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August 29, 2013 A Colorado Community Media Publication
Douglas County, Colorado • Volume 12, Issue 33
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Roadwork takes hiatusPark Meadows Drive project to resume in mid-SeptemberBy Jane [email protected]
It took Acres Green resident June Ripka 15 minutes to travel less than a half-mile on Park Meadows Drive Aug. 25, a delay that fi-nally forced her to turn around and take an alternate route, almost making her late for her Sunday shift at Kohl’s.
Hundreds of Lone Tree area residents and shoppers, navigating the street nar-rowed and congested by construction, have similar stories.
The good news is that crews reopened all four lanes between Quebec Street and Acres Green Drive on Aug. 26. The bad news: They’ll be back.
“The street will be fully open and fully functional for a couple of weeks,” said Lone Tree public works director John Cotten. “It’s a little bit of a reliever for a short period of time. Then we’ll come back about the mid-dle of September and (the contractor) will be tearing up the north-side lanes. So it’ll look much like it did before, only reversed.”
The entire Park Meadows Drive project is planned for completion in late October. The work includes replacing failed concrete and installing a landscaped median. The four-lane street, flanked by popular busi-nesses like Sam’s Club and Kohl’s, is heav-ily used by area residents, commuters and shoppers. Reduced to two lanes, it’s been transformed for much of the last month into a slow-moving vehicular snarl.
Cotten, whose staff has been working closely with Park Meadows Drive busi-nesses to ensure customer access, is well aware of the delays and inconveniences it’s caused.
“We’re getting a lot of calls,” he said. “But honestly, most people are saying we under-stand why you’re doing it, it’s just a pain in the neck.
“There really was no other way of doing it. Hopefully, it will be a lot better when we get done.”
The $1.4 million project is jointly fi-nanced by Lone Tree and the Park Meadows Metropolitan District.
More than 100 classic cars and 35 vintage aircraft helped raise awareness — and financial support — for the Morgan Adams Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving survival rates of children diagnosed with cancer. The annual Concours d’Elegance, held Aug. 24 in Centennial, attracted hundreds of patrons for an evening of fun and fundraising.
One of the largest collections of rare vehicles and historically significant aircraft came to Centennial Airport on Aug. 24 for the Morgan Adams Foundation Concours d’Elegance,
a yearly auction and fundraiser for children with cancer. More than
100 cars, 35 aircraft and a handful of rare motorcycles served as the
centerpiece. The group funds pediatric cancer research and therapies. The
foundation is named for the daughter of founders Steve Adams and Joan
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Visitors throng to the TAC Air hangar at Centennial Airport for the 2013 Morgan Adams Foundation Concours d’Elegance.
Study of RidgeGate’s east side plannedAnalysis to eye impacts, costs, benefits of future developmentBy Jane [email protected]
In anticipation of construction still esti-mated to be three to five years away, devel-opers and city officials plan an infrastruc-ture study for RidgeGate’s east side.
The City of Lone Tree and the Rampart Range Metro District plan will split the es-timated $80,000 cost of the east side impact study. It’s the first step toward the eventual development of the four-square-mile area east of Interstate 25 and south of Lincoln Avenue.
The east side is twice as large as the west side, which rapidly is nearing buildout.
“We think we might be out of land in three to five years,” said RidgeGate devel-opment manager Darryl Jones. “That’s why we’re starting to look at very preliminary concepts of what the implications of some new infrastructure would be over there.”
The study should be complete by sum-
mer 2014. It will project expenditures, rev-enues, and net fiscal impact by property type, Lone Tree’s business development co-ordinator Torie Brazitis told the city council during its Aug. 20 meeting.
Though RidgeGate has a master plan for the east side, Jones said initial development isn’t imminent.
Plans for the east side include a dense urban center just south of Lincoln and two light rail stations — one in the urban cen-ter and the other at RidgeGate Parkway and I-25.
If RidgeGate develops as planned, about 40,000 people will live there someday.
The east side has seen a flurry of high-profile activity recently, with the opening of Cabela’s, construction of the Charles Schwab corporate campus, expansion of Sky Ridge Medical Center, and several housing developments. Development on the west side is about five years ahead of RidgeGate’s original estimates.
Despite those current projects, develop-ment in RidgeGate is not on a fast track.
“Many master-planned communities undo their vision by building too quickly,
and changing their ‘mix’ to whatever prod-uct they can sell right away,” according to the RidgeGate website. “RidgeGate owns its land free and clear, so there is no rush to
build out. You’ll see RidgeGate evolve and grow carefully over the next 20-plus years, with a long-term commitment to walkabil-ity, livability, access, amenities and scale.”
RidgeGate’s west side, which includes the expanding Sky Ridge Medical Center, likely will be built out in three to five years. The east side, across Interstate 25, is to be the subject of an infrastructure study. Photo by Jane Reuter
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School-board candidate backs ongoing reformsReynolds says changes need time; officials should listenBy Jane [email protected]
Judi Reynolds is motivated to serve on the Douglas County School Board by her support for the board’s efforts to reform ed-ucation. Her three school-aged children are an equally important source of inspiration.
“The reasons I decided to run for the board revolve around a lot of the changes that happened over the course of the last four years,” said Reynolds, who serves on DCSD’s District Accountability Commit-tee. “I feel it’s important that we give those things an opportunity to work.
“It also revolves around the fact that I have three children in the district. I feel that it’s really important we do everything as a community we can in order to give the best possible education to all of our kids.”
A former exercise physiologist with a master’s degree in education, Reynolds now is a stay-at-home mom and active school volunteer. In addition to the DAC, she serves on Franktown Elementary’s School Accountability Committee.
Reynolds’ family benefited from the educational options available in DCSD, she said, when one of her daughters took advanced math classes through the online eDCSD that weren’t available at Franktown Elementary. Those classes helped her “leap ahead” at middle school, Reynolds said.
She’s also seen the upside of site-based budgeting, a policy that allows individual school leaders to decide how to spend the share of district money allocated to them.
“At Franktown, we sat down in our SAC and with our community and had discus-sions about what things we value as a com-munity,” Reynolds said. “We never lost mu-sic or art or PE at our elementary school
County surveyor, commissioners at oddsCourt battle focuses on definition of jobBy Ryan [email protected]
A month after Douglas County Sur-veyor Dale Hamilton was sworn into of-fice in 2011, he discovered that hundreds, if not thousands of witness corners had been destroyed in Highlands Ranch during sidewalk replacement projects in 2005 and 2007.
Witness corners, also known as refer-ence monuments, are small metal discs se-cured by a nail in the sidewalk placed at a specific distance from a property corner to help determine property lines. According to Hamilton, as well as state statute, it is ille-gal to remove these reference monuments without proper and professional replace-ment.
After bringing the issue to the commis-sioners’ attention in February 2011, Hamil-ton was told he would need to bid for the work. Despite being an elected official, Hamilton, who has been in the surveying business for 51 years, only gets paid $5,500 annually for his position, and all county surveying work is traditionally contracted out.
The witness corners need to be reset, Hamilton says, in order to protect property owners from possible issues ranging from neighbors building or tearing down fences on their land to planting or removing trees — or worse, selling land that doesn’t belong to them.
Hamilton made requests for funds in March and April 2011 to the commissioners and received no response. In May the com-missioners acknowledged the destruction of the monuments, agreed the witness cor-ners should be reset and again asked Ham-ilton to submit a competitive proposal for the work.
After a proposal in August again got no response, Hamilton stopped pursuing the issue — for a brief time.
In February 2012, as issues began to pile up between the parties, the commissioners brought in outside counsel — to avoid any conflict of interest with Douglas County at-torney Lance Ingalls — and took Hamilton to court, stating that his duty is to settle dis-putes as they arise and not go out and in-spect plats for issues of compliance.
The parties have been tied up in litiga-tion since.
“It’s an unfortunate turn of events that the commissioners have to turn around and sue another elected official to do his job the way everybody except Mr. Hamilton thinks he should do his job,” said former Morgan County attorney George Monsson, who is representing the commissioners in the still-unresolved case.
“The money they are spending on this, which is already in the five figures, could certainly go for far better things than it is.”
What is the surveyor’s job?The issue at stake, both parties agree, is
what exactly the job of county surveyor en-tails. According to Hamilton, he is obligated to protect taxpayers. According to commis-sioners, he is supposed to settle disputes when, and only when, disputes arise.
“As county surveyor, I have a duty to pro-tect survey monuments,” Hamilton said. “I’m obligated to protect the taxpayers, but the commissioners refuse to fund my office to allow me to do this. The county refuses to give me an office. I have no budget. I pay for my own computer, my own phone, my own stamps and even my own gas.
“I ran to establish this office and was met with resistance the day I got there. The commissioners have taken the attitude that they are not concerned about this. They don’t see the importance of the work sur-veyors do. ... This work must be completed in order to bring the county into compli-ance with state law.”
Hamilton’s history with surveying law includes being part of a Colorado Supreme Court case in which he and his firm, Ham-
ilton Enterprises LLC, helped to establish the very law that states it is illegal to destroy such monuments and not have them prop-erly and professionally replaced.
Hamilton has been told by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, with whom he filed a complaint against the county in Septem-ber 2012, that the county would replace any survey markers that were destroyed in the sidewalk repair projects if the affected property owners came forward. If a proper-ty owner hired a private surveyor to do this work it would cost upward of $400, Hamil-ton says.
And while Monsson points out that no one has come forward as of yet and com-plained, Hamilton’s beef is that the county is not in compliance on the issue and that most citizens don’t even realize the impor-tance of the markers until they need them.
“The heart of this case is the abuse of power by the county commissioners want-ing to run my office,” Hamilton said. “For years there has never been an office estab-lished here. I don’t know that it’s ever been discussed here before, but it should be.
“Most importantly, it’s the destruction of the private property by the county that re-ally bothers me. If they would do something about it, I’d withdraw my complaint.”
And while Hamilton’s complaint is still open, so is the case pending against him.
“The real dispute is how you read the statutes and what Mr. Hamilton wants to do and how he wants to change things,” Mons-son said. “After numerous disagreements the county made the decision to sue to have the judge properly interpret the statutes.
“Maybe Hamilton’s right, maybe the county surveyor should be doing more things, but that’s up to the Douglas County commissioners to decide if this is really a good idea to take money from an existing program and put it into this project of his. And so far Mr. Hamilton hasn’t been able to convince the commissioners of that fact.”
Now, Hamilton and the commissioners will have to wait and see what 18th Judicial District Court Judge Paul King understands to be the duties of the county surveyor.
Douglas County Surveyor Dale Hamilton is involved in a legal battle with the county over what he feels his job entails vs. what the county says it does. Hamilton says that he is unable to perform his duties without an office or a budget, which is currently the case. Photo by Ryan Boldrey
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School-board candidate backs ongoing reformsReynolds says changes need time; officials should listenBy Jane [email protected]
Judi Reynolds is motivated to serve on the Douglas County School Board by her support for the board’s efforts to reform ed-ucation. Her three school-aged children are an equally important source of inspiration.
“The reasons I decided to run for the board revolve around a lot of the changes that happened over the course of the last four years,” said Reynolds, who serves on DCSD’s District Accountability Commit-tee. “I feel it’s important that we give those things an opportunity to work.
“It also revolves around the fact that I have three children in the district. I feel that it’s really important we do everything as a community we can in order to give the best possible education to all of our kids.”
A former exercise physiologist with a master’s degree in education, Reynolds now is a stay-at-home mom and active school volunteer. In addition to the DAC, she serves on Franktown Elementary’s School Accountability Committee.
Reynolds’ family benefited from the educational options available in DCSD, she said, when one of her daughters took advanced math classes through the online eDCSD that weren’t available at Franktown Elementary. Those classes helped her “leap ahead” at middle school, Reynolds said.
She’s also seen the upside of site-based budgeting, a policy that allows individual school leaders to decide how to spend the share of district money allocated to them.
“At Franktown, we sat down in our SAC and with our community and had discus-sions about what things we value as a com-munity,” Reynolds said. “We never lost mu-sic or art or PE at our elementary school
because we found ways to make things happen. We now have a reading recovery teacher and a gifted-and-talented facilita-tor — again because as a community, we decided those things were priorities.”
She also supports the revamped pay-for-perfor-mance and market-based pay programs for teachers.
During four years of regular attendance at board meetings, Reynolds said she’s listened to teachers’ and community members’ concerns about the many changes enacted under the current school board. Even
as she supports the reforms, she feels com-passion for those reeling from them.
“There has been a tremendous amount of change in the district,” she said. “I cer-tainly understand and have empathy. I think that’s largely what the board’s job is in that public comment arena, to sit and listen and take into consideration what people have to say about what’s going on.”
Board service “is going to require a thick skin,” she said. “But I think it also requires that ability to listen and pay attention.”
Among Reynolds’ top priorities is ensur-ing parental involvement.
“One of the most important things to me is we continue to educate our community about what their education options are for their kids,” she said. “Because of the way things are structured in our district, as par-ents we have an opportunity to have a very big voice in what goes on in our local build-ings.”
Reynolds shrugs off any suggestion her Douglas County Republican Party endorse-ment will color her decisions while serving on the board.
“My decisions are based on my princi-ples, and my belief on what’s right for kids,” she said.
Reynolds
County surveyor, commissioners at oddsilton Enterprises LLC, helped to establish the very law that states it is illegal to destroy such monuments and not have them prop-erly and professionally replaced.
Hamilton has been told by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, with whom he filed a complaint against the county in Septem-ber 2012, that the county would replace any survey markers that were destroyed in the sidewalk repair projects if the affected property owners came forward. If a proper-ty owner hired a private surveyor to do this work it would cost upward of $400, Hamil-ton says.
And while Monsson points out that no one has come forward as of yet and com-plained, Hamilton’s beef is that the county is not in compliance on the issue and that most citizens don’t even realize the impor-tance of the markers until they need them.
“The heart of this case is the abuse of power by the county commissioners want-ing to run my office,” Hamilton said. “For years there has never been an office estab-lished here. I don’t know that it’s ever been discussed here before, but it should be.
“Most importantly, it’s the destruction of the private property by the county that re-ally bothers me. If they would do something about it, I’d withdraw my complaint.”
And while Hamilton’s complaint is still open, so is the case pending against him.
“The real dispute is how you read the statutes and what Mr. Hamilton wants to do and how he wants to change things,” Mons-son said. “After numerous disagreements the county made the decision to sue to have the judge properly interpret the statutes.
“Maybe Hamilton’s right, maybe the county surveyor should be doing more things, but that’s up to the Douglas County commissioners to decide if this is really a good idea to take money from an existing program and put it into this project of his. And so far Mr. Hamilton hasn’t been able to convince the commissioners of that fact.”
Now, Hamilton and the commissioners will have to wait and see what 18th Judicial District Court Judge Paul King understands to be the duties of the county surveyor.
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TCAP scores dim on second data crunch School district says new data tool resulted in error By Jane Reuter [email protected]
The Douglas County School Dis-trict’s 2013 Transitional Colorado Assessment Program (TCAP) scores aren’t as bright as school offi cials ini-tially thought, a mistake attributed to an incomplete analysis of data.
Though the changes are not dra-matic and DCSD distributed the new information, some parents think the district hasn’t adequately explained the error.
A special edition of DCSD’s online community newsletter, NewsLine, emailed on Aug. 15, included a chart showing scores increased from 2012 to 2013 in all four subject areas.
A second NewsLine sent Aug. 21 included a different, updated chart, which shows reading and math scores decreased slightly from 2012 to 2013, while writing and science scores in-creased.
Connie Davidson, one of at least three parents who questioned the ini-tial NewsLine release, noted the fol-low-up newsletter doesn’t alert read-ers to the fact that it includes different information.
“I’m disappointed that the accurate TCAP info was buried near the bottom of this new Newsline, and that it wasn’t identifi ed as the correction of an er-ror,” she said.
Another parent, fi nancial analyst
John Roth, contacted DCSD systems performance offi cer Syna Morgan with his concerns about the initial data. Roth is married to frequent dis-trict critic Susan Meek, a former DCSD spokeswoman and onetime school board candidate who now is actively involved in helping elect four new board members.
The decreases are not “statistically signifi cant,” Morgan said, which is de-fi ned as a drop of 3 or more percentage points. Even with the re-calculation, the district outpaced the state average more than 12 percentage points. And on the upside, the increase in science scores was remarkable, she said.
“Statistically signifi cant or not, we don’t want any decreases,” Morgan said. “So we pay attention to that and address it in our district improvement plan. Our increase in science was sta-tistically signifi cant. In all other areas, we sustained high performance. (But) in no other content areas was there an increase that was statistically signifi -cant.”
Morgan said it’s a choice whether to “celebrate the high performance of Douglas County sustaining” or to point to negatives.
“We’re very serious about taking any decrease into consideration,” she said. “However, we also know that sta-tistically, there will be a variance from year to year of one or two percentage points.”
