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Sentinel ournorthglennnews.com, ourthorntonnews.com Northglenn ornton November 29, 2012 50 cents A Colorado Community Media Publication Adams County, Colorado • Volume 49, Issue 16 POSTAL ADDRESS Printed on recycled newsprint. Please recycle this copy. Service technicians from JM Wireless upgrade a wireless system inside one of the three crosses in front of Destiny Outreach Ministries Nov. 20 in Northglenn. Photo by Andy Carpenean HIGH WIRES City moving ahead with bidding changes ornton officials say new changes will bolster transparency, candidate filter By Darin Moriki [email protected] Thornton officials are moving forward with plans to revamp the city’s bidding pro- cess to increase transparency and weed out dubious contract candidates. The proposed method, which would be adopted as an ordinance, calls for all capital improvement contracts exceed- ing $500,000 to be awarded to “the quali- fied, responsible offer or whose propos- al conforms not only to the technical requirements but also the process require- ments set forth in the draft (Quality and Transparency in Procurement) ordinance.” “We believe that this package … is a positive step and will give the City Council a broad range of information with regard to the firms that will be under consideration,” said city manager Jack Ethredge. “We think this a good proposal and will add to the potential of having higher quality develop- ments built throughout the city.” The Citizen Advisory Task Force would help the city make decisions on the plan- ning, programming, and design and siting of a new building. Contractors who receive a nod from this group would then be entered into a prequalification process that would estab- lish mandatory additional information re- quirements that must be submitted to the city. “It’s not a big jump from a value stand- point … to see that the idea of treating peo- ple fairly and being equitable is clearly — it seems to me — a value to this community,” Ethredge said. Contractors that pass through the pre- qualification stage will then be subject to existing processes in the city’s purchasing ordinance. City support services director Jerry Dye said the prequalification process is similar to practices used in the bidding process for several existing city developments, includ- ing the Margaret W. Carpenter Recreation Center and Thornton Justice Center. “In general, we wouldn’t have recom- mended it, if we didn’t think it was work- able,” Dye said. “It will work, and in my professional opinion, I think we can do this without any big problems.” City Council will consider the issue dur- ing its Dec. 4 regular meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. and is at 9500 Civic Center Drive in the Council Chambers room. Northglenn amends residency requirements By Darin Moriki dmoriki@ourcolora- donews.com Future Northglenn city managers must live within an approximate 45-minute commute time from the city’s lim- its. Council approved the requirement by a 7-1 vote during its Nov. 12 meeting. Ward IV coun- cilman Gene Wieneke cast the dissenting vote. Joe Brown, Ward II, Joe Brown was absent. The new ordinance will replace a former prerequisite, adopted in March 2009, requiring city managers to reside within the city’s limits within a year of his or her appointment. The rule was made shortly after current city manager Bill Simmons was hired by the city in November 2008. Sim- mons, a Louisville resi- dent, is expected to retire on Dec. 31. Council struck down a previous proposed amendment last month that would have allowed the city to hire a city manager residing out- side of the city’s limits, if that person “resides at a reasonable daily com- muting distance by auto- mobile.” Wieneke said he was in favor of making a mi- nor change to the former city manager require- ment that would allow council to make excep- tions for qualified candi- dates who live in nearby communities, such as Westminster, Thornton or Louisville. However, he said council had extended its reach by approving the 45-minute commuting time requirement. “When it came to en- larging the residency re- quirement, I thought the council went too far, and that’s why I voted against it,” Wieneke said. “I would much rather have people who are close by, so that those who are eli- gible would not have to pick up their house and move it a block or a mile.” Ward IV councilwom- an Kim Snetzinger said the new ordinance will cast a wider net and al- low people living within the Denver-metro area to apply for the city man- ager position. “For me, on this one, I figure that if you’re in Parker, Highlands Ranch, or something like that, 45-minute restriction should be more than enough time to get up here,” Snetzinger said. Ward I council mem- ber Carol Dodge agreed. “I think it’s a good place to start at,” Dodge said. “We have to have some restriction on this and it seems like a good place to start for me.” County audit shows missteps By Darin Moriki darinm@ourcoloradonews. com A third-party audit of the county’s purchasing process has revealed a number of errors that ranged from incorrectly authorized purchases to mis- communicated or misunder- stood purchasing practices. The 31-page study conduct- ed by Colorado Independent Consultants Network found that 32 of the 50 purchases handpicked from 26 county departments to be tested “were not properly authorized.” Two of the purchases were approved by noncounty board members without approval from a county employee with proper authority, while the remaining 30 were either not signed at all or signed by some- one without the appropriate authority level. To resolve this issue, the study recommended the coun- ty revise its purchasing policies by requiring officials to sign in- dividual invoices rather than a cover sheet for invoice batches. “What it means to us is that someone actually touched that invoice and must have looked at it or at least put their pen to the paper on it, because their signature is on it,” Colorado Independent Consultants Net- work founder John Olenberger explained. “When you sign a batch cover sheet, you’d like to think that someone looked at every invoice within that batch, but there’s no way from an audit standpoint to ascertain that.” Olenberger said his firm did not determine how much mon- ey was subject to this batch cover sheet approval process, but instead focused on how the process itself could be im- proved. County accounting man- ager Mary Ha said the county is currently in the process of implementing a JD Edwards electronic signature module that would phase out these problems. Becky Kessler, the county’s digital content coordinator, said these centralized auto- mated purchasing efforts will in place by next year but was un- able to provide a specific date. The study also suggested the county create a timeline for changes to be implemented and conduct training classes to ensure county employees are on the same page for purchas- ing procedures. County purchasing manager Loren Imhoff said the first pur- chasing process class will be Jan. 31 and will be held on a bi- annual basis. Apart from the report’s findings, Olenberger com- mended the county’s transpar- ency efforts to identify areas of improvement. “I think that it needs to be noted that they’re taking huge steps forward in not only estab- lishing an internal audit func- tion, but also being very trans- parent about what comes out of it,” Olenberger said. “There’s re- ally no shame in saying, ‘Yeah, we have some areas that we need to improve on.’ — every- one does.” Kessler agreed and said the county “wants to be a leader in government best practices.” “I think it’s very proactive on Adams County’s part, because no one came to us and said, ‘You need to have a study,’” Kessler said. “This is an ongo- ing process, so Adams County is going to continue to look throughout all of our areas and take a hard look at what we’re doing on a regular basis, ask those hard questions, and then revise and review all of our poli- cies.”
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NORTHGLENN 11.29.12
Sentinel ournorthglennnews.com, ourthorntonnews.com
Northglenn �ornton
November 29, 2012 50 centsA Colorado Community Media Publication
Adams County, Colorado • Volume 49, Issue 16
POSTAL ADDRESS
Printed on recycled newsprint. Please recycle this copy.
Service technicians from JM Wireless upgrade a wireless system inside one of the three crosses in front of Destiny Outreach Ministries Nov. 20 in Northglenn. Photo by Andy Carpenean
HIGH WIRES
City moving ahead with bidding changes�ornton officials say new changes will bolster transparency, candidate filter
By Darin [email protected]
Thornton officials are moving forward with plans to revamp the city’s bidding pro-cess to increase transparency and weed out dubious contract candidates.
The proposed method, which would be adopted as an ordinance, calls for all capital improvement contracts exceed-ing $500,000 to be awarded to “the quali-fied, responsible offer or whose propos-al conforms not only to the technical requirements but also the process require-ments set forth in the draft (Quality and
Transparency in Procurement) ordinance.”“We believe that this package … is a
positive step and will give the City Council a broad range of information with regard to the firms that will be under consideration,” said city manager Jack Ethredge. “We think this a good proposal and will add to the potential of having higher quality develop-ments built throughout the city.”
The Citizen Advisory Task Force would help the city make decisions on the plan-ning, programming, and design and siting of a new building.
Contractors who receive a nod from this group would then be entered into a
prequalification process that would estab-lish mandatory additional information re-quirements that must be submitted to the city.
“It’s not a big jump from a value stand-point … to see that the idea of treating peo-ple fairly and being equitable is clearly — it seems to me — a value to this community,” Ethredge said.
Contractors that pass through the pre-qualification stage will then be subject to existing processes in the city’s purchasing ordinance.
City support services director Jerry Dye said the prequalification process is similar
to practices used in the bidding process for several existing city developments, includ-ing the Margaret W. Carpenter Recreation Center and Thornton Justice Center.
“In general, we wouldn’t have recom-mended it, if we didn’t think it was work-able,” Dye said. “It will work, and in my professional opinion, I think we can do this without any big problems.”
City Council will consider the issue dur-ing its Dec. 4 regular meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. and is at 9500 Civic Center Drive in the Council Chambers room.
Northglenn amends residency requirementsBy Darin [email protected]
Future Northglenn city managers must live within an approximate 45-minute commute time from the city’s lim-its.
Council approved the requirement by a 7-1 vote during its Nov. 12 meeting. Ward IV coun-cilman Gene Wieneke cast the dissenting vote. Joe Brown, Ward II, Joe Brown was absent.
The new ordinance will replace a former prerequisite, adopted in March 2009, requiring city managers to reside within the city’s limits within a year of his or her appointment.
The rule was made shortly after current city
manager Bill Simmons was hired by the city in November 2008. Sim-mons, a Louisville resi-dent, is expected to retire on Dec. 31.
Council struck down a previous proposed amendment last month that would have allowed the city to hire a city manager residing out-side of the city’s limits, if that person “resides at a reasonable daily com-muting distance by auto-mobile.”
Wieneke said he was in favor of making a mi-nor change to the former city manager require-ment that would allow council to make excep-tions for qualified candi-dates who live in nearby communities, such as Westminster, Thornton or Louisville.
However, he said council had extended its reach by approving the 45-minute commuting time requirement.
“When it came to en-larging the residency re-quirement, I thought the council went too far, and that’s why I voted against it,” Wieneke said. “I would much rather have people who are close by, so that those who are eli-gible would not have to pick up their house and move it a block or a mile.”
Ward IV councilwom-an Kim Snetzinger said the new ordinance will cast a wider net and al-
low people living within the Denver-metro area to apply for the city man-ager position.
“For me, on this one, I figure that if you’re in Parker, Highlands Ranch, or something like that, 45-minute restriction should be more than enough time to get up here,” Snetzinger said.
Ward I council mem-ber Carol Dodge agreed.
“I think it’s a good place to start at,” Dodge said. “We have to have some restriction on this and it seems like a good place to start for me.”
County audit shows misstepsBy Darin [email protected]
A third-party audit of the county’s purchasing process has revealed a number of errors that ranged from incorrectly authorized purchases to mis-communicated or misunder-stood purchasing practices.
The 31-page study conduct-ed by Colorado Independent Consultants Network found that 32 of the 50 purchases handpicked from 26 county departments to be tested “were not properly authorized.”
Two of the purchases were approved by noncounty board members without approval from a county employee with proper authority, while the remaining 30 were either not signed at all or signed by some-one without the appropriate authority level.
To resolve this issue, the study recommended the coun-ty revise its purchasing policies by requiring officials to sign in-dividual invoices rather than a cover sheet for invoice batches.
“What it means to us is that someone actually touched that invoice and must have looked at it or at least put their pen to the paper on it, because their signature is on it,” Colorado Independent Consultants Net-work founder John Olenberger explained. “When you sign a batch cover sheet, you’d like to think that someone looked at every invoice within that batch, but there’s no way from an audit standpoint to ascertain that.”
Olenberger said his firm did not determine how much mon-ey was subject to this batch cover sheet approval process, but instead focused on how the process itself could be im-proved.
County accounting man-ager Mary Ha said the county
is currently in the process of implementing a JD Edwards electronic signature module that would phase out these problems.
Becky Kessler, the county’s digital content coordinator, said these centralized auto-mated purchasing efforts will in place by next year but was un-able to provide a specific date.
The study also suggested the county create a timeline for changes to be implemented and conduct training classes to ensure county employees are on the same page for purchas-ing procedures.
County purchasing manager Loren Imhoff said the first pur-chasing process class will be Jan. 31 and will be held on a bi-annual basis.
