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September 4, 2014VOLUME 13 | ISSUE 33

Entertainment District’s future in focus�eater renovation, apartment complex in discussion stagesBy Jane [email protected]

Work to transform Lone Tree’s Enter-tainment District finally appears on the horizon.

Owners of the building that houses United Artists want to start in six months a renovation of the theater complex into an upscale facility more like Greenwood Village’s Landmark or the Streets at South-glenn’s Regal Southglenn theaters.

An adjacent landowner has presented

preliminary plans to the city to raze the Go Putt! miniature golf course and build a five-story luxury apartment complex.

Those two projects could give the city and other business owners there the en-ergy needed to proceed with transform-ing the remainder of the Entertainment District.

“Once some major pieces start falling in place, we can gain some momentum,” said Steve Hebert, assistant city manager.

Lone Tree’s Vision Book, a document released in August 2013, outlines its hopes for the area originally developed in the 1980s on both sides of Park Meadows Drive east of Yosemite Street. The future Lone Tree Plaza ideally would serve as the heart of Lone Tree, and could include a

The Go Putt! Miniature Golf course in Lone Tree’s Entertainment District would be replaced by a six-story apartment complex, according to preliminary plans presented to the city. Photo by Jane Reuter

A late-summer soireeAs part of its Discover Lone Tree Labor Day weekend events, the city hosted a Street Food Soiree at Sweetwater Park on Aug. 31.

The evening featured a food truck taste-off, with people sampling and then casting votes for their favorite food vendors in three categories. Food truck winners included Denver’s PinkTank for overall food, Broomfield’s Dessert Stand for desserts and Denver’s Hey PB&J for people’s choice. A total of 10 food trucks participated in the taste-off. A performance from Heart cover band “Dream-boat Annie” capped off the evening at the park, which drew an estimated 2,500 people.

PHOTOS BY BRUCE RYMAN

Chris Ryman casts his vote for People’s Choice food truck during the �rst Lone Tree Street Food Soiree Aug. 31.

From left, Brian Frank, Steve Drouin and Michael Drouin play football at Sweetwater Park during the Aug. 31 Street Food Soiree.

Hawk Thomas and Missy Moore share a moment as Heart cover band “Dreamboat Annie” plays at Sweetwater Park.

School funding all over the mapFormula factors in size of district, student povertyBy Jane [email protected]

The Douglas County School Board long has expressed dissatisfaction with the state’s education funding, saying county residents shoulder an unfair tax burden. It is not alone in concerns about K-12 fund-ing.

A Colorado Department of Education official said the department’s complex formula for school districts has changed little in 20 years, but is designed to factor in changes within districts.

“We’ve been using this formula since 1994. There have been some little tweaks around the edges, but there haven’t been significant changes,” said Leanne Emm, the CDE’s assistant commissioner for school finance. “I think it depends on what kind of district you live in whether you like the formula or not.

“But the formula does adjust, or at-tempts to adjust, for the demographics within individual districts.”

What has changed since 1994 — and angered school leaders statewide — is a recession-driven legislative cut to K-12 funding called the negative factor. Since 2010, it has reduced K-12 funding state-wide by about $1 billion annually.

Under Colorado’s formula, funding for every district starts at the same amount. For 2014-15, that base per-pupil funding is $6,121. From there, district-specific cal-culations are made, based mostly on cost of living, size of the district and number of students living in poverty.

Douglas County has a relatively high cost of living and a low number of pov-erty-stricken students — determined by the number who are receiving free or re-duced-price school lunches. Because the district is larger, the CDE also considers the economies of scale that smaller dis-tricts don’t have.

That combination lands Douglas County as the 21st-lowest in funding among 178 Colorado school districts. Its estimated per-pupil funding for 2014-15 is $6,752.

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The story of rest is the rest of the storyIt’s 7:20 p.m. and Sean is bent over

physics homework, graphs that show position and velocity in relation to time. Motion maps.

The work isn’t particularly difficult for him. The challenge is staying focused.

“The more I think,” he says, “the more irritated I feel.”

Sean is my 17-year-old son. He’s a high school senior and a good student.

But he’s tired.If you ask him what he looks forward

to on weekends, he’ll give you the same answer many teens do: Sleeping.

No wonder.Instead of the eight-and-a-half to nine-

and-a-half hours of sleep research has found teens need to perform at their best, Sean averages six to seven each night. Even though he sometimes slips into bed at 9:30 or 10, he usually can’t fall asleep until 11, and he’s at school most mornings by 5:45 for weight sessions with his base-ball team. Classes begin at 7:35.

We are a tired country.The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention has called insufficient sleep a public health epidemic, noting in a 2009 study almost 38 percent of adults had un-intentionally fallen asleep during the day at least once in the preceding month and nearly 5 percent had fallen asleep while driving at least once during the same time period.

Scary. But not surprising.Like the one-third of adults in the

study, I, too, consistently sleep less than the recommended seven hours a day and often find myself longing for just a few minutes in which to rest my eyes.

The real calamity, though, is the sleep deprivation of our teenage children, who as a generation are losing the opportunity to achieve their highest potential, simply because they don’t have the few more hours needed to recharge.

“Sleep is absolutely vital, not just from

a physical standpoint, but from a mental, emotional and cognitive standpoint,” says Steve Portenga, a performance psy-chologist who teaches at the University of Denver and helps athletes, surgeons and others in high-risk occupations perform consistently at their highest levels.

A key element to that formula is sleep.Sean would agree.On days when he’s tired, “it’s hard to

focus. I just catch myself spacing,” he says. But when he feels rested, “it’s easier to participate in class — you feel more in it. It’s easier to comprehend and retain information … I’m just more aware, in general.”

Portenga talks about two studies that directly link sleep to performance.

In the first, two groups of people were given 12 hours to solve a difficult problem. One group received the problem in the morning, so didn’t sleep before resolving it that evening. The other group received it in the evening, so had the opportunity to sleep before coming up with an answer.

“Both had the same amount of time to solve it …” Portenga said, “but the ones who had a chance to sleep performed significantly better.”

In the second study, electrodes were connected to the brains of mice as they figured out a way through a maze. As the mice slept, researchers noted the same se-ries of connections firing as had occurred when they navigated the maze. The mice were replaying their route; the brain was moving information from short-term to

long-term memory, which makes retriev-ing information easier down the road.

The study showed, Portenga says, that “for consolidating learning, sleep is a re-ally vital process.”

With that knowledge in mind, the American Academy of Pediatrics, saying the average American teen is “chroni-cally sleep deprived and pathologically sleepy,” last week declared middle- and high-schoolers should begin their day at 8:30 a.m. at the earliest — essentially an hour later than most do now. Such a change would align with teens’ natural sleep cycles, which make it difficult for them — like Sean — to fall asleep before 11 p.m. And it would be key to helping “adolescents get the sleep they need to grow and learn.”

According to a National Sleep Foun-dation poll, 87 percent of high school students and 59 percent of sixth- through eighth-graders were sleeping less than the recommended eight-and-a-half to nine-and-a-half hours a night. Reasons range from sports, after-school activities, jobs and homework to over-active technology use.

The academy’s policy statement noted lack of sleep in teens not only translates to a decrease in learning and poorer grades, but also to more physical and mental health problems and an increased risk of car accidents.

Scary. But not surprising.Senior Craig Breuker can attest to the

positive impact of a later starting time.His first class this semester starts with

second period, which means he begins classes at 8:30. The difference from previ-ous years is stark.

“When I wake up, I just feel refreshed,” he says. “When I used to wake up at 6:30, I would always feel down and groggy. I haven’t had a morning where I feel like I want to go back to bed. When I get up, I’m ready for the day to start.”

He’s more focused. He has more energy later in the day. His eyes don’t get heavy.

An A and B student, Craig practices soccer after school until 5:15, then mows lawns until dusk, then finally heads home to do homework. If there’s time, he’ll watch some TV until turning off the lights at about 10:30.

Going to bed, he says, “is like a restart.”But considering only 15 percent of our

country’s high schools begin the day at 8:30 or later, Craig’s sense of rested well-being belongs to a minority of teens.

There is a long way to go.School district schedules are built

around a complexity of ingredients, from bus schedules to athletics to extracur-ricular activities, and a realignment of all those pieces would need buy-in from not only school officials, but also from parents and teens, themselves.

Until the paradigm shifts, until we are willing to take on the challenge — if we ever are — days for many teens will begin somewhat like this:

5 a.m. The first alarm goes off. Music blares. Sean reaches over and turns it off.

5:10 a.m. Music blares again. Unwill-ing to leave the warmth of his bed, Sean reaches over and sets a third alarm for 10 minutes later.

5:20 a.m. More music. Five more min-utes tick by and his feet hit the floor. He throws on a T-shirt, some shorts, shoes. Brushes his teeth. Washes his face.

He grabs a water bottle and heads out the door.

It is still dark, the notion of sleep al-ready forgotten.

Ann Macari Healey’s column about people, places and issues of everyday life appears every other week. Her column earned first place in the 2013 Colorado Press Associa-tion Better Newspaper contest. She can be reached at [email protected] or 303-566-4110.

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The Living and Aging Well in Lone Tree committee is sponsoring two events in September.

Artie Lyhl with the Douglas County Housing Partnership will speak during a presentation called “Insight into Reverse Mortgages” during the 11:30 a.m. Sept. 9 lunch. It will be held at the Lone Tree Golf Club and Hotel, 9808 Sunningdale Blvd, in Lone Tree.

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Students at two Douglas County high schools demon-

strated their academic prowess on a global level. Highlands Ranch and Ponderosa’s test scores in the Programme for In-ternational Student Assessment were higher than national and international averages.

The PISA tests the skills of 15-year-olds in math, science and reading. Initiated in 2000, it is repeated every three years. It has become a yardstick for measuring the quality of school systems.

Highlands Ranch and Ponderosa students outscored or kept pace with Finland, which is considered an internation-al academic leader. The handful of countries that outscored the DCSD schools all were Asian.

“Obviously, we’re very pleased about it,” said Highlands Ranch principal Jerry Goings. “I’m a public school advocate. I believe we’re doing a pretty darn good job. We need to al-ways do better. But it defi nitely was reaffi rming to me about the American education system.”

Ponderosa principal Chuck Puga did not return calls re-questing comment.

About 50 Highlands Ranch sophomores, randomly cho-sen by PISA, took the two-hour test in 2012. Those students graduated last spring.

Overall, the United States ranked below average in math, and close to average in science and reading, but the Doug-las County schools surpassed those rankings.

Goings is not surprised.“We thought we would do very, very well,” he said. “We

in public school keep saying, if you compare it apples to apples and take out schools in America that are below the average poverty rate of 10 percent, we (the United States) actually fare very well.

“I know we have a great school and a great community, and we’re fortunate because we have a lower poverty rate. I would argue any Douglas County high school would come in very similar in a true PISA test.”

The most recent census fi gures show about 4 percent of

Douglas County residents live below the poverty level.A report on the 2012 PISA, issued by the Organisation

for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that conducts it, notes the impact of poverty on scores.

“Socioeconomic background has a signifi cant impact on student performance in the United States, with some 15 percent of the variation in student performance explained by this, similar to the OECD average,” the report stated.

Former DCSD teacher and author Angela Engel, who writes on education issues, agrees.

“All the research indicates the number one correlating factor to test scores is socioeconomic status,” she said. “It is a known fact that when you account for poverty, American schools that are in districts with high wealth are the top-performing in the country.

“Any reforms that don’t address poverty are going to yield the same failed results that we’ve seen.”

Goings said the high scores don’t negate the need for changes in education.

“I think education, just like any other business, needs to constantly look at how we get better,” he said. “We have students going into a world that we can’t defi ne right now for them. We need to have these critical thinkers. So yes, we need to have some reform efforts. We need reform because we need to continue to change and move on.

“But saying we need reform because we’re failing? I would have an argument with that.”

Douglas County School District Superintendent Eliza-beth Fagen also was pleased by the scores.

“We want to make sure students are really prepared on a world stage and that is why we like the PISA test,” she said. “If you look at DCSD scores against the rest of the country, we’ve done some really interesting things and may be per-forming better than Finland in some of our high schools — a country that is often regarded as one of the international leaders.”

City pool to go to the dogs Sta� report

Lone Tree’s most pop-

ular canine event of the year — the annual Wag `n Romp at Cook Creek Pool — is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 6.

The city expects about 500 dogs for the free four hours of play, during which dogs are welcome to swim in the city’s pool. City staff then will drain the pool for the season.

“It’s super fun,” Lone Tree special events coor-dinator Lesley Johnson said of the popular event. “It’s one of my favorites for sure.”

Competitions will be held for the Best Swim-mer, Loudest Bark and Best Dressed. The con-tests begin at 10:30 a.m. Dogs can also try an agil-ity course.

