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Feeding neighbors fills community need Father, daughter provide food pantry, snack boxes BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Deidra Bates believes that if every neighborhood had a food pantry box, nobody would go hungry. So, about a year ago, she set up such a box outside of her southwest Denver home, near South Federal Boulevard and West Exposition Avenue, where she has lived for the past nine years. Bates fills the box with basic necessities such as flour and sugar and other nonperishable items, such as canned goods and pastas. “It’s just to get the general public fed. I’d rather see the food go to a family that needs it rather than it sitting on a shelf gathering dust,” said Bates, who with her husband is raising five children ranging in age from 6 to 18. “My family and I saw a need in our community, so we put up a box.” Shortly after that box was set up, her dad, Jake Burkhardt, and his late wife, Sheila Lymm, recognized a similar need in their Wheat Ridge neighborhood. Lymm passed away last August, but Burkhardt followed through with their idea about six months ago. In a spinoff from his daughter’s concept, Burkhardt wanted to gear his box toward the seniors he often sees enjoying Founders’ Park on Jay Street. “This has been a quiet neighborhood for years,” said Burkhardt, who has lived in his home since 1955 when his parents bought the house and raised him in it. But Founders’ Park is a “popular park.” In the vicinity is the Seniors’ Resource Center, Wheat Ridge’s Active Adult Center and a couple nursing homes, Burkhardt said, so it attracts a lot of seniors. SEE NEIGHBORS, P9
Police share final outline on use of force Document has long been in works with input from community members BY KEVIN BEATY DENVERITE.COM
Wheat Ridge resident Jake Burkhardt organizes his snack box located across Jay Street from Founders’ Park. Burkhardt fills the box with healthy snacks for park visitors, and because he is just getting started with it, would like suggestions on what kinds of snack foods people would enjoy. CHRISTY STEADMAN
After more than a year and a half workshopping “force related policies” with community stakeholders, Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen unveiled his department’s final document on Aug. 6. The 27-page document outlines proper use of weapons, scenarios in which officers should use them and how incidents should be reported after the fact. In 2016, when then-Chief Robert White announced the new policy would be penned, community groups made it clear they wanted a seat at the table as the document came together. In January 2017, White announced they’d have their shot. In the months since, a small group of civilian representatives has sat through meeting after meeting, providing input and fighting for changes as small as a single word to make sure the document represents community interests now and holds officers accountable in the future. Pazen said the entire force should be trained in the new standards by the end of the year. SEE FORCE, P9
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Colorado Rockies could go on building spree Housing, shopping, offices, entertainment planned for site beside Coors Field BY ANDREW KENNEY DENVERITE.COM
Construction of 13 floors of housing, shopping, offices and entertainment next to Coors Field could begin this year and finish up in 2021, according to a Colorado Rockies executive. Early renderings show an open space with amphitheater-style seating around a huge brick circle with a Rockies logo at the heart of the “West Lot” development, plus a big screen displaying the game. At its borders, three high-rise buildings could include offices, stores, homes, hotels and more, with a skybridge connecting two of them. There also would be a two-story Hall of Fame. “We’re developing it ourselves,” said Hal Roth, the team’s chief financial officer, in an interview after a Denver City Council committee meeting on Aug. 7. The project will replace a surface parking lot next to the Wynkoop Street pedestrian plaza. The planners say that one of their main goals is to create open space for the public — a rare thing in the Ballpark area — and to keep visitors coming year-round.
“It’s an 81-days-out-of-the-year destination, and over the last 25 years, the community’s grown up around that stadium,” said John Yonushewski, senior principal with the Stantec engineering and design company. What about that sculpture? The team also will attempt to move Lonnie Hanzon’s well-known “Evolution of the Ball” sculpture, which stands in the way of the development plans. The Denver Fire Department said that the sculpture has to move so fire trucks can access the new development, according to Yonushewski. “We have met with the artist and we’re going to meet with him again this week to suggest alternate sites of where it might be placed around the stadium,” Roth told councilmembers. “We’ll see what his reaction is to that.” But Councilman Kevin Flynn pointed out that the sculpture’s location at the entrance to a pavilion is part of its design. “From what I understand, the piece works where it is because of the view and the framing of the view,” he said. Meanwhile, the team has committed to relocating the personalized bricks that were laid near the sculpture as part of a fundraising campaign. Who’s paying for all this? It’s a little complicated. Construction of the stadium was funded back in the 1990s by a special
‘It’s an 81-daysout-of-the-year destination, and over the last 25 years, the community’s grown up around that stadium.’ John Yonushewski, senior principal with Stantec
sales tax. The Rockies are leasing both the stadium and the land next door from the stadium district, which is a governmental organization. The Rockies recently agreed to pay $200 million to lease the stadium and the adjacent land over 30 years from the Metropolitan Baseball Stadium District. The Rockies will sublease the West Lot land out to a separate “development entity.” The team and its partners say that development is a way to pay for the stadium’s future needs. They estimate
that they need about $200 million for the stadium over the coming years. Early plans call for 114 residential units that could go for $800 a square foot, plus about 200 hotel rooms, 286,000 square feet of office, 80,000 square feet of retail across two floors and 420 below-ground parking spaces, according to city records. What’s next? The development would need about $32 million worth of new infrastructure, according to the development partners, which they hope to pay for with special taxing districts. Those districts would collect up to 60 mills of additional tax on the development land, allowing them to take out debt. The districts would pay $10.5 million for the plaza, $7.3 million for a “Wynkoop Walkway,” $9 million for parking, $700,000 for a green roof and about $5 million for other improvements. The proposal to create service districts are set to go before the Denver City Council on Aug. 27. A council committee voted on Aug. 7 to send them to the same body. The project also will require a rezoning to be approved by the Denver City Council, according to Yonushewski. There’s no sign of that yet. Denverite is an online local news source for everything you need to know about Denver in 5 minutes. Visit denverite.com/subscribe for more.
