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BEYOND THE WAR ZONE

Immigrant tuition bill clears LegislatureMeasure garners some GOP support on way to governorBy Vic Velavvela@ourcoloradonews.com

After several unsuccessful attempts over a 10-year period, a bill that would allow un-documented immigrant students to pay in-state tuition rates at Colorado colleges and universities has finally been passed by the General Assembly.

The passage of Senate Bill 33 by the House of Rep-resentatives on March 8 was met with applause in the House cham-bers, and, in the case of 16-year-old Nadya Gal-legos, tears of joy. The Westminster High School student’s family immigrated to the country illegally

when she was a child.“I’m so happy that it passed,” Gallegos

said, with tears streaming down her face. “It clears my mind. Because now I have a fu-ture and I can pursue my dreams.”

The so-called ASSET bill — Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomor-row — would allow all students to pay in-state tuition rates, so long as they are high school graduates who have attended a Col-orado school for at least three years.

Current federal law bars undocument-ed immigrants from working legally in the United States.

Attempts to pass various versions of the bill have failed. But, this time, it got through — with Republican support, to boot.

Three Republican House members vot-ed for ASSET on March 8, joining three GOP senators who had done so on Feb. 25.

“Immigrant children are hungry to suc-ceed and we need them in this country,” said Rep. Kevin Priola, R-Henderson, dur-ing a March 5 House floor debate that pre-ceded the final vote.

Priola said he sees immigrant children at church every week who have “futures and

bright minds at stake ...”“I ask anyone who has issues on this bill

to attend Mass with me at noon on a Sun-day,” Priola said.

Rep. Cheri Gerou, R-Evergreen, who also voted for the bill, said it was not “a Demo-crat or Republican issue.”

“All I did was vote my conscience,” she said.

Rep. Steve Lebsock, D-Thornton, said his best friend came to this country illegally when she was 2, but “that didn’t make her any less of a person.”

“If a child graduates from a high school in Colorado, they’re a Colorado kid,” Leb-sock said. “Colorado kids deserve in-state tuition. That’s what this bill is all about.”

Many Republicans on March 5 argued that it’s wrong for Colorado taxpayers to chip in tuition costs for students who are not legal residents. That’s because undocu-mented students would be eligible for the same stipend from the state’s College Op-portunity Fund as legal residents, under ASSET. Republicans unsuccessfully tried to tack on an amendment that would put AS-SET to the voters.

“Because our taxpayers fund this, I be-lieve our taxpayers deserve the right to vote on this,” said Rep. Amy Stephens, R-Mon-ument.

Republican arguments against the bill prompted an angry response from the bill’s House sponsor.

“I’m frustrated,” said Rep. Crisanta Du-ran, D-Denver. “There is just an air of arro-gance. I’m hearing that the only people who can vote in elections are the only people who pay taxes.”

Duran said Republicans were referring to undocumented immigrants as if they weren’t part of the community.

“It’s those people,” Duran said. “It’s those undocumented people over there. They’re not Coloradans. They’re somebody else.”

Republican Rep. Clarice Navarro of Pueblo joined Priola and Gerou in vot-ing for ASSET on March 8. Republicans Sens. Owen Hill of Colorado Springs, Larry Crowder of Alamosa, and Greg Brophy of Wray voted for the bill on 25.

ASSET now goes to the desk of Demo-cratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, who is ex-pected to sign the bill into law.

CapitolReport

Je�co schools alter district boundariesBy Glenn Wallacegwallace@ourcoloradonews.com

By 3-2 vote, the Jefferson County School District’s Board of Education changed district lines. Board members Laura Boggs and Paula Noonan voted against the redistricting, saying they did not approve with how the new lines bi-sected some school articulation areas.

The vote came during the board’s March 7 meeting, and alters the board district lines that were established in 2003. State law requires school districts to update district lines at least every four years.

The state statute reads: Director dis-tricts shall be contiguous, compact, and as nearly equal in population as pos-sible. Board members are elected by all members of the school district, but rep-resent a specific section of the district.

The version of the new boundar-ies was reviewed at the board’s Feb. 28 meeting. Among the larger changes, Dis-trict 5 now extends west to take in Mor-rison in exchange for more of Littleton to go to District 2, along the western side of C-470. District 3 also gained the Pleasant View and Denver West neighborhoods near Golden.

In the new population distribution, District 5 would have the least popula-tion,105,656; while the smallest geo-graphic district, District 4, would repre-sent the most people, 109,434.

New districtsDistrict One: Treasurer Robin John-

son, representing Westminster and Broomfield.

District Two: Second Vice President Laura Boggs, representing Evergreen and Conifer.

District Three: Secretary Jill Fellman, representing Arvada and Wheat Ridge.

District Four: Board President Lesley Dahlkemper, representing Lakewood.

District Five: First Vice President Paula Noonan representing the Mor-rison and Littleton area. Population of 105,656.

Lawmakers’ bill eases acquisition of public recordsSta� Report

Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed into law a bill that attempts to make public re-cords easier to acquire. House Bill 1041 requires government agencies in Colorado to email, fax or send by traditional mail records that a person does not want to in-spect at the records custodian’s office.

The bill, signed by the governor March 8, allows for an agency to charge for postage if

records are mailed but states that no trans-mission fees shall apply if they are emailed.

It also permits fees to be assessed for making paper copies of records and for time spent researching and collecting the information, as already allowed under state law.

Critics of the legislation contend it will only make it more difficult to obtain re-cords by allowing government agencies’ custodians to charge exorbitant fees.

The bill has also drawn fire for stating that records will not be delivered until fees are collected.

The Colorado Press Association sup-ports the legislation, saying that while it’s not perfect, it is a positive change.

“There’s much work to be done with clarification of CORA (Colorado Open Re-cords Act) and fees, but this is a great first step,” a statement on the CPA’s Facebook page says.

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Young people get inside look Here’s an understatement for ya: I was a

bad kid in school.Seriously.I was such a fi xture in the principal’s of-

fi ce that the staff just assumed I came with the furniture.

And the closest I ever came to the honor roll was when I stood next to a smart kid in the restroom.

Doing productive stuff outside of class wasn’t exactly my thing. But as I got older I developed a great appreciation and respect for kids doing positive — and very cool — things that I didn’t have the stomach for back in the day.

That’s exactly what members of Youth Leadership of Jefferson County are up to. The Lakewood-based organization allows youths the ability to interact with commu-nity leaders and institutions, in an effort to explore educational and career opportuni-ties.

YLJC participants visited the Capitol on March 6, and were recognized on the fl oor of the House of Representatives by Jeffer-son County lawmakers.

“I just think this is a great way to plant the seeds for people to become our future community leaders,” said Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Lakewood.

If you wonder whether the students felt intimidated by the legislative process, don’t. In fact, it was the opposite. Marcus Vesely, a student at D’Evelyn High School, said he was surprised at how loose the environment was on the House fl oor, with chatty lawmakers carrying on while legisla-tive business was being attended to.

“I’m not sure what to make of the whole lawmaking thing just yet,” he said. “It was a lot more informal that I thought it would be.”

Rep. Max Tyler, D-Golden, said there’s actually a method to lawmakers’ madness.

“A lot of what you see when people are talking like that is how a lot of our work is done,” he said.

And Pettersen said the banter and in-teraction that goes on in the Capitol is “not much different than high school.”

Yeah, but with a lot more bullying going on, I’d imagine.

Something in the blareI can still hear the horns honking.It’s been more than a week since tes-

timony took place inside the Capitol on several gun-control bills.

Yet, the horns are still maddeningly go-ing off in my head like I’m a character in an Edgar Allan Poe story.

In case you missed it, vehicles made circles around the Capitol on March while testimony was taking place under the gold dome, with drivers who opposed the gun bills blaring horns for hours on end.

Poor Holly Brooks. She’s the owner of Denver’s Capitol Hill Books, located on the corner of Colfax Avenue and Grant Street, across the street from the Capitol.

“It was unbearable,” Brooks said. “The cacophony ...”

Brooks said the noise was non-stop, starting from about 9 a.m., and was “just as fi erce” as she was leaving the shop at 6:30 that night.

“It completely ruined business,” she said. “We had a tourist come by and say, `Is it always like this?’ We almost closed early.”

Colleen Priebe, the manager of Hotel Newhouse, 1470 Grant St., didn’t mind the noise as much as Brooks did.

“I just look at it this way,” she said. “It’s democracy in action, regardless of who you agree with. Besides, we’ve been testing the fi re alarm system, so there was more noise in here than was out there.”

Kevin Park works at Five Star Cleaners at 1364 Grant St. The Korean-born Park spoke through broken English as he tried to put into words his dismay over the noise.

“I’m not sure what they want to do,” he said. “If people don’t like the law, they should do it in the building. But to honk in front of the store ... I could not open the door.”

Could’ve been worse, I suppose. They could’ve been fi ring guns.

Quote of the week“Bring it on, I guess.” — Rep. Carole

Murray, R-Castle Rock, when asked about whether her recent vote in favor of moving a civil unions bill out of committee could lead to a primary challenge next year.

Murray made headlines on March 1 when she became only the second Re-publican legislator to vote in favor of civil unions. Sen. Ellen Roberts of Durango was the other.

Murray, a member of the House Judi-ciary Committee, gave an emotional, and often tear-fi lled, speech after a hearing on the bill.

“It’s not for me to judge others, but to leave that up to God,” she said. “While on Earth, Jesus asked us to love one another. In this spirit, I’ll be a yes vote on this bill.”

Murray’s House district is a conserva-tive one, to say the least. And it’s too soon to tell whether her vote will lead to another Republican running against Murray — who has a very conservative voting record.

But, as a reporter with no dog in this fi ght, her emotional statement, which came late in the evening, at the end of a very long hearing, was worth waiting for.

Tweet of the week“He did last year, and I’m still here.”

— Sen. Jessie Ulibarri, D-Commerce City. Ulibarri’s tweet was in response to a threat of political retribution made by Rocky Mountain Gun Owners Executive Director Dudley Brown on March 4.

Brown was testifying on a gun bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which Ulibarri sits on, when he was asked by the Commerce City Democrat whether his group had contributed to any members of the committee.

Brown responded by saying, “Yes, sena-tor. And we’re gonna give money to your opponents, too.”

It’s not every day that you hear someone threaten a lawmaker in front of his face — especially in the middle of a public hear-ing. Depending on your view of politics, it either was political theater at its best — or at its worst.

Vic Vela covers the Legislature for Colorado Community Media. He can be reached at vvela@ourcoloradonews.com. Follow Vic’s legislative stories and updates on Twitter: @VicVela1.

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Some Democrats dubious about gun bills Questions focuson rights, realism By Vic Vela vvela@ourcoloradonews.com

Democrats on March 11 went fi ve-for-fi ve on their surviving pieces of gun-con-trol legislation, including victories on a bill that places limits on high-capacity ammu-nition magazines and one that institutes universal background checks on all gun sales and transfers.

But three of the bills passed the Senate without unifi ed Democratic support — and those votes came after two other lawmak-ers killed their own controversial bills last week, before they were ever debated.

The recent activity on all fi ve gun bills spanned two days, beginning on March 8, following lengthy and often emotional de-bate that took place on the Senate fl oor.

While Democrats by and large feel like they have struck a balance between re-specting Second Amendment rights and trying to curb gun violence, at least one

elected offi cial wonders if her party may have overreached in its gun-control efforts.

“I’m concerned that this may have woken up people,” Sen. Lois Tochtrop, a Thornton Democrat, told Colorado Com-munity Media.

Tochtrop voted against limiting ammu-nition magazines to 15 rounds and requir-ing that all gun sales and transfers be sub-ject to background checks.

Tochtrop voted for the three other bills: One prohibiting domestic violence offend-ers from having access to guns; one re-quiring those who go through background checks to pay the associated costs; and the one that Tochtrop sponsored, which would ban concealed-carry permit training from being done exclusively online.

Tochtrop wonders how independent voters will respond to the legislation.

“It’s the unaffi liated (voters) that don’t support some of these gun bills,” she said. “These are the people who determine elec-tions in Colorado.”

“She could be right,” said Sen. Cheri Jahn, D-Wheat Ridge, when asked about her colleague’s comments. “We’ll fi nd out in 2014.”

Jahn voted in favor of four of the bills, but opposed the one regarding limits on magazines.

“It’s just not enforceable,” Jahn said. “So, it’s against the law to buy 15s (rounds of ammunition in a magazine). So, they just go out and buy several 15s and carry them. The people who have committed these horrible, heinous crimes are people that are gonna get ‘em elsewhere anyway. And they’re gonna be a lot bigger than the 15s anyway.”

Lakewood Democratic Sen. Andy Kerr voted against a bill that would require would-be gun buyers to pay for their own background checks.

Kerr said he wanted to compromise, saying that if background checks are re-quired on every transaction, then the state should help with the costs.

Kerr also said he would have voted against a bill that would have placed li-ability on gun makers and sellers of semi-automatic weapons, under certain cir-cumstances. But Kerr said he would have supported a bill that would have banned concealed weapons from being carried on college campuses.

Both of those bills were killed by their Senate sponsors on March 8, before being debated. Kerr said he made some “tough votes” but feels good about his party’s ef-forts to do whatever it can to prevent more bloodshed.

“At the end of the day, all of the proposals were well-intended,” he said. “I think they all are issues of gun safety and violence in our communities. Some I disagreed with, but the process worked.”

Jahn concurred.“I always feel comfortable with the

votes I’ve made,” Jahn said. “I’ve spent a lot of time going over and over and over (the bills). I don’t vote, ever, on sound bites. Something may sound good, but I have to know in policy how does it work.”

But one Republican lawmaker believes that Democrats could fi nd themselves in big trouble in 2014.

“I think the quote will come out of this is ‘Tora, Tora, Tora,’” said Sen. Ted Harvey, R-Highlands Ranch, playing off Tochtrop’s comments. “That’s the only thing that will result from this. You won’t stop criminals … but you will wake up a sleeping giant, I think that’s non-debatable.”

A glance at the remaining gun bills By Vic Vela vvela@ourcoloradonews.com

Five gun-control bills continue to make their way through Colorado’s legislative process as of March 12:

Senate Bill 197: This bill, spon-sored by Westminster Democratic Sen. Evie Hudak, would prohibit domestic-violence offenders from gaining ac-cess to guns.

“One of the great dangers a woman can face is an abuser with a gun,” Hu-dak said during second reading of the bill on March 8.

The bill would require those who have protective orders against them, or those who have been convicted of a domestic violence crime, to surrender their guns within 24 hours.

They can have up to 72 hours to comply with the law, if a judge allows it.

People required to surrender their guns could chose to either do so with law enforcement, or they can sell their weapons.

Republicans argued that domestic-violence cases often are chalked up to situations of he-said-she-said, and that the bill is just another way for the government to force people to get rid of their guns.

“This is a bill that’s heavy on bu-reaucracy and light on common sense,” said Sen. Steve King, R-Grand Junction.

The bill passed the Senate on a par-ty-line vote of 20-15, and it now heads to the House of Representatives.

Senate Bill 195: Bans exclusive online training for those seeking con-cealed handgun permits. This was the least-debated and least controversial of the gun bills, garnering supportive

comments from Republicans.An amended version of this bill re-

quires that at least some training for handgun permits be done in person, and through a class that is taught by a certifi ed instructor.

The bill’s Senate sponsor is Lois Tochtrop, D-Thornton.

