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In the Trenches with the Palmer

Ridge O-lineSee 5

New Town Manager Starts on Wednesday

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By Bill [email protected]

Monument Police Chief Jake Shirk had an urgent message for the town’s Board of Trustees at its Sept. 21 meeting.

“I’m noticing, over the past months, we’re seeing a signifi cant increase in crime,” Shirk said during his regular update to the board.

The issues run the gamut from shots fi red late at night in a city park to investigating suspected drug deal-ers operating from a neighborhood home to responding to a suicidal woman on a bus stopped on Interstate 25 to increased vandalism and other crimes.

And not only is there more crime, the criminals are more dangerous, he said, usually armed and potentially violent.

“I’m not trying to scare people,” Shirk said later. “Monument is still a safe place to live. But we’re seeing a spike in drugs. A spike in heroin. A spike in methamphet-amine. And a spike in guns associated with drug dealers in Monument.”

He said residents need to know they are not immune to what’s going on across the country.

“Every town is experiencing an increase in guns and drugs,” he said. “But it’s still a very safe town.”

Still, keeping ahead of the dangerous trend is going to require help for his de-partment and its staff of 14, Shirk said. The responsibility of covering shifts, 24 hours a

See Police Page 23


An effort to recall Monument Mayor Rafael Dominguez and Trustees Jeff Kaiser and Kelly Elliott has been withdrawn as cit-izens opposed to a methadone clinic close ranks behind town offi cials who have been targeted by a near $1 million lawsuit.

Tom Allen of Woodmoor, who launched the recall, said last week he decided to drop it so the community could concentrate on fi ghting Colonial Management Group, which sued the town Sept. 4 after it was de-nied a permit to open a methadone clinic in downtown.

Allen is a leader of the No Methadone in Monument group that raised thousands in July to hire an attorney to fi ght the zoning

See Recall on Page 22

Police chief to Trustees: ‘We need help out there’

Community meetingLeaders of the No Methadone in Monu-

ment group have scheduled a community meeting at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 30, at the St. Peter Catholic School Gym-nasium, 124 First Street, to discuss the lawsuit against the city over its denial of a business license to a methadone clinic.

Preserving open space is neighborhood priority

By Norma [email protected]

Two years after the Gleneagle Golf Course closed, shuttering its restaurant, tennis courts and pool as well as the fairways and greens, the 135.4-acre property has a new owner and a new fu-ture that doesn’t involve birdies and bogeys.

Westbrook Capital Hold-ings LLC bought the course for $1,991,500 in July, according to the Colorado Real Estate Jour-nal.

It promptly sold the golf course’s maintenance facility on Pauma Valley Drive to the Donala Water and Sanitation District.

And it announced intentions to build 41 homes.

The news was contained in letters to homeowners.

A letter dated Sept. 21, from the Gleneagle Coalition for Open Space, revealed the home construction plans.

“Specifi cally, only 41 new single family homes will be constructed, sited in such a way as to minimize impacts to the existing community with

the remainder of the property remaining as open space,” the group reported.

More details came out in a letter to homeowners from the Gleneagle Community Associa-tion Board of Directors, dated Sept. 21.

It covered several items per-taining to both the new owner and the purchase of the golf course’s maintenance facility by Donala, which took posses-sion of the facility on Sept. 18.

The association said the new owner had cleaned up the prop-erty, hauling away three 40-cu-bic-yard dumpsters fi lled with trash and debris from inside the building and the grounds around it.

Westbrook also cut back most of the weeds. Reportedly, Donala plans to install a wood-en fence and use the building for equipment storage

Since the Gleneagle Golf Course closed Nov. 1, 2013,

fairways, which run through Gleneagle neighborhoods and across their streets, have be-come rutted and overgrown weed patches.

The weeds have become a bone of contention among lo-cal residents.

The association letter con-tinued: “Survey work to create detailed mapping and topo-graphic data commenced this week and will be on-going for the next couple of weeks. This is a necessary step in prepar-ing plans for community and County reviews. Westbrook has stated that the intention is to plan a 41-home develop-ment without building any new streets and consistent with the water service limitations im-posed by Donala Water.”

The letter said it will be months before construction can begin since plans must be drawn and approved.

“It will probably be several weeks before any plans are de-veloped. As soon as plans are available, we will send out an update and make them avail-able for review. There will be a County-run ‘town-hall’ meet-ing held sometime later this year but the schedule for that

See Gleneagle on Page 11

Gleneagle Golf Course to be housing development

Event takes place Oct. 11

By Danny [email protected]

Jeff Hulsmann, owner of O’Malley’s Pub in Palmer Lake, has teamed with the Awake Palmer Lake non-profi t com-mittee to host a most unusual race.

The inaugural Palmer Lake

Point 5K – as in .5K – will be held Sunday, Oct. 11. The winner is expected to cross the fi nish line in a little over one minute.

The event is being billed as the largest (and shortest) run-ning event on the planet.

“If this is successful we hope to make this an annual tradi-tion,” said Bonnie Tinker, who is handling the public relations for the event. “We think it’s a

great way to promote the lake.”Tinker added that the lake is

about 75 percent full; about 8 to 10 feet deep in the north end.

“A few weeks ago the lake was stocked with about 1,000 trout,” Tinker said.

The run is dedicated to those who prefer something a little less challenging. It is a fund-raiser event for Awake Palmer Lake (awakepalmerlake.org).

A .5K race is only .31 of a mile, so essentially anyone can do it. Plus, there will be a “Do-nut Aid Station” at the halfway point.

“The sugar rush should pro-pel racers right to the fi nish line,” Tinker said.

This race begins on the west side of Rockin the Rails Park and ends at O’Malley’s

See Palmer .5k on Page 7

The tee area for the 13th hole at Gleneagle Golf Course is overgrown with weeds but the course’s new owner has begun work clearing weeds on the portions of the property closest to homes. /Photo by Norma Engelberg/the Tribune

Palmer Lake hosting unusual .5K run to raise funds for lake

Recall e� orts dropped to concentrate on� ghting lawsuit

Police Chief Jake Shirk

Monument Police Chief Jake Shirk needed two long tables in his evidence room to display all the guns, drugs and cash his offi cers confi scated from a rental home in Monument where he said drug dealers were operating. /Photo by Bill Vogrin / The Tribune

Brotherly love to the rescue

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2 The Tribune September 30 2015

C. David BarrettCharles “David” Barrett, of Monument,

Colorado, went to be with the Lord on Monday, September 14, 2015. He was born on June 4, 1947 to Charles and Ferne Barrett and grew up in Martha, Oklahoma. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from Oklahoma State University and a Master of Science de-gree in Physiology & Anatomy, as well as a Mas-ter of Public Health (MPH) at the University of Oklahoma.

He married the love of his life, Carolyn Blanton Barrett, on August 9, 1969, and they celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary last month. David’s work in Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) enabled them to live in many areas of the country, including Oklahoma, North Carolina, Texas, Con-necticut, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Ohio, until they retired in Colo-rado in 2001.

He always had a flair for the dramatic and knew how to tell a good story. An accomplishment he was especially proud of were his three novels which were published in 2013. David had a servant heart, loved people and never met a stranger. He volunteered for numerous organi-zations including Pikes Peak Hospice, Awanas, the Colorado Springs Res-cue Mission and the Marian House Soup Kitchen. His focus was always on Jesus Christ and not on himself.

He adored his 3 grandsons and was most excited that his first grand-son was born 3 weeks early - on his birthday. He was always ready to play in the gravel with them, help them build a tower of Legos or push them in the swing. The joy on his face when he was with them was indescribable.

His world changed in March 2015 when he was diagnosed with Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer. Never waivering from his faith and never doubting God, he fought a valiant fight.

David is survived by his wife Carolyn, his three daughters, Andrea and husband Mike Dolson of Frisco, Texas; Rebekah and husband Tim Miller of Falcon, Colorado; Elizabeth and husband Tobias Moum of Colorado Springs, Colorado; his grandsons, including Jack Dolson (4), Josiah Moum (3), and Liam Moum (2); his sister Rita and husband Fred Jackson of Loomis, California and brother John and wife Martha Barrett of Martha, Oklahoma and many cousins, nieces and nephews.

David is preceded in death by his parents, Charles and Ferne Barrett, sister Becky Barrett, brother Gary Barrett, and nephew Jonathon Barrett.

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me. . .” (2 Timothy 4:7-8) David truly “ran with endurance the race set before him” (Hebrews 12:1) and finished life well!

A Celebration of Life Memorial Service was held at The River Church on Friday, September 18 at 11:00 A.M.

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Todd and Colleen Dorman were among the hun-dreds who lost their homes and most of their posses-sions in the Black Forest fi re in 2013.

“We only had about an hour before we had to evac-uate,” Colleen Dorman said. “We got some pictures and things. But everything else was lost.”

Their home on Swan Road, east of Black Forest Road, didn’t survive the fi rst night of the inferno.

The family spent the last two years renting a home in Briargate as they struggled to fi nd time to rebuild while working two full-time jobs and raising two young children.

“It’s been two long years,” Colleen Dorman said.They fi nally got their new house mostly fi nished

and moved in a month ago. But they are far from set-tled.

Their fi ve-acre lot is strewn with dead trees and timber that needs to be cut and hauled out; there’s also grueling rock work necessary to stop erosion that comes with every rainfall.

“We’re still trying to get the house fi nished and ev-ery weekend working four to six hours a day trying to do yard work,” she said. “But it doesn’t look like we’ve even made a dent in it.”

So the couple was thrilled when Black Forest To-gether, a non-profi t group working to help residents with fi re restoration, mentioned that the Air Force Academy was looking for places its cadets could per-form community service work.

Community service by the cadet wing is a tradi-tion at the academy. Cadets have averaged more than 30,000 hours of community service work each aca-demic year for the past decade.

The work is organized by the academy’s Center for Character and Leadership Development center, via its Cadet Service Leadership program, which con-

nects community organizations with cadet volun-teers.

On Friday, 3,500 cadets fanned out across the Pikes Peak region to perform community service at 48 loca-tions. Melissa Chambless said Black Forest Together arranged for 400 cadets to provide fi re recovery and mitigation work in the area.

No one was more grateful than the Dormans, who welcomed a team of 20 cadets who moved rock to control the erosion problems and helped clear dead

wood.“We so appreciate it,” Colleen Dorman said. “Be-

ing back in the home is so overwhelming. The house is not fi nished and the property needs so much work.

