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New PA system coming to fairgrounds Plan for facility mostly funded by state lottery By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media

Work has begun to replace the anti-quated public address system at the Elbert County Fairgrounds with a new, advanced system.

According to Kyrei Zion, the Elbert Coun-ty Fairgrounds event coordinator, the new bi-amplifi ed system will provide clearer sound with capacity for increased volume, a much-needed improvement over the ex-isting system, which has been repaired in a piecemeal fashion over the years.

Zion expects the new system to be in-stalled in time for the Cowboy Up in Kiowa Rodeo, to be held at the fairgrounds the last weekend in June.

The fairground’s new public address sys-tem is just one element in the fi rst phase of a three-phase master plan to upgrade the fairgrounds through 2023.

Much of the phase-one work, which fo-cuses primarily on the rodeo arena and surrounding earthworks, has already been completed. Construction of a new 700-seat covered grandstand and the installation of new bucking chutes was fi nished last year.

Phase two calls for infrastructure renova-tions that will facilitate vehicle and pedes-trian access, in addition to providing ADA-compliant parking. New public restrooms and a pavilion are also part of the second phase.

Additional grandstand seating and an in-door arena will make up phase three.

County Manager Ed Ehmann says the improvements, like the new PA system, are designed to enhance existing events such as the Elbert County Fair as well as add the up-grades, which will make the venue attractive

for additional users. According to Ehmann, the facility has already seen an increase in bookings since the project began.

In addition to the equestrian and agri-cultural events traditionally hosted by the fairgrounds, the renovations are expected to draw dog training and small animal shows, specialty trade and industry shows, and community events such as dances, senior functions and movie nights.

Zion is enthusiastic about the improve-ments to the fairgrounds. “It will be a huge factor in marketing the arena,” she said.

According to the master plan posted on the Elbert County website, the cost of all three phases of the plan is estimated to ex-ceed $5.5 million over 12 years.

According to Ehmann, some county money is slated for the project, but the ma-jority of the funds come from state grants, CDOT transportation grants and the Con-servation Trust Fund.

The Conservation Trust is funded by the Colorado Lottery and distributes 40 percent of net proceeds from lottery ticket sales to eligible county and municipal projects for development and improvements of parks, recreation and open space.

The fairgrounds are also home to the El-bert County Extension Offi ce and monthly meetings of Elbert County 4-H.

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Vets seek answers amid VA problems Legislation hopes to improve current standards in system By Vic Vela [email protected]

George Claggett was a Marine who lived by his own definition of karma.

The Vietnam veteran believed that treating others well wasn’t about recip-rocation; rather, it was a belief that his goodness would show up elsewhere, even if he wasn’t the one reaping the benefit.

It’s a good thing that Claggett wasn’t expecting anything in return for his ac-tions toward others, or for fighting in a war of which many wanted no part, be-cause karma wasn’t there for him during the last months of his life — much of which was spent in frustration over his dealings with the Department of Veter-ans Affairs.

“It was hell, absolute hell,” said Michael O’Brien, a close friend and Claggett’s power of attorney, when asked what it was like dealing with the VA sys-tem.

According to O’Brien, Claggett would spend several weeks just trying to sched-ule an appointment to see a doctor at the VA hospital in Denver. When he would finally obtain appointments, he would sometimes have to wait for hours to see a doctor.

Claggett, of Denver, also waited sev-eral weeks to receive lab results of a tumor that contributed to his death on May 2. He was 66.

“It just seemed like all he was doing was waiting,” O’Brien said.

Claggett’s story is one of many that have surfaced in recent weeks regard-ing systematic failures and corruption within the VA department.

“I am absolutely stunned, particular-ly as a combat veteran, that this agency that’s entrusted to meet our obligations for those who served in uniform can be so incredibly incompetent... and be so corrupt,” said 6th Congressional District Rep. Mike Coffman, a Republican who served in the Iraq War.

Last week, Coffman joined every oth-er member of the House in voting for a bill that aims to address some of the issues that have caused veterans like Claggett to receive substandard care from their government.

The legislation is a start, say mem-bers of Congress, to restructuring a gov-ernment-run entity that has been failing its soldiers for a very long time.

“I am so angry and disappointed,” said Rep. Ed Perlmutter, a Democrat who represents Colorado’s 7th Congres-sional District. “There are too many sto-ries like that.”

Seeking better options for vetsLast week, the House gave unani-

mous approval to the Veterans Access to Care Act. The bill requires that the VA send veterans to private health provid-ers when the department is unable to provide care within 14 days.

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Mike Warner buries the newly laid cables for the new PA system at the Elbert County Fairgrounds. He has been with county maintenance for more than 15 years. Photos by Rick Gustafson

Additional grandstand seating and an indoor arena comprise Phase III of a master plan to upgrade the fairgrounds.

Mike Warner buries cables for the new public address system at the Elbert County Fairgrounds.

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FRONT RANGE ROUNDUP Ex-sheriff sentenced to jail

ARAPAHOE COUNTY — Former Arapahoe County Sheriff Pat Sullivan was sentenced to 15 months in jail on June 19 for repeatedly violating the terms of his probation by missing or failing 46 drug tests, leaving the state without permission and continuing to associate with people involved in the case that got him in trouble in the first place.

Sullivan, 71, was originally arrested Nov. 29, 2011, when a sting operation caught him trying to exchange meth-amphetamine for sexual acts with a man, law en-forcement officials said.

In 2012, Sullivan avoided up to six years in prison by pleading guilty to Class 6 felony drug possession and a Class 3 misdemeanor of soliciting prostitution. He was fined $1,100, sentenced to 38 days in county jail and given probation.

Golf facility to tee offCENTENNIAL — Topgolf is coming to

Colorado for the first time. The Centen-nial City Council in early June approved a tax-shareback deal as part of its final approval of the project, which will be built on the northeast corner of Havana and Easter and is expected to open in spring 2015.

The site will be Topgolf’s 21st location worldwide.

Company executives plan a three-story building, which is expected to encompass around 60,000 to 65,000 square feet.

Topgolf stands for Target Oriented Practice Golf and is billed as a “new kind of golf experience that combines com-petition with entertainment.” Players, who are required to buy memberships, hit microchipped golf balls at targets on an outfield. The high-tech balls instant-ly score a shot’s accuracy and distance.

Man guilty in police chaseDOUGLAS COUNTY — CJ Galley, the

man who led police on a high-speed chase from Castle Rock to Parker, has been found guilty on 17 of the 18 counts he faced.

The jury announced its verdict June 19, after nearly two full days of deliberation.

Galley, 24, of North-glenn, will be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 22 at the Robert A. Christensen Justice Center in Castle Rock.

He was found guilty on four counts of attempted first-degree murder with ex-treme indifference, a class-1 felony with mandatory sentence-enhancers.

The jury also found him culpable for first-degree assault, attempted reckless manslaughter, burglary and vehicular eluding. Galley faces 257 years in prison if he is sentenced by Douglas County

District Court Judge Richard Caschette to the maximum number of years al-lowed by law.

Commissioner leaving for new jobDOUGLAS COUNTY — Jack Hilbert

is leaving his post as Douglas County commissioner earlier than planned, having accepted a job with the state. He is also ending his run as the only Re-publican who was vying for state House District 44.

On June 18, the county announced that Hilbert, commissioner for District 1, will vacate his seat effective July 13, approxi-mately six months before the conclusion of his second and final term. On June 16, Hilbert accepted an offer from the Colo-rado Department of Human Services, Child Welfare Protection Division, as the Child Welfare Hotline System manager beginning July 14. In this role he will oversee the department’s new statewide Child Welfare Protection hotline, sched-uled to launch Jan. 1.

Victim’s parents sue school districtDOUGLAS COUNTY — The parents

of a sexual assault victim filed a lawsuit June 16 against the Douglas County School District, former Rocky Heights Middle School principal Patricia Di-erberger and former RHMS assistant principal James McMurphy. The federal

suit alleges Dierberger, McMurphy and “at least one other high-ranking DCSD administrator” ignored reports of predatory behavior toward the victim by former RHMS math teacher Richard Johnson, who is now serving a 20-year sentence for two counts of sexual ex-ploitation on a child after agreeing to a plea deal last fall.

The suit alleges Dierberger, McMur-phy and others did not follow mandato-ry reporting obligations outlined by the state, and failed to protect the victim. The “high-ranking DCSD administra-tor” is not specifically identified in the court filing.

Service dogs may be on moveENGLEWOOD — A proposed move

by Freedom Service Dogs would take the organization out of the city of Englewood to land in Douglas County owned by the city. Freedom Service Dogs, located at 2000 W. Union Ave., is a nonprofit organization that rescues dogs from shelters and trains them to provide specialized services to people with disabilities.

Sharan Wilson, Freedom Service Dogs director, said a lack of space makes the move necessary. The land under consideration for the new Free-dom Service Dogs facility is one of the parcels of property in Douglas County near C-470 that Englewood acquired in the 1950s when the city bought vacant ranch land to build McLellan Reservoir.

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GOP analyst: Hickenlooper unlikely to loseRepublican gubernatorial candidates point out governor’s weaknessesBy Vic [email protected]

A longtime Republican political ana-lyst said it’s doubtful that any of the GOP candidates for governor can beat Gov. John Hickenlooper in the fall.

Bob Loevy, a retired Colorado Col-lege political science professor who has analyzed Colorado politics for decades, believes that Hickenlooper “remains the strong favorite” to win re-election in No-vember, regardless of which of the four candidates Republican voters select to face him in the primary, which was held June 24. Results were not available by press time. Go to elbertcountynews.net for coverage.

“Yes, this is an exciting primary, but what I take away from it is, at the moment, it’s highly unlikely any of these candidates can beat Hickenlooper,” said Loevy, a regis-tered Republican.

The Republican candidates seeking the post are former Congressmen Bob Beau-prez and Tom Tancredo; Secretary of State Scott Gessler; and former state Senate Mi-nority Leader Mike Kopp.

Loevy believes that “none of these can-didates have the asset of looking like a win-ner in November.”

“The main criticism of (Hickenlooper) is he’s too moderate,” he said. “In that case you’re criticizing him for what wins elec-tions.”

But in recent interviews with Colorado

Community Media that occurred prior to Loevy’s analysis, the GOP hopefuls pointed out plenty of areas where they see weak-nesses in the governor’s record.

Beauprez blasted Hickenlooper’s “fail-ure of leadership” on several policy fronts. Tancredo said the governor “kicked the ball down the field” when he granted a tempo-rary reprieve for death row inmate Nathan Dunlap, who killed four people at an Auro-ra Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in 1996.

Kopp said that Hickenlooper hasn’t pro-

vided leadership on the hot issue of local community control of hydraulic fracking.

“He should stand up against the radical interests in his own party who want to shut down the oil and gas industry in the state,” Kopp said.

And the candidates believe that Hicken-looper is anything but a moderate, having signed into law bills on gun control, elec-tion overhaul and civil unions, to name a few.

“Look at Hickenlooper,” Gessler said.

“He says he’s a moderate, that’s what he claims. And yet he signs the most liberal agenda in the history of Colorado.”

But Loevy feels that the candidates from his own party have their own set of obsta-cles to overcome.

Loevy said that Tancredo benefits from a split field because of a “set block of highly conservative Republican voters supporting him.” At the same time, Loevy wonders if voters might see Tancredo as unelectable, given his unabashed views on issues like immigration that could turn off moderate voters in the fall.

