republican efforts to repeal a law that limits ammunition maga-zine rounds failed in ma-jority Democrat legislative committees last week.

But one of the hearings produced unexpected com-ments from a lawmaker who would end up having to do some damage control over his remarks concern-ing events that took place during the 2012 Aurora the-ater shooting.

Sen. Bernie Herpin, R-Colorado Springs, told the Senate’s State, Veterans and Military Affairs Commit-tee on Feb. 12 that it may have been a “good thing” that Aurora theater shoot-ing suspect James Holmes was carrying a 100-round ammunition magazine be-cause it jammed.

“If he had instead had four, five, six 15-round mag-azines, no telling how much

damage he could have done until a good guy showed up,” Herpin told committee members.

Herpin was trying to make the point that larger capacity magazines are un-reliable and that fewer peo-ple were killed or injured because Holmes’ weapon jammed. He later apolo-gized for coming across as being insensitive.

Herpin’s comments were met with outrage by Tom Sullivan, the father of 27-year-old Alex Sullivan, one of 12 people who was killed in the July 2012 Au-rora theater shooting.

“I’ve had a lot of thoughts since July 20, 2012, and I can tell you that I never have once thought that it was better that that man walked into that theater with a 100-round drum, and opened fire on the over 200 people that were in that theater,” Sullivan said.

Herpin is a freshman senator who won a recall election against John Morse last fall. Morse, who at the time was Senate president, was one of three Demo-cratic lawmakers who were either voted out of office or resigned in the face of recall

elections over their votes on gun bills last year.

Herpin isn’t the only law-maker who has raised eye-brows for comments having to do with gun legislation. Last year, Rep. Joe Salazar and then-Sen. Evie Hudak, both Democrats, made comments regarding rape and gun violence that, like Herpin’s comments, made national headlines.

Herpin was in front of the committee to sponsor a bill that sought to repeal a law from last year that banned ammunition maga-zines from carrying more than 15 rounds.

The bill was one of two GOP-sponsored repeals that failed at the Legislature last week, each one falling on party-line votes in the Democrat-led General As-sembly. Two days earlier, a House committee rejected a separate effort sponsored by Rep. Chris Holbert, R-Parker, that also sought to repeal the magazine limit.

Holbert argued that lim-iting the number of rounds in a magazine is arbitrary and does nothing to pro-mote public safety.

“This legislation doesn’t make us safer,” Holbert said. “It doesn’t limit a crim-inal’s ability to do some-thing monstrous. All it does is punish a law-abiding citi-zen.”

But Democrats and oth-er supporters of magazine limits say the law saves lives because the fewer rounds that a killer can get off, the less damage they can cause.

The law was drafted in response to recent mass shootings like the one in Aurora and at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School the same year. Jane Dougherty’s sister, Mary Sherlock, was a school psy-chologist who was killed at the Sandy Hook massacre.

“Twenty-six souls were lost in fewer than 11 min-utes that Friday morning,” Dougherty said. “We hear over and over again about gun owners having their rights taken away from them. … I ask you, `What about my sister’s rights?’”

In a nod to the ramifica-tions from last year’s recall efforts, Holbert tried to ap-peal to Democrats on the committee to seize the “po-litical opportunity” by sup-porting his repeal bill.

“Are you willing to risk political capital?” Holbert said. “I ask you to please keep an open mind.”

But Rep. Mike Foote, D-Lafayette, took exception to Holbert’s comments.

“I don’t think we should be making a decision based on what’s politically expe-dient or politically smart,” Foote said.

Veterans organize new Purple Heart chapterArvada-based organization serves veterans across the Front RangeBy Crystal Anderson [email protected]

Years, decades, after returning home from serving in Vietnam, veterans and Purple Heart recipients, Frank Griggs and Jeff Birdwell, decided they wanted to give back to the veteran community of Colorado. And in January, they started a chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart.

Chapter 1041, named after Griggs’s boot camp unit in the Marine Corps, is located at the Elks Lodge in Arvada, 5700 Yukon St., and will serve veterans across the Front Range, west of I-25, south near Highlands Ranch to north in Broomfield.

“We try to stay in our community and have that pres-ence and by cooperating with other organizations in our area it helps everybody,” Griggs said.

The organization will be working on several projects in the community, including the Star Spangled Banner pro-gram with the Arvada Harvest Festival; organizing a color guard; obtaining a tolling bell and placing a Purple Heart Memorial in Westminster’s Armed Forces Tribute Garden.

By working in conjunction with local associations such as the Elks Lodge, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), and the American Legion, Chapter 1041 members are working to establish a valuable community presence while ensuring help to all veterans, not just Purple Heart recipients.

“The Purple Heart organization is more than a group of guys with Purple Hearts meeting, chapters provide funds for Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospitals, nursing homes, and vet-erans,” Griggs said.

Serving veterans in other areas through the support and honor of the Military Order of the Purple Heart led Griggs to want to start his own chapter in an underserved area of Colorado, helping veterans connect with other veterans and receive assistance.

“I want to help people and show our veterans the re-spect due them,” Griggs said. “I don’t want the recognition, I want to see the organization grow and help our veterans by providing things other people can’t provide.”

Since their inception in late January, the chapter has gained 24 members, and they’re hoping to add more recipi-ents to their roster, specifically female veterans and young-er Iraq and Afghan War veterans.

“We want people to be proud of their Purple Heart, it’s the oldest military honor, and very prestigious,” Birdwell said. “We want our members to feel a part of an elite orga-nization.”

Chapter 1041’s next meeting will be held at 10 am. March 8, at the Elks Lodge 2278, 5700 Yukon St. in Arvada. For more information about the Military Order of the Pur-ple Heart or to join, contact Frank Griggs at 303-946-3321.

A new chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart recently opened in Arvada, serving Purple Heart recipients and veterans across the Front Range. Photo by Crystal Anderson

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Calendar of EventsFor a complete calendar of South Metro Denver Chamber events and for more information, visit our web site at www.bestchamber.com or call 303-795-0142.

Thursday, February 20th:Health & Wellness Initiative Advisory Board

Chamber Conference Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Centennial2014 FirstBank Community Leaders Forum

Arapahoe Community College, 5900 S. Santa Fe Dr., LittletonAre You Prepared? Emergency Crisis in the Workplace Safety Seminar

Chamber Conference Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., CentennialCentennial Gun Club Grand Opening and Ribbon Shooting

6649 Paris St., Centennial1st Annual E.L.I.T.E. Dodgeball Tournament

Littleton Family YMCA, 11 West Dry Creek Ct., Littleton

Friday, February 21st:Social Marketing for Business: Converting Leads to Sales

Chamber Conference Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., CentennialRocky Mountain Energy Council Board of Advisors

Chamber Conference Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Centennial

Sunday, February 23rd:2014 American Lung Association Fight for Air Climb

Republic Plaza, 370 17th Street, Denver

Monday, February 24th:Women in Leadership Advisory Board

Chamber Conference Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., CentennialChamber Ambassador Orientation


Tuesday, February 25th:Business Bible Study


Wednesday, February 26th:South Metro Denver Chamber Day at the Capitol

State Capitol Bldg., 200 E. Colfax Ave., DenverCentennial Business Coalition: BRE Interview Training

Volcano Asian Cuisine, 10440 E. Arapahoe Rd., CentennialHealth and Wellness Initiative Speaker Series: Colorado Health Institute


Thursday, February 27th:Cultural Business Alliance: Secrets of Cross Cultural Alliances...


Friday, February 28th:President’s Leadership Forum

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Local nonprofits with projects to complete can apply

Dozens of area non-profits with thousands of volunteers working together makes for a great day. And, that’s the goal for the 2014 edition of the B.I.G. (Be Involved Give) Day set for Saturday, April 26th from 8:30 to 12:00. The fourth installment of this annual event promises to be bigger and more productive than ever.

“Last year’s event surpassed all our expectations,” says John Brackney, President and CEO of the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce. “Over 300 volunteers spent a Saturday morning at 22 non-profit agencies. Non-profits got to showcase all they do to volunteers from the business community and relationships were created. Best of all, everyone had a great time. We expect this year to be continue the tradition of getting bigger and better each year!”

B.I.G. stands for “Be Involved, Give.” Because of the huge success of last year’s event, the goal is to have over one-thousand volunteers spend Saturday morning at even more non-profits.

Laurian Horowitz, Owner/Instructor of Colorado Life Lessons is again coordinating the sign-up of local non-

profits interested in taking part in what’s become an annual event that thousands look forward to.

“The B.I.G. Day is an amazing day where our community can come together to volunteer.” says Horowitz. “For a nonprofit, it is a great opportunity to showcase themselves, to a new audience perhaps, and gain long term volunteers, monetary and in kind donations, as well as join forces with service organizations to complete huge projects in a short period of time.”

Last year’s B.I.G. Day volunteers did everything from planting vegetables at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield, to painting and preparing for the summer season at Dinosaur Ridge, to trail clean up with the South Suburban Park Foundation, to putting together and delivering meals for TLC Meals on Wheels - the list goes on and on. Children are welcome for most activities making it a fantastic family event and one that will build a sense of community in young minds.

Slots for nonprofit organizations to take part in this year’s event are beginning to fill up and Horowitz urges those interested to contact her either by phone at 303-257-9589 or e-mail

at [email protected]. There are currently 21 nonprofit organizations signed on and nonprofits do not need to be Chamber Investors in order to get involved in this event. Sign up for individual and corporate team volunteers will begin on March 1st.

Brackney adds, “Imagine all that we can accomplish with thousands of volunteers?! And all of the projects our community non-profits can get done through this great event!”

For updated information about the 2014 B.I.G. Day, visit the South Metro Denver Chamber Meetup site at www.Meetup.com/bestchamber/events/124096422 or contact Laurian Horowitz at 303-257-9589.

Despite the snowfall, it was a great affair as Discover Health and Wellness celebrated the opening of their fifth location in the Denver metro area with a ribbon cutting. Family, friends, clients and fellow Chamber Investors joined in the fun as they enjoyed healthy fare and beverages while touring the facility. The office offers chiropractic care, physical therapy, massage therapy, and toxic cleansing services. www.discoverhealthandwellness.com

The Sliding Door Company opened their first Denver showroom with a ribbon cutting celebration and party. Among the beautifully presented doors, guests enjoyed food and beverages while trying out the company’s flexible options. The company features a multitude of designs to enhance home, office, and work spaces in frosted, semi-transparent, and clear tempered glass. www.slidingdoorco.com

South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce announces 4th Annual “B.I.G. Day”

2013 B.I.G. Day volunteers gather at the South Metro Denver Chamber to celebrate putting in over 1500 volunteer hours in one morning.

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Veterans organize new Purple Heart chapter Arvada-based organization serves veterans across the Front Range By Crystal Anderson [email protected]

Years, decades, after returning home from serving in Vietnam, veterans and Purple Heart recipients, Frank Griggs and Jeff Birdwell, decided they wanted to give back to the veteran community of Colorado. And in January, they started a chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart.

Chapter 1041, named after Griggs’s boot camp unit in the Marine Corps, is located at the Elks Lodge in Arvada, 5700 Yukon St., and will serve veterans across the Front Range, west of I-25, south near Highlands Ranch to north in Broomfi eld.

“We try to stay in our community and have that pres-ence and by cooperating with other organizations in our area it helps everybody,” Griggs said.

The organization will be working on several projects in the community, including the Star Spangled Banner pro-gram with the Arvada Harvest Festival; organizing a color guard; obtaining a tolling bell and placing a Purple Heart Memorial in Westminster’s Armed Forces Tribute Garden.

By working in conjunction with local associations such as the Elks Lodge, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), and the American Legion, Chapter 1041 members are working to establish a valuable community presence while ensuring help to all veterans, not just Purple Heart recipients.

