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WOUNDED WARRIORS

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One minute and 20 seconds changed lives forever.

A girl shot in the head, left in critical condi-tion. A young man dead by his own hand, his own gun, after bringing horror to the hallways of his school.

Shaken teenagers fi led out of the school into the cold, some barefoot. Family and friends wondered if their loved ones had been hurt, or worse.

On Dec. 13, a community was left disturbed, heartbroken, changed. Arapahoe High School, home of the Warriors, was a crime scene for nearly three days.

The shooting in Centennial came a day before the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass slayings and less than 10 miles from where the Columbine massacre occurred more than 14 years ago.

This gunman’s target, by most accounts, was a member of the school’s faculty who re-portedly had laid down discipline against the student. But Karl Pierson, a Highlands Ranch resident, was prepared to take out more than one man along the way, authorities believe. Many more.

Like a lot of Arapahoe students, Pierson car-ried a backpack into school Dec. 13. His, how-ever, was fi lled with three explosive devices — Molotov cocktails.

Pierson also carried a machete and plenty of ammunition for his pump-action shotgun, the weapon he used to change the life of stu-dent Claire Davis, who clings to that life in a local hospital. Pierson purchased the fi rearm

on Dec. 6 at a local retail outlet, legal because he was 18 years old, Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said. He had purchased at least some of the ammunition the morning of the shooting.

Davis, 17, may have just been in the way — it’s not clear if Pierson even knew the fellow se-nior at the school of more than 2,000 students.

Pierson’s ultimate goal, the sheriff says, was to kill Tracy Murphy, the coach of the speech and debate team, a librarian. They had a dis-agreement and Pierson made threats in Sep-tember that were reported to authorities.

Here’s what the sheriff said happened in 80

seconds:Around 12:30 p.m., Dec. 13, Pierson entered

the school through a door adjacent to the li-brary on the north side of the building and im-mediately shot a random round down a hall-way. He then walked up to Davis and shot her point blank.

Murphy, made aware he was a likely target, was quickly warned of the gunman’s presence and made his way out of the school to safety. Pierson wasn’t hiding his shotgun or his inten-tions as he approached the library.

Pierson then took another random shot, went directly to the library and set off one of the bombs, which set at least three book-shelves on fi re. He shot another round, but by now he could hear school resource offi cer James Englert — an Arapahoe County sheriff’s deputy — heading toward him at full speed.

Robinson said the resource offi cer, along with an unarmed security guard and two ad-ministrators, heard the fi rst shot and immedi-ately began running from the cafeteria to the library. The resource offi cer was screaming at

A girl is comforted by a friend outside Shepherd of the Hills Church after the shootings at Arapahoe High School on Dec. 13. Tearful reunions were a common sight at the church, where parents were instructed to pick up their kids. Photo by Chris Michlewicz

Arapahoe High School students � le out of the Centennial school after being evacuated Dec. 13 following a shooting that left Claire Davis in critical condition. Photo by George Lurie

Shooting shakes community

Victim � ghting for life By Chris Rotar and Jennifer Smith Staff writers

They sit near each other in Span-ish class, but Kaylee Eastridge says she doesn’t know Claire Davis well.

“She’s quiet, but she’s very friend-ly,” Eastridge, a junior at Arapahoe High School, said. “I know she has a lot of friends.”

That was apparent to anyone vis-iting Arapahoe High the afternoon of Dec. 15. Signs of support were everywhere for Davis, the 17-year-old Arapahoe senior who two days earlier was shot in the head at point-blank range. Davis was in critical condition, in a coma, at Littleton Adventist Hospital as of Dec. 17.

At the high school, paper cups jammed between holes in a fence were arranged to say “Pray 4 Claire.” Hanging from the same fence, just a few feet away, was a Christmas stocking. On the ground below rest-ed bouquets of fl owers.

It wasn’t immediately known who was behind the kind gestures or when they occurred, but it’s clear the community is united in its hope for a recovery for Davis, known for being a sweet person and for her love of horses. According to Davis’ Facebook page, she’s a member of the Colorado Hunter Jumper Asso-ciation and attended Vellshire Rid-ing School.

Davis was shot by Karl Pierson, an Arapahoe student, who about a minute later, killed himself. Arapa-hoe County Sheriff Grayson Robin-son believes a faculty member and not Davis was the primary target, but that Pierson, 18, wasprepared to kill as many people as possible.

Pierson entered the school from the north entrance, near the library. He quickly encountered Davis, who never had a chance to get away, the sheriff said.

“She is a young woman of prin-ciple, she is a young woman of pur-pose, she is an innocent young lady, and she is an innocent victim of an

Claire Esther Davis, shown here in a photo provided by her family to the Arapahoe County Sheri� ’s O� ce, remained in critical condition from a gunshot wound as of Dec. 17.

Victim continues on Page 13

Shooting continues on Page 13

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Loats case continued again Postponement granted to give time for state’s mental evaluation By Tom Munds [email protected]

Codell Loats appeared in court Dec. 9 and the case was continued until February because the defendant has not undergone court-ordered evaluation at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo.

Anne Kelly of the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Offi ce said she didn’t like the de-lay but agreed with the decision.

“The state mental evaluation is neces-sary so we will have to wait until that evalu-ation is completed before we move forward with this case,” she said.

Since the evaluation hadn’t yet been done on Dec. 9, Elizabeth Weishaupl, 18th Judicial District Judge, set the next court ap-pearance for 8:30 a.m. Feb. 3 in Division 402

to allow time for the evalua-tion to be done. Frank said no reasons were given in court for the delay in Loats’ evaluation.

Loats, 29, faces charges including fi rst-degree at-tempted murder. He is ac-cused of beating his parents with a large wrench in their home in the 4700 block of South Acoma Street in September of 2012.

Loats was arrested about 2 a.m. Sept. 16, 2012 by the Morrison Police Department. He has been in custody in the Arapahoe County Jail since his arrest.

He was initially scheduled to be ar-raigned on Jan. 7 but the arraignment was continued. There were four postponements of the arraignment and, at a motions hear-ing on Sept. 16, Loats with his public de-fenders entered a not-guilty plea and the judge ordered Loats undergo evaluation at the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. The evaluation is still pending.

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Developer talks about revisionsParking, lighting, design planned for Broadway Lofts mixed-use projectBy Tom [email protected]

The developer of the Broadway Lofts project at Acoma and Broadway met Dec. 10 with area residents to inform them of adjust-ments to the original pro-posal ranging from more parking for businesses to changes in architectural designs.

Troy Gladwell, project manager for developer Medici Communities, told the audience of about 15 at the Dec. 10 meeting that the company had adjusted the original proposal as a result of comments made at the two previous neigh-borhood meetings.

Medici Communities’ proposal is to construct the Broadway Lofts mixed-use development on the 1.8 acres that includes the vacant lot on the corner of South Broadway and En-glewood Parkway as well as the land west of the al-ley along the 3400 block of South Acoma Street.

Plans are to construct an 8,600-square-foot restau-rant site on the corner of Broadway and Englewood Parkway as part of the total of 23,500 feet of first-floor commercial space to be in-cluded in the project. The

upper floors of the build-ings would contain 114 apartments.

Gladwell said Dec. 10 having adequate parking for the business was the concern raised most fre-quently in the other meet-ings.

“We heard the concern,” he said. “The original pro-posal included 208 spaces for businesses. We have done some layout redesign and now we expect there will be 270 to 280 parking spaces available for the businesses.”

He said he will talk to city officials about the possibility of making the 3400 block of South Acoma Street one way south. The idea is to provide easier in-and-out access to the busi-nesses on Broadway and on Acoma for customers and delivery vehicles.

Gladwell said the com-pany will address concerns about safety at night by providing plenty of lights in the area. He also talked about architectural chang-es for the project.

“We are looking at mak-

ing the parking garage look like a parking garage,” he said. “The idea is to make the project more user-friendly and help people know where to park.”

Another area destined for architectural change is a portion of the area fronting on Broadway. The original drawing showed the light-ed area on the corner of Broadway and Englewood Parkway and a low building stretching south to the Odd Fellows Lodge.

“The connecting build-ing doesn’t blend in

with the neighborhood,” Gladwell said. “We want our project to have the look and feel of the area. So, I would like to see the proposal redone so, when it is constructed, there is a blend of the historic feel of the Odd Fellows Lodge and the modern feel of the glass structure on the corner.”

The Dec. 10 session was Medici’s third neighbor-hood meeting and plans are for another update on the plans sometime in January even though the city requires the developer

to have only one neighbor-hood meeting.

Doug Cohn, owner of Bonnie Brae Hobby Shop at 3421 S. Broadway said he is encouraged by the fact Medici is paying at-tention to the concerns of the owners of business and buildings on the west side of the 3400 block of South Broadway.

“It is refreshing to me to see the developer working with the Broadway busi-nesses and I think they are coming up with a project that may work but it won’t be as good for our business as the large parking lot be-hind the store,” he said. “Of course, it will be challeng-ing with the construction on the north end of the parking lot, which will eat up all the parking for my business. We hope we can weather that storm.”

Artist’s concept of part of the proposed Broadway Lofts project. Developers told neighbors there will be architectural changes made on the building between the lighted corner and the Odd Fellows Lodge. The proposal is for a project that will include retail tenants as well as 114 apartments. Courtesy art


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The future bride gradu-ated from the University of Northern Colorado with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences and a Mas-ter of Arts in Education Ad-ministration and Supervi-sion from the University of Phoenix. She is employed as an Assistant Principal at Chaparral High School in the Douglas Country School District.

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Law aims to declutter downtown Littleton Merchants asked to take it inside By Jennifer Smith [email protected]

Downtown merchants will have to keep their stuff inside, for the most part, if Littleton City Council pass-es an ordinance city staff crafted after hearing some complaints about cluttered sidewalks.

“People have different perceptions about what’s cute versus what’s junky,” noted Councilor Randy Stein.

The ordinance would require merchants to ap-ply for a permit and prove they have insurance to keep items outside. If ap-proved, they could put no more than 20 square feet of merchandise next to their building, a size about equiv-alent to a clothing rack, said City Manager Michael Pen-ny. Items could extend no more than 3 feet onto the sidewalk, and a 6-foot clear path for pedestrians would need to be maintained. Ev-erything would have to go inside at night.

“I’m seeing this as a bit of an obstacle course,” said Councilor Peggy Cole, refer-encing the grated trees, new bike racks and news racks already there.

Mike Braaten, assistant city manager, said city code currently doesn’t address outside merchandise at all. The intent of this ordi-nance, he said, is to allow for it in a way that creates an interesting shopping ex-perience while maintaining downtown’s character and property values.

“The principal purpose for allowing regulated out-door display of merchan-dise is not to provide ad-ditional retail space, but allowing retailers meet-ing the proposed require-ments the opportunity to attract the public through display of product samples available inside their busi-nesses,” reads the memo to council.

Stein suggested allow-ing outside merchandise on particular days, like during festivals and sidewalk sales, in an effort to increase syn-ergy in the neighborhood.

The ordinance doesn’t apply to signs, which have their own lengthy list of rules.

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Robinson announces retirement County’s long time top lawman stepping down in January By George Lurie [email protected]

After more than 42 years of public ser-vice, Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson announced Dec. 12 that he will retire early next year.

In his retirement letter, Robinson wrote, “It has been my great honor and distinct privilege to serve our community as Sher-iff since 2002…Of the numerous public service partnerships that I have had the great opportunity to be involved with over the years, the relationship that I am most proud of is the one with the women and men of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Of-fi ce Family.”

Robinson, who is term-limited, made the announcement as part of what he de-scribed as a “deliberate and well-consid-ered succession plan.”

In his retirement letter, he strongly recommended to commissioners that they appoint his undersheriff, David Wachler, as interim sheriff to serve out his term.

“There is only one per-son with the qualifi cations, experience, vision and pro-fessional capacity to effec-tively and successfully complete my last term of elected offi ce, and that person is Undersheriff David C. Walcher,” Robinson wrote.

Walcher has been with the ACSO since 2009. He began his career at the FBI’s Den-ver bureau and then he served 21 years in the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Offi ce.

In 2001, former Arapahoe County Sher-iff Pat Sullivan resigned before his fi nal term of offi ce was complete and recom-mended Robinson, then undersheriff, as his replacement.

Robinson’s offi cial retirement date is

Jan. 31, 2014 but the accolades for the pop-ular sheriff are already pouring in.

“It has been a privilege working with Sheriff Robinson,” said Centennial Mayor Cathy Noon. “Centennial has been for-tunate to experience the benefi ts of high quality law enforcement services.”

Noon said Robinson and “his team have always demonstrated an unwavering com-mitment and dedication to the city [and] while we will greatly miss Sheriff Robinson — and wish him an enjoyable and well-de-served retirement — the city looks forward to continuing our successful partnership with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Offi ce.”

The ACSO has provided law enforce-ment services to Centennial since the city’s incorporation in February 2001.

In June of this year, Centennial released the results of an assessment of the Sher-iff’s Offi ce contract, which concluded the services provided by the ACSO “have been delivered in a cost-effective, highly profes-sional manner.”

John Brackney, a former Arapahoe

County Commissioner and president of the South Metro Denver Chamber of Com-merce, worked with Robinson for 16 years.

“His character and reputation is ster-ling,” said Brackney upon hearing of the sheriff’s retirement. “He served our com-munity with dignity and with enthusiasm and with pride, but also [with] humility.”

“He’s a military guy and a cop, so he’s kind of rough and grumble,” Brackney added. “But he’s also patient and kind [and] thoughtful and wise.”

Brackney published a column in March titled “The Language of Doers” and says he had Robinson mostly in mind when he wrote it. “I’m on it” and “consider it done” are typical of Robinson’s lexicon, said Brackney.

Arapahoe County Commissioner Nancy Doty also had high praise for Sheriff Rob-inson.

“Grayson has been a true public servant for the citizens of Arapahoe County,” she said. “He will be missed by everyone who has had the pleasure of working with him.”

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Arraignment slated for suspect in bat beating Owen faces � rst-degree murder charges By Tom Munds [email protected]

Englewood resident Forsythia Eliese Owen, 30, has been ordered to be held in Arapahoe County Jail without bond and to appear for arraignment Jan. 29 for al-legedly beat Denzle Rainey to death with a baseball bat.

The orders were handed down at the Dec. 12 pretrial hearing by 18th Judicial District Judge Marilyn Leonard Antrim. The judge ruled the there was sufficient evidence to order Owen’s arraignment on Jan. 29.

Owen could face charges of first-degree murder after deliberation and

assault with a deadly weapon causing serious bodily injury. Addition-ally she could be face sentence-enhancement charges of violent crime causing death and violent crime where a weapon was used.

Since it is a first-degree murder case, Owen is be-ing held in Arapahoe County Jail without bond.