Loevy said that Gessler has done an ef-fective job in soliciting Republican voters through email, which has helped him in fundraising efforts.

“But then Gessler, as we all know, has gotten bad press,” Loevy said, referring to a state ethics commission’s finding that he violated ethics rules for using state money to attend an out-of-state Republican event.

Loevy said that Beauprez could very well win the nomination, but wonders if his double digit loss in a 2006 gubernatori-al race to Bill Ritter still lingers in the minds of general election voters.

And Kopp might be over his head, ac-cording to Loevy.

“He just does not have, in my view, enough of a statewide reputation,” he said. “I think the office is way larger than a person with his qualifications can hope to win.”

Hickenlooper could be vulnerable if we see a Republican wave sweep across the country in the fall, Loevy said.

“Maybe in a giant Republican sweep someone might be able to win a close race against Hickenlooper,” he said. “Unless that happens, this is a race of theoretical interest.”

Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, is waiting to see who his Republican challenger will be. File photo

Mental-health actions raise racial questionsSeclusion, restraint seen as `treatment failure’By Kristin JonesRocky Mountain PBS I-News

In 2010, a man named Troy Geske died at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo after being wrestled by staff mem-bers onto a bed, where he was restrained with straps and left by himself, face down. He asphyxiated.

Geske’s death resulted in the state’s pay-ing a $775,000 settlement to his family and a ban on the use of prone restraint in state hospitals. The tragedy also accelerated a concerted effort in Colorado to limit the use of seclusion and restraint for people re-ceiving mental-health treatment.

Seclusion, or confining a person alone in a room, and restraint, or physically pre-venting a person’s movement, have long been common tools for controlling people in a mental-health crisis — particularly when violence is a risk.

But state health officials regard the pro-cedures as a “treatment failure,” in which risks include “serious injury or death, re-traumatization of people who have a histo-ry of trauma, and loss of dignity and other psychological harm.”

Hospitals, clinics and mental health centers — including both state-funded and private-sector institutions — reported 12 percent fewer instances of seclusion and restraint in fiscal year 2013 than two years earlier.

Still, the state’s latest report on the use of these and other mental-health procedures, released May 23, shows that minorities are more likely to be put into these punishing conditions than whites. The data shows:

African-Americans make up 11 per-cent of the 1,498 Coloradans secluded or restrained in hospitals and other mental-health settings last year, according to the annual report by the state’s Department of Human Services.

By comparison, only around 4 percent of the total population in the state is black, according to the latest available census data from 2012, while about 8 percent of the instances of mandated mental-health treatment — including 72-hour holds,

certifications, seclusion, restraint and involuntary medication — in fiscal 2013 involved black patients.

Whites show up more or less proportionally in man-dated mental-health treat-ment. They make up around 70 percent of the state’s pop-ulation, and were involved in 69 percent of the instances of mental-health treatment last year.

However, white patients made up only 53 percent of those put into seclusion and restraint.

Access to care dubiousHispanics are under-represented in

mandated mental-health treatment, rais-ing questions about Latinos’ access to care. Hispanics make up 21 percent of the state’s population, but were involved in only 13 percent of the instances of mandated treat-ment.

Like blacks, Hispanics are more likely to be subject to the most punitive condi-tions while in care. About 30 percent of the people put into seclusion and restraint last year were Hispanic.

A series of investigations into the state’s behavioral health-care system by Rocky Mountain PBS I-News, “Untreated: How Ignoring Mental Illness Costs Us All,” has found that for many people with mental illnesses, help is hard to find.

While demand for psychiatric ser-vices has increased significantly in recent years, the supply of inpatient services has dropped, straining the remaining hospitals and clinics that do provide these services.

Health officials at the Colorado Depart-ment of Human Services say they haven’t examined the apparent racial disparity in the use of punitive measures like seclusion and restraint.

Patrick Fox, an official with the depart-ment, says he has no insight into why Afri-can-Americans may be disproportionately subject to the harsh procedures, and the issue hadn’t previously been brought to his attention.

But he said that given documented dif-ferences in the treatment of minorities in the criminal justice system — where blacks are arrested in disproportionate numbers

and given longer sentences — discrepancies in mental-health treatment are “not surprising.”

Recent records of inci-dents of violence and alleged abuse at the state mental health institutes at Fort Lo-gan and Pueblo show that seclusion and restraint are

still used as tools to control patients who are perceived as a risk to others. At times, residents complain that the measures cause injuries.

In December, for instance, a teen pa-tient at Fort Logan was put into four-point restraints after trying to kick and grab staff while experiencing delusions of needing surgery, according to the hospital’s report.

He later complained of feeling numb-ness in his hands from the restraints — al-legations that the hospital said it wasn’t able to substantiate. The state health de-partment investigated and agreed with the institute.

Case spurred resignationIn a separate instance in May 2013, a

female patient in her 30s said she knocked for 15 minutes at the window of the room where she was held in seclusion, needing to use the bathroom. Nobody came, and she urinated on the floor.

“I’m used to being in seclusion,” she told investigators later. “But that’s not right that I had to pee on the floor.”

One nurse resigned and another was disciplined as a result of the hospital’s in-vestigation.

Mark Silverstein, legal director at the Colorado chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, says the practices — and the potential for racial bias — deserve a close look.

“Seclusion and restraint are some of the most serious deprivations of liberty that there are in an institutional setting, so there’s certainly a risk of abuse, and there’s a history of abuse,” says Silverstein.

A lack of funding for research into ra-cial disparities in the behavioral health-care arena in Colorado hampers efforts to address the problems, says Julie Reiskin, executive director of the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition, which advocates on

behalf of people with disabilities.Reiskin says her organization often

hears concerns from people of color that they or their family members are ignored, refused treatment or funneled into jails and prisons when they seek help for men-tal illness.

Marlene Murillo, an executive assistant at the coalition, is one of them. Murillo, who is Hispanic, says efforts to find help for her 31-year-old son — who is schizo-phrenic, has substance abuse problems, and refuses treatment — have more often resulted in his being jailed than hospital-ized.

Reiskin says others report they’re treat-ed more punitively than whites when they are able to access the health-care system.

“For anybody with a mental illness, even though there’s understanding that these are illnesses, they’re treated like they’re bad,” says Reiskin. “That’s really exacer-bated around people of color.”

Without enough state-directed research into the issue, says Reiskin, complaints are treated as “anecdotal.”

Simone Charles, an African-American Navy veteran who recently trained to be-come a peer support specialist to people with mental illnesses, says a perception that the mental-health care system is un-fair to blacks already deters people from seeking the help they need.

Charles, who is 48 and lives in Denver, recalls being physically restrained by four male staff members as a teenager, when she was a student in a Kentucky school for girls who had been sexually abused. She says she was kept in a quiet room for days at a time. But only in retrospect did she wonder whether she was disciplined more than other girls in the class because of her color.

“I’ve never been restrained as an adult,” says Charles, who has post-traumatic stress disorder. “I learned that you can’t afford to be crazy and violent and black in America, because they’re going to lock you up.”

Colorado Community Media brings you this report in partnership with Rocky Mountain PBS I-News. Learn more at rmpbs.org/news. Contact Kristin Jones at [email protected].


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Manna not typical hospital restaurantCastle Rock Adventist offers rotating, seasonal menuBy Mike [email protected]

Castle Rock Adventist Hospital’s Manna restaurant is more than simply a hospital cafeteria.

The restaurant utilizes a modern dining room and open kitchen, wait staff and a rotating seasonal menu that includes such dishes as elk steak salad with bulgur wheat and seared salmon spring rolls.

In addition to the sit-down dining room, Manna Market sells coffees and grab-and-go meals along with retail items.

Manna is overseen by Chef de Cuisine and Johnson & Wales graduate Adam Frei-sem.

“I would say that the majority of the people in here at any given time are not patients at the hospital. They’re from out in the community,” Freisem said. “In a typical hospital, evenings and weekends are dead, totally dead. You come in here on Friday night and we’re packed.”

Freisem came to Castle Rock, along with Daniel Skay, nutrition manager and execu-tive chef at Castle Rock Adventist Hospital, from Parker Adventist Hospital.

“The big thing that we noticed over there was that we had a cafeteria setup, and patients and their families would come in, and you know they don’t want to be there unless they’re having a baby,” Freisem said. “People came in and they wouldn’t know what to do. They would kind of walk around with their tray and they would leave and go somewhere else. They would say, ‘I don’t want to do this.’ So we thought, ‘Why can’t we do that in a hospital?’”

So when the pair was asked to come lead the way in the kitchen when the hos-pital opened in August 2013, they wanted to try something different.

“The thing here with the way that the menu works is, if we were going to go this route and do a restaurant, the food has to go along with it. If we had tried to serve tra-ditional health-care food in this setting it

wouldn’t have made sense,” Freisem said.The chef said Manna tries to get all of its

food from sources as local and sustainable as possible.

It even has a half-acre garden on the hospital property to grow its own produce and herbs.

Manna is currently showcasing itsr sum-mer menu. A fall menu will be unveiled in September.

According to Christine Alexander, the director of marketing and public relations for Castle Rock Adventist, the restaurant has also been a big success with expectant mothers and families who may be in for a lengthy labor.

Patients and families are able to order food from Manna up to their rooms as long as it is in compliance with the dietary needs prescribed by their doctors.

“When I market our maternity and ob-stetric services, it’s one of the differentia-tors,” Alexander said.

Manna was recently recognized by The

Association for Healthcare Foodservice as the winner of the 2014 Spotlight Award.

The Spotlight Award is presented to members who have enhanced operations through technology, program develop-

ment, implementation, innovation and/or creative use of managing finances.

For more information, and to view the current menu, visit castlerockadventist.org/manna.

Manna at Castle Rock Adventist Hospital uses touch-screen menus. Photos by Mike DiFerdinando

Manna Market offers grab and go snacks and drinks.

Parker teens to appear in indie movieFilm to include all-Colorado cast and crewBy Chris [email protected]

For years, actress and film producer Ronda Belser has seen Hollywood stu-dios come to Colorado to shoot a movie only to cast from out of state.

Her latest and probably most ambi-tious project aims to change that trend.

The film industry has a history of cast-ing from New York and Los Angeles, but “Body Keepers,” an independent hor-ror movie with an all-Colorado cast and crew, is meant to showcase in-state tal-ent.

That includes two eager, fresh-faced teens from Parker, Kristi Hoopes and Karlie McLaren.

Belser, a Screen Actor’s Guild member who moved back to Denver from L.A. 10 years ago in favor of corporate manage-ment, still dabbles in movies, television and commercial voiceovers.

It has been “discouraging” to see ma-jor studios bypass, if not dismiss, local talent, she says.

Her film not only is utilizing writers, directors, producers and actors from Colorado, it is being shot on location in Denver, Lyons and Nederland — the lat-ter of which is the primary setting for the

teen horror flick.Belser, the creator and executive pro-

ducer for “Body Keepers,” put out cast-ing calls in 20 Colorado cities with 320 people auditioning.

McLaren and Hoopes made the top 25 after auditioning at the Philip S. Miller Library in Castle Rock. From there, it was up to online voters to decide who the main characters would be.

Even those who don’t land a major part get a smaller role.

At the urging of investors who wanted to make sure she was serious about the project, Belser quit her job at a Fortune 500 job to dedicate herself full time to “Body Keepers.”

