Littleton bus scandal prompts local, statewide search for solutions
BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Mila Vestal, 8, recently asked the Littleton school board to make rules to protect her older brother, Dax. He is one of several nonspeaking, autistic students who regularly rode bus L76, where a paraprofessional allegedly harmed students for months.
“Most brothers are protective of their little sisters, but I’m protective of him instead,” Mila said. “Please make better rules to keep my brother safe. I can’t protect him all the time because we go to di erent schools.”
Dax, Mila’s mother, her father and her younger brother listened as she spoke to board members.
After months of pushing for change, the family came to the school board meeting to express hope for progress toward safer school buses. Meanwhile, Jess
Vestal, Mila and Dax’s mother, is serving alongside other parents on a special transportation task force, focused on brainstorming policy changes to better protect children.
On the table so far are changes to bus video policy,
incident reporting processes, paraprofessional sta ng and training, communication with parents and use of third-party contractors for transportation.
Arapahoe County plagued by dozens of storage unit thefts each year
BY ISABEL GUZMAN SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
Deborah Bauman has lost a little faith in humanity.
“I feel like now I am so suspicious of people,” Bauman said.
About three months ago, her e-bike, electric tools and family collectibles were stolen from her storage unit in Centennial. She had rented the doublesize space because she was moving. e thieves stole a football signed by former Denver Broncos Super Bowl stars John Elway and Terrell Davis and her son’s items from England that his grandparents gifted him.
Arapahoe County and surrounding areas have been hit with hundreds of storage unit thefts in recent years.
In January, a painting of George Washington from the early 1800s was stolen from a storage space
Front view of the Littleton Public Schools administration building. PHOTO BY SCOTT GILBERT
South Suburban’s Frazzini o cially takes her seat
BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
e South Suburban Board of Directors has welcomed its newest member. Former Lone Tree City Councilmember Cathie Frazzini took her oath earlier this month. e board, which oversees parks and recreation facilities in the south metro area, selected Frazzini from six applicants who were publicly interviewed in May. Frazzini will serve the remainder of the term of Susan Pye, who resigned in April.
“ e impact of the services and spaces that are provided by (South Suburban) has on our communities is inspiring,” Frazzini wrote in an email to the Centennial Citizen.
In 2023, some community members criticized the board for what they saw as lack of transparency in their appointment process for a vacant seat. is year, the board took that feedback into account, posting applications publicly, conducting public interviews and having a public discussion about the applicants.
During Frazzini’s eight years on the Lone Tree council, she served four years as mayor pro tem and worked with South Suburban
Parks and Recreation. She also has experience on the executive boards of the Colorado Municipal League and the Lone Tree Arts Center Guild. Frazzini works in the software industry, where she has held leadership roles. She has four children and captains a tennis team that plays at the Lone Tree tennis courts.
On her application for the seat, Frazzini said she is a strong advocate for youth sports and she has direct experience with community relationships and scal planning.
“Similarly to my time on Lone Tree City Council, my goal (is) to become a conduit between our constituents and (the district) to advocate for the desires of our residents,” Frazzini said. “My goals will be the priorities of the residents.”
On her application, she also said she values transparent, open dialogue with her fellow board members.
“Servant leadership is something that I strive to emulate in all of my roles, supporting team members both personally and professionally,” she wrote.
Douglas County High School teacher arrested for alleged child sexual assault
BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A teacher at Douglas County High School has been arrested on allegations of sexual assault against a child.
e Douglas County Sheri ’s O ce arrested James omure, 55 of Centennial, on June 18 and faces one charge of sexual assault on a child by a trusted person. omure is being held in the Douglas County jail on a $20,000 bond.
Cocha Heyden, a spokesperson for the sheri ’s o ce, said the investigation is ongoing and she can’t release further details.
A statement from the Douglas County School District says omure has been placed on administrative
leave while the investigation is underway. omure is a social studies teacher who has worked in the district since 1999.
“I know it is concerning to receive news of this nature,” Douglas County High School Principal Tony Kappas said in an email to the community.
“Please know the safety and wellbeing of every student is of primary importance to Douglas County High School and the Douglas County School District.”
e sheri ’s o ce is asking anyone who believes they or someone they know might also be a victim of omure to email sclay@dcsheri . net.
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Cathie Frazzini, right, recites her oath to become a South Suburban Parks and Recreation District board member on June 12. PHOTO COURTESY OF SOUTH SUBURBAN PARKS AND RECREATION DISTRICT
It’s Time for Listing Agents to Get on the Narrated Video Walk-Through Bandwagon
For 15 years Golden Real Estate has been almost the only brokerage which does live-action video tours of its listings. Other brokerages make use of the “virtual tour” field in the MLS for videos that are nothing more than slideshows with music or Matterport tours which are interactive but miss the vital ingredient of a live action video tour — narration such as you’d get if you were walking through the house with the listing agent.
points of each room. To get a feel for this kind of video tour, go online to www.GRElistings.com and click on any one of our listings to watch the narrated video tour.
Our video tours are designed to simulate a live showing. As such, the video starts on the street, with me (or a broker associate) introducing the listing and perhaps showing the street scene. “Now let’s go inside and check out this home.”
Cut to the foyer and a walk through of the home, speaking as we go. “Notice the hardwood floors…. That’s a woodburning fireplace…. See the skylight in the vaulted ceiling…. These are Corian countertops…. The high efficiency washer and dryer are included…. Notice the mountain view out the kitchen window….” You get the idea.
No slideshow with music can compete with a narrated walk-through with the listing agent pointing out the selling
What makes this the right time for listing agents from other brokerages begin producing narrated video tours is the NAR settlement, which is likely to reduce the number of in-person showings at listed properties. If every listing had a narrated video tour, the number of showings would be reduced, because only those who watched the video tour and knew this listing might be a contender for them would go to the trouble of calling the listing agent or engaging a buyer agent to show them the listing.
By the way, narrated video tours are essential for attracting out-of-town buyers. More than once, an out-of-town buyer has gone under contract for one of our listings based solely on the narrated video tour, because they feel as if they have toured the home. The buyers still have the opportunity to terminate when they fly in for the inspection. None of those buyers terminated, however.
So, in this video age, what is keeping the majority — the vast majority — of
I Foresee a Surge in Buyer Activity This Summer
The primary outcome of the muchdiscussed NAR settlement announced in March is that buyers will now have to compensate agents representing them in the purchase of homes.
That change is scheduled to take effect on August 17th, so it makes sense that home buyers who have been “on the fence” are getting serious now about buying a home while they can still count on the seller, not them, paying their agent’s commission.
It doesn’t matter that their fear is unfounded. I fully expect sellers to keep offering to pay a “co-op” commission to the agents who bring them a buyer, even though that commission cannot be mentioned anywhere on the MLS.
Just this month, REcolorado, the Denver MLS, quietly introduced a new field for all listings. It’s a field to list another website, such as the websites we already create for every listing, and that website is allowed to mention the co-op commission for buyer agents since it does not derive its data from the MLS. If you want to see what that looks like, simply go to the website for my latest listing, www.ArvadaHome.info There on the home page of the website you will see the 2.8% co-op commission my seller is offering to buyer agents
under the headline, “Buyer Agent Commission Details.”
Nevertheless, the fear is very real among buyers that they will have to pony some serious money on top of their purchase price and loan expenses to pay for professional representation. Another development in this regard is the introduction of new mobile software called LivePad, which facilitates the process of showing homes to buyers when the showing agent doesn’t yet have a signed compensation agreement. In addition to some fine features for setting up a tour of listings, the tabletbased software allows the showing agent to create that requisite agreement on the tablet where the buyer can sign it digitally before entering the first listing. If the compensation agreement is for just that one day, the buyer can avoid paying the specified fee to their showing agent by waiting until the next day to make an offer under a new agreement. There may also be a surge in sellers putting their homes on the market prior to the August 17 deadline. Broker associate Chuck Brown had a seller get “off the fence” this month and sell his home, because he feared reduced buyer interest once buyers face the prospect of paying for their own agents.
listing agents from creating narrated video tours of their listings? I can only speculate, but here is my speculation. Listing agents like to farm out as many tasks as they can. They hire photographers (as we do) to shoot magazine quality photographs of their listings. Those vendors offer “videos” of the interior and drone videos of the exterior, and the listing agents think that’s sufficient. But there’s no narration of those videos, because the videographer would not know what to say. He only knows how to press “record” and “stop.”
The Matterport interactive tours are
very popular, and we include those on our listings too, but only because they are included in the enhanced package which we purchase that includes floor plans, which are done by the Matterport software. The Matterport tours are cool because they are shot with 360-degree lenses, allowing the viewer to rotate the view and even look up at the ceiling, then click on the next marker to go from room to room. But, again, no narration about what you are seeing. To call it a “video” is deceptive. It’s just a link that is inserted in one of the three “virtual tour” fields.
Reader Suggests the Pooling of Insured Homes as a Way to Reduce the Risks Causing Higher Insurance Premiums
One reader, Andrew Burt, recently responded to my request for creative solutions to the home insurance crisis caused primarily by the multiple natural and man-made disasters resulting in profit-crushing insurance claims.
His suggestion: the pooling of multiple homes so that the loss sustained by any one home is spread across the pool.
My first reaction was that this is how insurance works already. Insurance companies have thousands or millions of insured properties in the expectation that only a small percentage will file catastrophic claims.
Nevertheless, here is Andrew’s proposal, which he supported with some serious mathematical formulae not for publication in this lay publication.
“If I'm in a pool with, say, nine other properties, and one of them gets damaged, the insurer pays a claim but then distributes the cost of that claim over all 10 properties in next year's premium calculation — instead of raising just mine to cover all of it. (Or I cover all of it over an amortized number of years, which is what they seem to do rather than lumping their cost all into year one. It doesn't change the math of the idea. Spread the new premium costs over multiple people instead of just me.)”
Andrew compared his proposal to the Affordable Care Act, which insures everyone without regard to pre-existing
conditions, but requires everyone to be insured. (Wildfire risk is a “pre-existing condition.”) He suggested that widely separated properties within the state could be pooled to further spread the risk of multiple claims within the pool.
‘Summer Solstice’ Fundraiser
Mike Nelson was one of six featured speakers at the annual fundraiser for New Energy Colorado, held on June 20th at The Retreat at Solterra in Lakewood.
Viewers of Mike’s weather forecasts on Channel 7 know that he is passionate about climate change. In addition to addressing the topic, he gave away free copies of his 2020 booklet, “The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: 10 Facts in 10 Minutes About CO2.”
Also speaking at the well-attended event was U.S. Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen, State Sen. Lisa Cutter, Jeffco Commissioner Andy Kerr, State Rep. Brianna Titone, and Will Toor, director of the Colorado Energy Office. New Energy Colorado is best known for its annual Metro Denver Green Homes Tour on the first Saturday in October. This year it is on Oct. 5. Golden Real Estate is one of its sponsors.
Broker Associates: JIM SWANSON, 303-929-2727
CHUCK BROWN, 303-885-7855
DAVID DLUGASCH, 303-908-4835
GREG KRAFT, 720-353-1922
AUSTIN POTTORFF, 970-281-9071
KATHY JONKE,
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Plan highlights ways Littleton can fight climate change
BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
From ooding to wild res, communities across Colorado are contending with the impacts of climate change, according to many experts.
In Littleton, a group of volunteers recently presented a plan to the city council, highlighting what they think are good short- and long-term steps the city can take to address some of those impacts – and to better take care of the environment. e seven-member Environmental Stewardship Board has brainstormed, listened to public comments, researched and developed the plan. About a year in the works, it was the rst deliverable for the advisory board, which the city council created in 2023.
“Climate change is the de ning crisis of my lifetime,” said Geo Frazier, a member of the board. “Littleton is a beautiful community and there’s a lot we can do that, frankly, should have been done, or at least evaluated, long ago.”
e 19-page plan touches on practically every corner of Littleton. It recommends initiatives to address air quality and emissions. It looks at city buildings, waste diversion, open and natural spaces, water and the community’s awareness of the issues. e recommendations are diverse in e ort and impact many levels of city life — ranging from suggestions to convert the city’s vehicles to electric energy to o ering compost pickup services.
Now the city must decide which recommendations are the most feasible and how to implement them.
One of the plan’s highest-priority items is completing a greenhouse gas inventory, which would be used to inform a future climate action plan.
“We need to act and lower our emissions — and every city, state, county and country needs to be doing the same work, but we can only control what we can control,” Frazier said. “In order for us to do so and put a plan together, we have to know where we’re at.”
Conducting an inventory of emissions in Littleton would help the city set speci c reduction goals, Frazier said.
Board member Hannah Kight
said creating a climate action plan would then give the city more detailed direction, with insight from experts.
“ is would be a really comprehensive deep-dive into how climate could impact the city, some of the detrimental impacts — such as ooding, wild res, air quality, all of those things,” she said. It would also analyze e orts being taken at the state level to see how Littleton could make the biggest impact locally, she said.
e board also recommended that the city hire a full-time sustainability coordinator. e city is already in the process of hiring for this role, which the council approved for the 2024 budget in 2023.
“I think that person is going to be key in really eshing out the details
and (working) both with city sta , council and the environmental stewardship board to really execute on a lot of these items and provide the expertise that a volunteer board that meets once or twice a month simply can’t,” Frazier said.
Mayor Pro Tem Stephen Barr, who helped push for the creation of the environmental stewardship board and serves as its council liaison, said he is excited about the plan’s suggestion to implement green infrastructure for stormwater management.
As opposed to traditional stormwater infrastructure that moves water away from the built environment with curbs, gutters and drains, green infrastructure is designed to mimic nature and capture rainwater where it falls, according to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. is can involve using trees, rain gardens and more.
Noting a failure in the city’s traditional stormwater infrastructure last year when a culvert collapsed into a sinkhole, Barr said considering green infrastructure could be a great opportunity for Littleton.
“My background is in water; that’s what I’ve studied my whole life,” he said. “I’m really excited to see our city starting to take those rst steps as we seek to turn our old stormwater infrastructure into almost a new paradigm of how stormwater is managed.”
He said the city is also in discussion with Englewood and Sheridan to see how they can work together, especially for improving
Littleton volunteer Geo Frazier said a consolidated waste hauling program could be more environmentally responsible and economically e cient for Littleton residents.
in Englewood, prompting an investigation involving local police and the FBI. e value of the portrait was di cult to estimate given its historic nature.
In a tally by the Arapahoe County Sheri ’s O ce, in 2020, there were 115 storage space thefts. In 2021, the number jumped to 150. efts declined only slightly in 2022 (144) and 2023 (138). With 60 thefts already reported as of early June, the trend shows no signs of changing.
Sgt. Brett Cohn, of the sheri ’s o ce investigations unit, said the cases are frustrating for victims.
“ e big problem is a lot of these storage facilities have no video surveillance, and we’re getting no active leads,” Cohn said. “And they don’t burglarize one unit, they’ll come in and they hit four, ve, six or eight units in one shot.”
Marcel Kooyenga ran into thieves, a man and a woman, as they were raiding his storage unit. He had left it unlocked overnight on April 19 by accident. When he arrived, the woman walked away, but the man claimed that the unit had already been opened. e man even helped Kooyenga return mattresses he had taken out back into the unit, Kooyenga said.
But, after the man left, Kooyenga noticed other items were missing from the unit.
“I didn’t put two and two together until it was too late,” he said. “So, it was when I started to think clearly...” Among the missing items was his
Apple computer.
After he had the realization, Kooyenga said management at the unit’s location reviewed video footage with him and identi ed the people who took his computer.
Video footage captured the woman, and the man who helped return the mattresses, allegedly taking the computer.
ey then allegedly stored it in a unit that they allegedly rented using a stolen driver’s license. e computer sat there until thieves returned to collect it on May 14, video footage shows. Unfortunately for Kooyenga, the couple was not caught and the computer remains missing. Such incidents leave storage space renters questioning some policies.
is that some facilities encourage renters to register online.
“ ese people use a fake or stolen credit card and false identity,” Bauman said.
e thieves that broke into Bauman’s unit used bolt cutters on the lock’s latch to get in. en, they transported the stolen goods into another unit at the same site.