“The Purple Heart organization is more than a group of guys with Purple Hearts meeting, chapters provide funds for Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospitals, nursing homes, and vet-erans,” Griggs said.

Serving veterans in other areas through the support and honor of the Military Order of the Purple Heart led Griggs to want to start his own chapter in an underserved area of Colorado, helping veterans connect with other veterans and receive assistance.

“I want to help people and show our veterans the re-spect due them,” Griggs said. “I don’t want the recognition, I want to see the organization grow and help our veterans by providing things other people can’t provide.”

Since their inception in late January, the chapter has gained 24 members, and they’re hoping to add more recipi-ents to their roster, specifi cally female veterans and young-er Iraq and Afghan War veterans.

“We want people to be proud of their Purple Heart, it’s the oldest military honor, and very prestigious,” Birdwell said. “We want our members to feel a part of an elite orga-nization.”

Chapter 1041’s next meeting will be held at 10 am. March 8, at the Elks Lodge 2278, 5700 Yukon St. in Arvada. For more information about the Military Order of the Pur-ple Heart or to join, contact Frank Griggs at 303-946-3321.

School board transparency bill advances Legislation passes through House following lengthy debate By Vic Vela [email protected]

A contentious House fl oor debate pre-ceded the Feb. 13 passage of a bill that aims to shine more light on school board mem-bers’ private discussions.

House Bill 1110 would expand current law that already requires the recording of all conversations that take place during school board executive sessions to include those involving attorney-client discussions.

Most Democrats supported the mea-sure, saying that it holds elected offi cials accountable for what happens behind closed doors and bolsters the public’s right to know.

But all House Republicans joined three Democrats in voting against the bill. Several spoke out against the bill, calling it an af-front to attorney-client privilege.

They also argued that the bill unfairly targets a handful of school boards that have been the subject of controversy over execu-tive session matters, including boards in Douglas and Jefferson counties.

“This is targeted and punitive to a few school districts to this state,” Rep. Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch said. “We

should not use the power of legislation to punish.”

McNulty’s comments came during a Feb. 12 House fl oor debate. The House passed the bill the next day on a 34-31 vote.

Under the bill, sponsored by Rep. Chery-lin Peniston, D-Westminster, recordings of attorney-client discussions during execu-tive sessions would be stored and would be made available only through a successful petition through the courts.

If a fi ler believes that what was being handled during executive session doesn’t warrant a behind-closed-doors discussion, a judge would listen to the recording to de-termine whether that information should be made public. If the judge believes that to be the case, the recordings would be re-leased.

The bill also requires that school boards post the topics that are discussed in execu-tive session, the same way they do through the posting of board meeting minutes. The topics would require enough of a summary of what was being discussed during the ses-sion, but wouldn’t have to go into detail of the privileged conversations.

“The value of this bill is for the com-munity who wants to know whether our elected offi cials are using their privileges correctly,” Peniston said prior to the House vote. “It’s a transparency issue.”

Peniston insisted that the bill is not di-

rected at any particular school district. But Republicans believe otherwise.

The Douglas County School Board has been the subject of criticism over its use of executive sessions. The conservative board has pushed for controversial reforms, in-cluding those that would limit the infl uence of teachers’ unions.

New conservative members of the Jef-ferson County Public Schools Board of Edu-cation have also received criticism. In De-cember the three new members approved a lawyer’s contract without disclosing the terms during a public meeting.

Rep. Kevin Priola, R-Henderson, blasted the “terrible” bill, not only for what he feels is the unfair targeting of certain school boards, but for also being a veiled reaction to last year’s school board elections across the state.

Last November, reform candidates were swept into school board posts at Douglas and Jefferson Counties.

“I can’t believe how obvious of a target this bill is of certain school boards in this state, because of the fact that elections were won by reform groups in this state,” Priola said.

Republicans also took aim at what they believe is a violation of attorney-client priv-ilege. Rep. Bob Gardner, a Colorado Springs Republican who is also a lawyer, took to the well often to offer sharp criticism of the leg-

islation.Gardner said the bill would make it diffi -

cult for attorneys to have candid conversa-tions with their clients and it would soak up judge’s use of time.

“This bill, more than any that has come before us, in my view is such an assault on public policy that it deserves the debate,” he said.

But Rep. Mike McLachlan, D-Durango, said the “hysteria” over that aspect of the bill is unwarranted and that the bill would lift the “mask of secrecy” from the goings-on at school board meetings.

“The public does not like secrecy,” he said. “The public does not support secrecy in any governmental body.”

That sentiment was expressed by a few witnesses who testifi ed during a Feb. 3 House committee hearing.

Shawna Fritzler, the mother of a Jeffer-son County student, said the school board there ought to be more transparent and that its members are losing the public’s confi dence.

“On one level it’s ironic for every board that keeps the public in the dark and out of board meetings, they’re also asking for more involvement,” she said. “It’s scaring teachers, parents and community mem-bers. And that impacts the children in our schools.”

The bill now heads to the Senate.


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Freshen up with the newness factorDon’t you just love the feeling of

receiving something new or experienc-ing something new? I sure do. And I am a traditionalist by nature, some may even say very set in my ways and in my thinking. And yet I still enjoy that feeling or sense of “newness.”

Whether it’s a fresh coat of paint, new hardwood floors or carpeting, the smell of a new car, the feeling of new furniture or a new mattress, or maybe a new home or place to live, there is just something fresh, clean, and exciting about “new.”

They even sell stuff that we can spray that fills our cars with that “new car” scent.

Maybe it’s a new job or a new position. Maybe it’s a new city or location. And may-be, just maybe, it’s the sense of adventure that something or anything new creates in our hearts and minds.

The “newness” factor is cool for sure,

but I also believe there is a lot to be said for just viewing some of what we already do, some of what we already have, and a little of who we are through a “new” lens.

You see “new” doesn’t always have to be brand new, “new” can be perspective too. Our car with a fresh coat of clean and wax, windows cleaned and maybe even a little of that new car air freshener could bring back a little of that same excitement as when we first purchased the car.

If our jobs have become mundane or boring, you know the same-old, same-old, day in and day out, maybe it’s because we stopped looking at the work we do with fresh eyes or inspired meaning. Sometimes the best “new” job is the job we already have, we just have to adjust our scope and look for the good, even look for opportuni-ties to do something new that will make things better for ourselves, our associates, and even our clients.

Think about it, we can be in control of creating something new, viewing some-thing new, and experiencing new things in our existing world without ever having to actually purchase something brand new.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love a new car, I love new golf clubs and skis just as much as the next golf and ski enthusiast, however, what I really enjoy is having the ability to look at my existing situation and

surroundings and finding ways to build “newness” into those areas that need a little freshening up or excitement.

Our homes, friends, cars, relationships, jobs, workout routines, and just about everything we have or do can be enhanced if we would just apply a little “newness” imagination and fresh coat of thinking to each and every situation.

How about you? Is there an area in your life that could benefit from a little bit of the “newness” factor? I would love to hear all about it at [email protected] and when we look at every aspect of our lives through a “new” lens, it will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of High-lands Ranch, the former President of the Zig Ziglar Corporation and the CEO/Founder of www.candogo.com.

A look at long-term investingInvestors are not likely to be successful

if they view their portfolio as something that needs to perform every day.

This age of instant gratification and constant information has trained us to focus on the wrong calendar. Instead of worrying about this month, quarter or year, we should be looking at different phases of the life cycle and invest based on our own clock.

One of my favorite authors, Dr. Ken Dychtwald states that our life span used to be linear. We went to school, got a job for life, lived in the same house for at least 30 years, retired with a pension and died of old age. Now we have different phases of life. We may go to back to school several times, change jobs and houses on average five times or more, and … there will be no pension.

We may also have phases of high ex-penses such as college or relocation, elder care or raising more than one generation. Our life currently moves in cycles rather than a straight path. Our investments should reflect this.

It is contrary that the longer we live and the more dynamic our life patterns are, the shorter-term our investments become. Ide-ally, it makes more sense to invest one pool of money — such as an IRA or 401k — for 30 or 40 years.

Therefore, it does not matter what the account balance is today or tomorrow, in fact you might consider choosing invest-ments more for an inflation hedge, than current return. Otherwise you could find yourself halfway through retirement with no cost of living clause in your income.

Based on Ned Davis Research, the aver-age holding period of stocks has decreased from 20 years from 1939 through 1970 down to just 1.67 years in 2012. This can be based in part on the fact that until the 1970s, the typical investor was a wealthy family passing down holdings from one

generation to the next. Today, the largest share of investment activity is driven by retail investors.

Historically, the focus was on funda-mentals and long-term growth. Today, the focus is on today’s news or economic report. The media is partly to blame as they are paid to get your attention. This works best through hype and making insignifi-cant information sound exciting. The aver-age investor does not know what commen-tary is relevant and what is general noise since the announcers do such a good job of reporting with enthusiasm.

Better use of technology also has a role in the short-term focus. A vast amount of timely information is available in every medium at no cost. You don’t have to listen to Granddad explain about the Great Depression and what price he bought the blue chip stock you now own, you can find anything you need in an instant.

This constant stream of data causes us to think we could bypass losses by under-standing the latest economic reports. In reality, markets work in very long cycles, rarely impacted by one quarter’s earnings or jobs report. Returns compound over time, which gives the investor the best risk-adjusted returns.

Making short-term changes rarely enhances your long-term performance. It is important to have a strategy and time frame for each goal. Enlist the help of an advisor or mentor to diversify your invest-ments and rebalance your portfolio to keep

What’s that you say?It’s always something, isn’t it? Now there

is something called “vocal fry.” I can’t even explain it. You will know it when you hear it. High school girls do it.

It’s referred to as a “closing drawl.” It happens at the end of a sentence.

There is something called “uptalk,” which also occurs at the end of a sentence. It turns everything into a question, as if something needs to be filled in by the lis-tener.

I had — had — a friend who began ev-ery statement with a question, which I felt obliged to answer.

“Do you know how some people bite their forks? I think it is a sign of insecurity.” I never understood why she didn’t just say, “I think it’s a sign of insecurity when people bite their forks.”

Perhaps it is her way of attempting to draw a listener into the conversation.

She wondered why we stopped meeting for lunch.

Also, have you ever “ssssshhhhhed!” someone in a library or a theater? It has a name. It’s called a “fortis voiceless alveopal-atal fricative.” It’s just as annoying as what-ever it is that you are “ssssshhhhhing.”

Bob Hope used to make a throat sound in his movies whenever something startled him, or whenever Dorothy Lamour had a sarong malfunction.

I used to practice it on Saturday morn-ings, and I finally got it. Now I find out it has a name. “Pulmonic-ingressive breathy-voiced rising tone neutral vowel.” It just sounds like someone who is partially gag-ging and gasping at the same time.

Do you know anyone who tongue-clucks? I don’t hear that very much any-more. It’s often a sign — a sound — of dis-approval. We all misbehave much more than we used to, so it would be non-stop tongue-clucking if we didn’t think we would

be tongue-clucked right back.A tongue-cluck is referred to as an “al-

veolar, alveopalatal, or postalveolar click.”I have difficulty with some words. I have

a heck of a time saying “Social Security.” And I can’t say “Little Italy” without taking it real slow.

I once was told I had a “liquid L,” and that’s why pronouncing “Little Italy” is dif-ficult. My parents named a dog “Lolly.” I refused to call her that. I called her “Janet” instead.

I think I might have enjoyed studying speech disorders and speech impediments, and regional speech characteristics, like Professor Henry Higgins did in George Ber-nard Shaw’s “Pygmalion.” (“Pygmalion” was made as a film, and titled “My Fair Lady.”)

I think most of us can tell when someone is from Fargo, or Brooklyn or Mayberry. It’s not as easy as it once was, because we all move around more than we used to, and ac-cents are intermixed.