She has also enlisted a handful of Hol-lywood veterans, including Shelly Cole, who had a recurring role on “Gilmore Girls” and is now contributing her time and expertise to help the teen actors.

Hoopes, a student at Legend High School, views the entire experience as a learning opportunity.

Having never acted on camera before, she found her way through auditions, callbacks and script readings before landing a speaking role that also incor-porates her interest in singing.

“However you get your foot in the door, it doesn’t matter what door it is,” said Hoopes, 16.

Belser took an innovative approach to

Kristi Hoopes, 16, of Parker, looks at a promotional flier with executive producer Ronda Belser, who devised the idea to make a film with a Colorado-based cast and crew to promote the state as a movie-making destination. Photo by Chris Michlewicz

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The legislation would also ban bo-nuses for VA employees and puts in place greater oversight over the department’s operations.

The bill comes on the heels of a fed-eral audit that shows that more than 57,000 veterans have waited at least three months to see a doctor, while oth-ers who asked for appointments never received one.

Other findings have shown that VA employees — whose bonuses are tied to

wait time reductions — falsified reports to hide information about long wait times.

Reports have also shown that veterans died awaiting treatment.

The scandal led to the resignation of department director Eric Shinseki.

Coffman and Perlmutter believe that the legislation will go a long way in help-ing veterans receive better care, without having to deal with unreasonable — and sometimes life threatening — waits.

“At the end of the day, it will allow the VA to have a much better system to allow vets options they don’t have now,” Coff-man said.

Coffman, who is the chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcom-mittee of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, added an amendment to the bill that sets aside money to pay for court costs that could come as investigations into the scandal continue.

Coffman said that employees who were falsifying reports out of motivation for bonus pay could end up facing crimi-nal charges.

“There are veterans who have died as a result of manipulating these appoint-ment wait times for financial gain,” Coff-man said. “To me, that’s not just a matter of firing people. (It includes) the possi-bility of criminal charges.”

The bill is one of several efforts to change the VA system. Acting VA Director Sloan Gibson has also spelled out a list of reforms that he would like to see made.

Perlmutter said the VA’s “arteries have hardened” over the years, due to a cul-ture that has preferred to sweep prob-lems under the rug while hoping that no one notices.

“There’s more of a `protect your turf, protect your fanny’ mentality,” Perlmut-ter said. “There’s so many good people, but there’s others who are protecting their reputation. That’s really a problem within the system.”

The Senate passed a similar bill the same week. It’s likely that the two cham-bers will come to a consensus on a sin-gular piece of legislation in the coming weeks.

The wounded warriorO’Brien said that the last year of

Claggett’s life was spent in grave sick-ness. He was too sick to work. He often had blood in his urine, lost an unhealthy amount of weight and was also suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that often brought on flashbacks.

O’Brien said that he tried to set up appointments for weeks and when he was finally successful in obtaining one, Claggett waited for more than an hour to see a doctor — who never showed up.

Claggett’s peace finally came during the early morning hours of May 2.

“I gave him some morphine the night before and woke up at three in the morn-ing and I saw immediately that he was

gone,” he said. “And the son of a bitch had a smile on his face.”

Claggett left O’Brien the little amount of money he had at the time of his death to give to the Wounded Warriors Project, an organization that provides services to wounded veterans.

O’Brien said it wasn’t in Claggett’s nature to “advocate for himself” that he was a Vietnam veteran who deserved better treatment for serving his country.

“My question is, why does a Marine have to advocate for care so he can die with a little dignity?” O’Brien said. “Why does he have to push a system to get him aid that we should be bending over back-wards to give?”


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SALOME’S STARSFOR THE WEEK OF JunE 23, 2014

ARIES (Mar 21 to Apr 19) A change of season rein-vigorates the Lamb, helping to overcome the effects of a recent slower-paced period. This is a good time to restate your feelings for that certain someone.

TAURUS (Apr 20 to May 20) You might not like us-ing your authority to correct a workplace situation, but that’s what being placed in charge is all about. Besides, you have people ready to lend support if need be.

GEMINI (May 21 to Jun 20) Your creativity continues to run high and helps guide you to make some fine choices in the work you’re doing. Keep the weekend free for those special people in your life.

CANCER (Jun 21 to Jul 22) Don’t be surprised if you experience a sudden spurt of energy strong enough to pull you out of that recent period of indecision and put you back in charge of your own goals.

LEO (Jul 23 to Aug 22) This is a good time for Leos and Leonas to set new goals regarding health, educa-tional choices and possible career moves. The plans you make now could be a blueprint for your future.

VIRGO (Aug 23 to Sept 22) You might have much to offer a potential employer, but it can all be over-whelmed by too many details. Let the facts about you speak for themselves without any embellishments.

LIBRA (Sept 23 to Oct 22) This is a good week to balance your responsibilities to your work-a-day world with your obligations to the people in your private life. Expect news that could lead to a change in plans.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 to nov 21) A changing attitude on the part of a once determined adversary could cause changes down the line. Be prepared to take advantage of an unexpected new opportunity.

SAGITTARIUS (nov 22 to Dec 21) You’d be a truly wise Sagittarius to be skeptical about an offer that doesn’t answer all your questions. Even a colleague’s testimonial doesn’t replace facts that aren’t there.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 to Jan 19) It’s a good idea to avoid spending on unnecessary purchases this week in order to keep a money reserve against a possible upcoming (but, fortunately, temporary) shortfall.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 to Feb 18) More information is what you should demand regarding that workplace situation that recently came to light. Don’t be surprised at who might turn up as one of your supporters.

PISCES (Feb 19 to Mar 20) You might still be in a “treading water” mode, but by midweek, a shift in your aspect favors taking a more active role in pushing for the changes you feel are necessary. Good luck.

BORN THIS WEEK: You exude a warm, caring at-titude that comforts everyone who comes into your life.

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Michael O’Brien thinks about his late friend George Claggett as he sits in a booth inside a bar that Claggett often fre-quented, Denver’s Park Tavern and Restaurant, on June 13. On the table sits the cap that Claggett, a Vietnam veteran, often wore. Photo by Vic Vela

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George Claggett, a Marine and Vietnam veteran, was one of many veterans whose health care needs had been impacted by systematic problems within the Department of Veterans Affairs. Photo courtesy of Michael O’Brien


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putting the movie together. She was partly inspired by Boulder-based Hitching Post Theater, which requires a writer to quickly create a script based on the headshots of the two main characters. The actors then get an hour or two to rehearse with a director before a one-act production in front of an audi-ence. The making and viewing of the show, from start to finish, happens in one day.

“It forces the actors to memorize their lines quickly and to trust your instincts when you’re up there,” she said. “There’s this fear in it and it’s intense.”

Low-budget films that became wildly popular, such as “The Blair Witch Project” and “Paranormal Activity,” further inspired Belser.

And with a budget of less than $100,000 for “Body Keepers,” she has carefully researched the secrets to the creators’ success.

They are shooting with a Red Digital Camera, a high-quality device that has been used in feature films.

Belser said she does not want to make a B movie and wants to make Colorado proud while putting its film in-dustry workers on the map and offering them a chance to work on something unique.

Belser is motivated to create something special, ide-ally a film that generates a groundswell of interest.

But she has encountered her fair share of doubters, who give her a sarcastic “good luck” when they discover the “lightning speed” at which “Body Keepers” is being made, she said.

The film will start shooting within the next two weeks, and Belser is laser-focused on a mid-October release in 50 Colorado theaters, just in time for Halloween.

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Napping is a decision I don’t have to sleep on

This is a tribute to naps.W. C. Fields said that the best cure for

insomnia was to “get plenty of sleep.” I have never had insomnia, but I know people who do, and it must be very de-pressing. Sleep is one of the best things there is, and it is free.

Naps are gifts to ourselves. I take at least one a day, and sometimes two.

When I take a nap, it is like having two days in one. If I take two naps, I will get up at 2 or 3 a.m. and start my day.

Napping is different than sleeping at night. It’s more intense. The dreams are different.

I subscribe to NapDreams, and al-ways ask for the same ones. Either UCLA is humiliating USC, or Grace Kelly and I are in a remake of “Rear Window.”

I take my chances with late-night dreams, and usually wind up dream-ing about someone I haven’t seen in 25 years.

For some reason, I never dream about Jennifer or Smitty. Maybe because I don’t have to?

But I do dream about my mother and father, especially my father, all the time. And they are very vivid and real.

How do little kids feel about naps these days? I can’t remember how I felt. I might have balked. I don’t balk now. Give me half an hour or an hour, and I wake up with clarity I didn’t have before I fell asleep.

They always tell drunks in films to sleep it off. But if you’re a drunk and you sleep it off, you might not be able to get to sleep again for days. Unless. Unless you get drunk again. And then the cycle begins. I don’t recommend it.

Sleep deprivation is a serious thing. I have other things, but I don’t have sleep deprivation. If I am feeling sleepy, I take a nap.

It helps to be retired. My “jobs” are to paint and to write, and I am always way ahead on my painting schedule, and way ahead on my column schedule.

I do yard work and grocery shopping, and that’s about it. So if the arms of Morpheus are reaching for me, I fall into them. If flights of angels come to carry

me to my rest, I gladly go with them.My roommate appreciates my naps

too. I think Smitty sleeps about 18 hours a day, and he is always happy when I join him. He is so quiet when he sleeps that I sometimes have to hold a mirror to his nose.

He never snores, but now and then he makes little sounds as if he just met Miss Dachshund October. Or for some reason he wags his tail, or he kicks his left hind leg.

I can nap on the bed, on the couch, on the floor, on the kitchen counter — it doesn’t seem to matter. And I don’t have a Sleep Number bed. I know I am lucky. I don’t have a bad back. I have a good back.

I don’t toss and turn. I wake up in the same position that I fell asleep in. Smitty moves around though. He’ll start out near my legs, and winds up next to the pillow.

When I wake up in the morning, he wakes up, and comes nearer and puts his two front paws on my chest. You can’t do any better than a dachshund.

“Researchers found that men who took naps at least three times a week had a 37 percent lower risk of heart-related death.” I’m in.

And there is a name for the way I nap, nap, and sleep. It figures. I can’t invent anything. It’s called “polyphasic sleep,” meaning that you sleep multiple times in a 24-hour period. That’s Smitty. And that’s me.

Sweet dreams.

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

Tune in to major life lesson from TV

Now, I am not typically a huge fan of television shows. Maybe I should say it differently: My preference has always been to read when I have downtime, or write, or just take some quiet time instead of watching TV. And I would say that for most of my adult life that has been consistent.

Of course, there are the exceptions to the rule, such as the Weather Channel, where Jim Cantore has been bring-ing great stories and keeps us hanging on the edge of our seats with his live action shots for so many years. Then there is the Discovery Channel, and really, what is better than shows about Vikings or Shark Week? And I love local news broadcasts and catching up on everything that is happening locally and around the world. Lastly, I enjoy hav-ing baseball on in the background as I read or write — I love the game and will watch or listen to almost any game that may be on.

This past year, I have been intro-duced to a few programs such as “Per-son of Interest,” “The Good Wife,” and “24.” For this column I wanted to focus on the last one, “24.” If you are familiar with the premise, you understand that every show for the entire season hap-pens one hour at a time. Meaning it can start at 4 p.m. and every event that takes place during that show will be com-pleted by 5 p.m. Each episode, tons of action and loaded with drama, all takes place each week within 60 minutes.