At the same time her unit was burglarized, Bauman said another nearby storage unit was also broken into.
Bauman said she chose her storage provider because of reviews and features such as security cameras, but the cameras weren’t working the night her belongings were stolen.
e string of thefts leaves Cohn with the sheri ’s o ce with several recommendations. In addition to refraining from keeping nancial information and valuables in storage units, Cohn recommends renters put a motion sensor on their unit doors that delivers a noti cation that there’s motion at the door and to call management to notify them. Or, Cohn advises to call 911 if there’s an alert overnight.
“Another option is you can have a motion sensor camera inside the unit,” Cohn said. “ e door opens, the motion sensor comes on and you have a live feed that’s going directly to your phone and you’re sitting there literally on your phone, wherever you are, watching these people in your unit, burglarizing it.”
A storage unit.
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waste management processes.
Currently, several di erent waste hauling companies operate in the city each week, sometimes meaning several trucks going down the same neighborhood street to pick up trash at di erent houses, Frazier said.
He said this process is both environmentally and economically ine cient. A consolidated waste hauling program, contracted by the city, would give “more leverage to work with one hauler and set speci c measurable requirements” and would “lessen the amount of trucks causing noise (and) pollution up and down our streets,” he said. e plan also involves ways the city can empower and allow
residents to make changes at the household level. For example, it recommends teaching people how to compost at home, making it easier for people to use solar panels and o ering a program for people to trade their lawns out for turf.
Barr said this individualized aspect is a strength of the document.
“It forces us to more individually connect with residents on an environmental basis to make quality of life improvements that have compounding e ects.”
Kight said the plan requires collaboration.
“ e plan, I think, fosters a special kind of community engagement and encourages everyone in the community to educate themselves and actively participate in the environmental stewardship and just general long-term sustainability of Littleton,” she said.
She encouraged interested residents to learn more about the city’s current programs at https://www.littletonco.gov/ Government/City-Services/ GreenEnvironmental-Programs.
Even beyond themselves, Frazier said people have a responsibility to do this work for future generations.
“I have two young kids, and I want them to inherit a livable planet where they can go outside in the summer and not worry about the air,” he said. “Climate change is the crisis of my lifetime, I believe, and I think we have a moral obligation to do everything we can to limit, reverse, or respond to it, or prevent it from getting worse.”
Moving forward, city sta ers are evaluating the plan to determine which steps it can take next and how it can collaborate with other cities to approach some of the recommendations, Barr said.
e board also elected its new positions this month:
Pam Eller, chair
Keith Gardner, vice chair
Ken Lucas, treasurer
Pete Barrett, secretary
Lone Tree Mayor Marissa Harmon and Council Member Mike Anderson attended the swearing-in ceremony earlier this month, district spokesperson Becky Grubb said. Board Chair Pam Eller said their attendance was an indication that Frazzini is a valued leader in Lone Tree.
“Cathie brings a great deal of experience from her time on Lone Tree City Council,” Eller wrote in an email to the Centennial Citizen. “Cathie already has an excellent working knowledge of South Suburban and I am looking forward to adding her unique perspective to our board.”
Frazzini will serve in her interim role until 2025. FROM PAGE 2
Englewood taking public art applications until July 1
BY ELISABETH SLAY ESLAY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
e City of Englewood seeks to expand its gallery of creativity where overlooked urban elements, including crosswalks and signal wrap tra c boxes, have been transformed into colorful and unique public art installations.
Stemming from a program initially launched in 2019, the city once again invites artists to submit their ideas by July 1 for an initiative dedicated to weaving art into the fabric of everyday life.
“ e creative crosswalk and signal wrap program is one that supports public art across the City of Englewood, which in turn supports the city’s goals related to placemaking, economic development, safety and community development,” city communications director Chris Harguth said. “ rough the program, local artists may submit renderings for creative crosswalks or signal wraps that t with the history and feel of neighborhoods across the city.”
Harguth said the city is looking for “ideas that t with the city’s history and articulated strategic plan and community engagement goals.”
e number of artists selected will be based on the number of requests received and the amount of funding available. Harguth said while the deadline for applications is July 1, it could be extended based on funding.
In addition to beautifying the city and connecting art and community, Harguth said these installations also help with safety.
“A survey conducted by Bloomberg Philanthropies as part of their Asphalt Art initiative conducted in 2022 found that, in their sample size, the rate of car crashes involving pedestrians or cyclists decreased by 50% and the rate of drivers yielding to pedestrians increased by 27%,” Harguth said. “Public art is a key part of placemaking initiatives, which are designed to create spaces that people want to live in and visit and have a sense of community.”
ose selected will receive a $500 stipend to cover the cost of installation.
“After artists are selected, the artist will submit approved drawings to the city, who will work with a vendor to develop the signal wraps and crosswalks and prepare them for installation,” Harguth said.
He said any signal boxes without existing wraps are eligible for the program but crosswalk eligibility is based on design standards that were approved in 2019. e design criteria requires the art to be at a location where there is already a marked crosswalk, contain two white transverse lines with re ectivity to comply with minimum crosswalk standards, not contain white, yellow or red in a way that could be confused as tra c control devices, not contain any advertising and not contain shapes that could be confused with a tra c control device.
“We hope that creative crosswalks and signal wraps will enhance the placemaking of the city and continue to make Englewood a place where people want to live, eat, shop and play,” Harguth said.
For more information on the program, visit bit.ly/crosswalk-art.
One of many colorful signal wraps scattered throughout Englewood. The city is accepting applications until July 1 for its program to decorate these boxes.
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One of many creative crosswalks scattered throughout Englewood. The city is accepting applications until July 1 to decorate these crosswalks.
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ese are all possibilities, as the task force nalizes recommendations to present to the board in August.
Vestal and other parents are hopeful there will be progress. at’s why they are participating in the task force and also advocating for policy changes at the state Board of Education.
“Hopefully, between all of those meetings and all of our work that we’re doing, we’re able to make lasting changes for Dax and all his classmates and everybody who comes after us,” Vestal said at a Littleton school board meeting in June.
e district kicked o the task force after two months and several tense school board meetings full of parents asking for change.
“It’s been nice to have a backdoor to information that we weren’t getting, to kind of see better how things work, what the restraints are, things like that,” Vestal said. “But, it’s a lot of happy talking. I’m interested in seeing what it actually develops into, as far as actions go.”
She said the conversations, which are led by a professional facilitator, are what the parents have been asking for for months.
During those months, parents urged the district to include them in discussions about protecting their kids. ey condemned the board members and superintendent for limiting their time and opportunities to comment publicly as they advocated for their children at public meetings. During one meeting, Board President Angela Christensen threatened to eject at least one parent.
In an interview with the Littleton Independent, Superintendent Todd Lambert commented on the board’s interaction
“I know our board cares a great deal about this situation,” he said. “ ey can sometimes be in a di cult position, sitting up at the dais, because this standard operating procedure is not to engage and not to react.
at certainly doesn’t mean they don’t care. I have watched this issue weigh heavily on them.”
e task force is made up of 21 members, including parents of students with disabilities, district and school sta members, bus drivers, transportation paraprofessionals, community advocates and board member Lindley McCrary.
“Coming in, there was a lot of very justi ed emotion, all around,” McCrary said. “ ank you to our parents who are participating on this task force because they came with solid ideas, and ideas that we can implement, and things that we can do and are already working on doing — and that has been instrumental in the progress that we have made in just two meetings.”
Blake McBride, whose son has been identi ed as a victim of the case, according to the family’s lawyer, said joining the task force so far has been “bittersweet” — bitter because it took too long to begin, but sweet because of the important conversations they are now having.
“I wish it had started sooner, so we could have started moving forward a little bit faster,” he said. “I’m optimistic, still.”
Lambert said he understands that some community members wished the district would have engaged in conversations with them sooner.
“I believe we engaged in the conversation when we were prepared to do our best work,” he said. “When the incident happened, there were some communication challenges that we had regarding the investigation
and issues associated with the incident. I am sure that there are people who would have wanted us to engage sooner. I can’t sit here and say we should have done it sooner. I know that we did it when we were prepared.”
At a recent school board meeting, Assistant Superintendent of Learning Services Melissa Cooper gave an overview of the task force’s progress so far.
e group has had two meetings and has discussed how long to retain videos from school buses, how to improve incident reporting processes, how many paraprofessionals should be sta ed on each bus, how to regulate safety on third-party contracted transportation services and other topics.
McBride said the conversations have been good, but he hopes the district involves more experts as it moves forward with the parent’s ideas. While he is an expert on his own child, McBride said he is not an expert on other kids or law. He wants policy experts to be involved in creating the best rules for the district.
“I want to voice my concerns, but I need (the district) to take my concerns, put those at the front and then add on to them,” he said. “ at’s the gold standard.”
Vestal said the task force has felt like “a good attempt to bridge the gap” between parents and district sta , but it also feels inauthentic in some ways, like the district is listening because they have to.
“Nothing at all that we do going forward is going to x what has been done, so that’s kind of a forever wound,” she said. “I just hope that it has a lasting impact for whoever comes after us, so they don’t have to deal with this, or be on a task force.”
Lambert said he hopes the district can regain the trust and con dence of parents and families who use the district’s special transportation services.
e task force has a virtual meeting on July 22, which is open to the public. On Aug. 8, district sta will present recommendations from the task force to the school board.
Cooper said the district plans to begin implementing the recommendations in the fall of 2024, with monthly task force meetings throughout the year to monitor and evaluate the outcomes and make adjustments.
Beyond the task force, Vestal and other parents are taking steps to ask for change at the state level. In June, several parents attended a state board of education meeting to speak about policies to protect nonspeaking autistic students.
Vestal said the state board members were receptive to the parents’ comments and o ered to make connections with legislators.
“Our hope is to make all of those connections and set the standard at the top, so that way it trickles down,” she said. “Right now local school districts call their own shots — and bar is on the oor … If we change — or create, rather — a standard, then they’ll have to listen.”
e McBride family is also pushing for change at facility schools like e Joshua School, where their son goes, to require cameras, school nurses and add other regulations to how the schools operate. ey want safer conditions for nonspeaking students not only on buses, but in schools, too.
In addition to improving safety, McBride said he hopes the parents’ work leads to more awareness and a better understanding of these students.
“I can’t say that nothing will ever happen again on a bus because of what we’re doing,” he said. “But I just … want people to be more aware. I want people to understand that just because our kids don’t speak, doesn’t mean that they don’t have a voice.”
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Renaissance Festival brings medieval fun and annual road closure
Bear Dance Drive south of Castle Rock
to be closed on Saturdays and Sundays as needed
BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A road that parallels Interstate 25 will close to southbound tra c going toward Larkspur during the Colorado Renaissance Festival on an as-needed basis, the Douglas County Sheri ’s O ce says. is marks the second year in a row that the tra c plan for the Renaissance Festival will close the back road some have used during the festival in the past. Other routes to the festival will still be open.
A widely known event, the festival has caused concerns among nearby residents about tra c linked to the gathering.
ere’s also a public-safety concern about access for emergency vehicles, said Deputy Cocha Heyden, spokesperson for the sheri ’s o ce. “Only residents and con rmed golf course attendees will be allowed past the closure. Others will be turned away,” the sheri ’s o ce said on the social media platform X.
e Renaissance Festival — which the Town of Larkspur’s website describes as Colorado’s “premier
ARAPAHOE COUNTY
O ces Closed
Arapahoe County O ces will be closed Thursday, July 4 in observance of the July 4 holiday.
summertime event” — is a thematic recreation of a 16th century village and marketplace set in a “picturesque mountain venue,” the website says.
e road closure spot is south of Castle Rock. e sheri ’s o ce may close Bear Dance Drive south of Tomah Road on Saturdays and Sundays, starting at about 9:30 a.m. until roughly 1:30 p.m.
e closure period started on June 15 and lasts until Aug. 4, but it will only be implemented as needed, Heyden said.
“If it appears that tra c through that area is getting bad, they will close it southbound,” Heyden said.
At the closure, golfers headed to a nearby golf course will be allowed through with a con rmed tee time.
Residents living in the area will also be allowed through.
“We will trust that if they say they live there, they do. If it appears they may not, they may be asked for proof,” Heyden said. “We would like to trust people to be honest.”
e closure does not a ect anyone going northbound, Heyden said.
Access to the festival runs via Spruce Mountain Road to Perry Park Avenue, according to the sheri ’s o ce.
e festival’s address is 650 Perry Park Ave. in Larkspur.
For more information on the festival and routes to get there, visit its website at coloradorenaissance. com.
Tickets: $25, will sell out fast. Visit arapahoecountyfair.com
Tra c signals illuminated at the intersection of Tomah Road and an Interstate 25 frontage road in the Castle Rock area, pictured here in March 2023. The Douglas County Sheri ’s O ce plans to close nearby Bear Dance Drive south of Tomah Road on Saturdays and Sundays as needed amid tra c during the Renaissance Festival in Larkspur.
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Living and telling our story
Each of us is the author of our own story, a narrative that unfolds with each passing day. Our lives are composed of a series of chapters, each lled with unique experiences, lessons and aspirations. To truly live our story means embracing our past, fully engaging in the present and envisioning a future that re ects our highest potential. It is about living in such a way that our story inspires others and recognizing that the most powerful story we will ever tell and hear is the one we tell ourselves.
Our past is a rich tapestry of experiences, both good and bad. Re ecting on these stories from our past is not merely an exercise in nostalgia, but an opportunity to learn and grow. Our past shapes who we are today, o ering valuable lessons that can guide our future decisions. By acknowledging our past without being con ned by it, we can extract wisdom and strength from our experiences. Each mistake, triumph, and moment of struggle contributes to the person we have become, and understanding this helps us appreciate our journey and prepare for the road ahead. However, the true power of our story lies in the present. e stories we are living now have the most immediate impact on our lives and the lives of those around us. Living our story means being fully present, embracing each moment with intention and purpose. It means acting with integrity, kindness and authenticity. When we live our story authentically, we become a beacon of inspiration for others. Our actions speak louder than words, and the way we live our lives can motivate others to pursue their own paths with courage and conviction.
e story we tell ourselves about our present is crucial. It shapes our self-image and in uences our actions. If we see ourselves as capable, resilient and worthy, we are more likely to take on challenges and seize opportunities. Conversely, if we tell ourselves a story of inadequacy and fear, we may hold ourselves back. us, cultivating a positive and empowering internal narrative is essential for living our best life. By a rming our strengths and acknowledging our worth, we can approach life with con dence and grace.
As we live our present story, we must also be mindful of the impact we have on others. Our actions and attitudes in uence those around us, often in ways we may not immediately recognize. By living with compassion, empathy and generosity, we can create a ripple e ect of positivity and kindness. Our story becomes a source of inspiration and hope, encouraging others to live with greater purpose and integrity. In this way, our story transcends our individual experience and contributes to the collective narrative of our community.
“We all have a story. e di erence is: do you use the story to empower yourself? Or do you use your story to keep yourself a victim? e question itself empowers you to change your life.” — Sunny
Dawn Johnston
In telling and living our story, we create a powerful narrative that resonates with others. Our story becomes a testament to our resilience, our growth and our capacity to overcome challenges. It becomes a source of inspiration, encouraging others to live their own stories with authenticity and courage. And ultimately, it becomes a re ection of our highest potential, a vision of who we are and who we aspire to be.
We all deserve the luxury of aging a ordably
We’ve all seen the recent headlines: “Boomers aren’t moving” or “Empty nesters holding on to McMansions.” e
were “cost burdened,” meaning they spent more than 30% of their income on housing, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Let us embrace our past, live fully
means at home or in our community. At least 77% of adults 50 and older want to age in a place where they are comfortable, according to AARP, yet 70% of older adults will need nancial and health care support to do so. In 2021, an all-time high of nearly 11.2 million older adults
Colorado is the third most expensive state for home health care to support aging in place. Only 14% of single people over 75 can a ord a daily visit from a paid caregiver, and just 13% can a ord to move to assisted living, according to MarketWatch. e median monthly cost of assisted living in the U.S. is $4,500 — while the average monthly social security check is just $1,700. e evidence is clear — we need more a ordable support services and systems that allow all of us to maintain autonomy and connections to our community as we age. Speci cally, we need more a ordable housing or homelessness prevention programs, creative solutions for in-home wraparound services, and policies that support caregiver or direct care workforce support and services.
