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Salute America’s veterans with the Palmer Lake Star on Nov. 11 By Jack Anthony For the Tribune

The Palmer Lake Volunteer Fire Depart-ment and the American Legion Post 9-11 invite front range citizens to come celebrate America’s veterans with a special star shine ceremony at the base of Sundance Mountain on Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 5:15 p.m. The star will be lit at 5:25 p.m. The ceremony will feature veter-ans who will lead a countdown to activate the Palmer Lake star and have it shine throughout the night in honor of Veterans Day.

Those who wish to take part in this “Sa-lute and Shine for Veterans” event can park at Palmer Lake Elementary School and walk north on High Street two blocks, then west on Glenarm Street, one block. Participants are asked to bring a fl ashlight for safety.

Come celebrate the veterans and help bring the Palmer Lake star to life with a patri-otic countdown. The Palmer Lake star is the world’s largest outdoor illuminated star and has shined since 1935. Veterans Day is a very special occasion to employ the star as a salute to those who ensured our freedom.

Also, be sure to mark Saturday, Nov. 29 on your family calendar. The annual chili supper and kickoff of the Palmer Lake star Christmas will occur this evening at the town hall. The fi re department will have a chili supper and other activities. Starting this fi rst Saturday after Thanksgiving, the star will shine every night until New Years’ Day.

For more information, call Jack at 719-205-1741.

LEFT: The star from the Little Log Church in Palmer Lake. Photo by Jack An-thony ABOVE: The Palmer Lake Star is the world’s largest outdoor illuminated star and has shined since 1935. Photo by Bill Benson

Tri-Lakes YMCA to get brand new health, wellness equipment Expanded health and wellness area expected to be completed Nov. 10 By Danny Summers [email protected]

If you’ve driven by the Tri-Lakes YMCA anytime over the last eight or nine months, you know that a giant construction project is going on adjacent to building. It is called the Tri-Lakes Health Pavilion and will benefi t the YMCA greatly.

There is also quite a bit of construction hap-pening inside the YMCA, which is changing the overall look and feel of the place.

The health and wellness area, especially, is un-dergoing a major transformation. This weekend, dozens of new ellipticals, stair masters, treadmills and other equipment will be installed. The old equipment is being sold or sent to other YMCA’s and health clubs.

“The expansion should be fi nished by Nov. 10,” said Heather Steinman, executive director of the Tri-Lakes YMCA. “Ninety percent of our equip-ment will be new.”

The health and wellness portion of the YMCA will close at noon on Nov. 7 and won’t reopen until the morning of Nov. 10. The gym and pool will re-

The Tri-Lakes YMCA has four parking spaces for its disabled drivers near its front entrance with sign posts that indicate where those spaces are. Photos by Danny Summers

The Tri-Lakes YMCA health and wellness area will get brand new equipment in early November as part of its makeover and expansion. The Tri-Lakes YMCA is undergoing major makeover to the health and wellness portion of the facility.

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Post 9-11 to take part in Veterans Day ParadeEvent scheduled for Nov. 8 in Colorado Springs

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The 2014 Veterans Day Parade will be held in Colorado Springs on Nov. 8. Post 9-11 will have several of its members march in the event.

The Post, which is based in Palmer Lake, will meet in downtown Colorado Springs and form up at the corner of Te-

jon Street and Williamette Avenue short-ly before 9 a.m.

Post 9-11 is entry number 17, which is supposed to be near to the front of the parade.

Post 9-11 is asking that those par-ticipating in the parade dress in mili-tary uniform or Black jacket, grey slacks white shirt and tie.

The following members of the Post have volunteered to take part in the pa-rade.

Dan Beatty, Post Flag Bearer

Mike Christensen, Nation Emblem Flag Bearer

Ron Carlisle, Drill Sergeant — Orga-nizer

Tony Van Beck, Driver — Fire EngineFrank Escolopio, U.S. Army Flag Bear-

er Deputy OrganizerRay Kinder, U.S. Marine Flag BearerBill Miller, U.S. Navy Flag BearerVern Kuckendahl, U.S. Air Force Flag

BearerJim Bergenron, POW/DIA Flag BearerKaren Hartling, Fire Truck Passenger

John Hartling, Flag Party — relief if re-quired

Terri Carver, Flag PartyRon Carlisle, Drill Sergeant and Cer-

emonial ChairEscolopio has been called upon to

collect the flags and the flag holders from the Depot in Palmer Lake and return them afterwards.

Post members are respectfully re-minded that under no circumstances is candy to be thrown from the vehicle or by flag party members into the crowd.

The new Tri-Lakes Health Pavilion is scheduled to open next to the Tri-Lakes YMCA in December. The entrance to the YMCA will change at that time. Photo by Danny Summers

main open.Steinman added that in addition to new

equipment being brought in and installed, her staff will have to get trained on how to op-erate the machines.

“There will be a lot of high tech machines with diskettes and it will take us a little time to get trained,” she said.

Steinman anticipates hiring additional staff.

The YMCA and new health pavilion will have a shared lobby. That means that the en-trance to the YMCA will also change.

The new lobby won’t be completed until later this month or December.

“When people come here they will ei-ther go right to go to the YMCA or left to the health pavilion,” Steinman said.

The health pavilion is supposed to be completed in December. At some point there will be a grand opening and dedica-tion, but a date has not been confirmed.

“There’s a lot going on because there are a lot of moving phases to this project,” Steinman said. “As long as people don’t mind the dust we’ll stay open.”

Kevin Jones of Monument works out at the YMCA several days per week and has not found the construction to be a prob-lem.

“Anytime you have improvements it’s good,” Jones said. “Everybody is excited about the changes.”

Despite construction workers walk-ing around the YMCA with hard hats, the sound of drilling and occasional tools to avoid, Jones said the overall experience has been pleasant.

“Everybody knows it’s for the improve-ment and the betterment,” Jones said. “You deal with the change and when the project is done this will be very nice.

“You can tell the environment is clean and it’s not dangerous. It’s OK.”

The Tri-Lakes Health Pavilion is part of the bigger YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region, which is partnering with Penrose-St. Fran-cis Health Services and The Boldt Co.

The new, 50,000-sqaure-foot addition to the Tri-Lakes YMCA will serve as a central hub to provide a full range of health and wellness services to the community-at-large.

“The goal is to have a great partnership with all the medical people, Steinman said.

Tri-Lakes Health Pavilion Providers will Include: Centura Health; Urgent Care Tri-Lakes; Physician Group Tri Lakes Primary Care; Physician Group Tri-Lakes Behavior-al Health; Physical Therapy Tri-Lakes; Cen-ters for Occupational Medicine; Tri-Lakes Café and Bistro; Colorado Sports and Spine Center; Colorado Laboratory Services; PENRAD Imaging; Mountain View Medical Group; and Academy Women’s Healthcare Associates.

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Review of El Paso County Sheri� ’s O� ce completed Investigation con� rms inappropriate relationships linked to preferential treatment Sta� report

An independent investigation into employment-related complaints from employees of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office has been completed, and investi-gators say inappropriate relationships were linked to preferential treatment.

An overview of the employment com-plaints investigation was presented to El Paso county Commissioners and made public last week. Investigators confirm:

• That Sheriff Maketa engaged in inap-propriate relationships with three female subordinates resulting in preferential treatment that allowed those individuals to disregard El Paso County Sheriff’s Of-fice Policies and Procedures, abuse leave policies, ignore use of county property policies, chain of command procedures and the internal affairs process.

• That Maketa and Undersheriff Paula Presley inappropriately attempted to influence internal affairs investigations and failed follow EPSO policies for initi-ating and conducting internal affairs in-vestigations.

