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Beckman wins GOP primary for House Former commissioner will face Robert Bowen for state representative seat

By Kyle Harding kharding@coloradocommunitymedia.com Former Arapahoe County Commissioner Susan Beckman, of Littleton, defeated Navy veteran Mike Williams, of Centennial, in the Republican primary for state

House District 38.

Beckman received 61 percent of the vote compared to Williams’ 39 percent on June 28.

“I knocked on a lot of doors and talked to a lot of people,” said Beckman, a 56-year-old Littleton Beckman resident who stepped down from her position as director of Administrative Solutions for the state Department of Human Services when

she entered the primary in February.

In the November general election, Beckman will face Democrat and state Legislature veteran Robert Bowen, of Centennial.

Bowen, who ran unopposed in the primary, was Bowen nominated from the floor at the Arapahoe County Democratic Assembly in March after no candidates from the party declared for the

race and he accepted.

Beckman, whose husband Bruce is the mayor of Littleton, served on Littleton City Council from 1999 to 2001 before serving as commissioner from District 1 of Arapahoe County from 2001-13.

Beckman graduated from Colorado State University-Pueblo with a degree in communications and earned a certificate in state and local government from the Harvard Kennedy School of Executive Education.

Primary continues on Page 11

Law will support students, businesses Measure funds grants for on-site job-training opportunities

By Alex DeWind adewind@coloradocommunitymedia.com High school students will now have more internship, apprenticeship and other job training opportunities following the passing of House Bill 1288, signed into law midJune by Gov. John HickenTate looper.

State Sen. Jack Tate, R-Centennial, backed the bill, saying it bridges the gap between emerging high school graduates who need skills and businesses that have a growing demand for skilled talent.

“The bill incentivizes industry to champion creating career opportunities and training for our next generation,” Tate said.

HB-1288 creates a public-private grant program within the state workforce development council for businesses — which is responsible for improving the workforce system — and their industry associations that provide on-site training for high school graduates.

The bill has a fund for providing grants and the state will match these grants to implement worksite apprenticeships and Bill continues on Page 11

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Eric Seufert, owner and brewmaster at 105 West Brewing Company in Castle Rock, pours from the final keg of the partnership beer. Photos by Shanna Fortier

Homebrewers hit it big 105 West Brewing Company serves prize-winning beer

By Shanna Fortier sfortier@coloradocommunitymedia.com For many homebrewers, the ultimate dream is to have your beer brewed professionally on a commercial scale. For Mark Buster, of Centennial — a member of the local homebrew club the Parker Hopaholics — that dream became a reality.

His homemade Belgian golden ale won the group’s Spring Intra-Club Competition, earning the right to be brewed at 105 West Brewing Company in Castle Rock.

A recent addition to the brewpub scene in the southeast metro area, 105 West has been open seven months.

Principal owner and brewmaster Eric Seufert is pleased with the progress he and his partners have made.

“We started out as a homebrew supply shop and built a loyal client base of people who enjoy making and drinking beer,” he said. “Expanding our shop into a small production brewery was a logical next step.”

Hopaholics Belgian blonde, based on a recipe by homebrewer Mark Buster, is on tap at 105 West Brewing for a limited time.

Another logical step, he said, was partnering with Parker Hopaholics.

“I think a brew club searches out anything that increases their knowledge and we do, too,” said Seufert, who knows many in the Parker group because of his shop. “They’re one of the younger brew clubs, so it’s nice to partner up with them because we’re new, too.”

On April 20, 205 pounds of grain were dumped into a stainless steel vat full of hot water. The runoff — or wort — cycled through 105 West’s custommade brewing system. Liquid yeast was added to the resulting 120 gallons and the fermentation process began.

The Belgian golden ale was tapped on May 6.

Beer continues on Page 11

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July 1, 2016

Bid for marathon bowling record derailed A

Todd Wessels was aiming for a Guinness record to help raise money for his son

Todd Wessels prepares to throw a ball June 23 during his attempt to set a new world record for the number of hours and the number of games bowled.

Photo by Tom Skelley

By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com An apparently unthinking and selfish action sabotaged Todd Wessels’ effort to break the Guinness world record for a 10pin bowling marathon.

Moe’s Original Bar B Que in Englewood donated the use of the lane and other support to Wessels’ effort, aimed at breaking the existing record of bowling 134 hours and 57 minutes straight — more than five days — and bowling more than 643 games.

Wessels, of Thornton, said he decided to do the bowling marathon as a way to bring attention to the needs of children like his son, who has a potentially life-threatening form of epilepsy, and to raise money to provide his son with a seizure-alert dog. He said training a dog depends on how long it takes, and costs could range from about $5,000 to 10 times that amount.

His bid to set the world record ended when he was less than 15 hours from his goals.

“I was away from the lane on a break when someone who knew what I was trying to do bowled on my lane,” Wessels, 46, said. “I was heartbroken. I haven’t cried since my mother died, but I cried when I found out what happened.”

Wessels bowled a while longer after he knew his effort to break the record would not count — he was required to bowl at least five games an hour. Before the unauthorized bowler ended his effort the night of June 24, Wessels had bowled 703 games, exceeding the world record. But it doesn’t count because the marathon record is for hours and games at the same time.

He said the score didn’t matter and he threw a lot of gutter balls. His game scores ranged from a 206 to a 1.

“I hate the fact this happened, but it definitely was a learning experience,” he said. “I think I will try to break the record

again later this year. I will tape off the area so someone can’t ‘accidentally’ bowl on my lane. I will hire someone as security. And I will put up some banners to let everyone know what I am doing and why I am doing it.”

His fundraising effort was online through GoFundMe.com. His specific project was called “A penny a frame.” The idea was to bowl about 7,500 frames, and he was asking for donations of $75 per person to go toward getting his son, Cameron, a dog.

When the record-breaking effort came to an end, Wessels began contacting those who had donated to the project, giving the

opportunity to withdraw their support. He said most people said to keep the donations. The total collected was about $1,400.

He said he will still accept donations to help get his son the seizure-alert dog. For information on how to make a donation, call 720-670-7881 or go to the GoFundMe page.

Wessels brought his plan to break the world record to Moe’s, where he said the management opened the doors and the lane to him.

“It is awesome what he is doing and to have him do it on our bowling lanes,” said Moe’s general manager, Josh Alston, the afternoon of June 23. “The entire staff has

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embraced him and he has become part of the Moe’s family. He is doing this for a goodf cause. He is a very strong-willed individual battling through the struggles he has faced.B We are doing all we can to help him get to k the finish line.”

Wessels praised all that Moe’s has done p for his project.

“Everyone here has really stepped up to S help me anyway they can,” he said. “They r let me stay here around the clock. They i lock up the place at midnight and leave 8 me here with one other person so I can continue to bowl. They donate the use of F the lanes and even donate the meals they provide for me and my family. I really ap- o c preciate what they are doing.”

Guinness World Records requires that at fi least two video cameras record an attempt w at a record. Wessell said he looked at the w r video and saw the people who stepped t over and bowled on his lane. o “I sent an email to Guinness, even though I knew the answer,” he said. “They i replied that, even though it was not an t authorized act, it was considered illegal substitution so my record attempt was a over.” w Wessels said Cameron, 14, has had f epilepsy since he was 6.

“He began having more frequent seizures, we had him tested and found he hado a rare form of the disease called SCN8A,” he said. “There is no cure but the only way g to keep our child alive is to have a seizure- g alert dog, which lets us know the child will have a seizure in 45 minutes or less. That w would be time to administer medication b used to prevent a seizure.”

2 He said he decided on the bowling n record attempt because the only sport Cameron could participate in, because of b f epilepsy, was bowling.

The rules to break the world record r were fairly simple. Wessels was allowed a five-minute break each hour, he had to t bowl at least five games an hour and had to start the five-game set five minutes after w each hour. He said you can stockpile the fi breaks so there was a longer period to eat, a s rest or take a bathroom break.

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July 1, 2016

Accident survivor stays active on prosthetic legs

Gym hosts fundraising event dfor Highlands Ranch woman

By Kyle Harding kharding@coloradocommunitymedia.com On May 4, 2014, Kristin Hopkins had planned to be challenging herself at a Spartan Sprint obstacle course race.

Instead, she was taking a helicopter ride to St. Anthony Hospital after spending six days trapped in her Chevy Malibu, 80 feet off the side of Highway 285 near Fairplay.

Just over two years later, the 46-yearold Highlands Ranch mother of four completed her goal. It took her nearly five hours to run, climb and crawl her way through the steep, rocky course that wound its way through five miles of the range area at Fort Carson that made up the course for the Spartan Military Sprint on May 15. But she made it. And she made it running on two prosthetic legs.

Hopkins had both lower legs amputated following her crash in April 2014.

The crash and loss of her legs was a bump in the road for Hopkins as she worked to get in shape. She had registered for the race as way to kick-start her efforts.

“I was out of shape, I was fat, I just kind of needed motivation,” she said.

In the spring of 2013, Hopkins had begun working out, but going to traditional gyms was intimidating.

“You go to the gym and you’re overweight, you’re embarrassed, you cry before you go in the gym,” she said.

Hopkins got her prosthetic legs in June 2014. The gym that she worked out at donated personal training sessions, and she began lifting weights. She accompanied a friend to a Crossfit gym.

“I drank the Kool-Aid,” she said, referring to a common half-joking accusation that Crossfit is a cult.

The gym closed, and Hopkins began working out at F.I.T. Park Meadows Crossfit in Lone Tree, finding that gym owner and trainer Nathan Lemon’s bootcampstyle workouts suited her.

In 2014, Kristin Hopkins lost both lower legs after spending days trapped in her car following a crash. Now she does Crossfit workouts and has competed in a Spartan obstacle course race with the help of her prosthetic legs.

Kristin Hopkins works out at Tour de Fit at F.I.T. Park Meadows on June 18. The event helped raise money for Hopkins to buy a set of prosthetic legs that will allow her to be more active. Photos by Kyle Harding “I use her as inspiration,” Lemon said.

“It’s a great way to tell people ‘yes, you can do this.’”

With Lemon’s help, Hopkins prepared for another chance at the Spartan Race.

She had planned to run it in 2015, but she didn’t feel ready yet.

Hopkins can’t do everything that is included in the gym’s WODs — workout of the day — because her prosthetics don’t flex. For instance, she can’t do full squats, a staple of Crossfit workouts. This also her on the Spartan course, making the downhill running sections especially difficult.

The race wasn’t easy while she was doing it, and she felt it afterwards as well.

“My back, my knees, they told me

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‘please don’t do this again,’” she said.

“I’ll do it again,” she clarifies. “I’ve already forgotten the pain.”

Hopkins is raising money to buy a more advanced set of prosthetics, not just in order to further her own workouts, but to become a personal trainer and help other disabled people realize their fitness potential.

“She’s really determined,” said Hopkins’ prosthetist, Zach Harvey of Creative Technology Prosthetics in Denver.

Harvey said that active patients are challenging because the fit of their prosthetics needs to be precise.

Hopkins’ quest for new legs was the beneficiary of the first of four charity

events Lemon’s gyms are hosting. Tour de Fit, as it’s called, kicked off on June 18 at the Park Meadows location as dozens turned out for a friendly team competition.

The F.I.T. location in Thornton will host an event later this summer to benefit WOD for Water, an organization that uses workout events to raise funds for clean drinking water in poor countries. F.I.T. Loveland will host an event benefitting a local school lunch program. Lemon is still searching for a beneficiary for an event at his newest location, F.I.T. Littleton.

Hopkins is still working toward raising the $10,000 for her new prosthetics. She has a crowdfunding effort set up at www. gofundme.com/footlessgoddess.

At the June 18 event, about $3,000 was raised, Lemon said.

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Legal marijuana sparks debate over clubs

By Kristen Wyatt Associated Press Legal marijuana is giving Colorado a stinky conundrum. Visitors can buy the drug, but they can’t use it in public. Or in a rental car. Or in most hotel rooms.

The result is something marijuana advocates and opponents feared — people toking up on sidewalks, in city parks and in alleys behind bars and restaurants — despite laws against doing so. And they’re getting dinged with public marijuana consumption tickets.

From the capital city of Denver to mountain resorts like Aspen and Breckenridge, police wrote nearly 800 citations for the new crime of public consumption in 2014, the first year of recreational marijuana sales.

Some legalization advocates believe they have a solution — pot clubs. Denver voters may consider a ballot measure this fall to make the city the most populous place in the nation to expressly allow pot clubs.

“People need a place to go,” said Teresa Wright of the Denver suburb of Lafayette.

Wright was volunteering in Denver recently to gather signatures to ask voters this fall about allowing private pot clubs in the city.

“You can go out anywhere and see people using alcohol. To socialize, to relax. But not

marijuana,” Wright said. “We deserve to have a place. It’s a legal activity.”

But marijuana clubs have proven a harder sell here than legalizing the drug in the first place.

The amendment that legalized marijuana doesn’t give people the right to use it “openly or publicly,” a nod to critics who said legalization would lead to an explosion of Amsterdam-style clubs. But Colorado’s constitution doesn’t ban public use, either, leading to a confusing patchwork of local policies on weed clubs.

Denver has closed pot clubs that it’s discovered, and Colorado Springs has given existing clubs five years to close down.

