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November 12, 2015

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Voters keep term limits for sheriff Mistrust of government seen as probable factor

By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media

For at least the second time since Colorado voters established term limits for local offi cials in 1994, Elbert County voters defeated a question to eliminate term limits for the offi ce of Elbert County sheriff. Despite an active campaign sup-porting the measure and no organized opposition, question 1A was defeated on Nov. 3, 54.7 percent to 45.3 percent.

Chris Richardson, committee chair-man for Citizens for Free Elbert County Elections, the group that petitioned the Elbert County commissioners in July to have the question placed on this Novem-ber’s ballot, said he was disappointed in the outcome.

“We had an overwhelming response from the rest of the county with the petition. We did a phone poll last month and had a lot indicating were in favor,” Richardson said.

With 8,142 ballots case, voter turnout in Elbert County reached just over 44 percent, and Richardson speculated that the low turnout might have been one of two factors that led to the defeat of the question.

“A lot of folks indicated they supported the measure that at the end of the day did not cast a vote, and I think within our county there is a strong mistrust of gov-ernment and politicians in general. That’s a strong baseline to overcome,” he said.

In 1994, Colorado voters approved Article 18 to the Colorado Constitution, which established across-the board-term limits for most of Colorado’s local gov-ernment offi cials; however, a provision in the amendment allows local voters to “lengthen, shorten, or eliminate the limitations on terms of offi ce imposed by this Section 11.”

Birdie Dimples (Kristi Strachan) Dogleg Gooseneck (David Saltzman) and Gloria Greenfee (Deborah Maul) worry over the discovery of an overdue mortgage. Photos by Rick Gustafson

Performance all in good fun

TWO ELECTED TOSCHOOL BOARD

Dee Lindsey and Richard Smith

won the two open seats on the Elizabeth Public Schools Board of Directors in the Nov. 3. election.

Incumbent Lindsey received 2,597 votes, or 38.9 percent of those cast in the three-way race.

Richard Smith got 2,257 votes (33.8 percent), and Amy Lunt had 1,828 votes (27.4 percent).

Individuals on the fi ve-member board of directors serve four-year terms.

Fairgrounds stage offersplay rich in golf puns


Boos, hisses, and cheers fi lled the Fellowship Hall at the Elbert County Fairgrounds over the weekend for the Kiowa Creek Ladies Aid production of “The Villain Took a Chip Shot or … Thar’s Gold in Them Thar Greens.”

Linda Ehmann of the Kiowa Creek Community Church Ladies Aid, who played the role of villainess Sue Sandtrappe, said: “We just appreciate our support and following over these years. We’ve become quite a large pro-duction.”

Ladies Aid sponsors the theater tradition in Kiowa that dates back more than 30 years. The community theater group originally performed in the Lions Club to audiences of 25 people, and the funds raised helped pay for the con-struction of the Kiowa Creek Commu-nity Church fellowship hall.

“It started out as a fundraiser to build the fellowship hall,” Ehmann said. “Once we got the fellowship hall built, then we continued to raise money to build the stage, add curtains, carpet, doors, all that sort of stuff.” A hypnotized Dogleg Gooseneck (David Saltzman) regressed to childhood

while Nash T. Sandtrappe (Jim Emig) and his sister Sue Sandtrappe (Linda Ehmann) watch. Fun continues on Page 5

Voters continues on Page 5

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Candy, creatures and contests among the draws at annual event

By Rick GustafsonSpecial to Colorado Community Media

Each year, the Harvest Festival and Trick or Treat Street in Elizabeth draws large crowds, but this year visitors to Main Street came out in droves. For the second fall in a row, Batman and zombies, lots of zombies, were welcomed by a perfect fall afternoon as they roamed the tents and booths set up by more than 50 vendors, searching for candy under a cloudless sky.

The Town of Elizabeth’s booth was so busy Oct. 31, staffers were forced to make a candy run an hour after the festival kicked off at noon. According to Dick Eason, Elizabeth town manager, his crew was watching their supplies carefully and anticipating a second trip to resupply before the festival wrapped up at 3 p.m.

In addition to candy, vendors provided games, contests, and face painting. This year’s Harvest Fest featured a separate food court in the parking lot across from the chamber of commerce offices on Main Street. In addition to hamburgers and hotdogs, hungry trick-or-treaters and their parents had a variety of options, ranging from homemade baked goods to freshly made Mediterranean food.

A newcomer to events held on Main Street, Jasmine Parks-Papadopoulos, aka Sugar Mama, offered a variety of baked “Treats and Eats.” Parks-Papadopoulos has been baking her cookies, cakes, and Rice Krispy treats for more than a year for fundraisers and in support of the families of airmen at Buckley Airforce Base, where her husband works for Satellite Com-mand.

Jasmine, originally from Naples Italy, grew up in Athens and worked as a chef in one of the three restaurants that her fam-ily owns in the city.

For those who were looking for something a little more savory, Lu cy’s Armenian-Mediterranean Grill served up delicious (and sometimes messy) Medi-terranean food, gyros, falafel and chicken shawarma. Lucy Moore is an Armenian who grew up in Jordan. She and her husband Erskine have been serving their Armenian Mediterranean Grill in Eliza-beth for three years and at Harvest Fest for two.

“I mix all my own spices and Tsatziki,” Lucy says as she fills a pita with a mix of lamb and beef, lettuce, and onions before running a generous squirt of the yogurt-based sauce down the middle of her creation.

The Harvest Festival is held each year and is sponsored by the Elizabeth Area Chamber of Commerce and its members. The event is billed as a safe community celebration.

Elizabeth harvest festival brings ’em in

Walking dead Hannah Totten distributes fliers for the Halloween party after dark, sponsored by Elizabeth Parks and Recre-ation Photos by Rick Gustafson

Janson and Callie Bakke watch daughter Krissy Drummond toss a ball to win a prize.

Crowds pack Historic Main Street in Elizabeth for Harvest Fest and trick-or treating.

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Returning troops have options for transition Adjusting to civilian life diffi cult for some veterans

By Chris Michlewicz [email protected]

Chad Ritter knows the diffi culty of returning home.The U.S. Marine Corps veteran served during the push

into Iraq in 2003. After sustaining wounds — including a traumatic brain injury — in three separate attacks, Ritter was sent home with little idea of what was to come. The 34-year-old Franktown resident now has a host of physical ailments and post-traumatic stress disorder, which limit job opportunities and participation in social settings.

Going from a combat zone, where life-and-death deci-sions are made daily, back to civilian life was an exasperat-ing transition, one fraught with questions that seemingly had no answer.

“When you try to reconnect with society, you’ve got to think every day that people don’t do those same things,” Rit-ter said. “They don’t experience it.”

According to a study by the Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, between 25 percent and 56 percent of combat veterans using U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs services reported “some” to “extreme” diffi culty in social functioning, productivity and community involvement.

The 2010 study focused on the prevalence and types of reintegration problems among Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans while identifying levels of interest in inter-ventions to promote readjustment to community life. The research also explored associations between probable PTSD and reintegration problems.

Ritter continues to seek ways to make sense of it all through VA counseling and has made strides in recent months with Warrior Voices, a nonprofi t that teaches return-ing troops voiceover skills. The goal is to provide them with talents and job opportunities suited for those with PTSD and other lasting conditions.

Programs come in wide rangeThere are a number of organizations willing to help; it’s

a matter of fi nding the right fi t, as returning veterans have varying degrees of issues and methods of coping. The Doug-las County Offi ce of Veterans Affairs helps those seeking mental and physical care to connect with the right people.

David Maxwell, veterans service offi cer, says there are adjustments needed in multiple facets of everyday life. The

surroundings and daily activities separating civilian and military life are stark: work responsibilities, living situations, different “lingo,” proximity to home, and even kinship.

“You lose that camaraderie. They’re your buddies and family, everybody around you,” Maxwell said. “The military emphasizes teamwork, and when you leave that all of a sud-den, it’s just you. Co-workers are not the same.”

Ritter knows the feeling and has created a motorcycle club for veterans that gives him that missed sense of “broth-erhood” from his deployment.

It’s Maxwell’s job to fi nd those groups that help returning veterans rediscover that military connection.

Job-seeking help offeredAside from nonprofi ts like Warrior Voices, job placement

organizations often have specialists that point veterans in the right direction. Arapahoe/Douglas Works!, a workforce center run by the Colorado Department of Labor and Em-ployment, provides free services to job seekers and busi-nesses. It hosts employment events geared toward veterans and offers one-on-one assistance that delves into the skill sets of service members in hopes of fi nding the perfect job for them.

Taking into account uncontrolled responses that are not conducive to certain environments is similarly important, Ritter says.

“It all might be different: Mine is people and crowds. For others, it might be super-loud noises,” he said.

There are groups like “We Hire Heroes,” a national job board for military veterans, and state-run websites like www.hireacoloradovet.gov. It’s also worth researching a prospective employer’s history of hiring veterans.

The 18th Judicial District Attorney’s offi ce, for example, earned the Pro Patria award this year for its efforts. Prior to the 2013 election of District Attorney George Brauchler, himself an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel, the DA’s offi ce had few vets in the ranks. It now has six active National Guard and Army Reserve members and eleven veterans, in-cluding offi cers from the Marine Reserve, Navy Reserve, and Colorado Army National Guard, the latter of which recently completed a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan.

Housing for vets highlightedHomes for Our Troops, a national nonprofi t foundation

with a heavy presence in Colorado, has built numerous adaptive homes for disabled military veterans, particularly a cluster of houses in a neighborhood near Elizabeth.

Just this month, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4266 in

Parker announced its support of Colorado Coalition for the Homeless to fi nd housing for homeless veterans. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2014 Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, there are an estimated 753 homeless veterans in Colorado.

The members of Post 4266 offi cially launched their sup-port Oct. 29 with a $5,000 cash donation. The donation and visit were part of a three-point plan devised by Post 4266 that includes fundraising, “boots on the ground” mentor-ing and a life-skills training program for veterans in CCH facilities.

VA home loans are available to any veteran, reducing the down payment needed to buy a home.

Transition assistance availableThe pride that some veterans carry can prevent them

from getting the right assistance.Each branch of the military has a transitions-assistance

program, and it’s a matter of taking advantage of that as well as the many options available for successful re-ac-climation into society, said Maxwell, who also connects vets with addiction treatment experts and mental health therapists.

“Anyone who is leaving can go through the transition-assistance program for a number of months, take classes on how to do resumes and that sort of stuff, to get them adjusted back to civilian life,” he said.


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Class o� ered for baking takes high road Elevation can lead tokitchen catastrophes


The slideshow image of a lopsided angel food cake resembling a misshapen “B.C.” comics wheel fl ashes on the white wall of the Exhibit Building at the Elbert County Fairgrounds.