• That Maketa and Presley, without good cause, opened an internal affairs investigation and a criminal investiga-tion into an alleged missing internal af-fairs file on a former EPSO employee.

• That Presley refused to cooperate with investigators and declined to be in-terviewed.

To date, the county has received no-tices of intent to file suit from nine cur-

rent or former Sheriff’s Office employees. As of this date, none of these notices of intent to file have resulted in lawsuits ac-tually being filed with the courts.

In addition to and separate from the notices of intent, there have been three Equal Employment Opportunity Com-mission complaints filed and those are

under investigation with-in that agency. Any ques-tions about those com-plaints must be directed to the EEOC.

As a result of informa-tion received during the course of the employment investigation and the first phase of the RubinBrown financial review the board

of county commissioners has directed the county attorney’s office to coordinate with the incoming Sheriff on improve-ments and changes including:

• A prior review of all adverse employ-ment actions by the county attorney’s of-fice before they take place

• Providing employees with the ability to petition the county attorney for review prior to adverse employment actions.

It has also affirmed requirements that all county related bank accounts be es-tablished through the county treasurer’s office and subject to all El Paso County audit and review procedures. One EPSO account has already been moved by offi-cial BoCC Resolution and another is un-dergoing audit review.

The board of county commissioners applauds the public statements issued by the incoming sheriff in which he has pledged to move forward with adherence to nationally accepted best practices and work together with county attorneys and county administration to assure that sheriff’s office employees are treated

fairly.While the board directs its attorneys

to protect taxpayers by defending vigor-ously against all frivolous lawsuits, the focus now is on moving forward to over-come hard feelings and heal old wounds so the hard working and dedicated em-ployees of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office can do the best job possible to en-sure public safety.

The office of the sheriff is an indepen-dent statutory office under Colorado law and the board of county commissioners has no ability to remove a sitting elected official. However, the board of county commissioners does have statutory re-sponsibility for the oversight of all coun-ty finances as well as all county owned property, facilities and equipment.

The board of El Paso County commis-sioners engaged the law firm of Sherman and Howard to initiate the investigation on May 13, after receiving a letter on May 12 that cited various employment related complaints from three com-manders within the sheriff’s office. This was the first official employee complaint the BoCC received concerning the EPSO and Sheriff Terry Maketa. The law firm of Sherman and Howard, which has exten-sive expertise in employment, law was retained to protect the rights of employ-ees involved, review and investigate the allegations and prepare for any possible future litigation against El Paso County.

On May 29, the board of county com-missioners, acting unanimously, cited concerns that distractions and disrup-tions within the sheriff’s office compro-mised the functionality of the office and asked Sheriff Terry Maketa to resign im-mediately.

At the direction of the board of county commissioners, the county put in place procedures aimed at preventing retalia-

tion against employees who complained and securing data and records which could be useful to investigators. Those procedures included county attorney re-view of all payroll change requests com-ing from the sheriff’s office and securing computer hard drives which may have contained relevant communications. Ad-ditionally, the County Attorney’s Office took steps to monitor of the use of Inter-nal Affairs (IA) investigations and provid-ing direction related IA investigations.

A complete report on the employ-ment complaints investigation cannot be made public at this time because of pending litigation and at the request of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation which is conducting a criminal investi-gation on behalf of the district attorney’s office. During the course of the investi-gation into the employment related com-plaints, interviewers from the Mountain States Employers Council conducted six-ty six interviews and reviewed hundreds of pages of documents. Former Colorado Springs Police Chief Lorne Kramer was also engaged as an expert with extensive experience in law enforcement investiga-tions and command for the specific pur-poses of reviewing certain EPSO person-nel practices, Internal Affairs procedures and outcomes.

Most employees and former employ-ees of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office who were contacted by MSEC cooperat-ed with interviewers but some declined their requests and refused to cooperate. Law enforcement agencies and District Attorneys by law have additional inves-tigatory tools including subpoena power, the ability to apply for and execute war-rants and district attorneys have the au-thority to convene a grand jury and com-pel witnesses to testify.

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Women who care help others New Tri-Lakes organization hands out � rst check By Norma Engelberg Contributing writer

HOPE Retreats, an organization that provides retreats for women recovering from breast cancer, was the first recipi-ent of money donated by members of the Tri-Lakes 100+ Women Who Care or-ganization.

Although the group doesn’t have 100 members yet, one of the new organiza-

tion’s founders, Karen Stensland, is con-fident that the group will grow. Other founders include Cathy Green Sinnard, Heather Buchman, Donna Andersen-VanNess and Jean Harris.

“We are a group of women who get together twice a year,” she said. “At each meeting we each write a check for $100. Once the checks clear through the Tri-Lakes Community Foundation, all the money is pooled and it all goes to the organization we choose. These organi-zations don’t have to be nonprofits.”

100+ Women Who Care put their money where their hearts are. “This is our own personal money,” Stensland said. “There’s no other fundraising in-volved.”

The organization’s mission is “To Be The Change We Wish to See In Our Com-munity. $100 at a time.”

Besides donating the funds, mem-bers also nominate the charitable orga-nizations then choose three of them for consideration. Each of the three organi-zations gets to send someone to speak at the meeting before members vote on the winner.

“At our first meeting (on Oct. 15) we had 23 members so HOPE Retreats re-ceived $2,300,” Stensland said. “There were only three nominees so we gave each of them an opportunity to speak. The vote was really close.”

The other nominees were Tri-Lakes Views, which provides public-art and

the Monument Sculpture Park, and Tri-Lakes Cares, which provides a food pan-try and assistance for those in need.

There are other 100+ Women’s groups across the United States, including a group in Colorado Springs. Most of these groups meet four times a year, Stensland said, adding that the Tri-Lakes group will be adding more meet-ings as it adds more members.

“We’re open to new members who live in or care about the Tri-Lakes area,” she said.

The Tri-Lakes Community Founda-tion was formed and received its non-profit status in 2010. The foundation acts in a fiduciary capacity for 100+ Women. Its mission is “to serve as a re-source for not-for-profit organizations in the Tri-Lakes area. Its further goal is to support and help facilitate public projects and events to benefit the com-munity.”

In the past few years the Foundation has supported the Transportation 59 initiative, the Crawford Memorial Proj-ect, Tri-Lakes Family Health Fair and Tri-lakes Views.

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Colorado College volunteers to plant trees in Black Forest Regional Park CSFS and RMFI provide the trees, equipment and supervision Sta� report

Colorado College, Rocky Mountain Field Institute and Colorado State Forest Service will come together for a project to plant 100 trees in Black Forest Regional Park on Nov. 7.

“This is another example of organizations joining together to improve our local parks and quality of life as we continue to heal and restore our community

after the fire,” said Commissioner Darryl Glenn, who represents District 1, where Black Forest Regional Park is located.

Colorado College students, faculty and alumni have volunteered to plant the trees in an event called Colo-rado College Alumni Climate Forum Community Ser-vice Event: Tree Planting for Watershed Restoration and Carbon Sequestration.

Colorado State Forest Service has provided 100 seedling trees, suitable for the location in the park that was burned in the Black Forest Fire of 2013. The dona-tion comes from its Project Learning Tree grant pro-gram. The PLT will also provide deer guards and poles to protect the seedling trees.

Rocky Mountain Field Institute has worked with the Black Forest Regional Park to identify the area where

restoration is needed. RMFI will supervise the plant-ing and will provide the necessary equipment for the planting teams.