This bill, which passed 22-13, received bipartisan support, with Republican Sens. Ellen Roberts of Durango and Kevin Lundberg of Ber-thoud voting with Democrats. The bill now heads to the House.

House Bill 1224: This bill limits the number of rounds that a high-ca-pacity magazine can hold to 15.

Democrats cite high-profi le mass shootings — where the shooters used high-capacity magazines to kill mul-tiple victims — as evidence that am-munition limits needs to be in place for the community’s sake.

But Republicans say the magazine limit is arbitrary, and that such a law would do nothing to keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of criminals and the mentally unstable.

The bill passed 18-17. Democratic Sens. Cheri Jahn of Wheat Ridge and Lois Tochtrop of Thornton joined all 15 Republicans in voting against the bill, which now heads back to the House for consideration of amend-ments.

House Bill 1229: This bill requires universal background checks on gun sales and transfers.

Supporters say the legislation closes a loophole in current Colorado law, which already requires that back-ground checks be conducted when guns are bought through retail outlets.

The bill makes exceptions for fam-ily members who give their guns to one another and those who inherent

them. The bill also allows people to freely loan their guns to someone for up to a 72-hour period, so long as the person receiving the weapon is legally able to possess them.

Supporters argued that the bill is necessary to weed out the bad guys who seek to buy guns.

“I’m carrying this bill because gun violence has become an epidemic,” said Senate sponsor Morgan Carroll, D-Aurora. “How do we know if some-one is a dangerous convicted felon, but for a background check?”

But Republicans argue that the bill only penalizes law-abiding citizens, and that criminals will fi nd a way to get them anyway. They also argue that the law only would work if there is a gun registry in place.

“This bill will do absolutely nothing to improve, absolutely nothing,” said Sen. Greg Brophy, R-Wray.

The bill passed the Senate 19-16, with Sen. Lois Tochtrop of Thorn-ton being the only Democrat to vote against the legislation, which now heads back to the House for consider-ation of amendments.

House Bill 1229: The bill says those who submit to background checks should pay for their associated costs.

Republicans blasted the bill. Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, said re-quiring people to pay fees for rights that are protected by the Constitution is akin to paying a poll tax.

However, Denver Democratic Sen. Mike Johnston reminded colleagues that there are plenty of rights where fees are put in place.

Sen. Andy Kerr of Lakewood was the only Democrat to vote against the bill, which passed 19-16. The bill now heads to the governor’s desk.

Father killer gets life David Paul Arledge sentenced to life without parole Sta� Report

Convicted killer Da-vid Paul Arledge, 34, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of his father, Floyd Carl Arledge II, in his Ar-vada home in 2010.

D a v i d Arledge was found guilty of fi rst-degree murder by a Jefferson County jury on Feb. 7. The Arledges had lived together at a Depew Street residence.

Following a dispute, Da-vid Arledge moved out, only to later return to the house and shoot and kill his fa-ther. After killing his father, David Arledge left Arvada and drove to Salida. Two days later he turned himself into Thornton police.

“We are pleased with the outcome of this case and hope it brings some sense

of justice to the family of Floyd Arledge II,” District Attorney Peter Weir said in a statement.

“The Arvada Police De-partment did an excellent job with this investigation,” Weir added.

The Jefferson County District Attorney’s offi ce reports that David Arledge requested to waive his ap-pearance at the sentencing since he knew he would be given a life sentence.

Prosecutors argued that under the Victims’ Rights Act, the family of the vic-tim had a right to be heard, which would be dimin-ished by Arledge’s absence. District Judge Chris Bach-meyer ruled in favor of the prosecutors, and denied Arledge’s request to not ap-pear.

During the investiga-tion, Arvada police contact-ed David Arledge’s brother, Floyd Arledge III, who pro-vided them with blatantly false information.

The brother was later ar-rested and charged with be-ing an accessory to murder.

He was found guilty by a jury in 2011, and sentenced to three years intensive su-pervision probation and 90 days in jail.

Arledge

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Third-graders at Skyline Vista Elementary School show o� their new dictionaries from the Westminster 7:10 Rotary Club. In February and March the club donated dictionaries to 1,800 third graders in 22 schools, including schools in the Adams 12 Five Star Schools and Adams County School District 50. This donation is part of one of Rotary’s signature programs committed to donating dictionaries to every third-grader in Westminster. The dictionaries are provided by The Dictionary Project, an organization created to provide a dictionary to students to help with their homework and their schoolwork. Photo provided

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Report pans Je� erson Parkway Sierra Club names it one of the 50 worst projects in U.S. By Glenn Wallace gwallace@ourcoloradone-ws.com

The Sierra Club took a dim view of the proposed Jefferson Parkway as part of the group’s 2012 report: Smart Choices, Less Traffi c: 50 Best and Worst Transpor-tation Projects in the United States.

Featured on the “worst” side was the Jefferson Park-way — a proposed 10-mile, fourlane tollway to run from Superior to State Highway 93.

Bill Roettker, the Si-erra Club Rocky Mountain Chapter transportation specialist, said the parkway was nominated because it did not meet most of the design standards that the environmental group sup-ports. The plans include no pedestrian or bicycle op-tions, for example.

Roettker said another mark against the parkway is that its location seems to encourage suburban sprawl development.

“On top of that, of course, what makes the Jef-ferson Parkway particularly troublesome is that it cuts a 300-foot wide section along the eastern edge of the old Rocky Flats land, where it will be churning up a lot of dirt,” Roettker said.

The Rocky Flats site was used for Cold War-era nu-clear weapon production.

The site was contaminated with radioactive material. After it closed, the site was cleaned up and contami-nated buildings were re-moved, a process that con-cluded in 2005.

“I’m kind of curious what project the Sierra Club is re-ally criticizing,” said Bill Ray, the interim executive director of the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority (JPPHA), the co-alition board that has over-seen the parkway plan.

Ray said the parkway plan is estimated to cost $204 million, not the $814 million listed in the Si-erra Club report. He also said that claims of induc-

ing sprawl were unfair: The project is bordered by protected open space for roughly two-thirds of its length.

“And the No. 1 inducer to more traffi c is population growth,” Ray said, citing an estimated 2 million addi-tional Colorado residents in the next 20 years. “If people think (Highway) 93 is bad now, wait until then.”

While not yet included in the plans, Ray said the JPPHA intends to include pedestrian and bike transit options for the parkway.

As for the issue of dis-turbed soils threatening the public, Ray said nearly ev-ery study done on the park-

way transit corridor have revealed no human radio-active contamination.

“The authority is on the record that we will con-duct whatever monitoring or testing that might be re-quired,” Ray said.

Nonetheless Roettker said even if the parkway is built, the vision of a Den-ver metro area 470 beltway would not be complete. Miles on either end of the Jefferson Parkway would remain to be planned and built, resulting in traffi c im-pacts for the communities of Broomfi eld and Golden.

“I don’t see any saving grace to it really,” Roettker said.

Signs near the intersection of 96th Avenue and Indiana Street mark where the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge and the proposed 10-mile toll road Je� erson Parkway will meet. The Sierra Club released a report earlier this month, criticizing the parkway as one of the 50 worst transportation projects in the country. Photo by Glenn Wallace

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JEFFCO NEWS IN A HURRYJail death under investigation

An adult male was found hanging in his cell at the Jefferson County Deten-tion Facility on the eve-ning of March 7. A deputy found the man during a walk-through check of the module where the inmate was being held. Sheriff’s deputies immediately began administering CPR and called for additional medical assistance into the module. The male was pronounced dead on scene at 10:46 p.m.

The 24-year-old man was a Department of Cor-rections prisoner who had arrived at the Jefferson County jail earlier in the day for a court proceeding.

The identity of the inmate is being withheld until next of kin have been notified. The death is currently under investiga-tion by the Sheriff’s Office, which reports that indica-tions are that the male died of an apparent suicide. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office will determine the exact cause and manner of death at the completion of their investigation.

Salazar literacy grant announced

Jefferson Foundation has announced the launch of the Salazar Literacy Ini-tiative, a competitive grant opportunity for Jefferson County public schools. The initiative will provide $50,000 annually for local schools to fund programs and projects that help close literacy gaps in reading and writing between different groups of students.

Applications for the grants and more informa-tion are available at www.jeffersonfoundation.org.

Trail stewardship recruitmentJeffco Parks employs

county teenagers every summer to maintain and build trails, while develop-ing a stewardship ethic.

The Trail Stewardship Team (TST) is open to eligible youths ages 14-18.

Successful applicants must be a Jefferson County resi-dent in good health with reliable transportation and a positive attitude. All ap-plications must be submit-ted by March 31.

The 2013 program will run from June 17 until Aug. 1, and work is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Wages are $7.78 an hour.

In 2012, the TST was integral to trail construc-tion at North Table Moun-tain Park, Elk Meadow Park, South Valley Park, Apex Park, White Ranch Park and Centennial Cone Park. The beautiful foothills settings and team camaraderie make the physically de-manding work fun, enjoy-able and rewarding.

Qualified applicants will be entered in a random selection lottery will take place at 11 a.m. Friday, April 5. Teens can apply for the Trail Stewardship Team online at jeffco.us/parks until March 31. For more information, please call the program hotline at 303-271-5965.

Wastewater regsThe public is invited to

review and comment on proposed revisions to the county’s Zoning and Land Development regulations, related to water and waste-water.

There are two ways to get involved. The first is to attend the public hear-ings. The Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on proposed changes at their March 19 meeting, held at the Jeffer-son County Administration and Courts Building, 100 Jefferson County Parkway at 8 a.m. Public testimony is welcome.

County residents may also go to the main Plan-ning & Zoning page, www.jeffco.us/planning, and then following the link in the “revised regulations.”

Comments may be e-mailed to Patrick O’Connell (poconnel@jeffco.us) or Roy Laws (rlaws@jeffco.us).

Explore boundaries between real, imagined‘Semblance’ and ‘Guised’ shown at CVA

By Sonya Ellingboesellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com

The Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Art in the Santa Fe Art District, consistently of-fers exhibits that challenge the visitor to stretch and explore.

The CVA will host two related shows “Semblance” and “Guised” from Feb. 21 to April 13,

“Semblance,” is curated by Tomiko Jones, assistant professor of photogra-phy at MSU Denver and Cecily Cullen, creative director at the CVA. Photos and video works draw us into an enig-matic narrative without a clear linear progression.

They navigate a reality not clearly identified, Cullen writes. They explore a tenuous line between truth and fic-tion and blur the boundary between

the real and imagined.Artists are: Sama Slshabi, Neil

Chowdhury, Kim Keever, Robert and Shana Parkeharrison, Laura Shill and Janaina Tschape.

“Guised,” an international video exhibition curated by Sama Alshaibi, associate professor of photography/video art at the University of Arizona, is shown concurrently.

It contains seven projects that pose a riddle that at first appearance is not threatening. Upon further examina-tion, hidden and manipulated aspects of the content may grow pointed or threatening.

“Guised” illustrates multiple uses of video art formats: mise-en-scene, the long shot, performance, stop motion, animation, collage and interactive his-torical and contemporary forms.

Artists are: Hala Ali and Lantian Xie, Jovan Erfan, Ninar Esber, Coriana

Close, Gary Setzer and Larissa San-sour. The Emerging Artists Gallery will contain juried work by MSU Denver students.

Related events include: Collec-tive Vision faculty lecture at 6:30 p.m. March 15, Creative Mission Gallery talk with MSU Denver students at 6 p.m. March 20 and Colorado Ballet Student Performance at 7 p.m. April 5, culmination of a dance workshop for youth ages 10 to 14, inspired by works in “Semblance.”

The Colorado Ballet will become a neighbor of CVA on Santa Fe Drive in 2014 — perhaps leading to future col-laboration.

“Burdens and Desires” by Neil Chowdhury is included in “Semblance” and “Guised” at the Center for Visual Arts. Courtesy photo

How to �le a Colorado records request Sta� Report

Colorado law has placed power-ful tools in the hands of citizens who want to know what is being done with their tax dollars and in their names: the Colorado Open Records Act and the Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act.

The ability to “CORA” for public records is commonly done by journal-ists, but the so-called “sunshine” laws can be used by anyone, and they em-power people equally. While there are records that can remain sealed, and while copying costs and “reasonable fees” can be charged, the range of re-cords covered by the law is broad.

Filing a Colorado records request is straightforward. Determine the iden-tity of the “custodian of records” for the information you are seeking, along with that person’s mailing address or email address. That is the person re-sponsible for maintaining and keep-ing the records, or any person having personal custody and control of the records.

In the request, list which records law is being cited, and describe the records that are being requested. Be reasonably specific in the description of the records, but also describe them broadly enough to make sure the re-quest includes all records that could hold the information.

Ask the recipient of the request for

notification if he or she is not the re-cords custodian, and for the identity of the person who has custody or con-trol of the records.

Ask for the records within three working days, although extenuating circumstances provide for up to seven days. Include a sentence requesting a written explanation, including the ci-tation of a law or regulation, if the ac-cess is denied.

Make sure the requester’s name and contact information are included, and it’s ready to go.

For a well-written guidebook to Colorado’s open-records laws, go online to coloradopressassociation.com and enter “sunshine laws” in the search bar.

IF YOU GO

The CVA is located at 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Admission is free. There is a parking area on the south side. Open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 303-295-5207, MetroStateCVA.org.

EDITOR’S NOTECCM marks Sunshine Week

Since 2005, Sunshine Week has been observed to highlight the importance of open government. It’s about the right we all enjoy to have access to public records. It’s about the role we all play in

holding our government agencies ac-countable to those they serve.

Launched by the American Society of News Editors, the initiative is timed to coincide with the birthday of the “Father of the Constitution,” James Madison, on March 16.

Sunshine Week 2013 began on March 10, and Colorado Community Media is marking the week by bringing you some insight into how you can ob-tain public records. Together, we can all work toward greater transparency in our federal, state and local governments.

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Merging forces on education front?K-12 public education funding in Colo-

rado may see some dramatic forces come to rest within the coming months. I don’t think any alignment of the moon, sun and stars has anything to do with it. In fact, I know that the two separate actions are generated by people concerned about the equality of state funding for local school districts.

One comes in the form of legal action and the other in proposed state legisla-tion. Both have their own set of pluses and minuses in my opinion. But what is important is that there is effort and activity to improve the status quo.

Lobato lawsuitThe legal action is a lawsuit initiated in

2005 by a group of concerned parents from around the state and school districts in the San Luis Valley. The focus of the lawsuit is funding equity for public schools. Their lawsuit contends the current state School Finance Act is unconstitutional due to it not providing a “thorough and uniform”

system of education as mandated in the state Constitution.

This past week the state Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the case known as Lobato vs. State of Colorado. The case is on appeal from the decision of Denver District Court Judge Sheila Rappaport in which she ruled in favor of the parents and school districts.

While her decision did not specify a dollar amount that would be needed to achieve a “thorough and uniform” system of public education across Colorado, one

consultant has estimated that up to $4 bil-lion would be needed to meet the constitu-tional test.

Senate Bill 213The legislative effort to achieve better

equality in state funding has been rolled out by state Sen. Mike Johnston from Den-ver. His bill would especially be helpful to school districts with high concentrations of at-risk students such as districts in Adams County, and the bill would put heavy em-phasis on early childhood learning.

Regarding equitable funding, his bill has four components: 1) funding weights would be modified or some eliminated with a higher base amount; 2) enrollment counting would be changed from a single day count to a “throughout the school year” approach for a more accurate head count; 3) student-based funding would target individual schools to meet stu-dent needs as opposed to block grants to districts and 4) increase local support of schools by shifting the current two-thirds

state funding away from the state. Local school districts in wealthier areas would be required to generate more local funds.