Preliminary hearings are held to pro-vide the information the judge needs to determine if there is sufficient evidence to establish probable cause to believe the defendant committed the crime.

The prosecutor can call witnesses and the defense attorney can cross examine the witnesses.

On Dec. 12, prosecutor Jason Sears

called Englewood Detective Brent Vogel to testify in the case.

Vogel, lead detective in the case, tes-tified to details, including police discov-ery of Rainey, the information gathered in the three interrogation sessions with Owen that lead to her arrest.

The detective said Englewood police were called about 1:10 a.m. Sept. 22 to the alley behind 3645 S. Sherman St. on a report of a man on the ground whose head was bleeding.

Vogel said officers called Englewood paramedics who did basic treatment and took the man identified as Rainey to Swedish Medical Center. Rainey was pro-nounced dead at 4:49 a.m.

He said he attended the Sept. 23 au-topsy and the coroner ruled Rainey died from blunt force trauma to the head. Rainey also suffered six broken ribs, both arms were broken, several fingers were

broken, his liver was lacerated and he suffered injuries from blows to his groin area.

Vogel interviewed the defendant on Sept. 22 and again on Sept. 23. During the Sept. 23 interview, Vogel said Owen admitted she used a wooden baseball bat to beat Rainey and claimed she did it because he had inappropriately touched her daughter.

She told the police she didn’t mean to kill Rainey and that he was still breathing when she left the alley after she had beat him with the baseball bat.

The defense attorney asked a number of questions but called no witnesses. The judge had not had the opportunity to re-view the recording of a police interview with Owen so she adjourned the court until the afternoon when she returned and handed down her ruling.

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Griebel supporters pack board roomFired Heritage football coach wants his job backBy Jennifer [email protected]

The first meeting of the new Little-ton Public Schools Board of Educa-tion was anything but average, as dozens of angry people filled the nor-mally docile chamber to overflowing on Dec. 12 to support Mike Grieb-el, the recently fired Heritage High School football coach.

Griebel himself appeared before the board, after listening to 14 other parents, students, friends and co-workers plead for his reinstatement.

“I had no intentions of coming here tonight,” he said. “But I wished to show respect for all these people with self-advocacy. … Commitment and passion make these kids go, and I still make these kids go. I pledge to you all that reinstatement will make you proud. I’ll never let you down.”

Lucie Stanish, during what was her first meeting as president of the board, reminded Griebel’s supporters that personnel matters are handled at the school level, in this case by prin-

cipal Stacey Riendeau. But that didn’t dissuade the speakers from trying to convince the board to effect some sway.

“This is like living through what could become a best-selling tragic novel,” said Karen Griebel, the coach’s wife and a gymnastics coach at Heri-tage. She said she would be resigning in protest of how her husband was treated.

“I don’t know what’s happening in our building. It’s something we need to look at,” she said. “You can only hide behind your board politics and your politically correct answers for so long.”

Several students, many wearing custom T-shirts and delivering letters to the board to show their support for their coach, talked about the posi-tive influence Mike Griebel has had on their lives. One young lady said he was enormously supportive after her mother died of cancer, and a young man explained how Griebel was there to catch his mother when she nearly fainted upon seeing his injured knee.

“I bring my defense for him as he’s always brought his defense for me,” said Logan Torres. “I challenge you to find a coach that could ever run the race like he does.”

Kelly Cane’s three sons have

played for Griebel, and she’s a teacher and a varsity coach, as well. She said the Heritage football family supports Griebel.

“Coach Griebel has high expec-tations for our boys,” she said. “He pushes them, he challenges them, he supports them as they work to become the best versions of them-selves.”

Many of his co-workers spoke out in his defense, saying Greibel was treated unfairly.

“Nobody deserves to be jerked around like this,” Sherry Rosen, HHS chair of physical education, said through tears. “I guess this means nothing to our administration. It’s al-ready begun to tear away at the mo-rale and trust in our school and our community.”

A letter was sent to “Heritage Football Families” on Dec. 5 stating that Griebel “is no longer coaching” for the school. No reason for his dis-missal was given. He had planned to retire from teaching at the end of this school year, but wanted to keep coaching until his son Mikey, who is on the team, graduates in three years.

At the time of the meeting, more than 1,600 people had signed a peti-tion on change.org asking that he be reinstated.

The Heritage High School football team applauds Mike Griebel’s plea for reinstatement during the Dec. 12 school-board meeting. Photo by Jennifer Smith

Arraignment slated for suspect in bat beatingbroken, his liver was lacerated and he suffered injuries from blows to his groin area.

Vogel interviewed the defendant on Sept. 22 and again on Sept. 23. During the Sept. 23 interview, Vogel said Owen admitted she used a wooden baseball bat to beat Rainey and claimed she did it because he had inappropriately touched her daughter.

She told the police she didn’t mean to kill Rainey and that he was still breathing when she left the alley after she had beat him with the baseball bat.

The defense attorney asked a number of questions but called no witnesses. The judge had not had the opportunity to re-view the recording of a police interview with Owen so she adjourned the court until the afternoon when she returned and handed down her ruling.

Five complete GED studiesStudents complete Spring Institute GED preparation programBy Tom [email protected]

Certificates, roses and refreshments were part of the Dec. 12 GED graduation ceremonies held at the Maddox building.

“These students started the program in February and now have completed the tests necessary to earn their GED certificates,” said Ann Leonard, a Spring Institute pro-gram instructor. “We have five graduates and we are celebrating their achievements.”

The students earning their GED certifi-cated were Amanda Fregosa, Dana Diek-meier, Jennifer Leah Coop, Truven Minh Le and Zachary Woodard.

“I left high school and I needed to get my GED,” Woodard said. “My mom found the class, I signed up and it was a great pro-gram.”

He said there was a good environment for the classes, everyone was friendly and

the students got done what needed to be done.

“I felt I was well prepared for the tests when it came time to take them,” he said. “I

still was a little nervous because, when you pay $150 to take the tests, you want to make sure you pass them.”

His nervousness proved to be unfound-

ed as, at the graduation, the speaker noted Woodard took all five GED tests in the same day and passed all of them.

“The graduates today began their GED preparation in February,” Leonard said. “They attended class for 2 ½ hours a day, four days a week to get them ready to com-plete the five GED tests.”

Only two of the five graduates were able to attend the Dec. 12 ceremonies. Woodard said now that he has his GED, he wants to do something meaningful with his life. He said the graduation is the beginning of the next step and he would like to look into be-gin training for a career in culinary arts.

Le said he wants to continue his English as a second language study as he prepares to attend college where he wants to major in computer science.

Maddox is part of the Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning that offers 22 pro-grams at 12 sites in the Denver metro area.

Kathy Gonzales West, a teacher at Bish-op Elementary School, helped the Spring Institute connect with Englewood School District.

The institute offers adult basic educa-tion adult secondary education and GED preparation programs at Maddox.

Zach Woodard, left, listens as instructor Ann Leonard talks about his achievements passing the GED tests during the Spring Institute Dec. 12 celebration of Woodard and four other students receiving their GED certificates. Spring Institute operates the GED preparation program and two other adult education classes at the Maddox building. Photo by Tom Munds


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Becoming motivated by the sadnessWe will never be the same again.Grief changes us, and the shooting at

Arapahoe High School puts us all in grief again. Numerous times every day I think and pray for the innocent girl who was ruthlessly shot by a boy who was mad at someone else. My daughter is just a year older than she is. I know how much a dad loves his daughter and cannot imagine what her family is going through and how much they wish they could have protected her from this catastrophic event.

The shooter’s family began Dec. 13 with very different expectations for their future. Being parents of the perpetrator of the crime complicates their grief and demolishes the platform for them to grieve openly.

It is times like this that remind all of us how connected we are and our connected-ness reveals the importance of each life. My Clinical Pastoral Education instructor, Foy Richey, impressed this point on me with a diagram on the white board.

“If your life is a circle,” he said while drawing a circle, “your loved one is another circle that overlaps your life. Some con-nect, like the Olympic rings and other times it is almost like an eclipse.”

Then he said as he erased the portion

of the circles that overlapped, “And when that person is gone, that part of your life is missing.”

For family, friends and Arapahoe stu-dents the “part missing” is definitely larger than those of us a few more miles away, but our connectedness is revealed in the grief we all feel. It is not unusual to try and pass through that sadness quickly, as if we can somehow get past it and return to the same place — the way things were. But that is not healthy and it is impossible to be the same again.

Grief looks like a dark and bottomless pit that lies in front of us. We fear we will never come out of it if we allow ourselves to go into the sadness, confusion and an-ger that comes with life-changing grief. But it is in that place where we face the reality

and begin to understand how to live life in a different way and how to live with a piece of us missing.

It is also a place where God meets us. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Jesus was called, “A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.”

“There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply hold out and endure it. At first that sounds very hard, but at the same time it is also a great comfort. For to the extent the emptiness truly remains unfilled one remains connected to the other person through it. It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve -- even in pain -- the authentic relationship.

“Furthermore, the more beautiful and full the remembrances, the more difficult the separation. But gratitude transforms the torment of memory into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a thorn but as a precious gift deep within, a hidden treasure of which one can always be certain.”

Dietrich Bonheoffer, hanged by order of Hitler in a concentration camp gave us

those powerful words for people who suf-fer immeasurable and unjust loss.

The measure of our grief is proportional to the part of us that is missing so our responses will be different. I am tempted to blame and get angry, but I feel it is more productive if I accept responsibility.

What can I do to help our world be a better place? Can I encourage a disturbed young person, even as I pass them during the day? The sadness motivates me to find an answer and live in a way that values life and notices need around me.

“Your life matters” is the message of my book about a baseball player. I hope that message redirects someone who is about to cause harm and gives a grieving soul the reason to continue. There will be other things for others and me to do, so let us go deep into our pit of grief, experience reality and find a healthy way to make a differ-ence, because we will never be the same again.

Dan Hettinger is author of “Welcome to the Big Leagues” and founder of the Jakin Group, a ministry of encouragement. You can email him at [email protected] and follow him on Facebook and Twitter (@Welcome2theBigs).

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Walking side by side through the holidays

This week I struggled a little with the title of my column. It could have been “Walk-ing in someone else’s shoes” or “We never really walk alone” or “Walking down parallel paths” but I decided on “Walking side by side” because although the other titles could have easily worked, I believe that walking side by side truly defines the essence of sup-port, partnerships and love.

I have experienced a lot over the course of my life and many times I tried to “go-it-alone.” As a matter of fact, I would say most times I let my pride and ego get in the way as I attempted to do something or fix something on my own when help was just a phone call or a hug away.

The past few years have been rough as our family battled a very serious health issue, eventually losing a wife, mother and friend to that battle. And even though there were people willing to help and support us, and counselors and pastors who were avail-able, and friends who did what they could, I initially wanted to fix the pains for me and my family on my own.

This past week I had an experience that opened my eyes and my heart, and the awakening or awareness is something I should have and could have realized a long time ago. You see I was traveling in Europe on business and I was attending meetings with a colleague for two days. He shared his condolences with me and then shared that he had actually gone through the exact same situation four years earlier. And as we talked, it became very apparent that he had walked in my shoes and he could share so much more and teach me so much more if I

chose to walk side by side with him.The parallels in our lives and personal

situation were unbelievable. The more we talked and the more we shared our stories, the clearer things became for me, especially about my path moving forward. I didn’t have to “go-it-alone” any longer, not in my personal life or my business life. There are others out there who have had personal and professional experiences that I could benefit from and learn from. And there are things that I have accomplished or have gone through that could very well help others if we chose to walk side by side instead of “going-it-alone.”

For me it was always a stubbornness factor or my own arrogance that prevented me from seeking advice and learning from others who may have walked in my shoes. In some cases that were not so personal it was easy to ask for tips or guidance, like taking golf lessons, or talking with someone about a business situation, or how to handle a small project or repair something in the house. Those are the easy things to talk

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Longing for a Christmas that was very long ago

A young father handed a clerk 30 dol-lars in a department store in Uniontown, Pa., and the clerk gave him a Sad Face Fire Truck, a pedal car that Murray made back then. It was too big to wrap, so it was kept out of sight until Christmas morning.

I came out of my bedroom with sleep still in my eyes, and that made the tree lights look like they were sparking. It might have been our best Christmas. I was still a few years away from becoming a brooding loner — I was just a happy little kid — and I was living with Ozzie and Harriet.

I wish I still had that pedal car. I know I can find one online, because I have looked. They go for almost $500 or more now. But it wouldn’t be the same, because they all belonged to someone else.

I think it was my “Rosebud.” If you have seen “Citizen Kane” you know that “Rose-bud” was Kane’s boyhood sled. Maybe you know that the name was the director’s inside joke. Ask someone else.

Christmas is almost completely lost on me now. My favorite classical station played “O Holy Night” on the day I wrote this, more than three weeks away from Christmas. Some of my neighbors had lights and decorations up before the end of November.

“During the four days beginning with Thanksgiving, 141 million people shopped and made $57.4 billion in purchases at stores and websites.” That’s 58.5 percent of the voting age population.

In 2012, 57.5 percent of the voting age population voted in the presidential elec-tion.

There is something wrong with this picture, but there is something wrong with a lot f our pictures. I’m just happy that I didn’t know there was something wrong with so many of them when I woke up that morning in Pennsylvania and saw my pedal car, and the other gifts that were wrapped and ribboned.

I wish I had a Super-8 of my father buy

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Longing for a Christmas that was very long ago

“During the four days beginning with Thanksgiving, 141 million people shopped and made $57.4 billion in purchases at stores and websites.” That’s 58.5 percent of the voting age population.

In 2012, 57.5 percent of the voting age population voted in the presidential elec-tion.

There is something wrong with this picture, but there is something wrong with a lot f our pictures. I’m just happy that I didn’t know there was something wrong with so many of them when I woke up that morning in Pennsylvania and saw my pedal car, and the other gifts that were wrapped and ribboned.

I wish I had a Super-8 of my father buy

about or seek help on. But when it comes down to something incredibly personal, for me anyway, I tend to try incredibly hard to fi gure things out on my own.

As a family we are facing the all the “fi rsts” now, the fi rst Thanksgiving, Birth-days, Christmas, New Years, Anniversary, and Valentine’s Day without a wife, mom, and friend. And I am sure many of you read-ing this may also be struggling or experienc-ing feelings of sadness for those who are not with you. Maybe you are like us and experi-encing moments of joy mixed with that sad-ness as we remember all of the fun, loving and amazing times we shared together.

Just remember that there are others out there who have walked in your shoes, maybe even walking in them right now. It’s when you fi nd those people in a similar walk, whether through a support group or just out of coincidence, and you can share stories and support one another, walking side by side that you will learn from one another and fi nd some level of comfort in

talking through your individual experiences.I have been blessed with a special

someone in my life who has had their own challenging experiences, and who has sup-ported me through friendship, love, listen-ing, talking, crying, and hugging.