The tree planting is part of the Colorado College Climate Workshop 2014 that aims to connect students with parents and alumni who are working in climate related careers.

“The purpose of this event is to provide a meaning-ful community service activity in conjunction with the Alumni Climate Forum,” said Mark Smith, Colorado College Professor of Economics. “Planting trees will al-low students, alumni and faculty to work side by side in a project that improves the environmental quality in the community as well as help to protect the local watershed by restoring burned areas, reducing erosion and potential flooding.”

CLUBS IN YOUR COMMUNITY EDITOR’S NOTE: To add or update a club listing, e-mail [email protected].

ProfessionalPIKES PEAK Workforce Center offers monthly classes on topics such as resume writing, interview skills and more. Workshops are free and take place at the main office, 1675 Garden of the Gods Road, Suite 1107, Colorado Springs. Call 719-667-3730 or go to www.ppwfc.org.

TRI-LAKES BUSINESS Networking International meets from 8-9:30 a.m. every Wednesday at the Mozaic Inn in Palmer Lake. Call Elizabeth Bryson at 719-481-0600 or e-mail [email protected].

TRI-LAKES CHAMBER Business After Hours meets from 5-7 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at various locations. Free to mem-bers; $10 for non-members. Call 719 481-3282 or go to www.trilakescham-ber.com.

TRI-LAKES CHAMBER Business Networking Group meets at 7:30 a.m. the first and third Thursday at Willow Tree Cafe, 140 2nd St., Monument. New members welcome. If District 38 is delayed or cancelled, their will be no meeting. Yearly membership dues are $20. Call 719 481-3282 or go to www.trilakeschamber.com.

WOODMOOR BUSINESS Group Meeting is the second Monday of every month from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Woodmoor Barn, 1691 Woodmoor Dr. We are Woodmoor residents offering products and services to the community. New members welcome. For more information, call Bobbi Doyle at 719-331-3003 or go to www.woodmoorbusinessgroup.com.

RecreationAMATEUR RADIO Operators, W0TLM (Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Radio Association), meets the third Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Tri-Lakes Monutemnt Fire Protection District Station 1, 18650 Hwy 105. All Amateur Radio Operators are welcome. Call Joyce Witte at 488-0859 for more information.

ADULT RECREATIONAL and intermediate pick up vol-leyball is at Lewis-Palmer Middle School every Monday from 7-9 p.m. Call Claudia at 719-313-6662 for details.

BINGO BY the Tri-Lakes American Legion Post 9-11 is conducted from 7 to 9 p.m. every Saturday at the Post home, Depot Restaurant in Palmer lake. Proceeds are dedicated to Scholarship and community support activities of the Post. At least 70 percent of the game sales are awarded in prizes, and free food drawings are conducted. Doors open at 6 p.m. and all are invited for the fun, food, and prizes. See www.americanlegiontrilakespost911.com/bingo.htm for more information.

BIG RED Saturday Market. Fresh vegetables and fruit, bakery items, local honey, crafts, jewelry, pet stuff and more are for sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Saturday at the Big Red Saturday market at Second and Jefferson streets in Monument. The money benefits Lewis-Palmer community schools.

FRIENDS OF Monument Preserve is a nonprofit organization that works to keep trails rideable and hikeable in the Monument Preserve Area. Meetings are at 7 p.m. every third Wednesday at the Monument Fire Center. Trail work is done at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday in the summer months. Contact [email protected] or Chris at 719-488-9850.

GENTLE YOGA with Nancy Stannard is offered at 5:30 p.m. Wednes-days, and at 10:30 a.m. Saturdays. Safe, fun and accessible for all. Flexibility, breathing, balance and gentle strengthening. Yoga 101 for beginners also available. Contact Nancy Stannard [email protected] for details and to attend first class.

THE PIKES Peak chapter of Pheasants Forever meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of every month (except June, August and Sep-

tember) at the Colorado Division of Wildlife Training Classroom in the back of the building at 4255 Sinton Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80970.

PIKES PEAK Jugglers is an informal group of jugglers ranging in skill from beginners to professionals. The group meets weekly, from 3:30-5 p.m. Sundays, at the downtown YMCA. This is a free activity, and one does not need to be a member to participate. All those with a fun attitude are invited to join. Call 719-477-9978.

THE VAILE Museum, 66 Lower Glenway, is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays year-round and from 1-4 p.m. Wednesdays from June through August. Groups by appointment are accepted. Call 719-559-0837.

VINI E Crostini, 6 flight wine tasting paired with moZaic tasty bites is at 5 p.m the first Saturday of the month at 443 S. Highway 105, Palmer Lake. Cost is $40 per person.

SocialTHE BLACK Forest AARP Chapter meets from 1-4 p.m. the fourth Wednesday of each month at Black Forest Lutheran Church, 12455 Black Forest Road. No membership, no dues, no obligations; just an op-portunity to get together and socialize. Some individuals play dominoes, others work on their needlework or other projects that they bring, and some just watch and talk. Light snacks and coffee and lemonade are furnished. The Black Forest AARP Chapter 1100 sponsors the Senior Social but you do not have to be a chapter member to attend. All ages are invited. Bring a friend Call the church office at 719-495-2221.

THE CENTURIAN Daylight Lodge No 195 A.F and A.M meets at 7 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month. Eastern Star meets 7:30 p.m. the first and third Tuesdays. Both groups meet at 18275 Furrow Road. Call 719-488-9329.

COALITION OF Tri-Lakes Communities. Call John Heiser at 719-488-9031 or go to www.CoalitionTLC.org.

COLORADO MOUNTED Rangers Troop “I” is looking for volunteers. The troop meets at 7 p.m. the first Friday of the month at the Colorado Springs Police Department, Gold Hill Division, 955 W. Moreno Ave, Colorado Springs. Visit https://coloradoranger.org/index.php/troops/troop-i or email [email protected]

GIRL SCOUTING offers opportunities for girls ages 5-17 to make friends, learn new skills and challenge themselves in a safe and nurturing environment. Call 719-597-8603.

GLENEAGLE SERTOMA Club luncheon meeting is every Wednesday at 11:45 a.m., at Liberty Heights, 12105 Ambassador Drive, Colo-rado Springs, 80921. Call Garrett Barton at 719-433-5396 or Bob Duckworth at 719-481-4608, or visit www.sertoma.org.

HISTORY BUFFS meets at Monument Library from 1-3 p.m. the first Wednesday of every month.

ITALIAN CLUB If you love family, socializing and culture, then membership in Sons of Italy is right for you. Membership is open to men and women. More information at www.sonsofitalypp.com.

KIWANIS CLUB of Monument Hill, a service club dedicated to provid-ing assistance to those less fortunate in the Tri-Lakes community, meets 8 a.m. Saturdays at The Inn at Palmer Divide, 443 Colo. 105. Join us for breakfast, great fellowship and informative programs, and come be a part of the opportunity to give back to your community. Visit http://monument-hillkiwanis.org; call 719-4871098; e-mail [email protected]

LEGACY SERTOMA dinner meetings are at 6:30 p.m. the second and fourth Thursdays monthly at Monument Country Club. New members and visitors welcome. Call Ed Kinney, 481-2750.

MOMS IN Touch prayer groups meet, by school, throughout the school district for one hour each week to support the children, their teachers, the

schools and administration through prayer. Call Judy Ehrlich at 719-481-1668.

THE MONUMENT Homemakers Club meets the first Thursday of every month at the Tri-Lakes Fire Department Administrative Building, 166 Second Street, Monument. Arrive at 11:30 a.m. to prepare for a noon potluck, program, and business meeting, which ends around 1:30 p.m. Newcomers are welcome. Call Irene Walters, Co-President, at 719-481-1188 for Jean Sanger, Co-President, at 719-592-9311 for reservations.