Potential mergingOn the Lobato lawsuit, we need to re-

member that the judiciary branch cannot authorize a tax, which is a legislative func-tion. However, in Colorado, we have TA-BOR that requires a vote of the people. And likewise with new legislation by the state Legislature that requires a tax increase, voter approval is necessary.

There is a lot in common between the two separate forces at play. Who knows how the Supreme Court will rule and it remains to be seem if the Legislature will pass Johnston’s bill and put enabling fund-ing on the November ballot. But we do know that these two forces could merge for the betterment of public education.

Bill Christopher is former city manager of Westminster and used to represent District J on the RTD board of directors.

How about spring?We asked people outside of Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers at 7745 N. Wadsworth

Blvd. what is their favorite part of spring.

Seeing all the �owers – the tulips and da�odills. I love walking around my neighborhood, and there’s one garden that always inspires me.

- Mary Bohn, Arvada

Sunshine and being outside, and being able to prune my fruit trees.

- Katie Edstrom,

Arvada

Baseball.- Tony Plant, Westminster

Seeing everything greening up.

- Maryann Mah, Arvada

QUESTION OF THE WEEK A little of this and thatHere we go again! Daylight savings is

upon us for spring and summer. I am against it, so once again, we have

had to change all the clocks including those in the cars.

I see no savings in daylight savings time.

Why?Why do we need to give every little

weather front a name? Today, as I write this column we are having a mini blizzard. But according to the Weather Channel we are in a full blizzard mode with a storm named Tritan or is it Saturn? I don’t know even know what it’s called. Why not just call it a storm?

I lived for 20 years in Minnesota where a blizzard was a blizzard.

We only knew that it had to be snowing cats and dogs and the temperature had to be at least a minus 20 degrees. Only then was school called off.

Too much blackEverywhere you look these days you see

black. The kids are all wearing black hoodies

and we adults have to make choices be-tween stainless steel or black appliances. Well I don’t’ like either, but we settled for black.

But the problem comes when you try to shine up the refrigerator and stove. I ended up using a glass cleaner called Sprayway Glass Cleaner.

Speaking of household hintsDid you know that if you spray Pam or

WD40 on your snow shovel the snow will glide right off it?

And the plastic bags your grocer pro-vides make good garbage bags for your wastebaskets in the kitchen and bathroom. It’s the old “waste not, want not” theory.

Take a riskThe other day I was in the foyer of our

local post office and I saw a young mother with two small children standing there and crying.

I asked her if I could help and she said she was stranded and didn’t know how to get home to her 63rd Avenue and Federal Boulevard mobile home park.

I quickly assessed that my little Saturn did not comply with the seat belt and car seat capacity.

But then I said to myself that I should take a risk and get that young mother home. So we piled in and away we went.

I learned she is a student at Emily Griffith School and rides the bus downtown to class.

She even offered to pay me for gas, which of course I rejected. I can’t tell you how many thank yous she gave me and how many times I stated I was happy to be of help. You know sometimes one has to take a risk and help out. It made me feel good all day knowing she and her children got home safe.

Quote of the Week“Waste not, want not”. — AnonymousStay well, stay involved and stay tuned.

Vi June is past Democratic state represen-tative for House District 35. She is a former mayor of Westminster and a former news-paper publisher. A Westminster resident for more than four decades, she and her hus-band, Bob, have five grown children and eight grandchildren.

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Adults need to grow up too I like taking pictures. One thing I love

about experiencing life through the lens of a camera is that it helps you develop a sense of perspective.

With the camera, that’s the ability to focus on a small detail, then step back and look at how it fi ts into the big picture, and constantly trying to strike a balance.

And I think understanding that bal-ance is the essence of the artistry of the great photographers. Perspective is no less important in life, also.

Being able to see small events and put them into the context of the bigger pat-terns of life is crucial to understanding the world we live in.

That’s why our youth are so dramatic — every event in life, every ballgame, every breakup, is the most important thing that’s ever happened.

Of course, those of us with a little more life experience can see the perspective of

a life that’s much longer, and we see these events as the bumps in the road that they are; young people only have the perspec-tive of, basically, yesterday and today. But it’s really sad when us “mature” people are unable to fi nd a reasonable perspective on life’s events.

In the face of big events, to quote Gen. Michael Honore, we get stuck on stupid. Consider:

— a second-grader in Maryland was

suspended last week for chewing his pop tart into the shape of a gun. The school im-mediately brought in counselors to assist students who were traumatized.

— three high school students in Florida wrestled a gun away from another student who pointed it at the head of another kid on the bus. Did they get a parade? A com-mendation from the city council? No, they got suspended—for being involved in an incident with a weapon.

— closer to home, a 7-year-old Loveland boy was suspended last month for pretend throwing an imaginary grenade on the playground in an apparently futile attempt to save the world from evil.

And this is just the really stupid stuff I can pull up off the top of my head — Heav-en forbid I start talking about the lunacy of my state senator telling a rape victim that there’s no chance she would have been better off with a gun, or our state senate

passing gun and crime bills opposed by all 61 county sheriffs in Colorado.

The problem with adults getting stuck on stupid is that our children — who, amazingly enough, actually notice when we’re being stupid — then have carte blanche to dismiss us when we encourage them to grow up.

After all, what’s the point of growing up and developing a sense of perspective when the adults around you clearly can’t manage that, either?

Our children deserve better from us. We have serious problems, and people who can’t see the panorama need to get off the stage.

Michael Alcorn is a music teacher and fi t-ness instructor who lives in Arvada with his wife and three children. He graduated from Alameda High School and the University of Colorado-Boulder.

YOUR VIEWS Give the money back

I just read the article about $2 million going to build more bike trails. I also just fi nished watching President Obama talk-ing about how there will be military cuts, cuts in border security, people dying in the streets (that’s my exaggeration) and kids not being able to go to school because our federal budget may be cut by a measly 2 percent.

If there is so much talk about fi nancial Armageddon, they why are we spending money on bike trails? This $2 million is also 35 percent borrowed money, mostly from communist China.

I know local governments are just as greedy when the federal government wants to give them “free money”.

But this is ridiculous, the spending has to stop sometime or we will go broke as a nation.

We are trillions in debt and yet no one in government, local and federal, can be credited as being wise in the way we man-age our money.

All they want is take, take, take. What about the country as a whole?

Maybe the local government should give back the $2 million and say we have

bigger problems. But that won’t hap-pen. It”s sad to see what our country has become.

David AlbertsenArvada

Pay attention to what’s happening at Rocky Flats

We need to take a moment out of our busy lives and take a close look at what is happening right here in Jefferson County at the old nuclear weapons plant that some of us remember as Rocky Flats.

Why are we allowing elected offi cials to make plans for hiking trails, housing subdivisions, and a highway anywhere near a place that was once called the “most polluted piece of land in the U.S.”?

The former Rocky Flats area, which was “cleaned-up” in a manner that was far ahead of schedule and was extraordi-narily under budget, where disastrous fi res occurred and normal incineration proce-dures burned radioactive plutonium and other toxic wastes in which the wind blew in every which direction on those days.

Where a former director of the Jefferson County Health Department lost his job by reporting his fi ndings of the contamina-

tion within a 10-mile radius of the area, a place where the federal government actu-ally raided itself to reveal the contaminated land.

What are we thinking? Or are we just burring our heads in the sand to ignore the reality here?

Plutonium has a half-life of 24,000 years; we can’t see it, smell it or even detect it without special equipment, yet it will be around long after our great grandchildren’s children have grown.

As I run and enjoy the fresh air on the trails around Standley Lake, I seriously wonder what is in the air that I am breath-ing?

The cleanup in 2005 did not scrub our soils clean of plutonium, why are we al-lowing development to stir it all up? I hope construction workers are being protected from plutonium dust particles that are mil-lions of times more dangerous than natu-rally occurring radioactive dust particles of Uranium.

I certainly won’t be hiking near any of those proposed trails, or pay to drive on a new highway through the area.

Maureen Dooley-ElmalehArvada

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Ruiz given 36 years A� er child abuse confession Lakewood man sentenced Sta� Report

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to 36 years in prison and fi ve years parole, after confessing to the court that he caused the death of the 2-year-old daughter of his girlfriend.

Keith Nick Ruiz, 26, had previously pleaded guilty to causing the death of Dolci Gryshayeva in September 2011. Ruiz and the girl’s mother had been living in Lake-wood in 2011.

Ruiz confessed to the crime in October. He told the court he got off work, and had been home alone with the girl when he be-came frustrated and snapped when the girl refused to stop crying.

He told the court that he forcefully threw her on the ground and fell on top of her. When he realized that she had stopped breathing, he called 911.

Dolci never regained consciousness, and was taken off life support two days later.

The cause of death was identifi ed as a closed head injury due to blunt force trau-ma.

The autopsy also uncovered older inju-ries: Bruising on her hip, chest and back, along with broken ribs and retinal bleeding.

Ruiz had faced a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison for his charges.

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Delivering results, exceeding expectationsIn some of my correspondence with our

readers I find myself engaged in meaning-ful discussions around philosophy or belief systems, strategic thinking or planning, and tactical action items and execution of plans and strategies.

When we are pursuing our goals and objectives our ultimate desire is to see results and meet or even exceed expecta-tions.

In order to do so, however, we have to make sure that we are in alignment in all three areas; our belief systems must sup-port the reason behind our goal; once we have defined our goal and its relation to our core beliefs we should develop a strat-egy or plan; and finally we must act, take action, execute and get after it.

Many people I speak with really do a great job of talking about their goals, and why they want to achieve them.

They get so focused on their philo-sophical approach to life, and maybe, just

maybe, even like talking about their beliefs and philosophies a little too much. They mask their willingness to actually do some-thing or take the next steps with pontifica-tion about their point of view.

Our belief system should drive our plans and tactical approach, they should be seen as our foundation and launching pad, not a barrier or the end point in the pursuit of our objectives.

I keep a copy of my core values and

beliefs in a very visible place in my office, in my notebook, and even in my car.

By now they have been ingrained in my head and my heart, and yet I still find it helpful to have them in plain sight so that when I am making plans and discussing strategies I am reminded of what is truly important in my life.

The other added bonus of keeping them visual is that others see them too. And when they know where I stand on certain issues in life, they know that anything we co-create and any strategic plans we co-develop must be tied to my values and my beliefs.

We must be willing to execute and take action. So many people I have coached have come to me with their vision, their mission, their values, their business plan or life plan and they are stuck, frozen in time, and suffer from a lack of just taking that first step. Taking action is important, but it must be congruent with our strategy and

values, or we will wind up doing the wrong kind of work or even worse, doing work that is counterproductive to our goal.

So you see, when it comes to delivering results and exceeding expectations it is not just about being philosophically aligned to our belief systems; coming up with the best strategy or plan; or taking action.

If we are truly going to achieve our desired results and outperform expected outcomes, we must be complete, we must have all three elements.

Please keep the emails coming and let me know if your beliefs, strategies, and tactical approach are all in alignment. You can email me at gotonorton@gmail.com and together let’s make this a better than good week.

Michael Norton, a resident of Highlands Ranch, is the former president of the Zig Ziglar organization and CEO and founder of www.candogo.com.

Gain skills to become an emotionally available personDear Neil: Regarding your article

about how to spot an emotionally un-available person, I can understand your recommendation to avoid people like myself who have these deep personal flaws.

But not one of us who are damaged people want to be where we are. From lousy childhoods to a series of failed relationships, our lack of progress about becoming emotionally more available is quite depressing.

Let’s assume your message is taken to heart by the mentally and spiritually unblemished. What about the rest of us? Many of us lack the resources on mul-tiple levels to become the beautiful souls that professional therapy might promise. Your column is usually easy to nod in smug recognition. I felt this one with a painful recognition.

In the future, would you please offer those of us on the other side of the rela-tionship tracks some words that will help us grow toward having a happy relation-ship? — Despondent in Colorado

Dear Despondent: Deep down, if I feel inadequate and fear that I don’t measure up, then sooner or later I’m going to be

afraid that you’ll find out about me, agree that I’m not good enough, and dump me.

So if I remain distant from you and disengaged, it won’t hurt as much when you tell me you’re going to leave. I have retreated into a web of self-protection and safety so I won’t get too hurt when things don’t work out, because I don’t feel I deserve to be loved.

Such half-hearted attempts at love will keep me safe, but they will sabotage my ability to create a connected, loving and trusting relationship.

I am also insecure and have low self-esteem. That means I get threatened and jealous easily, and I’ll get defensive or angry if I feel you’re putting me down, criticizing me, telling me I’m inadequate in some way or being disrespectful to-ward me.

This means you can’t actually tell me what you think if it goes against what I want to hear, because if you do, I will make it very emotionally costly for you.

And I feel empty enough that most of the time, I’m needing to tend to my own needs, and I may not be able to devote time and effort to your needs.

This description is at the heart of why I am emotionally unavailable. You can see I have a lot of battles I’m fighting, and why I might not be there for you the way you want me to be.

If I were going to become a more emotionally available person, here’s what I will need to do:

First, I have to examine my feelings of not feeling worthy of a close, loving re-lationship. I would have to challenge my assumption that if you really get to know me, you will eventually reject me, and I would have to discover and embrace why I am lovable.

Second, I would have to tune into your feelings and needs, and be very careful that I don’t place my needs and wants above yours.

Third, I would have to act trustworthy, accountable and responsible. I could not afford to permit myself to have a secret life, or someone else on the side, and I

would have to offer you complete trans-parency. I would have to keep no secrets at all from you.

Fourth, I would have to treat you as a top priority in my life, and I would make myself assessable and available to you the vast majority of the time.

Fifth, I would have to cease being volatile, losing my temper, acting mean-spirited or saying hurtful things to you.

I would never again threaten to end the relationship if I didn’t get my way, or use anger in order to get my way.

Sixth, I would commit to letting you in, by sharing my inner dreams, hopes, fears, disappointments and emotions with you.

Finally, I would become a better listener, gain control over my addictions, commit to being more of a giver than a taker, and cease being so judgmental and critical of you and of myself.

Neil Rosenthal is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Westminster. His column is in it’s 21st year of publication, and is syndicated around the world. You can reach him at 303-758-8777, or email him through his website: www.heartrela-tionships.com. He is not able to respond individually to queries.

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‘Zero Dark Thirty’ is on dark side of truthJessica Chastain is a fine actress,

one who gave a convincing portray-al in the film “Zero Dark Thirty” of a CIA agent seeking post-911 ven-geance by locating and eliminating Osama bin Laden.

The problem is that Chastain may have been too convincing for many who believe the story is true.

It’s not.The torture scenes — splashed

across the big screen — are realistic-enough representations of “en-hanced interrogation techniques.”

The outcomes, however, have no basis in reality.

The film purports that torture helped the U.S. find and take out bin Laden. Three former CIA agents — whose documentary on the subject, “Manhunt,” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Janu-ary — say that “Zero Dark Thirty” is entertaining, but flawed. Although the raid on bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan was “well done” by Hol-lywood, agents who participated in the actual operation say the inter-rogation scenes were “completely inaccurate.”

The facts support this claim. For-mer CIA director Leon Panetta has said that no detainee in CIA custody revealed the identity or whereabouts of the courier who, in the film, led Chastain’s character to bin Laden.

