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Mayor receives education awardJeffco schools honor those who celebrate diversityBy Clarke [email protected]
Mayor Bob Murphy has been named the recipient of the 2013 Wayne Carle Legacy Award for outstanding contributions to di-versity and equity in Jefferson County.
The award comes from Jeffco Public Schools Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and is named after the former Jeffco super-
intendent.“It’s an extremely high honor, and when
you look at the some of the past recipients, it’s great to be in such company,” Murphy said.
Previous winners include the Mile High United Way, Jeffco Action Center and Sher-mita West.
According to Jefferson County, the Wayne Carle Award was inspired by an event that Carle witnessed when he was a 10-year-old student in 1940. Carle and other campers were returning from the mountains, and stopped at a country club for a swim.
“One of the campers Mary Ota, an Asian American, was stopped and told she could not enter. Without saying a word, her fellow
campers all turned around and got back on the bus,” according to the information.
The incident inspired Carle to promote cultural understanding and respect, and his efforts created the award that goes to others who promote these same ideas. The Office of Diversity and Inclusion was formed in 2009 to ensure students were well educated about respect of culture and diversity.
Irene Griego, director of the Office of Di-versity, said that there are several different award categories — like for students, orga-nizations, groups and individuals — and that the legacy award is the highest honor.
“The mayor has always been a cham-pion for diversity in the city, and has been a longtime supporter of Jeffco schools,” she
said.Murphy said the award reflects on the
attitude of the city as a whole.“We have a strong commitment to di-
versity in Lakewood, and being honored for this means so much because of the schools’ same commitment,” Murphy said.
He noted that being accepting of all peo-ple has been a key feature of Lakewood for a long time — the city signs say it is an inclu-sive community, and that’s an idea the city still firmly believes in.
“I’m accepting this award not just on my behalf, but on behalf of the entire commu-nity,” Murphy said.
The award will be presented at a school board meeting on May 2.
40 West District a people’s choiceArts District up forDRCOG awardBy Clarke [email protected]
The 40 West Arts District is one of 10 finalists for the Denver Regional Council of Governments Live Work Play People’s Choice Award.
The program is a biennial one from DRCOG that celebrates places, events and projects that improve and contribute to communities’ long-term success.
The award gives community members a chance to support their favorite project by voting online through Wednesday, April 24.
“We’re really excited about the Live Work Play finalist status for 40 West,” said execu-tive director of the Lakewood-West Colfax Business Improvement District, Bill Ma-rino. “It’s a great initiative through DRCOG that is all about maintaining and protecting the region’s quality of life.”
Some of the other finalists include Lone Tree’s RidgeGate Community, the Colorado Wedding District and Olde Town Arvada.
Steve Erickson, communications and marketing director with DRCOG said that many people don’t realize that DRCOG is heavily involved in regional planning, and helps get local governments together to work on issues facing the area.
“We want to try to make life in these re-gions as good as can be,” he said. “It’s all part of our Metro Vision.”
The Metro Vision address changes that need to be implemented to accommodate the burgeoning population that is predict-ed for Colorado. According to Erickson, the population for the Denver metro area is around 2.2 million, but by 2020 it is expect-ed to grow to 3.2 million, and by 2035 it will be close to 4 million people.
Some plans in the Metro Vision plan in-clude protecting open spaces, reducing dai-ly vehicle miles traveled and cutting green-house emissions.
“Unless we pay attention to these issues, there will be problems for quality of life,” he said. “These awards are a thank you to the people and businesses that are already working on making their communities a better place to live.”
Marino says the recognition is a result of the work the entire Colfax corridor is doing.
“At 40 West we’re all about celebrating community, arts, and working together to make whole corridor a better place,” he said. “People see the progress with busi-nesses and W Rail, and get excited.”
Winners will be announced at the end of the day on April 24. To vote, visit www.liveo-wrkplay2013.com.
Volunteers enhance gardenLeadership Jefferson County and West Metro help schoolBy Clarke [email protected]
Leadership Jefferson County and West Metro Fire Rescue Training Center recruits came together to help Fletcher Miller School with its garden.
A group of recruits, sponsored and co-ordinated by Leadership Jefferson County (LJC), gathered on March 14 and 15 to build a shed for the school’s experimental and memorial garden.
“The work was part of the LJC’s 2013 class effort,” said Steve Aseltine, division director of training for West Metro. Aseltine is also a member of the LJC class. “Creating community gardens has been identified as a community need for this year’s class.”
During the two days, the 25 recruits worked around 10 hours total to build the 10-foot by 12-foot shed, which is designed for garden tools and equipment. All materi-als were funded by LJC.
The LJC is a West Chamber Foundation program that aims to develop leaders with-in Jeffco.
Projects are developed as part of the 10-month course that help participants im-prove their leadership skills, build commu-nity relationships, and learn how they can facilitate changes in Jeffco.
Fletcher Miller has been increasing
its focus on what gardening can teach its students, with classes being taught at the Robert R. Brown Greenhouse that was con-structed last spring.
Students who have sensory issues will benefit from having the plants to touch and experience, according to Julie Palmer, a physical therapist at the school.
“These students often need things that are more concrete, so they get a sense of dif-ferent sensations through the feelings from their fingers,” she said. “The greenhouse
offers a hands-on experience that a lot of kids won’t get from something on a piece of paper.”
Aseltine said that community gardens and creating something sustainable for the long term is one of the major projects for the class, and it will be working on similar projects until the end of the session in June.
“This is just an awesome project, and it’s great to have been able to help Fletcher Miller,” said Marta Murray, West Chamber Foundation executive director.
Recruits from West Metro Fire Rescue Training Center worked with Leadership Jefferson County and Fletcher Miller School to build a shed for the school’s garden. Courtesy photos
Recruits from West Metro Fire Rescue Training Center spent two days at Fletcher Miller School building a 10-foot by 12-foot shed to store garden tools and equipment.
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History whispers in Spanish place names The green road signs fl ash along Inter-
state 25, heading south. Pueblo, this exit. Cañon City, Salida, Buena Vista, that exit.
About 50 miles south of Pueblo, you can head east on State Highway 10 to La Junta and Las Animas. A right on 160 west takes you into Huerfano County and along a thread of towns with names like La Veta, Blanca, Alamosa, Monte Vista, Del Norte.
That’s the road my husband, our son and I are traveling to Durango in south-western Colorado, not far from the New Mexico line, a region we are exploring for the fi rst time.
Along the way is a faded blue billboard that talks about Río Cucharas, the river that fl ows from La Veta to Walsenburg.
What does that mean? my husband asks.
Spoons River, I answer.He smiles. It’s a whimsical image —
but one, I realize, that never gets painted unless you know the signifi cance of the words. It makes me wonder: How much of place and culture gets lost in non-trans-lation?
So much of Colorado’s heritage is en-twined in the Spanish names of its towns, rivers, mountain ranges, counties and streets — even the state itself (Colorado, red or colored). But throughout genera-tions, we’ve Americanized their pro-nunciations so much — Salida becomes Sa-LIE-dah rather than Sa-LEE-dah, which means exit — that we don’t recognize the language as Spanish anymore. They be-come, simply, words without defi nitions. And without meaning, the link to the past breaks.
“For non-Hispanos, that connec-tion has been lost in many ways,” said Bill Convery, Colorado’s state historian. “We lose a little bit of the richness of our culture when we forget the meaning of a place name. Understanding these mean-ings helps establish our own sense of place — it gives us grounding in our com-munity which, as Americans, is constantly
in fl ux.”For many Hispanos the connection
remains alive but fraught with emotional complexity, said Maruca Salazar, executive director of Museo de las Americas, a Den-ver organization committed to preserving Latin American art and culture.
“Behind all of this, there is a very in-tense past,” she said. “The connection was not a friendly one — it was an imposition. … We come from a conquered nation, a conquered people. That makes us very unique.”
Colorado has been home to many eth-nic populations — Native Americans, the fi rst, going back more than 10,000 years; French; Germans; Irish; and others. But the fi rst and largest non-native group was the Hispanics.
In the 1500s, Spanish expeditions fol-lowed Native American trails in a search for, among other things, gold. Spanish explorers drew the fi rst maps of the state. The Arkansas River in Pueblo, south of Colorado Springs, marked the border between New Spain and the U.S. When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821, it offered land grants to reinforce land claims against encroaching U.S. set-tlers. But following the Mexican-American War in 1848, in which a number of south-western states including New Mexico, California and southern and western Colorado were ceded to the U.S. for $15 million, many landowners were stripped of their property by U.S. courts.
A battle for identity ensued.
“Imagine going to bed Mexican and waking up American,” Salazar said, quot-ing her mother-in-law, whose family has been in Colorado for seven generations. “Imagine losing your land. …”
The railroads in the 1870s also trans-formed the region. The Denver & Río Grande Railroad wanted to reach Mexico and the Gulf Coast across the Río Grande (big river), so it included the river in its name to appeal to its continental as-pirations. It established towns such as Alamosa (cottonwood) and Antonito (little Anthony) to compete with older Hispanic settlements, Convery said.
But the railroads also pushed many Spanish-speaking farmers and ranch-ers into the northern parts of the state as English-speaking settlers moved in and changed the economic and political landscapes.
They left behind, however, an enduring trail of history in places, traditions and infl uence.
Many of the names that dot the south-western part of the state, such as Barela and Cordova, come from the families that fi rst settled the area.
Conejos County is one of Convery’s fa-vorite stories. The county moniker, which means rabbits, came from the naming of the creek, so billed in the 1850s because its waters “ran as fast as a rabbit.”
Huerfano County comes from the vol-canic butte that stands as a lonely sentinel — a huérfano or orphan — on the plains near Walsenburg. It was a major landmark for Hispanics traveling through the area, Convery said.
The tiny town of Del Norte (from the North) got its name as the northern end of the Río Grande.
Franciscan monks, following the Spaniards who named the San Luis (Saint Louis) Valley, watched the summer sun-light turn the earth of the nearby moun-tains a deep red. “It looks like blood,” Salazar said. “That’s what the Franciscans
saw.” And so they called the range Sangre de Cristo, the blood of Christ.
French and Germans also left their marks.
Walsenburg was initially La Plaza de los Leones after the León family, but was renamed by the German immigrant Fred Walsen. The French decided to call Río Jesús María (River of Jesus and Mary) the Platte (fl at — a pronunciation from French) instead.
Spanish explorers named the river near Durango Las Animas Perdidas en Pur-gatorio (the lost souls of Purgatory). But French-Canadian traders called it Purga-toire, and later, Convery said, American cattlemen rechristened it Picketwire.
Three different names — all refl ective of the changing nature of history around the river. Like all names, they are stories that tell us how we got here. But we have to listen — and sometimes that means making the effort to translate.
“Understanding the meaning and his-tory of a place,” Convery said, “grounds us and helps us establish that we belong.”
“Identity is an essential element of your psyche,” Salazar said. When “I know where I come from, I know what my values are.”
As I scan a map of Colorado, poetic names jump at me — Dolores River, the river of sorrows. La Junta, the junction. Las Animas, the souls. What stories, I won-der, lie hidden in their names?
And then there’s Mosca, a town of 674 people in the San Juan Valley whose name means fl y.
“I don’t know why it’s called Mosca,” Convery said. “But there’s got to be a story behind it.”
One, assuredly, that gives meaning to life in Colorado today.
Ann Macari Healey’s column about people, places and issues of everyday life appears every other week. She can be reached at [email protected] or 303-566-4110.