MOUNT HERMAN 4-H Club meets at 7 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month at Grace Best Elementary. There are no meetings in June, July and August. Anyone interested in pursuing animal projects, archery, cooking, sewing, model rocketry, woodworking or just about any hobby is welcome. A new member meeting is the third Thursday in October.

THE PALMER Lake Art Group meets on the second Saturday of the month at the group’s Vaile Hill Gallery, 118 Hillside Road. Call 719-488-8101 for information.

PALMER DIVIDE Quiltmakers meets at 7 p.m. the first Thursday of each month at The Church at Woodmoor. Contact Carolyn at 719-488-9791 or [email protected].

THE PIKES Peak Branch of the National League of American Pen Women offers information by calling 719-532-0021.

PIKES PEAK Women’s Connection meets the second Thursday of the month for a luncheon at the Clarion Hotel Downtown, 314 W. Bijou St., Colorado Springs. Social time begins at 11:30 a.m., with luncheon and program from noon to 1:30 p.m. Free preschool childcare is available with a reservation; $16 inclusive. Call 719-495-8304 for reservations or information. All women are welcome.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN Chapter, 1st Cavalry Division Meeting is at 9 a.m. the second Saturday of every month at the Retired Enlisted Association, 834 Emory Circle, Colorado Springs. We are a non-political, nonprofit soldier’s and veteran’s fraternity. Anyone who has been assigned or attached to the 1st Cavalry Division anytime, anywhere, is eligible for membership. Friends of the Cav who have not served with the Division are eligible for Associate membership. We are family orientated so please bring significant other. We participate in local parades, do food shelf, picnics, Christmas party. Come join us for great camaraderie, make new friends, possibly meet old friends from the First Team. Contact Paul at 719-687-1169 or Al at 719-689-5778.

ROTARY CLUB of InterQuest meets at 4:46 p.m. Thursdays at Liberty Heights at Northgate, 12105 Ambassador Drive (Voyager Parkway and Celestial Drive) in Colorado Springs. Guest always welcome. Serve with inter-grity, love our community and have fun. Call Scott Allen at 719-338-7939.

SILENT SPRINGS Social Group is a social group for hard of hearing and deaf adults. Sign language users are welcome. Dining out at local restaurants, potlucks and community activities are available on an ongoing basis. Call 719-487-9009 or e-mail [email protected].

TAI CHI in the Park meets from 9-10 a.m. Saturdays in Big Red Park (behind the District 38 building in Monument). Limited instruction will be offered to those who do not know tai chi. Club is a way to get people together to introduce them to tai chi, and for those who already know it to have a time and place to meet one another. Club is free to join. Instructors from White Crane Tai Chi will help through warm-up, session and warm down. Open to all ages.

TOASTMASTERS FACC Masters Club meets at noon Thursdays at Lockheed Martin, 9975 Federal Drive. Visit http://faccmasters.freetoasthost.us or call Kirby at 719-481-3738.

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Continuing work results in short-term speed reductionsSta� report

While driving speeds north of Briar-gate Parkway have returned to 75 mph, work zone signs will remain in place while crews put the finishing touches on the Interstate 25 expansion project.

Drivers will encounter periodic, short-distance daytime and nighttime lane clo-sures through much of November, which will require temporary speed reductions for driver and worker safety.

Crews will continue to work on clean-up and on “punch list” items between early November and Thanksgiving. Speed limits south of Briargate Parkway remain at 65 mph, which was the posted speed limit before construction began in early 2013.

Ackerman Overlook work continues and is progressing as scheduled

Work continues on the new Ackerman Overlook, which is being re-located to the north of the former overlook site.

Construction is expected to continue into the winter and drivers will encoun-ter large trucks and equipment entering and exiting the work zone as fill material is delivered from near North Gate Bou-

levard. Work on the new overlook site is

scheduled 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Fri-day.

LaForet Trail upgradesA portion of the LaForet Trail under

I-25 has reopened with the completion of the new trail in the tunnel.

The trail will close again for up to eight weeks so crews can complete re-construction work under the bridge.

Currently, there is no official start date for the remaining work.

The trail is widely used by employees and residents east of I-25 to access the Santa Fe Trail, which is west of the inter-state.

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Miguel Dakota working on � rst record album Lewis-Palmer alum is planning to release his album in 2015 By Danny Summers [email protected]

Monument resident Miguel Dakota is hoping to capitalize on his recent fame and make a hit record al-bum.

The Lewis-Palmer High School alumnus, who was a hit sensation this past summer on the television show America’s Got Talent, is working on a record project that he hopes will be completed sometime in 2015.

“This past summer I had the great experience of be-ing a finalist on America’s Got Talent,” Dakota said on one of his websites. “Now, since that journey on AGT has ended, I want to continue to get out there and play music and be doing what I love.

“One of my biggest goals is to record my own al-bum.”

Dakota, 22, whose real last name is Nadal, is trying to raise money for the project. He is asking his fans to pre-order his album. By doing so, they can gain access to exclusive updates and sneak peeks about the album that are only available to pledgers.

PledgeMusic also helps me give Dakota’s fans ac-cess to limited edition merchandise, fan experiences and more.

“Hopefully, together we can help make a difference while we make an album,” Dakota said.

Following his success on AGT, Dakota performed a show in Las Vegas with AGT’s other finalists. He also did a show at Limbach Park in Monument in Septem-ber and made a special appearance at the Lewis-Palm-er homecoming parade and assembly.

Miguel Dakota, a 2010 Lewis-Palmer High School graduate, is working on his � rst album. Dakota gained fame last summer by advancing to the � nal 6 acts on the hit television show America’s Got Talent. Courtesy photo

TRANSMISSION MEDITATION The simplest, most potent way to serve humanity and help transform our world. Dynamic aid to personal growth. Group meditations at 7 p.m. every Monday and Thursday in Palmer Lake. Call 303-494-4462 for local group information and directions. Go to www.TransmissionMedi-tation.org.

TRI-LAKES AMERICAN Legion Post 9-11 meets at 6:30 p.m. the � rst Tuesday of each month at the Depot Restaurant on Colo. 105 in Palmer Lake. Contact Ed at 719-481-2750.

TRI-LAKES BARBERSHOP Chapter meets Mondays. Call Phil Zara at 719-481-3197.

TRI-LAKES CROP Club meets on the third Saturday of the month. Call Angela at 719-481-9735.

TRI-LAKES CRUISERS car club meets at 7 p.m. the � rst Wednesday of the month in the Monument Fire Station on Hwy 105. Open to all makes and models of automobiles. It is a family oriented club that does several cruises and social events throughout the year. The club does a car show every June to bene� t Tri-Lakes Cares. For more information visit: www.tl-cruisers.org.

TRI-LAKES FRIENDS of the Libraries meets from 10 a.m. to noon the second Monday of each month from September through June at Monument Library.

THE TRI-LAKES Lions Club meets the � rst Thursday of every month at Monument Hill Country Club. The social is at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting is at 7 p.m. The International Association of Lions Clubs is the largest service club in the world with over 1.35 million members. The Lions are known as the “Knights of the Blind.” By conducting vision screenings, equipping hospitals and clinics, distributing medicine and raising awareness of eye disease, Lions work toward their mission of providing vision for all. Lions clubs are groups of community minded men and women who are interested in helping serve their communities. For information about the new Tri-

Lakes Lions Club, contact the club’s president, Dave Prejean, at 719-492-8274. More information is available at lionsclubs.org.