During the event, dog owners can check out the latest and greatest in pet products from local pet vendors, and even adopt a pet. Vendors include vet-

erinarians, pet sitters, pet food companies, pet pho-tographers and others.

South Suburban Parks and Recreation staff will provide craft events for

children.The pool is located at

8711 Lone Tree Parkway, just west of the Lone Tree Library at Yosemite Street and Lone Tree Parkway.

Murphy, a border collie owned by Lone Tree resident Yvonne Davis, pauses during play at the 2013 Lone Tree Wag ‘n Romp. File photo

Douglas gets WISE about water future By Mike DiFerdinando [email protected]

The Douglas County commission-ers took an important step in helping secure the county’s water future at their regular meeting on Aug. 26.

By joining in on the South Metro Water Infrastructure and Supply Effi -ciency (WISE) Authority’s agreement with Denver Water and Aurora Water, the county will be the recipient of 2,775 acre-feet of water per year for a 10-year period, starting in 2016.

On average, an acre-foot of water is enough to take care of the needs of about two to three families per year, according to multiple sources.

The South Metro WISE Authority is made up of 10 water providers that are all part of the larger South Metro Water Supply Authority. Nine of those water providers — Centennial, Cot-tonwood, Dominion, Inverness, Me-ridian, Parker, Pinery, Stonegate Vil-lage and Castle Rock — are located in Douglas County. The 10th, Rangeview Metropolitan District, is located in Aurora.

“This region has been working hard for a very long time to bring renewable water supplies into the area,” SMWSA Executive Director Eric Hecox said. “We have a legacy of de-

veloping non-renewable groundwa-ter and the effort for many years has been to transition our current popu-lation off of groundwater as well as to provide water for future economic development, and I think this project achieves that.”

The WISE project began in 2008 as a way for members to identify processes, cost, distribution, timing, storage and legal issues relating to distributing treated reusable water return fl ows from Denver and Aurora for use by SMWSA water users.

The group tasked with utilizing this water is the South Metro WISE Authority. The primary purpose of the authority is to reduce members’ de-pendence on non-renewable Denver Basin wells and provide reliable long-term water supply for residents.

“While we often refer to the Den-ver Basin aquifers in a negative way, they do provide an extremely impor-tant drought reserve,” Douglas Coun-ty Water Resource Planner Tim Mur-rell said. “By reducing Denver Basin well pumping to a secondary source rather than a sole supply, the basin can continue to be a valuable asset in times of drought.”

In 2013, Aurora, Denver and the South Metro WISE Authority fi nalized the water delivery agreement. As part of the deal, 100,000 acre-feet of water

will go to the authority’s providers over a 10-year period.

At the time of the agreement, the authority members were only able to agree on 7,225 acre-feet per year. This left 2,775 acre-feet per year that would be lost if not claimed. Douglas County has been working with the authority members over the last year to reserve the 2,775 acre-feet per year supply for the county.

The WISE members are funding new infrastructure that will move the water from Aurora’s Binney Water Pu-rifi cation Facility to its end locations, beginning in 2016. Water purchased by the county, as well as by some of the other providers, will be stored at the Rueter-Hess Reservoir south of Parker.

The county will pay a $97,125 an-nual reservation fee through 2020; 2,000 acre-feet of water per year will be available for use and purchase by WISE members, and 775 acre-feet will be available for use and purchase by non-members.

“The diffi culty and the cost of re-newable water projects is growing, and by being able to come together as communities to spread those cost over a larger population and leverage the strengths of different partners, we are able to make these projects suc-cessful,” Hecox said.


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Parks district seeking tax hike10-year increase would go to general operating expensesBy Jennifer [email protected]

The South Suburban Parks and Rec-reation District Board of Directors voted unanimously on Aug. 27 to ask voters to approve a tax hike of two mills.

“We’ve cut, we’ve tightened up, we’ve delayed maintenance, we’ve delayed some projects and really worked on what our priorities are,” said John Ostermiller, board chair. “We’re coming to the end of our rope. We’re a very well-managed district. … We offer a lot of benefits to the public, and I think the public expects us to keep doing that.”

This November’s Ballot Issue 4A will ask for a property-tax hike of two mills for 10

years — about $16 per $100,000 of a home’s value per year — resulting in about $4.5 million annually in additional revenues for the district to be used for general operat-ing expenses. Priorities include protect-ing the trails, maintaining parks, installing energy-saving systems and replacing aging and inefficient irrigation systems.

In May, a citizens’ committee strongly recommended the step, and actually sug-gested the district also pursue a bond is-sue.

“The mill levy should be for mainte-nance concerns, with no restrictions, and the bond issue should be for capital im-provements that are proposed by the other … subcommittees,” reads the group’s final report. “Project selection criteria should emphasize profitability.”

The committee found that aging assets and higher staffing expenses have result-ed in budget shortfalls. The 2014 budget summary notes the district doesn’t have

enough money to maintain what it already has, let alone to upgrade current facilities.

However, in the 46 pages prior to that one in the 49-page report, there are a lot of needs identified, including for a new re-gional park and field house. The commit-tee recommends that in addition to hold-ing an election, the district should work to find other ways to increase revenue, including such things as legacy donations, public/private partnerships and specific project-driven donation campaigns.

Board member Scott LaBrash said he felt like a 21-year-old asking his dad for money.

“It’s been a big battle for me,” he said. “To me it’s very personal, and it’s conflict-ing for me to ask for more money. But I think it’s selfish not to let the voters decide. But I feel like we’re kicking the can down the road. If we get more money, we’re go-ing to get used to more money.”

Board member Sue Rosser noted that

for the price of about four movie tickets per household, they can ensure the dis-trict’s health for the next generation.

“When you look at your child who’s ask-ing for money, if they’re working and do-ing a good job and not sitting on the sofa watching TV, you’re more likely to want to help them,” she said.

SSPRD’s current share of property tax is about 7 mills, or about $55 a year for every $100,000 of a home’s value. Of that, $26 goes to capital projects and $18 goes to trails, parks and open space. Fee-based programs get $5, administration gets $5 and Hudson Gardens gets $1.

The district’s total annual budget is about $53 million. It serves more than 135,000 residents in Littleton, Sheridan, Columbine Valley, Lone Tree, Bow Mar, Centennial west of Interstate 25 and por-tions of Jefferson, Douglas and Arapahoe counties.

SSPRD heightens sustainabilityMajor e�ort set to start this monthBy Jennifer [email protected]

The South Suburban Parks and Recreation District is gearing up to go green — in a big way.

“It’s part of our strategic plan,” noted John Ostermiller, SSPRD board chair. “It’s a good deal for the district. It allows us to get some much-needed improvements for energy savings in place. It’s just the tip of the iceberg, but it’s something we can do without really affecting our cash flow.”

Board members agreed on Aug. 27 to enter into a $5.7 million contract with McKinstry Essention that, they

say, will pay for itself in about 14 years. Buildings throughout the district will get LED lighting and computerized energy-management systems, along with a slew of other improvements designed to cut costs in the long run.

“Up-to-date, well-maintained, en-ergy-efficient anything costs money,” reads a report from a citizens’ review panel released in May. “Threaded throughout all the recommendations is a need to fix, replace and upgrade, to take care of what’s already avail-able and to make things better where there’s a desire by residents.”

Key to the plan is the purchase of 725 solar panels from the Clean Energy Collective for $630,000. Xcel Energy credits the energy the panels produce back to the owner. SSPRD’s will produce about 170,000 kilowatt-hours a year, paying for themselves in

about seven years.Brett Collins, SSPRD’s director of

planning, building infrastructure and construction, explained that those savings will go toward paying off the McKinstry contract.

“The solar garden is paramount to paying for the energy-management system,” he said. “We’re using that savings to get new equipment.”

Additionally, Xcel offers incentives for many of the improvements McK-instry will implement, resulting in an-other $215,000 or so.

McKinstry guarantees the amount it says SSPRD will save after the work is completed, and pays any differ-ence. It also absorbs any budget over-runs.

Work is expected to start this month and wrap up by the end of 2015.


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OPINIONY O U R S & O U R S

Proper peer pressure promotes performanceSometimes just the words “peer pres-

sure” spark anxious, judgmental, and negative feelings. Especially when we attach verbs such as “succumbing to” or “giving in to” peer pressure.

And many times we direct our guidance of avoiding peer pressure to the young adults, teenagers and children in our lives. No doubt there are more temptations and access to trouble now than in any previous generation. So our advice and steering to avoid peer pressure has never been more valuable, as long as it doesn’t fall on deaf ears or comes across as, “Well when I was your age …,” because that never goes well. Or if it sounds overplayed like, “If all of your friends jumped off of the top of the mountain would you follow too?” Yikes!

Avoiding peer pressure can be turned from a negative to a positive as we encour-age those that look up to us with confi-dence boosters and nurturing self-esteem building words and actions. You know how it goes, when we tell or ask someone not to do something, especially our youth, what do they do? Exactly what we told them or asked them not to do. Having open dia-logues can be revealing about previous er-rors in judgment or examples where peers may have misled us, or perhaps we were the peer misleading others. As my friend Bert reminded me last week, sometimes when we think we are following, we could actually also be in a position of leading all of those who are following us too.

Another awesome and positive side of peer pressure is playing itself out right now

before our very eyes, ears, and through our contributions. I am talking about the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. If you haven’t seen this yet or heard of it, the challenge has gone absolutely viral. People have been challenged to fill a bucket with water and ice and then dump the bucket over their head or have a family member or friend participate and tip the ice-filled bucket onto their head. Then each participant that has accepted the challenge gets to challenge others in their circle of friends, associates, or family to take the same chal-lenge. Now if they don’t take the challenge and want to avoid the fleeting moment of freezing water spilling over their head and body, they can elect to make a donation to ALS. And in some cases I know people that have done both, accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and also made a nice financial contribution to ALS.

And it’s not just ALS, just look at all the fundraisers for breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, SMA, diabetes, and so many others and include events like 5K runs, walks, auctions, golf tournaments where we sign

up to sponsor runners, walkers, golfers, and place our names on those silent auc-tion sheets, all for the greater good. And you know how it goes, sometimes we are on the fence of whether or not we will participate or sponsor someone, and then one of our friends, one of our peers does it and before we know it we have jumped in as well. And that is just incredible.

Peer pressure in business is also ex-tremely positive. There is nothing better than some healthy and friendly competi-tion. As a salesman I was always interested in how well my peers were doing. I used their productivity as a motivator to try and beat them the next day, week, or month. And it went both ways, my lifelong friend and fellow salesman would always contact me just to see what I sold that day so we could compete the following day.

So the next time we feel like cringing when we hear the words “peer pressure,” just remember it can absolutely be lever-aged as a positive influence in our lives and not always a negative. How about you? Have you had a positive experience with peer pressure? I would love to hear all about it at [email protected], and when we focus on the positive peer pres-sure in our lives it really will be a better than good week. Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the former president of the Zig Zi-glar Corporation, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.

Construction zone is no peaceful laneThey are working on Quebec Street.I have some thoughts. I would aggres-

sively avoid the area if you have had more than one cup of coffee.

If you have spent a couple of hours at Lodo’s and go south on Quebec, prepare yourself for community service.

In all my born days — as my grand-mother used to say — I have never seen such a convolution of cones, barrels and arrows on a roadway.

You will start on the right and then you will be expected to move to the left, back to the right. Lanes disappear. The cones get closer and closer together. Do you know who M.C. Escher is? He would have loved all of this.

Take a look at “Rhythm of Illusion.” That’s exactly what Quebec is right now.

This figures: The name “Quebec” comes from an Algonquin word meaning “where the river narrows.”

I didn’t know that construction was go-ing on and I made the mistake of trying to get to King Soopers at midnight simply to

pick up a noodle salad. I still don’t know how I managed to get anywhere near the store.

I wanted to make a left and couldn’t. There was a guy using a jackhammer and right next to him was a worker who shouted something at me. I guess he thought I have some kind of metaphysical ability to hear something being said next to a jackham-mer.

And Smitty was barking his brains out. I eventually figured out that no left turn could be made, so I took a right on Park Meadows Drive and went through parts of

Lone Tree that I didn’t know existed.The good news is that I can avoid Que-

bec. Some of you can’t. It must be a night-mare on the way to work.

We experience virtual Quebecs through-out our lives. I had to take one last non-major class in order to graduate on time. Outside of my major I was a zombie in Chuck Taylors. I was lost, blocked and con-founded.

A good friend of mine went through a di-vorce and her updates sounded exactly like those cones, barrels and arrows — nothing but wickets and anxiety, mixed in with re-sidual anger and frustration.

In a month or two the cones will be gone and it might be hard to remember any of this. And that’s another thing that happens to us all of the time. Of course, some of the frustrations we experience in life do not go away, and the cones remain. A relationship goes bad and never improves.