So as I watched the most recent intense, action-packed and drama-filled one hour of Jack Bauer’s life on “24,” I was caught up in thinking about a program based on a philosophy that Zig Ziglar used to promote and embody himself, the idea of being a 24 Hour Champion.

So what does that mean? Zig would remind us that we are not just eight- to 10-hour per day employees or business people: We are moms and dads, we are community volunteers, we are part of groups and associations, and we have our circles of friends. So it’s not just about what we do to earn a living or support our family, it’s about who we are in each hour of each 24-hour day we are blessed enough to spend here on earth.

How do we do this? We have to focus

on our self-confidence and healthy self-image; we have to maintain a positive attitude; we have to build and develop relationships at home and at work; we have to set goals and pursue those goals;

and we have to live with hope.Now back to why this resonated with

me during a recent viewing of a televi-sion program. The concept in the show “24” is that we see everything that is going on in a window of 60 minutes. So I thought about if someone was viewing my efforts, actions, words and, yes, even drama, would they see someone who is caught up in the moment or would they see someone who is maximizing each minute of each hour to work on mind, body, and spirit? As much as we believe we are not in control of our time or maybe even question our control over our own future, it really is in our grasp to live the life we want to live. When we live as 24 Hour Champions we are truly set up and empowered to succeed.

Becoming a 24 Hour Champion does not mean we are awake for 24 hours. What it means is that we stay well-rested, work hard, play hard, volunteer when and where we can, laugh hard, learn hard, and love even harder than everything mentioned above. We, not anyone else, we alone are responsible for how we see ourselves and attempt to live up to becoming a 24 Hour Cham-pion based on how we treat our minds, our bodies, and our spirits.

I would love to know more about your own 24 Hour Champion efforts, and I would love to share more about the concept with you if you would send me an email at [email protected]. When we aspire to be better than good, it really will be a better than good week.

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

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Juanita L. Urban, 85, of Simla, Colorado passed away on June 12, 2014 in Hugo, Colorado in the Lincoln Community Care Center.

Juanita was born on July 21, 1928 in Eastonville, Colorado to John W. and Mary E. (Devlin) Welty; she was one of five children. Juanita attended the East-onville School graduating high school when she was 16 in 1944. Being so young there was only one college that would accept a 16 year old and that was Loretta Heights, so she accepted obtaining a degree in biol-ogy. Juanita then taught at Edison School District K-12 grade.

Juanita met and mar-ried Bobby Gean Urban and they were married in Elbert, Colorado on Decem-ber 30, 1948. The couple was blessed with eight children.

She loved her fam-ily and enjoyed being a homemaker. Juanita had a beautiful flower garden which she loved caring for and sharing with neighbors

and friends. She enjoyed researching and keeping up on the family genealogy and bird watching.

Juanita was preceded in death by her parents; John and Mary, husband, Bobby, son Eric, daughter Melody and sister Gertrude Welty.

She is survived by sons; John (Kathy) Urban of Cotopaxi, Colorado, Patrick (Sherrie) Urban of Lake-wood, Colorado, Chris-topher (Debbie) Urban of Centennial, Colorado, Faron Urban of Aurora, Col-orado, daughters; Roberta Reil of Sheridan, Colorado and Nola Bonewitz of Ackley, Iowa. Juanita is also survived by her beloved 22 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren, her broth-ers; John Welty of Elbert, Colorado and Danny Welty

of Wheatridge, Colorado and sister; LeiLani Hornby of Englewood, Colorado. Nieces, nephews and many friends.

A Mass of Christian Burial for Juanita will be held on Saturday, June 21, 2014, 10:30 a.m. at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Calhan, Colorado with burial to fol-low at the Simla Cemetery in Simla, Colorado.

Visitation will be held at St. Michael’s Catholic Church on Friday, June 20, 2014 from 5:00 – 7:00 P.M. with Rosary being said at 7:00 P.M.

Memorials are suggested to the Pikes Peak Right to Life 707 N. Nevada Ave., Suite R, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903 or St. Mi-chael’s Catholic Church P.O. Box 199, Calhan, Colorado 80808.

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Botanic Gardens exhibit is glass act Chihuly’s standout pieces join forces with nature By Sonya Ellingboe [email protected]

In 2001, renowned Seattle-based glass artist Dale Chihuly began what has be-come the “Garden Cycle,” which involves placing his astonishing creations among the fl ower, shrub and tree collections in large public gardens in the U.S. and abroad.

His installation at Denver Botanic Gardens opened June 14 and will remain until Nov. 30, as plants grow and change through the seasons.

It will look different at different times of day, in sun or shadows — and sensa-tional when lighted after dark.

Some, such as the “Perennial Fiori” sprouting from formal fl ower beds, or the orange, tree-like “Summer Sun” one sees near the entrance, are obviously inspired by plant forms.

The “Blue Icicle Towers” that greet the entering visitor with a burst of glitz and glamour perhaps speak more of rock crys-tals — still in the realm of nature.

Just beyond is “Summer Sun,” a tree-like blaze of 1,901 orange, red and yellow glass elements.

As one enters, a turn to the left will pass through formal fl ower beds with sleek “Perennial Fiori” amidst the lupines, daisies and echinaceas: sleek, striped,

curvy shapes and slender pointed ones in varied colors.

Near the Waring House, where admin-istrative offi ces are found, is a pond with “White Persian Towers” and “Turquoise Reeds and Marlins.”

A look to the right brings one to the 30-foot-tall “Saffron Tower and Cattails,” with neon tubes.

Walk past a pond and the “White Tow-er” and return to the main walkway, head-ed west towards the main water gardens, where fl oats, in and around boats, as well as the “Blue and Purple Bat and Walla Wallas” await discovery.

At the western edge in the Porter Plains, in prairie grass, is a series of tall, thin “Red Reeds,” with some of the lon-gest hand-blown glass elements Chihuly and his team created.

One will want to return at dusk when lights give a magical glow to these art pieces.

Special night programming is planned in October and November from 5:30 to 9 p.m.

Tour guides will be available Fridays through Sundays at 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. and family-oriented tours will be offered on Saturdays from 10-11 a.m. and 2-3 p.m.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

See the website for other programs for photographers and painters.

Chihuly’s studio shipped six 53-foot containers to Denver for the show, and it took 11 team members 11 days to install all the works.

There are 14 sites with installations in the Botanic Gardens, and maps are avail-able to fi nd them all.

While we realize that some consider the Chihuly art glass works a distraction from the plants, we feel that the Botanic Gardens is also proud to be a certifi ed

museum, and its annual inclusion of art elements is an entirely appropriate way to entice more viewers for gardens and art.

It’s just a most happy place to spend a few hours on any given day — on more than one occasion, since the plants are constantly growing and changing.

Relax and smell the fl owers!

LEFT: “Blue Icicle Towers” by Dale Chihuly greets the visitor at the entrance to Denver Botanic Gardens. ABOVE: “Float Boat” by Dale Cihuly is in the Monet Pool at Denver Botanic Gardens Photos by Sonya Ellingboe

IF YOU GODenver Botanic Gardens is at 1007 York St., Denver. The Chihuly exhibit runs through Nov. 30. Information: 720-865-3500, botanicgardens.org. Admission: $12.50, adults. See website for related programming.

ABOUT DALE CHIHULYDale Chihuly was born in Tacoma, Wash., in 1941 and discovered glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. He enrolled in the nation’s � rst glass program at the University of Wisconsin, continued at Rhode Island School of Design, and then taught there. In 1968, with a Fulbright Fellowship, he went to Venice, Italy, and learned the team method of glassblowing. In 1971, he founded the Pilchuck Glass School in Wash-ington state, which has become an international glass center.


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June 28STREET FAIR The sixth annual Kiowa Street Fair/Car Show is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 28. If you enjoy unique shopping, car shows, learning about historic communities, watching your kids have fun, live music, mouthwatering BBQ or just socializing with old and new friends; this is the place to be. The Cowboy Up Rodeo and dance is in town too. This is a weekend of fun, fun, fun! All in the amazing town of Kiowa. There is still some time to sign up to be a vendor, or to reserve your spot to show o� your vehicle. For information contact Michelle or Kim at 303-621-2366.

July 7-10SPORTS CAMPS Elizabeth High School and Elizabeth Middle School plan several sports camps this summer. At the middle school is a girls volleyball camp from Monday to Thursday, July 7-10. Go to http://elizabeth.k12.co.us/ for information and registration forms.

July 10INVESTMENT PRESENTATION Rob Reiman with Edward Jones Investments is hosting a free educational presentation from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10, at the Elizabeth Library, 651 W. Beverly Sts, across the street from Big R. Refreshments will be served. Reiman will discuss how to prepare for the always-changing markets. The discussion will cover the economy, strategies to address in� ation and interest rates, opportunities and risks of international investing and investing in today’s stock market. RSVP to Sandy Phelps at 303-646-8871 or [email protected], by Wednesday, July 9.

July 21BUBBLE PARTY The Elbert County Library District concludes its summer of programs with a bubble party. Explore the science behind bubbles. Program is at 10:30 a.m. Monday, July 21, at the Simla Library; at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, July 24, at the Elizabeth Library; and at noon July 24, at the Kiowa Library. Call 303-646-3416, 303-621-2111 or 719-541-2573 or visit www.elbertcountylibrary.org.

July 27MONTHLY BREAKFAST The Elbert Woman’s Club plans its monthly breakfast from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, June 22, and Saturday, July 27, at the Russell Gates Mercantile Com-munity Hall. Biscuits, gravy, sausage, ham, scrambled eggs, co� ee/tea and juice are served for $6/adults and $3/children under 12. The Hall is located in Elbert on Elbert Road between Highways 86 and 24, 11 miles south of Kiowa. Proceeds sup-port the maintenance and renovation of the Hall, built in 1906.

Aug. 4-7FOOTBALL CAMP Learn the game of football at the 14th annual Cardinal football camp. Players in grades 9-12 participate Aug. 4-7. Elizabeth High School football sta� and

senior players will run the camp. This is a non-contact camp. Contact 303-520-5468 or email [email protected] or [email protected] for a registration form.

Aug. 16FESTIVAL THE Elbert Day Festival, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, will feature a country breakfast, pancake race, art booths, craft/food vendors, live music by Barry Ward and Carlos Washington. A parade and old time games for all ages included. Antique cars, petting zoo, pony rides, roping, 5K race. Call 303-648-3611 or email [email protected].

Aug. 16VETERANS EVENT A Tribute to Vietnam Veterans will take place Saturday, Aug. 16 at the Elbert County Fairgrounds in Kiowa. Joseph DiLeonardo, a Vietnam veteran is the organizer, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10649 will act as co-host. Doors open at 11 a.m. and vets are encouraged to bring memorabilia that can be displayed on tables at the exhibit hall. The VFW will serve food by donation at 11:30 a.m., and the formal presentations commence at 1 p.m. DiLeonardo, author of “Vietnam War De� ning Moment for America” will give a presentation, followed by other Vietnam veterans addressing the audience and sharing their experiences in the War and when they returned home. They will also share their observations and opinions about America forty years later. A petition to support Senate Bill 409 to make March 29 an annual day of remembrance for Vietnam Vets, will be circulated for signatures at this event. Any Vietnam veterans interested in speaking at this event should contact Joseph DiLeonardo at [email protected]. Any questions should also be directed to DiLeonardo at 303-646-3740 or [email protected].