The difference between the fi rst and second set of scores stems from a new DCSD data analysis tool that left out scores from students no longer in
the district, according to Morgan.The data was “based on the current
year’s enrollment, not the entire pop-ulation tested last year,” she said. “So that’s where the error came in.”
Morgan said she carefully reviewed the text in a draft press release from the communications department, but did not thoroughly scrutinize the graphs.
“When we investigated why there was a discrepancy in the results, that’s when we discovered the only students that were pulled into the summary were the students that were enrolled this year,” she said, adding that she was upset by the discovery.
Morgan could not estimate how many students’ scores were omitted from the initial calculation. Students in grade 3-10 participate in the annual spring TCAP.
Though DCSD’s most recently re-leased TCAP charts now match Roth’s, he remains skeptical about the accu-racy of some district-released infor-mation.
“I guess our role in this day and age is to check them,” said Roth. “I’d love for (the initial) TCAP scores to be true. But it wasn’t the case.”
Davidson, a certifi ed public ac-countant, expressed a similar senti-ment.
“I’ve had a lot of concerns with many different issues that are going on, so that prompted me to look at the numbers myself,” she said. “It’s very concerning to me how much control they have over what gets out to people. I just want the truth out there.”
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CORRECTION A story in last week’s paper incorrectly
identifi ed the district in which Douglas County School Board candidate John Pe-terson lives. He is a candidate in District B, now served by term-limited board presi-dent John Carson.
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Group’s ad campaign backs school changes Americans for Prosperity chapter supports reforms By Jane Reuter [email protected]
The Colorado chapter of Americans for Prosperity — whose controversial parent organization has strong ties to conservative causes — launched an ad campaign Aug. 21 in support of Douglas County School Dis-trict’s education reforms.
Director Dustin Zvonek, a Douglas County resident, said the timing of the campaign is not related to the November school board election.
“This comes in response to efforts by teacher unions and other left-wing special interests to reverse years of progress in the district,” according to a press release from AFP Colorado.
“We don’t get involved in races,” said Zvonek, whose children are enrolled in Douglas County schools. “What we care about is highlighting the reforms that are being put in place by the school district, and making sure the residents of the district know about them. They are being leaders in terms of pushing the envelope on educa-tion reform.
“Despite some of the misinformation (residents) might be hearing, the school district is actually getting stronger for the people that matter most — which is of course the students.”
The press release describes school board critics’ efforts as “counterproductive.”
“While those hoping to roll back such innovations are desperately trying to paint these and other positive changes as some-thing counterproductive and controver-sial, the district by all measures is not just healthy but thriving thanks to a pro-reform
school board,” it reads.Zvonek described AFP Colorado as a
free-market organization involved in a number of issues, including education re-form.
AFP Colorado is funded by private dona-tions, Zvonek said.
“We’re funded by lots of people from all across the state,” he said.
Zvonek is a former lobbyist who was em-ployed by EIS Solutions, which specializes in “grassroots coalition building,” including legislative affairs, strategic message devel-opment and survey research, according to its website. In 2011, EIS was a campaign consultant for Douglas County Citizens for Education Reform, which supported two ultimately unsuccessful school district tax-hike proposals.
The Puliter Prize-winning PolitiFact, which fact-checks statements from politi-cians, lobbyists and special interest groups,
gives low marks to AFP, the Colorado’s chapter parent organization. It rates one-third of its evaluated ads “mostly false,” and gives 22 percent of them its “pants on fi re” rating — a category reserved for “the most ridiculous falsehoods.”
AFP’s website says it is “an organization of grassroots leaders who engage citizens in the name of limited government and free markets on the local, state, and fed-eral levels.” AFP was founded with support from billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch, who are known for their support of conservative causes and advocacy groups. Currently, AFP is campaigning against the national health care legislation known as Obamacare. In 2011 and 2012, AFP was a private-sector member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a national nonprofi t of legislators and private compa-nies whose members write model legisla-tion.
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Fireworks set to launch at parkThe New Sensation Band will warm up
the crowd for Lone Tree’s fi reworks display starting at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 1 in Sweetwater Park. Food trucks will be available.
The display was canceled on the Fourth of July due to dry conditions.
Sweetwater Park is at 8300 Sweetwater Road, behind the Lone Tree Civic Center. It also can be accessed at Maximus Drive and Yosemite Street.
Fair to honor grandparentsThe Grandparents Day Fair 2013 is
planned from noon to 4 p.m. Sept. 8 at the Lone Tree Recreation Center and adjoining Prairie Sky Park. Activities will include live bluegrass music, carnival-style games, hula hoop contests, face painting, a bounce castle, kissing booth, storyteller, lawn games and Zumba demonstrations.
Admission is $1 for families, and in-cludes fi ve carnival tickets for each family
member. Additional tickets can be pur-chased for activities, food and drinks.
For more information, call Kim Amidei at 303-708-3516.
Firm raises $420,000 for kidsLone Tree’s TW Telecom raised $420,000
for SungateKids during its recent 2013 Charity Invitational golf tournament. Sun-gateKids is a Denver area-based nonprofi t children’s advocacy center for victims of
child abuse and their families.Seventy-six companies and 176 golfers
participated in the Aug. 19 event at the Country Club at Castle Pines.
Over the years, TW Telecom and its partners have raised $3.5 million for SungateKids through the tournament and other events.
SungateKids is a national leader in pro-viding forensic interviews to child victims of crime.
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Voucher program parallels national effortSimilarities, local connections raise questions of broader agendaBy Jane [email protected]
Douglas County Schools’ effort to overhaul the district is in sync with proposals put forth by a conservative, na-tional political organization that many believe advances an education-privatization agenda.
The American Legislative Exchange Council brings leg-islators and corporate representatives together to vote as equals on model legislation. Those proposed laws may then be introduced at the state level by ALEC-member legisla-tors. ALEC supports limited government, free markets and federalism, and its model legislation reflects those beliefs.
ALEC’s “parental choice scholarship program” model legislation — which provides the option to use public mon-ey for children to attend the public or private school that their parents choose — is similar to DCSD’s controversial voucher program.
Additionally, the chair of the Douglas County School District’s Choice Scholarship School, the Independence Institute’s Ben DeGrow, served on ALEC’s Education Task Force as well as DCSD’s Choice Task Force in 2010. Dis-trict Community Relations Officer Cinamon Watson also worked for ALEC on education issues in the mid-1990s, shortly after she graduated from college.
Private school supporters and national school choice advocates made generous contributions to six of the seven Douglas County School Board members during their 2009 and 2011 campaigns. Carrie Mendoza was appointed to re-place Dan Gerken, who also received generous campaign contributions from private school and choice supporters.
Some Douglas County residents find those connections alarming.
“It’s that outside influence of politicizing our schools, and making it not about the kids but about a corporate agenda,” said parent, blogger and current board critic Tri-sha McCombs. “It sounds crazy, but if you start to look at it, you start to see - it’s obvious the ALEC agenda is taking place right here under our noses.”
District leaders dismiss any such link.“We’ve never had any interaction with them,” school
board President John Carson said. “This a school board of Douglas County residents. Most of us are parents of kids in the schools. We all happen to believe parental choice is re-ally the way to go. But it’s all Douglas County-based.
“We don’t work on developing our programs and poli-cies with national groups. We have plenty of our own re-
sources to do that.”Douglas County resident Anne Kleinkopf, director of the
nonprofit Taxpayers for Public Education (TFPE) that sued the Douglas County School District over its voucher pro-gram, believes the local reform efforts’ roots go deep.
“Douglas County has been chosen by allies of a nation-wide, conservative, anti-public school movement to be the battleground for their movement,” she said. “All of these organizations have a very specific agenda for education, of which vouchers are only the first step. We are watching as the Douglas County school board is carrying that out step-by-step.”
The voucher program is part of that agenda, she be-lieves. While the district maintains the voucher program — which allows the use of a portion of state funding to partial-ly cover private school tuition — doesn’t take money from the public schools, Kleinkopf disagrees. It also benefits the private operators that run those schools, most of which are religious, she said.
In the long run, said Cindy Barnard, a co-plaintiff in the voucher case and TFPE president, “I believe this is about socio-economic segregation, a tiered system for the haves and have-nots.”
What is ALEC?According to its website, ALEC is a nonpartisan organiza-
tion whose more than 2,000 members work “to advance the fundamental principles of free-market enterprise, limited government, and federalism at the state level … through a public-private partnership of state legislators, the private sector and general public. Legislators welcome their pri-vate sector counterparts to the table as equals, working in unison to solve the challenges facing the nation.”
ALEC’s annual dues don’t reflect that partnership phi-losophy. A public-sector or legislative membership costs $50 per year; a private-sector membership starts at $7,000 and tops out at $25,000 annually.
A group called ALEC Exposed says the group’s self-de-scription is smoke and mirrors.
“Through the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, global corporations and state politi-cians vote behind closed doors to try to rewrite state laws that govern your rights,” the ALEC Exposed website says. “These so-called `model bills’ reach into almost every area of American life and often directly benefit huge corpora-tions.”
ALEC’s Education Task Force, on which DeGrow sat in 2010, advocates for reform policies that promote parental choice and school accountability, consistent with Jefferso-nian principles of free markets and federalism.
“We want kids to have excellent opportunities,” ALEC spokesman Bill Meierling said. “That’s not to the detriment of teacher and schools or to the goal of privatization.”
Chris Lubienski, an associate professor at the University of Illinois who studies education reform, said ALEC has a “pro-privatization agenda.”
“A lot of them do have a well-intentioned interest in changing education, but it often becomes more of a busi-ness model,” he said. “Evidence suggests that doesn’t work.”
Ties to ALEC ALEC’s model legislation includes a Parental Choice
Scholarship Program Act, approved by the ALEC board of
directors in 2005. Like DCSD’s program, ALEC’s legislation calls for creating a scholarship program that provides chil-dren the option to use state funds to attend the public or private elementary or secondary school of their parents’ choice.
DeGrow, a Jefferson County resident, is senior policy analyst for the conservative Denver-based Independence Institute’s Education Policy Center, which supports vouch-ers. He also serves as chairman of DCSD’s Choice Scholar-ship School, an entity formed to oversee and administer the voucher program.
DeGrow said he doesn’t remember whether ALEC’s choice scholarship program was discussed during his ser-vice on DCSD’s Choice Task Force. He also doesn’t see cause for concern.
“No reform ideas or anything germinates in a vacuum,” he said. “It’s not like when Douglas County created this they hadn’t heard about scholarship programs in other states.
“Some people may want to connect dots and create con-spiracy theories. But the interest for expanding choice and opportunity in Douglas County is something that definitely resonated with people in the community.”
DCSD spokeswoman Watson said she was a “low-level employee, an intern” for ALEC who “worked on a lot of dif-ferent projects.”
ALEC documents show her title as “legislative director for education and empowerment policy.” Watson co-ed-ited the 1993-94 ALEC publication “Restoring the Ameri-can Dream: Empowerment and Education Policy,” which outlined performance-based pay systems for teachers including a career ladder and evaluation system, and an educational choice program giving parents funds to enroll students in participating private schools. Those ideas now are the policy of Douglas County Schools.
Today, Watson has little to say about her time at ALEC.“I did work for ALEC immediately after I got out of col-
lege,” she said. “It was a great experience to live in Wash-ington, D.C., learn about the legislative process and meet legislators from across the country.”
District emphasizes choicePrivate company involvement in education is nothing
new, DeGrow pointed out.“We know that monopoly models of education are not
the most efficient and beneficial to students,” he said. “So there’s room for partnerships with business in public edu-cation, as long as it’s ultimately in the interest of the stu-dent and family consumers of education, and they have the power to choose or not.”
Carson said the board’s common goal is simply to pro-vide educational options and ensure the system’s account-ability.
“The laws of Colorado have created a unique situa-tion where we can do a lot of these innovations at the lo-cal school board level,” he said. “They are such that local school boards have tremendous autonomy and authority over the school district, which is pretty unique in the coun-try.”
Kleinkopf remains convinced outside influences are changing DCSD.
“Our point is not to say ALEC (and related organiza-tions) are bad,” she said. “It’s to say voters and citizens need to be aware what’s going on.”
Petition decries politics in school electionsBy Jane [email protected]
A grassroots group is gathering electronic signa-tures on a petition aimed at limiting the role of poli-tics in the Douglas County School Board race, and urg-ing elected officials to listen to some community mem-bers’ concerns.
The group, the Strong Schools Coalition, is a non-political community orga-nization that has often criti-cized the school board and administration.
The petition, posted Aug. 15, asks state, county and other elected officials to re-frain from endorsing school board candidates and to in-stead hear parent concerns firsthand during a Sept. 25 Douglas County commu-nity forum. By Aug. 22, the petition had gathered 814 of Strong Schools’ hoped-for 1,000 signatures.
Upon reaching that number, Strong Schools plans to submit the peti-tion to a large group of state and local officials, includ-ing Gov. John Hickenloop-
er, and state and county elected leaders including state Sen. Ted Harvey, state Rep. Chris Holbert, District Attorney George Brauchler and Douglas County Sheriff David Weaver.
“As an elected official, we would like to provide you an opportunity to hear from parents prior to endorsing or promoting any Doug-las County school board candidates,” the petition reads. “It is essential that parents have a voice in de-termining the direction of our school district, and we are concerned that partisan politics may distort the per-spective of the very people our district is here to serve: Douglas County families.”
In an emailed statement, Douglas County Republi-can Chairman Craig Stein-er, whose organization re-
cently endorsed four school board candidates, said the petition won’t have the in-tended effect.
“By taking their petition to the governor — the high-est Democratic politician in the state — those who oppose education reform and support union inter-ests are engaging in exactly the kind of political activity that their email campaign claims to reject,” he wrote. “But if they believe that the taxpaying voters of Douglas County would place value in the endorsement of a governor who is seeking to raise taxes by a billion dol-lars per year, then I’d en-courage them to seek his support.”
Steiner referred to a No-vember ballot question seeking statewide approval on a $1 billion income-tax
increase for school funding.Strong Schools president
Laura Mutton said Steiner is off base.
“The petition has noth-ing to do with education reform or unions,” she said. “This petition is a petition to state that there is no clear measurement of parent sat-isfaction in the district and we want all of our elected officials — whether they are the governor or locally elected officials — to under-stand the impact of these changes in Douglas County on parents and students before making an endorse-ment.”
She doesn’t know if any of the elected officials plan to endorse candidates.
“We have heard concern from members of the pub-lic that there will be pres-sure to endorse candidates during this upcoming elec-tion,” Mutton said. “I feel when you start endorsing school board candidates, it detracts from the voices of the parent.”
The coalition’s forum is planned for 6:30 p.m. Sept. 25 at the Highlands Ranch Library.
‘The petition has nothing to do with education reform or unions.’Laura Mutton, Strong Schools president
Voucher program parallels national effortdirectors in 2005. Like DCSD’s program, ALEC’s legislation calls for creating a scholarship program that provides chil-dren the option to use state funds to attend the public or private elementary or secondary school of their parents’ choice.
DeGrow, a Jefferson County resident, is senior policy analyst for the conservative Denver-based Independence Institute’s Education Policy Center, which supports vouch-ers. He also serves as chairman of DCSD’s Choice Scholar-ship School, an entity formed to oversee and administer the voucher program.
DeGrow said he doesn’t remember whether ALEC’s choice scholarship program was discussed during his ser-vice on DCSD’s Choice Task Force. He also doesn’t see cause for concern.
“No reform ideas or anything germinates in a vacuum,” he said. “It’s not like when Douglas County created this they hadn’t heard about scholarship programs in other states.
“Some people may want to connect dots and create con-spiracy theories. But the interest for expanding choice and opportunity in Douglas County is something that definitely resonated with people in the community.”
DCSD spokeswoman Watson said she was a “low-level employee, an intern” for ALEC who “worked on a lot of dif-ferent projects.”
ALEC documents show her title as “legislative director for education and empowerment policy.” Watson co-ed-ited the 1993-94 ALEC publication “Restoring the Ameri-can Dream: Empowerment and Education Policy,” which outlined performance-based pay systems for teachers including a career ladder and evaluation system, and an educational choice program giving parents funds to enroll students in participating private schools. Those ideas now are the policy of Douglas County Schools.
Today, Watson has little to say about her time at ALEC.“I did work for ALEC immediately after I got out of col-
lege,” she said. “It was a great experience to live in Wash-ington, D.C., learn about the legislative process and meet legislators from across the country.”
District emphasizes choicePrivate company involvement in education is nothing
new, DeGrow pointed out.“We know that monopoly models of education are not
the most efficient and beneficial to students,” he said. “So there’s room for partnerships with business in public edu-cation, as long as it’s ultimately in the interest of the stu-dent and family consumers of education, and they have the power to choose or not.”
Carson said the board’s common goal is simply to pro-vide educational options and ensure the system’s account-ability.