“How many of you have had this hap-pen? I have.” Lois Illick’s last two words rise an octave, drawing chuckles from an audience of bakers and cooks who have undoubtedly experienced something similar.

“I was up in Loveland, Colorado; that’s only 4,000 feet and something. I made an angel-food cake because it’s so healthy, fl ipped it over, and yep, it went phfffffft.”

Illick is a high-altitude cooking spe-cialist and Colorado State University extension agent from Pueblo. On loan to Elbert County for the evening, she is here to share her high-altitude baking exper-tise with an enthusiastic group of Elbert County foodies and Master Food Safety Advisors Program volunteers.

Colorado State University sponsors the Master Food Safety Advisors Program. Volunteers train in the science of food preparation. They complete intensive training on topics such as food preserva-tion and food safety in addition to com-mitting to 30 hours of volunteer service each year with a CSU county extension offi ce.

“Cooking With Altitude” is just one of seven cooking and food safety classes presented this year through the program in Kiowa. Past classes have covered top-ics from making preserves and jams to gluten-free cooking.

All classes are open to anyone with an interest and cost $10 per person. The next and fi nal offering for 2015 is “Homemade Food Gifts from the Kitchen,” scheduled

for Dec. 5 at the fairgrounds.In addition to being a baking expert,

Illick specializes in health, food safety and wellness, so she begins her class with a brief food-safety demonstration. She squirts a glob of Glogerm, a liquid resembling hand lotion that glows under UV light, on the hands of two volunteers. Once they have rubbed it in, they are sent off to the sink to wash their hands.

After a thorough scrubbing, Illick inspects the volunteers’ hands under an ultraviolet light. Their palms and fi nger-tips glow, simulating the germs remaining on their hands. Illick uses the experiment to alert her students to how easy it is to pick up germs and spread them around the kitchen.

“How do you get by all that? Hand washing and more hand washing. The number one way that food-borne illness happens is right here,” she says, raising her hands, palms out. She also warns that the dirtiest thing in the kitchen is the kitchen towels.

But Illick’s lessons in cleaning and sanitizing are just an appetizer to her main course on baking at high elevation, and she dives into the class with some basic science.

At sea level, water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. As the elevation increases, atmospheric pressure drops, lowering the temperature at which water boils. The reduced temperatures (around 200 degrees in Kiowa) increase the cooking

time required for foods such as pasta and potatoes.

The reduced atmospheric pressure that lowers water’s boiling point also al-lows the gases in baked goods to expand more rapidly, which can lead to a myriad of culinary disasters such as bread that climbs out of a pan or exploding muffi ns.

“The gas, the air, the leavening ex-pands really quickly, because there is nothing pushing it down,” Illick says.

Leavening is the term for the ingre-dients in baked goods that generate the gases that cause them to rise.

“As they produce that air, phfffffft.” She makes an exploding gesture with her hands. “They release it really quickly. Now we’re going to fi x it.”

Altering the basic structure of the food is the key to controlling the rate at which the gases are released while baking.

“You’ve got to have structure with your baking, and the structure is fl our and liq-uid which make gluten, which is in wheat fl our. Gluten catches all the expanding gases.”

Varying recipes, such as slightly in-creasing the amount of fl our, increases the gluten, which slows the rate of gas release, but increasing the gluten by too much can slow the rate of gas release so much that a cake or muffi n will not rise at all.

“If you go home and want to make a cake from scratch, these are the things you think about. You reduce your leaven-ing agent by one-eighth to one-quarter of a teaspoon. That isn’t very much, but it can make all the difference in your recipes.”

Increasing baking temperatures by 25 degrees can also make a difference, and Illick encourages her bakers to experi-ment.

“Write down what you did,” she im-plores near the end of her class. “There’s nothing worse than making it come out perfectly and you don’t remember how you did it.”

Lois Illick presents to local foodies and Master Food Safety Advisors about high-altitude baking. Photo by Rick Gustafson


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This year’s community theater production chronicles the fate of the Greenfee Lodge and its owner, Gloria Greenfee, after she inherits the hotel from an uncle but does not have the money to pay off a loan on the property. Enter the hero, Frank Lee Fairway, a sympathetic banker and golf enthusiast who immediately falls for Gloria’s niece, Birdie.

Fairway and the Greenfees must foil the dastardly plots of the villain-

ous pair Nash T. Sandtrappe and his sister Sue Sandtrappe, who are trying to swindle the old woman out of her land for the gold vein running through the property. Written by Craig Sodaro, this tongue-in-cheek melodrama is piled high with golf puns and classic melodramatic lines such as “Woe is us” and “We’re doomed.”

Ehmann estimated that the troupe entertained and fed more than 450 people over the four-day run, which began with a Thursday family night on Nov. 5 and continued through the weekend with Friday and Saturday dinner performances before winding up with a Sunday afternoon dessert

performance on Nov. 8.“We always have a good time,” she

said. “We start in August. It is a huge commitment, but we do it for our love of Jesus, and we are thankful for the support of the community.”

The players and support crews spent Nov. 6 and 7 preparing brisket, pulled pork and chicken enchiladas for the two dinner performances, which included an all-you-can-eat barbecue buffet.

“We do a full salad bar, green beans, homemade rolls, baked pota-toes and homemade cakes. It’s a huge buffet. For 20 bucks, you get to eat and see the play. You can’t even go to the movies for that,” Ehmann said.

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Since then, 58 of 64 counties have either removed the limit or increased the number of terms their sheriffs may serve.

Citizens for Free Elbert County Elections created a website advocat-ing for the question, and its county-wide campaign included road signs, social media and direct mailings.

Richardson was uncertain wheth-er, or how soon, his organization would revisit the issue.

“We’re still dipping into the num-bers. We’re going to sit down next week and do our own little postmor-tem,” he said. “Right now we have a record of about 4,500 folks that felt strongly enough to say no, so if we were to ask — again — the county commissioners to put a question on the ballot, we have to demonstrate that 4,500 or more now believed this should be pursued.”

Citizens for Free Elbert County Elections accepted donations for its campaign, and according to its website, it will donate any remaining funds to the Elbert County Sheriff’s Offi ce Deputies Fund, a nonprofi t

501(c)(3) supporting serving offi cers, employees, and the family members of offi cers killed or injured in the line of duty.

Currently all of Elbert County’s elected offi cials are limited to two terms. In November 2009, Elbert County voters defeated a general ballot measure that would have elimi-nated term limits for the offi ces of assessor, clerk and recorder, coroner, sheriff, surveyor and treasurer.

Elbert County Sheriff Shayne Heap is currently serving his second term in offi ce. He was fi rst elected in No-vember 2010 and re-elected in 2014. His term expires at the end of 2018.


Voters

Colorado facing cuts amid budget shortfall TABOR among factorscausing diffi cult choices

By Ivan Moreno Associated Press

Colorado is facing a $373 million bud-get shortfall next year, despite a healthy state economy that has an unemploy-ment rate of 4 percent. Years of uncoordi-nated fi scal policies, spending restrictions that require refunds to taxpayers, and mandated funding for schools are among the moving parts colliding to create the budget defi cit, the governor’s budget staff says.

Lawmakers and Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper still have many months to deliberate the budget before approving it next spring. And two more estimates of tax collections before then could move numbers around. However, the budget plan Hickenlooper released Nov. 2 serves as a roadmap for discussions.

The state’s total budget, which includes federal funds, is about $27 billion, and the general fund, which is comprised of

state tax revenue, is $10.4 billion. Here’s a look at how the shortfall materialized and what the plans are to deal with it. Next year’s budget takes effect July 1.

What led to the shortfall?Before lawmakers even begin delibera-

tions, the budget for next year includes $830 million in new spending the state must honor, said Henry Sobanet, the governor’s budget director. There’s $301 million in new funds budgeted to schools to keep up with infl ation and enrollment growth; $289 million in taxpayer refunds, which are constitutionally required under the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR, when revenue exceeds the rate of population growth and infl ation; $80 million for new Medicaid enrollees; and $160 million to pay back money the state is using from its budget reserves to deal with a shortfall in the current budget year, which resulted in part because of a slight slowdown in the economy this spring as the oil and gas industry decreased pro-duction.

While there’s $830 million already spoken for in next year’s budget, the state

is expected to bring in only $457 million in new revenue, hence the $373 million shortfall.

What’s at stake?Hickenlooper said last week that the

state must make tough choices to balance the budget. The governor’s plan suggests several moves to close the $373 million defi cit.

Higher education, which has a state budget of $857.4 million, could see its funding reduced by $20 million, possibly resulting in higher tuition for students. Funding for state building projects could be reduced from nearly $272 million to $58.5 million.

To help with school funding, which takes up a big portion of the general fund at $3.5 billion, Hickenlooper is suggesting using nearly $240 million from a state’s rainy day fund for education, bringing the account’s balance down to about $103 million.

Here’s where it gets trickierOne major point of contention in Hick-

enlooper’s plan will be a legal maneuver

he’s proposing to reduce the amount the state collects from a fee charged to hos-pitals for occupied beds. The collected fees are used to get a federal match to help with Medicaid costs. Hickenlooper is suggesting capping collections at $656 million, instead of an anticipated $756 million. The $100 million that is not collected would reduce the state’s refund liability to taxpayers because the money would not count as revenue that exceeds Colorado’s TABOR limit. But that reduction in fee collections also means hospitals would lose $100 million in fed-eral matching dollars to serve Medicaid patients.

Republicans view the charges to hospitals as taxes disguised as fees to get around TABOR’s requirement that taxes be approved by voters.

And they’ve said they will not support any plans that reduce refunds to tax-payers, so Republicans who control the Senate could kill that portion of Hicken-looper’s budget-balancing plan. If that happens, lawmakers will have to fi nd $100 million to cut from elsewhere, the governor’s offi ce says.

Class o� ered for baking takes high road time required for foods such as pasta and potatoes.

The reduced atmospheric pressure that lowers water’s boiling point also al-lows the gases in baked goods to expand more rapidly, which can lead to a myriad of culinary disasters such as bread that climbs out of a pan or exploding muffi ns.

“The gas, the air, the leavening ex-pands really quickly, because there is nothing pushing it down,” Illick says.

Leavening is the term for the ingre-dients in baked goods that generate the gases that cause them to rise.

“As they produce that air, phfffffft.” She makes an exploding gesture with her hands. “They release it really quickly. Now we’re going to fi x it.”

Altering the basic structure of the food is the key to controlling the rate at which the gases are released while baking.

“You’ve got to have structure with your baking, and the structure is fl our and liq-uid which make gluten, which is in wheat fl our. Gluten catches all the expanding gases.”