THE OUTBACK Express is a public transit service provided through the East Central Council of Local Govern-ments is open and available to all residents of Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson and Lincoln counties and provides an economical and e� cient means of travel for the four-county region. Call Kay Campbell, Kiowa, at 719- 541-4275. You may also call the ECCOG o� ce at 1-800-825-0208 to make reserva-tions for any of the trips. You may also visit http://outbackex-press.tripod.com. To ensure that a seat is available, 24-hour advance reservations are appeciated.

MAY SCHEDULE:

MAY 19: Simla and Matheson to Colorado Springs

MAY 20: Kiowa, Elizabeth and Elbert to Parker or Colorado Springs

MAY 22: Simla and Matheson to Limon

DIVORCE AND Post-Decree Clinic. Elbert and Lincoln County Pro Se Divorce Clinic is o� ered from 9 a.m. to noon the third Friday of each month at the Elbert County Justice Center, 751 Ute St., in Kiowa. For information, call 303-520-6088 or email [email protected]. The clinic is free for parties who have no attorney and who are going through dissolution of marriage, legal separation, or post-decree cases. All walk-ins are welcome, and will be assisted on a � rst-come, � rst-served basis.

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Stories from Parker’s pastLongtime residents reminisce at Ruth Memorial ChurchBy Chris [email protected]

A group of longtime residents took a stroll down memory lane, trading tales from their Parker childhoods.

The meeting at Ruth Memorial Church, one of the town’s oldest and most distinct structures, drew a full crowd June 10. On the stage was a handful of nostalgic se-niors, some of whom have called Parker home since the 1920s.

The echoes of the voices within the 100-year-old church were a perfect parallel to the ceremony at hand. Ruth Memorial, it turns out, holds many memories; Sandy Whelchel, whose ancestors moved to the area in 1881, said the church was the site of her wedding and her dad’s funeral. Resi-dent Charlotte Corah recalled hitching her horses to a post outside, where the bustle of Mainstreet now prevails.

A few of the tales centered on the build-ing next door, then a schoolhouse but now the Mainstreet Center. Laughter filled the room when Keene Daiss told of the time when he and a classmate snuck out the second-story window — a short drop to the ground — to have a smoke in the “privy,” or outhouse. The boys crawled back in un-noticed, but soon looked out the window to see the fire department putting out a fire where they had just discarded a cigarette.

Several of the honored speakers still seemed annoyed at the decision to close the K-12 school in the late 1950s and move the students to Douglas County High School, which had just opened in Castle Rock. Four students dropped out rather than attend school in Castle Rock, a rival at the time. One woman who was transferred recalled singing the Parker fight song in the hallways as a show of defiance.

A few blocks west down Mainstreet, where the Warhorse Inn recently stood for 30 years, was a filling station. Nancy Priest, 86, said she remembers that the owner, Don Murray, had a dog named “Queenie” that would sleep in the middle of Main-street. Unwilling to budge from her com-fortable spot, what little traffic there was would simply go around her.

What they did for funFranklin Harn, a 92-year-old with wise

eyes and a flair for dramatic storytelling, said he and his friends would pool their money for a trip to Denver to see a movie. “You took your chances going through the cricks” during bad weather, as there was only one bridge between Parker and the state capital, he said.

When there wasn’t enough money for such a long-distance trip, the traveling pic-ture shows, featuring cowboys and the ad-ventures of Wonder Dog, would occasion-ally stop in town, he said.

Harn, a self-described “young whipper-snapper” at the time, also told the audi-ence about the dances in Franktown on the first Saturday of every month. Teens from all over Douglas County would flock to the Pikes Peak Grange for the much-anticipat-ed event.

Jean Martin, whose roots are buried deep in Parker’s soil, said sports were also a cause for gatherings. Baseball games took place roughly where the field at O’Brien Park now stands. The park was named for her uncle Charlie.

The Parker team played against squads from Sedalia, Elizabeth and Castle Rock,

the latter of which frequently ended in all-out brawls. The team had the chance to play the Kansas City Monarchs, which at the time had Satchel Paige, one of the first African-American ballplayers.

The tragediesDaiss, who lived in the still-standing

twin house southeast corner of South Park-er Road and what is now Stroh Road, remi-nisced about the terrible flood that raged down the Cherry Creek corridor when Castlewood Canyon Dam broke during a storm in 1933. The waters took out vegeta-tion along the creek and Daiss’s family “lost 20 acres of good farm land,” he said.

Speaking of lost land, harsh words were tossed around when another sore subject, the Parker City Land Company, was broached. The out-of-state-company made plans to build a sprawling commu-nity, but abandoned the project and split town, leaving trusting Parker residents fi-nancially devastated. Martin recalled an agonizing three-month stint with the real estate development firm.

“A lot of my friends were being taken,” she said. “I just had to get out of there.”

But Martin, who grew up in what is now the Heath House, a historic landmark on Pikes Peak Drive, spoke fondly of the old days. She commented about the changes in Parker over the last eight decades, say-ing “I’ve seen it little and seen it big and I’ve grown with all of it.”

Keene Daiss, center, and other longtime Parker residents reminisce about the past during a gathering June 10 at Ruth Memorial Church in downtown Parker. Photo by Chris Michlewicz

Simpler timeS- Daiss said he “didn’t have trouble crossing (Highway)

83” as a child. It was a seldom-used, two-lane gravel road at the time.

- Harn, who moved to Parker in 1933 when he was in seventh grade, said using the telephone was a party. “You didn’t know who you were going to talk to.”

-Wayne Pouppirt, who lived on land near current-day Hess Road and Motsenbocker Road, said his mother was superintendent of schools. She married at age 29 and only “missed being an old maid by a few days.”

-Daiss recalled that his grandfather would take the train to Parker and always brought him candy.

-Harn said when the auto garage downtown caught fire, the heat was so intense that it cracked the windows of nearby businesses. The “bucket brigade” was not too effective in fighting the fire, as it burned clear to the ground.


Calendarers’ Association meets at 9 a.m. every first Thursday at Parker Bible Church, between Jordan and Chambers on Main Street. All area music teachers are welcome. Call Lucie Washburn, 303-814-3479.

The elBerT County Sheriffs Posse is a nonprofit volunteer organiza-tion that is part of the Elbert County Sheriffs Office. As volunteers we support the Elbert County Sheriffs Office, all law enforcement in our county, and the community at large. Membership is open to anyone without a criminal record. It meets the last Monday of the month at the Elbert County Sheriffs Office at 7 p.m. For more informa-tion or a membership application, go to http://www.elbertcountysheriff.com/posse.html, or contact Dave Peontek at 303-646-5456.

The elizABeTh Food Bank, 381 S. Banner in Elizabeth (next door to Elizabeth Presbyterian Church) needs to let the public know that we are available to help anyone who needs food. The hours are Friday 12:30-3 p.m. and Saturdays from 9-11:30 a.m. Other times by appointment.

lAwyerS AT the library, a free legal clinic for parties who have no attorney, will be offered from 6-9 p.m. the second Tuesday of every month at the Elizabeth Library, 651 W. Beverly St. Volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help fill out forms and explain the process and procedure for the areas of family law, civil litigation, criminal defense, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law and civil protection orders. Walk-ins are welcome. Everyone will be helped on a first-come, first-served basis.

MySTery Book Club meets at 9:30 a.m. the first Saturday of each month at the Simla Public Library. The group enjoys talking about a variety of mystery authors and titles. We also periodically host a Colorado author during our meetings. Everyone may join us, and registration is not required. Visit the Simla Branch of the Elbert County Library District at 504 Washington Avenue, call 719-541-2573, or email [email protected].

overeATerS AnonyMouS meets from 10-11 a.m. and from 7-8 p.m. Wednesdays in the Sedalia Room at New Hope Presbyterian Church, 2100 Meadows Parkway, Castle Rock.

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Quarterback Weber back in gameSenior playing on 7-on-7 team as knee injury healsBy Tom [email protected]

Elizabeth High School senior Willie We-ber focused on completing passes during the June 17 Broncos 7-on-7 competition, but he also thought about the minor sur-gery planned on his knee the next day.

“I broke my kneecap in practice and couldn’t play last season. Doctors repaired my knee by wiring it back in place but I broke it again during Thanksgiving break. So the doctors used bigger wires to wire my kneecap and keep it in place,” he said June 17. “They plan to take some of the wires out tomorrow so I can start rehab. The expecta-tion is I can start running and I should be ready to go come football season.”

Cardinals Coach Chris Cline said Weber is fine playing 7-on-7 because he doesn’t have to run or move around a lot. The coach said the senior has a strong arm and the 7-on-7 helps him sharpen his passing skills.

The Cardinals are one of 64 teams play-ing in the Broncos 7-on-7 tournament. Teams are divided into four-team pools for round-robin play. Elizabeth is one of the 16 pool winners that advanced to the single-elimination tournament on June 21 in Dove Valley.

The June 21 tournament winner will represent the Broncos in a national 7-on-7 tournament.

Passing is the name of the game in 7-on-7 competition. No one rushes the quarter-back, but if the pass isn’t thrown in five sec-onds, it is ruled a sack.

Yardage is gained by a pass completion and the yards the runner gains until he is touched by a defender.

Weber shared quarterbacking duties with a teammate during the June 17 com-petition and, between them, they guided the Cardinals to three victories to earn the spot in the June 21 tournament.

The Cardinals senior ran the first of-fensive series of the day against Mullen. He completed five consecutive passes for a touchdown.

He said he sat out all of last season, so he likes working with teammates in the 7-on-7 games because it helps him improve his

football skills to get ready to compete in the fall.

“Playing football and playing well this season is very important to me, not only because it is my senior year but also be-cause this probably is my last season play-ing football,” Weber said. “That is because, when I graduate next June, I plan to play college baseball. Circumstances could change, but those are my current plans”

The senior said baseball is his sport. He usually plays shortstop but occasionally will play third base.

“I love baseball because it is so much fun. It’s fun playing defense and it is a lot of fun to hit the ball and hit it hard,” he said. “I like to play football, too, but I don’t like it as much as I like baseball. I like football because I like to throw the ball, and I think football is fun, too, because you get to hit people.”

Willie Weber, a candidate to be the starting quarterback for Elizabeth, sends a pass to a receiver during the June 17 Bronco 7-on-7 tournament game against Mullen. The pass was completed, and the Cardinals won all three games that day, which qualified them to take part in the 16-team championship tournament June 21. Photos by Tom Munds

Cardinal coach Chris Cline talks with senior quarterback Willie Weber during the June 17 Bronco 7-on-7 game against Mullen. Weber and a teammate guided the Cardinals to wins in all three of their games which qualifies them to take part in the June 21 championship tournament at Dove Valley.

Cardinals fly high at All-State GamesAthletes shine in trip to AlamosaBy Scott StockerSpecial to Colorado Community Media

The trio of football players represent-ing Elizabeth in the 58th annual Colo-rado High School Coaches Association All-State Games were certainly at their full strength under a full moon. But then, all the players, boys and girls from Eliza-beth, came through with some pretty outstanding appearances in the games, played June 9-14 at the Adams State Col-lege venues in Alamosa.