The small northern Colorado town of Nederland regulates a club that advertises, “out of state, out of country, and of course locals are welcome.” In southern Colorado, Pueblo County allows clubs but has none.

In Englewood, city officials last year were surprised to learn that a business licensed as a retail store was actually operating as a pot club. City council members voted 7-0 this month to allow no new pot clubs, and are on track to decide the fate of the existing club.

A pot club is on the hot seat in unincorporated Adams County, where officials have announced their intention to seek an

injunction closing the operation on grounds that it violated zoning standards.

No other states with legal recreational pot have licensed clubs, either. Alaska’s Marijuana Control Board voted last year to repeal an explicit ban on social marijuana clubs, but the state hasn’t yet finished work on the potential to allow people to use pot at certain stores that sell marijuana.

Concerns about pot clubs mirror worries about legalizing the drug, including concerns that the clubs could lead to more impaired driving.

“There’s no good regulatory model for what these clubs should look like,” said Colorado state Rep. Jonathan Singer.

The Democrat planned to propose some sort of pot club bill during the recent legislative session, but gave up after law enforcement, the pot industry, state regulators and even bars and restaurants couldn’t agree on how it should work.

Others worry that pot clubs would further encourage minors to try the drug. One Denver woman interviewed at a popular park said she fears that clubs would further entice her underage grandchildren to try pot.

“The fact is, marijuana is all over the city now,” said Sara Epstein, 77. “It’s so easy to

get. Why do they need a club? That’s just going to show kids it’s even easier to get. It’s the wrong message.”

Marijuana activists trying to get a club measure on Denver ballots say pot skeptics should welcome clubs for just that reason.

“You don’t want it in your face? Great.

Let’s get it off the street,” said Jorden Person, head of Denver NORML, which is backing the ballot measure. “We’re not going to put more people on the road high. They’re already there, probably driving while they use it. So this is better than that.”

Person’s group has until mid-August to collect about 5,000 signatures to put the question on the Denver ballot this November. She had no estimate how much the campaign could cost if the measure makes ballots. Four years ago, Denver County approved legalization nearly 2-to-1.

“For me what it comes down to is personal freedom,” Wright said. “We don’t want to hurt anybody. People just don’t want to smell it, like cigarette smoke. So it makes sense to give people a place to enjoy cannabis with other adults.”

Colorado Community Media contributed to this report.

Youth pot use reportedly not up after legalization

By Kristen Wyatt Associated Press Marijuana use among Colorado high schoolers has not increased since legalization, the state health department reported recently in a new batch of youth survey results.

The 2015 Healthy Kids Colorado survey of about 17,000 middle and high school students across the state showed that 21.2 percent of high school students reported that they currently use pot. That’s

just a hair below the national average, which was 21.7 percent.

Since voters approved recreational marijuana use for those 21 and older in 2012, Colorado has worked to keep youths off of pot.

Campaigns have said the drug will keep them from achieving their full potential and reminded them their brains aren’t fully developed until they reach 25.

Nine of 10 Colorado high school youths said they don’t smoke cigarettes, the highest rejection of smoking by high school

youths in the past decade.

Colorado health authorities praised the results as an indication that risk-prevention efforts are working.

“Overall, young people in Colorado are making healthy choices,” said Leo Kattari, survey coordinator for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

For the first time, the survey took note of the health behaviors of high school students who identified as transgender. Those

students reported higher rates of tobacco use, drug use and bullying.

For example, more than 25 percent of high schoolers who identified themselves as transgender said they had used heroin.

Survey authors noted that the sample size for transgender students was small. Still, they said the numbers suggest an alarming discrepancy in youth health.

“We almost expected there to be greater health disparities among this population,” Kattari

said. “It’s because of those daily experiences of bias, stigma and discrimination.”

The survey did not make policy suggestions addressing health disparities for transgender students.

Middle school students were not asked about gender identity.

Kattari said few states seek health data comparing transgender youth health with others, making national comparisons problematic.

Find the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey at https://goo.gl/DVxqW5.

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July 1, 2016

Bike to Work Day rolls around Commuters urged to try alternative transportation

By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media

For the 27th consecutive year, commuters in Colorado were encouraged to leave cars, minivans and SUVs parked in the garage and dust off two-wheeled transportation for the Colorado Bike to Work day on June 22.

The Denver Regional Council of Governments organizes the annual event to encourage commuters to try riding to work in the hope that cycling will become a regular part of their daily routine and thereby reduce congestion and improve air quality.

Cyclists like Scot Szatkowski, who bicycled along the C-470 path from Ken Caryl to United Launch Alliance in Centennial, were invited to take a short break from their morning commute at Bike to Work breakfast stations, such as the one sponsored by the City of Lone Tree at the intersection of the C-470 Bike Trail and the Willow Creek Trail.

At the station, volunteers set up tables with muffins and breakfast burritos, sliced fresh fruit, and stocked coolers with bottles of juice and Gatorade. Riders could also pick up buy-one-get-onefree Chipotle coupons and a certificate good for a cold pint at the Lone Tree Brewing Co. after work. In all, more than 148 riders stopped at the station between 6:30 and 9 Wednesday morning.

Szatkowski said it was the first time he had made the 17-mile commute on his bicycle and hoped to ride to work again when it is practical.

The C-470 station was organized by the city along with Lone Tree businesses the Lone Tree Brewing Company, Starbucks, Safeway, Costco, Target, RidgeGate and the South Suburban Parks and Recreation District. Nationwide o Insurance sponsored a second breakfast station at the Lincoln light rail station in Lone Tree.

“Lone Tree is committed to the effective use of multimodal transportation,” said volunteer David Lawful, a member of the Lone Tree Citizens Recreation Advisory Committee. “The city is helping

Cyclists pedal out of the Lone Tree bike-to work-station at C-470 Trail and Willow Creek Trail. Over 100 cyclists visited the station in the first hour on June 22. Photos by Rick Gustafson

Sarah Nielsen of South Suburban Parks and Recreation slices apples for the morning ride. In addition to fresh fruit, the first 50 riders received a coupon for a free pint at the Lone Tree Brewing Company Bike Party on the evening of June 22.

with things like expanding light rail and adding new bike lanes.”

The two Bike to Work breakfast stations and three bike party stations in Lone Tree were among 318 stations statewide.

For the rest of the country, Bike to Work Day is part of the observance of National Bike Month held on May 20, but unpredictable spring weather throughout Colorado prompted the state Legislature to create Colorado Bike Month in June and Bike to Work Day on the fourth Wednesday of the month.

According to Way to Go, a Denver Regional Council of Governments program, 19,112 people throughout the state registered for the event.

Activities offer fun, food and music on Independence Day

By Tom Skelley tskelley@coloradocommunitymedia.com Let Freedom Sing!

July 4, 6-10 p.m Salisbury Park, 11920 Motsenbocker Road, Parker Food will be available for cash purchase and the Six Million Dollar Band will be playing patriotic music and 1980s hits from 6 to 9:15 p.m. No alcohol, tents or canopies are permitted, pets are discouraged. Fireworks will begin at 9:30. Admission is free.

Castle Rock fireworks display July 4, 9:30 p.m.

Fireworks will blast off above Red Hawk Golf Course, just south of The Meadows on the west side of Castle Rock, known as Santa Fe Quarry Butte.

Fireworks can be seen from almost anywhere in town. The show will last about 15 minutes.

Pioneer 4th at the Elbert County Museum Elbert County Museum Grounds, 515 Comanche Street (Highway 86), Kiowa July 4, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

The Elbert County Historical Society’s annual Pioneer Fourth Celebration includes a museum open house, live music, pioneer artisans, a pie-baking contest, games, a silent auction and other activities.

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July 5- Firefall with fireworks; tickets $22 adults, $10 children Gates open at 5:30 p.m. for both shows and performances begin at 7:30 with fireworks to follow.

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July 1, 2016

Sports Authority keeps headquarters open, for now Final shutdown now set for end of December

By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com The complete shutdown of the Sports Authority Store Support Center in Englewood didn’t happen on June 3 as announced, and the new final closing date has been set for December.

Sports Authority sent a formal notice to the city June 10, announcing operations at the center located at 1050 W. Hampden Ave. will not come to an end until Dec. 30.

In the notice required under the

Worker’s Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, the letter stated there will be layoffs starting Sept. 2 with the final layoffs scheduled to occur on Dec. 30.

At one time, Sports Authority was among Englewood’s largest employers, with about 900 people in the two buildings that house the corporate headquarters. At that time, just about every space in the expansive parking lot was taken.

Since the company’s bankruptcy filing in March, it seems there are more and more empty parking spaces in the lots.

Eric Keck, Englewood city manager, said he has received no information about the plans for the corporate headquarters and the people who work there.

He said he knows the reduction of the

staff at the corporate headquarters will have a negative impact on surrounding business, including service stations, restaurants and other stores, which in turn will have an impact on the community.

Efforts to contact Sports Authority for comments were unsuccessful.

Unofficial estimates place the number of employees still at the headquarters at about 300. According to the WARN document, that number will be gradually reduced until the final shutdown by Dec. 30.

The WARN Act requires filings of notifications under specific circumstances, such as a plant closing. Sports Authority complied with the requirement, initially announcing the June closing date, then later modifying the closing date to the

end of the year.

Filing the WARN notice is the latest chapter in what appears to be the end of Sports Authority. The company was facing a reported debt of $1.1 billion in March when the step was taken to file for bankruptcy in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware. Efforts were made to attract capital to continue operation or to attract a buyer, but were unsuccessful.

On May 24, Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge Mary Walrath approved the company proposal to have a team of liquidators start the going-out-of-business sale that will include all inventory and fixtures at all retail locations. The sale must be completed by Aug. 31.

Theft of 20 to 30 firearms reported at Littleton gun shop Police, ATF probe possible link to similar crime that occurred in Jefferson County one day earlier Staff report The Littleton Police Department responded to a gun store robbery on

County Line Road early Wednesday morning, the day after a similar robbery in Jefferson County.

Officers responded at about 1:45

a.m. to Triple J Armory at 311 E. County Line Road to find damage to the front of the building. While the investigation is ongoing, police say it appears 20 to 30 guns were stolen.

Witnesses described seeing a white van drive into the front of the building and several suspects enter the store.

Police investigators are now working

on a joint investigation with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office based on the similarities between this robbery and Colorado Gun Broker on West Bowles Avenue early June 21. The stores are approximately nine miles apart.

Police are also investigating if a white van involved in an accident in Denver is related to the robberies.

NEWS IN A HURRY City OKs new fireworks regulations Although the sale of all fireworks in Centennial continues to be prohibited, Centennial residents may now possess and use certain “permissible fireworks.”

The types of fireworks are limited to those that do not explode, leave the ground or fly through the air.

Sparklers, cones, snakes and fountains are now allowed.

The use and possession of all types of fireworks is still prohibited in the city’s parks and open spaces. If there’s a fire ban, fireworks will be included.

The decision to allow certain types of fireworks consistent with Arapahoe County and state regulations followed feedback from residents and discussions with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office and fire districts.

The city reminds residents that fireworks can be dangerous and should be used responsibly this Fourth of July.

“I would like to stress the importance of safety around fireworks and request that everyone clean up any remnants of fireworks when they are done,”

District 3 Councilmember Mark Gotto said in a media release.

Career website gives Centennial high marks Zippia, a website that specializes in career options, recognized Centennial as the fourth most successful city in the nation in a recently published national list.

The list is based on data including poverty level, median household income and the unemployment rate from the 2010-14 American Community Survey, collected from 289 places with populations of more then 100,000.

Centennial has 107,193 residents and has the third lowest poverty rank of all the places reviewed by Zippia. Centennial also has the 10th highest median income of $90,090 and an unemployment rate of 5.3 percent.

Centennial is the only Colorado city to make the list.

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summer can apply for Centennial’s Home Improvement Program — known as HIP. The city has improved the existing program to make applying easier with a greater return on investments.

The upgraded HIP will offer qualified homeowners cash rebates of up to $300 based on the value of their project. The program aims to increase property values, energy efficiency and the vibrancy of Centennial neighborhoods, a media release says.

Eligible projects include home renovations, home additions, siding, windows, doors and the replacement of shake roofs with less hazardous materials. Homes must have been built before 1990 to qualify.

HIP has a three-step submission process for its application: a building permit application, plans (if applicable) and a signed HIP terms and conditions agreement. After a final inspection, participants submit a HIP reimbursement form for approval, then receive a reimbursement check from the city’s finance department.

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History Owner Scott Megan started Motospa in 2006, seeking to connect Castle Rock drivers with a service worthy of their cars. Though many people look at Motospa’s gleaming and immaculate facilities and assume it’s part of a big chain, it’s still independently owned and operated.

Motospa offers car washes and a variety of other services. Photo by Shanna Fortier

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Motospa offers unlimited car washes starting at $30 a month – worth it just to hang out in the lobby.

He said it “I’m trying to build something special in the community,” said operations manager Jason Clarkson. “I love working outside with friends.”

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The Ice Cream wagon has been around since 1978, and has around 50 trucks it sends all over the Denver metro area. According to Paul Capley, manager of the company, most of the O trucks are 30 years old and well maintained to deliver that familiar look and style. Photos courtesy of Ice Cream Wagon

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We wanted to offer diners something sweet to balance out our savory dishes. We’re able to do more off-the-wall flavors like watermelon mint sorbet or a deconstructed s’more.”