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‘He can out-operate me any day of the week’ Denver Health honors surgeon with 40-year career BY KAILYN LAMB
Ernest Moore, right, stands with his son Hunter, who followed in his footsteps and also became a surgeon. PHOTOS BY KAILYN LAMB
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To K. Barry Platnick, trauma medical director at Denver Health, trauma surgeon Ernest “Gene” Moore “is arguably the greatest trauma surgeon working today.” “He can run, jump, scream, roll in the mud and out-operate me on any day of the week,” Platnick said. “I wanted to be a trauma surgeon from the beginning, and 30 years ago there were just a few big names in trauma and Dr. Moore was already one of the biggest.” Last month, Denver Health recognized Moore’s excellence and contributions by renaming its trauma center as the Ernest E. Moore Shock and Trauma Center. Moore started working at Denver Health in 1976 when trauma surgery was still in its infancy as a field. Years later, Denver Health built one of the first academic level one trauma centers in the country with Moore as its pioneer. The hospital at that time was called Denver General Hospital. Today, the trauma center treats more than 2,700 patients each year and has a 98 percent trauma survival rate. Moore is co-editor of “Trauma,” a textbook for surgeons now in its eighth edition, as well as a professor of surgery at the University of Colorado in Denver. Of Moore’s more than 40 years at Denver Health, 36 have been as chief of trauma. Life on Capitol Hill editor Kailyn Lamb caught up with Moore, who has no plans to retire, after the July 10 event at Denver Health for an interview that looked at how he got started, the importance of the team and how to stave off burnout. When you first started at Denver General, trauma was in its early stages as a specialty. What motivated you to make trauma your career? I was going to be a cardiac surgeon. I trained at the University of Vermont with a surgeon named Dr. John Davis, who I’m sure you don’t recognize, but every trauma surgeon in the world does. He was the prototype for “M*A*S*H,” and you can imagine what a character he was. Many of us who work in our field see an individual and they change course and they follow what they’ve done. I give Dr. Davis credit for changing my life’s aspirations.
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Your career has spanned decades, and you have a long list of accolades to accompany it. What would you say is your greatest achievement? Watching us develop a model academic trauma center. We invest in research so we can continue to search for better ways to treat patients, and community education — because we really do have the obligation to train trauma leaders around the country,
Mitchell Cohen presents Ernest Moore with a plaque honoring his career as a trauma surgeon at Denver Health. Moore has worked at the hospital since 1976 and has no current plans to retire. as well as the state. That’s not limited to surgeons. It’s all the disciplines. Trauma patients face an incredibly difficult time. How do you keep a calm presence when you go into a surgery room to help ease that patient’s mind? The essential element of a trauma surgeon, or really anyone who works in trauma, is to be able to maintain composure. When things are not going the way you expect it’s the time to sit back, take a breath, recalculate and move on and slow your procedures and your approach. That’s what makes all of us special in trauma. The unique thing about trauma is we’re called in at 3 o’clock in the morning in the emergency department and we have no idea what we’re dealing with . . . Yet we have a team around us that we’ve got to try to direct and go through things systematically so we do the right things in the right order. You keep emphasizing how important the team is. What does it mean to have a strong team around you when you’re in surgery? The team concept is important everywhere. When the paramedics roll into the emergency department they are giving reports. A lot of what we do in the first five minutes is based on what they saw and what they tell us. In the operating room when things are not going well, you need operating room nurses who can go get your equipment for you, quiet things down and make it a quiet environment where you can proceed ahead. Those things are incredibly important to keep in mind when you’re managing trauma. What do you do to relax? My wife’s an internist, my youngest son’s an internist and my oldest son is a surgeon. So the conversation around the table I wouldn’t call relaxing. We’re lucky we have a cabin in Steamboat Springs. We all are avid skiers, climbers. SEE SURGEON, P7
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Initiative 97, sponsored by Boulder-based Colorado Rising, would redraw the energy map in a state that’s become the nation’s No. 5 natural gas producer and No. 7 producer of oil. It would increase setbacks between new energy operations and homes, schools and “vulnerable areas” that include parks, creeks and irrigation canals. And it would allow local governments to enact even greater setbacks. Current setbacks prohibit development on about 18 acres surrounding a given point; the measure would expand that to 450 surrounding acres, according to a state legislative analysis. Another state analysis suggests the anti-fracking initiative would rule out 85 percent of non-federal land to development and drastically reduce property taxes paid by the $32 billion industry. Those taxes totaled $470 million in fiscal year 2016-17. Current law gives the state jurisdiction over setbacks.
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Guys and Dolls: July 27 to Aug. 18 at The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Presented by Equinox Theatre Company. Performances at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Parking is free. Go to www.EquinoxTheatreDenver.com. Natural Grocers’ 63rd Anniversary Celebration: 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16 at Natural Grocers - Design District, 368 S Broadway, Denver. Anniversary and the birthday of co-founder Margaret Isely. For more information, call 303-733-3033. South by Southeast Community Festival: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18 at Bible Park, 1050 Washington St., Denver. After a successful one-day festival with 10,000 attendees last summer, Councilwoman Kendra Black will host the second annual South by Southeast community festival. Event is free. Visit denvergov.org/ southbysoutheast for more information. 7th Annual Yarn Crawl - Yarn Along the Rockies: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, Aug. 18 to Aug. 26 at Yarn Shoppe Denver, 1635 Tremont Place, Denver. Visit www.yarnalongtherockies.com. The Annex at CORE New Art Space - Leslie Jorgensen: Runs through Sunday, Sept 9. Reception Aug. 24 6-10 p.m. CORE New Art Space, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Artist
Leslie Jorgensen travels across the Rocky Mountains and the West skiing, hiking and biking along the way. She paints the landscapes she visits and our outdoor activities within it. Visit coreartspace.com. CORE New Art Space - Jude Barton: Runs through Sunday, Sept 9. Reception Aug. 24 7-10 p.m. CORE New Art Space, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Jude Barton’s work explores the form and function of line, shape and space; creating a certain uncluttered calm and freedom within her structuring of fragmented and blurred iconic images. Visit coreartspace.com.
CORE New Art Space - Brian Haley: Runs through Sunday, Sept 9. Reception Aug. 24 7-10 p.m. CORE New Art Space, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Haley works to assimilate the disparities between century old hand salvaged mine wood and mid-century modern design characteristics to create one of a kind tables, chairs, and wall art. Visit coreartspace.com.
