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Recreation coming to reservoir Public access to Rueter-Hess will follow master-plan process By Chris Michlewicz [email protected]

The long wait for public access to Rueter-Hess Reservoir is almost over.

It was more than 10 years ago that Parker Water and Sanitation District customers overwhelmingly approved a $100 million bond issue to fund the construction of the res-ervoir on Parker’s western edge.

An original plan to build a res-ervoir with the capacity for 16,000 acre-feet of water was expanded to 75,000 acre-feet when the wa-ter district found local partners in 2008. Ron Redd, district manager for Parker Water, said a recent anal-ysis revealed that the excavation of dirt and rock to build the dam added another 3,000 acre-feet of storage space.

The opening of the Hess Road connection to I-25 allowed more residents to see for the fi rst time

A worldly view of law enforcement Q&A with Elizabeth Police Chief Steve Hasler : Part 1 By Ben Wiebesiek [email protected]

Elizabeth Police Chief Steve Hasler has a unique perspective on law enforcement from his time as a detective with the Hertford-shire Constabulary in England. From this experience, he learned to emphasize a guardian mental-ity over a warrior mentality to-ward the public, which was the

philosophy he carried over to be-ing police chief in Erie and Lone Tree before joining the Elizabeth Police in November 2014.

In the fi rst of a two-part dis-cussion with the Elbert County News, he talks about how com-munity policing has practical applications for making commu-nities safer on both side of “the pond.”

The mission of the Elizabeth Police Department is: “To maintain a small town atmo-sphere, while encouraging community pride and respon-sible economic growth.” What is the role the police play in

economic development?I’m on the board of the Eliza-

beth Chamber of Commerce and I say all the time to them, public safety and economic develop-ment are well tied together be-cause when you’re going to in-vest in a community, whether it’s residential or a business, the fi rst thing you’re going to do is ask, “What’s the crime rate there? Is that somewhere I want to bring my children? Is that where I want my family to be?” People do not want to move into a high-crime area, obviously. We really want to keep our crime rate low because we understand that affects Eliza-

beth, that affects the ability of Elizabeth to attract commerce, industry, residents, all the rest of it.

To retain that small-town feel-ing of policing, we have to ac-complish keeping the crime rate down, doing our job in a matter where people feel comfortable. That’s the Peelian Principles. Sir Robert Peele is the founder of modern community policing back in 1829. When he passed the Metropolitan Police Act, which formed the Metropolitan Police in London – Scotland Yard, as it’s

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NEWS IN A HURRYBook sale is back

The annual Friends of the Elizabeth Library book sale will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 30 through Aug. 1 at the library. Thousands of books, including fi ction, nonfi ction and children’s books in both hardcover and paperback, will be available.

The book sale is the major fundraiser for the Friends of the Elizabeth Library and all proceeds are used to support the programs, collection and facilities at the library. For more information, call the library at 303-646-3416.

Football camp coming upLearn more about football at

the 15th annual Cardinal Football Camp. The camp is open to all second- through 12th-graders and is hosted by the Elizabeth High School football staff and senior football players. Aug. 3-6 is for grades two through fi ve, from 4 to 5 p.m., and grades six through eight, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Aug. 10-13 is for grades nine through 12 from 4 to 6 p.m.

The cost is $40 per athlete and includes a T-shirt. For more infor-mation or to register, go to www.elizabeth.k12.co.us

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Elizabeth Police Chief Steve Hasler has been a police o� cer for 38 years. He was previously the police chief for Erie and Lone Tree. Photo by Ben Wiebesiek

Ron Redd, center, leads a tour of Rueter-Hess Reservoir for Douglas county dignitaries June 30. Photo by Chris Michlewicz

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EventsSUMMER READING

ALL PINES & Plains Libraries branches will begin their 2015 summer reading program Every Hero Has a Story, which explores all kinds of heroes, including superheroes, community heroes and animal heroes. All programs are free and open to children of all abilities. For a full calendar or to sign up for the reading program, visit www.pplibrar-ies.org or stop by any of the branches. Call 303-646-3416, 303-621-2111 or 719-541-2573 for information.

ELBERT COUNTY Fair

THE 81ST annual Elbert County Fair features livestock shows, kiddie rides, fair food, shopping, 4-H projects, horse pull, market sale, concert, horse shoe tournament, parade, mutton bustin’, and rodeo. The fair continues through Sunday, Aug. 2. Go to www.elbertcountyfair.com.

CHAMBER ANNUAL Events

ELIZABETH AREA Chamber of Commerce is planning its annual events, including the golf tournament on Friday, July 31; the Harvest Festival on Saturday, Oct. 31; Olde Town Christmas on Friday, Dec. 4. Vendors and sponsors are needed; contact www.elizabethchamber.org for details about participating.

HORSESHOE TOURNAMENT

THE KIOWA High School football team sponsors a Horse-shoe Tournament Saturday, Aug. 1, in the Rodeo Arena at the Elbert County Fairgrounds. Register in person at Hair Addicts in Kiowa or at the Elbert County Fair office. Registrations accepted until 7 p.m., and tournament starts at 7:30 p.m. Cash or checks (payable to Kiowa Football) accepted. Cost is $25 per team; participants must be 18 or older. Teams are two-person, with single elimination. NHPA rules apply. Contact Ryan Witzel, 720-272-8159.

SOUTH METRO Community Blood Drives

A NUMBER of community blood drives are planned in the area. For information or to schedule an appointment, contact the Bonfils Appointment Center at 303-363-2300, unless otherwise noted. Go to www.bonfils.org. Upcoming blood drives are: Sunday, Aug. 2, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 2746 5th St., Castle Rock (contact Larry Bauer at 720-220-2394); Fri-

day, Aug. 7, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker; Saturday, Aug. 8, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock; Sunday, Aug. 9, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Faith Lutheran Church, 303 N. Ridge Road, Castle Rock (contact Karen Johnson at 720-272-1464); Sunday, Aug. 9, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Creekside Bible Church, 2180 I-25, Castle Rock (contact Torrey House at 303-688-3745); Wednesday, Aug. 19, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Walmart Elizabeth, 2100 Legacy Circle, Elizabeth; Fri-day, Aug. 21, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker; Saturday, Aug. 22, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Latter Day Saints, Castle Rock Stake, 3301 Meadows Parkway, Castle Rock; and Monday, Aug. 31, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m., Parker Adventist Hospital, 9395 Crown Crest Blvd., Parker.

SUMMER CAMPS

ELIZABETH SCHOOL District offers a number of camps this summer. Hang Ten Summer Camp runs through Aug. 19 and is open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. For information or to sign up, contact Rachelle Small, 303-646-6718 or [email protected]. Camp activities include crafts, science, field trips and more. A high school softball camp for incoming ninth- to 12th-graders who plan on playing at Elizabeth in the fall. Camp runs Aug. 10-14.

Contact Coach Steve Biller at 720-480-2680 or [email protected] for information on any of the softball camps. Go to www.elizabeth.k12.co.us.

FREE LEGAL Clinic

A FREE legal clinic for parties who have no attorney is open from 6-9 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, at the Elizabeth Library, 651 W. Beverly St., Elizabeth. Volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help fill out forms and explain processes and procedures for all areas of civil litigation, including family law, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law, small claims, veterans issues and civil protection orders. Walk-ins are welcome. Help offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Clinics are offered the second Tuesday of each month; future clinics are offered Sept. 8, Oct. 13, Nov. 10, Dec. 8.

PROHIBITION CASINO Night

ELIZ ABETH AREA Chamber of Commerce plans its first Prohibition Casino Night on Saturday, Oct. 24 at Spring Valley Golf Course. The event includes a poker tournament, casino games, dancing and a silent auction. A portion of proceeds will benefit Elbert County Coali-tion for Outreach, which provides assistance to families in need. Contact www.elizabethchamber.org.

OngoingDOUGLAS-ELBERT COUNT Y Music Teachers’ As-sociation meets at 9 a.m. every first Thursday at Parker Bible Church, between Jordan and Chambers on Main Street. All area music teachers are welcome. Call Lucie Washburn, 303-814-3479.