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D Few sounds signal the arrival of Fast food restaurants offering cheap d summer like the tinkling notes of the cones are just one of the N ice cream truck drifting biggest changes the com- t through the air. pany has seen in its nearly R The tune pulls people of 40 years. But despite the a all ages away from whatever competition, Capley said f activity they’re doing to get the company is hanging in. a The song used by The Ice some delicious relief from a Trucks like Churn & Cream Wagon company the heat.

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L es and strawberry shortcakes never go out “If it’s summertime and you have N of style.” people out there selling ice cream,” he k Drivers at The Ice Cream Wagon are said, “then it’s all good.” i C d Drivers at The Ice Cream

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By taking a classic approach to its model, The Ice Cream Wagon appeals to all age groups. Some of the most popular items are SpongeBob SquarePants bar for children and ice cream sandwiches and strawberry shortcakes for adults.

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July 1, 2016 Requirements: Must attend a 26-hour training session; bilingual skills welcome Contact: Jeneen Klippel-Worden, 303343-1856 or jkworden@gatewayshelter. com

Send volunteer opportunities to hharden@coloradocommunitymedia.com Summer Reading Program Douglas County Libraries program that encourages summer reading When: Through June Need: Volunteers assist with crafts and games, register participants and direct line traffic. Each branch will continue with program registration through June, and volunteers are needed to help with those sign-ups.

Contact: VolunteerConnectDC.org.

Ongoing 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office Domestic Violence Program Provides information and support to crime victims Need: Victim Adocates interact with and support victims of domestic violence.

They also provide resource referrals and explain processes to victims.

Requirements: 20 hours of training required; volunteers must commit to one morning a week at the Justice Center in Castle Rock.

Contact: Mel Secrease, 720-733-4552 or msecrease@da.18.state.co.us.

Angel Heart Project Delivers meals to men, women and children with life-threatening illnesses Need: Volunteers willing to deliver meals to clients in the South Denver area.

Requirements: Attend an orientation and submit to a background check before volunteering. Training provided to all new drivers. Deliveries start at 1 p.m. and last until 3 p.m.

Contact: 303-830-0202 or volunteer@ projectangelheart.org.

Animal Rescue of the Rockies Provides foster care for death-row shelter dogs and cats throughout Colorado Need: Foster families for animals on lists to be euthanized Contact: www.animalrescueoftherockies.org.

Arapahoe County Need: Volunteers to help seniors, teens, youth and more in a variety of capacities.

Contact: 303-738-7938 ASSE International Student Exchange Program Organizes student exchange programs Need: Local host families to provide homes for boys and girls age 15-18 from a variety of coutries.

Contact: Cathy Hintz, 406-488-8325 or 800-733-2773 Castle Rock Senior Activity Center Provides services to local seniors Need: Volunteer drivers to take seniors to appointments, the grocery store, pharmacies and more.

Contact: Steph Schroeder, 303-688-9498 Colorado Humane Society Handles animal abuse and neglect cases Need: Volunteers to care for pregnant cats, dogs and their litters, as well as homes for cats and dogs that require socializing or that are recovering from surgery or injuries.

Contact: Teresa Broaddus, 303-961-3925 Court Appointed Special Advocates Works with abused and neglected children in Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties Need: Advocates for children, to get to know, speak up for and ensure their best interests in court Contact: 303-695-1882 or www.adv4children.org.

Gateway Battered Women’s Shelter Serves victims of family violence in Aurora and Arapahoe County Need: Volunteers help with crisis-line management, children’s services, legal advocacy, community education and other shelter services.

Donations: Also accepts used cell phones (younger than 4 years) to give to victims. Mail to Gateway at P.O. Box 914, Aurora, CO 80040, or drop them off at Neighborly Thrift Store, 3360 S. Broadway, Englewood

Girl Scouts of Colorado Youth organization for girls Need: Troop leaders, office support, administrative help and more Age requirement: Men and women, 18 and older Contact: www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org, inquiry@gscolorado.org or 1-877-4045708 GraceFull Community Cafe Provides a place in Littleton where people of all backgrounds can gather, eat well and be inspired to give back. Cafe is open for breakfast and lunch, from 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. A partner of the GraceFull Foundation.

Need: Opportunities for food preparation, guest service, cleaning and dishwashing.

Location: 5610 Curtice St., Littleton Contact: Sign up for volunteer opportunities at http://gracefullcafe.com/ volunteer/ Habitat ReStore Nonprofit home improvement stores and donation centers Need: Volunteers for Wheat Ridge, Denver or Littleton Habitat ReStores, helping with the cash register, dock and warehouse floor Contact: 303-996-5468, email Alice Goble at Alice@habitatmetrodenver.org Health Passport Centura Health program that provides health and wellness services Need: Volunteers to support patients and families in the hospital and upon discharge with outreach, marketing and social networking; connecting patients, families and volunteers to services and programs; hosting classes at various Health Passport locations; contributing to the health and wellness of those in the community; counseling clients who need prescription drug assistance; and helping with day-to-day living expenses, Medicare and Medicaid issues.

Contact: Kerry Ewald, Health Passport volunteer coordinator, 303-629-4934.

The Children’s Hospital of Denver, Highlands Ranch chapter Contact: 303-861-6887 Hospice at Home Need: Volunteers help patients and their families with respite care, videotaping, massage and other tasks. Home study training is available.

Contact 303-698-6404 Hospice of Covenant Care Nonprofit, faith-based hospice Need: Volunteers to support patients and families Contact: 303-731-8039 Lutheran Family Services: Cultural Mentoring Program We welcome refugee families and help them adjust to their new home Need: People who can commit to working with refugees on skills for self-sufficiency and helping them learn about their new home.

Requirements: Must be 18 or older (although children of volunteers are welcome to participate). One-hour training and orientation required.

Contact: David Cornish, 303-225-0199 or david.cornish@lfsrm.org; go to www. lfsrm.org.

Meals on Wheels Delivers meals to residents in Englewood, southern Jefferson County and western Arapahoe County Need: Drivers to deliver meals; volunteers to help prepare, box and label meals Requirements: Must dedicate one to two hours a week Contact: Phil or Mary at 303-798-7642 (from 8 a.m. to noon Mondays through Fridays) Nonprofit Wildlife Group Works to protect native wildlife in Greenwood Village Need: Volunteers help protect wildlife Requirements: Must work two hours per week, schedule flexible Contact: info@wildearthguardians.org

Paladin Rescue Alliance Christian non-government organization dedicated to rescuing human trafficking victims and building alliances to combat trafficking locally, nationally and internationally Need: Volunteers to help organize supplies; donations of supplies. All donations are tax-deductible. Needed items include cleansers, skin cream, ointment, disinfectants, dressings, bandages, rolls, sponges, pads, dressing tape, gloves, alcohol pads, asprin, Tylenol.

Age requirement: All ages can participate.

Contact: www.paladinrescue.org; Paladin Rescue Alliance, P.O. Box 79, Littleton, CO 80160; 888-327-3063 PeopleFirst Hospice Denver hospice Need: Volunteers to provide companionship to hospice patients and their families.

Contact: Rachel Wang at 303-546-7921 Project CURE Delivers medical supplies and equipment to developing countries around the world Need: Groups of 7-15 people to help sort medical supplies; those with medical/ clinical backgrounds to become Sort Team Leaders; truck drivers to help pick up donations (no CDL required).

Age requirements: Ages 15 and older (if a large group of ages 15 and younger is interested, we can try to accommodate different projects).

Location: 10377 E. Geddes Ave., Centennial Contact: Kelyn Anker, 303-792-0729 or 720-341-3152; kelynanker@projectcure. org; www.projectcure.org.

Red Cross Supports the elderly, international causes and social services Need: Volunteers to provide support Contact: 303-607-4768 or 303-266-7855 SMARTS! South Metro Arts Center Need: Help with public relations, marketing to public officials, fundraising, and special projects Contact: 303-790-8264 or gdnguy@

comcast.net Spellbinder Storytellers Connects the generations through storytelling Need: Adults to tell stories to children in Douglas County Schools Age requirement: Must be 50 and older Contact: Jaime Gotlieb, 303-688-7626 or jgotlieb@dclibraries.org South Metro Medical Equipment Loan Closet Loans durable medical supplies to those 18 and older in the South Metro area.

Need: Volunteers to help answer phones, in three-hour intervals, mostly from your home or cell phone; work is done from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Other volunteers are needed to clean, distribute and accept equiptment from donors.

Requirement: Must be 18 or older; periodig training provided as needed. Next session is in late July Contact: Donna Ralston, 720-443-2013, info@medicalequipmentloan.org or www.medicalequipmentloan.org.

South Platte Park Need: Help with programs ranging from hikes, overnights, gold panning, sunset canoeing or HawkQuest events Contact: 303-730-1022 Sunset Hospice Provides end-of-life support Need: Volunteer training is from 6-10 p.m. every second and fourth Tuesdays; they also meet from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every first and third Saturday Contact: Jami Martin at 303-693-2105 Volunteers of America, Foster Grandparent Program Foster grandparents volunteer in early childhood centers and public schools focusing on literacy and numeracy for at-risk children and youth.

Need: Seniors on a low, fixed income who enjoy working with children. Volunteers work 15-40 hours a week.

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AUGUST 5-7 Copper Triangle 12 Colorado Ragnar Relay 12-14 Guitar Town featuring Lee Ritenour, Guitar Army, John Jorgenson and more!

19-21 Genuine Jazz & Wine Festival 20 Craft Beer Relay 26-27 Cider Circus featuring Big Sam’s Funky Nation SEPTEMBER 2-4 Copper Country featuring America, JJ Grey & Mofro, The Long Players and Delbert McClinton 9 Bright Pink Fundraiser 10-11 Dirty Girl Mud Run & Golf Tournament 16-18 Chubby Chili Pepper & Whiskey Festival Events subject to change without notice.

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July 1, 2016

VOICES

LOCAL

Ask yourself: What’s the good word?

There are so many people who enjoy a good crossword puzzle, word search puzzle or unscrambling a word jumble. There are many folks who love a good play on words, an anagram, a pun or a great riddle. These word games and puzzles help keep our minds sharp and our creativity flowing.

As we know, words are extremely powerful. They can be powerfully positive and energizing or they can be powerfully destructive and hurtful. Words can be factual to help transfer knowledge and information or they can be used to mislead or manipulate situations and people.

There so many events happening in our own backyard as well as around the globe that leave people thinking about powerfully negative words. We hear people using powerfully negative words like fear, terror, frustration, anger, rage, road rage, hopelessness, doubt, worry, anxiety, cynical, hate, mad, racism, revenge and others that are equally as negative or damaging when we dwell on them or let them change who we are or how we treat other people, especially people closest to us.

Obviously we all deal with very real and difficult situations and sometimes those powerfully negative words are just expressing very real feelings, I totally get that and understand how that can sometimes happen.

Yet in a world filled with uncertainty and change, we need to take the time to refuel our minds and our hearts with those power-

fully positive words. We need to be deliberate in thinking beyond the fear, doubt and worry and instead focus our thoughts on the good, the possible and the hope for a better and brighter tomorrow.

Sounds too simple, doesn’t it, maybe even a little naïve? Maybe Michael Norton so, but stay with me WINNING on this and just try it.

Make a list of all the WORDS positive and powerful words that you can think of, words that you may already have committed to your own personal word bank. Keep this list in a visible place, place copies of the lists around your house, your office, your car. Share the lists or even one word at a time with your family, your friends or your co-workers — even when, or especially when, they are using their own negative word banks.

I like to leave one-word notes around the house or send one-word texts or emails from time to time. I just simply write or type words like faith, love, hope, encouragement, kindness, truth, happiness, thanks, blessings, appreciated, grateful, forgiveness, success, opportunity, commitment, passion, purpose, XOXO, belief, special, goodness, sunshine, excellence, fantastic, joy, flourish-

ing, achievement, accomplishment, driven or any other powerfully positive words that may come into my mind. I write them down and put them in a visible place, or sometimes a hidden place where they can be found later. Or I quickly type it out and hit send.

The initial thought may be that I am doing this for the benefit of others, those who receive my encouraging words. But the reality is this, I am the biggest beneficiary of constantly, and consistently, using and sharing these very powerful and positive words each and every time I write them down, type them out, or allow myself to be deliberate in my thoughts. If we are not deliberate in thinking about the good, the possible and the hope for a better tomorrow, it’s just too easy to go along for the ride on the rollercoaster of negativity, up one side of a big problem and down the other side into the valley.

So how about you? What are your favorite words or what are those powerfully positive words you use to recharge your positive attitude and belief in the good and the possible?

I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we use the right words and the right time, it really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.

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Results of overtime rule might be ironic The most important thing to know about the Obama administration’s new overtime rule is that it has now disrupted or voided the arrangements 73,000 Coloradans had with their employers.

Arrangements, mutually beneficial Tony Gagliardi to employer and GUEST employee alike, that accommodated COLUMN individual lifestyles, family commitments and emergency needs. The 73,000 number comes from the U.S. Department of Labor and is part of the 4.2 million nationally that DOL claims are recipients of its warmly embracing beneficence.

