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Event kicks off with something new — a 5K race

By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media

Inspired by a similar event that took place in 1910, the Town of Kiowa renewed the tradition of a town street fair in 2009, and along the way, a few events have been added that were most likely not conceived of in the fi rst decades of the 1900s.

The morning of June 25 began with the fi rst Fear the Spear 5K Run and Walk sponsored by the Kiowa School Booster Club. The course began at the school. After crossing Highway 86, the runners made one lap of the track before winding their way through neighborhoods and back across Comanche Street. A fi nal lap of the school’s parking lot stretched the route just enough for the course to reach the 5K mark.

Tina Metzgar, president of the Kiowa

Hawk Quest returned to the Kiowa Street fair with this Harris Hawk and two other birds of prey. Native Americans called the Harris Hawk wolves of the sky because they hunt in groups. Photo by Rick Gustafson

Street fair traditioncontinues

Event brings rodeo, music and plenty of fun

By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media

The Cowboy Up in Kiowa celebrated its 20th year of rodeo competition at the Elbert County Fairgrounds over the weekend of June 25.

The competition began on Friday evening with mutton bustin’, followed by a full Colorado Pro Ro-deo Association performance, in-cluding bareback and saddle bronc riding, roping and steer wrestling events, and concluded with bull riding. A concert by the Jake Gill Band wrapped up the evening.

A full day of competition began with Slack and Gymkhana on Sat-urday morning, which continued into the afternoon. Once again, mutton bustin’ got a second CPRA performance started on Saturday evening and the night concluded with Music provided by DJ Worx.

“Our biggest thing is bringing the best show that we can into our community,” said Angelique Dieker, Cowboy Up in Kiowa rodeo production director. “That’s who we have volunteering, people in our community, people who want to be a part of something.”

Bareback Cowboy Walker Schubauer sets for his ride a fraction of a second before the chute door opens. Schubauer competed on the Elizabeth High School Rodeo Team and was the 2014 Colorado Pro Rodeo Association’s Rookie of the Year in 2014.

Cowgirl Abbea Fans streaks after a calf in the Breakaway competition. Abbea was one of 11 breakaway ropers competing in Friday evening’s Cowboy Up in Kiowa Rodeo. Photos by Rick Gustafson

Fair continues on Page 7

Fireworks will fl y during fun week of festivities in Elbert County. PAGE 3

CELEBRATION WEEK

Cowboyin’ up in Kiowa

Our biggest thing is bringing the best show that we can into our community.”

Angelique Dieker, Cowboy Up in Kiowa rodeo production director“ Cowboy continues on Page 7

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Local author pens book to help people start second-act careers

By Tom Skelley [email protected]

Bill Seagraves’ fi rst career was engi-neering for a defense contractor. After 12 years, he quit that job to operate his own computer services company. After eight years of “crawling under people’s desks,” he went into fi nancial planning.

Now he’s engineering again, only instead of armored vehicles, he’s helping people design their second-act careers.

“I’ve had the fortunate opportunity to speak with thousands of folks look-ing to do that,” Seagraves says. “I noticed some common themes in many of those conversations.”

Seagraves, a Parker resident and owner of Catchfi re Funding, compiled those themes into a book: “Be Your Best Boss: Reinvent Yourself from Employee to Entrepreneur,” published by Perigee in February.

Seagraves says the types of people he advises about starting a business gener-ally fall into three categories.

The fi rst group is “looking to buy themselves a job,” Seagraves says. These are entrepreneurs who didn’t plan to own their own company, but they may have been laid off or faced other circumstances that forced their hand.

A second group consists of people who no longer fi nd their current profession fulfi lling and begin seeking other avenues to pursue their passion. Seagraves calls them the “I’ve always wanted to do X” people.

The last type is made up of individuals nearing traditional retirement age who aren’t ready to stop working altogether and want to remain active. The “retired and inspired” group, as he calls them, tends to be more seasoned with more resources than members of the other two groups.

Regardless of which group a client be-longs to, Seagraves says they face similar

challenges. He doesn’t go over business plans with his clients, but Seagraves does advise them on the economics of getting started.

“I don’t advise them which route to take,” he says, “I just help them analyze the risks.”

One suggestion Seagraves makes is not too go “all in” when deciding how much of your own money to put into your company.

“They need to decide how big of a bet to make on themselves,” he says, and he recommends clients limit that wager to about 40 percent of their own net worth.

Seagraves also says choosing the best way to fund the business is crucial for life-long fi nancial security. Relying on loans to get a company off the ground can prolong the time it takes to become profi table and, if the business fails, the owner can lose their savings or even their home to pay back debt.

Less risky options, he says, are using personal savings or retirement dollars to fi nance a business.

Another recommendation Seagraves has is to promote your business before it even opens. Too many business owners, he says, put all of their effort into their product and too little work into making the public aware of it.

“They open the door and they just expect people to walk through it,” he says. “I always tell people you’re not going to be successful if you’re standing behind the counter.”

Getting involved with local chambers of commerce and promoting your compa-ny at business shows, he says, will greatly improve your chance of succeeding.

Seagraves has advised entrepreneurs starting up everything from sailboat charter companies to vending-machine operations to treehouse bed-and-break-fasts. Possibly the biggest challenge all his

clients face, he says, is confi dence.A lot of people on the fence about

whether to start a business fi xate on the colloquial maxim that half of all busi-nesses fail in the fi rst fi ve years.

“I disagree with that language,” Sea-grave says.

Many businesses don’t necessarily fail, they often are sold or reorganized, he says. Seagraves also points out that the Department of Labor states a person’s average tenure in any career is 4.6 years, making the probability of a successful career change effectively equal to starting a new business.

Seagraves adds that naysayers base their outlook on their own interpretation of the media and life in general, rather than on data.

“Most people get hung up on ‘Old Uncle Joe’ telling you that you aren’t going to be successful,” he says. “You’re likely better prepared than you think.”

Bill Seagraves sits in his offi ce at Catchfi re Funding in Parker Station on June 16. Seagraves says most people who are on the fence about starting their own business are probably better prepared for it than they realize. Photo by Tom Skelley

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Good times scheduled at towns around area

By Rick GustafsonSpecial to Colorado Community Media

In the days leading up to the July 4 holiday and in the week to follow, Elbert County residents will have plenty to do as summer gears up with events across the county.

Independence Day celebrations begin in Elizabeth on July 2, the Saturday before the holiday, with Yankee Doodle Dandy on Main Street. The morning begins with a pancake breakfast and a patriotic pet pa-rade. Pet owners are encouraged to dress up their favorite pets.

Billed as an All-American day, the celebration includes a pie-eating contest, open market and food court.