I am not exactly sure what they are do-

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improving it.Some relationships go from bad to

worse, and no one comes out in hard hats to make them better. I have burned more bridges than I can count, and most of them are irreparable.

I think to myself that they are better off without me, and I am better off without them. Friendships take work — and time. I am down to less than a handful, and I am accomplishing more than I ever have be-fore.

That’s what I tell myself: I am getting more done, but it’s meant that I have dis-connected myself more and more from the human race. There won’t be many “great guy” quotes in my obituary.

There is roadway construction all over the place, in every town (have you ever been to Detroit?). And, sure, it’s a pain in the neck. But.

I thought about Amy Van Dyken. She might say, “It’s not that bad, Craig, and it won’t last forever, will it?”

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ViewHouse opens in Centennial Massive venue o� ers more than your typical restaurant By Jane Reuter [email protected]

The ViewHouse opened Aug. 29 in Centennial, leading into the public opening with an Aug. 28 sneak peek event that drew 800 people for an evening of complimentary drinks and food.

The site was home for 30 years to the Trail Dust Steak House, which closed in 2009. Rhythms bar opened there in 2010, but closed after one year. The building was vacant until the ViewHouse’s owners bought

it in 2013.No sign remains of the iconic

red, barnlike structure that was the Trail Dust, though the View-House used the rear portion of the original structure as part of its extensive remodel. The build-ing that occupies the site now is sleek, with a dark roof and large glass panels that take advantage of the mountain vistas.

The massive venue, which fronts Interstate 25 on Clinton Road, includes a large, ground-level bar with a 200-inch televi-sion — reportedly the largest in a Colorado restaurant or bar. A separate dining area on the same level that is devoid of televisions is designed to provide a quieter atmosphere. Two private dining rooms are also available.

The outdoor patio has an

8,000-square-foot courtyard with a net for volleyball or bad-minton and cornhole boards, cabana-style seating surround-ing several water features, a stage and another bar.

The restaurant’s second level includes a third large bar area and outdoor deck with moun-tain views.

The Centennial ViewHouse plans to host weekly bands on its outdoor stage.

It is the restaurant’s second location; the fi rst is in downtown Denver. In contrast to the down-town site, the Centennial menu will include more upscale dining options.

The widely varied menu in-cludes fl atbreads, pizza, salmon, ribeye, pork chops, bass, tacos, burgers, an ex-

tensive wine list and a selection of craft brews. Prices range from about $10 for a burger or taco to

$28 for a 14-ounce ribeye.The ViewHouse is at 7101 S.

Clinton Street.

From left, Denver residents Nicole Cox, Kaci Bullock, Shawn Cox and Kienan Franklin play a game of cornhole on the large patio at the Centennial ViewHouse during the restaurant’s Aug. 28 soft opening. Photos by Jane Reuter

The Centennial ViewHouse main bar includes a 200-inch television.

The Centennial ViewHouse, once the site of the Trail Dust, is a two-level restaurant with a large ground-level patio., featuring numerous water features.

$55,000 raised for 4-H at Cowboy After Hours event Sta� report

More than 70 Northwest Douglas Coun-ty Economic Development Corp. mem-bers, local elected offi cials and business leaders learned about the 4-H Program Aug. 8 during the 4th annual Cowboy After Hours.

The event benefi ts the Douglas County Fair Foundation and the 4-H Youth. This year, $55,000 was raised and all the funds went to the 4-H Youth.

The event took place at Schomp BMW in Highlands Ranch, and participants met with the youths who taught them about their animals and their experience as a 4-H member.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Offi ce then escorted the attendees to the Doug-

las County Fair in a VIP bus where they bid on the animals during the Junior Livestock Sale.

“The Junior Livestock Sale is a longtime tradition that holds a special place in the hearts of Douglas County residents and business. The Douglas County Fair Foun-dation assists in implementing a positive learning environment for Douglas County youth by promoting sportsmanship, show-manship and workmanship,” a news re-lease states.

Cowboy After Hours was sponsored by Aztec Consultants, Browstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLC, Cardel Homes, Clough Cattle, Northwest Douglas County EDC, Outback Steakhouse, pcs group inc., Redland, Rich-mond American Homes, Schomp Automo-tive and Sterling Ranch.


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

Wednesday, September 3Verona Apartment Homes Ribbon Cutting5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Verona Apartment Homes, 2691 W. Centennial Drive , Littleton, CO

Thursday, September 4Meet with Jack Tate, Candidate for Colorado House of Representatives9:00 am – 10:00 am, WhippleWood CPAs Conference Center at the Chamber2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial, CO

Friday, September 5Stand Up To Cancer Viewing Party7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Blake Street Tavern, 2301 Blake St, Denver, CO

Friday, September 5MOSAIC An Evening of Art, Cuisine & Entertainment Colorado Center for the Blind5:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Colorado Center for the Blind, 2233 W. Shepperd Avenue, Littleton, COCost: $30/person. Purchase tickets online at www.cocenter.org or call Dan Burke at (303) 778-1130 x213

Tuesday, September 9Business After Hours Hosted by ANB Bank5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, ANB Bank - Cherry Creek, 3033 East 1st Avenue #300, Denver, CO

Thursday, September 11MOD Pizza Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting10:00 am – 12:00 pm, MOD Pizza, 8225 S. Chester St., Centennial, CO

Monday, September 15Save Lives, Sort Medical Supplies with Project C.U.R.E.7:00 pm, Project CURE, 10337 East Geddes Ave, Centennial, CO

Move over REI, there’s a new game in town. Approximately 600 people attended the grand opening and ribbon cutting held by Sierra Trading Post, an outlet store specializing in outdoor gear, on �ursday, August 28. �e event marked the Wyoming-based company’s first entry into the Colorado market; a Fort Collins location is expected to open shortly. Bargain hunters camped outside the facility with lines wrapping around the building,

hoping to win door prizes and purchase discounted outdoor gear. Prizes included gi� cards, discount cards, reusable bags, and a chance to win a trip to Jackson Hole, WY.

“[�ere were] flocks of people wrapped around the corner of the building, even some campers first in line with sleeping bags and a heater,” said attendee Aubrey Allmond.

�e ceremony began with remarks by Robert Golden, president/CEO of the South Metro

Denver Chamber, who welcomed the company to Colorado and the South Metro Denver Chamber, and introduced Gary Imig, president of Sierra Trading Post.

Imig said, “We’re thrilled to open our newest retail store in South Denver. We want shopping with us in the store to be as convenient as shopping with us online, and we’re leveraging some of the newest technology to make that happen for our South Denver customers.” Mayor of Greenwood Village Ron Rakowsky also shared a welcome on behalf of the city. �e ribbon cutting was followed by a $5,000 donation presentation by Sierra Trading Post to the �orne Nature Experience, whose mission is to build Earth stewardship by connecting youth to nature through joyful, hands-on, place-based environmental education experiences.

�e event’s attendees included several City of Greenwood Village councilmembers, as well as Sierra Trading Post executive staff. Following the ribbon cutting, eager shoppers filed into the outlet to capitalize on overstock, closeout, and minimally blemished name brand merchandise.

For more information about Sierra Trading Post, please visit www.sierratradingpost.com.

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Sierra Trading Post Opens First Colorado Location

HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Littleton Ice Bucket Challenge

HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Littleton challenged other local healthcare or-ganizations and accepted the challenge from sister hospital HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Colorado Springs to take the “Ice Bucket Challenge” to raise money and aware-ness for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. More than 100 HealthSouth Littleton staff mem-bers, patients and supporters gathered on the front lawn of the hospital, located at 1001 W. Mineral Ave., on Friday, Aug. 22 at 11:00 a.m. and doused themselves with ice cold water.

A barbecue lunch was provided to those who made a donation to the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the ALS Association which sup-ports local individuals who have ALS through

support, research and advocacy. Representa-tion from the organization was present at the event.

“�e Ice Bucket Challenge is a great way to highlight the care that is provided to those with neurological conditions, including ALS, at our hospital and in the community,” says David She�e, CEO of HealthSouth Littleton. “We hope our peers in the healthcare field will join us in raising awareness and have a little fun at the same time.”

ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. It causes muscle weakness especially in the arms and legs and affects one’s ability to speak, swallow and breathe. HealthSouth Littleton provides customized

therapy plans for those battling ALS which may include physical, occupational and speech therapies.

HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Littleton

HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Littleton is a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital that offers comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation services. Serving patients throughout the Denver metro area, the hospital is located at 1001 W. Mineral Ave. in Littleton and on the Web at www.healthsouth-littleton.com.

About HealthSouthHealthSouth is the nation’s largest owner

and operator of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in terms of patients treated and

discharged, revenues and number of hospitals. Operating in 28 states across the country and in Puerto Rico, HealthSouth serves patients through its network of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, outpatient rehabilita-tion satellite clinics and home health agencies. HealthSouth’s hospitals provide a higher level of rehabilitative care to patients who are recovering from conditions such as stroke and other neurological disorders, cardiac and pulmonary conditions, brain and spinal cord injuries, complex orthopedic conditions, and amputations. HealthSouth can be found on the Web at www.healthsouth.com.

Pictured from left: Mayor of Greenwood Village Ron Rakowsky; Brent Layton, assistant VP of retail opera-tions, store manager John Williams, and Gary Imig, president of Sierra Trading Post.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez, with running mate and Douglas County Commissioner Jill Repella, right, high-�ves Park Meadows mall manager Pamela Schenck-Kelly during the mall’s Aug. 29 18th anniversary breakfast. As part of the celebration, Schenck-Kelly presented three $1,200 checks to local nonpro�ts, including Developmental Pathways, the Douglas County Educational Foundation, and the Fallen O�cers of Douglas County Foundation. Photo by Jane Reuter

SHOPPING FOR VOTES? Mascot bill would defer to Indian panelsProposal set for public meeting on Sept. 10By Vic [email protected]

The debate over the use of American In-dian mascots will come to the state Capitol next year.

State Rep. Joe Salazar, D-Thornton, is expected to carry a bill that could result in schools losing their mascots — or even los-ing state funding.

And the effort is sure to result in a vi-brant public meeting on Salazar’s bill, which is scheduled for Sept. 10.

Salazar said his bill would require schools that receive state funding and that wish to have Indian-themed mascots to first get the OK from representatives of American Indian communities.

Salazar said the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs could be in charge of mak-ing those decisions, or perhaps another commission would be created by lawmak-ers, who return to the Capitol in January.

If schools don’t go before an Indian commission, Salazar said his legislation would still allow the schools to continue to use their mascots — but at a steep price.

“If they don’t want to reach out, they can use the mascot, but they don’t get state funding,” he said. “They are able to exer-cise their First Amendment rights, but as a state we don’t have to participate in their

discriminatory conduct.”There is an ongoing national debate

over the use of Indian-themed mascots, one that has centered on the NFL’s Wash-ington Redskins.

Opponents of Washington’s mascot want it done away with because they feel it is a derogatory term that is akin to any other racial slur. The debate has led some NFL announcers and news organizations to move away from using the term “Red-skins.”

Others blast the movement as politi-cal correctness gone too far and say that the mascots are not racist, but rather pay homage to American Indian culture and history.

“They don’t get to make that justifica-tion,” Salazar said of that argument. “It’s the American Indian community that gets to decide if it’s racist to them. They can’t just say, `I don’t think it’s racist, so it’s not racist.’ You don’t get to decide.”

The issue will be discussed at a public meeting that is scheduled to be held at the Denver Indian Family Resource Center, 4407 Morrison Road, from 4:30-7 p.m. on Sept. 10.

There, Salazar will also talk about an-other piece of legislation that is of interest to the American Indian community — his revival of a bill that would allow out-of-state American Indian students to attend Colorado colleges at in-state tuition rates, so long as they have ties to Colorado tribes.

That legislation died in a committee hearing earlier this year.


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The DCSD board in July reiterated its concern about state funding when it ad-opted a resolution to not put a tax question aimed at capital needs on the fall ballot. The resolution stated the board believed it could not ask taxpayers to “dig deeper and provide more local tax revenues” until the district could seek redress from the state concerning its funding inequities. It said DCSD has been “consistently underfunded by the state,” with a disproportionate share of its taxes going to other Colorado school districts.

Colorado’s per-pupil funding for 2014-15 ranges from $6,557 for the Branson School District in Las Animas County (with an esti-mated 472 students) to $15,567 for the Paw-nee School District in Weld County (with an estimated 83 students).

The average is $7,021.If the Douglas County district received

the average state per-pupil funding for 2014-15, it would boost its revenues by about $269 per student — a total of $17.2 million, according to the resolution.

Douglas’ “per-pupil funding is less than the state average,” Emm said. “However, they are a large district… And they have a relatively small at-risk population.”