Would that life worked so simply. It is worth noting that to explain its new rule, DOL used two cartoon characters, Sam and Mattie, not two human beings. Sam, the voice-over explains, will “have more of his own time” to do the things he likes.

“Sure, you might not make more money, but think of all the free time you’ll have to look for a second job,” noted Noah Rothman in Commentary magazine with bull’seye irony.

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Reaction to Philadelphia’s tax on soda is a big gulp Writer’s block is a myth, unless you are a writer. I mean a real writer. A writer of books.

Books are marathons.

Laura Hillenbrand holed up for a year to write “Seabiscuit: An American Legend.”

Then what? The pressure is on to do it again.

That’s not for me. I write the equivalent of a 50-meter dash three or four or five times a week.

Then one is chosen for publication.

I sometimes wish you could see what isn’t chosen. My editor is wiser than I am, and knows that I might shutter the paper with some of my ideas.

I read the news and watch the news and pluck.

There were so many topics today that I wrote them on cards and threw them in the air.

One landed face up.

It wasn’t the one with “Orlando” written on it. Or the Broncos’ off-season theme song, “Show Me the Money.”

It had “Philadelphia soda tax” on it.

Philadelphia has decided to tax sodas at a rate of 1.5 cents per ounce. A 12-ounce can or bottle will be taxed 18 cents.

Taxing sodas will generate about $90 million. It will go to good causes, to pay for

pre-kindergarten, for example.

I never went to kindergarten. I was home-crayoned.

The reason why I wrote “Philadelphia soda tax” on a card in the first place is because I drink the stuff.

The tax is inCraig Marshall Smith tended to cut down on the consumpQUIET tion of sugary DESPERATION drinks.

My sugary drink does not contain sugar. I drink diet soda. My nonsugary, sugary drink contains aspartame, an artificial sweetener.

According to one website, “Aspartame is, by far, the most dangerous substance on the market that is added to foods.”

Wonderful.

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training programs, Tate said.

“The beauty of this approach,” Tate said in a media release, “is that it bridges the gap between emerging high school graduates who need skills and businesses who have a growing demand for skilled talent.”

The Bill will also open a career path to high school graduates who may not be interested in attending a four-year college but still want to excel in the workforce.

The signing was hosted by Mikron Corporation, which develops, produces and markets automation and machining systems, at its 70,000-square-foot facility near Dove Valley and Centennial Airport.

Mikron initiated a student internship program as a model of the HB 1288 grant program.

“In attendance were five high school

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On the menu, patrons will find it under Hopaholics Belgian blonde. It’s a lighter beer with a 6 percent ABV (the alcohol percentage of a beer), with a fruity, pear-like flavor and aroma.

On tapping day, Buster stopped in to see how his brew turned out.

“I thought it was very close” to the original, Buster wrote on Facebook. “Lots of the Belgian character that I love. I think it will even be better once it brightens up in the tank for a while. I like clear golden Belgians for whatever reason. I saw a number of people order it, and we brought home four of those 32-ounce cans they make.

Fun times for me.”

A number of Hopaholics joined in the celebration of Buster’s achievement by downing a few pints themselves.

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If you think this increase only fair, think again.

“Entry-level management positions are going to disappear, and those employees will fall back to hourly jobs,” said Juanita Duggan, president and CEO of the National Federation of Independent Business.

“Obviously, that means higher costs for millions of small businesses regardless of whether they’re making more sales, generating more revenue or dealing with other rising expenses. Many are struggling now, and they’ll have to make tough choices that might affect the very same workers the Department of Labor thinks it’s helping.”

Added NFIB’s senior legal counsel, Beth Milito: “Struggling small-business owners can’t afford to pay more in overtime pay just because the Department of Labor says they should. Businesses can only afford more in payroll if they increase revenue, something the government is powerless to make happen. Most small-business owners will have to limit employees’ hours and career opportunities.”

But then, Duggan and Milito would say that, wouldn’t they? That is the tone taken

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fountain-fresh on the way home from my grandmother’s house near Flint. It was nectar, and I was hooked on soda.

I have cut back on my non-sugary, sugary drink. Water seems like a good option.

As you might guess, sugary drink manufacturers are not happy about this development in Philadelphia.

But what if the soda doesn’t contain sugar? Then it becomes a question of what is and isn’t a soda.

Carbonation might be the difference between a soda and other sweetened beverages.

More than 68 percent of the adults in Philadelphia are overweight or obese, so there are understandable concerns about the causes.

Sodas aren’t the only villains.

A Philadelphia cheesesteak sandwich contains 620 calories or more.

I did some checking. The smallest soda offered at a Philadelphia Phillies game, 20

students from Cherry Creek Schools who are starting their technical careers as interns at Mikron,” a media release says.

The programs that will be developed are strongly aligned with the competency and skills that businesses are looking for, said Wendy Nkomo, chief operating officer of the Colorado Technology Association.

The Colorado Technology Association is a 600-person trade association that represents technology companies in Colorado, including AT&T, Universal Mind, Ping Identity, First Bank and Comcast.

“This bill is a public-private partnership,” Nkomo said, “and that’s really important because it will make for a stronger result.”

It’s not an education or corporate program — it’s a combination of the two that is mutually beneficial.

“These programs are competency based and competency driven,” Nkomo said, “based on what a student is learning in school and what a business is looking for in a job.”

“At the rate it was being poured, it’s doubtful that it’s going to have much of a chance to ‘improve’ in the tank,” Hopaholics member Bob Samborski wrote on the group’s website. “Besides, we all thought it tasted just great.”

Samborski was right. Just over a month later, there is one keg of Belgian blonde left.

Seufert, who employs 10 full- and part-time employees, is constantly experimenting with different beer styles and recipes.

“People like to try different kinds of beers,” he said. “We are focused on brewing quality traditional beer styles as well as experimenting with seasonal variations. We’re not tied to any particular style.”

Sixteen rotating taps provide plenty of interesting options to try while enjoying the cozy taproom, finished in beetle-kill pine and old barrel staves.

In regards to the Belgian blonde, he said it will be back in the rotation in the future.

“We liked it better than our similar version,” Seufert said. “We will probably brew it again.”

by The New York Times in an editorial praising the new overtime rule. “They (employer groups) have said that employers will cut base pay if forced to pay overtime, but that appears to be an idle threat.”

Had, however, the Times editorial board read more than its section that day, it would have come across a story by their reporter, Sarah Max, who analyzed the options available to employers: “They (employers) could even cut the base salaries of those who regularly work more than 40 hours ...”

Across the political divide from the Times, The Wall Street Journal put it right on the money: “The irony is that salaried workers will enjoy less personal flexibility once they have to record their hours, and those who become hourly wage hands will receive even less.”

Indeed, as business owner Kelli Glasser put it in Max’s Times report, “If somebody needs to pick up a sick kid or go to a doctor’s appointment, we let them do it because we know that at some point they’ll make up for it. Once you start tracking hours, all that changes.” Added businessman Lior Rachmany in the same article, “I think you get a better product when people are paid a salary. When a person knows there is a task to get done, it will get done, not on the clock.” Rachmany, reports Max, ounces, is $4.

(The smallest soda offered at a Los Angeles Dodgers game, 24 ounces, is $6.)

That means that a Citizens Bank Park soda will go up by 30 cents, at least.

Why point the finger at soft drinks?

What about pie?

What about cake and ice cream? Candy and cookies and doughnuts? Breakfast cereals?

Someone said, “Soda is the tobacco of the 21st century.”

There were ways around Prohibition.

There will be ways around this too.

A soda underground will bubble up in Philadelphia.

Families will head to Upper Darby to load up on Squirt.

I had a dream that I drowned in an ocean of orange soda, but it turned out to be a Fanta sea.

Imagine Rodney Dangerfield, tugging on his tie. “I’m telling you. This new tax. It’s soda pressing.”

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast. net.

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Beckman said she thinks her message of fiscal responsibility and regulatory reform will resonate with the district’s indepen-

dent voters in November.

The winner of the BeckmanBowen race will replace Kathleen Conti, R-Littleton, who decided not to seek re-election and is focusing on her bid for Arapahoe County commissioner.

House District 38 includes most of Littleton and west Centennial, among other areas.

JUNE 28 PRIMARY RESULTS REPUBLICAN

DEMOCRAT

County commissioner, District 1 Kathleen Conti (unopposed)

County commissioner, District 1 No candidate

County commissioner, District 3 Jeff Baker (unopposed)

County commissioner, District 3 Janet Cook (unopposed)

County commissioner, District 5 Bob LeGare (unopposed)

County commissioner, District 5 Bill Holen (unopposed)

1st Congressional District Charles Stockham (unopposed)

1st Congressional District Diana DeGette: 86 percent Chuck Norris: 14 percent

6th Congressional District Mike Coffman (unopposed) State Board of Education, District 6 Debora Scheffel (unopposed) State Senate District 26 Nancy Doty (unopposed)

State Board of Education, District 6 Rebecca McClellan: 62 percent Ilana Spiegel: 38 percent State Senate District 26 Daniel Kagan (unopposed)

State Senate District 27 Jack Tate (unopposed)

State Senate District 27 Tom Sullivan (unopposed)

State House District 3 Katy Brown: 74 percent Rick Gillit: 26 percent

State House District 3 Jeff Bridges: 57 percent Meg Froelich: 43 percent

State House District 37 Cole Wist (unopposed)

State House District 37 Carol Barrett (unopposed)

State House District 38 Susan Beckman: 61 percent Mike Williams: 39 percent

State House District 38 Robert Bowen (unopposed)

District attorney George Brauchler (unopposed)

“said he would probably end up hiring more entry-level employees and minimizing overtime pay for his affected salaried employees.”

Finding real-life portrayers for DOL’s overtime script after Dec. 1 will be a most

6th Congressional District Morgan Carroll (unopposed)

District attorney No candidate

difficult casting call. Watch for Sam and Mattie the sequel.

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July 1, 2016

CULTURE FA I T H FA M I L Y FOOD HEALTH

Old-fashioned approach Players in local food movement return to healthier connection

By Shanna Fortier sfortier@coloradocommunitymedia.com

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s the locally produced and grown food movement continues to gain traction in Colorado, bison rancher Neil Fischer wants to make it easier for residents to buy meat directly from ranchers.

“We looked at the landscape of organically and sustainably raised food and there is not great access from the farm to the consumer,” Fischer said.

That’s why in 2014 he and his wife, Teresa, launched The Farm2Table LLC Trading Post, a network of farmers, ranchers, local artisans and locals who buy direct. The model offers direct consumer distribution through an online marketplace — www.farm2tabletradingpost.com — and a year-round mobile market.

The mobile market is in Parker inside the Parker Garage restaurant on Mainstreet from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m on Sundays and in Castle Rock in front of Briccy’s Coffee on Wilcox Street from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Thursdays. Fischer hopes to expand the Parker market to three days a week over the summer.

The Castle Rock market opened in May and resident Monika Wilmer couldn’t be happier.

“It’s fresh meat, fresh food and I just love it,” said Wilmer, who tries to buy chicken and farm-fresh eggs every week.

“There’s something about chickens straight from the farm.”

Wilmer moved to the U.S. from Poland 10 years ago and had been searching for farm-fresh meat and produce to help combat stomach problems she recently developed.

“Since I came to America, my stomach stared freaking out,” she said. “So I started reading labels and found out there’s sugar in everything we eat.”

Fischer said Wilmer’s story is not unique.

“There’s such a disconnect today for people and their foods,” he said. “With the increase of obesity, diabetes and many different forms of food allergies in kids today, people are asking `why?’ If it’s not in what we’re eating in commercial food, then what is it? People are looking to know the source of their food to know what the ingredients are.”

Fischer’s solution to eating healthier is knowing your farmer. Marcus McCauley, of the McCauley Family Farm in Longmont, supports that notion, too.

Neil Fischer is hoping to change the way Coloradans eat by offering local, grass-fed meat. Photo by Shanna Fortier

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“There’s no certification that can substitute for knowing your farmer and who is growing your food,” said McCauley, whose farm grows fresh produce and raises chickens. “And that’s what the local food movement really recognizes and embraces.”

One distributor who is embracing the local movement is CharcutNuvo, a premium sausage manufacturer owned by fourth-generation Swiss sausage master Eric Cutknecht. The Denver-based company makes sausage in natural casings from premium cuts of meat, including beef, bison, elk, “jackalope” (rabbit, pork

and antelope) and wild boar.

The proteins are sourced within 500 miles of Denver and are humanely and sustainably raised on family farms, Roelke said. Fruits and vegetables used in the sausage are organic. No nitrates or chemicals are used.

“Sausage has always had a stigma, but transparency is one of our core values,” said John Roelke, sales manager for CharcutNuvo. “We want people to know what goes into their sausage. We think it’s really important for the health of our country that we don’t use chemicals.”

CharcutNuvo sausages can be found at Whole Foods, Costco and Biker Jim’s and, this year, their bratwurst and Polish sausage are featured at Coors Field. They also are sold at Fischer’s Trading Post.

The company’s way of making sausage is not new, Roelke said. Rather it’s bringing food back to the old days, which is what Fischer is targeting with the Trading Post.