THE ELBERT County Sheriff’s Posse is a nonprofit volunteer organization that is part of the Elbert County Sheriff ’s Office. As volunteers we support the Elbert County Sheriff ’s Office, all law enforcement in our county, and the community at large. For more information or a membership application, go to http://www.elbertcoun-tysheriff.com/posse.html, or contact Dave Peontek at 303-646-5456.

ELIZABETH AMERICAN Legion Post 82, a 96-year veterans association supporting veterans, their families, their survivors and the community, meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at the Legion Post Hall at South Banner Street and Elm Street in Elizabeth. All veterans are invited to attend these meetings to learn of their eligibility for membership in the National American Legion Organization.

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

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

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

2573, or email [email protected].

THE OUTBACK Express is a public transit service provided through the East Central Council of Local Govern-ments is open and available to all residents of Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson and Lincoln counties and provides an economical and efficient means of travel for the four-county region. Call Kay Campbell, Kiowa, at 719- 541-4275. You may also call the ECCOG office 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 first 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 Therapeu-tic Riding in Parker offers free therapeutic riding for developmentally disabled adults and children. Scholarship money is available for Douglas County residents to provide 10 therapeutic riding lessons. Call 303-841-5007 or visit www.promiseranchtherapeuticriding.com.

SK Y 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 pro-vided. 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 first 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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THINGS TO DOContact Coach Steve Biller at 720-480-2680 or [email protected] for information on any of the softball camps. Go to www.elizabeth.k12.co.us.

FREE LEGAL Clinic

A FREE legal clinic for parties who have no attorney is open from 6-9 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, at the Elizabeth Library, 651 W. Beverly St., Elizabeth. Volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help fill out forms and explain processes and procedures for all areas of civil litigation, including family law, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law, small claims, veterans issues and civil protection orders. Walk-ins are welcome. Help offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Clinics are offered the second Tuesday of each month; future clinics are offered Sept. 8, Oct. 13, Nov. 10, Dec. 8.

PROHIBITION CASINO Night

ELIZ ABETH AREA Chamber of Commerce plans its first Prohibition Casino Night on Saturday, Oct. 24 at Spring Valley Golf Course. The event includes a poker tournament, casino games, dancing and a silent auction. A portion of proceeds will benefit Elbert County Coali-tion for Outreach, which provides assistance to families in need. Contact www.elizabethchamber.org.

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

SK Y 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 pro-vided. 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 first Saturday of every month at 24325 Main St., Elbert. Go to http://www.vfwpost10649.org. Contact Alan Beebe at 303-435-2560 for questions.

Parker doctor pioneers weight-loss procedure Surgery available even if only 30 pounds overweight By Chris Michlewicz [email protected]

Amy Smith can attest to the bruising ex-perience of yo-yo dieting.

For years, the Aurora resident tried the most popular weight-loss programs and had considerable success. That is, until she stopped doing them. Smith eventu-ally would slide back into old habits when she left behind the foods and supplements provided by the programs. She reached a breaking point last July.

“Each year, my health was getting worse,” she said. “My cholesterol was not doing good, I was four points away from having sleep apnea and one point away from being pre-diabetic, and I just decided it was time to do something about it.”

She signed up to have gastric bypass surgery, but days before the procedure, the hospital put a stop to it. At 177 pounds, her medical provider said she didn’t meet the criteria because she hadn’t yet reached the diagnosis threshold.

That’s where Dr. Matthew Metz stepped in. The former medical director of Parker Adventist Hospital’s bariatric program struck out on his own in 2012, creating a practice on the second fl oor of a building southwest of South Parker Road and Park-glenn Way. He has since pioneered what he calls the Resolute procedure, a take on tra-ditional bariatric surgeries. However, can-didates can be as little as 30 pounds over-weight.

Metz told Smith about Resolute, which involves the laparoscopic removal of two-thirds of the stomach via fi ve small inci-sions. He takes out the stomach area that

stretches, along with specialized cells that line the stomach and produce the appetite hormone ghrelin, which sends hunger sig-nals to the brain.

“It’s an established procedure that’s been done for bariatric patients for many years,” Metz said. “What we’ve done is just altered it slightly to make it safe and effective for people with lower body-mass index.”

People who are at least 100 pounds over-weight have a signifi cantly lower life ex-

pectancy because of resulting ailments like diabetes and heart disease. Patients only 30 pounds overweight have a seven- to 14-year reduction in life expectancy, Metz said.

Smith, who has multiple sclerosis and overheats when working out, paid out of pocket for her procedure — Metz estimated the cost at around $13,000 — and said she has no regrets. Smith regained her energy and is “comfortable in my skin,” she said.

Two weeks out from her one-year evalu-

ation, she stands at a trim 117 pounds. Smith has also seen reductions in her risk factors for high blood pressure and other conditions associated with extra weight.

Metz said it’s possible for patients to eat so much that it expands the stomach, but his Resolute success rate is more than 80 percent, compared to diet and exercise, which provides only a 5 percent chance of long-term success, he said.

“Being on a diet by itself is a predictor of weight-loss failure,” Metz said.

While learning laparoscopy at the Cleve-land Clinic, he was used to operating on pa-tients who were often hundreds of pounds overweight. He is happy to provide a new option to people who are 30 to 90 pounds overweight. And while Colorado is typical-ly the leanest state in the country, with an obesity rate of about 20 percent, there are many who feel the need to try an alternative route to losing extra pounds.

“I worried that people would think this is a quick fi x or an easy way out, but it’s not like I didn’t try doing things the hard way,” Smith said. “I’m hoping it’s a more perma-nent solution.”

The disadvantages, according to the American Society for Metabolic and Bariat-ric Surgery, are that the procedures are non-reversible and patients have the potential for long-term vitamin defi ciencies. The National Institutes of Health says that some patients regain some of the lost weight over time and that problems can occur, like a stretched pouch or separated stitches. The risk of leakage is generally 2-3 percent, but Metz says he has had zero reports of leak-age.

Gastric-bypass surgery and sleeves are generally meant for those with a body-mass index of 35 or greater, but the Mayo Clinic says those with a BMI between 30 and 34 who have serious weight-related health problems are also candidates.

Dr. Matthew Metz, medical director and founder of Pure Body Transformation in Parker, laughs at a photo of three for-mer patients lifting him over their heads. Metz performs bariatric surgery for those as little as 30 pounds overweight. Photo by Chris Michlewicz

Mild memory problems worsen faster for women Men have only about a third of Alzheimer’s cases By Lauran Neergaard Associated Press

Older women with mild memory im-pairment worsened about twice as fast as men, according to research that illustrates the especially hard toll that Alzheimer’s takes on women.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans with Al-zheimer’s are women.

At age 65, seemingly healthy women have about a one-in-six chance of devel-oping Alzheimer’s during the rest of their lives, compared with a one-in-11 chance for men. Scientists once thought the dis-parity was just because women tend to live longer — but there’s increasing agreement that something else makes women more vulnerable.

A series of studies presented July 21 at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference uncovered signs of that vulner-ability well before Alzheimer’s symptoms hit.

First, Duke University researchers com-pared nearly 400 men and women with mild cognitive impairment, early memory changes that don’t interfere with everyday

activities but that mark an increased risk for developing Alzheimer’s. They measured these people’s cognitive abilities over an av-erage of four years — and as long as eight years for some participants.

The men’s scores on an in-depth test of memory and thinking skills declined a point a year while the women’s scores dropped by two points a year.

Age, education levels and even whether people carried the ApoE-4 gene that in-creases the risk of late-in-life Alzheimer’s couldn’t account for the difference, said Duke medical student Katherine Lin, who co-authored the study with Duke psychia-try professor Dr. P. Murali Doraiswamy. The study wasn’t large or long enough to tell if women were more at risk for progressing to full dementia.