Over the hill in Kiowa, the Elbert County Historical Society holds its Annual Pioneer Fourth Celebration on July 4. In addition to the open house at the Elbert County Museum, the event features live music, skilled pioneer artisan demonstra-tions, a pie-baking contest and games for the kids.

To close out the July 4 holiday, the Kiowa Fire Department will continue its 27-year tradition of its Fourth of July fire-works show.

A shortage of funding forced the can-cellation of last year’s performance, but the department was able to raise around $3,800 of the $4,500 needed for the display,

and the volunteer firefighters came to the rescue by chipping in the difference.

The fireworks show is set to begin after sunset (around 9:15) at the Elbert County Fairgrounds in Kiowa.

The close of the long Independence Day weekend does not mark the end of activities in the county, and big celebra-tions are planned in Simla and Elbert the following weekend.

The town of Simla holds Simla Days on July 9. Saturday’s festivities begin with a parade on Pueblo Avenue followed by local

vendors and a dunk tank. The Beer Garden opens at noon, and the town council is providing a free dinner.

Also slated for July 9 is the Elbert Day Festival beginning with a 5K benefit for Elbert School and suicide prevention and ending with dinner sponsored by the Elbert Town Committee.

Sandwiched in between is a full day of

activities including flyovers by local pilots, a tractor pull, a musical tribute to Western traditions and lifestyles by award-winning singer-song writer Barry Ward.

An egg toss, a watermelon seed spitting contest and a pancake race are planned for both kids and adults. Music performed by Canyon Station Band rounds out the afternoon and evening.

CELEBRATIONS IN ELBERT COUNTYElizabeth - Yankee Doodle Dandy, July 2, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.)Main Street — farmers market, face painting, music, open market, and a potato race• 8-10 a.m. — Pancake Breakfast• 10:30-11 a.m. — Pet-riotic Parade• 11 a.m.-2 p.m. — Food court• Noon-2 p.m. — Photo-op and tie-dye a shirt• 1-2 p.m. — Pie-eating contestKiowa — Pioneer Fourth Celebration, July 4, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.)Elbert County Museum — Open house, live music, skilled pioneer artisans, pie-baking contest, kids games, silent auction• 10 a.m.-3 p.m. — Pioneer Fourth Celebra-tion• 11:30 a.m. — Pie-baking contest

• Sunset — Kiowa fireworks show (fair-grounds) presented the Kiowa Fire DistrictSimla — Independence Day Celebration, July 4, sunset• Sunset — Simla Football FieldSimla — Simla Days (Pueblo Avenue), July 9• 10 a.m. — Parade• 11 a.m. — Flag raising• Noon-10 p.m. — Beer garden• 6-7 p.m. — Free dinner provided by town council• 7-10 p.m. — Music and dancingElbert — Elbert Day Festival (North Elbert Road and Lavell Avenue), July 9• 8 a.m. — Elbert Town 5k Run/Walk (benefit for Elbert School and suicide prevention)• 8-10 a.m. — Country breakfast in Russell

Gates Mercantile, Elbert Woman’s Club• 9:30 a.m. — Flyover by Kelley Air Park residents• 10 a.m. — Parade with vintage cars, trac-tors, and military vehicles• 11 a.m. — Gold Canyon Gunfighters re-enactment, vignettes throughout the day• 11 a.m.-6 p.m. — Beer garden opens and lunch prepared by Elbert town committee• 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. — Award-winning musi-cian Barry Ward• Noon-2:30 p.m. — Roping demonstration• 3-7 p.m. — Music by The Canyon Station Band• 3-6 p.m. — Tractor pull• 4-7 p.m. — Dinner sponsored by Elbert town committee

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Brewery, nearby winery o� er unique libations to locals By Tom Skelley [email protected]

It’s a sunny summer morning at the shopping center at 18921 Plaza Drive, but the lights are off and the air is tinged with a musky aroma inside Purgatory Cellars Winery. It’s winemak-ing day, and co-owner Gary Tassler sits at a small table covered with an array of scales, pipettes and measuring spoons.

“You kind of have to be a little bit like a mad scientist here,” he said.

Tassler and his unpaid assistant, Brad Collins, are doing bench trials. Tassler adds different amounts of tannins, a fi nishing ingredient, to each of four bottles of wine pulled from the same barrel. Tomorrow he and Collins will try each bottle, and the one that tastes the best will determine the recipe added to fi nish the barrel.

It’s a time-consuming approach that few wineries still use, Tassler says, but it’s essential to making sure Purgatory’s wines have just the right fi nish. He says adding tannins “cancels out the white noise” of competing fl avors in each wine.

Purgatory’s technique is unique and so is their equipment. Co-owner Marko Copic brought barrels, wine racks and “everything but the sofas” from his homeland of Croatia to get the winery started.

Speaking on the telephone from Croatia, Copic said the oldest winemak-ing methods are the best. Where most wineries in the United States separate grape skins, seeds and wine before fer-menting in stainless steel tanks, Copic and Tassler stir all of the components together and let them age in amphoras, large clay jars that have been used since ancient Greek vintners plied their trade.

“Not even fi ve places in the U.S. use this method,” Copic said.

Flashy fl avors, better beersThree doors down from Purgatory

Cellars, Elk Mountain Brewing uses

industry-standard equipment and tech-niques to craft their beer. What sets the brewery apart is the variety of fl avors and styles they create.

“A lot of places have a certain thing they’re good at,” assistant brewer Liam Macfarlane said. “We try to do a little bit of everything. We’re the only place that releases at least two new beers every week.”

Macfarlane’s boss, head brewer Shan-non Madruga, said she fell in love with the craft of making beer before she was old enough to drink it.

“When I was in high school I got a job at a restaurant near my house that brewed on site and the brewer there was very nice and accommodating. He taught me a lot,” Madruga said.

Madruga pursued her interest in brewing until it became a passion. She’s been brewing at home for 11 years and worked at Aurora’s Dry Dock Brewery before coming to Elk Mountain two years ago.

“I’ve just always been fascinated with it,” she said. “I’m fascinated with the process, I love the science and the chemistry of it and everything that goes into it.”

Madruga said the taps at Elk Moun-tain have an assortment of standard, “fl agship” beers, and she and Macfar-lane add seasonal brews to the menu throughout the year. The brewery’s cherry wheat ale and red India pale ale are popular throughout spring and summer, while its vanilla caramel porter

and cherry chocolate stout keep cus-tomers warm in fall and winter.

“I think one of the things we try to do is to make it interesting,” Madruga said. “We have our fl agship beers and then we have our fun ones,” she said, citing the brewery’s peanut butter stout as an especially successful experiment.

Referencing a blender full of coconut milk and other ingredients on the bar, Madruga said a coconut stout is next.