TRI-LAKES NONDENOMINATIONAL Men’s Gathering meets at 6:30 a.m. Wednesdays at the Pinecrest Lodge in Palmer Lake. Continental breakfast is included. Call Basil Marotta at 719-487-9500.

TRI-LAKES PARENTS of Multiples Club meets at 6:30 p.m. the third Monday of each month at the Little Log Church in Palmer Lake. Child care is provided for a minimal fee. New members and visitors are welcome. E-mail [email protected] or call 719-488-6785.

TRI-LAKES VFW Post No. 7829 meets at 7 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month at The Sundance Lodge/Oakleys. New members are welcome. Call Darby Kelly at 719-481-4377.

U.S. AIR Force Academy Toastmasters meets from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Mondays at DeVry University, 1175 Kelly Johnson Blvd., Colorado Springs. Visit www.d26toastmasters.org/airforceacademy or call Angela at 719-494-2777. Guests are welcome.

MSGT WILLIAM Crawford Ladies Auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7829 meets from 6:30-7:30 p.m. the third Wednesday of each month at the Sundance Mountain Lodge in Monument. For information, contact Kathy Carlson at 719-488-1902 or [email protected].

WISDOM AND Wealth Master Mind Group meets from noon to 1 p.m. the second Wednesday of every month at the Monument Library. “Change yourself, change your success.” Let’s talk money: how to save it (tips and ideas on how to cut costs), how to invest it (where, when and how), how to make it (build your business or start a new business). For information, or to register, contact Meredith@MeredithBrom� eld.com or 630-618-9400.

SupportALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets at 8 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays at Tri-Lakes Chapel, Woodmoor Drive and Deer Creek. Call Greg at 719-648-9495.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Sunlight of the Spirit Women’s Closed Step Study. Mondays, 6pm. Family of Christ Lutheran Church, 675 E. Baptist Rd. 487-7781.


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GIs jam state’s schools a� er World War II “Education is an ornament in pros-

perity and a refuge in adversity.”__ Aristotle, 4th Century B.C.

With the G.I. Bill authorized by Congress in 1944 and signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22 of that year, returning veterans flooded into Colorado institutions of higher educa-tion after World War II. The Serviceman’s Readjustment Act, as it was officially la-beled, provided for college or vocational education and a year of unemployment compensation.

My father, graduating from high school just as the war was ending, tells of a freshman year sleeping in the Field House on College Avenue in Fort Col-lins. The building had been set up as a makeshift dormitory at Colorado A & M (before it was Colorado State University) because the influx of returning soldiers.

“All told, some 117,000 Colorado vet-erans took advantage of the opportuni-ties the nation offered them (both World War II returnees and, later, those return-ing from the Korean conflict) to study at college or a university,” according to “A Colorado History,” by Carl Ubbelohde, Maxine Benson, and Duane Smith.

“But this was only a part of the story. Another 9,400 veterans received voca-tional rehabilitation training; another 77,800 used the home loan benefits pro-vided; 5,200 qualified for similar facili-ties for purchasing farms, and 2,200 for business loans. The impact on the state’s

economy, its educational facilities, and on the returning veterans themselves, stands a marked contrast to the earlier experience of the month’s and years that followed the Armistice of 1918.”

At Colorado A & M, the school switched from a semester to a quarter system to expedite the enrollment of former servicemen and the enrollment almost doubled in a single year. About 1,040 students began in the fall of 1945 but by spring, 1946, 1600 were enrolled and two thirds of the new student population was veterans in need of im-mediate place to stay. By late 1946, 3,500 students jammed the institution and in an effort to provide quick and cheap housing, Quonset huts had been set up at the corners of West Laurel and Shields Street. A trailer court also appeared beside Veteran Village in the fall of 1946. Additionally, the school lost nearly 50 faculty to other colleges and universi-ties that were able to attract them away higher salaries as they struggled with their own swelling student populations

brought on by the same circumstances across the country.

The University of Colorado at Boulder also experienced doubling of its enrolled population and they established a simi-lar Quonset hut village.

“Trailers, followed by 60 Quonset huts purchased from the Federal Hous-ing Authority, were installed on land at the corner of 24th (now Folsom) and Arapahoe for married students and their families; the area quickly became known as ‘Vetsville,’” according to Coloradan, The University of Colorado alumni magazine.

“Vetsville Council, children’s holi-day parties and P.H.T. (Putting Hubby Through) commencement ceremonies for supportive wives helped establish a close-knit community. To the regret of students who paid only $62 rent each month, the Quonset huts were demol-ished in 1973.”

There was still a few remaining Quonset huts on campus in the early 1980s in Fort Collins when I attended Colorado State University, though I think they were used for storage, rather than housing. With only 400 square feet of living space, cold steel walls, and the odd rounded corners to deal with, for-mer students I’ve spoken with who lived in them (though they appreciate the experience and the low rent at the time) tell me, they understand why they were abandoned.

Fall prep sports season winding down The high school fall sports scene

is winding down and soon the winter games of basketball, wrestling, hockey and girls swimming will take center stage.

I am fortunate as a reporter for Colo-rado Community Media to write for two of our papers - the Tri-Lakes Tribune and Pikes Peak Courier View.

The high schools I cover for the Tribune include Lewis-Palmer, Palmer Ridge, Discovery Canyon and The Clas-sical Academy. In Teller County I cover Woodland Park and Cripple Creek-Victor.

Before we transition into winter sports, there are still a few fall sports still in full swing.

The Lewis-Palmer volleyball team will take its No. 1 state ranking to the Denver Coliseum this weekend (Nov. 7-8) and join 11 other Class 4A teams in a battle for the Golden Ball. The Rangers (25-0) are vying for a second consecutive state championship. Lewis-Palmer has won 31 consecutive matches dating to Nov. 2, 2013.

The Discovery Canyon football team will enter the 3A playoffs as the No. 1 seed in the 16-team bracket for a second consecutive season. The Thunder con-cluded its first-ever undefeated regular season on Oct. 31 with a thrilling 34-32 overtime victory over Canon City for the Southern League title.

The Thunder is looking to win its first-ever playoff football game in its third try in as many seasons.

The Palmer Ridge football team, which plays in 4A, needed a victory over No. 1 ranked Pine Creek (the defending state champion) on Halloween to secure

a trip to the playoffs. The Bears lost 48-14, ending their year with a 6-4 record, a one-game improvement over 2013.

Unfortunately for Woodland Park and Cripple Creek-Victor, there will be no playoffs for their football or volleyball teams.

The Woodland Park football team ended its season on a down note by los-ing in overtime to Mitchell, 42-40. The Panthers were 2-8 this season after going 5-5 in 2013.

Woodland Park coach Joe Roskam has worked tirelessly in his four seasons after inheriting a team that was winless in 2010. Roskam has combined record of 15-25, including a pair of 5-5 campaigns.

CC-V endured tough seasons on the gridiron (0-9) and on the volleyball court (0-19). But the gritty Pioneers are resil-ient and they will rebuild their sports programs much sooner than later.

Declining enrollment has not helped

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Oil

Over the years I have run across unusual stories about our oil boom. Yes, they found oil as far north as Monu-ment, and west at Colorado City. I found this very early item quite interesting because of who was one of the in-vestors. Oil had been found in Colorado City in the 1880’s, and it quickly became a gas well. Natural gas was used in homes in that area very early.