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Lost and Found Productions Presents War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast: 7:30 p.m, Fridays and Saturdays, July 27 through August 18 at The John Hand Theatre, 7653 E. First Place in Denver. About the show: An alien invasion throws humanity into chaos in the classic sci-fi novel The War of the Worlds -- but all it took to cause real-life panic in the streets was Orson Welles’s 1938 radio adaptation, which listeners took for news. Tickets and more information available online at www.lostandfoundproductions.net. 17th-Century Tapestry: 1 to 1:45 p.m Tuesday, Aug. 21 at the Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway. Slow down and spend time with a 17th Century Tapestry. Together, we’ll discuss overlooked details, explore ideas and make connections as we linger and discuss. Visit denverartmuseum.org/calendar for more information. Low-Sensory Morning at the Denver Art Museum: 8:30 to 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 23 at Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway. For individuals and families who prefer a quiet, less sensory-stimulating environment the Denver Art Museum offers Low-Sensory Morning events on select Saturday mornings, before public hours. Free admission, reservations required. Visit denverartmuseum.org/calendar for more information. Anderman Photography Lecture at the Denver Art Museum: Sharon Harper: 7 to 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23 at Denver Art Museum, 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy. Join us for what is sure to be an interesting talk with photographer Sharon Harper. Harper’s photography explores the relationship between technology and perception through landscape imagery. Ticketed with member discount. Visit denverartmuseum.org/calendar for more information. Mary Fahl at the Soiled Dove: 8 p.m. Saturday, August 25 at Soiled Dove, 7401 E. 1st Ave., Denver. Mary Fahl is an expressive, emotional singer/songwriter who first achieved fame as lead singer and co-founder of the mid-1990s NYC- based Folk-Chamber Pop group October Project. Tickets $25-40. Call 303-226-1555 or visit www.soileddove.com.
Vietgone: From Aug. 24 to Sept. 9. Ricketson Theatre 1400 Curtis Street, Denver. Forced to leave their country during the Vietnam War, two refugees find themselves falling in love at the same reloca- a tion camp. Bubbling with energy, this w rap-spitting, pop culture-crusted comedy o is an ode to the courtship of playwright Qui Nguyen’s parent. www.denvercenter.org/ v r tickets-events/vietgone/
Angel’s Envy Toast the Tree’s Kick-Off: 4 i p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1 at the Halcyon Hotel, w p 245 Columbine St., Denver. Join Angel’s b Envy the kick off for National Bourbon Heritage Month and #ToastTheTrees. If you a plan to attend, please RSVP to Brett Zareck O p at bzaenvy@gmail.com. Athena Project Presents Honor Killing to debut in Denver at the JCC Denver: Sept. 8 to Sept. 30 at JCC Denver, 350 S. Dahlia St. Honor Killing is a suspenseful and compelling story of New York Times reporter Allisyn Davis who is investigating the honor killing of a young Pakistani woman at the hands of family. Tickets are $25. Visit www. athenaprojectarts.org/premiere-production/ for more information.
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Women’s Equality Day Lawn Party: 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26 at Center for Colorado Women’s History at the Byers-Evans House Museum, 1310 Bannock St., Denver. Join us at the Center for Colorado Women’s History for a free lawn party to celebrate Women’s Equality Day on the grounds of the historic Byers-Evans House. Event is free.
The Jester’s Court Returns to The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse: 10 p.m., Fridays at The Voodoo Comedy Playhouse located at 1260 22nd Street, Denver. The Jester’s Court is proud to announce several new performances of its hilarious and very popular short-form improv comedy show. Tickets are just $8 in advance or $10 at the door. Tickets are available online at www. jesterscourtcomedy.com.
Out of the Office featuring featuring Comedians Debbie Scheer, Jared Ewy, Cody Spyker, & ShaNae Ross: Noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30 at Republic PlazaOutdoors on the 16th Street Side, 370 17th Street, Denver
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It’s the latest attempt to harness drilling along Colorado’s metropolitan Denver area, whose rapid expansion has encroached upon once-isolated oil and gas fields. Previous efforts have failed, despite advocates’ concerns about health and drilling rigs close to schools. Colorado Rising said it struggled with its contract signature collectors in recent weeks. One circulator quit in a payment dispute. Volunteers complained of harassment by opponents as they solicited signatures, and the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office said it is reviewing a handful of complaints. “I think we did what we could, when we’re going up against most powerful industry in the world,” said Suzanne Spiegel, a lead organizer. Protect Colorado, one of several industryfunded committees fighting the measure, acknowledged it sent observers to monitor some Colorado Rising petition-gatherers but denied any harassment. “We’ve asked people to let us know where people are circulating and what they’re saying,” spokeswoman Karen Crummy said. “Sometimes the information that canvassers who want signatures give out isn’t accurate.” An industry-backed initiative would expand the rights of property owners to seek government compensation for actions that diminish the “fair market value,” not just the physical value, of their property. Supporters of proposed constitutional amendment known as Initiative 108 turned in more than 200,000 signatures on Friday.
Denver-based attorney Jason Dunn, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the new U.S. attorney for the District of Colorado, and sponsors drafted the initiative, said Shawn Martini, vice president of advocacy for the Colorado Farm Bureau, the measure’s prime backer. Martini called it a “good government” measure that lowers the burden for Coloradans seeking compensation from government. He acknowledged that courts would have to determine what “fair market value” is. “We think that if government takes property, for example through an expanded setback, there should be the right of compensation,” said Protect Colorado’s Crummy. “This is really intended as a statewide fix to a void in the Constitution.” Sam Mamet, executive director of the Colorado Municipal League, warned the proposal would unleash litigation over all sorts of claims, including zoning changes, and taxpayers would have to pay for it. “I don’t know what `fair market value’ means. No one has a definition of it,” Mamet said. “I told our local governments: If this passes, I wouldn’t act. If you do, you’ll get sued. They have deep pockets. We don’t.” Also submitted: • Initiative 153 would raise state taxes to fund $6 billion in transportation bonds. • Initiative 167 would issue $3.5 billion in bonds for roads without raising taxes. • Initiative 93 would raise state taxes by $1.6 billion annually for K-12 schools. • Initiative 126 would cap payday loan annual percentage rates at 36 percent. • Initiative 173 would increase contribution limits for state office candidates whose opponents contribute more than $1 million to their own campaigns.
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My sons and I have done extreme sports like Iron Man. It keeps us out of trouble. I believe you can’t work hard without playing hard, and you gotta unwind from a place like this. You can’t take this baggage home every night with you, time after time after time, and that’s why we treasure our cabin in Steamboat Springs. When you go out of the city and into the mountains, three
days is like taking a two-week vacation. You just feel your blood pressure drop as you drive up to the cabin. It’s been really important for all of us in the medical field to take that time off, otherwise we face this epidemic of burnout. Burnout, to me, is simply the inability to recognize your priorities. Your priorities have to change during your life. I am delighted that my wife emphasized to me during my early career that I had to make the commitment to the boys as well. The fact that they’ve gone into academic medicine to me is gratifying.