No one would ever be able to pinpoint my regional speech. It has no quirks. It’s quirkless. There’s probably a long name for it though.

But it’s not “velar-ingressive linguaden-tal fricative.” That’s sucking your teeth.

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, edu-cator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at [email protected].

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The suggestion was to gather data on how projects like constructing pedestrian bridg-es and building bike paths would improve RTD ridership.”

RTD Board Member Jeff Walker’s district includes Englewood. Walker talked briefl y about the letter when he attended the Feb. 3 city council study session for elected of-fi cials.

“The FasTracks plan allows some chang-es to projects but the funding reallocation changes suggested would be diffi cult since the plan was approved by the voters,” he said. “However, we are open to discussing

the issues and talking about possible funds that might be used for enhancements.”

Flaherty said the city continues to work with RTD on proposals for the additional 440 parking spaces promises when the En-glewood Light Rail Station was built.

“There was a proposal to extend the ex-isting lot to the north but that was halted because residents were concerned about the loss of park land,” he said. “The proposal in the original Englewood Station plan was to build a parking structure on part of the north lot to provide the spaces. The city isn’t opposed to building a parking structure but there are issues with that proposal includ-ing the how much more it would cost.”

He said parking spaces in a surface lot cost about $5,000 to build while spaces in a parking structure cost about three times as much.


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Core standards delay rejected Bill would have pushed back start date of new school testing mandates By Vic Vela [email protected]

A Republican-sponsored effort to delay implementation of controversial new stan-dardized school testing mandates failed in a legislative committee on Feb. 13.

The federal Common Core State Stan-dards Initiative sets guidelines for what ev-ery K-12 student should know about math and language arts at each grade level, in hopes that the kids will be better prepared for college.

During a Feb. 13 Senate Education Com-mittee hearing, supporters of the initiative — which the state adopted into the Colo-rado Academic Standards in 2010 — laud-ed the assessment as an optimum way to set minimum standards that give kids the knowledge and skills they need to be suc-cessful in life.

But opponents insisted that the stan-dards are expensive, burdensome on dis-tricts to implement, and also argued that students are drowning in assessment tests already.

That polarization was the motivation behind Senate Bill 136, which would have delayed all new, statewide assessments for a year. It also would have set up a task force designed to look into the adoption and implementation of the Colorado Academic Standards in an effort to determine wheth-er the state’s participation in the Common Core initiative is worth it.

“All it’s asking for is nothing special; no changes, just a time out,” said Sen. Vicky Marble, R-Fort Collins, the bill’s sponsor.

Marble told the committee that imple-mentation costs associated with the stan-dardized tests are “enormous” and that the

state would benefi t from the delay.But the majority of committee members

didn’t agree. The Democrat-led committee rejected Marble’s bill on a 4-3 party-line vote, following a lengthy and often emo-tional hearing that even resulted in a couple of lawmakers trying to hold back tears.

Although he heard testimony that “will give him a lot of things to think about going home,” Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Denver, said he is supportive of the standards.

“I am still a believer that we can build a set of rigorous standards,” he said. “I don’t think the answer is to pause on this.”

States can voluntarily adopt Common Core standards and 45 states and the Dis-trict of Columbia have done so. Colorado’s State Board of Education decided to adopt the standards after a study determined that the federal math and English standards were closely aligned with those that the state was already using.

Colorado schools adopted the standards through its participation of the PARCC multi-state consortia — Partnership for As-sessment of Readiness for College and Ca-reers. Through PARCC, Common Core test-ing is set to begin next year.

Testimony on Marble’s bill lasted several hours inside the Old Supreme Court Cham-bers, the Capitol’s largest committee hear-ing room. Supporters of the bill cited sev-eral reasons as to why committee members should put the standards on hold.

Sandra Stotsky, a longtime educator and national opponent of Common Core stan-dards, began her testimony by telling the committee that New York lawmakers had voted the day before to delay its Common Core implementation for three years.

She said that New York has it right be-cause Common Core’s math standards don’t prepare them for the next instruction-al levels and that the ability of local school boards to dictate their own curriculum “was wiped out overnight” by the 2010 State Board of Education decision.

“(Common Core) is a sticky jar of molas-ses that was voted on by a State Board of Education that didn’t know what it was do-ing,” she said.

Others were critical of the demands that assessments place on school districts’ tech-nology. Stephanie Pico of the Cherry Creek School District said that lack of human and technological resources cause stress “and a sense of helplessness” among teachers who are already overwhelmed by technology is-sues.

Others testifi ed that the federal stan-dards dictate curriculum, which under-mines local control of how schools should operate. Monument Academy Principal Lis Richard told the committee that the con-nection between assessment standards and curriculum is “inseparable.”

“I believe the intentions have been good, but ill advised,” she said. “Adopting a na-

tional form of standards has never been proven to reform education. Our footprint for the instructional time we’re going to miss (leaves us) very concerned.”

Others said that students are buried un-der assessment tests to begin with. George Sader, a former educator, testifi ed that as-sessment standards like Common Core force a child who is slow to develop in school “to run faster than he can run.”

“We’re reaching the point where we test more than we teach,” Sader said.

But Common Core supporters said the standards help students develop critical thinking across all instructional areas and that it helps develop equity in the learning system.

Elizabeth Miner, a physical education teacher who was named the 2014 Colorado Teacher of the Year, said the uniform stan-dards provide students “a consistent and clear understanding of what students are required to learn.” And Jessica Keigan, a teacher at Thornton’s Horizon High School, said the standards “help kids grasp complex ideas.”

Kerrie Dallman, president of the Colo-rado Education Association, said her orga-nization strongly supports Colorado Aca-demic Standards, which she said affords equal footing for students without placing a ceiling on what they can learn.

Dallman said the problem isn’t with as-sessment testing, but with teachers’ lack of resources in the classroom.

“A lack of resources negatively impact implementation of those standards,” she said. “It’s the perfect storm of implementa-tion and lack of resources.”

The hearing, which lasted more than six hours, became emotional toward the end with one witness offering tearful testimony in support of the bill. And Marble and Sen. Nancy Todd, D-Aurora, each had to com-pose themselves prior to the committee wrapping up the hearing.

‘(Common Core) is a sticky jar of molasses that was voted on by a State Board of Education that didn’t

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Legislation that would allow bars to stay open past 2 a.m. continues to move forward.

The House on Feb. 14 gave initial approval to House Bill 1132 and was expected to send the measure to the Senate following a final vote this week. Current state law prohibits bars from operating between 2 and 7 a.m. The bill would allow bars to stay open as late as 4:30 a.m., with local government approval.

The bill, which is sponsored by Rep. Crisanta Duran, D-Denver, was drafted in response to problems in downtown Denver, where police have had to respond to several vio-lent situations as bar patrons exit drinking establishments at closing time.

Supporters say by allowing bars to stay open later, there would be fewer people leaving bars at the same time. However, opponents believe the bill just puts more drunks on the streets later into the morning.

Flood legislation heads to governorCounty governments would be

allowed to use general fund dollars for flood-related repairs, under a bill that’s now headed to the gover-nor’s desk.

Senate Bill 7 allows county gov-ernments to tap into their general funds for bridge and road repairs that become necessary as a result of a natural disaster occurring, such as flooding. The bill has cleared both legislative chambers, most recently going through the House on Feb. 10.

Right now, counties are prohib-ited from using funds for that pur-pose. The bill would give more lee-way to local governments, so long as the governor declares a disaster emergency within that county.

Fallen deputy honoredLawmakers last week paid trib-

ute to a Jefferson County Sheriff’s

deputy who was killed in the line of duty. A 27-year veteran of the sher-iff’s office, Sgt. David Baldwin died on Jan. 26 in a head-on collision on Highway 93.

Lawmakers held a memorial tribute to Baldwin on Feb. 11, with Rep. Sue Schafer, D-Wheat Ridge, lauding Baldwin’s “highly-decorat-ed” career.

“We honor him for his dedica-tion and service,” Schafer said.

The tribute included a Colorado flag that was presented to Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office members.

College Affordability Act moves onA bill that would cap college

tuition rate hikes and pump more money into financial aid cleared its first legislative hurdle on Feb. 12 as the Senate Education Committee passed Senate Bill 1, the College Affordability Act, following a 6-1 bipartisan vote.

The bill would cap tuition rate hikes at 6 percent annually and would allocate an additional $100 million for colleges, with much of that money going toward student financial aid. The bill now heads to the Senate Appropriations Com-mittee.

Prison credit bill clears committeeA bill that could impact a pris-

oner’s “good-time” credit cleared a House committee last week.

House Bill 1114 would give the Department of Corrections flexibil-ity to withdraw earned time credit that they receive for good behavior behind bars, if they re-offend in prison.

The bill, which is sponsored by Reps. Mark Waller, R-Colorado Springs, and Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, received unanimous support from the House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 13 and now heads to the House for a full vote there. before heading on to the Senate.

Bill would expand free-lunch programStudents would be eligible for benefits through high schoolBy Vic [email protected]

More Colorado school chil-dren would be eligible for free lunch at school, under a bill that passed a House committee on Feb. 10.

Right now, kids who qualify for the state’s reduced lunch program can have their meal “co-pays” waived through the second grade. House Bill 1156 would make free lunches avail-able to children through high school, if they qualify.

“The reality is, when these families are hurting, they are hurting,” said Rep. Dominick Moreno, D-Commerce City, the bill’s sponsor. “And that doesn’t stop at the third grade.”

Moreno — who once was a recipient of free and reduced lunches when he was a child — has paid close attention to school nutrition issues since he first came into office last year. During the 2013 legislative ses-sion, Moreno passed a bill that would require schools with high poverty rates to serve breakfast at the start of the school day.

Moreno’s new effort passed the House Education Commit-tee following a party-line vote of 7-6.

Republicans balked primar-

ily because the bill would send more money to the program that handles school meals in Colorado, which has been the recent target of an audit for mis-management of state funds. The bill would mean that parents like Tamara Frawley of Thornton would no longer be required to pay any sort of reduced fee for their kids’ meals. In Frawley’s case, that amounts to about 40 cents a day, per child.

“Forty cents doesn’t sound like a lot, but when you’re on a limited budget, it’s an insur-mountable amount” she said.

Frawley, who has two chil-dren who are enrolled at Maple-ton Public Schools in Adams County, said she has struggled to pay bills ever since her husband was diagnosed with cancer six years ago.

“I hold down a 40-hour a week job and two temp jobs, but it still isn’t enough,” Frawley told committee members.

Because many more children would be eligible for free lunch-es, the bill would require an ad-ditional $2.4 million in annual state funds to go to a state-run school meal program. However, those costs would be offset — and then some — through fed-eral reimbursement through the National School Lunch Act.

Federal reimbursement is expected to be substantially higher than what the state will be paying for the additions to the free lunch program. Maple-ton Schools, through a pilot

program, currently covers the reduced lunch costs of their stu-dents, a district where more than 70 percent of children qualify for the program.

“We serve a community that is heavily impacted by the ef-fects of poverty,” said Virgina Styles, assistant director of Ma-pleton Schools, who was read-ing a letter in support of the bill from Superintendent Charlotte Ciancio.

But committee Republicans wondered whether it was a good idea to send more funds to a state program that is not doing a good job of handling money right now. Auditors recently de-termined that the state’s School Lunch and Breakfast Programs forfeited more than $2 million in federal grants and reimburse-ment dollars, going back to 2009.

Rep. Frank McNulty, R-High-lands Ranch, offered an amend-ment to Moreno’s bill that would set up an oversight task force to make sure that the money was appropriated correctly.

“It hardly makes sense to ex-pand a program that has obvi-ous problems,” McNulty said.