“The laws of Colorado have created a unique situa-tion where we can do a lot of these innovations at the lo-cal school board level,” he said. “They are such that local school boards have tremendous autonomy and authority over the school district, which is pretty unique in the coun-try.”
Kleinkopf remains convinced outside influences are changing DCSD.
“Our point is not to say ALEC (and related organiza-tions) are bad,” she said. “It’s to say voters and citizens need to be aware what’s going on.”
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Motor Vehicle Offices announce new hours of operation Hours of operation for all Douglas County Motor Vehicle offices – Castle Rock, Highlands Ranch and the Park Meadows location – will change effective Sept. 3. The new hours are 8 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information please visit www.douglas.co.us/motorvehicle/online-renewals-and-other-services/
Household Chemical Roundup Sept. 7 in Castle Rock The last drive-through Household Chemical Roundup this year, will be held on September 7, at Town of Castle Rock Utilities – 175 Kellogg Court from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This event is hosted by the Tri-County Health Department, and offered free-of-charge to Douglas County residents. Participants will be asked for a $25 contribution to help offset the high costs of hazardous waste disposal and will be asked to verify residency. For more information including a map and a list of acceptable items, please visit www.tchd.org/householdchemical.htm
Castle Rock Slash/Mulch Site Season Closure Sept. 7Douglas County residents have until 1 p.m., Sat., Sept. 7 to deliver dead tree branches and shrubbery cleared from their property to the Castle Rock location. Later this year the site will re-open on two Saturdays for free mulch pick up. For details please visit www.douglas.co.us/publ icworks/s lash-mulch-program/
Preparedness Training for Citizens in SeptemberThe Douglas County Office of Emergency Management invites citizens to Preparedness Training on Tuedays in September, which is National Preparedness Month. Topics of discussion will include discussion on Evacuations– People and Animals; Code Red—phone notifications and Go kits—what should you have ready. There is no cost or registration required to attend any of the training classes. For more information and to view dates and locations of the training please visit www.dcsheriff.net/emergencymanagement/ or call the Office of Emergency Management at 303-660-7589
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Mother carries on daughter’s dream‘Run for One’ to raise funds for CURE International
By Ryan [email protected]
When Becky Yarberry was killed in a car accident six years ago outside Vail, her mother began to dedicate part of her own life to fulfilling Yarberry’s.
Yarberry, employed as an EMT and three weeks shy of her 28th birthday, was head-ing westbound on Interstate 70 en route to a doctor’s appointment when a woman driving eastbound hit the median, flipped over it and landed her vehicle on top of Yar-berry’s.
The young woman who had dedicated her life to helping others was pronounced dead on the scene. Much of that time she had spent helping others had been with CURE International — a nonprofit organi-zation that operates hospitals and programs in 25 developing countries worldwide. As part of the program, patients receive surgi-cal treatment regardless of gender, religion, ethnicity or ability to pay.
Yarberry had taken numerous trips with the organization to places such as Hondu-ras, where — fittingly — money raised from her memorial went to fund a 20-bed hospi-tal wing in San Pedro Sula, one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
Yarberry had spent a lot of time talking with her mother, Littleton resident Margie Schoedel, about CURE, and Schoedel had made plans to go with her on her next trip. While the two were never able to go togeth-er, Schoedel, a teacher at Castle View High School, picked right up where her daughter left off and began taking her own trips.
“She gave me a lot of gifts and that was one of them,” said Schoedel, who last spring took five Castle View students with her to the Dominican Republic, in addi-tion to raising $12,000 for CURE during the school’s “make a difference” week.
“She was a hard worker, very outgoing, and had a heart for helping others, espe-cially those less fortunate,” Schoedel said of her daughter. “What I’m trying to do for Becky is get the word out about CURE In-ternational and raise awareness about the types of diseases these kids are facing such as cleft palate, hydrocephalus and club-foot.”
One of the ways Schoedel is getting the word out is through the Sept. 7 “Run for One” 5K/2K family fun run and walk at Mountainview Community Church in Highlands Ranch. The event, which raised $2,100 for CURE last year through Becky’s Blessings Foundation — a nonprofit found-ed by Schoedel in 2012 — is in its second year in Highlands Ranch. Schoedel had helped organize triathlons in Avon the pre-vious three years, but thought it would be
nice to do something local and more fam-ily-focused.
“Strollers are welcome, dogs on leash are welcome and we’ll have a bouncy house for the kids, a DJ and a silent auction,” she said. “It’s really a community event. Students who are looking to pick up community ser-vice hours can also come and volunteer.”
The event is from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 7 at Mountainview Community Church, 40 E. Highlands Ranch Parkway. To register, visit www.runforone2013.eventbrite.com. To learn more about the nonprofits, visit www.beckysblessings.org and www.cure.org. If you wish to donate to the silent auction, contact [email protected].
Becky Yarberry, right, dedicated much of her time to CURE International while she was alive, traveling to countries such as Honduras to help children in medical need. The Sept. 7 “Run For One” in Highlands Ranch will benefit CURE International as well as Becky’s Blessings, a local nonprofit set up in her memory. Courtesy photo
Out of Darkness Walk to help fight suicideFourth annual event will feature speeches, food, resource fair
By Jane [email protected]
To date in 2013, Douglas County has lost no teens to suicide, according to Coro-ner Lora Thomas. It’s cause for optimism following seven recorded teen suicides in 2012, and six in 2011.
Conversely, an Aug. 19 press release from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment showed Colorado’s 2012 suicide rate was its highest ever.
The change in Douglas County is “great news,” said Out of the Darkness Commu-nity Walk co-chair Sheri Cole, who lost her son David to suicide in 2009. “I’d like to think the combined efforts of many organi-zations in the county have had an impact on that. I have cautious optimism.
“But true success in my eyes would be that we don’t need to have the walk,” said the director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Colorado. “Unfor-tunately, in our society, it’s in the news al-most daily. It needs more time, attention, research and support.”
The fourth south-metro walk is planned from 9 a.m. to noon Sept. 7 at Highlands Ranch High School. The free event includes resource fair, speeches from local and na-tional officials, food carts and the three-mile walk.
To date, the organization already has raised a third of its $140,000 goal for the 2013 event. More than 500 people have signed up to walk, almost half of the 1,200 who walked it in 2012.
That early and eager response is indica-tive not just of the walk’s success, but the organization’s.
In Colorado, AFSP funding enables many high schools to provide the “More than Sad: Teen Depression” suicide awareness train-ing as well as “Sources of Strength,” a peer leader suicide awareness training, and community programs.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office’s Youth Education and Safety in Schools (YESS) also includes a segment on suicide awareness.
The Douglas County Suicide Prevention Alliance also hosts trainings and awareness programs. Thomas believes the programs are working.
“Prevention is something you can’t re-
ally measure,” Thomas said. “You can count the people you’ve lost. But there’s no way to count the people you haven’t lost.”
The programs could be factors in the fact that no Douglas County teens have died by suicide so far this year.
“The first two years I was here in office, we had a lot of teenagers (die by suicide),” Thomas said. “That’s why this year I just kept holding my breath. We hope the trend continues through the rest of the year.”
Cole also sees hope in scientific findings.“Research is showing suicide is a dis-
ease of the brain,” she said. “More people are willing now to see this as an illness. The brain is a very complex thing and some-times we don’t know what’s going on up there from a biochemical perspective.”
Such news, and the work she does to help stem the disease of suicide, is also healing, Cole said.
“It might sound a little strange, but it gives you a place to put it,” she said.
“I would rather try to move forward than to be stuck. It never ceases to amaze me how many people I’ve met through tragedy that also are willing to open their hearts, share their stories and do thing to make a difference, so hopefully other families don’t have to be in these shoes.”
warning signs of suicide• Talking about wanting to kill themselves, or saying they wish they were dead
• Looking for a way to kill themselves, such as hoard-ing medicine or buying a gun
• Talking about a specific suicide plan
• Feeling hopeless, humiliated, desperate, or needing to escape from an intolerable situation
• Feeling like a burden to others
• Suffering intense anxiety and/or panic attacks
• Losing interest in things and in the ability to experi-ence pleasure
• Insomnia
• Becoming socially isolated and withdrawn from friends, family, and others
• Acting irritable or agitated
• Showing rage, or talking about seeking revenge for being victimized or rejected
For help, call the Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
Source: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
8 Lone Tree Voice August 29, 2013
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opinions / yours and ours
Doing the most difficult things firstThe other day I found myself facing a
situation where I had to have a difficult conversation with someone very close and special to me.
And the more I thought about it and waited, the more difficult the conversation was becoming in my head and I almost talked myself out of raising the issue and having the discussion.
Then I remembered something that Zig Ziglar used to say, “If you ever have to kiss a frog you will want to kiss it right away, be-cause the longer you wait, the bigger and uglier that frog is going to become.” And then the thought will become so gross that we will eventually just avoid it completely.
Have you ever been in a situation where there was a difficult task, or something that you just did not want to do? Maybe it was going to be a terrible or fierce conversation you had to have and the simple thought of it was giving you heartburn and a head-
ache.The fact is that the more we delay or
avoid the task or discussion, the more our minds take over, and our imagination cre-ates scenarios that are far worse and more horrific than what the reality will actually be.
Additionally, as we go about our day, or our week, or maybe even our weekend, the more that we carry the burden of having to
do what we ultimately have to do, the less productive we are in all other areas of life.
Not only are we less productive, we become distracted, and other things that we enjoy doing and people we appreciate being around are forced to suffer along with us as we are just not ourselves during this time.
On the positive side, when we finally get the action item we have been dreading off our plate, deal with it and get it past us, we are liberated and have freed ourselves up to get back to doing the things that bring us happiness and allow us to focus on our goals and other tasks at hand.
Now don’t mistake this as a suggestion for rushing into action and calling some-one out, initiating a tough talk, or tackling a less than desirable activity.
The recommended approach is to make sure that we have taken the time to consider the “why” behind the difficult
task, thinking through and considering carefully what we have to say or do. Maybe at least practicing the 24-hour rule to give ourselves time to think it through is the minimal approach. But at the end of the day, when we have thought it through and know with absolute certainty that we must take care of the issue or challenge, we should make it the very next thing that we do.
Is there something looming over your head or heart that you know that you need to do but have put it off out of dreading the event or outcome? I would love to hear all about it at [email protected], and when we tackle those ugly frogs first, the rest of our day will be better than good.
Michael Norton, a resident of Highlands Ranch, is the former president of the Zig Ziglar organization and CEO and founder of www.candogo.com
Douglas County Schools’ education reform is working
We’re all familiar with the old adage about not trying to fix what isn’t broken. That warning holds doubly true for what’s not just working, but working very well.
Colorado has earned national recogni-tion in recent years as a state that em-braced public school reform and account-ability, much to the benefit of the families and students who rely on the system. And Douglas County public schools have led the way, thanks to courageous reformers on the board who haven’t been afraid to shake up things, or challenge the status quo, by putting the interests of students first.
But today that forward progress is under attack, and facing possible rollback, from some of the same interest groups that helped run the once-proud American public education system into the ground. Teachers unions and left-wing interest groups, angry about losing control in Douglas County, are now in the midst of an all-out summer offensive, hoping that by reversing reforms in this battleground county they can also roll back forward progress across Colorado.
They are fanning out across the county, trying to portray success as failure and progress and innovation as something to be feared. If they can vilify reform-minded board members, or whip up controversy over positive change, other school boards and school districts undoubtedly will take notice. This battle thus has implications far beyond the Douglas County line.
That’s why Americans for Prosperity Foundation-Colorado, a longtime champi-on of choice and accountability in educa-tion, is stepping in to counter the misinfor-mation and provide families with the facts they need to make informed decisions regarding their public schools. The theme of our effort is straightforward and honest: It’s Working. The reforms are working and the district shouldn’t look back.
We’ll remind parents that reform is working for them in Douglas County, in large part because the special interests who are leading the reform rollback aren’t in charge anymore.
The needs of families and students now come first. We see this in the district’s im-proving fiscal situation, and in test scores that continue to improve, while much of the rest of the state languishes.
With the iron grip of teachers unions loosened, more responsibility now rests with elected school board members and school administrators, who are free to ex-periment, innovate and improve account-ability without union shop rules exercising a veto.
Typical of this innovation is the dis-trict’s groundbreaking choice scholarship program, which was challenged in court by the American Civil Liberties Union for daring to give Douglas County families more choice in the school they may attend. And Douglas County is also experimenting with a bold, promising merit pay program, which will reward teachers who go above and beyond in the classroom.
Under the old system, union-imposed pay rules meant high-performing, more-motivated teachers received the same pay that slackers did — something that demoralized the best teachers and drained the system of vitality. Merit pay will reward higher achievement and performance, much to the benefit of teachers and stu-dents.
Such boldness just isn’t possible in hidebound old school districts in which the foxes run the henhouse. The foxes are now beating down the door to get back in in Douglas County. Everything depends on holding them at bay.
All reforms worthy of the name must aim at one ultimate goal, of course, which is improving the product and providing a better education for the student. And by that measure, too, reforms are working.
Six Douglas County high schools were ranked by Newsweek as among the best in Colorado. Test scores in math, science and reading are all up over the last five years, showing that the new leadership in the district has taken an always great district and actually improved its performance. And there’s no reason to believe such trends won’t continue, and even accelerate, if reactionary attempts at rollback don’t succeed.
No meaningful change comes without a measure of conflict and controversy, but this is no reason to undo what is unmistak-ably working.
Dustin Zvonek is the Colorado state director of Americans for Prosperity Foundation, a free-market, free-enterprise organization. The foundation is based in Arlington, Va., and the Colorado chapter is based in Colo-rado Springs.
letter to the editorClaim about ‘union thugs’ is baloney
Keith Wanklyn wrongly assumes in his letter to the editor, printed Aug. 15, that a coordinated effort existed by “union thugs” who organized anti-Douglas County Schools letters to the editor.
I suspect it’s hard for some to believe that seven school board members and one superintendent could wreak so much havoc on a once-great school district in so few years that they might compel so many parents to speak out, but it’s true.
This was no organized effort, and the conditions in Douglas County School District really have deteriorated that badly. I recognize many of those names of con-cerned parents.
We are involved parents who volunteer in the schools and see the ill effects of this board’s policies firsthand.
Mr. Wanklyn likely assumes that the parents and teachers who spoke out at the Aug. 6 BOE meeting (article in the Aug. 15 issue) were organized by “union thugs” as well, but once again he would be wrong.
Teachers who left the district, not over union issues, but because of how poorly they had been treated and how misguided the Board of Education is in their edu-cational policies, spoke out on the same night.
They didn’t speak out under the organi-zation of any union, but instead at the sug-gestion of and organization of one parent. I know this because I am that parent.
Voters see through the false claims of union involvement, and this November, they will take back the district from the ideologues who have hijacked it.
Jason VirdinCastle Rock
Tea Party concerned about America’s futureAn Aug. 15 letter entitled “Harvey
dancing to the tea party tune,” by Denis Gessing, berates Republican state Sen. Ted Harvey for being chairman of a PAC opposing Democrat Hillary Clinton’s run for the White House. Gessing bemoans Re-publican donors supporting this legal and ethical opposition but is silent about the hundreds of millions contributed by unions, including the Douglas County school union, to support Democrat causes.
Attempting to belittle this opposi-tion, Gessing says “Quick, dig up Vince Foster and every other Clinton scandal.” Foster, Deputy White House Counsel and confidant of then first lady Clinton, some-how managed to commit “suicide” when he supposedly drove his car to a park with-out using his car keys, covered himself with carpet fibers, and shot himself without leaving fingerprints on the gun. No wonder this unsolved “suicide” is a scandal. Gess-ing is silent on the Benghazi scandal, when Secretary of State Clinton made no phone call to find out what was happening at the consulate where Ambassador Stevens and staff were murdered. When Congress asked about this, she said “What difference ... does it make?”
Gessing then claims the Republican U.S. House is “the worst in history.” He is silent about the 2008-2010 U.S. House, Senate, and presidency, all controlled by Demo-crats. They passed the impossible to imple-ment Obamacare, disliked by a majority of Americans, and increased our national debt to $15 trillion. Now that’s truly the worst in history,
Lastly, Gessing uses the common tactic
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of trying to make Republicans appear racist, by saying they don’t want “a black man in the White House.” The truth is no thinking person wants anyone in the White House, be they green, orange, black, or white, with disastrous policies like Obama’s. Note: The U.S. Senate, Dem-
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What I hear is, voices can say a mouthfulI was listening to the car radio the other
day and heard a voice that is such a mo-notonous drone it could make you reach for the Kool-Aid.
And I thought: Shouldn’t radio be the number-one place for nothing but agree-able voices?
Then I remembered Tiny Tim, who was a fairly creepy novelty act in the 1960s, who must have made a million dollars with his unbearable (to me) high falsetto, vibrato voice.
His looks were a perfect accompani-ment. Long, scraggly hair that seemed to have been unlaundered for days or weeks.