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ne of my readers — “Gary” — thanked me for a column I had written about barking dogs that he mailed to a neighbor, after his own words didn’t make a dent. My column made a dent, and I said “You’re welcome,” but asked him when the column was written — “Maybe I’ve forgotten, and that wouldn’t surprise me, but I don’t recall a recent column about barking and dogs.” He wrote back and said I wrote it last year. That was a relief. Then we began a correspondence about memory loss, which can be amusing to a point. Then — boom — he informed me that his wife had Alzheimer’s, and he cared for her during the final years of her life, and the net effect of this little column of mine came back and waved at me from a hospital room in Rochester, Michigan. Don’t leave now. I’ll get around
to some humor. But this time there won’t be any cynicism or sarcasm. My father, whom I often mention with love, was kind, and good, and gracious, and something else. He was a QUIET DESPERATION gentleman. He was a proud University of Michigan graduate who took night classes later in his life, and kept sharp and smart, and completed crossword puzzles, even the toughest ones. Then. Life came Craig Marshall along when he was Smith in his 80s and took away most of that. My sister and I had Power of Medical, but when the time came, my father reclaimed it and I watched a great and wonderful man become something — some thing — I didn’t
recognize. We were separated by five states. I’d see him once or twice a year, and for the longest time he stayed the same. You can guess the rest. I hope I won’t end like my father did. But who knows? This is a Magical Mystery Tour. It’s Rod Serling and his friends. It’s a nightmare and it’s a beautiful dream. How anyone makes it to the finish line is a Cracker Jack surprise. How anyone makes it intact is a miracle. “Memory is the diary that we all carry around with ourselves.” I wish I had said that. Oscar Wilde did. Oh, Oscar. Were you ahead of your time, and just all wrong to being with? I wish I had known him over coffee. We squeeze and we squeeze away the beauty of existence and make it a battle of grace, and grace left on the Super Chief. I promised humor.
“I couldn’t fix your brakes, so I made your horn louder.” I wish I had said that. Steven Wright did. Hemingway said his aim was to write one perfect sentence. He wrote thousands, is what I think. Me? I am still trying, and I hope I can get one in before the cab comes for me. Jennifer knows I don’t want to complete in a hospital room, looking like a system of tubes and screens and bed wraps. I have given her my last song, and where I would like the dust to fly. “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” Bob Dylan. Them. Makes no sense. Like life. And then into the inverted fountain on the UCLA campus. Sweetest spot on Earth, this mortal coil.
Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.
Finding the balance when we agree to disagree
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ometimes it could seem like there are more things happening around us that are dividing us as a community rather than uniting us. And as that is happening, I believe we may have lost sight, or forgotten that it is OK to agree to disagree when we have a difference of opinion, and to do so reasonably and peacefully. This past week I found myself on the receiving end of a negative comment made by one of my own staff to their manager about me regarding something I had said out loud more than a year ago. My team member never said anything to me, so I had no way of knowing that I could have said anything that they would have found so offensive. One of the best practices I subscribe to is taking things head-on. So the next morning I came to the office and invited my team member to join me in my office before they started their day and I started mine. As we sat down, I shared why I had invited them in and what I wanted to talk about. Without hesitation
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In 2019, more intensive training will take place for all officers. That next stage will include an emphasis on hands-on learning with a virtual reality simulator that the department rolled out in 2016; that system will include custom-made scenarios derived from situations brought up by the community group. Seven recommendations Pazen talked about seven recommendations that arose from community representatives. Recommendation: DPD’s “Decision Making Model,” which is used in determining what force will be used, should use “declaratory statements in place of questions for the definition of `reasonable and necessary.’” Response: Officers “must ensure that any force they use is reasonable and necessary under the totality of the circumstances.” Basically, DPD says these are complicated situations and cannot issue literal guidelines for every scenario. Recommendation: The word “type” when describing force should be replaced with “degree,” to emphasize how force is applied and not just in what way. Response: DPD compromised and used the word “amount.” The policy reads: “When needed, officers must use only the amount of force reasonable and necessary under the totality of circumstances.” More on why this matters below. Recommendation: Nonlethal force should not be used against people who are only verbally confrontational to police. Response: “Officers should not interfere with the rights of individuals to exercise their First Amendment rights if they have not violated a law.” Discussion on this topic touched on an incident in which Colorado Independent editor Susan Greene
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The park has gentle walking paths and nice benches, but no playground — there’s a different nearby park for children, Burkhardt said. “I like that it caters to seniors,” he said. Burkhardt built both his box and his daughter’s, sized appropriately for the food each box carries. Burkhardt stocks his box with nuts, healthy energy bars and dried fruits, but he is open to suggestions. “I’m just starting out with it,” he said. “I’d like to know what the people around here would like.” Burkhardt’s snack box is located directly across Jay Street from Founders’ Park. Anybody who would like to leave a snack suggestion may do so by leaving a note in the box, Burkhardt said. The food for both Bates’ food pantry box and Burkhardt’s snack box comes from Joy’s Kitchen, a nonprofit food
was handcuffed while a man was being detained. Chief Pazen called it the “elephant in the room,” and said the department is taking “additional training steps” to ensure a situation like that will not occur again. “No officer should be utilizing force whatsoever when someone is exercising their First Amendment rights,” Pazen said. Recommendation: DPD’s Internal Affairs Division should “investigate certain types of force.” Response: “The DPD does not utilize a tiered approach to force.” “Every use of force report that occurs … except officer-involved shooting,” Pazen said, will be “reviewed by trained officers.” Cases of officerinvolved shootings have a separate protocol for investigation. Recommendation: The use of multiple tasers should be prohibited against a single person. Response: “Officers must articulate the need for multiple and repeated CEW/TASER use as necessary and reasonable. An initial use may not be effective to take an individual into custody.” Recommendation: Ripp brand leg restraints should not be attached to arrestee’s handcuffs. Response: This recommendation was added to the policy with DPD input. Recommendation: Officers involved in a shooting should not be allowed to review body camera footage immediately after an incident. Response: This recommendation was added to the policy with DPD input. Roshan Bliss, a member of the Denver Justice Project, expressed concern that the language did not include an “until” clause that would stipulate when an officer might be allowed to review the footage. DPD Division Chief of Administration Ron Saunier said that this is tricky, and is related to the department’s practice of asking officers to give voluntarily statements when they’re ready after an incident has occurred. Sometimes, especially if an officer is represented by a lawyer in
a criminal proceeding, that interview might not take place without a review of the footage. Words matter A lot of meeting discussion surrounded the use of single words, like “degree” rather than “type,” when it comes to use of force. Lisa Calderón, a community advocate who has long worked on criminal justice reform, said these small changes will have lasting ripples into the future. “I can handcuff you, it’s a type of force, but how I handcuff you is the difference,” she said. “It gives us the substance of what an officer did, versus just a description.” While this may or may not get through to officers as they’re trained in the new standards, she hopes this kind of articulation will affect how officer might be disciplined. “How hard you did something, how rough you did something will matter,” she said, “rather than: You did something that was allowed under the policy. It’s not just what you did but how you did it.” While she remains vigilant against police brutality, Calderón said she’s happy that they came to a “compromise.” Rev. Tammy Garrett-Williams, who has represented the NAACP since this process began, said she also fought to have the words “civil rights” included in the document. She thinks that will satisfy a lot of concerned people that she represents. “It was never there,” she said. “Because we got that language in there, we’re OK for right now.” Training to be updated DPD plans to overhaul their virtual reality training to address specific scenarios. “This is where a lot of the magic is going to happen,” Chief Pazen said. This is part of an effort to work around “adult-based learning tactics” that will bring officers away from dull slideshow presentations and employ
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Deidra Bates stands with her food pantry box outside of her southwest Denver home, near South Federal Boulevard and West Exposition Avenue. Bates put up the box — stocked with nonperishable food items and basic necessities — to help fill a need in her community.