The search for oil in this area started in the 1880’s. Many exploratory wells were drilled before anything was found. For three months in early 1901 a well actually was found just outside Colorado Springs to be able to produce reasonable oil. Now in 1901 a reasonable amount of oil was anything over a barrel an hour! This fi rst producer was a mile west of the railroad station at Buttes. That would put it just about on Fort Carson. A company was already buying the oil, being loaded at Buttes. There was talk of building a pipe line over to Buttes for loading.

You may know Canon City is a big oil producing area starting also in the 1880’s. A refi nery was built at Overton, just north of Pueblo in the late 1880’s. The oil explora-tion and discoveries in the area between Fountain and north Pueblo was quite sporadic, but it lasted for nearly thirty years, with several good wells. The oil was not very deep, as oil goes, but most were short lived and mainly produced gas. Modern day Fracking is a process that can bring life back to old wells, but so far these areas have not proved to be large enough to be worth reopening.

The part I found most interesting was that W.S. Strat-ton was one of the primary investors in these 1901 wells. He was a recent millionaire, having sold his Indepen-dence Mine near Victor. He was doing a good job at spending his fortune. He also purchased the Colorado Springs street car line, and was looking at extending it all the way to Canon City, by way of Florence. He never did this, but he certainly spent a fortune on the Colorado Springs street cars. He was also buying up old mines in Cripple Creek, but never did as well as the Independence, which was just outside Victor.

His oil wells never amounted to much, but some of the land he purchased became Myron Stratton Home, named for his father, at the south end of Colorado Springs, and he owned many major buildings in downtown Colorado Springs.

FORTY YEARS AGO

Palmer Lake-Monument-Woodmoor NewsNov. 7, 1974

The ninth-grade girl’s volleyball team won first in the Will Rogers League Volleyball Tournament.

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A Book Fair will be held from Nov. 6-13 at Palmer Lake Elementary and Lewis Palmer Middle School. The first meeting of the PTO will be held on Tues-day evening, Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Palmer Lake Elementary Gym. Do some early Christmas shopping at the book fair. Babysitting will be provided for the board meeting. Board members will be at the meet-ing. Those members include Frank Royal, President, William Higby, Arnold Lucero, Robert Mumm, and Thomas Personett.

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Palmer Lake Art Group will meet at Vaile Hill Gal-lery Wednesday, Nov. 13 at 10 a.m. There will be a demonstration on tissue paper collage. Bring a sack lunch.

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Paul DeLaTorre and the Galileans gospel singing group will be at Monument Assembly of God Church Thursday, Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. The Rev. James Golez is the pastor.

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Start saving your “winter fun things” for the PTO Skate-Ski Swap to be held in January.

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Mr. Jim Hanson, former Olympic wrestling par-ticipant and present high school faculty, member is director of the LPHS wrestling team. Practice started Nov. 4.

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The High School Drama Club will present a three act play on Nov. 11. The club is under the direction of James King.

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The Young of Hearts will sponsor a potluck and community sing at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 12, at Monument Baptist Church. Thanksgiving customs will be shared from various parts of the United States. Come “Sing and Be Thankful.”

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Sally Vaughn celebrated her 100th birthday. Sally spent many summers in Palmer Lake since 1920.

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Johnny Smart was guest of honor at his 11th birth-day party at the Soda Straw in Colorado Springs.

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The Rocket Club is involved in several fundraisers. These include car washes, garage sales, exhibitions and possibly a haunted house.

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Household Hint: Mazola no-stick cooking spray is being introduced in this area. This product consists of a touch of corn oil and lecithin and adds no odor to the food and less than one calorie per average use. It is good when kneading dough, pulling taffy and shaping popcorn balls. Use if for your holiday cook-ing.

— Compiled by Linda Case

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor:Lewis Palmer School District leadership has been

quoted at DAAC meetings as follows; “Magerko as-sured parents that none of the results of tests will be personally identifiable.”

This appears a very questionable statement and in direct conflict with signed CDE contracts with the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment per Colorado Senate Bill 09-163 and House Bill 14-1182. Among other things, this NCIEA contract requires; “understanding of how individual

students and groups of students progress from year to year toward state standards, based on where each individual, student begins.”

The D38 School Board can now revisit their story and tell Tri-Lakes parents how this contract’s “un-derstanding” of individual student assessments can occur without “sharing” individual test results under this existing NCIEA contract.

Gordon Reichal, Monument


Summersthe Pioneers’ cause as their pool of ath-letes has dwindled significantly over the last decade.

I like covering high school sports for a number of reasons. There’s something about the purity of the games, excite-ment of the crowds and sounds of the school marching bands or pep bands that so many people can quickly and easily identify with.

The state cross country meet, held Oct. 25 at Norris-Penrose Events Center, brought together nearly 1,000 runners from across the state. It was one of the most exhilarating events I’ve covered in a while. Those kids left it all on the course and held nothing back.

I have enjoyed getting to know the coaches and school administrators in my 14 seasons covering sports in the Pikes Peak region. I was sad when Lew-is-Palmer football coach Tony Ramunno stepped down last summer (for health reasons) after 30 years on the sidelines. He is an institution in Monument and well respected by coaches all over the state.

It’s also a pleasure to talk with ath-letic directors. Go to a Lewis-Palmer vs. Palmer Ridge event and you will likely see AD’s Nick Baker and Jimmy Porter, respectively, joking and laughing.

I have known TCA athletic director

Gary Geiger since his days at Pikes Peak Christian. We ran into each other on Nov. 1 at Lewis-Palmer, where TCA was playing in a regional, and again at TCA, where the Titans’ boys’ soccer team was hosting quarterfinals playoff game.

Discovery Canyon athletic director Sharon Lauer - a Lewis-Palmer alumnus - is as passionate about all of the Thun-der teams as anybody in her position I have ever met.

In Teller County, Woodland Park AD Michael DeWall has made the transition from head football coach to administra-tor and lobbies hard for his players to get the best recognition possible. CC-V athletic director Jim Bertrand - a former Woodland Park coach - is the glue that holds the athletic department together. Bertrand’s battle with cancer over the last three years is an inspiration to me and many more people.

While I wish I could be at many more athletic events and write dozens more stories on players and coaches, I am bound by my inability to be in more than one place at one time.

That is where you come in.If you know of interesting sports

stories, or take interesting photos at games, please email me or call me. I will do my best to get that information in the papers and make sure athletes, their coaches and teams get the credit they deserve.

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Thunder completes undefeated regular seasonDiscovery Canyon is the No. 1 seed in the upcoming Class 3A playo�sBy Danny [email protected]

Discovery Canyon football coach Shawn Mitchell received a very special birthday present on Oct. 31 when his team concluded its first-ever undefeated season with a thrilling 34-31 overtime victory at Canon City.

“Our school brought a lot of support and it was a great birthday gift to boot,” Mitchell said. “It was funny to see all these kids in costumes celebrating on the field after the game.”

The victory ensured the Thunder of the No. 1 seed in the upcoming Class 3A state playoffs. Discovery Canyon will host No. 16 Berthoud (7-3) Nov. 8 at 1 p.m. at District 20 Stadium.

If the Thunder wins, it will play the winner between No. 8 Conifer (8-2) and No. 9 Delta (7-3).

“We have to be prepared as coaches,” Mitchell said. “We have to look at film and put together a game plan, and we have to push our kids to get better.”

Discovery Canyon is headed to the playoffs for the third consecutive sea-son. It lost to Pueblo Central as the No. 2 seed in 2012. In 2013, the Thunder lost to Pueblo East as the No. 1 seed.

“We have a different kind of a team this year,” Mitchell said. “This is a gritty, tough group. They have moxie.”