“It’s such a blessing.” Organizations that wish to request cadet volun-

teers for future community service efforts can do so online at: http://www.usafa.edu/Commandant/cwc/cwcx/csl/csl_inputform.cfm?catname=csl

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On Wednesday, Oct. 7, the Monument Hill Kiwan-is Club will sponsor the annual Empty Bowl Din-ner and Silent Auction to benefi t Tri-Lakes Cares.

The Empty Bowl event began in 1992 by nation-ally recognized potters Anne Shimek and Linda and Richard Pankratz.

The fi rst event raised $1,000 and tickets were $6. In 2014, Empty Bowl and a generous community generated over $23,000 for the Tri-Lakes Cares 2015 needs.

Each year, Empty Bowl donates the full net pro-ceeds to Tri-Lakes Cares, a volunteer-supported re-source center whose pur-pose is to improve people’s lives through emergency assistance, self-suffi ciency, relief programs, educa-tion, and other social services.

Local donations are the backbone of the event. In support of Tri-Lakes Cares, area potters donate hun-dreds of bowls.

In 2014, the coordinated donations of bowls from over 30 local and area potters totaled 1,000 bowls. These bowls were offered to nearly 800 tickethold-ers. Local merchants donate soup, bread, and bever-

ages to provide a meal to ticketholders.

In 2014, 25 restaurants donated an average of 5 gallons of soup, and eight other merchants donated bread and beverages. Elev-en churches and 12 private families donated over 900 servings of dessert.

At the event, to further assist Tri-Lakes Cares, doz-ens of volunteers hold a silent auction of merchan-dise and services from lo-cal merchants. Adding to the event festivities, there is musical entertainment.

Ticketholders have the opportunity to see their Monument Hill Kiwanis Club and Kiwanis Service Leadership Clubs from D38 schools in action.

Please plan to attend the Monument Hill Kiwanis Empty Bowl Dinner at Lewis-Palmer High School, 5-7:30 pm., on Wednes-day, Oct. 7.

Tickets for the event are $20 and available online at http://monumenthillkiwanis.org/mhk/index.php/projects2/empty-bowls-2015-tickets

and at local Tri-Lakes merchants. Children under 12 may accompany a ticket-holding adult at no extra charge. Ticket purchase also qualifi es patrons for the raffl e of a Kindle Fire 7” HD tablet.

Cadets help Black Forest residents recover from fi re

2015 Monument Hill Kiwanis Empty Bowls Dinner and Silent Auction to Benefi t

On Wednesday, Oct. 7, the Monument Hill Kiwanis Club will sponsor the annual Empty Bowl Dinner and Silent Auction to benefi t Tri-Lakes Cares. In 2014, over 30 local and area pot-ters donated 1,000 bowls. Local merchants donated soup, bread and beverages to provide a meal to 800 ticketholders. /Photo courtesy the Monument Hill Kiwanis Club

Cadets from the Air Force Academy help Black Forest residents with fi re restoration./Staff Sgt. Veronica Ward

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is scheduled for 6 p.m., Monday, Oct. 5 at Academy International Elementary School, 8550 Charity Drive, Colorado Springs.

El Paso County Parks will be hosting a community meeting to discuss the public use of the trail.

El Paso County has had an easement for the seven-mile section through the Air Force Academy since 1989. The Air Force closed the trail section

to general public in May citing an elevated threat warning from U.S. Northern Command.

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It was a festive evening as Lewis-Palmer School District 38 inducted six new members into its Hall of Fame on Friday, Sept. 18.

Current and former D-38 staff joined family, friends and community mem-bers honoring Caryn Collette, Meg Ed-monds, Barbara Elliott, Walt Langevin, Rich Stewart and Special Legacy Award recipient Esther Bowen Brown.

Inductee Langevin traveled from Ar-kansas for the event, and Elliott made the trip from Oregon to accept the hon-ors.

Brown’s grandchildren, Marlene Brown and Morgan Brown, accepted her award.

Among those on hand for the cel-ebration was Ray Kilmer, a former superintendent for whom Kilmer El-ementary is named.

Also in attendance was Frank Royal, a school board member for nine years in the 1970s. Both Kilmer and Royal are 2013 Hall of Fame inductees.

They were joined by John Borman,

former superintendent and co-founder of the Hall of Fame program, at the cer-emony.

Another Hall co-founder, ex-board member and 2014 inductee Jeff Fergu-son, served as the master of ceremony along with Deb Stumpf, chairwoman of the Hall of Fame selection committee.

This is the third consecutive year for enshrinement in the Hall at the district,

which traces its roots to 1874.In announcing the honorees a few

weeks ago, the selection committee had this to say about each:

Barb Elliott earned numerous hon-ors including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching from the National Science Foundation.

Caryn Collette joined D-38 in 1997 as a language arts teacher, eventu-

ally became principal and guided the two middle schools through a difficult merger in 2010.

Margaret “Meg” Edmonds was a vi-sionary librarian who established four elementary school libraries in the dis-trict and computerized circulation and card catalog systems.

Richard Stewart taught math and built dominant track teams, winning area “Coach of the Year” awards three times as well as statewide honors twice.

Esther Bowen Brown taught 30 years before retiring in 1965 only to begin a 10-year tenure on the school board, where she convinced taxpayers to in-vest in the district.

Walter B. Langevin was a long-time supervisor of maintenance and grounds. He was credited with teaching respect for others, the worth and value of the old and the new, and dedication to excellence.

The school district began in 1874 as Lewis School District 5. In 1948, it merged with Palmer Lake School Dis-trict 33, creating D-38, which today serves about 6,000 students.

D-38 Hall of Fame welcomes new members at recent celebration

The Lewis-Palmer School District 38 Class of 2015 Hall of Fame Inductees: from left, Rich Stewart, Caryn Collette, Barbara Elliott, Med Edmonds, Walt Langevin, and Morgan Brown, representing his grandmother Esther Bowen Brown/Courtesy Photo

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PIKES PEAK BILL

By Bill Vogrin

Taylor Badeau remembers falling.Vividly.He remembers that instant when his foot slipped

and his sticky rock-climbing shoe broke loose from the granite wall perhaps 40 feet up on the Bigger Bagger pinnacle of the remote North Pit area on Pikes Peak.

Taylor, 21, remembers the grip he had on the crack. He remembers the move he was making across the cliff. He remembers feeling a little tired that morning of Sept. 1.

And he remembers the wave of fear that swept over him in a fl ash when he suddenly lost his grip.

“You are always scared when you are about to fall,” Taylor told me.

But this was not like the 15-foot fall he experi-enced on a previous climb, which was stopped by his safety rope and his climbing partner.

This was a free-fall down the face of a cliff.Unlike his previous fall, this time the temporary

metal device he wedged into a crack to hold his safety rope had popped loose, turning that rope into a strand of worthless twisted nylon. He fell, uncon-trolled, to the rocky ground below.

“I was leading and was climbing along a crack,” he said. “We weren’t very far into our climb. I stepped to my right and my foot just blew off.”

He remembers those seconds as he fell back, actually soaring over his older brother and climbing partner, 29-year-old Austin Badeau, who was hold-ing the other end of his rope.

“I don’t believe I hit the wall because the route is fairly steep,” Taylor said. “I think I just fell and hit the ground.”

Perhaps it’s fortunate Taylor doesn’t remember hitting the ground. But he knows he hit hard. The force of the impact knocked him unconscious for perhaps 10 seconds and left him incoherent for up-wards of an hour afterward.

The fall also caused many cuts to his legs and a deep gash, several inches long, in his scalp when his safety helmet jarred to the side, exposing his head.

It was around noon and Taylor was a bloody, bruised and babbling mess.

He was a two-hour technical hike away from help, tucked in a remote spot on the north side of Pikes Peak with limited cellphone coverage. He was obvi-ously suffering a serious head injury. His neck and spine had taken the force of the impact and moving him would be risky.

But this was his lucky day.That’s because his climbing partner and brother,

Austin, was more than just another climber.He was a newly minted doctor who was in resi-

dency in California and pressure-tested in previous crises.

“My brother was amazing,” Taylor said repeatedly. “He started doing all his doctor stuff.”

But it was more than just checking his head wound for a skull fracture and immobilizing his neck to protect against further injury if his spine was fractured.

Austin was doing for Taylor what he’s done all his life: being a good big brother.

“An amazing big brother,” Taylor said.Since they were boys, Austin was always there to

nurture Taylor despite an eight-year gap in their ages that might have been too big for some siblings to bridge.

“As far back as I can remember, he was there for me,” Taylor said. “When I was 4, he was helping coach my soccer team. And we rooted for the Steel-ers together. We just shared a lot of similarities.”

Their bond grew as Taylor tried to emulate his brother. And Austin, even as he went away to college, found ways to stay connected. He even became an assistant coach on Taylor’s Air Academy High School soccer team in 2010 when the Kadets won the state championship.

And when Austin became a rock climbing guide, returning in the summers to work for a local guide

company, he introduced Taylor to the sport.

Climbing became another shared passion and they sched-uled regular trips around the country and Canada.

So when Austin came home to get married the fi rst week in September, there was no question he would spend a day climbing with Taylor, his best man. (Brother Matt offi ciated the wedding.)

“The week would have felt weird if we hadn’t climbed,” he

said. “And his suitcase was packed with as much climbing gear as it was with clothes for the wed-ding.”

They were so excited to get on something steep that Austin fl ew in on Monday and the brothers were climbing in North Pit on Tuesday morning.

Then Taylor’s foot slipped, his rope went limp and all hell broke loose.

“I remember hearing him call a friend and telling him they’d have to delay his bachelor’s party,” Taylor said. “He told him: ‘It’s pretty bad.’ ”

As Taylor sat with his head and neck wrapped and suffering the confusion that accompanies severe concussions, Austin scrambled around the moun-tainside fi rst to get a phone signal and then to try to fl ag down an El Paso County Search and Rescue heli-copter and direct ground rescuers to their location.

He eventually helped lead in an Army Blackhawk helicopter that fl ew in from Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora to rescue Taylor from the mountain.

The weather had deteriorated during the ordeal, with lightning and rain making the already diffi -cult rescue especially dangerous by the time crews reached them about 4 p.m.

But Taylor said his brother never stopped work-ing.

“He was constantly checking on me, running all over the mountain, trying to help them get me stabi-lized and in the basket and all.”

Miraculously, Taylor’s worst injuries were the obvious cuts and bruises and concussion, plus sprained ligaments in his neck. After several hours of tests and scans and X-rays at Memorial Hospital, he was released.

He even went to his youth soccer team’s practice the next day. And just as Austin stood by his side on the mountain, Taylor stood by his brother’s side at the wedding that weekend, offering a best man’s toast and looking only slightly swollen and bruised.