KALDES
ankfully, our state and community have some real leaders working hard to make aging less expensive. Colorado is using federal funds to substantially raise base wages for thousands of direct care workers providing a range of services to older adults.
Locally, Bell Policy Center in Denver designed and conducted a cost study of Colorado’s direct care ecosystem for older adults that examined the economic conditions for older adults, their families, and paid and unpaid caregivers. is study identi ed state-level data gaps on direct care, as well as provided tools for advocates looking to make systems and policy
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in the present, and envision a future that re ects our deepest values and aspirations. Let us tell our story with honesty and passion and live our story with integrity and purpose. I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we remember that in doing so, we
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changes to bene t older adults. And Housing Resources of Western Colorado in Grand Junction addresses the housing shortage in Mesa County that is impacting young people and older adults by developing an intergenerational village that will provide homes for older adults at risk of homelessness and for youth transitioning out of the foster care system.
Creative collaborative solutions are what we all need to help make living here less expensive. But we should all do a better job of advocating for ourselves as we age so that future generations have the luxury of aging a ordably.
Peter Kaldes, Esq., is the president and CEO of Next50, a national foundation based in Denver. Learn more at next50foundation.org.
not only transform our own lives but also inspire others to embark on their own journeys of self-discovery and impact, we make this a better than good life.
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PIZARRO
OBITUARIES
Sheila Ann (Tarrant) Pizarro
February 4, 1939 - May 21, 2024
Born in Bartlesville, OK to Roland Vance and Velma Faye Tarrant. Formerly of Vincennes, Indiana she is survived by her children Keith Wilkes, Kimberly Gulizia, Christopher Wilkes, and Lawrence Pizarro, six grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. ere will not be any services at this time. Disposition of her ashes will be determined at a later date.
November 16, 1933 - June 3, 2024
Jana Clarey passed away peacefully in Boise, Idaho on June 3, 2024. Jana was born in View, Idaho on November 16, 1933, in her grandmother’s house in rural Cassia County to parents John and Mary (Stephens) Roy. Christened Glenna Jean Roy, she later changed her rst name to Jana. When Jana was a child, the family moved to Gooding, Idaho where she attended Gooding High School and was a baton twirler. She met and married James omas Hume and they had 3 children: Stephen, Erin & Susan. Jana and James moved to Pocatello, Idaho in 1956 where their fourth child, Rich, was born. Jana was a dedicated mother.
draftswoman for an aircraft company. Jana was self-taught. Paul and Jana were reunited in Southern California. ey were married in 1963 and moved to Fullerton, California where Jana attended college.
In 1970 Paul was transferred to Colorado with Hughes Aircraft and the family moved to Littleton. Jana had many friends and was involved in numerous social groups. She especially enjoyed playing bridge and was an excellent cook. Jana also started two businesses: e Wearhouse, a women’s boutique, and Maid in America which expanded with franchises granted.
Meanwhile, Jana’s parents bought a business on a historic site called Massacre Rocks, where they had ponies and horses, providing a wonderful childhood experience for their growing list of grandkids.
Jana and James divorced in 1959 or 1960 and Jana moved to Boise with her children, where she got a job working at Mountain Home Air Force Base. ere she met Paul Clarey and the two became friends. In 1961 Jana moved with her children to Playa Del Rey, California where she worked as a
In 2020, for health reasons, Jana and Paul moved to a Boise assisted living facility where Jana passed. Jana is survived by her husband Paul, her children Stephen (Amy) Hume, Erin Hume, Rich (Renee) Hume, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, two brothers and one sister. Preceding Jana in death are her parents, her daughter Susan Hume, one brother and one sister.
A celebration of Jana’s life will be held at her brother Darwin Roy’s home in May eld, ID on June 30, 2024.
CLAREY
Jana Jean (Roy) Clarey
SUMMER SPLASH
Waters to chill in across the Denver metro area
BY HALEY LENA
Whether it’s dipping your toes in at the local pool or swimming at an open lake, a good way to beat the heat is getting in the water, and there are many water activities to choose from in the Denver metro area.
For some, summertime is a time to relax, but for others, it’s a time to be adventurous and create memories with family.
Here is a guide to some of the best places to swim in the metro area as well as enjoy fresh water.
Enjoy the twists and turns of the water slides at e Splash Aquatic Park while taking in the green scenery of the Front Range.
“It de nitely has the more foothills-feel as opposed to the urban feel of Elitches or Water World,” said Betsy Sweet, aquatic supervisor for the city. “It’s less crowded.”
Across the park, guests have views of Lookout Mountain and Mount Zion, which is the mountain decorated with the “M” for the Colorado School of Mines.
As part of Golden’s Parks and
Recreation Department, e Splash goes beyond the standard recreational swimming pool. From those learning how to walk to the community’s seniors, the waterpark has amenities for all ages and swimming abilities.
“Not only is it fun for kids, but the adults in the world have fun as well,” Sweet said.
Popular among children is the leisure beach-entry pool that includes a large play structure, small water slides, spray fountains and “Tipper,” the 500-gallon dump bucket. But for the little ones who want to be in the water but aren’t con dent in swimming just yet, there is a gentle splash pad.
One of the most popular attractions for those 48 inches and
taller are the two water slides, the green body slide and the blue tube slide. If those under the height requirement want to ride the blue slide, they must ride with an adult. e park also has a 25-meter lap pool with eight lanes for the more experienced swimmers as well as an open swim area and diving boards. With interactive structures around the park, Sweet said e Splash is home to the biggest sandbox in Je erson County, which also has dinosaur fossils to dig up.
Admission fees for Golden residents range from $8-11 based on age, $9-12 for Je erson County residents and $10-13 for nonresidents.
SPLASH
Paradice Island Pool
5951 Monaco St., Commerce City, Colorado 80022 | 303-289-3769 | c3gov.com/paradice | facebook.com/ paradiceisland/ | Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily through Aug.11
Commerce City is a fast-growing and diverse community with over 1,000 businesses, a golf course and soccer complex, 25 miles of trials and a swimming pool.
Opened in 2015 on the east end of Pioneer Park, Paradice Island Pool was a rst in Commerce City. e park ranges from a toddler pool with interactive water features for young ones to a leisure pool to a lap pool for the more advanced swimmers. Guests can have a relaxing time on the lazy river or feel the adrenaline when going down one of three slides.
Other non-water features include play structures, volleyball, shaded areas and cabanas for rent. It’s a place to gather with friends and family. Coolers, chairs, pop-up tents, party decorations and food are allowed, but not alcohol and glass.
Admission rates for residents with a valid city recreation play pass range from free to $4 based on age. For nonresidents who don’t have a play pass, the fee ranges from free to $10.
One of the most popular and thrilling activities in the City of Golden is Whitewater River Tubing on Clear Creek. Daily tube rentals are open every day and include commercialgrade river tubes with complimentary life jackets and helmets. Shoes, not ip- ops, are required.
Adventure West owner Beth Battilla said when the Golden location rst opens for the season, it’s for adults and strong swimmers only. It is then gradually opened to others as the ow rate drops.
“Golden is best for most people midto-late July onwards,” Battilla said. “Unless you are really comfortable swimming in swift water, then by all means, come earlier.”
Although online reservations aren’t required at this location, reservations guarantee a tube and speed up the check-in process. Battilla added that reservations are highly recommended on weekends as tubes tend to sell out.
ose under age 17 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
While the location in Golden is an “exciting” oat, Adventure West’s location in Littleton is more of a “mellow” and “picturesque” oat, and online reservations are required.
Here, guests can drift along the South Platte River for upwards of two hours and take in the sights of the Carson Nature Center.
Children must be ve years of age or older and parking is available at Breckenridge Brewery.
“( ey) are out tted with a commercial grade river tube, life jacket, given our tubing tips and a safety talk,” Battilla said.
11500 N. Roxborough Park Road, Littleton, Colorado 80125 | 303.791.7275 | cpw.state.co.us
From swimming to jet skiing, local reservoirs o er a variety of water activities and programs.
Colorado is known for its mountain range, but there are sandy beaches families and friends can visit as well. Cherry Creek Reservoir has a ropedo swimming area for people to cool o . It’s important to note that Colorado State Park swim beaches don’t have lifeguards on duty, so children must be supervised by an adult at all times.
In addition to sailboarding and boating, the reservoir also o ers a youth rowing program called Mile High Rowing Club and an adaptive sailing program called Community Sailing of Colorado.
Another sandy beach sits on the west side of the Chat eld Reservoir and is open from sunrise to sunset through Sept. 2. e beach is complete with showers, restrooms and picnic areas with small grills.
e reservoir is divided into multiple zones. One is the main body of the reservoir, known as the “Power Zone” and is for general boating, water skiing and sailing and moves in a counterclockwise direction.
ere are two large “No Wake Zones” at the southwest and
southeast ends of the reservoir, which are more ideal for shing and canoeing. Paddle Boarding is allowed in all bodies of water except for the swim area.
River Run Park
2101 W Oxford Ave., Englewood, CO, 80110 | endlesswaveco@gmail. com|endlesswaves.net/waves/riverrun-park/
It may not be a common sight in Colorado, but there are places to surf. River Run Park on the South Platte River is one of many and has been expanding over the years to allow transplanted surfers from the ocean to hit the waves.
“ e waves get sort of more powerful and more challenging to ride as you go upstream,” said Jacob Vos, a director of the Colorado River Sur ng Association.
e most beginner-friendly wave in the park is “Chiclets” while the other two waves, “Benihanas” and “Six” are more high-speed and dynamic as they have hydraulic plates that are in the river to help shape the waves and attune them to the ow of the river.
“ at adjustability doesn’t mean the waves work for all conditions all the time, but it certainly widens the range of ows,” Vos said.
Since river sur ng di ers from ocean sur ng, Vos stresses that ankle leashes can be deadly in an “insidious” way because the force of the river makes it challenging to reach the ankle to release the leash.
Other features in the park are conducive for whitewater kayaking
and tubing, but Vos encourages users to check the South Platte River Union water gauges — which show how much water is in the river — and recommends wearing a helmet.
If the gauges show 100 CFS cubic feet per square, it’s more mellow, Vos said, but when it gets up to 1,000 cubic feet per square, the water is more violent.
“If people are just oating or just hanging out, they can have rude surprises if they don’t pay attention to those ows,” Vos said.
Parking is available at the Broken Tree Golf Course, however, the gates close in the evening. Parking is also available on the west side of the river. If there are additional questions, like where to get equipment, the Colorado Rivers Facebook group serves as a message board for the river sur ng community.
Honorable mentions
• South Suburban Holly Pool, 6651 S. Krameria Way, Centennial, CO 80111
• Snorkeling lessons at Eastridge Recreation Center, 9568 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
• Rocky Mountain Beach, 3301 W 46th Ave., Denver, CO 80211
• Rocky Mountain Paddleboard at Big Soda Beach, 15600 Morrison Road, Lakewood, CO 80465
• Bow Mar Beach, 5395 Lakeshore Drive, Littleton, CO 80123
• Rueter-Hess Recreation, 9343 Double Angel Road, Parker, CO 80134
• e Bay Aquatic Park, 250 Spader Way, Broom eld, CO 80020
Tubers relax in the middle of Clear Creek.
FILE PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN
Englewood SunSET Concert Series to kick o July 11
Event is first of three that will run through July
BY ELISABETH SLAY ESLAY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Englewood will kick off its annual free SunSET Concert Series on Thursday, July 11 with Guerilla Fanfare at 6 p.m. at the City Center Amphitheater located at 1000 Englewood Parkway.
The series will feature live musical performances through July, said Toni Arnoldy, Englewood events supervisor.
“There are food trucks and an adult beverage provider, and all proceeds go to a local nonprofit,” she said. “This year, Pirate Youth Sports is the nonprofit beneficiary. One hundred percent of proceeds from beer donated by Breckenridge Brewery will go to their youth sports program.”
The decades-long tradition is a “fun, free event for all of the citizens of all ages,” Arnoldy added.
On July 18 the band Slopeside will perform, followed by Little Moses Jones on July 25.
“The crowd size varies weekly and often depends on the band scheduled to play and the weath-
“It is fun in the sun where we get to hear a variety of different artists and enjoy each other’s company,” Arnoldy said. “I love it when some of our local dance groups join in the fun and teach us a few new dance moves.”
this year, as well as all of the new neighbors we have in the city who have not gotten to attend yet,” she said.
For more information visit https:// bit.ly/SunSET-concert
SUMMER CONCERTS IN ENGLEWOOD
5-8 p.m., music starts at 6 p.m. CityCenter Amphitheater 1000 Englewood Pkwy. Dates and featured bands July 11 – Guerilla Fanfare
July 18 – Slopeside July 25 – Little Moses Jones
Brothers and bandmates Nathan and Caleb Hurley of Fox Royale perform at the SunSET Concert Series in 2023. The 2024 series will kick o July 11.
PHOTO BY ELISABETH SLAY
Thu 6/27
Keith Nieto
@ 7pm
Stampede, 2430 S Havana St, Aurora
Fri 6/28
Fishbone at Levitt Pavilion Denver
@ 6pm
Levitt Pavilion Denver, 1380 W Florida Ave, Denver
2 Penguins Tap and Grill, 13065 E Briar‐wood Ave, Centennial
The Mike G Band @ 5pm
Brothers Bar & Grill, 7407 Park Meadows Dr, Lone Tree
Collective Groove: Debut at Wide
Open Saloon
@ 6pm
Wide Open Saloon, 5607 US-85, Sedalia
Philip S. Miller Park, 1375 W Plum Creek Pkwy, Castle Rock
Sun 6/30
Sean Rodriguez: Preaching at Praise Center Church @ 8am
Praise Center Church, 3105 W Florida Ave, Denver
Sarah Adams: Unity Spiritual Center (solo) @ 9am
Unity Spiritual Center Denver, 3021 S Uni‐versity Blvd, Denver
GRIZZLY GOPHER AT THE OUTLETS IN CASTLE ROCK @ 2pm
Outlets at Castle Rock, 5050 Factory Shops Blvd #437, Castle Rock
Tue 7/02
MYD: LEGO Robotics @ College View Recreation Center @ 5pm Jul 2nd - Jul 23rd
Denver Parks and Recreation (CGV), 2525 S. Decatur St., Denver. 720-913-0654
Wed 7/03
Amaryllis The Band @ 6pm
Herman's Hideaway, 1578 S Broadway, Denver
Ikigai @ 7pm
Herman's Hideaway, 1578 S Broadway, Denver
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, 6350 Greenwood Plaza Blvd, Greenwood Village
Pixies @ 5:30pm
Fiddlers Green Amphitheatre, Englewood
Modest Mouse @ 6pm
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, 6350
Greenwood Plaza Blvd, Greenwood Vil‐lage
Mon 7/01
4 Pack - Junior Beach TrainingJune
@ 8am / $160
Jul 1st - Jul 31st
Dove Valley Regional Park (pending), 7900 S Potomac St Rd, Centennial. 720524-4136
Drop In (1 Day) - Junior Beach Training - July
@ 8am / $50
Jul 1st - Jul 31st
Dove Valley Regional Park (pending), 7900 S Potomac St Rd, Centennial. 720524-4136
MYD: Summer Rec Kidz @ College View: Tabletop Games @ 2pm Jul 1st - Jul 3rd
Denver Parks and Recreation (CGV), 2525 S. Decatur St., Denver. 720-913-0654
Amaryllis @ 7pm
Herman's Hideaway, 1578 S Broadway, Denver
Thu 7/04
Columbine Valley 4th of July Race @ 6am / $20
2 Middle�eld, Littleton
Parker Hometown 4th of July 5K @ 7am / $25-$30
PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Avenue, Parker
Prophets and Outlaws @ 7pm
Private Event, Castle Rock
CELL exhibit opens in Denver
The Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab o ers knowledge, training
BY BRUCE GOLDBERG SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
anks to Denver’s CELL
(Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab), 16,000 people in Minneapolis took training to recognize and possibly prevent attacks at the Super Bowl about 10 years ago.