Among DCSD’s concerns, board presi-dent Kevin Larsen believes change is need-ed to create a more balanced distribution of at-risk student funds.

Eliminating the negative factor is the first step in addressing funding issues, Larsen said, but not the ultimate solution. Without it, DCSD would have an added $74 million in annual revenues.

With state revenues on the rise, lawmak-ers this year decreased the negative factor by $110 million. For DCSD, that meant an added $11 million. It’s an improvement, Larsen said, but still leaves the district $63 million short of pre-negative factor levels.

Additionally, the combined effect of Col-orado’s Gallagher and TABOR amendments, passed in 1982 and 1992 respectively, shift-ed the burden of school funding from local property taxes to the state. Larsen believes that also needs to change.

“Putting more money into the discretion of local hands is ultimately the better way to go,” he said. “We are trying to do things we think would be more equitable for all districts, and certainly for Douglas County.”

How other districts compareCherry Creek, which Emm said is com-

parable to the Douglas County district, is in line to receive about $195 more per student in state funds in 2014-15. Cherry Creek has a higher percentage of students receiving free and reduced lunches — about 30 per-cent, compared with DCSD’s 10.3 percent.

“I think it’s a funding formula that strives to be fair taking into account all the differ-ing factors that school districts have in their communities,” Cherry Creek spokeswoman Tustin Amole said. “But it has not been fully funded for several years with the state Leg-

islature withholding more than $1 billion … due to the negative factor. That has had a significant impact on all school districts in Colorado.”

Neighboring Littleton Public Schools will receive an estimated $6.38 more per student than the Douglas County district in 2014-15 funding. LPS did not respond to requests for comment.

While Douglas County receives the low-est per-pupil funding in the Denver metro area, it isn’t at the bottom of the list in Colo-rado. Six El Paso County districts, including Academy in northern Colorado Springs, Lewis-Palmer in Monument, and Cheyenne Mountain in southern Colorado Springs, are funded at lower levels than DCSD.

Lewis-Palmer assistant superintendent Cheryl Wangeman said the funding for-mula “makes some sense” in its consider-ation of larger districts’ economies of scale and percentage of disadvantaged students. In LPSD, 9.6 percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. The district has about 6,000 students, roughly 60,000 fewer than the Douglas County district.

Like leaders in Douglas County and Cherry Creek schools, Wangeman cites frustration with the negative factor. She also said funding for special education students falls short in Colorado, creating a constant fiscal challenge.

Echoing Larsen, she pointed to the bur-den put on the state by the TABOR and Gal-lagher amendments.

“That’s difficult for the state,” she said. “I don’t think there are any short-term solu-tions. The state has fiscal imbalances they have to deal with. Until that gets fixed, I think we’re going to continue to see funding difficulties.”

A lawsuit filed in Denver District Court in June alleges the negative factor is uncon-stitutional and violates Amendment 23. The 2000 provision requires that annual educa-tion funding increase by the rate of inflation and enrollment growth.

Dealing with budget constraintsWangeman said Lewis-Palmer has been

challenged to work within its budget, par-ticularly since Colorado already spends less than the national average on K-12 educa-tion.

“This school district is known for having the lowest central office administrator/stu-dent ratio probably in the state,” she said. “We cut way back on administrative staff. That means we have a lot of folks that work a lot of hours.”

LPSD has struggled to keep class sizes down and teachers available for students who need extra help.

“There are capital maintenance delays,” Wangeman said. “To make up for that, we make real good use of the state grants pro-gram. We put a new roof on Lewis-Palmer High School through the district and a grant. We did the same thing two years ago with Lewis-Palmer Middle School.

“That being said, we’re really proud of what we’ve done. We are well known for producing kiddos who graduate, and we have one of the lowest remediation rates in the state.”


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promenade to encourage walking, exten-sive landscaping, water features, a kids’ play area and farmers market. The current three-way intersection at Kimmer and Park Meadows drives likely would become a four-way, providing another access into the district.

The city hired a consulting team to help design the vision, and is acting as a facili-tator among the many businesses within the district.

“Our theater is a key element to this vi-sion,” said Brad Wiseman, a general part-ner with Park Meadows Business Trust, which owns the United Artists building. “As property owners, we are fully on board. We’re looking to see the renovation hap-pen as soon as possible. Within the next six to nine months is what I’m looking at; certainly within the year.”

Jerry Grewe, vice president of real es-tate at Regal Cinemas, did not return calls requesting comment. But both Wiseman and Hebert said Grewe has discussed the potential redesign.

Wiseman said redesigning the the-ater complex with fewer seats, but larger VIP-variety leather recliners, alcohol and perhaps food service would be more in keeping with Lone Tree’s demographic than the current style. That decrease in seating would require fewer parking spaces, and allow some development in the parking lot.

“We’ll be able to carve two to three pads out of our parking lot, develop them into more shops and restaurants to really create a revitalization of the Entertainment Dis-trict,” Wiseman said.

Across the parking lot from the theater complex, developer Ken Marsh proposes a five-story, 165-unit apartment complex on what is now a miniature golf course. Park Meadows Business Trust also has own-ership in the Bridge Street building that houses Panera Bread, the building that is home to Mellow Mushroom and a planned apartment complex at Lincoln Station.

“We’re heavily invested in Lone Tree and have high expectations for the Enter-tainment District and the rebranding of it,” Marsh said. “We deeply believe this will be a great place to be long-term.”

While plans for the apartment building are in the early stages, Marsh describes it as “top-of-the-line,” and similar in qual-ity to the Vue and Miramont apartments in RidgeGate. His ideal timeline calls for construction starting in the spring, with completion in early 2016.

Go Putt! owner Dave Smith also is on board with the city’s plans for the Enter-tainment District.

“We just started year 14 (of mini golf),” he said. “But we are major supporters of what the city wants to do with the Vision Plan for this area. So when Ken and I were talking and he offered to buy it, we thought it was a good deal, let them develop this into the potential it could have.”

Smith said the golf course remains open, with no set closing date.

“We’re here until we’re not,” he said.


DistrictOverall school funding grows under new lawBy Vic [email protected]

As school starts, lawmakers are tout-ing an education law passed this year that many believe will help students achieve greater success.

A pair of school funding measures have been signed into law that will in-crease spending within the state’s school finance system by $500 million. The money provides more funding for several areas of K-12 education, including school construction, preschool, kindergarten and English language learner programs.

The measures increase per-pupil spending by about 5 percent and allow schools across the state to open up 5,000 more seats for preschool and full-day kindergarten. An additional $3 million will fund financial transparency efforts that are aimed at allowing taxpayers to see how the new money is being spent.

“It’s important to make sure we know where the money is going to these schools, and not seeing it go into a black hole somewhere,” said Rep. Frank Mc-Nulty, R-Highlands Ranch.

About $20 million goes into a pro-gram that helps third-graders read, while $53 million will be set aside for school construction — most of that coming in the form of Amendment 64-based retail marijuana revenue, which will help in the construction of schools in rural areas.

“These investments will not only pay dividends in individual lives, but will also help build a stronger economic founda-tion for Colorado,” said Sen. Andy Kerr, D-Lakewood, who is the chairman of the Senate Education Committee.

Lawmakers also restored $110 mil-lion in education funding that had been stripped as a result of recession-era bud-get cuts. Those “negative factor” cuts had slashed about $1 billion from the state’s K-12 budget.

Schools will also see an increase in the number of counselors at middle and high schools, in an effort to lower the current student-to-counselor ratio, which Senate Democrats say was at 400-1 prior to the legislation being passed.

The school funding pieces received the support of all Democrats and some Republicans, including outgoing Rep. Carole Murray, R-Castle Rock, who co-sponsored the Student Success Act, a major piece of the finance measures.

“It’s a tribute to the importance of education to the legislators in this state that we maximized our increase to (edu-cation) this year,” Murray said. “As we’re coming out of the recession, we had some tough decisions to make.”

Among those tough decisions was factoring in how much say local school boards have in determining how they al-locate monies for their own districts.

Rep. Chris Holbert, R-Parker, said the funding measures could have done more to respect school districts’ abilities to spend the money as they see fit.

“The vast majority of the 178 school boards in the state wanted us to restore the negative factor with no strings at-tached,” said Holbert. “But the Student Success Act was a Christmas tree of new mandates for school districts.

“School districts said to us, `No, you give us as much of the negative factor funding as you owe us and do not give us any new mandates.’”


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Memory markers make for walk to remember Senior living community hosts Alzheimer’s awareness event By Christy Steadman [email protected]

One memory marker along the Walk to Remember path may ask a person what his favorite travel destination is and why. An-other might be inquiring what a person’s dream job was when she was a child.

The goal is to spark conversation and awareness of Alzheimer’s disease as people participate in the fi rst Walk to Remember, a free event from 2-4 p.m. Sept. 14 at Vi at Highlands Ranch, a senior living commu-

nity located at 2850 Classic Drive.The idea for the walk originated with a

management development class, consist-ing of nine Vi employees. They dedicated their yearlong program to creating aware-ness and support for the millions of Amer-icans affected by Alzheimer’s.

“As a senior living community, Alzheim-er’s is something that affects our residents and their families,” a spokeswoman for the class said, “and most of the staff knows someone affected by it.”

The Walk to Remember follows a gen-tly sloping, paved path on landscaped grounds, part of the community’s 25 acres. The walk is estimated to take about 30 to 45 minutes. Attendees can walk at their lei-sure, as there is no start or stop time.

Memory markers are there to en-gage walkers and encourage families and friends to stop along the way and have dis-cussions, the spokeswoman said.

People also may browse information booths, and there will be lawn games for adults and children, plus face painting and balloon animals.

Snow cones and a barbecue-style meal will be served. Entertainment will feature live music performed by Blue Stone Mojo, a blues/jazz/rock-and-roll band.

Attendees must park at the St. Andrew United Methodist Church parking lot, 9203 S. University Blvd., as parking is not available at Vi. The church is providing free parking, and attendees may walk or take a free shuttle to the adjacent community.

Attendees must R.S.V.P. by Sept. 7, ei-ther online or by calling 720-348-7840. Do-nations are encouraged and all proceeds will benefi t the Colorado Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.

The date was chosen because it is a couple weeks prior to the major, annual Alzheimer’s walk in Denver, the spokes-woman said. The 2014 Walk to End Al-zheimer’s, a 5K that takes place at Denver City Park, happens Sept. 20.

The Walk to Remember, the spokes-woman said, is to provide the “Highlands Ranch community with a fun, family-ori-ented walk that will encourage loved ones to make and share memories, while they learn about Alzheimer’s disease and raise funds to defeat it.”

Alzheimer’s Association and Neighbor Net-work, will provide information on housing, caregiving, and assistance.

The arts center is located at 10075 Com-mons Street in Lone Tree. Reservations are required. For more information, visit www.cityofl onetree.com/agingwell.

Oktoberfest on Oct. 7The Lone Tree Golf Club will host an

Oktoberfest Beer and Wine event from 6 to

8 p.m. Oct. 7. Guests will sample a tradi-tional Oktoberfest menu paired with Lone Tree Brewing beers and Lone Tree Grill wines. The menu will include Bavarian pretzels, a Kielbasa appetizer, beet salad, Jagerschnitzel with potatoes and cabbage and Black Forest cake. For more informa-tion, visit www.golfl onetree.com.

E-470 board makes city a� liate memberThe City of Lone Tree was added to the

E-470 Public Highway Authority as an af-fi liate member of the board Aug. 28. Mayor Jim Gunning is representing the city.

Though the highway terminates at Lone Tree, its police are involved in assisting on accidents and other incidents on E-470.

The 47-mile toll road is owned and maintained by the authority, which is controlled by a governing board of eight elected offi cials of local governments. The board of directors consists of eight voting member jurisdictions: Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties and the municipali-ties of Aurora, Brighton, Commerce City, Thornton and Parker.

In addition to Lone Tree, other affi liate, non-voting members include the cities of

Arvada and Greeley, City and County of Broomfi eld, and Weld County.

Fishing tournament setThe fi rst Cabela’s charity fi shing tourna-

ment is from 6 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 6 at Aurora Reservoir, 5800 S. Powhaton Road, Aurora. Entry is $35 per person and all proceeds will benefi t the Douglas/Elbert Task Force. Prizes will be awarded for the fi rst-, second- and third-largest walleye, trout and bass.

For more information, check the events tab at www.detaskforce.org.


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Take a load o� at new spot downtown

The 16th Street Mall has long been a thorn in the side of Denver dwellers who don’t shop at souvenir stores, don’t care to inhale secondhand smoke and don’t want to sign petitions.

But now the Downtown Denver Business Improvement District is installing Patio 16, an outdoor dining area in the median of the carless street between California and Stout streets.