McNulty’s amendment failed.Moreno said he trusts that

Department of Education ad-ministrators will implement the audit’s recommendations so that there will not be any problems going forward. The bill now heads to the House Ap-propriations Committee before it receives a vote from the full House.

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By Sonya [email protected]

Excitement is high as the Denver Mu-seum of Nature and Science opens a new educational wing and a major exhibit on the ancient — and living — Maya: “Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed.”

The exhibit, organized through collabo-ration with the Science Museum of Minne-sota; Museum of Science, Boston and San Diego Natural History Museum, is the larg-est exhibition about the Maya civilization ever to be displayed in the United States, according to the DMNS. It will run until Aug. 24.

It combines artifacts that have not been exhibited before with hands-on activities and immersive environments such as an underworld cave, a recreation of a night sky and a mural room, enabling the visitor to explore once elegant cities as well as today’s Maya people.

As they enter the exhibit, families will be introduced to the giant ceiba tree, which

connected cities and villages with Heaven and the underworld, through its deep root system. Themes of death and rebirth are re-peated in Maya narratives, found on monu-ments, in writings, in burial sites.

The exhibit looks at royalty as well as the common people — laborers and servants.

Replicas of ancient stone structures car-ry stories of royal dynasties. As these struc-tures are rediscovered, the understanding of an ancient world remains a study in prog-ress. Families will learn how archaeologists decipher the glyphs they discover —and kids can learn to make their own glyph, one of many interactive opportunities. A time-line explores the history and translation of

the glyphs.The Maya were sophisticated astrono-

mers and a new show in the Gates Plan-etarium will elaborate on Mayan skies, in addition to materials in the Anschutz Gal-lery exhibit.

Budding engineers will be interested in learning about construction techniques of cities, roadways, pyramids, while historians will be interested in ideas about the under-world as well as an introduction to an early ball game. Learn about life and death, diet and lifestyle through artifacts, a recreated tomb and excavation.

A recreation of three small mural-cov-ered rooms discovered in Chiapas offer scenes of life at court, celebrations, war and more dated in the late 8th century. Visitors are encouraged to look for artifacts pictured in the murals.

One more exhibit looks at Mayan house-holds, where goods were produced — and still are today. One can touch a backstrap loom and learn about food production.

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“Maya: Hidden Worlds Revealed” will be at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science through Aug. 24. The Mu-seum is located at 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver. Hours are generally 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with some special additions. There will be ongoing related programs for adults and chil-dren. See www.dmns.org or call 303-370-6000 for infor-mation about programs, tickets and more.

find ‘City of Angels’ in littletonTwo plots mix Hollywood and noir in student performanceBy Sonya [email protected]

“City of Angels,” a challenging musical with book by Larry Gelbart, music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by David Zippel, brings two interwoven storylines to Littleton High’s Mane Stage from Feb. 27 to March 1. kryssi martin is director, with Jim Farrell as music director and Don Emmons, orches-tra conductor.

One tale is about a 1940’s Hollywood film production and screenwriter Stine, portrayed in color. The other is about de-tective Stone, a tough private eye and his adventures (as written by Stine), played in black and white.

Buddy Fidler is a Hollywood mogul who brings money to the film production, as well as an inclination to tinker with it.

Most characters play parts in both sto-ries, requiring quick changes in identity as both stories progress. The production should offer extensive learning opportuni-

ties for the cast and crew involved.A group of vocalists appears throughout,

serving as a sort of Greek chorus with relat-ed songs from a lively, but not well-known score. The musical opened on Broadway in December 1989 and played until January 1992, also playing in Los Angeles and Lon-don’s West End.

I think we don’t see it performed often because of the complexity. Compliments to kryssi martin and her students for under-taking it.

Leading players at Littleton High are: Nick Luangphithack, Liam Sonke, Ame-lia Jacobs, Taylor Griggs, Jurnee Manley, Geona Martin and Jader Todeschi. They are supported by an ensemble in both stories.

Cast members include all sorts of multi-faceted Hollywood types — glamorous and shady — and the story shifts and at times gets rewritten in the course of the perfor-mance, so an audience needs to pay atten-tion to keep track: an entertaining proposi-tion.

Littleton High School actors Julie Merwin, John Ste Marie, Phil Huggins, Charlotte Grimm and Ella Kilror serve as a sort of Greek Chorus, commenting on the story in the musical “City of Angels.” Courtesy photo

if you go“City of Angels” plays at 7 p.m. Feb. 27-28; 1 p.m. and 6

p.m. March 1. Tickets: $10/$7/Senior citizens free. Box office is at Littleton High School, 199 E. Littleton Blvd., Littleton, before performances or online at: www.seatyourself.biz/lhsperformingarts.

From Broadway to Denver stage

The Denver Center Attractions 2014-15 season features Tony Award-winning hits and family favorites straight from Broad-way including the national tour launch of “Pippin,” “Kinky Boots,” Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella,” “Motown the Musical,” “Annie,” and “Forbidden Broad-way: Alive & Kicking!”

“Pippin” is back on Broadway for the first time since it thrilled audiences 40 years ago, and has now won the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival!

Winner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical, “Kinky Boots” follows a strug-gling shoe factory owner who works to turn his business around with help from Lola, a fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos.

Denver Center Attractions 2014-15 sub-scription packages start at eight payments of $21.38. Restrictions apply. To purchase a subscription, please call Denver Center Ticket Services: 303-893-4100 or 800-641-1222, or visit the ticket office located in the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex at Speer & Arapahoe. Subscription packages may be purchased online at www.denvercenter.org/bwaysubs.

Sonodas LoDo location closesKenny Sonoda, founding father of the

Sonodas chain of sushi restaurants, has opted to call it quits on his LoDo eatery at 1620 Market St. after nearly 19 years.

Sonoda, 65, is trying to retire, but his original spot at 3108 S. Parker Road in Aurora, a place he opened in 1995, will remain open.

Here’s what Sonoda posted on www.sonodassushi.com: “With over 26 years in the business now behind me the time has come for me to hand up the knives and announce my retirement. And yet it is with more than a bit of sadness that I announce the closure of my Downtown Restaurant on Market Street on Feb. 15.

“In 1973 I first came to Denver, Colo-rado, to help build and open the Gasho of Japan, a Japanese Hibachi style steak house in downtown Denver (1627 Curtis St.). In 1976, I returned to Denver to build a freestanding building of Gasho of Japan Restaurant. This time I build a replica of a 400-year-old Gasho farmhouse, found in Takayama City of Japan, the sister city to Denver, Colorado. This Gasho of Japan res-taurant was located in DTC on Belleview and I-25 where Shanahan’s is currently standing.”

Chipotle a social media winnerAccording to the National Restaurant

Association e-letter, Denver-based Chipo-tle’s position as lifestyle brand won the top spot on DigitalCoCo’s Restaurant Social Media Index, followed by McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Subway and Buffalo Wild Wings (all ick!) in the top five. Firehouse Subs and Hard Rock Cafe hit the top 10, both edging out Sonic and Jimmy John’s.

The index measures influence, sentiment and engagement among more than 56 million social restaurant consumers. Read the complete blog at www.smartblogs.com/food-and-beverage/2014/02/13/2-big-brands-fall-off-rsmi-top-10-rankings-replaced-by-new-contenders.

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This pastel floral painting by Arapahoe Community College art faculty member Olga Vogler will hang in a Littleton Adventist Hospital Healing Arts exhibit from March 1 to May 3. Courtesy photo

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Campers will develop an appreciation for the outdoors and the environment while engaging in recreational activities in the museum and out in nature.

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From Broadway to Denver stage

The Denver Center Attractions 2014-15

season features Tony Award-winning hits and family favorites straight from Broad-way including the national tour launch of “Pippin,” “Kinky Boots,” Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella,” “Motown the Musical,” “Annie,” and “Forbidden Broad-way: Alive & Kicking!”

“Pippin” is back on Broadway for the fi rst time since it thrilled audiences 40 years ago, and has now won the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival!

Winner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical, “Kinky Boots” follows a strug-gling shoe factory owner who works to turn his business around with help from Lola, a fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos.

Denver Center Attractions 2014-15 sub-scription packages start at eight payments of $21.38. Restrictions apply. To purchase a subscription, please call Denver Center Ticket Services: 303-893-4100 or 800-641-1222, or visit the ticket offi ce located in the Helen Bonfi ls Theatre Complex at Speer & Arapahoe. Subscription packages may be purchased online at www.denvercenter.org/bwaysubs.

Sonodas LoDo location closesKenny Sonoda, founding father of the

Sonodas chain of sushi restaurants, has opted to call it quits on his LoDo eatery at 1620 Market St. after nearly 19 years.

Sonoda, 65, is trying to retire, but his original spot at 3108 S. Parker Road in Aurora, a place he opened in 1995, will remain open.

Here’s what Sonoda posted on www.sonodassushi.com: “With over 26 years in the business now behind me the time has come for me to hand up the knives and announce my retirement. And yet it is with more than a bit of sadness that I announce the closure of my Downtown Restaurant on Market Street on Feb. 15.

“In 1973 I fi rst came to Denver, Colo-rado, to help build and open the Gasho of Japan, a Japanese Hibachi style steak house in downtown Denver (1627 Curtis St.). In 1976, I returned to Denver to build a freestanding building of Gasho of Japan Restaurant. This time I build a replica of a 400-year-old Gasho farmhouse, found in Takayama City of Japan, the sister city to Denver, Colorado. This Gasho of Japan res-taurant was located in DTC on Belleview and I-25 where Shanahan’s is currently standing.”

Chipotle a social media winnerAccording to the National Restaurant

Association e-letter, Denver-based Chipo-tle’s position as lifestyle brand won the top spot on DigitalCoCo’s Restaurant Social Media Index, followed by McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Subway and Buffalo Wild Wings (all ick!) in the top fi ve. Firehouse Subs and Hard Rock Cafe hit the top 10, both edging out Sonic and Jimmy John’s.

The index measures infl uence, sentiment and engagement among more than 56 million social restaurant consumers. Read the complete blog at www.smartblogs.com/food-and-beverage/2014/02/13/2-big-brands-fall-off-rsmi-top-10-rankings-replaced-by-new-contenders.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week. Send listings to [email protected]. No attach-ments, please. Listings are free and run on a space-available basis.

FEB. 22

LEGISLATIVE FORUM The Audubon/Sierra Club annual legislative forum is from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Feb. 22 at First Plymouth Church, 3501 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver. The forum is a chance to meet legislators and learn about the hot environmen-tal topics that the General Assembly is working on. Continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m., followed by comments from Audubon and Sierra Club lobbyists. Panel on water issues at 10:15 a.m., lunch at noon, and discussion with invited legislators at 12:30 p.m. Cost is $12 in advance and $15 at the door. Register and pay online at www.denveraudubon.org/programs/conserva-tion, or call 303-973-9530. You also can send payment to: ASGD, 9308 S. Wadsworth Blvd., Littleton, CO 80128.

FEB. 25

TEEN ADDICTION Arapahoe/Douglas Mental Health Network presents “Protecting Your Teen from Addiction” from noon to 1:30 p.m. Jan. 21 (event code: admhn12114) and from 5-6:30 p.m. Feb. 25 (event code: admhn22514) at the Southglenn Library, Room A, 6972 S. Vine St., Centennial; and from 6-7:30 p.m. Feb. 10 (event code: admhn210) at the network’s Castle Rock o� ce, 831 S. Perry St., Suite 100. In this class, you will learn about trends in substance abuse in our community, how to talk about drugs and alcohol, signs of substance abuse in teens, prevention and early intervention, e� ects of substances on the brain and brain development, and shifts in views on marijuana use and legalization. Use the event code listed to register for classes at Blacktie https://www.blacktie-colorado.com/index.cfm.