INSIDE THE SENTINEL THIS WEEKLAKEWOOD NEWS IN A HURRY LWV discusses school budget
The Jeffco League of Women Voters is hosting three different meetings to discuss the priorities of the Jeffco schools budget.
“Based on interviews with school prin-cipals and administrators, the League has put together a realistic, but hypothetical budget for one school,” according to infor-mation from the League. “After discussions around the interviews, the cuts, and the unique needs of a hypothetical school, we will talk priorities and limitations and try
our hand at solving the problems.”The meeting times are: 9:15 a.m.
Wednesday, April 10, at the Cason Howell House, 1575 Kipling.
For more information about this meet-ing call Kathy at 303-238-5696; 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, at 1425 Brentwood St., Suite 7. Call Carmah at 303-239-0981 for information; 9:15 a.m. Thursday, April 11, at the Cason Howell House, 1575 Kipling. For more information, contact Lynne at 303-985-5128.
Gun lobbyist’s actions eyed in ethics probe Lawmaker admits using epithet in confrontation By Vic Vela [email protected]
A gun lobbyist is at the center of an eth-ics probe into whether he threatened an Evergreen lawmaker with political reprisal over her votes on recent gun bills.
Republican Rep. Cheri Gerou fi led an ethics complaint against Rocky Mountain Gun Owners political director Joe Neville, after the two shared a sharp exchange in the House lobby in February.
Gerou hurled an expletive toward Nev-ille during the incident, before he was es-corted out of the Capitol. The interaction
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By JIM SMITH, Realtor® On my blog, you can see the statistics for every MLS area along the Front Range, including, of course, Jefferson County, which I divide into the non-foothills and foothills areas. What I calculate is the percentage of un-sold listings that is under contract, both by area and by price range. 61.9% of the listings in the non-foothills area of Jeffco were under contract as of March 31st, while 36.5% of the foothills listings were under contract. Those figures are up from 48.6% and 28% respec-tively a year ago. How that breaks down by price range — and how that has trended over the past three months — is shown in the above chart. (This is part of a larger chart on my blog which also shows Denver and total MLS figures.)
While the lower and middle price ranges appear to be leveling off in the high 60’s, the higher price ranges are now moving in that
same direction more dramatically than before. Since beginning this index in October 2011, I’ve never seen million-dollar Jeffco homes reach a level of 10% under contract, yet in March, this price range leapt to 14.5% under contract, while other homes over $500,000 increased their percentage under contract by almost half in just two months.
As you can read on my blog, these same trends are seen both in Denver and in the overall figures for the total front range MLS.
Next week, other ana-lysts will probably lament how inventory fell in March by 1.8%, but they only define inventory as “active” listings. I define inventory as unsold listings — active plus under contract. The number of unsold listings at the end of March was 4.5% higher than at the end of February, but the number of listings under contract increased by 11.7% in the
same period. Yes, sellers are putting homes on the market, but buyers are snapping them up quicker than they can be added. Now that’s what I call a hot real estate market! One of our current listings drew 71 showings and 28 offers in 2 days and went under contract for $55,000 over list price.
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Gun lobbyist’s actions eyed in ethics probe Lawmaker admits using epithet in confrontation By Vic Vela [email protected]
A gun lobbyist is at the center of an eth-ics probe into whether he threatened an Evergreen lawmaker with political reprisal over her votes on recent gun bills.
Republican Rep. Cheri Gerou fi led an ethics complaint against Rocky Mountain Gun Owners political director Joe Neville, after the two shared a sharp exchange in the House lobby in February.
Gerou hurled an expletive toward Nev-ille during the incident, before he was es-corted out of the Capitol. The interaction
came on a day when emotions ran high inside the building, where lawmakers were taking up votes on controversial pieces of gun-control legislation.
Both Gerou and Neville testifi ed about the incident before an ethics committee on March 27. The testimony is part of a process that ultimately will determine whether Neville violated a legislative rule that prohibits lobbyists from using politi-cal threats or deceit to infl uence lawmak-ers. Gerou testifi ed that on Feb. 15, she received several emails from constituents who had heard she was going to vote for the Democratic-sponsored gun-control bills that were being debated that day — even though Gerou said she had no inten-tion of doing so. Gerou voted no on those bills.
Gerou found out later that day that
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners was behind the misinformation. The group had been sending out mailings to voters in Gerou’s district, which Neville has said was an ef-fort meant to encourage voters to call Ger-ou and ask where she stood on the bills.
“I have to tell you I was very angry,” Gerou testifi ed. “I feel a personal responsi-bility to my constituents and I felt that not only that they were being told a lie, they were without reason feeling scared.”
Gerou testifi ed that she used an epithet when she and Neville spoke in the House lobby.
“He stared at me briefl y and he said: `You just earned yourself another round of mailers against you in your district, for a primary,” Gerou testifi ed.
Neville admitted saying something to that effect, but he told the committee that
his reaction was made out of anger, and that the comment was not meant to infl u-ence her votes.
When committee member Sen. Mark Scheffel, R-Parker, asked Neville,“Why didn’t you just walk away?” the lobbyist re-plied, “Easier said than done, I guess.”
“My job is to stand my ground, too,” Neville said. “I don’t apologize for stand-ing up for the Second Amendment. That’s what I’m paid to do.”
Neville further stated that he does not believe his actions rise to the level of an ethics probe. Testimony was scheduled to continue this week. The committee will forward the information to an executive committee, which can take any number of actions against Neville, ranging from doing nothing at all, to suspending his lobbying privileges.
Festival takes fun to new heights 11th annual Arvada Kite Festival brings together amateurs, prosto take a soar By Sara Van Cleve [email protected]
Hundreds of kites will be fl ying high over Arvada April 13.
The Arvada Festivals Commission, in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Kite Club, is hosting the 11th annual Arvada Kite Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Robby Fer-rufi no Park at 74th Avenue and Carr Drive.
“It’s one of the biggest kite festivals anywhere,” said festival co-chair Dudley Weiland. April is also National Kite Flying Month.
The festival will give amateur kite-fl yers a chance to let their kites soar in a com-petition as well as give attendees a chance to see the pros guide fl ying creatures and dancing kites.
The kite competitions are at 10:45 a.m. and 1 p.m. and participants will be divided into two age groups —10 and younger and 11 and older.
Four participants from each age group will be awarded a trophy in the four cat-egories — smallest kite, largest kite, most visually-appealing kite and highest kite.
From 3:15-4 p.m. the Rocky Mountain Kite Club will perform demonstrations.
“Most everyone stays all day to watch the kites in the air,” said festival co-chair Jodi Weiland. “It’s really neat to see all the kites in the air with all the different shapes and colors.”
In preparation for the festival, Majestic
View Nature Center and the Susan Duncan YMCA are hosting kite decorating classes for children.
Classes are at 4 p.m. Friday, April 5; at 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6; and at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 11 at Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St. Another class is at 4 p.m. Friday, April 12 at the YMCA, 6350 Eldridge St.
Each class is one hour long and costs $3.50. Children must be preregistered to participate; to register, call Majestic View at 720-898-7405 or the YMCA at 303-422-4977.
Children will have a chance to fl y their creations at the festival at 10:15 a.m.
While the kites are the focus of the festi-val, there will be entertainment and activi-ties for everyone all day long.
The Mile High Community Band will perform 10-11 a.m. and the Jefferson Coun-ty Brass Band is playing from 12-1 p.m.
For children, there will be bouncy cas-tles, alpacas, face painting, balloon artists, zorb balls to roll around in, a small train to ride in and much more.
Nearly 60 vendors will be at the event, including about 10 food vendors serving a variety of cuisines and using compostable plates and silverware.
Parking is available at Warder Elemen-tary at 80th Avenue and Carr Drive and at Meyers Pool, 7900 Carr Dr. Shuttle trans-portation with handicap accessibility will take attendees from the parking lots to the park.
Dogs will not be allowed on the fi eld during the festival.
In case of inclement weather, the festival will be rescheduled for Saturday, April 20.
For more information, visit www.ar-vada.org/arts-and-culture/kite-festival.
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Bouquets of fl owers and bright green balloons adorned a bright blue road-
side memorial sign at the corner of 118th Place and Sheridan Bou-levard, where Jenna Breen friends and family gathered on St. Pat-rick’s Day to celebrate her 23rd birthday.
Breen, a 21-year-old former Arvada resident, was struck and killed by a drunk driver at the in-tersection in the early morning hours of Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, as she returned home from a late-night shift at a restaurant less than two blocks away.
Her mother, Gail Parrish, said
the emotional scars from her daughter’s death will never fully heal but explained that the me-morial sign is a testament to her daughter’s desire to help others.
It is mission that she said she hopes motorists will heed when they see the adage in bold letters above her daughter’s name: Don’t Drink and Drive.
“It’s hard to see your child’s
name up there, but it does give a sense of hope that it will increase awareness and puts a face to a name,” Parrish said.
Breen’s roadside memorial sign — like hundreds of others across the state — are a stark reminder about the consequences of im-paired driving and have become a driving force for a cause that has created a mixture of support and concern from residents and local offi cials.
Jennifer Clouse, a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Colorado victim services special-ist, said only about 13 cities and counties across the state currently have a roadside memorial sign program in place.
Gail Parrish and � ance Jake DeHerrera share a touching moment to watch as balloons are released at the memorial sign placed at 118th Place and Sheridan Boulevard to honor her daughter, Jenna Breen, who was killed by a drunk driver. For more on Jenna see Page 19.
Gail Parrish and her � ance Jake DeHerrera stand under the roadway sign at 118th Place and Sheridan Boulevard in Westminster, in memory of her daughter, Jenna Breen, who was killed by a drunk driver. Photos by Pam Wagner
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name up there, but it does give a sense of hope that it will increase awareness and puts a face to a name,” Parrish said.
Breen’s roadside memorial sign — like hundreds of others across the state — are a stark reminder about the consequences of im-paired driving and have become a driving force for a cause that has created a mixture of support and concern from residents and local offi cials.
Jennifer Clouse, a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Colorado victim services special-ist, said only about 13 cities and counties across the state currently have a roadside memorial sign program in place.
Gail Parrish and her � ance Jake DeHerrera stand under the roadway sign at 118th Place and Sheridan Boulevard in Westminster, in memory of her daughter, Jenna Breen, who was killed by a drunk driver. Photos by Pam Wagner
One Sign
Protest held to shame former commissioner Odom stopped attending county business seven weeks early, still paid By Glenn Wallace [email protected]
Former District 2 County Commission-er John Odom was the subject of a protest (and two parody songs) in front of the Jef-ferson County courthouse and administra-tive building on March 26.
The dozen protesters were calling on Odom to be held accountable for missing the last seven weeks of county meetings drawing on his salary and benefi ts — cost-ing taxpayers an estimated $15,500.
“This is all we can do,” protest organizer Judy Denison said, acknowledging that since Odom broke no law when he aban-doned his post, shaming him had become their only recourse.
“We hope it’ll be on Google any time people look him up, and that other politi-cians think twice before doing this,” Deni-son said.
Dressed in stars, stripes, and 100 pounds of musical instruments, Bob O’Luney’s One Man Band (also known as Bob Haworth) helped perform
the protest songs. The fi rst, sang to the tune of “Working
on the Railroad,” begins: “Odom wasn’t
working at the courthouse, all the livelong day; He walked right off his job, and still collected pay.”
The second song, a riff on “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean,” features the chorus “Just pay back, pay back, please pay back the money you owe John O.”
To return the money, the protesters sug-gested that Odom donate $15,500 to the Jefferson Center for Mental Health, since that agency had its funding cut by $140,000 due to budget constraints last year.