Learn more about Joy’s Kitchen by visiting http://joyskitchen.org. For advice on setting up a food pantry or snack box in your neighborhood, contact Deidra Bates at 303soupgroup@gmail.com. Include `attn: Deidra’ in the subject line. pantry based in Lakewood. Joy’s Kitchen receives its food through the Food Bank of the Rockies. Bates is the volunteer assistant director for Joy’s Kitchen and has been involved with the organization for about a year and a half. Bates’ box operates on a give-andtake method, and it’s quite popular, she said, adding that she has to restock it about once a week. Burkhardt’s box has not gained that traction yet. He sees people coming and taking snacks periodically, but only has two regulars so far — one is the mailman and the other is a woman who frequently visits the park but has not made contact with Burkhardt yet. “This is not a new idea,” Bates said.
more active teaching strategies. Some of this will be in a classroom setting, but officers will also be exposed to tough situations in their VirTra V-300 simulator at Denver’s police academy. Pazen said this kind of training will allow officers to reckon with “grey areas” that the policy can’t directly address, to “make sure they understand the intent” of the document beyond what’s literally written. Community advocates were invited to watch some of this training when their oversight process began. Garrett-Williams was one, who said a scenario where a white man was threatening to throw a baby over a bridge was “traumatizing.” “I could only imagine what that scenario would have possibly been if that had been a black person,” she said. And more so, she’s concerned that this type of training won’t change behavior when it comes down to a real situation. “What you’re training on in that room doesn’t necessarily mean that’s going to be happening in the field,” she said. “There’s still people that have biases. There’s still hidden supremacy in the police department.” Calderón said the system “didn’t capture our concerns about racial profiling,” that the current scenarios focus on life-or-death situations and is blind to “daily indignities” that might occur in a less serious moment. It’s not going to be just new training tactics that make a difference. Those efforts need to be in concert with smart policy changes. If the tricky scenarios Pazen hopes to simulate are impacted by training when it comes to a real situation, Calderón hopes there will be better documentation to show change is actually taking place. She hopes the small, very literal tweaks in language that the group has proposed will lead to that kind of tracking.
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She referred to the Little Free Libraries, where people freely give and take books from stands set up like the snack boxes, and the Blessing Boxes, mini-food pantries like Bates’. Although they do not have any immediate plans to set up boxes in other communities, father and daughter
would like to see others pick up on the idea and put boxes in their neighborhoods. “We don’t always know what our neighbors are going through,” Bates said. “This is a way to reach out and give — and in return, accept help from the community.”
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CORNHOLE Most sports develop special terminology, and cornhole has its own vocabulary. These terms were obtained from Wikipedia and other various sources. • Cow pie (ace) – Bag that lands on the board and is worth one point. • Airmail – A bag that does not bounce or slide on the board but goes directly into the hole. Sometimes called a swish. • Back door or dirty rollout – A bag that goes over a blocker bag and into the hole. • Backstop – A bag that lands past the hole but creates a backboard to prevent a slider from going off the board. • Blocker – An ace or cow pie that lands in front of the hole to block the hole from a slider.
Keilan Wilbanks is an avid cornhole player who has become very proficient at the sport. He organizes a casual tournament each Wednesday evening at Reeds Southside Tavern in Lone Tree. PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON
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ou can find Keilan Wilbanks playing cornhole three or four nights a week — he practices almost daily. “It’s a social thing. You can do it outside or inside,” he said. “It’s kind of like a park game, and it’s fun to do.” Wilbanks, of Denver, is among the devotees to cornhole, a simple game that essentially requires the player to throw a corn-filled bag into a hole in a platform. The game’s popularity is growing in Colorado, and you can find people tossing bags at many sports bars, restaurants and backyards throughout the Denver metro area. “I do believe cornhole has increased in popularity,” said Denver resident Stan Mika, who plays and designs custom cornhole boards. “It’s because anyone can play no matter their age, their gender or their physical condition. It’s an easy way to be outside socializing with friends and family.” And some players, he added, say they get better after a beer or two.
“The American Cornhole Championships were recently broadcast on ESPN, which speaks to its rising popularity,” Mika said. “Kind of reminds me of the attention the U.S. curling team got after the Olympics. Cornhole is just accessible. After buying boards and bags, no extra investment is required.” A game for everyone Cornhole is a simple game that has been played in some manner for centuries. Two players (or four for doubles) take turns throwing bags filled with dried corn at a raised inclined platform with a hole at the far end. The boxes are set 27 feet apart for tournaments and usually 24 feet apart from the front of the box to box for more casual games. A bag that goes into the hole scores three points and one on the board is worth one point. Matches are broken down into innings or frames with each player throwing four bags. Any bag that touches the ground during the throw does not count. Cancellation scoring is used and the first team or player to 21 with a difference of two points is the winner. Any of a team’s or individual’s bags knocked into the hole by the opposition counts. Many contestants are adept at throwing the bags of corn while holding refreshments in their
• Cornucopia – When a player throws all four bags into the hole during one inning. This is also called a fourbagger. • Cornhole – A bag that falls into the hole, which is worth three points.
TERMINOLOGY • Flop – A type of toss that doesn’t spin horizontally or vertically. • Leprechaun – When a player lands all four bags on the board without getting any in the hole. • Screaming eagle – A bag thrown beyond the board without hitting the board. • Slippery granny – Scoring three bags in a row on the board. • Trip dip – When a player cornholes three out of four bags on a single round. • Hooker – A bag hitting the board and hooking or curving around a locker and going into the hole. • Jumper – A bag that strikes another bag on the board, causing it to jump up into the cornhole. • Sally – A toss that is thrown too weakly and lands on the ground before reaching the board. • Shucker – When a player throws a bag that strikes an opposing players’ bag, knocking it off the board.
