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On June 12, young Eaton angler Daniel Geiger set out for the small, few-acre pond at Greeley’s Allen Park with a specific prize in mind.

He wanted to become a “Master Angler” — a goal the ambitious 10-year-old fisherman had been feverish pursuing.

But the prize Geiger would walk away with that day was one that even he couldn’t have fathomed.

On that late-spring day, Daniel — with a slight assist from his father, Ryan Geiger —hauled in an absolute behemoth on a mere piece of corn.

Daniel caught a fish about 2/3 as big as he is, a 37-inch grass carp.

It was a fish bigger than most people’s dogs.

It turned out to be a new Colorado state length record for the species.

More than three months later, Daniel vividly remembers the moment the once-in-a-lifetime fish struck — a moment that will be ingrained in his memory forever.

“The pole started to move a little,” Daniel said. “I had to keep the line slacked or else the carp will drop it as soon as they take the corn. The line started going. And I hooked the fish, and I could feel its weight. But most carp fight pretty hard. When we got a first glimpse, I was super happy, and I was yelling.”

Daniel and his father knew, immediately, Daniel finally had his Master Angler-worthy fish.

It needed to be just 30 inches for Daniel to receive his Master Angler certificate and patch. The state’s Master Angler program rewards fishermen for catching trophy-sized fish. Each species has its own length requirement.

But when Ryan waded into the pond’s murky waters to lift the giant over the pond’s rock-lined bank, Ryan quickly suspected the monster his son had reeled in might just qualify as a bit more than a mere Master Angler fish.

Ryan quickly searched for info on the Colorado Parks and Wildlife website and saw that the state’s common carp length record is 35 inches.

Ryan and Daniel followed CPW’s very specific directions for accurately measuring the fish, they snapped a photograph and released the bottom-feeding behemoth back into the water — as required by CPW for a fish to be eligible for a length state record.

Elated, Ryan and Daniel knew the fish would easily surpass the state’s common carp length record.

There was just one potential problem.

It turns out this was actually a grass carp, a fish native to the Pacific Far East, much less common in this area. The feisty, scaly specimen has existed on this earth since the Jurassic Period, and it definitely looks the part.

Daniel and Ryan weren’t even previously aware that this small, neighborhood pond was home to this particular species of carp.

It turned out, however, Daniel’s carp beat out the previous grass carp record by a mere 1/2 inch. Good thing for the Geiger duo’s insistence on exact, precise measurements.

“I looked up the common carp record, and we did all the measurements,” Ryan said. “I told Daniel, ‘You’ve got the common carp record!’ And, then I got home and I was looking at pictures of his fish, and I was like, ‘Oh, whoops. Daniel, you might not have the record.’ Then I looked up the grass carp record and took a sigh of relief.”

They would anxiously wait several weeks for CPW to confirm the potential record. CPW completed the process and informed the Geigers in August.

Though catching a state record fish isn’t exactly something even the most accomplished of anglers would expect, in Daniel’s case, it wasn’t exactly an accident, either.

Daniel had long fine-tuned his skills in preparation for such a moment.

That much is evident in the way Daniel patiently keeps the bail of his spinning reel open, waiting for the slightest indication of movement before giving the savvy, finicky carp all the time it needs to engulf the bait before Daniel puts all of his strength into setting the hook.

Now, Daniel can move on to pursuing his next Master Angler species. — maybe a 12-inch-or-larger yellow perch, one of Daniel’s favorite species.

Who knows? Maybe that next Master Angler Award-winning fish will again be a little more than Daniel bargained for.

“It’s just really cool to watch (Daniel) fish and enjoy it as much as I did when I was little,” said Ryan, who is also an avid fisherman alongside his son. “But I could not imagine being 10 years old and catching a state record.”

GREELEY — Another icon of Greeley history will come to a close this month. Kenny’s Steakhouse, named for the man who put Greeley on the map as a meat-and-potatoes town, will close on Oct. 12.

Named for Ken Monfort, whose legacy of cattle feeding continues today at the JBS USA packing plant, and whose son, Dick Monfort co-owns Kenny’s, the Steakhouse will close Oct. 12 after almost 30 years at the corner of 35th Avenue and 10th Street.