Apart from the report’s findings, Olenberger com-mended the county’s transpar-ency efforts to identify areas of improvement.
“I think that it needs to be noted that they’re taking huge steps forward in not only estab-lishing an internal audit func-tion, but also being very trans-parent about what comes out of it,” Olenberger said. “There’s re-ally no shame in saying, ‘Yeah, we have some areas that we need to improve on.’ — every-one does.”
Kessler agreed and said the county “wants to be a leader in government best practices.”
“I think it’s very proactive on Adams County’s part, because no one came to us and said, ‘You need to have a study,’” Kessler said. “This is an ongo-ing process, so Adams County is going to continue to look throughout all of our areas and take a hard look at what we’re doing on a regular basis, ask those hard questions, and then revise and review all of our poli-cies.”
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Cemetery care isn’t grave undertaking The fi rst time Steve Engle ventured into
the cemetery, the weeds and grass reached his shoulders. Thorny bushes grabbed at his clothes and twisted over the stones, muffl ing the past buried beneath.
But as Engle uncovered fi rst one stone marker, then another, unremembered stories began to whisper.
He listened.And they touched his heart.“Simply because you’re dead doesn’t
mean you should be forgotten,” said Engle, 64, as he gazed at the simple stone of Joseph Chmura, a Korean War veteran. “These stories need to be told. Those bur-ied here need to be honored.”
So Engle, a retired salesman who sees history’s footprints wherever he looks, has worked to do just that. It has become a labor of love and a way to chronicle the memoirs of the land around him.
“We all need to have a relationship to the land,” he said, looking out from the graveyard into peaceful Mount Vernon Canyon. “There’s signifi cance in the land.”
The historic Rockland Community Church and Cemetery, built in 1879 and on the National Register of Historic Places, nestles against a quiet hillside minutes from the Lookout Mountain/Buffalo Bill exit off I-70. Slightly larger than a football fi eld, the cemetery and its small, simple clapboard church with white peeling paint and green shutters are tucked between two private homes.
Engle, who lives minutes away in Gen-esee, fi rst stumbled upon the cemetery in 2008 during a work day with a men’s group from Rockland Community Church, whose modern-day incarnation sits just down the road. It took weeks to mow the brush and clear away the thorns enough to begin to
understand the importance of the narra-tives and lives that time and neglect had camoufl aged.
That same year, Engle began studying toward a master’s degree in public history at the University of Colorado-Denver. His thesis is to accurately measure and map the cemetery. That means fi nding and documenting graves, identifying them and providing each with “a proper obituary.”
So far, he has uncovered 144 graves — the fi rst burial was in 1880, the most recent in 2010 — but he believes more are there, some maybe even under U.S. 40, which borders the top of the cemetery.
“People got sick, people died, they didn’t know where to take the bodies,” he said of the early years. “They dropped them off here. The ground was frozen, you couldn’t dig a hole. They tagged ‘em and dropped them off and went on their way.”
Engle’s care has transformed the cem-etery.
Now you see the markers, once hidden under the brush, jutting from the ground beneath the Ponderosa pine. Simple white crosses. Gray and white marble head-stones with precisely formed inscriptions. Red granite with names scratched on by hand. He has added American fl ags to the graves of all veterans — from the Spanish-American War to the Korean War — and
purple, yellow and blue plastic fl owers to every marker. The graves are grouped by families, many of whose roots run deep in the area. More than a church cemetery, it is a community cemetery.
All the while, Engle has listened.On this day, he sits on the edge of
Charles Delaware Kemper’s grave and picks up a smooth, lined copper-colored rock. Kemper, in his early 30s according to the stone marker, died in 1994. Engle found the rock when he was clearing the grave. The marker reads: “You gave us love and laughter and taught us the meaning of hope and courage.”
“I always kept the rock with it so it wouldn’t get away from here.” He turns it over in his hands. “It’s a very touching me-morial, and it’s interesting that when you go to a cemetery you fi nd a lot of reference to laughter.”
Nearby stand a trio of white crosses, the only identifi cation a small tag that says “Child of Bill Anderson.”
“They all died at the same time. My guess is a diphtheria epidemic.” Engle walks toward three more crosses that say only “Stomp child.” “You refl ect on life and how hard it can be, and how hard it can be for all of us, I guess.”
The largest section belongs to the Ralston family, the area’s original pioneers. Lucien Hunter Ralston, a Civil War veteran and Army scout, brought his family from Kentucky in 1879, hoping the Colorado air would help his wife’s severe asthma condi-tion.
Engle stands by Ralston’s grave, which bears a U.S. and a state fl ag. “I put a Ken-tucky state fl ag out there for them.”
Some markers share more than just names, birth and death dates.
Engle stops before the grave of William Keiper, whose stone depicts a cabin, elk, pines and coyotes. “What was important to this man was nature. He had his cabin out in the woods. He had a lot of game, the dove of peace, the howling of coyotes. … I’m sure he treasured that.”
Much has been accomplished since Engle took on the job of caretaker. He’s on his fourth push lawn mower from Home Depot. He doesn’t use a riding mower because he would run over, and possibly destroy, the markers and relics he regularly discovers.
But there is still much to do.Engle is hoping to use ground-penetrat-
ing radar to locate more graves and uncov-er the reasons for several ground depres-sions that pock the cemetery. Researching the lives of those buried is a consuming task. But he is happy to unlock the myster-ies in this small piece of ground. He doesn’t plan on walking away any time soon.
On a hot day, when he needs a shady spot to rest while he’s mowing, Engle usu-ally heads over to World War II veteran Harry T. Lee’s grave under the juniper tree.
“I’ll talk to him.” He chuckles. “You have a tendency to talk to them when you’re working around them.”
But he also continues to listen.There are still so many stories left to tell.When completed, Steve Engle’s research
will go to the Jefferson County Historical Archives. Anyone with information about the cemetery can reach Engle at [email protected] or 303-526-0893.
Ann Macari Healey’s column about people, places and issues of everyday life ap-pears every other week. She can be reached at [email protected] or 303-566-4110.
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Volunteers prepare food for the needyBoxes distributedBy Darin Morikid m o r i k i @ o u rc o l o r a -donews.com
Nearly 120 volunteers made a makeshift assem-bly line Nov. 16 in Thorn-Creek Church’s sanctuary to fill 1,250 boxes with food items.
The boxes were distrib-uted the following day to needy families of children at three Adams 12 Five Star Schools: North Star, McElwain and Thornton elementaries.
“It’s important for the church, because it helps the church get in the mindset of having the giv-ing spirit, being servants and loving on people,” said ThornCreek Church pastor and event organizer Mark Runner. “Sometimes we just go through life, and we forget about the people around us. We see people
who aren’t like us, and we tend to put pass judg-ments and everything else like that, and this helps to break down some of those cultural barriers.”
Runner said the church’s annual Feed 5,000 event first began at North Star Elementary in 2003, where school children and their families could enjoy a festival full of games and events and receive boxes filled with Thanksgiving fixings.
He said the goal grew over the years to reach 600 people and later expanded to the other two elemen-tary schools. For the past two years, Runner said the organization has nearly doubled its goal to reach about 1,250 families in south Thornton.
Apart from the boxes distributed to needy el-ementary schoolchildren and their families, Runner said any left over boxes are
distributed to families liv-ing in nearby apartment buildings.
“We want the commu-nity to know the church is relevant and pertinent in their community,” Runner said. “We want them to know that it’s active, loves people and treats people like they ought to be treat-ed.”
Runner said each box has enough food inside to feed a family of four and contains onions, potatoes, canned fruits, canned vegetables, macaroni and cheese, brownie mix, gra-vy, and a turkey or a $5 gift card.
ThornCreek Church preschool director Sandy Fertig said the church’s outreach efforts is particu-larly important because some low-income chil-dren may not be able to participate in some activi-ties with their peers.
“We don’t want to just hand them a basket and tell them, ‘Happy Thanks-giving.’ That’s great, but for us, we want to interact with these families and know what their stories are. We want to be a part of their lives,” she said.
North Star Elementary School community liai-son Vanessa Jimenez said the number of students needing assistance has in-creased significantly over the last few years.
“We have been having a lot more needy families who are just becoming homeless, so this for them is everything, especially for the kids,” said. “It’s re-ally wonderful to have something like this that allows them to get out of
their situation.”Federal Heights resi-
dent Dashika Fisher at-tended the festival held at North Star Elementary on Nov. 17 and said she appreciates the church’s efforts to reach out to her family and her five chil-dren.
“It really helped out a lot, because we re-ally needed the food for Thanksgiving — other-wise, we wouldn’t have a whole lot,” Fisher said. “I think that it’s so good that they do this for everyone. They seem to be really into it, so that’s really nice to see.”
Thornton resident Bryanna West, center, helps her two children, 5-year-old son Aiden, right, and 3-year-old daughter Lily, left, decorate candy bags at North Star Elementary School as a part of ThornCreek Church’s annual Feed 5000 effort on Nov. 17. Photos by Darin Moriki
Thornton resident Stephanie Heitman, right, packs canned fruits into a Thanksgiving box, while Thornton residents Jami Sturm, center, and her mother Cindy Eads, left, pack canned green beans into adjacent boxes as a part of ThornCreek Church’s annual Feed 5000 effort. In all, ThornCreek Church lead pastor Mark Runner estimates that the nearly 1,200 Thanks-giving boxes assembled this year will feed a total of about 4,800 people.
E-470 toll rates to increase in JanuaryOfficials say new rates to cover operational costs, bond obligationsBy Darin [email protected]
Commuters will soon pay a little more at the tolls to use the E-470 and Northwest Parkway beltway that runs from Parker to Broomfield.
The E-470 Public Highway Authority board of directors unanimously approved the implementation of a new rate schedule that will raise all tolls on the 47-mile stretch of highway by about 4 to 5 per-cent.
License plate toll custom-ers with two-axle vehicles passing through mainline toll plaza A, between Peoria Street and Chambers Road in Douglas County, will pay $2.95, a 15 cent increase, while EXpressToll customers will pay $2.35, a 10-cent in-crease.
Two-axle vehicles com-muters passing through the remaining four mainline toll plazas (B through E) will pay an additional 10 cents, re-sulting in a $3.25 charge for license plate toll customers and $2.60 charge for EXpress-Toll customers.
Ramp tolls for two axle-vehicles will also increase by
5 cents, resulting in a $1.30 charge for license plate toll drivers and $1.05 charge for EXpressToll customers.
These new tolls will be effective on Jan. 1. Vehicles with three-axles or more pay an additional toll rate per axle.
EXpressToll customers will continue to pay about 20 percent less than license plate toll customers. License plate toll customers can pay the lower rate by opening an EXpressToll account at www.expresstoll.com.
E-470 finance director Stan Koniz said the increase will generate an estimated $124.8 million in revenue from toll operations — a pro-jected $8.9 million revenue increase from this year.
E-470 spokesman Dan Christopherson said the in-creases allow the board to cover operational costs and meet its debt service obliga-tions to bondholders, an ex-penditure that will increase next year from $67.4 million to $74.9 million.
He said E-470’s toll rates are a part of a finance plan approved by the E-470 Public Highway Authority in 1995.
The board voted in 2010 to replace larger rate increases every three years with small-er, incremental annual rate increases that would allevi-ate the impact on custom-ers’ commuting expense over time.
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When your holiday-din-ner guest list keeps grow-ing year after year, it may be time to share the cook-ing. A potluck is a great way to share the load, and with just a little advance plan-ning you can avoid ending up with 12 green bean cas-seroles on the dinner table.
“Don’t be shy about as-signing food categories to
your guests,” said Ginny Bean, founder and pub-lisher of Ginny’s catalog and www.ginnys.com. “This eliminates the guess-work for them, too.” Bean suggests you start planning four to six weeks out, and following these simple tips.
Don’t overlook the non-cooks. Include categories such as beverages and pa-per products, or ask non-cooks to bring fl owers, candles or other items to decorate the table. Those who want to help but need something easy to do can do some of the shopping for you.