Varying recipes, such as slightly in-creasing the amount of fl our, increases the gluten, which slows the rate of gas release, but increasing the gluten by too much can slow the rate of gas release so much that a cake or muffi n will not rise at all.

“If you go home and want to make a cake from scratch, these are the things you think about. You reduce your leaven-ing agent by one-eighth to one-quarter of a teaspoon. That isn’t very much, but it can make all the difference in your recipes.”

Increasing baking temperatures by 25 degrees can also make a difference, and Illick encourages her bakers to experi-ment.

“Write down what you did,” she im-plores near the end of her class. “There’s nothing worse than making it come out perfectly and you don’t remember how you did it.”

Kelsey Holden, of Elizabeth, graduated with a bach-elor’s degree, with high distinction, from Concordia University.

Zachary Holden, of Elizabeth, graduated with a bachelor’s degree, with high distinction, from Concordia University.

Brandon Michael Siebert, of Elizabeth, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in justice studies from Fort Hays State University.

Alexandria Jane Winters, of Elizabeth, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in art from Doane College.

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EventsCommitment Day 5K Fun Run/Walk

Life Time Fitness in Parker kicks off the New Year with a part run/walk, part festival that includes an expo with numerous vendors on race morning. Run starts at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 1 at Life Time Fitness, 9250 Crown Crest Blvd., Parker. Event is open to runners and walkers of all levels and abilities. Members and non-members welcome. Discounted registration available through Sunday, Dec. 13. Children 12 and younger may register for free with a registered adult. Go to www.commitment-day.com/colorado/parker-aurora. Group training for the event starts Tuesday, Nov. 10; go to http://lifetimerun.com/group-run-training/co-commitment-day-5k-2016-parker. Contact Heather Crosby at hcrosby@lifetimefi tness.com for additional information.

Art Contest, Exhibit

The Greater Castle Rock Area Art Guild

plans its ninth annual contest and exhibit of the National Arts Program through Fri-day, Nov. 13 at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Call 303-814-3300, e-mail etherealfl [email protected] or go to http://www.nationalartsprogram.org/venues/front-range.

Music Students to Perform

Students of the Douglas Elbert Music Teachers Association will perform from 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at Parker Senior Living, 18900 E. Mainstreet, Parker. The public is welcome. Call 720-273-6592.

Yuletide Bazaar

The Mountain Pine Woman’s Club plans its 10th Yuletide Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Parker Fieldhouse, at Plaza Drive and Dransfeldt Drive, Parker. The bazaar features more than 100 vendors and the Mountain Pine craft booth, which includes an array of handmade items such as scarves, home décor and doll clothes. The bake shop will offer a number of delectable goodies. The café offers coffee, water, snack or sweet treat. The bazaar is a major fundraiser for the Parker Woman’s Club and the money goes toward scholarships and to organiza-tions such as the Parker Task Force, Arising Hope, Operation Smile, Santa’s Workshop,

Freedom Service Dogs, Skycliff and other projects as needed. A special gift bag will be given to the fi rst 100 customers.

Colorado Historic Newspapers

Parker Genealogical Society presents “Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection: Reading Yesterday’s News Online Today” by Regan Harper of the Colorado State Library and History Colorado. The presentation us at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Stroh Fire Station, 19310 Stroh Road in Parker. Event is free and all are welcome.

Fundraising Poker Tournament

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Artifact could be most signifi cant of 2015 Dog effi gy found during reservoir construction

By Chris Michlewicz [email protected]

It could be a pendant or an amulet or a child’s toy. No one really knows for sure.

What is known is that it was hand-crafted by a hunter-gatherer living around 5,000 years ago in what is now Douglas County, and many agree that the clay fi gurine depicts a dog.

The Oeškeso zoomorphic effi gy found during the construction of Rueter-Hess Reservoir is among the historic items being considered for the title of Colorado Most Signifi cant Artifact of 2015. The ef-fi gy was deeply buried and relatively well-preserved when Centennial Archaeology uncovered it in 2005 among a village of pit-dwellings at the reservoir site in New-

lin Gulch, just southwest of Parker.“An effi gy in itself is very unique.

There are no plains effi gies — defi nitely not from Douglas County or the greater plains region of Colorado,” said Mary Ann Gabriel, a volunteer who nominated the canine-like object on behalf of the Doug-las County History Repository.

The annual search for the state’s most signifi cant artifact was launched three years ago by Colorado Collections Con-nection at the Center for Colorado and the West at Auraria Library, in part to draw interest and funding to help preserve them for future generations.

A panel of history professors, archivists and other experts narrows the entries to the top 15 or 20, and the public then votes on the winner. Artifacts are nominated by museums, libraries, archive-keepers, and cultural heritage institutions, and cannot come from a private collection. The panel ensures that the artifacts originated in

Colorado, said Dana Echohawk, program director for Colorado Collections Connec-tion.

Although there is debate over what the effi gy depicts — some say it could be a deer, rabbit or antelope — the prevailing thought is that it shows man’s best friend.

Catherine Traffi s, a member of the Parker Area Historical Society, said she feels a special connection to the effi gy be-cause it refl ects how long dogs have been stalwart companions of people living in the area. She posted a message about the effi gy to the historical society’s Facebook page so “people from Parker could get be-hind voting for one of their own artifacts,” particularly because such fi nds are rarely made in Parker.

Effi gies had great importance to those who made them.

“The idea is that when you create these objects and possess them, the possessor can perhaps take on some of the qualities of the animal represented,” Traffi s said, adding the creators are ancestors of famil-iar local Native American tribes like the Cheyenne, Ute and Arapaho.

Artifacts like this often go overlooked, Gabriel says, because residential and commercial developers are not required to report the existence of archaeological objects. But because the reservoir was federally approved, the Parker Water and

Sanitation District was bound by stricter conditions for archaeological mitigation.

Aside from larger discoveries, like the mammoth skeleton found when Stone-gate was being built in the late 1990s, many artifacts are “pulverized” by large construction machinery, said Gabriel, who called them a “fast-disappearing resource.”

“We’re losing a lot of our history and prehistory as a result,” she said.

The Oeškeso zoomorphic effi gy is kept in a climate-controlled environment at the Douglas County History Repository in Castle Rock and wrapped in a cushion-ing acid-free material. The fact that it was “so clearly crafted by a person” makes it especially interesting to local historians, Gabriel said.

“Every time I’m out working on a sur-vey and fi nd something, I always wonder, ‘Who created this? Who last touched it? How did it end up here? How did they lose it?’” she said.

Gabriel has been informing the public about the discovery and urging them to vote at www.collectioncare.auraria.edu. With funding for historic preservation drying up, there is a dire need to steer attention toward signifi cant pieces of history.

“People don’t care about what they don’t know about,” Gabriel said.

This Oeskeso effi gy of a dog was found during the construction of Rueter-Hess Reservoir. It was nominated by the Douglas County History Repository to be named Colorado’s most signifi cant artifact in 2015. Courtesy photo


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Artifact could be most signifi cant of 2015

Sanitation District was bound by stricter conditions for archaeological mitigation.

Aside from larger discoveries, like the mammoth skeleton found when Stone-gate was being built in the late 1990s, many artifacts are “pulverized” by large construction machinery, said Gabriel, who called them a “fast-disappearing resource.”

“We’re losing a lot of our history and prehistory as a result,” she said.

The Oeškeso zoomorphic effi gy is kept in a climate-controlled environment at the Douglas County History Repository in Castle Rock and wrapped in a cushion-ing acid-free material. The fact that it was “so clearly crafted by a person” makes it especially interesting to local historians, Gabriel said.

“Every time I’m out working on a sur-vey and fi nd something, I always wonder, ‘Who created this? Who last touched it? How did it end up here? How did they lose it?’” she said.

Gabriel has been informing the public about the discovery and urging them to vote at www.collectioncare.auraria.edu. With funding for historic preservation drying up, there is a dire need to steer attention toward signifi cant pieces of history.

“People don’t care about what they don’t know about,” Gabriel said.

This Oeskeso effi gy of a dog was found during the construction of Rueter-Hess Reservoir. It was nominated by the Douglas County History Repository to be named Colorado’s most signifi cant artifact in 2015. Courtesy photo


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Trying a new angle can be eye-opener The other night I was out to dinner with

a couple of clients in an Italian restaurant down in Castle Rock, a place called Rose’s Bella Cucina. If you have not had the chance to dine there, I highly recommend it. The food is fantastic and the owners, Steve and Donna, are awesome.

While we were walking out, we noticed an enlarged photograph of New York City, an aerial photo taken of the city from the south and looking north. Although some of the city looked the same, the view and the perspec-tive made the city look very different from what it looks like today. This particular pho-tograph was probably from the 1950s and obviously taken long before the Twin Towers were ever built, before the South Street Seaport was built up, and before the mod-ern glass-framed architecture had replaced many of the older concrete-dominated structures. Having grown up in New Jersey just across the river, this photo gave me a completely different perspective.

How often are we all used to seeing or hearing the same thing? I mean, we get conditioned to certain sights, sounds, smells

and just the norm of life, don’t we? We get so used to something, so set in our ways, so accustomed to things being just the way they are, we sometimes forget to try looking at things from a different angle or viewpoint.

Now here’s the deal: People make new de-cisions based on new information.

So how do we do that? How do we break the cycle of the status quo? How do we get

out of that same-old-same-old routine? Well, if we are going to see things differently, make new decisions based on new information, we must fi rst acquire that new information, right? So the way to do that is to develop a sense of curiosity. Maybe you already are someone who asks a lot of questions and has a heightened sense of curiosity, and that’s

terrifi c. However, if you are someone who would like to start seeing the world a little differently, get your head around the politi-cal landscape or the economy, deepen your relationships, or view your job in a new and different way, try enhancing or developing a stronger sense of curiosity.

Start including statements and questions like: “Tell me more about that.” “Can you share with me why you feel that way?” “What was the experience like?” “How did that hap-pen?” You get the idea, right? It’s the “who, what, why, where, when and how” questions instead of simple questions that only require a yes or no answer.

If you want a different perspective or view, try researching articles and blogs in the areas that interest you the most. I know, you can’t believe everything you see or read on the Internet, but there are some very cred-ible sources available to you to expand your views and ideas on particular subjects.

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WINNING WORDS

Craig Marshall Smith

QUIET DESPERATION

Behind closed doors, the weather’s perfect I can’t think of anything good to say about

Black Friday.So.For a recluse there is no better time of the

year than right now.I am all winterized, and I am ready to go

further into the interior, if that is possible.What that means is that I lay low and paint

more, write more, read more, think more, and take another inventory.

Some people go into a winter funk.Not me.Sure, people ski.And get stuck on I-70.Not me.Colorado winters are perfect. Now and

then we have a blizzard. But most of the time it’s clear, crisp, and sunny.