And they weren’t alone.
“CELL has done similar training in Arizona when it hosted the Super Bowl two years ago, as well as many other events and venues nationwide,” said Tom Ruppel, chief operating o cer for CELL.
Other municipalities and sporting events have had CELL customize their training to match a speci c event, venue or place.
“What’s tremendous about these events is that there are 2,000 to 3,000 people each time – the public, students, community leaders, business leaders under one roof, listening to those experts debate the issues of the day,” said Melanie Pearlman, president and CEO of CELL.
CELL is a nonpro t, non-partisan institute and o ers a speaker series and training programs.
It reopened in early May, following a four-year pause to renovate its home at 99 W. 12th Ave. in Denver.
CELL updated its displays and o erings during the four-year hiatus in order to provide an interactive experience to block security threats.
Among the exhibits is a large,
attention-grabbing, badly damaged piece of metal recovered from the south tower of the World Trade Center.
“ e CELL is a place to stay on top of an evolving landscape of the threats we continue to face,” said Pearlman.
Titled exhibits with names such as “Vitriol & Violence,” “What is Terrorism,” “Rooted in Extremism,” “Countering Today’s reats” and “Civil Liberties & National Security” grab visitors’ attention.
“ e impetus for the CELL was brought by the unfortunate attack of Sept. 11,” Pearlman said. “We wanted to form a (way) to educate people about issues that a ect our national security and our global security.
We brought together an array of
The Alps meet the Rockies at summit on snowmelt
BY ALEX HAGER KUNC
Colorado, with its dramatic mountain landscapes, deep winter snow and thriving ski industry, has been referred to as the “Switzerland of America.” Gov. Jared Polis even once used the phrase. e similarities were are more than just a name. A delegation of
experts from Switzerland visited Boulder in early June for a summit on melting snow and ice. Mountain guides, climate scientists, artists and policymakers shared notes on the impacts of climate change on highmountain landscapes.
ose experts painted a fairly bleak picture as they described the role of warming trends in reshaping the snow and ice that de ne the Rockies
and Alps.
Perhaps the most striking accounts of those changes came from mountain guides, who lead groups of climbers and adventurers on trips through the peaks. Angela Hawse, a Ridgwaybased guide and vice president of the International Federation of Mountain Guides Association, shared videos of icefalls and rockfalls from around the world, showing how large pieces of
mountains are falling apart as the ice and snow that holds them together disappears.
thought experts imagine, religious that
P21 Boulder part as have life,” professions, ways and can our experience countries number rapidly altitude and Rockies
Hawse and Switzerland-based Urs Wellauer, the association’s president, both expressed optimism in nding xes to climate problems through collaboration. Hawse re ected on a trip the binational group took to
A steel beam from the 9/11 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center is one of the exhibits on display at the Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab (CELL) in Denver.
thought leaders and subject matter experts for everything you can imagine, people from all di erent religious and political persuasions, that really helped us for an
SNOWMELT
Boulder County’s Brainard Lake as part of the conference.
“It really brought us together as a bunch of individuals that have di erent perspectives on life,” she said, “ at have di erent professions, that have di erent ways of looking at the mountains and ways of understanding how we can work together to communicate our experiences for that shared experience of moving forward.”
Climate scientists from both countries presented data about a number of climate factors that are rapidly changing the behavior of highaltitude snow and ice. Temperature and precipitation patterns in the Rockies and Alps are changing, and
understanding for visitors.”
CELL does more than just share the knowledge.
“We want to help prevent crime and possible acts of terrorism to help prevent radicalization, and to teach enrollees how to do so,” Ruppel said.
For example, its Community Awareness Program works with local, state and federal safety
the two regions share even more granular similarities.
Researchers explained how windblown dust in Colorado is landing on top of snow, making it darker, absorbing more radiation from the sun and melting faster. at phenomenon makes it harder to capture and share water from the Colorado River, which is used by 40 million people across the Southwest.
In Switzerland, Saharan dust blown across the Mediterranean is a factor in the quickening melting of glaciers. e nation’s glaciers lost 10% of their total volume in 2022 and 2023, the same amount that melted in the three decades between 1960 and 1990.
Emily Zmak, a deputy chief at the Colorado Water Conservation Board who focuses on interstate water policies, remarked at the many similarities between the challenges facing both Colorado
o cials to help train people on how to recognize and report suspicious activity, as well as “discover how hatred can lead to violence, learn how terrorism in uences global security, and engage ... to make our community safer.”
“ is past year, we developed a new education series all about how we can address the rising threat of
domestic, violent extremism here in Colorado,” Ruppel said. “We brought in experts from across the country to address and really speak to the community members about how to recognize (terrorist threats) and what concrete steps you can take to help prevent radical (behavior).”
To learn more about CELL, visit www.thecell.org.
and Switzerland, and the potential solutions.
“ ere’s also a sense of optimism,” Zmak said. “We haven’t lost all of our snowpack, we still have time to adapt and be smart, to build community resilience to build resilience at a state or federal government level.”
Ambassador Balz Abplanalp, the Swiss representative for the Western U.S., organized the conference and said international collaboration will be a key part of global climate change
Orange dust from the Sahara Desert covers ski slopes in Verbier, Switzerland on March 15, 2022. Climate scientists said dust on snow is among a number of factors that are accelerating snowmelt in both Colorado and Switzerland.
solutions going forward.
“We can learn from experts from another domain,” he said, “How they tackle the issue in order to be inspired. is is 360 degree inspiration that we can generate.”
is story is part of ongoing coverage of the Colorado River, produced by KUNC in Colorado and supported by the Walton Family Foundation. KUNC is solely responsible for its editorial coverage.
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Unique summer opportunities at Englewood Schools
BY ELISABETH SLAY ESLAY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Englewood Schools’ o ered programs to spark creativity and learning during the summer. From producing television shows to crafting animal masks, these programs provided opportunities for students to explore their interests and expand their skills.
omas Rode, summer school administrator for the secondary programs, highlighted one program for students in sixth and seventh grades.
“We have a wonderful career and technical education pathways during the school year that our high schoolers have access to,” Rode said. “So, we decided we wanted to have our middle school students have access to those in the summer so they could kind of see what they’re getting into kind of in a low risk high reward setting.”
Rode, who has a background in Career Technology Education, explained the program was o ered for two weeks in late May and early June. He said it allowed students to rst try out all of the eight di erent pathways o ered at the high school and then narrow them down to two or three for the remainder of the program. Rode said this is so they can better determine their path when the time comes.
e program began last summer with six programs and expanded to
Students learn about the journalism pathway o ered at Englewood High School at the district’s summer program for students in sixth to eighth grade on June 7, 2024.
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eight programs this year.
e pathways o ered in the program included art, biomedical science, journalism, culinary, marketing, health and nutrition, cosmetology and sustainable urban agriculture.
“ e teachers are excited about it and it gives them an opportunity to do some things that are fun and exciting and try out some new stu as well that they’ve been wanting to try,” Rode said.
e number of student participants increased from about 30 to about 60 this summer, Rode said.
Middle schooler Killian Harold said he feels like the program prepared him for high school and he might pursue the journalism pathway in high school.
“ e thing I liked most about this summer program is that I get to meet new people and I get to try new experiences that will help later on in life,” Harold said.
e program was funded by an $108,000 Extended Learning Opportunity grant through the Colorado Department of Education, which paid for teachers’ salaries and other elements.
“It gives every student the opportunity to do without having to pay any fees and it was able to provide transportation as well,” Rode said.
In addition to the middle school program, Cherrelyn Elementary School also o ered summer programming for students in Kindergarten through fth grade.
Beth Wells, principal of Englewood Elementary Summer School, said this program serviced about 115 students from all four elementary schools in the district.
“We are fortunate to have the
ability to really focus on target instruction for the students where they use both literacy, math, as well as writing skills for students,” Wells said.
e overall goal for the two week long program, entitled “Brings Our Forests Together,” was to have it connect with Englewood Schools overall purpose statement.
“Which is really breaking down barriers by providing a safe and equitable learning experience for a diverse group of our elementary students,” Wells said. “With the program we’re really hoping to ensure that we are providing extraordinary outcomes for each student.”
Additionally, the summer school o ered di erent “enrichment classes” where students participated in learning that aligned with the forest theme of the program.
“ ey really incorporate hands on and inquiry based learning while encouraging movement,” Wells said.
Wells explained the summer school curriculums are similar to the traditional school but there are some di erences for how the students are learning in the summer months.
Each class had about 12 students with co-teachers and rather than be grouped by the traditional grade levels, she said students were grouped by where they would be the most successful. She explained that this allowed educators to tailor the learning to the speci c students in their classes.
e educator said students responded well to the program as she heard many “success stories” of students putting more e ort and excitement in their learning.
Along with the classes, Wells said students also had access to an after school program with a multitude of learning opportunities including access to theater and additional jungle themed activities.
Colorado Community Media to Hold its First 5K Run
BY JO ANN M. COLTON
There is no better way to appreciate the beauty of Colorado than by witnessing all the sights and sounds of the great outdoors.
from walking and/or running along our state’s many wonderful paths and scenic nature trails.
Join Colorado Community Media as we host our first-ever 5K run on Saturday, Aug. 24, at Clement Park, 7306 W. Bowles Ave. in Littleton.
And, before the run, we want you to submit your own “Trail Tales,” including photos, to your local newspaper (events@coloradocommunitymedia. com). Tell us where you most enjoy going for a walk or a run in your commuor elsewhere in Colorado.
In turn, we will share many of those adventurous tales with the readers of our two dozen community newspapers in the weeks ahead of the run. About the 5k: It is scheduled to loop around Johnston Reservoir from 9:30 a.m. to noon. It will start and end on the bike path near Shelter P. The event is different from most 5k runs in many ways. For starters, the sole purpose of this event is to simply provide an opportunity for people across Colorado to come together, interact, and share their personal experiences gained
There are no prizes associated with the event and participants will not receive a “standard” T-shirt. Instead, registered participants will receive a pair of custom running socks. The Share Your Trail Tales 5k Run is open to people of all ages. Participants have the option of making it a fun-filled day for the entire family. Registration fees are $35 for adults (ages 17 & up), $15 (ages 5 to 16), and free for children (ages 4 and under ). Parking for run participants and event attendees is available in the west parking lot, which can be reached as you enter Clement Park through the Library entrance on W. Bowles Avenue.
Park is currently being firmed up to feature other activities throughout the day including food and beverage purchase options offered by local food trucks, vendor booths, and live music entertainment.
“Your support of this event as a race participant and/or as an attendee is paramount to the success of our first Share Your Trail Tales 5k Run and it will help us sustain our ability to support local news,” Scott said. “We encourage the engagement of our readers and future readers to be part of this and future events at Colorado Community Media.”
Colorado Community Media publications span eight counties along Colorado’s majestic Front Range — Weld, Adams, Jeffco, Clear Creek, Douglas, Elbert, Arapahoe and Denver. As a nonprofit organization, community is important to us and we are eager to reach out and meet members of the communities our news organization serves.
Carlie Scott, Colorado Community Media’s events director, stated that the program for the Aug. 24 run in Clement
Colorado Community Media could not put on events like this 5k run without the help of its dedicated supporters and sponsors. Sponsorship provides an ideal marketing prospect for your business and positive brand recognition. The organization offers many levels of sponsorship and opportunities for involvement. As a sponsor, you can be part of a fun community event that promotes health and wellness.
To register for the Share Your Trail Tales 5k please visit our website www.coloradocommunitymedia.com and click on EVENTS/CONTEST tab.
Tips to help keep your pets safe during Fourth of July celebrations
BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
While there’s a lot of Fourth of July food and festivities to be enjoyed, the day can be stressful, or even scary, for our furry friends. e sounds of reworks exploding, summer heat and hazardous materials are among concerns and why local veterinarians agree that it’s a good time to keep your pets safe at home. e Fourth of July is one of the most dangerous days for pets, especially dogs. Shelters and veterinary clinics across the Denver area, including VRCC Veterinary Speciality and Emergency Hospital in Englewood, tend to take in more animals than usual during the week of the holiday. “We do get a lot of toxicity ingestion,” said Lexy Santos,
Veterinarians encourage pet owners to create a safe space for their pets on the Fourth of July to help keep them safe and calm during fireworks.
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Fewer Colorado youth feel sad, hopeless, suicidal, health survey finds
BY ANN SCHIMKE CHALKBEAT COLORADO
Fewer Colorado youth felt consistently sad or hopeless and fewer considered suicide last year compared with 2021, a large statewide health survey found. e results from the Healthy Kids Colorado survey represent a bright spot after unprecedented levels of teen anxiety and depression surfaced during the pandemic. e situation was dire enough that state lawmakers took swift action, creating a program in 2021 to provide free counseling sessions to children and youth. Many school districts also launched free counseling programs and hired additional social workers, counselors, and psychologists.
Leaders at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, which publishes the survey results, were pleased with the survey ndings released Wednesday.
“ ere have been dramatic changes in the right direction around indicators of mental health, suicide risk, and substance use,” said Jill Hunsaker Ryan, the department’s executive director, in a press release.
“We’re hopeful this is an indication of state and community investments in prevention programming and protective factors paying o .” e 2023 Healthy Kids ndings on youth mental health are among the most notable of the survey results. In some cases they improved to well
‘There have been dramatic changes in the right direction around indicators of mental health, suicide risk, and substance use.’
Jill Hunsaker Ryan, Executive Directorof the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
beyond pre-pandemic levels. For example, 26% of highschoolers reported persistent feelings of hopelessness or sadness in the 2023 survey, down from 40% in 2021 and 35% in 2019. In addition, 11% of high schoolers seriously considered suicide, down from 17% in 2021. Middle schoolers also saw drops in both categories.
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Sun Jr., a ‘psych mountain rock’ experience at the Mile High Hoedown
BY JO ANN M. COLTON
If you yearn to fly back to the sounds of yesteryear, you will love soaring to new heights with Boulder’s own Sun Jr, appearing at the MILE HIGH HOEDOWN later this month! The band’s sound is a blend of psychedelia, cosmic cowboy and Americana with indie-folk influences.
Friends Nod Norkus (drums), Jim Heekin (guitar/singer), Matt Kubis (banjo/singer), Jon Schimek (pedal steel guitar), and Jeremiah Streets (keys/ bass/organ) launched the band in 2013. They practiced in the evenings in Jim’s basement (“The Bottoms”), where they have become a “band of brothers.”
Sun Jr. hit the stage with a style all their own and immediately made an impression. From a spot on the “Gentleman of the Road” tour in Salida with Mumford & Sons, Dawes and the Flaming Lips in 2015, they’ve grinded their way into a stellar act that you cannot miss.
During the 2020 COVID pandemic, the band leaned heavily into long basement jams, taking notes from the likes of Pink Floyd and late ’60s bands that played for art’s sake. They branched into livestreaming to reach out to more folks and have continued to do so.
“In February 2024, (Heekin) posted a TikTok video of our song ‘Buttercorn’ from a live performance at Dharma Farm
— and it went viral,” Norkus said. “The post garnered 2.3 million views and about 40,000 new fans.”
The post was the mega break that has opened more doors to some of Colorado’s best venues and a “second media wave” of the post expanded their reach even farther, he said.
“We started receiving invitations to play in California, Texas, and points beyond the U.S.,” Norkus said.
The band’s current goal is
mostly to ignore national invites and build an ardent local fan base. To stay connected, they are partnering with Chris Wright of Violet Recording to capture their Colorado live shows to share more broadly. Wright will also engineer a series of in-studio live recordings, possibly capturing two albums from this dual recording process.
Visit sunjrband.com for the latest band information (recordings, play dates — and more)! Then, “go down” to the MILE HIGH HOEDOWN and enjoy Sun Jr.’s “Psych Mountain Rock” ex-
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MILE HIGH HOEDOWN attendees can enjoy food truck food and beverages, learn new line dances with instructor/choreographer Laurie Burkardt, “creative cut” or screen print their own T-shirt with Ink & Drink, purchase a custom hat from hat shaper Parker Thomas, get a “flash” tattoo from Ace of MR. ACE Art & Tattoos; and visit Little People Face Painting for cool, but not permanent, body/ face/hair art — you’ll be sure to sparkle during Sun Jr.’s LIVE, never-to-be-duplicated hoedown performance!