The major soreness and swelling wouldn’t come until initial painkillers wore off the next week. And he’s still experiencing neck pain and headaches.

But I think he feels worse about all the trouble he caused by failing to properly secure the metal clip in the crack that might have saved him the big fall.

“I dragged about 30 people up the side of the mountain in a lightning storm,” he said, shaking his head. “The Search and Rescue people did an amaz-ing job. I need to thank them. And the Blackhawk crew was great.”

And he appreciates his parents, Carol and Buddy, for racing up the mountain to stand vigil in the storm until he was whisked away.

But he can’t help focus on Austin and all he did that day.

Perhaps the thing he’ll remember most, beyond the dramatic fall and the terrifying ride in the basket up to the helicopter (“The worst three minutes of my life.”) is being reunited with Austin in the Memorial Hospital emergency room hours later.

“After all he did that day for me, he had a diffi -cult hike out back to the truck, then drive down the mountain and to the hospital,” Taylor said. “He ran into the ER still wearing all his climbing gear, with his hands taped and everything.

“He ran in and we made eye contact. Like only brothers can. It was special.”

I’ve known Taylor as one of my son’s best friends

for years. He was always the heart of every team they played on together.

And he was always the toughest guy on the fi eld. When word got out about his fall, and he was safe, his friends asked how badly he hurt the mountain when he landed.

Already, Taylor is laughing at his misadventure. And he’s standing tall, blaming himself for a mis-take that nearly cost him his life and apologizing for causing such a fuss.

I hope he doesn’t beat himself up over it. We all make mistakes. Sometimes we pay dear conse-quences, live with regret if we live at all. Struggle with guilt. You know the drill. We’ve all been there.

But few of us will ever know the brotherly love Taylor shares with Austin.

And I hope that’s what he remembers -- the bond, the camaraderie, the look they shared in the ER -- and celebrates over the years as that day on the mountain inevitably is recalled.

Falling off the mountain can be lucky, depending on your partner

The Badeau family, from left, Taylor, Matt, Austin, Carol and Buddy. /Courtesy photo.

Injured climber Taylor Badeau was hoisted in a basket by a hovering Blackhawk helicopter that fl ew from Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora on Sept. 1, 2015, after being treated by El Paso County Search and Rescue crews. /Courtesy photo.

Case study: Savage family business grows and thrives here


By Rob [email protected]

It has been a study in family, and business, and community. How do the elements intersect and change, grow and develop over time? It is the local demographics of identifying the moving target of Monument and the Tri-Lakes area.

Rocky Mountain Car Wash and Lube Center, with manager/owner John Savage has been right on the northwest corner of the main intersection of that study for the last 20 years.

“When I decided to leave the corporate world to fulfill an entrepreneurial dream, the corner of Hwy 105 and Second St. was occupied by a one-hour photo and a self-serve car wash. Second St. did not join Hwy 105, the bridge was only two lanes wide, and a single stop sign regulated traffic,” Savage said.

He started forming that vision of Rocky Mountain Oil Change Center, at least as far back as 1994.

“Working for a major oil company for 17 years, I assisted numerous lube center entrepreneurs by providing demographics, site development, building plans, equipment financing, and marketing assis-tance, all the while dreaming of opening my own lube center one day,” he said.

The Savage family realized their dream on Sept. 7, 1995 when Rocky Mountain Oil Change Center opened for business.

“The whole family has taken part in the day-to-day operations of the business,” he said.

Dana, John’s wife, helped design the lobby, and worked on publicity and advertising. Each of his children took interest in the business operations. Jennifer, the oldest of seven children, helped with bookkeeping; Tiffany, Dustin, Melissa, Joshua, and Caleb worked on cars and built customer relation-ships; and Caroline attracted business with her shopping cart ads since she was an infant.

Now, John Savage’s seven children (with seven grandchildren) are professors, economists, engi-neers, business executives and more, and he credits their business experience at the Center as a major influence.

With nine family members in town, in earlier days when the town itself was much smaller, John notes that if the family would have moved, it would have

constituted about one percent decrease in popula-tion.

From 1995 to 2007, Savage paid $10 per month for 1.5-inch car wash water tap that he hoped he might find a use for it someday.

By 2006, Rocky Mountain Oil Change Center had expanded to three locations, with stores in Castle Rock and Englewood as well as Monument. In response to consistent growth in the Tri-Lakes area, a new addition has been made to the Monument store. Rocky Mountain Oil Change Center opened a 95-foot tunnel conveyor carwash, complemented by a completely remodeled lobby and building exte-rior. Using the latest state-of-the-art technology, the carwash heats its water with energy-efficient waste oil burners, and is equipped with an environmental-friendly water reclaim system, which significantly reduces water consumption and waste. The carwash

is capable of servicing 70 vehicles in an hour.With adjustments allowing acquisition of a piece

of city-owned property that now put the business on one of the busiest corners at the entrance to the historic part of the growing city, Savage endured, and finally prospered. The emissions testing service (of which, one of his daughters was the youngest ever technician at age 15) helped. The changes to the corner and growth of the community helped, and having strong employees (many of them offspring) helped. And the family focus and spirit helped, as well.

Much like the complete set of Colorado license plates displayed in the lobby of the center, from 1913 to 1976, the family, the business, the community has been a successful study in trying to serve the target market of local demographics in Monument and the Tri-Lakes area.

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Case study: Savage family business grows and thrives here

John Savage, left, and employee inside the modern shop at Rocky Mountain Oil Change Center recently./Photo by Rob Car-rigan

At one time a one-hour photo shop, the building has undergone many transformations. The Lube Center and emissions test facility made way for bigger things. In 2007, Rocky Mountain opened a state-of-the-art carwash facility./Courtesy Photos

A complete set of Colorado License Plates is displayed in the lobby./Photos by Rob Carrigan

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test is coming up. Send in your favorite recipe to Ko-bolt Press Printers c/o Tri-Lakes Tribune. All winning recipes will be copyrighted under republishing rights of Kobolt Press. Winners will get $2 cash prize.

Open House and Pony Show, Oct. 4, in Perry Park, Larkspur. Rain date is Oct. 5. It is organized by Plum Creek Pony Club. Judges are Mrs. John Paulk and Mrs. Spencer Mclean.

The Church at Woodmoor will sponsor an Out-reach Day Oct. 11. Canned and packaged food dona-tions are being collected for FISH, an emergency and relief program of the Pikes Peak Association of Churches and St. Vincent de Paul Society’s Service Center. Soaps and detergents are also being col-lected for St. Vincent de Paul. Mrs. Fern Kinion and Lloyd N. Hardesty are co-chairpersons.

The sophomore class of Lewis-Palmer High

School is selling cords of wood. Wood will be deliv-ered and stacked at $50 a cord.

Woodmoor Inn was held up at 2 p.m. Monday by two men wearing motorcycle garb. Monument Police are investigating. An all-points-bulletin call has been issued.

Kiwanis Circle K and Key Club leaders will gather at LaForet Camp to discuss “Conquest of Fear,” Nov. 7-9. Roy W. Davis will be the keynote speaker. He is the past president of Kiwanis International and is from Chicago.

The first Sunday of every month will be Family Religious Education Sunday or St. Peter’s Church. Meetings and mass will be at Lewis-Palmer Middle School at 10 a.m.

The Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic is killing Ponderosa pines along the Colorado Front Range.

“Bicentennial Senior” program is the official Bi-centennial project by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. Two high school students from each state will go to Colonial Williamsburg, Va. They learn about the history

of Williamsburg as well as learn about the bicenten-nial

El Paso County will receive its American Revolu-tion Bicentennial flag and national honor at a cer-emony at 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3. The American Free-dom Train will visit Colorado Springs Oct. 2-5 and will be at the old Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad depot. The ceremony will take place there. The flag and a certificate will be presented to Thom Foulks, chairman of the Board of County Commis-sioners, and David Hughes, chairman of Pikes Peak or Bust by ’76 Committee. All mayors of El Paso County are invited.

Registration for Punt, Pass and Kick competition for 8-15 year olds ends Oct. 4. Register at 414 Wilcox.

The second annual Arts and Crafts Festival sponsored by Palmer Lake Art Group will be on Oct. 25 at the Palmer Lake Town Hall. Commissions will be used for art scholarship fund and other “good deeds.”

Compiled by Linda Case

40 Years Ago


By Mark Downing Guest columnist

Since I graduated from college, my dream had been to power my home with sunshine. Unfortu-nately, in 1977, the cost of photovoltaic solar panels was about $77 per watt of electricity generated. It was just too expensive.

By 2013, the cost had dropped to approximately 74 cents per watt. My patience, and lack of money, had paid off.

In 2014, I hired a company from Lewisville to install 16 solar panels (modules they call them now) on the roof of my house. Each hail-hardened module is capable of producing 275 watts of electricity.

A little quick math told me that my system was capable of producing 4,400 watts, or 4.4 kilowatts per hour (Kwh), when the sun was shining. With 300 good days of sunshine a year in Woodland Park, I was certain I could produce enough electricity to power my 3,800-square-foot home.

In fact, in the fi rst eight full months of operation, my system has produced an average of 477 Kwh per month. I used an average of 339 Kwh per month dur-ing this period. The extra 1,100 Kwh are “stored” in the electric grid maintained by Intermountain Rural Electric Association, or IREA.

This electricity is available for me to use at night, on cloudy days, when my panels are covered with snow, etc. Once a year, IREA pays me for the excess electricity I have stored, to zero out my balance.

Solar panel installation isn’t cheap. I paid roughly $20,000 for my system. The federal govern-ment refunded 30 percent of the cost, roughly $6,000, through income tax credits. (This ‘solar tax credit’ is set to expire at the end of this year.)

So, my system ended up costing $14,000. Payback will take some time. Prior to the installation, I was paying approximately $80 per month to IREA for my electricity. I now pay a $10 basic service charge monthly.

Again, a little simple math tells me that it should take me 16 years

and 8 months to pay for the system with my reduced electric bill money. This assumes IREA electric rates remain the same, at 12.3 cents per Kwh.

All-in-all the experience has been very positive. However, times are changing.

Along with the end of the federal tax credit, IREA is planning to introduce a charge for solar users. They call this charge a “Load Factor Adjustment.”

According to IREA, this load factor adjustment “would add a demand charge to those new custom-ers bills in months when their load factor falls so low that IREA cannot recover costs of service.” Read this as solar users and weekend cabin owners.