I thought I wanted to retire in California. Now I am glad I didn’t.

California doesn’t let you winterize. Parts of it are exactly the same all year.

You are outdoors all the time.William Blake said, “If the doors of percep-

tion were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infi nite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”

That quote led to a rock and roll band’s identity. I’ll let you think about it.

It starts to get dark at 5, and I begin to howl.

Not really. But that’s about the time my thoughts turn into something that is mean-ingful to me.

What validates my life?

The answer is al-ways the same. Be-ing creative.

That and being a good father to a dachshund.

I have wondered what kind of real fa-ther I would be.

The answer is always the same. I would be too good.

I know for a fact that I would be pre-occupied with Ju-nior, and never get anything done.

Maybe not. Maybe I would learn how to measure my time.

I just don’t have to measure it at all right now, and I haven’t since I retired.

If I wanted to go to DIA and hop on the next fl ight to anywhere, I could do it.

But I won’t.All I want is right here, not on an island or

a cruise or a slope or a low house with a broad front porch in Étables-sur-Mer.

I have given this some thought. In fact, I give it some thought every year at this time.

I watch Anthony Bourdain. He’s a moving target. His life is enriched by travel.

I go along with him, in my mind.And that’s good enough.

While I was zipping back and forth to De-troit, my best friend was fl ying to Milan, Flor-ence, and London, before heading back to Denton, Texas, where he is a university dean.

He spent more time in airports than I spent in Michigan.

I left Colorado twice in 2015. That’s one more than my average.

Greg leaves the country about three times a year.

He thrives on it. One day it will help to make him a college president. I’m sure of it.

I hire the same crew to clean up my yard every November. That means that the yard is shut down.

I don’t get very wistful about it, because it also means that I can concentrate on these four walls.

There’s no cabin fever. What’s the oppo-site?

One morning I’ll look out — if it hasn’t happened already — and the yard will be white. And that will be perfect. Except for one thing.

My roommate refuses weather, even if I provide him with a clear pathway.

Jim Morrison took the name of his band, The Doors, from Aldous Huxley’s book “The Doors of Perception,” which was a reference to Blake’s quote.

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

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sections you always read; check out opinions and columns that may chal-lenge your current thinking. Remember, people make new decisions based on new information. And we have access to more

information today than at any other time in history.

If you were to look at New York City today, from the same angle that was used in the photo I saw hanging in Rose’s Bella Cucina, and compare them side by side, you would absolutely see the city in a whole new and different way.

What do you need to see in a whole new or different way in your own life? What would happen if you changed the

angle or perspective, or became more cu-rious and sought new information about something that was important to you personally or professionally? I would bet you just might make some new decisions based on altered views, different perspec-tives and new information.

How about you, is there a view or perspective you would like to change? I would love to hear all about it at [email protected], and sometimes when we

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Man goes from observing to serving Historic church welcomes former photojournalist as new priest

By Shanna Fortier [email protected]

Brian Winter spent a dozen years as a photojournalist, hoping his work would somehow change the world. From time to time, however, he experienced moments of insight in which he felt that maybe he really belonged on the other side of the lens, serving people in moments of need rather than simply observing and captur-ing their images.

During his career in photojournalism, Winter covered the Super Bowl, the NCAA Final Four, the Democratic National Con-vention and the Iowa caucuses. But it was the dramatic moments of human suffering that he captured that led Winter to ques-tion his vocation.

There’s one spot news event that keeps playing in Winter’s head. In Tucson, Arizo-na, a father came home and killed his wife and two children. Winters and other pho-tojournalists were across the street from the crime scene when a lady pulled up and asked what was happening, saying that it was her sister’s house.

“I got this picture of her collapsing

in the sheriff deputy’s arms and it won all sorts of awards, but it really made me think that I should be there catching her — walking on the other side,” Winters said. “Seeing the heartbreaking loss in the woman’s eyes, I felt a strong sense of need-ing to be engaged in these scenes, offering comfort like the deputy, not just observing them from the detached, journalistic side of the line.”

Making the changeNow an Episcopal priest, Winter arrived

at the 109-year-old Christ’s Episcopal Church in Castle Rock on Oct. 1 to begin his ministry as the parish’s new priest.

But making the switch to ministry wasn’t an easy decision.

“I always expected this big transforma-tional moment to happen — for lightning to strike,” he said, while sitting in his offi ce at the Castle Rock church.

Confi rmation came to him one evening while talking with his wife, Cheri. There was a storm off in the distance and a tiny strike of lightning could be seen on the ho-rizon.

“There’s your lightning,” Cheri told him.

“For me, there was an understanding of God saying, OK, you want lightning, here it is,” Winter said.

In August 1999, the New Mexico native

left his job and his career, sold the house, packed a truck and moved across the country with his wife and two young sons to begin his formal, but still uncertain, journey into the priesthood.

After completing his training for the ministry at Virginia Theological Seminary, Winter was ordained into the Episcopal deaconate in July 2002 and into the priest-hood in January 2003. He began his pasto-ral ministry serving St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Brigham City, Utah, and then moved on to Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Winter served 10 years as the rector of St. Chad’s Episcopal Church in Albuquer-que, New Mexico, before accepting the call from Christ’s Episcopal Church and mov-ing to Castle Rock.

Reaching Castle Rock“It’s very exciting to see all the ideas and

positive energy fl owing through this com-munity,” Winter said. “I am thrilled to have these new opportunities to walk with the people of Christ’s Episcopal Church, and the people of the Castle Rock area, in ways that will welcome everyone into the love of God and empower each of us to carry that love out into the greater community.”

Winter is spending his fi rst bit of time in town getting to know the community. His goal is to expand the church spiritually

and numerically“The yearning is to expand it out into

the community,” he said. “The priest be-fore me did an amazing job with the spiri-tuality of there congregation. Now, I feel like my call is to take the spirituality and seek and serve Christ in all people in the community.”

Brian Winter started as priest at Christ’s Episcopal Church in Castle Rock Oct. 1. Photo by Alec Nesbitt


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Impacts broaden with family volunteersDonating time with spouse, kids promotes giving spirit

By Chris [email protected]

For Whitney and Justin Henwood and their six children, volunteering became a family affair when they relocated from Parker to Haiti to help a community re-cover from a devastating earthquake.

A Castle Rock family discovered that working for an organization that helps neglected horses and special needs youth not only fosters a good work ethic, it also teaches gratitude and thoughtfulness.

And a retired couple in Littleton de-cided to give back by helping their local police department with the little things like crowd control and reporting graffiti.

They are part of a growing trend of vol-unteerism that brings a family’s collective might to extend a friendly hand — wheth-er it’s helping out in a kitchen to feed the homeless on Thanksgiving, organizing a neighborhood cleanup campaign or seek-ing an international destination where relief is needed.

GenerationOn, a national volunteer organization that provides family project ideas and guides, is encouraging parents to sign up for family volunteer day Nov. 21. Moms and dad who work alongside their children can share observations and later talk about their experience.

“Volunteering together enhances values such as kindness, compassion and tolerance, plus family members learn new skills and feel appreciated for their contributions and talents,” the group’s website says.

Desire to help leads to HaitiWhitney and Justin Henwood, of

Parker, traveled to Haiti in 2011 before returning the following year with their six children. The second excursion wasn’t a short-lived mission: the family put down temporary roots, becoming a part of a community outside of Port-au-Prince for seven months and helping out in any way they could.

“We thought it would be a good experi-ence for not only the people of Haiti, but also for our children to see what the world is like,” said Whitney Henwood, a regis-tered nurse who worked alongside her children at clinics in the poor village.

Justin Henwood took a leave of absence from his job as a geotechnical

engineer to shore up walls in homes, many of which are constructed in a way that can jeopardize the safety of those inside. Structures were damaged during a massive earthquake that struck the im-poverished nation in 2010 and have not been repaired.

The kids, then ranging in age from 2 to 10, assisted when they could, but most of the time they were befriending the Haitian children. Whitney Henwood snapped a photo of her then-2-year-old son sitting among orphaned children dur-ing a feeding program funded year-round by money raised through the Henwood’s nonprofit, Believe in Haiti.

The Henwoods wanted to use their skill set to make a difference, as well as provide a good example for their kids. Whitney Henwood remembers during the 2012 trip that her 8-year-old daughter was eager to help in the clinic, which provides basic screenings, education and assis-tance to new mothers, some of whom walked miles to receive care.

“While I was doing exams on women, she was holding the newborn babies,” she said. “That was really neat to see.”

Teaching kids a life lessonAt a more local level, Castle Rock resi-

dents Tiffany and Rob Riley and their four children — Abby, 15, Lance, 13, Sydnie, 9, and Tessa, 4 — are pitching in at Drifter’s Hearts of Hope, a horse rescue near the Douglas-Elbert county line. After adopt-ing one of the horses for Abby, the family decided Drifter’s Hearts would be the perfect venue to volunteer.

“We saw the amazing work they’re do-ing out there and we decided that it would be a good cause,” Tiffany Riley said.

A Facebook post informed the family the nonprofit organization needed a shed to store tools and other goods to care for the horses. The family had considered helping with Special Olympics, but sched-ules did not align. However, because Drifter’s Hearts works with special needs clients, two of the Riley kids will likely continue volunteering.

“The kids are definitely developing a good work habit and learning that it’s im-portant to help others and be mindful of others’ needs,” Tiffany Riley said. “They’re learning to be grateful for what they have as well.”

The littlest ones love feeling they are a part of something important, even if they are simply cleaning up sawdust or handing their parents a two-by-four for

the shed.

Community safety is pair’s focusJoe and Sue Henson, of Littleton,

also feel proud to be a cog in the larger, well-oiled machine of the Littleton Police Department. They are members of the Community Safety Volunteer Program, and with funding from a justice assistance grant, they drive a marked vehicle to keep an extra eye on the community.

They help with crowd control at large events like Western Welcome Week and Trick or Treat Street, assist at accident scenes, report new graffiti for cleanup, and created the Friends of Littleton K9s citizen support group for the police de-partment’s K9 unit.

“We both retired early, so I figured what the heck,” said Joe Henson, a mem-ber of the department’s alumni associa-tion.

A citizen police academy, which allows the public a behind-the-scenes glimpse at law enforcement, convinced the Hen-sons that donating their extra time was the right thing to do. They had always wanted to help out, but never had the time because of Joe Henson’s extensive work travel.

Now, the civilian volunteers work as partners outside of their 46-year mar-riage. Their duties are specified, much as

they are at home, Joe Henson points out. When they’re on patrol, he is the contact person and she is the cover, and they cruise through areas known for vehicle break-ins and check on homes when owners are on vacation. Since Sue Henson also serves on a handful of boards and helps vet new officer candidates, she is in the know.