Both Madruga and Tassler said their customers are sophisticated enough to know good drink when they fi nd it, and that return business has been the key to their success.

“Wine drinkers will hunt down a winery when they fi nd a hidden gem,” Tassler said. “And this place is a gem.”

Madruga said Elk Mountain’s cus-tomers feel the same affection for their favorite brews.

“We have a lot of regulars that keep coming back for ‘their beer,’” she said. “As long as we keep that going, we’ll be all right.”

Business has been booming for both establishments. Purgatory Cellars is about to expand into a building across Progress Way, next to Monkey Bizness, and Elk Mountain is about to celebrate its sixth anniversary on Aug. 6.

Madruga said she and Tassler have talked about combining the separate businesses with a shared patio behind the stores.

“It makes sense,” Tassler said, com-paring the idea to a pastry shop and cof-fee house sharing tables on a sidewalk.

It will be a long process, involving patio construction and a new liquor li-cense, but both said it would be worth it to provide people a place to enjoy local wines and beers together.

“In a perfect world, you could a buy a beer at the brewery, then go out in the back and sit with your spouse or signifi -cant other or whatever while they enjoy a glass of wine,” Tassler said.

“Everybody could have a little of everything.”

Liam Macfarlane pours a frosty brew at Elk Mountain Brewing Inc. at 18921 Plaza Drive in Parker on June 15. Macfarlane says the concoction he hears the most demand for is the brewery’s peanut butter stout. Photos by Tom Skelley


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Legal marijuana is giving Colorado a stinky conundrum. Visitors can buy the drug, but they can’t use it in public. Or in a rental car. Or in most hotel rooms.

The result is something marijuana advocates and oppo-nents feared — people toking up on sidewalks, in city parks and in alleys behind bars and restaurants — despite laws against doing so. And they’re getting dinged with public marijuana consumption tickets.

From the capital city of Denver to mountain resorts like Aspen and Breckenridge, police wrote nearly 800 citations for the new crime of public consumption in 2014, the first year of recreational marijuana sales.

Some legalization advocates believe they have a solu-tion — pot clubs. Denver voters may consider a ballot measure this fall to make the city the most populous place in the nation to expressly allow pot clubs.

“People need a place to go,” said Teresa Wright of the Denver suburb of Lafayette. Wright was volunteering in Denver recently to gather signatures to ask voters this fall about allowing private pot clubs in the city.

“You can go out anywhere and see people using alcohol. To socialize, to relax. But not marijuana,” Wright said. “We deserve to have a place. It’s a legal activity.”

But marijuana clubs have proven a harder sell here than legalizing the drug in the first place.

The amendment that legalized marijuana doesn’t give people the right to use it “openly or publicly,” a nod to critics who said legalization would lead to an explosion of Amsterdam-style clubs. But Colorado’s constitution doesn’t ban public use, either, leading to a confusing patchwork of local policies on weed clubs.

Denver has closed pot clubs that it’s discovered, and

Colorado Springs has given existing clubs five years to close down.

The small northern Colorado town of Nederland regu-lates a club that advertises, “out of state, out of country, and of course locals are welcome.” In southern Colorado, Pueblo County allows clubs but has none.

In Englewood, city officials last year were surprised to learn that a business licensed as a retail store was actually operating as a pot club. City council members voted 7-0 this month to allow no new pot clubs, and are on track to decide the fate of the existing club.

A pot club is on the hot seat in unincorporated Adams County, where officials have announced their intention to seek an injunction closing the operation on grounds that it violated zoning standards.

No other states with legal recreational pot have licensed clubs, either. Alaska’s Marijuana Control Board voted last year to repeal an explicit ban on social marijuana clubs, but the state hasn’t yet finished work on the potential to allow people to use pot at certain stores that sell marijuana.

Concerns about pot clubs mirror worries about legal-izing the drug, including concerns that the clubs could lead to more impaired driving.

“There’s no good regulatory model for what these clubs should look like,” said Colorado state Rep. Jonathan Singer.

The Democrat planned to propose some sort of pot club bill during the recent legislative session, but gave up after law enforcement, the pot industry, state regulators and even bars and restaurants couldn’t agree on how it should work.

Others worry that pot clubs would further encourage minors to try the drug. One Denver woman interviewed at a popular park said she fears that clubs would further entice her underage grandchildren to try pot.

“The fact is, marijuana is all over the city now,” said Sara

Epstein, 77. “It’s so easy to get. Why do they need a club? That’s just going to show kids it’s even easier to get. It’s the wrong message.”

Marijuana activists trying to get a club measure on Denver ballots say pot skeptics should welcome clubs for just that reason.

“You don’t want it in your face? Great. Let’s get it off the street,” said Jorden Person, head of Denver NORML, which is backing the ballot measure. “We’re not going to put more people on the road high. They’re already there, probably driving while they use it. So this is better than that.”

Person’s group has until mid-August to collect about 5,000 signatures to put the question on the Denver ballot this November. She had no estimate how much the cam-paign could cost if the measure makes ballots. Four years ago, Denver County approved legalization nearly 2-to-1.

“For me what it comes down to is personal freedom,” Wright said. “We don’t want to hurt anybody. People just don’t want to smell it, like cigarette smoke. So it makes sense to give people a place to enjoy cannabis with other adults.”

Colorado Community Media contributed to this report.

Youth pot use reportedly not up after legalizationSurvey of 17,000 youths in state took place in 2015

By Kristen WyattAssociated Press

Marijuana use among Colorado high schoolers has not increased since legalization, the state health department reported recently in a new batch of youth survey results.

The 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado survey of about 17,000 middle and high school students across the state showed that 21.2 percent of high school students reported that they currently use pot. That’s just a hair below the national average, which was 21.7 percent.

Since voters approved recre-ational marijuana use for those 21 and older in 2012, Colorado has worked to keep youths off of pot.

Campaigns have said the drug will keep them from achieving their full potential and reminded them their brains aren’t fully developed until they reach 25.

Nine of 10 Colorado high school youths said they don’t smoke ciga-rettes, the highest rejection of smok-ing by high school youths in the past decade.

Colorado health authorities praised the results as an indica-tion that risk-prevention efforts are working.

“Overall, young people in Colo-rado are making healthy choices,” said Leo Kattari, survey coordina-tor for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

For the first time, the survey took note of the health behaviors of high school students who identified as transgender. Those students re-ported higher rates of tobacco use, drug use and bullying.

For example, more than 25 per-cent of high schoolers who identi-fied themselves as transgender said they had used heroin.

Survey authors noted that the sample size for transgender stu-dents was small. Still, they said the numbers suggest an alarming discrepancy in youth health.