By my estimate, this charge could push my bill

back to near what it was before I installed my solar system. I, along with some 700 existing solar cus-tomers, will not have to pay this adjustment. Only homeowners who install solar after Jan. 1, 2016, will pay it.

This will eliminate any fi nancial incentive to install solar within the IREA service area. The only remaining incentive would be “environmental stew-ardship.”

In fact, even this incentive may go away by the end of 2016 once IREA has its utility-scale 15 mega-watt solar project on-line.

Currently, IREA receives its power from the 1,400-megawatt Comanche 3 coal-fi red power plant near Pueblo. IREA’s “token solar effort” will provide roughly 1 percent of the needs of their 148,000 cus-tomers.

At least it’s a step in the right direction. And it may be a signal that the company is mov-

ing away from the beliefs held by then-General Manager Stan Lewandowski when he told Westword Magazine in 2009: “Wind farms, solar technology, energy conservation mandates ... it’s all as crazy as a made-up global-warming catastrophe.”

Later that same year, IREA donated $100,000 to Patrick Michaels, a discredited climate-change spe-cialist who disputes the consensus regarding green-house gases.Mark Downing is a 5th generation Colorado native, retired Naval offi cer, and teacher who taught social studies in Woodland Park for 15 years.

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Manitou Park dates back to the 1870’s when Dr William A. Bell was buying forest land. This proj-ect was to provide lumber for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, the building of Colorado Springs and Manitou.

I told the story of Billy Garland who prospected closer to Woodland Park. After gold was discovered in Cripple Creek, the area north of the district saw regular prospecting.

I have told the stories here of discoveries at Pem-berton and even here at Manitou Park. There were even some pretty strong discoveries between Wood-land Park and Divide, and even eastward toward Palmer Lake, but none really lasted more than a few weeks.

Manitou Park was mainly a resort once the timber was cut. A big hotel served visitors, even though it

burned down a couple times. The area that is now a park had

several cabins on the banks near the lake, which was a lot smaller than it is now. There was even a railroad through the area used by the lumbering company.

When Dr. Bell returned to Eng-land just before World War I, he gave his land to Colorado College. The college used the land for their forestry school.

In 1931, professor W.T. MacK-enzie of the geology department discovered the old Leonetta Shaft on the property. The old mine was one of those prospect holes

that had excited the area just around the turn of the century.

It attracted a variety of speculators, and the only money it ever made was from selling claims. MacK-enzie was allowed, by the school, to work on the mine. He had been working on mapping discoveries in Cripple Creek.

When he discovered the workings, it was a while before he was able to fi nd anyone who knew about it. Once he was given permission to explore he found that it still contained drills, pumps, wrenches and other tools.

The miners had just walked away, and the weath-er and the poor rock in the area had partially closed the entrance.

The 1930’s stories paint an optimistic story of the discovery, but a few months later the reality set in and the hole was mainly used as a crude classroom for the engineers.

A few bits of ore were found, but never enough to support the college’s department.

Manitou Park gold mine taught many lessons

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To the editor,After reading “Late-night gunfire in Limbach Park

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Here’s a synopsis of the case: On Sept. 4th around 12:30 a.m., several people called El Paso County dis-patch reporting gunshots.

Officers responded to the area and made contact with two individuals sitting in a vehicle in the parking lot of Limbach Park off of Second Street.

When questioned, these individuals stated that they also heard gunshots in the area. It was at this time that the officers heard other sounds in the area that could have been shots. The officers, following their extensive training to “go towards the threat,” left to investigate after the people in the vehicle were identified and released at the scene.

Unbeknownst to the officers at the time, there was an actual eyewitness across the street from the park that did not contact the police until the next day. Ac-cording to that witness, he heard the gunshots, ob-served kids step over the wooden fence at the edge of the park and get into a white jeep parked in the park-ing lot of Limbach Park. He also stated he observed

the police making contact with these individuals.That citizen was quoted saying: “You can come

into downtown and pop off 15 rounds and never even get pulled out of your car. Another citizen, who was not a witness, was quoted as saying: “And it’s very dangerous the way the cops left it.”

These are not factual statements. The officers, who were responding to a dangerous situation and plac-ing themselves in jeopardy, were working with only partial information. Although there is no way to de-termine what would have happened if the actual eye-witness had immediately contacted police, as the in-cident was occurring, the outcome might have been vastly different, resulting in arrests.

Statements were also made by one of these citi-zens that they were told “the police department was closed.” This is not accurate. The administrative office of the Police Department is open Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monument Police Officers are on-duty 365 days a year, 24 hours per day. If you need to reach the administrative offices you may call 481-3253 dur-ing office hours. If you need to report a crime, you may call dispatch at 390-5555 for non-emergencies. If you have an emergency, dial 9-1-1.

Finally the non-witness citizen is quoted as say-ing: “the police force clearly isn’t prepared to face

increased pressure that would follow if a methadone clinic opened.” I am confused as to why such an un-informed statement would be made by an individu-al who did not have all of the facts. Any connection between this incident and the methadone clinic are unrelated. These statements against the very profes-sional, well-trained, well-equipped, and well-pre-pared men and women of the Monument Police De-partment are disparaging and unwarranted.

I would highly recommend that this individual, and any other interested citizen, attend our Citizen Police Academy to get a better understanding of how our police department operates.

Part of our mission statement is that we will ag-gressively pursue those who commit crime. The men and women of the Monument Police Department are dedicated to this mission. One way to accomplish this goal is to work with the community to address crime. If something looks suspicious members of the public should not hesitate to call the police even if they think others may have called already. That caller may have the one vital piece of information that will help solve the case.

Thank You,Jake Shirk, Police Chief

Letters to the Editor


By Nancy [email protected]

During a recent Art Hop -- the summer showcase of galleries and studios in Monument -- I had a very enjoyable walk around downtown.

It was a different perspective for me. Since the Art Hop program began in 2004, I have participated as an artist, explaining my work to the public at one gallery or store. But now I was a guest, travelling from shop to shop,

Wandering around gave me the opportunity to see old friends, and meet new ones.

The weather was perfect and music poured from the patios of the Bliss Studio and Wisdom Tea House. Art Hop has always been fun for the store owners and the public and this night was no exception.

I also had the unexpected pleasure of finding two new gems in our creative community.

The first was Yarn Bird Fibers, which previously was located on Highway 105 in Palmer Lake but now

occupies the storefront across Washington Street from Bella Art and Frame.

I’m a person who finds great relaxation from knitting or cro-cheting. So stepping into this store with its palette of colors and textures was immediately soothing and my brain starting wondering what I would knit or crochet next!

I was especially pleased to learn one-on-one instruction was avail-able so I could jump right in and challenge my limited skills with the help of a talented teacher. But where to start?

This treasure chest carries the softest natural fiber yarns in virtually every color and combination and I’ve been back three times since my first visit, just planning what I will eventually create. Fortunately the own-er, Kathy Crivello, has an educated guiding hand so I won’t get discouraged or overwhelmed with all the choices!

The second pleas-ant surprise was the new studio/gallery space at the end of 3rd street, next to Bee’s Knees Embroi-dery.

Four potters --

John Haines, Dusty Severns, Walt Moore and Caro-lanne Ryan -- who previously worked from studios in the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, have moved to this location to create their pottery that is both wheel thrown and slab worked.

Joined by painter Laura Davis, they make up an enthusiastic and talented group of people who are eager to join the Monument business community. You can watch them manipulate their clay and wield their brushes and glaze the finished product.

Upcoming Art Events:Wisdom Tea House is exhibiting watercolor batik

paintings by Carol Naylor through Oct. 3rd.Bella Art and Frame is hosting a Miniature Fine

Art Show this October! All entries fitting the criteria of miniature art will be accepted and judged by An-thony T. Archuleta with cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners!!

For information about what miniature art is and how to enter your artwork please visit Bellaartand-frame.com. You can also contact Maggie or Ethan at 719-487-7691 for an entry form. Deadline for entry: Sept. 22. Show Dates: Oct.1-31.

The Palmer Lake Art Group will have its 42nd Arts and Crafts Fair at the Palmer Lake Town hall on Friday, October 2 and Saturday , Oct. 3rd from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days and Sunday, Oct. 4th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proceeds support Lewis-Palmer District 38 Student Art Scholarships.

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It’s October, the aspen are turning, bears are ran-sacking trash cans with vigor and that must mean it’s time to scare yourself silly at your local Hallow-een haunted houses.

Most of these haunts open this weekend, and run Friday and Saturday (and sometimes Thursday) nights through the end of October.

Here’s a list of area haunts and an idea of what each haunt offers, as well as the people behind the makeup and chainsaws, in addition to pricing and location.

Happy Halloween!

Haunted MinesWhere: 225 North Gate Blvd., Colorado Springs, CO 80921Cost: Tickets range from $15 to $20. Learn more at hauntedmines.org.

Angel Nuce has been at the Haunted Mines since the beginning, and has loved every minute of it. She took over as executive director in January, and spent most of this year steering the haunt back toward its origins in mining history. Housed on the grounds of the Western Museum of MIning and Industry, the haunt has always featured elevator-drop scares and tunnels through which visitors have to crawl - but this year, Nuce said, it also showcases a variety of actual mining artifacts on loan from the museum, instead of the variety of frights other houses opt for.

“We’re utilizing real equipment,” she said. “Every-thing you see in the que line, that’s real stuff.”

As always, proceeds from the Haunted Mines will be donated to various local nonprofits and charities, and is put on entirely by volunteers.

Visitors should expect to navigate the indoor/outdoor route in about a half hour, in groups of four to six. The Haunted Mines are not recommended for those under 13 years of age. The paths are frequently close and tight, and some crawling is required; this is the most physically demanding haunt in the area.

HellScream Haunted HouseWhere: 3021 N. Hancock Ave., Colorado Springs, 80907Cost: Tickets range from $20 to $30.

“I think the thing that really sets us apart is the teamwork between the three owners,” said Jeff Shin-kel, a co-owner of HellScream with his father, Jack, and Vince Stites “and all the extended workers and staff.

“We have just an amazing staff of people. We work well together, and everybody brings their own strengths, which add up to something pretty spe-cial,” Shinkel said.

HellScream is three stories of uninterrupted haunted house, and there are lots of activities avail-able to autumn visitors. The haunt weaves through the entirety of the house in about a half hour, but there are also opportunities for zombie laser tag on the third floor – the hospital floor. Murder mystery dinners and an escape room are also housed inside HellScream.

Ghouls GulchWhere: 3910 Palmer Park Blvd., Colorado Springs, 80909Cost: Tickets range from $15 to $30.