The study couldn’t explain why the women declined faster, but scientists need to explore that further for clues into the gender difference. But two other studies presented July 21 offered additional hints of differences in women’s brains:

• A sample of 1,000 participants in the large Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimag-ing Initiative compared PET scans to see how much of a sticky protein called beta-amyloid was building up in the brains of a variety of men and women, some healthy, some at risk and others with full-blown Al-zheimer’s. Amyloid plaques are a hallmark

of Alzheimer’s, and growing levels can help indicate who’s at risk before symptoms ever appear.

“Overall, women have more amyloid than men,” even among the cognitively normal group, said Dr. Michael Weiner of the University of California, San Francisco. The study couldn’t explain why, although it didn’t appear due to the risky ApoE-4 gene, which seemed to make a difference for men with Alzheimer’s but not women.

• Some seniors who undergo surgery with general anesthesia suffer lasting cog-nitive problems afterward, often expressed to doctors as, “Grandma was never the same after that operation.” On July 21, re-searchers reported that here again, women are at higher risk of getting worse.

Dr. Katie Schenning of the Oregon Health & Science University tracked re-cords of more than 500 participants in two long-term studies of cognitive aging, which included a battery of brain tests. About 180 participants underwent 331 procedures in-volving general anesthesia.

Over seven years, people who had un-dergone surgery with general anesthesia declined faster on measures of cognition, their ability to function and even brain shrinkage than people who hadn’t had sur-gery. But women declined at a signifi cantly faster rate than men, Schenning said.

“It is worth letting our older patients

know that they should perhaps talk about this with their practitioner, that this is a possibility and consider whether or not they need to undergo procedures that are considered to be elective,” she said.

Schenning didn’t have amyloid mea-surements for these people; other studies have suggested that the people most at risk may have brewing cognitive problems al-ready.

The anesthesia alone isn’t the culprit, she cautioned. Indeed, other research pre-sented July 21 showed that surgery in gen-eral can spur infl ammation-causing mol-ecules to cross into the brain and impair how nerve cells communicate, regardless of gender.

Together, the studies show how much more research is needed into gender differ-ences that may increase the risk of Alzheim-er’s, said Dr. Kristine Yaffe of UCSF, who wasn’t involved in the studies presented July 21 but was part of a recent Alzheimer’s Association meeting to start determining those next steps.

“It’s not just that women are living to be older. There’s something else going on in terms of the biology, the environment, for women compared to men that may make them at greater risk, or if they have some symptoms, change the progression,” Yaffe said.

a growing body of water that was once referred to as a puddle, and before that as an expensive hole in the ground.

Shortly after decision makers began discuss-ing the need to capture and store water from wet years for use in dry years — instead of al-lowing that water to go downstream — they also talked about possible recreation at Rueter-Hess Reservoir. Those dis-cussions became a lot more serious in 2015, and words will soon turn into purposeful actions.

Partnering upThe fi rst sign that

recreation was coming to Rueter-Hess came in the form of, well, a sign. Earlier this year, the water district hung a placard on a locked access gate to the res-ervoir near Hess Road and Newlin Gulch Boulevard. It simply said: “Interested in Ru-eter-Hess Recreation? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.”

The Parker Water and Sanitation District will partner with the Town of Parker, Castle Rock, Douglas County, Castle Pines and Lone Tree to provide recre-ational opportunities to the public. Roughly half of the entities have already approved an in-tergovernmental agreement to form an author-ity that will oversee recreation at the reservoir.

“Every one of these communities has ex-

perts in parks and recreation, and part of my job is to realize what we’re not good at,” Redd said. “We’re good at water and wastewater. We don’t have any experience in recreation.”

Jim Cleveland, director of Parker’s parks and rec department, said he is thrilled at the chance to be involved. He said the partners share a vi-sion for what the reservoir could be.

“It’s not often you get to add a recreational jewel like this in your backyard,” he said. “We’re making it happen as quickly as possible.”

The partners set aside $25,000 each in their 2015 budgets for a master-plan study to be conducted by Wenk Associates, the fi rm that helped design the Salisbury Park North expan-sion in Parker. The goal was to have the inter-governmental agreement approved by the end of June, but the board of county commissioners will consider approval in early August and be

the fi nal partner to sign.From then, it will take 9-12 months to solicit

public input, revise the master plan based on the feedback, craft a business plan to determine funding, and develop an implementation strat-egy. It’s possible that if Parker voters approve a parks and rec tax increase in November, the town will use some of that money to contribute to recreation at Rueter-Hess, Cleveland said.

What to expectOn June 30, Parker Water’s future recreation

manager, Susan Saint Vincent, addressed a small gathering of dignitaries taking a tour of the reservoir. She spoke from an overlook that provides a birds-eye view of the glassy reservoir from the south. To describe what the future


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Allowed

• Canoeing/kayaking

• Fishing

• Walking/hiking/running

• Camping

• Possibly fi reworks

Prohibited

• Motorized boats

• Motorized bikes

• Swimming

PROPOSED ACTIVITIES

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RUETER-HESS RESERVOIR BY THE NUMBERS$200 million

— Cost for expanded reservoir

21,100 — Acre-feet

of water being stored

1,170 acres — Surface area of reservoir

185 feet — Height of the dam

17 — Miles of trails upon project’s

completion

7 — Human remains

found during construction

Susan Saint Vincent, who will help oversee recreation at Rueter-Hess Reservoir on behalf of the Parker Water and Sanitation District, talks about possible future activities. Photo by Chris Michlewicz

Town tried to annex reservoir Sta� report

The own of Parker attempted to

annex Rueter-Hess Reservoir last year, but the request was denied.

According to documents provid-ed by Parker Water, Town Manager Randy Young submitted a letter to Parker Water District Manager Ron Redd last August “requesting that the board consider the possibility of an-nexing Rueter-Hess Reservoir.” The reservoir is less than a mile east of the Hess Road/Castle Pines Parkway interchange with I-25.

The board of directors discussed the potential benefi ts and impacts of the annexation, but decided not to participate, Redd said.

“The board truly feels this is a regional facility and I think the big-gest issue was if the reservoir and recreation area was annexed into the town, the other recreation partners wouldn’t be as excited to participate. Why put funding into a Town of Park-er recreation facility?” he said in re-sponse to a question via email.

The town has discussed fi nding a way to get frontage on Interstate 25. There were no documents on Parker’s website refl ecting the town’s intent to annex the reservoir and a spokes-woman said there was no offi cial ac-tion taking place. Young was out of the offi ce and not available to discuss the letter.


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Dammight look like at Rueter-Hess, Saint Vincent used words like “quiet,” “calm,” “tranquil” and “serene.”

Runners, hikers, canoeists and anglers will be the happiest, while those with speedboats, ATVs and jet skis might be disap-pointed. Because the reservoir is mainly intended for drinking water, motorized boating and swimming will not be allowed. Parker Water’s board of directors, while accepting new ideas, will set those limitations before the master-plan process be-gins.

“They basically said they want this to be a tranquil reservoir. This is the hiking trails, the canoeing, the fi shing, punctuated with triathlons or community events because they help bring in money to pay for this,” Redd said.

Parker Water is tentatively planning on park settings with gazebos and picnic areas, and there is a strong possibility that overnight camping will be allowed at some point on the south end of the reservoir. There will be a hard- and soft-surface trail network totaling approximately 17 miles. The reservoir also could be the future site of fi reworks displays.

L.L. Bean, a sporting goods outfi tter that opened in Park Meadows mall last year, has approached Parker Water about providing canoes and paddleboats for rent to avoid the in-troduction of damaging mussels from other reservoirs and preclude the need for inspections. Such public-private part-nerships will be helpful fi nancially, Redd said. Ultimately, the master plan will determine types of uses as well as funding sources.

“The key thing will be: How do we pay for this?” Redd said.A change in leadership at Parker Water put the plan on a

faster track. A recreation enterprise was created when Frank Jaeger, the mastermind behind Rueter-Hess, was still district manager, but he indicated in the mid-2000s that recreation would be a low priority and wouldn’t happen for another two decades.