Elizabeth’s football players, Brody Oliver, Dallas Reins and Chasyn Nicho-las, all came through with outstanding efforts that helped lead the North to an 18-12 victory over the South in a double-overtime thriller.

The South, under head coach Kyle Forster of Centauri, was the first to get on the scoreboard in the third quarter following a 0-0 tie at the end of the first

half. They scored on a 19-yard pass from Grand Junction’s Tyler Heinsma to Li-mon’s Gavin Liggett with 2:28 left in the third quarter.

And it was on the extra point attempt by the North that Reins came through with his outstanding play as he blocked the attempted kick, keeping the score 6-0 going into the fourth quarter.

“We all played hard, as that’s just what we did, come to play,” Reins said. “My block on the extra point was extra fine and something that I’m going to remem-ber for years to come. It was a case of never giving up out there. It seemed as if the game got off to a slow start in the first half, but we finally got going out there when it counted most.”

The North, under head coach Jeff Giger of Strasburg, would tie the score, 6-6, in the fourth quarter via a touchdown pass from Poudre’s quarterback Cody Limmer to Oliver with 55 seconds to go in the game. Yet what could have been a game-winning extra point was also blocked by a host of South players breaking through the line. Thus, overtime.

“It was a lot of fun and we kept our

composure and played hard all the way,” Oliver said. “My touchdown catch was great, something I will always remember. Both teams played hard and we were all very competitive. It’s just a great way to end my high school career. “

Now, it was on to the overtime, for which a determination was made at the end of the regulation game. In the be-ginning, all participants thought there would be no extra periods if the score was tied in regulation.

The North had the first possession and it only took one play, a 10-yard run by Pomona’s Chris Marquez, to go up 12-6. However, the attempt at an extra point failed once again. Zach Young of Doherty scored the next touchdown on a 7-yard run to tie the score at 12-12 for the South. Again, the extra-point kick attempt failed as the ball sailed off to the left of the up-rights.

The South failed to score on its sec-ond overtime attempt. The North then got the winning score via a 10-yard run from Ty Eichman of Dayspring Christian on their third play in the series.

Defensively, it was a solid night for

Nicholas, too.“It was a lot of fun and our defense

was awesome in the overtimes,” Nicholas said. “Both our offense and defense was good, but they also played well against us, too. My key was to stay focused and it was just a great experience. I just hope to see a lot of the guys when we play in college.”

No doubt Elizabeth athletic director, Chris Cline was pleased with the trio’s ef-forts. Yet, when the weekend was over, he was more than pleased with all the play-ers, boys and girls, who represented the Cardinals.

“It was just a fun night for the boys on the football field,” Cline said. “It was a slow start in the game, but it was just an excellent finish at the end. It was so nice to see the Elizabeth boys play so well. They just came out to play hard and did just great.”

WrestlingTyler Erzen and Gabriel Gavril Hous-

ton represented Elizabeth in the wres-

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Calendar of EventsFor a complete calendar of South Metro Denver

Chamber events and for more information,

visit our web site at www.bestchamber.com

or call 303-795-0142.

Sunday, June 22:APSIRE Summer Tea: Celebrating Denver’s Women of Distinction

3:00 pm, The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa, 321 17th St, Denver, CO

RSVP by June 21 to [email protected]

Monday, June 23:Mad Greens Ribbon Cutting and Open House

10:30 am, 7300 E Arapahoe Rd, Centennial

Tuesday, June 24:Business Bible Study

9:00 am – 10:00 am, South Metro Denver Chamber

2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial, CO

Wednesday, June 25:Health & Wellness Council Series: Colo Insurance Commissioner Marguerite Salazar

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, South Metro Chamber of Commerce – Whipplewood CPAs

Conference Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial, CO

Thursday, June 26:Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting for Synergy HomeCare University

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Synergy HomeCare, 5721 S Spotswood St, Littleton, CO

Friday, June 27:The Rocky Mountain Energy Council Presents: The Energy Management Program at DIA

10:00 am – 11:00 am, South Metro Chamber of Commerce – Whipplewood CPAs Conference

Center, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial, CO

By Natalie HardenOn Thursday, June 12 the South Metro

Denver Chamber’s Littleton Business Coalition and the Economic Development Group joined forces at Hudson Gardens to discuss Littleton’s past, present and future. Over 100 Chamber members attended the presentation, sponsored by Hudson Gardens. The morning began with networking followed by presentations by Rich Meredith, executive director of the Hudson Gardens and Event Center, who presented the history and future of Hudson Gardens. His remarks were followed by Dave Lorenz, executive director of South Suburban Park and Recreation District (SSPRD), who discussed the role of SSPRD along the Mary Carter Greenway trail.

“This event was a great way for two of our strongest Chamber groups to collaborate on Littleton’s continued growth and economic development,” said Marcia McGilley, interim CEO of the South Metro Denver Chamber.

Laura Kroeger, assistant program manager

at Urban Drainage and Flood Control District, spoke next regarding the coordinated planning that is occurring along the South Platte River and future economic development opportunities. City Manager Michael Penny then spoke about the existing activity along the river, from the Breckenridge Brewery development to planning for the Ensor site development. Finally, Mayor Pro Tem Bruce Beckman introduced Jim Taylor, board chair of Littleton Invests For Tomorrow (LIFT) (formerly the Riverfront Authority), who presented the city’s plans to use the Urban Renewal Authority for future economic revitalization. Closing remarks were provided by David Shefte, CEO of HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital-Littleton.

Norman Stucker, member of the Chamber Board of Directors and both groups, commented on the event. “The future is always about tomorrow, not yesterday; in that light I look forward to transitioning from the Chair of the Littleton Business Coalition (LBC) to a

regular member of the Executive Committee in support of initiatives like the approval of an Urban Renewal Authority in Littleton; supporting community efforts like Clarity Commons; and others to participate in other Business, Retention and Expansion programs in Littleton,” said Stucker. “The special spirit that exists in Littleton is the ability to create infrastructure and institutions that invest in the next generation, Hudson Gardens, South Suburban, Littleton Public Schools, Littleton Hospital are great examples of this; I envision Littleton Invests For Tomorrow playing a similar role along the river corridor and throughout the city.”

For more information regarding Littleton Invests For Tomorrow (LIFT) visit www.littletongov.org

For more information regarding the South Metro Denver Chamber’s events and membership opportunities, please visit www.bestchamber.com

The River - Littleton’s Past, Present and Future

Shredding Event raised $4,000 for Littleton Boy Scout troop andseveral hundred pounds of food donations for Cabrini’s Cupboard

A Littleton Boy Scout troop collected $4,000 in donations. Cabrini’s Cupboard at St. Fran-ces Cabrini Catholic Church added several hundred pounds of donations to the food it provides to people needing a meal. And hun-dreds of residents from the South Metro area unloaded more than 10,000 pounds of docu-ments to be shredded and more than 40,000 pounds of used electronics gear for recycling.

Those were the highlights of the free shred-ding and electronics recycling event held June 7 in Highlands Ranch by members of LEADapalooza, one of the South Metro Den-ver Chamber’s leads groups. The group has been meeting since 2009 and has 34 highly dedicated members.

“As one of our longest-running and most successful leads groups, LEADapalooza is a vital part of the South Metro Denver Cham-ber,” said Marcia McGilley, interim CEO of the South Metro Denver Chamber. “They embody our brand promise of “Remarkable Relationships & a Thriving Community.”

“This is the most successful event of any kind that I’ve ever been involved with,” said Cheryl Braunschweiger of ALMC Mortgage at NOVA Home Loans, primary organizer of the event. “The shredding truck provided by SHRED-

IT was so full that the sides were bulging,” Braunschweiger said. “And Techno+Rescue had to bring in several extra trucks because of the tremendous volume of items we collected for recycling. Everyone involved was blown away by the amount of material we collected.”

The event was free to the public but people taking advantage of shredding and recycling were encouraged to provide cash donations to Boy Scout Troop 4 of Littleton or non-per-ishable food donations that went to Cabrini’s Cupboard.

“I can’t say enough about the scouts who showed up to help,” Braunschweiger said. “They really pitched in to help make the day a huge success.”

Sponsors included 22 LEADapalooza com-panies: 303 Denver Chiropractic; A Cleaner Carpet; ALMC Mortgage at NOVA Home Loans; Arrow B Architecture; Brickyard BBQ; C Squared Computer Consulting; Centennial Leasing & Sales; Experience Pros Radio Show; Handyman Matters; Holly Mullins, Farm-ers Insurance Group; JerryBrownPR; Major Mom; Mark Thomas, RE/MAX Profession-als; Nexus Financial Services; PearleVision-Streets@SouthGlenn; PROformance Apparel; Riviera Finance; RMK Cartridge; SG Associ-ates; Cathy Reilly, Silpada Designs; SuperMe-dia; and Weksler Benefits.

For more information regarding LEADa-palooza and the South Metro Denver Cham-ber’s events and membership opportunities, please visit www.bestchamber.com

Special Olympian meeting goalsCody Field, a gold medalist, will be kicking it with the RapidsBy Anna ShefferSpecial to Colorado Community Media

Cody Field is not your average athlete.The 21-year-old Special Olympian won

three gold medals at the 2013 World Special Olympics Winter Games in South Korea and has been named to the Special Olym-pics Hall of Fame.

And now, Field has been named to the Colorado Rapids Special Olympics Unified Soccer Team.

Yet, despite all of his success, or maybe because of it, Field remains a team player who knows the value of friendship and good sportsmanship.

“I always treat people like they should be treated,” he said. “As a people person, I always try to be social and kind. Kill ‘em with kindness if I have to.”

Field has bipolar disorder and Asperg-er’s, but with help from his family and his doctors, he has been able to excel in activi-ties like Special Olympics.

He began Special Olympics in 2004 with swimming. Over the years he has partici-pated in softball, soccer, swimming, skiing, basketball and snowboarding, all through Special Olympics. The rigorous practice

schedule can be demanding, but he does it first and foremost for enjoyment.

“For him, it’s just play,” Cody’s sister Nellie Field said. “He doesn’t feel like it’s a lot of discipline; it’s just fun.”

To make the Rapids Unified Team, which has both Special Olympics and non-Special Olympics athletes, Field had to go to tryouts and then wait to hear about the results until after a second set of tryouts.

Watching his sister play soccer inspired Field to play again, and he waited to hear back with bated breath. His mother, Karen Field, said that he was a wreck after tryouts, nervous that he was not going to make the cut.

When he found out he made the team, Field described his reaction as “overpow-ered excited.” His acceptance to the team marks his first time playing soccer since he was 9, when he played with a recreational team. Other players on the recreational team were not very supportive of Field, and the family decided that Special Olympics would be a better fit for him. That proved to be the case.

“Special Olympics athletics has been the savior — the best thing that’s ever hap-pened to Cody,” his father, Mark Field, said.

Indeed, Special Olympics has given Field opportunities that very few people have. He competed in the Special Olympics 2013 World Winter Games in South Korea, where he won three gold medals in snow-boarding. And because he was in South Ko-

rea, he had the chance to meet his pen pal, who came to watch him race.

Field also trained with the other ath-letes on the U.S. team, and this involved traveling without his family for a week. The Games marked new experiences all around for Cody, and he met them head-on.

Special Olympics has helped Field come into his own not only as an athlete, but in all other areas of life as well. He said that Special Olympics has taught him to have

better sportsmanship and has helped him to value friendship, family and honor.