She made the choice to walk side by side with me and my family, and because she walked in similar shoes many years ago, she is strong enough, loving enough, and caring enough to walk with us through our journey now and together we will learn and share so much from one another.

Are you walking side by side with anyone these days? Especially during the holidays? Have you shared your story or learned from someone else? Have you found some level of comfort in talking through any mutual life experiences?

I would love to hear all about it at [email protected] because as I have learned this week, when we do walk side by side through life’s toughest challenges, it will be a better than good minute, hour, day, week, month, and year.

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

ing the pedal car, and I wish I knew what he was thinking. He was a Buick salesman at the time, and was married to his high school sweetheart. They met in Mount Morris, Michigan, dated, became engaged before he enlisted, and were married on an Army Air Corps base in Hobbs, N.M.

He fl ew 30 missions in a B-17, returned, and started a family. Our black-and- white, family, Christmas photographs in the 1950s were all smiles. That changed, just like it does in many other homes.

My parents argued, and I became intro-verted and ornery. I couldn’t wait to go far away to college. It didn’t get any better when my sister divorced twice, or when I began to drink in my 40s.

“How Can We Hang On to a Dream?”

is a song composed and recorded by Tim Hardin, who died in 1980. The song is about a woman who is “walking away,” but it’s a good question to ask about lots of things we have lost, like merrier Christmases.

All I have now are memories and photo-graphs. My mother and father died in 2008. Toward the end we were all exchanging equal-amount gift cards, and eventually we weren’t exchanging anything at all, because there was really nothing better to give each other than each other.

That’s why I don’t understand the stam-pede on Black Friday, or the anxieties about last-minute shopping. Maybe we give gifts to make up for something that’s missing in a relationship.

A few years later, the pedal car’s place was taken by a red Schwinn. But every Dec. 25, I wonder where it is, and I miss it.

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

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PROFESSIONAL

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN, Littleton-Englewood Branch invites baccalaureates to participate in activities that further the goals of equity for women and girls, life-long education and positive societal change. Meetings usually are Mondays each month, September through May, at Koelbel Library, Orchard Road and Holly Street, Centennial. Social time is followed by business meeting and informative program on subjects ranging from public policy issues to poetry. Call Linda Shell at 303-796-7702.

DENVER INVESTOR CLUB meets the � rst Thursday each month at 7:30 p.m. at the IHOP on Clinton Street in Englewood. Call Gail Segreto at 303-810-9015 or e-mail [email protected]. This is a nonpro� t educational club.

ENGLEWOOD CHAPTER OF THE JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Jaycees) needs men and women between the ages of 21 and 40 to help re-establish the chapter. Jaycees work to help chapter members grow professionally and to help serve the community through hands-on projects. To become involved, call 303-914-0180 or visit www.coloradojaycees.org.

LETIP INTERNATIONAL, local chapter, is a professional referral organization that meets at Maggiano’s at the Denver Tech Center, 7401 S. Clinton St., in Englewood. A Highlands Ranch chapter meets at LePeep’s, 7156 E. County Line Road. Call 303-789-7898 or visit www.letip.com.

NARFE (NATIONAL Active and Retired Federal Employees), Chap-ter 1089 was merged into Chapter 81. The membership meetings are from noon to 1:30 p.m. the third Friday of every month, with an optional lunch at 11 a.m., at the American Legion Post 1, at the Southeast corner of I-25 and Yale Ave (5400 E Yale). All current and retired federal employees are invited to attend. For information call, Hank at 303-779-4268 or Darlene at 303-771-2024.

RECREATION

CHERRY CREEK ANGLERS meets at 7 p.m. every second Thurs-day in the Lodge Meeting Room at Gander Mountain Sports, 14000 E. Jewell Ave. Call Dennis at 303-841-3612.

KILOWATT EIGHTS is for people interested in square dancing. Dances are the � rst, third and � fth Friday each month at Malley Senior Center in Englewood. Call Ron at 303-759-4862.

MOUNTAINEERS SQUARE DANCE CLUB meets the � rst, third and � fth Saturdays of the month at the Valley View Church of God, 4390 S. Lowell Blvd., Englewood, to square dance. Dances start at 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome to come and watch. This is a healthy activity for all. Call 303-798-4472.

POETRY NIGHT honors the great Edgar Allan Poe by reading poetry at The Attic Bookstore, 200 W. Hampden Ave., near Hampden and Bannock in Englewood. Take originals or an old favorite to read to others. Readings will be limited to � ve minutes. Sign up begins at 7 p.m. Readings begin at 7:30 p.m. All styles of poetry are welcome. Call 303-777-5352.

SERVICES

HOMECOMING INC. o� ers caregivers of low-income seniors who are frail, disabled or unable to live alone without care in Adams, Arapahoe, Je� erson and Denver counties respite care. Assistance includes personal care and homemaking. Call Pamela Dombrowski-Wilson or Trini Martinez at 303-526-2318 for an application and information.

SOCIAL

ARAPAHOE SERTOMA CLUB meets on Thursdays at the Englewood Elks Club, 3690 S. Jason, Englewood. Contact Ken Kelley at 303-789-9393 or [email protected].

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, Columbine Chapter meets at 1 p.m. every second Saturday at Castlewood Library, 6739 S. Unita St., Englewood. Call Michelle Brown at 303-979-7550.

DAUGHTERS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE is a national organiza-tion with a philanthropic purpose. For almost a century, DBE has been a common bond for women of British heritage living in the United States. DBE is open to women who are citizens or residents of the U.S. who are of British Commonwealth birth or ancestry or who are married to men of British Commonwealth birth or ancestry. There are six chapters in Colorado, including chapters in Littleton, Englewood, Centennial, Evergreen and Boulder County. Call Chris at 303-683-6154 or Olive at 303-347-1311, or visit www.dbecolorado.org and use the contact form available.

SERTOMA CLUB OF DTC meets on Thursdays at Mangia Bevi Restaurant, Englewood. Contact David Oppenheim at 303-850-7888 or [email protected].

EMBROIDERERS GUILD OF AMERICA COLORADO CHAP-TER meets at Bethany Lutheran Church at Hampden Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Englewood the fourth Tuesday each month from 9:30 a.m. to noon, excluding December and July. Meetings include needlework projects, needle art education, lectures and workshops of all levels. Guests are invited. Call Marnie Ritter at 303-791-9334.

THE ENGLEWOOD LIONS CLUB meets at 7 a.m. every Thursday at the Grill at Broken Tee Golf Course, 2101 West Oxford Avenue. Previously the Lions Club met every Wednesday at noon. The change in time is being made to better accommodate working men and women in the Englewood area who are interested in serving

the community. Please join the Lions for breakfast and a weekly program and learn more about Lions Club International and the activities of the Englewood Lions Club.

THE ROTARY CLUB OF ENGLEWOOD meets each Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. at the Wellshire Inn, 3333 S. Colorado Blvd, Denver. For information, contact Josh Staller at 303-721-6845, or visit rotaryclubofenglewood.org.

FRIENDSHIPS ARE GOLDEN, a Precious Moments collectors club, meets the fourth Thursday each month at Castlewood Library in Englewood. Dinner provided by club members at 6 p.m., meeting from 7-9 p.m. Give back to the community by doing local charity work. Talk and share stories about Precious Moments. Call Leota Stoutenger, club president, at 303-791-9283.

GRACE CHAPEL MOTHERS OF PRESCHOOLERS meets second and fourth Wednesdays from 9-11:30 a.m. at Grace Chapel, I-25 and County Line Road, Englewood. Call Karleen Wagner at 303-799-4900 or visit www.gracechapel.org.

KIWANIS CLUB OF ENGLEWOOD believes it has an obligation to be involved in community projects. Members meet Wednesdays 7 a.m. at The Neighborhood Grille 1500 W. Littleton Blvd. Everyone is welcome to join and have breakfast on Kiwanis. Call 303-783-9523.

TOASTMASTERS - MERIDIAN MIDDAY. Experienced profes-sionals and beginning speakers alike can bene� t from our practical, face-to-face learning program. Whether you’re speaking to the board of directors, your customers, your co-workers or your kids, Toastmasters can help you do it better. We meet every Thursday from 11:35 a.m. to 12:35 p.m. at the American Family Insurance Building, 9510 South Meridian Blvd. in Englewood. For more information, contact our current VP of Membership, Brent Hilvitz at 303-668-5789. We hope you will visit us and check out Meridian Midday Toastmasters. www.meridianmidday.com

NEWCOMERS AT GRACE CHAPEL in Englewood welcomes women who are new to the Denver area. Learn about the group’s ongoing Bible study, make new friends, and be encouraged about God’s faithfulness and what happens after the boxes are unpacked. Call Carolyn Chandler at 303-660-4042 for information on welcome teas, Bible study, � eld trips and get acquainted luncheons.

ROTARY CLUB OF DENVER TECH CENTER meets from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Tuesdays at the Glenmoor Country Club in Englewood. Call Larry McLaughline at 303-741-1403.

WIDOWED MEN AND WOMEN OF AMERICA, Come join us and make new friends and share in a variety of activities. Our monthly meetings are the third Wednesday of the month at 5 p.m. at Rox Bar and Grill, 12684 W. Indore Place, in Je� erson County. For more information call Mel at 303-973-8688or Nan at 728-981-1841.

SOUTH SUBURBAN WOMEN’S CONNECTION, a� liated with Stonecroft Ministries, meets from 9-11 a.m. the second Wednesday

of every other month beginning in January at Maggiano’s, 7401 S. Clinton St. The brunch includes a feature and an inspirational speaker. For details, reservations and complimentary nursery, call Rachel Lee at 303-866-1444 or e-mail [email protected].

WHATCHA READIN’ meets at 7 p.m. monthly at The Attic Bookstore, 200 W. Hampden Ave., near Hampden and Bannock in Englewood. If having a prescribed reading list isn’t appealing, but gushing about an amazing or horrible read is, this is the right book club. Discuss books and get recommendations from other avid readers. Call 303-777-5352.

SUPPORT

ADULT CHILDREN OF ELDERLY PARENTS, a Denver-area group of caregivers and relatives of elderly looking for support and resources, meets twice monthly at Malley Senior Center, 3380 S. Lincoln Street, Englewood. Meetings often include speakers from medical, counseling and housing services. Call Marina at 720-272-2846.

BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP meets Tuesdays 5:30-6:30 p.m. at Swedish Medical Center, 501 E. Hampden Ave., Englewood, second � oor Conference Center, Spruce B. Patients, survivors and caregivers are welcome to attend. Meetings are free and open to the public. RSVP to Kelly Topf, oncology patient care coordinator, at 303-319-8638.

HEPATITIS C SUPPORT GROUP. The group meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 1000 Englewood Parkway from 7-8:30 p.m. Contact is Deidrea at 303-504-1853.

LUNG CANCER SUPPORT GROUP meets from 7-8 p.m. Tuesdays at Swedish Medical Center, 501 E. Hampden Ave., in the second-� oor Conference Center, Spruce B, in Englewood. Patients, survivors and caregivers are welcome. Meetings are free and open to the public. To reserve a spot call Kelly Topf, oncology patient care coordinator, at 303-319-8638.

MERIDIAN PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP is a unique group. The group is open for Parkinson’s patients and their care-givers. The group will divide into patients in one group and care-givers in another at the April meeting, so that people will be able to get into particular issues and problems and share the successes and failures we experience in dealing with Parkinson’s disease.Attend meetings at 10 a.m. the third Tuesday of each month in the Sky Room of the Meridian building, 3455 S. Corona, Englewood. For more information, contact Gail Greenwood, facilitator, at 303 805 3590

NAMI SUPPORT GROUP for family members and friends of persons with mental illness meets from 7-8:30 p.m. the fourth Wednesday of the month January through October and the second Wednesday of the month November and December at Arapahoe/Douglas Mental Health Network, 155 Inverness Dr. West, second � oor, Englewood.

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Experts explore future of job growth Event puts focus on Colorado’s economic development By George Lurie [email protected]

The news was mostly positive and upbeat at this year’s annual economic forecast breakfast, held Dec. 13 and hosted by the South Metro Denver Cham-ber of Commerce.

Nearly 800 business and civic leaders attended the two-hour event, including a bevy of local elected offi -cials representing Centen-

nial and Arapahoe County.Held in the grand ball-

room of the Denver Tech Center’s Hyatt Regency hotel, the annual gather-ing featured presentations from a panel of nationally renowned economic ex-perts.

After brief opening re-marks from South Metro Denver Chamber Presi-dent John Brackney — who encouraged “everyone in this room to be economic developers” — and cham-ber Chairman-elect Rick Whipple — who touted the Chamber’s ongoing efforts around the state to promote the “Fix the Debt” campaign — the main presentation kicked off with an update

from Ken Lund, director of the Colorado Offi ce of Eco-nomic Development and International Trade.

“Good fortune is what happens when oppor-tunity meets good plan-ning,” Lund began, quoting Thomas Edison.

“Colorado will never be a big fi nancial center like New York but we can be the place that is the most innovative, the most entrepreneurial,” said Lund, whose speech highlighted the importance of cultivating an educated and talented workforce.

Colorado’s labor force “is everything,” he said, en-couraging the state’s busi-ness leaders to hire the best and brightest workers in or-

der to stay competitive.Dr. Richard Wobbekind,

a University of Colorado economist, delivered an en-couraging forecast for 2014.

Noting that Colorado was among the top seven states in terms of current population growth, Wob-bekind predicted Colorado will create 61,000 new jobs next year.

“The job growth will continue to be very broad-based,” Wobbekind said. “Almost every sector is growing.”

Wobbekind said that commodity prices have benefi tted the agricultural and energy sectors in par-ticular and pointed out that foreclosure rates across the

state “have really dropped and are now a non-issue.”

Dr. Martin Shields, an economics professor at Colorado State Univer-sity, painted a picture that was not quite a rosy as the speakers who preceded him.

Noting that the so-called Great Recession offi cially ended in 2009, Shields said the economy is no longer in “recovery” mode.

“This is as good as it’s going to get for a while,” Shields predicted.

Despite steady job growth, unemployment across the state remains relatively high because of the infl ux of new residents, Shields said, adding that businesses that concentrate on administrative and sup-port services — temporary staffi ng agencies — contin-ue to be the leading growth sector.

“That means companies are still not convinced the recovery has taken hold and are willing to bring employ-ees on full-time,” he said.

Forecasting 26,000 to 30,000 new jobs will be cre-ated in the Denver area dur-ing 2014, pushing down the unemployment rate to 5.9 percent, Shields tempered his otherwise upbeat com-ments.

“A lot of families are still struggling fi nancially — and so are the businesses that rely on those families’ paychecks,” he said.

Adding that he did not see a lot of “upward pres-sure” on wages in the new year, Shields pointed out that real median house-hold income in the U.S. is at its lowest level in 17 years. There is a “disconnect” be-tween economic growth and individual prosperity, he added.