• Dirty bag – A bag that is on the other hand. Great athletic ground or is hanging off the board and • Slider – A cornhole that slides into the hole. skills are not needed to touching the ground. play the game. Young, old, become competitive. male and female can participate ment was scheduled for Aug. 5 “It gets competitive,” said at Union Station in downtown in cornhole, a social game that Alicia Shoulder of Lone Tree. Denver, with 32 two-person allows for interaction between “It takes a little bit of practice. teams scheduled to play in chalcompetitors. lenge and competitive divisions. It’s not like super easy. When Play Mile High organizes cornhole leagues and touryou first start you are really not Origins debated naments in bars and parks that good, but you get there. It Mika, who started his own around the Denver area. A Colis just fun to play.” business that he calls The orado state tournament is set As simple as the game might for Oct.27 at Softball Country at Colorado Cornhole Guy, didn’t seem, it can get difficult at speculate on the origin of the 2101 W. 64th Avenue in southtimes for elite players, who game, which has been and will western Adams County. Plus, need to determine the correct continue to be debated. there are numerous national footwork and bag release and Many argue that ancient tournaments for singles and use speed shots, spin shots or civilizations invented cornhole doubles participants each year, stop shots. Players can grip the by tossing rocks at holes in the with increasing tourney prize bag on the side and give it back ground. Others claim Native money ranging from $36,000 to spin, or hold it flat so the bag Americans — citing the Black$68,000. lands like a pancake. hawk tribe in Illinois — filled The game, also known by “Every approved bag has a pigs’ bladders with dried beans such names as tailgate toss, slick side and sticky side,” exand tossed them competitively. bean bag toss, baggo, corn toss plained Wilbanks. “If you are Germans maintain they and bags game, is easy to play going first, you want to block started cornhole with burlap in the backyard or in parking so you use the sticky side with bags filled with a pound of corn, a higher trajectory and land it lots and tailgate gatherings to but when the price of corn keep people entertained before right in front of the hole so it swelled, the game lost popularbarbecues or games. sticks there. If you go second, ity. German immigrants began Cornhole has also started you can go with a slider, a little playing in Cincinnati during to make inroads as a charity lower trajectory and harder the 1800s where corn was abunevent. Several fundraising push to push the bag in — or dant and available. Then there tournaments have been held you have the dunker which was Kentucky farmer Jedidiah this summer. goes over the top and straight Ford Church, executive direc- McGillicuddy, who apparently in the hole. tor of the Cottonwood Institute, devised the game to play on the “It is more like a chess game. farm with friends and family. said a few years ago the educaYou have to figure out what Still, the game probably tional nonprofit organization your opponent wants to do hasn’t changed much in one decided to raise money with a first. If they are sliding people aspect because, no matter if it cornhole tournament instead you want to block them. If they is a game that involves family, of another golf tournament. are dunkers, you had better friends, a league or a tournaThis year, The Throwdown: get your bags in position to get ment, it is natural for players to them all in.” A Charity Cornhole Tourn-
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A mother of three in her 20s, she eople did not have to be wasn’t sure music would ever be a present at the Route 91 Harviable option. vest country music festival “A couple years ago, I read in Las Vegas last October — stories on Aretha Franklin and when 58 attendees were murdered Diana Ross and how they were while enjoying a concert — to be able to handle motherhood affected by the appalling and a music career,” she loss of life. COMING “As my kids started Denver musician Sarah ATTRACTIONS said. to grow and become their Snead was one of those own little humans, I realpeople who keenly felt the ized that I could actually loss of life, despite the fact make this happen and be that she’d become accusa good mom at the same tomed to tragedy. time.” “I’ve been to more funerAs one who has expeals for murder, suicide and rienced it firsthand, she overdose than I have been hopes more people come to weddings,” she said. to respect and appreciate “It’s devastating and a lot the talent in Denver’s local of guilt is wrapped up in Clarke Reader music scene. losing loved ones. After “I wish more people knew how stumbling through life for 33 years, hard musicians work to provide I asked the question, ‘Why did I entertainment. We deliver our make it and not them?’” heart and souls with the hope that The result of grappling with this you, the listener, will get lost in the question is “Wake Tomorrow,” the stories we tell,” she said. “There last — and titular — song from are so many venues and festivals her first fully produced album. to get into and I’m excited for what She posted a video of the song on happens next.” Facebook, and it started racking To learn more about Snead, visit up the views. “I want to inspire people to reach www.sarahsnead.com. out. Make those phone calls, send Jesters caper at Voodoo Comedy those text messages,” she said. Playhouse “Check in on people and ask for A lot of people (myself inhelp. If you don’t have anything cluded) fancy themselves adept at to give, just give of yourself to thinking on their feet at the drop someone in need. It will save a life, of a hat. But standing in front of maybe even yours.” a crowded room with no idea what Snead has been a believer in the you’re going to say is a whole healing power of music since she other thing. wrote her first song at 7 years old. And yet, that’s just what The Raised in a musical family, she was Jester’s Court improv group — helped along the way by a choir which features Connor “The teacher in high school and joined Jester” Hall, Paul Twarowski, her first cover band in 2008. Jillian Kudrycki, Joseph Galvin, Following a chance meeting with Jessie Hiester, Donald Kiley and The Brian Hornbuckle Band at the Soleil Kohl — makes look effortPlatte River Bar in 2014, she joined less during their performances. the Rick Lewis Project, and has The Jester’s Court will be been the lead singer ever since. spending most Fridays in August She also sings with her husband’s and September at the Voodoo group, the Michael Hornbuckle Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St. Band.
in Denver, performing its highly popular short-form improv comedy show. This adults-only event encourages audience participation, with performers creating a new show each week depending on who is in the crowd. For more information and tickets, visit www.jesterscourtcomedy. com. Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Velorama Festival at the RiNo District Denver isn’t a town particularly well-known for its music festivals. There have been some attempts over the years, and the brand new Grandoozy festival in September aims to change this track record, but for now it’s the smaller festivals that make the city home. The Underground Music Showcase (UMS) took over downtown just a few weeks ago, and now the Velorama Festival will be in the booming RiNo District, 27th and Blake streets in Denver, from Friday, Aug. 17 through Sunday, Aug. 19. This year’s festival mostly skews toward indie and alt-rock, with well-established acts like Modest Mouse and Cold War Kids headlining while genre stalwarts like Hop Along and Rainbow Kitten Surprise open. In addition to the music, Ve-
lorama also features games, art installations, exhibitors, and of course, food trucks and beer. Single-day tickets are available now, so head to www.veloramafestival.com to get yours now Appreciate cars for a cause Supporting first responders is a cause that practically everyone can get behind, and when classic cars get added to the mix, it’s difficult to say no. Lodo’s Bar and Grill, 8545 S. Quebec St. in Highlands Ranch, will be hosting a Car Show for First Responders from 2 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 18. Attendees can vote for their favorite cars, try special drinks and dance to live music. Best of all, proceeds for every ticket purchase and car registration go directly to Lodo’s First Responder Charity Partners: the Colorado Professional Fire Fighters Foundation and the Colorado Police Officers Foundation. For tickets, visit www.nightout. com/events/lodos-car-show-forfirst-responders/tickets. Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. A community editor with Colorado Community Media, he can be reached creader@coloradocommunitymedia.com.