A rising tideAs of July 20, the reservoir contained 21,100 acre-feet, which

would serve Parker’s existing population for nearly four years.In mid-May, Redd showed off a diversion structure on Cher-

ry Creek that was working overtime during a particularly wet spell in May and early June. Because Cherry Creek has been a “free river” for much of the year — meaning there are few limits to the amount of water that can be taken off — Parker Water and Sanitation was redirecting 130 acre-feet of water to Rueter-Hess Reservoir every day, with its pumps running at full power. In one four-week period, the water level at Rueter-Hess rose an astounding 3.7 feet; it has averaged about one foot per month.

Only a handful of public offi cials — including Parker Town Council and the Douglas County commissioners — along with members of the Audubon Society, have gotten to tour the res-ervoir.

The commissioners were surprised by the stunning views, abundance of wildlife and amount of water in Rueter-Hess during a June 30 tour. They glued a commemorative coin to a rock that will slowly be inundated, and presumably, be there hundreds of years from now.

The commissioners also observed a water line marker near the dam that showed the reservoir’s depth at 95 feet, which is roughly halfway to the top.

The vision, goals and implementation timeline contained in the master plan will be available for the public to see in mid- to late-2016.

Douglas County Commissioner Jill Repella places a commemorative coin on a rock that will one day be at the bottom of Rueter Hess Reservoir. O� cials mapped out the spot with GPS coordinates so they could someday return.

Douglas County Commissioner Roger Partridge snaps a photo of the glassy water during a tour June 30. Photos by Chris Michlewicz

Cultural � nds dazzle archaeologists Evidence of prior civilizations abundant By Chris Michlewicz [email protected]

The environmental impact study required to build the reservoir revealed artifacts from old civilizations of hunter-gatherers who once called the area home.

The evidence — found both on the surface and beneath the soil in 2005 — included pit dwellings, rudimentary tools and even a child’s toy. There are three distinct layers that in-dicate the presence of humans 2,000, 5,000 and 8,000 years ago.

Perhaps the most signifi cant fi nds were seven burial sites in three different locations.

During a private tour of the reservoir June 30, Parker Water’s director of engineering, Pieter Van Ry, showed four mounds of rocks in a straight line. Because they are hard to spot, wooden posts are used as locators. Representatives from the Arapaho tribe were brought out and confi rmed that the plots were theirs, Van Ry said.

In the ensuing years, the Parker Water and Sanitation District discovered a frontiersman’s gravesite, complete with a wooden cross that’s still nearby. And one day, bones were found protruding from an eroded bank. Once the cor-oner determined that it was not a recent death, archaeolo-gists took a closer look.

“The story is that the Navajo got to the front gate (of the reservoir), had a vision and said, ‘There’s two bodies up there,’” Van Ry said. “And so they came back in and exca-vated the fi rst body — it was a woman — and under the woman was a child. The vision is what caused them to dig down and fi nd the second body.”

A member of the Puebloan Indian tribe in New Mexico claimed the remains and reburied them with ancestors.

Further surprising offi cials was the discovery of two still-intact prayer circles, including one near a cap rock off Hess Road. Other clues have fueled speculation that Newlin Gulch, where Rueter-Hess Reservoir was built, was once a gathering place for tribes across the region.

“There is all kinds of evidence of fi re pits, pottery, some pottery from far away, so we know there was gathering go-ing on here,” Van Ry said. “Some of it came from as far away as Texas, which is the fi rst time they’ve seen pottery from that area this far north.”

The archaeology team also found a carved effi gy of an animal, which is a “very rare thing to fi nd around here,” he said. It is believed that there is much more to discover.

“Our thought is to have some of the universities out here, some programs and classes, because there’s a lot of stuff to fi nd,” said District Manager Ron Redd.

More than $1 million was spent on the environmental impact study. A few of the cultural resources will be dis-played in Parker Water’s headquarters at E-470 and South Parker Road, as well as the lobby of a water treatment plant near the reservoir. But many of them will be left where they

were found. The district must balance public interest with protecting the artifacts.

“We have outlying sensitive areas, and the challenge is it is such a nice cultural resource that you want to allow people to know it’s there, but you don’t want to let people get in there and essentially pillage it,” Van Ry said. “We want to keep people from going in and hunting points, because it will eliminate resources for future generations to study.”

Wooden posts mark the spot of burial sites for members of the Arapaho tribe. Photo by Chris Michlewicz

Heat poses avoidable risks to health The peak of summer is here. The hottest

summer temperatures for the Denver and northeast Colorado area tend to occur in the second half of July, according to 30-year aver-ages calculated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

In my 25 years as an emergency medicine physician, I’ve seen the catastrophic ef-fect heat can have on health, and many of the people we see while providing event support in the National Disaster Medical System need treatment for heat-related illnesses. On aver-age, heat-related illnesses cause more than 600 deaths every year, and from 2001 to 2010 more than 28,000 people were hospitalized for heat-related illnesses.

You can help keep yourself, your fam-ily and others around you out of the emer-gency department by watching for signs of heat stress.

People suffering from heat-related ill-nesses may experience heavy sweating; weakness; cold, pale, and clammy skin; fast, weak pulse; and nausea or vomiting. Early

signs include muscle cramps, heat rash and fainting or near-fainting spells. If you believe someone is suffering from a heat-related ill-ness, they need to move

to a cooler location and lie down; apply cool, wet cloths to the body; and sip non-alcoholic fl uids. They should remain in the cool loca-tion until recovered.

Signs that someone might be suffer-ing from the most severe heat-related ill-ness, heatstroke, include a body temperature above 103 degrees Fahrenheit; hot, red, dry or moist skin; rapid and strong pulse; and “al-tered mental status” that can range from con-fusion and agitation to possible unconscious-ness. If you see someone exhibiting these signs, call 911 immediately; help the person move to a cooler environment; reduce the person’s body temperature with cool cloths soaked in ice water especially to head, neck, armpits and upper legs near the groin area

where combined 70 percent of body heat can be lost, or even a cool bath if you can stay with them to ensure they do not drown; and do not give them fl uids.

Children are especially vulnerable to heat illnesses, and can’t always tell us what is wrong. When it’s hot outside, consider any change in a child’s behavior as heat stress. Ad-ditionally, infants and children should never be left in a parked car, even if the windows are down.

To help prevent heat-related illness:• Spend time in locations with air-condi-

tioning. • Drink plenty of non-alcoholic fl uids.

Good choices are water and diluted sport drinks, unless told otherwise by your doctor.

• Choose lightweight, light-colored, loose-fi tting clothing

• Limit outdoor activity to morning and evening hours

• Protect yourself from the sun by wearing

Mock, mock — who’s there? Not Elvis No more.No more Elvis impersonators.“Cheesie.” Tiresome. Tedious. But they

happen all the time, and none of them is Early Elvis, when he was great.

It’s the Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich Elvis, when he was an unfortunate caricature.

As you might imagine, there are Elvis im-personator contests and festivals, and you can go online and hire one, or a dozen, for your next event.

Elvis impersonators have been around as long as Elvis has been around.

The fi rst one, Carl “Cheesie” Nelson was doing voice impersonations in 1954.

I think his name says it all. I wish he had been the fi rst and last.

Nelson was from Arkansas, which is also very telling.

Some impersonators impersonate Elvis’ voice, and others impersonate his appear-ance.

There was a very good voice impersonator named Ral Donner. His one hit was “You Don’t Know What You’ve Got,” and if you didn’t know better, it was Elvis.

Likewise Terry Stafford and “Suspicion.”Elvis recorded “Suspicion” in 1962, but it

wasn’t a hit.Stafford came along in 1964 and covered it.

It was so good (Top 10) that Presley’s version was re-released (reached #34).

I don’t understand how anyone could be entertained by an Elvis impersonator.

But some people are amused by Drew Carey. Shop at Pottery Barn. Why?

When Elvis was relevant, he was very relevant.

Later he started to make dread-ful movies. Later he shoe-polished his hair and wore capes. (So did Dracula.)

That’s when the impersonators started to come out of the woodwork.

It’s an industry.There have been

movies. None of them is any good.