“Income is one of our measures of well-being,” Shields said. “And in the last 17 years, that income has been eroded.”

Shields predicted health-care, manufacturing and re-tail will be the leading sec-tors in the state’s economy in 2014.

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New King Soopers is a go on BroadwayLittleton building to be razed, rebuiltBy Jennifer [email protected]

Littleton’s planning board on Dec. 9 unanimously paved the way for a total overhaul of the 27-year-old King Soopers grocery store at Littleton Boulevard and Broadway.

“I think the concept of let’s just start over is a good one,” said board member Andrew Graham.

On Sept. 17, council unani-mously approved a resolution to waive $500,000 in building per-mits and use taxes for the project, which is expected to start in Janu-ary and take about a year if King Soopers’ officials approve it. That means a loss of sales-tax revenue for the city that year, which Penny said averages about $250,000 a year for any grocery store.

The city will split any taxes the store generates above and beyond its average until the $500,000 is paid back or for six years, which-ever comes first. The deal is the same one Englewood gave the store at Federal Boulevard and Belleview Avenue.

“If they do nothing, we’re not losing anything in this proposal,” said Penny.

Parent company Kroger in-tends to scrape the existing 74,000-square-foot building, which most recently has housed the grocery store, a church where the Walgreens used to be, a drive-through liquor store and an H&R Block. From the rubble will rise a brand-new King Soopers similar to the one at Federal Boulevard

and Belleview Avenue. It will in-clude a drive-through pharmacy on the west side, two front en-trances on the east, a resurfaced and realigned parking lot and a Starbucks kiosk inside. The cur-rent Starbucks in the outlying northern building will stay; that building and the southern one with the new Mattress Firm will remain but get moderate facelifts, according to Eric Chekal, senior project manager at Regency Cen-ters, which owns the site.

Chekal acknowledges the proj-ect could be at least an incon-venience for the other, smaller tenants, which depend on King Soopers as an anchor to draw in their customers. He says Regency is working with them to help in-crease their visibility while the store is closed, which will be for about a year.

“It’s a pain, but we like to look at the end product,” he said. “And the quicker we get there, I think we’ll all see it was worth the pain.”

Some in the neighborhood are concerned, as well. Littleton’s northeast neighborhood is home to many seniors and low-income families, many who depend on being able to walk to that store for food and other necessities.

“We’re in a food desert for the next year,” said Joycelynn Straight. She wondered if Kroger could do the work in stages to keep the store open during con-struction, or perhaps provide a shuttle from the site to a different King Soopers.

Other nearby stores with at least a limited supply of grocer-ies include Walgreens and Kmart, both at Broadway and Belleview, and 7-11 at Broadway and Powers Avenue.

The developers note that the $8 million project includes a number of improvements intend-ed to make walking to the store easier, adding footpaths into the site from all directions and wid-ening adjacent public sidewalks. And while there will be about 30 fewer parking spaces, the lanes will provide for two-way traffic in-stead of just one, as it is now. The plan also calls for parking for 27 bicycles and a pull-in lane for the Omnibus and Shopping Cart.

The planning board wasn’t concerned about the parking is-

sue, noting that the existing lot is rarely completely full, although prime spots aren’t always avail-able.

“It’s just not always feasible or desirable to park all the way in the back 40,” said board member Kar-ina Elrod, adding she believes the new design will make the lot safer and more efficient.’

The board and staff agreed that Kroger’s investment in the site will likely inspire other reju-venation in the area and hope-fully recapture some revenue lost to Englewood when the Federal

Store opened. The deal also guar-antees King Soopers won’t follow the path of several Safeway stores and Albertson’s out of the city, as it includes a 34-year lease with options to renew every five years for 99 years.

“The new store will bring eco-nomic benefit to the city while providing an expanded line of grocery and pharmacy goods and services to the nearby residential neighborhoods and community,” wrote principal planner Jan Dick-inson in her staff report to the board.

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Safety measures saved lives, authorities saySchool shooting is seventh in state historyBy Ryan [email protected]

Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Rob-inson lauded the efforts of law enforcement officials that arrived on scene Dec. 13 at Arapahoe High School, specifically those of Deputy James Englert, the school resource officer.

Englert, the lone officer who was in the building when Arapahoe High School senior Karl Pierson shot and critically wounded fellow student Claire Davis and detonated one of three Molotov cocktails he brought into the school, “saved lives” with his quick and thoughtful actions, Robinson said.

“This situation happened,” Robinson said. “But no level of security at the school district could have prevented this.”

Robinson said he believes that while the shooter was targeting a specific teacher at the school, he was prepared to kill as many people as he could.

“It’s typical for a shooter to shoot until confronted by a person in authority,” he said. “The response from officers was ab-solutely critical to the fact that we did not have additional injury and/or death.”

Robinson continued to say that there is not a school district in America that has procedures in place that could have stopped what happened from taking place.

Multiple school shootings have occurred nationally since 26 students and staff mem-bers were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School a year ago in Newtown, Conn. This

is just the seventh school shooting in state history, however. The shooting is the first in the history of Littleton Public Schools, but there have been three shootings at schools in nearby Jefferson County Schools, all at schools with a Littleton address. The other Colorado shootings were in Aurora, Denver and Bailey.

LPS was recently ranked the No. 7 most secure school district in the nation by Secu-rity Magazine, something Guy Grace, LPS director of security, credited in part to the district’s “buzz-in systems implemented in all elementary and middle schools, on-going training, security protocols and the district’s close partnership with local law-

enforcement agencies.”Uniformed law enforcement officers,

like Englert, have a constant presence at all middle and high schools in LPS. In light of the recent shooting, the district has imple-mented increased police and district secu-rity patrol in all middle and high school and all district facilities are being monitored 24/7.

“Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Officers re-sponded to this incident immediately, as did Littleton Fire Rescue,” LPS Superinten-dent Scott Murphy wrote in a letter to par-ents and staff the day of the shooting. “Be-cause our schools conduct practice drills regularly, the staff and students knew how to safely lockdown and then evacuate the school. They acte

Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson, right, updates the media Dec. 14 on the investigation into the previous day’s shooting at Arapahoe High School. At left is Littleton Public Schools Superintendent Scott Murphy. Photo by Chris Rotar

SHOOTER’S PARENTS RElEASE STATEmENT

The following statement was released by Karl Pierson’s parents, Barbara and Mark Pierson:

“We are shattered by the tragic events that took place on Friday at Arapahoe High School. Our thoughts and prayers are with Claire Davis and her family. They, and she, have suffered unimaginably, and we pray for her full recovery. We also pray for the entire Arapahoe High School community, as we know your lives are forever changed by this horrific event.

“As parents, we loved our son Karl dearly and we are devastated by what happened Friday. We cannot begin to understand why Karl did what he did. We ask for privacy during this unthinkably difficult time and hope that you will respect our need for time to grieve.”

lPS community pulling togetherArapahoe High will remain closed at least through this weekBy Jennifer [email protected]

Many Littleton Public Schools students donned black and gold Dec. 16 to show soli-darity with the wounded Warriors at Arapa-hoe High School.

“We are very concerned about the well-being of the Arapahoe High School commu-nity and the LPS community as a whole,” writes Superintendent Scott Murphy. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the students affected by this tragedy.”

Arapahoe High School remains closed through this week. Winter break starts the following week, with classes resuming Jan. 7. The district has not yet determined whether AHS will reopen that day. All other Littleton Public Schools returned to their normal schedules Dec. 16. They were all on lockout status on the afternoon of Dec. 13, after 18-year-old student Karl Pierson burst in with a shotgun, critically wound-ing 17-year-old Claire Davis before killing himself.

The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Depart-ment released the building back to LPS as of 6 a.m. Dec. 16, though students were al-lowed to pick up their cars starting on Dec. 15. Faculty members were asked to return on Dec. 17. No classes are scheduled for the rest of the week, but students can pick up their belongings starting Dec. 19.

“Parents are asked to allow their stu-dents the opportunity to enter the school independently,” wrote Murphy in a letter to parents. “Grief counselors and other men-tal-health staff will be on site at all times for students, and I strongly encourage anyone that may need it to take full advantage of it.”

Tracy Murphy, the Arapahoe High teach-er who it is thought was the main target of the shooter, is asking for privacy.

“Arapahoe High School teacher Tracy Murphy has asked that we share his and his family’s concern for all of the victims of this tragedy,” reads an LPS press release dated Dec. 15. “Littleton Public Schools, the Arapahoe High School community, and the Tracy Murphy family appreciate the sup-port and kindness received over the last few

days.”A vigil for Davis held at Arapahoe Park in

Centennial Dec. 14 drew a huge crowd, and several groups are working to raise funds for her family. Donations can be sent to the Arapahoe Donation Fund for Claire Davis at First Bank. There’s also an Internet drive to get her favorite band, One Direction, to lend an ear to her plight.

Scott Murphy thanks the community for pulling together.

“Littleton Public Schools is a tight-knit community, a family,” he writes. “We will continue to care for one another as we move forward.”

LPS communities, in turn, are thanking the district for standing tall.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and students of Arapahoe High School, and especially with the student vic-tims,” said Littleton Mayor Phil Cernanec. “We appreciate the professionalism of the first responders and the professionals of Littleton Public Schools at this tragic time.”

A Christmas stocking was among the many signs of support Dec. 15 at Arapahoe High for Claire Davis, the 17-year-old student who is in critical condition after the Dec. 13 shooting at the school. Photo by Chris Rotar


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students to get down and identifying him-self as a deputy sheriff as he hustled toward the threat — he “went to the thunder,” Rob-inson said.

As soon as Pierson heard the commo-tion coming toward him, he walked to a corner and shot himself. The sheriff called the quick response by the school resource offi cer and the others “heroic” and said it likely saved many lives.

“(Pierson) wanted to hurt multiple peo-ple,” the sheriff said. “His intent was evil.”

The threat was over in one minute and 20 seconds, investigators determined after viewing security camera footage. But the chaos was just getting started.

Tears, fear, reliefEven after Pierson shot himself to death,

students in classrooms huddled in corners in the dark, unsure of what was happen-ing. Schools across the south metro area, not only those within the Littleton Public

Schools District, were put on lockout status as a precaution. Law enforcement person-nel from other cities and counties respond-ed to the school in southwest Centennial. The major intersection of Dry Creek and University was closed off to traffi c for hours on end.

Arapahoe junior Tyler Arellano was in al-gebra class with 28 other students and his teacher when shots rang out.

“We were all just crying and ducking down,” he said just a couple hours after the shooting. “Nobody really knew what to do.”

Arellano said the teacher told them to keep quiet, and gave them all their cell phones in case they needed to call their parents.

“She did good and stayed calm,” he said.They stayed that way for nearly 20 min-

utes, he thinks, then they heard the SWAT team yelling outside.

“They broke through the door and told us to run out as fast as we can toward King Soopers,” he said. “Everyone is in shock. They don’t really want to talk about it, be-cause it was pretty scary. But I’m fi ne.”

Eventually, students, some pulled from physical education classes and not dressed

for the December cold, emerged from the building. They would later be reunited with their parents, down the road just a short walk, at Shepherd of the Hills Church.

“My dad picked me up at Shepherd of the Hills,” said Kaylee Eastridge, an Arapa-hoe junior. “It was such a relief.

“He immediately started crying.”

What fueled the rampage?Three months ago, Pierson made a

threat. Last week, he made his move. It’s not known when, or if, he made a plan.

Pierson is described by fellow students as smart, but with some controversial opin-ions. He was a talented competitor on the speech and debate team at Arapahoe and, at least at one point, was a member of the cross country squad.

His motivation on Dec. 13 is not entirely clear, but Robinson believes, it “had to do with a disciplinary action involved with the debate team.” Pierson made threats against Murphy in September, the sheriff con-fi rmed. To Robinson’s knowledge, Pierson had not been kicked off the team and the disciplinary action was “appropriate.”

In the hours after the shooting, law en-

forcement executed three search warrants, including at Pierson’s home in Highlands Ranch. Robinson is not ready to divulge what was found, but he believes Pierson acted alone.

At a press conference the afternoon of Dec. 14, Robinson — who only a day before the shooting had announced he would be retiring at the end of January — emphasized that the investigation would not be rushed, that there was plenty of work left to do.

He also wanted to make one more thing clear.

“(Pierson) deserves no notoriety and no celebrity. I choose to never use his name again in public.”

Even as Robinson spoke, a candlelight vigil was being mobilized for Davis, the shooting victim who was left in a coma.

“This has truly been a village and a fam-ily pulling together in a diffi cult time,” said Scott Murphy, Littleton Public Schools su-perintendent.

The community was wounded, but try-ing to heal.

— Staff writers Ryan Boldrey, George Lu-rie, Chris Rotar and Jennifer Smith contrib-uted to this article.

Kaylee Eastridge, an Arapahoe

High junior, looks over the � owers left behind as a

show of support for Claire Davis.

Photo by Chris Rotar

evil act of violence,” Robinson said.Davis’ family released statements in the

days following her shooting. On Dec. 15, the following message from the family was posted on the hospital’s Facebook page:

“Claire remains in critical condition. She is stable, but is in a coma. The fi rst re-sponders got Claire to the right place, at the right time, and the doctors and hospital staff are doing a wonderful job taking care of her. We appreciate your continued good thoughts and prayers, and will provide up-dates as her condition improves.”

Eastridge was in a classroom near the li-brary when Pierson started shooting a little after 12:30 p.m. Dec. 13. She says her emo-tions ran the gamut in the days after the at-tack, starting with shock in the immediate aftermath.

“Yesterday was probably the worst day for me,” she said Dec. 15, “just realizing how much danger I was in.

“Today, I’m more looking ahead, trying to be more positive, for Claire and for ev-eryone.”


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State � nances don’t inspire optimism Economist addresses crowd at South Metro Chamber By Jennifer Smith [email protected]

The state of Colorado has taken a few steps back from the edge of the financial cliff, but researchers say it’s not out of danger of falling off.

“There’s not truly cause for optimism,” Phyllis Resnick, lead economist with Col-orado State University’s Colorado Futures Center, told business and community leaders at the South Metro Denver Cham-ber of Commerce on Dec. 10. “We’ve delayed some of the inevitable, but we haven’t really gotten rid of the problem.”

The good news is that the center pre-dicts a budget gap in 2024 of nearly half of what it expected in its 2011 study, which was about $3.5 billion. CFC said at the time that by then, there would only be enough in the state’s coffers to pay for Medicaid, K-12 education and correc-tions — just enough to “medicate, edu-cate and incarcerate,” said Resnick.

Meal includes chance for kidsto meet St. Nick By Tom Munds [email protected]

Christmas music provided the backdrop as parents, friends and children lined up at the Malley Senior Recreation Center to have breakfast with Santa.