Special Olympics has helped him come a long way, and joining the Rapids team is another adventure for him. Field recogniz-es his progress and looks forward to con-tinuing it.

“When I was on the podium,” he said, “I thought to myself, `look how far I’ve come; let’s roll it!’ ”

Cody Fields, right, is shown with his family. Photo by Anna Sheffer


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ELBERT COUNTY VENDOR PMT LIST MAY 2014General Fund Totals $198,790.55Health Fund Totals $6,232.98R&B Fund Totals $165,443.17Sales And Use Fund Totals $35,497.00Lea Fund Totals $1,172.43Human Services Fund Totals $33,432.97Meadow Station Fund Totals $10,556.25Foxwood Estates Fund Totals $7,290.00Impact Fund Totals $5,350.00Conservation Trust Fund $5,931.09Bond Service Fund $163,022.71

Vendor Name Transaction Desc. Check AmtAarms Operating Exp 350.00 Agate Mutual Telephone Monthly Utilities 24.90 Airgas Intermountain Operating Exp 1,050.89 Arrowhead Fencing Bldg Repair 187.50 Auto Glass Guys Equipment Maint 340.00 Auto-Color System Operating Exp 181.50 Berg Hill Greenleaf Operating Exp 160.00 Black Hills Energy Monthly Utilities 2,396.15 Blue Star Police Supply Uniforms 152.97 Casp Membership Fees 40.00 Catherine Lambert Travel 104.18 Cdw Government Operating Exp 17,755.12 Century Link Monthly Service 7,505.28 Certified Laboratories Operating Exp 124.90 Cgfoa Operating Exp 90.00 Chemtox Operating Exp 20.00 Co Background Svcs Operating Exp 100.00 Co Community Public Notice 44.77 Co Counties . Operating Exp 425.00 Co Cty Clerks Assoc Operating Exp 811.50 Co Family Support Council Conference 400.00 Comcast Monthly Charges 557.77

Comfort Of Home Operating Exp 192.00 Community Media Of Co Notice 2.50 Corp Billing Llc Equip Repair 421.89 Credit Union Of Co Credit Card Trans 3,804.80 Dales Paint Supply Co Equipment Maint 701.58 Deep Rock Monthly Service 8.45 Den Industrial Sales & Serv Asphalt Repair 636.16 Dhhs Client Operating Exp 631.73 D-J Petroleum . Fuel 38,059.85 Dominion Voting Systems Operating Exp 14,071.00 Drive Train Industries Equipment Maint 43.89 E470 Travel 8.05 Ecca Operating Exp 67.50 Elbert Cty R&B Vehicle Maint 168.59 Elbert Cty Treasurer Payroll Vendors 135,348.01 Elizabeth Fire Dept. Operating Exp 150.00 Enertia Consulting Operating Exp 41,015.00 Fastenal Co Shop Supplies 13.89 Flags Usa Building Maint 111.00 Frame Fusion Studio Operating Exp 654.25 Frontier Communications Monthly Contract 759.96 G&K Svcs Operating Exp 48.28 Glaser Gas Co Propane 120.40 Glenn A. Ohrns Contract 2,175.00 Grainger Operating Exp 240.40 Great West Life & Annuity Pr Vendors 27,215.21 Hallcrest Kennel Operating Exp 126.00 Hensley Battery Llc Equipment Repair 319.23 Home Depot Credit Service Operating Exp 263.77 Honnen Equipment Co Equipment Maint 837.26 Irea Monthly Utilities 8,029.30 Jeremy Mcknight Operating Ext 2,612.00 John Deere Credit Lease 19,346.12 John Deere Financial Operating Exp 4,522.79 Kiowa Creek Com Ch Tanf Contract 1,920.00

Kiowa Storage Monthly Service 145.00 Larry Ross Reimbursement 212.52 Lisa Mazzola Operating Exp 2,031.25 Loln Cty Dhs Operating Exp 1,808.50 Lyle Sign Operating Exp 1,840.10 Mark Smith Reimbursement 45.00 Marshall & Swift Office Supplies 619.90 Mcafee Operating Exp 363.78 Mccandles Intl Trucks Equipment Maint 953.67 Medved Co Vehicle Maint 46.38 Mhc Kenworth Equipment Maint 977.31 Officechairs.Com Operating Exp 278.00 Paul Arnold Operating Exp 2,240.00 Paul Tanner Reimbursement 38.50 Phoenix Technology Operating Exp 14,186.03 Pitney Bowes Service Agreement 1,221.00 Postmaster Postage & Shipping 48.00 Power Motive Corp Operating Exp 187.00 Poysti And Adams Services For Audit 17,772.54 Pronghorn Ctry Ace Operating Exp 453.98 Psychological Dimensions Operating Exp 350.00 Purewater Dynamics Monthly Lease 50.00 Quill Corporation Office Supplies 1,553.04 Radiator Supply House Vehicle Maint 1,936.00 Rainbow Collision Equipment Maint 285.00 Rcky Mtn Spring & Susp. Equipment Maint 97.35 Recycled Materials Operating Exp 5,045.97 Robert L Fager Operating Exp 195.00 Rock Parts Co Operating Exp 2,998.98 Rod Wilson Contract Services 200.00 Rt Svcs Monthly Utilities 545.00 Schmidt Construction Road Maint 7,950.96 School Outfitters Operating Exp 4,883.49 Shoplet.Com Office Supplies 1,598.96 Signal Graphics Office Supplies 229.09

Simplexgrinnell Operating Exp 529.75 Staples Office Supplies 986.16 State Of Co Operating Exp 126.68 State Wire & Terminal Operating Exp 242.59 Stericycle Waste Removal 142.02 Stone Oil Co Fuel 15,118.80 Sun Badge Co. Badges 84.75 Sundance Printing Multi Media Cards 119.88 Sysco Food Svcs Inmate Meals 1,424.91 Timotheos Training 500.00 Tom Beshore Reimbursement 46.00 Town Of Kiowa Monthly Utilities 1,517.29 Town Of Simla Operating Exp 496.90 True Value Operating Exp 545.39 Tyler Technologies Monthly Contract 8,081.00 Umb Bank Na Bond Interest 17,846.25 Value Added Svcs Operating Exp 58.18 Wagner Equipment Co Operating Exp 906.78 Washington Cty Dhs Contract Services 198.84 Waste Management Monthly Utilities 816.55 Wells Fargo Bond Payment 163,022.71 Westin Resort Conference 357.00 Westpaci Operating Exp 321.14 William Bertot Reimbursement 44.00 Witt Boys Operating Exp 7,479.03 Xerox Corp Copier Expenses 850.96

Legal Notice No.: 927983First Publication: June 26, 2014Last Publication: June 26, 2014Publisher: Elbert County News

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The Board of Elbert County Commis-sioners, County of Elbert, State of Col-orado, are hereby accepting sealed bidproposals for roadway improvementson approximately 4 miles of CountyRoad CR 29 within northwest ElbertCounty, Colorado.

The project will consist of surface waterdrainage improvements including road-side swales and culverts, and road im-provements including grading, tilling a ce-ment mixture into subgrade soils, asphaltresur fac ing the road sur face andsignage/st r ip ing.

Bids will be accepted until 3:00 p.m. onThursday July 10, 2014. Two copies ofsaid Bid should be submitted. Bids will notbe considered which are received after thetime stated and any bids so received willbe returned unopened. Faxed bids or e-mailed bids will not be accepted. Bids willbe opened at 3:15 p.m., or as soon aspossible thereafter, on Thursday July 10,2014, by an Elbert County Public Worksrepresentative, in the BOCC MeetingRoom located at 215 Comanche Street,Kiowa, Colorado 80117. Please mail bidsto: Elbert County Public Works Office, At-tn: Lynne Eschbach, P.O. Box 116, Kiowa,CO 80117, or deliver to Elbert CountyPublic Works Department, Attn: LynneEschbach, 215 Comanche Street, Kiowa,CO 80117. Please mark the outside ofenvelope “CR 29 Roadway Improve-ments”.

Elbert County Government reserves theright, as its interest may requires, to rejectany and all bids, to waive formalities andinformalities contained in said bids andfurthermore to award a contract for itemsherein, either in whole or in part, if it isdeemed to be in the best interest of ElbertCounty to do so. Additionally, ElbertCounty reserves the right to negotiate op-tional items and/or services with the suc-cessful bidder.

Contract documents (plans, specs, etc)will be available starting Thursday June19, 2014 for a fee of $150, and can be ob-tained through Sean O’Hearn, EnertiaConsulting Group, LLC, 1437 LarimerStreet, Denver, CO 80202.

Please direct any questions regarding thisbid to: Sean O’Hearn, Enertia ConsultingGroup, LLC (720) 473-3131.

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tling competition that was held in Plachy Main Gym on the campus. The tough part for the Cardinals duo is that neither was able to come through for a victory.

Erzen wrestled Mesa Ridge’s Procopi Valdez in their 106-pound match, which turned out to be a 9-2 victory for Valdez.

Houston went up against Cherry Creek’s Mitch Finesilver at 126 pounds and was eventually defeated, 15-0.

“It was tough, but I was able to keep from being pinned,” said Erzen, who will now enroll at Adams State in the fall. “He wanted to win, but so did I. He was just so much tougher today. In that first pe-riod he really got to me and it was hard to recover being down 6-0. I just didn’t want to get pinned. I’m coming here to Adams State for baseball, so today is it for wrestling.”

Houston also knew that he was facing a super strong foe in Finesilver.

“It’s been a good time here this week and I knew that he was going to be a very tough opponent,” Houston said. “I just didn’t want to get pinned. It was great to be here and now I’m excited for going to the Air Force Academy. I’m excited to wrestle there, too, so there is so much to look forward to.”

Monte Vista’s Greg Jones, Pueblo East’s Pat Laughlin, Cherry Creek’s Michael Luhring and Yuma’s Jeff Pagel handled the coaching duties for the two squads in the All-State matches.

Boys basketballTrevor Boss was the only player to

represent Elizabeth in the basketball competition, playing for the White team in the games at Plachy Fieldhouse.

And, he played a solid game in the White 86-77 victory over the Blue in the first of his two All-State games with six

points. “It was such a fine experience, some-

thing certainly different for all of us,” said Boss, who has yet to make his col-lege decision. “It’s just an honor to have been chosen for the All-State Games. One thing, you have to play aggressive against all this talent. We all just wanted to come out and show how our hard work has paid off. It was so cool to see all the others and to be able to play with and against the best in the state.”

The White team was coached by Grandview’s Gary Childress and his son, Spencer.

The Black team was coached by Da-rin Reese of Mead and Dave Sheffield of Hi-Plains, the Blue by Jim Altergott of Liberty Common and Mark Sharply of Jefferson Academy, and the Red by Barry Clark of Air Academy and J’on St. Clair of Rampart.

Girls basketballElizabeth’s Tatum Neubert represent-

ed Elizabeth in the girls All-State bas-ketball game playing for the Black team, while Elbert’s Sumiko McDonald played for the Red team.

And it was the Red team that garnered the first win for the Red over the Black with a thrilling 55-54 victory.

It also was a game, played at Plachy Fieldhouse, in which Newbert put up the shots with many not falling.

“I think we all worked well together,” said Neubert, who scored 14 points. “I just wish I could have hit a few more baskets. We certainly had a lot of talent on both teams and I’m so honored to be able to play with and against them. It’s such a fine experience, certainly one that I will remember for years to come.

