Chloe Anderson

Six-year-old Aaron Toro, left, watches his younger brother Joao, 4, draw in the dirt with a stick during a hike near the Colorado Mountain College in Leadville, Sept. 16, 2023.  (Chloe Anderson for The Colorado Sun)

Laura Lindquist is one of the dozens of residents facing homelessness since Denver announced that the Rodeway Inn will close in August. The Gathering Place — a Denver-based nonprofit — began renting the old hotel in August 2020 to give female, transgender and nonbinary people a safe place to call home. The organization’s lease is up on Aug. 24, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Colorado Newsline)

Dozens of people follow law enforcement officers from the Kansas Statehouse to a monument honoring those killed in the line of duty during a vigil on May 19, 2023.  (Chloe Anderson for Kansas Reflector)

Bees visit blanket flowers Sept. 27 in a low-water garden planted where turf used to be near Lafayette Fire Station 1. Lafayette is removing nonfunctional turf from many public spaces and replacing it with xeriscapes. (Chloe Anderson for The Colorado Sun)

Monica Rodriguez prepares to dance in the Denver Pride parade with other Bella Diva World Dance students on June 25, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Colorado Newsline)

James Holmes Sr., right, smiles at his son, 17-year-old James H. Holmes Jr., as they sit outside the Lafayette Public Library on Aug. 7, 2023. The two have been unhoused for several years, and Holmes Sr. recently filed a lawsuit against the City of Lafayette for failing to provide adequate indoor shelter for homeless people. (Chloe Anderson for The Colorado Sun)

Ronaiber Alarcon, 6, and Isabella Jinares, 4, play in the former Westerner Motel’s parking lot in Denver on Aug. 3, 2023. Hotel conversions have become a popular idea to increase Colorado’s supply of supportive housing for people exiting homelessness, but there is an open question regarding this strategy’s long-term viability. (Chloe Anderson for Colorado Newsline)

Marisa Collins holds a sign with the message “Ban guns, not our kids' future,” during the Here4TheKids gun violence prevention sit-in at the Colorado Capitol on June 5, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Colorado Newsline)

Jamie Maynard, left, and his son Davis play in their converted garage on Sept. 22, 2023. The father-son duo started Stone Cottage Studios in 2018 to provide local artists with a recording studio and marketing services. It grew in 2020 to offer live-streamed performances to audiences during the Covid-19 pandemic, when many musicians struggled financially as their concerts were canceled. (Chloe Anderson for Boulder Reporting Lab)

Hadley Stephens, 11, uses a dry erase marker to write "photosynthesis" on her family's dining room window on Sept. 22, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Colorado Newsline)

Roustabouts Jose Contreraes, left, and Jose Borrego move stakes from where a lectern was supposed to be placed for an event Sept. 26, 2023, in Adams County celebrating federal funding used to plug and clean up leaking wells, like the one in the background. (Chloe Anderson for The Colorado Sun)

4-year-old Isabella Jinares rides her bicycle around the former Westerner Motel’s parking lot in Denver on Aug. 3, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Colorado Newsline) 

76-year-old Donaciano Martinez marches in the Denver Pride parade with a sign that reads “I’ve been marching for justice since 1965," on June 25, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Colorado Newsline)

Sgt. Fabiola Torres comforts Annette Hardaway, the mother of Sidnee Carter, during the Law Enforcement Memorial Candlelight Vigil on May 19, 2023. Carter was killed in the line of duty in October 2022 when a motorist failed to yield to a stop sign and struck Carter’s patrol car. She was 22 years old. (Chloe Anderson for Kansas Reflector)

A young Carmelo Anthony fan watches as a basketball enthusiast thrusts a Nuggets sign into the face of a man spouting religious rhetoric at the Denver Nuggets Championship parade on June 15, 2023. (Chloe Anderson for Boulder Beat)