The protest organizers say that such an issue transcends political affi liation, and deals directly with morality and ethics.
Odom, who ran and lost for state sen-ate District 20 in 2010, had been appointed to Jeffco’s 2nd commissioner’s district in March 2011 to fi ll the seat left vacant by Kevin McCaskey.
He ran for election in 2012 against Democrat Casey Tighe, and though Odom held a lead at the end of Election Night, by the time all oversea and provisional ballots had been tallied, it was Tighe who had won by 738 votes.
Odom only attended one county com-missioner meeting following the election, and stopped attending the other boards and commissions he had been appointed to, even though Tighe was not to be sworn in until the following January.
The former commissioner has not re-sponded to numerous requests for com-ment, including for this story.
Standing in front of the Je� erson County administrative building in Golden, and dressed in red, white and blue, Steve Stevens (left) Bob Haworth and Judy Denison sang songs and spoke out in protest against former County Commissioner John Odom walking away from his job for seven weeks while still collecting pay and bene� ts. Photo by Glenn Wallace
Backyard chicken, bee allowances expanded Requirements based on rules ine� ect already in Denver area By Glenn Wallace [email protected]
Backyard farming just became easier in Jef-ferson County.
The Board of County Commissioners voted a unanimous 3-0 on March 26 in support of opening up the backyard animal special permit process to all residentially zoned single family detached, or two-family dwelling in the county.
The owner of the animals will be required to apply for a miscellaneous permit, giving the county a chance to make sure basic health and safety standards are maintained.
The permit system and the county’s require-ments were based on existing chicken and bee rules that are already in effect for Denver area municipalities, including some in Jefferson County.
Those wanting to raise chickens or bees will have to have a minimum lot size of 4,000 square feet. Only six chickens total, or one bee colony per 4,000 square feet will be allowed.
“If we are complaint driven (code enforce-ment), what incentive is there for people to get a permit prior to getting a complaint?” District 2 Commissioner Casey Tighe asked staff during the hearing.
“If someone does have a zoning violation, we double the fee for the permit to correct that, on top of whatever their violation fees might be,” answered County Planner Heather Gutherless.
After some debate over fence height, mini-
mum backyard square footage, and coop set-backs, the commissioners agreed to pass the zoning change.
“This is a nice thing to do for all the people who’ve called in, asking for this,” District 1 Commissioner Faye Griffi n said.
For the neighborsNo roosters are allowedIf properly cared for, chickens should not
cause signifi cant noise or odor problemsRoaming chickens or serious problems
should be reported to the county zoning viola-tion department, not animal control.
Home Owner Associations are still free to re-strict or deny any backyard animals.
No on-site chicken slaughter will be allowed by the permit.
JEFFCO NEWS IN A HURRY
Most Wanted turns self inThe FBI has reported
that Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Edwin Ernesto Rivera Gracias has turned himself in to Salvadoran authorities.
Gracias, wanted for the violent murder of his girlfriend’s father-in-law in August 2011, had been placed on the FBI’s top 10 list less than two week earlier.
Gracias was fl own from El Salvador to Denver last week to face mur-der charges in Jefferson County.
Elder abuse guilty plea for couple
The husband and wife duo of William and Karen Young have entered guilty pleas to stealing $227,000 from William’s grandpar-ents.
An elder law/probate attorney contacted West-minster police in 2010 about potential theft from the accounts of Frances Gibbs, 93, and her hus-band Harland Gibbs, 92,
who were staying in as-sisted living
According to court documents, William Young used his power of attor-ney over his grandpar-ents to empty their bank accounts, and use their credit cards.
Bank records indicated the money was used to pay for the couple’s monthly mortgage, cable and util-ity bills, cell phone bills, airline tickets to Las Vegas, and to shop online.
Both grandparents passed away prior to charges being fi led.
William Young, 41, could be sentenced to as much as 12 years in prison, while Karen Young, 42, faces one to three years in prison. The couple will be sentenced May 13.
Youth program worth a hootThe Eagle’s Nest, Owl’s
Roost (ENOR) youth pro-gram was recently named the winner of a $10,000 award from the National Institute of Food and Agri-culture (NIFA).
The ENOR environmen-
tal day camp was selected to receive the 2013 Con-necting Youth with Nature through Natural Resources Conservation Education Award. The day camp is a 4-H program, which is offered by Colorado State University Extension and Jeffco Parks.
ENOR actually refers to three camps — Owl’s Roost, Eagle’s Nest and the new Falcon’s Aerie — that offer students entering the fourth, fi fth and sixth grades a chance to explore Colorado’s natural and cultural history through hands-on activities and outdoor exploration. The $10,000 award supports all three camps.
Registration for the summer 2013 ENOR camps is currently open. The week-long sessions will begin June 10 and run through mid-July. For more information, please visit jeffcoextension.org or call 303-271-6620.
Voting guide now availableThe 2013 Citizen’s
Guide for Jefferson County,
which lists national, state, regional, county and municipal offi cials to aid county residents, is now available.
The directory, compiled by the League of Women Voters of Jefferson County, includes nonpartisan information related to vot-ing, schools, courts, and all levels of government affecting county residents. It also directs citizens to other information sources as well as to specifi c agen-
cies and offi cials.Free copies of the guide
may be obtained from your local library, county or city clerks’ offi ces as well as the Jeffco League Offi ce, 303-238-0032 or www.lwvjeffco.org.
All information in the booklet is current as of February 2013.
Funding of this 2013 booklet was made possible by the League of Women Voters of Colorado Educa-tion Fund.
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WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER
OPINIONS / YOURS AND OURS
Now is the time to prepare for wild� res Colorado’s fi rst major wildfi re of the
year didn’t even wait until spring. The Galena Fire prompted evacuations while scorching more than 1,300 acres near Fort Collins in March.
The blaze was an all-too-early remind-er of what Coloradans went through last year, what many consider the state’s worst ever for wildfi res. Statistics, provided by the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control, tell the toll in 2012:
Nearly 400,000 acres were burned. More than half a billion dollars in proper-ty was lost. The Waldo Canyon Fire alone destroyed nearly 350 homes.
More than $48 million was spent in suppression efforts for the 16 largest wild-fi res of the year. Six civilians were killed. In our more immediate coverage area, the 2011 Indian Gulch Fire west of Golden did
far less damage in consuming about 1,200 acres, but the smoke in the air days after day reminded us of the challenges of our neighbors across the state.
Already in 2013, we must turn our at-tention to fi re from ice.
Even after several recent storms, snowpack is below normal levels and the state’s drought lingers. With little relief in sight, Denver Water and other utilities recently announced watering restrictions. It’s possible open-burning bans are not far behind in the metro area and around the
state. In anticipation of — or maybe more accurately, as a response to — wildfi re season, four state legislators introduced a bill Monday that would create a state aerial fi refi ghting fl eet.
The bipartisan proposal is a response to the dry conditions in the state and to the federal government’s dwindling fl eet of fi refi ghting aircraft, which Colorado relies on for help with large blazes.
“Quite frankly, we are one lightning strike, one careless match throw, one ter-rorist intentional match throw away from a catastrophic wildfi re in Colorado,” said state Sen. Steve King, R-Grand Junction.
At this point, we can’t pass judgment on whether creating the fl eet is the right way to go.
Further, before introducing the bill lawmakers shied away from answering
questions on the program’s cost, which would include the initial funding plus maintenance. Certainly, it won’t be cheap.
But we will applaud the legislators for bringing attention to and taking seriously the wildfi re threat facing Colorado. The state needs more offi cials working toward solutions — not merely making speeches in the grim aftermath — when it comes to this issue.
The burden is not on offi cials alone, however. We all play a role in wildfi re pre-vention and safety.
Make sure to take precautions like creating a “defensible space,” an area free from brush, around your home. If your city or county imposes open-burning restrictions in the months ahead, follow them. A year from now, we don’t want to look back at 2013 the way we do 2012.
OUR VIEW
Looking ahead in life Dear Teenage Daughter,These last couple months have been
tough for you, I know. You, of course, seem to have come through it with your usual mixture of grace and awkwardness, and I doubt that fi ve years from now you will think back on this time much at all. But it will change you, in subtle and important ways.
First of all, let me say that part of me wishes I had the power to take all of that pain away from you. But I don’t, and the rational side of me doesn’t really want that power. If you do it right, pain is very useful. That’s why you’re sore after a great work-out. As long as you learn from it.
Breaking up with your boyfriend was one of the best things in the world for you. Not because he’s a creep, and not because he was bad for you. He wasn’t. But there’s only so much you can learn about yourself and about what you want from a husband later in life from one boy. I hope you think back on him fondly in the years to come, because he was your fi rst love. And, sure, 16-year old love is mostly a cocktail of hormones, drama, and too much cologne, but that doesn’t change that he will always be your fi rst love, and you will always re-member the fi rst guy you chose to make so important in your life.
I hope you learn from that that you are loveable; that you are worthy of being treated like a princess; that you never have to compromise your values or your ambition to be loved, in return; and that whoever you end up with had better be able to challenge you to grow.
That other thing, the car accident, was pretty normal — every kid has them. It really was a sort of best-case scenario, too: you weren’t hurt, you didn’t hurt anybody else, and it scared the bejeezus out of you.
Good. A car should scare you. But, like most scary things, that doesn’t mean avoid them. You have to learn to control that fear, to control yourself as a driver, and to con-trol the car around you. It’s an amazingly valuable lesson, if you take it to heart.
More important, though, are the particulars of the accident. You were so concerned about what was going on behind you that you kept your eye on the rear-view mirror too long and didn’t see the bad thing coming straight at you. Now, it’s pretty rare that life provides such a great metaphor all on its own, but, in this case, voila!
You can’t spend your life worrying about the past. You can’t. You need to remember it, you need to occasionally look back and re-evaluate its lessons, but you have to keep your eyes peeled on the road ahead of you. What’s behind you will rarely overtakes and hurts you; what you don’t see coming straight at you will often be ter-rible. Look ahead, dreamer.
And, as always, daddy loves.
Michael Alcorn is a music teacher and fi t-ness instructor who lives in Arvada with his wife and three children. He graduated from Alameda High School and the University of Colorado-Boulder.
What should the state Legislature be working on?
We asked grocery shoppers in Lakewood what they felt the Colorado Legislature should be focusing on, after a busy legislative session that has already seen big items like gun con-trol, civil unions and the death penalty being brought up.
“I am pro gun, but anti-death penalty. Maybe reversing some of the gun legislation, like the magazine limit.”— Brad Burrows, Wheat Ridge
“Employment, health in-surance, that’d be good. Maybe new assistance with education, too. It’s almost impossible to pay for an education right now.”— Lyza Posey, Wheat Ridge
“If anything, gun control. That’s de� nitely in the right direction.”— Kevin Clyde, Golden
“I think gun control needs to be increased somewhat, but not to the extent some people are saying. Civil unions – I was de� nitely not in favor of that passing.”— Peggy Turner, Lakewood
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Innovation leads to recognition Engineering � rm honored by Je� co EDC By Clarke Reader [email protected]
Lakewood’s Adaptive Innova-tions Corporation received the Jefferson County Economic De-velopment Corporation’s Business Recognition Award at the organiza-tion’s 20th Annual Industry Appre-ciation Awards breakfast.
The award recognizes business-es that have added employees and shown growth over the past year.
“We had a big growth year last year,” said Mike Abdella, Adaptive’s CEO. “At the beginning of 2012 we had fi ve employees, and now we have 17.”
Adaptive is an 11-year-old en-gineering fi rm that builds custom equipment for a variety of indus-tries, including aerospace, medical and automotive. It also develops environmental test fi xtures and custom test equipment.