You know the car radio voice I am refer-ring to, but I am not going to name names.
Voice-only talents are desirable because some voices can be good for marketing simply because they are unforgettable, even Kool-Aid ones.
Some voice talents, like Mel Blanc, have become well-known solely because of their vocal distinctions. You can always recog-nize Mel’s voice, but you would never rec-ognize Mel on the street.
The first time I ever thought about dis-tinctive voices was the first time I heard
Froggy, when I was a kid. He was one of the stars in the “Our Gang” films in the early 1940s. He first appeared at age 8, and his voice already sounded like a frog’s croak, so actor Billy Laughlin was nicknamed “Frog-gy.”
He sounded like a much older actor named Eugene Pallette. No one knows who Pallette was, but I was determined to learn how to imitate his voice after seeing him in “My Man Godfrey.” Eventually, and to this day, I can. But who would know? Who would ever say, “That’s a very good Eugene Pallette”?
Froggy was delivering newspapers in real life when his motor scooter was hit by a
bus. He died instantly, age 16.There are some voices — no names
— that drive me crazy. I avoid newscast-ers, sportscasters and other personalities if there’s a voice involved that makes me cringe.
Can we do anything about our voices if we don’t like them? Of course. Like a nose job, you can get a voice job. I’m not sure where, or how, but everything else can be augmented or modified.
Our voices change naturally. Boys’ choirs are just that.
I was at a May D&F one day, and I thought I heard someone over in towels who might be having an afternoon helium. I followed the sounds and found a woman who was in her 50s, and who sounded like a Saturday morning cartoon.
She was an employee. I decided to buy a few hand towels and say something about her unusual voice. She said she wasn’t sur-prised. “Happens to me all the time.”
Then she told me that she was a voice-only performer, and that it was quite lucra-tive.
Sometimes it takes more than one voice to get the job done. I was given a tip about
the Everly Brothers, that they might break up before, during, or after a performance at Knott’s Berry Farm in July 1973. So I was in the audience that night, and sure enough.
Phil walked off the stage leaving his brother Don to carry on — but one Everly brother isn’t the same, and he was booed off the stage. I should mention that Don was drunk and couldn’t remember lyrics, which was why Phil was so upset.
The brothers barely spoke to each other for the next 10 years.
Eventually they repaired the relationship and I went to see them at the Paramount Theatre in Denver in 1998.
Whenever I am asked to give a public talk about my art work, I always finish my presentation by saying that my one regret in life is that I wasn’t one of the Everly Broth-ers. Their harmonies have always meant so much to me.
At the Paramount Theatre that night they received a standing ovation.
Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at [email protected]
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clubs in your communityEditor’s notE: To add or update your club listing, e-mail [email protected], Attn: Voice.
Political
douglas county Democrats executive committee meets at 7 p.m. every first Tuesday at various sites. Contact Ralph Jollensten at 303-663-1286 or e-mail [email protected]. Social discussion meetings are in Highlands Ranch, Castle Rock and Parker-Lone Tree. Visit douglasdemocrats.org and click on calendar for more information.
douglas county Republican Women meet at 11 a.m. the third Wednesday each month at the Lone Tree Golf and Hotel. Call Tanne Aspromonte at 303-840-2764 or visit www.dcgop.org.
lonE trEE Democrats meet the second Tuesday each month at the Lone Tree Civic Center. Call Gordon at 303-790-8264.
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araPahoE salEs Professionals USA meets Thursdays at 7:30 a.m. at Country Buffet, 7475 Park Meadows Drive in Lone Tree. Call Randy Anderson at 303-875-7673 for information.
Bni connEctions of Lone Tree (www.thebniconnections.com) invites business owners to attend its meeting held each Tuesday, 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the Lone Tree Recreation Center, 10249 Ridgegate Circle. There is no charge to attend a meeting as a guest. Please visit www.thebniconnections.com or contact Chris Kaiser at [email protected] or 303-933-1113 for more information.
lonE trEE Networking Professionals is a networking/leads group that meets Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m. at Rio Grande Restaurant in Lone Tree. Exclusive business categories are open. Visitors and new members are welcome. Contact Don Shenk at 303-746-0093.
ProfEssional rEfErral Network meets at 7:15 a.m. Tuesdays at Great Beginnings, east of I-25 at Lincoln Avenue. Call Ronald Conley at 303-841-1860 or e-mail www.profes-sionalreferralnetwork.org.
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lonE trEE Ladies 9-Hole Golf. Applications are now being accepted for the 2012 Thursday morning 9-hole golf group. Ap-plications are available in the Lone Tree Pro Shop or visit http://LTL9Hole.ghinclub.com
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a drEamPowEr Animal Rescue / PAALS adoption for cats, dogs and more meets from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Park Meadows PetsMart. Call 303-688-9503.
dtc Kiwanis Club meets at 7 a.m. every Tuesday at Mimi’s Cafe, 9555 Park Meadows Drive, at the corner of Yosemite and Park Meadows. We are a growing club with 51 members. Our mission is assisting communities and “at risk” children in difficult home environments with financial and personal help and mentoring. Call Frank Zieg at 303-796-1213.
fiBromyalgia womEn’s Group for women wanting to
get together to talk about positive things that have helped them and to make new friends. No fee; must live near Parker/Centennial. Time and day to be figured out by group. Call Leslie at 303-791-8814.
grEat BooKs Discussion Group meets on the first Thursday night of each month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Lone Tree Library. Reading selections are short—plays, short stories, essays, or excerpts from longer works—and new members can come in at any time. We also watch Teaching Company lectures on “The Art of Reading.” Call Kerri Martin at 303-688-7628 or David Williams at 303-708-8854.
highlands ranch Rotary Club meets from 12:10-1:30 p.m. Thursdays at the Lone Tree Golf Club, 9808 Sunningdale Blvd. Each lunch features a speaker. The Rotary is a networking, service and social club. Contact Joe Roos at 720-648-5558 or visit highlandsranchrotary.org.
lonE trEE Fine Arts Group is a nonprofit group that encourages exploration of the fine arts in monthly community workshops. The group meets in the artist-friendly workspace at the Lone Tree Civic Center at 8527 Lone Tree Parkway, in Lone Tree, the third Saturday each month. Visit www.cityoflonetree.com and the link is “interest groups and involvement.”
lonE trEE Optimists meets from noon to 1:15 p.m. Tuesdays at LePeep Restaurant, 7156 E. County Line Road. Call Miles Hardee at 303-973-6409.
original Ports of Call Singles Club for ages 55 and older is a great way to meet new friends and get out among others in your situation! We call our selves a” Circle of Friends. We have a variety of interests, cards, theater, tours, dinners, lunches, golf , bowling and dances etc. It meets every second Monday at Sr. Ric on Miss. from 4-6 p.m. in Aurora. Call JoAnn at 303-751-5195 or just come. It meets every fourth Tuesday at Chads South of Sixth Avenue in Lakewood form 4-6 p.m. Call Mary Riney at 303-985-8937. The third Wednesday at the Three Margaritas at 5130 S Wadsworth Blvd from 5-7 p.m. Call Jean Fox 303-730-2804.
talK shoP. The Writing School presents a free Sunday afternoon gathering for writers of all genres and skill levels, where they can talk about their work and brainstorm with other writers. Meet from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Sundays at the Lone Tree Civic Center, 8527 Lone Tree Parkway, just west of the Lone Tree Library. Contact [email protected]
tEEn liBrary Council. Douglas County Libraries’ teen groups meet monthly to help plan events, weigh in on library materials and serve the library community. Members earn community service hours toward graduation requirements. For information about a group at a library in your area, call 303-791-7323 or visit with a youth librarian.
thE writing School presents “Shop Talk,” a free Sunday afternoon gathering for writers of all genres and skill levels, where they can talk about their work and brainstorm with other writers. 1:30-3:30 pm Lone Tree Civic Center, 8527 Lone Tree Parkway, just west of the Lone Tree Library. [email protected]
widowEd mEn and Women of America Link 8 Social Hour
meets every Tuesday for a Social Hour at Las Brisas Restaurant at 6787 S. Clinton St. Greenwood Village at 5 p.m. Any questions contact Kathy at 303 779-7970.
words for the Journey Christian Writers Guild meets from 9:30-11 a.m. Tuesdays at Southeast Christian Church, 9650 Jordan Road in Parker. The group has a guest speaker from 7-9 p.m. on the last Tuesday of the month at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 8374 S. Willow St. in Lone Tree. Visit www.wordsforthejourney.org then go to the Rocky Mountain Region link for more information.
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douglas county Association for Gifted and Talented. DCAGT aims to provide education, advocacy, and a community for families with gifted children in Douglas County. DCAGT welcomes families with kids in preschool through high school and in public, private, charter, and home school. Free evening
parent meetings on various topics are held every few months at locations throughout Douglas County. To join or for more information, e-mail [email protected] or go to www.dcagt.org or follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/douglascounty.gifted
Kids, Kids In Divorce Survival, group meets to address the challenges and difficulties faced by divorcing families. A five week session, KIDS learn coping skills to help them through these trying times. Intake and registration required. There is a fee for participation. For details call 720-987-5129 or e-mail [email protected]
lEarning English? Douglas County Libraries offers Saturday morning practice sessions at which those learning English can engage in casual conversation with others. DCL also offers ESL Book Clubs, where English learners can read and discuss specific books. Both meetings are facilitated by trained volunteers. For dates, times and locations, call 303-791-7323.
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Middle school students design app Teacher advocates for beefed-up programming instruction By Jane Reuter [email protected]
Ranch View Middle School stu-dents Konstantin Zaremski and Neil Trotter’s favorite overnight pastime isn’t watching horror movies, eating junk food or even playing video games. The 13-year-olds stay up into the wee hours writing computer code.
It is their preferred form of rec-reation, their academic passion and almost undoubtedly the key to their futures.
“This is my sport,” said the 13-year-old Zaremski, indicating a MacBook Pro laptop cradled in his lap.
Inspired by Rock Canyon High School students who last spring won a “Best in State” award in the national Verizon Innovative App Challenge, Zaremski shared with RVMS teacher and CODE Club leader Tiffi ny Vaughn his idea for an app. Zaremski and fi ve other CODE Club students worked to-gether to create the app for their Highlands Ranch middle school.
Still in development, the app eventually will function as a stu-dent organizer, eliminating pa-perwork, expediting the exchange of homework between student and teacher, providing a calendar and planner and school directory, among other functions.
Someday, the students hope their app will be available distric-twide.
Displaying a level of poise un-characteristic of middle school students, fi ve of the six boys — all wearing bow ties — present-ed their results to the Douglas County School Board Aug. 6. They received a standing ovation from the board and audience members.
RVMS teacher Vaughn launched the CODE Club in March. It is the only club of its kind in Douglas County. A $15,000 Douglas County School District innovation grant allowed Vaughn to purchase 10 MacBook Pro com-puters and 10 iPads, and open the doors to the after-school group.
As a math teacher, Vaughn said she initially was uncertain about
leading the club.“All of these kids started com-
ing, and I realized I didn’t have to be an expert,” she said. “It was unbelievable how fast this hap-pened.”
The club quickly grew to its current 30 members.
Vaughn had tapped into a pas-sion, one whose importance she believes is overlooked by many
elementary-level educators. Com-puter programming is not taught at the elementary or middle school level, something she thinks needs to change. And change quickly.
“This is not part of the core curriculum; it should be,” said Vaughn. “This generation of chil-dren is wired to do this. The more we can get teachers to embrace allowing children to go to these sites, create projects to display their learning … We’re going to empower these kids with the tools to pursue their passions. It’s going to help our nation’s economy.”
The U.S. Department of Labor projects that between 2008 and 2018, 1.4 million computing jobs will open in the U.S., with only about 400,000 qualifi ed graduates available to fi ll them. Legislation introduced in June by Colorado Congressman Jared Polis could change the latter fi gure. The Computer Science Education Act would redefi ne computer science as a core academic subject, allow-ing the use of federal funds for K-12 computer science instruc-tion.
“If we don’t start addressing this issue, our children are not go-ing to be ready for the 21st-centu-ry job market,” Vaughn said.
RVMS app developers Zarem-ski, Trotter, Daniel Petito, Adam Emmelkamp, Sean Rhomberg and Andrew Holmes may be ex-ceptions. But as focused as the 13-year-olds already are, even they can’t predict where their tal-ents might take them.
“The jobs we could have in the future might not even be created yet,” Rhomberg said.
From left, Ranch View Middle School teacher Ti� ny Vaughn sits with CODE Club students Neil Trotter, Adam Emmelkamp, Andrew Holmes, Konstantin Zaremski and Daniel Petito before their Aug. 6 school board presentation. Courtesy photo
Middle school students design app elementary-level educators. Com-puter programming is not taught at the elementary or middle school level, something she thinks needs to change. And change quickly.
“This is not part of the core curriculum; it should be,” said Vaughn. “This generation of chil-dren is wired to do this. The more we can get teachers to embrace allowing children to go to these sites, create projects to display their learning … We’re going to empower these kids with the tools to pursue their passions. It’s going to help our nation’s economy.”
The U.S. Department of Labor projects that between 2008 and 2018, 1.4 million computing jobs will open in the U.S., with only about 400,000 qualifi ed graduates available to fi ll them. Legislation introduced in June by Colorado Congressman Jared Polis could change the latter fi gure. The Computer Science Education Act would redefi ne computer science as a core academic subject, allow-ing the use of federal funds for K-12 computer science instruc-tion.
“If we don’t start addressing this issue, our children are not go-ing to be ready for the 21st-centu-ry job market,” Vaughn said.
RVMS app developers Zarem-ski, Trotter, Daniel Petito, Adam Emmelkamp, Sean Rhomberg and Andrew Holmes may be ex-ceptions. But as focused as the 13-year-olds already are, even they can’t predict where their tal-ents might take them.
“The jobs we could have in the future might not even be created yet,” Rhomberg said.
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EMERGENCY DISPATCHERCommunications Officer (Emergency 911 Dispatcher), City of Black Hawk. Hiring range is $42,437 - $48,803, DOQ/E. Position is responsible for the operation of the emergency communications console including the receipt of calls and proper dispatch of appropriate equipment and personnel to provide assistance to the citizens and visitors of Black Hawk in the areas of Police, Fire and Emergency Medical Services. Requires high school diploma or GED; valid Colorado driver’s license with a safe driving record; ability to work a variety of shifts, including days, evenings, weekends, and holidays. Must be at least 18 years of age. Applicant must successfully complete several pre-employment tests including but not limited to typing, mathematical and multi-tasking skills, psychological exam, physical exam, drug testing and background investigation as conditions of employment. If you are interested in serving a unique historical city and enjoy working with diverse populations visit www.cityofblackhawk.org for application documents and more information on the Black Hawk Police Department. To be considered for this opportunity, please forward a completed City application, Police Background Questionnaire, and copies of certifications and driver’s license to Employee Services, City of Black Hawk, P.O. Box 68, Black Hawk, CO 80422, or by fax to 303-582-0848. Please note that we are not accepting e-mailed application documents at this time. We will begin processing your application upon receipt of all application documents. EOE.
Sodexo is the community of its clients, consumers, employees and shareholders. We recognize that the best way to respond to the expectations of all of our stakeholders is through steady growth. We also believe it is important that our work is meaningful to all who contribute to it and thus we remain faithful to our mission, our core values and the ethical principles that have guided us since 1966.
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EMERGENCY DISPATCHERCommunications Officer (Emergency 911 Dispatcher), City of Black Hawk. Hiring range is $42,437 - $48,803, DOQ/E. Position is responsible for the operation of the emergency communications console including the receipt of calls and proper dispatch of appropriate equipment and personnel to provide assistance to the citizens and visitors of Black Hawk in the areas of Police, Fire and Emergency Medical Services. Requires high school diploma or GED; valid Colorado driver’s license with a safe driving record; ability to work a variety of shifts, including days, evenings, weekends, and holidays. Must be at least 18 years of age. Applicant must successfully complete several pre-employment tests including but not limited to typing, mathematical and multi-tasking skills, psychological exam, physical exam, drug testing and background investigation as conditions of employment. If you are interested in serving a unique historical city and enjoy working with diverse populations visit www.cityofblackhawk.org for application documents and more information on the Black Hawk Police Department. To be considered for this opportunity, please forward a completed City application, Police Background Questionnaire, and copies of certifications and driver’s license to Employee Services, City of Black Hawk, P.O. Box 68, Black Hawk, CO 80422, or by fax to 303-582-0848. Please note that we are not accepting e-mailed application documents at this time. We will begin processing your application upon receipt of all application documents. EOE.
City of Black Hawk, P.O. Box 68, Black Hawk, CO 80422, or by fax to 303-582-0848. Please note that we are not accepting e-mailed application documents at this time. We will begin processing your application upon receipt of all
Sodexo is the community of its clients, consumers, employees and shareholders. We recognize that the best way to respond to the expectations of all of our stakeholders is through steady growth. We also believe it is important that our work is meaningful to all who contribute to it and thus we remain faithful to our mission, our core values and the ethical principles that have guided us since 1966.