Patio 16 opened on Aug. 28 and will offer outdoor seating, enclosed patio railings, a variety of menu options from six local ven-dors and an outdoor respite for the down-town Denver community to gather, dine and unwind. Patio 16 provides a family-friendly area staffed during hours of operation to ensure a safe, clean and friendly experience, which is open to all residents, employees and visitors.

For more information, visit www.down-towndenver.com/about-the-bid.

`Uncorked’ fall series opensStarted as a monthly event in 2010,

“Fridays Uncorked” has grown into a weekly wine and music series that continues year-around at Bonacquisiti Wine Company at 4640 Pecos St. in the Sunnyside neighbor-hood.

The fall series opens Sept. 4, and the Sept. 19 “Uncorked” event will feature the band My Old School — A Tribute to the Music of Steely Dan. My Old School is the culmination of the efforts of 12 professional Denver musi-cians who feel an affi nity to Steely Dan and the music that Walter Becker and Donald Fagen created by applying jazz to pop music.

In addition to the September music lineup, winemaker and namesake Paul Bonacquisiti will be featuring three new wine releases, including a bold spicy Petite Sirah, which last year sold out to wine club members upon release, as well as a Barbera and the [d] Red, a blend of 80 percent Merlot, 10 percent Syrah and 10 percent Zinfan-del. The [d] Red is named after Delagua, the coal camp in southern Colorado where Bonacquisti’s father was born. The [d] Red and Barbera releases will be available by the bottle and on tap at the winery in one-liter refi llable growlers.

Each event runs from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Admission is free and wine is available to purchase, as is food from a food truck that changes each week. Seating is limited, so guests are encouraged to bring a chair. The live music line-up through September includes:• Sept. 4 - Knight Groove• Sept. 12 - Heavy, Timbo and Deb• Sept. 19 - My Old School• Sept. 26 - The Hip Replacements

For more information, visit www.bonac-quistiwine.com.

Garlic by the tonThe kitchen at Saucy Noodle Ristorante

at 727 S. University Blvd. in the Bonnie Brae neighborhood cooks up more than 1,800 pounds of garlic every year, and it’s been serving it for 50 years this month — that’s well over 75,000 pounds of garlic.

Erin Markham, the third generation of the Badis family who now operates the restaurant with her husband, Nathan, held a 50th birthday celebration on Aug. 29. The party included menu specials and special prices that evoked the early days of The Noodle: Large one-topping pizzas for $3.95 and spaghetti and meatballs for $4.95.

Markham grew up at the restaurant,

Oldest residential area in Denver dates to 1870s By Sonya Ellingboe [email protected]

Located just seven blocks from Den-ver’s 16th Street Mall, the historic Curtis Park neighborhood is Denver’s oldest. A Home and Community Tour on Sept. 13-14 will offer visits to 15 of the more than 500 historically signifi cant Curtis Park homes protected by Denver Landmark Preservation status and serve as a fund-raiser for Curtis Park Neighbors Inc.

When the railroad arrived in 1870, Denver’s population boomed and popu-lation increased 700 percent by 1880 — to 35,000. In 1871, the fi rst horse-drawn streetcar system started at Seventh and Larimer streets, turned on Champa Street at 16th Street and went out Cham-pa as far as 27th Street, then undevel-oped. Soon there was a mix of mansions and more modest middle-class homes in a variety of architectural styles, in-cluding Queen Anne, Italianate and Sec-ond Empire.

Residents included department store owner John Jay Joslin and Mayor Wolfe Londoner as well as clerks, bankers, teachers and blacksmiths.

In subsequent years, the neighbor-hood became one of the city’s poor-est, with most large homes carved up into small units and neglected until the area was rediscovered in the 1970s. This neighborhood now contains eight land-mark districts and has many residences on the National Register of Historic Plac-es.

Among the landmarked homes is the Italianate cottage at 2826 Curtis St., known as the West Residence — prob-ably designed by Orlando Scobey, listed as residing there in 1883-84. It shares an-other part of Denver’s history in that it housed two successive Japanese-Ameri-can owners in the period after Pearl Har-bor in 1941. Colorado Gov. Ralph Carr had expressed sympathy for these fami-lies displaced and ordered to relocation camps. Some moved to Denver hoping to be welcomed by local residents — which was not widely the case, at a time of widely spoken anti-Japanese rheto-ric. Five Points was a home for others not welcome elsewhere in Denver. (The present owner has designed the garden except for a large blue spruce.)

Also open for the tour is the Hayden-Pryor residence at 2418 Champa St., an example of Queen Anne style, dated 1886. It is said to parallel Curtis Park his-tory. It was built by Marks Amter, who borrowed $6,000 to build it and lost it to the bank in 1893, the year of the silver crash and ensuing depression, which af-fected the state. It was carved into nine units with only three bathrooms to serve many residents — perhaps as many as 27.

It was also included in 1956 B-8 (busi-ness) zoning by the Denver City Council, when 88 neighboring homes were torn down. This one survived and is now pro-tected by historic designation.

Other residences will be open and visitors can get a sense of the area’s colorful history. Advance tickets are available through Historic Denver, his-toricdenver.org, and at the Matthews-Gotthelf Mansion, 2601 Champa St., on Sept. 13 and 14.

The parlor of the West Residence at 2826 Curtis St. in Denver’s Curtis Park neighborhood, will be open during the Sept. 13 and 14 historic home tour. Photos by Tom Torgove

ABOVE: The Italianate West Residence at 2826 Curtis St. in the Curtis Park historic neighborhood is included in the Sept. 13 and 14 home tour. BELOW: The Queen Anne style Hayden-Pryor Residence at 2418 Champa is also included in the tour.

A stroll into history

IF YOU GO

The 2014 Historic Curtis Park Home and Community Tour is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 13 and 14. Tickets cost $15/$12 Historic Denver members, and are available at historicdenver.org and on tour days at tour headquarters: the Matthews-Gotthelf Mansion, 2601 Champa St. (Information provided by resident/tour chairs Gerald Horner and Linda Dowlen.)

FREE LECTURES• Sept. 13: Tom Noel, “Dr. Colorado,” will give a slide presentation: “Curtis Park: Denver’s Pioneer Streetcar Suburb,” at 11 a.m. at RedLine Gallery, 2350 Arapahoe St.• Sept. 14: Phil Goodstein, author and historian, will speak on the Jewish history of Curtis Park and have his new book, “Curtis Park, Five Points and Beyond — The Heart of East Denver” available at 11 a.m. at RedLine Gallery, 2350 Arapahoe St.


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Jazz orchestra gains new artistic director Lone Tree shows have grown in popularity By Sonya Ellingboe [email protected]

The Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra starts its third season with changes. Director Art Bou-ton, Lone Tree resident and pro-fessor of saxophone at the Uni-versity of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, started the orchestra by calling on an ensemble of Colora-do’s top jazz musicians to perform at the Lone Tree Arts Center. In season two, it built to sold-out au-diences for the last two concerts.

Bouton has formed Colorado Jazz Inc., a nonprofi t corporation, to help bring the CJRO to national prominence and announced a new position of artistic director.

He is “Grammy-nominated jazz artist and educator Steve Weist, a cutting-edge composer

and trombonist” who has recently joined the Lamont School as as-sociate professor of jazz studies and commercial music, Bouton announced.

Bouton said Weist “has spent seven years directing what is ar-guably one of the fi nest bands in the world, the University of North Texas One O’ Clock Lab Band. I just had to have him out front.”

The CJRO will start its new season on Oct. 10 with “A Night in New Orleans,” featuring inter-nationally known jazz trumpeter Byron Stripling.

“Stripling is the artistic direc-tor of the Columbus Jazz Orches-tra, leader of his own quartet and constantly in demand to play with pops orchestras around the world. An extroverted performer who brings the audience into his music, the happiness that he exudes through his trumpet, his vocals and his words is reminis-cent of Louis Armstrong, yet very much his own,” Bouton said.

He continued to say that Peter Olstad, the regular lead trumpet for CJRO, was not able to play in the October concert, and Weist said: “Let me call my buddy who plays lead for Count Basie. He’ll think this will be fun.” This is an example of the kind of change Weist can bring to the band.

“Holidays With the CJRO” is scheduled on Dec. 7 when the band will perform big-band holi-day favorites, including Duke El-lington’s “Nutcracker.”

On Jan. 23, there will be a trib-ute to Woody Herman’s Thunder-ing Herd, and on March 23, vocal-ist Kim Nazarian of the New York Voices will be featured.

Bouton said, “This band has been a dream come true for me. To see the Arts Center packed for a tribute to Maynard Fergu-son concert, with people (who brought their own trumpets) playing along to ‘Hey Jude,’ was just amazing.”

Tickets are on sale for the new season at the Lone Tree Arts Cen-ter box offi ce, 10075 Commons St.

in Lone Tree, lonetreeartscenter.org.

Steve Weist, new artistic director, left; Art Bouton, executive director and saxophone player, center; and Al Hood (background) rehearse for a concert. Courtesy photo


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which her grandfather Sam bought in 1964 and renamed from Jim Sano’s to “The Saucy Noodle,” with the culinary warning out front on its distinctive red and white canopy awning: “If you don’t like garlic, go home.”

A lot of garlic goes into the Noodle’s spaghetti marinara, which is vegetarian but has so much garlic in it that it looks like ground beef. “The red sauce is grand-mother Inez Badis’ recipe,” Markham said. “It’s been a menu staple throughout the decades, alongside the most popular dish, lasagna, as well as spaghetti and the restaurant’s baseball-sized homemade meatballs.”

The menu also features one appetizer that might not catch a younger person’s eye: Morey Amsterdam’s fried ravioli. The dish is named after the late actor and co-median who is best remembered as part of the ensemble cast of the classic “The Dick

Van Dyke Show” on television.“It’s called that because in the ‘60s he

came in and asked if we had such a dish, and we didn’t so he helped himself to the kitchen and made it himself,” Markham said.

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on the phone with a friend: “Nothing exciting going on, well, except for the new guy my daughter is dating right now. He is a model and he is gorgeous. She needs to marry him just so we can look at him across the table at Thanksgiving. Even my husband says, `He’s purty.’”

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


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PACE Center unveils lineupBy Sonya [email protected]

With the Parker Arts, Culture and Events Center gearing up for another season, Elaine Mariner, Parker’s cultural direc-tor, said, “Our goal in booking this season was to bring at least one national act every month while also featuring our hometown favorites. In addition, we sought to create a mix of entertainment options — from country and classic rock to Celtic and sym-phonic, with plenty of theater and dance.”

Inspire Creative, a Parker-based theater company, will co-produce the theatrical events. Tickets to most shows are on sale and a new Family Circle membership pro-gram is offered.

While singer-songwriter Clint Black’s performance on Oct. 4 is said to be sold out, tickets to other performances are available online and through the box office.

On Sept. 8, Dr. Kaboom’s one-man sci-ence show blends theater and exploration. Wonderbound ballet company will include Colorado Symphony Orchestra musicians in its program, “Enduring Grace,” on Oct. 18-19, and the Parker Symphony’s “Unseen World” concert on Oct. 24 will celebrate Halloween with music about a demon witch and flying bats.

Veteran entertainer Michael Martin Murphy will use period costumes and

traditional songs and old-time dances to evoke the spirit of the 1934 Cowboy Christ-mas Ball on Nov. 28, followed by “A Classic Parker Holiday” with the Parker Chorale and Parker Symphony on Dec. 5-6. In-spire Creative will present Scrooge and “A Christmas Carol” on Dec. 11-14, while “A Parker Nutcracker” will wrap up the holi-day season Dec. 18-21.

Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash, will start off 2015 with a Jan. 9 show and soon after, families can travel to Oz as ”The Wizard of Oz” plays Jan. 23-Feb. 8.

Dance prevails in February with Won-derbound’s “Marie,” about Marie Antoi-nette, on Feb. 14-15, and a performance of “Swan Lake” by the Russian National Ballet on Feb. 19.

Singer-songwriter Marc Cohn appears March 14, followed by Rocky Mountain Brassworks on March 15.

Based on the best-selling children’s book series by Annie Barrows, “Ivy + Bean, The Musical” is a story of unexpected sec-ond-grade friendship on April 23. Christo-pher O’Riley, crossover pianist, presents “Out of My Hands” on April 25.

The season finale brings Celtic stars Natalie McMaster and Donnely Leahy with “Visions from Cape Breton and Beyond: a Celtic Family Celebration” on May 13.

For information and tickets, visit PACE-centeronline.org.