“I’ve done patrols with other guys, but obviously I feel much more comfortable going out with Sue,” Joe Henson said. “She knows more officers than I do and she gives me a lot of good insight with what’s going on out there with the guys on the street.”

Family volunteerism rewardingJust as the Hensons’ work frees up

on-duty officers to concentrate on other, more pressing tasks, the same goes for other nonprofit organizations that reap the rewards of family volunteers. They not only help a good cause, but also create a sense of solidarity and purpose.

The effects are obvious and life-chang-ing, Whitney Henwood said.

“Our kids’ lives have for sure been changed by our experiences” in Haiti, she said. “They’ve become more compas-sionate and have less desire for material things.”

LIFELOCALC U L T U R EF A I T HF A M I L YF O O DH E A L T H

Izzy Henwood helps out during bath time during a family mission trip to Haiti. Courtesy photos

The Riley kids help build a shed at Drifter’s Hearts of Hope, a nonprofit horse rescue.

TIPS FOR FAMILY VOLUNTEERINGChoose an activity together. Discussing pos-sible volunteer opportunities can be a great way to help kids think about what matters to them and can help you learn about each other as a family in new ways.

Consider letting kids bring their friends. This may make the service experience more fun and could also inspire more families to get involved in volunteering.

Look for opportunities that can accommo-date skills, interests and maturity of all family members, especially the younger children.

Plan your own event. Talk with your local park district or nonprofit and arrange your own project.

Start your own family tradition. It may be ringing bells to raise money during the winter or assisting with a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service project every January, but you can start a tradition of service that will create life-long memories.

Invite the whole family. Use your volunteer activities as an opportunity to spend time with family members you don’t see every day. Strengthen your entire family by including grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.

Volunteer as part of a family vacation. Serving together can be a great way to have lots of fun, explore a new place together and make a difference at the same time.

Teach life lessons. By volunteering as a family, you have a chance to expand the perspectives of your children and expose them first-hand to new issues. Talking them through their activities can help them reflect on their expe-rience and grow in their understanding.

Encourage life-long volunteering. When families volunteer, children are more likely to develop the habit of giving to their communi-ties, and are more likely to volunteer on their own in the future.

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they are at home, Joe Henson points out. When they’re on patrol, he is the contact person and she is the cover, and they cruise through areas known for vehicle break-ins and check on homes when owners are on vacation. Since Sue Henson also serves on a handful of boards and helps vet new officer candidates, she is in the know.

“I’ve done patrols with other guys, but obviously I feel much more comfortable going out with Sue,” Joe Henson said. “She knows more officers than I do and she gives me a lot of good insight with what’s going on out there with the guys on the street.”

Family volunteerism rewardingJust as the Hensons’ work frees up

on-duty officers to concentrate on other, more pressing tasks, the same goes for other nonprofit organizations that reap the rewards of family volunteers. They not only help a good cause, but also create a sense of solidarity and purpose.

The effects are obvious and life-chang-ing, Whitney Henwood said.

“Our kids’ lives have for sure been changed by our experiences” in Haiti, she said. “They’ve become more compas-sionate and have less desire for material things.”

Groups renew state’s brew brouhahaSales in grocery stores debated

By Jennifer [email protected]

While supermarket chains and even some breweries across Colorado are hopped up about the idea of allowing all grocery stores to sell full-strength alcoholic beverages, some neighborhood liquor stores have a case of sour grapes about the whole thing.

Forty-two states allow full-strength liquor sales at all grocery stores. But be-cause liquor store owners may only oper-ate one location under Colorado law, each grocery chain has to choose just one store. Safeway, for instance, chose the Littleton location at Mineral Avenue and Broadway, where a security guard stands watch over a large liquor department at the rear of the building.

Other locations, as well as convenience stores, are restricted to selling 3.2 percent alcohol products, like beer and wine cool-ers. So for now, liquor stores have the up-per hand when it comes to selling the hard stuff. There are around 1,600 of them in Colorado, employing somewhere around 15,000 people.

The topic comes up now and again in Colorado, with the last time being in 2007, when the ban on Sunday sales was lifted. This time, the effort has enlisted the help of two people with south metro-area name recognition — John Brackney, former Arapahoe County commissioner and former president of the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce, and former Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson.

The two helped kick off the “Your Choice Colorado” campaign on Oct. 21 in front of the liquor display at the Glendale King Soopers.

“Your Choice Colorado aims to reform Colorado’s Prohibition-era alcohol laws via legislation or a ballot initiative in 2016 to provide consumers with the option to pur-chase real beer and wine in their neighbor-hood supermarkets,” reads a news release.

What opponents sayNot everyone loves the idea — small,

independent liquor stores, for example. Dozens have signed on to “Keep Colorado Local,” along with a number of breweries, distilleries and wineries.

“Out-of-state corporations are inter-ested in changing the way we do business in Colorado by allowing all chain grocers and convenience stores to sell alcohol,” reads the website. “Their goal is to boost profits. What they won’t tell you is that the effort will send money out of our commu-nities, force hundreds of small businesses to close, curtail Colorado’s thriving craft industries, undermine safety and give un-derage kids more access to alcohol.”

Littleton’s 38 State Brewery, the city’s first, is at the top of the list of the move-ment’s supporters. Open for two years, it just expanded from a single-barrel capaci-ty to seven, and the owners and staff worry that it might get its legs knocked out from under it while it’s just learning to walk.

“If convenience is the No. 1 consider-ation, well, is it convenient to put all our liquor stores out of business?” said Steve Schuett, manager. “In our case specifically, it will hurt our distribution. We’re in our infancy. Now we just go to the stores, drink our beer with them, shake hands and get our beer on their shelves within a week. I don’t have a distribution company fighting for me. If we can’t charm them in that way … selling a product via email is not really what sharing a beer is all about. … It’s just not the Colorado spirit. It’s not the craft brew way.”

Schuett notes that Anheuser Busch recently bought MillerCoors, pending final approval by regulators, and will have 30 percent of the global market.

“We’re fighting monopolies like you can’t believe,” he said. “If the monopoly gets ahold of the big chain stores, how big is that fight going to be?”

Mark Mack, owner of the busy neigh-borhood Woodlawn Liquors in Littleton, also worries for his future.

“We have several hundred liquor stores in the Denver-metro area right now,” he

said. “Probably in the first year, there will only be about 100 left. We can’t compete. Think of all the jobs that will be lost, and not just at the liquor stores, but at the beer companies, the wine companies. The small, wholesale distributors will vanish. Selection will vanish. Customer service will be gone.”

Jesse Vance owns Advance Liquors in the shopping center just south of the Safeway that carries full-strength alcohol. It is anchored by a King Soopers, so he predicts a struggle should the law change. If it does, he’d like it to include a provision for the chain to buy out his license.

“The way it is now for the independent stores, we’re not allowed to collaborate with each other to increase our buying power,” he said.

A big part of his business is selling beer from breweries like 38 State.

“But wait until they try to get it into a corporation,” he said. “I try to support the small guys as much as possible, because I’m a small guy. … I’ve got my life savings into this place.”

What supporters saySt. Patrick’s Brewing Co. in Littleton is

one of the exceptions among breweries.“We’re for it,” said co-owner Dave Bar-

ron. “We think it gives us more opportuni-ties to distribute our beer, and it gives us bigger outlets. … (Other breweries) think the grocery stores are going to bring in more imported beer. But we’re the Napa Valley of beer, so I don’t think that’s going to happen. … We do more sales on site now, but we’re cultivating and working on our wholesale in order for us to grow our business the way we want.”

The grocery chains themselves say that want to keep a focus on local products.

“We see ourselves as Colorado’s neigh-borhood markets and take great pride in highlighting locally sourced products and

entrepreneurs,” said Kelli McGannon, public affairs director for King Soopers, during the Glendale event. “We want to support Colorado’s booming beer scene and blossoming wineries, and provide these great products to our customers, who are clamoring to buy them.”

McGannon was joined by Russ Novot-ny, Safeway’s regional liquor sales man-ager, and Michael Cooke, former Douglas County Commissioner and executive director of the Colorado Department of Revenue and the Colorado Department of Regulatory Affairs, along with Brackney and Robinson.

Brackney notes that even though Colo-rado is home to the third-largest number of breweries per capita in the country, it’s one of only eight states where people

can’t buy their beers in the grocery store.“We’ve seen the rise of consumer-driv-

en conveniences like ride-sharing and on-line retail, healthcare and banking, yet we still have to travel to two different stores just to complete a dinner,” said Brackney. “These outdated laws prevent our thriv-ing craft breweries from entering grocery store shelves and prevent consumers from having the choice, convenience and competition that would benefit their fam-ily budget and tightly packed schedules.”

As to the allegation that kids would have more access to alcohol at grocery stores, Robinson noted it’s already being done.

“Grocery stores are great partners in the community and will be a safe place to sell beer and wine,” he said. “When I was sheriff, there were numerous grocery stores that chose to place their one loca-tion with a liquor license in areas under my jurisdiction, and they never gave me any problems.”

Luke Ouellette is the manager at Da-vidson Liquors, itself the size of a grocery store. He says he’ll reserve judgment on any legislation until he sees exactly what it says. The store has been in Highlands Ranch since 1998 and survived the 2007 changes, when one grocery store in each chain began selling hard liquor.

“We maybe saw a slight decrease in business, but not dramatic,” said Oullette.

Bill Barnes, left, and Josh Engelhardt keep things moving at the busy Woodlawn Liquor store. The store’s owner, Mark Mack, worries it won’t be so busy if a proposal to allow liquor sales in all grocery stores passes. Photo by Jennifer Smith

THE TWO SIDES OF THE ISSUEYour Choice Colorado says:Expanding sales to grocery stores will pro-vide consumers with more choices over when and how they shop and cut beer and wine prices by about 18 percent.

Colorado ranks third in total craft brewer-ies per capita. The other four states among the top five sell alcohol in grocery stores. In our grocery stores, expanded options will increase local craft beer sales by about $125 million.

More choices equal more sales, which will grow the state’s economy. Over several years, increased hiring and sales will produce $2.2 billion in economic activity and 20,000 local jobs.

Keep Colorado Local says:Colorado has 1,650 small independent liquor stores and almost half of those small businesses would be forced to close within the first three years.

Altogether, 10,000 Coloradans would lose their job in the first five years.

Colorado would lose $240 million in revenue in the first five years.

Colorado’s liquor-store industry, which contributes $1.9 billion to our state’s economy, would be in jeopardy.

Fifty-two percent of revenue from local retailers returns to Colorado, compared to just 14 percent for national chain retailers.

