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Arapahoe County, Colorado • Volume 13, Issue 3

December 6, 2013

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County, city face strained relations Mayor, newly elected council members hope to improve relationship By George Lurie

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Construction workers do exterior brick work on Dec. 2 on the 18,000-square-foot expansion of the Cherrywood Square King Soopers, located at Dry Creek and Arapahoe roads. Photos by George Lurie

Shopping centers get facelifts Renovation continues at University and Dry Creek By George Lurie

glurie@ourcoloradonews.com Two busy District 1 shopping centers near the intersection of Dry Creek Road and University Boulevard are getting major facelifts. The King Soopers in the Cherrywood Square Shopping Center is currently undergoing a multimillion-dollar renovation that will expand the grocery store by 18,000 square feet. And across University Boulevard, a new Larkburger is under construction and expected to open early next year. The popular “all natural, gourmet burger and fries” restaurant will serve as anchor tenant for the new development at the west end of the Dry Creek Shopping Center, which, according to the property manager, is nearly 100 percent leased. Both the Cherrywood Square and Dry Creek shopping centers are more than 30 years old, but have been updated and expanded in recent years as they have become increasingly busier, especially

A new Larkburger restaurant is under construction and scheduled to open early next year in the Dry Creek Shopping Center. during the noon hour on weekdays, when students from nearby Arapahoe High School walk across Dry Creek to eat lunch and shop. Construction work on the King Soopers expansion started earlier this fall and

is scheduled to be completed in June 2014. KTK General Contracting Limited is the general contractor on the project. Matt Koppenhafer, owner and project Malls continues on Page 11

Sloppiness cited in mental health delay Uproar leads state to start process over By Kristin Jones

I-News at Rocky Mountain PBS Susan Beckman wants you to know that “a lot of sloppy work” — and not a conspiracy — were behind the state’s botched job of finding someone to run a network of walk-in mental health crisis centers. Beckman, a Littleton resident and former Arapahoe County commissioner, heads the administrative branch of the Colorado Department of

Human Services, the office responsible for the failed solicitation process. The department has been accused of colluding with local actors — that is, local providers of mental health services — to Beckman elbow out a newcomer, but Beckman says a slew of mistakes were just human error. The department on Nov. 22 issued a new request for proposals to run the crisis centers, three weeks after deciding to

rescind an award it had made on Oct. 16 to Crisis Access of Colorado, which set up shop in the state for the purpose of applying for the contract. Crisis Access is affiliated with a private Georgia-based crisis intervention company called Behavioral Health Link and Recovery Innovations, an organization with operations in Arizona, California and Washington. Awards made to two Denver-based companies — Metro Crisis Services, to run a hotline, and Cactus Communications, for marketing — were also scuttled. The contracts will deter-

mine who runs the keystone mental health initiative of the Hickenlooper administration. The crisis stabilization centers are meant to take pressure off of hospital emergency rooms, jails and prisons — which have become the main providers of services for people with mental illness — after decades of funding shortfalls. But so far, the piece of legislation meant to promote unity and cooperation among mental health service providers in Colorado has proven divisive, at best. Delay continues on Page 7

The cancellation earlier this year of a plan by city council to annex 77 acres in unincorporated Arapahoe County for the development of a proposed business park exposed a long-standing rift between city and county officials. At an Oct. 14 city council meeting, several members of the city council expressed frustration about the lack of “communication” with county officials regarding key details of the proposed annexation — and in particular which local government entity, Centennial or Arapahoe County, would Noon be responsible for funding necessary street improvements. After the proposed annexation was derailed, Councilwoman Rebecca McClellan said, “Now that it looks like we are unlikely to move forward in acquiring this parcel, it seems that (the street improvements are) not our concern. There may be a lot of reasons to have heartburn for this or that issue with the county, but I wouldn’t think that this is one of them.” McClellan, who is term-limited and will step off the council at the end of this year, said this week: “I hope the new council will have the opportunity to dialogue with the (county) commissioners in order to work more effectively on the projects we have in common.” Some say the strained relations between the nine-member city council and the fivemember Board of County Commissioners dates back to the city’s founding in 2001. “When I was first elected, this same issue was out there and I sort of inherited it,” said Centennial Mayor Cathy Noon, who believes some of the contentiousness between the city and county revolves around “annexation issues.” And the decision a number of years ago to switch from Arapahoe County to CH2 Hill as Centennial’s public works provider probably ruffled some feathers among county officials, Noon added. “I wasn’t on the council then, but I perceived there were some issues on the county’s part when we chose another public works provider,” said Noon, who pointed out that “with Centennial being in Arapahoe County, the city council and county commissioners really are serving the same population.” But there are some “significant” cultural and operational differences, she added,