HELP WANTEDCooks, Cashiers, Catering Staff, Dishwasher, Food Service Workers – Competitive Wages
VARIOUS LOCATIONS:Colorado School Of Mines1600 Maple Street, 252 Student CenterGolden CO 80401
Colorado Christian UniversityDining Commons8787 West Alameda AveLakewood, CO 80226
Auraria Campus318 Walnut StreetDenver, CO 80204
Sodexo is an EEO/AA/M/F/D/V employer.
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Priority Plastics, a manufacturer of plastic products and with five locations nationwide, is currently seeking candidates for TRIMMER/PACKERS at our Arvada, CO plant.
Individuals will be responsible for trimming, visually inspecting, and packing plastics containers. Candidates must be able to stand for long periods of time, lift up to 40 pounds, have great attendance, and work a rotating 12 hour shift.
We offer medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, 401k, and other great benefits to our employees. Qualified candidates should send resumes to: [email protected]
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Restaurant Waitstaff -Dishwashers - Bartender &Cocktail - Reservationistand Janitorfill out application at18301 W. Colfax Ave.after 9am daily.
The Academy Schoolis looking for part-time group
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The Colorado Dept of Transporta-tion is hiring temporary positions in
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Must have a valid Colorado CDLclass B or higher with proper
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For more information and anapplication call 303-278-2047
Wanted: 29 Serious People toWork From Anywhereusing a computer.Up to $1500 – $5K PT/FTwww.ValleyIncomeOnline.com
Western SummitConstructors, Inc. is seeking
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Applications will be taken at9780 Pyramid Ct, Suite 100,
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Send resumes [email protected]
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Now HiringOUTSIDE MULTIMEDIA SALES REPRESENTATIVEColorado Community Media is seeking an experienced Outside Multi-Media Sales Representative to join our team. This individual will be responsible for both local and agency business maintaining current accounts in additional to generating new business to join our already rapidly growing papers. Must be goal oriented and work well with a team. Candidate must be comfortable cold calling on various size accounts both in person and over the phone. Recent graduates encouraged to apply. Previous newspaper experience a plus but not required. Must be proficient in all Microsoft Office products.INSIDE SALES SPECIAL PROJECTS REPRESENTATIVECandidate must be able to handle multiple projects at the same time in a fast-paced environment. Position has the potential to go out on face-to-face calls on an as needed basis. This position will be handling CCM’s obituary desk, special print projects and much more. Newspaper sales background a plus but not required.
Please email resume to: [email protected]. No phone calls please. Colorado Community Media offers competitive pay and benefits package.
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SINGERS WANTED!The Arvada Chorale gives voiceto classical and popular music! Formore than 35 years, the Choralehas presented performances of
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The Arvada Chorale is expanding itsmembership for the 2013/14
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South MetrolifeLone Tree Voice 17
August 29, 2013
Hudson glad he gave up his day job
And to think I remember Andrew Hudson when he was a mere press sec-retary for Mayor Wellington Webb. Now the once-fledgling spokesmodel is all grown up and recently celebrated his rise to major mogul-dom with what started as a hobby.
Last week, Hudson marked the fifth anniversary of AH Jobs List, the go-to online source for job seekers and job givers. Little did he know that, in 2008, the country’s economy was on the preci-pice of collapse and his business model would be invaluable to displaced work-ers struggling to recover from lost jobs.
So five years ago, Hudson took what began as a hobby producing a single-page Xeroxed list and elevated it to the go-to jobs site with more than 25 million page views (www.ahjobslist.com).
“I had planned on giving the new site three months before making decisions about my future, but the response to the new site was so immediate and over-whelming, I quit my job in less than a week and haven’t looked back since,” Hudson said.
“It is truly a joy and a privilege to con-nect job seekers with this list of positions each week. Daily, I am humbled to hear from job seekers and employers who share stories about job seeking success.”
Beerathon hops into DenverFrom the City That Never Sleeps
to the Mile High City comes the first Denver Beerathon, a sudsy festival that originated in the Big Apple for people who love beer.
This is the premiere event for those whose enthusiasm for marathons ex-tends to beer runs. The Denver Beera-thon will be held Sept. 14 and takes par-ticipants on an all-day tasting journey through 26 bars (yikes!) located through-out Denver’s downtown and Highland neighborhood.
And the Beerathon is quaffing for a cause. A portion of proceeds will go to Excelsior Youth Center. Drinking craft beer has never felt this good.
Tickets are $55 per person or $70 for VIP, which includes early check-in and a VIP-only party at Fado Irish Pub with prizes and giveaways. For tickets, go to www.denverbeerathon.com.
More than one kind of draftThe Tavern group of neighborhood
restaurants is running a fantasy football draft party through Sept. 5.
For $100 per party, draft parties at each neighborhood Tavern will receive unlimited draft beer for a two-hour period for up to 12 people. The promo-tion is not valid after 4 p.m. Fridays and reservations must be made in advance. Free high-speed wi-fi is available at all locations, including Littleton, the Den-ver Tech Center, Lowry and, for Denver Broncos fans, at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
“We always love it when people choose one of our neighborhood loca-tions as their football headquarters,” said Tavern owner Frank Schultz.
Event a return to the pastHighlands Ranch Days showcases old timesBy Ryan [email protected]
An old-time tradition with something for all ages, Highlands Ranch Days returns Sept. 5-7 to the grounds of the Highlands Ranch Mansion.
An educational way to embrace his-tory, while having some fun at the same time, kids will have the opportunity to get hands-on with blacksmiths and animals at a petting zoo, and talk with Trapper Johnny, who will no doubt have a nice va-riety of pelts on display for all to see and feel.
From 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. all three days, children and adults will have the chance to glimpse the past up close as docents of-fer tours of the mansion and tell of times in the region long before the mansion and ranch existed.
There will also be hayrides to areas of the ranch not typically seen by the public, a real chuckwagon, livestock displays and a chance to enjoy traditional American In-dian dancing as presented by the Mile Hi Pow Wow Association.
“What I think people really enjoy about
it is that it is so educational,” said High-lands Ranch Community Association spokeswoman Jamie Noebel.
“Parents get to enter the mansion, and the kids get to really enjoy the hands-on history, which I think is a huge benefit and a lot of fun. It’s really a beautiful way to spend part of your day. I just can’t empha-size enough what a fun event it is.”
Other features of the three-day event include beekeepers, gold panners, wool spinners, and HRCA Backcountry Wil-derness Area and Douglas County Open Space educators talking about available programs.
HawkQuest will also bring in predatory birds native to Colorado, allowing visitors a chance to see the birds up close.
On Sept. 5 and 6 the grounds will be heavily occupied with fourth- and fifth-grade classes from schools all over High-lands Ranch, as the kids soak in local his-tory as part of their lesson plans.
On Sept. 7, Family Day will kick off at 8 a.m. with a pancake breakfast put on by the Lions Club in the parking lot.
There will be limited parking at the mansion the first two days, but come Sept. 7, all attendees are asked to walk to the mansion, 9900 Ranch Road, or park at Mountain Vista High School, 10585 Moun-tain Vista Ridge, and catch the free shuttle.
Tickets will be available for purchase at the gate only, and are $4 for adults and $2 for kids ages 3-12. Children 2 and younger are free.
Tickets for the pancake breakfast are separate and in addition to the admission price. The pancake breakfast, from 8-11 a.m., is $7 for adults and $4 for children. All proceeds of the breakfast go directly to the Lions Club.
The event is co-sponsored by the High-lands Ranch Cultural Affairs Association, the Highlands Ranch Metro District and the Highlands Ranch Historical Society. There will be food and beverage vendors on site.
Attendees at the Highlands Ranch Days festival can expect to be treated to some beautiful American Indian dancing on the Highlands Ranch Mansion lawn, courtesy of the Mile Hi Pow Wow Association. File photo
If you goSept. 5-6:
• 10:30 to 11 a.m.: Mile Hi Pow Wow Dancers
• 11 to 11:30 a.m.: HawkQuest Raptor demonstration
• Noon to 12:30 p.m.: Mile Hi Pow Wow Dancers
Sept. 7:
• 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.: Free shuttle service from MVHS
• 8 to 11 a.m.: Lions Club Pancake Breakfast
• 10 to 10:30 a.m.: Mile Hi Pow Wow Dancers
• 10:30 to 11 a.m.: HawkQuest Raptor demonstration
• 11:30 a.m. to noon: Mile Hi Pow Wow Dancers
The Highlands Ranch-based band Tunisia will perform on the Rock Stage at 2013 Taste of Colorado. Courtesy photo
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Weekend offers Taste, football, mountainsMuch to do around metro area as summer endsBy Sonya [email protected]
With a long weekend ahead, lucky metro area residents have multiple enter-tainment options (assuming weather gods cooperate) that include food, art, football, mountains and Taste of Colorado/Festival of Mountain and Plain.
We’ll focus on that festival, which start-ed many years ago as a way to entice folks to come to downtown Denver, and was restarted more recently for the same rea-son. It’s now known as Taste of Colorado. Admission for four days of activities, food and music is free. Tickets for food and car-nival rides are sold.
The fest boasts five music stages, 50 restaurants and food trucks, a marketplace with about 280 vendors, a kids’ area, Culi-
nary Showcase, a Festival of Mountain and Plain area that teaches about state history, nature and environment, and traditional arts and crafts. Included: Navajo weav-ing, spinning, rug braiding, lace crochet-ing, felting, quilting and blacksmithing. The Raptor Foundation will also bring live
birds to the area and teach about conser-vation.
The five stages are: Main, Rock and Roll, Country, Colorado Heritage Stage and
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State lands two on top towns listTwo Colorado towns, Carbondale
and Fort Collins, were mentioned in a list of Outside magazine’s 18 best towns to live in.
Carbondale, 30 miles north of ski mecca Aspen, was named to list because of its “killer farmers markets on Wednesdays, its quick access to adventure” and plenty of trails for hiking and mountain biking.
Outside, an active-lifestyle and adventure-travel magazine, touted the 44-mile paved Rio Grande Trail that runs from Aspen to Glenwood Springs, with a spur up the Crystal River, and also noted the easy access to world-class biking, fly-fishing, rock-climbing, kayaking and running at Carbondale’s doorstep. Read more about Carbondale at www.outside-online.com/adventure-travel/north-america/united-states/Best-Towns-2013-Carbondale-Colorado.html
As for Fort Collins, the magazine
wrote how the beer culture helped support the biking community, par-ticularly mentioning New Belgium Brewing Co. Fort Collins earned its spot on the list also because of closeness to backcountry terrain (like 10,276-foot Cameron Pass) and prime location on the brown-trout-filled Cache La Poudre River. Read more about Fort Collins at www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/north-america/united-states/Editors-Choice-Fort-Collins-Colora-do.html.
Mid-century modern celebrationAs a “mid-century modern”
woman, I love the idea of celebrat-ing this Wheat Ridge event — Mid Century and Modern Home Tour on Sept. 7. The tour, which will start at the furniture and design store mod-mood/RETRO Consignment at 7700 W. 44th Ave, will visit six Wheat Ridge homes all in the same vicinity from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sept. 7.
The tour, which benefits Wheat Ridge 2020, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is designed to raise aware-ness about the city’s architectural heritage and roots.
Tickets are available for $15 at www.wheatridge2020.org or at modmood/RETRO Consignment and include admission to an after-
party. A tour map will be included on each ticket. Transportation is not provided, so attendees should plan accordingly. Tickets, if available, will be $20 the day of the event.
The first tour in 2011 attracted more than 300 people. Event orga-nizers are capping ticket sales at 400 and expecting a sellout, so you may want to buy those tickets now.
For more information about the Mid Century and Modern Home Tour in Wheat Ridge, contact Mara Owen at 720-259-1030 or [email protected].
OverheardEavesdropping on a customer
who just had his back waxed at GQ Barber Lounge:
“I can really feel that numbing stuff you put on my back. … Well, I can’t feel it, but I know it’s numb.”
Penny Parker’s “Mile High Life” column gives insights into the best events, restaurants, businesses, parties and people throughout the metro area. Parker also writes for Blacktie-Colorado.com. You can subscribe and read her columns (Monday, Wednes-day and Friday) at www.pennyparker.blacktie-colorado.com. She can be reached at [email protected] or at 303-619-5209.
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Parker
Tritt kicks off PACE Mainstage season
Travis Tritt will headline the 2013-2014 Mainstage season at the PACE Center, in Parker, where a schedule of national and regional acts is planned through May 18. Tritt, a multi-instru-mentalist, vocalist and songwriter, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 19 with his band.
Tickets cost $75, available at pace-centeronline.org or 303-805-6800. Also scheduled: Second City in Octo-ber; Jonathan Batiste; Leahy Christ-mas; “Bingo,” a musical; Colorado Symphony; Celtic Nights; Wonder-bound dance, Denver Brass and more. See the website for more information.
What’s it worth?Bemis Library, 6014 S. Datura St.,
Littleton, hosts its annual Antique Ap-praisal Fair from noon to 7 p.m. Sept. 13. Bring a maximum of two items — dishes, jewelry, coins, toys, books, lamps, glassware, or photos of large items, to be evaluated by local ap-praisers. To register for a time slot, call 303-795-3961.
MemoriesThe Littleton Independent is cel-
ebrating its 125th anniversary and would love to hear from readers about memories of the Independent — was there a special story about you or your family, a notable event or person? Email a short paragraph to [email protected].
Reminder to artistsThe Twelfth Annual Lone Tree Art
Exhibition and Sale entry deadline is Sept. 15. Artists may submit up to three images on CaFE (callforentry.org) in oil, pastel, water media, mixed media, sculpture. Entries cannot have appeared at Lone Tree previ-ously. A $35 entry fee can be submit-ted online or mailed to Art Exhibition, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree, CO 80124. The exhibit will run Nov. 16 to
Jan. 5. Katherine Smith Warren is ju-ror. Cash awards estimated at $4,000. Best of Show winner will have 30 days of gallery space. See City of Lone Tree website for more information, www.cityoflonetree.com.
Asian cuisine and moreChef Andrea McGrath, a Johnson
& Wales University graduate who has studied Asian cuisine in Thailand and Singapore, will teach and demonstrate at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 5 at Highlands Ranch Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd. On Oct. 3, chef Elizabeth Buckingham will teach Indian cuisine at Parker Library and on Nov. 7, Chef Monte Johnson will talk about American comfort food/holiday cuisine. Register in advance at douglascountylibraries.org.
Art at ACCThe Fine Arts Faculty and Friends
Exhibition will be located in the Colo-
rado Gallery of the Arts in the Annex at Arapahoe Community College, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton, from Sept. 5 to Oct. 9. An opening reception will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 6. More than 25 artists have confirmed that they will participate. Gallery hours: noon to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Open Tuesdays until 7 p.m.
Pan Café TrioMulti-instrumentalists Art Bouton,
Tom Miller and Evan Orman will per-form a new brand of chamber music as the Pan Café Trio on Sept. 8 from 5 to 8 p.m. in Sedalia’s Cherokee Ranch and Castle Great Hall. At $55 ticket includes castle tour, dinner buffet, performance and coffee and dessert with the musicians. Miller is a percus-sionist, Orman plays bandoleon and cello and Bouton, of Lone Tree, plays woodwind instruments. Reservations: 303-688-4600.
Travis Tritt will perform on Sept. 19 at the PACE Center in Parker. Courtesy photo
Kidz Stage.Three Highlands Ranch-
based bands will perform:• Tunisia will play at 8:15
p.m. Aug. 31 on the Rock and Roll Stage.
It’s a 10-piece group with three lead singers, three horns and a five-piece rhythm section that plays classic rock, R&B, contem-porary hits, Motown and hip-hop.
• The four-member Five 13 band is scheduled at 3:45 p.m. Sept. 2 on the Rock stage, with originals and covers influenced by the great arena bands of the past plus today’s favorites.
• After Midnight, which brings the Benny Goodman songbook and other music from that era, will perform on the Colorado Heritage
Stage at 10:45 a.m. Aug. 31.The KidZone and Kidz
Stage will have kid-friendly food vendors nearby, plus an ongoing program of clowns, magicians, musi-cians and more, including a baby station with rockers, changing tables and dia-pers.
To welcome the festival’s start, fireworks will blast off at about 9 p.m. Aug. 30 after the Dennis DeYoung: Music of Styx performance on the Main Stage.
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Taste If you go
Civic Center is between Broadway and Bannock streets, 14th and Colfax avenues. With good weather, attendance might reach 500,000, so parking spots are at a premium and the light rail gets one close. Information can be found at ATasteofColorado.com. 303-295-6330.