The Russian National Ballet will bring a production of the classic “Swan Lake” to the PACE Center this season. Photo courtesy of Columbia Artists Management


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ALFERD PACKER BACON PARTY

LITTLETON ROTARY’S second annual Alferd Packer Bacon, Bands & Beer party is from 3-10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, in the parking lot at Reinke’s, 5663 S. Prince St., Littleton. Admission is a $5 donation for ages 12 and older. Money raised at the event goes to the Littleton Rotary Foundation and will be used to enhance community-wide programs and projects. Contact Jim Bisetti, 303-204-7246 or [email protected]. Go to www.clubrunner.ca/littleton/.

AREA 13.1 HALF MARATHON/5K

AREA 13.1 is a nationwide Half Marathon/5K series originated in Roswell, Georgia. This is a night race; seriously when have you ever heard of aliens invading during the day? And Castle Rock just seemed the perfect place for this event — come on, you really think that rock formed naturally like that? All runners should dress in bright colors and bring plenty of glow-in-the-dark tools to ward o� those pesky aliens that might be hiding along the course. After the run, enjoy an “out of this world” expo and after-party complete with food, hypnotic music, dancing, glow and strobe lights and more. Event starts at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, 500 Fairgrounds Road, Castle Rock. Contact [email protected] or go to http://www.alienhalf.com.

COLORADO ARTFEST AT CASTLE ROCK

ARTISTS ACROSS the country will bring their work to Colorado Artfest, the Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce’s juried � ne arts show. The event features more than 176 artists, continual live main stage entertainment, strolling entertainers, a silent auction and food and beverage vendors. Artfest is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, in downtown Castle Rock. Go to http://www.castlerockculture.com/colorado-artfest-at-castle-rock/

LEARN ABOUT REVERSE MORTGAGES

THE LIVING and Aging Well in Lone Tree speaker series presents “Insight Into Reverse Mortgages,” by Artie Lyhl, with the Douglas County Housing Partnership. The lunch series is at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9. For information on costs, or to RSVP by Friday, Sept. 5, call 303-225-4930 or email [email protected]. Non-Lone Tree residents welcome. Program is at Lone Tree Golf Club & Hotel, 9808 Sunnindale Blvd., Lone Tree. Cost includes lunch.

HISTORY OF COLORADO AVIATION

PARKER AREA Historical Society presents the Colorado Aviation Historical Society and the Hall of Fame, and also welcomes Lance Barber, presenting Aviation Archaeology, at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, at Ruth Memorial Chapel, 19650 E. Mainstreet, Parker. The Colorado Aviation Historical Society and Hall of Fame was founded in 1966 and began operations in 1967. It preserves items con-nected to the history of aviation in Colorado. Barber was on the original B29 T-Square-54 restoration crew for the Lowry Heritage Museum in February 1987. He also is secretary of the Colorado General Aviation Alliance and an active � ight line lead for Rocky Mountain Airshows in Broom� eld.

THEATER/FILMHITCHCOCK CLASSIC

JOIN MOVIE host Matt Wigdahl for a screening of “Sabotage” (1936), based on Joseph Conrad’s novel, “The Secret Agent.” Program begins at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8, at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Reserve your seat at 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

SPOTLIGHT PRESENTS “TOY STORY,” “HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL”

SPOTLIGHT PERFORMING Arts Center presents “High School Musical” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Sept. 12-13, featuring cast members ages 5-17, at 6328 E. County Line Road, Unit 102, Highlands Ranch. Call 720-443-2623 for tickets and information.

MUSIC/CONCERTSBIG BAND DANCE NIGHT

PROFESSIONAL DANCES will show o� a few simple steps to teach the audience some basic dance moves, and that will be followed by big band music performed by the 19-piece Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra. Enjoy an evening of music and dance from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, in the Carriage House at the Highlands Ranch Mansion. Tickets available at any Highlands Ranch recreation center or online at www.HRCAon-line.org/tickets. If the show it not sold out, tickets will be sold at the event.

TONIC SOL-FA

TONIC SOL-FA has carved out its niche as one of the nation’s top vocal groups. The quartet will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 14, on the Main Stage at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. The group has been named one of the top � ve must-see groups in the country, and has been awarded numerous awards for original song and album in pop, gospel and holiday genres. The group has appeared on NBC’s Today Show and in Newsweek. Call

720-509-1000 or go to www.LoneTreeArtsCenter.org.

ARTLOCAL ARTISTS WORK DISPLAYED

SOUTH SUBURBAN Parks and Recreation’s centers feature temporary art exhibitions by local artists every month. From Sept. 1-30, Richard Long’s watercolor paintings will be displayed at Goodson Recreation Center, 6315 S. University Blvd., Centennial, 303-798-2476; Paint Box Guild’s varied array of artwork will be exhibited at Lone Tree Recreation Center, 10249 Ridgegate Circle, Lone Tree, 303-708-3500; Bill Utter presents his photography at the Douglas H. Buck Recreation Center, 2004 W. Powers Ave., Little-ton, 303-797-8787. Visit www.sspr.org or contact Darcie LaScala at 303-483-7072.

CAFECITO AMIGOS

CELEBRATE CRAFT and culture at a free event at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, at the Parker Library, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive. Explore the di� erent ways cultures express themselves through traditional and non-traditional crafts. To register, call 303-791-7323 or visit DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

ARTS IN THE AFTERNOON: VIVA ESPANA

WITH OPERA on Tap and Flamenco Underground, what happens when opera merges with � amenco danc-ing and music? An afternoon of sultry and � amboyant entertainment. The show promise excitement and drama with the same talent you’ve come to expect from Opera on Tap. Program is at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, on the Main Stage at Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Call 720-509-1000 or go to www.LoneTreeArtsCenter.org.

EVENTSSTARLIGHT MOVIE: ‘THE LEGO MOVIE’

THE STARLIGHT movie series and street fair concludes Saturday, Sept. 6, with “The Lego Movie” at Festival Park, 200 Perry St., Castle Rock. The street fair opens at 6 p.m. and the movie begins at dusk. Go to http://www.downtowncastlerock.com/events.

GRANDPARENTS DAY ICE CREAM SOCIAL

IN HONOR of Grandparents Day, Castle Country Assisted Living will host a free ice cream social at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, at each of its three home - Cantril House, 221 Cantril St., Castle Rock; Valley House, 255 S. Valley Drive, Castle Rock; and Victorian House, 19600 Victorian Drive, Parker. To RSVP or for information, call 303-482-5552.

NATIONAL ASSISTED LIVING WEEK

CASTLE COUNTRY Assisted Living plans a series of events to celebrate National Assisted Living Week. The week’s events include: Brownie and Cookie Baking, 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 8, at Victorian House, 19600 Victorian Drive, Parker; Ceramics Class, 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8, at Cantril House, 221 Cantril St., Castle Rock, at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, at Victorian House, and 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, at Valley House, 255 S. Valley Drive, Castle Rock; an Elvis impersonator performs at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, at Cantril House; 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11 at Valley House; and 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at Victorian House; “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” on Friday, Sept. 12, at 11 a.m. at Cantril House; at 1 p.m. at Valley House, and at 3 p.m. at Victorian House. Events are free and open to the public (except for the ceramics class). For information or to RSVP, call 303-482-5552.

GIVING AWAY YOUR FAMILY TREE

COLUMBINE GENEALOGICAL and Historical Society meets at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, at Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Centennial. Program is “Giving Away Your Family Tree: A Treasure Trove of Family History Gifts,” by Dina Carson. Learn some clever ways to present your genealogical research in a way that family members will cherish. Contact CJ Backus, president, [email protected] or go to http://www.ColumbineGenealogy.com.

STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART

PFLAG HIGHLANDS Ranch Chapter (including the surrounding South Metro area) meets from 7-8:45 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Everything is con� dential and all are welcome. This month’s program includes a � lm called “Straight from the Heart,” which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2004. The video explores parents’ journeys to a new understanding of their lesbian and gay children. It is especially recommended for parents struggling with acceptance due to religious objections or other reasons. Contact info@p� aghigh-landsranch.org for more details.

HISTORY PRESENTATION

CASTLE ROCK Historical Society welcomes Dennis Potter, who will speak about the 1960 murder of Adolph Coors III. Refreshments are served at 6:30 p.m. and the program starts at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11, at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock.

RULER OF THE RAILZZ SKATEPARK COMPETITION

SKATEBOARDERS, BMX riders and scooter riders of all skill levels are invited to com-pete in the annual Ruler of the Railzz competition at noon Saturday, Sept. 13, at Redstone Skate Park, 3280 Redstone Park Circle, Highlands Ranch. Competition includes multiple divisions. Go to http://highlandsranch.org/2011/11/09/skate-park-programs/#Skate ParkCompetitions. Registra-

tion is recommended; same-day sign-ups will be taken from 11-11:45 a.m. Helmets are required.

COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE

IDYLLWILDE’S ANNUAL community garage sale is from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, and Saturday, Sept. 13, in the Idyllwilde community on both sides of Parker’s Canterberry Parkway, between Legend High School and Cimarron Middle School.

HEALTH/FITNESSSOUTH METRO OUT OF THE DARKNESS WALK

HELP CREATE a world without suicide by participating in the � fth South Metro Out of the Darkness Community Walk to bene� t the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The 2.9-mile walk is Saturday, Sept. 6, at Highlands Ranch High School, 9473 Cresthill Lane, Highlands Ranch. Registration begins and the Resource Fair opens at 9 a.m. and the opening ceremony and walk begin at 10 a.m. No admission required; donations are appreciated. Contact Laurie Freeman, [email protected]. Go to http://afsp.donordrive.com.

WALK TO FUND NEUROFIBROMATOSIS RESEARCH

TAKE STEPS toward a brighter future for children with neuro� bromatosis at the sixth annual Denver NF Walk on Sunday, Sept. 7, at Clement Park, 7306 W. Bowles Ave., Littleton. After the 1.5 mile walk, participants can enjoy games, prizes, food, music and more. On-leash dogs welcome. Check-in is at 9 a.m. and the walk begins at 11. The walk will raise money for the Children’s Tumor Foundation, whose mission is to end neuro� bromatosis through research. To register, go to www.nfwalk.org/denver. For details about the foundation, go to www.ctf.org.

SPECIAL NEEDS YOGA

COME EXPERIENCE a form of yoga that works to improve balance, focus, coordina-tion and strength. Learn poses to reduce fatigue, sti� ness and stress, and stimulate the motor and sensory areas of the brain. Class runs from 5:15-5:45 p.m. Mondays, from Sept. 8, to Dec. 29, at the Eastridge Recreation Center, Highlands Ranch. Go to http://HRCAonline.org/TR.

SPECIAL NEEDS HIP-HOP

FOCUS OF class is a fun dance environment for ages 8 and up. Registration required. Class runs from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Mondays from Sept. 8 to Dec. 15, at the Streetside South Dance Studio, Littleton. Go to http://HRCAonline.org/TR

RUN WILD

BRING THE kids and the dog for a fun-� lled morning in Castle Pines’ scenic Elk Ridge Park, 7005 Mira Vista Lane. The Castle Pines Run Wild has a race and distance for everyone. Run Wild is Sunday, Sept. 14, and check-in begins at 7 a.m. The 9-mile race starts at 8:30 a.m. and the 4-mile race starts at 8:40 a.m. Finish line festival begins at 9 a.m., and the awards ceremony starts at 10 a.m. The Color Me Wild Run starts at 10:30 a.m. Bring our own T-shirt (white is best) for the Color Me Wild Run. Dogs are welcome, and must be well behaved and on a leash (and their owners must have a bag or two for clean-up). Dogs are not allowed in the Color Run. Contact [email protected] or go to http://www.runwild.info.

EDUCATION HISTORY, FUTURE OF SCOTLAND

ACTIVE MINDS presents a program on the history of Scotland, the future of the country and what is happening there now from 3-4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, at River-Pointe, 5225 S. Prince St., Littleton. Program is free; RSVP at 303-797-0600. The future of this country is somewhat uncertain given the national referendum on independence on Sept. 18, 2014. The lasting implications of this vote may not be clear for some time, but at a minimum, it highlights a segment of the population that is unhappy with the status quo and looking for change.

TOOLS FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH

PARKER GENEALOGICAL Society welcomes Larry Dodge, presenting Tools, Search Engines and Favorite Sites, at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, at Stroh Ranch Fire Station, 19310 Stroh Road, Parker. Program includes information on Internet and websites, how to ideas and getting to places you never knew about and what to do when you get there. Everyone is welcome.

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Photographer puts focus on compositesPhotographer Joe Bonita will speak about

“Creation and Uses of Composite Images” when he addresses the Englewood Camera Club at 7 p.m. on Sept. 9. He said: “The pro-gram will explore the creation of composite images and their many uses. Topics covered will be: fixing problem photos; focus stack-ing; enhancing images; overlays; creating repetition; making several photos from a single image; mirror dreamscapes and cre-ating scenes that never existed …” The club meets monthly at Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Centen-nial. Visitors are welcome. In addition to a lecture, the club hosts a monthly contest of members’ photos. Guests and new members are welcome.