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“Signature” is an exhibit running through November at Elements 5280 Gallery, 5940 S. Holly Street, Greenwood Village. It will feature works by Buffalo Kaplinski, who lives in Douglas County; Colorado native Don Hamilton; Michigan colored pencil realist E.P. Lewandowski; and local painter Victoria Ekelund. Infor-mation: elements5280.com or 303-804-5280.

`Shared Visions’Students from Arapahoe Community

College and the Colorado Center for the Blind in Littleton will present a collabora-tive, accessible exhibit of multi-sensory and tactile art, “Shared Visions,” on Nov. 19 and 20 at the Colorado Gallery of the Arts at ACC in the Annex, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Hours: 5 to 9 p.m. Nov. 19 and noon to 5 p.m. Nov. 20. Admission is free.

`Geek Out’ contestEnter your creation (book, show, sport,

etc.) to the annual Arapahoe Libraries Geek-Out Contest for teens. Write a sto-ry, draw a picture, cosplay, bake a cake. Submissions accepted through Nov. 30 and winners will be notifi ed by Dec. 10. An awards ceremony will be Dec. 12. See arapahoelibraries.org/geek-out, or call 303-LIBRARY.

Religious folk art“Santos and Santeros: The Religious

Folk Art of Colorado and New Mexico” will be Jose Raul Esquibel’s topic when he speaks from noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 18 at the Aurora History Museum, 15051 Alameda Parkway, Aurora, in the Brown Bag and White Linen Series. Cost is $4 ($3 resi-

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It’s magicMagician and

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Show for kids“Snow Glow” is a Lone Tree Arts Cen-

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Nat King Cole holiday“Nat King Cole Christmas” with Allan

Harris will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 29 on the Main Stage at Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Harris returns after summer performanc-es at LTAC with holiday music and jazz. Go to lonetreeartscenter.org or call 720-509-1000.

“Pictures at an Exhibition” by Victoria Ekelund is in the “Signature” exhibit at Elements 5280 Gallery in Greenwood Village. Courtesy image

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dent, free Aurora Historical Society members). Call 303-739-6660 or go to auroramuseum.org to register; class 226518.

It’s magicMagician and

television star Joe Monti will perform at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20 and 21 at The-atre of Dreams Arts and Events Center, 735 Park St., Cas-tle Rock. Tickets:

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Show for kids“Snow Glow” is a Lone Tree Arts Cen-

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Nat King Cole holiday“Nat King Cole Christmas” with Allan

Harris will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 29 on the Main Stage at Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Harris returns after summer performanc-es at LTAC with holiday music and jazz. Go to lonetreeartscenter.org or call 720-509-1000.

Cardinals girls take 12th at stateEllizabeth team scores 316 points at cross-country championships

By Tom [email protected]

Elizabeth senior Cori Small placed 35th in the field of 187 runners, and the points she earned helped the Cardinals finish 12th among the 24 Class 4A girls team running at the Oct. 31 state cross-country meet in Colorado Springs.

“It was very competitive out there on the course today, and it helped me that our team was so close that when other runners got close we pushed hard to stay together and stay ahead,” she said after her race. “This was my first year at state, and I thought the race was hard today. But I felt our team deserved to be here, and I really enjoyed running with my teammates here today.”

Although she is a senior, she said she is excited about the future of the Elizabeth team.

“We had 14 girls out for the team this season,” she said. “We had a great season. I am a senior and today was a good way to close out my high school cross-country career. I also will be cheering for the Cardinals next season because Elizabeth should be strong because the other six runners here at state are all freshmen.”

Cross-country is an individual and a team competition. Run-ners earn team points based on where they finish in the field. For example, the medalist earns one team point and the 10th place finisher earns 10 points.

In Class 4A, a school can enter seven runners, but only the points earned by the top five finishers are added together to determine the team score.

Small was the first Elizabeth runner across the finish line with a time of 20:40.1. Small’s teammates and their places were Ashten Loeks, 49th, Alaina Jones, 74th, Brenna Jones, 75th, Ella Ben-kendorf, 84th, Issabella Tebrugge, 127th, and Adelaide Anderson, 133rd.

There were 24 teams in the Class 4A girls race. Air Academy won the team title with 60 points and Battle Mountain was second with 77 points.

Elizabeth posted a team score of 316 points to finish 12th, just 12 points behind 11th place Cheyenne Mountain.

Small and the Elizabeth team were among more than 1,200 prep runners who traveled to the Penrose Center for the state cross-country championships.

The Penrose Center usually echoes to the thunder of hooves of rodeo competitions, but on Oct. 31 the thunder was created by the pounding of hundreds of pairs of feet racing for the finish line of the 5-kilometer course.

The weather was sunny and warm, and the mountains cre-

ated a backdrop for the sprint to the finish line inside the sta-dium.

The 3.1-mile course went up and over small hills, and runners

then turned onto level ground as they headed for the stadium. Times in just about all classes were better this year. That is partially due to the fact the state

meet was run at the same loca-tion as last year, but this year’s course route didn’t include the very steep hill that was part of the 2014 course.

Cori Small heads for the finish line at the Oct. 31 Class 4A state girls cross country championship race. The Elizabeth senior finished 11 individually and helped the Cardinals finish 12th in the team standings. Photo by Tom Munds


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Peter Solano, Post 4266 Adjutant, at [email protected] or at 303-718-4256.

Community Blood Drives

A number of community blood drives are planned in the area. For information or to sched-ule an appointment, contact the Bonfi ls Appoint-ment Center at 303-363-2300, unless otherwise noted. Go to www.bonfi ls.org. Upcoming blood drives are: Saturday, Nov. 14, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock; Sunday, Nov. 15, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Providence Presbyterian Church, 18632 Pony Express Drive, Parker (contact Steve Mato at 281-799-8348); Friday, Nov. 20, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker; Saturday, Nov. 28, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Walmart, 4400 Front St., Castle Rock; Saturday, Nov. 28, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Walmart, 11101 S. Parker Road, Parker.

Free Child Heart Screening

Free heart screenings for students, athletes and young adults ages 12 and older are offered through the Anthony Bates Foundation. Sharon Bates, whose 20-year-old college football-playing son died from a sudden cardiac arrest, helps parents avoid the heartbreak she and

other parents have experienced by providing this service to communities. A nearby screening is Sunday, Nov. 15, at Chaparral High School, 15655 Brookstone Drive, Parker. The screening checks children for heart conditions leading to sudden cardiac arrest. Go to www.anthony-bates.org/preregistration-az.html to register, or www.anthonybates.org/donations/index.html to make a donation. For information, contact Sharon Bates at 602-482-5606 or go to www.AnthonyBates.org.

Vienna Boys Choir

The world famous Vienna Boys Choir will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, at the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. For more than 500 years the Vienna Boys Choir has delighted and thrilled listeners of all ages. Their program includes favorite Strauss waltzes, classical masterpieces by Mozart and Haydn, as well as folk songs from around the world. For tickets and information, go to www.ParkerArt.org or call 303-805-6800.

Wayne and Wingnut Perform

Castle Country Assisted Living will host Cliff Spratt at each of its three houses Monday, Nov. 16. Wayne and Wingnut will perform at 11 a.m. at Cantril House, 221 Cantril St., Castle Rock; at 1 p.m. at Valley House, 255 S. Valley Drive, Castle Rock; and at 3 p.m. at Victorian House, 19600 Victorian Drive in Parker. For information or to RSVP, call 303-482-5552. Castle County Assisted Living is a nonprofit or-

ganization serving seniors in Douglas County.

Public Transit

Outback Express is a public transit service pro-vided through the East Central Council of Local Governments and is available to all residents. Call Kay Campbell, Kiowa, at 719- 541-4275 or go to http://outbackexpress.tripod.com. Advance reservations appreciated. November schedule: Monday, Nov. 16, Matheson and Simla to Colo-rado Springs; Tuesday, Nov. 17, Elizabeth, Kiowa and Elbert to Parker; Wednesday, Nov. 25, Matheson and Simla to Colorado Springs; Thurs-day, Nov. 26, Simla and Matheson to Limon.

Estate Planning Workshop

Protecting your family’s assets and future is easier than you think. A few easy steps can save you, and your benefi ciaries, a lot of money and heartache. Don’t wait until it’s too late, or your benefi ciary could be our federal government. A free educational workshop on estate planning runs from 4-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the Parker Library, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive, Parker. RSVP is required; call 720-440-2774.

Medicare Part D Clinics

Medicare prescription plans change yearly and so do their premiums and deductibles. It is in your best interest to look at your plan and have an updated comparison completed to assure you are getting the best coverage for your money. Open enrollment for Part D runs through Monday, Dec. 7. Colorado East Community Ac-

tion Agency, 1114 Main St., Limon, has trained Medicare counselors on hand to answer your questions and help you compare and choose the best Prescription Drug Coverage (Part D) plan that meets your needs for 2016. Clinics are planned from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the Elizabeth Library; from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19 at the CSU Agricultural Building in Kiowa; and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24, at Elizabeth United Methodist Church in Running Creek Plaza. Bring driver’s license or photo ID, Medicare card, current Part D card, proof of income for your entire household, prescription medication bottles or a current list of your medications that include name, dos-age, frequency and how many you receive each month. To make an appointment for these or additional dates, or for questions, call 719-775-8586.

‘Beauty and the Beast’

Castle View Theatre Company invites you to “Be Our Guest!” as it presents Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” Wednesday, Nov. 18, through Saturday, Nov. 21 at Castle View High School, 5254 N. Meadows Drive, Castle Rock. Perfor-mances are at 7 p.m. Nov. 18-21, with a 1 p.m. matiness on Nov. 21. Tickets available at www.SeatYourSelf.biz/CastleView or at the box offi ce one hour before each show. Concessions will be sold and doors open 30 minutes prior to curtain. Email [email protected] or call 303-387-9113.


Calendarmonth at the Elizabeth Library, 651 W. Beverly St. Volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help fi ll out forms and explain the process and procedure for the areas of family law, civil litiga-tion, criminal defense, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law and civil protection orders. Walk-ins are wel-come. Everyone will be helped on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis.

Mystery Book Club meets at 9:30 a.m. the fi rst Saturday of each month at the Simla Public Library. The group enjoys talking about a variety

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of mystery authors and titles. We also periodi-cally host a Colorado author during our meet-ings. Everyone may join us, and registration is not required. Visit the Simla Branch of the Elbert County Library District at 504 Washing-ton Avenue, call 719-541-2573, or email [email protected].

The Outback Express is a public transit ser-vice provided through the East Central Council of Local Governments is open and available to

all residents of Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson and Lincoln counties and provides an eco-nomical and effi cient means of travel for the four-county region. Call Kay Campbell, Kiowa, at 719- 541-4275. You may also call the ECCOG offi ce at 1-800-825-0208 to make reservations for any of the trips. You may also visit http://outbackexpress.tripod.com. To ensure that a seat is available, 24-hour advance reservations are appreciated.