Want to torture me? Strap me down and make me watch “Honeymoon in

Vegas.”I refuse to watch State Farm’s new com-

mercial. Elvis impersonators. Las Vegas. Pink Cadillac. Stale. Banal. Humorless. Over-worked. Trite. Thesaurus.

Elvis is too easy. Why not Burl Ives?There is something called diminishing

returns.Why would State Farm go to the well again?Elvis was born in 1935. It’s 2015. Maybe

that had something to do with it.His 80th birthday.Woody Allen and Julie Andrews were born

in 1935. I don’t see anyone impersonating them.

Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker was born in 1935. What’s wrong with impersonating him?

Uecker was hit in the head with a ball dur-ing the Brewers’ pre-game batting practice in

June.Nevertheless, he insisted upon calling the

game, but referred to outfi elder Ryan Braun as a “hunk of burning love” and pitcher Will Smith as a “hound dog.”

I don’t know.I am often mystifi ed by some of the choices

we make. Even some of my own.Once or twice a week, I will get on You-

Tube, and one thing will lead to another and to another.

That’s how I rediscovered Ral Donner for this column.

Donner was only 41 when he died. Lung cancer.

Terry Stafford was only 54 when he died. Liver failure.

Elvis was only 42 when he died. “Drug use was heavily indicated.”

Elvis died about a week before I moved to Colorado in 1977.

My move went unreported. Barely noticed.Elvis’s death was widely reported, and he

was “seen” for years.And we still see him, in unfavorable re-

minders.I will make one exception in these com-

plaints. Performance artist Andy Kaufman. His Elvis impersonation was exceptional and almost better than the real thing.

Kaufman was only 35 when he died. Kid-ney failure.

True to his performances, many people thought that Kaufman faked his own death.

No more Elvis counterfeits, please. Don’t be cruel.

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

It’s far better to sizzle than � zzle at � nish line Have you ever been on a long hike or may-

be a good run or walk where you know you are getting close to the fi nish and you either slow down to ease through the end, or you become even more energized and power through the fi nish line?

Maybe you have experienced this same feeling at work or in other situations and projects. You know that feeling, right? That feeling when we have been working hard at something or for someone and we are near-ing the point of frustration and perhaps even exhaustion. The feeling of quitting or giving up is palpable and could temporarily make things so much easier on us if we could just stop right where we are.

Then that other feeling kicks in, that feel-ing of pride and resilience. This is when the expectation of winning intensifi es and takes over as we know that if we can just push past the fi nish line we will feel a greater sense of accomplishment. So we dig in deeper to fi nd the energy and strength to complete our workout, our project, and we end the race the way we know we want to fi nish.

Now we may be tired, spent, and complete-ly drained but the gratifi cation that comes with pushing through and pushing past the obstacles and hurdles that were in front of us only makes the victory that much sweeter.

Recently many of you have reached out and shared your life stories with me, and I greatly appreciate those conversations and email exchanges. Some of you are feeling pushed and pulled in multiple directions, and for others things seem to be slipping through the cracks, causing heartache and frustration. And as I have shared with those of you who have writ-ten to me, we all face

challenges, and it’s not a matter of “if” we ever face them, it’s “when” we will face them.

And just like a long hike, power walk, run or grueling workout, when we face those challenges we have to push past the fi nish line running just as hard if not harder as when we fi rst started. We need to replace the feelings of quitting or giving up with intensity and empowerment that lets us power through and complete what it is that we need to complete. Being pushed and pulled in multiple direc-tions or being spread so thin where things

slip through the cracks happens when we are not completely focused and committed to our goal and where we are going and what we need to accomplish.

There is only one person in the world who can ever stop us or dilute us to the point of ineffi ciency and that is ourselves.

So as we learn to avoid those traps of being pushed and pulled, as we keep our focus on the completion of our tasks, projects, and goals, we will no doubt develop the attitude of not just easing into the end of our journey but rather powering and pushing past the fi nish line in all areas of our personal and profes-sional lives.

You have it in you, you are so close, don’t stop, don’t quit, push yourself past the fi nish line.

How about you? Do you run harder as you know you are nearing the fi nish line or do you kind of ease on through? Either way I would love to hear all about it at [email protected], and when we power and push through the fi nish line, it really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corpora-tion, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.


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Bid to OK medical pot for PTSD failsPsychiatrists’ group sees drug doing more harm than goodBy Kristen WyattAssociated Press

Citing scant research, Colorado health officials voted against adding post-trau-matic stress disorder to the list of ailments eligible for treatment with medical mari-juana.

The 6-2 vote on July 15 came despite a recommendation from Colorado’s chief medical officer and a panel of physicians to make PTSD the first condition added to Colorado’s medical pot eligibility list in 15 years. Board members said they weren’t swayed by the recommendation because studies on using pot for PTSD are lacking.

“We can’t have physicians counseling people in favor of it because we don’t have data to show it’s correct,” said Jill Hunsak-er-Ryan, who voted no.

The vote was the third time the board has rejected petitions to add PTSD to the list. About five dozen PTSD sufferers at-tended the hearing, some loudly jeering. A few were asked to leave.

“They just told every patient here, `We don’t care about you,’” said patient advo-cate Teri Robnett.

Colorado allows adults over 21 to buy pot for recreational use, with no doctor’s recommendation needed. But medical pot in Colorado is taxed at 2.9 percent, compared with at least 19 percent for recreational pot. Medical patients are al-lowed to possess twice as much marijua-na — two ounces instead of one ounce.

Since 2000, Colorado voters approved both medical and recreational pot legal-ization, while state government officials, including the nine-member health board, generally have resisted expanding mari-juana access.

Colorado had about 113,000 people on the medical marijuana registry in May, the most recent data available. About 6,300 were under 21.

Patients seeking medical marijuana must get a doctor’s recommendation to use it to treat one of eight debilitat-ing conditions, including cancer, AIDS, chronic wasting diseases, glaucoma, sei-zures, persistent muscle spasms, severe pain and severe nausea. More than 93 percent of current patients list severe pain as their condition.

Colorado’s chief medical officer, Dr. Larry Wolk, who does not vote on the Board of Health, said that he once op-posed pot to treat PTSD but changed his mind because of widespread reports of PTSD sufferers claiming pain as their ail-ment in order to get medical marijuana.

PTSD sufferers are using pot anyway, Wolk said, so those people would be bet-ter off talking to a doctor “rather than self-medicating through the legalized (pot) program.”

A dozen veterans who testified Wednesday agreed, saying that vets rou-tinely ask pot shop employees, not phy-sicians, about using marijuana to treat PTSD.

John Evans of the group Veterans for Freedoms criticized the board for oppos-ing the expansion. “You are in support of use without treatment, because that’s what is happening,” he said.

Colorado last year assembled a panel of doctors and medical marijuana advo-cates to review studies about the drug’s medical potential. The Medical Marijuana Scientific Advisory Council made its PTSD recommendation in April, saying the ail-ment could be added for a four-year trial.

But the board sided with the American Psychiatric Society, which opposed the addition.

“The science we have ... overwhelm-ingly demonstrates more harm than good at this point in time,” said Dr. Doris Gunderson, who testified on behalf of the group.

Colorado has provided about $3.4 mil-lion for two other medical studies involv-ing the use of pot for treatment of PTSD. Those studies are just getting started.

Ready to run?Stayin Fit and Lovin It, an Elizabeth-

based fitness facility, is sponsoring the annual 5K Run/1.5 Mile Walk the Parks on Aug. 15. The event gets underway at 8 a.m. at Casey Jones Park. It benefits the Elizabeth High School Track Initiative, cross country team and basketball team. To register, go to www.elizabeth5k.com


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Haslercalled over here – he set nine principles for what he thought a police department should be. And one of the principles is that you do your job in a manner that doesn’t alarm people. When it comes to policing philosophies, there can only be one philos-ophy that works, you either have a milita-rized police force, which is not what I think this country wants, or you have a commu-nity style police force.

Do you think the public is more awakened to the trade-offs in different policing strat-egies?