The Dec. 14 breakfast was served in the main room deco-rated for the holidays and volun-teer groups provided music of the season. Excitement begins to build among the younger set after the meal during the short walk down the hall to where children take turns to have conversations with Santa Claus.

“We went to see Santa fi rst,” Erik Denning said as he and his wife had breakfast with their 18-month-old daughter Madelyn. “This is our fi rst time at this event. Madelyn is 18 months old and did pretty well with Santa. We had fun watching her with Santa. This is a nice event. We liked it, we live in Englewood and probably will come back next year.”

The visits with Santa were well-organized. Parents receive a num-ber to tell when it was time to get in line to visit Santa. The line and the wait to see Santa were kept short and as the line shortened, new numbers were posted so more families could take their places in the line to visit Santa.

Organizers set up a number of activities to help occupy the children until it was their turn to visit Santa. There was a Christmas video on the screen plus crafts like making ornaments or coloring pic-tures.

David Foster was helping his daughters, Summer and Ava, color.

“This is a very nice event. I think this is the third year we have come here,” David said. “The girls really like it.”

Ava said she liked getting to see and talk to Santa.

“I got to sit on his knee,” she said with a smile. “I got to tell him all the presents I want to get this year.”

ABOVE: Santa listens as 4-year-old Eric Jackson of Parker pays a visit at the Dec.

14 Breakfast with Santa event at the Malley Senior Recreation Center. The

boy’s dad said his aunt told the family about the event and said it was a great

time for the children and for the parents.

RIGHT: Erik Denning gives his 18-month-old daughter Madelyn a bite

of pancake at the Dec. 14 Breakfast with Santa event at the Malley Senior Rec-reation Center. It was the family’s � rst

time at the event and Erik said Madelyn did well with Santa and everyone had a

good time.

Photos by Tom Munds

Breakfast with Santa draws a crowd

Dec. 20NORTH KOREA Join Active Minds from 10-11 a.m. Dec. 20 for a discussion of the history of North Korea and the devel-opment of the North Korean nuclear program. We will cover the successes and shortcomings of diplomatic e� orts between North Korea, the United States and other countries. North Korea’s place in the world relative to global issues such as inter-national trade and human rights issues will also be addressed as well as the transition from Kim Jong-Il to his youthful son Kim Jong-Un. This free program is sponsored by JFS At Home and will take place at Malley Senior Center, 3380 S. Lincoln St., Englewood. RSVP at 303-762-2660. If parking in the lot, get a pass from inside the center.

Recurring/Through Jan. 1ELK HERD Colorado Parks and Wildlife is seeking public input on the future management of the Mt. Evans elk herd (E-39) via an online survey through Jan. 1. Herd population and composition objectives and other issues regarding elk management in Game Management Units 39, 391, 46, and 461 are being addressed. E-39 encompasses portions of Arapahoe, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Je� erson, and Park counties. To provide input on the herd, visit (http://wildlife.state.co.us/Hunting/BigGame/HerdManagementDAUPlans/Pages/HerdMa-nagementDAUPlans.aspx). The survey only takes a few minutes to complete.

Jan. 11WINTER CARNIVAL. The Colorado Neurological Insti-tute is kicking o� 2014 with its Happy New Ear Winter Carnival from 2-5 p.m. Jan. 11 at Malley Senior Recreation Center, 3380 S. Lincoln St., Englewood. There will be games, prizes, arts and crafts, food and more. All ages are welcome. The event is free;

RSVP to Deb Stef at [email protected] or 303-357-5440.

Jan. 14DIVORCE SEMINAR St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch, presents a 10-week seminar “Rebuilding When Your Relationship Ends,” from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesdays starting Jan. 14. The seminar pro-motes healing for those who are going through a divorce or the ending of a love relationship. It o� ers education, support and optional social activities. Cost is $175 for the 10-week class and complimentary child care is provided with prior registration. To register, or for information, email Beth Walker at [email protected].

Jan. 24INDIA’S STORY India has the � fth-largest economy in the world, yet 25 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. India’s universities produce an educated elite that competes with the best in the world, while more than a quarter of the country remains illiterate. Economic opportunity abounds for the upper class and men, while the lower classes and most women live a narrow existence. Join Active Minds from 10-11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 24, as we explore these and other contrasts as we seek to understand India and how it � ts into the global community. This free program is sponsored by Autumn Heights Health Care Center and takes place at Malley Senior Center, 3380 S. Lincoln St., Englewood. RSVP at 303-762-2660. If parking in the lot, get a pass from inside the center.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week. Send event information to [email protected], attn: Englewood Herald. No attachments. Listings are free and run on a space-available basis.

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State � nances don’t inspire optimism Economist addresses crowd at South Metro Chamber By Jennifer Smith [email protected]

The state of Colorado has taken a few steps back from the edge of the financial cliff, but researchers say it’s not out of danger of falling off.

“There’s not truly cause for optimism,” Phyllis Resnick, lead economist with Col-orado State University’s Colorado Futures Center, told business and community leaders at the South Metro Denver Cham-ber of Commerce on Dec. 10. “We’ve delayed some of the inevitable, but we haven’t really gotten rid of the problem.”

The good news is that the center pre-dicts a budget gap in 2024 of nearly half of what it expected in its 2011 study, which was about $3.5 billion. CFC said at the time that by then, there would only be enough in the state’s coffers to pay for Medicaid, K-12 education and correc-tions — just enough to “medicate, edu-cate and incarcerate,” said Resnick.

Federal stimulus money and a robust housing recovery helped delay the pain, said Resnick.

“Revenues have come back kind of on steroids,” she said. “But I think this is artificially stimulated. I expect sales-tax revenue to continue to decline.”

The bad news is that the shortfall is still probably going to happen, but not until 2029 or so.

There are a lot of reasons, but a major one is an aging population that spends more money on services, which are not taxed, than products. In 1959, people spent about 56 cents of every dollar on goods; today it’s just 36 cents. Things continue to get cheaper — think elec-tronics — and people more often are buy-ing online, where there is no sales tax.

Additionally, the recession and record-high youth unemployment rates kept a lot of young adults from moving out and starting their own families, so they don’t need houses and furniture and all the trappings of the American dream quite yet. They’re also not having kids, which means lower spending on education in the coming years — good news for the

state budget, bad news for the schools.Those kids have been going to college,

however. Student-loan debt is now $1 trillion nationally, second only to hous-ing in terms of household debt.

These are the same kids who were sup-posed to prop up Medicaid and Social Se-curity for all those seniors, the numbers of which will grow by 50 percent in the next two years.

On top of all those problems, most of which are occurring nationally, Colorado has the unique situation of TABOR. The constitutional amendment caps revenue growth to the amount of inflation plus population change, and requires any ex-cess be returned to taxpayers unless vot-ers say the governmental entity can keep it.

CFC predicts having an excess will be the norm starting in about 2016 because of Colorado’s hospital-provider fee, es-tablished in 2009 to pay for the Medicaid expansion.

“The juxtaposition of cuts in general-fund programs, which could include cuts to schools, higher education and a variety of other programs, at the same time the

state is returning `surplus’ funds to tax-payers under TABOR, will be puzzling to many Colorado citizens,” writes CFC in its executive summary.

The state could begin to close the gap by exempting the hospital fee from TA-BOR and taxing some personal services like haircuts and lawn mowing, for exam-ple, says Resnick.

“Why not modernize the system to capture where the economic activity is taking place?” she asked. “If we could make these two changes, we could come pretty close to becoming structurally sound through the end of this decade.”

Next up would be taking a hard look at how property taxes are calculated in an effort to shore up the education system, she said.

“Inaction, of course, would bring about a strictly budget-cutting solution,” reads the study. “The cuts would be ex-treme. For example, closing the gap with cuts alone, while maintaining full fund-ing for K-12, Medicaid and corrections, would result in cuts of nearly 75 percent to all of the other 17 general-fund depart-ments by 2030.”

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Dog days of the holidays

You can look, but don’t touch those friendly looking police dogs at Den-ver International Airport. They’re on the job working to protect travelers, and can’t use the distraction.

9News reported last week that DIA has come up with a creative solution to petting police dogs: trading cards.

“Brian Brown, a technician with the Denver Police Department Explosive De-tection Unit has worked with his bomb-sniffing partner, Nnikos, for nearly four-and-a-half years,” the 9News report said. “He says his four-legged co-worker gets a lot of attention, especially from kids.

“We do not let anybody touch the dogs. Mainly, it’s for liability purposes,” Brown said. “They’re still working animals. We still have a job to do and … I want my dog to go out and work as hard as he can. And the best way to do that is not let people touch them.”

In keeping with the “look-don’t-touch” policy, Brown hands out cards to the kids so they can get to know the dogs better with-out getting too close.

Old Major makes top 33 restaurants listI won’t mince words. My absolute favor-

ite new restaurant this year is Old Major at 3316 Tejon St. I even chose to celebrate my recent milestone birthday for dinner there with On The Town Junior and Mr. On The Town.

I had been to Old Major, a proud nose-to-tail eatery where they butcher 2.5 pigs a week (not sure what happens with the other half of the last pig), a handful of times, but I took a risk (and it was my birthday, after all) and booked a table for three to include the hub and my foodie son who works for much-lauded restaurateur Danny Meyer at Maialino in the Gramercy Park Hotel at 2 Lexington Ave. in NYC.

My son surprised me with his arrival in Denver to celebrate my special day. Both of my “he-men” went nuts for the place and over the food. We ordered an arsenal of appetizers and an entrée each, which in-cluded the nose-to-tail dish, roasted duck breast and orcchiette pasta with roasted pork. Another surprise came last week when Old Major received a national nod via www.thrillistnation.com as being one of the 33 Best New Restaurants in America.

And here’s what Thrillist said about Old Major: “Denver’s LoHi neighborhood is bursting at the seams with new, popular bars and restaurants, but Old Major’s `ele-vated farmhouse cuisine’ stands out among the pack with exceptional cocktails and decadent, inventive cuisine. If you’re smart and/or just understand weekly calendars, swing by on a Wednesday, where you can watch the chef/owner butcher two pigs in-house, you saucy, food-based voyeur! Then you’ll eat the fruits of his labor on the Nose to Tail Plate, which features cuts like braised belly, confit rib, schnitzel, ham, and ears, all accompanied by mustard spaetzle, sauer-kraut, and a demi-glace.”

Penny Parker’s “Mile High Life” col-umn gives insights into the best events, res-taurants, 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.

CLASSES OFFER HEALING STRO KESArt exhibit at Littleton’s Buck Recreation CenterBy Sonya [email protected]

For many years, artist Laurie Harbert taught others how to create paintings in popular classes at the Carousel Palette, her studio in a historic downtown Littleton home on Curtice Street.

A few months after her mother, Myrlyn Harbert, had a stroke 10 years ago, Laurie helped her start painting again and then, six or seven years ago, started a small painting class to include others who were dealing with various stroke effects.

Brush “Strokes,” an exhibit of their work, is in place through December at Buck Recreation Center, 2004 W. Powers Ave., Littleton.

“It’s so fun to see what they’ve done,” Laurie Harbert said. “I wanted to give (them) something to look forward to.”

The paintings are mostly in oil, with some watercolors and acrylics. They in-clude images of sunny landscapes, can-

yons, mountain meadows, deer and other wildlife, flowers, children and more — rendered in bright, cheerful colors.

The introductory statement to the show says:

“Coming from the Greek word `Apo-plexy,’ the word `Stroke’ means `to be struck down.’

“For these artists, the lives they lived were `struck down’ in moments.

“Leaving them to relearn and rebuild.“With differing levels of challenges,

these artists have shown amazing courage, amazing Grace and discovered their own Amazing talent.”

She includes quotes from her students, who speak of how people can express their own personal thoughts and feelings through artwork; how one can paint again with limited vision and using the other hand; how each participant relates to the other’s plight; how when he could no lon-ger read, he could see enough to paint. Her mother, who felt that “her body was cut in half,“ was painting in three months and now has learned to use a loom knitter as well.

The artists are Vicki Palermo, Randy Vaughn, Keith McDonald M.D., Leann Schrag and Myrlyn Harbert.

Laurie says she has been able to return to her own painting now and has joined the Littleton Paint Box Guild. That group has an exhibit, including two of hers, at Bemis Library in Littleton through Decem-ber.

Harbert said she is not personally able to take on more students, but there is a painting class at the Rocky Mountain Stroke Center on South Bannock Street in Littleton. It has an annual “No Plateaus” exhibit at Bemis Library and offers similar positive projects.

Randy Vaughn and Keith Mc Donald complete new paintings for the Brush “Strokes” exhibit at the Buck Recreation Center in Littleton. Courtesy photo

if you goBrush “Strokes” can be viewed through December at Buck

Recreation Center, 2004 W. Powers Ave., Littleton, when-ever the center is open — down a long hall to the right of the main entrance door.

(Laurie Harbert’s Carousel Palette building is rented to “Checkered Corner: an Occasional Market,” open the third weekend of each month.)

finding answers in clayLittleton woman’s designs come to her in dreamsBy Sonya [email protected]

Gwen Pina of Littleton said she had always worked with her hands — mud pies as a kid, woodworking shop in high school.

As a parent of three young children, she needed to find a way to work at home and colorful polymer clay provided an answer.

“The oil-based synthetic clay is pliable and colorful, allowing me to see my re-sults immediately,” she said.

Her lifelong interest in Native Ameri-can culture worked well with this medium and her figures, such as storytellers and spirit horses, began to sell in area galleries and gift shops. She started her business in 1987, working at home.

Soon, she created her whimsical “Art

That Makes You Smile” figures: “Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil,” with po-lar bears, nuns, rabbis as well as monkeys.

She makes thousands of holiday orna-ments, many in limited edition for a spe-cial customer.

“I offer a store a way to be unique. I cre-ate custom items for them.”

And every piece is individually shaped by her hands.

Her designs come to her in dreams, she said. She doesn’t need to make sketches, but just can feel when the figure is right.

“When I’m out hiking or biking, I no-tice colors and textures.”

Her work is in National Park Service gift shops across the country, including designs specific to the region: moose, bear and more.

Now she mostly wholesales her figu-rines. She shares a shop #1235 at the Den-ver Mart, “American Craft,” with several

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Sunday Worship8:00 & 10:45 a.m.

Trinity Lutheran School & ELC(Ages 3-5, Grades K-8)

303-841-4660www.tlcas.org

Trinity Lutheran Church

& School

Abiding Word Lutheran Church

8391 S. Burnley Ct., Highlands Ranch

(Next to RTD lot @470 & University)

Worship ServicesSundays at 9:00am

303-791-3315 [email protected]

www.awlc.org

Sunday Worship8:00 am Chapel Service

9:00 & 10:30 am Sunday School 9:00 & 10:30 am

Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors.

www.st-andrew-umc.com303-794-2683

Preschool: 303-794-05109203 S. University Blvd.