Colorado Artfest setCastle Rock Chamber of Commerce hosts

the annual Colorado Artfest on September 6 and 7 in the parking lots of Town Hall and the Philip S. Miller Library on Wilcox Street in Castle Rock. More than 175 artists will show their work. There will be music and the Big Eat restaurant showcase. Tickets: $5 adults; $3 seniors; children under 16 admitted free.

Garden club stages outingInstead of its usual first Wednesday eve-

ning meeting, the Littleton Garden Club will carpool to Kendrick Lake Park, 9351 W. Jewell Ave. in Lakewood, on Sept. 6 to see its xeric design, including handsome ornamental grasses. Arrival at 10:30 a.m. Bring a lunch and water and a chair, if needed. This long-time club welcomes new members.

Storytelling talk scheduled“More than Four: Choosing a Point of

View” is Susan Rocco-McKeel’s title for the Parker Writers Group meeting from 2-4 p.m. Sept. 14 at the Parker Library meeting room, 10851 Crossroads Drive, Parker. The author, whose work is in the new “Chronicles of Douglas County,” will discuss various pos-sibilities for POV in telling your story. Guests are welcome — no reservation needed.

Depot holds new show“Location, Location, Location” is the title

of the most recent exhibit at the Depot Art Gallery, 2069 W. Powers Ave., Littleton. Juror Marsha Wooley selected Julia Grundmeier’s oil painting “On the Street Where You Live,” as Best of Show. Other winners included Fred Bikle, Pat Dall, Peggy Dietz, Brian Serff, Carol Broere, S. Williams and Cheryl Adams. The show runs through Nov. 9. Gallery hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. Admission is free. 303-795-0781.

New library opens doorsThe new Sheridan Library at 3425 W. Ox-

ford Ave. opens with a ribbon cutting at 9 a.m. Sept. 13, with tours and festivities last-

ing through the day. Arapahoelibraries.org, 303-LIBRARY.

Powwow at art museumThe 25th Annual Denver Art Museum

Friendship Powwow and American Indian Cultural Celebration will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 6 on the Acoma Plaza, 13th Avenue between Broadway and Bannock in downtown Denver. Indian danc-ers, drum groups, artists, vendors, fry bread. Powwow and general museum admission are free. Grand entry is at noon. Dance competi-tions until 4 p.m.

Author coming to RanchBarb Schmidt, author of “The Practice,”

will speak at 7 p.m. Sept. 17 at the Highlands Ranch Tattered Cover about her book, her

journey and her life-management toolkit that helps with stress management and finding inner peace.

Genealogists meetColumbine Genealogical and Historical

Society meets twice in September at Luther-an Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. Univer-sity Blvd., Centennial. The program on Sept. 9 at 1 p.m. will be “Giving Away Your Family Tree: a Treasure Trove of Family History Gifts” by Diana Carson. On Sept. 16 at 9:30 a.m., “Family Tree Maker” starts a three part series on this software with Deena Coutant. Also on Sept. 16, there will be a 1 p.m. program called “She’s Not Dead — He Took Another Bride” with James Jeffrey, offering a peek into an-cestors’ households. Visitors are always wel-come. ColumbineGenealogy.com.

“Eye of Autumn” by Joe Bonita is an example of his composite photographs. He will speak to the Englewood Camera Club on Sept. 9 about his processes. Courtesy photo

CURTAIN TIME

Denver premiere“Grace” by Craig Wright plays Sept. 4-27,

presented by the recently formed Silhou-ette Theatre Company at the John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. (It was on Broadway last year.) Directed by Paul Jaquith. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Thurs-days; 2 p.m. Saturdays; 6:30 p.m. Sundays (no performance Sept. 7); special show Monday, Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $18,

303-999-9143 or silhouettetheatrecom-pany.org.

Taking wing“M. Butterfly” by David Henry Hwang

is presented by Theatre Esprit Asia from Sept. 4-28 at the Aurora Fox Studio Theatre, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora. Performances: 7:30 p.m. on the Sept. 4 opening night; 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2:30 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets: theatre-esprit-asia.org.

Trauma tale“All the Rage,” written and performed by

Martin Moran, plays Sept. 6-28 at Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Perfor-mances: 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Satur-days; 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: curiousthe-atre.org. Related: several performances of “The Tricky Part,” which preceded “All the

Rage.” See website.

Renowned musical“Memphis,” an award-winning musi-

cal, will play at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, Sept. 9-28. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays; 1 p.m. Wednesdays; 2 p.m. Sat-urdays, Sundays. Tickets: arvadacenter.org.


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SPORTS

Mountain Vista boys win team titleGirls ��h at Warrior cross country meetBy Tom [email protected]

The Mountain Vista boys cross country team overcame the unexpected challenges of high water and muddy slopes to take top team honors in the varsity division at the Aug. 29 Warrior Invitational cross country meet at deKoevend Park in Centennial.

Tyler Matzke and Paxton Smith were the first two Golden Eagles across the fin-ish line. Matzke finished sixth in a time of 16 minutes, 33 seconds and Smith was sev-enth in 16:53. They were followed by team-mates Ryan Curr1e (21st), Trevor Spieker (29th), Michael O. Sullivan (49th), Addison Hellier (50th) and Brian Grover (73rd) to post a team score of 112 to win in a field of

about 350 runners from 62 schools.The Golden Eagle girls finished fifth

in the team standings at the invitational, hosted by Arapahoe High School. Allison Chapman was the first Mountain Vista girl across the finish line as she finished fifth.

Her teammate Courtney Goodrum, who finished 69th, said it was a challenging race.

“The race was a lot of fun,” she said. “The water crossings were waist deep. They were fun but making the crossings sucked out all my energy. Overall, it was a wet, muddy, fun run.”

She said she did her best but didn’t post her best time. However, she said the team did well because they worked together.

Goodrum said cross country is her fa-vorite sport. The senior said she ran track her first three years at Mountain Vista but was undecided about this spring because there are so many things on her senior year agenda.

The heavy rains that drenched the area

created some unexpected challenges for the runners.

Usually at the Warrior, runners have to jump over the small amount of water flow-ing at two points along the High Line Canal. However, the rains changed all that as the canal became a high, fast-running stream. One crossing was about thigh-high and the second crossing was up to the waist of many runners.

Runners also had to use hand-holds and work their way up two or three slopes turned slippery and muddy by the rain.

Despite the challenges, area teams did well. Other area teams competing in the boys varsity division included Thunder Ridge, seventh, Rock Canyon, 17th, Douglas County, 24th and Highlands Ranch placed 39th.

In the girls varsity team standings, ThunderRidge finished eighth, Rock Can-yon was 11th, Highlands Ranch was 22nd and Douglas County was 25th.

LEFT: Mountain Vista’s Tyler Matzke heads for the �nish line in sixth place to help his team take the boys varsity team title at the Aug. 29 Warrior Invitational cross country meet. Matzke posted a time of 16 minutes, 33 seconds as he joined about 350 runners from 62 schools running through the challenges of rain, high water and muddy slopes on the 5-kilometer course. RIGHT: Heavy rains swelled the �ow in the High Line Canal, transforming the traditional water jump into a thigh-deep wade through rushing water at the Aug. 29 Warrior Invitational at deKoevend Park in Centennial. Runners from more than 50 schools overcame the conditions to run in the meet. Photos by Tom Munds

TEAM STANDINGS

Boys (Team/Points)

Mountain Vista, 112

Palmer Ridge, 122

Boulder, 154

Monarch, 263

Rampart, 311

Fairview, 320

ThunderRidge, 331

Arapahoe, 343

Cherry Creek, 372

Thompson Valley, 379

Girls (Team/Points)

Pine Creek, 107

Monarch, 139

Cherry Creek, 145

Fairview, 170

Mountain Vista, 235

Boulder, 275

Thompson Valley, 288

ThunderRidge, 346

Palmer Ridge, 356

Fort Collins, 365

The top 10 teams in the boys and girls varsity races at the Aug. 29 Warrior Invitational in Centennial:

Jaguars catch Bu�aloes in WebbVersatile senior leads Rock Canyon to season-opening, 44-0 rout of Smoky HillBy Jim [email protected]

Dexter Webb, better known at Rock Can-yon High School as D.J., is an all-around foot-ball player. He does just about everything for the Jaguars.

Rock Canyon opened the season with a 44-0 romp over Smoky Hill on Aug. 28 at Sports Authority Stadium in Parker, and Webb was the standout player.

The 5-foot-10, 185-pound senior returned punts and kickoffs, played cornerback, caught passes and ran the football. Webb scored the Jaguars’ first three touchdowns, on a 64-yard punt return, a 22-yard pass from quarterback Ryan Hommel and a 53-yard punt return.

He returned five punts for 160 yards, caught two passes for 31 yards, ran three times for 23 yards and returned a kickoff for 17 yards to account for 231 all-purpose yards.

“We’ve got him playing corner and H-back so he’ll catch the ball, run the ball a little bit, so he’s kind of doing it all,” said Rock Canyon coach Brian Lamb.

“I really don’t know what I am,” Webb said. “I just go out and do what I can do to help the team. Whereever they need me is where I play.”

Webb got Rock Canyon rolling when he

caught a punt, switched directions once and bowled over 6-foot-2, 190-pound punter Vin-cent Braud for the game’s first touchdown with 5:57 to play in the first quarter.

“I just got the punt and headed in one di-rection,” he Webb. “I didn’t know if they were

going to tackle me and I switched directions, my team got the blocks and I took it to the house.

“The kicker tried to tackle me. I just fought and fought and wanted to score the touch-down. I did not know he was the kicker at

first.”Webb hauled in a TD pass from Hommel

on the Jaguars’ next possession.“Wide receiver Grant Schutte ran a good

Rock Canyon’s Dexter Webb breaks a tackle during the school’s 44-0 win over Smoky Hill Aug. 28 at Sports Authority Stadium in Parker. Webb had 231 all-purpose yards and scored three touchdowns. Photo by Jim Benton

Football continues on Page 22


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SPORTS ROUNDUPHigh school football results

Colorado’s top two Class 5A football teams, according to the CHSAANow.com preseason rankings, scored im-pressive victories in the first official week of the season.

Top-ranked Valor Christian improved its record to 2-0 on Aug. 28 with a 21-12 win over No. 4 Pomona, which stretched the Eagles’ winning streak over Colorado teams to 25 games. Senior backup quarterback Parker Courier replaced injured Dylan McCaffrey and completed nine of 14 passes for 97 yards and a touchdown. McCaffrey suf-fered a possible concussion. The defending state cham-pion Eagles opened the season with a zero week 61-20 romp over Bonneville, Idaho.

Cherry Creek, ranked second, faces Pomona on Sept. 5 after opening its campaign with a 21-14 win over No. 7 Regis Jesuit.

Lutheran, ranked No. 1 in Class 3A, journeyed to Houston and came home with a 56-55 overtime victory over Lutheran South Academy. Quarterback James Willis passed for 238 yards, receiver Joshua Clausen had 214 receiving yards and running back Jamil Bond rushed for 184 yards and three touchdowns for the Lions, which stopped a 2-point South Academy overtime conversion to seal the win.

In other games, Mountain Vista rallied for 21 second-half points to earn a 21-6 season opening victory Aug. 28 over Mountain Range at Shea Stadium. Senior quarter-back Brock Rubley connected on 14 of 21 passes for 176 yards and two touchdowns for the Golden Eagles. Senior Luke Nelson was in on 12 total tackles and recovered a fumble to spark the Vista defensive effort.

Chaparral’s new head coach Rod Dobbs will have to wait until Sept. 4 to attempt to get his first victory when the Wolverines play Bear Creek. Grandview rushed for 279 yards and averaged 6.5 yards per carry in handing Chaparral a 46-l3 loss in the Aug. 28 season opener.

Cherokee Trail whipped ThunderRidge 35-7 with the Grizzlies’ lone touchdown coming on a 39-yard pass from Tristan Eve to Alex O’Reilly in the Aug. 29 contest. Overland intercepted two passes for touchdowns in a 23-16 over Heritage. Pueblo Centennial collected a 39-31 win over Highlands Ranch Aug. 29 at Shea Stadium. Bear Creek edged Castle View, 26-20, on Aug. 29, and Arvada West toppled Douglas County, 32-19.

High school hockey coming to Castle Rock Mountain Vista will not be the only Douglas County

high school with a hockey team. Castle View will have a co-op team starting in the 2015-16 season.

Players from Douglas County, Castle View, Chaparral, Legend and Ponderosa will make up the new team, while Mountain Vista will draw potential players from Thun-derRidge, Mountain Vista, Rock Canyon and Highlands Ranch.

The Colorado High School Activities Association also announced the semifinals and finals of the state hockey tournament will be held at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. Semifi-nals next spring will be held Thursday, March 5 with the championship game set for Saturday, March 7.