I don’t think they’ve been awakened. I think it’s perceptions, and that’s our fault because we create perceptions. I don’t think that’s reality; we’ve sent out the wrong mes-sage. But that’s not the public’s fault they have that perception. You have to work hard to change their perceptions, and you only do that by good partnerships. The public needs to know why we do what we do and the reasons we do them. At the moment, everyone’s looking at Ferguson, and we had protesters in Denver (this month) because the perception is we go around executing people. I’ve been a policeman 38 years and I know in that profession we don’t execute people. But if we’re sending out the mes-sage that if you step wrong on the sidewalk, we’re going to shoot you, that’s our fault for sending out that message, and we’ve got to correct that. I don’t care what country you’re in, the perception has to be that the public feels safe, and the public respects their po-lice officers not through fear, but through partnerships, relationships, knowing us, and appreciating what we do for them. And I don’t think that changes in any country.

Have you encountered any differences in policing philosophy between the U.S. and England on the use of force?

I worked in England from 1977 to 1991, and I never wore a gun. So you come over and the first thing you hear is that you can’t go on the street without a firearm because it’s not safe. So, to me then, it’s just another piece of the kit around my belt, that’s my mentality. But where I’m lucky in is that having that first 14, 15 years of my career in England, where I didn’t carry a gun, I learned the ability to de-escalate verbally. And I don’t see it often, but there can be a tendency, sometimes, in America, if you get in a situation, you pull out the Taser, you pull out the gun, and you de-escalate by force instead of de-escalating verbally. I’m not saying all cops draw their guns at the first chance. But sometimes, there can be that tendency in the use-of-force continu-um. That’s something you need to be very aware of. There are great things happening in the profession about learning to de-es-calate through verbal judo. But in the end, it’s just a skill like anything else. When you talk about skill levels, as a chief, you could have a police officer who stops 50 cars a day and writes 50 tickets, and you won’t get one complaint. And then another officer writes two tickets and I could get a phone call say-ing, “that officer was so rude!” They’re both doing the same job, they’re both writing tickets, but one has a skill to sell it to the person as a positive contact. That’s what ev-eryone needs to work on: getting a positive

relationship with the community and you won’t have these riots.

You’ve been with the Elizabeth depart-ment since November. Has that given you enough time to observe any trends or to fine-tune that community policing ap-proach?

Like I said, it’s all about partnerships and relationships, and luckily for me, my de-partment is great. The patrol guys have been here nearly their entire careers. So they’ve created that partnership with the commu-nity. I’ve been here a short time, so it’s going to take a while to reach out to everyone and make those relationships, but day by day, I meet more people, I shake more hands, so it really isn’t something I can do overnight. You have to meet people. So I’m not going to say I’m where I want to be at now, be-cause I want to know everyone, and I’m not there yet. I want everyone to feel a comfort with their police department so they can pick up their phone because that’s what it’s all about: a community working with a po-lice department. As for Elizabeth, whenever you change departments, there’s a little bit of culture shock. I came from a big agency to a small agency, which I prefer because you’re closer to the public. Here, you can hear the concerns and respond easier so it’s a bit easier to deal with the things I want to deal with here in Elizabeth. My time here has been great. It’s busy, not because there’s a lot of crime going on. It’s because, as a po-lice chief, I’m involved in a lot more from a management perspective for the town, because everyone’s wearing so many hats. I get to see more and I get to be involved in so much more, and that’s a lot of fun for me.

What are some details about yourself per-sonally, such as hobbies, that you’d like to share with the community?

Being a police chief doesn’t give you a heck of a lot of time for hobbies, but what I do with my wife and my daughters is tae-kwondo as a family. My wife’s a third-degree black belt, I’m a second-degree black belt, and my older daughter’s just about, on Aug. 29, to get her black belt. She’s 21. And I have another daughter, she’s 10, and she’s a purple belt. What started that is that when I was police chief in Lone Tree, I was reading all these reports that would come across my desk and I kept seeing Taser, Taser, Taser, Taser. And I’m realizing that officers were going to situations at a bar fight or a domes-tic, and the officer was saying “Sir, you need to do this,” and if the person didn’t do it on the first step, then it’s Taser, all right? And I thought, “Why are we going to the Taser so quickly?” Why aren’t we trying to do more before they’re Tasered. We do PPTC (Pres-sure Point Tactics Control) every year to get re-certified but that’s it. There’s no constant self-defense training. We don’t feel confi-dent to go hands-on with people, “we might get hurt, and blah, blah, blah” and we Taser people who are not compliant. And I said “I don’t like that.” And I decided I was going to start some self-defense training for my of-ficers. And I found out that a block from the police department is a taekwondo studio and the owner was a world champion. So I phoned her up and said I want to bring all my cops down to you and you train them. And not only do I want to do that, I want to do that with the public. And I was telling my wife about it one night and she said she wanted to do that too, and we started doing that as a family.

Generations form bond over �shingBy Nick [email protected]

Knee deep in the north fork of the South Platte River, John Scialdone whips his fly rod back and forth across the water.

With a flick of the wrist, he jerks the rod forward, sweeping the line through the air, landing it in the water. His cast is smooth and deliberate. Each movement carefully measured. Each stroke precise.

It’s like he’s painting a masterpiece.Scialdone, from Gilbert, Arizona, and his

grandson Jake, from Elkview, Pennsylvania, are standing in a stream 10 miles west of Bailey. They met in Colorado the day before for a three-day, guided fly-fishing tour. It’s Jake’s high school graduation present.

The river running through the private ranch tucked away in a Rocky Mountain valley is still high.

And on this mid-July morning, the 79-year-old man scores his first catch, a 17-inch rainbow trout. His smile gives away his lighthearted demeanor.

“I really enjoy being outside,” John said as he flings his line upstream again, “whether I catch anything or not.”

A few minutes later, he hooks an 18-inch rainbow trout.

Twenty feet downstream, Jake throws his line in an almost mirror image of his grandfather. He pays similar attention to the accuracy of each cast — an uncharacteristi-cally gauged approach from the zealous, fast-talking 18-year-old.

But, after all, it was his grandfather who taught him how to fish.

The line pulls taut. It’s snagged on the river bottom.

“I never stop talking about fishing,” Jake said, not missing a beat as he methodically casts again. “Ask my girlfriend.”

Teen is practiced �shermanStudies show teens are least likely to

want to learn to fish. But for Jake, the sport has been a part of his life since he was 3. He

caught his first trout at 7. The fishing stories and clichés he recites make him sound like an old pro.

Jake and his grandfather, whom he calls Pop, meet once or twice a year to go fishing. On this trip, their guide, Tom Caprio, quickly runs through the basics of tension casting, a basic fly-fishing technique not like the romantic false casting you see in movies.

Jake catches on quickly.His cast is effortless. His patience mea-

sured. His intuition distinct.Jake fishes regularly in a stream near his

home 50 miles west of Philadelphia.“It’s more consistent,” Jake said of Penn-

sylvania fishing where nearly every cast returns a fish, usually a 5-inch brook trout, a species native to eastern North America but also found in the high Colorado mountains. “They’re a lot smaller ... I’d rather get a big one.”

The line catches again — he’s got a bite.For two minutes, he fights to reel in the

20-inch brown trout. After a photo shoot with what would be the largest catch of the day, Jake sets it back in the net and takes his own photos so he can draw pictures of it later. He draws every fish he catches, as long as it’s 16 inches long — that’s his rule.

As a freshman in high school, Jake played football, but he suffered six concussions that forced him to quit.

“That’s when I really started fishing,” Jake said. “It’s all I really had besides music.” He plays the drums and teaches guitar les-sons part-time.

He landed a part-time job at a local fish market and began deep-sea fishing for prize fish, usually worth about $150, but some-times thousands of dollars.

Fishing in streams or lakes can be more fun than in the ocean, Jake said, “until you catch a fish,” because they’re smaller.

“The scenery isn’t as good either,” he added. “Colorado is awesome.”

‘Up for something new’Upstream, John continues casting. Un-

rushed, he watches the fly float downstream as far as the line will give before snapping it out of the water and back upstream. After a while, he wades farther into the water, waist-deep in the fast-moving rapids.