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3 Coloradans to represent the U.S. at the Underwater Hockey World Championships in Malaysia
BY JOHN RENFROW JRENFROW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Colorado is a huge hub for hockey players and fans, whether on ice, on the field or even underwater. And why not? If it’s a sport, we have it here.
Ten women under age 24 are set to represent the U.S. at the Underwater Hockey Age Group World Championship in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this July and of course, three are Coloradans.
Elsa Debrunner, Lillianna Brooks and Aria Paul will compete in the event between July 16 and July 27 against about a dozen teams from around the globe.
The U.S. is sending three teams spanning three divisions to the upcoming world championship: U24 men, U24 women and U19 men. Debrunner, Brooks and Paul are on the USA U24 Women’s Team.
“Training for worlds is a big commitment, but training with Lillianna and Aria is super encouraging and makes me super excited to play more hockey,” said Debrunner, a Conifer High School alum and club athlete at the Colorado School of Mines.
What is underwater hockey?
It’s a non-contact snorkeling
sport with two teams of six facing o at the bottom of the pool. A weighted puck can be pushed, slid or icked with a short stick into the goal. Equipment includes a mask, ns, a snorkel with a mouthguard, a glove, a water polo cap and a stick.
Teammates rotate dives for roughly ve-to-20 seconds in a fastpaced, three-dimensional sport that combines the back-and-forth motion of regular hockey with upand-down movements to return up for air between dives.
“It’s physically di erent than any other sport,” Debrunner said.
“But once you learn that, the communication with your team is probably the hardest part. You have to have a strategy really dialed in ahead of time because it’s di cult to communicate during the match.” It requires elite breath control, tness and strong cooperation between coaches and teammates, Debrunner said. But the coaches believe the team is ready for a strong showing in Malaysia.
“We’re really impressed with the progress made since the team
Elsa Debrunner, the team captain of the U24 Women’s underwater hockey team, is a Conifer High School alum. Above, she’s pictured diving with her hockey stick after coming up for air in the Pacific Coast Championships tournament in Orange County, California in October 2023.
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candidates rst got together. e commitment towards training and implementation of the game plan started at a high level and has seemed to grow,” Coach Kendall Banks said in a release. “ rough their support of each other combined with healthy competition, there seems to be a synergy or ‘magic’ here. We’re excited to see where it takes the team.”
Colorado connections
Debrunner and Brooks are from Colorado originally, and Paul is from San Francisco but attends Colorado State University with Brooks. Brooks got into underwater hockey about three years ago, she said.
As a former swimmer for St. Mary’s Academy in Englewood, she had the tools to be a strong underwater hockey player. But she didn’t know what to make of the sport at rst.
“I saw a poster one day for a pool in ornton and it was like, ‘underwater hockey,’ and I was really committed to swimming at that point so I was like, ‘ at’s weird.
I don’t know,’” Brooks said.
But later as a student at Colorado State, Brooks was strolling the quad and saw booths for clubs. One was serendipitously for underwater hockey.
“ is girl, who was actually Elsa’s older sister (Ianna Debrunner), was like, ‘Hey! Do you want to play underwater hockey?’” Brooks said.
“You know what? Maybe I do.”
12” other national teams, including Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and others.
A collection of women from all over the country, the national team met in January at a tournament in Colorado for the rst time. ey also had a training camp in Lake Tahoe in California for a week earlier this year.
But Brooks, Debrunner and Paul have an advantage being able to train together at Carmody Recreation Center in Lakewood and Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in ornton. ey’ll stay on their grind until it’s time to travel overseas for global glory.
hockey, Brooks has had tunnel vision for a spot on the U.S. team.
But it’s a stop on her way to a bigger goal: being chosen on the USA Women’s Elite Team, which is a collection of the best players regardless of age.
Still, representing her country competitively is a dream come true. e team will battle against “10 to
How to follow the team e championships in Malaysia will be livestreamed with commentators on YouTube. To follow the team on social media, visit the following links: Instagram: @usa.u24w.uwh Facebook: USAU24Women’s UnderwaterHockey Team website: https://www. underwater-society.org/page/ show/8276732-u24-women
For more information visit the tournament website at www.6thuwhagworlds.com.
Aria Paul is originally from San Francisco but attends Colorado State with Lillianna Brooks. Paul has found a home with her Colorado underwater hockey players.
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Lillianna Brooks swam at St. Mary’s Academy in Englewood before attending Colorado State University, where she found underwater hockey.
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veterinarian technician. “Heat exhaustion, that’s a really big one.”
Extreme heat and hazardous materials
Although it’s fun and entertaining to have your pet join the celebrations, veterinarians encourage owners to watch their pets breathing and never leave them unattended in a car.
“Animals feel twice, if not three times the amount of heat that we do,” said Santos. “So, if we’re hot, they’re definitely exhausted from the heat.”
Dogs that have thick coats, such as Saint Bernards and Chow Chows are even more susceptible to hot weather, as are dogs with shorter snouts like Boston Terriers, Bulldogs and Pugs, to name a few.
Whether it’s a dog sneaking around and picking up food scraps or deciding to give them a fun treat, festive foods can be hazardous.
It’s well known to experienced dog owners that chocolate, particularly dark chocolate, is one of the most toxic foods for dogs to ingest as it attacks their hearts and nervous systems. Other foods that might be at Fourth of July picnics that are harmful are raisins, grapes, macadamia nuts, walnuts and fatty foods such as french fries.
While it is okay for dogs to eat some plain, cooked meat, the seasoning and marinating of onions, garlic and mushrooms are toxic for them, leading to possible anemia and damage to their nervous systems. It’s also important to not leave alcoholic beverages, caffeine, soft drinks and milk unattended.
If owners have more questions about what their pets can eat and cannot eat, the ASPCA, a national animal rescue and protection organization, has a list of foods that are toxic to pets. It can be found at tinyurl.com/yee46bjn.
Dogs are naturally curious, which means they aren’t just putting food in their mouths. Loose or used fireworks should be closely monitored so pets don’t accidentally ingest the fireworks or hurt themselves or others with
them.
If you think your pet ingested a potential toxic food or plant, call the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center at 888-426-4435 or take them to the nearest vet.
Keeping your pets calm amid fireworks
As loud sounds can trigger pets to run away from home or wiggle out of their collars, there’s a danger of them getting lost or run into traffic. That’s why the Missing Mutt Detectives, a volunteer group in Parker, say microchipping their pets increases the chance of reuniting with owners.
Additionally, the American Veterinary Medical Association encourages owners to take current photos of their pets and ensure that they have identification tags with up to date information in the instance they do run away.
The loud noises can also cause both dogs and cats to have anxiety, however, cats tend to hide better when frightened. This is why it’s important to keep them in an interior room, preferably with no windows, to give them a space where they can feel comfortable.
Turning on soft music and giving them a chew toy to help them keep busy is also recommended.
There are anti-anxiety medications available, however, it’s important to speak with your pets primary veterinarian about the possibility of medications. If medication is not available or a possibility, another way to help keep your pets calm are antianxiety vests and shirts. These can be purchased at places like PetSmart and Amazon.
“They feel like that secure hug makes them feel a little bit more comfortable,” said Santos.
Other safety concerns to consider
• If putting sunscreen on your dog, there are pet friendly sunscreen options as well as insect repellent. Do not apply ordinary sunscreen or insect repellent on your pets as they contain harmful chemicals.
• When cooking – inside or outside – keep the matches and lighter fluid out of reach. These could cause physical injury but also lead to respiratory issues.
• Citronella candles and insect coils should also be kept out of reach.
• Avoid putting glow sticks on pets.
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Among both middle and high school students, 58% reported their stress level was manageable most days — an improvement for high school students compared with 2021, but the same for middle schoolers.
Alcohol use, vaping fell for high schoolers
In addition to positive trends on youth mental health for both middle and high school students, the survey revealed that fewer high school students are vaping, drinking alcohol, or using prescription pain medication without a prescription or differently than prescribed compared with 2021. Marijuana use held steady.
For middle schoolers, alcohol use
was up in 2023, with many more reporting that they had ever taken a drink — 24% compared with 11% in 2021 — and more reporting they’d consumed alcohol in the previous month — 7% compared with 4% in 2021.
Middle school rates of vaping and using marijuana didn’t change in 2023 compared to 2021, but the survey found that more students in that age group had tried cigarettes — 7% compared to 4% in 2021.
While bullying overall didn’t increase in 2023 compared with 2021, LGBTQ students reported significantly higher rates of bullying than other students. For example, 29% of gay and lesbian high school students reported being bullied during the previous year, compared with 12% of students generally. Gay and lesbian students also reported higher rates of sadness and hopelessness, and that they’d seriously considered suicide.
More efforts to improve youth mental health are on the way in Colorado.
In May, the state announced a program that will train young adults ages 18 to 24 to connect youth with mental health support. This month, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced a new youth mental health grant program funded with millions from a lawsuit settlement with e-cigarette manufacturer Juul Labs Inc.
The Healthy Kids survey has been given under various names since 1991. It has occasionally sparked backlash over concerns about data privacy or because some critics say the questions are too explicit.
Public health officials emphasize the survey is voluntary for students and provides key information about how pre-teens and teens are faring when it comes to physical, sexual, and mental health.
More than 120,000 students completed the survey in 2023 — the most ever.
State officials added several new questions to the 2023 survey, including about feeling safe at school, nightly sleep hours, use of psychedelic drugs, body image, and eating disorders.
One of the new questions revealed that nearly a quarter of high-schoolers and middle schoolers reported trying to lose weight or maintain their weight in unhealthy ways during the previous month — for example, by using diet pills, skipping meals, or vomiting.
Another new question revealed that large proportions of students worry about their physical appearance all or most of the time — 39% for high schoolers and 32% for middle schoolers.
Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.
Meet third-generation hat shaper Parker Thomas at the Mile High Hoedown
BY JO ANN M. COLTON
Colorado-born Parker Thomas Orms always envisioned himself growing up and tackling life head-on as an athlete on a sports field. So, how did he wind up being a hat shaper and owner of Hats By Parker Thomas? The answer is… fate! Parker’s father Glenn has been a hat shaper all his life following the tradition set by his own father. Parker’s grandpa Dewey started shaping hats 65 years ago in Texas —and did so until his death in 2022.
Parker inherited his passion for playing sports from his mom and her family. His mother Katherine lettered in softball at Northern Colorado in the 1970s.
Parker Thomas Orms attended Colorado University Boulder (2010-2013) on a football scholarship and played defensive back for the Colorado Buffaloes football team. He was an engaging presence on the field and a fan favorite. Parker was on the path to joining the NFL although football-related injuries (shoulder and hamstring injuries and a torn ACL for which he had to undergo surgery) likely ended that pursuit.
In 2015, Parker traveled to Milan to play semi-pro football as a Free Safety Punt Return Man for the Milano Rhinos, Italy’s professional league. But after playing his last football season in Europe, Parker Thomas came home to his family and the family traditions that are tightly woven into the fabric of his being. So, it wasn’t just a “hat” trick that led him to become a hat shaper and Parker’s success is proving to be far more rewarding than he could ever have imagined.
“I worked with my father and grandfather for eight years. Traveling around different rodeos and western-themed events, I shaped and designed cowboy and fedora hats,” said Parker who
has been adding his own sense of style and creativity to traditional hats while shaping his own destiny in the process.
Then he opened Hats By Parker Thomas (https://www.hatsbyparkerthomas.com/) two years ago at 257 Fillmore St., Unit 110, in the Cherry Creek area of Denver where he meets with his clientele by appointment. Parker and his small team of hat craftsmen also shape and sell his hats nationwide at private home parties (with 5-25 people), weddings, corporate gatherings, and community events. Likewise, sports figures and celebrities like Reba McEntire are now a part of his overall customer base. Most of Parker’s bookings are
made through his business location or through Instagram and TikTok.
The store and private events keep Parker busy these days but he still enjoys opportunities to be part of community events like the June 29 Mile High Hoedown at the Stampede in Aurora.
“I am really looking forward to meeting people at the Mile High Hoedown,” said Parker who explained that he welcomes every opportunity to support Colorado’s lifestyles and interact with athletes/artists, and all others within its many communities.
“Each hat and design depends on the needs of the customer and the customizations they choose,” said Parker. He stated that although he
can shape any type hat he especially enjoys creating cowboy style hats, which are so very popular throughout Colorado.
“Most hats can be done in around 30 minutes and I will make your hat to order right there at the Mile High Hoedown,” said Parker who mentioned that his custom wool or beaver-blend hats range from $200 to $450. For additional fees he also offers cleaning, reshaping and branding services.
Music lovers won’t want to miss a beat when Boulder’s very own Sun Jr. brings their “Psych Mountain Rock” sounds to the stage. Dancers will love learning the latest line dances taught throughout the day by dance instructor/choreographer Laurie Burkardt. Attendees can visit vendor booths and print their own shirt or tank top with Ink and Drink, obtain a flash tattoo from Ace of MR. ACE Art & Tattoos, and get interactive with some “not permanent but cool” body art/face painting and/or hair sparkle accents from Little People Face Painting. Enjoy food truck food/beverages, and stop by and meet with hat shaper Parker Thomas to purchase your custom hat!
Get the “low down” on the Hoedown (tickets and more) at coloradocommunitymedia.com.
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Public Trustees
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0163-2024
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On April 5, 2024, 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)
STEPHANIE GARCIA
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CAPITOL COMMERCE MORTGAGE, CO.
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FREDDIE MAC SEASONED CREDIT RISK TRANSFER TRUST, SERIES 2020-1
Date of Deed of Trust
July 16, 2001
County of Recording Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
July 27, 2001
Recording Information
(Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
B1122784
Original Principal Amount
$104,000.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$126,221.60
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 of the terms thereof
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOTS 37 AND 38, BLOCK 93, SHERIDAN HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO
Purported common address: 2087 WEST ADRIATIC PLACE, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80110.
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, 08/07/2024, 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: 6/13/2024
Last Publication: 7/11/2024
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;
DATE: 04/05/2024
Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Anna Johnston #51978
Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557
Carly Imbrogno #59533
Randall M. Chin #31149
David W. Drake #43315
Ryan Bourgeois #51088
Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP
1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711
Attorney File # 00000010090215
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.
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0165-2024
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On April 5, 2024, 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)
Eva Craig
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Om P. Garg
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
Om P. Garg
Date of Deed of Trust
April 07, 2023
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
April 11, 2023
Recording Information
(Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
E3023695
Original Principal Amount
$40,000.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$42,927.67
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.
See Exhibit A attached herewith
Purported common address: 4601 South County Road 161, Strasburg, CO 80136.
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, 08/07/2024, 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: 6/13/2024
Last Publication: 7/11/2024
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;
DATE: 04/05/2024
Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Om P. Garg 358 Chorus, Irvine, CA 92618 (714) 273-0402
Attorney File # 4601 South County Road 161
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.
A PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 5 SOUTH, RANGE 62 WEST, OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE. STATE OF COLORADO, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
COMMENCING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 10; THENCE SOUTH 89° 18’12" WEST, A DISTANCE OF 30.01 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 00 ° 56'40" WEST, A DISTANCE OF 1184.48 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUING SOUTH 00° 56'40" WEST, A DISTANCE OF 1464.82 FEET: THENCE NORTH 89° 03'20" WEST, A DISTANCE OF 1292.34 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG THE ARC OF A CURVE TO THE RIGHT HAVING A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 39° 31'28”, A RADIUS OF 300.00 FEET ANO AN ARC LENGTH OF 206.95 FEET; THENCE NORTH 49° 31'48" WEST. A DISTANCE OF 70.00 FEET, THENCE NORTH 28° 18'31” EAST, A DISTANCE OF 1479.39 FEET; THENCE NORTH 89° 18'12" EAST,
A DISTANCE OF 857.63 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNNING: BASIS OF BEARINGS IS THE EAST LINE OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 10. BEING SOUTH 00° 56' 40” WEST. COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE. STATE OF COLORADO.