“We almost expected there to be greater health disparities among this population,” Kattari said. “It’s because of those daily experiences of bias, stigma and discrimination.”

The survey did not make policy suggestions addressing health dis-parities for transgender students.

Middle school students were not asked about gender identity.

Kattari said few states seek health data comparing transgender youth health with others, making national comparisons problematic.

Find the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey at https://goo.gl/DVxqW5.


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There are so many people who enjoy a good crossword puzzle, word search puzzle or unscrambling a word jumble. There are many folks who love a good play on words, an anagram, a pun or a great riddle. These word games and puzzles help keep our minds sharp and our creativity fl owing.

As we know, words are extremely power-ful. They can be powerfully positive and en-ergizing or they can be powerfully destruc-tive and hurtful. Words can be factual to help transfer knowledge and information or they can be used to mislead or manipulate situa-tions and people.

There so many events happening in our own backyard as well as around the globe that leave people thinking about power-fully negative words. We hear people using powerfully negative words like fear, terror, frustration, anger, rage, road rage, hopeless-ness, doubt, worry, anxiety, cynical, hate, mad, racism, revenge and others that are equally as negative or damaging when we dwell on them or let them change who we are or how we treat other people, especially people closest to us.

Obviously we all deal with very real and diffi cult situations and sometimes those powerfully negative words are just express-ing very real feelings, I totally get that and understand how that can sometimes hap-pen.

Yet in a world fi lled with uncertainty and change, we need to take the time to refuel our minds and our hearts with those power-

fully positive words. We need to be deliberate in thinking beyond the fear, doubt and worry and instead focus our thoughts on the good, the possible and the hope for a better and brighter tomorrow.

Sounds too simple, doesn’t it, maybe even a little naïve? Maybe so, but stay with me on this and just try it. Make a list of all the positive and power-ful words that you can think of, words that

you may already have committed to your own personal word bank. Keep this list in a visible place, place copies of the lists around your house, your offi ce, your car. Share the lists or even one word at a time with your family, your friends or your co-workers — even when, or especially when, they are using their own negative word banks.

I like to leave one-word notes around the house or send one-word texts or emails from time to time. I just simply write or type words like faith, love, hope, encourage-ment, kindness, truth, happiness, thanks, blessings, appreciated, grateful, forgiveness, success, opportunity, commitment, passion, purpose, XOXO, belief, special, goodness, sunshine, excellence, fantastic, joy, fl ourish-

ing, achievement, accomplishment, driven or any other powerfully positive words that may come into my mind. I write them down and put them in a visible place, or some-times a hidden place where they can be found later. Or I quickly type it out and hit send.

The initial thought may be that I am doing this for the benefi t of others, those who receive my encouraging words. But the reality is this, I am the biggest benefi ciary of constantly, and consistently, using and shar-ing these very powerful and positive words each and every time I write them down, type them out, or allow myself to be deliberate in my thoughts. If we are not deliberate in thinking about the good, the possible and the hope for a better tomorrow, it’s just too easy to go along for the ride on the roller-coaster of negativity, up one side of a big problem and down the other side into the valley.

So how about you? What are your favorite words or what are those powerfully positive words you use to recharge your positive atti-tude and belief in the good and the possible? I would love to hear all about it at [email protected], and when we use the right words and the right time, it really will be a better than good week.

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

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Tony Gagliardi

GUEST COLUMN

Ask yourself: What’s the good word?

The most impor-tant thing to know about the Obama administration’s new overtime rule is that it has now disrupted or voided the ar-rangements 73,000 Coloradans had with their employers.

Arrangements, mutually benefi cial to employer and employee alike, that accommodated individual lifestyles, family commit-ments and emer-

gency needs. The 73,000 number comes from the U.S. Department of Labor and is part of the 4.2 million nationally that DOL claims are recipients of its warmly embracing benefi cence.

Would that life worked so simply. It is worth noting that to explain its new rule, DOL used two cartoon characters, Sam and Mattie, not two human beings. Sam, the voice-over explains, will “have more of his own time” to do the things he likes.

“Sure, you might not make more money, but think of all the free time you’ll have to look for a second job,” noted Noah Rothman in Commentary magazine with bull’s-eye irony.

The new rule affects salaried employ-ees, not hourly paid employees. Hourly employees are paid overtime no matter what their annual pay. But certain em-ployees, white-collar workers performing supervisory, managerial or administrative duties, are currently exempt from over-time pay after a $23,660-a-year threshold. The threshold increases to $47,476 on Dec. 1, and it needs no congressional ap-proval to take effect.

Results of overtime rule might be ironic

Gagliardi continues on Page 7

Writer’s block is a myth, unless you are a writer. I mean a real writer. A writer of books. Books are marathons.

Laura Hillenbrand holed up for a year to write “Seabiscuit: An American Legend.”

Then what? The pressure is on to do it again.

That’s not for me. I write the equivalent of a 50-meter dash three or four or fi ve times a week.

Then one is chosen for publication.I sometimes wish you could see what isn’t

chosen. My editor is wiser than I am, and knows that I might shutter the paper with some of my ideas.

I read the news and watch the news and pluck.

There were so many topics today that I wrote them on cards and threw them in the air.

One landed face up.It wasn’t the one with “Orlando” writ-

ten on it. Or the Broncos’ off-season theme song, “Show Me the Money.”

It had “Philadelphia soda tax” on it.Philadelphia has decided to tax sodas at a

rate of 1.5 cents per ounce. A 12-ounce can or bottle will be taxed 18 cents.

Taxing sodas will generate about $90 million. It will go to good causes, to pay for pre-kindergarten, for example.

I never went to kindergarten. I was home-crayoned.

The reason why I wrote “Philadelphia soda tax” on a card in the fi rst place is be-cause I drink the stuff.

The tax is intended to cut down on the consumption of sugary drinks.

My sugary drink does not contain sugar. I drink diet soda. My non-sugary, sugary drink contains aspartame, an artifi cial sweetener.

According to one website, “Aspartame is, by far, the most dangerous substance on the market that is added to foods.”

Wonderful.Vernors ginger ale was available only

in Michigan at one time. We would buy it fountain-fresh on the way home from my grandmother’s house near Flint. It was nec-tar, and I was hooked on soda.

I have cut back on my non-sugary, sugary drink. Water seems like a good option.

As you might guess, sugary drink manu-facturers are not happy about this develop-

ment in Philadel-phia.

But what if the soda doesn’t contain sugar? Then it becomes a question of what is and isn’t a soda.

Carbonation might be the dif-ference between a soda and other sweetened bever-ages.

More than 68 percent of the adults in Philadel-phia are over-weight or obese,

so there are understandable concerns about the causes.