Softball scores: Castle View opens with winSavannah Heebner struck out 10 batters in five in-

nings as Castle View opened the season Aug. 27 with an 11-1 softball victory over Cherry Creek.

Sophomores Lexi Kagan and Ashlyn Dzialo each drove in three runs to spark the Sabercats’ offense.

Highlands Ranch quarterback Maverick Reed rolls out during the �rst quar-ter of his team’s 39-31 loss against Pueblo Centennial on Aug. 29 at Shea Stadium. Photo by Chris Rotar

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— and second to last — leg of the sea-son-ending FedEx Cup playoffs. The top 70 players in the standings advance to Cherry Hills for the first Colorado PGA men’s event since the 2006 International at Castle Pines.

The top 125 players in the FedEx standings, which didn’t include Tiger Woods, played Aug. 21-24 at The Bar-clays in Paramus, N.J. to kick off the playoffs. Hunter Mahan won the event, and in turn moved from 62nd to first in

the standings, dropping Rory McIlroy to second.

Playoff contenders were trimmed to 100 for the Deutsche Bank Champion-ship Aug. 29-Sept. 1 in Norton, Mass., and the top 70 will then come to Cherry Hills.

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Chaparral improved its record to 3-1 with victories over Arvada West, Rocky Mountain and Lewis Palmer. The Wolver-ines outscored those three opponents, 46-12. In four games this season, Jordan Smith has gone 10-for-13 with 11 runs batted in.

Heritage defeats Arapahoe Chase Breslaw scored the only goal

of the match to spark Heritage to a 1-0 victory over rival Arapahoe in boys soccer Aug. 26. Keeper Riccardo Comi-nelli made 11 saves in a 0-0 tie against Broomfield Aug. 28 as the Eagles re-mained unbeaten with a 2-0-1 record.

Ponderosa played three matches in four days, winning twice. The Mustangs beat Greeley Central, 4-0, Aug. 25 and blanked Chaparral, 4-0, the next day. D’Evelyn notched a 1-0 win over Pondo Aug. 28. Seven different players have

scored for the Mustangs in the three games.

New additionsAssistant coach Kathryn Ames has

been elevated to the head coaching posi-tion for the Cherry Creek girls lacrosse team as she assumes the duties from Brianne Tierney, who resigned.

Legend basketball coach Kevin Boley is the Titans’ new athletic director. He will continue to coach the boys basket-ball team.

route, took the outside linebacker and left me open,” said Webb.

Rock Canyon went ahead 20-0 with 2:50 left in the first half on Webb’s 53-yard punt return into the end zone.

“That was all the blocking,” said Webb. “If the blocking wasn’t there, that could not have occurred.”

Rock Canyon scored once more before

halftime, added two touchdowns on its first two possessions in the third quarter, and the mercy rule with a running clock went into effect with 6:55 remaining in the third quarter.

“D.J. had a great game,” said Lamb. “The punt return kick-started us. Obviously he had two punt returns for a touchdown but he was just running with authority, trying to finish his runs and not taking the first contact and running and running. I was proud of him. That was great to watch.

“It was not bad for an opener.”Hommel completed six of 11 passes for

61 yards and was Rock Canyon’s leading rusher with 78 yards on seven carries that

included a 19-yard TD run. The Jaguars finished with 205 yards total offense.

Smoky Hill quarterback Avila Karson threw 34 passes but completed only 10 for 96 yards and was intercepted twice. The Buffaloes were held to 41 yards rushing.

“We were able to get some pressure on him and made him throw the ball quicker than he probably wanted to,” said Lamb. “Our linebackers did a nice job of step-ping up and filling on the run. Then when we brought pressure off the edge we were able to get there quick enough.”

Rock Canyon’s defense was led by line-backers Tyler Linch, Sam White, Joey Rich-mond and Peyten Gilmore, who also had

a 2-yard touchdown run. Defensive line-man Justin Hunter was credited with a team-high nine total tackles.

Sawyer Johnson and Vincent Gullia each intercepted a pass.

Rock Canyon faces a tougher test Sept. 5 when the Jaguars journey to Castle Rock to play Douglas County.

“We are a work in progress,” said Lamb. “We have to get better. We missed some assignments on the offensive line that we are going to watch film and correct. It was a good way to start the season and build from here.”


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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuantto Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., asamended, that on the 6th day of OCTO-BER 2014, final settlement will be madeby the County of Douglas, State of Col-orado, for and on account of a con-tract between Douglas County andCANTERBURY CONSTRUCTION MAN-AGEMENT SERVICES, INC. for INVITA-TION FOR BID (IFB) #003-14, BAYOUGULCH OPEN SPACE PEDESTRIANBRIDGE PROJECT (PO#34317), inDouglas County; and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporationthat has an unpaid claim against saidCANTERBURY CONSTRUCTION MAN-AGEMENT SERVICES, INC. for or on ac-count for the furnishing of labor, materials,team hire, sustenance, provisions,provender or other supplies used or con-sumed by such contractor or any subcon-tractors in or about the performance ofsaid work, or that supplied rental ma-chinery, tools, or equipment to the extentused in the prosecution of said work, mayat any time up to and including said timeof such final settlement on said 6th day ofOCTOBER 2014, to file a verified state-ment of the amount due and unpaid on ac-count of such claim with the DouglasCounty Government, Board of CountyCommissioners, c/o Open Space and Nat-ural Resources, 100 Third Street, CastleRock, Colorado 80104.

Failure on the part of the claimant to filesuch statement prior to such final settle-ment will relieve said County of Douglasfrom al l and any l iabi l i ty for suchclaimant’s claim. The Board of DouglasCounty Commissioners of the County ofDouglas, Colorado, By: Carolyn S. Riggs,CPPB, Purchasing Supervisor, DouglasCounty Government.

Legal Notice No.:925925First Publication: September 4, 2014Last Publication: September 11, 2014Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF CONTRACTORSSETTLEMENT


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuantto Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., asamended, that on the 6th day of OCTO-BER 2014, final settlement will be madeby the County of Douglas, State of Col-orado, for and on account of a con-tract between Douglas County andCANTERBURY CONSTRUCTION MAN-AGEMENT SERVICES, INC. for INVITA-TION FOR BID (IFB) #003-14, BAYOUGULCH OPEN SPACE PEDESTRIANBRIDGE PROJECT (PO#34317), inDouglas County; and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporationthat has an unpaid claim against saidCANTERBURY CONSTRUCTION MAN-AGEMENT SERVICES, INC. for or on ac-count for the furnishing of labor, materials,team hire, sustenance, provisions,provender or other supplies used or con-sumed by such contractor or any subcon-tractors in or about the performance ofsaid work, or that supplied rental ma-chinery, tools, or equipment to the extentused in the prosecution of said work, mayat any time up to and including said timeof such final settlement on said 6th day ofOCTOBER 2014, to file a verified state-ment of the amount due and unpaid on ac-count of such claim with the DouglasCounty Government, Board of CountyCommissioners, c/o Open Space and Nat-ural Resources, 100 Third Street, CastleRock, Colorado 80104.

Failure on the part of the claimant to filesuch statement prior to such final settle-ment will relieve said County of Douglasfrom al l and any l iabi l i ty for suchclaimant’s claim. The Board of DouglasCounty Commissioners of the County ofDouglas, Colorado, By: Carolyn S. Riggs,CPPB, Purchasing Supervisor, DouglasCounty Government.

Legal Notice No.:925925First Publication: September 4, 2014Last Publication: September 11, 2014Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Exploring ways to helpDouglas County Sheri� ’s O�ce Explorer Post 10-4 gets on-the-job trainingBy Christy [email protected]

A 17-year-old Dan McMillan was sitting in a Castle Rock Police Department patrol car when he knew he was going to become an officer of the law.

In 1989, Tony Lane, then the Castle Rock chief of police, visited McMillan’s high school government class and encour-aged students to participate in ride-alongs with the officers. McMillan arranged to do a ride-along once a week, and shortly after, signed up to become a Law Enforcement Explorer with Douglas County Sheriff’s Of-fice Explorer Post 10-4.

McMillan was an explorer until 1993. He then went to the police academy, and now at 42, Douglas County Sheriff’s Lt. Mc-Millan has been a cop for 21 years.

“Exploring is all about careering,” Mc-Millan said. “It gives you a hands-on ap-proach. It’s like a big internship.”

Explorer Post 10-4 began in 1983. Head adviser and DCSO Deputy Keith Mathena said at least a couple hundred explorers have experienced a career in law enforce-ment with Explorer Post 10-4.

At first, it may just seem “intriguing to them,” Mathena said, “then it really sparks their interest after they learn what police officers do.”

The Law Enforcement Explorer Program is a sub-organization of the Boy Scouts of America, and provides youths between the ages of 14 and 20 an opportunity to explore a career as a police officer.

“They learn what cops do,” Mathena said. “But they learn it at a smaller scale.”

Once recruited, explorers go through a training academy once a week for six or seven weeks, Mathena said. The local ex-plorer academy is a joint effort between the sheriff’s offices in Douglas and Arapa-hoe counties, as well as the Parker and

Castle Rock police departments.Explorers earn ranks among their post,

and get to participate in yearly regional conferences and tactical competitions.

In July, 11 explorers and five advisers from Post 10-4 attended a regional confer-encein Gunnison and brought home nine awards.

“Our explorers represented the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office very well,” Sgt. Ron Hanavan said. “They all did a great job and worked well together.”

Explorers competed in the team events of high-risk entry, high-risk traffic stops, death investigations, Haz-Mat/ICS, suspi-cious occurrence and passive resistance. They also competed in individual compe-titions, such as DUI investigations, traffic stops and crisis intervention.

In addition to the competitions, Ex-plorer Post 10-4 participates in communi-ty events. Explorers are likely to be seen at National Night Out, the Polar Plunge and the Taste of Douglas County, among oth-ers.

While in-house, explorers work with deputies to learn the various departments of the sheriff’s office — patrol, detentions, investigations, dispatch and administra-tive.

The sheriff’s office also consistently has two explorers, who are at least 18 years old, employed 20 hours a week in paid posi-tions in the jail.

“It’s an opportunity for on-the-job-training. I felt like (I was) an integral part of the sheriff’s office,” McMillan said, recall-ing his time as an explorer.

McMillan said along with the field train-ing that gave him a heads-up when he was ready to enter the police academy, be-ing an explorer gave him confidence and taught him organizational and leadership skills that he applies to his job today.

One requirement, Mathena said, is that the explorers must maintain a 2.0 G.P.A. in school.

“School is still the No. 1 priority,” Ma-thena said. “We want to make sure they excel in school.”

Otherwise, explorers are held to the

same standards as anyone else who is em-ployed in law enforcement, Mathena said. “They’re representing the sheriff.”

There are 14 explorers presently in-volved in the program, and the group was scheduled to host its annual open house, a recruiting tool for new explorers Aug. 26 at the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. New explorers can join the program through October, Mathena said.

The explorer advisers and deputies within the DCSO work together to give the explorers an opportunity to teach them all aspects of a career in law enforcement, Mathena said.

“There’s many around that came from exploring,” he said.

When McMillan applied for a deputy position with the DCSO, there were hun-dreds of applicants, he said. But McMillan, who was 21 at the time, said because the sheriff’s office already knew of him, he had a leg up on receiving his badge.

“I grew up from within,” he said. Mathena, who has been head adviser

since 2009, said he does it “to help guide the kids.”

“It’s to pass on what I know to the young people of the county,” he said.

Eleven Douglas County Sheri�’s O�ce Law Enforcement Explorers from Post 10-4 headed to Gunnison in July to compete at a regional skills competition. The local explorers brought home nine awards. Pictured, from left, is Aidee Castillo, Cameron Sage, Nick Espinosa, Drew Boyum, Jack Zimmerman, Josh Anderson, Justin Alvis, Jacob Martin, Sol Atencio, Addie Clay and Trevor Rademacher. Photo courtesy of the Douglas County Sheri�’s O�ce

AWARDSPost 10-4 awards from Law Enforcement Advisor Association of Colorado Regional Conference:

1st place in Haz-Mat/ICS: Explorer Lt. Jacob Martin1st place in Tra�c Stops: Explorer Lt. Jacob Martin2nd place in Haz-Mat/ICS: Explorer Sgt. Sol Atencio2nd place in High Risk Entry: Explorer Justin Alvis2nd Place in Suspicious Occurrence: Explorer Trevor

Rademacher2nd place in DUI Investigations: Explorer Sgt. Joshua

Anderson3rd place in High Risk Entry: Explorer Sgt. Joshua

Anderson4th place in Passive Resistance: Explorer Sgt. Joshua

Anderson5th place Death Investigations: Explorer Jack Zim-

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