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Clerk & RecorderFLYNT, DARLENE KAY 30.51 Travel ExpenseFOOTHILLS PAVING & MAINTENANCE INC 224,609.10 Major Maintenance of AssetsFOOTPRINTS CONSULTING & TRAINING 3,858.99 Other Training ServicesFORD, STEVE R 125.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementFORENSIC TRUTH GROUP LLC 960.00 Recruitment CostsFOSTER, ANGELA 133.97 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderFRANKTOWN ANIMAL CLINIC PC 379.18 Medical, Dental & Vet ServicesFREDERICKS, FRANK 222.73 Travel ExpenseFRICK, DIXIE B 175.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementFRONT RANGE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 400.00 Security Deposit Refund-FairgroundFRONT RANGE TIRE RECYCLE INC 135.00 Equipment & Motor Vehicle PartsFRONTIER SURVEYING INC 447.50 Parks & Recreation ImprovementFUJIYAMA INC 225.49 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderG&K SERVICES 902.13 Clothing & UniformsGABEHART, SHARON 125.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementGAGEN, DANIELLE LEIGH 654.10 Travel ExpenseGALBRAITH, DONNA & TIMOTHY 81.57 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderGALLAGHER BENEFIT SERVICES INC 37,000.00 Other Professional ServicesGALLS LLC 225.19 Operating Equipment AccessoriesGARDA CL NORTHWEST INC 2,071.33 Service ContractsGARZA, CARL 219.30 Travel ExpenseGAYE, JOSEPH 58.39 Pre-trial Fee RefundGEDEON, NANCY 81.60 Travel ExpenseGENERAL AIR SERVICE & SUPPLY 36.84 Equipment RentalGENEVA, REBEKAH S 208.59 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderGEOSHACK 730.00 Conference, Seminar, Training FeesGIFFORD, MARLA J 250.00 County Fair ServicesGIRDNER, ELIZABETH & MATTHEW 43.27 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderGLYNN, JAMES M 1,500.00 Other Professional ServicesGMCO CORPORATION 40,181.00 Dust SuppressantGOD WINS INC 345.00 Other Purchased ServicesGONCALVES, MARK A 347.20 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderGOODLAND CONSTRUCTION INC 21,003.30 Parks & Recreation ImprovementGORMAN, THOMAS J 29,146.86 Other Professional ServicesGORMAN, THOMAS J 185.70 Travel ExpenseGORR, CHERYL 112.44 Travel ExpenseGOURD, THADDEUS R 125.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementGOVCONNECTION INC 5,574.71 Computer-RelatedGOVERNMENTJOBS.COM INC 4,000.00 Software/Hardware Supplies/MaintenanceGRAHAM, GARY 500.00 Other Professional ServicesGRAYBAR ELECTRIC COMPANY INC 500.00 Other Machinery & EquipmentGREAT PANES GLASSWORKS 568.75 Operating SuppliesGREEN TREE SERVICING LLC 11.25 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderGRIFFEN, CLINTON NEAL 1,500.00 County Fair ServicesGRIFFITH, ART 44.66 Travel ExpenseGROSS, PATRICIA ANN 149.41 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderGROTHE, MELANIE 131.04 Travel ExpenseGROUND ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS INC 29,102.00 Road Repair, Maintenance & OverlayH&E EQUIPMENT SERVICES INC 3,690.07 Other Repair & Maintenance ServicesHAARBERG, KIM 16,500.00 Right-of-Way-PermanentHAGER, TODD & CORRIE 480.54 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderHAIGH, LISA ELAINE 1,112.69 Travel ExpenseHALL, AUDREY 75.00 Judges/Referees Fee/Fair RodeoHARRIS LOCAL GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS 9,283.54 Software/Hardware Supplies/MaintenanceHARRIS, JULIE A 32.00 Clothing & UniformsHARTWIG & ASSOCIATES INC 9,063.38 Roads, Streets, Drainage-EngineeringHASS, PATRICK J 37.76 Travel ExpenseHASZ, MARY KAY 74.59 Travel ExpenseHATHEWAY, LULU MARIE 125.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementHAUGEN, AUTUMN M 400.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementHAULAWAY STORAGE CONTAINERS 75.00 Equipment RentalHAULAWAY STORAGE CONTAINERS 350.00 Waste Disposal ServicesHAWKINS COMMERCIAL APPLIANCE 424.72 Other Repair & Maintenance SuppliesHAYES PHILLIPS HOFFMANN & CARBERRY PC 629.00 Legal ServicesHCA-HEALTHONE 2,698.66 Business Personal Property Tax RebateHD CONSTRUCTION 3,000.00 Other Construction & Maintenance MaterialsHEALTHONE CLINIC SERVICES 1,480.00 Recruitment CostsHICKS, JEANETTE M 49.95 Travel ExpenseHICO DISTRIBUTING OF COLORADO INC 18.00 Office SuppliesHIEBERT, DALE 340.80 Travel ExpenseHIGHLANDS RANCH METRO DISTRICTS 154,630.00 Contributions-Highlands Ranch MansionHIGHLANDS RANCH METRO DISTRICTS 4,300.00 Roads, Streets, Drainage-EngineeringHIGHLANDS RANCH METRO DISTRICTS 15,329.25 Water & SewerHILBERT, JACK 599.76 Cell Phone Service-ReimbursementHILL, DEWEY 240.00 Operating SuppliesHILL, JUSTIN D 200.00 County Fair ServicesHILL, ROGER L 174.03 Travel ExpenseHILLABY, SHAUNA 121.69 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderHODITS, SARAH 93.41 Travel ExpenseHOFFMAN, KIM 34.69 Travel ExpenseHONNEN EQUIPMENT COMPANY 22,914.78 Equipment RentalHOPPER, KARIN D 151.47 Travel ExpenseHORIZON LABORATORY LLC 2,603.50 Forensic TestingHORIZON VEGETATION MANAGEMENT 19,618.50 Other Professional ServicesHOSPITAL SHARED SERVICES 35,535.12 Security ServicesHOUGH, ROBERT ANDY 377.31 Travel ExpenseHOWEY, COURTNEY 45.69 Travel ExpenseHUMANE SOCIETY OF PIKES PEAK 63,616.66 Animal Control ServicesHUNTER, JOHN PAUL 51.86 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderICENOGLE SEAVER POGUE PC 5,918.00 Other Professional ServicesICON ENGINEERING INC 9,586.95 Other Professional ServicesID EDGE INC 821.60 Building Security SuppliesID EDGE INC 5,090.23 Computer-RelatedID EDGE INC 2,959.90 Operating Supplies/EquipmentIDEAL IMAGE PRINTING 2,030.00 Printing/Copying/ReportsIMPROVE GROUP 23.41 Operating Supplies/EquipmentINFOMEDIA INC 8,170.00 Other Purchased ServicesINFORMATION SYSTEMS CONSULTING 125,365.76 Computer EquipmentINFORMATION SYSTEMS CONSULTING 600.00 Other Repair & Maintenance ServicesINGALLS, LANCE 288.00 Recognition ProgramsINVERNESS WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT 10,331.00 Escrow PayableIREA 133,684.76 UtilitiesIRON MOUNTAIN OFF-SITE DATA 354.75 Other Professional ServicesJ P MORGAN CHASE BANK 349,417.57 Purchasing Card Transactions 06/05/13-07/04/13JAG EXPRESS COURIER 65.64 Postage & Delivery ServicesJBS PIPELINE CONTRACTORS 250,635.67 Bridges - EngineeringJEFFERSON COUNTY HUMAN SERVICE 2,064.78 Other Professional ServicesJOHN ANDERSON MASONRY 1,480.00 Parks & Recreation ImprovementJOHN ELWAY CHEVROLET 31,805.00 Cars, Vans, PickupsJOHNSON, CHERYL LYNN 115.26 Travel ExpenseJOHNSON, KRISTINE 396.21 Travel ExpenseJOLLY, DAVID L 125.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementJORDAN PHD, KENYON P 760.00 Recruitment CostsJULIAN, JOE 292.98 Travel Expense
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JVA INCORPORATED 3,108.00 Parks & Recreation ImprovementKANIA, KIMBERLY 9.52 Travel ExpenseKB CONSTRUCTION INC 3,297.15 Parks & Recreation ImprovementKEIPPER COOPING COMPANY 2,143.54 Operating SuppliesKEN CARYL GLASS INC 2,367.00 Other Repair & Maintenance SuppliesKENNEDY - COLORADO LLC 23,345.84 Building/Land Lease/RentKENNEDY/JENKS CONSULTANTS 1,874.19 Other Professional ServicesKING, THOMAS 76.00 Books & SubscriptionKNOLL INC 4,674.12 Furniture/Office SystemsKNOWLES, TAD 200.00 County Fair ServicesKRATOS PUBLIC SAFETY & SECURITY SOLUTION 3,847.12 Operating Supplies/EquipmentKRATOS PUBLIC SAFETY & SECURITY SOLUTION 5,322.15 Other Repair & Maintenance SuppliesKROSCHEL, FAITH M 200.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementKRUG, SHANNON LEIGH 322.62 Travel ExpenseKUHN, RICHARD 65.07 Travel ExpenseKUMAR AND ASSOCIATES INC 6,577.00 Roads, Streets, Drainage-EngineeringKWANG, BRENDA 93.35 Travel ExpenseLA PLATA COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE 9.48 Other Purchased ServicesLABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA 228.00 Other Professional ServicesLAKEWOOD FORDLAND INC 148,011.00 Cars, Vans, PickupsLAND TITLE GUARANTEE 10,000.00 Land-Martinez PropertyLAND TITLE GUARANTEE 150.00 Other Repair & Maintenance SuppliesLARSON, JOSEPH 125.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementLEADS 100.00 Professional Membership & LicensesLEASE GROUP RESOURCES INC 22,904.32 Copier ChargesLEVANT GROUP, THE 125.00 Other Professional ServicesLEWAN AND ASSOCIATES INC 15,524.00 Copier ChargesLEXISNEXIS INC 1,464.00 Legal ServicesLEXISNEXIS RISK DATA 416.25 Other Purchased ServicesLIFEHEALTH 1,510.00 Wellness ProgramLIGHT, KELLY & DAWES PC 1,714.69 Legal ServicesLIGHTING ACCESSORY & WARNING SYSTEMS 18,805.56 Repairs-Equipment/Motor VehicleLILEY FISHERIES AND AQUATIC CONSULTING 1,436.00 Other Professional ServicesLINCOLN SNF LLC 25,253.20 Escrow PayableLINCOLN STATION METRO DISTRICT 1,079.76 Sales Tax Proceeds-April 2013LIPS, LYNDA 1,800.00 Insurance ClaimsLIPS, VIRGILIUS 8,700.00 Insurance ClaimsLOFTIS, MERCEDES 171.72 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderLONG, HEATHER 10,608.96 Other Professional ServicesLONG, MICHAEL & SUZANNE 121.29 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderLOOSLI, MEGAN KAREN 40.73 Travel ExpenseLORENZ, JACOB & ROBYN 521.38 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderLOUVIERS WATER & SANITATION 4,726.14 Water & SewerLSI RETAIL II LLC 495.48 Building/Land Lease/RentLUMIAN, DANIEL R & TREZE C 82.57 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderLUMSDEN, ROSANNE 67.80 Travel ExpenseLYLES, CELESTENE (TENA) 68.97 Metro Area Meeting ExpenseLYNGE, WARREN 52.31 Travel ExpenseLYNN PEAVEY COMPANY 363.75 Operating Supplies/EquipmentLYTLE WATER SOLUTIONS LLC 351.08 Other Professional ServicesM & A CONTRACTORS INC 2,500.00 Other Repair & Maintenance ServicesMAKELKY, DAN 216.97 Travel ExpenseMANGIN, EMMANUEL 93.62 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderMANLEY, SHAWN 66.26 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderMARBLES KIDS TALENT INC 65.00 Other Professional ServicesMARK VII EQUIPMENT INC 666.04 Other Repair & Maintenance SuppliesMARKS, JOEL H & CAROL A 113.07 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderMARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS INC 772.50 Aggregate ProductsMARTIN, BARBARA L 229.43 Travel ExpenseMARTIN, LARRY 64.41 Travel ExpenseMARTIN, MATT 56.48 Clothing & UniformsMARX, CHELSEA BRANDON 12,462.16 Other Professional ServicesMASSINE, MICHAEL 236.17 Travel ExpenseMATABI, JOTHAM 376.51 Travel ExpenseMATTHEWS, CHERYL 441.67 Travel ExpenseMAXWELL, DAVID 300.00 Other Professional ServicesMAYER, TRACY L & DAVID B 81.77 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderMAZZA DESIGNS INC 14,750.00 Other ImprovementsMCCARTHY, ELIZABETH A 100.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementMCDONALD, JAZ 300.00 Security Deposit Refund-FairgroundMCELROY, LOUISE 75.00 Conference, Seminar, Training FeesMCFARLEN, TIM 113.46 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderMCGRAW-HILL COMPANIES, THE 749.00 Newspaper Notices/AdvertisingMCINTOSH, PAUL & AYRAN 44.77 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderMCKEE, ERIC P 17.74 Travel ExpenseMCKINNON, PENNY 52.55 Travel ExpenseMENDELSON, ROBIN 40.06 Travel ExpenseMETECH RECYCLING INC 800.18 Other Professional ServicesMEYER, ELAINE MARY 113.60 Travel ExpenseMICHAEL BAKER JR INC 9,166.40 Other Professional ServicesMIDGLEY, JOANNE 45.20 Travel ExpenseMIG/MOORE IACOFANO GOLTSMAN 8,783.26 Other Professional ServicesMILANO DIGITAL 156.08 Operating Supplies/EquipmentMILLER ARCHAEOLOGY CONSULTING 4,375.00 Other Professional ServicesMILLER WENHOLD CAPITOL 10,000.00 Other Professional ServicesMILLER, DENICE 289.28 Travel ExpenseMILLER, NORMA 34.99 Operating SuppliesMILLER, TIM 819.64 Insurance ClaimsMINICK, GREGORY W 28.74 Travel ExpenseMIWALL CORPORATION 4,917.45 Firearm SuppliesMODIS 32,619.84 Other Professional ServicesMONSSON, GEORGE N 9,270.00 Legal ServicesMOON JR, LYNN DOUG 340.80 Travel ExpenseMOUNTAIN STATES EMPLOYERS 537.00 Conference, Seminar, Training FeesMOUNTAIN VIEW WASTE SYSTEMS 99.50 Waste Disposal ServicesMTM RECOGNITION 2,706.77 Recognition ProgramsMUDDY TIRES LLC 2,000.00 County Fair ServicesMUDGETT, TRACEY 73.33 Travel ExpenseMUELLER, HIRO K 211.25 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderMUGLER, LARRY G 1,675.00 Other Professional ServicesMULLER ENGINEERING COMPANY INC 209.00 Other Professional ServicesMURRELL, KI BASSETT 50.00 Wellness ProgramNACRC 425.00 Travel ExpenseNAS RECRUITMENT COMMUNICATIONS 639.90 Recruitment CostsNATIONAL ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION INC 21,675.15 Other Repair & Maintenance ServicesNEEDLES, MIRANDA M & COREY 79.97 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderNEGUS-PEMBERTON, JONNA 12.84 Operating SuppliesNEVE’S UNIFORMS INC 646.40 Clothing & UniformsNEW WORLD SYSTEMS INC 4,588.94 Software/Hardware Supplies/MaintenanceNICOLETTI-FLATER ASSOCIATES 1,060.00 Other Professional ServicesNILEX CIVIL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP 3,600.00 Other Construction & Maintenance MaterialsNILEX CIVIL ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP 1,087.00 Other ImprovementsNORCHEM DRUG TESTING 478.40 Medical, Dental & Vet ServicesNORTHERN COLORADO PAPER 4,080.00 Janitorial SuppliesOFFICE ENTERPRISES LLC 2,000.00 Conference, Seminar, Training FeesOLDCASTLE PRECAST INC 106.00 Other Construction & Maintenance MaterialsO’NEIL ALLEN, VIKKI 52.25 Travel ExpenseORACLE AMERICA INC 1,250.00 Support & MaintenanceORGANIC GARDENING 23.94 Books & SubscriptionORR, JACK 402.50 County Fair ServicesOSTLER, CLAUDIA 377.42 Travel ExpenseOTT, WILLIAM 22.04 Travel Expense