Sodas aren’t the only villains.A Philadelphia cheesesteak sandwich

contains 620 calories or more.I did some checking. The smallest soda

offered at a Philadelphia Phillies game, 20 ounces, is $4.

(The smallest soda offered at a Los Ange-les Dodgers game, 24 ounces, is $6.)

That means that a Citizens Bank Park soda will go up by 30 cents, at least.

Why point the fi nger at soft drinks?What about pie?What about cake and ice cream? Candy

and cookies and doughnuts? Breakfast cere-als?

Someone said, “Soda is the tobacco of the 21st century.”

There were ways around Prohibition. There will be ways around this too.

A soda underground will bubble up in Philadelphia.

Families will head to Upper Darby to load up on Squirt.

I had a dream that I drowned in an ocean of orange soda, but it turned out to be a Fanta sea.

Imagine Rodney Dangerfi eld, tugging on his tie. “I’m telling you. This new tax. It’s soda pressing.”

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

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school booster club, said the proceeds from the $10 registration fee support ath-letics and other extracurricular activities.

“This is a new fundraising event we are trying out this year,” Metzgar said. “We’re a small group but we do as much as we can.”

Sixth-grader Tayden Wangrow turned in the fastest overall time of the day of 23:46, and Kristen McKnight was the fastest girl, finishing second and just 30 seconds behind Wangrow. McKnight will

also begin sixth grade this fall and runs both track and cross country at school.

Just as the runners were awarded their prizes, the street fair and car show was getting underway just down Comanche Street at AF Nordman Memorial Park.

In addition to the American heavy metal lined up on Navajo Street, 50 vendors filled the park for this year’s fair, offering home crafts, repurposed goods and novelty items. New this year was a DJ, and a magician was back for the kids.

Proceeds for the car show go to benefit the Kiowa Fire Department’s annual fire-works show. This year’s show is scheduled for about 9:15 p.m. July 4 at the county fairgrounds.

Hawk Quest returned to Nordman

Park after taking a break from the street fair last year. The bird-of-prey rescue organization displayed three birds: a fully mature bald eagle, a great horned owl and a Harris Hawk.

Sheila Lang, who has volunteered at

Hawk Quest over the last 23 years, said Native Americans called the Harris Hawk the wolves of the sky because of the pro-pensity to hunt in groups. The hawks are indigenous to the Sonoran desert states of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.

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Fair

In 2015, the CPRA honored the Cowboy Up in Kiowa with the Most Improved Rodeo award and Best Super Purse Rodeo of the Year for the past two years.

Dieker attributes the quality of the event to the dedication and hard work of the volunteers.

“It’s all because of the volunteers that we win all the awards,” she said. “Our volunteers pride themselves on making sure our contestants are taken care of, making sure that the commu-nity gets involved in our rodeo, and they see the best show that they can. That’s key.”

Volunteers perform a variety of duties, from ticket sales, working the chutes and hosting the contestant hospitality tents.

“We have the best hospitality tent for our contestants of probably any CPRA rodeo,” she said.

Volunteering is not just limited to the adults, and this year’s Cowboy Up drew a record number of younger volunteers.

“We had a lot of kids that stepped up and learned a lot; a lot of new families came in. That was key from a volunteer perspective,” Dieker said.

In addition to the volunteers, 20 years of rodeo in Kiowa would not have been possible without the support of sponsors.

“We’re a total 501(c)(3), so we make absolutely no money on this rodeo,” Dieker said. “If we didn’t have those sponsors and our volunteers, we wouldn’t be able to put on this show that we do. We had some pretty big ones that really stepped up this year.”


Cowboy

If you think this increase only fair, think again.

“Entry-level management positions are going to disappear, and those em-ployees will fall back to hourly jobs,” said Juanita Duggan, president and CEO of the National Federation of Independent Busi-ness. “Obviously, that means higher costs for millions of small businesses regardless of whether they’re making more sales, generating more revenue or dealing with other rising expenses. Many are strug-gling now, and they’ll have to make tough choices that might affect the very same workers the Department of Labor thinks it’s helping.”

Added NFIB’s senior legal counsel, Beth Milito: “Struggling small-business owners can’t afford to pay more in over-time pay just because the Department of Labor says they should. Businesses can only afford more in payroll if they increase revenue, something the govern-ment is powerless to make happen. Most small-business owners will have to limit employees’ hours and career opportuni-ties.”

But then, Duggan and Milito would say that, wouldn’t they? That is the tone taken by The New York Times in an editorial praising the new overtime rule. “They (employer groups) have said that employers will cut base pay if forced to pay overtime, but that appears to be an

idle threat.”Had, however, the Times editorial

board read more than its section that day, it would have come across a story by their reporter, Sarah Max, who analyzed the options available to employers: “They (employers) could even cut the base salaries of those who regularly work more than 40 hours ...”

Across the political divide from the Times, The Wall Street Journal put it right on the money: “The irony is that salaried workers will enjoy less personal flexibility once they have to record their hours, and those who become hourly wage hands will receive even less.”

Indeed, as business owner Kelli Glasser put it in Max’s Times report, “If somebody needs to pick up a sick kid or go to a doc-tor’s appointment, we let them do it be-cause we know that at some point they’ll make up for it. Once you start tracking hours, all that changes.” Added business-man Lior Rachmany in the same article, “I think you get a better product when people are paid a salary. When a person knows there is a task to get done, it will get done, not on the clock.” Rachmany, reports Max, “said he would probably end up hiring more entry-level employees and minimizing overtime pay for his affected salaried employees.”

Finding real-life portrayers for DOL’s overtime script after Dec. 1 will be a most difficult casting call. Watch for Sam and Mattie the sequel.

Tony Gagliardi is Colorado state direc-tor for the National Federation of Inde-pendent Business.


Gagliardi

Above: Cowboy Larry Carter competes in the bareback competition. The Cowboy Up is cel-ebrating its twentieth year of rodeo in Kiowa.

Left: Cowboy Garrett Arnold ropes a calf during the tie-down roping competition at the Cowboy Up in Kiowa performance on Friday night. The Cowboy Up rodeo was voted most improved rodeo in Colorado in 2015 by the Colorado Pro-fessional Rodeo Association.

Photos by Rick Gustafson


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THINGS TO DO

Players in local food movement return to healthier connection

By Shanna [email protected]

As the locally produced and grown food movement continues to gain traction in Colorado, bison

rancher Neil Fischer wants to make it easier for residents to buy meat directly from ranchers.

“We looked at the landscape of organically and sustainably raised food and there is not great access from the farm to the consumer,” Fischer said.

That’s why in 2014 he and his wife, Teresa, launched The Farm2Table LLC Trading Post, a network of farmers, ranchers, local artisans and locals who buy direct. The model offers direct con-sumer distribution through an online marketplace — www.farm2tabletrading-post.com — and a year-round mobile market.