Additionally, chairs of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee announced last year that such inter-rogation techniques did not provide

details that led to bin Laden.Their statement further affirms

that the information was obtained from a variety of intelligence sources, and that detainees the CIA believed could tell them bin Laden’s location didn’t, “even after signifi-cant use of the CIA’s coercive inter-rogation techniques.”

Justice Department legal memo-randums from 2005, released in 2008, reveal that the CIA used waterboarding 183 times against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

This information alone is trou-bling in several ways. First, the U.S. regarded waterboarding as torture when used against our troops in World War II, and we prosecuted our own soldiers for using waterboard-ing in Vietnam.

Second, any form of torture is illegal under American and inter-national law, and was only pro-nounced “legal” in the Justice De-partment memos, which gave secret approval to use such torture.

Third, nothing in CIA intelligence

records corroborates claims Khalid Sheik Mohammed provided valu-able information about the courier. And, if waterboarding is so effective, why 183 times?

Finally — although this discus-sion is by no means finished — if torture is, or has ever been, success-ful in gaining actionable intelligence information, one could reason that information such as the Senate report would never see the light of day.

Yet it has. I’m anti-terrorism but I’m also anti-torture.

Even former vice-president Dick Cheney, a prominent figure in the post-911 approval of this torture, called it working through the “dark side.”

Obviously, movies must compress a timeline of events. However, direc-tor Kathryn Bigelow asserts that “Zero Dark Thirty” is a “reported film,” giving the impression that the basic facts are true, although they are not.

And if you wonder what we should do — or not do — if our communities, our neighborhoods, our families are credibly threatened, see another film called “Unthink-able.”

Torture is cruel, dehumanizing, and inhumane … and that’s just for the perpetrators themselves.

Andrea Doray is a writer and a board member for the international orga-nization “Writing for Peace.” Contact her at a.doray@andreadoray.com.

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Knowledgeable, Courteous Service.

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Manufactured/Mobile Homes

Elizabeth2 Bedroom, 1/2 acrePond, Greenhouse,

Workshop30' Patio

Month to Month$900

(303) 646-0872

Office Rent/Lease

VARIOUS OFFICES100-2,311 sq.ft. Rents from

$200-$1750/month.Full service.

405-409 S Wilcox Castle Rock

Wasson Properties 719-520-1730

Room for Rent

Furnished MasterBedroom

with private bath.Free cable tv.$585/month

Quiet, Lakewood area(303) 668-0277

Room for Rent

GOLDEN/APPLEWOODClean, furn ranch, $325

w/ldy + $50 util, ref chkd.NS/NP. ST/LT lease

303.279.5212/847.763.1701

Senior Housing

Oakwood SeniorApartments

Castle Rock, CO2 Bedroom

Available Immediately*Amazing Mtn Views!!* Laundry facilities in

each bldg* Weekly activities in

clubhouse* Picnic Area

$875/month plus1 Month Free

Office Hours:Monday 9-4

Thursday 1-4Friday 9-4

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1 Bedroom UnitSleeps 4

Fireplace, Partial KitchenTV, DVD, Sauna, Hot Tubs

Heated Outdoor Pool,Onsite Dining

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$500/week or$100/night/min. 3 nights

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Farm Products & Produce

Locally raised, grass fed and grainfinished Beef & Pork.

Quarters, halves, wholes available.Can deliver 720-434-1322

Estate Sales

ESTATE SALE Fri-SunMarch 15th, 16th & 17th 9am-3pm

9531 Cedarhurst Lane #CHighlands Ranch 80129

1 block South of Highlands RanchParkway & South Broadway

Furniture, TV, Artwork, Decor,Storage Shelving, Books,

Major Holiday Decor,Office Supplies, Christmas Dishes

etc.

Estate/ Multi Family SaleMarch 15th & 16th

8-37562 Coors Ct, Arvada 80005Furniture, Tools, Household

Wares, Linen, Toys,and MUCH MUCH MORE

Estate Sales

PRIVATE ESTATE SALE3/15 9-4 & 3/16 10-47657 UMATILLA ST,

DENVER 80221100'S of books w/1st editionssigned, Household item, Furn,

Music equip,Tools, Weights, SportsPlaques,Signed Elway FB &

Helmet, Art/Litho signed.

Appliances

Kenmore Washer and DryerEXCELLENT Condition$600Val- 303-525-2495

Side By Side FrigidaireRefrigerator w/water & ice in thedoor. Like new $400 (951)970-1018

Firewood

Bulk FirewoodLogs, various hardwoods,

random links, you load, you haul.$60.00 for pick up load.

Split firewood also available.303-431-8132

Free Stuff

Super Single Waterbed with 12drawer underbed dresser. darkwood. good condition - Free, youhaul. call 303-432-2735 arvada

Furniture

2 Round Beveled GlassEnd Tables

24 x 26Stone & Gray Finish Metal

$425720-514-9114

Furniture

Elizabeth Furniture SaleAll dark wood, like new.Large entertainment center, 4 piecesofa set, 2 large chest of drawers,5x5 fridge, 7 piece marble top din-ing set. (570)404-6174

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Want to Dump the Donut?Join a Challenge!or get a Personal Programwww.sheernutrition.com

Musical

Kimball PianoBEAUTIFUL Kimball Console Piano

Walnut finish, perfect condition$1800

Carolyn- 303-425-4492

Tickets/Travel

All Tickets Buy/SellNFL-NBA-NHL-NCAA-MLBWWW.DENVERTICKET.COM(303)-420-5000

PETS

Autos for Sale

1975 Mercedes 450 SLCSports Coupe

Sunroof, new paint- blacknew battery, tires, spark plugs

Must See!! Make Offer, Runs Great!Bob 303-730-2077

Wanted

Cash for all Carsand Trucks

Under $1000Running or not.Any condition

(303)741-0762bestcashforcars.com

DONATE YOUR CAR, TRUCK,BOAT, RV; Running or not, towww.developmentaldisabled.orgTax deductible! 303-659-8086.

14 years of service

Instruction Instruction

*Medical, *Business, *Criminal Justice, *Hospitality. Job placement assistance. Computer available.

Financial Aid if qualified. SCHEV authorized.Call 800-488-0386www.CenturaOnline.com

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Instruction

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Classes available at yourlocation and time

Great RatesPlease call for further information

Call Chris (303)748-2245 chriswilliams351@gmail.com

Piano or Guitar lessonsAt your home or my Parker studioby experienced, patient teacher.Parker, Highlands Ranch, S. Au-rora. We can also work singing orsongwriting into the lessons, and

can include music that the studentloves to keep it fun.

Visit musictreecolorado.comor phone John at 303-521-8888.

Lost and Found

LOST COATQuilted full length cotton coatgreen, tan, plum quilted squares30 years old with sentimentalvalue

I lost it somewhere in the Arvadaarea, I think a Dr's office

Please call if found 720-328-0266

Misc. Notices

Want To Purchaseminerals and other oil/gasinterests. Send details to:P.O. Box 13557Denver, CO 80201

Want To Purchaseminerals and other oil/gasinterests. Send details to:P.O. Box 13557Denver, CO 80201

Train for hands on Aviation Maintenance Career. FAA approved program.

Financial aid if qualified – Housing available

CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance877-818-0783

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assistance with activities ofdaily living.

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/employment

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Colorado Community Media is hiring an editorial page designer who will be assembling

editorial pages for print. Some special section or newsletter page layout projects will be assigned

along with preparing weekly newspapers for press. Bachelor’s degree, or four years

experience in a design or news environment, required. InDesign skills, proficiency in Photoshop, attentive to details, a must.

Illustrator and printing experience welcome. Ability to work in a demanding deadline

environment and great communication skills necessary.

Part-time, work Mon - Weds. This position is a hire on a contractor basis. Guaranteed 24 hours

a week to start. E-mail your resume along with 3 samples of your work to Scott

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EDITORIAL PAGE DESIGNERHelp Wanted Help Wanted

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Academy for DentalAssisting Careers

LITTLETON Open HouseWed., March 27th, 6:30pm-8:30pm.

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12999 W. Bowles Dr(2 blks E. of C470) 303-774-8100

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ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT,DUNWIDDIE CUSTOMPACKAGING, INC. Full timeposition (8:00-5:00 M-F), AR, AP,proficient in Microsoft Office

programs , accounting experiencenecessary. Fax or e-mail resumealong with salary history to: VioletAndrews, Controller Fax

(303) 799-3560; e-mail:packaging@dunwiddie.comWeb site: www.dunwiddie.com

ANB Bank, a true communityBank, is excited to announce thatwe will be opening a new Castle

Rock Branch in June!We are hiring:

• Branch Manager: This position isresponsible for the generation and

maintenance of retail andcommercial loans. Bachelor’s

Degree and 4 years ofexperience required.

• 3 Personal Bankers: PersonalBankers perform both Teller and

Personal Banker duties; e.g. opensaccounts, handles teller

transactions, sells/cross-sells bankproducts and services, and

resolves customer service issues.HS Diploma/GED and 6 months ofcustomer service, sales, or cashhandling experience required.

If you have these qualifications, areenergetic and enthusiastic, with astrong customer focus, then thismay be the job for you! Qualified

applicants, please apply on-line atwww.anbbank.com – Apply

Online - Careers.EOE

AttentionNeed Retired Coupleto manage Home and 45 Land-scaped Acres near Franktown. Newhome and all facilities furnished.Mechanical background with land-scaping interests.

Help Wanted

Cook at a brand NEWhealthcare location in

Castle Rock CO.When full this location will have

50 residents. We pride ourselvesOn scratch cooking. Hours will

vary until full, experienced cooksthat can work independently

please apply by sendingyour resume to

teresa@newhorizonfoods.comEOE

DIRECTVis currently recruiting for the

following positions in Castle Rock:

RF Technical Manager

Principle Engineer

If you are not able to access ourwebsite, DIRECTV.com, mail

your resume and salaryrequirements to: DIRECTV, Attn:

Talent Acquisition,161 Inverness Drive West,

Englewood, CO 80112.To applyonline, visit:

www.directv.com/careers. EOE.

Drivers: Local, Regional, OTRClass-A Openings. CompetitivePay/Bonuses, Full Benefits Pack-age. No-Touch. 1yr Tractor-TrailerExperience Transportation Special-ists 1-866-HOME-TSL

Full time teller position is now available at Colorado

Community Bank. Position is basedout of Castle Rock, but will also be

required to travel to branches inHighlands Ranch and Centennial.

Benefits and mileage will beincluded. Must be able to work

every other Saturday. Priorbanking experience preferred,

but not required.Call 303-688-4900

for more information or stop by500 Wilcox St for an application.

Equal Opportunity Employer.

GAIN 130 LBS!Savio House needs foster

parents to provide temporary carefor troubled teens ages 12-18.Training, 24 hour support and$1900/month provided. Must

complete precertification trainingand pass a criminal and motor

vehicle background check.Call Michelle 303-225-4073

or visit saviohouse.org.

Help WantedLooking for reliable CNA8 a m - 1 0 a m i n W e s t m i n s t e rs h o w e r / p r o g r a m .

Help Wanted

Hiring Event!Thursday, March 14th

From 9-12Register online at:

westernsummit.eventbrite.comLOCATION: Arapahoe/Douglas

County6974 S Lima St, Centennial, CO

80112Available positions:

Concrete Finishers $16-18,Pipefitter-$18-$20Laborer $12-$14,Carpenter $18-$20,Millwrights-$18-20

Qualifications:• At least 1 year experience• Must pass drug screen• Ability to lift a minimum of 50 lbs

Benefits:• Full time (40 hours per week)• MedicalDress professionally, bring yourresume, and arrive promptly!

Part time office position-Fast paced heating & ac businessin Parker. Need motivated personwith phone experience,computerskills,order entry-QuickBooks amust! Email resumes to

alliedhtngac@aol.com attentionCheryl, Office Mngr

Receptionist4-5 days a weekinlcudes some SaturdaysParker Animal Hospital303-841-2120

Truck Drivers with Class ACDL for tankers and end dumps.Based along the Colorado FrontRange area, some travel will be

required. Must have 2 years tractor– trailer experience and a cleandriving record. Applicants need toprovide a current MVR. EquipmentOperator – multiple positions

available for both farm andconstruction equipment. Sometraveling may be required. Hourlypay with over time. Benefit package

includes vacation time, sick leave,health insurance, Aflac & 401K.Email resume to

Brianne@parkerag.com or callParker Ag at 888-246-7654 to getan application.

Help Wanted

Western SummitConstructors, Inc. is seeking

Formwork Carpenters & Laborers,Concrete Finishers, Pipefitters, and

Millwrights (process equipmentinstallations) for large wastewater

project located in Denver area.Applications will be taken at9780 Pyramid Ct, Suite 100,

Englewood, CO 80112,from 8-5 M-F.

Send resumes toCareers@westernsummit.com

or call (303)325-0325.WSCI is an EEO Employer.

Would you like to earn an extra$500 to $1,000 this month?

is looking forMarketing ExecutivesFull or Part-TimeCall Today For DetailsMatt at 303-618-2970

Work From Home

AVONGood earnings to sell or buy, CR,

Parker, HR & Centennial.Call for informationFay, (303)790-2524flnorris@yahoo.com

Find your next job here. always online at

OurColoradoCareers.com

LANDSCAPING (Sedalia, CO)$11/Hr.

Full benefits after 8 hours.We are currently taking applica-

tions for landscapersin the Sedalia, CO area.

• Must have experience inlandscaping/irrigation

• Must have transportation• Must be able to use various

hand tools• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs.If you are interested, please go towww.encorejobs.com and fill out

our application.We will conduct a backgroundcheck, so please be open and

upfront about anyconvictions on the online

application.EOE

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Accounting/ Bookkeeping

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Carpentry

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Cleaning

Ali’s Cleaning Services

Call Ali @ 720-300-6731

Residential and Commercial Cleaning• 15yrs experience• Detailed,Honest,Dependable

•WindowCleaning• Insured&Bonded•Great Customer Service

• DepenDable •

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12 yearsexperience.

Great References

Just Details Cleaning ServiceWhen “OK”Just isn’t good enough

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Computer Services

Cowboy Consulting 303-526-2739

Concrete/Paving

All Phases of Flat Work by

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FBM Concrete LLC.Free Estimates

17 Years ExperienceDriveways, patios, stamp &

colored concrete.All kinds of flat work.

Let us do good work for you!(720)217-8022

J-Star ConcreteDriveways, Stamped &

Color Concrete, Steps, Walkways,Basement, Garage Floors,Porches, Tareout & Repair,Patios. Free Est. 7 Days WK

720-327-8618

Concrete/Paving

Navarro Concrete, Inc.Commercial/Residential quality

work at reasonable prices.Registered & Insured in Colorado.

303-423-8175

DRIVEWAYREPLACEMENT

OR RE-SURFACINGWe do quality concrete work at

a�ordable low pricing.Ready for a brand-new lookingDriveway or Patio for half thecost of a total replacement?

See if your Driveway or Patio qualifies for

an affordableNu-Look Resurfacing.

NU-LOOKDRIVEWAYSCall Today for a free quote

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Construction

Massa Construction 303-642-3548

Deck/Patio

• Restore• Repair• Replace

• Wood• Composite• Since 1993

303.781.DECK(3325)www.deckdoctorinc.com

• Replace

Pergolas

FRee eStimateS

Doors/Windows

Door Doctor

www.DenverDoorDoctor.com

JAMES MARYEDOOR SPECIALIST ~ CARPENTER

Interior • ExteriorReplacement • Repair

Commercial • Residential720.276.9648whiteyjr@yahoo.com

Drywall

A PATCH TO MATCHDry wall repair specialist. 30yrs.