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Assistance League reopens thrift shop STAFF REPORT
Assistance League of Denver has reopened its popular thrift shop at a new location, 6265 E. Evans Ave., Suite 15, Denver. The programs operated by Assistance League of Denver — such as the Hospital Equipment Lending Program (H.E.L.P.), Operation School Bell, Assault Survivor Kits and more — depend on the thrift shop, the central fundraiser for the
league. In conjunction with the store’s opening July 27, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock proclaimed the day Assistance League Denver Day. Donations of gently used items can be dropped off during business hours, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Learn more at assistanceleague. org/denver or call 303-322.5205.
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Supermarkets could upend current liquor landscape Change in law makes future look dicey for small retailers BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Linda Abreu, of Castle Rock, walked to the parking lot on a recent weekday with a full grocery cart — the typical milk, eggs, cereal boxes and frozen dinners — and a couple bottles of wine, because, she said, it was on sale. “It’s definitely a nice change,” Abreu said, “that now I can buy wine with my cheese.” At the King Soopers on Promenade Parkway in Castle Rock, one of a handful across the state offering a full liquor section for the first time ever, shoppers have already embraced the ability to buy full-strength beer, wine and liquor whlie shopping for groceries. In just a few aisles, the store displays countless types of craft beer. Shoppers casually perused the expansive collection of wine with carts full of bread and cheese. This new convenience, stemming from the largest change in the state’s liquor laws since the end of Prohibition in 1933, has already become routine for some. Bill launched changes In 2017, stores like King Soopers,
At a Safeway in Littleton, full-strength beer and liquor is being sold following SB-197. The law allows a maximum of five liquor licenses to store chains in Colorado, under certain parameters. NICK PUCKETT Safeway and Costco were able to open liquor sections under certain restrictions. Senate Bill 197, passed in 2016, allowed for retailers to sell liquor once they obtained two liquor licenses and bought out every liquor store within 1,500 feet.
In a municipality with a population of 10,000 or fewer, liquor-licensed stores must buy out all retail liquor stores within 3,000 feet. Starting in January 2019, the landscape will change even more. SB-243, passed in spring of this year, referred
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Undrafted running back making his mark with Broncos John Elway’s much-celebrated 2018 draft class is turning heads at the Broncos’ training camp, particularly ex-SMU receiver Courtland Sutton, a secondround pick whose spectacular catches have become a daily occurrence. Big applauses also greet draft picks Bradley Chubb, Josey Jewell and DaeSean Hamilton along with another rookie who went undrafted. Phillip Lindsay, a 5-foot-8, 180-pound running back who was born in Denver, grew up in Aurora, attended Denver South High School and the University of Colorado and is drawing praises from coaches and teammates. “No. 2 has shown explosion,” coach Vance Joseph said, referring to the rookie by his jersey number. “He’s a shifty little back,’’ said linebacker Todd Davis. “He can definitely make people miss.” “We’re definitely going to have some things planned for Phillip,” predicted Von Miller, who sees Lindsay carving a niche in a diverse backfield that includes veteran Devontae Booker, second-year speedster De’Angelo Henderson and rookie draft picks Royce Freeman of Oregon and David Williams of Arkansas. Lindsay is leading the way in plays that draw reactions from the crowd. “Guys like that in the league, you just can’t cover them,” Miller said. “They’re just assets to the offense. You have to have a back like that and we definitely have one.” Uninvited to the NFL combine and bypassed on draft weekend, Lindsay signed a contract with his hometown team that would pay him $480,000 this season and included a $15,000 signing bonus. By comparison, Freeman’s signing bonus was $997,020 and Williams’ was $93,900.
A Colorado alum himself, Joseph was no stranger to Lindsay’s talents. “It’s hard to believe he didn’t go to the combine,” Joseph said. “Obviously he’s a Buff, so I’ve watched Phillip for three years as a starter in a major conference. He was a great player. We were all surprised he didn’t go to the combine, and obviously signing him as a free agent was tough because we drafted two backs. We pursued him heavy and he stayed home.” Lindsay’s college coach, Mike MacIntyre, said he has no doubt his former pupil will make it in the NFL because of his versatility, tenacity and willingness to make the most of any morsel of playing time he gets. “In college he covered kicks, returned kicks, he could play on all four big phases,” MacIntyre said. “And then he’s a guy that can catch the ball really well, so he could be a third-down back. He’s a guy that could block well, could run well, so when you take him to the game, even if he doesn’t play a lot of running back early, he’s going to play a lot of plays for you. So he’s valuable for you as a coaching staff and a team. “He’ll be the special team coaches’ dream, I promise you that.” MacIntyre got that right. “I love Phillip,” Broncos special teams coordinator Tom McMahon declared. “Phillip works his butt off.’’ He garnered the nickname “Tasmanian Devil” in college because of the frenetic energy he brings to the team as the undersized underdog he’s been all his life. “I always bring a chip on my shoulder, not because I’m mad but because I know what I have to do,’’ Lindsay said. “For me, I’m a running back that’s 5-8 and 190 pounds and I have to go and get my respect for the NFL now.’’ It’s nothing new. “I mean, since when have I not been the underdog?’’ Lindsay said.