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View of piano is black and white The 74-year-old Knabe grand piano sits silent in the room behind them. But the three women sipping tea at the small dining room table feel the music settle into them with the quiet joy only an old, beloved companion can bring. Music. “It’s like food,” Dee Netzel, 86, says. “I couldn’t imagine life without it.” “It’s a passion,” says Donita Banks, 77, “a compulsion.” The piano belongs to the third woman, the tiniest, just now able to sit at the bench after two months battling a back injury. Rita Jo Tensly, 84, says simply: “I want to die at the piano.” ••• They call themselves “sisters” — Dee from a small Wisconsin town, Rita from New York City and Donita from Pueblo. All classical pianists, a love for music binds them tightly. But what brought them together originally was the Denver alumnae chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, an international music fraternity for women they joined while in college. Donita, the chapter’s archivist who chronicles the organization’s history in carefully constructed scrapbooks, spreads open an album on the table and points to a picture of smiling women, the SAI Singers. “There’s Dee and there’s me. We had a bicentennial program.” 1976. She turns to another page and another picture. 1995. Rita: “There I am in the front row.” Donita: “We were looking a little younger then.” All three burst into laughter. On the next page is a photo of revered member Lila Putney, whose 104th birthday they celebrated in 2008. She left Denver several years ago to live near family and died this past February at 108. Donita added the obituary and stories of her life to the scrapbook. Donita, who joined in 1960 and is one of the longest-running members, is adamant the SAI alumnae chapter was a key ingredient to Lila’s longevity. “What has kept us going,” she says, “has been music, friendship and service.”

The chapter has 44 members from their mid-20s to Dee, the oldest active member. About 25 attend monthly meetings from September to June in homes and churches throughout the metro area, wherever a good piano can be found. “I think one of the neat things about our group now is we are online,” Dee says, “and as careers bring people to our area, they look us up online and they find us.” The website also brings younger women to the graying chapter. Dee: “I love being with young people.” “It keeps me young,” Rita says. Dee: “We really aren’t categorized by age. … Music is just music.” “They like us for what we are,” Rita says. “Musicians.” ••• Donita, an only child, began playing at 7 when her parents brought home an old, Baldwin Acrosonic upright piano, signed by the sister of the famed pianist José Iturbi of Spain. “Really?” Rita asks. “Mmmhmmm,” Donita says, smiling, remembering. “I loved piano from the beginning.” In junior high school, she began accompanying the singers at church. In high school, she played for a singer who performed for service organizations and then was hired to accompany dancers at the Pueblo Conservatory of Music. She attended the University of Colorado on scholarship where a professor introduced her to contemporary music. Her son, her first child, was just seven weeks old when she accepted a job as youth choir director at a Lakewood church, the start to a career as a freelance musician

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who combined one-woman shows with choir directing. “It came to be a way of life,” Donita says. And when she battled breast cancer two years ago, she couldn’t wait to play again. “I had to get back to my music. Yes, I had to get back to my regular life.” Rita was 10 when her parents surprised her with the same piano in her sitting room for her birthday. “I took to it like a duck takes to water,” she says. She attended Juilliard and graduated from the University of Miami in Florida, then moved to Denver in 1953 and taught elementary school music for 28 years. She loves the classical composers. “I just love the way they put the music together. I think about the music, what they were thinking about, why they composed this music.” Her favorites are Debussy and Mozart. She looks at her hands. “My hands are very small.” She fans out her fingers. “So Mozart fits my hands.” Her eyesight is failing. And that is her biggest fear. “I dread the time if I never have any more sight to see the music because I don’t want to stop playing,” she says. “I feel better when I play this beautiful music.” Dee grew up in a poor, rural Wisconsin home. But her mother had inherited a piano. And to keep a mischievous Dee out of trouble, she started her with piano lessons. “I loved the teacher; I loved the music,” Dee says. “Nobody had to make me practice and I never stopped.” She would attend the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on scholarship. Later a staff accompanist at Metropolitan State University for 27 years, Dee began as an elementary and high school music teacher for nine one-room schools in rural Wisconsin that she had to get to in two days. “I’d roar up in my car and teach, then roar up to the next one,” she says. “I would spin around on the roads, I would knock over the mailboxes — I was in such a hurry.” Dee laughs. “I was young.” Rita smiles, taking a sip of tea. “We were