The Thunder’s victory over Canon City was its closest — and most suspense-ful —game of the season. The score was tied 31-31 with Canon City driving deep inside Discovery Canyon territory in the final seconds of the fourth quarter. The Tigers reached the Thunder 10-yard line and attempted to set up for a field goal

attempt, but time expired, sending the game to overtime.

Both teams started with the ball on the 10-yard line in overtime. Canon City got the ball first and had to settle for a field goal and a 31-28 lead.

Discovery Canyon senior quarter-back Andrew Hall rushed twice on first and second downs to take the ball to the 1 on the Thunder’s one and only over-time possession. On third down Spencer Chambers took a quick pitch from Hall and made his way into the end zone for the victory.

“We made our fair share of mistakes in the game, but we were able to come out on top,” Mitchell said. “You try your best to put your guys in the right posi-tion, but sometimes you have missed opportunities.

Hall had another stellar performance, rushing for a game-high 144 yards and three touchdowns on 16 attempts. He completed just 2 of 6 passes for 15 yards.

Hall has accounted for 26 (18 rush-ing and eight passing) of the Thunder’s 57 offensive touchdowns this season. His 565 rushing yards are second on the

team behind Chambers’ 733.Chambers is second on the team in

touchdowns with 12.The Thunder has scored at least 30

points in every game this season. Ber-thoud, the fourth-place team from the Northern League, scored 40-plus points in its first four games, but did not scored more than 28 points in its last six.

“We don’t know a lot about (Ber-thoud), but we know they come from a very tough league,” Mitchell said.

Discovery Canyon football players smile as they celebrate a 10-0 regular season. The Thunder is the No. 1 seed in the upcoming Class 3A state playo�s. Photos by Brian Arnold

Discovery Canyon senior quarterback Andrew Hall, No. 9 in white jersey with ball, rushed for 144 yards and scored three rushing touchdowns in the team’s 34-31 overtime victory over Canon City Oct. 31. Hall has rushed for 18 touchdowns and passed for another 8 this season while leading the Bears to a 10-0 record and No. 1 state ranking in all of Class 3A.

Looking back at state championship � eld hockey game Bears have � nished second in the state two of the last three seasons By Danny Summers [email protected]

The Palmer Ridge fi eld hockey team fi nished second in the state for the sec-ond time in three seasons. The Bears lost the state championship game to Colorado Academy Oct. 25 in Denver.

The Bears fi nished 12-4-2 this season, losing three times to Colorado Academy. Their other loss was to Ken Denver.

Palmer Ridge was the No. 3 seed among eight teams in the state playoffs.

The Bears are coached by Paul Lewis.


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Palmer Ridge senior Meghan McGrath helps to set up a play for the Bears’ during their � eld hockey state � nals match against Colorado Academy on Oct. 25. Photos by Dr. C.L.Broeker Photography

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nior Ashley Walker

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state champion-ship game.

Palmer Ridge junior Edie Statham lets a shot � y during the Bears’ state champion-ship match with Colorado Academy on Oct. 25.


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Palmer Ridge loses season �nale to No. 1 Pine Creek, 48-14Lewis-Palmer defeats Harrison, 58-32, in its �nal football gameBy Danny [email protected]

Palmer Ridge players, coaches and fans knew their team would need to play its best game of the season against Pine Creek on Oct. 31 to win a share of the Class 4A Foothills League title and se-cure a trip to the postseason.

But a 48-14 loss to the Eagles - the de-fending state champions - at Don Breese Stadium ended any chance the Bears had of advancing to the playoffs for the first time since 2011 when they played at the 3A level.

“It’s particularly unfortunate we couldn’t extend our season, “said Palmer Ridge coach Tom Pulford. “Pine Creek is a very good football team and there’s a reason why they are the defending state champions. They have a great program and great tradition.”

Pine Creek (10-0, 5-0) led 42-0 at half-time and pulled most of its starters by the late third quarter. Senior running back Josh Odom needed just 12 carries to gain 184 yards and score three touch-downs.

Palmer Ridge (6-4, 3-2) has improved each of its three years in 4A. The Bears were 2-8 in 2012 and 5-5 in 2013, win-ning 5 of their final 6 games.

All four of the teams the Bears lost to this season are headed to the playoffs, Pueblo Centennial (7-3), Vista Ridge (7-3), Rampart (7-3) and Pine Creek.

“We learned a lot this season,” Pulford said. “We learned as a coaching staff we need to monitor grades better to keep kids eligible. We need to practice at a higher level and be precise at all three phases of the game (offense, defense and special teams).

“And we need to continue to troll the halls of Palmer Ridge and find athletes who want to play football. There are a lot of very good athletes at our school and we want to build a program for years to come.”

Pulford will give his team two weeks off before they start a structured off-season program that includes lifting weights and running. After spring break, the Bears will implement their offensive and defensive schemes for next season, and then participate in a 7-on-7 passing league and team camps over the sum-mer.

Palmer Ridge senior Thorin Wang, No. 14 in blue jersey with ball, looks for some running room against a tough Pine Creek defense during an Oct. 31 game at Don Breese Stadium. Also in the photo for the Bears are No. 15 Tanner Christopher-son and No. 23 Bailey Rosenstrauch. Photos by Samantha Consonero

Palmer Ridge senior tight end Matt Kostenbauer, No. 87 in blue jersey with ball, tries to break away from two Pine Creek defenders during a game played Oct. 31 at Don Breese Stadium. Pine Creek won 48-14.

LEWIS-PALMER 58, HARRISON 32

The Rangers ended their season on a high note as senior fullback Brad Ellis scored four touchdowns to lead his team to victory. He �nished with 136 yards on 18 attempts

Ellis scored on runs of 42, 4, 12 and 3 yards. Ellis also con-verted a pair of two-point conversion runs.

The Rangers rushed for 439 yards as a team. Quarterback Ty Helfrich had 142 yards, while Nick Pavlik ran for 110 yards and two touchdowns.

Lewis-Palmer also got a special team’s touchdown on 85-yad kicko� return by Morgan Bailey.

The Rangers outscored Harrison 44-18 in the second half.

Lewis-Palmer ends its season at 5-5, 3-2 in the Class 3A Southern League. The Rangers �nished third in the league behind Discovery Canyon (10-0, 5-0) and Canon City (7-3, 4-1).

Discovery Canyon is the No. 1 ranked team in the state.


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Celebrating Palmer Ridge cross country history�e Bears won the Class 4A boys division; the girls �nished third in their raceBy Danny [email protected]

The Palmer Ridge High School boys’ cross country team won the Class 4A state championship Oct. 25 at Norris-Penrose Events Center. It marks the school’s first-ever state cross country title.

Palmer Ridge senior Eric Hamer set a 4A state record when he crossed the finish line in 16 minutes 17 sec-onds.

The Palmer Ridge girls finished third in their race that day, marking their best-ever finish.

Palmer Ridge senior Eric Hamer, middle in white jersey, led the Class 4A state cross country �nals from start to �nish on Oct. 25. He set a 4A state record with a time of 16 minutes, 17 seconds. Photos by Ally Herebic

Palmer Ridge’s’ Liam Cox was the second Bears’ runner to cross the �nish line to help his team to the state cross country title on Oct. 25

Tommy Herebic of Palmer Ridge traverses the state cross country course on Oct. 25


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TCA moves onto Class 4A soccer semi�nals�e Titans are 18-0 and seeded No. 2 in prestigious state tournamentBy Danny [email protected]

Blake Galvin and his Classical Acad-emy boys’ soccer teams gained a reputa-tion over the last decade of having one of the most respected Class 3A programs in the state.