Double up. Ask at least two of the guests to make different salads, two to make different potato dishes, two people to bring different green vegetables, and two to bring pies. Plan on making the turkey, stuff-ing and gravy yourself.
Make sure someone brings kid food. There’s nothing worse than having kids reject all the food at the table. Make sure there’s ice cream or another des-sert that appeals to kids, some sparkling apple juice for a special toast, and kid-friendly items like mac and cheese or yams with marsh-mallows.
Pick your battles. If someone really wants to bring a certain dish that you don’t particularly want, let them bring it anyway. You never know which dish might turn into a family tra-dition.
Assess your appliance needs. Ask guests to let you know ahead of time if they’ll need refrigerator, oven or range-top space. The added capacity of countertop ov-ens and microwaves can be a godsend for big holiday meals. Plan a menu with some dishes that can be served at room temperature so you don’t have too many dishes that need to be kept hot.
Be prepared with ex-tra serving plates, bowls and spoons. Somebody’s bound to forget something. Also remind guests to label their serving dishes and utensils. Most regular pot-luck participants can tell tales about losing the lid to a favorite plastic bowl or discovering that the only casserole dish left on the table was not the one they brought.
Don’t attempt to serve
all the food from one table. Place desserts on a table separate from main dishes and side dishes. Locate beverages in another area. For the most convenient self-service, arrange the buffet so diners can serve themselves from both sides of the table. Lay out the ta-ble in logical order: plates at one end of the table for guests to pick up and load with food, and utensils tucked inside napkins at the other end to grab once their plates are full.
Strike while the iron’s hot (and guests are in a festive mood). Before ev-eryone leaves, set up the planning committee and solicit suggestions for next year.
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County watchdog group eyes contributionsBy Darin [email protected]
Adams County Re-form Project — a recently-launched, “reform-mind-ed” 527 group — is raising eyebrows among some residents and leaders who have reviewed the organi-zation’s campaign contri-bution reports.
The reports, filed through the Secretary of State’s office, indicate four in-state and one out-of-state corporations contrib-uted a total of $98,000 to the Adams County Reform Project since June 5.
Critics, largely consist-ing of Democrats, claim these large contributions indicate business interests are attempting to influence local elections, while or-ganization representatives say it reflects a heightened interest to address county-wide reform.
“What concerns me the most is the fact that out-side interest is trying to control the election for Ad-ams County,” Eva Henry, the Democratic District 1
Adams County commis-sioner-elect, said before Election Day. “They’re un-der the guise of the fact that it’s a group of Adams County citizens, and actu-ally it’s not a group of Ad-ams County citizens — it’s a group of businessmen, which makes me wonder what kind of business they want to bring into Adams County.”
Michelle Lyng, a Denver resident and Adams Coun-ty Reform Project spokes-woman, said the contri-butions simply show both residents and businesses want to see a change of pace. She also cited a De-cember 2011 Colorado Eth-ic Watch review that read
in part, “From the Quality Paving scandal, to a corrupt county assessor and abuse of power in the sheriff’s of-fice, Adams County was the unquestioned epicenter of ethics problems in Colo-rado during 2011.”
“You can imagine such a distinction might inspire a wide coalition of interests — both inside and outside the state — to work for the removal of those who per-petrated their schemes on the taxpayers,” Lyng said in an e-mail. “Until such time as serious political reforms can be completed, employ-ers will relocate elsewhere, robbing our school dis-tricts, our municipal gov-ernments and our unem-
ployed of the opportunities they deserve.”
No contributions from individual donors or local residents were reported for this year.
Lyng said the Adams County Reform Project will “broaden its donor base even further to continue its mission to rid the county of bad actors in local govern-ment” in 2014.
Colorado Ethics Watch director Luis Toro said he did not find any illegal vio-lations after analyzing the group’s campaign contri-butions, but said the large corporate donations reflect a growing trend statewide.
In many cases, he said corporations are beginning to have more of a presence in local election races.
“We’ve definitely seen it increase, and there’s no rea-son to think that it’s not go-ing to increase,” Toro said.
BY THE NUMBERSContributions to the Adams County Reform Project as of June 5
$1,000 - Hansel Phelps Construction Company in Greeley
$2,000 - Equinox Land Group in Brighton
$10,000 - Eaton Metal Products Company LLC in Denver
$15,000 - American Furniture Warehouse in Englewood
$70,000 - American Future Fund - Des Moines
Source: Colorado Secretary of State
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OPINIONS / YOURS AND OURS
An important day in the season of givingAt this time of year, you probably do not
need to be reminded of the adage “it’s bet-ter to give than to receive.”
Chances are, you’ve already made some headway on your holiday shopping list, perhaps starting on Black Friday, or even on Thanksgiving night.
The spirit of giving is what propels these treks through malls and big-box stores. You’re buying gifts for loved ones and, as a bonus, helping to stimulate the economy.
But have you checked your list twice? For those of you in a financial position to do so, we encourage you to add another name (or two) to that list — specifically that of your favorite nonprofit organiza-
tion. Conveniently, there is a day set aside for doing this. Thankfully, you won’t have to wait in any lines.
Colorado Gives Day is Dec. 4. Created in 2010 by Arvada-based Community First Foundation with the financial support of FirstBank, the aim is to “increase philan-thropy in Colorado through online giving.” Touted as “24 hours to give where you live,” you can donate to your favorite nonprofits
at givingfirst.org/cogivesday.Last year, $12.8 million was distributed
to 928 nonprofits, according to the Colo-rado Gives Day 2011 Giving Report, which can be found on the website.
That dollar amount was a 46 percent increase over the inaugural event in 2010. In Jefferson County alone, more than $2 million was donated.
The average donation last year was $237, but donations as small as $10 are accepted. A full 100 percent goes to the charities. And yes, your donation is tax-deductible.
The causes your money can help are numerous, with more than 1,000 organiza-
tions participating. Eligible nonprofits on the list include
those dedicated to helping children, ani-mals and the environment; those looking to fight various illnesses; those looking to enrich our communities through promot-ing the arts; and many, many more causes. You can search through the list of nonprof-its on the website.
We believe you’ll find Colorado Gives Day to be as easy and rewarding a way to give as you’ll find this holiday season.
For more information, go to givingfirst.org/cogivesday, call 720-898-5900 or email [email protected].
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WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER
Be a little less selfish, focus on important giftsSome of the Denver radio stations start-
ed playing Christmas music even before Thanksgiving. The city of Northglenn had its Christmas street decorations up a week or two before Thanksgiving. The marketing blasts and extra thick Sunday Denver Post advertising supplements were launched before Black Friday.
Retail stores rolled out the Christmas decorations and “pre-Black Friday spe-cials.”
And of course, Black Friday itself came like clockwork last Friday with shoppers camped out for the early bird specials.
And so another Christmas shopping season is fully under way.
Retailers have their hopes for a better holiday season, city government officials are expectant about sales tax revenue, kids have their Christmas gift lists prepared, churches are preparing their cantatas and Christmas Eve services, the grocery stores are stocking those seasonal goodies, mom or sister Kate is baking those special family traditional bake goods and the Christmas goose is looking worried.
Christmas gift list Christmas morning will be here in a
flash (I know you are supposed to substi-tute “holiday season” for “Christmas,” but I am a proud Protestant and celebrate the arrival of the Christ Child.
I hope my friends and readers who are not Christians will indulge me).
And what is on your Christmas gift wish list this year?
How about Congress and the president solving (not avoiding or postponing) the federal government’s Fiscal Cliff debacle?
It would save all of us (not just the top 1 percent income folks) some increased taxes and probably prevent our fragile economy from going backwards.
Have you included jobs for the 23 mil-lion Americans who are looking for work
and a paycheck? That would be huge to-ward getting our economy humming again if employers could afford to hire or re-hire even one third of that number.
And then we could add an item on the list for a successful nonpartisan approach at all levels of our government on solving issues and getting America back in a solid position.
International focusOr how about Israel and Palestine set-
tling their differences once and for all? Ha, I know that is a long shot, but
perhaps they could at least stop bombing each other and killing innocent people and children.
Or let’s ask for world peace which would include the above situation along with the Afghan War, the continued killings in Iraq and the murdering in African countries by war lords.
Killing diseasesOr we could ask for a cure for all types
of cancer which would save so many loved ones and friends from a terrible fight.
Or we could include on our list a cure
for Alzheimer’s disease, which is another awful disease for both the individual and the family.
Or how about asking for a cure for HIV Aids? That would be especially monumen-tal in Africa where so many children lose their parents to this disease.
Elevate your listsBut, the Macy’s sales supplements, the
K-Mart blue light specials, the Kohl’s early bird specials and the dozens of other retail marketing blitz will get the best of us.
Those new whiz bang smart phones, Xbox games, the gazillion inch HD TVs, latest fashions and perhaps even a new Mercedes or Beamer for the high rollers will be purchased for Christmas.
Don’t call me Scrooge or Humbug Bill as I love to give and receive Christmas pres-ents just like you.
But at the same time, we could elevate our focus on the real important gifts we wish for our community, our country, our world.
Bill Christopher is former city manager of Westminster and used to represent Dis-trict J on the RTD board of directors.
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Impact of Amendment 64Question: Amendment 64,
the initiative to regulate mari-juana like alcohol, was passed by Colorado voters on Nov. 6. What will be allowed under the new amendment? Answer: Amendment 64 was created to increase individual freedoms, enhance revenue for public purposes and to use Colorado law enforcement and judicial resources more efficiently. In order to achieve these goals, Amendment 64 legalizes the recreational use of marijuana for individuals who are 21 and older; taxes and regulates the sale of recreational marijuana and provides for the regulated production and distri-bution of industrial hemp. Under Amendment 64, indi-viduals who are 21 and older will be able to cultivate up to six marijuana plants, three of which are flowering and three of which are vegetating. These individu-als will be able to keep all of the marijuana harvested from these plants, so long as the harvested marijuana is stored on the same premises where the marijuana plants were grown. Individuals also will be able to possess, use, display, purchase or transport up to an ounce of marijuana as well as marijuana accessories. Individuals who are 21 and older also will be able to transfer up to an ounce of marijuana to another individual over the age of 21 without receiving money.
However, public consumption of marijuana, as well as driving under the influence of mari-juana, will remain a crime in Colorado. Amendment 64 allows for the creation of recreational mari-juana businesses, similar to the current medical marijuana busi-nesses. Amendment 64 does not affect medical marijuana centers, and holders of a medi-cal marijuana business license also will be able to apply for and possess a recreational mari-juana business license. Amend-ment 64 sets a deadline of July 1, by which time the Colorado Department of Revenue must adopt regulations for the implementation of commercial marijuana businesses, including cultivation facilities, manufac-turing facilities and retail sales facilities. Amendment 64 provides that the state legislature shall enact an excise tax on the sale of mari-juana. Amendment 64 man-dates that this excise tax is not to exceed 15 percent. However, the percentage of the tax can be adjusted after Jan. 1, 2017, by the general assembly. The first $40 million in tax revenue generated from the sale of recre-ational marijuana is earmarked for the Public School Capitol
Construction Assistance Fund. Amendment 64 also directs the Colorado General Assembly to enact legislation governing the cultivation, processing and sale of industrial hemp by July 1, 2014. Unlike Amendment 20, Colorado’s medical mari-juana constitutional provision, Amendment 64 does not restrict recreational use of marijuana to only Colorado residents. This lack of residency requirements allows individuals over the age of 21 to travel to Colorado and use and possess marijuana while in Colorado. Further-more, Amendment 64 does not expressly prohibit Amsterdam-style “coffee shops” or business-es that allow you to consume marijuana onsite.
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Risen Savior Lutheran Church 3031 W. 144th Ave. - Broomfield 303-469-3521 or www.rslc.org
Sunday Worship8:00 am, 9:30 am & 11:00 am
Sunday School & Adult Classes9:20 am - 10:40 am
St. John’s EvangelicalLutheran Church (ELCA)
11040 Colorado Blvd.(across from Thornton Rec. Center)
303-457-2476 [email protected] 8:00 am & 10:45 am
Sunday School 9:30 am
Northglenn United Methodist ChurchWe invite you to join us for worship on Sundays. An inspirational traditional
service is o�ered at 9 AM on Sunday.We are located at 1605 W. 106th Ave., Northglenn.
