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Following are unedited transcripts of question-and-answer sessions with District 2 county commission candidates, courtesy of Plan Jeffco.

1. What do you intend to achieve if you are elected or re-elected County Commissioner?

Zulauf: If elected as County Commissioner, my primary goals will be land preservation, water conservation, and ecologically responsible development in Jefferson County.

When Jefferson County sheriff's Deputies Mike Sensano and Ronnie Newman head to work, they know they have a lot of backup.

Not so much from their fellow deputies — who are often 30 to 40 minutes away— but from residents of the remote and rugged communities where they live and work.

"We are a part of the community," said Sensano, a gruff Hawaiian with the calloused hands of a ranch hand. "And the community is part of us."

Dolores Wood believes in angels.

"There's angels all over the house," Wood said with a gentle smile, pointing to the various glass figurines arranged around the living room of her South Jeffco home.

But Wood recently encountered an angel outside her home — a stranger who paid for more than $200 in medications needed for her daughter Trudy's cancer treatment.

Bradley J. Miller, 24, of Littleton died about 10:30 a.m. Aug. 27 when his car was broadsided by a truck at South Simms Street and West Bowles Avenue.

Miller was stopped at a red light east on West Bowles, and police said he pulled his car into the intersection while the light was still red into the path of a Dodge Ram truck driven by Christopher Dalton, 20, of Littleton.

Miller was pronounced dead at the scene. Krystle Rankin, 25, of Fort Collins was in the car with Miller and sustained serious injuries. She was taken to Swedish Hospital.