It has taken the Titans all of three months to prove that they now have one of the best 4A programs as well.

TCA (18-0), the No. 2 seed in the state tournament, advanced to the state semifi-nals after a 3-1 victory over No. 10 Summit Nov. 1 at Titans Stadium.

“While we all believed this was actually a realistic goal, to actually be here now is a shock,” Galvin said.

“It’s so hard with the unknown piece of it. We had no idea what to expect. What not to expect. And that’s been a major fac-tor for us all season long since we didn’t know much about any of these teams.”

TCA will play No. 6 Ponderosa (13-5) in one semifinals match at Sports Au-thority Stadium in Parker Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. No. 1 Air Academy (18-0) will play No. 4 D’Evelyn (16-2)) in the other semifinals match at 5 p.m.

TCA, as it has done throughout its im-pressive postseason run, scored early in its match against Summit to gain the mo-mentum. Freshman Jonny Stephens and sophomore Jaden Borja both connected in the 16th minute as the crowd roared with approval.

“Those goals were important because we were able to keep the possession and keep the lead,” Borja said. “It kind of threw (Summit) off their game and gave us the momentum.”

If Summit was hoping to get any mo-mentum back in its favor at halftime, that was quickly quashed as Titans’ sopho-more Jeremy Baldes scored one minute into the second half.

“That kind of set the tone and took the wind out of their sails; at least I hope it did,” Galvin said.

Baldes, who might be the most ath-letic player on the team, agreed with his coach’s assessment.

“We started off strong in the second half - that’s what we needed to do - and we maintained that to the end of the game.”

Interestingly, TCA defeated Summit, 3-1, in a non-league match Sept. 6 at Summit.

The Titans advanced to the quarterfi-nals with a 2-1 victory over No. 15 Pueblo West on Oct. 28. Baldes and Borja scored second-half goals for TCA. Borja and fel-low sophomore Titus Grant (the team leader in goals with 29) were credited with assists.

The match was scoreless at half as Ti-tans’ senior goalkeeper Micah Mesward — a three-year starter in net and four-year starter overall — did his usual splen-did job of denying shots.

Mesward, who missed half of the sea-

son after the meniscus tear in his right knee - followed by surgery — made 14 saves against Summit, including two huge plays on back-to-back Summit shots midway through the second half to help preserve TCA’s three-goal lead. He was noticeably limping after the melee, but remained in the game.

“My knee’s a little sore, but it’s usual-ly better by the next day,” he said with a smile. “I’ll be ready to play.”

Baldes is glad to have his star keeper back in the net.

“Michael Slattery did a great job of fill-ing in when Micah was gone, but having Micah back is a big advantage,” Baldes said. “He knows the game really well in the goal.”

If TCA advances to the state champi-onship game it would take place Nov. 8 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City at 1 p.m.

TCA senior goalkeeper Michae Mesward, in green jersey, leads the Titans in a pregame chat prior to their playo� game against Pueblo West on Oct. 28. The Titans (18-0) are the No. 2 seed in the Class 4A state playo�s and play in the semi�nals against Ponderosa Nov. 5 at Douglas County Stadium. Photos by Alison Henry

The Classical Academy sophomore Jeremy Baldes, No. 13 in white jersey, goes up for a header in a Class 4A playo�s match against Pueblo west on Oct. 28. The No. 2 seed Titans play in the state semi�nals Nov. 5 at Douglas County Stadium against Ponderosa.


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Rangers enter state volleyball tournament 25-0 and seeded No. 1 Lewis-Palmer, TCA and Discovery Canyon played in regionals By Danny Summers [email protected]

The trophy cabinet at Lewis-Palmer High got a little more crowded on Nov. 1 when the Rangers’ volleyball team added another regional trophy to its already im-pressive resume.

Lewis-Palmer (25-0) — the No. 1 overall ranked team in the state regardless of classification — defeated No. 36 Weld Central (3-0) and No. 24 The Classical Academy (3-0) to advance back to the state tournament.

The tournament takes place Nov. 7-8 at the Denver Coliseum, but that was not on the Rangers’ mind going into regionals.

“Or goal going into today was to play to our poten-tial, to play as a team, to play aggressively, to reduced our unforced errors,” said Lewis-Palmer coach Susan Odenbaugh. “If we can do those things like that then winning is a natural outcome of that.”

Lewis-Palmer is the defending state champion and is riding a 31-game winning streak heading into pool play. The Rangers will play the second and sixth games on Nov. 7. If they win their pool, they will advance to the semifinals on Nov. 8.

“We can’t even focus on the state championship match yet,” Odenbaugh said. “We have to get through Friday and get to the semifinals.”

Lewis-Palmer junior setter Mariah Evans echoed Odenbaugh.

“We weren’t overlooking today at all,” said Evans, who has verbally committed to North Carolina. “We knew we had to come out and play hard and focus on our opponent because we know everybody is going to come out and play as hard as they can.

“We have to take every game one at a time at state and not overlook anybody. You have to come and play those games at state harder than you’ve ever played.”

The Rangers are a relatively young team. The only two seniors are all-American outside hitter Alexa Smith (team-leading 310 kills) and right side hitter Nicole Montgomery (147 kills).

“I feel like we have yet to really reach our full poten-tial,” said Montgomery who will run Division I track in college for either Kansas or Arkansas. “I feel we can all play a lot better. I think it will be really exciting to see how far we can go at state.”

The Classical Academy (15-9) lost in five sets to Weld Central before playing the Rangers.

“We let Weld Central get in our heads,” said TCA first-year coach Kiyo Greene, who directed the Titans

to the Metro League championship this season. “We knew it was going to be tough and we knew we were going to have to go out there and play hard.”

Greene added that her team was a little bit intimi-dated, and very excited, about playing Lewis-Palmer.

“I know when our girls first found out we were going to play them they were a little disappointed,” Greene said. “But after a day or two they changed their atti-tudes and really got pumped up.

“We came out with great attitudes and wanted to play hard, and yes, a lot of the girls wanted to block Alexa. That was one of their goals.”

TCA is a young team with the only two seniors being the Harshberger twins (Annie and Allison).

Among the top underclassmen on the team this sea-son are junior outside hitter Emma Porter (304 kills), junior middle blocker Chloe Storm (42 blocks) and sophomore middle blocker Marlo Masters (46 blocks).

“We’ve played against a team of Lewis-Palmer’s abil-ity and if we’re fortunate enough to get here again next year we’ll be ready.”

The Thunder (13-12) earned the No. 32seed and traveled to No. 5 Valor Christian in Highlands Ranch for its three-team regional that also included No. 20 Thomas Jefferson.

Discovery Canyon - making its first-ever appear-ance in the volleyball playoffs - lost both of its matches, three games to none.

Lewis-Palmer is hoping to celebrate its second consecutive state volleyball championship at this weekend’s Class 4A state tournament. The Rangers have won 31 consecutive games dating to last season. Courtesy photo

Lewis-Palmer volleyball players and coaches celebrate their Class 4A Region championship on Oct. 31. The Rangers defeated The Classical Academy and Weld Central to claim the title and advance to this weekend’s state tournament. Photo by Danny Summers

DISCOVERY CANYON FALLS IN REGIONAL

The Thunder got outstanding e� orts from several players this season. Se-nior Aly Fry led the team in kills with 161, while junior Rebecca Lyman was second with 135.

Jenn Schneible was third in kills with 99 and � rst in blocks with 36.Junior Emma Zamora had a game-high 149 digs, followed by Fry (138) and

Lyman (127).The setting duties were shared by Kaitlyn Seagran (234) and Arianna

Boushell (213).

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