All this fabrication is done with precision machining, waterjet cutting fi nishing and silkscreen, among other state-of-the-art tech-nologies.
Abdella said the majority of the company’s clients are national, so
many people in Lakewood may not even be aware Adaptive is in Lake-wood.
According to Michelle Clay-more, vice president of Jeffco EDC, said that making residents aware of the businesses around them is part of what the Industry Appreciation Awards are for.
“Jeffco is an amazing place, and there are so many great companies people may not have heard of,” she said. “The event is one of our favor-ites of the year, because we have a chance to help people learn about the special companies working in the county.”
For the award winners like Adaptive, companies are nomi-nated and a volunteer panel takes a look at the work the company has done over the past year and de-cides on the winners.
For winners of the Business Recognition Award, it’s not just the number of employees hired, but the kind of hiring the company does.
The fact that Adaptive was able to add 12 full-time employees in a year’s time is a large part of why it was a winner.
“The award really recognizes the work we’ve put in, and is con-fi rmation that we’re doing the right things,” Abdella said.
For more information about Adaptive Innovations Corporation, visit www.a-i-corp.com.
Uncomplicating the complicated Lately I have found myself in
conversations with people about how complicated their lives have become, or how complex situ-ations at work or at home have created a feeling of being uptight or stressed out.
So how do we simplify the complicated?
Well, the fi rst thing we need to do is understand that noth-ing is ever as diffi cult or as bad as it seems, and that panic truly is our worst enemy. And we also need to remind ourselves that all will be well.
Situations become more con-voluted and problematic when we allow the imagery of the worst-case scenario to worry us and erode our hope or positive outlook.
The longer we dwell on the possibility that things will go bad, the more the situation will appear even more complicated.
The second thing we can do is determine what we believe would be the best possible out-come. When we can begin with the end in mind, we start to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
So in the fi rst step we elimi-nate the negative or pessimistic thoughts and in step two we ac-knowledge and see the potential best-case scenario.
We replace the negative input with positive output.
The third and fi nal tip I can share with you is to do some healthy and creative destruction of the situation. Peel the layers back and pick the problem apart piece by piece.
When things become com-plicated it means that there are many events, moving parts, circumstances, people, or situa-tions coming together to create confusion and maybe even chaos.
When we try and attack the entire problem it can seem overwhelming or too much to overcome, so we ignore it hoping that it will go away or fi x itself.
And our avoidance behavior only compounds an already complicated situation.
So what works better is to dis-sect the complication into man-ageable components, compart-mentalize the elements causing the diffi culties, and develop a plan to address each one.
When we take this approach, that light at the end of our tun-
nel becomes brighter, and with each element or compartment that we sort through and fi x, the light gets even brighter, the end of the tunnel closer, and our confi dence soars as we prepare to take on the remaining ele-ments.
There is nothing that is so overly complicated that it can-not become uncomplicated by approaching it with a positive, constructive and productive at-titude and a solid plan.
If we choose to look at the complications in our life as something that is in our control instead out of our control, we will signifi cantly increase our chances of simplifying the chaos and associated burdens of the complication.
Are you facing a complicated situation that may seem over-whelming? I encourage you to practice the tactical approach outlined here in this column and let me know if it helped [email protected].
When we can uncomplicate the complicated, it will be a bet-ter than good week.
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Right time for gun talks The March 21 editorial reported that some
sheriffs believe it is untimely to consider gun control legislation in the wake of recent gun trag-edies. Unfortunately, the politics surrounding gun regulation stifl es rational debate during “normal” times.
Even though many of us have supported more effective gun regulation for a long time, it seems to take a tragedy to focus public interest on the matter. Furthermore, government is often reactive. Recent consideration of cruise ship regulation was prompted by problems with cruise ships. A traffi c signal is installed after too many accidents occur at an intersection. Wouldn’t it have been better to install the signal before the accidents happened?
Regarding guns being a part of the Western her-itage — slavery is a part of the Southern heritage
and racial discrimination is a part of the national heritage. Heritage is not always worthy of worship.
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O� the markYour “Our View” editorial, “A land with prob-
lems, a nation with laws” is off the mark. Our nation is a nation with most laws ignored because it has become a nation of men, not laws. For example, the following laws are and were ignored by the nation of laws — bankruptcy laws (General Motors and Chrysler), the Defense of Marriage Act, immigration laws, marijuana laws, etc. The laws enforced are only those selected by men to be enforced. We are a nation of men, not laws.
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Now is the time to prepare for wild� res questions on the program’s cost, which would include the initial funding plus maintenance. Certainly, it won’t be cheap.
But we will applaud the legislators for bringing attention to and taking seriously the wildfi re threat facing Colorado. The state needs more offi cials working toward solutions — not merely making speeches in the grim aftermath — when it comes to this issue.
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The Colorado Senate on March 28 ap-proved a $20.5 billion budget that Demo-cratic lawmakers are touting as evidence of an economy that is moving in the right direction.
But their Republican counterparts see the so-called “long bill” as an example of ir-responsible overreach at a time of uneven economic growth.
The budget, which begins its fi scal year in July, was passed on a party-line vote of
19-15, with one Democratic lawmaker ab-sent. Highlights of the budget include more money for public schools and colleges, and
construction proj-ects. Also, state em-ployees are set to receive their fi rst pay increases in years.
The state’s ability to do these things is the result of a stron-ger economy, aided by stock sales, a rise
in employment last year, as well other posi-tive economic factors, such as growth in re-tail sales and the housing market.
However, economic forecasters caution that there are factors that could negatively impact the economy in the next year, such
as the possible rise of interest rates and a shaky European economic environment.
Sen. Pat Steadman of Denver, the chair-man of the General Assembly’s Joint Bud-get Committee, said during a recent budget fl oor debate on the bill that instead of the “maneuvering and cash fund raids” that have been necessary in past years, there are “reasons to cheer” many things in this year’s long bill.
“I believe we are bringing to you not only a balanced budget, but a responsible bud-get,” Steadman said.
But, unlike last year, Republicans are in unanimous opposition to the budget, so far. Sen. Kent Lambert of Colorado Springs, who also is a member of the Joint Budget Com-mittee, did not vote for this year’s bill.
Lambert and other Republicans said
the new budget’s spending would exceed growth, and that the state cannot afford that.
“We cannot add more money to add a Band-Aid to the bleeding,” Lambert said.
Sen. Mark Scheffel, R-Parker, said “this is the largest budget that the state’s ever had,” and that he would not support it. Howev-er, Scheffel did vote for last year’s budget, which also was rather sizable.
Steadman said he does not understand Republican opposition, considering that last year’s budget — which was based on a gloomier economic forecast — was “wildly, bipartisanly popular, and for some reason, this year, it’s not.”
The bill still has to be voted on in the House, before heading to Gov. John Hicken-looper’s desk for his signature.
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‘Dog Protection Act’ would guide police Deaths of pets get legislative attention By Vic Vela [email protected]
It’s been more than two months since Ziggy’s life was taken from Jeff Fisher, but the pain of losing his four-legged best friend has yet to subside for the Westminster man.
“I miss him every day,” Fisher said in a recent interview. “I miss him be-ing there in the morning and coming home to him. He was awesome. He was like a son.”
Ziggy, an 8-year-old border collie mix, was shot to death by an Adams County sheriff’s deputy on Jan. 14, in an incident that resulted in two very different versions of events.
But Ziggy’s death — as well as sev-eral other cases of offi cer-involved dog shootings around the state — could end up leading to a new law aimed at saving dogs’ lives when police are called out to residences.
State Senate Bill 226, which has been dubbed the “Dog Protection Act,” would require local law enforce-ment agencies to put in place training, and to adopt policies and procedures offi cers would be required to adhere to whenever they encounter dogs.
Republican Sen. David Balmer of Centennial, a sponsor of the bill, said in a recent interview that the idea would be for police to properly an-nounce their presence whenever they are responding to house calls, in order to give owners some time to put their dogs outside, or into another room.
“We in this bill are creating a duty for law enforcement offi cers in non-violent situations to give the owner of a dog an opportunity to save their dog,” Balmer said.
The bill states that there have been more than 30 offi cer-involved dog shootings around the state in the last fi ve years alone.
Balmer also said that in cases where dogs are shot by police, the offi cer had been responding to a non-violent situ-ation.
“Every time it gets covered by any news outlet, we fi nd out about more dog shootings,” Balmer said. “It’s a bigger problem than any of us knew it was when we fi rst started (working on the bill).”
Under the bill, a volunteer task force would be organized to develop training guidelines for law enforce-ment agencies.
Balmer did acknowledge that there is a “giant exception” area of the bill that lays out several instances where police would not be required to ad-here to the training.
They include cases where police are responding to suspected drug houses, or if the house is included in a “dangerous dog” registry.
Jennifer Reba Edwards of the Wheat Ridge-based Animal Law Center said those exceptions are reasonable, but that the ultimate goal of the legislation is to create an environment where po-lice are better trained to deal with ani-mals who are near and dear to the lives of many people in any community.
“Most people don’t see their dog as some piece of property,” she said. “Most people see them as their short, hairy family members.”
For Fisher, that was the case with Ziggy. His dog’s death was made even more tragic after it turned out that deputies were responding to the wrong address that night. Adams County District Attorney Dave Young has decided not to fi le charges against the deputy, citing “signifi cant dis-crepancies” between Fisher’s and the deputies’ versions of events from that evening.
Still, Fisher hopes that something good can come from this tragedy.
“It was unreal what happened,” Fisher said. “But I hope this bill can prevent just one person’s dog from be-ing killed.”
Ziggy poses for an undated photo that was taken by his owner, Je� Fisher. Ziggy was shot to death by an Adams County Sheri� ’s deputy on Jan. 15. The incident is one of many that has spurred a bill in the state legislature that is aimed at putting in place training and policies for police when they encounter dogs. Photo by Je� Fisher
Death-penalty repeal � zzles in panel By Vic Vela [email protected]
A Lakewood lawmaker’s vote on March 26 was piv-otal in defeating a bill that sought to repeal the death penalty in Colorado.
The bill was one of two pieces of legislation having to do with capital punish-ment that failed to survive at the Capitol recently.
Rep. Brittany Pettersen, who was one of two Demo-crats to vote against House Bill 1264 in the House Ju-diciary Committee, said in a recent interview that “my voters and my constituents don’t support (the repeal).”
“It was a really tough choice,” said the freshman lawmaker. “Voting between what I thought should hap-pen and where my district lies, and (hearing) the argu-ments on both sides. But, ultimately I’m the represen-tative of House District 28.”
Rep. Bob Gardner, R-Col-orado Springs, said his vote against the bill had nothing to do with the views of his constituents.
“I do not make this vote because of a set view of vot-ers,” Gardner said. “I make it out of a sense of convic-tion that, for a category of crimes that represent the worst of evils, or for which there is no other specifi c deterrent, that the death penalty is appropriate.”
Critics of the death pen-alty have long argued that the punishment is not fairly or consistently applied, and that it does not serve as a deterrent for committing capital crimes. They also have argued that executions disproportionately affect minorities and the poor.
Worse, critics say, the
wrong people sometimes get sentenced to death.
“There will be some-one, somewhere who will be sentenced to death for a crime they did not com-mit,” said Rep. Daniel Ka-gan, D-Cherry Hills Village, the committee’s chairman.
Pettersen and Rep. Lois Court, D-Denver, joined all four Republicans on the committee to vote against the repeal. Four Democrats voted for the bill. Demo-cratic Rep. Mike McLachlan of Durango was absent from the hearing due to illness.