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The bill also clarifies that local jurisdictions have authority over what is allowed in their public places and outlaws new liquor stores to be built within 500 feet of a school. State Sen. Chris Holbert, a Republican from the Parker area, a sponsor of SB-243, said these policies came from a history of phased-in approaches. It began in 2008, when Gov. Bill Ritter signed a bill allowing liquor to be sold on Sundays. “The grocery stores were left with 3.2 (percent alcohol content) beer, where people only 21 and older could buy it. They could buy it seven days a week, but nobody wanted it,” Holbert said. “So the grocery stores have been fighting for the opportunity to sell full-strength beer, and that change occurred with Senate Bill 197 in 2016.” The King Soopers in Castle Rock is just one of a few retailers selling liquor already, a list that includes select Target, Costco and Safeway stores. As of 2017, grocery store chains were limited to five fully licensed locations. In 2022 they will be allowed eight, 13 in 2027 and 20 in 2032. By 2037 there will be no limit to the number of licenses a chain can obtain. It will be something for longtime Coloradans to get used to. Colorado is just one of five states — Utah, Kansas, Minnesota and Oklahoma are the others — still selling just 3.2 beer in its stores. Chris Howes, president of the Colorado Retail Council, said the demand for new laws
can be somewhat attributed to the influx of people moving to Colorado, people who are used to being able to have craft beer on their grocery lists already. “I think customer demand will finally bring what we consider a very normal environment to Colorado,” Howes said, “but we’ll take this first step with craft beer because it’s delicious and customers want to buy it.” Competition heightens Once more grocers begin selling fullstrength beer, wine and spirits, small liquor store owners will need to adapt to new, much larger competitors. Jeanne McEvoy, CEO of the Colorado Licensed Beverage Association, a statewide representative of familyowned liquor stores, said there will be an estimated 2,000 full-strength beer competitors in the market come 2019. “That’s an immediate, significant change to the competitive landscape,” McEvoy said. “Now we have to figure out what might be most beneficial to assist liquor stores in adapting to this change.” With the beer bill kicking in next year, liquor store owners have already begun anticipating their next moves. Some will expand, others will downsize, according to McEvoy. Several others still don’t know much about the new laws in the first place. And as the craft beer market will expand to grocery stores, smaller liquor stores will need to learn how to adapt. McEvoy said the CBLA predicts a 30 percent decrease in “bread-and-butter” beer sales from local liquor retailers, sale of popular beers like Coors, Bud-
‘What has happened in Colorado ... is people getting used to shopping at chains. And chains getting deeper pockets than mom-and-pop stores, and it’s hard to ward them off.’ Carolyn Joy, owner of Joy Wine and Spirits
weiser and Corona. “That’s what keeps the lights on and the bills paid,” McEvoy said. “I think their purchasing may change and the number of craft beers they might be able to offer. You’ve got to have the money to buy it. Bottles and cans on the shelves don’t make you any money. It’s the (beer) walking out the door.”
lyn Joy, owner of Joy Wine and Spirits in Denver, visited local liquor stores to see what she should expect in the coming years. She does this whenever she goes to different markets. This time, her daughter was visiting a few colleges in the Bay Area. What she found was something she worried Colorado would turn into — or has already begun turning into. The smaller liquor stores were less impressive and more run-down while the chains prospered. Some smaller stores did well, but typically in neighborhoods with a high population density and not much competition surrounding it. “What has happened in Colorado, in my opinion, is people getting used to shopping at chains,” Joy said. “And chains getting deeper pockets than mom-and-pop stores and it’s hard to ward them off.” Joy’s fears of what may occur in Colorado echo much of the same sentiment from smaller liquor store owners. Some stores will be forced to close as a result of the new competition, and other stores will survive, be it because of the store’s location, ties to the community, customer service or selection. Joy acknowledged the consumer still stands to benefit from the change, but said it might not be as convenient as some may believe. “In the long run,” she said, “sometimes, is it really convenient if you go to a place where you don’t have to wait in line and you get what you really want and you have a parking spot and they’re friendly and you’re supporting the community?”
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DISTRICT COURT, DENVER COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: 1437 Bannock Street Denver, CO 80202 Court Phone: 720-865-8301 PLAINTIFF: LOWRY COMMUNITY MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC. v. DEFENDANTS: JAMES D. GARNETT; RUSHMORE LOAN MANAGEMENT SERVICES LLC; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; and DEB JOHNSON AS PUBLIC TRUSTEE OF DENVER COUNTY Attorney: Kate M. Leason, Reg No. 41025 Jeffrey B. Smith, Reg No. 40490 Firm: HindmanSanchez P.C. Address: 555 Zang Street, Suite 100 Lakewood, Colorado 80228-1011 Phone Number: 303.432.8999 E-mails: kleason@hindmansanchez.com jsmith@hindmansanchez.com Our File No.: 8384.0298 Case No.: 2018CV030830 Div: 209
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This is an action to quiet the title of disputed parcels between 2115 W. 28th Ave and 2821 Umatilla St., Denver, CO 80211 Dated: July 24, 2018 /s/Dustin J. Klein #45074 Attorney for Plaintiffs Legal Notice No.: 8590 First Publication: August 2, 2018. Last Publication: August 31, 2018. Published in Denver Herald Dispatch
SUMMONS THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of Plaintiff, as set forth in the Complaint filed with the Court in this action, by filing with the Clerk of this Court an Answer or other response. You are required to file your Answer or other response within twenty-one (21) days after service upon you if within the State of Colorado, or within thirty-five (35) days after service upon you if outside the State of Colorado or if served by publication pursuant to C.R.C.P. 4(g). If served by publication, service shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the Complaint may be obtained from the Clerk of the Court. If you fail to file your Answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within the time required, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint without further notice. This is an action affecting the real property described in the Complaint and is a proceeding in rem as well as a proceeding in personam. Dated: March 2, 2018 Respectfully submitted, HINDMANSANCHEZ P.C. Original signature of Kate M. Leason is on file with the law offices of HindmanSanchez P.C. pursuant to C.R.C.P. 121, §1-26(7). /s/ Kate M. Leason Kate M. Leason, #41025 Jeffrey B. Smith, #40490 555 Zang Street, Suite 100 Lakewood, Colorado 80228-1011 303.432.8999 Attorneys for Plaintiff Lowry Community Master Association, Inc. Address of Plaintiff: Lowry Community Master Association, Inc. c/o Management Specialists-Westminster 11002 Benton Street Westminster, CO 80020 Legal Notice No.: 8586 First Publication: July 26, 2018 Last Publication: August 23, 2018 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, CITY & COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO 1437 Bannock St. Denver, CO 8020311 Plaintiff: ANGUS ROBERTSON and LESLIE ROBERTSON v. Defendants: MARTHA WERTZ; and ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS ACTION. ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF: Dustin J. Klein, Atty. Reg. No. 45074 THE CULPEPPER LAW FIRM, P.C 1900 Grant St., Ste. 1110 Denver, Colorado 80203 dklein@culpepperlaw.us Telephone: 800.909.3539; Fax: 800.909.3734 Case Number: 18CV31537
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