Experience, InsuredSatisfaction guaranteedCall Ed 720-328-5039

Sanders Drywall Inc.All phases to include

Acoustic scrape and re-textureRepairs to full basement finishes

Water damage repairsInterior paint, door & trim installs

30+ years experienceInsured

Free estimatesDarrell 303-915-0739

Electricians

Affordable Electrician20 yrs experience

Remodel expert, kitchen,basements, & service panel

upgrades.No job too small. Senior disc.

720-690-7645

Electricians

ELECTRICAL SER-VICE WORK

All types, licensed & insured.Honest expert service.

Free estimates.720-203-7385

Radiant LightingService **

Electrical Work All types. Honestand reliable, licensed & ins.

Free estimates.Craig (303)429-3326

Fence Services

D & D FENCINGCommercial & Residential

All types of cedar, chain link, iron,and vinyl fences. Install and

repair. Serving all areas.Low Prices.

FREE Estimates.720-434-7822 or

303-296-0303

DISCOUNTFENCE CO

Quality Fencing at aDiscountPrice

Wood, Chain Link, Vinyl,Orna-iron, New Install

and Repairs.Owner Operated since 1989

Call Now & Compare!303-450-6604

Garage Doors

www.mikesgaragedoors.com(303) 646-4499

FOR ALL YOUR GARAGE DOOR NEEDS!

• Springs, Repairs • New Doors and Openers • Barn and Arena Doors • Locally-Owned & Operated• Tom Martino’s Referral List 10 Yrs • BBB Gold Star Member Since 2002

Handyman

A Quality Handyman 720-422-2532

•Baths •Kitchens •Tiling•Large & Small Jobs

A HOME REPAIR&

REMODELINGHANDYMAN

303-425-0066303-431-0410

Handyman

Bob’s Home RepairsAll types of repairs.

Reasonable rates 30yrs Exp.303-450-1172

AFFORDABLEHANDYMANAFFORDABLEHANDYMANCarpentry • Painting Tile • Drywall • Roof RepairsPlumbing • ElectricalKitchen • BasementsBath RemodelsProperty Building Maintenance

Free Estimates • ReliableLicensed • Bonded Insured • Senior Discount

No Service in Parker or Castle Rock

Ron Massa Office 303-642-3548Cell 720-363-5983

HOME REPAIRS

INSIDE: *Bath *Kitchen's*Plumbing *Electrical, *Drywall

*Paint *Tile & Windows

OUTSIDE: *Paint & Repairs*Gutters *Deck's *Fence's *Yard

Work *Tree & Shrubberytrimming & clean upAffordable Hauling

Call Rick 720-285-0186

The Affordable HandymanGeneral home improvement andrepairs. Painting, bath remodel,

drywall, etc.30 years experience;references 303-241-7897

Hauling Service

" $Reasonable$"Rates On:

*Trash Cleanup: old furniture,mattresses, appliances, etc.

*Replacement of Decorative Rock*Hauling: trash, old sod, debris.

*Gutter cleaning.*Storm Damage Cleanup,

ReferencesServicing the Denver West and

North areasMark 303.432.3503

"AFFORDABLEHAULING"You Call - I Haul

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Ron MassaBBB - Bonded - Insured

• Home • Business • Junk & Debris• Furniture • Appliances

• Tree Limbs • Moving Trash • Carpet• Garage Clean Out

Call Bernie 303.347.2303

FREE ESTIMATES7 DAYS A WEEK

Instant Trash HaulingInstant Trash HaulingTRASH HAULING

Dirt, Rock, Concrete, Sod & Asphalt

HAULERSBronco

FREE ESTIMATESCall 720-218-2618

• Dependable • Affordable •• Prompt Service 7 days a week •

• Foreclosure and Rental clean-outs •• Garage clean-outs •

• Furniture •• Appliances •

Hauling Service

Heavy Hauling*Snow plowing commercial and

business properties• Snow hauling • Asphalt &Concrete •Dirt removal &replacement • Grading •

Excavating • Tractor •Trucking.303-908-9384

*Snow plowing servicing theWestminster, Northglenn and

Thornton areas

Trash & JunkRemoval

We take what your trash man won't.Branches, mattresses,

appliances, reasonable rates &prompt service 720-333-6832

Heating/ Air Conditioning

All Makes

& Models

Family owned and serving Golden & Jefferson County since 1955. 24-Hour Service

Furnaces • Boilers • Water HeatersService • Repair • Replace

720.327.9214Commercial & Residential

10% Senior & Military DiscountAll Home Energy Audits

House Cleaning

Gloria's Hands onCleaning

Reliable, 25 years in business,personal touch, spring cleaning.Weekly, bi-weekly, once a month

303-456-5861Servicing the Metro North and

Metro West areas

Insurance

INSURANCE REVIEW- Please call 720-484-3732for a FREE Home, Auto and LifeInsurance review!

Janitorial Services

• Dependable• Best Prices

• Detailed

COMMERCIAL CLEANING“Let us do the dirty work!”

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Great References!We are Family-Owned

and Operated

Landscaping/Nurseries

LANDSCAPE

• Complete Landscape Design & Construction • Retaining Walls, Paver & Natural Stone Patios• Clean-Ups & Plant Pruning• Tree & Stump Removal• New Plantings• Irrigation Systems and Repairs• Landscape Lighting

Licensed

www.arterralandscaping.comInsured720.436.6340

COLORADO REGISTERED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

Landscaping/Nurseries

Olson Landscaping & Design

GET A JUMP ON SPRING PROJECTS!New installs, yard make-overs, retaining walls, sod, sprinkler systems, flagstone, decorative rock. For all your landscape

needs call Richard at 720-297-5470. Licensed, insured, Member BBB.

SHORTY'SLANDSCAPING"???Need Lawn

Mowing???"303-274-9349.12 years exp.

Affordable, Insured, FREE est.Landscaping, aerating, sprinkler

installs, makeovers & more!www.shortyslandscaping.com

Lawn/Garden Services

Dreilng Lawn ServiceFREE Estimates

• Weekly Mowing • Aeration• Power Rake • Fertilization •

Sprinkler Install /Repair & Turn On

• Sod Install & Repair• Rock Install • Gutter Clean OutSenior Discount - Accepting All

Major Credit CardsCall (303)427-5342 or

720-470-2870

Misc. Services

Licensed and InsuredCall Us Today! 720-545-9222

STAIRLIFTS INSTALLEDwith a Warranty Starting at $1575

WALK-IN-TUBSStarting at $2995

Motorcycle Repair

All Makes and ModelsSmall engine repair also

Spring is coming – Need your carbs cleaned?

Motorcycle/ATV Service & Repair

Fisher Cycle WorksCall Fish Fisher at:720-308-0425

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Painting

Bob’s Painting,Repairs & HomeImprovements

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DEEDON'S PAINTING40 years experience

Interior & Exterior painting.References

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• Honest pricing •• Free estimates •

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dirty jobs done dirt cheapDrain Cleaning & Plumbing Repairs

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* Drain Cleaning * Remodels/New Construction* Gas Lines * Garbage Disposals

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Cooler Start-Up/Repair. Call West Tech (720)298-0880

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• Industrial • Residential • Commericial • Free Estimates

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No argument about eateries

The latest issue of 5280 magazine names the Best New Restaurants of 2013.

The special restaurants (and I have no argument with these choices) are The Populist at 3163 Larimer St. (www.the-populistdenver.com), Sassafras American Eatery at 2637 W. 26th Ave (www.sassa-frasamericaneatery.com), Uncle at 2215 W. 32nd Ave. (www.uncledenver.tumblr.com), Oak at Fourteenth at 1400 Pearl St. in Boulder, (www.oakatfourteenth.com), The Universal at 2911 W. 38th Ave. (www.theuniversaldenver.blogspot.com), Amerigo Delicatus Restaurant & Market at 2449 Larimer St., (www.amerigodeli-catus.com), Spuntino at 2639 W. 32nd Ave. (www.spuntinodenver.com) and The Squeaky Bean at 1500 Wynkoop St. (www.thesqueakybean.com).

Just about the Bee Gees“It’s only words, and words are all I

have, to take your heart away.” Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb.

The Australian Bee Gees Show cap-tures the look, the sound and the person-ality that defines one of the most success-ful and adored acts in musical history.

This five-piece band has evolved to become the definitive live celebration of four decades of wonderful music written by the Brothers Gibb.

The Australian Bee Gees Show has played to capacity crowds around the world, cementing their reputation as exceptional performers and the world’s leading Bee Gees show.

Their greatest hits are performed in a live concert setting with state-of-the-art sound, lighting, video screens, onstage mannerisms, speaking voices, and soar-ing high notes and harmonies capturing the essence of the Bee Gees.

For one night only, be a part of the magic of one of the greatest bands of all time covering such classic songs as Stayin’ Alive, Night Fever, You Should Be Dancin’, Nights on Broadway, Massachusetts, Trag-edy, Lonely Days, To Love Somebody, How Deep Is Your Love, Jive Talkin’, Grease, plus many, many more.

This concert benefits Colorado Public Television 12 and is sponsored by KOSI, 101.1-FM, Out Front Colorado, Prime Time for Seniors, 50plus Marketplace News, The Curtis, Presidential Worldwide Transportation and Marlowe’s restaurant.

The show starts at 8 p.m. March 15; doors open at 7 at the Paramount The-atre. Tickets are $39-$49 (Golden Circle) plus service charges and are available at www.tickethorse.com or by calling 866-461-6556. Tickets also are available at www.cpt12.org or by calling 303-296-1212.

Beer hereAlamo Drafthouse Cinema in Little-

ton is scheduled to open March 22 in the Aspen Grove Shopping Center, but it’s already announced it is adding 32 beers, doubling its already hefty brew menu (view the entire beer menu at http://draft-house.com/blog/entry/32_more_tasty_brews_added_to_the_alamo_line_up).

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema combines dinner, drinks, films and events, all under one roof. The theaters have been herald-ed for their unique programming events and high exhibition standards, earning accolades like “Best Theater Ever” (Time

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Painters rising‘Pitmen’ tells true story of English paintersBy Clarke Readercreader@ourcoloradonews.com

Understanding art can be a difficult task, even more so when one has no ex-

perience at all with it.That’s the dilemma facing a

group of English coal miners in a Northumberland coal town in the 1930s, when they end up taking an art appreciation class.

“The Pitmen Paint-ers,” showing at Golden’s Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave.,

through April 7, tackles the dif-ferent ways people come to love art.

The play is written by Lee Hall, famous for writing “Billy Elliot.”

According to director Rick Bernstein, the play is based on the true story of miners in the town of Ashington who acci-dentally became famous artists while trying to learn about it.

“In the 1930s these miners were offered some classes on subjects like biological evolu-tion and economics, but an economics instructor couldn’t be found, so they ended up in art appreciation instead,” he said. “They didn’t know anything about art, so af-ter trying to teach them, the teacher thought they would learn better if they created art.”

The result was an

amazing body of work cre-ated by the miners that lasted through World War II and has been lauded by many critics and art fans.

Producer Paige Larson said that a former Miners Alley ac-tress told her about the play and when she read it for her-self, it immediately intrigued her.

“It reminded me of what we do at Miners Alley — create art for the working class,” she said. “It really touched my heart, because these men had a real tough life in the mines, but are really great characters.”

Larson said that the actors had a lot of fun with the Ge-ordie accent, which can be ex-tremely difficult to understand. She said the playbills will have a short glossary for audiences to help them understand.

“We spent a lot of time working on the accents and phrases, because we really wanted to get the rhythm, which is very specific to the region,” Larson said.

Bernstein said that in a way the cast and crew be-came the Pitmen Painters through working so hard to capture the culture and

work the painters created.“I think it really kind of mir-

rored the journey for all of us,” he said.

One of the things that Ber-nstein found most remarkable about the story is how impor-tant it was for the painters to be a group.

“These guys weren’t egotis-tic, and just had a passion for art, and used it to tell their sto-ry,” he said. “A couple were of-fered stipends so they wouldn’t have to work in the mines any more, but they didn’t want to leave the people they worked with.”

The miners’ passion for art, even though they never expect-ed anyone to see what they cre-ated, mirrors Bernstein’s own belief on the need to create art as an outlet, even if it’s just for yourself.

“For these painters, it was kind of a salvation — a way to get out of their dark world,” he said. “In a way the play is like ‘Billy Elliot,’ ‘The Full Monty’ and ‘Rocky,’ with lower-class people doing something more.”

For tickets and more infor-mation, call 303-935-3044 or visit www.minersalley.com.

English miners go from learning about art to creating it in “The Pitmen Painters,” currently playing at the Miners Alley Playhouse. Photos by Sarah Roshan

Oliver (Mark Collins), left, and Ben (Brandon Palmer), right, discuss a work created by the miners in “The Pitmen Painters.”

IF YOU GOWHAT: ‘The Pitmen Painters’WHERE: Miners Alley Playhouse1224 Washington Ave., GoldenWHEN: Through April 7,7:30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, 6 p.m. SundayCOST: $19 to $29.50INFORMATION: 303-935-3044 or www.minersalley.com.

Robert (Peter Gi�n), one of the miners, works on a painting. The play is based on true events.

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Urban AlmanacErica McNeish and Laurie

Smith are both food lovers and food “professionals,” having worked as a food stylist and food photographer.

The pair has recently an-nounced the launch of “The Urban Almanac” at www.theurbanal-manac.com. The website offers a seasonal online guide that features the bounty of food, drink and artisanal products that come solely from Colorado.

“The idea is to bring Coloradans great stories about passionate, local and sometimes unknown purveyors. Through blogging about these artisans, we get to do what we love most: discover what is hap-pening locally, document their stories with photographs, develop recipes with their products, and do what we can to spread the good word,” said Smith.

The Urban Almanac includes feature stories and recipes for breakfasts, lunches, desserts and main courses, hot drinks, cold drinks, cocktails and much more all featuring Colorado products.

It provides “foodies” with a unique resource for tracking and tasting local fl avors.

McNeish has been a food lover her entire life and made a career of it as a freelance food stylist. She has styled 10 cookbooks (including two award winners) and her work has been featured in magazines including Gourmet, 5280, Sunset and Cowboys and Indians.

Smith is a freelance photog-rapher, specializing in the world of food and travel. She has pho-

tographed and documented food stories around the globe, and her photos have been published in 35 cookbooks and national food magazines, such as Savor, Food and Wine, Sunset, 5280 and Cow-boys and Indians.

“We’re excited to be able to express our passion for the food, farmers and foragers of the Front Range!” said McNeish.

New car showCome browse hundreds of the

year’s new vehicles, meet Miss Col-orado at the Cadillac display, get a fi rst look at the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA, Jaguar F-Type, and check out some of the elite 40 MPG Club members all at the Denver Auto Show.

So come sit in the cars, pop the hoods, inspect the trunks, and kick the tires March 20-24. Tickets are on sale: http://denverconven-tion.com/events/details/denver-auto-show1?utm_source=Newsletter+March+2013&utm_campaign=March+2013+Newsletter&utm_medium=email.

She’s my friendEllen M. Robinson is now di-

rector of Health & Wellness at the Offi ce of Gov. John Hickenlooper. Congrats to the Milk Maid for land-ing a great job. She’s done well for herself, however. When I grow up, I want to be her!

Sublurbia on a customer who drops off four large bottles of beer for a clerk at a Cherry Creek North store: After the customer leaves, clerk says to his fellow employees: “I guess I have to be a whole lot nicer to him from now on.”