Legal Notice NO. 0165-2024
First Publication: 6/13/2024
Last Publication: 7/11/2024
Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0183-2024
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On April 19, 2024, 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)
Cascades Owner LLC
Original Beneficiary(ies) Voya Retirement Insurance and Annuity Company
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
Oconee Real Estate Holdings V – CASC LLC
Date of Deed of Trust
February 28, 2017
County of Recording Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
March 03, 2017
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
D7025453
Original Principal Amount
$35,720,000.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$33,167,680.01
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: Covenants of the Deed of Trust have been violated by Grantor, including, without limitation, Grantor’s failure to pay the entire outstanding indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust by the March 1, 2024 call date. Grantor failed to cure such violation and, as a result, the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust is due in full, with interest, default interest, expenses, late fees, costs, and attorneys’ fees, and a receiver has been appointed for the property to be foreclosed.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
See attached Exhibit A
Purported common address: 6300 S. Syracuse Way, Centennial, CO 80111.
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, 08/21/2024, 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: 6/27/2024
Last Publication: 7/25/2024
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;
DATE: 04/19/2024
Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
William R. Meyer #34012 Polsinelli PC 1401 Lawrence Street, Suite 2300, Denver, CO 80202 (303) 572-9300
Attorney File # 93765183.1
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.
Lot 1, Block 1, The Cascades Filing No. 1 Replat County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY:
Assessor Parcel No: 2075-21-3-18-001
Property Address: 6300 S. Syracuse Way Centennial, Colorado 80111
Legal Notice NO. 0183-2024
First Publication: 6/27/2024
Last Publication: 7/25/2024
Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0168-2024
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On April 9, 2024, 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)
ZACHARY HARTMAN AND BRIANNA HARTMAN
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC
Date of Deed of Trust
July 20, 2022
County of Recording Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
July 26, 2022
Recording Information
(Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) E2078813
Original Principal Amount
$350,001.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
Public Notices
$355,715.44
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 of the terms thereof
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOT 5 AND 6, BLOCK 7, WOLLENWEBER'S BROADWAY HEIGHTS SECOND ADDITION, THE WEST HALF OF BLOCK 7 AND THE EAST HALF OF BLOCK 8, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 4320 S GALAPAGO STREET, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80110.
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, 08/07/2024, 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: 6/13/2024
Last Publication: 7/11/2024
Name of Publication: Littleton Independent
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LAT-
ER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
DATE: 04/09/2024
Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Anna Johnston #51978
Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557
Carly Imbrogno #59533
Randall M. Chin #31149
David W. Drake #43315
Ryan Bourgeois #51088
Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711
Attorney File # 00000010093334
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.
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On April 2, 2024, 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)
6680 South Broadway LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company Original
Community Banks of Colorado, a division of NBH Bank
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
Community Banks of Colorado, a division of NBH Bank
Date of Deed of Trust
August 10, 2022
County of Recording Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
August 11, 2022
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
E2084609
Original Principal Amount
$1,400,000.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$525,024.92
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 make payments of principal and interest, together with other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOT 10, BLOCK 1, BROADWAY ESTATES, FILING NO. ONE, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 6680 South Broadway, Centennial, CO 80121.
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, 07/31/2024, 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: 6/6/2024
Last Publication: 7/4/2024
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;
DATE: 04/02/2024
Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Michael Westerberg, 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 C. Walker #36551
Neal K. Dunning #10181
Douglas W. Brown #10429
Drew P. Fein #48950
Brown Dunning Walker Fein Drusch PC 7995 E. Prentice Ave., Suite 101-E, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (303) 329-3363
Attorney File # 1910-203
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.
Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION
CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0155-2024
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given
with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On March 29, 2024, 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)
Andrea Zediker and Walter R. Zediker III Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. ("MERS") as nominee for Hallmark Home Mortgage, LLC., Its Successors and Assigns
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Date of Deed of Trust
September 30, 2016
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
October 06, 2016
Recording Information
(Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)
D6113941
Original Principal Amount
$348,000.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$299,540.98
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 make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOT 33, HOMESTEAD FARM, FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
Purported common address: 7136 S Hudson Ct, 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, 07/31/2024, 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: 6/6/2024
Last Publication: 7/4/2024
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;
DATE: 03/29/2024
Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Erin Croke #46557
Steven Bellanti #48306
Holly Shilliday #24423
Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755
McCarthy & Holthus LLP
7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122
Attorney File # CO-24-986856-LL
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.
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On March 26, 2024, 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)
PK6 LLC, a Colorado limited liability company
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Weinberg Servicing, LLC
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
Weinberg Servicing, LLC
Date of Deed of Trust
February 24, 2021
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
March 08, 2021
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) E1038433
Original Principal Amount
$175,000.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$209,693.48
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.
PLEASE SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO.
Purported common address: 168 W Sterne Pkwy, 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, 07/24/2024, 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: 5/30/2024
Last Publication: 6/27/2024
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;
DATE: 03/26/2024
Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Amy K. Hunt #37160
Edward P. Timmins #11719
Timmins LLC 450 East 17th Avenue, Suite 210, Denver, CO 80203 (303) 592-4500
Attorney File # 168 W STERNE PKWY
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.
UNIT 168, LITTLE'S CREEK TOWNHOMES, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RECORDED SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP OF LITTLE'S CREEK CONDOMINIUM RECORDED MARCH 16, 1999 AT RECEPTION NO. A9043954 AND AMENDED AND RESTATED CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION RECORDED JULY 1, 2020 AT RECEPTION NO. E0079561, CITY OF LITTLETON, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
Property address (informational purposes only): 168 W Sterne Pkwy Littleton, CO 80120
Legal Notice NO. 0150-2024
First Publication: 5/30/2024
Last Publication: 6/27/2024
Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0153-2024
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On March 29, 2024, 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)
Naomi R. Peterson
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR BROKER SOLUTIONS, INC.DBA NEW AMERICAN FUNDING, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
New American Funding, LLC Date of Deed of Trust
June 09, 2020 County of Recording Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
June 17, 2020
Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) E0072296
Original Principal Amount
$227,700.00
Outstanding Principal Balance $196,465.83
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.
SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION.
APN #: 032389729
Purported common address: 7336 South Xenia Circle #C, 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
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, 07/31/2024, 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: 6/6/2024
Last Publication: 7/4/2024
Name of Publication: Littleton Independent
IF THE SALE
DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LAT-
Public Notices
ER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
DATE: 03/29/2024
Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531
N. April Winecki #34861
David R. Doughty #40042
Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592
Lynn M. Janeway #15592
Janeway Law Firm, P.C.
9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 24-031963
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.
The land referred to herein is situate in Arapahoe County, State of Colorado and is described as follows:
Condominium Unit 7336-C, Hunters Hill Condominiums, according to the Condominium Map thereof, Recorded May 9, 1983 in Book 63 at Page 66, in the Records of the Office of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, Colorado and as defined and described in the Condominium Declaration for Hunters Hills Condominiums, Recorded on May 9, 1983 in Book 3857 at Page 51, in said Records, Together with the exclusive right to use the following limited common elements; covered Parking and Storage Space (s) No. (s). 7336-C, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.
Legal Notice NO. 0153-2024
First Publication: 6/6/2024
Last Publication: 7/4/2024
Name of Publication: Littleton Independent
City and County
Public Notice
NOTICE OF FINDING OF NO SIGNFICANT IMPACT AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO REQUEST RELEASE OF FUNDS
June 27, 2024 1690 W Littleton Blvd, Suite 300 Littleton, CO 80120 303-795-4400
These notices shall satisfy two separate but related procedural requirements for activities to be undertaken by Arapahoe County, Colorado.
REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF FUNDS
On or about Monday, July 15, 2024 the Arapahoe County will submit a request to HUD for the release of HOME funds under Title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, as amended to undertake a project known as Stables Development for the purpose of increasing affordable housing in the community. This project will assist with the acquisition of a 4.79 acre in-fill development parcel located at 10850 E. Exposition Ave. in Aurora, CO. This rare and valuable development site has been operated as the Aurora Stables by the same family since 1947. The site would be ideal for an affordable housing project.
The development of new, and modern 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-bedroom housing units, affordable to individuals, families, and Seniors with incomes between 30% and 80% AMI will create a variety of additional quality housing options for residents of diverse background. The project's location is desirable for modest-income households as it is within walking distance of an adjacent elementary school and Aurora's Expo Park and Recreation Center. The close proximity to Havana provides excellent access to public transportation, nearby grocery stores and other retail facilities, employment opportunities, childcare, and medical services.
Estimated Grant Funding: $180,000
Estimated Total Cost: $24,500,000 FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT
Arapahoe County has determined that the project will have no significant impact on the human environment. Therefore, an Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) is not required. Additional project information is contained in the Environmental Review Record (ERR) on file at 1690 W Littleton Blvd, Suite 300 Littleton, CO 80120 303-795-4400
and may be examined or copied weekdays 9 A.M to 4:30 P.M. or by contacting Community Development, Housing and Homeless Division Manager at eloomis@arapahoegov.com
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Any individual, group, or agency may submit written comments on the ERR to the Community Development, Housing and Homeless Division Manager Elizzebeth Loomis at eloomis@arapahoegov.com or 303-795-4400. All comments received by Saturday July 13, 2024 will be considered by Arapahoe County prior to authorizing submission of a request for release of funds.
ENVIRONMENTAL CERTIFICATION
Arapahoe County certifies to HUD that Carrie Warren-Gully in their capacity as County Commissioner consents to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. HUD’s approval of the certification satisfies its responsibilities under NEPA and related laws and authorities and allows Arapahoe County to use Program funds.
OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF FUNDS
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development will accept objections to its release of funds and Arapahoe County certification for a period of fifteen days following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if they are on one of the following bases: (a) the certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer of Arapahoe County; (b) Arapahoe County has omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR part 58; (c) the grant recipient or other participants in the development process have committed funds, incurred costs or undertaken activities not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by HUD; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality. Objections must be prepared and submitted via email in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58, Sec. 58.76) and shall be addressed to Noemi Ghirghi, CPD Region VIII Director, at CPDRROFDEN@hud.gov. Potential objectors should contact CPDRROFDEN@hud.gov to verify the actual last day of the objection period. RE Certifying Officers: Katherine Smith, Director of Community Resources, Arapahoe County.
Legal Notice No. Arap 1360
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Last Publication: June 27, 2024
Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for the City of Aurora and Unincorporated Areas of Arapahoe County, Colorado, Case No. 23-08-0511P. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) solicits technical information or comments on proposed flood hazard determinations for the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community. These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway. The FIRM and, if applicable, the FIS report have been revised to reflect these flood
hazard determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to adopt or show evidence of having in effect to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. For more information on the proposed flood hazard determinations and information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, please visit FEMA’s website at https://www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/BFE_Status/bfe_main.asp , or call the FEMA Mapping and Insurance eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877-FEMA MAP (1-877-336-2627).
Legal Notice No. 539285
First Publication: June 20, 2024
Last Publication: June 27, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent
Bids and Settlements
Public Notice
CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT 2023 SOUTH ENGLEWOOD FLOOD REDUCTION SITE A CFC-23-142
On or about July 12, 2024, the City of Englewood will make a final settlement to:
Insituform Technologies, LLC 580 Goddard Avenue Chesterfield, MO 63005
For the construction of: 2023 South Englewood Flood Reduction Site A, CFC-23-142
Notice is hereby given that after 5:00 p.m. local time on or about July 12, 2024, final settlement to 2023 South Englewood Flood Reduction Site A. Contractor, will be made by the City of Englewood, Colorado for and on account of the contract for the construction of the above-referenced project.
Any person, co-partnership, an association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by the contractor identified above or any subcontractor thereof in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that has supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractor or subcontractor, may in accord with section 38-26-107 (1) C.R.S., file with the Director of Finance, City of Englewood, Colorado, a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim, which statement must be filed on or before July 12, 2024.
Claims must be submitted to Kevin Engels, Finance Director, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110-2373, (303) 762-2400.
Failure on the part of a claimant to file such statement prior to the final settlement date and time will relieve the City of Englewood from all and any liability of such claim as provided by law.
Kevin Engels, Finance Director City of Englewood, Colorado
Legal Notice No.: 539295
First Publication: June 20, 2024
Second Publication: June 27, 2024
Publisher: ENGLEWOOD HERALD Public Notice
SOUTH ENGLEWOOD SANITATION DISTRICT NO. 1 C/O KENNEDY JENKS CONSULTANTS
215 Union Blvd, Suite 500 Lakewood, CO 80228
Phone 303-985-3636 Fax 303-985-3800
INVITATION TO BID
Notice is hereby given that South Englewood Sanitation District No. 1 will accept sealed bid proposals for the SESD 2024 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Project in Englewood. The project is located within the City of Englewood, Colorado and includes, but is not limited to:
7,760 linear feet (lf) of 8-inch cured in place pipe
(CIPP) rehabilitation, removal of 138 manhole steps, excavated point repairs, lining of 9 vertical feet (vf) of manholes, various minor manhole repairs and coordination with the owner, all as described in the Contract Documents.
Sealed Competitive Bids will be accepted until 2:00 pm, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, at the office of Kennedy Jenks, 215 Union Blvd, Suite 500, Lakewood, Colorado 80228. An Electronic (PDF) Competitive Bid will also be accepted in lieu of a paper copy until 2:00 pm, Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Provide Electronic Sealed Competitive Bids to: AimeeChalus@kennedyjenks.com
(ATTN: Aimee Chalus). Any bids (electronic or paper copy) received after 2:00 pm shall remain unopened. An abstract of the amounts of the base Bids and alternates (if any) will be made available to the Bidders after the Bids have been opened. Proposals shall be submitted in a sealed envelope marked “SOUTH ENGLEWOOD SANITATION DISTRICT NO. 1: 2024 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM PROJECT”. Bids may not be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days after said closing time.
Bid packages will be available electronically starting on June 27, 2024 at www.questcdn.com under Login for a $22.00 charge. The user will be directed to enter a project code of #9188153 Contact QuestCDN.com at 952-233-1632 or info@questcdn.com for assistance in membership registration and downloading this digital project information.
The Bidder to whom a contract is awarded will be required to furnish “Performance and Maintenance” and “Labor and Material Payment” bonds to the District. The “Performance and Maintenance” and “Labor and Material Payment” bonds shall be furnished in the amount of 100 percent of the contract, in conformity with the requirements of the Contract Documents.
The District reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, or to accept that proposal or combination of proposals, if any, which in its sole and absolute judgment, will under all circumstances best serve the District’s interest. No proposal will be accepted from any firm, person, or corporation, who is a defaulter as to surety or otherwise, or is deemed incompetent, irresponsible, or unreliable by the District Board of Directors.
No bids will be considered which are received after the time indicated above, and any bids so received after the scheduled closing time shall be returned to the bidder unopened.
Legal Notice No. 539316
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Last Publication: July 4, 2024 Publisher: Englewood Herald
Public Notice
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
BID PACKAGE #05 LITTLE RAVEN ES FURNITURE GC SERVICES
Notice is hereby given that Littleton Public Schools in the county of Arapahoe will on July 09, 2024 pay retainage and make final settlement with Meteor Education for BID PACKAGE #05 Little Raven ES Furniture GC Services Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, material, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by the contractor identified above or any subcontractor thereof in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that has supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim therefore has not been paid, by the contractor or subcontractor, must file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim, which statement must be filed on July 09, 2024.
Claims must be submitted to Board of Education of Littleton Public Schools at the school district’s Property Management Department, 5776 S. Crocker Street, Littleton, CO. 80120 on July 09, 2024 Final Settlement will be made and verified claims must be timely filed with Littleton Public Schools. Failure on the part of the claimant to file such statement prior to or on the established date will relieve the School District from any and all liability for such claim, Dated: June 13, 2024
Legal Notice No. 539280
First Publication: June 13, 2024
Last Publication: June 20, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent Not consecutive publications
Summons and Sheriff Sale
Public Notice
District Court, Arapahoe County, Colorado 7325 S Potomac Street, Centennial, CO 80112
Plaintiff(s)/Petitioner(s): CAPITAL ONE AUTO FINANCE v. Defendant(s)/Respondent(s): MICHELLE L. SEAL Case Number: 2024CV030242 Division: 14
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
HELLERSTEIN AND SHORE, P.C., 5347 S Valentia Way, Suite 100, Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Phone Number:303.573.1080
FAX Number: 303.571.1271
E-mail: dshore@shoreattys.com Atty. Reg. #: 19973
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT(S): Michelle L. Seal
You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.