The bill lost steam after The Denver Post brought up the possibility that Gov. John Hickenlooper might veto the bill.
House Speaker Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver, said he did not believe that the governor’s veto threat nega-tively interfered with the legislative process.
“Him letting us know where he is, is a helpful thing in the process,” Fer-randino recently told the Capitol corps.
Meanwhile, a bill that would have put the death penalty on the ballot was yanked by its own spon-sor, the day after House Bill 1264 was voted down.
Rep. Rhonda Fields’ House Bill 1270 wasn’t meant to go anywhere in the fi rst place. Two men who are convicted of killing Fields’ son in 2005 are on death row.
“My position has always been that I did not want to see the repeal or the abol-ishment of the death pen-alty,” the Aurora Democrat said. “And when (House Bill 1264) died, there was no need for me to bring my bill because it keeps the death penalty on the books.”
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“We cannot add more money to add a Band-Aid to the bleeding,” Lambert said.
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CLEAR CREEK COUNTYJOB: Mechanic – Journey
Must have 3 yrs experience inservicing, maintaining and repairingmechanized and automotiveequipment such as: diesel and gasengines, and hydraulics.Must possess a High Schooldiploma or equivalent, and ASEcertifications are desirable. Musthave a valid Colorado CDL, class Bwith tanker endorsements, andfurnish his/her own hand tools.Perform on call duties as required.Fulltime; wage is $18.88 to $20.89an hr plus BenefitsSee full job description, physicalrequirements and application at:www.co.clear-creek.co.us under "IWant To…", "Find JobOpportunities", Please sendapplication to: Human Resources,P.O. Box 2000, Georgetown,CO 80444; [email protected];or fax to 303-679-2417.Taking applications untilApril 12, 2013.Clear Creek County is anADAAA/EEO employer.
Eileen’s Colossal Cookies-Highlands Ranch has a TeamMember/Decorator position avail-able. Decorating experienced indi-vidual to carryout daily activities,providing customer service andachieving sales targets by workingwith efficient and motivated team.Must be dependable, professional,and available on Saturdays. Emailresume to [email protected] orcall 303-683-0002 or 720-785-3894to apply.
GAIN 130 LBS!Savio House needs foster
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Multiple full-time positionsavailable. Must be a
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ServiceMaster Clean hasseveral part-time janitorial openings
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Western SummitConstructors, Inc. is seeking
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Send resumes [email protected]
or call (303)325-0325.WSCI is an EEO Employer.
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But weight: There’s less
If you’ve ever wanted to travel on a weight-loss journey in front of millions of folks on TV, your chance is coming up.
Eyeworks USA, the producers of the hit series “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition,” is beginning a nationwide tour to 13 cities — including Denver — in search of participants for season four of the weekly show.
Candidates are invited to either at-tend an open call in one of the cities or send in a home tape.
“Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition” features transformational spe-cialist Chris Powell, author of the New York Times bestseller “Choose to Lose.” Powell documents the amazing make-over of 15 courageous “super obese” people who have 365 days to safely lose up to half their body weight.
Powell provides a fresh perspective to individuals whose lives have become unmanageable because of their weight. He guides each of the participants through a transformation process by moving into each person’s home.
The Denver open casting call takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 13 at Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill, 8260 Northfield Blvd., #1370, Denver.
Information on how to apply can be found on the official casting website at www.extrememakeovercasting.com. Casting call attendees should bring a non-returnable photo.
Wild about HarryBritain’s Prince Harry will make
an official visit to the United States — including Colorado Springs — in May, according to a story broadcast last week on CBS.
The prince is scheduled to be in the U.S. from May 9 through May 15 on be-half of several charities and the British government, the report said.
“The 28-year-old royal is also sched-uled to attend the Warrior Games for wounded veterans in Colorado Springs and visit New York City for an event promoting community-based youth athletics,” CBS reported.
The prince also plans to visit New York City and New Jersey towns that were severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy. Harry’s last visit to the U.S. in May 2012 didn’t end up as a positive PR campaign after naked photos surfaced showing him with a female companion that were reportedly taken inside a VIP suite in a Las Vegas hotel.
Southern comfortSouthern Hospitality, the eatery that
opened with barely a whisper recently, is a delightful and casual entrant into the downtown Denver restaurant scene.
A gal pal and I checked it out last week, and I can’t wait to bring back Mr. On the Town, a Southern-fried food freak.
The restaurant, at 1433 17th St., ar-rived among a plethora of press because of its New York roots with original inves-tor, entertainment superstar Justin Tim-berlake, who since has sold his interest.
But the Denver location is backed by Ryan Tedder, lead singer of OneRepub-lic and a Colorado native. Celebrity buzz aside, we found some solid Southern
Talent shines at art exhibitJefferson Foundation shows off high school artistsBy Clarke [email protected]
Early education can make all the differ-ence in a young artist’s life, and for the past 42 years, the Jefferson Foundation has cel-ebrated the work of high school artists.
The work of an influential teacher is also part of the celebration, and for the first time, this year a Jeffco alumnus will also have her work on display.
The Jefferson Foundation High School Art Exhibition has been hosted by the Ar-vada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., for the past 36 years, and this year’s show will kick off on April 12 and run through May 12.
The work of teacher Scot Odendahl and alumnus Heidi Jung goes on display April 5 through May 5.
“This is definitely the best high school show in the area,” said Arvada Center exhi-bition manager and curator Collin Parson. “It started out being shown at the old Lake-side Mall, but has been exhibited here at the Center since its inception.”
There will be more than 400 students
works from 23 Jeffco high schools.Parson said that Jeffco students are able
to submit a certain number of pieces in a variety of categories — from painting to jewelry and sculpture to crafts and fibers — and teachers get jurors to come through and select the best works.
“This is one of the few shows that our staff here doesn’t do any of the hanging or organization,” Parson said. “There is a com-mittee of teachers who comes and does all the hanging, our staff just helps make sure everything is clean and presented right.”
Odendahl teaches at Warren Tech High School, and has done some graphic design work for the Arvada Center prior to get-ting this exhibit. He works with prints and uses screen printing techniques to draw at-tention to the elements that he sees as the most important in his works.
Jung, a graduate of Jefferson County Open School, first had her work display at the center during the 1989 high school ex-hibition, and is now returning for her larg-est exhibit yet.
“It’s really been a feeling of coming full circle, since I’ll be doing some jurying and doing some collaborative works with my art teacher from school, Susie Bogard,” Jung said. “The fact that I’m doing this exhibit back at the Arvada Center is great.”
Jung has been working since December to create a whole new body of work for the
show, focusing on her theme of monochro-matic botanical paintings and drawings.
“My brain is constantly in photography mode — I’m always thinking in pictures,” she said. “There’s a focus on botanical scenes because it’s kind of an endless sub-ject, and I’m always looking at new kinds of plants.”
Jung said art education growing up was crucial to her development as an artist, and she said that she took every single art class that was available while in school.
“My favorite time of the day was always when the paints came out,” she said. “Art has been an enormous part of my educa-tion, and has really taught me some invalu-able lessons.”
2012 Jefferson Foundation High School Exhibi-tion Best of Show, Sabrina Nesladek. Photo courtesy of Arvada Center
If you goWHAT: 42nd Annual Jefferson Foundation High School Art Exhibition• Scot Odendahl: On the Roadside — Jeffco Teacher Solo Exhibition• Heidi Jung: Black and White — Jeffco Alumni ExhibitionWHERE: Arvada Center6901 Wadsworth Blvd.WHEN: Jefferson Foundation, April 12 through May 12• Scot Odendahl and Heidi Jung exhibitions, April 5 through May 5COST: FreeINFORMATION: call 720-898-7200 or visit www.arvadacenter.org
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A Path for Spiritual Living Family, friends remember Jenna Breen By Darin Moriki [email protected]
Those who have met Jenna Breen — even if it was just for a short time — will tell you about her warm personal-ity and bright smile that could liven up any room.
“She always had a smile on her face,” Breen’s mother’s fi ancé, Jake De-herrera, said.
It seemed only fi tting then, her friends and family say, that the day she was memorialized at the intersection of 118th Place and Sheridan Boulevard was as equally warm and bright as the impression she left behind.
Breen, 21, was fatally struck by a drunk driver who ran through a red light at that same intersection just over one year ago. She was killed less than two blocks away from the Fox
comfort with the service and the fare.Some of what we sampled were crispy
buffalo shrimp, crispy fried pickles, South-ern fried chicken and roasted corn. No room for the much-lauded banana pud-ding or “grandma’s bourbon pecan pie.”
Southern Hospitality is known for its extensive whiskey and bourbon selection, but since I don’t drink brown, I was per-fectly happy with a vodka and soda.
Great place to drop into or go on the website for a reservation: www.shdenver.com. Hours are 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily.
Game day Grill grubVesta Dipping Grill wants to “take you
out to the ballgame” (so to speak) begin-ning April 5 when baseball fans will have another alternative for food on the way to Coors Field.
Vesta’s Pre-Game Pop-Ups will feature Korean BBQ Rib Sandwiches ($6) and Fresh Fruit Cups ($4) sweetened with agave syrup and chili lime. Other specials may “pop-up” throughout the season as well.
The concept is the brainchild of Chef Brandon Foster, who says he wanted to “provide an alternative to traditional ball-game food on the way to Coors Field.”
Both the sandwiches and fruit cups will be available out front of Vesta, 1822 Blake St., 90 minutes before every Rockies day game, and select evening games through the 2013 season.
Check out the restaurant’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/vestagrill, for ad-ditional games and specials.
Hank Williams rebornCheck out the Lone Tree Arts Cen-
ter’s production of “Hank Williams: Lost Highway” opening on April 4 and running through April 14.
“Lost Highway” is the story of the leg-endary country singer and songwriter, who died at the age of 29. “Lost Highway” was conceived and workshopped originally in 1986 by the Denver Center Theatre Com-pany. It opened on off-Broadway in 2002 to rave reviews.
Local favorites, Kathleen Brady and Randy Moore, are among the many tal-ented cast members.
Tickets start at $29 and can be pur-chased at www.lonetreeartscenter.org/hank or at 720-509-1000. The Lone Tree Arts Center is at 10075 Commons St.Readers Choice party
Colorado Meetings + Events magazine threw a fab party last week to hand out the awards for the 2013 Best Of Colorado Read-ers Choice award winners, selected by the magazine’s readers via online voting.
The top picks include attractions, plan-ning companies, photographers, caterers, venues and more. As the magazine said,
“We’re confi dent that the winners repre-sent businesses and organizations that are defi ning the excellence our state is so well-known for, and we thank you for joining us to honor this elite group.”
The event (which was quite fun, and attracted a host of well-dressed young folks) took place Monday at the Denver Art Museum, catered by the awesome staff at Kevin Taylor Restaurant.
Here’s the description of the awards cri-teria from the Colorado Meetings + Events website: “Every single winner in the annual Readers’ Choice Best Of Award campaign is hand-picked by the meeting planners, event planners and suppliers who read Colorado Meetings + Events magazine.
“The Best Of awards are designed to honor the cream of the crop in the regional meetings and events industry... The awards are a celebration of the hard work and above-and-beyond service of suppliers who help planners be at the top of their game. Once the votes are tallied, the top nominees are notifi ed, and the winners are kept secret until the Best Of party, then announced in a special issue of the magazine.”
Check out this year’s winners online at www.co.meetingsmags.com/article/meet-winners.