The Pumpkins are coming! We are hosting a community Pumpkin Patch sale Oct. 17-31st at 1605 W. 106th Ave.
For more information about church and all other services o�ered,feel free to contact us at 303-452-5120. See you there!
ArvadaUnited Methodist Church
6750 Carr Street303-421-5135arvadaumc.org
Sunday Worship 8:00 and 10:00Nursery provided during both services
Church School at 9:30 amRev. Rudty ButlerRev. Valerie Oden
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The City is looking for residents who are interested in sitting on a grant review committee. The committee will meet Monday nights in February, March and April to evaluate the Thornton Assistance Funds (TAF) applications. TAF is a grant program for organizations that help Thornton residents meet their basic needs and enhance their ability to be self-suffi cient.
To apply for the committee, residents should complete a City board application.
Applications and more information on TAF can be found on www.cityofthornton.net or by contacting NeighborhoodServices at 303-538-7600 or [email protected].
Deadline to apply is December 14, 2012.
Members Needed for Grant Committee
Be a little less selfi sh, focus on important gifts for Alzheimer’s disease, which is another awful disease for both the individual and the family.
Or how about asking for a cure for HIV Aids? That would be especially monumen-tal in Africa where so many children lose their parents to this disease.
Elevate your listsBut, the Macy’s sales supplements, the
K-Mart blue light specials, the Kohl’s early bird specials and the dozens of other retail marketing blitz will get the best of us.
Those new whiz bang smart phones, Xbox games, the gazillion inch HD TVs, latest fashions and perhaps even a new Mercedes or Beamer for the high rollers will be purchased for Christmas.
Don’t call me Scrooge or Humbug Bill as I love to give and receive Christmas pres-ents just like you.
But at the same time, we could elevate our focus on the real important gifts we wish for our community, our country, our world.
Bill Christopher is former city manager of Westminster and used to represent Dis-trict J on the RTD board of directors.
All life is about change and choices Two years ago our son and his wife
moved to Kansas, a nice rural area where they had a lovely home and 10 acres of pristine woods.
We didn’t like to see them leave Colorado but we accepted their choice to relocate.
However, as time went on the lure back to Colorado became paramount and two weeks ago they moved back.
Of course we were delighted with their decision to come back to family and friends.
Thanksgiving was especially won-derful knowing they are here to stay.
Our neighbors are also feeling the change their son and wife made recently.
It was the promotion that caused them to relocate to Texas. Of course their parents wished them well and let them go with their blessings, but lots of tears were shed. Let’s face it, it hurts.
My sister and brother-in-law accepted change when one son and wife moved to Washington, D.C., and right after that another son and fam-ily moved to Wisconsin.
Of course, leaving their parents and Minnesota was hard to do but once again big job promotions were the reason for the moves, almost always the reason!
I did ItAs I lamented and vocalized about
all this change someone said, “But
Mom, you left Minnesota and chose to live in Colorado.”
So I did and many times I became very homesick and missed my mom and dad. Thursdays was the day of the week that mom’s letter would ar-rive and I eagerly awaited for it.
Then I met Bob who was from New Jersey, we were married and a new circle of life began.
I still miss Minnesota, and now health issues have prevented all of my sisters and their husbands from our twice a year gathering in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
It’s doubtful we will ever get all back together. The “old age” syn-drome has set in and the march toward declining health has started and can’t be reversed.
Not many choicesAt this point in time we are all just
fortunate to be in the circle of life. But that doesn’t mean I can’t lament and rail against the ravages of old age.
I know I’m losing vim and vigor
when I began to think all that Christ-mas hoopla has to give way to a diminished preparation.
Somehow, I’m just not in the mood for putting up the big tree and a house fully decorated for the holidays. Even the thought of all the candy and cookie making doesn’t entice me.
Now, maybe I’ll catch the spirit and jump right in again but right now change and choice make me favor downsizing.
Hate to admit ItIn a way I’m feeling a bit guilty
about my lack of enthusiasm and maybe I’ll be getting it so I reserve the option to change my mind.
See, I told you change and choice is all part of life. And just maybe I’ll be scurrying to do it.
Quote of the Week“The best holiday decoration is
change being wreathed in smiles.” Main Street Memories
Stay well, stay involved and stay tuned.
Vi June is past Democratic state representative for House District 35. She is a former mayor of Westminster and a former newspaper publisher. A Westminster resident for more than four decades, she and her husband, Bob, have fi ve grown children and eight grandchildren.
NORTHGLENN NEWS IN A HURRY
Northglenn hosting donation driveThe city of Northglenn will
hold a donation drive through Dec. 21.
People can donate food, bicycles and warm clothing that will be given to local residents who need help this holiday season.
Polycarts will be set up at City Hall, 11701 Community Center Drive, the Northglenn Recreation Center, 11801 Com-munity Center Drive, and the Maintenance and Operations Building, 12301 Claude Court.
For more information, con-tact Jenni Murphy at 303-450-8904 or [email protected].
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Coach Karl clearly cares
Talk a little NBA b-ball while sidling up to Denver Nuggets Head Coach George Karl during a charity breakfast from 7-8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, at Coohills, 1400 Wewatta St.
Space is limited, so RSVPs are request-ed by Nov. 30 to [email protected] or by calling 303-788-9399. Cost is $28 per person.
The event is part of Colorado Gives Day 2012, where residents have 24 hours to give where they live.
The Coach Karl breakfast proceeds will support the Progressive Health Cen-ter and Cancer Care Initiative on Colo-rado Gives Day. Coloradans will come together again to raise millions of dollars for nonprofits throughout the state.
Last year, $12.8 million was distrib-uted to Colorado nonprofits. Progressive Health Center and Cancer Care Initiative raised $36,000 and won an award for The Largest Percentage Increase In Dollars raised. The organization’s goal for 2012 is to increase that amount by 10 percent.
Progressive Health Center uses dona-tions to help uninsured/underserved patients; for education programs and for general operating funds.
The Cancer Care Initiative helps with patient navigation, pain management, survivorship and integrative medicine.
Presented by Community First Foun-dation and FirstBank, Colorado Gives Day asks you to give to your favorite charities through the website www.GivingFirst.org, an online giving resource featuring every nonprofit participating in Colorado Gives Day.
One hundred percent of your dona-tion will come to the charity you choose. When you give online anytime on Dec. 4, the value of your donation will be in-creased by the FirstBank Incentive Fund.
Donate online at www.givingfirst.org/progressivehealthcenter anytime during the 24-hour period of Dec. 4 to “Give Where You Live.”
Taxi turkeysFor the 20th year in a row, Metro Taxi
drivers volunteered to bring meals to residents in need by delivering food from the legendary Daddy Bruce Randolph Thanksgiving program.
Metro Taxi Denver drivers assisted the Epworth Foundation’s annual Denver Feed a Family Thanksgiving program by delivering more than 1,800 food baskets to Denver residents unable to leave their homes.
At midnight prior to our traditional turkey day, three city blocks surrounding Epworth United Methodist Church, 3401 High St., closed to set up a giant assem-bly line for Thanksgiving food baskets.
After hundreds of volunteers sorted and packed the food that Walmart had donated and hauled in, volunteer drivers from Metro Taxi began delivering food baskets to the elderly and shut-ins.
The drivers navigated more than 120 routes and made more than 1,800 deliveries to needy residents in northeast Denver who would otherwise not have had access to the donations.
“This is not a business decision for us, this is simply the right thing for us to do and we are so proud of our drivers who step up to help their neighbors,” Metro Taxi Denver Operations Manager Bobby
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Old story, new ‘Miracle’ Arvada Center takes a classic back to its rootsBy Clarke [email protected]
There are certain stories that al-most every theater uses to kick off its holiday season, and the Arvada Center is hosting one of them on
its main stage.“Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical”
will play at the center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., through Dec. 23, bringing the clas-sic to a new generation of theatergoers.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Tues-days through Saturdays, 1 p.m. Wednes-days and 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
The musical is based on the classic film, and follows much of the same story-line, according to the director of the show, Gavin Mayer.
When the show was first created in 1963 it was called “Here’s Love” but over the years that has evolved into the title we now know it by.
“From Thanksgiving to Christmas is my favorite time of year, so it’s been great to create that for other people,” Mayer said. “It’s hard not to have a good time working on a Christmas play.”
The story follows the real Kris Kringle, who shows up in New York City, and gets hired to play Santa Claus at the Macy’s de-partment store.
Realizing his holiday has become over-run with commercialism and cynicism, he sets about convincing the store’s spe-cial events director, Doris Walker, and her daughter, Susan, that he is the real St. Nick.
Even though the play is supposed to take place during the 1960s when it was written, Mayer decided to go back and create the look and feel of 1949 when the film takes place.
“Around this time of year people are
looking to capture those feelings and am-bience of that period of time,” he said. “So, we based our design on a vintage New York postcard to create a romantic, idealized 1940’s New York.”
Mayer credits everyone who worked on set and costume design with putting forth great effort in creating that idealized time.
Of course, the story is only going to be as good as its Kris Kringle, and that’s a role Erick Devine takes very seriously.
“There are kids in the show, and there will be kids in the audience, and it’s a huge responsibility because I’m that guy,” he said. “Also, every night it’s someone’s first show, and I’m responsible for helping to bring them back to the theater.”
Devine said he saw the show during its original run in New York, and he has per-formed in it, but this is his first time play-ing Kris Kringle.
“It’s just amazing how they’re recre-ating that magic,” he said. “I love that they’re bringing back to the ’40s, and they’ve done some amazing choral work bringing back those creamy harmonies of the era.”
The show is very family friendly, and Mayer said he hopes that it’ll be the show that gets people’s holiday season going.
“This is a show that hasn’t really been done in the area recently, and so we’re hoping that theatergoers will use it to kick-off their holidays.”
For tickets and more information, call 720-898-7200 or go online to www.ar-vadacenter.org.
The Arvada Center’s production of “Miracle on 34th Street” follows the same story as the classic film in which Kris Kringle has to convince Doris (Lauren Sheely), Susan (Regan Fenske) and Fred (Jody Madaras) that he is real. Photos by P. Switzer
Kris Kringle (Erick Devine) comes to New York City to remind the city about the spirit of the season.
IF YOU GOWHAT: “Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical”
WHERE: Arvada Center
6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada
WHEN: Through Dec. 23
Tuesday through Saturday - 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday - 1 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday - 2 p.m.
COST: $53-$59
INFORMATION: 720-898-7200 or www.arvada-center.org
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The holiday season doesn’t have to always in-volve the same old, same old when it comes to deco-rating your home.
Take a few ideas from John Griffi th. As the lead visual merchandiser for Replacements, Ltd., he spends the entire year scouting and developing innovative tips and tech-niques to deck the halls and trim the perfect tree. So far, Griffi th’s team has adorned nearly a dozen trees throughout com-pany’s retail store. Each tannenbaum is a story in itself, defi ned by color and style and unique looks created by combining or-naments with what some might consider nontradi-tional trimmings.
“So many people settle for simply hanging orna-ments on their trees, but there is so much more you can do by adding fi llers that really refl ect your own personal taste and style,” said Griffi th. “Mixing in ribbon, fabrics, fl orals, feathers and other natural elements create fl air and personality. Adding extra fl ourishes in the right plac-es can make the difference between a pretty tree and an extraordinary tree.”
Griffi th says the hot colors for holiday 2012 range from soft pastels to rich jewel tones. Popular ornaments this season refl ect the Victorian era, with glittering gemstones and rhinestones being ex-tremely popular.
And don’t be afraid to forgo the traditional tree topper. Instead, consider using twigs or other natu-ral elements arranged out of the top of your tree. Griffi th has even strategi-cally placed a tree beneath a chandelier for extra glow.
If you don’t have enough room for a traditional sized tree, corner trees or the fl atter profi le trees are an
excellent fi t for smaller spaces. Or, Griffi th sug-gests you may want to go in an entirely different di-rection.