“Part of the idea of us being a trading post is going back,” Fischer said. “Our way of raising food is not new, it’s very old. I want to make a point with kids today that this isn’t a new food movement, this is how our grandparents ate — no

McCauley Family Farm in Longmont offers volunteer days so consumers can get more connected with their food. Courtesy photo

processed foods.”

In the two years Farm2Table LLC Trading Post has been operating, it has grown from a dozen farms and ranches to more than 30 that contribute on a regular basis. All are from Colorado.

“We coordinated with different ranches to provide products, so it’s not just one person with 12 cows trying to feed the public,” Fischer said. The cooperative now carries more than 100 meat items. “There’s no one that has this collection of meat, and it’s because most of us don’t make enough to sell to a King Soopers.”

In addition to the online store and mobile marketplace, the cooperative recently started a monthly buyers club, which offers 10 different meat boxes, offering 100 shares of each box.

“I think at the end of the day a lot of people think this is really cool, but they haven’t changed their habits of just going to the grocery store and buying meats for food,” Fischer said. “So, until people vote with their dollar, not much is going to change in our food system. It’s the actual involvement of buying your groceries from the local family farm that makes all the difference.”

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Irish Festival features food, music and fun Irish dancers come in all sizes to perform and compete at the Colorado Irish Festival on July 8-10 at Clement Park.

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Clement Park is site for annual celebration

IF YOU GO

By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@colorado communitymedia.com Gates are open at 5 p.m. July 8 at Clement Park and the Moxie Strings will strike the first note on the Clontarf Stage at 5:15. It’s the 2016 Irish Festival and thousands of Irish and wannabe Irish folks will enjoy a weekend of all things from that Emerald Isle: music, dance, food, drink, storytelling, special athletic events … and big, long-legged, sweet-tempered Irish wolfhounds.

Volunteers are sought for miscellaneous jobs — see the website for contacts.

At 5:30 on July 8, the Wick School of Dance Irish dancers will begin their intricate high-stepping on the Main Stage, followed by a Welcome ceremony at 6 p.m.; the Screaming Orphans from 6:30-7:45 and the High Kings from 8:30-9:45.

On the Clontarf Stage, Indigent Row plays 7-8:15 p.m. and Wild Mountain from 8:45-9:45.

On July 9, gates open at 10 a.m. and remain open until 10 p.m.,

The 22nd annual Irish Festival runs July 8-10 at Clement Park, Bowles and Wadsworth, west of Littleton in Jefferson County. Tickets: (12 and under free each day; a Paddy ‘O VIP is available each day at higher price) July 8 $10; July 9 $13/$11; July 10 $13/$11. No dogs, except service dogs. (List of local kennels provided.) No outside food or beverages, marijuana, coolers, pets, roller skates, skateboards, bicycles. with Bedlam Boys Irish Dance from 11 a.m.-noon, Mice in a Mug from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. and then bands continuing through the day.

Visitors can also enjoy food and drink, a cultural tent, Irish harpists, Gaelic football (men’s and women’s); Gaelic hurling for men and camogie (for women.) And they have an opportunity to meet some Irish wolfhounds.

July 10 begins with a Mass from 8:30 to 9:10 a.m. (free admission), followed by musical acts and other activities, including athletics, until 6:45 p.m.

The festival is handicappedaccessible on sidewalks and grass.

No skateboards or bicycles admitted. Strollers and small lawn chairs welcome.

The 2016 headliners are: • The High Kings, Ireland’s Folk Band of the Year — multi-instru-

mentalists who each grew up in an Irish music family.

• The Elders are a six-piece band rooted in Americana and Celtic folk rock.

• The Mahones are a 26-yearold band, formed on St. Patrick’s Day, 1990, recognized for their own brand of Irish punk and 10 successful albums. Featured in the Academy Award-winning film, “The Fighter.”

• The Moxie Strings, which will perform each day, combine a fiddler, cellist and drummer/percussionist in a combination of Celtic and Americana music.

• The Screaming Orphans are four sisters raised in County Donegal, where they played and sang traditional music and were able to form a contemporary band.

Eleven other bands will share the stages with these headliners.

Backpacks hold key to great outdoors On May 20, 296 libraries throughout Colorado received a pair of backpacks, filled with a state parks pass hangtag, set of binoculars, a variety of outdoor Colorado guides, a state parks guide and list of activity ideas. Each pass allows free entry to any of Colorado’s 42 state parks, where you can hike and bike. If you have a fishing license and a campground reservation, you can fish and stay overnight.

Littleton’s Bemis Library and Englewood Public Library both confirmed they had received them on May 20. (Englewood’s were already checked out later that day.)

We assume Douglas County’s libraries have them, but haven’t received confirmation to date. The hope is that people will realize what a treasure they have and purchase their own pass.

Veggie venue The farmers’ market that used to be at Littleton’s Broadridge Shopping Center, Broadway and Ridge Road, has returned after a stay at Aspen Grove. It will be open on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or sell-out.

Fun with Fitzgerald The Tunes on the Terrace series at Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons Street, Lone Tree, will present comedian Kevin Fitzgerald, who also has a 25-year career as a veterinarian in his background.

Opening for him will be Colorado’s popular Chicken Lips Comedy Theater, which

was started by Bob Wells. The performance will be inside on the Main Stage and tickets cost $30.

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Wizardly ways Theatre of Dreams’ annual Sonya Ellingboe Wizard Camp is underway, with more SONYA’S sessions scheduled SAMPLER July 11-14, July 25-28 and August 1-4. To reserve a spot, send a check for $175 to cover supplies and props to Dream Masterz at 3721 Starflower Road, Castle Rock, CO 80109, two weeks prior (July 11-14 camp is already less than two weeks away). 303-660-6799. Minimum class size: 10.

Western art “Art into the Sunset” extends the American Museum of Western Art’s (1727 Tremont Place, Denver) all-day self-guided tours on summer Wednesdays until 6 p.m. On July 11 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., the “Artful Insight” lecture will be about American Impressionists, including landscapes in the museum’s collection.

On July 18, Taos painter Ernest Blumenschein will be the topic, from 3 to 4:30

p.m. Reservations are necessary ($10).

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Call for artists • Heritage Fine Arts Guild invites entries in its annual “This is Colorado” show, Oct. 10-Nov. 3 at Arapahoe Community College Colorado Gallery of the Arts. Juror will be Lian Quan Zhen. Entry form at: heritage-guild.com/shows. (Zhen will also teach a three-day watercolor workshop Oct 19-21 at the Littleton Museum.)

Deadline for entries: August 15.

• Reminder: Kaleidoscope Juried Exhibition entries (actual artwork) are due from 9 to 11 a.m. on July 9 at the Colorado Gallery of the Arts at Arapahoe Community College/Annex Building. ($10 per entry — cash or check.) Juror is Angela Faris Bell. Information: trish.sangelo@ arapahoe.edu.

DLOG Summer Party Denver Lyric Opera Guild, which has members throughout the metro area, will hold its Summer Party at Mount Vernon Country Club in Golden on July 12, featuring Central City Opera stars.

Social hour: 10:30 a.m., program: 11 a.m.; lunch: noon. Reservations: $40 by July 7. Guests and prospective members are welcome. Send check to: Diane Bakke, 8222 S. Peninsula Drive, Littleton, CO 80120 (303-738-9861, dianebakke@msn. com). Reserve by Paypal at denverlyricoperaguild.org.

Colorado Libraries received two backpacks each to be loaned for a week. They contain a State Parks permit hangtag, (so one can enter free), Colorado State Parks Guide, a variety of Colorado guides an activity list and a pair of binoculars. Courtesy photo Theater to relocate Cherry Creek Theatre has announced that it will become the resident theater company at the Mizel Arts and Cultural Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver (Jewish Community Center). Its home has been at Shaver-Ramsey Gallery in Cherry Creek, but extensive redevelopment has made this impossible from a cost standpoint, according to board chair Mark Rossman.

CURTAIN TIME Long-running laughs “No Sex Please, We’re British!” the long-running farce by Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott plays through Aug. 13 at Vintage Theater, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora.

Produced by Spotlight Theatre. Directed

by Luke Allen Terry. Performances, 7:30 p.m. June 25, July 1, 8, 16, 18, 22, 30, Aug. 6; Saturdays July 2, 9, 23; Aug. 7 at 2 p.m; Sundays June 26, July 17, 31, Aug. 2 at 2 p.m.; Monday, July 18 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $12 to $22, 720-530-4596, thisisspotlight.com.

Equinox presentation “Evil Dead: The Musical,” is a repeat of the 2013 campy sell-out, presented by Equinox Theatre Company, directed by Deb Flomberg and Christian Munck, at the Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver Highlands. It plays through July 16. Tickets: $25/$20 advance; $25 in the splatter zone. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and

Saturdays and Thursday, July 14. EquinoxTheatreDenver.com.

New play festival “The Dali Follies,” a short play festival, will premiere seven new short plays with quirky Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali as the primary inspiration. Performances will be July 8 to 17 at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 6 p.m. Sundays at the historic Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Tickets: $10-$13, tclstage.org, 1-800-838-3006.

In the garden …

“By the Waters of Babylon” by Robert Schenkken plays through July 3 at the Edge Theater, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Warren Sherrill directs. Performances: 7:30 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays; 6 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets: theedgetheater.com, 303-2320363.

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Play takes a look into heart of art ‘Bakersfield Mist’ shows collision of two worlds

IF YOU GO “Bakersfield Mist” plays through July 2 at Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Performances: 7:30 p.m.

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays. Tickets: avenuetheater.com, 303-321-5925.

By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia.com As stage lights go up on “Bakersfield Mist,” we find Maude Gutman (Abby Apple Boes) pacing nervously in her trailer home as dogs begin to bark — and the first of many bits of blue language is hollered out the window.

The cause of the barking knocks at the door and enters looking pale, frightened and annoyed.

It’s famous art expert Lionel Percy (John Ashton), who has come at Maude’s request to view a painting she bought in a thrift store — which she is certain is by Jackson Pollock, the famous Abstract Expressionist artist whose distinctive drip paintings are worth millions.

Percy spouts his credentials, including Princeton, the Metropolitan, the Whitney, his numerous books, including “Art for Dummies …” He is called for art consultations around the world and accepts a limited number of clients, he tells Maude in a stuffy manner.

She says she is a carpenter and has lived at the Sagebrush Trailer Court for 33 years.

“You are hardly the art collector I usually encounter,” he admits. “How did you come upon this painting?”

She brings out the painting, purchased for $3 at a thrift shop, and he looks hard and almost immediately says it is not a Pollock. “How do I know? It’s connoisseurship.”

She has done some homework about his past and pushes him hard to change his mind …

“Bakersfield Mist,” presented in a regional premiere at the Avenue Theater in Denver, is written by Stephen Sachs, an award-winning Los Angeles director, based on an actual incident. It had a London West End premiere and is playing in theaters across the U.S. Ashton and Boes, veteran actors, maintain a confrontational atmosphere with a number of funny one-liners throughout the 90 minutes. Who gets to decide on what is good art and are they actually qualified?

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Colorado’s summer nights are especially inviting — come out and play! South Suburban Parks and Recreation District has consolidated a listing of appealing programs in South Platte Park and elsewhere for families — some free, most with a modest fee. Some will surely appeal!

Go online to ssprd.org or call 303798-5131.

• Nature: Perseid meteor shower Aug. 12, 8-10 p.m. Carson Nature Center. Watch meteors, stargaze, understand connections with the solstice and equinox. $5-$8 resident, 7-$12 non-resident, $24 resident family, $32 non-resident family.

• Full moon walks throughout the year. Pre-register.

• Conjunction Campfire: Aug. 27, 7 to 9 p.m. A celestial conjunction of

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Abby Apple Boes and John Ashton disagree in “Bakersfield Mist,” a play by Stephen Sachs, showing at the Avenue Theater. Is it really a Jackson Pollock painting? Courtesy photo

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Venus and Jupiter just after sunset.

The two planets will appear to be close together and will shine brightly as a pair, with Mars in tow. Campfire with s’mores and popcorn after the park is closed. Price same as Perseid meteor shower.

• Concerts: Hudson Gardens Concerts Sundays through Sept. 11, plus July 4. Rock, classics, blues, country, Motown, comedy. Ticket prices vary.

See HudsonGardens.org for tickets.

• Art: Family Creativity Workshops July 18, Aug. 15 at the Creativity Lab, Sheridan Rec Center. All ages. $10/$11.

Youth programs • Summer Night Games: Thursday nights, 8-9 p.m. at Sweetwater Park (Lone Tree). Ages 7-12. $35/$50 for the whole summer.

• Friday Nite Extreme: First Friday of the month at Family Sports Center, 6:30-10:30 p.m. Laser tag, climbing wall, bumper cars, ice skating

and more. Ages 6-13. $12/$14.

• Kid’s Nite Out: Every Saturday at the Buck Center, 7-10:30 p.m. Have fun, make friends, win prizes. Ages 7-14. $15.

• Parents’ Night Out: Third Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m., Goodson Center. Enjoy a night out while the kids are safe and entertained with gymnastics, obstacle course, tumbling, more. Ages 5-12. $15-18; $20-$23.