Fore!Hey, golfers: DineOut Colorado’s Res-
taurant Hound is producing a restaurant guide for golfers who bring their greens-fee receipts to local restaurants for exclusive Facebook specials. To learn more, “like” Di-neOut Colorado’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/dineoutcolorado. As a golfer, this sounds like a great idea!
Blush!SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody is the
new musical that brings all the naughty fun of the best-selling book “Fifty Shades of Grey” to life with sexy and fun musical comedy performances from a hunky lead-ing man plus lots of surprises.
The Paramount Theatre shows are at 7:30 p.m. April 4, and at 8 p.m. April 5 and 6. Plus, a performance was added at 3 p.m. April 6. Tickets are $45 and on sale by call-ing 303-534-6773. For more information about the show, visit www.spankshow.com.
Penny Parker’s “Mile High Life” col-umn 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.pennyp-arker.blacktie-colorado.com. She can be reached at [email protected] or at 303-619-5209.
Lakewood a sunshine city Community recognized for solar energy By Clarke Reader [email protected]
Colorado gets some of the most sun in the country, and Lakewood has used that energy to earn Silver Level certifi cation as a Solar Friendly Community.
A representative with Solar Friendly Community, an organization that encour-ages communities to make it easier for resi-dents to use solar technology, presented the award to city council at its March 25 regular meeting.
“We’re part of something that’s really big and important — we’re part of the national SunShot initiative,” Rebecca Cantwell, se-nior program director for Solar Friendly Communities, told council. “The SunShot (Initiative) is a Department of Energy goal to bring the cost of solar energy down to be competitive with other forms of energy by the end of this decade.”
Solar Friendly Communities has 12 best practices that include streamlining the pro-cess to get permits to use solar energy, edu-cating citizens on solar energy and speed-ing up the permit process.
By adopting policies that shorten the time required to get rooftop solar systems
installed, Lakewood is helping to cut the cost of the systems and making solar more affordable. Streamlining the permit process will also help those interested get panel quicker. According to Billy Clayton, build-ing code administrator, the city has been working for many years on making it easy for people to get permits.
“A lot of the things we received points for were process set up for all projects, not just solar,” Clayton said. “There are still things we can do with outreach and provide more information for residents interested in us-ing solar energy.”
Lakewood received 935 points for adopt-ing Solar Communities’ practices, and needs only to reach 1,100 to go from Silver Level to Gold.
“We hope this honor brings you both economic and environmental benefi ts,” Cantwell said.
Clayton said the recognition is a refl ec-tion of the strong commitment to sustain-able practices in the city.
“Sustainability is an important commu-nity value in Lakewood, and we put it very high in our organizational values,” he said. “We want to make sure our processes are ef-fect, and it’s always important we support these industries.”
For more information on Solar Friendly Communities, visit www.solarcommuni-ties.org.
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YOUR WEEK & MORE THURSDAY/APRIL 4
ATTRACTING BUTTERFLIES Are you i� y about insects but bursting about butter� ies? Would you like to learn how to attract butter� ies to your garden at home this spring and summer? Join Majestic View Nature Center from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 4, and go home with the know-how and some materials to get you started on your garden. The center is at 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. For ages 10 and older. Sign up early; visit www.arvada.org/nature.
THURSDAY/APRIL 4; LOOKING AHEAD/APRIL 26, MAY 9-10, MAY 16-17
GOLDEN HS events Golden High School presents its spring choir concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 4. The concert is free to parents and friends. Other upcoming events at the high school include:
IMPROVE SHOW fundraiser at 7 p.m. Friday, April 26. All pro-ceeds bene� t Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Contact Scott Hasbrouck at shasbrou@je� co.k12.co.us, or 303-982-2813.
ONE ACT Plays presented by the school’s Stage Right Produc-tions on May 9-10. More details to come.
POPS CONCERT, presented by the school’s music department, is at 7 p.m. May 16-17.
ALL EVENTS are in the auditorium at the high school. For information about the events, or tickets, contact Angela Becker at abecker@je� co.k12.co.us.
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY/APRIL 4-5
MUSICAL AUDITIONS The Arvada Center will have auditions for the musical “Curtains” from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 4-5 at 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. Chorus dance call is in Denver on April 8, and New York City auditions are April 15-17. Call the Arvada Center Box O� ce at 720-898-7200 to schedule an appointment time. Actors must be 18 years & older to audition.
FRIDAY/APRIL 5
BENEFIT PARTY Je� co Outdoors Foundation hosts “Party for Parks” to celebrate the anniversaries and accomplishments of Je� erson County Open Space, Denver Mountain Parks and Great Outdoors Colorado. Party for Parks is from 6-10 p.m. Friday, April 5, at Red Rocks Amphitheater Visitor Center. The event will include food, drinks, entertainment and both live and silent auctions. Tickets are available at www.je� cooutdoors.org or by calling 303-271-5934.
FRIDAY/APRIL 5, APRIL 11
OPEN HOUSE American Legion Post 161 is at 6230 W. 60th Ave., Arvada. Upcoming Legion events:
POST MEETINGS: 7 p.m. Thursday, April 11, May 9. Open to all veterans.
ROUNDTABLE BREAKFAST: 7 a.m., Friday, April 5, May 3. This breakfast provides an opportunity for representatives of city, county, state and federal government to coordinate and communicate current issues with other levels and their con-stituents. Open to the public. Charge at the door for breakfast.
MEMORIAL DAY ceremony and parade: Ceremony is at 10 a.m. May 27, at the west end of the Arvada Cemetery. Parade is at 11 a.m. from 60th Avenue and Lamar Street to 53rd and Marshall Street. Both events are presented by the Arvada VFW and American Legion.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY/APRIL 5-6
OLIVER TWIST Colorado ACTS presents a community produc-tion of “Oliver Twist” at 7 p.m. Friday, April 5, and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, April 6, at 9460 W. 58th Ave., Arvada. For those who loved the classic Charles Dickens story, enjoy again all of the fascinating characters from this exciting story. Call 303-456-6772 for tickets and information.
MOPS SALE The 14th annual clothing and toy consignment sale to bene� t the Bear Valley MOPS group is planned from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, April 5, and from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 6, at Bear Valley Church, 10001 W. Jewell Ave., Lakewood. Visit www.bearvalleymops.com.
FRIDAY/APRIL 5, APRIL 6, APRIL 11; APRIL 13
KITE MAKING Assemble, decorate and take home your own sled kite at Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Ar-vada. Multiple times are available for this class: 4-5 p.m. Friday, April 5; 8:30-9:30 a.m., 10-11 a.m., 11:30-12:30 p.m., 1-2 p.m., 2:30-3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6; and 4-5 p.m. Thursday, April 11. Make sure to come out and � y your new kite at the free Arvada Kite Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at Robby Ferru� no Park. Watch the pros � y their kites at this Arvada Festivals Commission event. All materials are included in the fee. Call 720-898-7405 to register; classes � ll up fast. Class open to ages 4-10 years.
FRIDAY/APRIL 5-20
THEATER SHOW The Player’s Guild at the Festival Playhouse presents “On Golden Pond” from April 5-20 at The Festival Playhouse, 5665 Olde Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Call 303-422-4090 or visit www.festivalplayhouse.com for tickets. Appropriate for all ages.
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THE LAWS NEAR YOU
MUNICIPALITY (CITY OR COUNTY)
REQUIREMENTS FEE SIGN REMOVAL TERM
Westminster • A sign must be requested by the victim’s im-mediate family or a sponsor who has the family’s consent
• The crash must have occurred within one year of the application date
• The accident must have occurred on a city-maintained roadway
• There must be no written opposition to the installation of a memorial sign from any immedi-ate family member
$150 4 years
Adams County • Memorial signs must be requested by immedi-ate family members of deceased victims or close friends when no immediate family members are available
• The fatal crash must have happened on a county road in unincorporated Adams County
$50 2 years with a 2 year optional extension
Je� erson County • A sign must be requested by the victim’s im-mediate family or a sponsor who has the family’s consent
• A maximum of three names can be placed on the same sign
• Text for the sign comes in � ve di� erent options: Please Drive Safely; Don’t Drive and Drive; Please Ride Safely; Please Buckle Up; In Memory Of Memorial
None 6 years
Thornton • The victim or victims of the crash must not have been involved in any illegal activity at the time of the crash
• The family or close friend of the victim(s) will provide the memorial sign to the city and it will be installed at no cost to the applicant
• The sign design must follow the layout and colors determined by city sta� and cannot include any logos
• The crash must have occurred within one year of the application date
None 2 years
“I think it serves two purposes and the fi rst is for people to see the signs and to be reminded that there are people who are dying because of drunk driv-ing,” Clouse said. “A lot of times vic-tims’ families also want to make sure that their loved one is not forgotten and didn’t die in vain, so there is that hope that maybe someone gets the message not to drink because of their loved one’s death.”
According to the Colorado Depart-ment of Transportation (CDOT) web-site, roadside memorial sign programs in the state date back to Nov. 1, 1994, when the state Legislature passed a bill to commemorate victims of driving un-der the infl uence (DUI)-related crashes.
The signage program law was ex-tended about a decade later on May 20, 2004, to also commemorate other impaired driving crash victims, includ-ing those killed in non-alcohol or drug-related accidents.
The largest program, Clouse said, is currently run by CDOT, which allows roadside memorial signs to be erected on most state highways.
In most cases, Clouse said she usu-ally helps victims’ families fi ll out and submit a memorial sign application that must meet several requirements, including a conviction of the driver who caused the fatal DUI crash, a toxicology report analysis, written permission from the crash victims’ family members.
Most cities that have roadside me-morial sign programs usually charge victims’ families about $100 to create, install and maintain the sign, but Clouse said MADD will usually subsidize some of the costs, if not all of it.
After CDOT staff has approved an application, a sign will then be erected as close as possible to the crash site but will be removed after six years and re-turned to the family.
The problem, however, is that many of these requirements vary depending on the city or county administering the program.
City of Arvada spokeswoman Wendy Forbes said the city’s program is simi-lar to the one offered by CDOT but also pointed out a few key differences.
The accident, she said, must have occurred within the city’s right-of-way and the sign must be for a person who was not involved in any other criminal activities when the accident happened. Forbes also said the sign is only allowed to be posted for a maximum of two years before it is returned to a victim’s family.
“We’ve defi nitely had some requests over the years that have been very pow-erful from family members,” Forbes said. “Unfortunately, sometimes in in-cidents like as these where tragedies are so unexpected, we have been told that it (the signs) brings comfort to residents as they drive by or frequent an area and see the sign up. We feel that this is just a small way that we can assist some of our citizens and residents during a time of tragedy and we’re willing to step up and do that for them.”
While some communities have em-braced the idea of taking up a roadside memorial program, other municipali-
ties either have not considered the issue or voted against having a program in place on the heels of public opposition.
Dan Hartman, the city of Golden Public Work Director, said a proposal to create a sign program has not been introduced by either residents or City Council members and pointed out that only one known drunk driving fatality has taken place on the city’s right-of-way during his more than 20-year ten-ure.
The city of Lakewood, on the other hand, has a different position on the is-sue. City spokeswoman Stacie Oulton said the city had a policy to allow these signs from 2002 to 2005 that was tailored to complement CDOT’s sign program.
That policy was later discontinued in 2005 and roadside memorial signs were no longer allowed in the city — the last sign to be taken down as a part of that program was removed in 2011.
At issue, Oulton said, was the danger of creating a distraction for drivers who would take their attention away from the road to read the sign. She said the signs also “created strong and varied emotions” among some community members who were particularly con-cerned about placing the signs along residential streets.