“I am into repurposing and recycling, so I took the branches of an old ar-tifi cial tree and wired them together to create swags, and then decorated those with combinations of fab-rics, bows and ornaments,” he said. “You can hang swags on a mantel or place them on top of a door frame. They’re a fun family project, and you can even create them with different color stories or themes for each room in your home.”
Griffi th literally has thousands of ornaments at his fi ngertips. While most people know Replace-ments as the world’s larg-est retailer of old and new china, crystal, silver and collectibles, the company
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“As individuals, we chose ornaments for so many different reasons. Deci-sions may be driven by color or theme, but many choices are shaped by past and future traditions,” said Keith Winkler, the com-pany’s product marketing manager. “Many people reach back to ornaments that remind them of their childhood, while others are looking to start their own traditions with annual collectible ornaments. For instance, Wallace Silver makes an annual sleigh bell, while Gorham Silver releases an annual snow fl ake. These have been in production for more than four decades and are a great tradition to add every year.”
Winkler says popular dinnerware manufactur-
ers including Lenox, Wedg-wood and Waterford all offer ornament lines. For those looking for popu-
lar blown glass, he sug-gests the Merck Family’s Old World Christmas line. Those ornaments run the gamut from traditional holiday fi gures, to birds, sports teams, and pretty much any theme you can imagine.
If you are interested in more ideas, you can fi nd decorating and entertain-ing tips at www.replace-ments.com, while Replace-ments will post additional ideas throughout the up-coming holiday season on its Facebook page.
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Where were you born?I was born in San Pedro, California. It is the home of the
LA harbor, the place “� e Love Boat”, sails in and out of. A great place to be from and I still get back yearly as I have family in that area.
How long have you lived in the area?I have lived in the North metro area for over 21 years. I
came to Colorado to go to college in Durango and felt this place was home.
What do you like most about it?I love the mountains and the
skiing like most other Coloradans but above that, the people. I have found Colorado to be a melting pot – a melting pot of ideas, traditions and cultures.
How long have you worked in Real Estate?
I have been licensed here in Col-orado since 1991 and in Arizona since 2005.
What is your specialty and what does that mean for the people you work with?
I’m a broker and trainer who specializes in the process of buying and selling. My skills give me the ability to relate to clients in a way that I feel sets me apart from other agents. Buying a home is not rocket science but there is a process and I help my clients understand that process and make that process work for them.
What do you most enjoy doing when you’re not work-ing?
I’m very involved in the community helping on di� er-ent boards and trying to ensure the Colorado way of life is preserved and treasured. � at and I love the Broncos! Go Broncos!
What is one tip you have for someone looking to sell a house?
Be sure to be honest with your agent and tell them the pluses and minus of your home. I’m trained to accent the pluses and minimize the minuses to
get you the best value for your home.
What is one tip you have for someone looking to buy a house?
You can search for homes on the Internet but using an agent to help can save you time and money.
What is the most unusual thing you have encountered while working in Real Estate?
Working with people lends itself to unique situations. I have helped a pair of twins buy their � rst homes at the same time and while they were planning a double wed-ding. � at was a lot of planning and coordinating but they did say closing on the homes was smoother than the wed-ding.
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Anyone purchasing a home needs to have it inspected, not only by a general home
inspector, but in many cases by a professional engineer, mold inspec-tor, radon tester, or any other spe-cialists trained to evaluate any other potential problem.
Sellers, whether using a real estate agent to list their homes, or whether they are handling the sale themselves, are wise to protect themselves by � lling out in detail the Seller’s Property Disclosures for residential properties sanctioned by the Colorado Division of Real Es-tate. � is form, which can be down-
loaded from the division’s website, has become more detailed every year. For the most part it protects both the buyer and the seller from any surprises.
Even so, certain rules regarding disclosures need to be followed if the seller wants to avoid being sued for failure to disclose known prob-lems with the property. As a general rule, the buyer and the inspector the buyer hires are expected to note problems that are obvious, known as patent defects, such as obvious cracks on the basement � oor. � e problem comes in when there are latent defects, or defects that are not obvious that the seller failed to dis-close, such as past water problems, leaks, hidden mold, or basement cracks which are covered up by car-peting.
Problems can arise when the seller discloses, or fails to disclose, something that may or may not af-fect a potential buyer’s decision on whether to purchase the property. For example, if one of the parties that lived in the home committed suicide, or died of cancer, or was murdered, or abused his or her chil-dren. � ese and similar issues will e� ect some purchasers’ decision to buy, but not others, because they are subjective, and really have noth-
ing to do with the condition of the house. Colorado law, speci� cally C.R.S. 38-35.5-101, protects a real estate broker who does not make these disclosures from lawsuits, but does not protect the seller. Disclos-ing these matters might be pru-dent for a seller to avoid problems down the line with buyers sensitive to those and similar situations that don’t a� ect the physical condition of the house but could have psycholog-ical e� ects on certain buyers.
Another tricky area is when a home inspector claims the home has a structural problem and the buyer terminates the contract based on that � nding. Assume that the seller
then hires a professional engineer who � nds there are no structural problems and that the house is struc-turally sound. Should the home inspector’s opinion be conveyed to subsequent potential buyers or not? One of the items on the Colorado Division of Real Estate’s website questionnaire is “Written reports of any building, site, roo� ng, soils, or engineering investigations or stud-ies of the property”. � is suggests that any such condition needs to be reported, even if overridden by a more competent professional, since a professional engineer is in a better position than a home inspector to determine the structural soundness
of a home. Tricky, but probably the � rst report should be disclosed and then followed up by the report of the professional engineer.
Bear in mind that the only mat-ters that need to be disclosed are those within the knowledge of the seller at the time he or she is pre-paring the disclosure statement. � e latest version of the disclosure statement is extremely detailed and covers most areas that could pres-ent problems for a potential buyer. To be safe, as a general rule, when in doubt, disclose, even if it hurts. Speci� c problems, such as mold, ter-mites, radon, and lead-based paint will be discussed in later columns.
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Blue and Fawn XXL Pit Bulls forsale. Born on October 31st, 2012UKC Registered. Taking depositsnow with only 8 left. 1-719-232-4439
English Setter puppy.Champion blood lines, orange &
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1972 International Pickup withtopper, ¾ ton, 61K miles $4,0001972 gold International pickup withtopper, ¾ ton, 2WD, senior owned,great condition, 60,555 miles,$4,000. 719-687-7669
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McBride said. “We have people on staff here who have been helping feed families through the Daddy Bruce Thanksgiving pro-gram for 20 years. The giving spirit of Daddy Bruce Randolph that the Epworth Founda-tion carries on is an important tradition to the community and to our company.”
For more information on Metro Taxi, visit www.metrotaxidenver.com. To learn more about the Epworth Foundation, the history of the Daddy Bruce Randolph Thanksgiving tradition, and to donate to the cause next year, visit www.epworthfoundation.org.
Bowled overAfter hurdling numerous stumbling
blocks, Punch Bowl Social, the much-antic-ipated diner and bowling alley from Denver
restaurateur Robert Thompson, has finally opened at First Avenue and Broadway in the former Big Lots building.
The opening night event included live music by The Epilogues, with the ticket take going to Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Colorado. Tickets were purchased at www.punchbowlsocial.com for $15 to cover the charity donation and entertainment.
“We are proud to bring PBS to the Baker District and launch it in conjunction with such a worthy charity as Big Brothers and Big Sisters,” Thompson said.
The 24,000-square-foot bar, diner, bowl-ing alley and coffeehouse also includes pingpong, marbles, deck-shuffle, shuffle-board, darts, pinball, foosball, pool tables, board games and a wall of throwback video games.
Punch Bowl is open daily starting at 6
a.m. for the coffee shop, breakfast served from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., lunch and dinner 11 a.m. to midnight, happy hour 2-6 p.m. and a late-night menu till 2 a.m.
More information at www.punchbowlso-cial.com.
Beggin’ for baconDenver’s first Bacon and Beer Festival
takes place from 2:30-5 p.m. Dec. 9 at Mile High Station.
Denver-area restaurants will off fabulous bacon-based dishes for attendees to sample along with beers from amazing breweries.
Proceeds will benefit Metro CareRing and Project Angel Heart. The event is sup-ported by Whole Foods Market and Ameri-can Homestead Bacon.
For more information on all par-ticipating restaurants and breweries, and
tickets, go to http://www.wheretoeat.in/calendar/63/29-2012-Denver-Bacon-and-Beer-Festival.
The event is brought to you by @eatbos-ton, Forkly and Denver Off the Wagon.
Did you know?After a warm weather delay, which
produced unfavorable ice conditions, Lakewood’s Belmar has opened The Rink at Belmar. Updated rink schedule and hours are available at www.belmarcolorado.com.
Penny Parker’s “Mile High Life” col-umn 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 [email protected] or at 303-619-5209.
Parker continued from Page 8
Parker: Denver’s first Bacon and Beer Festival set for Dec. 9
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December, 2012
Your Metro North Chamber provides on-going opportunities for business profes-sionals to connect with other business pro-fessionals and to have access to relevant information that impacts our communities.
SPECIAL EVENTS
MNCC Business After Hours Wednesday, December 5th
from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. at Horizons North Credit Union
(11455 Pearl St., Northglenn, CO 80233)* FREE admission if you bring an
unwrapped toy for boy or girl 12 years or younger, which will be donated to
A Precious Child.
MNCC Legislative Briefing Event from 7:00 – 9:30 a.m.
at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Westminster
(8773 Yates Dr., Westminster, CO 80031)
RECURRING EVENTS
MNCC Ambassador Meeting on Tuesday, December 11th
from 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. at the Chamber Office
(14583 Orchard Pkwy., #300, Westminster, CO 80023)
MNCC Leadership Advisory Board (LAB) Meeting
on Tuesday, December 11th from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the Chamber Office
(14583 Orchard Pkwy., #300, Westminster, CO 80234)
MNCC Tuesday Leads Group from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
at Lone Star Steakhouse (237 E. 120th Ave., Thornton, CO 80023)
MNCC Thursday Leads Group from 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
at Egg & I (885 Thornton Pkwy., Thornton, CO 80229)
For more information on these events and other connection opportunities, please visit our website at www.MetroNorthChamber.com or call 303.288.1000.
Upcoming MNCC Connection Opportunities
Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel 19November 29, 201219
The Metro North Chamber ... Your Regional Business Powerhouse
December, 2012
About the Metro North Chamber of CommerceEstablished in 1959, your Metro North
Chamber of Commerce is the premier busi-ness representative for the Metro North re-gion representing over 1,000 businesses in Arvada, Brighton, Broom�eld, Commerce City, Dacono, Erie, Federal Heights, Firestone, Frederick, Northglenn, Thornton and West-minster.
Your Chamber works to provide support to businesses in the region through strong advocacy at the local and state level while providing opportunities to help businesses grow and develop. Your Chamber under-stands the fundamental e�ects that busi-nesses and industry have on our commu-nities and is thus committed to bringing
businesses, educators, non-pro�ts groups and government agencies together to speak with ONE UNIFIED VOICE TO PROMOTE THE ECONOMIC VITALITY OF THE METRO NORTH REGION. For more information about your Metro North Chamber of Commerce vis-it www.MetroNorthChamber.com or call 303.288.1000.
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20SPORTSB&W
OUT OF OUT OF OUT OF OUT OF OUT OF OUT OF BOUNDSBOUNDSBOUNDSBOUNDSBOUNDSBOUNDSBY THE NUMBERS
As part of our preview process for the upcom-ing basketball season, we asked local coaches to list the top fi ve teams in the state. Here is the results of our coaches poll:
CLASS 5A BOYS1. Denver East2. Grandview3. Cherokee Trail4. Highlands Ranch5. Regis Jesuit
CLASS 5A GIRLS1. Regis Jesuit2. Highlands Ranch3. ThunderRidge4. Horizon5. Grandview
CLASS 4A BOYS1. Lewis-Palmer2. Broomfi eld3. D’Evelyn4. Valor Christian5. Sand Creek
CLASS 4A GIRLS1. Broomfi eld2. Pueblo West3. Sand Creek4. Valor Christian5. Windsor
GAME OF THE WEEK
FOOTBALLClass 5A State
ChampionshipNo. 3 Cherokee Trail
(12-1) vs. No. 4 Valor Christian (11-2), 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, Sports Authority Field
at Mile High
The Eagles, winners of 11 straight games, stand just 60 minutes away from their fi rst-ever 5A state title, and fourth-straight overall. They’ve won all four of their playoffs games by 30-plus points, three by more than 40.