FEB. 28

EGYPT IN turmoil The civil unrest that began in late January 2011 with the ouster of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak continues to roil this critically important Arab country. Subsequent President Mohammad Morsi, an Islamist and Egypt’s � rst freely elected leader, was ousted by the army in July 2013 after mass protests. Join Active Minds from 10-11 a.m. Feb. 28 as we explore the origins and implications of Egypt’s current situation and where this story may go from here. This program is sponsored by JFS At Home and Balfour at Riverfront Park. Program is free and takes place at the Malley Senior Center, 3380 S. Lincoln St., Englewood. RSVP at 303-762-2660. If parking in the lot, get pass from inside center.

MARCH 7-8

FAMILY MUSICAL Simchat Torah Beit Midrash presents its � rst original family-friendly musical production about a

teenage girl living in ancient Susa who becomes queen of the entire Persian empire. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. March 7, with dinner served at 6:30 for minimal fee; and at 9:30 a.m. March 8. Free child care is available on March 8. Performances will take place in the STBM Main Sanctuary, 3651 S. Colorado Blvd., Englewood. Visit www.stbm.org or call 1-866-867-2488.

MARCH 9

EDUCATIONAL FORUM Families with intellectually curious students are invited to the 2014 educational forum from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 9 at Kent Denver School, 4000 E. Quincy Ave., Englewood. The free event is intended for families with children in grades 4-9. Go to http://www.scholarsearchassoc.com/index.php/denver-2014.

MARCH 28

GERMANY AS THE European Union struggles with a variety of complex issues, many of them � nancial, Germany has emerged as a critical player in the development of economic policy for the region. German elections served as a referendum on how the German government, under the leadership of Angela Merkel, has performed in the eyes of Germans. Join Active Minds from 10-11 a.m. March 28 as we explore the role of Germany in the world as well as how the process of German reuni� cation has evolved, especially given Merkel’s roots in the government of the former Communist East Germany. Program is free and takes place at the Malley Senior Center, 3380 S. Lin-coln St., Englewood. RSVP by calling 303-762-2660. If parking in the lot, get pass from inside center.

THROUGH APRIL

GOLF ASSOCIATION Englewood Women’s 18 Hole Golf Association has openings for the 2014 season. The league plays Tuesday mornings from April through September at Broken Tee Englewood Golf Course. The league is a member of CWGA and members maintain a GHIN Handicap; however, a GHIN handicap is not required to join. The annual fee for new members is $95. For additional information, call 303-829-7577.

APRIL 10

WRITING CONTEST Creative Communication is accepting submissions for its essay contest, with divisions for grades 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12, through Feb. 18; and its poetry contest, with divisions for grades K-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12, through April 10. Top 10 winners will be named in each division. Essays must be between 100 and 250 words on any non-� ction topic. Poetry must be 21 lines or less in English. Entries can made online at www.poeticpower.com or mail entries, labeled Poetry Contest or Essay Contest, to 159 N. Main, Smith� eld UT 84335. Include author’s name, address, city, state and ZIP, current grade, school name, school address and teacher’s name. Selected entries of merit will be invited to be published in an anthology. Full contest information is available online, or call 435-713-4411.

THINGS TO DO

Art as a healing medium The Arapahoe Community College Art

Department is collaborating with Littleton Adventist Hospital’s Healing Arts Program by mounting works by two faculty mem-bers, Marsha Wooley and Olga Vogler, in an area where all can enjoy them. The paint-ings will be in place March 1 through May 3 in the long hall that connects the hospi-tal’s main lobby with the outpatient depart-ment.

Wooley is a semi-retired art professor and practicing artist who grew up at many different locations, including Colorado where she developed her love for nature and western landscape. Vogler, who teaches at ACC, studied art at the Russian Academy in the Ural Mountains for fi ve years. She came to Colorado to experience the beauty of the Rocky Mountains. The exhibit is open to the public.

Eye of the CameraLittleton’s Fine Arts Board holds its 48th

annual “Eye of the Camera” exhibition from Feb. 21 to March 30 at the Littleton Mu-seum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton. Open during Museum hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays; 12 to 5 p.m. Sat-urdays; 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is free. 303-795-3950.

Young singersThe Denver Lyric Opera Guild, which in-

cludes many south area members, will hold its 30th annual competition for Colorado singers. Preliminaries will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 1 at Bethany Lutheran Church,

4500 E. Hampden Ave., Cherry Hills Vil-lage. Finals will be 1 to 5 p.m. March 15, also at Bethany Lutheran. Opera lovers can attend free to hear tomorrow’s stars. The DLOG welcomes new members and holds a monthly opera-oriented luncheon. See: www.DenverLyricOperaGuild.org for infor-mation.

Tommy Castro sings the bluesTommy Castro and the Painkillers will

perform contemporary blues-rock at the Toad Tavern, 5302 S. Federal Circle, Little-ton at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25. The band is pro-moting its new release, “The Devil You Know” with Alligator Records. Tickets: $22 advance/$24 day of show. ToadTavern.com, 303-795-6877.

Lions and Zebras and Leopards, oh my!Local photographer Fan Cheung has an

exhibit, “African Safari,” at Lone Tree Li-brary, 8827 Lone Tree Parkway through Feb. 28. Images are also available for viewing on her website at www.FanCheungPhotogra-phy.com.

This pastel � oral painting by Arapahoe Community College art faculty member Olga Vogler will hang in a Littleton Adventist Hospital Healing Arts exhibit from March 1 to May 3. Courtesy photo


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Renewed Vows

The renewal took place

at Living Branch and was

officiated by Steve Scott on

Thursday February 13, 2014.

Mary Schanne & Dale Shonyo

Sunday Worship8:00 & 10:45 a.m.

Trinity Lutheran School & ELC(Ages 3-5, Grades K-8)

303-841-4660www.tlcas.org

Trinity Lutheran Church

& School

Abiding Word Lutheran Church

8391 S. Burnley Ct., Highlands Ranch

(Next to RTD lot @470 & University)

Worship ServicesSundays at 9:00am

303-791-3315 [email protected]

www.awlc.org

Sunday Worship8:00 am Chapel Service

9:00 & 10:30 am Sunday School 9:00 & 10:30 am

Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors.

www.st-andrew-umc.com303-794-2683

Preschool: 303-794-05109203 S. University Blvd.

Highlands Ranch, 80126

Open and Welcoming

Sunday 8:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

First Presbyterian Church of Littleton

1609 W. Littleton Blvd.(303) 798-1389 • www.fpcl.org

P.O. Box 2945—Parker CO 80134-2945www.ParkerCCRS.org

303.805.9890

ParkerCommunity Churchof Religious Science

Sunday services held in thehistoric Ruth Memorial Chapel

at the Parker Mainstreet Center...19650 E. Mainstreet, Parker 80138

New Thought...Ancient Wisdom

Visit our website fordetails of classes &

upcoming events.Sunday Service& Children’s Church10:00 a.m.

Castle Rock Highlands Ranch

Highlands Ranch

Littleton

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Lone Tree Lone Tree

Lone TreeFranktown

Greenwood Village

Denver Tech Center

United Church Of ChristParker Hilltop

10926 E. Democrat Rd.Parker, CO • 10am Worshipwww.uccparkerhilltop.org

303-841-2808

Little Blessings Day Carewww.littleblessingspdo.com

First UnitedMethodist Church

1200 South StreetCastle Rock, CO 80104

303.688.3047www.fumccr.org

Services:Saturday 5:30pm

Sunday 8am, 9:30am, 11amSunday School 9:15am

Sunday Worship 10:304825 North Crowfoot Valley Rd.Castle Rock • canyonscc.org

303-663-5751

An EvangelicalPresbyterian Church

“Loving God - Making A Difference”A place for you worship Time

Welcome Home!Weaving Truth

and Relevance into Relationships and Life

9:00am Spiritual Formation Classes for all Ages

90 east orchard roadlittleton, co

303 798 6387www.gracepointcc.us

10:30AM sundays

To advertise your place of worship in this section,

call 303-566-4091 or email [email protected].

GR AC E PR E S B Y T E R IA N

303-798-8485

www.gracecolorado.comAlongside One Another On Life’s Journey

Sundays at10:00 am

Grace is on the NE Corner of SantaFe Dr. & Highlands Ranch Pkwy.

(Across from Murdochs)

You are invitedto worship with us: Saturday

5:30pmSunday

8:00 & 10:30am

Joyful Mission Preschool 303-841-37707051 East Parker Hills Ct. • Parker, CO

303-841-3739www.joylutheran-parker.org

Education Hour: Sunday 9:15am

S E r v i C E S :

Parker evangelicalPresbyterian church

Connect – Grow – Serve

Sunday Worship8:45 am & 10:30 am

9030 Miller roadParker, Co 80138

303-841-2125www.pepc.org

Sunday Worship: 10:45AM & 6PMBible Study: 9:30AM

Children, Young People & Adults

www.parkerbiblechurch.org

4391 E Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado 80134

Church Office – (303) 841-3836

Where people are excited about God’s Word.

Sunday Worship - 10:00amBible Study immediately followingWednesday Bible Study - 7:30pm

Currently meeting at:9220 Kimmer Drive, Suite 200

Lone Tree 80124303-688-9506

www.LoneTreeCoC.com

Lone TreeChurch of Christ

Meets at the Marriott DTC

4900 S Syracuse St,Denver, CO 80237

10 am every SundayFree parking

Current Study: Spiritual Ancestry

Pastor Mark Brewer

Join us at Sheraton Denver Tech Center

7007 S Clinton Street in Greenwood Village(nearby I-25 and Arapahoe Rd.)

www.cbsdenver.org303-794-6643

Congregation Beth Shalom

Douglas County’s only Synagogue, Hebrew School and Preschool

No membership required www.DenverJewishCenter.com

303-792-7222

ChabadJewish Center

Plans Gone Astray? To whom will you go when you’re out of ideas?� ere are times when we simply need a gracious God to guide us. Come and join us at 9:30 a.m. Sunday mornings at Lone Tree Civic Center, 8527 Lone Tree Parkway. For directions and any questions about our ministry, contact Pastor Craig: (303) 883–7774Immanuel Lutheran Mission is a member congregation of Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ

Seniors enjoy a ‘continuum of care’ Options abound at Centennial’s Holly Creek community By George Lurie [email protected]

In the heart of Centennial, there’s an oasis of activity called Holly Creek.

On a 17-acre “campus” just northwest of where Arapahoe Road intersects South Holly Street, some 350 seniors are engaged in every-thing from tai-chi and singing and dancing to manufacturing wooden toys and broadcasting live from an on-site radio station.

The Holly Creek “retirement community” is, in fact, anything but retiring. Residents bustle about the complex’s country club-like central building, which features towering 30-foot-tall wood paneled ceilings

and museum-quality artwork.“We’re all living longer,” says

Marilyn Berry, director of sales and marketing at Holly Creek. “The goal is to live longer healthier. Recent studies have shown that people who live in retirement communities live an average of six years longer.”

Maintaining a high quality of life, says Berry, “is all about staying engaged — spiritually, socially, in-tellectually and physically.”

At Holly Creek, where the aver-age resident is 83, there are three restaurants, a movie theater, gym, indoor/outdoor pool, even a con-cierge desk.

A not-for-profi t, Holly Creek of-fers what Berry refers to as “a con-tinuum of care:” 214 apartment-homes and cottages, 28 “assisted living” apartments, 12 “memory care” rooms and a 24-bed skilled-nursing facility.

As of Jan. 31, Holly Creek boasted Herb Bowman, an 85-year-old retired nuclear physicist, holds one of the wooden toy cars he and other Holly Creek residents make and distribute to poor children around the world. Photo by George Lurie

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a 100 percent occupancy rate.But residence at Holly Creek

does not come inexpensively. There’s a one-time “entry fee” that starts at $199,000. Residents, Ber-ry explains, also must meet cer-tain fi nancial standards and then sign a “Life Care Contract.”