“We’ve been doing this professionally for 12

years,” said Mike Bizub, owner of Ghoul’s Gulch and its adjacent haunt, The Sanitarium. “[The people behind Ghoul’s Gulch] have a mix of backgrounds, from gravediggers to psychologists.

“This haunt has a higher level of detail. We have an actual embalming table [in The Sanitarium]; We use real props to create the illusion.”

The haunt also showcases a variety of smells, from an antiseptic scent in the hospital areas to a mothball odor in the attic rooms.

The Sanitarium begins as a walk through patient rooms, and shifts midway until, Bizub said, “You’re looking through the eyes of the insane.”

In that portion of the route, visitors will wear 3D glasses to augment the experience.

“We’re great at what we do,” Bizub said.

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When: Reservations required. Check mppir.com for dates. Where: 500 East Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek, 80813Cost: $30 per person; $50 per couple. Participants must be 18 or older.

While the Mountain Peak Paranormal Society cannot guarantee participants will encounter the ghost of the girl who haunts the Train Depot or the man in the Assay Office, they do promise to train attendees in the skills, equipment and techniques necessary to pursue the supernatural.

Those wishing to participate can bring their own audio and video equipment, if they have it, and should wear comfortable clothes for the long night ahead. You might also consider bringing a cushion to sit on, and some spare batteries, just in case.

Colorado Lions CampWhere: 28541 Hwy 67 N, Woodland Park, 80863When: Saturday, Oct. 23-24, Oct 30-31Cost: $5 to $10

This October sees Colorado Lions Camp hosting its first Haunted Trails fundraiser. The earlier hours will be more kid-friendly, with scares increasing in intensity throughout the evening. Start with a wagon ride through the grounds and conclude with a wander through the Haunted Cabin. Food, games, and events will be going on throughout. Proceeds will help the camp buy a new 15-passenger van.

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Former American Idol star and recording artist Crystal Bowersox is com-ing back to Palmer Lake to perform at the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts.

Bowersox, who was runner-up on the ninth season of American Idol in 2010, will perform at the TLCA on Friday, Oct. 2.

Doors open at 6 p.m. with a 7 p.m. show. To see if tickets are available, call 719-481-0475, or go to www.trilakesarts.org.

“Crystal Bowersox has made it her mission to live life and her music to the fullest,” said TLCA execu-tive director Michael Maddox. “It is this fortitude and courageous spirit that resonated with millions night after night when the 2010 American Idol runner-up took the stage.

“There is a sincerity and authenticity about her that just can’t be manufactured.”

Bowersox, 30, first performed at the TLCA in 2014 to a sold-out audience.

“Her rich amalgam of blues, country, folk and rock makes her one of the most dynamic young voices in music to come along in years,” Maddox said of Bowersox. “She has performed alongside everyone from Harry Connick Jr., Joe Cocker, and Alanis Mor-risette, to Michael Franti, John Popper and (the late) BB King.”

Bowersox gained fame on American Idol. Guest judge Shania Twain commented that she had a “… raw, natural talent” after hearing Bowersox sing “Piece of My Heart.”

Bowersox was the first female contestant to make it to the finale since Jordin Sparks won the title in 2007. She was also the first contestant in American Idol history to have an original song played on the show, during her hometown package.

Her original song “Holy Toledo” was played on the May 19 Top 3 Results show as the background music for her homecoming package. It segued into her live performance of the same song at “Bowerstock.”

Bowersox finished that season of American Idol as Runner-Up behind Lee DeWyze.

Davis has shared the stage with Sheryl Crow and Adam Levine


This year alone, Joshua Davis has performed with nine-time Grammy Award winner Sheryl Crow and Maroon 5 front man Adam Levine on national televi-sion.

Now the Michigan native and one of the stars of the “The Voice” is coming to the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts.

Davis, who finished third on NBC’s hit television show, will be performing at the TLCA on Thursday, Oct. 15. Doors open at 6 p.m. with a 7 p.m. show. For tickets call 719-481-0475, or go to www.trilakesarts.org.

“I’ve spent a lot of time in Colorado, and I’ve per-formed all over the state, but I don’t think I’ve never been to Palmer Lake,” Davis told the Tribune after a returning from a recent road trip.

“Colorado is a place I love to play; not because it’s beautiful scenery, but because the people really get into blue grass and folk, which of course, is my passion.”

Davis, 35, was raised in the folk tradition: the mu-sic, the social movements, and the land. He writes songs that blend the roots of American music with gritty rock n’ roll and vintage soul.

“Folk artists are always accessible,” Davis said “It’s one of our core ethics.”

Davis’ musical roots were formed decades ago.“I got to play with a lot of my heroes as a kid,” he

said. “Those are times I will never forget and they helped shape the musician and person I am today.”

Davis has shared stages with a diverse list of lu-minaries, such as The Indigo Girls, Leftover Salmon, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Jimmy LaFave, Ray Bonneville, Arlo Guthrie, John Hammond, the late Pete Seeger and Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

Performing Songwriter Magazine has called Davis’ music: “Some of the liveliest and most rocking roots music around.”

For the last 15 years Davis has made his living sharing his songs, stories and knowledge across the U.S.and Canada at festivals, concert halls, coffee-houses and dives.

He’s done so as a solo act, front man for roots ensemble “Steppin’ In It,” classic swing band “Shout Sister Shout,” songwriter showcase band “The Star-light Six,” and frequently as a workshop facilitator,

presenter or instructor.Earlier this year, Davis’s star rose with his appear-

ances on The Voice. From February through May, the Michigan singer-songwriter, lived between Traverse City and Los Angeles.

He bonded with Levine, his coach on the show. He performed with Crow. He also made it all the way to the show’s finale, landing at No. 3 overall.

“I knew when I saw Joshua on The Voice, I had to bring him to the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts,” said TLCA executive director Michael Maddox.

Fame does not appear to have changed Davis.“People are just people to me,” Davis said.

“Whether that’s Adam Levine and Sheryl Crow, or somebody sitting in the audience in Palmer Lake. It’s all about community.”

Davis’ music is steeped in ragtime blues, sweet jazz and real country.

He has released three critically acclaimed solo al-bums, five albums with Steppin’ In It, a record of jazz standards with Shout Sister Shout, and has appeared on many albums.

His most recent album, “A Miracle of Birds,” is inspired by his travels in the Palestinian West Bank with non-profit organization On the Ground.

Joshua Davis of The Voice to perform at TLCACrystal Bowersox coming back to TLCA

Joshua Davis, who finished third during the most recent season of the hit television show The Voice, will perform at the Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts on Oct. 15./Photo courtesy of Sisters Studios


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The neighborhood association seemed resigned to the change and relieved that something was finally happening.

“We all knew that development of the property was inevitable. Westbrook’s plans seem to meet our original objectives of ensuring that the impacts are as minimal as possible to our community and that we will have significant areas of open space remaining.”

Timeline:The 18-hole, 135.4-acre golf course opened in the

1970s. MCTN LLC, out of Nevada, and the Miles and Denise Scully Trust bought the course in 2003 for $825,000.

The golf course was hit by a general nationwide decline in the number of golfers since 2005 and the course finally closed Nov. 1, 2013.

Other course facilities remained open for a while but The Palms Restaurant closed in early 2014 fol-lowed by the pool and tennis courts.

On March 15, 2014, members of four homeowners associations that border the golf course, including the Gleneagle Community Association, along with two other nearby associations, adopted a charter forming the Gleneagle Coalition for Open Space.

Its objective “is to serve as a single point of contact for (El Paso) County regarding any future develop-ment of the former golf course property and to work to minimize impacts and maximize open space.”

On May 10 the coalition established its website, www.gleneaglecoalition.com. The coalition does not charge membership dues.

In the November 2014 Gleneagle Newsletter, board member Kenneth Judd stated that the association’s “best chance is to work with the county and attempt to partner with whoever may want to develop the property so our community concerns are consid-ered in the early planning phase. … If development is limited to 41 houses, which is all that the current water allocation will support, one possibility is that GCA might end up with a significant amount of open space if we are able to partner with the developer ear-ly enough in the process.”

While preserving open space is the association and coalition objective, it isn’t open space yet, even though many residents are using it as such. Associa-tion President Kevin Deardorff warned residents in the August 2015 newsletter that the golf course may look like open space but it is privately owned and “the new owner has not given permission to access or use the area.”

Even though it is limited to 41 homes, the new owners could make a tidy profit. According to the association’s August newsletter, the average price of the 29 homes sold in Gleneagle between May 1 and July 30, 2014, was $306,877 and the 20 homes sold be-tween May 1 and July 30, 2015 was $327,568. Most of these homes were not new construction.

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TCA junior kicker is on his way to playing major college football


Remember this name, Tri-Lakes sports fans: An-ders Carlson.

I’m betting Anders, and maybe his older brother, Daniel, could be kicking one day in the National Football League.

Anders is a junior at The Classical Academy. He is the best kicker in the El Paso County and per-haps the state. He is also a star soccer player for the school’s successful team.

It is becoming increasingly more popular for high school football teams to use soccer players as their place kickers. But the concept certainly isn’t new.

Heck, when I tried out to be the place kicker for my high school football team in Redlands, Calif., my main competition was a soccer player. And that was so long ago we had to shoo dinosaurs off the fi eld so we could play! (I was not a soccer player, though I taught myself how to kick soccer-style. And I beat out the soccer player!)

Why am I confi dent Anders can go pro? Because it has happened before. When I fi rst arrived in Colo-rado in the fall of 2001, I met Liberty High School soccer player Daniel Wasson, who doubled as the Lancers’ placekicker and punter.

Wasson was a talented at both sports, but he ended up specializing in soccer. He went on to play soccer for the Air Force Academy and University of Tulsa before beginning a long professional career. He played for the Major League Soccer Colorado Rapids among others. At last check, Wasson was playing with the Tulsa Athletics of the National Premier Soc-cer League.

Another example is former TCA standout Dan-iel Carlson, who was a star in both sports. Daniel, whose father was born and raised in Sweden, was an avid soccer player and never considered a career in football until prior to his freshman year.

In the summer of 2009, Daniel returned from a family trip to Sweden and was all set to represent the TCA soccer team. But the football team was in need of a kicker. TCA special team’s coach Chris Coughlin attended North Springs Alliance Church with the Carlson family and knew Daniel had a strong leg.

Coughlin convinced Daniel to come out to foot-ball practice. Daniel proceeded to drill several fi eld goals of 45 yards and the rest, as the saying goes, is history.