SentinelSPORTS Rader back to lead Horizon Senior post player looking at successful senior campaign By Jonathan Maness [email protected]
THORNTON - It’s hard to fi nd a player more valuable to their team than Kaylie Rader.
The 6-foot-4 senior post player helped guide Horizon to the Sweet 16 last season and led the squad in points, rebounds and blocks.
“We are expecting big things out of her,” Horizon coach Greg Hahn said. “She is a tough kid and a great leader. She is very im-portant to our team.”
Rader, who will play at Wyoming next year, was the only player in Class 5A to fi n-ish in the top 10 in three categories during her junior season.
She was ninth in scoring (16.1 points), sixth in rebounding (9.1) and second in blocked shots (2.9) and with her returning and a summer of hard work the Hawks are looking to build off of last season’s 17-8 re-cord.
“We are going to be an awesome group,” Rader said.
Rader has created quite a legacy at Hori-zon over the past few years. As a freshman, she scored 22 points in her fi rst high school game and nearly averaged a double-double (9.5 points, 11 rebounds) during her fi rst season.
However, in September of 2010 she tore her LCL and missed all of her sophomore campaign. But she worked her way back on the court and opened her junior season by scoring 18 points in a season-opening loss to Mullen. She followed that up by scoring in double fi gures in 32 of 35 games and had double-doubles in 11 contests.
However, Horizon had its season end with a heart-breaking 58-57 loss to Palmer in the Sweet 16 when Taylor Torres hit a pair of free throws with .3 seconds left. With that loss in mind the Hawks spent the summer working as a team and attending a camp in Wyoming.
“Playing as a team is what we are work-ing on,” Rader said. “We worked on getting the ball to go up and down the fl oor as a team, instead of being choppy - which we were like at times last year.”
That and a squad that features six se-niors has Rader thinking big before con-tinuing her career as a Cowgirl.
“This year we are super strong,” Rader said. “I feel like my team is going to go all the way.”
Horizon senior Kaylie Rader, No. 33, and the Hawks are expected to contend for a state championship this season. File photo
Girls basketball previews 2012-13 By Jonathan Maness [email protected]
There may not be a more competi-tive area for girls basketball than the Met-roNorth area. Holy Family is competing for a state title nearly every year, while Legacy won its fi rst state title last season. This year, it may be Horizon’s turn. The Hawks return Kylie Rader and are hungry for more this season after losing to Palmer in the Sweet 16.
CLASS 5A
HORIZON HAWKSCOACH: Greg Hahn2011: 17-8 overall, 11-5 Front Range
LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Kaylie Rader, Sr.,
C, 6-4; Gabriela Jiminez, Sr., PG, 5-7; Ka-leigh Paplow, So., G, 5-9.
OUTLOOK: The Hawks are going to be dangerous with Rader returning to the mix. After a heartbreaking loss in the Sweet 16, Horizon will look to push further this sea-son. The Hawks will feature six seniors and will return four of their top six scorers from last season.
LEGACY LIGHTNINGCOACH: Craig Van Patten2011: 24-4 overall, 13-3 Front Range
LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Caitlyn Smith, Sr.,
P, 6-0; Courtney Smith, So., C, 6-2; Jennifer Aicega, Sr., SG, 5-6.
OUTLOOK: The Lightning will be out to defend their state title, but they will have to do it without their top two scorers from last year - Kailey Edwards and Emily Glen. Legacy will rely on the play of Caitlyn and Courtney Smith.
MOUNTAIN RANGE MUSTANGS COACH: Chyrisse Domenico
2011: 3-20 overall, 0-16 Front Range League
PLAYERS TO WATCH: Hope Martinez, 5-6, Sr.; Bre Fiske, 5-5, Sr.; Tory Travers, 6-1, Sr.
OUTLOOK: With four returning starters the Mustangs will look to be more competi-tive in the tough Front Range League. Abby Birch and Fiske are the squad’s top two re-turning scorers.
NORTHGLENN NORSECOACH: Holly Kesterson2011: 4-17 overall, 3-8 East Metro LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Toni Proksch, Sr.,
G; McKenzie Johns, Sr., C/FW; Jayia Del-Real, So., G.
OUTLOOK: Proksch and Johns will have to lead the way for a young Norse squad.
Proksch averaged 8.4 points last season and scored her season-best 18 points in the reg-ular-season fi nale, while Johns gives North-glenn a solid post presence.
STANDLEY LAKE GATORSCOACH: Denise Lopez2011: 13-11 overall, 8-8 Jeffco LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Haley Lopez, Sr.;
Sara Shileny, Sr.; Meaghan DeHerrera, So.OUTLOOK: Denise Lopez will step in as
the Gators new coach after Ron Burgin left the team to coach Boulder High School. She will have Haley Lopez and her 10.9 points and 5.2 rebounds back. Shileny will also give the team an option in the post.
THORNTON TROJANSCOACH: Matt Vigil2011: 13-11 overall, 6-5 East Metro
LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Raina Castaneda,
So. G; Marissa Trujillo, Sr., SG; Regina Cas-taneda, Sr., G.
OUTLOOK: Vigil will take over a fairly talented Trojans squad. Raina Castaneda was a freshman sensation last season and will return after leading the squad with 19 points a game and also led the team with 41 treys.
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Smith sisters taking over lead for Legacy
WESTMINSTER WOLVESCOACH: Jim Iverson2011: 13-9 overall, 9-2 East Metro LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Hannah Massey,
Sr., 5-8, G; Desiree Gomez, Sr., 5-7, FW; Agustina Santistevan, Jr., 5-5, G.
OUTLOOK: The Wolves will have to re-load after an impressive season last year ended in the opening round of the playoffs. Westminster lost nine seniors, including the squad’s top four scorers.
CLASS 4A
SKYVIEW WOLVERINESCOACH: Chris Kemm2011: 7-16 overall, 1-10 East Metro
LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Brandie Woodson,
Sr., 5-6, G; Jasmine Kemm, Sr., 5-5, G; Laura Malacarne, Sr., 5-10, F; Shelby Drnovsek, Sr., 5-9, F/G.
OUTLOOK: The Wolverines may strug-gle to start the season with both Kemm and Malacarne battling injuries. However, Sky-view should be competitive on most nights due to the team’s depth.
CLASS 3A
HOLY FAMILY TIGERSCOACH: Ron Rossi2011: 22-2 overall, 9-1 Metropolitan
LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Micaela
Blanchard, Sr., 5-11, C; Lindsey Chavez, Jr., 5-6, G; Claudia Pena, Jr., 6-0 F.
OUTLOOK: With only four varsity play-
ers returning from last season it may be a rebuilding season for the Tigers, who are usually among the best in the state. If ev-erything falls into place this team may fi nd itself at the top again this season.
JEFFERSON ACADEMY JAGUARSCOACH: Kevin Porter2011: 8-13 overall, 4-6 Metropolitan
LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Alyson Thimsen,
Jr., 5-9, G; Sara Miller, Sr., 5-8 G/F; Sayde Anderson, Sr., 5-9, G.
OUTLOOK: The Jaguars return most of their players from last year, including An-derson who led the team in scoring last year. The team will also feature a pair of dangerous shooters in Miller and Abby Wil-son.
THE ACADEMY WILDCATSCOACH: Mark Allen2011: 9-15 overall, 6-5 Frontier LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Alex Garcia, Jr.,
G/F; Jordan Bauer Jr., G/F; Jackie Wilson, Jr., G/F
OUTLOOK: The Wildcats will rely on a strong junior class to be competitive this season. Garcia showed an ability to shoot the ball last season, while Bauer led the team in rebounds (6.6) and Wilson is also a marksman from behind the arc.
THE PINNACLE TIMBERWOLVESCOACH: Steve Gutierrez2011: 16-7 overall, 10-1 Frontier LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Jacey Ovalle, So.,
5-6, PG; Hayley Schurr, Sr., 5-6, G; Dalia
Holguin, Sr., 5-6, G.OUTLOOK: After an impressive run last
season the Timberwolves will attempt to stay competitive this season - despite los-ing their top four scorers from last season. Ovalle and Holguin give The Pinnacle out-side shooters, while Schurr is the squad’s top returning defender.
CLASS 1A
BELLEVIEW CHRISTIAN BRUINSCOACH: Josh Polson2011: 19-4 overall, 8-0 5280 LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Sydney Ahaneku,
Jr.; MacKenzie Woods, Jr.; Kayla Iwahashi, Jr.
OUTLOOK: The future is bright for the Bruins. With Ahaneku and Woods back to lead the way, Belleview Christian should be able to defend its league title and advance further than last season, when the Bruins lost in the regional championship.
COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CRUSADERSCOACH: Rob Pierson2011: 10-10 overall, 5-3 5280 LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Alex Quimby, Sr.,
5-8, G; Rachelle Smith, Jr., 5-9, SF; Audra Worley, Sr., 5-9, G.
OUTLOOK: The Crusaders lost three se-
niors from last season’s squad, but return their leading scorer (Quimby). Quimbly also led the team in assists, steals and three-pointers.
CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN BULLDOGSCOACH: Larry Zimbelman2011: 7-10 overall, 3-5 5280 LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Abby Longtine,
Jr., 5-5, SG; Avonelle Halbach, Jr., 5-5, G/F; Alesja Ptselnikov, So., 5-3, G.
OUTLOOK: For the Bulldogs to be com-petitive they will have to fi nd a way to re-place the dynamic duo of Alyssa Fajardo and Stephanie Longtine. The duo scored more 60 percent of the squad’s points last year and grabbed more than half of the team’s rebounds.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LUTHERAN EAGLESCOACH: Adam Frey2011: 6-12 overall, 3-5 5280 LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Hannah Sievert,
Sr., 5-11, F/C; Brittany Zemlicka, Jr., 5-4, G; Jessica Dalbotten, Jr., 5-10, F/C
OUTLOOK: The Eagles young squad is a year older and should build off of last season’s record. They have seven players returning with varsity experience and only had two players graduate last season.
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Girls basketball previews 2012-13 Proksch averaged 8.4 points last season and scored her season-best 18 points in the reg-ular-season fi nale, while Johns gives North-glenn a solid post presence.
STANDLEY LAKE GATORSCOACH: Denise Lopez2011: 13-11 overall, 8-8 Jeffco LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Haley Lopez, Sr.;
Sara Shileny, Sr.; Meaghan DeHerrera, So.OUTLOOK: Denise Lopez will step in as
the Gators new coach after Ron Burgin left the team to coach Boulder High School. She will have Haley Lopez and her 10.9 points and 5.2 rebounds back. Shileny will also give the team an option in the post.
THORNTON TROJANSCOACH: Matt Vigil2011: 13-11 overall, 6-5 East Metro
LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH: Raina Castaneda,
So. G; Marissa Trujillo, Sr., SG; Regina Cas-taneda, Sr., G.
OUTLOOK: Vigil will take over a fairly talented Trojans squad. Raina Castaneda was a freshman sensation last season and will return after leading the squad with 19 points a game and also led the team with 41 treys.
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Girls Hoops: Tigers gear up for another run
Smith sisters taking over lead for Legacy Duo hope to help Lightning defendstate title
By Jonathan Maness [email protected]
BROOMFIELD - The Legacy girls basketball team are out to defend their state title, but will have do it with-out 60 percent of their of-fense from last year.
Any other year and any other team it would mean trouble, but not the Light-ning.
They will turn to the tal-ented sister duo of Caitlyn and Courtney Smith in their quest for a second consecu-tive state title.
“I think the ultimate goal every year is to win the state championship,” Courtney Smith said. “But we have to take it a game at a time and continue to improve.”