Penny Parker’s “Mile High Life” column gives insights into the best events, restaurants, businesses, parties and people throughout the metro area. Parker also writes for Blacktie-Colorado.com. She can be reached at penny@blacktie-llc.com or at 303-619-5209.

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SPELLING BEE Compete with other spelling whizzes in the 60+ Spelling Bee, sponsored by the Arvada Press/Mile High News, Brookdale Senior Living’s Arvada Sterling House and Arvada Meridian, and Prime Time for Seniors Newspaper. Prizes and refreshments included. This is a free event, but both contestants and spectators must register by March 2. Contestants must be 60 and over. Sign up soon; space is limited. The spelling bee is from 1-3 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at the Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada.

THURSDAY/MARCH 14, MARCH 21

TAX WORKSHOPS The Colorado Department of Revenue o� ers free tax workshops on sales and use tax laws in Colorado. The workshops include information on many common sales and use tax topics, including but not limited to the liabilities businesses face when they are not in compliance with Colorado laws. The Sales/Use Tax Part 1 class is from 1-4 p.m. Thursday, March 14, and Part II is from 1-4 p.m. Thursday, March 21, in Wheat Ridge. Reg-istration is required. Continuing Professional Education credits and training materials are available. For more information and to sign up for these workshops or other tax workshops of-fered by the Colorado Department of Revenue, visit www.TaxSeminars.state.co.us.

THURSDAY/MARCH 14 to March 23

SCARS PRODUCTION Red Rocks Community College theater arts and dance department, in collaboration with the RRCC College Gateway program, the Denver Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries, and the Terry Stevinson family, presents “Scars: Breaking the Cycle,” beginning March 14 at Red Rocks Community College. The show runs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturdays through March 23. The production is based on real-life experiences of Red Rocks Community College Gateway students. After a two-week performance run at Red Rocks Community College, “Scars: Breaking the Cycle” will tour the Denver Metro area and be presented with community partners: The LIDA Project (April 13), D.L. Parsons Theatre at the Northglenn Recreation Center (March 29). For information and reservations, contact Leonard Madrid at 303-914-6458 or leonard.madrid@rrcc.edu.

THURSDAY/MARCH 14

CASA 101 Court Appointed Special Advocates of Adams and Broom� eld Counties is seeking volunteers to advocate on behalf of abused and neglected children who have open cases in the judicial system. Learn about the program at CASA 101, from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at Adams County Economic Development Corporation, 12200 Pecos St., Suite 100, West-minster. CASA sta� members and volunteers will speak with guests about the program, as well as help those interested in taking the next step to become a volunteer. CASA’s next volunteer training class begins in June. For information or to RSVP, visit www.casa17th.org or call 303-655-3918.

FRIDAY/MARCH 15

POTLUCK AS part of the Festive Friday Series, get your Irish on and join us for this fun annual event at noon Friday, March 15, at the North-glenn Senior Center, 11801 Community Center Drive. Bring your favorite side dish or dessert and the Northglenn Senior Organization will provide corned beef and cabbage, rolls, tea and co� ee. RSVP at 303-450-8801. For people ages 55 and over.

FRIDAY/MARCH 15

MEDICATION REVIEW Students from the University of Colorado School of Pharmacy will help review your medications and supplements to make sure you are taking them in the most bene� cial manner from 1-3:30 p.m. Friday, March 15, at the Community Recreation Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Call for a free 20-minute appointment at 303-425-9583.

FRIDAY/MARCH 15

MUSICAL TRIBUTE Gobs O’Phun present a musical tribute to “The Quiet Man,” featuring special guest musician Peggy Fasing, from 8-10 p.m. Friday, March 15, at Daniels Hall, Swallow Hill Music Association, 71 E. Yale, Denver. Call 303-777-1003. Show for all ages. Visit swal-lowhillmusic.org.

INTERNSHIP APPLICATIONS Sen. Michael Bennet is accepting internship applications from undergraduate students, recent gradu-ates and graduate students for his Washington, D.C., and Colorado o� ces in Colorado Springs, Denver, Durango, Fort Collins, Grand Junction and Pueblo. To apply, visit http://www.bennet.senate.gov/services/internships/. The deadline to apply is March 15, and the � rst summer ses-sion begins May 20. The second session begins July 8. This is an unpaid position. Contact Haley Martin at Haley_Martin@bennet.senate.gov for the D.C program or Alexis Harrigan at Denver_Intern_Coordinator@bennet.senate.gov for the Colorado program.

SATURDAY/MARCH 16

PROM DRESS exchange The 2013 Prom Dress Exchange allows metro teens to shop for the dress of their dreams from thousands of gently-used and brand new designer items, including a limited selection of menswear. A valid student ID and a minimum donation will provide access to the event and an out� t. Seamstresses will be available onsite to do lim-ited services. Those unable to donate won’t be turned away.The event is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 16, at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, 6000 Victory Way, Commerce City. Visit www.promdressexchange.org or follow us at facebook.com/promdressexchange. The non-pro� t is always looking for men’s formalwear items. Email promdressexchange@gmail.com or 303-875-4783 to help with the event.

NATURE ADVENTURES Celebrate the won-ders of nature with your child through short hikes, hands-on activities, crafts and books from 11-11:454 a.m. the third Saturday of each month at Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. Dress for the weather as we may spend some time outside. Di� erent

topics each month. Open to ages 4-6 years and their parents. Admission is free, but you must call in advance to sign up, 720-898-7405. Visit www.arvada.org/nature.

TALES TO Tails Children in elementary school are invited to read to our wonderful dog vol-unteers from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 16, at Anythink Huron Street, 9417 Huron St., Thornton; or go to anythinklibraries.org. Join us on the third Saturday of each month. Tales to Tails is an excellent program for children who are learning to read or just need a little practice. Our patient dogs love to listen and they never criticize. Please call 303-452-7534 or come in to make an appointment.

SATURDAY/MARCH 16

CANAL CLEANUP Volunteers are invited to help clean up garbage and debris in the Farm-ers’ Highline Canal area from 8:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday, March 16. Meet at the police depart-ment entrance at City Hall, 11701 Community Center Drive. A thank-you lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m. In case of bad weather, the event will move to March 23. Register by calling 303-450-8800 or going to www.northglenn.org/recxpress. For more information, contact Jenni Murphy at 303-450-8904 or jmurphy@northglenn.org. Recxpress code: 16414

SATURDAY/MARCH 16

SPELLING BEE Colorado elementary and middle school students will compete at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 16, at the Colorado Conven-tion Center for the Colorado State Spelling Bee. The competition will draw fourth- to eighth-grade students from schools throughout Colorado. The competition is free and open to the public. Visit www.spellingbee.com.

SATURDAY/MARCH 16

ST. PATRICK’S Day The Historic Olde Town Arvada Association presents its second St. Patrick’s Day Festival from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 16, at Grandview Avenue and Olde Wadsworth Boulevard. Live music, liba-tions, food and family fun. Admission is free. Visit www.historicarvada.org.

SATURDAY/MARCH 16

ST. PATRICK’S dinner The First Congrega-tional Church of Eastlake will have its annual St. Patrick’s Day dinner from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 16, at 12630 Second St., Eastlake. The dinner will feature corned beef and cabbage, Irish potatoes and carrots, soda bread, Emerald Isle salad and Luck of the Irish pie. Tickets can be reserved by calling church moderator Susan Shirley at 303-547-5858 or by e-mail at ski2xs@att.net.

SUNDAY/MARCH 17

OPEN HOUSE Clayton Early Learning will have an open house from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, March 17, and from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, April 7, at Clayton Educare Denver School, 3751 Martin Luther King Blvd., Denver. Visit www.ClaytonEarlyLearning.org. For questions or to RSVP, call 303-355-4411.

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YOUTH

PERMITS

RESIDENT OR NONRESIDENT

YOUTH SPRINGShotgun Opens April 7Archery Opens March 25

Application Periods Start May 21

Share the hunting experience you enjoy with your kids—for less. All hunters 15 and under can get Nebraska deer

and turkey permits for only $5.

GET ALL THE DETAILS AT OutdoorNebraska.org/5bucks

�e trees we plant now are trees that grow with our children.

One or more acres are required to purchase conservation seedlings through the Colorado State Forest Service Nursery.

Contact us at: 970-491-8429 or www.csfs.colostate.edu.

•Reforestation•Windbreaks•Wildlife Habitat

WESTMINSTER NEWS IN A HURRY Grange to host Leprechaun Gala

The Westminster Grange is hosting a Lep-rechaun Gala, or crazy dinner at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 17, at 3935 W 73rd Ave. Donations will be taken for commu-nity service work. RSVP to westminstergrange184@q.com. For further informa-tion contact Sharon Arnold at 303-428-1835 or sar-nold41@juno.com.

Town hall meeting to focus on jobs and the economy

Rep. Tracy Kraft-Tharp and Sen. Evie Hudak are hosting a town hall meet-ing focusing on jobs and the economy, including a presentation by Jennifer Cassell, legislative liaison and policy advisor from the Colorado Offi ce of Eco-nomic Development and International Trade.

The meeting will be 10:30 a.m. to noon Satur-day, March 16, at Covenant Village of Colorado Smith Fellowship Hall, 9153 Yar-row St. in Westminster.

Kraft-Tharp is also host-ing community coffee ses-sions from 6:30-7:30 p.m. every fourth Thursday of the month at Panera Bread, 10450 Town Center Drive in Westminster.

Broom� eld Academy o� ering summer academic programs

Broomfi eld Academy will again offer individual-ized and advanced junior kindergarten, kindergar-ten preparation, elemen-tary preparation and intermediate preparation programming this summer.

This academic pro-gram provides a balanced approach to learning, fun

and exercise during the summer. Parents can sign up their child for the entire summer or just for the weeks and days needed.

To request registra-tion materials or for more information, please call 303-469-6449 or visit www.broomfi eldacademy.com.

Pet vaccination/licensing clinic

Westminster Animal Management is teaming up with veterinarians from Spay Today and Foothills Animal Shelter to offer low-cost dog and cat vaccina-tions from 2-4 p.m.

March 16 at Murdoch’s Ranch and Farm Supply, 9150 Wadsworth Blvd. Dog licenses will also be avail-able for purchase.

No appointment is necessary. All residents of Westminster, both in Adams and Jefferson coun-ties, are required by law to license their dogs.

Vaccinations are $15 each. Dog licenses are $15 each for spayed or neutered dogs, and $30 each for unaltered dogs.

Mobile spay/neuter clinic for dogs and cats

Foothills Animal Shel-ter’s mobile surgical unit is providing low-cost spay/neuter procedures for cats and dogs.

Check-in begins at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, March 16, at Murdoch’s Ranch and Farm Supply, 9150 Wadsworth Blvd. Surgery space is lim-ited, and is on a fi rst come, fi rst served basis. Fees are $20 for cats and $60 for dogs.

For an additional fee, they can vaccinate, micro-chip and license your pet.

YOUR WEEK & MOREMONDAY/MARCH 18

MAYOR COFFEE Meet with the Northglenn mayor at 8:30 a.m. Monday, March 18, at Atlanta Bread in the Northglenn Marketplace for Co� ee with the Mayor, a chance to talk directly about issues in the community and to learn about new developments in the city. Call 303-450-8713 for more information.

TUESDAY/MARCH 19

HEAD SHAVING St. Baldrick’s head shaving is from 4-8 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, at Arvada West High School, 11595 Allendale Drive, Arvada.

TUESDAY/MARCH 19

IDENTITY THEFT Practical ways to protect yourself from identity theft will be revealed at noon and 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, at Lifetree Café, 5675 Field St. in Arvada. The program, “They Hijacked My Life!” features an exclusive � lmed interview with identity-theft expert John Sileo. Admission to the 60-minute event is free. Snacks and beverages are available. Lifetree Café is a place where people gather for conversa-tion about life and faith in a casual co� eehouse-type setting. Questions about Lifetree may be directed to Polly Wegner, at 303-424-4454 or pwegner@peacelutheran.net.

WEDNESDAY/MARCH 20

CAMPFIRE SERIES Debugging the Bug, a program explaining that butter� ies, millipedes, roly-polies and spiders are not bugs, is from 6:30-8 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, at Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. Dust out the cobwebs of your biology brain while warming your bodies by our camp� re. Leave knowing what it means to be an arthropod, and with a toasty warm marshmallow. Feel free to come in your PJ’s. Taught by Charlotte Sandkuhler. Sign up in advance. Weather date is March 27. Visit www.arvada.org/nature.

AMERICAN WEST Join Active Minds from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, for an exploration of how the West was opened and won. We’ll tell the story from a variety of perspectives, from the early explorers who ventured into the unknown to the fortune seekers who raced to the Gold Rush. We’ll also include the often brutal elements of what was known at the time as “Mani-fest Destiny” including con� icts with Native Americans as well as Spanish Mexico, all of which added signi� cant territory to the United States. This free program will take place at Covenant Village of Colorado, 9153 Yarrow St., Westminster. RSVP at 303-403-2205.

WEDNESDAY/MARCH 20,APRIL 17

WEDNESDAYS AT 2 Covenant Village o� ers a monthly series featuring expert speakers on a variety of educational and entertaining topics. All programs are at 9153 Yarrow St., Westminster. Admission is free, but seating is limited. Call 303-403-2205 for directions and reservations. Come early for refresh-ments and fellowship; lectures begin at 2 p.m.

MARCH 20: The American West, presented by Active Minds.

APRIL 17: Tibet, presented by Active Minds.

THURSDAY/MARCH 21

STEM OPEN house An open house that will showcase Northglenn High School’s new science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs is planned from 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, March 21, at the high school, 601 W. 100th Place. Parents who have children who may be interested in the program or a business interested in what changes are taking place in local education are espe-cially encouraged to attend. For more information on the open house, contact council member Leslie Carrico at 303-451-5046 or lcarrico@northglenn.org.

THURSDAY/MARCH 21

HOA ANSWERS 2013 is shaping up to be a year with the potential for a large number of bills that may a� ect community associations and the trades that service community associations. A panel of experts from the Legisla-tive Action Committee will provide an update of activity this year, and help answer any questions participants may have. This special update program will be from 8-9:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21, at the Courtyard at Marriott, 1475 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver. Breakfast will be served. Call 303-951-4973 or visit www.hoa-colorado.org.

RECURRING EVENTSRECURRING/THROUGH MARCH 16

INSTRUMENT DRIVE Colorado Public Radio kicks o� its annual instrument drive on Friday, March 1. The com-munity program is designed to promote and strengthen music education and appreciation in Colorado. Coloradans are encouraged to donate their band or orchestra instruments through March 16 at one of 13 drop-o� locations, includ-ing Golden Music Center, Music and Arts (Westminster) and Rockley Music Company (Lakewood). After they’re donated, instruments are repaired by Colorado Institute of Musical Instrument Technology, and then Colorado Public Radio works with the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation to match refurbished instru-ments with the needs of underfunded school music programs in Colorado.

RECURRING/THROUGH MARCH 18

ART EXHIBIT Art From the Heart, a juried exhibit of art by Colorado artists, will be on display at the College Hill Library from Feb. 4 through March 18. The library is at 3705 W. 112th Ave., Westminster, at the far west end of Front Range Community College. Enjoy a variety of art media and techniques from traditional oils and watercolors to abstract collage and impressionism. Art From the Heart is sponsored by the Paletteers Art Club and the SCFD and can be viewed during library hours. Call 303-466-2512.