“All day long, I’ve been getting blown up with calls, emails and texts, ‘Where am I going to get my Charlies Chips? and all these different” favorites people loved, co-owner Matt Larson said on Monday, hours after he made the announcement on his Facebook page.

This will be the second historic Greeley restaurant to close in the last six weeks. Fat Albert’s closed Aug. 31 after a 42-year run in central Greeley.

Kenny’s has been for sale for a while, but no one has come forward to buy it. Co-owner Matt Larson said in the absence of a buyer, he opted to close the doors. He said he isn’t sure exactly if they will continue to try to sell it, or lease it out. For him, though, it’s time to scale down.

“Kenny’s has lived its life, just shy of 30 years, and it’s very bittersweet,” Larson said. “I’m looking forward to slowing down and enjoying life. I’m also sad because this has been my home for 30 years and giving it everything I had. I’m proud of all its successes. We’ve done a lot of catering, and a lot of special parties and all the special memories. Customers are like family and the employees are like family. It is the definition of a true family business.”

The business originally was called the Stampede Steak Ranch — a tribute to the annual Greeley Independence Stampede rodeo — when Larson and Rob Haimson opened it in 1995 in a building that had housed a Golden Corral restaurant.

“For the first six years, we were a more casual place, like the Golden Corral,” Larson said in a previous interview with BizWest, “but we did a big remodel in 2001. Ken Monfort passed away in February of that year as we were remodeling, so when we opened, we decided to call it Kenny’s Steak House in honor of him.”

Larson had worked for Haimson as a manager at the former Potato Brumbaugh’s, a legendary Greeley restaurant named for a character in James Michener’s Colorado-based novel “Centennial.” Haimson sold his share of the Stampede Steak Ranch to Dick Monfort in 1996. Potato Brumbaugh’s closed in 2006, putting to rest the unique characters of Michener’s novel. That restaurant has since been remodeled as Pellegrini Cucina Italiana since 2012.

Larson said the pandemic was difficult, but they managed to stay open. But today’s economy is hitting people harder, and higher-end restaurants have a tougher time when people’s pocketbooks are pinched.

The restaurant is still filling seats, Larson said. But the economy isn’t only taking a chunk out of people’s discretionary money.

“The restaurant business is hard, and particularly a higher-end menu like ours is a little more daunting. We’re selling steaks and seafood, but the cost of food and supplies has gone up, and there’s insurance, utilities,” Larson said. “You have to sell a lot of steaks.”

Larson opened the G.O.A.T. Sports Bar in Centerplace in 2021 with his son, which took a little more of his time, though another of his sons manages it.

“It’s a very busy restaurant and we have a lot of staff. I’m there every day, but doesn’t take a lot of my time,” Larson said. He said he will continue to work, but at 61, he welcomes a break.

“I’m looking forward to slowing down, and spending time with my wife,” Larson said. “All good things come to an end, and it’s been a good run. Right now, I just want to go out strong and feed a lot of people one more meal or two and take good care of them.”— BizWest staff writer Dallas Heltzell contributed to this report.

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Their American dream has become a nightmare.

Five hundred or more Haitian and Benin immigrants, who had work visas to enter the United States legally, took jobs at a large JBS meat processing plant not far from the Wyoming border in Greeley, Colorado, thinking they’d found their ticket to America and her promised land of freedom.

Instead, they found themselves packed into squalid living conditions they describe as worse from where they came from, as well as charged extra fees they were forced to pay to a supervisor named Ebah Edmond and/or his associates, including a man named Mackenson Remy, according to stunning allegations leveled by the UFCW Local 7 union.

Among these fees were so-called “employment contracts,” ranging up to $17,000, as well as service fees between $100 to $200 for filling out pre-employment forms for JBS, such as medical evaluations and job applications.

“Nobody has to pay for that,” UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova told Cowboy State Daily. “That’s not a condition of employment with JBS. They’re under a collective bargaining agreement. But they were paying this guy — who was ultimately going to be their supervisor, because he supervises the second shift, where you see a lot of these workers got their jobs.”

The immigrants were also being charged for rides from the airport when they arrived in America to Greeley, Cordova said, as well as daily trips to and from the JBS plant where they worked. They were also charged weekly rent between $60 to $120 for shared living spaces at a motel in Greeley, even though the company had already paid the motel for these rooms.

“We also had reports of up to 30 to 50 people living in a room, sleeping on floors, with no hot water,” Cordova said. “It was a mess.”