The mobile market is in Parker inside the Parker Garage restaurant on Main-street from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m on Sundays and in Castle Rock in front of Briccy’s Coffee on Wilcox Street from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Thursdays. Fischer hopes to expand the Parker market to three days a week over the summer.

The Castle Rock market opened in May and resident Monika Wilmer couldn’t be happier.

“It’s fresh meat, fresh food and I just love it,” said Wilmer, who tries to buy chicken and farm-fresh eggs every week. “There’s something about chickens straight from the farm.”

Wilmer moved to the U.S. from Po-land 10 years ago and had been search-ing for farm-fresh meat and produce to help combat stomach problems she recently developed.

“Since I came to America, my stom-ach stared freaking out,” she said. “So I started reading labels and found out there’s sugar in everything we eat.”

Fischer said Wilmer’s story is not unique.

“There’s such a disconnect today for people and their foods,” he said. “With the increase of obesity, diabetes and many different forms of food allergies in kids today, people are asking `why?’ If it’s not in what we’re eating in commercial food, then what is it? People are looking to know the source of their food to know what the ingredients are.”

Fischer’s solution to eating healthier is knowing your farmer. Marcus Mc-Cauley, of the McCauley Family Farm in Longmont, supports that notion, too.

“There’s no certification that can substitute for knowing your farmer and who is growing your food,” said Mc-Cauley, whose farm grows fresh produce and raises chickens. “And that’s what the local food movement really recognizes and embraces.”

One distributor who is embracing the local movement is CharcutNuvo, a pre-mium sausage manufacturer owned by fourth-generation Swiss sausage master Eric Cutknecht. The Denver-based com-pany makes sausage in natural casings from premium cuts of meat, including beef, bison, elk, “jackalope” (rabbit, pork

and antelope) and wild boar.The proteins are sourced within 500

miles of Denver and are humanely and sustainably raised on family farms, Roelke said. Fruits and vegetables used in the sausage are organic. No nitrates or chemicals are used.

“Sausage has always had a stigma, but transparency is one of our core values,” said John Roelke, sales manager for CharcutNuvo. “We want people to know what goes into their sausage. We think it’s really important for the health of our country that we don’t use chemicals.”

CharcutNuvo sausages can be found at Whole Foods, Costco and Biker Jim’s and, this year, their bratwurst and Polish sausage are featured at Coors Field. They also are sold at Fischer’s Trading Post.

The company’s way of making sausage is not new, Roelke said. Rather it’s bringing food back to the old days, which is what Fischer is targeting with the Trading Post.

“Part of the idea of us being a trading post is going back,” Fischer said. “Our way of raising food is not new, it’s very old. I want to make a point with kids to-day that this isn’t a new food movement, this is how our grandparents ate — no

processed foods.”In the two years Farm2Table LLC

Trading Post has been operating, it has grown from a dozen farms and ranches to more than 30 that contribute on a regular basis. All are from Colorado.

“We coordinated with different ranches to provide products, so it’s not just one person with 12 cows trying to feed the public,” Fischer said. The cooperative now carries more than 100 meat items. “There’s no one that has this collection of meat, and it’s because most of us don’t make enough to sell to a King Soopers.”

In addition to the online store and mobile marketplace, the cooperative recently started a monthly buyers club, which offers 10 different meat boxes, of-fering 100 shares of each box.

“I think at the end of the day a lot of people think this is really cool, but they haven’t changed their habits of just going to the grocery store and buying meats for food,” Fischer said. “So, until people vote with their dollar, not much is going to change in our food system. It’s the actual involvement of buying your groceries from the local family farm that makes all the difference.”

Neil Fischer is hoping to change the way Coloradans eat by offering local, grass-fed meat. Photo by Shanna Fortier

McCauley Family Farm in Longmont offers volunteer days so consumers can get more connected with their food. Courtesy photo

GET IN TOUCHFarm2Table Trading Post: www.farm-2tabletradingpost.com, 303-520-8490, [email protected]

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On May 20, 296 libraries throughout Colorado received a pair of backpacks, fi lled with a state parks pass hangtag, set of binoculars, a variety of outdoor Colorado guides, a state parks guide and list of activity ideas. Each pass allows free entry to any of Colorado’s 42 state parks, where you can hike and bike. If you have a fi shing license

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Littleton’s Broadridge Shopping Center, Broadway and Ridge Road, has returned after a stay at Aspen Grove. It will be open on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or sell-out.

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Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons Street, Lone Tree, will present comedian Kevin Fitzgerald, who also has a 25-year career as a veterinarian in his background. Opening for him will be Colorado’s popular Chicken Lips Comedy Theater, which was started by Bob Wells. The performance will be inside on the Main Stage and tickets cost $30. Lonetreeartscenter.org.

Wizardly waysTheatre of Dreams’ annual Wizard

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Western art“Art into the Sunset” extends the

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Call for artists• Heritage Fine Arts Guild invites entries

in its annual “This is Colorado” show, Oct. 10-Nov. 3 at Arapahoe Community College Colorado Gallery of the Arts. Juror will be Lian Quan Zhen. Entry form at: heritage-guild.com/shows. (Zhen will also teach a three-day watercolor workshop Oct 19-21 at the Littleton Museum.) Deadline for entries: August 15.

• Reminder: Kaleidoscope Juried Exhibi-tion entries (actual artwork) are due from 9 to 11 a.m. on July 9 at the Colorado Gallery

of the Arts at Arapahoe Community Col-lege/Annex Building. ($10 per entry — cash or check.) Juror is Angela Faris Bell. Infor-mation: [email protected].

DLOG Summer PartyDenver Lyric Opera Guild, which has

members throughout the metro area, will hold its Summer Party at Mount Vernon Country Club in Golden on July 12, featur-ing Central City Opera stars. Social hour: 10:30 a.m., program: 11 a.m.; lunch: noon. Reservations: $40 by July 7. Guests and prospective members are welcome. Send check to: Diane Bakke, 8222 S. Peninsula Drive, Littleton, CO 80120 (303-738-9861, [email protected]). Reserve by Paypal at denverlyricoperaguild.org.

Theater to relocateCherry Creek Theatre has announced

that it will become the resident theater company at the Mizel Arts and Cultural Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver (Jewish Community Center). Its home has been at Shaver-Ramsey Gallery in Cherry Creek, but extensive redevelopment has made this impossible from a cost standpoint, accord-ing to board chair Mark Rossman.

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Editor’s note: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednes-day for publication the following week. Send listings to [email protected]. No attachments, please. Listings are free and run on a space-available basis.