RECURRING/THROUGH MARCH 20

ART SHOW The “Art for the Young at Heart” art show runs through March 20 at the Community Recreation Center of Apex, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Enjoy the colorful creations of artists ages 50-plus and local school children. Sponsored by North Je� erson County Schools and the Scienti� c and Cultural Facilities District. Call 303-425-9583.

RECURRING/THROUGH MARCH 27

PRESCHOOL FUN Jody Weiland teaches about a di� erent kind of animal from 10-10:45 a.m. Wednesdays from March 6-27 at Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. This four-week session includes fox, ants, raccoons and coyotes. Enjoy a glimpse into their wonderful worlds, using books, stories, crafts, and games. Program for ages 3-6 years. Sign up early; call 720-898-7405 or visit www.arvada.org/nature to register and for information on costs.

RECURRING/THROUGH MAY 26

SPRING EXHIBIT Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art presents its spring exhibit “The Museum of Broken Rela-tionships,” through May 26. Visit bmoca.org, email brokenships@bmoca.org or call 303-443-2122 for information. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is at 1750 13th St., Boulder.

RECURRING/MONTHLY THROUGH MAY

FAMILY CONCERTS The Music Train and Swallow Hill Music presents the family concert series, at 4 p.m. the sec-ond Sunday of each month through May at Swallow Hill Music Association, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver; and at 4 p.m. the third Saturday of each month through May at the D-Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada. For information and tick-ets, visit http://ridethemusictrain.com.

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EASTER CONCERT The Colorado Mor-mon Chorale will perform its free Easter concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 22, at 7080 Independence St., Arvada. Cel-ebrating its 30th year, the 80-member Colorado Mormon Chorale is made up of volunteers from all over the Denver-metro area. The concert will also feature a brass quartet of two trumpets and two trombones. Doors open at 7 p.m. Visit coloradomormonchorale.org.

LOOKING AHEAD/MARCH 25-26

PASSOVER SEDERS Chabad of Northwest Metro Denver invites the community to their annual Passover Seders in Westminster. The First Seder Night is from 6:15-9:30 p.m. Monday, March 25, at the Rocky Mountain Room at Front Range Community College, 3465 W. 112th Ave., Westminster. This easy to follow and early � nish Seder is geared for individuals, couples and families of all ages who appreciate an early � nishing Seder but don’t want to miss out on the beautiful Seder traditions and meaningful commentary. The pre-Seder children’s arts and crafts program beginning at 5:30 p.m. and early � nish makes this Seder a great choice for families with young children.

THE SECOND Seder is from 8-11:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, at Chabad of NW Metro Denver, 4505 112th Ave., Westminster. Rabbi Benjy and Leah Brackman of Chabad of NW Metro Denver Jewish Center open their family Seder to the community for this more traditional and in-depth Seder. This Seder will include all the traditions including a nightfall start. The younger members of the Brackman family will enrich the Seder experience by provid-ing commentary, explanations and songs. To RSVP and for more informa-tion, visit www.COJewish.com/seder or call 303-429-5177.

LOOKING AHEAD/MARCH 27

ART STOP Anythink and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art have teamed up to bring you an art-making workshop each month. Join visiting artist Heather Cherry and express yourself through a variety of art media, with the emphasis on creativity and fun. Registration required and limited to 20 students; appropriate for ages 5-12. The workshop is from 4-5 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, at Anythink Huron Street, 9417 Huron St., Thornton. Call 303-452-7534 or visit anythinklibraries.org.

LOOKING AHEAD/MARCH 28

COMMUNITY COFFEE Rep. Tracy Kraft-Tharp wants to hear from you. The next Community Co� ee is from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28, at Panera Bread, 10450 Town Center Drive, Westminster. Come and chat about issues important to you. Community co� ee is planned the fourth Thursday of every month.

COMMUNITY COFFEE Rep. Tracy Kraft-Tharp wants to hear from you. The next Community Co� ee is from 7-8 a.m. Thursday, March 28, at La Dolce Vita,

5756 Olde Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Come and chat about issues important to you. Community co� ee is planned the fourth Thursday of every month.

LOOKING AHEAD/MARCH 28

SOCK HOP Friends of Broom� eld plans its Friends Night Out for adults with developmental disabilities from 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28. The event is the Friends annual sock hop. Slick back your hair and put your poodle skirts on because this is a night you won’t want to miss. The night will be � lled with music, snacks, � oats and plenty of games. Awards will be given to the best costumes so make sure and dress to impress. We have music that will make you jive and games that will keep you laughing. Sign up by Monday, March 25. The event is at Friends of Broom� eld, 555 Alter St., Suite 19E, Broom� eld. Call 303-404-0123 or visit www.friendsof-broom� eld.org for information on costs and to register.

LOOKING AHEAD/APRIL 3 TO MAY 22, ON WEDNESDAYS

WILDLIFE ART Discover wild animals from Australia, South America and Africa, from giant lizards and poisonous frogs to deadly snakes. Use a variety of fun art techniques to examine these fascinating inhabitants of our planet. The 8-week session for ages 6-12 meets from 4-5:30 p.m. Wednesdays from April 3 to May 22 at Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. Bring a healthy snack each week. Register by March 29 at www.arvada.org/nature. Instructor is David Sullivan.

LOOKING AHEAD/APRIL 4

ATTRACTING BUTTERFLIES Are you i� y about insects but bursting about butter� ies? Would you like to learn how to attract butter� ies to your garden at home this spring and summer? Join Majestic View Nature Center from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, and go home with the know-how and some materials to get you started on your garden. The center is at 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. For ages 10 and older. Sign up early; visit www.arvada.org/nature.

LOOKING AHEAD/APRIL 5, APRIL 6, APRIL 11

KITE MAKING Assemble, decorate and take home your own sled kite at Majes-tic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. Multiple times are available for this class: 4-5 p.m. Friday, April 5; 8:30-9:30 a.m., 10-11 a.m., 11:30-12:30 p.m., 1-2 p.m., 2:30-3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6; and 4-5 p.m. Thursday, April 11. Make sure to come out and � y your new kite at the free Arvada Kite Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at Robby Ferru� no Park. Watch the pros � y their kites at this Arvada Festivals Commission event. All materials are included in the fee. Call 720-898-7405 to register; classes � ll up fast. Class open to ages 4-10 years.

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LOOKING AHEAD: NATURE, HEALTH FAIRLOOKING AHEAD/APRIL 6

FOOTBALL CAMP The Standley Lake Football Club o� ers a free football camp for players in � rst to seventh grades from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 6, at Standley Lake High School, football � eld, 9300 W. 104th Ave., Westminster. The camp will introduce children to tackle football for the upcoming 2013 season. The club also o� ers � ag football for kindergarten and � rst grade players. Please bring cleats/running shoes and water. Call Tom at 303-325-5389 with questions.

LOOKING AHEAD/APRIL 7 TO MAY 5; MAY 19

NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY Professional photographer Rod Pilcher will lead this basic photography course (for ages 10 and up) with a twist from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, April 7, to Sunday, May 5, at and around Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. Learn camera parts, how your camera works, proper exposure, color, composition and lighting. A � lm or digital camera is required; S.L.R. (Single Lens Relex) is preferred. Registration is required by

March 27; visit www.arvada.org/nature. This class also ful� lls the requirements for Boy Scout Photography Merit Badge. An optional trip to The Denver Zoon on May 19 is not included in class fee.

LOOKING AHEAD/APRIL 13

BIRD WALK Are you ready to see some amazing birds that may visit your back yard? April is a spectacular time of year to see a variety of birds, and you can see them at the beginning bird walk from 8-10 a.m. Saturday, April 13, at Majestic View Park, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. After an introduction, stroll around Oberon Lake to view resident and migratory birds. Bring binoculars and � eld guides if you have them. Spotting scope will be provided. Sign up early. Open to ages 10 and older; no cost. Visit www.arvada.org/nature.

LOOKING AHEAD/APRIL 14, APRIL 21, APRIL 28

AUDITIONS THE DJC Youth All-Stars is looking for 9th, 10th and 11th grade clarinet, tenor sax, trumpet, trombone, tuba, string bass and drum set players. Auditions are from 6:30-9 p.m. Sunday, April 14; from 11:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Sunday, April 21; and from 6:30-9 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at Flesher-Hinton Music Store, 3936

Tennyson St., Denver. Audition music and recording are posted at www.bandresourcesunlimited.com. Intermediate to advanced jazz experience necessary; weekly rehearsals are on Sundays. For information and audition scheduling, contact ecan11@msn.com or 303-328-7277.

LOOKING AHEAD/APRIL 18

TRAVEL SERIES See digital slides of water bu� alo, elephants, gira� es, lions, leopards, rare birds, and more at the African Safari travel series, from 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, at Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. Join presenter Bob Barber, a professional outdoor photographer and Arvada Park Advisory Committee member, for an armchair tour of the southern Africa’s unique animal life. Register by April 15. Open to ages 10 and older. Visit www.arvada.org/nature.

SOCIAL SECURITY Do you have questions about Social Security? Attend “Untangling Social Security” from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, at APEX Park and Recreation District, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Speaker is Jo-Ann Holst. Space is limited; RSVP at 720-287-5880 or www.FUELFinancial.net.

LOOKING AHEAD/APRIL 20

EARTH DAY Olympics Flex your muscles and mind during our Earth Day Olympics, from 1-2 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at Majestic View Nature Center, 7030 Garrison St., Arvada. Join the fun compet-ing in a series of Earth Day related games and events. Open to ages 5-12; must register. Visit www.arvada.org/nature.

HEALTH FAIR The Broom� eld 9Health Fair is planned from 7 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 20, at United Methodist Church, 545 W. 10th Ave., Broom� eld. The fair is free and open to the public. Non-medical volunteers are needed; contact Pam Kutchen, � re and life safety education o� cer for North Metro Fire Rescue District, at 720-887-0404 or pkutchen@northmetro� re.org.

LOOKING AHEAD/APRIL 21

FIRE VS. Police The upcoming Fire vs. Police Bowl, a collaborative e� ort between North Metro Fire Rescue District, Broom� eld Police Department and A Precious Child, is planned for Sunday, April 21, at Chipper’s Lanes, 100 Nickel St., Broom� eld. Registration begins at 2:30 p.m. and bowling lasts from 3-6 p.m. All proceeds bene� t A Precious Child. Email Britta Robinson at Britta@apreciouschild.org.

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By Sara Van Cleve svancleve@ourcoloradonews.com

Returning home from deployment is a time of great joy for families, but once the elation fades, other emotions often kick in for service

men and women.“One of the hardest things is you re-

member the day you stepped off the plane and your whole family was there or who-ever was there to greet you when you fi rst came back, and you remember how happy you were, and that’s part of what makes you fl ip back into depression,” said Army Spec. Matt Spradley, who was deployed to Afghanistan in 2010-11.

“You go ‘Well, holy crap. Is that the hap-piest I’m ever going to be? Will I ever feel as happy as I was that day?’ and it makes it really hard to deal with anything really,” he said.

The range of emotions for returning sol-diers — from happiness to sadness, from guilt and fear to anger and frustration — is just one issue facing America’s service peo-ple.

“You look at things differently — every-

thing,” said Army Spec. Cody Jones, a vet-eran of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2008-09. “Your family, your friends, the world in general. Everything is different.”

R e t i r e d Air Force Chief Mas-ter Sgt. and c o u n s e l o r Ken Van H o l b e c k with Warrior Counseling and Consulting in Colorado Springs often works with veterans, soldiers and their families and said returning from deployment can present a slew of diffi cul-ties.

“(They can experience) reintegration problems, adjustment disorders, problems with sleep, substance abuse, relational problems, excessive fatigue, fi nancial prob-lems and symptoms associated with trau-ma — avoidance, hyper vigilance, anxiety and depression,” Van Holbeck said.

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 11 to 20 percent of veterans return-

ing from deployment serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom meet clinical requirements for a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

It is a common misconception that all soldiers have PTSD, Van Holbeck said.

“If PTSD has become common for a lot of soldiers, it’s because our military is much smaller than in years past,” said Van Holbeck, who served in the Air Force for 30 years and was deployed numerous times. “I don’t think the leadership in Pentagon in the early ’90s envisioned future wars lasting over 10 years, nor did they envision

low-tech fi ghting. The result is fewer boots on the ground available to fi ght a long, pro-tracted confl ict. The more a person is ex-posed to trauma, the more likely they will be diagnosed with trauma or post-traumat-ic stress disorder. It’s all about numbers to-day.”

Returning adjustmentsWhile not all soldiers and veterans are

diagnosed with PTSD, Jones and Spradley said they know many who are, or at least ex-perience trauma symptoms after returning.

U.S. Army E-4 Specialist Cody Jones while serving with his combat unit in Afghanistan. Courtesy photo

Michelle Benavidez embraces former serviceman Army E-4 Specialist Cody Jones in his living room in Golden. Jones is struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder while serving in Afghanistan. Photo by Andy Carpenean

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Government Legals CITY OF WESTMINSTER

NOTICE OF CONTRACTOR'SSETTLEMENT

Pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S.,notice is hereby given that on the 28th dayof March, 2013, at Westminster, Colorado,final settlement will be made by the Citywith Diamond Contracting Corp., herein-after called the "Contractor," for and onaccount of the contract for the construc-tion of a Project described as 2012 SmallDrainage Improvements (2012 SDI).

1. Any person, co-partnership, associ-ation of persons, company, or corporationthat has furnished labor, materials, teamhire, sustenance, provisions, provender,or other supplies used or consumed bysuch Contractor or his subcontractor, orthat supplies rental machinery, tools, orequipment to the extent used in the pro-secution of the work, whose claim there-for has not been paid by the Contractor orthe subcontractor for the work contractedto be done, may file with the City a veri-fied statement of the amount due and un-paid on account of such claim.

2. All such claims shall be filed with theCity Attorney's Office, City of Westminster,4800 W. 92nd Avenue, Westminster,Colorado, 80031 by March 21, 2013.

3. Failure on the part of a creditor to filesuch statement prior to such final settle-ment will relieve the City from any and allliability for such claim.

Dated at Westminster, Colorado this 7thday of March, 2013.

CITY OF WESTMINSTER/s/ Martin R. McCullough

City AttorneyPublished in the WestsiderFirst publication: March 8, 2013Last publication: March 15, 201300034623

CITY OF WESTMINSTERNOTICE OF

CONTRACTOR'S SETTLEMENT

Pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S.,notice is hereby given that on the 4th dayof April, 2013, at Westminster, Colorado,final settlement will be made by the Citywith Aslan Construction, Inc., herein-after called the "Contractor," for and onaccount of the contract for the construc-tion of a Project described as Silo PumpStation Header Replacement DesignBuild Project.

1. Any person, co-partnership, associ-ation of persons, company, or corporationthat has furnished labor, materials, teamhire, sustenance, provisions, provender,or other supplies used or consumed bysuch Contractor or his subcontractor, orthat supplies rental machinery, tools, orequipment to the extent used in the pro-secution of the work, whose claim there-for has not been paid by the Contractor orthe subcontractor for the work contractedto be done, may file with the City a veri-fied statement of the amount due and un-paid on account of such claim.

2. All such claims shall be filed with theCity Attorney's Office, City of Westminster,4800 W. 92nd Avenue, Westminster,Colorado, 80031 by March 28, 2013.

3. Failure on the part of a creditor to filesuch statement prior to such final settle-ment will relieve the City from any and allliability for such claim.

Dated at Westminster, Colorado this 14thday of March, 2013.