If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.
This is an action: To recover the collateral that Plaintiff has a security interest in which is a 2017 Jeep Cherokee due to a default on the August 10, 2017 Retail Installment Contract with Plaintiff.
There is a hearing scheduled for this matter on September 19, 2024 at 1:30 pm in Arapahoe County at the address set forth above. The purpose of the hearing is to determine if there is any reason why the Plaintiff cannot request an order from the court for the Sheriff to take immediate possession of the vehicle described in the Complaint. You may file an answer with the court, appear in person at the hearing, or apply for a written undertaking with the Court to stay the delivery of the vehicle. Failure to do any of these three things will result in Plaintiff requesting the court to issue an order to the Plaintiff for immediate possession of the vehicle.
Dated: June 5, 2024
Attorney for Plaintiff(s)/Petitioner(s) (This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(g), Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure. This form should not be used where personal service is desired.)
(TO THE CLERK: When this summons is issued by the clerk of the court, the signature block for the clerk or deputy should be provided by stamp, or typewriter, in the space to the left of the attorney's name.)*Rule 12(a), C.R.C.P., allows -35 days for answer or response where service of process is by publication. However, under various statutes, a different response time is set forth; e.g., §38-6-104, C.R.S. (eminent domain); §38-36-121, C.R.S.
Legal Notice No. 539290
First Publication: June 20, 2024
Last Publication: July 18, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO Case No.: 2016CV031322, Div: 402 COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY
PLAINTIFF: SUNRIDGE PATIO HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, A COLORADO NON-PROFIT CORPORATION v. DEFENDENTS: MARLA K CHILDERS; OCWEN
Public Notices
LOAN SERVICING, LLC; THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WESTERN ACQUISITIONS LLC; and CYNTHIA D. MARES, THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE
TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS,
Please take notice:
You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Unit of the Sheriff's Office of County of Arapahoe County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 1st day of August 2024, at 13101 E. Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, phone number (720) 874-3845. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale. Please telephone (720) 874-3845 prior to the sale to ascertain the amount of this bid.
**BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT THE TIME OF SALE.**
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Judgment is in the amount of $10,819.81.
This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to Order and Decree for Judicial Foreclosure dated March 18, 2024 and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq. by SUNRIDGE PATIO HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, A COLORADO NON-PROFIT CORPORATION the holder and current owner of a statutory lien pursuant to C.R.S. 38-33.3-316. The foreclosure is based on a default under the Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions of Sunridge Patio Homes recorded on 04/14/1978 at 1726081 Book 2757 Page 768 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The Declaration establishes a lien for the benefit of Sunridge Patio Homeowners Association against real property legal described as follows:
Lot 21, Block 1, Sunridge Subdivision Filing No. 2, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado;
Also known as: 49 S. Eagle Cir., Aurora, CO 80012-1525.
The attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is: Kate M. Leason, Reg No. 41025, Altitude Community Law P.C., 555 Zang Street, Suite 100, Lakewood, Colorado 80228-1011, 303.432.9999.
Date: April 9, 2024
Tyler S. Brown, Sherriff County of Arapahoe, Colorado
By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff
Legal Notice No.: 532862
First Publication: June 6, 2024
Last Publication: July 4, 2024 Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225 Englewood, Colorado, 80110
Public Notice
DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO
COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY (Publication Notice)
PLAINTIFF: RIVERWALK MASTER ASSOCIATION v. DEFENDANTS: PHILLIP A TILLEMAN; CANTERBURY AT RIVERWALK CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC.; CITIGROUP MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2022-A; and ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE
TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice:
You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Division of the Sheriff's Department of Arapahoe County, Colorado at
10:00 O’clock A.M., on the 8th day of August, 2024, at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, phone number 720-874-3845. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Judgment is in the amount of $11,543.07.
**BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THEIR HIGHEST BID AT THE TIME OF SALE.**
This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to Court Order dated April 2, 2024 and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq. by Riverwalk Master Association the holder and current owner of a lien recorded on February 21, 2020 at Reception No. E0022060 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The foreclosure is based on a default under the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions of Riverwalk Recreation Association recorded on 07/31/1985 at Reception Number: 2560160 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The Declaration establishes a lien for the benefit of Riverwalk Master Association against real property legal described as follows:
Condominium Unit I, Building F, The Canterbury at Riverwalk Condominiums according to the Condominium Map thereof, recorded on July 12, 2001 at Reception No. B1113107 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, Colorado, and as defined and described in the Condominium Declaration for The Canterbury at Riverwalk Condominiums, recorded on July 12, 2001 at Reception No. B1113106 in said records, and any and all amendments, supplements and annexations thereto, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.;
And also known as:2773 W. Riverwalk Cir., Unit I, Littleton, CO 80223-7108.
The attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is: Kate M. Leason, Reg No. 41025, Altitude Community Law P.C., 555 Zang Street, Suite 100, Lakewood, Colorado 80228-1011, 303.432.9999
Dated: May 7, 2024
Tyler S. Brown Sheriff of Arapahoe County, Colorado
By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff
Legal Notice NO. 532888
First Publication: June 13, 2024
Last Publication: July 11, 2024
Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225 Englewood, Colorado, 80110
Public Notice
DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO
Arapahoe County District Court 7325 S Potomac St Centennial, CO 80112
Plaintiff: THE ASPENS TOWNHOMES, a Colorado nonprofit corporation v. Defendants: GAIL SEATON HUMBERT TRUST DATED FEBRUARY 9, 2007; QUICKEN LOANS INC; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; CROWN ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC; ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE
Attorneys for Plaintiff: Orten Cavanagh Holmes & Hunt, LLC
Hal R. Kyles, #23891 1445 Market Street, Suite 350 Denver, CO 80202
Phone Number: (720) 221-9780
Matter ID #2133.0059
Case No.: 2024CV030782 Division: 204
SUMMONS [BY PUBLICATION]
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS:
You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this Summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.
If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.
This is an action of foreclosure pursuant to Rule 105, C.R.C.P. to the real property situate in Denver, Colorado more particularly described as Parcel 1: Lot 1, Block 2, the Aspens, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. Parcel 2: An appurtenant easement as shown and designated as Easement C-A, over Lot 4, as shown on Exhibit B of the Declaration of Covenants, conditions and restrictions of the Aspens, recorded September 13, 1992 in Book 2058 at Page 576. County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. SUBJECT to all covenants, conditions, restrictions and easements of record, if any. BEING the same fee simple property conveyed by deed from GAIL SEATON HUMBERT, to THE GAIL SEATON HUMBERT TRUST, DATED FEBRUARY 9, 2007, dated February 9, 2007, recorded on February 13, 2007, as Instrument No. B7019747 in Arapahoe County Records, State of Colorado. FURTHER BEING the same fee simple property conveyed by deed from GAIL SEATON HUMBERT, TRUSTEE OF THE GAIL SEATON HUMBERT TRUST, DATED FEBRUARY 9, 2007, to GAIL SEATON HUMBERT, an unmarried woman, dated , recorded on 2/13/07, as Instrument No. 87019747 in Arapahoe County Records, State of Colorado.
Dated: June 13, 2024.
ORTEN CAVANAGH HOLMES & HUNT, LLC
By:/s/Hal R. Kyles
Hal R. Kyles, #23891
This Summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(g), Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure.
Legal Notice No. 539305
First Publication: June 27, 2024 Last Publication: July 125, 2024 Published in The Littleton Independent
Misc. Private Legals
Public Notice
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF JOHNSON COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL COURT DEPARTMENT
In the Matter of the Marriage of: JOEL A. DOEHLA, Petitioner, And SANDRA K. DOEHLA, Respondent Case No. 24CV1859 Div. No. 20
NOTICE UPON ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
The State of Kansas to: Sandra K. Doehla
You are hereby notified that an action has been commenced against you in the District Court of Johnson County, Kansas Civil Court Department, the object and general nature of which is a Petition for Divorce.
The names and address of the attorneys for Petitioner are Kristopher P. Lyle and Seth R. Keene, of Lyle Law LLC, 7199 W. 98th Terr., Suite 160 Overland Park, Kansas 66212.
You are further notified that unless you file an answer or other pleading or otherwise appear and defend against this action within 41 days of July 13th, 2024, the Petition or other pleading will be taken as true, and a judgment of divorce including a parenting plan, will be rendered accordingly.
Legal Notice No. 539282
First Publication: June 13, 2024
Last Publication: June 27, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent
Water Court
Public Notice
DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO
MAY 2024 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1
Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications, and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of MAY 2024 for each County affected. (This publication can be viewed in its entirety on the state court website at: www.courts.state.co.us)
CASE NO. 2024CW3074 ANDREW T BRAKE & MONA B BRAKE, 3615 S Tamarac Drive, Suite 200, Denver, CO, 80237. Eric K Trout, McGeady Becher, P.C., 450 E. 17th Avenue, Suite 400, Denver, CO, 80203. APPLICATION FOR UNDERGROUND WATER RIGHTS IN ARAPAHOE COUNTY. Subject Property: A parcel totaling 19.12 acres generally located in the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 17, Township 4 South, Range 64 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, State of Colorado, also known as 34553 E Mississippi Ave, Watkins, CO, 80137, as shown on Exhibit A (“Subject Property”). Lien Holder Certification: Applicants certify notice has been provided to all mortgage or lien holders, as required under C.R.S. § 37-92-302(2)(b). Well Permits: There is one existing household-use only Denver Aquifer well on the Subject Property under Well Permit No. 61901, which will continue operating under its existing permit. Additional well permits will be applied for prior to construction of additional wells. Source of Water Rights: The Denver Aquifer is not-nontributary as defined in C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.7), and the Upper Arapahoe, Lower Arapahoe, and Laramie-Fox Hills aquifers are nontributary as defined in C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.5). Estimated Amounts: Applicant estimates the following amounts may be available for withdrawal, based on a 100-year withdrawal period:
*The total estimated annual volume in the not-nontributary Denver Aquifer is 6.36 acre-feet. 1 acre-foot is reserved for existing Well Permit No. 61901. Applicants desire to leave no additional groundwater unadjudicated. Proposed Uses: Groundwater withdrawn from the not-nontributary and nontributary aquifers underlying the Subject Property will be used, reused, and successively used to extinction for all allowable beneficial uses, including, but not limited to, domestic, including inhouse use, commercial, irrigation, stock watering, fire protection, recreational, fish and wildlife, and augmentation purposes, including storage. The water may be immediately used or stored for subsequent use, used for exchange purposes, for direct replacement of depletions, and for other augmentation purposes, including taking credit for all return flows resulting from the use of such water for augmentation of, or as an offset against, any out-of-priority depletions. The water may be leased, sold, or otherwise disposed of for all the above uses both on and off the Subject Property.
Jurisdiction: The Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this application pursuant to C.R.S. §§ 37-90-137(6), 37-92-203(1), 37-92302(2). Remarks: Applicants claim the right to withdraw more than the average annual amounts estimated in Paragraph 6 above pursuant to Rule 8A of the Statewide Rules, 2 C.C.R. 402-7. Applicants request the right to revise the estimates upward or downward, based on better or revised data, without the necessity of amending this application or republishing the same. Applicants request the Court approve the above underground water rights, find that Applicants have complied with C.R.S. § 37-90-137(4) and water is legally available for withdrawal, find there will be no material injury to the owners of or persons entitled to use water under any vested water right or decreed conditional water right, and grant such other and further relief as is appropriate. 4 Pages.
THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME
PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of JULY 2024 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.
Legal Notice No. 539301
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Last Publication: June 27, 2024 Publisher: Englewood Herald Notice to Creditors
Notice
TO CREDITORS
Estate of Ida Gassoway, a/k/a Ida T. Gassoway, a/k/a Ida Tidwell, a/k/a Ida Williams, a/k/a Ida Sophie Pointes, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR30666
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, located at 7325 S. Potomac Street #100, Centennial, Colorado 80112, on or before October 28, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Cheryl Ann Henderson, Personal Representative c/o Joe D. Kinlaw, Esq. Folkestad Fazekas Barrick & Patoile, P.C. 18 South Wilcox Street, Suite 200 Castle Rock, Colorado 80104
Legal Notice No. 539310
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Last Publication: July 11, 2024 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JOHN ALFRED KINTZELE SR., a/k/a JOHN ALFRED KINTZELE, a/k/a JOHN KINTZELE, a/k/a JOHN A. KINTZELE SR., a/k/a JOHN KINTZELE SR., and a/k/a JACK KINTZELE, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR30597
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative, or to the Arapahoe County District Court in Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before Monday, October 21, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Personal Representative: Marcia Ann Davis c/o Kathleen M. Johnson Sherman & Howard L.L.C. 675 Fifteenth Street, Ste. 2300 Denver, Colorado 80202
Legal Notice No. 539289
First Publication: June 20, 2024 Last Publication: July 4, 2024 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Aristeo Aquin Velasquez, aka Aristeo A. Velasquez, aka Aresteo Aquin Velasquez, ka Aresteo A. Velasquez, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR30608
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Probate Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 21, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Daniel Chapman
Attorney for Personal Representative 7900 East Union Avenue, Suite 1100
Public Notices
Denver, CO 80237
Legal Notice No. 539294
First Publication: June 20, 2024
Last Publication: July 4, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent
Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of JEAN RUTHERFORD BOLYARD, a.k.a. JEAN R. BOLYARD, a.k.a. JEAN BOLYARD, Deceased Case Number 2024 PR 30570, Division CLX
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe County District Court, Centennial, Colorado, on or before October 15, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
SUSAN B. GARDNER
Personal Representative
6930 S. Pennsylvania Street Centennial, Colorado 80122
Telephone: 720-341-3524
Legal Notice No. 539276
First Publication: June 13, 2024
Last Publication: June 27, 2024
Publisher: Englewood Herald
Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of ROY HAROLD DAHL, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR30620
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 27, 2024 , or the claims may be forever barred.
Nancy S. Germany, Esq.
Personal Representative
THE GERMANY LAW FIRM, P.C.