Monthly rent, based on the type of living accommodation, starts at $2,900 and covers every-thing but cable TV and Internet service.

And if residents are fortunate enough to outlive their money, Berry says a privately funded foundation connected to Holly Creek “picks up their expenses and allows them to live here for the rest of their lives.”

If residents decide to move out, 90 percent of their entry fee is re-fundable, Berry explains.

“If they die, the entry fee is re-funded to their estate.”

Wind Crest, located in High-lands Ranch, is the South Metro area’s largest senior-living facility. Located off C-470 and Santa Fe and operated by for-profi t, Mary-land-based Erickson Living, the 85-acre development opened in 2007 and offers more than 1,000 senior apartments.

Herb Bowman, 85, has lived at Holly Creek for fi ve years. A retired nuclear physicist, he worked for Dow Chemical and at Rocky Flats and Los Alamos. His wife died in 2007, and he says he tried to live independently for two years but decided he “needed to have more daily interface with people.”

“As soon as I walked into this place, I knew it was for me,” Bow-man says. “The people here are what make the difference. I’ve met so many fascinating people.”

Bowman likes to spend time in the complex’s woodworking shop


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Dick Gustafson, a Holly Creek resident who for many years was a popular DJ in the Vail area, started the facility’s own on-site radio station recently.

A Holly Creek resident gets in a morning workout in the facility’s gym. Photos by George Lurie

a 100 percent occupancy rate.But residence at Holly Creek

does not come inexpensively. There’s a one-time “entry fee” that starts at $199,000. Residents, Ber-ry explains, also must meet cer-tain financial standards and then sign a “Life Care Contract.”

Monthly rent, based on the type of living accommodation, starts at $2,900 and covers every-thing but cable TV and Internet service.

And if residents are fortunate enough to outlive their money, Berry says a privately funded foundation connected to Holly Creek “picks up their expenses and allows them to live here for the rest of their lives.”

If residents decide to move out, 90 percent of their entry fee is re-fundable, Berry explains.

“If they die, the entry fee is re-funded to their estate.”

Wind Crest, located in High-lands Ranch, is the South Metro area’s largest senior-living facility. Located off C-470 and Santa Fe and operated by for-profit, Mary-land-based Erickson Living, the 85-acre development opened in 2007 and offers more than 1,000 senior apartments.

Herb Bowman, 85, has lived at Holly Creek for five years. A retired nuclear physicist, he worked for Dow Chemical and at Rocky Flats and Los Alamos. His wife died in 2007, and he says he tried to live independently for two years but decided he “needed to have more daily interface with people.”

“As soon as I walked into this place, I knew it was for me,” Bow-man says. “The people here are what make the difference. I’ve met so many fascinating people.”

Bowman likes to spend time in the complex’s woodworking shop

crafting toy cars.“We’ve already made 50,000 of

them,” he says.The wooden cars, stamped

“Toys for God’s Kids,” are distrib-uted to poor children around the world by missionaries and Ameri-can soldiers.

Bowman also participates in Holly Creek’s “outreach” program with nearby Cottonwood Creek Elementary. On Veterans Day, he and other World War II veterans — there are 70 residing at Holly Creek — put on a special presen-tation at the school.

Carol Hodges and Hugh Petri, a married couple who are both retired college professors, moved into Holly Creek eight months ago, encouraged by their children, who live in the area.

“As you go through the aging process, you plan in stages,” says Hodges, 71. “We hated to give up our wonderful home but with Hugh’s illness, we had to prepare for the future.”

Petri, 76, suffers from a de-generative muscular disease and moves around with the aid of a walker.

While Hodges works in the complex’s library, sings in the choir, edits the Holly Creek quar-terly journal and still finds time to take part in daily exercise classes, Petri, a gourmet cook, takes ad-vantage of the complex’s “anti-gravity” treadmill, which allows him to get physical therapy.

“It’s a very stimulating environ-ment here,” says Hodges. “We go to lectures, see movies, eat great food. Our kids say they’ve never seen us so active.”

Although Holly Creek markets itself as a “Christian Living Com-munity,” marketing director Berry says that “people of all religions and beliefs are welcome.”

Petri says that neither he nor his wife is a “believer. We’re agnos-tics actually,” he says. “But that has never been an issue. People here don’t proselytize.”

Polly Snow, 86, has lived at Hol-ly Creek for eight years.

“This is a very supportive en-vironment,” she says. “When my husband Robert died a year and a half ago, people were just won-derful. It was like having another family.”

An avid bridge player, Snow says she still goes to lunch often with “outside” friends. And, like many other Holly Creek residents, finds ways to volunteer around the complex or in the surrounding community.

Three years ago, Snow was stricken with stress cardio myopa-thy. On life support for a week, she ultimately recovered but spent four weeks in Holly Creek’s skilled nursing suites before returning to her old apartment.

“They taught me how to swal-low and walk again,” she says. “I’m

really grateful. Now I’m fully re-covered and back to full strength”

— and on her way to another bridge game.


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Cherry Creek mall finally fills Saks spotFans of luxury home goods and lifestyle purveyor

Restoration Hardware — now rebranded as RH — are in store for an unprecedented shopping experience at Cherry Creek Shopping Center. Next year, RH will open a four-story, full-line design gallery in the space formerly occupied by Saks Fifth Avenue.

“The intent of this larger footprint, full line design gallery is to showcase the depth of our growing product assortment,” said Gary Friedman, RH chairman and CEO. “Cherry Creek has been a successful location for our existing store and will be the first Rocky Mountain venue for this new broader expression of our brand.”

At 53,000 square feet — more than four times the size of the existing Cherry Creek store — the new, four-level, full-line design gallery will feature a multi-story atrium, outdoor garden and rooftop park.

The existing Restoration Hardware will remain open during construction of the new flagship store.

Boulder’s Bacaro closesAfter 15 years in business in downtown Boulder,

Bácaro Venetian Taverna is closing its doors on March 5.Chris Holston purchased Bacaro from Corrado

Fasano within the past few months, and Holston will be doing major renovations to the space before opening a new restaurant in late spring. Corrado is moving on to other business ventures, including PastaVino, where he’s part owner.

To celebrate, Bácaro is offering 15 percent off all restaurant and bar purchases through March 5, (not including happy hour and other special discounts). The month-long farewell celebration will culminate with a Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday party on March 4.

DSA fashionistas win Goodwill eventOn Feb. 7, Goodwill of Denver held its fourth annual

Good Exchange Fashion Show & Clothing Swap.“Project Runway” star Mondo Guerra and interna-

tional fashion guru Tim Gunn announced the winning outfit by designer Kellehanna E’Shawn and model Sade Preston, both Denver School of the Arts students.

Yay! On The Town Junior, although not a fashion stu-dent, graduated from DSA.

Seen and heardEavesdropping on Denver Post sports columnist

Benjamin Hochman on Twitter: ”People keep asking me who won the Carmelo (Anthony) trade. The answer, of course, is La La.”

Penny Parker’s “Mile High Life” column gives insights into the best events, restaurants, businesses, parties and people throughout the metro area. Parker also writes for Blacktie-Colorado.com. You can subscribe and read her columns (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) at www.blacktie-colorado.com/pennyparker. She can be reached at [email protected] or at 303-619-5209.


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Chinese photographer’s work at RedLineArtist’s works to appear in U.S. for first timeBy Sonya [email protected]

RedLine’s exhibit, “A New Attitude: CHEN Man’s Provocative Interpretations of Contemporary Chinese Women,” has been curated by Julie Seagraves, execu-tive director of the Asian Coordinating Council in Denver.

The Chinese artist’s first exhibit in the U.S. will in-clude 32 images and will run March 1 to April 27 at Red-Line. It is the second part of a yearlong series focusing

on female artists called “She Crossed the Line.”

“CHEN Man’s work has evolved since her first “Vi-sion Magazine” cover in 2003. But the interaction of the real and imaginary, everyday and ideal, com-mercial art and Avant-garde art all continue to impact her photographs,” said Sea-graves.

CHEN Man was born in Beijing in 1980 and was

drawing at a very early age. Her mother enrolled her in art classes and in a special arts high school, followed by graphics study at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

While still a student, she produced covers for “Vi-sion Magazine,” described as a progressive Chinese art and fashion magazine, us-ing post-production digital techniques that were new to China at the time.

She also contributes reg-ularly to Chinese editions of “Vogue,” “Elle,” “Harper’s Bazaar,” “Cosmopolitan” and “Esquire” and had a

large exhibition of her work exhibited at the Chinese Culture Center in Manches-ter, UK in 2012.

She writes of her inter-pretation of Chinese cul-ture, adapted by western techniques … a mix of Ori-ental and Western, “tacky and elegant…” and said she is influenced by Beijing street culture.

Photoshop is an impor-tant tool and her comput-erized 3-D techniques are distinctive.

She is currently married and has two young children.

RedLine is a contem-porary art center, located in Denver’s Historic Five Points, which also offers residency space to a rotat-ing number of artists and encourages community participation in the arts. Readers interested in con-temporary art will want to visit if they are not familiar with its influence in the lo-cal scene.

A photograph by CHEN Man for the cover of “Vision” magazine is included in the exhibit: “A New Attitude: CHEN Man’s Provocative Interpretations of Contemporary Chinese Women” at RedLine Gallery from March 1 to April 27. Courtesy photo

if you go“A New Attitude: CHEN Man’s Provocative Interpretations of Contemporary Chi-

nese Women” runs from March 1 to April 27 at RedLine, 2350 Arapahoe St., Den-ver. Admission is free. For schedule, see www.redlineart.org or call 303-296-4448.

Subsequent shows in the “She Crossed the Line” series will be: “Senga Nengudi: The Performing Body” from June 6-July 20; “Harmony Hammond: Becoming/Un-becoming Monochrome” from Aug. 2 to Sept. 28; and “Surveying Judy Chicago” from Oct. 17 to Dec. 28.

HAVE A STORY IDEA?Email Englewood Community Editor Tom Munds at

[email protected] or call 303-

566-4108.


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Art community urged to ‘make contact’Center for Visual Art brings artists togetherBy Sonya [email protected]

The Metropolitan State Uni-versity art faculty has devel-oped “Making Contact,” a new exhibit running Feb. 21 to April 5 at its Center for Visual Art, through various kinds of inter-action with individual commu-nities: artists, students, alumni, etc. Related events are still de-veloping, according to Creative Director Cecily Cullen.

Recently, Cullen writes, there has been increased emphasis in the nonprofit, cultural field on collaboration, with a view to en-gaging audiences and breaking down barriers between groups of people. The CVA’s mission is to serve as a bridge between the university and the public and “… to provide diverse, high quality art experiences that advance the global urban dia-logue.”

Art lovers are invited to enter in the dialogue.

Artwork by faculty members will connect with their commu-nities in some way, depending on the individual artist’s incli-nations and skills.

Ceramic artist Teshai John-son’s interactive installation, “Fluids,” relates to a prior sur-vey of friends and colleagues about relationships with things they drink.

She has made 300 cups and glasses with screen-printed re-sponses — which will be pulled off display to serve guests at the opening reception.

Painting faculty Carlos Fr-esquez, Gigi Lambert, Ryan Gilmartin and Dawn McFadden have also worked together on a large-scale painting.

Matt Jenkins will create “Fracking Field Trips” through travel with various groups to hy-draulic fracking sites along the

Front Range and it, like some other projects, will change as the exhibit progresses.

Related events will be added to the schedule, but readers might note:

• Feb. 21: Opening reception from 6-8 p.m.

• March 13: “Making Con-tact in Conversation” with Peter Bergman, Jenkins and Johnson at 7 p.m.