Conversational English Group

Practice your English is a group that allows adults from all language back-grounds to practice speaking English in a conversation group facilitated

by a fl uent English speaker. Discus-sion topics vary. Meets at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 2 and Satur-day, July 9, at the Douglas County Libraries branch in Parker, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive. No registration is required; contact 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Young Writers Guild

Aspiring writers ages 12-18 can drop in on the Young Writers Guild to prac-tice their writing craft and perhaps learn a new tool at 4 p.m. Tuesday,

July 5, at the Douglas County Libraries’ Philip S. Miller branch, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Bring a pencil and paper or laptop. Snacks are provided. No registration is required; contact 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Coffee and Coloring

Spend an evening with a good cup of coffee, an even better coloring book, and a group of adults fi nding their Zen through coloring at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 6, at Douglas

County Libraries in Parker, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or Doug-lasCountyLibraries.org.

Summer Wizard Camp

Learn magic and performance skills by professional magicians Carol Massie and Joe Givan at Summer Wizard Camp at Theatre of Dreams, 735 Park St., Castle Rock. Camp dates are Monday to Friday, July 11-14 and Aug. 1-4 (more dates may be added). Camp runs from 9:30 a.m.

to noon each day. Cost includes all supplies and recital show for family. Open to ages 7 and older. Call 303-660-6799 for details and to sign up. Go to www.AmazingShows.com.

Open Saddle Series

Cowboy Up Kiowa presents its sec-ond Open Saddle series. The 2016 Gymkhana schedule is Sunday, July 17, from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a 1 p.m. start. Saturday, Aug. 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a 1 p.m. start.

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Camping Singles is a group of Colorado single adults who enjoy camping, fishing, hiking, swimming, biking, sightseeing, photography, the camaraderie of others, and starry nights around the camp fire. We usually camp in designated forest service or state park campgrounds within 2 to 5 hours of Denver. We welcome all single adults. Our membership ranges from the 40s to 60-plus. We usually meet at 7 p.m. the first Tues-day of the month. For specific meeting informa-tion, contact [email protected]

Douglas-Elbert County Music Teachers’ As-sociation meets at 9 a.m. every first Thursday at Parker Bible Church, between Jordan and Cham-bers on Main Street. All area music teachers are welcome. Call Lucie Washburn, 303-814-3479.

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

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

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

Finding Our Way Together, a brand new group for anyone who is alone, left out, picked on or overwhelmed by life. Since it is just forming, the

group will evolve to fit the needs of the partici-pants. Group will meet at 10 a.m. Saturdays at 34061 Forest Park Drive, in the lower level of Elizabeth Family Health. Leaders are Mary, 720-638-9770, and Karen, 303-243-3658, and both welcome phone calls. Group participation is free, and building is accessible.

Kiowa Creek Food Pantry is a distribution site for the State of Colorado TEFAP food program. Food is distributed monthly to low income indi-viduals/families that qualify. We also distribute low income senior food boxes for the state; those 60 and older may qualify for a monthly supple-ment. If you are in need of food assistance or know someone who is, we may be able to qualify you for one of these programs. Call the food pantry for more information at 303-621-2376, or come by from 8:30 a.m. to noon Tuesdays; we are located in the Fellowship Hall at 231 Chey-enne Street, Kiowa.

Lawyers at the Library, a free legal clinic for parties who have no attorney, will be offered from 6-9 p.m. the second Tuesday of every month at the Elizabeth Library, 651 W. Beverly St. Volun-teer attorneys will answer questions, help fill out forms and explain the process and procedure for the areas of family law, civil litigation, criminal defense, property law, probate law, collections,

appeals, landlord-tenant law and civil protection orders. Walk-ins are welcome. Everyone will be helped on a first-come, first-served basis.

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

The Outback Express is a public transit service provided through the East Central Council of Local Governments is open and available to all residents of Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson and Lincoln counties and provides an economical and efficient means of travel for the four-county re-gion. Call Kay Campbell, Kiowa, at 719- 541-4275. You may also call the ECCOG office at 1-800-825-0208 to make reservations for any of the trips. You may also visit http://outbackexpress.tripod.com. To ensure that a seat is available, 24-hour advance reservations are appreciated.

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Classic cars bring crowds to town8th annual event one of few south of Denver

By John CongerSpecial to Colorado Community Media

Castle Rock resident Dean Hargrave, 69, brought his immaculate, orange 1970 Mach 1 Mustang to Wilcox Street last weekend.

“I bought this car for my son in 1984 in Fargo, North Dakota, for $400,” he said. “We spent three years getting it restored and it turned out beautiful.”

So beautiful that Hargrave was show-ing it off for the fifth year at the annual Classic Car Rock Cruise In, which brought more than 300 cars to downtown Castle Rock on June 18 and a crowd of motor-heads, families and sightseers.

“The people, the weather, the cars are the best parts of the weekend,” said Hargrave, who like other owners camped out in the shade behind their cars. “Castle Rock is a great little place.”

The car show, in its eighth year and sponsored by the Castle Rock Downtown Merchants Association and the Vintage Car Club of Castle Rock, also included live music and food.

“This is a big-time show and we have people that come from all over,” said John Manka, vice president of the merchants’ association. “It was an immediate suc-cess, right off of the get-go.”

Many of Vintage club members participate in the event, which includes competitions in categories such as “hot-test car” chosen by the fire chief and “most likely to be pulled over” picked by the police chief.

John Kearns, an Elizabeth native whose favorite car of all time is a 1970 Chevelle LS6, is the club’s president for the third year.

“This is one of the few (car show) events south of Denver,” said Kearns. “It started from about 50 to 60 cars in the event’s inaugural year. And now we are right around 320.”

Manka also stressed the economic benefits the show brings to businesses in the area.

“The first year the restaurants were packed with people, and we slowly had to bring in additional food carts simply because the restaurants couldn’t keep up,” he said.

Missy Radosta, an employee at Castle Rock Bar & Grill on Wilcox Street, agreed the event brings a lot of people into not just the Bar & Grill but the neighboring eateries as well.

“There are hundreds of people ev-ery year,” she said over the noise of the crowded restaurant. “It’s huge.”

The car show also raises money for a charity or deserving program. Part of this year’s proceeds will go to the Douglas

County Auto Shop Program, run out of Ponderosa High School in Parker.

“It’s events like this that make Castle Rock such a desirable place to live,” Manka said.

John Conger is a 2016 graduate of Castle View High School in Castle Rock who is attending the journalism program at Uni-versity of Colorado-Boulder.

One of the cars, a classic VW Beetle, also displays its toy counterpart at the Classic Rock Cruise In. Photos by John Conger

John Kearns, president of the Vintage Car Club of Castle Rock, talks to the crowd on June 18 about the different awards at the event. At left, Jack Cauley, Castle Rock chief of police, chose the car “most likely to be pulled over.”