Daniel played both sports at TCA through his

junior year, but when col-lege football powerhouses like Auburn came calling, Daniel decided to shelve his soccer cleats and concentrate on the gridiron sport.

It has turned out to be a great decision for Daniel.

Daniel was an All-American kicker at TCA and earned a scholarship to Auburn. A redshirt sophomore now for the Tigers, Daniel is one of the top kickers in the Southeastern Conference and is considered a legitimate NFL prospect.

It appears that Daniel’s younger brother, Anders, is following a similar path.

Anders, a junior at TCA, is doubling for the school’s soccer and football teams this fall. Before this season, he made it clear that soccer would be his priority over football. But now it appears he has changed his mind.

Anders missed TCA’s soccer game with Cheyenne Mountain on Sept. 3 in favor of playing in the Titans’ football game at Palisade. TCA lost the soccer game, 2-1 – its only regular season loss since the 2013 season.

“Right now I think I’m leaning more towards football,” Anders told me after he booted a pair of fi eld goals in TCA’s 27-8 victory over rival Discovery Canyon on Sept. 18. “I’d like to go kind of the route my brother did. Go to a big school, hopefully. We’ll see how it goes. I’m only a junior, so I have a lot of time.”

Auburn already has its eyes on Anders. If he ends up going to the Alabama school, he would be a freshman when his older brother is a senior. If that scenario plays out, there is a good chance that An-ders would redshirt his freshman year and presum-ably take over the kicking duties for the Tigers after his brother graduates.

Anders also is getting looks from Wisconsin, among other Division I schools.

Just how powerful is Anders’ leg? Of his 21 kickoffs this season, 20 have been touchbacks.

“I missed my fi rst kickoff this year,” Anders said. “It went to like the 1-yard line. I got a tackle, though.”

Anders has converted 6 of 9 fi eld goals with a long of 50 yards, and is 11 of 11 on extra point attempts.

“I have to stay injury free and keep working hard,” Anders said.

Just in case you were curious, Daniel Carlson had

an amazing 2014 season for Auburn. He kicked in all 13 games, punted in 12 games, to become the fi rst Tiger specialist to do punting, placekicking and kickoffs since Damon Duval (1999-2002). He was a second-team Freshman All-America (Scout.com), honorable mention Freshman All-America (College Football News), and honorable mention AP all-SEC team.

He average 42 yards per punt and converted 57 of 57 PATs, the most made PAT in a season without a miss by an Auburn kicker ever. And 50 of his 81 kickoffs were touchbacks.

Hmm. Daniel sounds like a candidate for our “Faces to Follow” feature.

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Discovery Canyon still looking for fi rst victory

Who: Discovery Canyon (0-4) at Rampart (4-0)When: 6 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 3Where: District 20 StadiumWhat you need to know: DCC lost to Pueblo East 47-36. DCC’e next opponent is Rampart (4-0).Rampart has been an offensive machine this season, averaging 42 points per game in its fi rst three con-tests … The Rams shut out their fi rst two opponents, Woodland Park (48-0) and Coronado (28-0) … Ram-part quarterback Parker Humphrey is 24 of 40 for 318 yards and two touchdowns. He has also rushed for a pair of touchdowns … Rampart’s rushing attack is led by Xavier Bishop-falu (280 yards and 3 TDs) and Joseph Gums (108, 3 TDs) … Rampart has 12 rush-ing TDs as a team … Discovery Canyon quarterback Matt Call has a team-leading 337 yards and 6 TDs, while teammate Josh Tomjack has 304 yards and 5 TDs … Discovery Canyon won last year’s game 45-7.

Formidable foe awaits Lewis-Palmer Who: Lewis-Palmer (3-1) vs. D’Evelyn (3-1)When: 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 3Where: Don Breese StadiumWhat you need to know: Lewis-Palmer defeated Florence 42-21. Lewis-Palmer’s next opponent is D’Evelyn. Lewis-Palmer senior running back Nick Pavlik is enjoying a solid season, rushing for a team-high 519 yards and 3 touchdowns in the Rangers’ fi rst three games … Lewis-Palmer faces a formidable foe in D’Evelyn, which is averaging 36 points per game … The Jag-uars have a high-powered offense that is led by senior quarterback Owen Burke (66 of 89 for 974 yards and 12 touchdowns … Burke’s top receiv-ers are Charlie Davis (3 catches for 496 yards and 5 TDs) and Justin Kehoe (15, 220, 5) … Senior run-ning back Mitch Menard is the main ball carrier (247 yards and 3 TDs) … D’Evelyn won last year’s game 34-33.

PR looks to get back in the win columnWho: Palmer Ridge (3-1) vs. Cheyenne Mountain

(1-3)When: 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2.Where: Don Breese StadiumWhat you need to know: Palmer Ridge lost to Visa Ridge 40-28. Palmer Ridge’s next opponent is Chey-enne Mountain. Palmer Ridge is looking every bit like a team that could make a deep playoff run … The Bears won their fi rst three games by an aver-age score of 46-14 … Cheyenne Mountain is led by junior quarterback Matt Betterson (31 of 64 for 396 yards) … Betterson has nine interceptions and no touchdown passes … He’s the team’s leading rusher with 99 yards and 3 touchdowns ... Cheyenne Moun-tain was 1-9 in 2014, but was forced to shut down its season with two games to play because it could not

fi eld enough players … Palmer Ridge won last year’s game 51-0.

TCA faces potent running attackWho: The Classical Academy (3-2) at Evergreen (3-1)When: 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 2Where: Evergreen What you need to know: TCA defeated Liberty 38-7. TCA’s next opponent is Evergreen. After allowing 59 points in its fi rst two games (both losses), TCA allowed just 14 points in its next two games (both victories) … The Titans played a Zero Week game, so they will have a bye in Week 9 … Evergreen began its season with a 29-24 loss to Lewis-Palmer after leading 21-0 at halftime … Evergreen has a potent running game, led by Dylan Reifeis’ 335 yards and 6 touchdowns … Reifeis is also the quarterback, completing 18 of 45 passes for 303 yards … His main target is Seth Ausman (8 receptions for 130 yards) … Evergreen was 11-1 last season, losing to Fort Morgan in the Class 3A state quarterfi nals (13-7) … Evergreen defeated TCA 17-14 in 2014.

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Lewis-Palmer hosts D’Evelyn Oct. 3 at Don Breese Stadium./Photo courtesy of Julie Tims

Discovery Canyon will have another tough test when it plays Rampart Oct. 3 at District 20 Stadium./Photo courtesy of Marla Cavazos Weeks

Anders Carlson following in the footsteps of his brother

The Classical Academy junior Anders Carlson splits time playing for the school’s football and soccer teams. Carlson is being recruited by several colleges for kicking. His older brother, Daniel, is kicking for the University of Auburn./Pho-tos courtesy of The Classical Academy


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The Classical Academy junior Anders Carlson splits time playing for the school’s football and soccer teams. Carlson is being recruited by several colleges for kicking. His older brother, Daniel, is kicking for the University of Auburn./Pho-tos courtesy of The Classical Academy

Palmer Ridge is averaging more than 40 points per game this

season and it all starts up front with the offensive linemen


The Palmer Ridge High School foot-ball team is putting up points this sea-son faster than the scoreboard opera-tor can key in the digits. And much of the credit for the Bears’ high-octane offense goes to the guys up front in the trenches.

“We have to be really humble,” said Palmer Ridge senior left guard JR Hart. “When we make a great block that re-sults in a big play or a touchdown, we know we’re not usually going to get the credit. We have to, between us, know that we are doing something really good and be happy with that.

“As a group we’re happy with what we’re doing, even though we’re not nec-essarily on the highlight reel.”

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Silvanic is a crucial part of the of-fense as a receiver and a down lineman.

“I like when we score,” said Silvan-ic, who is an impressive 6-foot-6, 242 pounds. “If I’m a receiver and we score a touchdown, whether it’s me or some-body else, I like that.

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senior right guard Connor Seymour (6-1, 192), senior center Esad Sipilovic (5-10, 245), junior left guard Chase Walkes (6-foo6, 198) and Hart (6-1, 200).

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Down and dirty in the trenches

The Palmer Ridge off ensive line is playing a key role on the Bears’ domination this sea-son. From left to right: George Silvanic (tight end), Robert Martinez (right tackle), Connor Seymour (right guard), Esad Sipilovic (center), Chase Walkes (left guard), and JR Hart (left guard)./Photo by Danny Summers


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“Everybody here is really welcoming, whether you’re a football player or not,” said Sipilovic, whose younger brother, Ronin, is an offensive lineman for Palmer Ridge. “My brother and I both feel we’re at home here.”

Walkes is the only lineman who did not start last season.

“This is a new experience and a new type of diffi culty,” Walkes said. “It makes me work hard and know what I’m doing so I can execute for the team.”

To a player, the Bears’ offensive line-man will tell you that trust in the guy the next to them. And trust in their fellow linemen is the key to the team’s success.

“We have great chemistry and we know we can trust the next to us to do his job,” said Martinez, who was the

team’s starting center in 2014. “We trust that he can make his blocks and do the things he needs to do in order for us to be successful.”

Seymour, also a starter last fall, is just as satisfi ed if the Bears win a low-scoring, game or a blowout, like the 48-14 victory over crosstown rival Lewis-Palmer on Sept. 18.

“Knowing that we have performed a job well done and that we are grinding it out every day at practice and every play during the game is what’s most important to us,” Seymour said.

“We’re not concerned with how many points we score. It is absolutely better to see the score run a little bit higher at the end of the game. But those lower-scoring games show a lot more heart. They are a lot more diffi cult to get through and make sure you’re do-ing your job every play when you don’t have a 20 of 30 point lead.”

Palmer Ridge won its fi rst three games of this season by an average score of 46-14.

Trenches

Tanner Normancross countryThe Classical Academy

In back-to-back weeks, Norman won the St. Vrain Invitational and Pueblo Central Invita-tional. Norman won at Pueblo on Sept. 19 with a time of 15 minutes, 52

seconds. Norman fi nished seven seconds ahead of Widefi eld’s Maximilliano Marti-nez.

Jamie KeithsoccerValdosta State

Keith, a 2015 Discov-ery Canyon graduate, is a midfi elder for the Valdosta State women’s soccer team. She has played 44 minutes in four of the Blazers’ six

matches. Valdosta State coach Rebecca Nolin said of Keith: “Jamie is a very tech-nical and elegant player who brings others into the game. She is also very calm

and composed on the ball which allows her to see things others don’t see. Jamie can play a few different positions which will allow her to be an attacking threat from different areas of the fi eld.”