600 17th Street, Suite 2800 South Denver, CO 80202
Legal Notice No. 539319
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Last Publication: July 11, 2024
Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of Janet Gayle Rice, a/k/a Janet G. Rice, Deceased Case Number 2024PR30361
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado n or before Monday. October 28, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Denise E. Wehrer, Personal Representative 2711 S. Acoma Street Centennial. Colorado 80110
Legal Notice No. 539309
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Last Publication: July 11, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of STANLEY JOHN MARTIN, a/k/a STANLEY J. MARTIN, STANLEY MARTIN, S.J. MARTIN, AND STAN MARTIN, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR30554
DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO MAY 2024 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION
TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before Monday, October 21, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Mason C. Martin and Jake E. Martin
Co-Personal Representatives 7375 South Laredo Street Aurora, CO 80016
Legal Notice No. 539298
First Publication: June 20, 2024
Last Publication: July 4, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of THEODORE F. FRAZIER, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR030675
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County Court, Colorado on or before October 27, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Matthew and Keri Frazier, Co-Personal Representatives
c/o Solem, Woodward & McKinley P.C. 750 W. Hampden Ave, Suite 505 Englewood, Colorado 80110
Legal Notice No. 539312
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Last Publication: July 11, 2024
Publisher: Englewood Herald
Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Water Court
Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications, certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of MAY 2024 for each County affected. (This publication can be viewed in its entirety on the state court website at: www.courts.state.co.us)
DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO MAY 2024 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1
CASE NO. 2024CW3066 EAST CHERRY CREEK VALLEY WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT, 6201 S. Gun Club Road, Aurora, CO 80016, Telephone: (303) 693-3800. APPLICATION FOR QUANTIFICATION OF WATER RIGHTS FOR USE IN PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION IN ARAPAHOE COUNTY. Please direct all correspondence or inquiries regarding this matter to counsel for Applicant listed above. 2. Introduction. East Cherry Creek Valley Water and Sanitation District (“ECCV”) is a quasi-municipal corporation which supplies and distributes potable water for municipal use approximately 55,000 residents, as well as to schools, businesses, and recreation areas within ECCV’s service areas located in Arapahoe and Douglas Counties. Through projected population growth and development within ECCV, it is anticipated that the demand for water supplies will continue to increase in future. ECCV provides water service to areas north of E. Arapahoe Road and east of E. Liverpool Street, including 94 homes in the Meadows at Saddle Rock and Saddle Rock Ranches subdivisions. Wastewater treatment in these 94 homes is provided by individual sewage disposal systems (“ISDS”). A map of the subject subdivision and the watershed areas tributary to Cherry Creek and to Piney Creek is attached as Exhibit A. Reusable return flows from the ISDS facilities, totaling approximately 16 acre-feet per year, accrue to Piney Creek from the ISDS facilities in the Piney Creek watershed. The points of accrual for the ISDS return flows are shown in Exhibit A. Piney Creek is a perennial stream from the point of accrual downstream past the Parker Road Bridge, which is located approximately at the eastern boundary of the Cherry Creek alluvium. Accordingly, ECCV’s ISDS return flows to Cherry Creek and to Piney Creek may used to replace out-of-priority depletions for ECCV’s Piney Creek and Cherry Creek wells. By this Application, ECCV seeks a judicial determination of the amount and timing of reusable ISDS return flows that accrue to the portions of Piney Creek and Cherry Creek within ECCV’s service area. ECCV seeks to recapture and reuse such amounts to extinction by augmenting out-of-priority depletions associated with ECCV’s Piney Creek and Cherry Creek wells pursuant to ECCV’s augmentation plan decreed in Case No. 00CW217 and pursuant to the Upper Cherry Creek Water Association plan for augmentation decreed in Case No. 01CW284 of which ECCV is a member of. 3. Description of the Sources of ECCV’s Reusable ISDS Return Flows. The sources of water include reusable return flows from ISDS from the following Denver Basin nontributary ground water rights and other fully consumable sources owned, controlled, or claimed by ECCV within ECCV’s boundaries as shown on Exhibit A. All such water may be fully consumed by ECCV by use, reuse, and successive use pursuant to the applicable decrees and C.R.S. § 37-106, except in those instances in which 2% is required to be relinquished to the stream. 3.1. Nontributary Sources
Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications, and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of MAY 2024 for each County affected. (This publication can be viewed in its entirety on the state court website at: www.courts.state.co.us)
CASE NO. 2024CW3066 EAST CHERRY CREEK VALLEY WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT, 6201 S. Gun Club Road, Aurora, CO 80016, Telephone: (303) 693-3800. APPLICATION FOR QUANTIFICATION OF WATER RIGHTS FOR USE IN PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION IN ARAPAHOE COUNTY. Please direct all correspondence or inquiries regarding this matter to counsel for the Applicant listed above. 2. Introduction. East Cherry Creek Valley Water and Sanitation District (“ECCV”) is a quasi-municipal corporation which supplies and distributes potable water for municipal use to approximately 55,000 residents, as well as to schools, businesses, and recreation areas within ECCV’s service areas located in Arapahoe and Douglas Counties. Through projected population growth and development within ECCV, it is anticipated that the demand for water supplies will continue to increase in the future. ECCV provides water service to areas north of E. Arapahoe Road and east of E. Liverpool Street, including 94 homes in the Meadows at Saddle Rock and Saddle Rock Ranches subdivisions. Wastewater treatment in these 94 homes is provided by individual sewage disposal systems (“ISDS”). A map of the subject subdivision and the watershed areas tributary to Cherry Creek and to Piney Creek is attached as Exhibit A. Reusable return flows from the ISDS facilities, totaling approximately 16 acre-feet per year, accrue to Piney Creek from the ISDS facilities in the Piney Creek watershed. The points of accrual for the ISDS return flows are shown in Exhibit A. Piney Creek is a perennial stream from the point of accrual downstream past the Parker Road Bridge, which is located approximately at the eastern boundary of the Cherry Creek alluvium. Accordingly, ECCV’s ISDS return flows to Cherry Creek and to Piney Creek may be used to replace out-of-priority depletions for ECCV’s Piney Creek and Cherry Creek wells. By this Application, ECCV seeks a judicial determination of the amount and timing of reusable ISDS return flows that accrue to the portions of Piney Creek and Cherry Creek within ECCV’s service area. ECCV seeks to recapture and reuse such amounts to extinction by augmenting out-of-priority depletions associated with ECCV’s Piney Creek and Cherry Creek wells pursuant to ECCV’s augmentation plan decreed in Case No. 00CW217 and pursuant to the Upper Cherry Creek Water Association plan for augmentation decreed in Case No. 01CW284 of which ECCV is a member of. 3. Description of the Sources of ECCV’s Reusable ISDS Return Flows. The sources of water include reusable return flows from ISDS from the following Denver Basin nontributary ground water rights and other fully consumable sources owned, controlled, or claimed by ECCV within ECCV’s boundaries as shown on Exhibit A. All such water may be fully consumed by ECCV by use, reuse, and successive use pursuant to the applicable decrees and C.R.S. § 37-82-106, except in those instances in which 2% is required to be relinquished to the stream. 3.1. Nontributary Sources.
Estate of Daniel J. Buckley, a/k/a Daniel James Buckley, a/k/a Daniel Buckley, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR30644
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before Monday, October 21, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Marilyn J. Buckley, Personal Representative 4284 S. Hudson Parkway Englewood, CO 80113
Legal Notice No. 539299
First Publication: June 20, 2024
Last Publication: July 4, 2024
Publisher: Englewood Herald
Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of Mary Margret Medina, Deceased Case Number: 24PR30198
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe, Colorado on or before October 30, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Dated June 19, 2024
CURTIS LAW FIRM, LLC /s/ Cory M. Curtis Cory M. Curtis, #40549
Attorney to the Personal Representative 10333 E Dry Creek Rd, Suite 210 Englewood, CO 80112
Legal Notice No. 539317
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Decree requires 2% of withdrawals to be relinquished to the stream system 3.2. ECCV’s Water Supply Project (a/k/a the Northern Project). All water rights described in more detail in Exhibit B will result in fully consumable water deliveries to ECCV’s service area within the Piney Creek and Cherry Creek basins. 3.3. Other Reusable Water Rights. Any and all additional water rights with the rights of reuse in which ECCV has an interest or acquires an interest in the future that are used within the ECCV municipal water supply system. 4. Description of Quantification and Timing of Reusable ISDS Return Flows. Return flows from reusable ISDS deep percolation will be based on an assumed return of 90 percent of the indoor water use, which will be computed as the average use during the December – February period. ECCV proposes to compute the reusable ISDS deep percolation for these 94 homes based on 90 percent of the reusable actual monthly winter base use during the preceding December – February period. The monthly winter base use will be computed by averaging the monthly water use from billing records for December through February each year for these 94 homes. ISDS return flows accrue at an almost constant rate each month, but a Glover analysis will be used to determine the timing of the return flows to Cherry Creek and Piney Creek based on typical transmissivity and specific yield values for upland eolian materials. ECCV will use the monthly unit response functions from the Glover analyses to lag the accrual of the reusable ISDS deep percolation to Piney Creek and Cherry Creek. 5. Description of Use of Reusable ISDS Return Flows. ECCV will recapture and reuse such amounts to extinction by augmenting out-ofpriority depletions associated with ECCV’s Piney Creek Wells and Cherry Creek Wells pursuant to the terms and conditions of the plan for augmentation decreed in Case No. 00CW217 and Upper Cherry Creek Water Users Association plan for augmentation decreed in Case No. 01CW284. The timing and rate of these diversions shall be such that no material injury will be experienced by holders or users of vested or decreed conditional water rights and that the flow regimen of the stream system shall not be materially affected. After recapture of its reusable ISDS return flows by augmentation, ECCV will directly distribute such water into its municipal supply system, use such water for irrigation purposes, store such water in holding ponds, or dispose of such water to the benefit of other water users. All such water shall be used for all municipal purposes and for storage for subsequent use. WHEREFORE, ECCV requests that this Court enter a Decree quantifying the return flows described above, and for such other and further relief this Court deems just and proper. (5 pages, 1 exhibit).
THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of JULY 2024 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.
Last Publication: July 11, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of Diane Jean Reichel, aka Diane J. Reichel, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR30651
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 25, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Tamra A. Palmer
Personal Representative c/o 6060 Greenwood Plaza Blvd #200 Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Legal Notice No. 539293
First Publication: June 20, 2024
Last Publication: July 4, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS The Estate of Alfred Steve Renis, aka Alfred Renis, aka Steve Renis, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR30630
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District/Probate Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before October 21, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Virtusi Savant, Personal Representative c/o Dana Petersen, Attorney 8811 E. Hampden Avenue, Suite 217 Denver, CO 80231
Legal Notice No. 539287
First Publication: June 20, 2024
Last Publication: July 4, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of Jack Lee Sheff, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR030279
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of ARAPAHOE County, Colorado on or before Monday, October 28, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Dale O. Sheff, Personal Representative 7109 S Tamarac Ct Centennial, CO, 80112
Legal Notice No. 539318
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Last Publication: July 11, 2024 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Beverly Ann Stevens, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR30600
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of ARAPAHOE, County, Colorado on or before Monday October 28, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Tami Lynn Hamm and Mark Alan Stevens Co-Personal Representatives c/o The McKenzie Law Firm, LLC 2305 East Arapahoe Rd., Suite 223 Centennial, Colorado 80122
Legal Notice No. 539306
First Publication: June 27, 2024 Last Publication: July 11, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JOHN STOUT, aka JOHN L STOUT, aka JOHN LEE
Public Notices
named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before Monday, October 14, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Kellie Adam of CS AdvoCare Inc.
Person Giving Notice
7500 E. Arapahoe Road Suite #101 Centennial CO 80112
Legal Notice No. 539278
First Publication: June 13, 2024
Last Publication: June 27, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent
Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of Carol B. Shapiro, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR30615
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before 10/27/2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Peter N. Shapiro, Personal Representative c/o Zisman, Ingraham & Mong, P.C.
8480 East Orchard Rd., Ste. 2500, Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Legal Notice No. 539304
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Last Publication: July 11, 2024
Publisher: Englewood Herald
Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of RENITA JOY MATLOCK, a.k.a. RENITA J. MATLOCK,
a.k.a. RENITA MATLOCK, Deceased Case Number 2024 PR 30462, Division 12
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe County District Court, Centennial, Colorado, on or before October 15, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
KARITA ROCHELLE MATLOCK
Personal Representative
5301 Hardesty Avenue Kansas City, Missouri 64130-3223 Telephone: 816-612-1206
Legal Notice No. 539275
First Publication: June 13, 2024
Last Publication: June 27, 2024
Publisher: Englewood Herald
Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of CORNELIUS JOSEPH CLEARY, aka C. JOSEPH CLEARY, aka C.J. CLEARY, aka JOSEPH CLEARY, aka JOE CLEARY, Deceased Case Number: 24PR305
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before Monday, October 28, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Kellie Adam CS AdvoCare, Inc,
Personal Representative
7500 E. Arapahoe Rd. Ste. 101 Centennial CO 80112
Legal Notice No. 539315
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Last Publication: July 11, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent
PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of Brian Ingold, aka Brian J. Ingold, aka Brian Jon Ingold, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR270
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before Monday, October 21, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Kyle Ingold, Personal Representative
1704 W. Crestline Avenue
Littleton, Colorado 80120
Legal Notice No. 539313
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Last Publication: July 11, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of John M. Ludwig, a/k/a John Ludwig, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR030671
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 27, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Estate of John M. Ludwig, Joe Ludwig and Doug Freese, Co-Personal Representative’s c/o Robinson & Henry PC, Megan Jury, Attorney for the Co-Personal Representatives 7555 E Hampden Ave., #600 Denver, CO 80231
Legal Notice No. 539307
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Last Publication: July 11, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of GREGG A. WILLIAMS, a/k/a GREGG ALAN WILLIAMS, a/k/a GREGG ALLAN WILLIAMS, a/k/a GREGG A. WILLIAMS, SR., Deceased Case Number: 24 PR 30592
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before Monday, October 21, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Barbara L. Williams, Personal Representative Patrick A. Schilken, P.C. 7936 E. Arapahoe Court #2800 Centennial, CO 80112
Legal Notice No. 539292
First Publication: June 20, 2024
Last Publication: July 4, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of THOMAS E. FALLOWS, Deceased Case Number: 2024 PR 281
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before Monday, October 21. 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Baysore & Christian Fiduciary Services, LLC
c/o Andrew Paine
7000 E. Belleview Ave, Ste. 150 Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Legal Notice No. 539296
First Publication: June 20, 2024
Last Publication: July 4, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of Donna Louise Boblett; a/k/a Donna L. Boblett; a/k/a Donna Boblett, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR30614
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 30, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Myka M. Landry, ATL for Personal Representative Jan Park-
er PO Box 2276 Elizabeth, CO 80107
Legal Notice No. 539277
First Publication: June 13, 2024
Last Publication: June 27, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate of John F. Rotole, a/k/a John Francis Rotole, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR30621
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 27, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Hal R. Blanchard #1305
Attorney to the Personal Representative 19039 East Plaza Drive Suite 275 Parker CO 80134
Legal Notice No. 539311
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Last Publication: July 11, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent
Name Changes
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
Public notice is given on May 6, 2024, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
The petition requests that the name of Thseen Gabar Hassen be changed to Wadi Shakir Wadi Case No.: 24C100459
Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk
Legal Notice No. 539283
First Publication: June 13, 2024
Last Publication: June 27, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent
PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
Public notice is given on May 8, 2024, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
The petition requests that the name of Cyler Quinn Miles be changed to Jonah Chesed Israel Case No.: 24C100471
By: Kim Boswell
Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk
Legal Notice No. 539288
First Publication: June 20, 2024
Last Publication: July 4, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent
PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
Public notice is given on February 2, 2024, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
The petition requests that the name of Elsabeth Mirany Nida be changed to Elsabeth Mirany Sisay Case No.: 24C100103
By: Kim Boswell
Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk
Legal Notice No. 539291
First Publication: June 20, 2024
Last Publication: July 4, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent
PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
Public notice is given on May 6, 2024, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
The petition requests that the name of Elroi Tarekegn Feleke be changed to Elroi Tarekegn
Case No.: 24C100450
By: J. Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk
Legal Notice No. 539271
First Publication: June 13, 2024
Last Publication: June 27, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
Public notice is given on May 30, 2024, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
The petition requests that the name of Ecaterina Vitic be changed to Eka Vityk Case No.: 24C100418
By: Sarah Ingemansen Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk
Legal Notice No. 539274
First Publication: June 13, 2024
Last Publication: June 27, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
Public notice is given on May 6, 2024, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
The petition requests that the name of Betselot Tarekegn Honja be changed to Betselot Tarekegn Case No.: 24C100452
By: Sarah Ingemansen Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk
Legal Notice No. 539270
First Publication: June 13, 2024
Last Publication: June 27, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
Public notice is given on May 20, 2024, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
The petition requests that the name of Nathan Andrew Adams Woodward be changed Nathan Andrew Adams Case No.: 24C38999
By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk
Rdated: June 17, 2024
Legal Notice No. 539308
First Publication: 27, 2024
Last Publication: July 11, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
Public notice is given on May 16, 2024, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
The petition requests that the name of Rachael May Holt be changed to Rachael May Sakura Nabulsi Case No.: 24C100490
Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk
Legal Notice No. 539286
First Publication: June 20, 2024
Last Publication: July 4, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
Public notice is given on May 10, 2024, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
The petition requests that the name of Ronald Justice be changed to Ronald Shaw Case No.: 24C100481
By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk
Legal Notice No. 539303
First Publication: June 27, 2024
Last Publication: July 11, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
Public notice is given on May 20, 2024, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
The petition requests that the name of Jessica Lauren Fleeks be changed to Jessyeca Lauren Norwood Case No.: 24C100503