PAGE SPECIALTY COMPANY 4,922.00 Other Professional ServicesPALMER, GRACELEE 100.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementPARK, CHUNG & SUNG 118.47 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderPARKS, COLORADO STATE 3,990.00 Due to State - State Park PassPATTERSON, SUSAN-PETTY CASH 46.90 Travel ExpensePAX CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH 2,493.00 Escrow PayablePEAK OFFICE FURNITURE INC 4,570.00 Furniture/Office SystemsPEDUTO, ANTHONY 600.00 County Fair ServicesPENNHILL FARMS INC 3,568.00 Grounds Keeping SuppliesPERRY PARK WATER AND SANITATION 956.25 Bulk WaterPETERS, BRIAN & MARILYN 186.93 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderPETERSON APPRAISAL COMPANY 3,994.40 Other Professional ServicesPETERSON, LYLE D 66.55 Clothing & UniformsPHILIP SERVICES CORPORATION 498.42 Paint & Road StripingPHOENIX SUPPLY LLC 1,750.30 Prisoner Maintenance SuppliesPHYSICIANS MEDICAL IMAGING 206.26 Operating Supplies/EquipmentPINERY HOMEOWNERS 698.91 Security ServicesPINERY WATER & WASTEWATER 4,062.52 Water & SewerPIONEER SAND COMPANY INC 1,644.55 Aggregate ProductsPIPELINE INDUSTRIES INC 6,050.00 Other Repair & Maintenance ServicesPITNEY BOWES INC 462.00 Equipment RentalPLANET GREEN DISTRIBUTORS 24.95 Janitorial SuppliesPLATTNER ENTERPRISES 2,460.00 Other Repair & Maintenance ServicesPMAM CORPORATION 3,016.65 Alarm Administration ExpensesPOINT BLANK ENTERPRISES 5,849.55 Clothing & UniformsPOO CREW LLC, THE 843.00 Operating Supplies/EquipmentPOTTER, SHAWNA 32.51 Travel ExpensePR DIAMOND PRODUCTS INC 1,125.00 Other Construction & Maintenance MaterialsPRANG, TODD 98.59 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderPRATT, CHRISTOPHER 206.79 Travel ExpensePRECISION DYNAMICS CORPORATION 501.27 Operating Supplies/EquipmentPREMIER AWARDS 293.05 Operating Supplies/EquipmentPRO COMPLIANCE 2,332.00 Medical, Dental & Vet ServicesPRO RODEO COWBOYS 18,000.00 County Fair AwardsPRO RODEO OUTFITTERS LLC 16,435.00 Other Professional ServicesPROTO TEST LLC 5,400.00 Other Professional ServicesPTS OF AMERICA LLC 2,396.00 Transportation of PrisonersQUINN, TERENCE T 237.31 Travel ExpenseQUINTANILLA, ATILIO 137.73 Clothing & UniformsRATHBUN, BRIAN JAY 83.18 Clothing & UniformsRECREATION SYSTEMS II INC 1,500.00 Parks & Recreation ImprovementREDWOOD TOXICOLOGY LABORATORY INC 92.75 Other Professional ServicesREHLING, JAN 16.95 Travel ExpenseREINERT, MARK 75.00 Judges/Referees Fee/Fair RodeoRESEARCH IN MOTION CORPORATION 4,379.00 Support & MaintenanceRESPEC CONSULTING & SERVICES 4,098.25 Other Professional ServicesREXEL 2,534.40 Other Repair & Maintenance SuppliesREYNOLDS, DENNIS 120.00 Clothing & UniformsRICHARDS, RUBY 204.77 Travel ExpenseRIDER, KATHERINE 31.99 Travel ExpenseRIGGS, CAROLYN S 25.00 Operating Supplies/EquipmentRM LAW ENFORCEMENT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION VISA 4,098.08 Emergency Response Supplies/Black Forest FireRMOMS 53.20 Other Purchased ServicesROBERSON, LAUREL 160.46 Travel ExpenseROBINSON TEXTILES 7,673.96 Prisoner Maintenance SuppliesROBSON, VALERIE 67.65 Travel ExpenseROCKSOL CONSULTING GROUP INC 49,146.77 Roads, Streets, Drainage-EngineeringROCKY MOUNTAIN DOCK & DOOR 511.95 Other Repair & Maintenance ServicesROCKY MOUNTAIN MAIL SERVICES 40,831.80 Postage & Delivery ServicesROCKY MOUNTAIN WINDOW TINT LLC 125.00 Repairs-Equipment/Motor VehicleROMANIN, RICHARD MRICKY 48.40 Clothing & UniformsROMBERGER, ZACHARY LEE 174.80 Travel ExpenseROUSSEU, VINCENT 178.81 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderRR DONNELLEY 549.36 Printing/Copying/ReportsRUNNING CREEK COUNSELING 195.00 Other Purchased ServicesRUSH, JUDY 200.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementRYAN, KEVIN 133.56 Travel ExpenseSAFETY AND CONSTRUCTION SUPPLY INC 2,735.20 Operating Supplies/EquipmentSAFEWARE INC 320.00 Other Repair & Maintenance ServicesSAGUARO FAMILY CLINIC 50.00 Other Professional ServicesSALAZAR, ALEX 35.00 Professional Membership & LicensesSALAZAR, ALEX 66.90 Travel ExpenseSANDERSON, JACKIE 739.59 Travel ExpenseSCHEUBER & DARDEN ARCHITECTS 12,000.00 Other Professional ServicesSCHMISEK, JOHN 38.99 Travel ExpenseSCHWEIZER EMBLEM COMPANY 420.32 Clothing & UniformsS-COMM FIBER INC 25,104.00 Other Professional ServicesSECOR, WILLIAM H 82.17 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderSEDALIA LANDFILL 4,868.18 Waste Disposal ServicesSEDALIA WATER & SANITATION 6,905.25 Contribution-Water System Improvement ProjectSEMBRA, HELEN M 125.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementSEMPERA 19,040.00 Other Professional ServicesSERVICE FIRST 937.14 Plan Checking Fees-RefundSEXTON, PATRICK 15.35 Travel ExpenseSHADOWCLIFF 40.00 Travel ExpenseSHADY TREE SERVICE LLC 18,438.00 Other Professional ServicesSHAW CONTRACT FLOORING SERVICES INC 12,417.40 Major Maintenance of AssetsSHAW, KATHRYN J 70.63 Travel ExpenseSHERMAN, TRACY 95.24 Travel ExpenseSHIPLEY, DAVID M 34.65 Travel ExpenseSHIPTON, SHERYL K 25.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementSHRED-IT 107.37 Other Purchased ServicesSICKLIN, THOMAS VAN 43.27 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderSIDEBOTHAM, WILL 2,387.75 Insurance ClaimsSIEGRIED, LARRY A 125.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementSILL-TERHAR MOTORS INC 60,898.00 Cars, Vans, PickupsSILVER CROWN LANDSCAPE MATERIALS 168.42 Aggregate ProductsSIMPLEXGRINNELL LP 100.00 Building Security SuppliesSJAARDEMA, MICHELE M 100.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementSKY RIDGE MEDICAL CENTER 203.50 Medical, Dental & Vet ServicesSKYVIEW WEATHER 5,750.00 Other Professional ServicesSMALL, GARY 125.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementSMATLA, PATRICIA L 753.72 Other Professional ServicesSMITH, JAMES M 71.17 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderSMITH, KAREN A 993.75 Abatement Hearing JudgeSNELLER, DONNA 125.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementSOFTAIRE DIFFUSERS INC 9,380.00 Operating SuppliesSOTOMAYOR, NANCY 156.85 Travel ExpenseSOURCE OFFICE PRODUCTS 5,321.39 Office SuppliesSPECIALIZED PATHOLOGY PC 11,925.00 Medical, Dental & Vet ServicesSPRINT NEXTEL 1,487.65 Cell Phone ServiceSTARKEY, VICTORIA 40.68 Travel ExpenseSTATE FORMS & PUBLICATIONS 84.60 Operating SuppliesSTATE OF COLORADO 2,573.66 Other Professional ServicesSTATE OF COLORADO/OIT 432.85 Data Communication LinesSTEPHENS, ROCHELLE 131.67 Travel ExpenseSTERKEL, MICHELLE 50.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementSTEVENS - KOENIG REPORTING 2,304.45 Legal ServicesSTIENS, ROBERT 166.00 Clothing & UniformsSTOAKS, MACKENZIE 50.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementSTONE PC, PATRICIA JO 11.00 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderSTONE, CATHERINE A 25.00 Judges/Referees/Fair Show ManagementSTONEGATE VILLAGE METRO DISTRICT 801.68 Water & Sewer
STREFFCO CONSULTANTS INC 6,735.00 Contract Work/Temporary AgencySTUART, RAVEN 136.73 Travel ExpenseSTURGEON, JENNIFER 9.61 Travel ExpenseSUDS FACTORY CAR WASH & DETAIL CENTER 620.00 Fleet Outside RepairsSUMMIT LABORATORIES INC 950.00 Service ContractsSVENDSEN, SHARON 74.81 Travel ExpenseSWARCO REFLEX INC 18,400.00 Paint & Road StripingSWEEPSTAKES UNLIMITED 210.00 Other Purchased ServicesSWINERTON BUILDERS INC 652,160.14 ConstructionSWINGLE LAWN, TREE & LANDSCAPE CARE 2,072.50 Other Professional ServicesSYMBOL ARTS 1,608.75 Sign Parts & SuppliesTAFARO, MELANIE 17.87 Travel ExpenseTANGEMAN, JAMES & DANITA 106.17 Fee Refunds - Clerk & RecorderTATE, JOHN 115.83 Travel ExpenseTAYLOR, TYLENE 72.04 Travel ExpenseTAYLOR, VIVIAN A 17,949.00 Other Professional ServicesTAYLOR, VIVIAN A 1,147.12 Travel ExpenseTEAM DIRECT 2,087.86 County Fair AwardsTELERUS INC 1,500.00 Telephone/CommunicationsTHD AT HOME SERVICES INC 324.60 Building Permits-RefundTHE ESTATE OF JAMES A CLARK 2,885.50 Escrow PayableTHOMAS, RICHARD KIP 209.69 Fee Refunds - 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Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0392
To Whom It May Concern: On 6/5/2013the undersigned Public Trustee causedthe Notice of Election and Demand relat-ing to the Deed of Trust described belowto be recorded in Douglas County.Original Grantor: ALLISON RATKOVICHOriginal Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELEC-TRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS,INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEEFOR ACADEMY MORTGAGE CORPOR-ATIONCurrent Holder of Evidence of Debt:WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 2/26/2010Recording Date of DOT: 3/12/2010Reception No. of DOT: 2010015556DOT Recorded in Douglas County.Original Principal Amount of Evidence ofDebt: $334,362.00Outstanding Principal Amount as of thedate hereof: $320,335.36Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), youare hereby notified that the covenants ofthe deed of trust have been violated asfollows: Failure to pay principal and in-terest when due together with all otherpayments provided for in the Evidence ofDebt secured by the Deed of Trust andother violations of the terms thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BEA FIRST LIEN.The property described herein is all of theproperty encumbered by the lien of thedeed of trust.Legal Description of Real Property:LOT 10, BLOCK 3, RIDGEGATE - SEC-TION 15 FILING NO. 4, FIRST AMEND-MENT, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATEOF COLORADO.Which has the address of: 9235 Korn-brust Drive, Lone Tree, CO 80124NOTICE OF SALEThe current holder of the Evidence of Debtsecured by the Deed of Trust describedherein, has filed written election and de-mand for sale as provided by law and insaid Deed of Trust.THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Giventhat on the first possible sale date (unlessthe sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wed-nesday, September 25, 2013, at the Pub-lic Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street,Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at publicauction to the highest and best bidder forcash, the said real property and all in-terest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirsand assigns therein, for the purpose ofpaying the indebtedness provided in saidEvidence of Debt secured by the Deed ofTrust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expensesof sale and other items allowed by law,and will deliver to the purchaser a Certific-ate of Purchase, all as provided by law.First Publication: 8/1/2013Last Publication: 8/29/2013Publisher: Douglas County News PressDated: 6/6/2013GEORGE J KENNEDYDOUGLAS COUNTY Public TrusteeThe name, address and telephone num-bers of the attorney(s) representing thelegal holder of the indebtedness is:LISA CANCANONColorado Registration #: 420431199 BANNOCK STREET ,DENVER, COLORADO 80204Phone #: (303) 813-1177Fax #: (303) 813-1107Attorney File #: 9105.05879*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURESALE DATES on the Public Trustee web-site: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrust-ee/
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To Whom It May Concern: On 6/5/2013the undersigned Public Trustee causedthe Notice of Election and Demand relat-ing to the Deed of Trust described belowto be recorded in Douglas County.Original Grantor: ALLISON RATKOVICHOriginal Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELEC-TRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS,INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEEFOR ACADEMY MORTGAGE CORPOR-ATIONCurrent Holder of Evidence of Debt:WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 2/26/2010Recording Date of DOT: 3/12/2010Reception No. of DOT: 2010015556DOT Recorded in Douglas County.Original Principal Amount of Evidence ofDebt: $334,362.00Outstanding Principal Amount as of thedate hereof: $320,335.36Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), youare hereby notified that the covenants ofthe deed of trust have been violated asfollows: Failure to pay principal and in-terest when due together with all otherpayments provided for in the Evidence ofDebt secured by the Deed of Trust andother violations of the terms thereof.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BEA FIRST LIEN.The property described herein is all of theproperty encumbered by the lien of thedeed of trust.Legal Description of Real Property:LOT 10, BLOCK 3, RIDGEGATE - SEC-TION 15 FILING NO. 4, FIRST AMEND-MENT, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATEOF COLORADO.Which has the address of: 9235 Korn-brust Drive, Lone Tree, CO 80124NOTICE OF SALEThe current holder of the Evidence of Debtsecured by the Deed of Trust describedherein, has filed written election and de-mand for sale as provided by law and insaid Deed of Trust.THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Giventhat on the first possible sale date (unlessthe sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wed-nesday, September 25, 2013, at the Pub-lic Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street,Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at publicauction to the highest and best bidder forcash, the said real property and all in-terest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirsand assigns therein, for the purpose ofpaying the indebtedness provided in saidEvidence of Debt secured by the Deed ofTrust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expensesof sale and other items allowed by law,and will deliver to the purchaser a Certific-ate of Purchase, all as provided by law.First Publication: 8/1/2013Last Publication: 8/29/2013Publisher: Douglas County News PressDated: 6/6/2013GEORGE J KENNEDYDOUGLAS COUNTY Public TrusteeThe name, address and telephone num-bers of the attorney(s) representing thelegal holder of the indebtedness is:LISA CANCANONColorado Registration #: 420431199 BANNOCK STREET ,DENVER, COLORADO 80204Phone #: (303) 813-1177Fax #: (303) 813-1107Attorney File #: 9105.05879*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURESALE DATES on the Public Trustee web-site: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrust-ee/
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DOUGLAS COUNTY BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
Pursuant to §39-8-104 C.R.S., notice is hereby given that beginning September 9, 2013 the Douglas County Board of Equalization will meet to review the assessment roll of all taxable property located in the County as prepared by the County Assessor, and to hear appeals from determinations of the Assessor. All such hearings will be concluded and decisions rendered thereon by the Board of Equalization at a hearing held at 10:00 AM on No-vember 4, 2013, in the Commissioners’ Hearing Room, located at the Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado. All decisions of the Board of Equalization will be mailed to the petitioner within five business days of the date on which such decisions are rendered.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERSDOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO
Melissa PelletierClerk and Recorder
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Linemen ready to rock the block Guards, centers, tackles play a huge role in reaching end zone By Jim Benton [email protected]
Offensive linemen used to be pictured as big, dumb guys who like to push and knock people around.
That stereotype has changed.Valor Christian coach Rod Sherman has an all-senior
starting offensive line this season that could physically match up with many college lines.
Left tackle Alec Ruth is 6-foot-6, 300 pounds, and right tackle Isaiah Holland is 6-5, 310 pounds. They sandwich guards Ryan Cummings (6-5, 295) and Sam Kozan (6-2, 265) and center Cody Bratten (6-3, 280).
Valor’s line averages 290 pounds, but Sherman claims it takes both brawn and brains to be a good offensive line-man.
“First, it takes intelligence to be able to diagnose dif-ferent defensive schemes and be able to adjust on the fl y,” said Sherman.
“I know sometimes in the world there is a stereotype of football players not being intelligent, but that is so not true. Our left tackle is being recruited hard by Ivy League schools and our center scored 35 on his ACT and is looking at schools like MIT.”
It takes more than just hitting a blocking sled hard to become a good offensive lineman.
A potential All-League offensive lineman these days needs to be versatile, quick, explosive off the ball and a technique master to learn various kinds of blocks.
“Second, you need kids that want to work hard and aren’t worried about getting the glory,” added Sherman. It’s not a glorious position being an offensive lineman, you have to work and be patient.
“Bigger kids, when the ball gets rolled out their fresh-man year, are not able to play at the level they want be-cause their bodies might be bigger and it might take them a little more time to improve their coordination,” he said. “Some of those kids when they get to their junior and se-nior years, their hard work starts to pay off.
“We are blessed. There are not a ton of teams that can say that both their offensive tackles are being recruited by Pac 12 and Big 12 schools.”