Chantae Steelecross countryThe Classical Academy

Steele, a freshman, re-cently won the girls race at the Pueblo Central Invitational. Steele made her way around the cir-cuit in 18:53, a personal best mark for the TCA

freshman and 38 seconds ahead of Palmer Ridge’s Hannah Capek, who fi nished in second. While Steele was blazing a trail, her Titan teammates were settling into a group within a few places either side of 10 behind her. Eventually, Carly Nicholson and McKenzie Elliott settled into 7 and 8. Kate Peterson and Kirsten Kropkowski settled into 12 and 15. Palmer Ridge, despite placing Capek and Audree Furst in the top four, fi nished a fairly distant second, 25 points back of TCA’s 43.

Faces to Follow


Staff Spotlight: Dennise Wilson

Dennise Wilson never wants to bore a student. At the beginning of each school year, she tells her students, “Get ready for a year you will never forget.” The 2015-2016 school year brings new responsibilities to Mrs. Wilson as she now fills the librarian/media specialist role along with serving as the math and reading interventionist; therefore, unforgettable moments will take on a new look for Dennise and her students. Mrs. Wilson brings a wealth of experience to these new roles from her 23 years of elementary teaching (the last seven years at Palmer Lake Elementary).

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Dennise has two children enrolled in the District and says she always dreamed about teaching in the community where she lives. Living in the Palmer Lake community allows her to develop long-lasting relationships with her students and families and gives her the opportunity to support most school activities. Dennise shares, “I love having fun and learning at the same time. I love teaching at PLES—there is no other place I would rather be! The staff I work with makes me a better educator. We are a great team.”

VFW Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest Winner

Emma Tillotson, an 8th grader at Lewis-Palmer Middle School, proudly remembers her grandfather’s four years of service as an electrician in the Korean War. She compiled her memories in an essay for the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) 2014-2015 Patriot’s Pen youth essay contest with the theme, “Why I Appreciate America’s Veterans.” “I have always admired veterans and just noticing them in their everyday lives and how they do not expect thanks but most definitely deserve it,” shares Emma. Emma’s essay won her first place and $100 in the local Post category and $175 for her second place finish in the Regionals stage. Beth Claycomb, Emma’s 7th grade English teacher, assigns the Patriot’s Pen essay to her advanced language arts students every year. Mrs. Claycomb remembers, “When I read Emma’s [essay] last year I knew it would be a standout. I loved how she used specific examples about her grandfather’s experience and how she tied it back to her personal beliefs.” Emma read her essay at the September 10 Lewis-Palmer School District board meeting. Approximately 125,000 6th-8th grade students from across the country participate in this contest each year.

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Modern EducationA blackboard is no longer the focus in a modern classroom. Whiteboards replaced blackboards years ago, and now, SmartBoards often supplement whiteboards. Technology and online tools play vital roles in today’s classrooms. Education mirrors the medical field in that patients do not expect a doctor to make a decision regarding health care with the same tools used 20 years ago. Patients expect doctors to utilize every modern tool available when it comes to diagnosis and care. Similarly, educators cannot prepare students for future jobs without appropriately utilizing today’s resources.

Across the Lewis-Palmer School District, forward-thinking teachers enhance student learning with educational technology. In Palmer Ridge High School social studies and psychology classes, Peter Gordon and Paul Mole use Plickers and Socrative, tools providing data which informs customized instruction to meet students’ immediate needs. At Bear Creek Elementary, Claudia Ladd’s kindergarten students use Seesaw to create personal, private, online portfolios which highlight their learning. Additionally, D38 teachers attended the InnEdCo (Innovative Education Colorado) Conference this summer and will share their discoveries with other District teachers during professional learning days later this year.

With all the technology advancements in the classroom come advanced concerns. Data privacy remains a significant area of focus for LPSD and school districts across the country. Recently, LPSD engaged in a comprehensive data privacy audit and discovered that it is well-ahead of many districts in mitigating the risks though the careful vetting of technology tools. LPSD is committed to protecting personal identifiable information (PII) and in addition to vetting tools, trains staff and teachers around data privacy protocols. Use of pseudonyms (false name), strong passwords, and safe online browsing practices are also encouraged. As technology advances, LPSD will continue to evaluate best practices around its use with the enhancement of student learning and the safeguarding of student data as the priorities.

Flu ShotsLewis-Palmer School District is hosting Flu Shot Clinics provided by a registered nurse from the Visiting Nurses Association (VNA). These are open to District #38 employees and the Tri-Lakes community (children must be at least 6 months old). Clinics will be at Bear Creek Elementary (October 14, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 488-4770), Lewis-Palmer High School (October 20, 9:00-11:00 a.m., 488-4720), and Lewis-Palmer Middle School (October 22, 1:45-3:45 p.m., 488-4776). Please call the school to let them know you will be coming. VNA will need a count. Costs are $30 Flu Shot and $40 Flu Mist. There will be no out-of-pocket expenses with account information for Medicare B, Humana, Rocky Mountain HMO, Aetna, and CHP. UMR will reimburse with itemized receipt and claim form. No reimbursement for Kaiser HMO and/or Tri-Care. Check, cash, debit, or credit cards will be accepted.

LPHS Student Invited to World Junior F1D

ChampionshipWyatt Wear, Lewis-Palmer High School senior, recently won a spot on the U.S. National F1D Team. The national competition is sponsored by the Academy of Model Aeronautics. F1D is a class of indoor free flight airplane with a 55 cm wing span and 20 cm wing chord. An F1D plane weighs 1.4 grams (roughly the weight of a dollar bill) and is constructed of specially-selected balsa wood and very thin Mylar film. According to Wyatt, a plane can take “tens of hours to build, is powered by a rubber band about five inches long (as thin as a small office rubber band), and can stay in the air for as long as 31 minutes.” Wyatt began competing in indoor free flight after competing in the Wright Stuff, a Science Olympiad event. His enthusiasm is apparent as he claims, “I’ve only been building and flying F1Ds for a few months now, but I feel like I’m improving rapidly and could maybe, just maybe, have a shot at a place among the World Champions this upcoming April.” Wyatt has been invited to compete in the World Junior F1D Championship in Romania next year.

Evan Guyett (current reigning/returning Junior F1D World Champion), Wyatt Wear, David Yang, and Joseph Szczur

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Clockwise from Top Left:Lewis-Palmer and Palmer Ridge players meet before their Sept. 18 rivalry game at Don Breese Stadium./Photo courtesy of Julie Tims

Lewis-Palmer running back Charley Young, No. 44, looks for some running room against Palmer Ridge. Photo cour-tesy of Julie Tims

Palmer Ridge tight end George Silvanic, No. 25, is about to be brought down by a host of Lewis-Palmer tack lers./Photo courtesy of Julie Tims

Palmer Ridge running back Collin Am-brose moves the ball forward as Lewis-Palmer players move in to make a play. /Photo courtesy of Jay Huey

Clockwise from Top Left:Discovery Canyon and The Classical Acad-emy played for the seventh time in seven seasons on Sept. 18. TCA won 27-8 to take a 4-3 series lead.

TCA senior quarterback Austin Bervig, No. 6, fi ghts for some extra yards.

The Classical Academy student section was out in full force for the game vs. rival Discovery Canyon

The TCA marching band made its pres-ence known during the annual rivalry game. /Photosby Marla Cavazos Weeks

Lewis-Palmer vs Palmer Ridge

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Discovery Canyon defeated Pueblo West in a playoff to win the Class 4A Southern Golf Regional Sept. 21 at Shining Mountain Golf Club in Wood-land Park.

By winning, Discovery Canyon will send its four-member team to the state golf tournament, to be played Oct. 5-6 (Monday and Tuesday) at Fox Hill Country Club in Longmont. Pueblo West also qualifi ed for the state tour-nament as the No. 2 team from the re-gional.

Discovery Canyon and Pueblo West were both 28-over par.

Grant Bettis paced the Thunder with a 7-over par 77. Joining him at state will be teammates Luke Trujillo (78), Owen Pasvogel (83) and Hayden Fry (89).

It took some clutch golf by Pasvogel

just to force a playoff.“Owen went three pars in a row to

get us (to the playoff),” said Discovery Canyon coach Mark Liggett. “I walked up to him after 17 and said: ‘Are you ready for some pressure?’

“He said: ‘You need me to par for the win?’ I said: ‘No, I need you to par for the tie.’ We laughed and he went out

and made par. That’s just the kind of player he is.”

Pasvogel, a junior who is making his third trip to state, played with an in-jured back. He missed the Panther In-vitational at Shining Mountain on Sept. 15 due to the injury.

Trujillo was one of the Thunder’s he-roes at the regional. He sank a 20-foot putt in the team playoff.

The Tri-Lakes area will be well repre-sented at the state tournament. Palmer Ridge fi nished third (29-over) as a team and qualifi ed Clay Hurford (78), Josh Howe (80) and Pierce Delacretaz (81).

Lewis-Palmer fi nished fourth as a team at 42 over par and is sending three golfers; Reice Hendricks (82), Greer Marshall (85) and Austin Shelley (85).

A fourth Rangers’ golfer, Caleb Held (86), is an alternate and could advance to the state tournament if somebody drops out that qualifi ed from another regional.

The Classical Academy will be rep-resented by Bobby Ball (80) and Tanner

Harris (85).Trujillo’s had an interesting few days

leading up to the regional. He got to play Torrey Pines in southern Califor-nia the weekend before regionals and won a PGA drive, chip and putt tourna-ment there.

He is qualifi ed to play in an even big-ger tournament at Augusta National in Georgia next April.

Shining Mountain was a much tougher course for the regional than it was a week earlier for the Panther In-vitational.

“They let the course dry out,” Liggett said. “It played rough. Not tough.

“Our guys are looking forward to getting (to state) where they can hit the ball and not worry so much about the conditions.”

Liggett and his crew will head up to the Longmont the Sunday before the tournament begins, where they will be allowed to play a practice round and stay in accommodations close to the course.

Discovery Canyon golfer Grant Bettis fi red a 7-over par 77 at Shining Mountain Golf Club on Sept. 21 to lead the Thunder to the overall team title in the Class 4A Southern Regional. /Photo by Danny Summers


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Continued from Page 1approval for the clinic, which was granted by town staff.

Now the group is making a new appeal to the Tri-Lakes community and urging them to attend another meeting, scheduled for 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 30, at the St. Peter Catholic School gymnasium,124 First St. in Monument.

At the meeting, Allen, co-leader Greg Coopman and others will rally the community to join them and donate to a legal defense team so the group can join the lawsuit as an interested third party and fight with the town.