No doubt Legacy will miss the scoring tandem of Emily Glen and Kailey Ed-wards, who combined to average more than 32 points last season.
But, the Smith sisters were no slouches last sea-son and the duo worked diligently this summer to improve their games.
“We aren’t going to able to replace them because they were such a strong group,” said Caitlyn Smith, who will play next season for
Colorado School of Mines. “We just have to play to
our strengths.”Caitlyn Smith, who is
6-foot-2, is the Lightning top returning scorer and re-bounder after averaging 8.8 points and 7.2 rebounds last season.
While Courtney Smith started last season as a freshman, and improved as the season went on last sea-son.
“We are trying to be a threat from all over the fl oor,” Caitlyn Smith said. “Courtney is a really good shooter, but she is working on being better all-around. I’m working on improving my ball-handling skills.”
Courtney Smith went for 17 points and 10 rebounds to help Legacy top High-lands Ranch 64-61 in the semifi nals last year.
Caitlyn Smith also had 13 in the win.
The duo also combined for 17 points in the title game to beat Monarch, 58-51.
That moment has the sisters motivated to defend their title.
“We really want to get to the same place we did last year,” Caitlyn Smith said.
“It was really nice to end on a win.”
Sisters Caitlyn, left, and Courtney Smith, right, will lead defending champion Legacy’s repeat bid this season. Photos by Jonathan Maness
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Young Gators squad to rely on sizeAsmus, Critchfield give Standley Lake advantage in postBy Jonathan [email protected]
WESTMINSTER - The Standley Lake basketball team won’t have much experience coming back this year, but the Gators will have plenty of size.
After graduating seven seniors from last year’s squad, Standley Lake will look to build around its two 6-foot-6 post players in Mar-cus Asmus and Dylan Critchfield.
Asmus and Critchfield, who are both juniors, are the only two players returning with varsity ex-perience. But neither saw a lot of time last season, with Asmus play-ing in 12 games and Critchfield playing in two.
“We are young and going to have to develop over the season,” said Critchfield.
The Gators will have to replace their top five scorers from last year’s team that went 16-9, includ-ing Brandon Applehans and his 23 points a game.
Asmus is the squad’s top re-turning scorer, but he only aver-aged 1.9 points last season.
He scored six points against Chatfield and Pomona last sea-son, and also pulled down four
boards against Arvada West.“We are inexperienced, but as
big guys we should do pretty well,”
Asmus said. “We may struggle a little bit with our guards.”
Both Asmus and Critchfield spent some time at the Colorado Invitational Camp over the sum-mer.
While there Asmus showcased his versatility to play inside as well as out. He showed an ability to knock down jumpers and also proved he wasn’t afraid of playing in the paint.
Critchfield, who is battling a sprained ankle going into the sea-son, proved an ability to score in the post and a willingness to bat-tle for boards.
Asmus also traveled to San Di-ego and Las Vegas over the sum-mer to work on his game, while Crichfield went to Texas and Las Vegas.
“It was good experience seeing bigger guys in other states,” As-mus said.
Seniors Mario Spears and An-thony Ochiato will also bring their talents from the football field to the basketball court for the Ga-tors.
Ochiato, who will play football at Northern Colorado next season, is also 6-6 and gives Standley Lake some more size in the post.
Standley Lake’s Dylan Critchfield, left, and Marcus Asmus, far right, will give the Gators plenty of size this season. Photos by Jonathan Maness
Boys basketball previews 2012-13By Jonathan [email protected]
This season may see quite a few boys squads in the area rebuilding and re-loading with talent.
Even Standley Lake, which advanced to the sec-ond round of the Class 5A state playoffs, return only two players with varsity ex-perience.
Teams like Mountain Range and Jefferson Acad-emy may surprise a few teams.
CLASS 5A
HORIZON HAWKSCOACH: Chad Wilson2011: 8-15 overall, 5-11
Front Range LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
Jake Ralphs, Sr., G, 6-0; Dil-lion Harshman, Sr., G, 6-; Chad David, Sr., F, 6-1.
OUTLOOK: With a strong senior class the Hawks look to improve on last season’s record. They return their top three scor-ers, but don’t have a lot of size in the post.
LEGACY LIGHTNINGCOACH: Gunnar John-
son2011: 7-17 overall, 7-9
Front Range LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
Mitch McCall, Sr., G, 6-1; Eyo Mengist, Jr, G, 6-0; Nico Ball, Jr., PG, 5-7.
OUTLOOK: It could be a tough year for the Light-ning. They don’t have a lot of experience or a lot of size. Legacy’s success will de-pend on how Ball can han-dle the load at point guard.
M O U N T A I N RANGE MUSTANGS COACH: Jim Mason
2011: 2-21 overall, 1-15 Front Range League
PLAYERS TO WATCH: Jacob Taylor, 6-7, Sr.; Austin Quaratino, 5-10, Sr.; Tanner Waufle, 5-11, Sr.
OUTLOOK: After a dis-appointing season last year the Mustangs should bring a competitive team this season, led by 6-foot-7 Tay-lor in the post. Taylor twice went for 20 points last sea-son and also had eight dou-ble-doubles.
NORTHGLENN NORSECOACH: Kevin Knudson2011: 12-12 overall, 7-5
East Metro LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
Jordan Radebaugh, Sr., G; Derrick DeLaTorre, Jr., G; Angel Casares, Sr., G.
OUTLOOK: The Norse will be replacing most of
last season’s squad, after graduating eight seniors - including the team’s top two scorers. Jordan Rade-baugh returns to offer help on the perimeter, he also was one of the team’s top re-bounders and led the squad in steals.
POMONA PANTHERSCOACH: Brian Zehnder2011: 9-14 overall, 4-12
Jeffco LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
Mitch Colin, Sr., G, 5-11; Justo Camara, Sr., G, 6-0.
OUTLOOK: Last season Pomona was a team in tran-sition. They played 19 dif-ferent players throughout the season, finishing sev-enth in 5A Jeffco. They are now hoping that experience will turn into more wins this season. But they will have to do it without graduated Alex Welsh and his 21-point per game average. That means senior Mitch Colin and ju-nior Justo Camara will have to go from role players to key players.
STANDLEY LAKE GATORSCOACH: Mike Puccio2011: 16-9 overall, 10-6
Jeffco LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
Dylan Critchfield, Jr., C, 6-6; Marcus Asmus, Jr., F; Mario Spears Jr., Sr, G, 6-0.
OUTLOOK: It will be a re-building year for the Gators after they lost their top six scorers last season - includ-ing Brandon Applehans, who averaged 23 points. Standley Lake will have size, with three 6-6 players in the post. Critchfield and Asmus are the only returning play-ers with varsity experience.
THORNTON TROJANSCOACH: Sercan Fanerci2011: 4-18 overall, 2-10
East Metro LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
Samuel Shumate, Sr., G/F, 6-1; Romeo Brewer, Sr., C, 6-6; Isaiah Hardy, Sr., F, 6-1.
OUTLOOK: The Trojans will have a brand new team after a disappointing year on the court last season.
Shumate will carry the load after averaging 8.8 points last season and scored in double figures in 12 games last season - including lead-ing the squad with 14 points in its win over Wheat Ridge.
WESTMINSTER WOLVESCOACH: Jim Montijo2011: 5-18 overall, 5-7
East Metro LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
Berto Loera Martinez, Sr., G, 6-1; Patrick Wilson, Sr., G, 5-11; Jordan Thompson, Sr, 5-10; Anthony Sarno, Jr., 6-1.
OUTLOOK: With a senior-heavy squad the Wolves are looking at a playoff run. Loera Martinez is the lone returning var-sity player and will guide Westminster’s squad, while Sarno is expected to be the Wolves go-to scorer.
CLASS 4A
SKYVIEW WOLVERINESCOACH: Paul Barringer2011: 14-10 overall, 7-5
East Metro LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
Marcus Arnold, Sr., SF, 6-3; Cory Wilson, Jr., PG, 5-8; Olufisayo Awolaja, Jr., 6-5.
OUTLOOK: After an im-pressive 2011 campaign the Wolverines will have to reload and replace their top weapons from last sea-son - including Sergio Lara (22.0 points, 9.9 rebounds) and Steven Shannon (15.3 points, 7.3 assists). Awo-laja is the top returning rebounder and Wilson will take over at point guard. The Wolverines will also be switching to the Colo-rado 7 League this season, and welcome back veteran coach Paul Barringer, who led Skyview to some of its greatest seasons during his first tenure with the team.
CLASS 3A
HOLY FAMILY TIGERSCOACH: Pete Villecco2011: 16-11 overall, 5-4
Metropolitan LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
David Sommers, Jr., G, 6-1; Chuck Hollwedel, Sr., PG,
5-10; Devlin Granberg, Jr., F, 6-2.
OUTLOOK: The Tigers aim to match last season’s playoff run which ended at the Final Four. Sommers and Hollwedel are the only two returning starters, but Granberg also saw time last season.
THE ACADEMY WILDCATSCOACH: Ken Rutt2011: 12-12 overall, 6-5
Frontier LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
Zach Telles, Sr., G; Alex Stone, Sr., C; Joey Ray, Jr., W.
OUTLOOK: The Wildcats will go as far as Telles can take them. Telles has been playing on the varsity squad since his freshman year and provides them with a valu-able shooter from the pe-rimeter. He had five games in which he hit five treys or more and scored more than 20 points seven times last year.
THE PINNACLE TIMBERWOLVESCOACH: Lou Vullo2011: 18-7 overall, 8-3
Frontier LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
Chase Phillips, Sr., C/F, 6-4; David Pinela, Jr, F/C, 6-2; Sansom Ouk, Jr., G, 5-7.
OUTLOOK: The Tim-berwolves will have to re-place last season’s top scor-ers - Justin Akes (15.9) and Tieran Dysart (13.5). But Pinnacle will have Phillips returning. The 6-4 senior averaged 10.3 points and 5.5 rebounds.
CLASS 1A
BELLEVIEW CHRISTIAN BRUINSCOACH: Ran Draper2011: 4-16 overall, 2-6
5280 LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
Austin Thompson, Jr., F, 6-0; Jameson Iiams, So., G, 5-5; Allen Johnson, Jr., SG, 5-2.
OUTLOOK: The Bruins don’t have a lot of size, but they do have some prolific scorers in Thompson and Johnson. The duo was the squad’s top scorers last sea-son and provided the Bruins with a strong in-out combo.
Johnson nailed 21 threes, while Thompson did most of his work in the paint.
COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CRUSADERS
COACH: Tony Perkins2011: 13-8 overall, 6-2
5280 LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
Wyatt Potter-Seymour, Sr., G, 5-7; Bryan Hodge, Sr., F, 6-3; Andrew Eichner, Sr., F, 6-0.
OUTLOOK: With seven players returning with var-sity experience the Crusad-ers are hoping to advance past the semifinals this sea-son. Potter-Seymour pro-vides outside shooting and Hodge’s is one of the top re-bounders in Class 1A.
CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN BULLDOGS
COACH: Mike Durrill2011: 4-13 overall, 3-5
5280 LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
Evan Ice, Jr.; Robert Mul-ford, So.; Michael Durrill, So.
OUTLOOK: The Bull-dogs are hoping last sea-son’s experience will pan out for their young squad. Evan Ice is one of two se-niors on the squad and led the team in scoring last year, despite only averaging 7.6 points a game. He also was the squad’s leading re-bounder.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LUTHERAN EAGLES
COACH: Rich Lohmiller2011: 1-16 overall, 0-8
5280 LeaguePLAYERS TO WATCH:
Zach Schlittenhart, So., 5-8, PG; Alec Hahm, Jr., 6-2, F; Bennett Treptow, Jr., 5-10, G.
OUTLOOK: It is a youth movement for the Eagles, who don’t have a single se-nior on their squad. The team doesn’t have a lot of experience, as Hahm is the top returning scorer after averaging 4.9 points last season.