Cherry Creek’s offensive line doesn’t measure up to Val-or’s in size, as the Bruins put a premium on agility.
“It obviously starts up front on both sides of the ball,” said coach Dave Logan.
“If you are not good up front on offense or defense, you are going to have a hard time winning.
“This year our biggest offensive linemen will be about 235 to 240 pounds. We ask them to do a lot of different things. So being mobile is as important to us as being real-
ly, really big. We ask them to zone block, we’ll run different concepts to the running game, power, counter, toss, and we ask them to pass block.”
Development takes time.“There are a lot of things we are asking that take time for
guys to feel comfortable with, and sometimes time is a full year,” emphasized Logan.
“We throw a lot at these kids and we ask a lot of them. Back in the old days of just lining up in a three-point stance, getting off the ball and blocking for a running game, those days have been long gone for a lot of people.”
Sherman isn’t shy about reminding his offensive line-men about basics.
“They can’t get tired of doing the fundamentals,” he said.
“They have to continue to prefect their craft from pass protection to run blocking. I believe the attention to detail is important in every position, but it is just magnifi ed at the line of scrimmage.
“Oftentimes if you hear a lineman’s name called, it is because of something they did not do well. It takes a cer-tain type of kid to have that character and we’re blessed to have a group of those kids.”
Other area teams also have good high school offensive linemen that have been doing well.
Jamin Smith, Nick Viola and Adam Tate will help pro-vide running lanes for Trey Smith at Douglas County. Bran-don Reidemann, Brandon Leahy, Jacob Hunt and Austin Skinner will form part of a solid Chaparral offensive line, while highly recruited Sam Jones, Blake Jacobs and Bren-dan Chase return at ThunderRidge.
“The offensive line is perhaps the most important group on the fi eld,” said Chaparral coach John Vogt.
“Typically linemen are hard workers and tough guys. They must run block and pass protect and they are in-volved in collisions on every play. They must be strong, tough and have athletic ability.”
A few of the other top area linemen include Joe Hunsa-ker and Tyler Trehal at Castle View, Ponderosa’s Zach Smith and Cody Wilson, Sean Malloy at Littleton, Anthony Hudak at Legend, Rock Canyon’s Jimmy Wanless and Justin Hunt-er, Connor Cain and Kris Medina of Heritage. Creek’s Pete Nielsen, Alex Keys of Highlands Ranch and Lutheran’s Alex McClure and Chance Morelock are also among offensive linemen to watch.
“We have three of the fi ve starters back and they bring a lot of continuity and knowledge,” said ThunderRidge coach Joe Johnson.
“It’s the difference of having to think about it, respond-ing and doing it, just trained body acting in a trained way.”
Valor Christian’s starting o� ensive line, a group made up of all seniors, stands tall and wide in the trenches. From left are tackle Isaiah Holland, guard Sam Kozan, center Cody Bratten, guard Ryan Cummings and tackle Alec Ruth. The unit averages more than 290 pounds. Photo by Chris Rotar
The Douglas County o� ensive line runs through drills at an Aug. 13 practice. The Huskies hope to build on a 5-5 season, which ended with a � rst-round playo� loss to Fountain-Fort Carson. Photo by Ryan Boldrey
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Football Teams At a Glance HIGHLANDS RANCH
Coach — Darrel Gorham2012 — 0-5 in Continental League,
2-8 overall.Top players — Keaton Thames, QB,
6-1, 180, Sr.; Jalen Kittrell, RB, 5-9, 150, Sr.; Alek Keys, C, 6-2, 260, Jr.; Killian Moran, G, 5-9, 245, Jr.; Ross Heskett, TE, 6-2, 180, Sr.; Colton Hogy, DB, 5-10, 150, Sr.; Tammer Minch, ILB, 6-0, 190, Jr.; Michael Robinson, FB/LB, 5-10, 195, Sr.; Austin Davis, DL, 6-3, 225, Sr.
Team outlook — Falcons played a lot of younger players last season so they will be more experienced this year with seven returning starters on offense and defense. Highlands Ranch is facing the problems associated with dropping enrollment. Depth and the lack of big, physical players is a concern.
Say what — “We will be better from an experience level because we played a lot of young kids last year. We’ll give it a go and see what happens,” said Gor-ham.
MOUNTAIN VISTACoach — Rick Cash2012 highlights — 3-2 in Continental
League, 4-6 overall, lost to Pomona in fi rst round of the Class 5A state playoffs.
Top players — Tanner Smith, RB, 5-11, 200, Sr.; Rocco Palumbo, WR, 6-3, 180, Sr.; Tyler Spond, LB, 6-0, 200, Sr.
2013 outlook — Smith, who aver-aged 127.3 yards rushing per game a year ago, and Palumbo, who caught 43 passes, will provide weapons for the new Golden Eagles quarterback who will replace Ryan Rubley.
ROCK CANYONCoach — Brian Lamb2012 highlights — 4-2 in Pioneer
League, 6-4 overall, lost to Chaparral in fi rst round of Class 5A state playoffs.
Top players — Ryan Hommel, WB, 6-1, 180, Jr.; John Riley, RB/LB, 5-10, 210, Sr.; Jimmy Wanless, OL, 6-7, 275, Sr.; Alex Korn, LB/RB, 5-10, 200, Sr.; Austin
Korturn, DB/TE, 5-11, 185, Sr.; DJ Webb, DB/RB, 5-10, 175 Jr.; Quinn O’Neill, DB/WR, 5-8, 160, Jr.; Justin Hunter, DL/OL, 6-4, 210,. Jr.
2013 outlook — Lamb is the new Jaguars coach and at least he won’t have to deal with fi nding a quarterback since Hommel, who threw for 1,462 yards as a sophomore, will be back calling signals. Hommel will need to trim the intercep-tions but the year of experience should help. Lamb was an assistant football coach at Mountain Vista and Thunder-Ridge and was head girls basketball coach for fi ve seasons at Mountain Vista.
Say what? — “I look forward to this year because I will see a ton of growth in these players. Many of them will be asked to step up and perform at a high level. I am encouraged by their dedica-tion and effort so far,” said Lamb.
THUNDERRIDGECoach — Joe Johnson2012 — 5-0 in Continental League,
11-2 overall, lost to Valor Christian in
Class 5A semifi nals.Top players — Sam Jones, OT, 6-2,
285; Brody Westmoreland, QB, 6-2, 185; Mark Hopper, WR, 6-4, 190; Steve Ray, TB, 5-9, 195; Blake Jacobs, OG, 6-2, 260; Collin Hank, CB; Cody Johnson, DT, 6-3, 235; Michael Stanley, DEE, 6-2, 220; Matt Stanley, FB/HB, 6-1, 215; Josh Brown, Fl, 5-10, 155.
2013 outlook — Grizzlies know how to win. ThunderRidge has been in the state playoffs 13 consecutive years in various classes and has three state titles. Jones, Westmoreland, Hopper and Ray return to head up what could be another potent offense. The biggest question is who will play in the defensive backfi eld. Jones in a highly recruited MaxPreps preseason All-Stater and he’ll be playing in front of Westmoreland who is coming off a season where he threw for 1,702 yards and rushed for 735 yards.
Say what — “We have many return-ers and possibly more talent than last year. We need to develop some leader-ship and improve behavior if we are to achieve what we are capable of,” said
Johnson.
VALOR CHRISTIANCoach — Rod Sherman2012 highlights — 12-2, won Class 5A
state championship with 9-0 win over Cherokee Trail.
Top players — Christian McCaffrey, RB/DB, 6-0, 195, Sr.; Joe Bear Ortiz, WR, 6-01, 170, Jr.; Isaiah Holland, OL, 6-5, 3109, Sr.; Alec Ruth, OL, 6-6, 300, Sr.; Marcus Wilson, S, 6-0, 185 Sr.; Clarke Cooper, DE, 6-3, 250, Sr.; Brian Dawkins, CB, 5-10, 170, Jr.; Justin Falls, FB/LB, 5-11, 200, Sr.; Ryan Cummings, OL, 6-5, 295, Sr.; Cody Bratten, OL, 6-3, 280, Sr.; Sam Kozan, OL, 6-2 265, Sr.
2013 outlook — Sherman, the former offensive coordinator, takes over as head coach of a program that has captured four consecutive state championships (one in Class 3A, two in Class 4A and one in Class 5A). Valor has gone 51-5 over the past four seasons and has a team top-heavy with talented players this year. McCaffrey, the Stanford-bound 2012 Player of the Year, is a MaxPreps preseason All-State choice after averag-ing 177.9 all-purpose yards a game last season. Wilson was also a preseason All-Colorado selection and Falls returns following a campaign when he averaged 7.1 tackles a game. Valor’s all-senior starting offensive line averages 290 pounds and having such an experi-enced line will help quarterback A.J. Ceal who completed two of three passes last season as Luke DeRio’s backup. Valor played a Zero Week game Aug. 24 against Central of Fresno, Calif.
Say what? — “Looking back at last year, we learned a lot from our two early season losses and that really helped us for the rest of the year. We’ve never been afraid to play really quality opponents and our fi rst two games this year are against out-of-state teams that are tremendous. We’ve got some opportuni-ties to learn and grow this year,” said Sherman.
Rock Canyon coach Brian Lamb talks about the technique he wants the defense to use against the option play. The discussion came during the Aug. 22 team practice as the Jaguars got ready for an Aug. 23 scrimmage and the opener Aug. 30 against Highlands Ranch. Photo by Tom Munds
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HigH ScHool SportS roundupValor coach wins in first game
Rod Sherman won his first football game as Valor Christian head coach Aug. 24, but said his team had a lot of room for improvement.
Sherman, however, might have trouble convincing an ESPN2 audience or the crowd at Valor’s stadium that any up-grades were needed after the Eagles whipped Central East (Fresno, Calif.) 31-7 in a season-opening game that was called at 11:30 p.m. because of lightning in the area.
There was still 4:08 left in the third period when the game was halted, but Valor was in control against the top-notch California team that was loaded with potential Division I college prospects.
“That was as athletic of a team that we’ve ever played,” said Sherman, who is also Valor’s athletic director and former offensive coordinator. “Their running backs were great, their receivers were great. Our guys rose to the challenge.
“One win is one win. It means nothing for the rest of the sea-son. We have a lot of improving that we need to go through.”
Valor, Colorado’s preseason top-ranked Class 5A team that has won four consecutive state championships, did turn the ball over three times, but the defense came up with big plays and the offense, triggered by a line that averages 290 pounds, moved up and down the field.
Christian McCaffrey, a 5-foot-10, 195-pound senior who has verbally committed to Stan-ford, showed his quickness and balance to national television onlookers.
He finished the abbrevi-ated game with 169 yards on 20
carries and three touchdowns. McCaffrey caught one pass for 20 yards, broke up a fourth down pass when he was inserted on defense and scrambled to get off a left-footed punt after bobbling a low snap from center.
Senior safety Marcus Wilson, who has verbally agreed to play at Colorado State, made several big hits and knocked down a pass.
“Christian made some incredible runs,” said Sherman. “Marcus made some big-time plays. He did a good job in cov-erage.”
Sherman also praised senior quarterback A.J. Cecil, who was 4-9-2 for 51 yards and a TD in his first varsity start, and lineback-ers Justin Falls and Lucas Chal-lenger.
Falls had eight tackles to pace the Eagles’ defense while Wilson, Challenger and safety Jace LaMunyon were each in on seven tackles.
SoftballDouglas County’s softball
team got off to a 2-0 start to the season with a 13-0 win over Palmer and a 7-6 victory over Columbine.
Senior Correl Breanna pitched a one-hit, five-inning shutout in the victory over Palmer, while sophomore Clara Larson was 5-for-8 with four runs scored and five runs batted in during the two victories.
Chaparral went 3-1 in games played between Aug. 17 and 24 with wins over Fort Collins, Palmer and Rocky Mountain and a 13-5 loss to Chatfield on Aug. 20.
Sophomore Laura Scheffel has gone 7-for-12 (.583) with seven RBIs in the first four games. Jordan Smith, another
sophomore, collected eight hits while junior Madeline LaPolla was 7-for-13 (.538).
Senior Taylor Saul had three hits in Highlands Ranch’s 11-1 win over Monarch on Aug. 22 … Heritage sophomore Carly Carlsen allowed only one hit in five innings in the Eagles’ 12-0 romp over Doherty Aug. 22 … Arapahoe picked up its first win in three outings with a 17-10 Centennial League triumph over Overland as MacKenzie Azzam contributed three hits including a double and triple … Ponderosa beat Vista Ridge 8-2 on Aug. 21 and whipped Liberty 33-3 Aug. 23. Sarah Coleman had three hits and three RBIs in the win over Vista Ridge, and Ally Power’s three hits and 12 strikeouts sparked the win over Liberty. Power collected the pitching wins in both victories.
Boys tennisCherry Creek tennis coach
Kirk Price has been placed on an indefinite leave because of what the school district called a “personnel matter.”
Art Quinn was named as interim head coach.
Legend opened its season with a 6-1 win over Highlands Ranch and Rock Canyon notched seven straight set victo-ries in a 7-0 Continental League win over Ponderosa.
Boys golfAfter three of five Centen-
nial league meets, Cherry Creek leads with an 886 aggregate followed by Arapahoe at 909 … In the third Continental League meet Aug. 19 at Saddle Rock golf course, Douglas County’s Kyler Dunkle had a 2-under-par 70 and Heritage’s Hunter Lee carded a 1-under 71.
Things To doThrough Aug. 31
WeATher moniTorS. The Community Collab-orative Rain, Hail and Snow Network based at the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University is looking to add a few hundred observers to its Denver area network during August. All it takes to be involved is the purchase of an official rain gauge ($30) and a commitment to help monitor the local climate by taking precipitation measurements as often as possible. The data is reported to the CoCoRaHS website and daily maps of local precipita-tion patterns are produced. Training is offered in person or online; a list of Denver area training classes can be found at http://www.cocorahs.org/State.aspx?state=CO. For information, or to sign up, contact Chris Spears at [email protected] or go to www.cocorahs.org and click on the “Join Us” link.
Aug. 30
PAncAke BreAkfAST. Park Meadows will have its 17th anniversary pancake breakfast from 8:30-10 a.m. Aug. 30 in the dining hall, 8401 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone Tree. Call 303-792-2999 ext. 7030, or visit http://www.parkmeadows.com/.
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LiBrAry cLoSureS. All Douglas County libraries will be closed Monday, September 2, in observance of Labor Day.
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miSS muffeT. Enjoy storytime with Little Miss Muffet and her loveable spider friends. Read a spider story and visit with live spiders, including Rosie the tarantula from The Butterfly Pavilion. This Seedlings event is at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sept. 3 in the Event Hall at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St. Tickets are $3 and are available at www.LoneTreeArtsCenter.org.
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hoLidAy SerViceS. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, will commence Sept. 4, and the Chabad Jewish Center will host a full High Holiday Services schedule at 9950 Lone Tree Parkway, Lone Tree. Unlike many congregations, membership is not required to join. All are welcome, free of charge, regardless of background or affiliation. Services will be held on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New
Year, on Sept. 4-6, as well as Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, Sept. 13-14. Call Rabbi Avraham Mintz at 303-946-8212, email [email protected] or visit www.DenverJewishCenter.com for free tickets and more information.
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emAiL mArkeTing. The South Metro Health Al-liance presents two workshops on email marketing. The workshops are designed for anyone working in a nonprofit organization or small business who uses or wants to use email to reach their intended audience. Seating is limited and reservations are requested. The first workshop, from 9-11 a.m. Aug. 22, is “The Who, What, Why of Email Marketing” and is an introduction to email marketing. The second workshop, from 9-11 a.m. Sept. 5, is “Email Market-ing Strategy, Plus Dos and Don’ts” and it dives into the technical and marketing strategy details. For reservations and more information, www.southme-trohealthalliance.org/workshops.
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chemicAL rounduP. Dispose of unwanted chemicals at the household chemical roundup from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 7 at the Castle Rock Utilities Building, 175 Kellogg Court. It is a joint effort between the Town’s Utilities Department and Tri County Health to prevent pollution and protect people handling garbage. A contribution of $25 is requested to help offset the high costs of hazardous waste disposal. Participants will be asked to verify residency. Residents are encouraged to register in advance online, www.tchd.org/householdchemical.htm. Also, please note that the event ends promptly at 3 p.m. Volunteers are greatly needed to help with registration, vehicle off-load, and waste processing. Volunteers get free food throughout the day, a gift for helping out at the event, and are allowed to dispose of their waste for free. Individuals and groups interested in helping with this event should call 720-200-1592. Visit www.tchd.org/household-chemical.htm or call 720-200-1592.
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grAndPArenTS dAy. South Suburban Parks and Recreation presents Grandparents Day Fair 2013 from noon to 4 p.m. at the Lone Tree Recreation Center and Prairie Sky Park, 10249 Ridgegate Circle, Lone Tree. Call 303-708-3516 for more information.
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