McDonald didn’t score for the Red, but defensively, she was outstanding.

“Everything was just great and we all played as hard as we could,” McDonald said. “I’m certainly honored to be a part of the games and to represent my team at Elbert. This just makes an exciting and memorable end to my high school ca-

reer.”Chaparral’s Natalie Baker was on fire

for the Red as she led the way in the first game with 20 points.

“It is such a great experience as we are all playing with such great athletes, ones that we have played against,” Baker said. “It’s an experience that I will always remember. Everyone felt some pressure to do a good job. Defensively, we did do a good job against Tatum as we all knew she was going to be a player we had to control if we wanted to win.”

Erik Melgoza and Austin Wertz of La-mar coached the Black; Jeff Beatty and LaShai Powells of Mesa Ridge handled the coaching duties for the Blue.

Jacky Gaddis of Glenwood Springs and Rich Niederkorn of Elbert coached the Red; Sara Crawford of Kit Carson and David Huss of Caliche coached the White team.

VolleyballIt also was a pretty good day for Eliza-

beth volleyball coach, Lori McCoin, and the Cardinals Sabra Ross in All-state Games competition at Plachy Main Gym. Representing the White team, they came through for an initial, 2-1 (22-25, 25-21, 15-10) victory against the Blue.

“It was such an honor and so much fun to play with and against girls that you haven’t had an opportunity to do so before,” Ross said. “You just seem to trust everyone and I’m proud of the way we played. I’m going to play basketball in college here at Adams State, so today is the end of my volleyball career. It has been so much fun playing both sports and I’m looking forward to a fine career here at Adams State.”

McCoin, who was assisted by Russ Ha-man, was more than pleased with the ef-forts of not only Ross, but all her White teammates.

“It has been a good week with these kids,” McCoin said. “I’ve gotten such a kick working with all of them and it is such an honor to coach in the All-state Games. The girls always asked what we

wanted them to do, but they all have great ideas on what they need to do. These girls are all such great athletes, the camaraderie is great, and you want them to come out and have fun.”

Simla’s Brett Smith played for the Black team, also.

Other coaches for the volleyball squads were Amber Ullery of Alamosa and Amy Wertz from Lamar for the Black team; Matt Ferger from Classical Acad-emy and Stacy Roshek from Woodland Park for the Blue; and Randi Asbell from Sargent and Thaddeus Cano from Igna-cio for the Red team.

Cross countryThe inaugural boys and girls Colorado

Coaches All-state Games cross country race had its inaugural event in the All-State Games on June 11.

The Blue team was coached by Kelly Cowan of Hotchkiss and Kenny Wilcox from Salida, while the Red teams were coached by Mark Roberts of Lyons and Brett Shanklin of Frontier Academy.

Kiowa’s Beth Campbell helped pace the girls Blue team to the team title with her fifth-place finish over the Adams State course in 23:01.3.

She was the only Elbert County athlete in the race as the Blue scored 20 points, the Red 37.

Miriam Roberts of Lyons was the girls champion with a time of 20:56.6. She was followed by Natalie Anderson of Hotch-kiss (21:08.5) and Jessica Kleven of Pueb-lo South (21:26.7).

There were only 10 girls in their event. Carter Prescott of D’Evelyn was the

boys winner with a time of 16:36.2, while Josh Davis of Lamar finished second (16:44.2) and Greg Eccher of Grand Junc-tion finished third (17:54.8).

The Red team came out the team win-ner with 14 points, the Blue 23. Only nine boys ran in this inaugural CHSCA race.


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Baby Boomers May Avoid Knee Surgery With Modern Arthritis TreatmentsDoctors say these two factors are the keys to knee arthritis treatment success and relieving pain without surgery

By Matt EdgarAmerica’s Health Writer

El Paso County - Everyone has said it at one time or another. If I had only known about “this” sooner - things would be very different today. That’s what many knee arthritis pain sufferers are saying about this technol-ogy and treatment. “We all know that countless lives are being saved every year because of early detection and better treatment of cancer,” one of the physicians at Osteo Relief Institute in Colorado Springs, CO. “The same holds true for treating knee arthritis pain. I believe we are having so much success at Osteo Relief Institute because of two factors: One is we are using advanced medical technology and treatments a lot of clinics do not use. And second, the word has spread to our community and so many knee arthritis sufferers are coming in sooner. And the

earlier we can treat knee arthritis - the better the results. The key to avoiding knee replacement surgery is doing the correct treatments as soon as possible.”

What is the “correct treatment?”

“That depends, there is no one answer when it comes to medical conditions and knee arthritis is no different. That’s why, if you have knee pain, you should have it evaluated by a doctor who deals with and treats knee pain every day,” stated the clinics director of services. For many knee arthritis pain sufferers the right treatment is viscosupplementa-tion. In this treatment, a preparation of Hyaluronic acid (such as Hyalgan) is injected directly into the knee joint. Hyaluronic acid is a natural lubri-cant and shock absorber of your joints and is found to be decreased in arthritis sufferers. This is similar to running your car low or without oil. Obviously, the

sooner you put oil back in the car - the less damage will be done. That’s why some doctors feel early viscosupple-mentation gets the best results and is so important for avoiding surgery. And the Doctors believe one of the most important factors for the success of viscosupplementation is making sure you are getting it into the joint space. That’s why the doctors at Osteo Relief Institute use advanced imaging technol-ogy called a “C-Arm.” A C-Arm allows the doctor to see into the joint and actually watch the injection go where it is supposed to. Re-search shows that performing injections without digital imaging can result in missing the joint space as much as 30% of the time. If you had viscosupple-mentation treatments without advanced imagining and did not get good results - this may be why. “If you have knee arthritis pain,

Can This Be Avoided? Total knee replace-ment is serious surgery requiring months of rehabilitation. Some doctors think modern treatments done early enough can keep baby boomers from going under the knife.

viscosupplementation might be the answer you are looking for. The keys are to not wait, get a good evaluation from an expert and make sure advanced digital imaging (C-Arm) is used to make sure you have the best chance for success.” was the advice of the doctors at the Osteo Relief Institute.

Free Knee Pain Screenings Offered To Help Determine If Colorado Springs Area Residents Qualify For Popular Treatment

El Paso County area knee pain sufferers have limited time to claim knee pain screening to see if all-natural knee arthritis treatment might work for them

Advanced Medical Technology Can Make All The Difference: This advanced digital imaging called a C-arm allows doctors to see directly into the knee joint so treatments are precise and the Hyalgan actually goes where it is supposed to. Studies show that injections done without digital imaging can miss the joint up to 30% of the time. This is one reason Hya-lgan or other Viscosupplementation may not have worked for you. Osteo Relief Institute uses this C-arm for every Hyalgan treatment.

If You Can Answer Yes - You Are Eligible For A Knee Arthri-tis Screening With The Experts

At Osteo Relief InstituteDo you have pain and oteoarthritis (arthritis) of the knee?

Have you tried other treatments such as NSAIDS and other anti-inflamato-ry medications without success?

Have you already tried viscosup-plementation (Hyalgan, Supartz, Synvisc) without satisfactory results?

If you answered yes to any of these questions - give Osteo Relief Institute a call and schedule your risk free knee

pain screening 719-323-6612

If you qualify for this treatment, it might be one of the happiest days of your life. That’s because, this year, hundreds of knee pain sufferers have flocked to Os-teo Relief Institute located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. That’s when their specially trained doctors added Hyalgan treatments to their already successful and comprehen-sive knee pain relief program. Hyalgan is unique because - even though it is manufactured by a phar-maceutical company, it is in NOT considered a drug because it is a natural substance with an incredible story.

Why So Many Want It You see, when you suffer with arthri-tis - the lubricating fluid (synovial fluid) in your knee joint dries up. This means instead of gliding smoothly - your bones start to rub and grind against each other. This causes a little pain in the begin-ning - but over time the pain steadily gets worse until it is excruciating.

Like “Joint Oil” Hyalgan works so well because it is like “joint oil.” It is a natural substance that contains one of the natural building blocks of the synovial fluid that lubri-cates your knee. Scientists and researchers discovered this natural building block to synovial fluid in the rooster’s comb - that big red thing on top of the roosters head. It is extracted from the roosters comb, puri-fied and concentrated. When it is injected directly into your knee joint, it is like squirting oil on a rusty door hinge. Hyalgan allows your joints to glide more smoothly eliminating a lot of the rubbing, grinding and pain.

Can Supplements Do The Same Thing?

No. Glucosamine and chondroitin and other supplements are much differ-ent. You can only get this from a doctor and it often helps knee pain sufferers who got limited or no success from

glucosamine and chondroitin. Beware of unsubstantiated claims made by supplements that claim to do what this advanced medical procedure does.

Why You Should Try This Even If You’ve Already Had Similar Treatments Without results...

“We have been able to help so many knee pain sufferers - even many who have already tried other injections like Synvisc, Supartz, Orthovisc and even Hyalgan. We use special and very advanced low-dose video fluoroscopy imaging called “Hologic Digital Imag-ing” so we can see right into the joint. This allows us to put the Hyaglan ex-actly where is needs to be. Studies show doctors doing joint injections without fluoroscopy miss the joint up to 30% of the time.” said the head of Arthritis Treatment at Osteo Relief Institute. Osteo Relief Institute is a state of the art medical facility offering only the best technology. And that’s not all - Osteo Relief Institute has a complete knee relief program called “P.A.C.E.” to make sure you get the most pain relief and the best possible results from treatment. “Every case is individual. Some patients get quite a bit of relief right away - others take a little more time. But most have been extremely happy and the results usually last for at least 6 months. Patients who were suffering for years with bad knee pain are getting their lives back... going for walks again and exercising. It’s amazing to see. They tell all their friends - that’s why we are swarmed. I can’t tell you how many patients have cancelled their total knee replacement surgeries.” added one doctor.

How To Get It If you have knee pain, Dr. M. Swan-son M.D. and staff would like to invite you for a risk free screening to see if you are a candidate for Hyalgan treatments and the P.A.C.E program. All you have to do is call 719-323-6612 right now and when the

scheduling specialist answers the phone tell her you would like your risk free “Knee Pain Screening.” The specialists at Osteo Relief Institute can only accept a limited amount of new patients each month for this screening - so if you are interested please call now. Your risk free screening will only take about 25-30 minutes... you will get all your questions answered and leave knowing if you have possibly found the solution to your knee pain. And here’s something really important - Hyalgan treatments and the P.A.C.E program are covered by most insurance and Medicare. To schedule your screening today call 719-323-6612.

Everyone Wants Proof: In the artist simulated drawings above, picture #1 is a normal, pain-free knee. There is no arthritis and the knee can move and bend freely without pain

Pain - the red is a knee joint with painful osteo-arthritis. Arthritis causes the joint space to decrease, grinding, stiffness, decreased motion, bone spurs, swelling and a lot of pain.

Successful Treatment - Hyalgan (blue) being precisely injected directly into the knee joint using hologic digital imaging. Advaced imaging allows treatments to be as precise as pos-sible. Hyalgan can lubricate the joint and decrease pain.

Failed Treatment - the injection (and Hyalgan) misses the joint space. Re-search shows this occurs up to 30% of the time without the use of hologic digital imaging to guide the injection. This is why Hyalgan may not have worked for you.

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