all young at one time.” Dee still practices every day, one of the reasons, she believes, that she doesn’t have any pain in her arthritic hands. Twelve years ago, macular degeneration clouded the sight in her left eye. In August, doctors found the beginning of the disease in her right eye. “I’m surviving,” Dee says and tells Donita and Rita about the musical program she played recently with a friend. “I played practically note-perfect. I’m going to keep going until I can’t see anything.” ••• The stories around the table this day compose a concerto of family remembered and talent ignited, of challenges faced and overcome, of the importance of sharing a singular passion with the world. They also, perhaps mostly, recount a friendship born, nurtured and sealed by the implicit understanding of a love and need for music and the deep happiness it brings. The piano waits across the room. A brass light that cost $100 arches over the music books of Debussy and Chopin resting against the piano rack. Rita’s $400 piano glasses lie on top. Rita: “It was worth it to me, to see the music … so I can play.” And play they will. Of that, there is no doubt. As long as they can, Donita says. Till, Dee concludes, the end. A benefit concert to raise money for “Mending Faces,” which sends doctors to the Philippines to operate on children with cleft palates, will be held Jan. 26 at 3 p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1600 Grant St., Denver. The concert is presented by the Denver Alumnae Chapter and Sigma Upsilon Chapter, Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity. Tickets are $25, $10 for students. Contact Rita Jo Tensly at 303-748-6889 or rjtensly@comcast.net. Ann Macari Healey’s column about people, places and issues of everyday life appears every other week. She can be reached at ahealey@ourcoloradonews.com or 303-5664110.

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Kaiser opens Lone Tree center Medical facility offers more than 20 specialties By Jane Reuter

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Kaiser Permanente will host a community open house at its new Lone Tree facility from 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 14. Photo by Jane Reuter

open house Kaiser Permanente will host a public open house at its new Park Meadows Drive facility from 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 14. Community members are invited to check out the building, meet some of the staff and physicians, enjoy refreshments and participate in family activities including a mini farmers market and obstacle course.

said. “You don’t have to drive across town anymore.” The area for the Lone Tree Kaiser’s drug infusion center carefully was reserved for a first-floor, west-facing site. “Those patients can be here from two to six hours,” Greg Mills, Kaiser’s south area administrator. “We gave them good real estate.” An outdoor seating located a few steps

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rboldrey@ourcoloradonews.com The nation’s largest educational toy seller, Learning Express Toys, has opened its doors to imagination and playtime in Highlands Ranch — just in time for the holiday shopping season. The 130th location in the country — and second in Colorado, joining Fort Collins — the franchise is run by Parker residents Les and Heather Crosby. “My dream has always been to do something with kids that would impact them somehow,” said Heather, a mother of three and former elementary school teacher. “With my teaching experience, combined with Les’ business experience (as a financial analyst) this just seemed like the perfect fit.” In addition to selling toys, the couple plans to host regular community events at the store, conduct fundraisers for area nonprofits and schools, and already has plans for a local Girl Scout troop to come in and earn their “Women in Business” badges. The community element is a big part of the Learning Express model. The company’s first store opened in Massachusetts in 1987 as a nonprofit that helped to raise money for a struggling school in the community. Like the other Learning Express locations across the country, the Highlands Ranch store offers free year-round giftwrapping and complimentary personalization of select toys, such as Plasma Cars — one of the hottest items on the shelves. And the franchise prides itself on having a

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Mental illness puts burden on ERs, jails Trouble caused by cuts has rippled outward By Kristin Jones