“The city had more than one situ-ation in which a memorial sign cre-ated emotional distress for residents who would have to look at a memorial sign every day in front of or near their homes,” Oulton said in an email.
There are, however, some exceptions to that rule.
The Lakewood City Council ap-proved a special request in 2007 to al-low a roadside memorial for former Bear Creek High School student Samara Stricklen on West Alameda Parkway af-ter she was killed in a head-on DUI col-lision.
“The exemption was given because the unique circumstances of this case provided an opportunity for the sign to serve as an educational tool to remind students from the nearby Green Moun-tain High School about the tragic results of underage drinking,” Oulton said.
Clouse said she hopes some munici-palities will eventually implement or re-consider creating a sign program.
“Every jurisdiction is different,” Clouse said. “They just have this idea that their streets will get all cluttered with the names of people who died and I think that would be a really great thing. I’ll let you know when they start listen-ing to me.”
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Family, friends remember Jenna Breen By Darin Moriki [email protected]
Those who have met Jenna Breen — even if it was just for a short time — will tell you about her warm personal-ity and bright smile that could liven up any room.
“She always had a smile on her face,” Breen’s mother’s fi ancé, Jake De-herrera, said.
It seemed only fi tting then, her friends and family say, that the day she was memorialized at the intersection of 118th Place and Sheridan Boulevard was as equally warm and bright as the impression she left behind.
Breen, 21, was fatally struck by a drunk driver who ran through a red light at that same intersection just over one year ago. She was killed less than two blocks away from the Fox
and Hound Bar and Grill, where she worked as a server for several years.
Nearly two dozen of her closest friends and family members gathered on St. Patrick’s Day to honor the Arvada resident, who would have turned 23 the following day, and commemorate the installation of a roadside memorial sign inscribed with Jenna’s name on it.
“We wanted to come here to the memorial and remember her as we all will forever in our hearts,” Breen’s mother, Gail Parrish, said to the small group who each held a green balloon with the phrase, “Happy Birthday” written in small, white letters. “This is really hard seeing your daughter’s name on a sign.”
For those who knew Breen, the in-stallation of the sign about a month ago by the city of Westminster signaled the end of another chapter in their quest for justice — one that began shortly
after 25-year-old Federal Heights resi-dent Viet Quoc Nguyen pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in Breen’s death.
The city of Westminster, as a part of its roadside memorial sign program, mandates that a conviction be suc-cessfully completed before a sign ap-plication is processed and approved.
“They’re really important because they give a daily reminder to people that drunk driving is still killing peo-ple and that it is a big problem in our society,” Jennifer Clouse, a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Colo-rado victim services specialist, said at the memorial gathering. “It gives a name to the victims so that they are so much more than statistics and it gives family, friends, co-workers and neighbors a place and way to honor, recognize and remember the victims. I never met Jenna but I will never forget her either.”
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SATURDAY/APRIL 6, 8
TAX ASSISTANCE Seniors’ Resource Center, in partnership with the Internal Revenue Service, is o� ering free tax help for those in need of help through the VITA Tax Assistance Program. The program provides assistance with state and federal income tax forms, as well as the Earned Income Tax Credit and rent and heat rebate forms. This tool is available to tax payers in need of assistance who earned less than $50,000 in 2012. Appoint-ments are required; call 303-235-6921. Assistance available April 6 and 8. Call 303-238-8151 or visit www.SRCAging.org for information, or if you are interested in volunteering.
SATURDAY/APRIL 6
LECTURE SERIES Golden History Museums celebrates Women’s History Month with a tour April 6 that includes three homes in the 12th Street Historic District. After meeting at the Astor House Museum, attendees will learn about the homes’ early inhabitants, include Eliza West, draftswoman Alice Gow,
and domestic servant Emily French. The tour will include a discussion on architecture and the history of the area. Tickets are required; call Golden History Museums at 303-278-3557.
CAR SHOW Sae and Racing Club presents the 20th annual E-Days Car Show from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 6, at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden. Registration comes with a T-shirt. Register via email to Jake Krapes at [email protected] or call 513-477-1631. Trophies and door prizes will be awarded.
SATURDAY/APRIL 6 TO JUNE 30
DEGAS EXHIBIT Foothills Art Center presents “Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist” from April 6 to June 30. The exhibit presents a selection of drawings, prints and photographs by the French artist, Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Exploring beyond Degas’ familiar ballerinas, the exhibit o� ers a look into his art and life. The Foothills Art Center is at 809 Fifteenth St., Golden. Call 303-279-3922 or visit www.FoothillsArtCenter.org.
SUNDAY/APRIL 7
OPENING DAY Lakewood Tigers celebrates its opening day
from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 7, at Morse Park, 20th and Carr Street, Lakewood. The event features a Parade of Teams, food, entertainment, games, ra� es and more. Sponsorships are available. Visit www.ljba.org for more information.
SUNDAY/APRIL 7 TO MAY 5; MAY 19
NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY Professional photographer Rod Pilcher will lead this basic photography course (for ages 10 and up) with a twist from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, April 7, to Sunday, May 5, at and around Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. Learn camera parts, how your camera works, proper ex-posure, color, composition and lighting. A � lm or digital camera is required; S.L.R. (Single Lens Relex) is preferred. Registration is required by March 27; visit www.arvada.org/nature. This class also ful� lls the requirements for Boy Scout Photography Merit Badge. An optional trip to The Denver Zoon on May 19 is not included in class fee.
TUESDAY/APRIL 9
BALANCE CLASS Do you lack balance or fear falling? N’Balance, a six-week class, gives tips and exercises to develop
strength and balance and provides tips to help if you fall. Classes meet from 11:35 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thurs-days from Tuesday, April 9, through Thursday, May 16, at the Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Register in advance with payment. Call 303-425-9583.
LIFETREE CAFÉ The reputation of Christians will be explored at noon and 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, at Lifetree Café, 5675 Field St., Arvada. The program, “What People Really Think of Chris-tians ... and Why” features an exclusive � lmed interview with Gabe Lyons, author of the bestselling book “UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity and Why It Matters.” Admission to the 60-minute event is free. Snacks and beverages are available.
WOMEN’S LUNCHEON Denver West Women’s Connection will have a luncheon from noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, at Concordia Lutheran Church, 13371 W. Alameda Parkway, Lakewood. Call 303-985-2458 for reservations and information on price.
and domestic servant Emily French. The tour will include a from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 7, at Morse Park, 20th and strength and balance and provides tips to help if you fall. YOUR WEEK: CARS & PHOTOGRAPHY
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Eco-friendly landscape is low-maintenance Gardening expert’s plan can pay off By Melinda Myers [email protected]
It’s possible to create a beautiful land-scape and be kind to the environment even with a busy schedule and while
staying within budget. All it takes is a bit of planning and a few low-maintenance strategies.
Here are fi ve strategies to create a low-maintenance eco-friendly landscape this season.
• Be water-wise: Save money on the water bill, time spent watering and this precious resource, water. Start by grow-ing drought-tolerant plants suited to your growing environment. Once established they will only need watering during ex-tended dry spells.
Mulch with shredded leaves, evergreen needles, wood chips, or other organic mat-ter to conserve moisture, reduce weeds, and improve the soil as they decompose.
Fertilize with a low nitrogen fertil-izer, like Milorganite, that promotes slow steady growth instead of excessive green-ery that requires more water. Plus, it won’t burn even during drought.
• Recycle yard waste in the landscape: Minimize the amount of yard waste pro-duced, reuse what can be in other areas of the landscape and recycle the rest as compost.
These are just a few strategies that will
save time bagging, hauling, and dispos-ing of yard debris. And better yet, imple-menting this strategy will save money and time spent buying and transporting soil amendments, since it will be created right in the backyard.
Start by leaving grass clippings on the lawn. The short clippings break down quickly, adding organic matter, nutrients and moisture to the soil. Grow trees suited to the growing conditions and available space. That means less pruning and fewer trimmings that will need to be managed.
• Make compost at home: Recycle yard waste into compost. Put plant waste into a heap and let it rot. Yes, it really is that simple. The more effort put into the pro-cess, the quicker the results.
Do not add insect-infested or diseased plant material or perennial weeds like quack grass, annual weeds gone to seed, or invasive plants. Most compost piles are not hot enough to kill these pests. And do not add meat, dairy, or bones that can at-tract rodents.
• Manage Pests in Harmony with Na-ture: A healthy plant is the best defense against insects and disease. Select the most pest-resistant plants suited to the growing conditions and provide proper care.
Check plants regularly throughout the growing season. It is easier to control a few insects than the hundreds that can develop in a week or two. And when prob-lems arise, look for the most eco-friendly control.
Start by removing small infestations by hand. Consider traps, barriers, and natural
products if further control is needed. And as always be sure to read and follow label directions carefully.
• Use energy-wise landscape design: Use landscape plantings to keep homes warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer.
Homes will have a more comfortable temperature throughout the seasons and energy costs will be reduced.
Plant trees on the east and west side of a house to shade windows in the sum-mer and let the sun shine in and warm it up through the south-facing windows in winter.
Shade air conditioners, so they run more effi ciently.
Incorporate these changes into garden-ing routines and habits over time. Soon these and many more strategies that help save time and money while being kind to the environment will seem to occur auto-matically.
Nationally known gardening expert, TV/radio host, author and columnist Melinda Myers has more than 30 years of horticulture ex-perience and has written over 20 gardening books, including “Can’t Miss Small Space Gardening.” She hosts the nationally syndi-cated Melinda’s Garden Moment segments which air on over 115 TV and radio stations throughout the U.S. She is a columnist and contributing editor for Birds & Blooms maga-zine and writes the twice monthly Gardeners’ Questions newspaper column. Melinda also has a column in Gardening How-to maga-zine. Melinda hosted “The Plant Doctor” ra-dio program for over 20 years as well as seven seasons of “Great Lakes Gardener” on PBS. She has written articles for Better Homes and Gardens and Fine Gardening and was a col-umnist and contributing editor for Backyard Living magazine. Melinda has a master’s de-gree in horticulture, is a certifi ed arborist and was a horticulture instructor with tenure. Her website is www.melindamyers.com
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D’Evelyn dominates meet as Jeffco shinesRalston Valley, Lakewood also represent wellBy Daniel [email protected]
THORNTON – Several Jeffco schools made a big splash at the Dick Rush Memorial Coaches In-vitational at Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center.
In a clash between some of the best 4A and 5A swimming teams in the state, D’Evelyn won the 4A team title with 87 total team points.
Cherry Creek dominated the 5A side of the meet finishing with a team score of 318 total team points
“We thought we had a chance to win the (4A side of the) meet,” D’Evelyn coach Josh Griffin said. “It was a good test for our guys to go up against some of the 5A
teams in the state.”D’Evelyn had first place 4A
finishers in the first two events of the meet with Daniel Graber, Jake Sbarbaro, Michael Feller and Jesse Blackwell combining to win the 200 Medley Relay in 1:42.24. And Graber then followed that up with the 4A best 200 Freestyle time of 1.50.06.
After losing 12 seniors to grad-uation last year Ralston Valley has a crop of underclassmen that are just getting their feet wet in var-sity competition.
Yet the Mustangs had a solid showing at the meet finishing with 14.50 team points. That in-cluded junior Addison Coen’s 100 Butterfly time of 56.55.
“We lost a lot of seniors from last year’s team but that is no ex-cuse,” Ralston Valley coach An-nie Brown said. That just means that we are young and have a lot to prove. We are continuing to get better.”
Ralston Valley’s league rival Lakewood is in the same shoes — or, flip-flops.