• April 4: “Making Contact: a Dance Experiment” with young Colorado Ballet dancers, inspired by works in “Making Contact” at 7 p.m., 7:30 and 8. Assistant professor Kelly Mo-nico will work with dancers to create costumes that integrate video into the performance. Marlene Strang, Colorado Bal-let Director of Curriculum, will choreograph. (As a side note, Colorado Ballet will be moving to the Arts District, near CVA, when its recently-purchased building is ready.)

• “Imprints: MSU Student Printmaking” will be exhib-ited in the Emerging Art-ists Gallery, juried by Kimiko Miyoshi of Cal State, Long Beach.

if you goThe Metro State University Center for

Visual Art is at 965 Santa Fe Dr. in Den-ver’s Arts District. Admission for the Feb. 21-April 5 exhibit is free. Call 303-294-5207 or visit www.MetroStateCVA.org.

Editor’s notE: To add or update a club listing, e-mail [email protected].

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AmEricAn AssociAtion of University Women, Littleton-Englewood Branch invites baccalaureates to participate in activities that further the goals of equity for women and girls, lifelong education and positive societal change. Meetings usually are Mondays each month, September through May, at Koelbel Library, Orchard Road and Holly Street, Centennial. Social time is followed by business meeting and informative program on subjects ranging from public policy issues to poetry. Call Linda Shell at 303-796-7702.

dEnvEr invEstor Club meets the first Thursday each month at 7:30 p.m. at the IHOP on Clinton Street in Englewood. Call Gail Segreto at 303-810-9015 or e-mail [email protected]. This is a nonprofit educational club.

EnglEwood chAPtEr of the Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees) needs men and women between the ages of 21 and 40 to help re-establish the chapter. Jaycees work to help chapter members grow profes-sionally and to help serve the community through hands-on projects. To become involved, call 303-914-0180 or visit www.coloradojaycees.org.

lEtiP intErnAtionAl, local chapter, is a profes-sional referral organization that meets at Maggiano’s at the Denver Tech Center, 7401 S. Clinton St., in

Englewood. A Highlands Ranch chapter meets at LePeep’s, 7156 E. County Line Road. Call 303-789-7898 or visit www.letip.com.

nArfE (nAtionAl Active and Retired Federal Employees), Chapter 1089 was merged into Chapter 81. The membership meetings are from noon to 1:30 p.m. the third Friday of every month, with an optional lunch at 11 a.m., at the American Legion Post 1, at the Southeast corner of I-25 and Yale Ave (5400 E Yale). All current and retired federal employees are invited to attend. For information call, Hank at 303-779-4268 or Darlene at 303-771-2024.

rEcrEAtion

chErry crEEk Anglers meets at 7 p.m. every sec-ond Thursday in the Lodge Meeting Room at Gander Mountain Sports, 14000 E. Jewell Ave. Call Dennis at 303-841-3612.

kilowAtt Eights is for people interested in square dancing. Dances are the first, third and fifth Fri-day each month at Malley Senior Center in Englewood. Call Ron at 303-759-4862.

mountAinEErs squArE Dance Club meets the first, third and fifth Saturdays of the month at the Valley View Church of God, 4390 S. Lowell Blvd., Englewood, to square dance. Dances start at 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome to come and watch. This is a healthy activity for all. Call 303-798-4472.

clubs in your community

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EnglewoodSPORTS18 Englewood HeraldFebruary 21, 2014

Englewood girls falter in overtimePirates come up short on scoreboard in extra periodBy Tom [email protected]

The faces of the players reflected their disappointment Feb. 14 after Englewood lost a hard-fought league girls basketball overtime battle to Vista Peak, 45-42.

“We didn’t want this game to end this way but I am proud the girls didn’t quit bat-tling,” Pirates coach Tom Rode said after the game. “We were behind by two points at halftime, battled back and the game went into overtime. But fouls hurt us to the point we had four starters foul out late. But this is a young team so we will try learning from this experience and making it work for us.”

Englewood was scheduled to finish the regular season at home. After a Feb. 18 game with Skyview, they wrapped up the season Feb. 21 against rival Elizabeth.

The Feb. 14 game was a close, see-saw battle from the starting tipoff until the final buzzer in the overtime period.

Both teams played aggressive defense so it was hard for either team to get good shots plus players from both teams had trouble finding the range to the basket early.

The score stayed close most of the game. Vista Peak led 27-25 at halftime but Engle-wood scored the first four points to take a temporary 29-27 lead. During the quarter, there were two ties and three lead changes. But, late in the period, the Pirates made a scoring run and led 35-29 going into the fi-nal quarter.

Late in the final period, Vista Peak chipped away at the Pirates’ lead. Down the stretch, the Bison hit outside shots and free throws while Englewood shooters went cold. The result was the score was tied at 40 at the buzzer and the game went into over-time.

In the overtime period, Vista Peak scored one basket and three free throws while the Pirates got a single basket, so the Bison won the game, 45-42.

There was a lot of hard, physical contact as both teams fought to gain control of the tempo of play and control of the ball. Pirate senior Miranda Holman had to be helped off the court after being poked in the eye. She returned to action and later in the game she was accidently hit in the face and got a bloody nose. But, once the bleeding stopped, she went back out on the court.

“It was a tough night and pretty physical out there,” Holman said after the game. “I was doing pretty well the first two quarters getting rebounds and hitting my shots. I didn’t do that as well in the last two quar-ters.”

She said, despite getting roughed up a bit, the game against Vista Peak was fun.

“This game was fun for me because the way we had to battle for every loose ball and point,” she said. “I feel every game is fun. This is my senior season and it is great that

it has been such a fun time with this team. It has been great because the way the fans have come out to cheer for us, the way the coaches have worked with us and the way our team gets along, support each other and work together. All those things make being on the court every game an amazing, fun experience.”

In evaluating the game, Coach Rode said it wasn’t an excuse but the team’s starting point guard was on the bench because of an injury and she would have helped the team handle the aggressive Vista Peak defense.

“We juggled the lineup and all our kids stepped up,” he said. “We put some young players out on the court tonight. They, too, stepped up and did a good job for us.”

Maddie Smith paced the Pirates with 10 points while teammates Elijah Daugh-try and Miranda Holman had eight points each.

“I don’t usually score a lot and the 10 points I scored tonight may be a season high for me,” she said. “I don’t shoot a lot. I work to try to get the rebounds and play tough defense. Just about all my shots are in close to the basket and tonight, the shots were going through the hoop.”

Like Holman, she said the team makes this a fun season even though they haven’t won a lot of games.

“Our whole team dynamic changed this season and part of that comes from

our new coach,” she said. “He stresses our team is like a family so we should work to-gether and everything should be about the team not a single player. That is how a team should be. We love it when we win but we also love it when we battle hard like we did tonight. Of course, it would have been even

better if we had won but it still was fun.”She said, as the basketball season winds

down, she is getting ready to play soccer for the Pirates. This summer, she will be the catcher on a competitive softball team and play that position in the fall during high school softball season.

Englewood’s Maddie Smith attempts to get around a Vista Peak defender on her way to the basket. Smith led the Pirates in scoring with 10 points Feb. 14 against the Bison, but it wasn’t enough as Vista Peak won in overtime, 45-42. Photos by Tom Munds

Englewood’s Miranda Holman (45) battles for control of a loose ball with a Vista Peak defender iduring the Feb. 14 league game between the two schools. The official called it a jump ball and possession went to the Pirates. The game went into overtime and the Bison hit the necessary shots to win, 45-42.

Pirates wrap up girls swim seasonEnglewood closes out schedule at league meetBy Tom [email protected]

The Englewood team scored 75 points and finished eighth in the nine-team In-dependent School League Girls Swimming and Diving Championships held Feb. 7 and 8 at Colorado College. It was the final dates on the Pirates 2013-14 swim team schedule.

Three days after the league meet, Pirates coach Tracey Lonn talked by phone about the season and her team’s performance.

“Overall, we had a good season,” she said. “We had more girls on the team this

year than we had last year and everyone put a lot of effort into practices and into the meets we swam.”

There were 16 girls on the team this sea-son, five of them seniors.

“Our seniors were our leaders this season and we’ll miss them next season,” the coach said. “But we should have a good group of returning letter winners to help anchor our team when we start up again in October.”

Lonn said her focus is helping her ath-letes have fun and enjoy swimming.

“Most of Englewood’s swimmers are multi-sport athletes who swim in competi-tion from October to February,” the coach said. “That is fine but, particularly when we go to larger meets such as the league com-petition, our girls compete against athletes who focus just on swimming and are on

teams all year. That puts our girls at a defi-nite disadvantage.”

She said that is why her focus is for the girls to have fun and enjoy swimming com-petition.

“Swimming demands a lot of commit-ment and it is physically challenging,” Lonn said. “Also, we have just 90 minutes to prac-tice at the Englewood Recreation Center pool. That makes building a team more dif-ficult than it was when we had a pool at the high school.”

The coach said she is going to work with the local youth team that swims during the summer to try to help develop athletes who will attend EHS and swim for the Pirates.

The Pirates had two girls place in the top 16 at the league championships as Natalie Pena was 11th and Marissa Johnson was 16th

in the 100-meter backstroke.Pena also was the first alternate to swim

in the consolation finals of the 100-meter butterfly and Rachael Nickerson was first alternate to swim in the 200-meter indi-vidual medley.

The Pirates also competed in the three relay events. Pena, Nickerson, Johnson and Shawna Eldridge swan for Englewood team in the 200-meter medley relay and posted a time of 2:35.52 to finish seventh.

The team of Alize Galvan, Josie Phil-lips, Kaytlyn Martinez and Eldridge turned in a time of 2:29.45 to finish eighth in the 200-meter freestyle relay.

In the final event of the meet, the team of Nickerson, Johnson, Pena and Rebeccah Sheppard took eighth place in the 400-me-ter freestyle relay with a time of 5:13.39.


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SALOME’S STARSFOR THE WEEK OF FEb 17, 2014

ARIES (Mar 21 to Apr 19) Some unsettling facts about a past situation could come to light. And while you’d love to deal with it immediately, it’s best to get more information to support your case.

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GEMINI (May 21 to Jun 20) Don’t be discouraged or deterred by a colleague’s negative opinion about your ideas. It could actually prove to be helpful when you get around to finalizing your plan.

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LIBRA (Sept 23 to Oct 22) Unless you have sound knowledge, and not just an opinion, it’s best not to step into a family dispute involving a legal matter, regardless of whom you support. Leave that to the lawyers.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 to Nov 21) An awkward situation presents the usually socially savvy Scorpian with a problem. but a courteous and considerate approach soon helps clear the air and ease communication.

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CAPRICORN (Dec 22 to Jan 19) Your approach to helping with a friend or family member’s problem could boomerang unless you take time to explain your method and how and why it (usually!) works.

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ENGLEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

Boys basketball

Englewood 38, Skyview 58Englewood was held to just 12 points in the � rst quarter and six in the second as Skyview beat the Pirates 58-38. Englewood scored 10 points in the third and 10 in the fourth.

LITTLETON HIGH SCHOOL

Boys basketball

Littleton 43, Highlands Ranch 71Junior Tre’ Blake led his team with 10 points followed by Tyus Gallegos-Jones with nine points and Seth Nicewith eight points. Jones had three rebounds, three assists and four steals. Blake, Zach Valadez and Tim Ladwig had three rebounds each.

Girls basketball

Littleton 31, Highlands Ranch 72Juniors Alexiss Orona and Kiera Lindgren led their team with six points each followed by junior Laura Pu-chino with � ve points and junior Rachel Pearson scored four points. Stacey Zuppa had four blocks and four re-bounds. Sindel Lawrence grabbed seven rebounds for the Lions.