Golf • Nite Golf: Selected Fridays at Littleton and South Suburban golf courses. Play with glow-in-the-dark balls. Call the pro shops to reserve a week in advance. Littleton: July 8, 22; Aug. 5, 19; Sept. 2. South Suburban Golf Course: July 1, 15, 29; Aug. 12, 26, Sept. 9.

• Glow Ball: Thursday nights 8-10 p.m., mini golf at Colorado Journey Miniature Golf Course. Regular price plus $1 per person.

Children’s book stems from father’s message Wind Crest concierge was inspired by holiday sermon Staff report Debbie Brewer Binkley, a Highlands Ranch resident and concierge at the Wind Crest retirement community, has published her first children’s book, called “Brown Paper and a Piece of String.”

Set in the 1930s, it was inspired by a message that her pastor father, Dr. Fred V. Brewer, preached every year from 1955 until his last Christmas in 2010.

“Brown paper is so plain, not used for special occasions. In fact, it was used for everyday ordinary things—to carry purchases from the general store and to wrap messy garbage like old coffee grounds. It sometimes ended up in the compost heap to help with the decomposition process.

“So why is there a brown paper package sitting under the Christmas tree with all the beautiful packages wrapped in fine, colorful paper and ribbon? Frankie was intrigued. Little did he know the importance of the plain brown paper package and he was horrified when he discovered its recipient …”

Brinkley has been involved in children’s ministry in Texas, Hawaii, California, Virginia and Colorado.

Together with her husband, Verle Binkley, she recently started Binks Books LLC “to share with others God’s wonderful gifts of hope and life.”

She and her husband of 46 years have three adult children and two grandchildren.

The illustrations are by Alabama resident J. Gail Aldridge, and are created with chalk and colored pencil as a tribute to the author’s mother, who was an accomplished chalk artist and illustrator.

Debbie Brewer Binkley, concierge at the Wind Crest retirement community, has published a children’s book, “Brown Paper and a Piece of String.” Courtesy photo

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July 1, 2016

‘On the Road’ exhibit carries viewers away Depot Art Gallery in Littleton houses display until July 31

By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia.com

Kent Randell and Patty Ionoff perform in the intense play, “By the Waters of Babylon,” by Robert Schenkkan, at the Edge Theater in Lakewood. Courtesy photo

The Edge stages intense production

By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia.com Catherine’s Austin, Texas, garden is overgrown and weedy and she has hired a Cuban gardener to bring it under control as Robert Schenkkan’s “By the Waters of Babylon” opens at the Edge Theater. Symbolic of two distressed psyches, the garden yields to human intervention before the troubled pair can manage their own problems. Mojitos help.

In this intense play, Patty Ionoff and Kent Randell play off each other effectively — slowly revealing back stories that have left both emotionally crippled.

She has suffered in an abusive marriage and he escaped Cuba when his book was censored and now has a massive writer’s block. We learn about a writer’s life in Castro’s Cuba.

Both characters unload in lengthy monologues and one wonders if healing is possible.

You know where this is going, but how it gets there, through a melodramatic second

IF YOU GO “By the Waters of Babylon” plays through July 3 at the Edge Theater, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday, 6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: theedgetheater.com, 303-232-0363.

act, keeps the audience engaged clear past a nicely written and produced bit of magic realism towards the end.

The second act moves to the bedroom as expected and the set design cleverly makes that happen despite the Edge’s small stage area.

Skilled director Warren Sherrill, who was recently appointed associate artistic director at the Edge Theater, has kept the interchange of dialogue paced just right, so each of the pair develops and changes towards a future we hope for.

Ionoff and Randell, with meaty roles many actors would love, keep our interest to the very last lines.

Best of Show in the new Depot Art Gallery exhibit “On the Road,” is Jennifer Riefenberg’s small pastel painting, “Road Grader.” Juror Chris Ilitis chose a colorful, appealing work that is about the basics of building or maintaining a road as his first choice, then went on to other vacation memories in the exhibit that will be at the Depot in Littleton until July 31.

“Painterly Pickup,” a shiny manipulated photo by Peggy Dietz, won the blue First Place ribbon. Second Place went to oil painter Sheila Marie for her “Torry Casa,” and photographer Joe Bonita’s charming “Najac, French Country Town” took Third Place. Watercolorist Jane Wing won an Honorable Mention for her delicate “Disappearing Road.”

During a short visit, imagination can carry the viewer from Colorado’s mountains, lakes and canyons to a weathered farm in Walsenburg — in the subdued colors one sees there. Or, travel from a Southwestern American desert rock formation to narrow old cobblestone streets in Italy and France. Where do they lead a walker? Perhaps to small plazas with a bubbling fountain, potted geraniums and laundry blowing in the breeze outside upstairs windows.

A Venetian gondola awaits passengers and a street market awaits shoppers …

A selection of pottery, jewelry and small unframed artworks is always available for gift buyers. A really imaginative, one-ofa-kind doll, “Girl With a Monkey,” by Julie Anderson, would interest a collector and small pottery items might be useful for outdoor summer entertaining that Coloradans enjoy on balmy summer evenings.

“Road Grader,” a pastel painting by Jennifer Riefenberg, was named Best of Show in the “On The Road” travelthemed exhibit at the Depot Art Gallery. Courtesy photo

IF YOU GO The Depot Art Gallery, 2069 W. Powers Ave. in Littleton, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays. Admission is free. 303-795-0781. Volunteer Littleton Fine Arts Guild members operate the gallery in a vintage Santa Fe Railroad Depot that once served Littleton with freight and passenger services.

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July 1, 2016

‘Incomplete is complete’ for visual artist A moment in time with painter Tadashi Hayakawa

TADASHI HAYAKAWA Tadashi Hayakawa, one of four children, was born in Tokyo in 1941 and began painting in elementary school. His father singled him out and insisted he pursue art because his own parents had forbidden him from doing so.

By Tom Skelley tskelley@coloradocommunitymedia.com The painter sits in an armchair on a drop cloth spattered with drops of dark paint like a negative impression of a night sky. He stares at the canvas standing 10 feet before him, alternately squinting and relaxing his eyes, searching for his vision in the streaks and shapes of oil.

Suddenly, all in one motion, he stands and strides forward.

His brush, already in his outstretched hand, pulls him to the canvas as an excited child pulls a parent along a sidewalk to show them some new and fascinating thing.

The brushstrokes come in quick, noisy bursts, shaking the tripod that holds the work in place. The sound of bristles scraping against the canvas, like a cat scratching at a door, drowns out the noise from the world outside the studio.

Once every minute, he takes four steps back, looking intently at the section of the piece he’s just worked on, and looking ahead to the area he’ll go next.

After a few seconds, he retraces his steps exactly back to the canvas.

An unseen yet tangible connection exists between Tadashi Hayakawa and his work — a tether that pulls him back each time he drifts away.

Streaks, swirls and lines spread across the piece like barely-formed storm clouds, pushed and dragged along by a divine hand. The process —

After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Otis Art Institute in 1969, Hayakawa became a graphic artist. He made good money, but the work left him unfulfilled.

“I realized that if I died today, I wouldn’t know why I was born,” he says, “because I wasn’t happy with what I was doing.”

Tadashi Hayakawa focuses on his work at the Deep Space Gallery in Parker. Hayakawa hosts an informal painting session each Monday in the building where other budding artists are welcome to work and collaborate. Photos by Tom Skelley retreating, returning, swiping and stroking the brush, creating forms and lines out of a glob of paint — repeats itself again and again for more than an hour.

The final time he steps away from the canvas his face changes from squinting skepticism to a wide-eyed smile.

“Ah,” bursts from his lips. He knows the work is finished.

“To me this one is done. I have just expressed the excitement of being alive,” he says, bringing his arms to his chest then raising them into the air as he says the words.

He is asked how he knows when a painting is completed.

He closes his eyes as he speaks, then slowly, deliberately, explains the unfinished quality of his work.

Hayakawa applies the finishing touches to his latest work at the Deep Space Gallery in Parker on June 20. Hayakawa says too many artists “explain” every stroke of their work whereas, for his work, “incomplete is complete.”

“Many artists explain every brushstroke, but this doesn’t leave any breathing room for the imagination,” he says. He paraphrases Einstein, who once said “imagination is more important

than knowledge.”

“In art, imagination is more important than technique,” he says.

“For me, incomplete is complete.”

In 1992, he divorced and quit working as a graphic artist to seriously pursue fine art.

“My financial situation decreased but my happiness increased,” he says.

Health problems led to a premonition in 2006 and, fearing he didn’t have many years left, Hayakawa put all of his energy into a large exhibit, his first major show, in 2011.

“A miracle” happened after that exhibit, he says.

“Suddenly, I became so relaxed and so happy. Now every day is happy.”

Hayakawa feels like he is “living on bonus time,” and his art is an expression of gratitude.

“Basically, my art is an expression of my appreciation for being alive, my belief in peace, harmony and love.”

Hayakawa holds an open painting session every Monday at the Deep Space Workplace and Event Center. The informal session is open to six people per week for a $10 fee and an RSVP is required.

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THEATER/FILM

Summer Wizard Camp Learn magic and performance skills by professional magicians Carol Massie and Joe Givan at Summer Wizard Camp at Theatre of Dreams, 735 Park St., Castle Rock. Camp dates are Monday to Friday, July 11-14 and Aug. 1-4 (more dates may be added). Camp runs from 9:30 a.m. to noon each day. Cost includes all supplies and recital show for family.

Open to ages 7 and older. Call 303-660-6799 for details and to sign up.

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MUSIC/CONCERTS

Hudson Gardens Summer Concerts Hudson Gardens presents its 2016 summer concert series at 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Parking is free. Tickets on sale at www.altitudetickets.com. Prices and show times vary by artist. For information, go to www.hudsongardens.org or call 303-7978565. Concert lineup: Sunday, July 3, Super Diamond (with fireworks); Monday, July 4, Firefall (with fireworks); Sunday, July 10, The B-52s; Sunday, July 17, The Robert Cray Band with special guest The Delta Sonics; Sunday, July 24, Boz Scaggs; Sunday, July 31, Travis Tritt; Saturday, Aug. 6, “Weird Al” Yankovic -- The Mandatory World Tour; Sunday, Aug. 14, Los Lonely Boys/WAR; Sunday, Aug. 21, Gin Blossoms with special guest Tonic; Sunday, Aug. 28, Michael McDonald; Sunday, Sept.

4, Foreigner; and Sunday, Sept. 11, Kenny Loggins.

Young Writers Guild Aspiring writers ages 12-18 can drop in on the Young Writers Guild to practice their writing craft and perhaps learn a new tool at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 5, at the Douglas County Libraries’ Philip S. Miller branch, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Bring a pencil and paper or laptop. Snacks are provided. No registration is required; contact 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries. org.

Nocturnal Wildlife Hike Join the Audubon Nature Center for its popular Bats, Beavers, and More! Program from 7-9 p.m. Friday, July 8, Friday, July 22, and Friday, Aug. 19, at the Audubon Center at Chatfield, 11280 S. Waterton Road, Littleton. Listen for coyote calls, check out the bat houses around the ponds, and see if the beaver are making progress on their South Platte River dam. Topics differ each date and highlight the curious critters of the Colorado night. Registration required at www.denveraudubon.org, by calling 303-973-9530, or via email at info@ denveraudubon.org.

Breckenridge Brewery Hootenanny Big Head Todd and the Monsters will headline this year’s Breckenridge Brewery Hootenanny festival Saturday, July 9, at its 12-acre brewery in Littleton. Other headliners are Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Larry & Jenny Keel, and Head for the Hills. The all-day music-fueled celebrations marks the brewery’s 26th year in the craft brewing scene. The event benefits Conscious Alliance, a Colorado-based nonprofit that fights hunger through food collection and hunger awareness programs. For tickets and information, go to www.breckbrew. com/Hootenanny.

Tunes on the Terrace: Kevin Fitzgerald Comedian Kevin Fitzgerald performs at Tunes on the Terrace at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 9 at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Fitzgerald has performed as a professional stand-up comedian for more than 20 years. The opening act will be Chicken Lips Comedy Theater. For tickets and information, call 720-509-1000 or go to http://www.lonetreeartscenter.org/showinfo.php?id=393.

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Adventures in Dance Learn a number of dances at Adventures in Dance, 1500 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton. Classes are for adults. Go to www.adventuresindance. com for cost information and to sign up. July class schedule includes: Swing aerobics: Learn swing solo moves while burning the floor with no partners at swing aerobics from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Mondays from July 4 to July 25. Solo a variety of swing dances, such as the jive, the Lindy hop, the Charleston and the hustle in a workout format.

Lindy hop swing: Learn the popular retro dance, the Lindy hop from 7-8 p.m. Tuesdays from July 5 to Aug. 23. Dance to blues and popular rock.

Swing is always in style and is a popular dance at weddings.

Intermediate swing class: Learn how to swing, jive, and rock `n’ roll during intermediate swing class from 8-9 p.m. Tuesdays from July 5 to Aug. 23. Dance to big band and popular rock `n’ roll music.

Intermediate salsa: Learn to salsa and meet new people from 7-8 p.m.

Wednesdays from July 6 to Aug. 24.

Cha-cha: Learn the cha-cha club dance from 8-9 p.m. Wednesdays from July 6 to Aug. 2.

Argentine tango: Class is good for beginners to practiced steppers.