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HEALTH SCREENINGS Residents in and around Westminster can be screened for risk of stroke and osteoporosis on Thursday, Nov. 29 at Highland Baptist Church, 9185 Utica St., Westminster. Screenings take 60-90 minutes. For information, or to schedule an appoint-ment, call 1-877-237-1287 or visit www.lifelinescreening.com. Registration is required.
CASA 101 Court Appointed Special Advocates of Adams and Broomfi eld counties plans a CASA 101 information session from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thurs-day, Nov. 29, at the Anythink Library,
9417 Huron St., Thornton. Pizza will be provided by CASA supporter Marco’s Pizza. CASA staff members and volun-teers will speak with guests about the program, as well as help those interested in becoming a volunteer. Visit www.casa17th.org or call Amy Shamburg at 303-655-3927.
THURSDAY AND Friday/Nov. 29-30
MUSICAL AUDITIONS The Arvada Center will have auditions for the musi-cal “Man of La Mancha” from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 29-30 at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. Call the Arvada Center, 720-898-7200 to schedule a time.
FRIDAY/NOV. 30
HOLIDAY TEA Celebrate the holidays in style with afternoon tea, which is part of the Festive Friday Series. The tea begins at 1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, at the Northglenn Senior Center, 11801 Community Center Drive. Cost is $5, and musical entertainment is included. RSVP at 303-450-8801 by Nov. 28. For ages 55 and older.
FRIDAY AND Saturday/Nov. 30 to Dec. 1, Dec. 7-8
DINNER SHOW Colorado ACTS presents “Christmas at Snowfl ake Lodge” at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 7, and Saturday, Dec. 1 and Dec. 8, at Colorado ACTS Theater, 9460 W. 58th Ave., Arvada. This is a dinner show, and reservations are required. Call 303-456-6772 or visit www.coloradoacts.org.
FRIDAY/NOV. 30 TO SUNDAY/DEC. 2
HOLIDAY CHEER Join the Creative Revolution Theatre Company for a lighthearted evening that will get you in the holiday spirit. Tickets are now on sale for “An Evening of Holiday Cheer, Three Short Festive Plays and Caroling.” The show will run from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2 at the Thornton Arts & Culture Center, 9209 Dorothy Blvd., Thornton. Email [email protected] or call 720-301-4439 to reserve tickets. Shows are at 7 p.m. Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, and at 2 p.m. Dec. 1-2. Visit www.creativerevolutiontheatre.org.
SATURDAY/DEC. 1
CHRISTMAS TEA Shepherd of Love Fellowship plans its Christmas tea featur-ing its From the Heart gift boutique. Menu includes homemade scones, tea
sandwiches and specialty sweets. The tea is from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at 13550 Lowell Blvd., Broomfi eld. Girls ages 10 and older welcome. RSVP at 303-469-0410 or visit www.shepherdo-fl ove.org.
CPR CLASS Learn the skills and gain the confi dence to step forward in an emergency with a CPR class from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at the North-glenn Recreation Center, 11801 Commu-nity Center Drive. Certifi cation issued at the end of the class and fulfi lls all state, OSHA and social services requirements. For ages 16 and older. Call 303-450-8800 or go to www.northglenn.org/recxpress for information on costs or to register.
PRAYER SERVICE Community In Christ Church will host “An Evening of Prayer” for the children of the north Jeff co com-munities at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1. The church is at 12229 W. 80th Ave., Arvada. With the recent tragedies in the Arvada/Westminster area, the church will open its doors for any and all families who wish to take that time to pray, and have their children prayed for.
Phillip Pang from Thornton High School was honored on Nov. 15 by the Colorado State Board of Education for receiving a perfect score of 36 on his Colorado Ameri-can College Test. Pang was among 16 Colorado students honored and was the only student in the Adams 12 Five Star School District to achieve a perfect 36 on his ACT for the 2011-12 school year. Photo by Ashley Reimers
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NorthglennRecreation Center11801 Community Center Drive
Please bring canned food, coats or new toys to donate. We can help others have a joyous holiday season.
Join Santa, Mrs. Claus, and their elves for an evening of fun on Dec.
7 when Santa comes to Northglenn to turn on the city’s holiday lights. The Holiday Lighting Ceremony will begin at 5:30 p.m. in front of the Northglenn Recreation Center, 11801 Community Center Drive. You will be surprised at who has been a good boy this year!
An indoor fair will be held in the gym immediately after the lighting ceremony until 8:30 p.m. with ac-tivities for children, refreshments and free pictures with Santa. The North-glenn Community Foundation will sell slices of pizza as a fundraiser for the Utility Assistance Program.
Before the event, the Northglenn Senior Organization will hold its an-nual bake sale starting at 1 p.m.
At 6:30 p.m., big band music group Back Beat (an Adams County youth band) will start the night off. Then, the Denver Municipal Band and the Northland Chorale will perform a free holiday concert.
The event is sponsored by the Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel, Northglenn Community Foundation, Northglenn Arts & Humanities Foun-dation, Scientific and Cultural Facili-ties District, ATA Karate for Kids and Jersey Mike’s Subs.
Canned goods, new toys and gen-tly used clothing will be collected for those who need it in our community. For more information, please contact Jeanette Sánchez at 303-450-8935 or [email protected].
Volunteers are needed to help out at Noel Northglenn from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, at the Northglenn Rec-reation Center, 11801 Community Center Drive. Background checks are needed. For more information, please contact Jeanette Sánchez at 303-450-8935 or [email protected].
City to Turn on Holiday Lights at
Noel Northglenn on Dec. 7
CRAFT SHOW Christmas craft spectacular is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Broomfi eld Assembly, 111900 Reed St. The community event will support Sarah’s Home and women at risk for traffi cking. Activities include festive crafts, baked goods, a kids’ fun corner live Christmas songs and hymns with a fl ash mob participants from Nativity will be worshiping and taking a stand through dance. We will also have information from the com-munity off ering resources for children safety. Call Sandy at 303-466-9561 or broomfi eldag.org.
BLOOD DRIVE Calvary Community Baptist Church Community Blood Drive is from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 inside Bon-fi ls’ bus at 11980 Irma Drive, Northglenn. For information or to schedule an appointment, contact Georgia Mueller at 303-963-5790 or [email protected].
HOLIDAY TEA McIlvoy House will have its holiday tea from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at 7307 Grandview Ave., Arvada. The menu includes delectable delicacies for the holiday season. Paid reservation required. Space is limited. Call the McIlvoy House, 303-431-1261 or stop by the house to purchase tickets.
SATURDAY AND Sunday/Dec. 1-2
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION Enjoy a classic Christmas celebration while helping promote a love of books in children at the Olde Fashioned Christmas and Rudolph’s Reading Raffl e from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, at Stonehocker Farmhouse, 10950 Fox Run Parkway. Rudolph and Santa will be there and visitors can have photos taken with them. Holiday gifts, baked good, food, decora-tions and stocking stuff ers will be for sale. Nancy Storm will play Christmas music on an antique piano and the Northland Chorale and the Sunshine Girls musical youth group will make special appearances. Kids will receive a book as part of the reading raffl e, which is sponsored by Northglenn Build a Generation. Call Mayor Joyce Downing, 720-232-4402 or email [email protected].
SUNDAY/DEC. 2
BLOOD DRIVE Crossing Church of the Nazarene Community Blood Drive is from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, inside Bonfi ls’ bus at 3501 W. 104th, Westminster. For information or to schedule an appointment, contact Bonfi ls’ Appointment Center at 303-363-2300 or www.bonfi ls.org.
SUNDAY/DEC. 2, Jan. 6
50TH ANNIVERSARY Northglenn United Methodist Church will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Jan. 6. On Dec. 2, which is the 50th anniversary of the fi rst church service, the Rev. Bill Youngblood and his wife, Betty, will be at the church service. Youngblood was the fi rst pastor of NGUMC. Services begin at 9 a.m. Jan. 6 is 50th anniversary Sunday, also called “Remembering our Beginning Charter Sunday.” From January through April, former pastors will preach on various Sundays. A sum-mer celebration is planned in June. Present members, former members, neighbors and friends of the church are invited to any and all of these events.
TUESDAY/DEC. 4
LIFETREE CAFÉ Hollywood director Tom Shadyac, best known for “Ace Ventura,” “The Nutty Professor,” “Patch Adams,” “Bruce Almighty” and “I Am,” will discuss how he sim-plifi ed his life in an exclusive fi lmed interview, presented at noon and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, at Lifetree Café, 5675 Field St. in Arvada. Admission is free, and snacks and drinks are available.
TUESDAY TO Friday/Dec. 4-7, Tuesday to Monday/Dec. 11-17
CRAFT WORKSHOPS Make great gifts for the holidays at upcoming do it yourself holiday card and craft workshops. Cost is $5 per hour for space, resources, instruction and inspiration to create using repurposed materi-als. Cards and paper crafts are Dec. 4-7 and fabric crafts are Dec. 11-17. Drop-in from 3-5 p.m. at 5927 Miller St., Arvada. Sliding scale and work trades available. All ages; under 12 must bring adult.
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Moose killings an ‘outrageous’ incident
The news report of the wanton slaughter of a cow moose and two small calves in Grand County on Wednesday, Nov. 14, was disheart-ening and more than disgusting. The killing of the moose family occurred in the surroundings of the Mountain Shadows Estates residential subdivision between Granby and Grand Lake.
Moose were introduced in the Cowdrey area of Jackson County in north central Colorado in 1979. Bringing moose to Colorado has been one of those successful game management programs by the then Colorado Division of Wildlife. The moose have not just survived, but multiplied signifi cantly over the 33 years with population ap-proaching approximately 1,800 in 2012.
Colorado moose do not have natural predators, such as griz-zly bears and wolves as those in Canada and Alaska do. They dif-fer from elk and deer in their diet as well. Moose do not have upper teeth and rely on lower incisors in their consumption of fruits and plants, predominately wetland aquatic plants and marsh area woody plants, mosses and li-chens. By contrast, elk are grazing animals, seeking grass plants and deer are browsers relying on brush and shrub leaf plants. As a result, the three wild game species do not compete in any signifi cant way for food. They do not have a history of competing with cattle either since cattle are grazers that consume grasses.
The developing moose popula-
tion is less visible. They avoid for-aging in town garbage cans, as do bears. They are far more solitary than elk that have nearly overtaken human populated areas like Estes Park and Rocky Mountain Nation-al Park. The big-hoofed undulates average between 1,000 and 1,500 pounds, with large bulls reaching 1,800 pounds. They are private and not frequently observed by people or found in herds or large groups. As a result, there is less confl ict with cattle ranching, human activ-ities and the growing urban popu-lation.
Sustaining habitat for moose, like many Colorado wildlife, is one of the factors concerning wild game managers on the fu-ture of the moose population bal-ance in Colorado. Human activ-ity and mountain development continually threaten all wild game habitats. “And habitat is primarily going to be infl uenced by temper-ature, changing weather and mois-ture patterns,” said John Broder-ick, terrestrial biology manager for the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife.
Given the fact moose do not seek out human populations or urban activities, it further angers
the public when someone, without cause, kills these animals. Howev-er, moose do pose strength of pres-ence. They don’t run from people. They are to be respected when man is in their presence. Moose do coexist in limited numbers with man, and yet, can be aggressive or threatening. As a result the sense-less killing of the cow and two calves near Granby causes even more disgust.
The state wildlife managers are making a concerted effort to mon-itor moose health and to guide moose expansion by moving some to the far West Slope area in the Grand Mesa area as well as to the Rio Branco County near the Col-orado-Utah border. Moose have only recently been added to the big game hunting management pro-grams. According to John Broder-ick, “there have not been any cases of chronic wasting disease and we are putting moose in all the habi-tats that can support them.”
“The Nov. 14 poaching of the three moose,” Northwest Regional Wildlife Manager Ron Velarde stat-ed clearly, “is an outrageous inci-dent and my offi cers are preparing an all-out effort to fi nd the person or persons responsible and bring them to justice.” The public can assist anonymously in this inves-tigation by relaying any helpful in-formation to the Operation Game Thief toll-free number at 877-265-6648.
Ron Hellbusch can be reached at [email protected]
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