Highlands Ranch, 80126

Open and Welcoming

Sunday 8:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

First Presbyterian Church of Littleton

1609 W. Littleton Blvd.(303) 798-1389 • www.fpcl.org

P.O. Box 2945—Parker CO 80134-2945www.ParkerCCRS.org

303.805.9890

ParkerCommunity Churchof Religious Science

Sunday services held in thehistoric Ruth Memorial Chapel

at the Parker Mainstreet Center...19650 E. Mainstreet, Parker 80138

New Thought...Ancient Wisdom

Visit our website fordetails of classes &

upcoming events.Sunday Service& Children’s Church10:00 a.m.

Castle Rock Highlands Ranch Highlands Ranch

Littleton

ParkerParker

Parker

Lone Tree

Franktown

Denver Tech Center

United Church Of ChristParker Hilltop

10926 E. Democrat Rd.Parker, CO • 10am Worshipwww.uccparkerhilltop.org

303-841-2808

Little Blessings Day Carewww.littleblessingspdo.com

First UnitedMethodist Church

1200 South StreetCastle Rock, CO 80104

303.688.3047www.fumccr.org

Services:Saturday 5:30pm

Sunday 8am, 9:30am, 11amSunday School 9:15am

Sunday Worship 10:304825 North Crowfoot Valley Rd.Castle Rock • canyonscc.org

303-663-5751

An EvangelicalPresbyterian Church

“Loving God - Making A Difference”A place for you worship Time

Welcome Home!Weaving Truth

and Relevance into Relationships and Life

9:00am Spiritual Formation Classes for all Ages

90 east orchard roadlittleton, co

303 798 6387www.gracepointcc.us

10:30AM sundays

To advertise your place of worship in this section, call 303-566-4091 or email

[email protected].

GR A C E PR E S B Y T E R I A N

303-798-8485

www.gracecolorado.comAlongside One Another On Life’s Journey

Sundays at10:00 am

Grace is on the NE Corner of SantaFe Dr. & Highlands Ranch Pkwy.

(Across from Murdochs)

You are invitedto worship with us:

Saturday 5:30pm

Sunday 8:00 & 10:30am

Joyful Mission Preschool 303-841-37707051 East Parker Hills Ct. • Parker, CO

303-841-3739www.joylutheran-parker.org

JoyLUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA

Education Hour: Sunday 9:15am

S E r v i C E S :

Parker evangelicalPresbyterian church

Connect – Grow – Serve

Sunday Worship8:45 am & 10:30 am

9030 Miller roadParker, Co 80138

303-841-2125www.pepc.org

Sunday Worship: 10:45AM & 6PMBible Study: 9:30AM

Children, Young People & Adults

www.parkerbiblechurch.org

4391 E Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado 80134

Church Office – (303) 841-3836

Where people are excited about God’s Word.

Sunday Worship - 10:00amBible Study immediately followingWednesday Bible Study - 7:30pm

Currently meeting at:9220 Kimmer Drive, Suite 200

Lone Tree 80124303-688-9506

www.LoneTreeCoC.com

Lone TreeChurch of Christ

Meets at the Marriott DTC

4900 S Syracuse St,Denver, CO 80237

10 am every SundayFree parking

December Study: The Cast of Christmas

Pastor Mark Brewer

10926 E. Democrat Rdin Parker

Hilltop UnitedChurch of Christ

303-841-2808

Christmas EveServices

4:30, 7:00 and 9:00pm

Join us at Sheraton Denver Tech Center

7007 S Clinton Street in Greenwood Village(nearby I-25 and Arapahoe Rd.)

www.cbsdenver.org303-794-6643

Congregation Beth Shalom


ClayGet out and see something new Plenty of places to stave o� winter boredom By Sonya Ellingboe [email protected]

It’s two days after Christmas and a parent might hear this dreaded phrase: “I’m bored!” If possible, it’s time to pull on coats and mittens and head out side to explore a new (or favorite) spot. We have a few suggestions:

• South Platte Park in Littleton offers trails along the river, where one can see a variety of wildlife year round and in winter, bald eagles arrive to fi sh the open water. A family can in-quire at the lovely Carson Nature Center about where to hike to see these majestic creatures, and volunteers will be up to date about what else to look for because a chalk board with “sightings” hangs near the door. Seeing an ea-gle is a real thrill for children and adults. Hun-dreds of ducks winter on the river and other year round wildlife will appear. Open dawn to dusk. Admission is free.

• The Littleton Museum’s two historic farms are open daily except Mondays and offer a look at local life in 1860 and 1890 — before and after the railroad came to town. Animal residents and historic re-enactors are present to give a snapshot of early family life, with the 1860s cabin and 1890s house decorated for the holidays in period style. (It can sometimes be muddy on the farms.) Inside the Museum Building, there is an ongoing exhibit about Littleton’s history as well as a pair of Gallery ex-hibits: a retrospective of Marie Conway’s quilts and the 2013 Own an Original exhibit of works by Colorado artists. Admission is free.

• Beautiful Castlewood Canyon State Park in Franktown invites visitors to “hike, run, snow-shoe or cross-country ski 100 trail miles in the park and earn the Castlewood State Park 100

Mile Challenge Medal.” (A shorter hike is also highly recommended.) Entry fee. Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., 2989 S. State Highway 83, Franktown.

• Roxborough State Park has close to 4,000 acres, with trails of all degrees of diffi culty and spectacular red rock scenery. Check for Visitor’s Center events. 4751 Roxborough Park Drive. Admission fee.

• Chatfi eld State Park, entered from South Wadsworth Boulevard, south of C-470, offers miles of trails, information about wildlife view-ing sites on its website. It also has a large reser-voir/lake and camping facilities. (No boating in winter.) Admission fee.

• Audubon Nature Center has ongoing pro-gramming of hikes for birders and the center it-self is an ideal spot to take the shorter set, with trails for strollers and easy walks to see what critters are out and about. See Audubon.org for detailed information. Admission to the Nature Center at the south end of Chatfi eld State Park,

is free. There are charges for programs.• Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfi eld,

on Deer Creek Canyon Road just south of the C-470/Wadsworth intersection.

Historic farm and trails with several differ-ent ecosystems. Trail of Lights through Jan. 1. Admission fee.

• The Cube ice skating rink at Streets at SouthGlenn in Centennial will be open at noon starting Dec. 21. Admission fee. Rental skates available. Santa may be skating some before Christmas.

• “Mythbusters” exhibit at the Denver Mu-seum of Natural History, Colorado Boulevard and Montview Avenue, Denver has interactive exhibits based on the popular television show, through Jan. 5. An exciting spot for science-ori-ented kids—and their parents. (And you may want to detour past the Egyptian mummies or the planetarium or the movies.) Admission fee includes entire museum.

This bald eagle was photographed on Dec. 10 at South Platte Park by Deanna Beutler of Littleton, who walks the trail every day.

other women, who emphasize their American- made products. Govern-ment rules require that the Park Ser-vice shops include a percentage of American products — something she was active in advocating, she said.

She participates in trade shows and sells through high end galleries and Christmas shops and gift cata-logs. The Evergreen Gallery has her work in this area and sometimes it is stocked at Willow on Littleton’s Main Street, although not this season. It’s the little Main Street types of places where it sells-Tennyson Street, Santa Fe Art District, South Pearl Street, for example.

Pina has mentored young busi-nesses to help them get started and continues to do all of her work from her basement home studio, which is divided into work space, invoic-ing/computer space and a pack-ing and shipping area. She orders 1,000 pounds of clay every couple of months and it’s shelved by color.

It’s gotten easier with the possibil-ity of having the U.S. Post Offi ce and Fed-Ex come to her door to pick up shipments, with a click on her com-puter.

Regarding her disciplined ongo-ing work schedule, she laughs and says, “I went to Catholic school!”

Her individual retail outlet is on the Etsy site: claytwister.com, where she can do a custom order if a cus-tomer has a special request.

Right now, she is working six or seven days a week and she antici-pates a break after the holidays.

“And then I’ll begin designing…”


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Holiday WorshipHoliday Worship

Grace is on the NE corner ofSanta Fe Drive and Highlands RanchParkway, (across from Murdoch’s).

303-798-8485

www.gracecolorado.com

You are invited to worship with us on Christmas Eve

3:00 pm: Children’s Service

8:00 pm: Carols by Candlelight Service

11:00 pm: Carols and Communion Service

atChrist Lutheran Church

Child Care at 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9 p.m.

Come and join the joy & wonder of Christmas at one of our five Christmas Eve Services on

December 24th, 2013!

Carols, Communion & Candlelight at all services.

1:00 p.m. & 3:00 p.m. Children’s and Family Service

5:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. Contemporary Service

Crossroads Band 9:00 p.m.

Service of Lessons & Carols Celebration Choir

8997 S. Broadway, Highlands Ranch½ Mile South of C-470

303-791-0803 • www.clchr.org

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Christ Lutheran ChurchChrist Lutheran Church

Located at DCS Montessori School311 Castle Pines ParkwayCastle Pines, CO 80108

720.295.4271 [email protected]

Sunday School 9:15 a.m.Sunday Service 10 a.m.

Christmas Eve Service5 p.m.

wellofhopechurch.orgCome with questions. Come as you are.

12/24 -- Christmas Eve 4:00, 6:00, and 8:00 p.m.

12/25 -- Christmas Day 10:00 a.m.

TriniTyLuThEran

ChurCh4740 n hwy 83Franktown, CO(303) 841-4660

Christmas Begins with

Christ!

Celebrate a joy-filled Christmas at Trinity Lutheran Church

Holy CrossLutheran Church, LCMS

9770 Foothills Canyon BoulevardHighlands Ranch, CO 80129

303-683-1300 www.HolyCrossHRCO.orgRev. Bruce Skelton, Pastor

Christmas Services:Sunday School (12/22) 6:00 p.m.Christmas Eve (12/24) 3:30 p.m. 7:15 p.m.Christmas Day (12/25) 10:00 a.m.New Years Eve (12/31) 7:15 p.m.

CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICES:

CHILDREN’S: 1:00 & 3:00pmTRADITIONAL: 5:00 & 7:00pm

COMMUNION: 9:00pm

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St. Luke’s United Methodist Church8817 S. Broadway • Highlands Ranch 80129

Advent Season WorshipWednesdays

Dec. 4, 11, 18 @ 7:00 pm“We Three Spies” Dec. 14 @ 7 pm

Christmas Dinner Theatre Dec. 15 @ 6 pm

9300 E. Belleview Ave.Greenwood Village, CO

303.770.9300

Christmas Eve Services Dec. 24

4:00 pm | 6:00 pm 8:00 pm |11:00 pm

Christmas Day ServiceDec. 25 @ 10:00 am


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Expanded hours slated for exhibitThe Denver Art Museum offers

expanded hours through the holi-day season for “Passport to Paris,” a suite of three French-themed exhibitions, focusing on French art from the late 1600s to the early 1900s. Timed and dated tickets are available online at ParisinDenver.com or by calling 720-913-0130. (There is a fee for booking over the phone.) A ticket includes ad-mission to the entire museum and the Drawing Studio. During ex-tended hours, the entire Hamilton Building will remain open, but the North Building will close at regu-larly scheduled times. The exhib-its are “Court to Café,” “Nature as Muse” and “The Drawing Room.” The exhibits runs through Feb. 9, 2014.

Hours through 2013: Dec. 19, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Dec. 26-29, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Jan. 1, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Local pianist to perform Lisa Downing of Littleton, just

back from European and South American tours, will perform with fellow pianists Bob Baker and Lee

Bartley at 7 and 9 p.m. on Dec. 21 at Dazzle Jazz Restaurant and Lounge, 930 Lincoln St., Denver. She describes her style as “Piano Impressionism,” although it has been compared to Windham Hill artists such as George Winston. Tickets: Dazzlejazz.com, 303-839-5100.

Not traditional, but fun“The Mark Putt Holiday Ex-

plosion” with live music, video, comedy, costumes and more of-fers non-traditional holiday fun at the Toad Tavern, 5302 S. Fed-eral, Littleton at 6 p.m. Dec. 21. (No cover.) The show will also be at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany, Denver, at noon Dec. 28. (Museum admis-sion $8, kids free.)

Call for writersColorado Humanities and

Center for the book is accept-ing entries for the 2014 Colorado Book Awards, recognizing the best books by Colorado authors, editors, publishers in a number

of categories. Eligible books in-clude any work published by a Colorado author, illustrator, edi-tor, publisher or photographer in 2013: hardback, paperback or e-book format. For information on entries, visit coloradohumanities.

org, click on programs. Or contact Reem Abu-Baker, coordinator, 303-894-7951 ext 21, [email protected].

Symphony offers programsThe Colorado Symphony offers

two favorite holiday programs:• “Colorado Christmas” with

the Colorado Symphony Chorus and the Colorado Children’s Cho-rale on Dec. 20-22 at Boettcher Concert Hall.

• Too Hot To Handel,” a jazz version of the “messiah,” conduct-ed this year by Leslie Stifelman on Dec. 28-29. Tickets for both: colo-radosymphony.org, 303-623-7876.

Daily performances at MCAD“Twelve and A Half Days of

Christmas Live!” offers daily per-formances in the Museum of Con-temporary Art Denver’s atrium, with musicians, actors, singers and others at 5 p.m. weeknights and noon on Saturdays and Sun-days Dec. 20 through Jan. 5. Free with museum admission $8/$5, kids free. mcadenver.org, 303-298-7554.

“An Interior with a Lady, her Maid and a Gentleman,” 1776 Oil on canvas, From the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art is included in the “Court to Café portion of “Passport to Paris” at the Denver Art Museum. Courtesy photo

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EnglewoodSportS20 Englewood HeraldDecember 20, 2013

‘Stringy’ Ervin still at helmCoach enters 45th year with Littleton swimmersBy Tom [email protected]

Maurice “Stringy” Ervin said he was happy in 1968 when his alma mater, Littleton High School, offered him a position as a teacher and a coach. He never imagined he would he would still be coaching in 2013, however.

“I am still at it because I love coaching and I love the kids,” Er-vin said.

Ervin attended Littleton High when his dad was the principal there in the early 1950s. Maurice Sr. nicknamed his son Stringy af-ter his favorite philosopher, Wil-liam Stringfellow. Maurice Jr. said his dad had the nickname picked out for him before he was even born.

As a Littleton student, Stringy played football, basketball and baseball for the Lions and re-ceived a number of college schol-arship offers. He made the deci-sion to attend Fort Lewis College to play football. A knee injury sidelined him and, soon after he returned to the field, he reinjured the knee, ending his football ca-reer.