The Rock looms over the music stage at the Classic Rock Cruise In, where crowds gath-ered June 18 to check out more than 300 cars.


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District Court, Elbert County,Colorado 751 Ute Avenue,

Kiowa, CO 80117 (303) 621-2131

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OFCOLORADO In the Interest of:Child(ren):Nathaniel Freeman (DOB: 08/06/2000);Caleb Reiser (DOB: 12/14/2007);Mandy Hoke (DOB: 06/16/2009)

Petitioner: ELBERT COUNTYDEPARTMENT OF HEALTHAND HUMAN SERVICES,

Respondents: NATASHA ADAMS,JOSHUA BAUCOM, and ORY HOKECase Number: 16JV7 Div. 1 Ctrm. 1

SUMMONS IN DEPENDENCYOR NEGLECT

Party being served by publication after dili-gent search: JOSHUA BAUCOM: A veri-fied Petition in Dependency or Neglecthas been filed in the Elbert County Dis-trict Court in which the child(ren) namedabove is alleged to be dependent or neg-lected for the reasons stated therein, acopy of which is attached to this Sum-mons. You are summoned to appear onJuly 14, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. in the aboveDivision of the Elbert County District Courtlocated at 751 Ute Avenue, Kiowa, CO,80117, at which time the District CourtJudge will advise you of your rights. Youwill have the opportunity to admit or denythe allegations of the Petition in Depend-ency or Neglect. Failure to appear assummoned could result in the entry of adefault judgment against you declaring theabove named child(ren) to be dependentor neglected.

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Legal Notice No.: 23419First Publication: June 30, 2016Last Publication: June 30, 2016Publisher: The Elbert County News

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Records Destruction: Policies andProcedures (Recommended by the

Colorado Department of Education)

Due to the increasing volume of specialeducation records, school districts spenda significant amount of time and moneymaintaining those records. Consequently,a systematic procedure for the retentionand disposition of inactive special educa-tion student records is necessary.

The Family Education Rights and PrivacyAct (FERPA) is a federal privacy protec-tion act that protects student education re-cords. FERPA defines education recordsas all records that school or educationalagencies maintain about a student.FERPA applies to public schools and stateor local education agencies that receivefederal education funds.

It is the policy of Elizabeth School Districtthat the contents of special education filesshall be kept for a minimum of five yearsafter all special education and related ser-vices for a student have ended. Upon ex-iting from special education services, thestudent and parent/guardian shall be in-formed that records will be destroyed afterfive consecutive years of in-active status.Prior to the destruction of in-active re-cords, efforts to notify the parent/guardianor student 18 years old or older shall bemade and documented. This notificationshall be done through U.S. mail or re-leased to the student if 18 years or olderor to the parent/guardian if the student isunder 18 or is still dependent. Absent arequest, the records shall be destroyed inconformance with C.R.S. §24-80-101, etseq., and federal law. No record shall bedestroyed as long as it pertains to anypending legal case, claim, action or audit.

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Legend junior put long hours into improvement Stubbings honored as Baseball Player of Year

By Jim Benton [email protected]

Jordan Stubbings learned last year that he needed to work harder, so he spent a lot of time in the barn at his Elizabeth home.

Stubbings, a junior at Legend, hit .230 as a sophomore baseball player.

“Last year was fi rst year on varsity, I was a sophomore, so I didn’t play amazing,” admitted

Stubbings. “It told me what to do for the rest of my career at Legend. It helped me become the player I am now.

“I took that season to heart and really worked my butt off over the summer. There were a lot of times I felt I could do bet-ter and I wasn’t performing like I usually did. I’m a player that was trying to be at the top of my class. I felt more a part of the team this year.”

Stubbings hit .500 and led the Continental League with 32 runs batted in. He tied for league lead with six homers and was the leader with a .911 slugging per-centage. He struck out only twice

in 79 plate appearances.He has been named the Colo-

rado Community Media South Metro Baseball Player of the Year.

“I lifted a lot more in the offseason and I really trained harder than I ever had before,” Stubbings explained about his turnaround. “I did a bunch more skill work.

“I’m lucky enough to have a barn where I live. I have a batting cage in my barn and every night I go out there and take about 100 or 300 cuts. That’s why my hitting went so well. I work on it constantly. I do my swing as an art work. I just try to perfect it every time I got out to the barn.

Legend’s Jordan Stubbings has been named the Colorado Community Media South Metro Baseball Player of the Year. Courtesy photo

appeals, landlord-tenant law and civil protection orders. Walk-ins are welcome. Everyone will be helped on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis.

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

The Outback Express is a public transit service provided through the East Central Council of Local Governments is open and available to all residents of Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson and Lincoln counties and provides an economical and effi cient means of travel for the four-county re-gion. Call Kay Campbell, Kiowa, at 719- 541-4275. You may also call the ECCOG offi ce at 1-800-825-0208 to make reservations for any of the trips. You may also visit http://outbackexpress.tripod.com. To ensure that a seat is available, 24-hour advance reservations are appreciated.

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

Parker-Franktown-Elizabeth Paper Crafting Club is open to anyone interested in card making and scrapbooking. We meet regularly throughout the month on various weekday evenings and weekends. Club events take place at 7786 Prairie Lake Trail, Parker (in the Pinery). Contact Alison Collins at 720-212-4788 for information or fi nd us online at http://www.meetup.com/Parker-Franktown-Elizabeth-Paper-Crafting-Club/

Seniors meet in Elizabeth every Monday at 11 a.m. for food, fun and fellowship at Elizabeth Senior Center, 823 S. Banner St. Bring a dish for potluck on the fi rst Monday of each month. Other Mondays, bring a sack lunch. Bingo, games and socializing. New leadership. Call Agnes at 303-883-7881 or Carol at 303-646-3425 for information.

Sky Cliff Center Support Groups A Stroke support group meets from 6-7:30 p.m. the fi rst Tuesday, and from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the second and last Wednesday (lunch included). The Care Giver support group for adults meets from 10-11:30 a.m. the third Tuesday of each month. Caregiving for adults can be challenging at times and you’re not alone. For information, or to let the center know if you’re coming, call 303-814-2863 or email [email protected]. Go to www.skycliff.org.

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

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

VFW Post 4266, serving veterans of foreign wars in Parker, Castle Pines and Castle Rock areas, meets at 7 p.m. the third Monday of every month at the Pinery Fire Station, Community Room Lower Level, 8170 N. Hillcrest Way, Parker. Go to www.vfwpost4266.org. P.O. Box 4266, Parker, CO 80134. On Facebook at VFW Post 4266, Parker.


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