John has been fishing since he was 8 years old, but picked up fly-fishing only six years ago.

“I keep hearing people say it’s the only true way to catch trout,” said John, “so I figured I’d try it.” He gives another of his trademark, ear-to-ear smiles. “I’m always up for something new.”


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Fly-�shing guide Tom Caprio advises Jake Scialdone on where to cast his line.

�e hook is in the water

John, left, and Jake Scialdone pose with a 16-inch rainbow trout, Jake’s �rst catch of the day. The two recently spent a day �shing on the South Platte River near Bailey. Photos by Nick Puckett

FISHING LOSING POPULARITY

In 2014, 9.9 million people gave up �shing while 8.7 million started, re�ecting a decrease in the pastime’s popularity, according to a �shing report sponsored by the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation and the Outdoor Foundation. The report can be found on takeme�shing.org.

Jake Scialdone, 18, attributes this to a lack of excite-ment caused by little success in the water.

“A lot of kids get bored,” Jake said. “If you don’t have the right technology and don’t catch a lot of �sh, you get bored.”

Among adults 45 and older, 43 percent said they were considering picking up the sport, according to the report, compared to only 6.6 percent of teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 — the least likely demographic to be interested in the sport.

The report suggested a main factor to its low popular-ity was that only 37 percent of teenagers think outdoor activities are “cool.” Some 41.5 percent of �rst-time adult anglers said the sport was “uninteresting” or “time-consuming.”

“I feel like people say that when they don’t catch any-thing,” said Scialdone. “It’s all boring until you hook into a 30-inch cutthroat.”

The type of �shing can also make a di�erence in the sport’s excitement, �shing guide Tom Caprio said.

“One thing with �y-�shing,” he said, “it’s very active” compared to bait �shing. “When you have kids … you want to go to places with a lot of action.”

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To John, Colorado is the mecca of trout fishing in the United States. In the 1960s, he lived in Littleton and often float-fished in the mountains.

“My friend had a big raft,” he said, “and we’d catch all kinds of fish.” When John was 9, he and his brother fished in the local ca-nal. The two would bring home long strings of small, scaly, inedible fish.

“What the hell you going to do with those?” he recalled his father would ask. “You going to clean them?” They ended up burying the fish as fertilizer.

John chuckled at the memory.“We caught gobs of fish. We must’ve

caught 50, 60 fish,” he said. “From that day on, I knew that I could catch fish. That’s re-ally when I fell in love with it.”

Grandfather shares �sh talesAt lunch, the grandfather recounted the

time a property owner shot at him for float-ing on a private, Colorado river. Everyone

within earshot was glued. He rehashes old fishing tales like a veteran might with war stories. Jake has heard the story probably a hundred times. He’s the most engaged.

For Jake, who fishes more often than he plays video games, the stories never get old.

After his fourth catch of the day, Jake posed with a one-handed “hero’s grip” and smiled. He didn’t bother taking a picture of the 10-inch rainbow — too small to im-mortalize in a drawing. He returned to the same hole.

For Jake, fishing is an escape. He said he likes the solitude.

“I’m away from people,” he said. “People are OK, but I get irritated to a point. Fishing, you’re outside by yourself. It gives you an excuse to do something.”

He paused casting for a moment and looked upstream at his Pop.

“But you’re out here … When you look up, you look around, you realize where you are.”


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Hook FISHING TIPS

• Fish tend to congregate in areas where the water turns from shallow to deep to find food. “Trout are energy efficient,” said fly-fishing guide Tom Caprio. Instead of going out to find food, he said, fish will stay in one place and catch the insects floating in the current.

• Cast near the shoreline for more bites.• Larger fish enjoy larger insects, like locusts and grasshoppers.• Know what type of casting is appropriate for the region you’re fishing. False casting works better when the fish rise to the

surface, said Caprio. “False casting … can get messy,” said Caprio. “If the fish aren’t rising, there’s no point. If you want to catch fish, tension casting is the way to go.”

• The best time to go fishing is around sunrise when the water is colder.• Research the region you will be fishing in to find out what kinds of fish live there and the things they like. Caprio inspects

the water for the types of bugs floating in the current to see what the fish will be feeding on that day.• Check the local fishing reports that day for updates on areas where fish are biting.• Go with a guide — beginner or veteran. “You can shortcut the learning curve,” said Caprio. “There’s different techniques.

What guides can do is help learn how to do them, even for some people who have been fishing for years.”

Guide has multitude of rolesBy Nick [email protected]

Fishing guide Tom Caprio doesn’t bring his own rod when he goes fishing — well, he’s not really fishing. His job is to make sure other people catch fish.

Caprio, 55, guides fly-fishing tours for Colorado Fly Fishing Adventures and founded Mountain Escapes, a mountain adventure tour business in Colorado and New Mexico.

During the winter, Caprio teaches ski lessons. He began guiding fly-fishing tours six years ago.

For this trip to a river in a private ranch 10 miles west of Bailey, he lends two rods to his clients, John Scialdone and his grandson Jake Scialdone.

Caprio leads John and Jake to a rocky bank. Armed with a 20-inch net tucked at his side, four fly-fishing rods, knee pads,

and a backpack full of water and first-aid equipment, he almost looks like he’s ready for war.

Caprio gives a crash course on ten-sion casting, a fly-fishing technique where the angler casts his or her rod upstream and slowly reels in the line as the fly floats downstream. The more well-known false-casting technique, where the user whips the line back and forth several times before landing it in the water, is used more when fish are rising toward the surface, he explained.

“This job is part photographer, part guide … part baby sitter,” he said with a laugh as he freed a hook from his palm. “Part getting hooks out my hand.”

All day Caprio changes flies, untangles lines and provides advice to John and Jake. But he doesn’t seem to mind.

“You’re in pretty places,” he said. “And it’s very in the moment. When you are out here, you can forget about the other stuff.”

Tom Caprio talks Jake Scialdone through reeling in his first catch of the day. Caprio, a professional fly-fishing guide, uses a net 20 inches in diameter to scoop the fish out of the water once it’s reeled in by an angler. Photo by Nick Puckett

A hole-in-one takes luck, but skill and strategy don’t hurt By Jim Benton [email protected]

If Bill Loeffl er could do it over again, he would have saved each of the golf balls he used to make a hole-in-one.

The 58-year-old Douglas County resident, who owns The Links Golf Course in Highlands Ranch, would have quite a collection: He’s made 14 aces.

But he didn’t keep any of the balls.

“I should have, but now it’s too late,” said Loeffl er, a member of the Colora-do Golf Hall of Fame who

played two years on the PGA tour.“The fi rst hole-in-one was at Cherry Hills

Country Club. It was on No. 6, and I was 12 years old. I missed the ball. I almost topped it. It hardly got in the air, rolled all the way down and up the hill. They are all lucky, but that was probably the luckiest one.”

Even for players with resumes like Loef-fl er’s, it doesn’t hurt to be near a four-leaf clover when it comes to marking a “1” on a scorecard.

“A hole-in-one is a very lucky shot,” said Pat Tait, head professional at Raccoon Creek in south Jefferson County. “There’s a lot of skill to where it starts out, but when that ball goes in the hole, it requires a lot of goodness. It’s quite a feat and a very exciting time for the person that

gets it.”How rare is an ace? One is recorded only

once every 3,500 rounds, according to the National Hole-In-One Registry. The odds of a player doing it twice in a round? That would be 67 million to 1, the registry says.

But it’s not all chance. Playing a lot of golf

and being good at it are factors.Jason Preeo, a MetaGolf instructor at

Broken Tee and the boys golf coach at Valor Christian, said it takes a combination of skill and luck to get an ace. He’s made fi ve of them, by the way.

“There’s the expression, ‘The better you are, the luckier you get,’” said Preeo, who has played in the U.S. Open. “For the most part, that is true. If you hit the ball close to the hole every fi fth shot instead of every 10th shot, your odds for a hole-in-one go up.”

Club selection is one of the keys to im-proving the odds of collecting an ace, Loef-fl er said.