“We have decided to withdraw the recall efforts at this time to show good faith efforts to come together as a community to fight CMG and their methadone dispensary,” Allen said. “This issue is too important to be distracted by a secondary effort.”

But he’s not completely abandoning the idea of a recall.

“After we succeed against CMG, if the residents of this community feel that their elected officials stepped up to the plate in the fight, then they may choose not to launch full recall efforts,” Allen said..

“If they do not feel that their elected officials rep-resented the best interests of the community, we advise that full recall efforts be initiated in a fiscally responsible manner at a time that they can be com-bined with the April elections so that costs aren’t du-plicated.”

Dominguez said a recall was never warranted.

“It was baseless and the wrong thing for the com-munity,” Dominguez said. “I’m glad they dropped it, for the benefit of the community.”

Coopman agreed that Allen’s decision was for the best.

“I am happy to report that I have had multiple pro-ductive conversations and meetings with Trustees and the Mayor and they have been nothing but sup-portive of working together and appreciative of our involvement,” said Coopman, who stressed he was never involved in the recall effort.

And Coopman called it “critical” that the public turn out at the Wednesday meeting to hear how they can help fight Colonial.

“The only chance of beating Colonial is by No Methadone In Monument intervening in the lawsuit, engaging our legal team, and winning,” Coopman said. “We will be joining the fight. And we need the community’s help to do it.”

Dominguez offered no opinion on whether the public’s help was needed in defending the town against Colonial.

“We have three attorneys working for the town,” he said.

The legal team includes Gary Shupp, town attor-ney, as well as land-use attorney Carolynne White, who works in the Denver office of Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber and Schreck.

“Collectively, our attorneys will be working togeth-er in different capacities to help us get through this,” Dominguez said. “I feel confident and comfortable

the town has the attorneys we need to work through it all.”

Dominguez declined to reveal details of a two-hour executive session with Shupp and the insurance company attorney during Monday’s Board of Trust-ees meeting.

But he dismissed talk that the insurance company won’t defend the town because it deems as reckless or irresponsible action taken by the Board of Adjust-ment to overturn the methadone clinic zoning.

“I don’t see it happening,” Dominguez said of talk the town might be left uninsured. “We’re going to pursue any and all avenues within the realm of our authority to protect the town.”

He’s also confident the seven trustees and the five members of the Board of Adjustment will not be held personally liable for any official action taken. Each individual was named in Colonial’s 18-page lawsuit, both in their professional capacities and as private citizens.

“That’s outright ridiculous that we’re being sued as private individuals,” he said. “Our attorneys tell us it’s completely unfounded. We’re protected as elected officials. I’m not at all concerned with the personal lawsuits.”

In its lawsuit, the company alleges the town’s re-fusal to approve zoning for a methadone clinic or grant a business license is unconstitutional and vio-lates the Americans with Disabilities Act by discrimi-nating against people with disabilities. It is seeking more than $800,000 in damages.

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Monument gets its first look at its new town manager, Chris Lowe, as he starts his new job on Wednes-day, Sept. 30.

But he’s already been busy, participat-ing in the search for a new town planning director, the hiring of a staff planner and a land-use attorney and conferring on other issues facing Monument.

And there are plenty.

Lowe arrives as the town grapples with a crisis over a proposed metha-done clinic that could forever change the community of 5,500.

It has been a summer of turmoil as townspeople and residents of adjacent Woodmoor, an unincorporated com-munity of 3,000 homes, and other sur-rounding areas denounced the attempt by Colonial Management Group of Orlando, Fla., to open a clinic in down-town Monument.

A grassroots group of residents hired an attorney and convinced the Board of Adjustment to overturn the zoning of the clinic, denying it a business license. And the Board of Trustees enacted a

six-month moratorium on new clinics to block a new application.

But now the town faces a lawsuit from Colonial seeking upward of $1 million.

Lowe, who came to Monument af-ter serving as manager in Baldwin City, Kan., near Lawrence, also faces growth-related issues as the Jackson Creek Parkway corridor explodes with homes and businesses.

And there will be transportation issues on his desk, such as a long-hoped extension of Mitchell Avenue south to Baptist Road, a project bound to resurface once the new bridge is com-pleted.

Oh, and he has to build the town’s 2016 budget.

After accepting the $112,000-a-year job a few weeks ago, Lowe vowed to en-courage citizen involvement in the op-erations at Town Hall.

And he said his door would be open to the public and he’d welcome all points of view.

Lowe, who is an attorney, and his wife, Dara, a family physician, lived in the Pikes Peak region five years as she served her civilian residency in part at Evans Army Community Hospital at Fort Carson.

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The latest results are in for students taking the ACT college entrance exams and the news is good for the Tri-Lakes region.

In Lewis-Palmer School District 38, more than 480 students tested and av-eraged 23.8 points, well above the state and national average.

That compares to a statewide aver-age score 20.1 for the more than 54,000 students tested. The national average is 21.

The state’s highest composite aver-age score was achieved by Liberty Com-mons High School, a charter school in Fort Collins. Local districts and indi-vidual high schools, though, represent a broader range of scores.

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“It’s a ‘K-through-12’ process,” she said, describing how D-38 begins work-ing with children in kindergarten and through grade 12. “We definitely begin with the end in mind.”

About 85 percent of D-38 students pursue two- or four-year higher edu-cation programs after graduation, and that may be in part to higher-than-average performance on tests like the ACT.

“Kids who may not have thought about college score well, and it gives

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portunities with a good score,” Brandl said.

D-38 works to prepare students for the ACT, which has increased in rigor in recent years, through the use of Advanced Placement curriculum and benchmark assessments.

These are tests that are typically de-signed to align with the ACT or other college readiness assessments, and are given to students a few times a year in advance of the ACT, so teachers and administrators can adjust their in-struction accordingly. Many students also take a practice ACT, Gabel said, so that when students sit down for the real thing, it’s not the first time they face an assessment of its ilk.

Brandl emphasized the wealth of opportunities students have to become familiar with the demands of the ACT before testing day.

“There is a ton of practice materials out there,” she said.

While the Colorado Department of Education covers the cost of public school high school students taking the ACT, additional prep courses are avail-able, Brandl said, and some are even housed at school by external organiza-tions.

“We’re putting one together our-selves right now, for this year,” she said.

D-38 scores compared well to schools in the region.

Cheyenne Mountain District 12 had the highest district average composite score in the state this year. Just over 360 students tested there, and averaged 24 points on the 36-point test. The Van-guard School, where only 55 students tested, ranked among the highest per-forming schools in the state, with a 25.8 average.

Academy School District 20 had a composite score of 22.4.

Colorado Springs School District 11 had a composite score of 19.

Manitou Springs 14 tested 130 stu-dents and averaged 20.9 points.

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expanding the staff to 16.Since leaving the Aurora Police Department af-

ter 29 years and becoming Monument chief in 2005, Shirk has worked to elevate the training and equip-ment of his police force.

Today, he has seven officers certified as tactical re-sponse officers, commonly known as SWAT teams.

He has equipped his staff with ballistic shields and body cameras and other gear and trained them in lat-est police tactics to aggressively take on threats.

He’s even begun training firemen and emergency medical technicians to carry weapons and be combat certified so they can respond, defensively, in threat-ening situations.

Shirk said the agency struggled most of 2014 with two vacancies because of the difficulty in finding qualified officers who are a good fit for the agency.

“We won’t hire just anyone,” he said. “We’re a fam-ily here. It has to be the right person.”

Shirk said he has nine officers assigned to patrol. Typically, that means one officer working days, two on swing shifts and another on the overnight.

But the single shifts are a problem because calls for service often demand a two-officer response. Shirk said he’d use the two new officers to double the day-side and overnight staffing levels.

Shirk said it’s important for residents to under-stand Monument isn’t a typical small town. It’s a rap-idly growing town, which jumped from 1,847 in the 2000 Census to 5,530 in 2010 to an estimated 7,200 people today.

And he said the daily influx of visitors, workers and flow-through equates to a population of 25,000.

The two new officers would cost the town about $123,000, Shirk said, when the cost of their $43,000 annual starting salaries is combined with the cost of benefits, which is about $20,000 per officer.

To illustrate the demands on his staff, Shirk point-ed to the recent two-week investigation of suspicious activity at 339 4th St., which led to four arrests and confiscation of what authorities believe to be illegal

drugs including substances they identified as mari-juana, methamphetamine, black tar heroin, psilocy-bin known as mushrooms, cocaine along with pre-scription drugs methadone, oxycodone, Xanax, and other drugs.

It took two long tables to display everything in the police department evidence room.

More troubling was the weapons seized in the busts. Monument police confiscated a loaded .40 cal-iber handgun, a .45 caliber “Tech 9” and an Intratech AB-10 9 mm weapon, which had its serial number scratched off.

Shirk said the last two weapons were taken off of Austin Walpole, 26, who was arrested as he drove away from the house on a motorcycle police say was stolen. Arresting officers said Walpole was carrying methamphetamine, also.

He was charged with possession of a controlled substance, aggravated motor vehicle theft and pos-session of a defaced firearm

“He had the loaded .45 in an open carry shoulder holster,” Shirk said. “In his backpack, he had another loaded weapon, handcuffs, two ropes and a garotte with piano wire.

“He had been sitting in the driveway of the house on a stolen motorcycle with two weapons waiting for the drug dealer to come home. What do you think he was going to do with all that stuff?”

Besides Walpole, the investigation led to the ar-rests of David Reza, 28, Christopher Lacotti, 28, and Megan Graybeal, 22.

Reza was found to be in possession of multiple controlled substances, paraphernalia, and stolen property, police said. He was charged with various narcotics and weapons violations including being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun.

Lacotti was arrested on an outstanding warrant related to identity theft charges. Graybeal was ar-rested on two outstanding warrants. One for drug r elated offenses and the other for criminal imperson-ation.

Mayor Rafael Dominguez said he was open to a discussion of adding police officers as the town en-ters budget discussions for 2016, but it’s not guaran-teed.

“We just hired one additional officer in past six months,” Dominguez said. “But public safety is al-ways our top priority. So we’ll certainly talk about it.”

Police

Among the suspected illegal drugs seized at a rental home in Monument was a bag containing what Police Chief Jake Shirk said he believes is $13,000 worth of methamphetamine.

Substances officials believe to be illegal mushrooms were among a laundry list of suspected illegal drugs including ma-jrijuana, cocaine, black tar heroin, hash oil, confiscated from a rental home in Monument during a police drug investigation, Police Chief Jake Shirk said./Photos by Bill Vogrin


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