CITY OF WESTMINSTER/s/ Martin R. McCullough

City AttorneyPublished in the WestsiderFirst publication: March 15, 2013Last publication: March 22, 201300035785

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Spradley was diagnosed with PTSD upon his return home.

Both men said they have had to deal with common symptoms of PTSD, in-cluding anxiety, isolation, trouble reintegrating and adjusting and sleep prob-lems.

“My biggest thing, to this day, is sleeping at nor-mal times,” Jones said. “I’ll stay up for two days and then crash and sleep for a few hours. I’ve got the weirdest sleep schedule. I still can’t get that down mainly because I’ll have anxiety attacks and stay up all night playing video games or doing something to calm down.”

Jones said his issues didn’t start until after he left the military, when he was both afraid of being alone, yet at the same time, anxious in crowds such as at a store.

Safety is a major cause of anxiety for soldiers when they return home, Spradley said.

“You’re in a danger-ous situation when you’re over there, but you have your best friends sleeping 10 feet from you and you know those people always have your back,” Spradley said. “When you get back, everybody goes their sepa-rate ways, and you’re pretty much by yourself. You’re not feeling safe anymore because you don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Public perceptionsMisunderstanding by

the general public often leads to even greater is-sues, Spradley said.

“People look at PTSD like it’s a zombie outbreak, so they avoid it like that’s exactly what it is,” he said. “Don’t avoid topics that set it off. People who go through their lives after they’re diagnosed and get it, they live with it the rest of their lives and if people avoid any conversation, anything that might pos-sibly set it off, that’s what puts that person that has it into having more issues and more depression.”

Michelle Benavidez, mother of Army Staff Sgt. Kenneth Mayne, a soldier killed in Iraq in 2008, has adopted Jones, Spradley and other soldiers as “her boys.” Through that ex-tended family, Benavidez has seen another com-mon misconception about PTSD — it isn’t real.

“People think they’re faking it,” Benavidez said. “It’s real.”

She said some people think service members who come back and are not missing an arm or a leg should not have problems such as PTSD, should not act out, seek help or com-plain about their condi-tion.

“It’s ‘well, you survived so shut up.’ How civilians expect you guys to behave is nowhere near reality,” she said.

Benavidez and Van Hol-beck both agree that both the public and the govern-ment should play more of a factor in the healing of sol-diers and veterans.

“I think educating is a big piece,” Benavidez said. “Just letting the aver-age person know there is a percentage of people who fake it … but the majority of guys coming back aren’t faking it. They aren’t ask-ing you to bow down and kiss their feet, but have a little bit of respect for what they did and try to under-stand what they are going through.”

Resources and responsiveness

With President Barack Obama’s goal of bring-ing the majority of troops home by the end of 2014, thousands of troops will be returning home in need of some sort of assistance.

“They require resources to treat trauma, depression or anxiety,” Van Holbeck said. “While our elected officials on Capitol Hill play politics with the de-fense budget, a good many troops are in need of treat-ment. One of the biggest issues civilians need to understand is that we can-not make the same mistake we made with returning Vietnam veterans, many of whom were never offered treatment.”

While many veterans have been prescribed medications and received

assistance to help their symptoms, there is still a negative stigma associated with seeking mental health treatment, Van Holbeck said, which often leads to self-treatment through avoidant behaviors or sub-stance use.

“You’re frowned upon and looked upon as weak,” Jones said. “When you come back and they’re asking you all these ques-tions to see if you have any mental health issues, they pretty much tell you to lie about it and all that does is screw you because they have that paperwork on file. It’s a lot harder for you to get seen and have the VA pay for it.”

Psychotropic medica-tions and psychotherapy are often effective ways to treat PTSD, Van Holbeck said. Spradley said he has had professional help and he has learned how to bet-ter control his PTSD.

“I learned how to deal with issues differently, but they haven’t gotten any better,” Spradley said. “I went to therapy, met with a psychiatrist and talked it out with him. There’s breathing techniques and stuff like that so I learned to calm myself down when it starts kicking in and I’m having issues.

“I’ve had a lot of time to get used to living with PTSD so all the stuff that used to happen to me when I went out into public kind of just dwindled off, that or I just

don’t notice it anymore,” Spradley said.

While professional help is the most effective way soldiers can deal with PTSD, Van Holbeck said the public can help too — through advocacy, accep-tance, empathy, support and understanding.

“The most effective way — short of contributing to the various organizations supporting veteran treat-ment — of getting involved is contacting your elected officials and demanding they support treatment of military men and women who have been wounded in battle, physically and emotionally,” Van Holbeck said. “The current political climate does not seem to favor the very people who have fought to keep our cit-izens and our country safe from terrorists and extrem-ists, but they should.”

Sometimes a five-min-ute email to a congressman or senator can make a dif-ference, she added.

Battles: Veterans seek resources, understandingBattles continued from Page 21

Editor’s Note: Look for mental health, libraries and political parties among topics in up-coming weeks.

DETAILS

WHAT IS PTSD?

Post-traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder that can occur after a person has seen or experience a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death.

Source: National Institutes of Health

THE FACTS ABOUT PTSD:

ABOUT 11-20 PERCENT of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Opera-tion Enduring Freedom veterans are diagnosed with PTSD.

AS MANY AS 10 PERCENT of Desert Storm veterans have been diagnosed.

ABOUT 30 PERCENT of Vietnam veterans have been diagnosed.

ABOUT 7-8 PERCENT of the general population, or 5.2 million people per year, will have PTSD at some point in their lives.

WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO DEVELOP PTSD — about 10 per-cent of women are diagnosed at some point in their lives; 5 percent of men.

Source: U. S. Department of Veterans A�airs

‘When you get back, everybody goes their separate ways, and you’re pretty much by yourself. You’re not feeling safe anymore because you don’t know what’s

going to happen.’Army Spec. Matt Spradley

PHAMALY on target with ‘The Foreigner’PHAMALY Theatre Company (for-

merly Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League) richly deserves to be known as a theater company without further description.

Their most recent production “The Foreigner” was absolutely first-rate.

I saw it during the encore perfor-mance at the Arvada Center and was delighted with all aspects of the play.

These folks know what they’re do-ing … without any label. The premise of the play is that a deeply depressed guy ends up spending time in a coun-try inn. He doesn’t want to interact with anyone so his traveling com-panion tells the proprietor that his friend doesn’t speak English. Thus be-gins one of the best comedic vehicles around. Interspersed within the hilar-ity is a love story and a morality play.

Next on the PHAMALY docket is a musical version of the children‘s clas-sic, “The Velveteen Rabbit.”

The touring production will be in Crested Butte on March 23; in Broom-field on April 12 and in Parker on May 14. The Broomfield Auditorium will be the site of the April 12 show.

Admission is a free event spon-sored by the Scientific & Cultural Fa-cilities District; although, there will be

a $5 suggested donation at the door. For info call 303-365-0005, visit www.phamaly.org or send an email to info@phamaly.org.

On my radar“The Doyle and Debbie Show”

playing at the Garner Galleria Theatre in the Denver Center for Performing Arts. A has-been country star is reviv-ing his career 30 years, four wives and three Debbies later.

The new, original musical “takes the audience on a wickedly funny and freewheeling joyride.”

Running March 22 through April 28, also at the DCPA, is “A Weekend with Pablo Picasso.” The one-man show is based on the writings of the eccentric artist and features live, on-stage painting.

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Holy Family boys roll through regionalsTigers to face Eaton in Great Eight roundBy Jonathan Manessjmaness@ourcoloradonews.com

BROOMFIELD - The Holy Family boys basketball team has turned into a pow-erhouse in the Class 3A, and the squad proved its dominance in the Class 3A re-gional tournament.

Holy Family rolled by Buena Vista, 63-30, and Manitou Springs, 48-21, at the regional tournament last weekend to advance to the state tournament — which will be played at Moby Arena on the CSU campus in Fort Collins. The Tigers, who are the No. 3 seed, will open the state bracket against Eaton on Thursday. Holy Family defeated Eaton 56-47 earlier this season and the boys’ 3A state title game is scheduled for Saturday at 5:30 p.m.

The Tigers advanced to the Great Eight last season, but lost to Kent Denver 29-26 and Holy Family finished the season falling to Valley 54-41 in the third-place game.

This season, Holy Family used its de-fense to advance out of the regional round. The Tigers held Buena Vista to only seven first-half points on Friday and only allowed Manitou Springs to score five points in the second half.

“We are a defensive team,” Holy Family coach Pete Villecco said. “We emphasize defense and toughness.”

That defensive prowess has been a big reason for Holy Family’s success this sea-son, and on Saturday the Tigers defense was arguably its best all season.

Holy Family only allowed Manitou Springs to shoot 19 percent from the field and outscored the Mustangs 40-9 over the final three quarters. It was the seventh time this season that the Tigers, who go into the state tournament, have allowed fewer than 30 points a game.

Like most of the season it was a team ef-fort for the Tigers. Junior Devlin Granberg led the way for the Tigers with 13 points, while Austin Brown and David Som-mers each had nine points. Senior Jarron Sprenger didn’t score any points for Holy Family, but grabbed a team-high eight boards.

“It’s a team effort and the coaching staff preaches defense,” Sommers said. “And (Saturday) it was exceptional. We’ve been working hard at practice and it is paying off.”

Friday it was much of the same for the Tigers, who only allowed the Demons to make two baskets in the first half.

The Tigers jumped out to a 10-4 lead af-ter the first quarter and then pushed their lead to 28-7 at the half. Holy Family also outscored Buena Vista 35-23 in the second half. Sommers led the way with 14 points, while sophomore Nick Kruetzer added 10 points and grabbed seven rebounds. Ten different players scored for the Tigers in the game.

Holy Family’s David Sommers goes up for a layup during the Tigers’ 63-30 win over Buena Vista on Friday in the Class 3A boys regional tournament. Photos by Jonathan Maness

Holy Family’s Devlin Granberg pulls up for a jump shot during the Tigers’ 48-21 win over Manitou Springs on Saturday in the Class 3A boys regional tournament.

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Tigers defeat Sheridan By Scott Stocker

The Holy Family girls basket-ball team were certainly on top of its defensive effort in the Class 3A regional tournament.

And, it was an effort the Tiger fans are hoping to carry over into this week’s state tournament, which will be played at Moby Arena on the CSU campus in Fort Collins.

The Tigers defeated Sheridan 66-20 in their fi rst-round game on March 8 and then followed with a 43-28 victory against Platte Valley on March 9.

With the back-to-back wins the Tigers will carry a 19-5 record into the Great Eight.

Holy Family, which is the sec-ond seed, will open the state bracket against Trinidad on Thursday and will be making its sixth appearance in the state tournament in seven years.

The Tigers have won the state title from 2008 to 2011.

“We’re going to the party,” Holy Family coach Ron Rossi said. “We felt that a personal storm hit us last year when we lost to Flor-ence. We just wanted to come and give it our best shot as we have a lot of kids with a lot of heart. It’s nice to get back to state.”

Neither Sheridan nor Platte Valley were able to come up with at least one quarter in which they were able to score in double-dig-its.

Offensively and defensively, it was a splendid weekend for the Chavez sisters, junior Lindsey and freshman Katie, as well as their teammates.

The duo combined to score 29 points against Platte Valley and 16 against Sheridan.

“We can’t wait to play at state and now we’ll just have to see how we can do,” Katie Chavez said. “We came out a bit tentative against Platte Valley, but we got the shots when it counted.”

Against Sheridan, the Tigers jumped out to a 12-2 advantage in the fi rst quarter and extended the margin to 24-5 by halftime.

Sheridan’s season ended with a 12-11 overall record.

Monica Stokes was the only Holy Family player to reach dou-ble fi gures with 10 teammates scoring at least two points.

The Chavez sisters each scored nine points with three other play-ers chipping in eight.

“We just came out with a men-tal bang overall, but we started slow,” said Stokes. “We just want-ed to step up after that and we

were strong the rest of the way. They played hard against us, but we were able to make up for our

mistakes.”The defense proved effective

as the Tigers forced 32 turnovers

against Sheridan. In the mean-time, they only turned the ball over eight times.

Holy Family’s Lindsay Chavez looks for an open teammate during the Class 3A district tournament, Chavez and the Tigers swept the regional tournament to advance to the Great Eight round of the 3A girls state basketball tournament. Photo by Jonathan Maness

‘We felt that a personal storm hit

us last year when we lost to Florence. We just wanted to come and give it our best shot as we have a lot of kids with a lot of

heart.’Coach Ron Rossi

Belleview Christian advances to state tourney Pinnacle, Academy and Je� erson Academy lose in � rst round

By Jonathan Maness jmaness@ourcoloradonews.com

STERLING - The Belleview Christian

girls team scored 13 unanswered points in

overtime to top Pawnee on Saturday in the

Class 1A regional tournament to advance to

the state tournament.

The Bruins, who were outscored 8-2

in the fourth quarter, had to use the extra

period to beat the Coyotes 35-22 to escape

from the regional tourney.

Belleview Christian was led by Syd-

ney Ahaneku, who had 11 points and nine

blocks. Senior MacKenzie Woods had nine

points and 10 boards for the Bruins.

The road won’t get easier for Belleview

Christian (20-3 overall) in the state tourney,

Belleview Christian, which is the No. 5 seed,

opens the tournament against Wiley (20-2)

on Thursday at the First Bank Center.

The Final Four will be played on Friday,

while the state title is scheduled for Satur-

day.

JAGUARS LOSE IN OPENING ROUND No. 28 Jefferson Academy fell 53-40 to

No. 5 Moffat County in the opening round

of the 3A girls state basketball tournament.

Alyson Thimsen scored 11 points to lead

the Jaguars, who fi nished the season 10-13

overall.

PINNACLE FALLS TO COLORADO ACADEMY The No. 18 Pinnacle Timberwolves had

their season come to a disappointing end

Friday, falling to Colorado Academy 62-49

in the opening round of the 3A boys state

basketball tournament.

Colorado Academy was paced by Jack

Buckmelter, the Timberwolves fi nished the

season 14-9 overall and won the Frontier

League after going 12-0 in the league.

ACADEMY SQUADS SWEPT IN FIRST ROUND The Wildcat girls lost to No. 6 Pagosa

Springs 49-23 on Friday.

The Academy, which was the No. 27

seed, was led by

Sports quiz

By Chris Richcreek 1) Who holds the major-league record for most Gold

Gloves awarded to a catcher?2) The 1933 New York Yankees had nine future Hall of

Famers on the roster. Name six of them.3) Who threw the longest pass in Notre Dame football

history?4) Name the last Milwaukee Bucks player before Ersan

Ilyasova in 2012 to have at least 25 points and 25 rebounds

in a game.5) When was the last time the Toronto Maples Leafs

won a series in the NHL playoffs?6) In 2012, Gabby Douglas became the third consecu-

tive U.S. athlete to win the women’s Olympic all-around gymnastics title. Who were the previous two?

7) Which golfer has made the most appearances in the Ryder Cup?

Answers1) Ivan Rodriguez, with 13.

2) Earle Combs, Bill Dickey, Lou Gehrig, Lefty Gomez, Tony Lazzeri, Herb Pennock, Red Ruffi ng, Babe Ruth and Joe Sewell.

3) Blair Kiel completed a pass for 96 yards in 1981.4) Swen Nater had 30 points and 33 rebounds against

Atlanta in 1976.5) It was 2004.6) Carly Patterson (2004) and Nastia Liukin (2008).7) Nick Faldo, with 11.

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