UPCOMING GAMES

Boys basketball

THURSDAY7 p.m. - Littleton vs. HeritageFRIDAY7 p.m. - Englewood @ Elizabeth

Girls basketball

THURSDAY7 p.m. - Littleton @ Heritage

ScoreboardScoreboardScoreboard Heritage names new gridiron coach Tyler Knoblock selected to head Eagles’ football program By Tom Munds [email protected]

Heritage High School has announced the hiring of Tyler Knoblock as the Eagles new head football coach.

Knoblock, of Oklahoma City, fi lls the position that was creat-ed when the school opted not to renew the contract of long-time coach Mike Griebel.

“We advertised the position and received about 60 resumes and applications,” said Brock Becker, Heritage athletic direc-tor. “We created a screening committee, narrowed the fi eld and brought three candidates in for fi nal interviews. Commit-tee members agreed Tyler rose to the top of the candidate list for us.”

The new coach, his wife Sara and their two young daughters planned to visit the area Feb. 17 and 18, where Knoblock ex-pected to hold a players-only meeting Feb. 18 in the school’s theater and then bring his fam-ily with him to meet with play-ers and parents later that night.

Knoblock said, by phone on Feb. 13, that he felt the opening at Heritage was a fi t on many levels for him. One reason he applied for the Heritage posi-tion was because he felt it was the right time for him to seek a head coaching position.

“Another reason is … we have family, including my par-ents, living in Colorado and we have loved the state when we visited,” he said. “I felt comfort-able in the interviews at Heri-tage. Also, I was impressed by the students and the school, and I loved the feel of the com-munity. I think those factors helped me decide this was a very desirable position. Fortu-nately, the school decided to hire me.”

Knoblock comes to Heritage after serving as an associate coach and offensive coordina-tor at Bishop McGuiness High School in Oklahoma City, where he helped the Fighting Irish

make it to the Class 5A state semifi nals in 2011 and 2012. In 2012, the team followed Kno-block’s game plans and led the state of Oklahoma in offense. The team also was named Okla-homa’s Academic Champion in 2011 and 2012.

The new coach, who will teach math, probably algebra and geometry, said he always tailors his offense to the players available.

“Our offense will be game-plan specifi c,” he said. “We may use the spread formation at times and, if we have the right people, shift to a full-house backfi eld. I am happy to see the players at Heritage are used to

being academically challenged so we will use that intelligence to our advantage.”

Knoblock was raised in a small Oklahoma town and played high school football. He said he had some football scholarship offers from some small schools but chose to ac-cept an academic scholarship to University of Central Okla-homa.

The new coach and his wife Sara have two daughters, Ash-lynn, a 6-year-old and Maken-zie, a 4-year-old. Knoblock said he is looking forward to living in the community and feels Heritage is the type of school he wants his daughters to attend.

New Heritage football coach Tyler Knoblock, his wife Sara and daughters Ashlynn, 6, and Makenzie, 4, were planning to visit the area from Oklahoma City and meet with players and parents Feb. 18 in the school theater. Courtesy photo


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NOTICE TO CREDITORSEstate of CLETA RIEPL

a/k/a CLETA J. RIEPL, DeceasedCase Number 2014 PR 30092

All persons having claims against theabove-named estate are required topresent them to the Co-Personal Repres-entatives or to the Arapahoe County Dis-trict Court of the State of Colorado on orbefore June 29, 2014, or the claims maybe forever barred.

/S/ Lynn Riepl and Diane RoachLynn Riepl and/or Diane Roach,Co-Personal Representatives327 Tucson Street, Aurora, CO 80011303-366-3481

Legal Notice No.: 4669First Publication: February 21, 2014Last Publication: March 7, 2014Publisher: The Englewood Herald

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORSEstate of Jean Lucile Schreiner,

aka Jean L. Schreiner,aka Jean Schreiner, DeceasedCase Number: 2014 PR 30024

All persons having claims against theabove-named estate are required topresent them to the Personal Represent-ative or to the District Court of ArapahoeCounty, Colorado on or before June 8,2014 or the claims may be forever barred.

Alicia M. SchreinerPersonal Representative2454 E. Fremont CourtCentennial, Colorado 80122

Legal Notice No: 4655First Publication: February 7, 2014Last Publication: February 21, 2014Publisher: Englewood Herald

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SERVICE BY PUBLICATIONIN THE DISTRICT COURT OF

BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA

State of Nebraska,o/b/o Madeline J. Macev. John H. Mace IIIand Laura T. FankhauserCase ID: CI 04-245

TO: John H. Mace IIINotice is hereby given that you have beensued by the following Third- Party Defend-ant:Laura T. FankhauserThird-Party Defendant’s Attorney:Jon WorthmanAddress: 107 East Fifth StreetAlliance, NE 69301Telephone: (308) 762-1234

To defend this lawsuit, an appropriateresponse must be served on the partywithin 30 days of the last publicationherein and filed with the office of the clerkof the court within a reasonable time afterservice. If you fail to respond, the courtmay enter judgment for the relief deman-ded in the complaint.


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To defend this lawsuit, an appropriateresponse must be served on the partywithin 30 days of the last publicationherein and filed with the office of the clerkof the court within a reasonable time afterservice. If you fail to respond, the courtmay enter judgment for the relief deman-ded in the complaint.


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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing before the Planning and Zoning Commission will be held on March 4, 2014 at the hour of 7:00 p.m. in the Englewood City Council Chambers, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, CO 80110.

Case ##2013-02: The issue to be heard before the Commission is proposed amendments to Title 16: Unified Development Code of the Englewood Municipal Code related to small residential lots. The proposed amendments establish development standards and associated dimensional requirements for properties with a lot width or lot area that is less than the minimum standard for a one-unit dwelling in the zone district in which the lot is located. The amendments also provide a process for development proposals involving nonconforming lots. A copy of the proposed amendments may be reviewed in the Community Development Department. Anyone interested in this matter may be heard at the Public Hearing at the previously cited location, date, and time. By Order of the City Planning and Zoning Commission Julie Bailey Recording Secretary Legal Notice No.: 4670First Publication: February 21, 2014Last Publication: February 21, 2014Publisher: The Englewood Herald

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NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENTOn or about February 28, 2014 the Cityof Englewood will make final paymentto:Richdell Construction, Inc.7001 Colorado Blvd.Commerce City, CO 80022

For construction of: NW GreenbeltPlayground Construction Project

Any or all claims relating to this contractmust be filed with Frank Gryglewicz, Dir-ector of Finance & Administrative Ser-vices, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Engle-wood, Colorado 80110-2373 prior toTuesday, February 25, 2014.

Frank GryglewiczDirector of Finance& Administrative ServicesCity of Englewood, Colorado


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NOTICE OF ADOPTIONOF ORDINANCEOn the 12th day of February, 2014, theCity Council of the City of Sheridan, Color-ado, approved on final reading the follow-ing Ordinance:

ORDINANCE NO. 1-2014AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITYCOUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN,COLORADO, ANNEXING CERTAINPROPERTY COMMONLY KNOWN AS3371 W. HAMPDEN AVENUE

Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are avail-able for public inspection in the office ofthe City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado.


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CITY OF SHERIDAN

NOTICE OF ADOPTIONOF ORDINANCEOn the 12th day of February, 2014, theCity Council of the City of Sheridan, Color-ado, approved on first reading the follow-ing Ordinance:

ORDINANCE NO. 2-2014AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITYCOUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN,COLORADO, AMENDING SECTION 2-23OF THE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODEPERTAINING TO COUNCIL’S REGU-LAR MEETING DATE

Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are avail-able for public inspection in the office ofthe City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado.


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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Lillian Kardos, Deceased

Case Number: 2014 PR 30097

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representa-tive or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before June 21, 2014 or the claims may be forever barred.

Linda J. SmithPersonal Representativec/o Mark D. Masters2696 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 350Denver, Colorado 80222

Legal Notice No: 4678First Publication: February 21, 2014Last Publication: March 7, 2014Publisher: Englewood Herald

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Rapid Fire sees rapid successSurvival store in downtown Littleton marks two yearsBy Jennifer [email protected]

Dawn Huston spent her birthday in 2004 holed up in a flat in the Virgin Islands, weathering Hurricane Ivan.

“It’s almost like a scream, and it doesn’t stop,” she recalls. “It goes right to the bone.”

She and husband Steven Puckett lis-tened until it stopped three days later, then emerged to witness the carnage.

“You really start to value life,” she said. “There were boats on streets, streets miss-ing, clumps of trees … it was remarkable.”

But for the next two days, they watched friends and strangers band together to muster a sense of normalcy.

“People didn’t just sit on the sidelines waiting for help,” she said. “There was re-markable collaboration.”

That experience, along with others they’ve had during their travels over the last eight years they’ve been together, have brought them to where they are today, Hus-ton believes — as the proud owners of Rap-id Fire Bunker survival shop in downtown Littleton.

They opened the shop two years ago, and have already branched out into fran-chising.

At first it seemed an unlikely destiny. She came from the world of finance, Puckett from information technology. They then met retired psychologist and jewelry maker George Dorry, their hero.

Shortly after meeting him, he was diag-nosed with terminal cancer.

“He was an amazing man,” said Hus-ton. “He spent the last year making things that would protect people he loved after he knew he would no longer be here to protect them.”

Things like emergency kits to keep in the car, being stocked with first-aid supplies, blankets and the like.

“That was our rallying cry, his legacy of helping people who don’t have others to help them,” she said.

Huston knows there’s a certain sense of skepticism about the “prepper” communi-ty, but it’s a far cry from what you see on TV, she says. In fact, they’ve turned down three opportunities to splay their store open across the airwaves.

“Reality shows, unfortunately, have tak-en the subject and, almost on a dangerous level, made it less credible,” she said.

She prefers to think of it as honoring the nation’s roots, when homesteaders had to carry everything they needed for suste-nance and protection on their journeys. In fact, she sees a benevolence and strength to what they do that makes her wonder why more women aren’t in the industry.

“It’s very male-dominated, but at the same time, putting a softer and more nur-turing face on an industry that is nurturing seems very natural to me,” she said.

Reflecting that softer side, the store car-ries heirloom seeds for grains, fruits, medic-inal herbs and flowers. There are comfort foods like chicken alfredo, pancake batter and apple-cinnamon cereal — albeit, much of it in the form of meals-ready-to-eat. By way of nurturing, there are classes on first aid, edible plants, women’s self-defense, tri-age and more.

But as the name implies, Rapid Fire does

indeed carry guns, everything from rifles on down to a pink camouflage .22. They also have crossbows, stun guns, pepper spray, mace, tomahawks, machetes, stun guns and a wide variety of knives.

There is also anything you could ever imagine needing on a camping trip and then some, including fire-protection blan-kets, underground ammunition storage containers, water-purification systems and more.

The couple was grateful to have a well-stocked emergency kit in their own car last June, when the Bluebell Fire in Evergreen came within a half-mile of their home.

“It doesn’t matter how prepared you are, it’s always terrifying,” she said. “It’s not a

question of if you might have to be ready for something like that, it’s a question of when.”

But it’s how ordinary people deal with such unexpected disaster that makes Hus-ton proud to wake up and go to work every day.

“I fall in love every single day with the people who come in this store,” she said. “I’m most proud for the strength and the Americanism and the heroism of every one of them who come through those doors. It makes me proud to be an American and to be here in Littleton, because people like them are the backbone of the community — the fighters, the ones that remember we are Americans and we have a voice.”

Steven Puckett and Dawn Huston own Rapid Fire Bunker in downtown Littleton. Photo by Jennifer Smith


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FOSTER PARENTS WANTEDTop of the Trail Child PlacementAgency is seeking loving homesfor foster children. Families andsingles welcome. Monthly careallowance. Background check

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hours a day, yearround with positions available on

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online at www.townepark.com forimmediate consideration.

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Drywall

PAUL TIMMConstruction/Repair

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Electricians

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