I-News at Rocky Mountain PBS They’re victims of car accidents, they’ve been shot, or they threatened their parents. They have overdosed on cocaine, swallowed too many pills or passed out drunk. On an average Friday or Saturday night, they can make up about half of the sick, injured and wounded crowding the rooms and hallways of the emergency department at Denver Health. And there’s one trait these patients have in common, says Dr. Chris Colwell, director of the department. Had they received needed prior treatment, they might not be there at all. These ER visitors, for all their outward signs of trauma, suffer foremost from mental illness. “The emergency room could have been avoided if they had gotten psychiatric care anywhere else,” he says. Colwell believes uncontrolled behavioral health problems were also at the root of two events that he experienced up close: The mass murders at Columbine High School in 1999 and in Aurora in 2012. He was a physician on the scene at Columbine and also treated patients from the Aurora shooting. “For every one of those that were a big high-profile event that everybody knows about,” says Colwell, “there’s a hundred that were either near misses … or resulted in violence, just not to the same extent.” As inpatient psychiatric beds have disappeared across the state, he’s watched the problem get worse. “I don’t think people understand the crisis that we’re in,” he says. An initiative put forward by Gov. John Hickenlooper in December 2012 — five months after the Aurora theater shootings — and signed into law earlier this year is intended to improve mental health services in the state by putting nearly $20 million into walk-in crisis centers and a statewide hotline. Additional state funding will also be put into modernizing treatment at the two public mental health institutes, Fort Logan in Denver and Pueblo, boosting inpatient capacity and other services, resulting in an overall 13.5 percent increase for behavioral health care in fiscal year 20132014. The money is needed, say state officials, health-care providers and advocates for the mentally ill, to ease pressure on emergency rooms and jails. Patrick Fox, an official for the Colorado Department of Human Services who oversees the two state institutes, says that a study of emergency room intakes has indicated that patients often stabilize within 48 hours, and that long-term mental health beds aren’t necessarily what’s needed most. “We view the introduction of an expanded crisis stabilization service across the state as being a very important first step to address the most pressing behavioral health needs of Coloradans,” Fox says.

But many of the doctors and professionals working on the front lines of the crisis say the money isn’t enough to fill a yawning gap in services to prevent and treat mental illness.

Per-capita funding declined

A look back across three decades shows that public-sector funding for mental health services in Colorado hasn’t kept up with demand. Per-capita spending on mental health services in the state, when adjusted by the medical rate of inflation, dropped 28 percent from 1981 to 1990, according to data collected by the National State Mental Health Program Directors Research Institute Inc., or NRI. Federal budget cuts and an economic crisis in Colorado during the 1980s conspired to suck funding from state psychiatric hospitals and community mental health centers. And cuts made in that decade were never recovered. In 2010, the state spent the equivalent of 20 percent less per person on mental health services than it did in 1981, according to NRI data. The persistent funding shortfall long ago made jails and prisons the primary residential treatment centers for the mentally ill in Colorado, clogged emergency rooms, boosted medical expenses across the board, and expanded the ranks of the homeless on the streets of Denver and other cities. Eric Brown, a spokesman for the governor’s office, said that the new plan will help keep people from falling through the cracks. “There’s no way to make up all of the funding deficiencies and implement new programs in a short period,” Brown said, adding that it will take time and commitment.

Reagan played role

Two national policy shifts and an oil

shale bust were behind the drop in funding in the 1980s. President Ronald Reagan took office at the start of the decade on a pledge to limit government spending. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 ranked among his first triumphs, cutting costs in part by transforming funding for mental health services into block grants to the states. In Colorado, those grants didn’t keep up with rising costs. Less than a year after this national legislation was passed, on May 2, 1982, Exxon pulled out of its oil shale operations in the Western Slope. Known as Black Sunday, the move foretold a massive bust in Colorado’s energy sector, triggering a recession and a decline in state tax revenue. Mental health services weren’t alone in suffering cutbacks — but the effects were stark. The state budget crisis took hold just as a broader philosophical shift was transforming the way mental health services were provided across the country. Legislation signed by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 had called for the funding of community mental health centers, and initiated a broader discussion about the role of large institutions in the treatment of those with mental illness. Youlon Savage led the movement toward deinstitutionalization in Colorado, and was executive director of the first community mental health center in the state to be funded under Kennedy’s initiative. He says the movement into communitybased care was intended to help reduce stigma and promote integration. “Mental illness was no longer manifested by sending people away from home into large institutions,” says Savage. Even the Fort Logan mental health hospital in Denver was conceived as a community center when it opened in the 1960s. Staff didn’t wear uniforms, they worked closely in collaboration with patients who lived in a largely open and unlocked campus, and they made home visits to keep people out of the hospital. But broad slashes to the two state psychiatric hospitals in the 1970s deeply impacted both Fort Logan and Pueblo. By 1980, there were 1,103 public psychiatric beds in Colorado, down from 1,609 a decade earlier. Over the next decades, public beds would continue to disappear, and by 2013, the two state hospitals had only 545 beds. It wasn’t only the beds but the staffing and services that disappeared — services like

home visits, community outreach and vocational training. “Fort Logan used to do all the things that the community mental health centers are supposed to be doing,” says Rebecca Watt, a former nurse at the hospital who believes that budget cuts have damaged the facility’s ability to treat its patients. The units for the elderly, children and teens at Fort Logan were among the most recent to close, in 2009. Recently, there were 38 people waiting for beds at Fort Logan and Pueblo, according to the Department of Human Services. The average wait time varies between eight and 25 days.