JBS Denies It Knew About Problems

JBS spokeswoman Nikki Richardson told Cowboy State Daily that Remy was never an actual JBS employee, and that he’s since been banned from the Greeley facility after the “alarming” allegations came to light.

“We also notified local authorities and will cooperate with any resulting investigation,” she said. “If it is determined that people were harmed by Mr. Remy’s actions, we will provide support to those individuals.”

New human resources leaders have been placed at the Greeley facility, Richardson said, and new recruitment training programs have been implemented as well, to ensure everyone is aware of company policies.

“JBS takes the safety and welfare of all our team members seriously,” she said. “We are also working with UFCW International to educate prospective and current team members about hiring policies enterprise wide.”

Fees for pre-employment services, including transportation, application, pre-hire medical requirements and designated housing are not among the hiring policies, Richardson added.

“Any allegations of poor living conditions are unacceptable and upsetting,” she said. “We want all of our employees to have access to safe housing, and the opportunity to create a better life for themselves and their families.

Whitewashing It

Cordova characterized such statements as part of a “whitewash” the company has engaged in since Local UFCW 7 reported the allegations in December.

“The company knew about these tactics,” she said. “And, in fact, paid for workers to live in squalor conditions at a local motel, and turned a blind eye until they were questioned by the press. One of the main individuals involved in this terrible treatment is still employed by JBS.”

The questionable practices came to light after union leaders noticed a disproportionately large number of immigrant workers, particularly those from Benin and Haiti, listing the same home address as their supervisor.

“We were seeing a pattern, like why are all these people at this address, so I mean it was a lot of applications,” Cordova said. “We were seeing 10, 20, 30, 40 people coming in every single week with that same address.”

Some workers also started complaining to a union steward, who is from West Africa and speaks French, that they were not getting the referral and retention bonuses they were entitled to.

“They were saying this HR manager was scrubbing the data off the request for the bonus and putting his name on it, so they were not getting their bonus money,” Cordova said. “So, they were paying him for food, paying him for rides, and paying the rent — even though JBS had already paid for it.”

The workers also reported being threatened that if they left their job, they’d have to pay money back to their supervisor.

“This is where it’s like servitude,” Cordova said. “Like this is all human trafficking. In our opinion, we think it meets the definition. They were being threatened that they would lose their job if they didn’t pay their fees on time to the supervisor.”

Renée Jean can be reached at renee@cowboystatedaily.com.

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Heavy smoke moving in from the north will result in elevated particle pollution across the northern Front Range through at least Tuesday afternoon.

This Particulates Action Day Alert will remain in effect until at least 4 p.m. Tuesday, October 8, 2024.

For statewide conditions, forecasts and advisories, visit: https://www.colorado.gov/airquality/colorado_summary.aspx

At 11PM (MST), Monday, 10/7/2024 the highest AQI value was 74 for Particulate less than 2.5 micrometers which indicates Moderate air quality. Respiratory symptoms possible in unusually sensitive individuals, possible aggravation of heart or lung disease in people with cardiopulmonary disease and older adults. Unusually sensitive people should consider reducing prolonged or heavy exertion.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Regional Air Quality Council's Summer 2024 Ozone Action Day Alert Program has concluded. The winter High Pollution Advisory Program begins on November 1. Air Quality Action Days or advisories for ozone for other pollutants, however, will be issued as needed at any time during the year and reported on this web page.

The Air Pollution Control Division's Winter 2024/2025 High Pollution Advisory Program will begin November 1. Thank you for your interest in and support for efforts to improve air quality for the citizens of the Denver- metro area.

WHAT IS AN ACTION DAY?: An Action Day for fine particulate matter, carbon monoxide, ozone or other pollutants indicates that either current air quality is unhealthy or conditions are expected to worsen later in the day or on the next day. Action Days for air pollutants generally indicate that air quality will be in either the Unhealthy or Unhealthy-for-Sensitive-Groups categories according to the Air Quality Index. Action Days always convey overarching public health recommendations, and, according to season, trigger a variety of mandatory and voluntary pollution prevention measures. For example, during the summer open burning is prohibited when an Action Day for ozone and/or fine particulates is in effect. During the winter, residential burning restrictions are in effect when an Action Day for Visibility is in effect.

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