The Tigers have a very young roster and although they were a bit outmatched compared to powerhouses like Cherry Creek and Fairview (second best 5A fin-isher with 183 team points), they swam well enough to accumulate 13 team points and make a qual-ity showing as a team.
Lakewood junior Porter Ben-nett swam the 100 Breaststroke in 1:05.24.
“We are a very young team but we are working very hard and we continue to shave times. I am happy with the way our team came out and performed against so many talented teams,” Lake-wood coach Jen Snowberg said.
But it was D’Evelyn that stole the show for Jeffco.
Besides Graber’s big day Sbar-baro also shined individually with his time of 55.90 in the 100 Freestyle.
“We think we are one of the best 4A teams in the state but we have to come out and continue to prove it,” Griffin said. “We still think we can get better.”
D’Evelyn’s Josh Grabber competes in the 500-yard freestyle event at the annual Dick Rush Colorado Coaches Invitational, which was held at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton. Photos by Jonathan Maness
Standley Lake’s Nicholas Urban competes in the 100-yard backstroke at the annual Dick Rush Colorado Coaches Invitational, which was held at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton. Jonathan Maness
Arvada West’s Ryder Pittz competes in the 100-yard breaststroke at the annual Dick Rush Colorado Coaches Invitational, which was held at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton.
Ralston Valley’s Addison Coen competes in the 100-yard backstroke at the annual Dick Rush Colorado Coaches Invitational, which was held at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton.
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Bears start slow but building steamPost-spring break teams prepare for league playBy Daniel [email protected]
LAKEWOOD – Despite a slow start to their season Bear Creek girls’ soccer sees things improving rapidly.
One of the youngest teams in 5A Jeffco, the Bears (0-3) are still in search of their first victory of the season.
But none of those three loses were blowouts, and in fact they were beat by Green Mountain 2-0 on March 16 and by Rangeview 2-1 on March 21.
“We are close. We have been in every game we have played this season we just need to put it all together,” Bears coach Pat Moore said.
The Bears will play Dakota Ridge Monday at 6 p.m. at Lake-wood Memorial Field.
Pirates still winlessAlameda girls’ soccer is still in
search of their first victory of the season but hope the second half of their season brings a fresh start.
The Pirates (0-5-1) were beat by Skyview 10-0 on March 19, but they have lost several close games early in the season.
Alameda is hoping that a tough non-league schedule has pre-pared them for 4A Jeffco league play. The Pirates will play at Jeffer-son Academy Saturday at 10 a.m.
Teams kickoff league playGolden and Arvada girls’ soc-
cer will kick off league play when they meet Friday at 4 p.m. at North Area Athletic Complex.
Golden (2-3-1) is looking to snap a two-game skid. The De-mons lost two closely contest games before the break leav-ing a bad taste in their collective mouths. Arvada (2-1-2) lost their first game of the season when they fell 6-1 at Englewood on March 21.
The two teams match will kick-off 4A Jeffco league play when they meet on Friday.
Crucial 5A Jeffco matchArvada West and Ralston Val-
ley girls’ soccer will play a critical midseason match when they meet Monday at 4 p.m. at North Area
Athletic Complex.Arvada West (4-1) has out
scored their opponents 14-5 this season with their only loss com-ing to Rocky Mountain (2-1) in mid-March.
Ralston Valley (3-2) had a three game winning streak snapped by Chatfield 2-1 before spring break.
This midseason meeting will play a big factor in both team’s aspirations of winning a 5A Jeffco league title.
Eagles look to soarFaith Christian girls’ soccer
opened up their season with a pair of wins but have since dropped back-t0-back games going into spring break. The Eagles (2-2)
were shutout twice before break but are planning on a second half of the season resurgence when they host Fort Lupton Friday at 6 p.m.
Senior Mara Magnussun has been on a tear scoring five goals already this season.
Jags starting to heating upD’Evelyn girls’ soccer is look-
ing to carry over momentum they took from a 4-1 victory over Lake-wood before spring break.
The Jaguars (2-1-1) are unbeat-en in three straight games after opening the season with a 2-1 loss at Valor Christian.
Lakewood (0-1-1) is still in search of its first win of the season.
The Tigers will play at Fossil Ridge Saturday at noon.
D’Evelyn will play host Ever-green Friday at 6 p.m. at Lake-wood Memorial Field.
Pomona looks to reboundAfter opening the season with
back-to-back wins Pomona girls’ soccer has since dropped three straight matches.
The Panthers (2-3) look to get back on track when they play host to Chatfield Thursday at 4 p.m. at North Area Athletic Complex.
Despite having a losing record Pomona has outscored their op-ponents 12-7 on the season.
They now need to convert their explosive offense into victories.
Bear Creek soccer working hard to come together as a team. Photo by Daniel Williams
Marty Clark tabbed as new Bear Creek coachMorris out after winning only four games total in two seasons
By Daniel Williamsdwil l [email protected]
LAKEWOOD – Bear Creek boys’ basketball is getting a breath of fresh air.
After winning only a total of only eight games over the last four seasons the school has hired Marty Clark to re-build a once proud hoops program.
Clark will replace Zach Morris, who was able to get the program off the ground after taking it over two sea-sons ago.
“We’ve hired the best basketball coach we could.” Bear Creek director of ath-letics Jeff Lueders said. “He has a tremendous amount of basketball experience and is a perfect fit for what we are trying to accomplish here at Bear Creek. Coach
Zach Morris helped us get it started, and Marty will finish the job.”
Over past 13 years Clark has created and developed Next Level Academy, a bas-ketball academy in the South Metro area. His academy has coached over 50 scholarship athletes, and had over 1200 young basketball players ac-tively involved.
“Bear Creek is fortunate to hire a coach of his caliber. Marty can help our students get to the next level,” Lueders said.
Before coaching, Clark played high school basket-ball for Mullen High School and then went on to play for Duke University, playing on two National Champion-ship teams where he was the team captain his senior year.
Clark was a four-year letter winner for the leg-endary Mike Krzyzewski at Duke. Clark then played eight years of professional basketball in Finland, Turkey and Australia. He also played with the Rapid City Rattlers.
“It’s an honor to take a job
like this with a school that has such a proud athletic history,” Clark said. “I am looking forward to getting to work with the guys and help-ing turn this program in the right direction.”
But Clark will certainly have his work cut out for him. The Bears have won just eight of a possible 92 games
over the past four seasons (3-20 in 2012-2013, 1-22 in 2011-2012, and 2-21 in 2010-2011 and 2009-2010).
Morris, also the head football coach, perhaps had too much on his plate trying to lead two programs that are both currently struggling. Morris will remain as coach of the football team.
New Bear Creek hoops coach Marty Clark ready for challenge. Photo by Daniel Williams
Sports quiz1) Name the two players who have hit home
runs in a Game Seven of the World Series three times each.
2) In 2004, Andy Lopez became the third base-ball coach to take three different teams to the Col-lege World Series. Name the first two.
3) Who was the first 1,000-yard rusher in AFL history?
4) The 2012 NCAA men’s basketball tournament saw the biggest comeback in its history, as BYU came from 25 points down to win. What had been the biggest rally?
5) Who was the last Buffalo Sabres player before Thomas Vanek in 2013 to tally five points in a game?
6) Carmelo Anthony set a USA Basketball record in 2012 for most points in an Olympic game (37). Who had held the record?
7) Who was the oldest golfer to play in the Ryder Cup?
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land in 2001.5) Drew Stafford had five points in a game in
2008.6) Stephon Marbury tallied 31 points in 2004.7) Raymond Floyd was 51 years old when he
played in the Ryder Cup in 1993.
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UPCOMING CONCERTS Future performances in the Tues-days at Trinity series continues April 9 with Miriam Kapner and Friends featuring chamber music paying tribute to the oboe; and May 14 with Nicolo Spera offering an evening of classical guitar. Concerts are at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Presbyte-rian Church, 7755 Vance Drive, Arvada. Tickets are available at the door, by online reservation at www.tpcarvada.org, or by calling 303-422-3656, ext. 25. Parking is free.
WEDNESDAY/APRIL 10
MIGRATION PATTERNS Foothills Genealogical Society meets at 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, at Applewood Valley Methodist Church, 2034 Ellis St., Golden. Pat Roberts will present “A Nation of Immigrants, a Nation of Migrants: U.S. Migration Patterns.” Book Nook will be open before and after the meeting.
GARDENING SERIES Whether you have a green thumb, join us for one or all of the gardening workshops at the Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Each workshop is from 3-5 p.m. Wednesdays. Topics
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THURSDAY/APRIL 11 THROUGH JUNE 13
PILATES CLASSES A new 10-week session of Pilates for Ageless Adults is offered from 10:30-11:30 a.m. Thursdays from April 11 to June 13 at the Arvada Center. Cost can be paid to the Arvada Center. Instructor Laurie Wood is a certified Pilates post-rehab practitioner, a licensed massage therapist and a dance with more than 25 years’ experience. The class is a gentle, therapeutic approach to Pilates. A half-inch thick foam exercise mat is needed; no yoga mats please. Call 720-898-7200 for information on costs and to register.
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AGELESS JAZZ Laurie Wood leads a fun-filled, energetic, basic jazz dance class from 10:30-11:30 a.m. Fridays from April 12 to June 14 at the Arvada Center. Wood is a dancer, choreographer and healing artist with more than 25 years’ experience teaching movement classes to all ages and
populations. Wear tennis shoes or jazz shoes and dress comfortably. Call 720-898-7200for information on costs and to register.
COMING SOON/APRIL 13
BIRD WALK Are you ready to see some amazing birds that may visit your back yard? April is a spectacular time of year to see a variety of birds, and you can see them at the begin-ning bird walk from 8-10 a.m. Saturday, April 13, at Majestic View Park, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. After an introduction, stroll around Oberon Lake to view resident and migratory birds. Bring binoculars and field guides if you have them. Spotting scope will be provided. Sign up early. Open to ages 10 and older; no cost. Visit www.arvada.org/nature.
SPRING RECITAL The Jefferson Symphony Orchestra pres-ents the third concert in its 2012-13 recital series at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at First United Methodist Church, Golden. Tickets are available at the door. Visit www.jeffsymphony.org, email [email protected] or call 303-278-4237.
BEEKEEPING WORKSHOP EarthLinks presents a special double-workshop. The first is Backyard Beekeeping, led by local expert Judith Moran, from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 13. A free lunch will be served at noon, and the second
workshop, Native Pollinators, will follow from 1-2 p.m. Entomologist Amber Partridge and horticulturist Amy Yarger of the Butterfly Pavilion will lead the second session. Both workshops will be at EarthLinks, 2828 Larimer St., Denver. Visit www.EarthLinks-Colorado.org/Events.
RECITAL CONCERT Jefferson Symphony Orchestra presents the third concert in its 2012-13 recital series at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at Golden’s First United Methodist Church. Tickets available at the door. Visit www.jeffsym-phony.org.
COMING SOON/APRIL 14, APRIL 21, APRIL 28
AUDITIONS THE DJC Youth All-Stars is looking for ninth-, 10th- and 11th-grade clarinet, tenor sax, trumpet, trombone, tuba, string bass and drum set players. Auditions are from 6:30-9 p.m. Sunday, April 14; from 11:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Sunday, April 21; and from 6:30-9 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at Flesher-Hinton Music Store, 3936 Tennyson St., Denver. Audition music and recording are posted at www.bandresourcesunlimited.com. Intermediate to advanced jazz experience necessary; weekly rehearsals are on Sundays. For information and audition scheduling, contact [email protected] or 303-328-7277.
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