“The amateurs I play with in pro-ams, 95 percent of them are always short,” he said. “I keep telling them to take a half-club more

or whatever. Just take more club to get there. You can’t make a hole-in-one if you can’t get the ball to the hole. Most people don’t take enough club. Distance is the key.”

Players of all ages and abilities can attest to that.

Pat Allen, an 89-year-old, once-a-week player from Littleton, used an 8-iron to ace the 70-yard fi fth hole on the par-3 course at Foothills Golf Course on June 15. She has been playing for 49 years.

“It was a lot of fun,” Allen said. “Before I croak, I hope to have another one. That was my fi rst, and I intend to take it with me when I go.

“I hit the ball, and it was a pretty shot. It went across the small water that was there, and it landed on the green and went ‘plop.’

I realized it, but I wasn’t sure until I heard one of my fel-low playmates say it went in the hole — and that’s when I went ‘Whoopie!’”

Walker Kurtz, 12, just started play-ing golf last sum-mer, but he made a hole-in-one in June on the 143-yard fi rst hole on South Suburban’s par-3 course in Centen-nial with a 9-iron.

“I was really surprised because I didn’t know what happened,” the Centennial resi-dent said. “I needed a minute to take it all in. I was really excited.

“I didn’t realize at fi rst what an ac-complishment it was, but now that everyone has told me about it, it’s kind of gotten really cool. I guess it was beginner’s luck.”


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GAME

Part 3 of 3 on � nding ways to get better

at and get more enjoyment out of golf.

At The Links Golf Course in Highlands Ranch, this is what you get for a hole-in-one. Photos by Jim Benton

Aces in the hole

Photo illustration; images by Metro Creative Services

• California and Texas see the most holes-in-one, accounting for 9 percent each of the aces made in the nation.

• Titleist balls account for 45 percent of all holes-in-one. Nike is second at 15 percent.

• Two players, one from California and one from Michigan, have recorded at least one career ace right-handed and at least one left-handed.

Source: National Hole-In-One Registry: www.nationalholeinoneregistry.com

FUN FACTS

BY THE NUMBERS128,000 — Number of holes-in-one made in a typical year

404 — Yardage of the longest ace recorded

30 — Yardage of the shortest ace recorded

147 — Average distance, in yards, of a hole-in-one

40 — Percent of aces are made with a 7, 8 or 9 iron

26 — The record for the most career holes-in-one by a single player

Source: National Hole-In-One Registry: www.nationalholeinoneregistry.com

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‘Southpaw’ is tale of transformationGyllenhaal gives impressive performance as boxer Billy HopeBy Jake CoyleAssociated Press

If you’ve ever wondered what might have happened to Job if he had a strong left hook, “Southpaw” may be the film for you.

The rapid descent of light heavyweight champ Billy Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Antoine Fuqua’s boxing drama is of biblical proportions. Not weeks after Hope — rich, hap-py, successful — has defended his belt and unblemished re-cord, a fatal altercation strips him of his family, his mansion and his career.

This being a boxing film, redemption is as much a cer-tainty as a training montage. But Fuqua, an avid boxer him-self, has pushed the pugilist parable even further. “South-paw” is downright Old Testament.

As a tale of transformation, “Southpaw” functions two ways. There’s the story of Billy Hope striving to build his life back. And then there’s the tale of the actor who plays him. The latter packs the bigger punch.

Our first real view of Gyllenhaal is of him streaming to-ward the camera, emerging from a hazy blur a snarling, bloody spit of rage, rampaging across the ring.

The shot, in a way, is fitting. Gyllenhaal, as one of the most exciting leading men in Hollywood, is coming into fo-cus, even as he’s eluding the frame. His maturation as an intense, all-in shape-shifter has become especially clear of late in films like “Nightcrawler” and “Prisoners.” “South-paw” is him romping in his new weight class.

Much has already been made of Gyllenhaal’s bulking up for “Southpaw,” and it’s indeed impressive. But beyond the startling sight of the actor we once knew as Donnie Darko

covered in muscles and tattoos, Gyllenhaal’s performance is most dynamic in his tender, mumbled moments with his wife, Maureen (Rachel McAdams), or daughter, Leila (Oona Laurence). Outside of the ring, his Billy Hope sounds like a guy who’s been knocked around.

Fuqua plunges immediately into Hope’s title defense against a brash rival Miguel Escobar (Miguel Gomez). The director (“Training Day,” “The Equalizer”) prefers a visceral directness (he has made a comeback movie about a boxer named Hope, after all) and he’s favored a far more straight-forward, accurate view inside the ring than, say, the impres-sionistic poetry of Scorsese’s “Raging Bull.”

Instead, Fuqua and cinematographer Mauro Fiore have shot their fight scenes like broadcast television, copying its camera angles and piping in the commentary of announc-ers Jim Lampley and Roy Jones Jr. For better or worse, the fight scenes of “Southpaw” almost feel more like a pay-per-view stream than a movie.

Realism, though, is soon swapped for melodrama thick-

er than a heavy bag. As Hope and his wife exit a gala fun-draiser, Escobar taunts him. Unable to resist, Hope reacts and a melee ensues that leaves Maureen dead from a stray bullet. It’s a wrenching, chaotic scene (McAdams is on a good, grittier run of late) that’s followed by more tragedy.

As Hope spirals, his daughter is taken away from him and the money suddenly dries up. His promoter-manager (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) is little help as Hope wallows, adding the inevitable suffix of his second act: “less.”

Once rock bottom is sufficiently reached for maximum eventual payoff, Hope begins righting himself in that foun-tain of redemption: the rundown boxing gym. Who cannot be healed by its sweaty waters?

He turns to an unglamorous trainer named Tick Willis (the reliably excellent Forest Whitaker), who spouts all the wisdom of boxing and life that a corner man should. He teaches Billy precision and self-defense, turning him into a fighter in control of his emotions.

If the footwork of “Southpaw,” written by Kurt Sutter (“Sons of Anarchy”), is never light as a feather, its heart is seldom in doubt. The solid acting, led by Gyllenhaal and Whitaker, liven up the clichés, and Fuqua’s deep affection for the sport gives the movie a brisk, entertaining earnest-ness.

In bloody close-ups and bruising sounds, Fuqua cap-tures the blinding brutality inside the ring. But his faith is never in question: This is a parable that believes strongest in boxing, itself.

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CURTAIN TIME

Edward Albee classic“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by

Edward Albee plays through Aug. 16 at The Edge Theater, 1560 Teller St., Suite 200, Lakewood. American classic. Performanc-es: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 6 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: theedgetheater.com, 303-232-0363.

Shakespeare in Springs“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Wil-

liam Shakespeare plays through Aug. 22, presented by Theatreworks at Rock Ledge

Ranch, 3185 Gateway Road, Colorado Springs (Interstate 25 to Garden of the Gods Road). Performances: 7:30 p.m. Tues-days through Saturdays; 6:30 p.m. Aug. 3. Tickets: Theatreworkscs.org. About loca-tion: rockledgeranch.com/about/location.

Oddly enough “The Odd Couple” by Neil Simon is

presented in the female version as the 2015 theatrical benefi t for Senior Housing Options. Performances are at the historic Barth Hotel, 1514 17th St., Denver, through

Aug. 22. Performances: 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays. Edith Weiss is director. Tickets: $35/$25, seniorhousin-goptions.org, 303-595-4464.

Albin and Georges“La Cage aux Folles,” musical by Harvey

Fierstein and Jerry Herman, based on the play by Jean Poiter, plays Aug. 14 to Sept. 6 at the Aurora Fox Theatre, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora. Bernie Cardell is director. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Monday, Aug. 24; 3:30 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets: $28, $20, 720-362-2697, igniteth-eatre.com.

Musical adventure“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” by Richard

and Robert Sherman, based on Ian Flem-ing’s children’s book, plays through Sept. 13 at Candlelight Dinner Theatre, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Perfor-mances: Thursdays, Fridays Saturdays, dinner 6 p.m., show 7:30 p.m. Tickets: colo-radocandlelight.com, 970-744-3747.

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