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.

Seniors meet in Elizabeth every Monday at 11

a.m. for food, fun and fellowship at Elizabeth Senior Center, 823 S. Banner St. Bring a dish for potluck on the fi rst Monday of each month. Other Mondays, bring a sack lunch. Bingo, games and socializing. New leadership. Call Agnes at 303-883-7881 or Carol at 303-646-3425 for information.

Therapeutic riding. Promise Ranch Thera-peutic Riding in Parker offers free therapeutic riding for developmentally disabled adults and children. Scholarship money is available for Douglas County residents to provide 10 thera-peutic riding lessons. Call 303-841-5007 or visit www.promiseranchtherapeuticriding.com.

Sky Cliff Adult Day Center Support Groups:

Stoke Victors meets from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. the second and last Wednesday of each month. Lunch is provided. Contact Sue Parson, 303-814-2863. Evening Stroke Victors meets from 6-7:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month. Cookies and coffee provided. Contact Sue Parson, 303-814-2863. Caregivers Support Group meets from 10-11:30 a.m. Tuesdays. All groups meet at Sky Cliff Adult Day Center in Castle Rock. Contact Sky Cliff at 303-814-2863. Visit www.skycliff.org.

VFW Post 10649 meets monthly at 8:30 a.m. the fi rst Saturday of every month at 24325 Main St., Elbert. Go to http://www.vfwpost10649.org. Contact Alan Beebe at 303-435-2560 for questions.


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Name Changes PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petitionfor Change of Name

Public notice is given on September 9,2015 that a Petition for a Change of Nameof an adult has been filed with the ElbertCounty Court.

The Petition requests that the name ofConnie Sue Tackett be changed toConnie Sue MarshallCase No.: 15 C 46

Cheryl A. Layne, Clerk of CourtBy: J. Jenkins, Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No: 23270First Publication:November 12, 2015Last Publication: November 26, 2015Publisher: Elbert County News

Notice To Creditors PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORSEstate of Donald R. Krull, Deceased

Case Number: 15 PR 17

All persons having claims against theabove-named estate are required topresent them to the Personal Represent-ative or to the District Court of ElbertCounty, Colorado on or before January31, 2016 or the claims may be foreverbarred.

Lori K. JohnsonPersonal Representative24250 David C. Johnson LoopElbert, Colorado 80106

Legal Notice No: 23265First Publication: November 5, 2015Last Publication: November 19, 2015Publisher: Elbert County News

Notice To Creditors

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORSEstate of Donald R. Krull, Deceased

Case Number: 15 PR 17

All persons having claims against theabove-named estate are required topresent them to the Personal Represent-ative or to the District Court of ElbertCounty, Colorado on or before January31, 2016 or the claims may be foreverbarred.

Lori K. JohnsonPersonal Representative24250 David C. Johnson LoopElbert, Colorado 80106

Legal Notice No: 23265First Publication: November 5, 2015Last Publication: November 19, 2015Publisher: Elbert County News

Misc. Private Legals PUBLIC NOTICE

DISTRICT COURT,WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO

OCTOBER 2015 WATERRESUME PUBLICATION

TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTEDIN WATER APPLICATIONS

IN WATER DIV. 1

Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are no-tified that the following is a resume of allwater right applications and certainamendments filed in the Office of the Wa-ter Clerk during the month of OCTOBER2015 for each County affected.

15CW3130 Roger and Amy Grimes,34987 County Road 13, Elizabeth, CO80107 (James J. Petrock, Petrock &Fendel, 700 17th Street, #1800, Denver,CO 80202) , APPLICATION FORCHANGE OF WATER RIGHT, ELBERTCOUNTY. Decree information for whichchange is sought: Case No. 01CW011,Water Division 1, decreed on August 13,2001. The property which is the subject ofthe decree is 37.5 acres located in theNE1/4 of Section 12, T8S, R65W of the6th P.M., Elbert County, as shown on At-tachment A (Subject Property). Proposedchange: In the original decree, an aug-mentation plan was approved for the useof 2 acre-feet per year for 300 years of notnontributary Upper Dawson aquifergroundwater for commercial use (1.5 acre-feet), irrigation of 4000 square-feet ofhome lawn and garden and trees, andstockwatering of 20 large domestic anim-als. Applicants request that the augmenta-tion plan be revised to allow 0.8 acre-feetof the 1.5 acre-feet of commercial use wa-ter to be used for inhouse use in two res-idences (0.4 acre-feet per residence).Commercial use will be limited to 0.7 acre-feet. The return flow from inhouse use isthe same as the commercial use pursuantto the original decree and there is nochange in replacement of depletions frompumping and use of the water for inhouseuse. Depletions occur to the RunningCreek stream system. No other parts ofthe original decree are changed herein.Further, Applicants pray that this Courtgrant the application and for such other re-lief as seems proper in the premises. (3pages).

THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BYTHESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECTIN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTSCLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDIC-ATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION ANDOWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTSMUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHINTHE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE ORBE FOREVER BARRED.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that anyparty who wishes to oppose an applica-tion, or an amended application, may filewith the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038,Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statementof Opposition, setting forth facts as to whythe application should not be granted, orwhy it should be granted only in part or oncertain conditions. Such Statement of Op-position must be filed by the last day ofDECEMBER 2015 (forms available onwww.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’soffice), and must be filed as an Originaland include $158.00 filing fee. A copy ofeach Statement of Opposition must alsobe served upon the Appl icant orApplicant’s Attorney and an affidavit orcertificate of such service of mailing shallbe filed with the Water Clerk.

Legal Notice No.: 23271First Publication: November 12, 2015Last Publication: November 12, 2015Publisher: The Elbert County News

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Government Legals PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REALESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE ANDOF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE

OF TREASURER’S DEEDTSC# 2012-01695

To Every Person in Actual Possession orOccupancy of the hereinafter DescribedLand, Lot or Premises, and to the Personin Whose Name the Same was Taxed orSpecially Assessed, and to all Personshaving an Interest or Title of Record in orto the said Premises and To Whom It mayConcern, and more especially to:

CRYSTAL BRIAN VAN NESS You andeach of you are hereby notified that on the20th day of November A.D. 2012 the thenCounty Treasurer of the County of Elbert,in the State of Colorado, sold at public taxlien sale to HARMONY LAND ANDCATTLE, LLC the following describedreal estate situate in the County of Elbert,State of Colorado, to wit:

Legal Description:Section: 27 Township: 8 Range: 62Section: 28 Township: 8 Range: 62Section: 29 Township: 8 Range: 62Section: 32 Township: 8 Range: 62Section: 33 Township: 8 Range:62Subdivision: SEVERED MINERALSSW4, S2SE4: 27 8 62 (240 A), SE4,W2W2:28 8 62 (320 A), E2NE4, SE4: 29 8 62(240 A),E2: 32 8 62 (320 A), W2, SE4: 33 8 62(480 A)UNDIVIDED 1/144 INTEREST TOTALMRA11.11

and said County Treasurer issued a certi-ficate of purchase therefore to HAR-MONY LAND AND CATTLE, LLC. Thatsaid tax lien sale was made to satisfy thedelinquent taxes assessed against saidreal estate for the year 2011;

That said real estate was taxed or spe-cially assessed in the name(s) of CRYS-TAL BRIAN VAN NESS for said year2011.

That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued forsaid real estate to the said Elbert Countyat 3:00 o’clock P.M., on the 11th day ofFebruary, A.D.2016, unless the same hasbeen redeemed.

Said property may be redeemed from saidsale at any time prior to the actual execu-tion of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness myhand this 19th day of October, 2015 A. D.

Richard PettittCounty Treasurer of Elbert County

Legal Notice No.: 23260First Publication: October 29, 2015Last Publication: November 12, 2015Publisher: The Elbert County News

Government Legals

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REALESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE ANDOF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE

OF TREASURER’S DEEDTSC# 2012-01695

To Every Person in Actual Possession orOccupancy of the hereinafter DescribedLand, Lot or Premises, and to the Personin Whose Name the Same was Taxed orSpecially Assessed, and to all Personshaving an Interest or Title of Record in orto the said Premises and To Whom It mayConcern, and more especially to:

CRYSTAL BRIAN VAN NESS You andeach of you are hereby notified that on the20th day of November A.D. 2012 the thenCounty Treasurer of the County of Elbert,in the State of Colorado, sold at public taxlien sale to HARMONY LAND ANDCATTLE, LLC the following describedreal estate situate in the County of Elbert,State of Colorado, to wit:

Legal Description:Section: 27 Township: 8 Range: 62Section: 28 Township: 8 Range: 62Section: 29 Township: 8 Range: 62Section: 32 Township: 8 Range: 62Section: 33 Township: 8 Range:62Subdivision: SEVERED MINERALSSW4, S2SE4: 27 8 62 (240 A), SE4,W2W2:28 8 62 (320 A), E2NE4, SE4: 29 8 62(240 A),E2: 32 8 62 (320 A), W2, SE4: 33 8 62(480 A)UNDIVIDED 1/144 INTEREST TOTALMRA11.11

and said County Treasurer issued a certi-ficate of purchase therefore to HAR-MONY LAND AND CATTLE, LLC. Thatsaid tax lien sale was made to satisfy thedelinquent taxes assessed against saidreal estate for the year 2011;

That said real estate was taxed or spe-cially assessed in the name(s) of CRYS-TAL BRIAN VAN NESS for said year2011.

That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued forsaid real estate to the said Elbert Countyat 3:00 o’clock P.M., on the 11th day ofFebruary, A.D.2016, unless the same hasbeen redeemed.

Said property may be redeemed from saidsale at any time prior to the actual execu-tion of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness myhand this 19th day of October, 2015 A. D.

Richard PettittCounty Treasurer of Elbert County

Legal Notice No.: 23260First Publication: October 29, 2015Last Publication: November 12, 2015Publisher: The Elbert County News

Government Legals PUBLIC NOTICE

SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITANDISTRICT NOS. 1-3

NOTICE CONCERNING 2015 BUDGETAMENDMENT AND PROPOSED

2016 BUDGET

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all inter-ested parties that the necessity has aris-en to amend the Spring Valley Metropolit-an District Nos. 1-3 (“Districts”) 2015Budgets and that proposed 2016 Budgetshave been submitted to the Board of Dir-ectors of the Districts; and that copies ofthe proposed Amended 2015 Budgets and2016 Budgets have been filed at the Dis-trict's offices, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite150, Lakewood, Colorado, where thesame is open for public inspection; andthat adoption of Resolutions Amending the2015 Budgets and Adopting the 2016Budgets will be considered at a publicmeeting of the Board of Directors of theDistricts to be held at Running Creek In-vestments, L.L.C., 7108 South Alton Way,Bldg. M, Englewood, Colorado, onMonday, November 16, 2015, at 2:00 P.M.Any elector within the District may, at anytime prior to the final adoption of the Res-olutions to Amend the 2015 Budgets andAdopt the 2016 Budgets, inspect and fileor register any objections thereto.

SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITANDISTRICT NOS. 1-3

By /s/ Lisa A. JohnsonSecretary


Public NoticePaymeNts For PublicatioN october 2015

GeNeral FuNd 010 $766,268.45 HealtH FuNd 015 $12,004.05 road & bridGe FuNd 020 $251,483.62 sales aNd use tax FuNd 025 $541,071.39 lea FuNd 040 $5,946.77 HumaN services FuNd 050 $30,043.85 coNservatioN trust FuNd 090 $8,637.10 total all FuNds $1,615,455.23

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A And E Tire Tires $4,862.88 A1 Chipseal Capital Outlay $484,421.10 Aarms Operating Expense $350.00 Abila Fees $3,811.00 Advanced Quality Auto Operating Expense $6,360.71 Afd Pavement Operating Expense $23,179.74 Aflac PayrollPayable $4,010.14Agate Mutual Telephone Utilities $26.39 Airgas Shop Supplies $1,393.73 Al Rogers Reimbursement $100.00 American Fidelity Contract Services $1,194.50 Anderson Bottrell Sanden Civil Process $11.00 Arrowhead Fencing Building Repairs $6,969.00 Auto Chlor System Maint. Agreement $346.78 Bank Of The West Operating Expense $17,848.75 Bart Greer Reimbursement $375.00 Bender Menders Equipment Parts $5,491.81 Berg Hill Greenleaf Professional Service $513.50 Bill Hendrix Reimbursement $200.00 Black Hills Energy Utilities $822.11 Blue Star Police Uniforms $120.83 Brazos Tech E Ticket Grant Expense $2,500.00 Brite Operating Expense $2,046.00 Casey Craven Reimbursement $100.00 Caterpillar Financial Operating Expense $6,300.64 Cdw Government Operating Expense $274.20 Centennial Mental Health Fees $2,509.95 Centurylink Telephone $1,152.95 CertifiedLabs OperatingExpense $602.43Chemtox Blood/Alcohol Analysis $542.90 Chief Supply Corp Operating Expense $667.29 Clean Designs Inc Operating Expense $4,375.00 Cliff Mcknight Reimbursement $100.00 Co Assessors Assoc Dues $325.00 Co Community Advertising $51.25 Cci Foundation Operating Expense $350.00 Co Dept. Of Public Safety Operating Expense $2,648.00 Co Dept Of Health Fees $853.75 Csu Extension Payroll Reimbursed $7,255.00 Comcast Telephone $27.15 Community Media Advertising $217.25 Corporate Billing Equipment Parts $7,866.52 Correctional Healthcare Medical Services $23,571.78

Cty. Health Pool Payroll Payable $99,624.30 Cty. Sheriffs Of Co Operating Expense $200.00 Credit Service Co Civil Process $7.00 Cristina Rustad-Mejia Reimbursement $33.70 Curtis Stanko Reimbursement $100.00 Dalla Schroeder Reimbursement $8.00 Dans Trash Utilities $2,358.52 David A Bauer Pc Civil Process $40.00 Deep Rock Operating Expense $8.45 Denver Industrial Sales Asphalt Repair $636.16 Diamond Bolejack Reimbursement $100.00 Digitcom Electronics Equipment Repairs $323.61 Dj Petroleum Fuel $36,577.62 Double El Soil Snow Fence $1,401.48 Drive Train Industries Equipment Parts $55.12 E470 Public Hwy Auth Travel $10.35 Eccog Dues $4,500.00 El Paso Cty. Autopsies $4,050.00 Elbert Cty Abstract & Title Professional Service $125.00 Elbert Cty. Road& Bridge Gasoline $9,364.11 Elbert Cty. Trsr Operating Expense $72,864.85 Elbert Water & San. Operating Expense $3,145.00 Elizabeth Fire Dept Blood/Alcohol Analysis $450.00 Enertia Consulting County Engineer $19,268.80 Entry Team Tactical Equipment Repairs $1,100.00 EverythingForOffices EquipmentUnder$5,000 $2,686.23Ez Messenger Civil Process $7.00 Fair Point Telephone $251.90 Fastenal Company Equipment Parts $186.48 First Call Of Co Operating Expense $320.00 Force America Distributing Equipment Parts $1,234.62 Front Range Kubota Blades, Teeth $448.32 Frontier Business Operating Expense $276.15 Frontier Communications Copier Expense $742.64 G And K Services Operating Expense $1,151.34 Girsh & Rottman Civil Process $24.00 Glaser Gas Co Fairgrounds Propane $88.11 Gmco Corporation Dust Control $7,665.00 Grainger Equipment Parts $1,523.51 GreatWestLife PayrollPayable $39,229.13HarryLSimonPc CivilProcess $5.00Heather Harcourt Contract Services $937.50 Hewlett Packard Empoyment First Exp $2,832.02 High Plains Food Store Gasoline $777.27 Home Depot Credit Fees $308.42 Honnen Equipment Equipment Parts $575.64 Integrated Electric Operating Expense $1,639.02 Intergrated Voting Postage & Shipping $7,005.65 Irea Utilities $7,657.89 Istonish Operating Expense ($3,826.46)J&ATraffic Signs $1,890.00Jason Miller Reimbursement $58.89 Jay Walp Reimbursement $121.65 Jimmie Pettit Reimbursement $100.00

Joel Heap Reimbursement $39.03 John Butler Reimbursement $267.96 John Deere Credit Operating Expense $11,783.14 John Deere Tools & Supplies $655.16 Kali Benson Reimbursement $45.22 Keith Birkholz Reimbursement $53.99 Sheila Kelley Reimbursement $126.56 Kelly Dore Reimbursement $256.40 Kelsey Berends Travel $456.00 Dhs Client Iv-E Waiver Expenditure $995.28 Kimley-Horn & Assoc Professional Service $4,000.00 Kiowa Repair Equipment Repairs $19.74 Kiowa Storage Operating Expense $60.00 Kiowa Water & Waste Auth. Operating Expense $9,478.95 LarryRoss Reimbursement $264.60LawOfficesOfFrankJBall OperatingExpense ($16.00)LegalShield PayrollPayable $515.15LeifANelsonPc CivilProcess $15.00Levi’sRagsIi ShopSupplies $160.00Lewan&Associates OfficeSupplies $30.00LifeSupportBehavioralInst. ProfessionalService $546.00LimonChryslerPlymouth AutoRep&Maint $46.00LyleSignInc OperatingExpense $588.75Marini Diesel Inc Equipment Repairs $500.00 Mark Hendricks Reimbursement $100.00 Martin Marietta Operating Expense $6,660.90 Matt Martinich Contract Services $12,075.00 Mcafee Inc Operating Expense $363.78 Mechanical Solution Building Repairs $737.50 Medved Co Operating Expense $41.86 Mhc Kenworth Operating Expense $884.74 Mike Cowan Reimbursement $100.00 Mike Peavler Reimbursement $100.00 Mines&AssociatesPc OtherBenefits $565.60Mountain View Electric Utilities $308.36 N.A.R.Inc CivilProcess $20.00Neve’sUniformsInc Uniforms $50.99NextelCommunications Telephone $2,575.14OfficeForLess OfficeSupplies $2,115.0018Th Judicial Operating Expense $384,393.75 Officechairs.Com OfficeFurniture $386.00Oxford Recycling Inc Operating Expense $5,780.00 Parker Port-A-Potty Operating Expense $468.00 Phoenix Technology Group Operating Expense $9,100.00 Pitney Bowes Global Financial Postage & Shipping $1,001.58 Postmaster General Postage & Shipping $1,000.00 Power Equipment Company Inc Operating Expense $4,720.00 Power Motive Corp Equipment Repairs $12,973.79 Psychological Dimensions Operating Expense $200.00 Purewater Dynamics Shop Supplies $100.00 Quill Corporation Operating Expense $2,134.49 Ralph Burns Reimbursement $100.00 RanchlandNews Dues $25.00Recycled Aggregate Prod Gravel $163.05

Rich Clawson Contract Services $20,175.00 Parker Porta Potty Rental Operating Expense $195.00 Rock Parts Operating Expense $3,572.02 Rky Mtn Spring & Susp. Equipment Parts $1,945.68 Rod Wilson Contract Services $200.00 Ruegsegger Simons Smith Civil Process $13.00 Runbeck Election Services Operating Expense $126.17 RunningCreekQuickLube AutoRep&Maint $98.50Ryan Cole Contract Services $2,950.00 Safe Built Inc Operating Expense $47,411.64 Safety-Kleen Corp. Operating Expense $256.25 Sam’sClubGecf OperatingExpense $207.77Scanner One Equipment Under $5K $424.00 Schmidt Construction Operating Expense $46,108.30 SignalGraphics OfficeSupplies $197.88StaplesAdvantage OfficeSupplies $1,017.89State Of Co Operating Expense $5,632.56 State Wire & Terminal Equipment Parts $192.39 Stenger & Stenger Civil Process $7.00 Stephani Turner Uniforms $30.00 Stericycle Operating Expense $157.91 Stone Oil Co Inc Operating Expense $17,966.70 Sun Badge Co. Uniforms $804.58 Sysco Food Svcs Prisoner Meals $6,498.21 Ted Dole Reimbursement $142.80 Terry Tweedy Reimbursement $100.00 The Artworks Unlmt Operating Expense $244.00 The Hartford Payroll Payable $1,143.45 TheLighthouse EquipmentParts $83.92Thomas Reuters West Contract Services $109.71 Todd Pederson Contract Services $200.00 Tone Tuskan Operating Expense $994.44 Town Of Simla Utilities $81.55 Tracker Software Training $400.00 Transwest Trucks Equipment Parts $344.66 Truckhugger Tarp Syst Equipment Repairs $112.50 True Value Hardware Equipment Parts $410.79 Tyler Technologies Software Support $8,081.00 Ultramax Ammunition Operating Expense $906.00 United Reprographic Spply Contract Services $677.05 Ups Postage & Shipping $31.60 Verizon Wireless Telephone $1,874.95 Wagner Equipment Equipment Parts $216.41 Witt Boys Operating Expense $1,374.07 Xerox Corp Copier Expense $2,480.05 Y Time Contract Services $65.80 Zee Medical Operating Expense $130.00

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