Learn the Argentine tango from 7-8 p.m. Thursdays from July 7 to Aug. 25.

Line dance aerobics: Dance a variety of line dances including the cowboy cha-cha, electric slide, cupid shuffle and the wobble in a workout format.

Class offered from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Mondays from Aug. 8 to Aug. 29.

EVENTS

Nature’s Athletes Nature’s Educators presents Movin’ and Groovin’ in the Wild, during which kids ages 7-12 can discover nature’s amazing athletes and learn from live animal guests. Program is at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Friday, July 1, at the Douglas County Libraries branch in Castle Pines, 360 Village Square Lane. Part of DCL’s Summer Reading Program; space is limited.

Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Operation Wedding Gown Compleat Couture Bridals & Formals joins Brides Across America, which honors American heroes with Operation Wedding Gown, a bridal fashion giveaway on Tuesday, July 5. Military and first responder brides-to-be are invited to choose from a number of free designer wedding gowns.

To participate, register at www. bridesacrossamerica.com.

Members of the military, or their fiances, may qualify with proof of recent or future deployment to hardship areas. Eligible first responders include women in the police force, firefighters, certified first responders and EMTs. Military brides must present proof of online registration, proper identification and deployment papers at participating salons on the day of the event. First responders will be asked to present a valid photo ID and proof of online registration. To further support the cause, Compleat Couture Bridals & Formals will contribute a portion of proceeds from ALL sales from July 5-10 to Brides Across America.

American Legion Post Meeting Officers elected in June will assume their positions at the July meeting of the George C. Evans Post 103, American Legion, of Littleton, at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, July 6, at the Buck Recreation Center, 2004 W. Powers Ave., Littleton. The new officers will carry their positions through June 2017. Roger Masse, longtime member of the post, is the new post commander. Updates on the July 22 golf tournament at Raccoon Creek will be on the agenda.

Coffee and Coloring Spend an evening with a good cup of coffee, an even better coloring book, and a group of adults finding their Zen through coloring at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 6, at Douglas County Libraries in Parker, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Secrets to Great Phone Photos Well-known travel photojournalist Ron Stern will share tips for taking terrific photos using your iPhone or Android phone at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. Learn nine picture taking secrets of your phone and the most useful photo apps.

Discover how to properly compose and take beautiful panoramas and time-lapse videos. At the end of the program Stern will take participants outside to practice what they have learned. Why lug around heavy cameras when your phone is capable of so many incredible functions. Call 303-795-3961.

Magic of Reading Magic of Reading, presented by master magician Mark Strivings, is a roller coaster of laughs and amazement for kids while learning about the fun of reading. Show time is 10 a.m. Saturday, July 9, at the Douglas County Libraries branch in Louviers, 7885 Louviers Blvd.

Part of the district’s summer reading program. Space is limited; register at 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Adventures in Storytelling Adventures in Storytelling with children’s author Jessica Lawson gives kids a chance to interact with the author, ask questions, and brainstorm their own adventure tale at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at the Douglas County Libraries branch in Roxborough, 8357 N. Rampart Range Road, Suite 200.

Books will be for sale, and a book signing will follow the program. Registration is required; call 303-791-7323 or go to DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Ice Cream Social Highlands Ranch plans its ice cream social from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, July 13 at Civic Green Park, 9370 S. Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Children and their families can enjoy all-you-can-eat ice cream and snow cones with any toppings of their choice. Food trucks such as El Toro the Tot, Gusto’s Kitchen and Simply Pizza will be on location. Live entertainment will include Paul Borrillo at 6 p.m. and the Highlands Ranch Concert Band at 7 p.m. Littleton Fire Rescue will have an engine on display and will perform a live demonstration using the Jaws of Life at 6:35 p.m. Contact klarese@ highlandsranch.org.

Convention History Both the Democratic and Republican parties head into what promise to be historic conventions. Join Active Minds from 3-4 p.m.

Wednesday, July 13, as we discuss how the original process (Congressional Caucuses) gave way to conventions and how conventions evolved with the advent of primaries and caucuses prior to the convention. Program will highlight some noteworthy conventions such as the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention and the 1976 Republican Convention in which Gerald Ford faced a challenge from an upstart named Ronald Reagan. Program takes place at RiverPointe, 5225 S. Prince St., Littleton. Call 303-797-0600 to RSVP. Tuesday Morning Women’s Golf League The Englewood Women’s Golf Association is accepting applications for the 2016 season. The women play Tuesday mornings at Broken Tee Englewood golf course. Contact the membership chair for information, ewga18@gmail. com.

HEALTH

Community Blood Drives A number of community blood drives are planned in the area.

For information or to schedule an appointment, contact the Bonfils Appointment Center at 303-3632300, unless otherwise noted.

Go to www.bonfils.org. Upcoming blood drives are: Thursday, July 7, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m., South Metro Denver Realtor Association, 7899 S. Lincoln Court, Littleton; Sunday, July 10, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E. Parker Road, Parker; Monday, July 11, 9-10:40 a.m. and noon to 2:30 p.m., Cascades Building, 6300 S. Syracuse Way, Centennial; Thursday, July 14, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m., Plaza Tower One, 6400 S. Fiddler’s Green Circle, Greenwood Village

EDUCATION

Conversational English Group Practice your English is a group that allows adults from all language backgrounds to practice speaking English in a conversation group facilitated by a fluent English speaker. Discussion topics vary. Meets at 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, July 2 and Saturday, July 9, at the Douglas County Libraries branch in Parker, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive, and at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 9, at the James H. LaRue branch, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. No registration is required; contact 303-791-7323 or DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

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Young hands guide race cars Drivers range from 5 to 17 years old at Junior Drag Races

By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com The pop, pop, pop of dozens of singlecylinder engines filled the air June 24 as young drivers prepared to take their turns on the starting line at the Junior Drag Racing event at Bandimere Speedway in Morrison.

Kyleigh Schneider said junior drag racing is about having fun with all her friends and winning races.

“I started racing when I was 9 and now I am almost 14,” the Littleton resident said. “In racing, the rules make the cars very even. So it comes down to the driver’s focus and concentration to get a good reaction time off the starting line.”

She said her goals for this season are to have fun, win a lot of races and do better in the class than she has done in the past.

Kyleigh’s dad Brett Schneider said he and his dad run an auto repair shop and they both did a lot of drag racing, so he decided to pass the love of the sport onto his kids.

“When you have been drag racing for a long time, you don’t want to give it up being at the track with friends. So we got our son and daughter into junior dragsters,” he said. “I think being part of junior drag racing gives them a hobby they can have fun doing. It also teaches the kids about the mechanics of cars.”

He said his son Connor and his daughter are in the same racing class.

“They have never raced against each other but there is competition and they both talk a lot of smack about racing,” he said.

There is a full schedule of junior drag races at Bandimere Speedway and the Schneiders were among about 150 boys and girls on June 24-26 for the big event called the junior shootout race.

“This is an annual event for Bandimere Speedway,” said John Miller, track media representative. “This is a threeday event with a lot of special races and competitions.”

Pit areas were lined with equipment trailers pulled by a variety of vehicles, ranging from pickups to motor homes.

The cars driven in junior dragster races are half the size of the dragsters driven by adults. There also is a huge difference in horsepower as the junior dragsters for younger age groups are powered by Briggs and Stratton lawn mower-style engines. The older group can upgrade their engines to small motor cycle engines.

A base car and engine for younger drivers costs about $5,000 new, but used cars are usually available. The cost goes up as drivers get older and the cost for car and engine can be more than $8,000.

Driver safety equipment is required

Brett Schneider gives his son Connor’s junior dragster a push so it can roll down the hill to the staging lanes for a June 24 timing run. Connor was among the young drivers who took part in the three-day junior drag racing event at Bandimere Speedway. Photos by Tom Munds and the equipment to satisfy the rules can cost $500 or more. Each driver must be a member of the National Hot Rod Association. The fee for a year’s membership is $34.

Additional costs include the equipment trailer, spare parts, fuel, and race entry fees. Travel expenses would be have to be added in to the total cost of competition if the team goes from track to track.

Miller said protecting the drivers is a must so the rules require drivers to wear full sets of protective equipment including safety racing suits and helmets plus they must have the regular five-point safety harness to belt them into the cockpit.

Races are open to 5- to 17-year-olds divided into five age groups. Rules for each age group limit the size and speed of the vehicles.

For example, 5-year-old drivers are limited to a single pass down the track and can’t go from a standing start to the finish line one-eighth of a mile away faster than 20 seconds while 13- to 17-yearold drivers can go a lot faster and can be traveling about 80 mph when they cross the finish line.

According to the National Hot Rod Association there are about 3,000 regis-

Cars line up in the staging lanes as the young drivers await their turn to make a run during the June 24 junior dragster event at Bandimere Speedway. There were about 150 drivers ranging in age from 5 to 17 who took part in the three-day event. tered junior drag race drivers competing on about 130 tracks around the United States and Canada.

The races at Bandimere are a local competition. However, there are parentchildren racing teams that travel to other

tracks to compete for points with the goal of being named a representative to one of two Junior Dragster finals, the Western Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Easter Nationals in Bristol, Tennessee.

Racing, fireworks scheduled for Bandimere Speedway Independence Day celebrated July 2 at Morrison speedway

By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com The roar of powerful engines and the flash and boom of fireworks are all on the agenda at the Jet Car Nationals & Family festival July 2 at Bandimere Speedway in Morrison.

“Bandimere Speedway has held a family celebration of Independence Day for about 20 years,” John Bandimere Jr. said. “We want it to be a fun event for the whole family while we also share our

pride in our country.”

Racing includes 290 mph jet dragsters and 200 mph drag races during the day.

The family festival includes rides, games, contests and activities for parents and their children.

Gates open for spectators at 2 p.m.

Adult admission is $28 at the gate and $23 in advance. Tickets for children 6 to 12 are $16 at the gate and $14 in advance. There is no charge for children 5 and under.

Racing begins at 2 p.m. and the family festival begins at 3 p.m. Jet cars and other drag racing cars will take to the track at 7 p.m.

The largest fireworks display in Jefferson County is scheduled to begin at 9:45 p.m.

Jet engine-powered dragsters will be one of the attractions at the July 2 Independence Day celebration at Bandimere Speedway. Gates open at 2 p.m. Featured racing begins at 7 and fireworks are scheduled to start at 9:45. Courtesy photo

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July 1, 2016

Valor grad nearly claims match-play title

Josh Seiple’s rally in Lone Tree falls just short

THE RESULTS

By Jim Benton jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com Josh Seiple played his best golf at the end, but it still wasn’t good enough to overcome a slow start.

Seiple, from Castle Pines Golf Club, overcame a 4-up disadvantage after the first 18-holes of the 36-hole final of the Colorado Golf Association’s Match Play Championship at the Lone Tree Golf Club.

However, he was edged, 1-up, by Nathaniel Goddard, of Ptarmigan Golf Club in Fort Collins, on June 24 in the 116th title match of the CGA’s oldest tournament.

“In the morning I just didn’t have my stuff,” said the 20-year-old Seiple, a graduate of Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch.

“Nathaniel had his, and I just kind of brought some more energy... I was close, played well in the afternoon, but it wasn’t good enough.”

Seiple, who had double hip surgery last August and got a medical redshirt at the University of Mississippi for his sophomore season, never led during the finals after carding a 75 during the first 18 holes.

He rallied to make it a close match during the afternoon round, which also included a two-hour rain delay.

“After that little hour break between matches, I birdied the first two holes coming out,” he said. “I birdied the fifth after the rain delay so I just got off to a better start. The momentum seemed to change a little bit in my favor.”

Seiple evened the match on the 14th hole.

Goddard, a 22-year-old graduate of Colorado Christian University who played on the Lakewood school’s back-to-back Christian University national championship teams, birdied No. 15, but Seiple once again tied the match with a nice up-and-down birdie on the 16th hole.

Results for local golfers for the final three rounds in the Colorado Golf Association’s Match Play Championship, which concluded June 14 at Lone Tree Golf Club.

Quarterfinals Seiple, Castle Pines Golf Club, def.

Chris Korte, Lone Tree Golf Club, 7 and 6; Goddard, Ptarmigan Country Club, def. Connor Klein, Lone Tree Golf Club, 1 up; Staiano, Glenmoor Country Club, Def. Hayden Nicholaides, Family Sports, 2 and 1.

Semifinals Seiple, Castle Pines Golf Club, def.

Nick Nosewicz, Meadow Hills, 2 and 1.

Goddard, Ptarmigan Country Club, def.

Jake Staiano, Glenmoor Country Club, 2 and 1.

Finals Nathaniel Goddard, Ptarmigan Country Club, def. Joshua Seiple, Castle Pines Golf Club, 1 up.

Goddard’s approach shot on No. 17, set up a 6-foot birdie putt, which pushed him into a 1-up lead and then both players parred the 18th.

“He made an awesome putt on 15 and hit an awesome shot into 17 so props to him,” Seiple said. “I just couldn’t get over that hump. He kept the pressure on all day, he putted well and to do that is hard to beat.

I took myself out of it in the first match.

“I didn’t make a bogey on the last nine holes. I played my last 11 holes at 3-under. I closed well. It was that morning match that took me out of it. This is about the fourth or fifth tournament back since the surgery.