“That was about the time Fort Lewis became a four-year col-lege so I stayed on and earned my bachelor’s degree in English,” Er-vin said. “I got a job at Highlands High School (now Skyview) as a teacher and assistant coach in

Coach Maurice “Stringy” Ervin calls out the warmup exercises he wants the Littleton High School girls swim team members to follow as they prepare for a Dec. 2 dual meet. Ervin, and LHS graduate, started coaching swimming for the Lions in 1968 and is still at it. Photo by Tom Munds

pirates launch girls swim seasonEnglewood team mix of veterans and swimmers new to the teamBy Tom [email protected]

Pirate swim team members churned up the water during the Dec. 11 prac-tice session at the Englewood Recreation Center.

“We only have two practice lanes set aside for our practices. So, it can get pret-ty crowded when all 16 swimmers are in the water,” Coach Tracey Lonn said. “I’m not complaining because 16 are more swimmers than I had out for the team last season.”

Englewood traveled to the invitation-al meet Dec. 14 at Gateway High School in Aurora and is on the road Dec. 16 at Platte Canyon to close out the 2013 por-tion of the schedule as the school is on Christmas break.

Students return to class Jan. 6 and the Pirate swim team travels to St. Mary’s Academy for a meet at 4 p.m. Jan. 8.

The Pirates have no home swim meets because the Englewood High School pool was demolished as part of the construc-tion of a seventh- through 12th-grade campus on the high school site. The swimmers practice at the Englewood Recreation Center and currently there are no divers as they are no diving facilities at the center.

Lonn said the team is off to a good start and performed well in the season’s first meet Dec. 10 at Summit.

“We have six returning letter winners so this was the first varsity meet ever for most of our girls,” the coach said. “We did

have some problems and mistakes but we also had some bright spots. Examples of bright spots include Shawna Eldridge taking first in the 100-meter breaststroke and Natalie Pena taking second in the 100 freestyle and the 100 individual medley.”

Lonn said the numbers on the ros-ter is the team strength this season. She said having 16 swimmers means she has enough swimmers to be able to enter three girls in a single event and she has the numbers to fill the spots on two or three teams for the relay events.”

She said she does have some begin-ning swimmers this season but noted they are working hard and learning.

“We are a junior-dominated team this season,” she said. “But we do have soph-omores and freshmen on the roster. We have a couple seniors and I expect they will be our team leaders.”

Natalie Pena is one of the team’s se-niors.

“This is my fourth season on the swim team,” Pena said during a break in prac-tice. “I like swimming and I guess I started swimming when I was a little kid. I swim for enjoyment in the summer so I joined the team when I got to high school.”

Pena is a cross country runner and she said being in that sport in the fall helps her as she joins the swimming team.

“Running cross country builds up my stamina and gets my legs in shape,” she said. “I also am used to a practice routine after school so that helps as we move to swimming in the winter sports season.”

Pena said her best times are in the freestyle but the butterfly stroke is grow-ing on her as she is really starting to like it.

“The butterfly stroke is hard to learn and it is physically demanding,” she said.

Four Pirate swimmers, left to right, rachel Nickerson, Marissa Johnson, Rebeccah Sheppard and Natalie Pena, do warm-up laps in the Englewood Recreation Center pool. The four athletes are among six returning letter winners anchoring this year’s team. Photos by Tom Munds

Englewood High School Coach Tracey Lonn (center) figures out the lineup for the Pirates when they go to the Dec. 14 Invitational Swimming Meet at Gateway High School. Lonn said depth is a plus for her team as she has 16 athletes on the roster this season.

“You get better by practicing the stroke and I find butterfly is hard on me and I get tired fairly quickly. I can do 50 meters, I am getting better and I want to do a 100 butterfly without getting tired.”

This is Alize Galvan’s first season on the swimming team.

baseball and football. In 1968 as I com-pleted my third year there, Littleton asked me to come back to LHS and I accepted.”

Stringy started off as an assistant coach in football and baseball, plus, since the school didn’t have a head swimming coach, he accepted that position as well.

“I had never competed in swimming and I had never coached the sport so I had a lot to learn,” he said. “I read a lot of books and I learned right along with my athletes.”

He said he learned a lot from the books by Olympic and Hall-of-Fame swimming coach James “Doc” Counsilman. He also received one-on-one advice from the long-time Indiana University swim coach and eventually Counsilman recruited some of the Littleton High School swim-mers Ervin had coached.

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SALOME’S STARSFOR THE WEEK OF DEC 18, 2013

ARIES (Mar 21 to Apr 19) Careful, Lamb. Don’t let your generous nature lead to some serious over-spending as you contemplate your holiday gift-giving. Your social life kicks off into high gear by week’s end.

TAURUS (Apr 20 to May 20) A positive attitude helps you weather annoying but unavoidable changes in holiday plans. Aspects favor new friendships and re-inforcement of existing relationships.

GEMINI (May 21 to Jun 20) Demands on your en-ergy level could be much higher than usual as you prepare for the upcoming holidays. Be sure to pace yourself. Friends and family will be happy to help.

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ENGLEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

Boys basketball

Englewood 51, Centaurus 60Tristin Sisneros and Sean Bowering both scored 16 points in a loss against Centaurus. Bowering had nine rebounds and Isiah Mestas had � ve assists. Mestas also had three steals in the game.

Englewood 39, Je� erson 56Sean Bowering led the team with 14 points and seven rebounds against Je� erson. Gavin Phillips had four de-� ections and also the least number of turnovers with zero.

Englewood 55, Ridge View 56Englewood lost in overtime to Ridge View 56-55. Jordan Engel came away with 15 points and Austin Trail and � ve assists. Sean Bowering had 10 rebounds and Tristin Sisneros had six steals.

Englewood 68, Arvada 57After being ahead only by one point at halftime, Engle-wood stepped up in the second half scoring 16 points in the third and 20 in the fourth quarter for the 68-57 win over Arvada.

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“You get better by practicing the stroke and I fi nd butterfl y is hard on me and I get tired fairly quickly. I can do 50 meters, I am getting better and I want to do a 100 butterfl y without getting tired.”

This is Alize Galvan’s fi rst season on the swimming team.

“I decided to come out for swimming because I want to be more active in school and to get somewhere in life,” she said. “I want to be a marine biologist so swim-ming will help me as I work to achieve that goal.”

Galvan said she has always liked to swim and went swimming often in the pool at the recreation center.

“My favorite stroke is the freestyle be-cause I am pretty good at it and it is fun,” she said. “I swim the 50 freestyle and I

also swim the 100 freestyle.”She said she is improving as a swimmer

since practice started in mid-November.“I am a better swimmer because you

always learn more than what you know,” Galvan said. “I was a little nervous at my fi rst varsity meet at Summit but it was OK because everyone was so friendly. I did my best and I had a 30.4 second time on the 50 freestyle and I want to work so I establish new personal best times in my events.”

baseball and football. In 1968 as I com-pleted my third year there, Littleton asked me to come back to LHS and I accepted.”

Stringy started off as an assistant coach in football and baseball, plus, since the school didn’t have a head swimming coach, he accepted that position as well.

“I had never competed in swimming and I had never coached the sport so I had a lot to learn,” he said. “I read a lot of books and I learned right along with my athletes.”

He said he learned a lot from the books by Olympic and Hall-of-Fame swimming coach James “Doc” Counsilman. He also received one-on-one advice from the long-time Indiana University swim coach and eventually Counsilman recruited some of the Littleton High School swim-mers Ervin had coached.

He guided the Lions to seven state boys swimming championships, includ-ing fi ve in a row from 1980 to 1984. He has coached his girls teams to fi ve state titles, the most recent coming in 2000.

An Ervin trademark is the purple-checkered pants he wears at state meets. He said he still has them and wears them because polyester “stretches and doesn’t wear out.”

Ervin retired from teaching after 33 years in 1998 but stayed on as the school’s swimming coach. He coached boys swim-ming for 40 years before hanging it up fi ve years ago. He has coached girls swimming for about 30 years now.

“I get up every morning at 3:45 a.m. so I can be here for morning practice and seldom leave school until 7 p.m. When I was doing that for both swim teams, it was the winter and spring seasons,” he said. “I felt I needed to slow down a little so I gave up coaching the boys.”

Chuck Leggett swam for Ervin when he was at Littleton High School in the 1980s.

“Coach Ervin was great, not just about swimming but about school and helping

us make good decisions,” the Centennial resident said. “He was a big infl uence on me and I am glad I got the chance to swim for him.”

When he isn’t coaching swimming, Er-vin is a classic car collector.

“I have a restored 1931 Chevrolet that has won just about every award it can win,” he said. “I also recently have ac-quired a 1920 Chevrolet which is one of only about 300 of that model still in exis-tence. The car has been driven less than 11,000 miles.”

He said he likes cars of all kinds and from all eras. In the summer, he usually goes to car shows. Frequently he takes one of his cars to the show.

“Coaching girls swimming fi ts well in my schedule,” Ervin said. “It is in the win-ter and, after the season, I can start get-ting the garden and fl owers ready and go back to working on my cars. It is a good schedule and, as long as I am healthy enough and it is still fun, I’ll probably stick with it.”


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Public NoticeDISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADONOVEMBER 2013 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1

Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of NOVEMBER 2013 for each County affected.

12CW303 CITY OF BLACK HAWK, c/o Director of Public Works, P.O. Box 68, Black Hawk, Colorado 80422, Telephone: (303) 582-1324, c/o Harvey W. Curtis, Esq., Harvey W. Curtis & Associates, 8310 South Valley Highway, #230, Englewood, Colorado 80112, Telephone: (303) 292-1144. SECOND AMENDED APPLICATION FOR CHANGES OF WATER RIGHTS, PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION, AND CONDITIONAL AP-PROPRIATIVE RIGHTS OF EXCHANGE, IN GILPIN, CLEAR CREEK, JEFFERSON, AD-AMS, BROOMFIELD, DENVER, ARAPAHOE AND WELD COUNTIES. AMENDMENTS TO APPLICATION: The original Application in this matter was filed with the District Court for Water Division No. 1 on December 28, 2012, and an Amended Application was filed in this matter on January 14, 2013. This case is set for trial as a second setting beginning June 30, 2014. Applicant filed its expert disclosures pursuant to C.R.C.P. 26(a)(2) on No-vember 7, 2013, and the initial expert meeting pursuant to Water Court Rule 11(b)(5)(D)(I) will be held on December 18, 2013. The objectors’ expert disclosure pursuant to C.R.C.P. 26(a)(2) are due on March 6, 2014. The following provisions of the Amended Application are hereby amended as follows: II. CHANGES OF WATER RIGHTS A. Golden City and Ralston Creek Ditch a/k/a Church Ditch. In the original Application and in the Amended Application, Applicant sought to change 112.9 inches in the Church Ditch which were not changed by Applicant’s decree in Case No. 94CW036. Applicant has recently purchased an additional 1.8 Church Ditch inches. Therefore, a total of 114.7 Church Ditch inches are sought to be changed by this application. The historical consumptive use for 106.4 of these inches was previously quantified by Adolph Coors Company (now the Coors Brew-

ing Company) by the decree in Consolidated Cases Nos. W-8036(75) and W-8256(76) and the decree in Case No. 99CW236, and need to be changed for use in Applicant’s municipal system. 8.3 of the Church Ditch inches which are the subject of this application have not previously been changed. 1. Original decrees for 114.7 Church Ditch Inches:

III. REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION. B. Water right(s) to be used for augmentation: 11. Water rights attributable to 114.7 inches in the Golden City and Ralston Creek Ditch a/k/a Church Ditch for which a change is sought pursuant to paragraph II.A, above. IV. APPROPRIATIVE RIGHTS OF SUBSTITUTION AND EXCHANGE. B. Source of Substitute Supply: 2. Water attributable to Applicant’s 114.7 inches in the Church Ditch, as changed herein and described in paragraph II.A., above, to the extent such water is not exchanged pursuant to paragraphs 14, 15.g. and 28.b. of

the decree in Case No. 92CW059. C. Points at which the City of Black Hawk shall make substitute supplies available (exchange-from points) to allow diversion by exchange at the exchange-to points: 4. Church Ditch Headgate. Described in paragraph II.A.4., above. 5. Black Hawk’s Church Ditch Augmentation Station. Water will be returned to Clear Creek through an augmentation station located at a point on the North bank of Clear Creek in the NW1/4 NE1/4 of Section 32, T 3 S., R 70 W., of the 6th P.M., Jefferson Coun-ty, Colorado. Exhibits A and J, only, to the Amended Application have been amended to reflect the amendments herein. Additional Information. Number of pages in Second Amended Application: 89 pages, including 62 pages of Exhibits. A copy of the original Application, of the Amended Application, and of the Second Amended Application, with exhibits, can be obtained by contacting Applicant’s attorneys at the address and phone number listed above, or by e-mail at [email protected].

THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIOR-ITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of JANUARY 2014 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO NOVEMBER 2013 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of NOVEMBER 2013 for each County affected. 12CW303 CITY OF BLACK HAWK, c/o Director of Public Works, P.O. Box 68, Black Hawk, Colorado 80422, Telephone: (303) 582-1324, c/o Harvey W. Curtis, Esq., Harvey W. Curtis & Associates, 8310 South Valley Highway, #230, Englewood, Colorado 80112, Telephone: (303) 292-1144. SECOND AMENDED APPLICATION FOR CHANGES OF WATER RIGHTS, PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION, AND CONDITIONAL APPROPRIATIVE RIGHTS OF EXCHANGE, IN GILPIN, CLEAR CREEK, JEFFERSON, ADAMS, BROOMFIELD, DENVER, ARAPAHOE AND WELD COUNTIES. AMENDMENTS TO APPLICATION: The original Application in this matter was filed with the District Court for Water Division No. 1 on December 28, 2012, and an Amended Application was filed in this matter on January 14, 2013. This case is set for trial as a second setting beginning June 30, 2014. Applicant filed its expert disclosures pursuant to C.R.C.P. 26(a)(2) on November 7, 2013, and the initial expert meeting pursuant to Water Court Rule 11(b)(5)(D)(I) will be held on December 18, 2013. The objectors� expert disclosure pursuant to C.R.C.P. 26(a)(2) are due on March 6, 2014. The following provisions of the Amended Application are hereby amended as follows: II. CHANGES OF WATER RIGHTS A. Golden City and Ralston Creek Ditch a/k/a Church Ditch. In the original Application and in the Amended Application, Applicant sought to change 112.9 inches in the Church Ditch which were not changed by Applicant�s decree in Case No. 94CW036. Applicant has recently purchased an additional 1.8 Church Ditch inches. Therefore, a total of 114.7 Church Ditch inches are sought to be changed by this application. The historical consumptive use for 106.4 of these inches was previously quantified by Adolph Coors Company (now the Coors Brewing Company) by the decree in Consolidated Cases Nos. W-8036(75) and W-8256(76) and the decree in Case No. 99CW236, and need to be changed for use in Applicant�s municipal system. 8.3 of the Church Ditch inches which are the subject of this application have not previously been changed. 1. Original decrees for 114.7 Church Ditch Inches:

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10/04/1884 N/A Arapahoe 0.9 06/01/1862 0.0181

10/04/1884 N/A Arapahoe 41.43 02/28/1865 0.8321

10/04/1884 N/A Arapahoe 1.25 05/16/1865 0.0251

10/04/1884 N/A Arapahoe 18.26 11/18/1877 0.3668

10/04/1884 N/A Arapahoe 18.85 11/15/1878 0.3786

10/04/1884 N/A Arapahoe 32.34 11/20/1881 0.6496 III. REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION. B. Water right(s) to be used for augmentation: 11. Water rights attributable to 114.7 inches in the Golden City and Ralston Creek Ditch a/k/a Church Ditch for which a change is sought pursuant to paragraph II.A, above. IV. APPROPRIATIVE RIGHTS OF SUBSTITUTION AND EXCHANGE. B. Source of Substitute Supply: 2. Water attributable to Applicant�s 114.7 inches in the Church Ditch, as changed herein and described in paragraph II.A., above, to the extent such water is not exchanged pursuant to paragraphs 14, 15.g. and 28.b. of the decree in Case No. 92CW059. C. Points at which the City of Black Hawk shall make substitute supplies available (exchange-from points) to allow diversion by exchange at the exchange-to points: 4. Church Ditch Headgate. Described in paragraph II.A.4., above. 5. Black

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Lorraine M. SchippersPersonal Representative2937 Southmoor DriveFort Collins, Colorado 80525


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The office of Dr. Paul Weyman will beproperly disposing of patient recordsfor patients not seen since 2003 or 2004.If you were a patient of record and havenot been seen in our office since 2003 or2004, you may request your records bywriting to our office by December 31,2013. Email requests cannot be honored.You must give identifying informationabout yourself, such as name, birthdate,social security number. Please mail yourrequest to Paul Weyman, D.D.S. 3601 S.Clarkson St. #310 Englewood CO 80113


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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALEOF LIENED PROPERTY

Notice is hereby given that a public salewill be held on or after Jan. 14, 2014 at10:00 A.M. at 101 E. Centennial Avenue,City of Englewood, County of Ar-apahoe, Colorado. BROOKRIDGESELF-STORAGE will sell to satisfy the li-en on the property stored at 101 E.Centennial Avenue, Englewood, CO80113 by the following persons. The in-ventories listed below were notated by thet e n a n t s a t t h e t i m e o f r e n t a l .BROOKRIDGE SELF-STORAGE makesno representation or warranty that theunits contain said inventories.

Unit: C005: JESSYKA L. WELLS201 W. Belleview Ave #308AEnglewood, CO 80110Furniture, Appliance, Misc. Bags

C018: KARI SUE ZOETEWEY5316 S. Broadway Cir #201Englewood, CO 80113Furniture, Treadmill,Tools, Misc. Bags & Boxes

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E235: JASON S. BRUNO703 W. Crestline AveLittleton, CO 80120Misc. Boxes & Tubs

E325: MICHAEL S. FREIDHOF125 S. Wilcox St. #216Castle Rock, CO 80104Electronics, Exercise Equip,Appliances, Furniture, Misc Boxes

Purchases must be made with cash andpaid for at the time of purchase. No oneunder the age of 18 is allowed to attendthe sale. The landlord reserves the right tobid at the sale. All purchased goods aresold “as is” and must be removed by 6:00PM on the day of the sale. Buyers mustprovide a current original or a photocopyof their original resale permit at time ofsale in lieu of sales tax. This sale is sub-ject to prior cancellation in the event ofsettlement between landlord and oblig-ated party.


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C025: STANLEY K. WILLIAMS5130 E. Asbury Ave #107Denver, CO 80222Trolling Motor, Electronics,Luggage, Fishing Equip. Misc Boxes

E235: JASON S. BRUNO703 W. Crestline AveLittleton, CO 80120Misc. Boxes & Tubs

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Purchases must be made with cash andpaid for at the time of purchase. No oneunder the age of 18 is allowed to attendthe sale. The landlord reserves the right tobid at the sale. All purchased goods aresold “as is” and must be removed by 6:00PM on the day of the sale. Buyers mustprovide a current original or a photocopyof their original resale permit at time ofsale in lieu of sales tax. This sale is sub-ject to prior cancellation in the event ofsettlement between landlord and oblig-ated party.


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Public Notice

CITY OF SHERIDANNOTICE OF ADOPTION OF

AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE

On the 11th day of December, 2013, theCity Council of the City of Sheridan, Color-ado, adopted the following Ordinance:

ORDINANCE NO. 16-2013AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUN-CIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COL-ORADO, APPROVING THE SECONDAMENDMENT TO THE CITY OFSHERIDAN CABLE FRANCHISEAGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OFSHERIDAN AND COMCAST OF COL-ORADO IX, LLC, TO EXTEND THETERM OF THE FRANCHISE UNTILAPRIL 1, 2014, AND DECLARING ANEMERGENCY

WHEREAS, on January 4, 1996, the CityCouncil of the City of Sheridan adoptedOrdinance No. 2, Series 1996, approvingthe grant of a nonexclusive FranchiseAgreement to Mountain States Video Inc.,an affiliate or subsidiary of Telecommunic-ations, Inc., TCI of Colorado (“TCI”), for itsconstruction and operation of a cable tele-vision system within the City; and

WHEREAS, on January 26, 1999, the CityCouncil of the City of Sheridan adoptedResolution No. 1, Series 1999, approvingthe transfer of control of the cable fran-chise from TCI to AT&T Corp., whose suc-cessor-in-interest is Comcast of ColoradoIX, LLC (“Comcast”); and

WHEREAS, Section 2.3 of the FranchiseAgreement provided that the franchisegranted Comcast would expire on Febru-ary 13, 2011; and

WHEREAS, Comcast preserved its rightof renewal by timely filing a request withthe City to activate the formal process forrenewing the franchise pursuant to theprovisions of the Cable CommunicationsPolicy Act of 1984 (“Cable Act”); and

WHEREAS, in March of 2010, the Partiesentered into negotiations for renewal ofthe Franchise Agreement; and

WHEREAS, because at such time the Citywas a member of the Greater Metro Tele-communications Consortium (“GMTC”),which was developing a model cable fran-chise agreement, the Parties agreed tocontinue the Franchise Agreement for ayear pending completion of the modelagreement; and

WHEREAS, by Ordinance No. 2, Series2011, adopted February 23, 2011, the CityCouncil of the City of Sheridan adoptedthe First Amendment to the City of Sherid-an Cable Franchise Agreement, whichcontinued the franchise until December31, 2013; and

WHEREAS, though the model franchiseagreement is now in use by the ColoradoCommunications and Utilities Alliance(“CCUA”), which is the successor to theGMTC, specific service issues unique toeach municipality must be negotiated onan individual basis; and

WHEREAS, the Parties agree that theirrespective interests are best served by ex-tending the Franchise Agreement untilApril 1, 2014; and

WHEREAS, Section 19.4 of the Fran-chise Agreement specifically provides thatthe agreement may be amended at anytime by written agreement of the Parties;and

WHEREAS, City Council finds that anemergency exists as expiration of the fran-chise would endanger the public, healthsafety, and welfare in the event of anemergency.

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Public Notice

CITY OF SHERIDANNOTICE OF ADOPTION OF

AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE

On the 11th day of December, 2013, theCity Council of the City of Sheridan, Color-ado, adopted the following Ordinance:

ORDINANCE NO. 16-2013AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUN-CIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COL-ORADO, APPROVING THE SECONDAMENDMENT TO THE CITY OFSHERIDAN CABLE FRANCHIS EAGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OFSHERIDAN AND COMCAST OF COL-ORADO IX, LLC, TO EXTEND THETERM OF THE FRANCHISE UNTILAPRIL 1, 2014, AND DECLARING ANEMERGENCY












NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINEDBY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITYOF SHERIDAN, COLORADO, THAT:

Section 1. That the Second Amendmentto the City of Sheridan Cable FranchiseAgreement extending the term of the fran-chise with Comcast from December 31,2013, until April 1, 2014, is approved insubstantially the same form as the copyattached hereto and made a part of thisOrdinance and the Mayor is authorized toexecute the Second Amendment ofAgreement on behalf of the City.

Section 2. Neither Party waives any rightwhich it enjoys under law as a result ofagreeing to this franchise extension, norshall Comcast be required to file any addi-tional request or document in order to pre-serve its right of renewal under Section626 of the Cable Act.

Section 3. If any article, section, para-graph, sentence, clause, or phrase of thisordinance is held to be unconstitutional orinvalid for any reason, such decision shallnot affect the validity or constitutionality ofthe remaining portions of this ordinance.The city council hereby declares that itwould have passed this ordinance andeach part or parts hereof irrespective ofthe fact that any one part or parts be de-clared unconstitutional or invalid.

Section 4. All other ordinances or por-tions thereof inconsistent or conflictingwith this ordinance or any portion hereofare hereby repealed to the extent of suchinconsistency or conflict.

Section 5. The repeal or modification ofany provision of the Municipal Code of theCity of Sheridan by this ordinance shallnot release, extinguish, alter, modify orchange in whole or in part any penalty,forfeiture or liability, either civil or criminal,which shall have been incurred undersuch provision. Each provision shall betreated and held as still remaining in forcefor the purpose of sustaining any and allproper actions, suits, proceedings andprosecutions for enforcement of the pen-alty, forfeiture or liability, as well as for thepurpose of sustaining any judgment, de-cree or order which can or may berendered, entered or made in such ac-tions, suits, proceedings or prosecutions.

Section 6. In accordance with Section 4.7of the Charter this ordinance is deemednecessary for the immediate preservationof the public property, health, welfare,peace or safety and upon the affirmativevote of 2/3rds of the entire Council, shallrequire only one reading, shall not requirepublication or notice prior to final adoptionand shall take effect upon adoption asstated herein.

PASSED AND APPROVED on the 11thday of December 2013, and orderedpublished.

/s/ Dallas Hall, MayorATTEST:/s/ Arlene Sagee, City Clerk

Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are avail-able for public inspection in the office ofthe City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado.


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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINEDBY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITYOF SHERIDAN, COLORADO, THAT:

Section 1. That the Second Amendmentto the City of Sheridan Cable FranchiseAgreement extending the term of the fran-chise with Comcast from December 31,2013, until April 1, 2014, is approved insubstantially the same form as the copyattached hereto and made a part of thisOrdinance and the Mayor is authorized toexecute the Second Amendment ofAgreement on behalf of the City.

Section 2. Neither Party waives any rightwhich it enjoys under law as a result ofagreeing to this franchise extension, norshall Comcast be required to file any addi-tional request or document in order to pre-serve its right of renewal under Section626 of the Cable Act.

Section 3. If any article, section, para-graph, sentence, clause, or phrase of thisordinance is held to be unconstitutional orinvalid for any reason, such decision shallnot affect the validity or constitutionality ofthe remaining portions of this ordinance.The city council hereby declares that itwould have passed this ordinance andeach part or parts hereof irrespective ofthe fact that any one part or parts be de-clared unconstitutional or invalid.

Section 4. All other ordinances or por-tions thereof inconsistent or conflictingwith this ordinance or any portion hereofare hereby repealed to the extent of suchinconsistency or conflict.

Section 5. The repeal or modification ofany provision of the Municipal Code of theCity of Sheridan by this ordinance shallnot release, extinguish, alter, modify orchange in whole or in part any penalty,forfeiture or liability, either civil or criminal,which shall have been incurred undersuch provision. Each provision shall betreated and held as still remaining in forcefor the purpose of sustaining any and allproper actions, suits, proceedings andprosecutions for enforcement of the pen-alty, forfeiture or liability, as well as for thepurpose of sustaining any judgment, de-cree or order which can or may berendered, entered or made in such ac-tions, suits, proceedings or prosecutions.

Section 6. In accordance with Section 4.7of the Charter this ordinance is deemednecessary for the immediate preservationof the public property, health, welfare,peace or safety and upon the affirmativevote of 2/3rds of the entire Council, shallrequire only one reading, shall not requirepublication or notice prior to final adoptionand shall take effect upon adoption asstated herein.

PASSED AND APPROVED on the 11thday of December 2013, and orderedpublished.

/s/ Dallas Hall, MayorATTEST:/s/ Arlene Sagee, City Clerk

Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are avail-able for public inspection in the office ofthe City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado.


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CITY OF SHERIDANNOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

REGARDING ANNEXATION Notice is hereby given that the City Council of the City of Sheridan shall hold a public hearing on January 8, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, Sheridan City Hall, 4101 South Federal Boulevard, Sheridan, CO, upon the proposed annexation of a parcel of land located at 3371 WEST HAMPDEN AVENUE as requested by R&C Night LLC, and more specifically described in the petition of annexation which is attached hereto and made a part of this notice. Such hearing shall be for the purpose

of determining and finding whether the area proposed to be annexed meets the applicable requirements of Colorado Revised Statutes 31-12-104 and 31-12-105 and is considered eligible for annexation.

Arlene Sagee, City ClerkCity of Sheridan

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Rotary hosts children’s Christmas partyEnglewood club, Santa make memorable day for about 45 youngstersBy Tom [email protected]

The festive mood set the tone Dec. 13 at the Christmas party put on by Engle-wood Rotary for about 45 children from the Village for Early Childhood Education in Littleton.

When the 4- and 5-year-olds arrived at the Buck Recreation Center in Littleton, they were greeted by the music of the sea-son and smiling Rotarians.

The Rotarians helped the children get their lunch but the excitement picked up when Santa entered the room.

Santa called each child up by name and gave each youngster a heavy gift bag.

“This is an event Englewood Rotary Club has been doing for about 20 years,” Rotarian Dawn Sheppard said as she helped a child go through the line for lunch.

Member Patricia Burnett provided background on the event. In a letter, she stated that Rotarian Frank Sargent spear-heads the Christmas event each year, say-ing that he organizes it, recruits volun-teers and even helps shop for the presents for the children.

Again this year, the Walmart store in Englewood partnered with the club for the event. The Rotarians raised money to shop for the gifts at the store plus the store pro-

vided a $1,500 grant for the project. Store employees also got a chance to

help wrap the gifts.Founded in 1937, the Englewood Ro-

tary Club meets in Englewood and also includes members from Littleton, Centen-nial and other nearby communities.

Club members annually volunteer as

reading mentors in Englewood Schools and the foundation provides $8,000 to $10,000 in college scholarships each year to Englewood graduates.

Englewood Rotarian Dawn Shepard helps a youngster from Littleton’s Village for Early Childhood Education get lunch at the Dec. 13 Christmas party the Rotarians put on for the children. The party included Santa distributing gift bags to each of the 45 to 50 children present. Photo by Tom Munds

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