The past few tournaments I’ve started to get into contention. I wish I could have closed this one out but I’ve been there the last few tournaments.”

Josh Seiple, a 20-year-old Valor Christian graduate who plays out of Castle Pines Golf Club, rallied but was edged by Nathaniel Goddard of Ptarmigan Golf and County Club, 1-up, in the 36-hole finals of the Colorado Golf Association Match Play held June 24 at Lone Tree Golf Club. Seiple is coming off double hip surgery last August and got a redshirt medical hardship at the University of Mississippi and will be a sophomore on the golf team this fall. Photo by Jim Benton

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July 1, 2016

Parker’s potable plaza has lots of appeal Brewery, nearby winery offer unique libations to locals

By Tom Skelley tskelley@coloradocommunitymedia.com It’s a sunny summer morning at the shopping center at 18921 Plaza Drive, but the lights are off and the air is tinged with a musky aroma inside Purgatory Cellars Winery. It’s winemaking day, and co-owner Gary Tassler sits at a small table covered with an array of scales, pipettes and measuring spoons.

“You kind of have to be a little bit like a mad scientist here,” he said.

Tassler and his unpaid assistant, Brad Collins, are doing bench trials. Tassler adds different amounts of tannins, a finishing ingredient, to each of four bottles of wine pulled from the same barrel. Tomorrow he and Collins will try each bottle, and the one that tastes the best will determine the recipe added to finish the barrel.

It’s a time-consuming approach that few wineries still use, Tassler says, but it’s essential to making sure Purgatory’s wines have just the right finish. He says adding tannins “cancels out the white noise” of competing flavors in each wine.

Purgatory’s technique is unique and so is their equipment. Co-owner Marko Copic brought barrels, wine racks and “everything but the sofas” from his homeland of Croatia to get the winery started.

Speaking on the telephone from Croatia, Copic said the oldest winemaking methods are the best. Where most wineries in the United States separate grape skins, seeds and wine before fermenting in stainless steel tanks, Copic and Tassler stir all of the components together and let them age in amphoras, large clay jars that have been used since ancient Greek vintners plied their trade.

“Not even five places in the U.S. use this method,” Copic said.

Liam Macfarlane pours a frosty brew at Elk Mountain Brewing Inc. at 18921 Plaza Drive in Parker on June 15. Macfarlane says the concoction he hears the most demand for is the brewery’s peanut butter stout. Photo by Tom Skelley Flashy flavors, better beers Three doors down from Purgatory Cellars, Elk Mountain Brewing uses industry-standard equipment and techniques to craft their beer. What sets the brewery apart is the variety of flavors and styles they create.

“A lot of places have a certain thing they’re good at,” assistant brewer Liam Macfarlane said. “We try to do a little bit of everything. We’re the only place that releases at least two new beers every week.”

Macfarlane’s boss, head brewer Shannon Madruga, said she fell in love with the craft of making beer before she was old enough to drink it.

“When I was in high school I got a job at a restaurant near my house that brewed on site and the brewer there was very nice and accommodating. He

taught me a lot,” Madruga said.

Madruga pursued her interest in brewing until it became a passion. She’s been brewing at home for 11 years and worked at Aurora’s Dry Dock Brewery before coming to Elk Mountain two years ago.

“I’ve just always been fascinated with it,” she said. “I’m fascinated with the process, I love the science and the chemistry of it and everything that goes into it.”

Madruga said the taps at Elk Mountain have an assortment of standard, “flagship” beers, and she and Macfarlane add seasonal brews to the menu throughout the year. The brewery’s cherry wheat ale and red India pale ale are popular throughout spring and summer, while its vanilla caramel porter and cherry chocolate stout keep cus-

tomers warm in fall and winter.

“I think one of the things we try to do is to make it interesting,” Madruga said.

“We have our flagship beers and then we have our fun ones,” she said, citing the brewery’s peanut butter stout as an especially successful experiment.

Referencing a blender full of coconut milk and other ingredients on the bar, Madruga said a coconut stout is next.

Both Madruga and Tassler said their customers are sophisticated enough to know good drink when they find it, and that return business has been the key to their success.

“Wine drinkers will hunt down a winery when they find a hidden gem,” Tassler said. “And this place is a gem.”

Madruga said Elk Mountain’s customers feel the same affection for their favorite brews.

“We have a lot of regulars that keep coming back for ‘their beer,’” she said.

“As long as we keep that going, we’ll be all right.”

Business has been booming for both establishments. Purgatory Cellars is about to expand into a building across Progress Way, next to Monkey Bizness, and Elk Mountain is about to celebrate its sixth anniversary on Aug. 6.

Madruga said she and Tassler have talked about combining the separate businesses with a shared patio behind the stores.

“It makes sense,” Tassler said, comparing the idea to a pastry shop and coffee house sharing tables on a sidewalk.

It will be a long process, involving patio construction and a new liquor license, but both said it would be worth it to provide people a place to enjoy local wines and beers together.

“In a perfect world, you could a buy a beer at the brewery, then go out in the back and sit with your spouse or significant other or whatever while they enjoy a glass of wine,” Tassler said.

“Everybody could have a little of everything.”

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Public Notices Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov

DATE: 04/06/2016 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee

Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0233-2016 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On April 6, 2016, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Linda R. Calkins Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as nominee for Citibank, F.S.B. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Date of Deed of Trust September 16, 2006 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 27, 2006 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B6138885 Original Principal Amount $37,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $17,830.09 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 126, THE KNOLLS WEST, FILING NO. 1, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 7097 S Knolls Way, Centennial, CO 80122.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/27/2016, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 6/2/2016 Last Publication: 6/30/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE

BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 04/06/2016 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Public Trustees

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Susan Hendrick #33196 Marcello G. Rojas #46396 Klatt, Augustine, Sayer, Treinen & Rastede, P.C. 9745 E. Hampden Ave., Suite 400, Denver, CO 80231 (303) 353-2965 Attorney File # CO160105 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO.: 0233-2016 First Publication: 6/2/2016 Last Publication: 6/30/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0238-2016 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On April 8, 2016, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Walter L. Denoyelles, Cheryl Freeman-Denoyelles Original Beneficiary(ies) Washington Mutual Bank, FA Current Holder of Evidence of Debt JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Date of Deed of Trust August 30, 2004 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 08, 2004 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B4159871 Original Principal Amount $100,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $91,126.45 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOTS 43 AND 44 AND THAT PART OF LOT 45, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT 45; THENCE EAST 20 FEET; THENCE NORTH 11 FEET; THENCE WEST 20 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 11 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, ALL IN BLOCK 1, ROSE ADDITION TO ENGLEWOOD, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 3121 S Logan St, Littleton, CO 80120.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/27/2016, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

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THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE

BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 08/03/2016, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

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Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 04/08/2016 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Holly Shilliday #24423 Joan Olson #28078 Erin Robson #46557 Courtney Wright #45482 Jennifer Cruseturner #44452 Jennifer Rogers #34682 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-16-706538-JS The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO.: 0238-2016 First Publication: 6/2/2016 Last Publication: 6/30/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0253-2016 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On April 15, 2016, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) PHILLIP J. CHAVEZ and SANDRA S. CHAVEZ Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CITYWIDE HOME LOANS, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION Date of Deed of Trust October 18, 2013 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust October 22, 2013 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D3131201 Original Principal Amount $413,359.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $404,232.26 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 52, HOMESTEAD IN THE WILLOWS FILING NO. 6, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 6909 E FREMONT AVE, CENTENNIAL, CO 80112.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE

BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 08/03/2016, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

Public Trustees

First Publication: 6/9/2016 Last Publication: 7/7/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE

BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 04/15/2016 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Elizabeth S. Marcus #16092 Kelly Murdock #46915 David R. Doughty #40042 Alison L Berry #34531 Sheila J Finn #36637 Eve M. Grina #43658 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Janeway Law Firm PC 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 16-011425 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO.: 0253-2016 First Publication: 6/9/2016 Last Publication: 7/7/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0276-2016 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On April 22, 2016, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) RANDALL R SCOTT and DAWN J SCOTT Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR METRO FUNDING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt DITECH FINANCIAL LLC Date of Deed of Trust August 05, 2005 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust August 18, 2005 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B5122733 Original Principal Amount $354,200.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $349,483.85 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 49, BLOCK 1, OVERLOOK AT PLATTE VALLEY, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. PARCEL ID NUMBER: COUNTY: 207731102005

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B5122733 Original Principal Amount $354,200.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $349,483.85

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0295-2016

July 1, 2016

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On May 6, 2016, the undersigned Public Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you Trustee caused the Notice of Election and are hereby notified that the covenants of Demand relating to the Deed of Trust dethe deed of trust have been violated as scribed below to be recorded in the follows: failure to pay principal and inCounty of Arapahoe records. terest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of advertise your publicOriginal notices call 303-566-4100 Grantor(s) debt secured To by the deed of trust and othMichael W. Northrup er violations thereof. and Shelly Northrup Original Beneficiary(ies) THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE Mortgage Electronic Registration A FIRST LIEN. Systems, Inc., as nominee for WR Starkey Mortgage, L.L.P. LOT 49, BLOCK 1, OVERLOOK AT Current Holder of Evidence of Debt PLATTE VALLEY, COUNTY OF ARBank of America, N.A. APAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Date of Deed of Trust PARCEL ID NUMBER: COUNTY: July 29, 2005 207731102005 County of Recording Arapahoe Also known by street and number as: Recording Date of Deed of Trust LITTLETON, CO 80128.

August 03, 2005 Recording Information (Reception No. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN and/or Book/Page No.) IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURB5114431 RENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN Original Principal Amount OF THE DEED OF TRUST. $240,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance NOTICE OF SALE $199,315.17 The current holder of the Evidence of Debt Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you secured by the Deed of Trust, described are hereby notified that the covenants of herein, has filed Notice of Election and the deed of trust have been violated as Demand for sale as provided by law and follows: failure to pay principal and inin said Deed of Trust. terest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given debt secured by the deed of trust and oththat I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. er violations thereof. on Wednesday, 08/10/2016, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE Building, 5334 South Prince Street, A FIRST LIEN. Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said LOT 21, BLOCK 3, THE HIGHLANDS real property and all interest of the said 460, FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARGrantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns APAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Also known by street and number as: Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus 8168 S Harrison Way, Centennial, CO attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and 80122. other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN all as provided by law.

IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN First Publication: 6/16/2016 OF THE DEED OF TRUST. Last Publication: 7/14/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent NOTICE OF SALE IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO The current holder of the Evidence of Debt A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO secured by the Deed of Trust, described FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE herein, has filed Notice of Election and

BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO Demand for sale as provided by law and CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; in said Deed of Trust.

IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLthat I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. ATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A on Wednesday, 08/24/2016, at the East SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECHearing Room, County Administration TION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBIBuilding, 5334 South Prince Street, TION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECLittleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the TION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER highest and best bidder for cash, the said MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE real property and all interest of the said COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANtherein, for the purpose of paying the inCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), debtedness provided in said Evidence of OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMDebt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus PLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FOREattorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and CLOSURE PROCESS. other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, Colorado Attorney General all as provided by law.

1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 First Publication: 6/30/2016 (800) 222-4444 Last Publication: 7/28/2016 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Federal Consumer Financial IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO Protection Bureau A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO P.O. Box 4503 FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE Iowa City, Iowa 52244

BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO (855) 411-2372 CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; www.consumerfinance.gov

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Public Trustees

DATE: 04/22/2016 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee

IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS.

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Elizabeth S. Marcus #16092 Kelly Murdock #46915 David R. Doughty #40042 Alison L Berry #34531 Sheila J Finn #36637 Eve M. Grina #43658 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Janeway Law Firm PC 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 16-011189 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO.: 0276-2016 First Publication: 6/16/2016 Last Publication: 7/14/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0295-2016 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On May 6, 2016, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Michael W. Northrup and Shelly Northrup Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for WR Starkey Mortgage, L.L.P. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Bank of America, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust July 29, 2005 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust August 03, 2005 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B5114431 Original Principal Amount $240,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $199,315.17

Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 05/06/2016 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: David W Drake #43315 Scott D. Toebben #19011

Randall S. Miller & Associates, P.C. 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710

Attorney File # 15CO00715-1 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO.: 0295-2016 First Publication: 6/30/2016 Last Publication: 7/28/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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Susan Hendrick #33196 Marcello G. Rojas #46396 Klatt, Augustine, Sayer, Treinen & Rastede, P.C. 9745 E. Hampden Ave., Suite 400, Denver, CO 80231 (303) 353-2965 Attorney File # CO160105

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO.: 0233-2016 First Publication: 6/2/2016 Last Publication: 6/30/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov

DATE: 04/08/2016 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

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Holly Shilliday #24423 Joan Olson #28078 Erin Robson #46557 Courtney Wright #45482 Jennifer Cruseturner #44452 Jennifer Rogers #34682

First Publication: 6/9/2016 Last Publication: 7/7/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE

BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444

Also known by street and number as: LITTLETON, CO 80128.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 08/10/2016, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

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Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 21, BLOCK 3, THE HIGHLANDS 460, FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

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Also known by street and number as: 8168 S Harrison Way, Centennial, CO 80122.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CUR-

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