Local centers strapped

As the money moved out of the state hospitals, community mental health centers say they never got the funding they needed to take up the slack. Harriet Hall, the chief executive of Jefferson Mental Health Center, says facilities like hers sometimes got a boost from the state when the hospitals’ budgets were cut. But often, they got nothing. “It was never like, we’ll just transfer this money to the communities from the hospitals,” says Hall. Hall and others who lead the state’s 17 nonprofit community mental health centers say that with adequate funding they can provide much better services than the large institutions ever did — by giving the routine care people need to stay integrated within the community and out of costly hospital stays. But, they say, there are gaps in the services they can realistically provide, given their tight budgets. “There’s still kind of a dearth of options for folks who have genuinely long-term needs, and (whose illnesses are) a bit more severe than nursing home placement or return to home allows,” says Liz Hickman, who heads the Centennial Mental Health Center, which serves rural communities in northeastern Colorado. What’s more, nonprofit community mental health centers say state funding doesn’t provide for the treatment of those without some form of public or private insurance or other payment source. Randy Stith, who heads the Aurora Mental Health Center, says that leaves them with no choice but to tell indigent patients to go to the emergency room for care. “We’re referring people to the emergenIllness continues on Page 7

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Mental issues often drive homelessness By Kristin Jones

I-News at Rocky Mountain PBS Mark Maseros used to be a repeat customer at the ER — when he wasn’t in jail for drugs or theft. Now 54, Maseros spent three decades living homeless in Denver. Hooked on heroin that he took to self-medicate what he now recognizes as an anxiety disorder, he was taken to the emergency room after overdosing. Or he walked in with panic attacks. “It was always good to go to the emergency room, because you’d get things to deal with your uncomfortableness,” says Maseros. “If I said the magic words that I wanted to kill myself, they’d set me up in a bed.” Over the years, Maseros said he was diagnosed “bipolar, tripolar” and any number of other psychiatric disorders. But he never got the sustained care he needed until four years ago, when the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless found housing for him, and he joined group therapy to help get the better of his anxiety. “I’m happy now,” says Maseros, who does rounds through downtown Denver on his bike, looking for others who are suffering as he once did. Maseros tries to point people to the services that are available in the city. He knows that without help some of them will end up dead. The president of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, John Parvensky, says there are many more like Maseros who want help but can’t get it. His organization stopped carrying a waiting list for mental health services when it

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Crisis Access has accused the state of making a political decision when it scrapped the contract. In a protest letter filed with the Department of Human Services on Nov. 11, the company called the decision unlawful, and alleged that the state skirted proper procedures and bowed to pressure from a consortium of local community mental health facilities that had lost out on the bid. “If there were concerns about the process, then the state should have required the regular protest procedures,” says David Covington, who left a job at Magellan Health Services to become CEO of Crisis Access. “That wasn’t done.” The state rejected Crisis Access’ protest last week. Beckman says the decision to scrap the award had nothing to do with pressure from the losing bidders. Instead, she blames plain old sloppiness for a bidding process that was “an embarrassment to the department.” Before the bid was even awarded,

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cy room off the streets pretty regularly,” says Stith. “It’s costly but that’s what you do.” At Denver Health, Colwell describes having to board psychiatric patients in the emergency room. On a typical night, as many as 10 or 15 beds may be taken up by people who are waiting for psychiatric services, while the psychiatrists on staff at the hospital are overwhelmed with other cases.

reached 2,000 people. Parvensky believes there is a straight line between the decrease in funding for mental health — and especially the decline in inpatient capacity — and the increase in homelessness in Colorado. He estimates that around 40 percent of the adult homeless in the state suffer from serious mental illness — diagnoses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or severe depression that keep people from working and living in housing. “We saw the biggest spike in homelessness in the 1980s,” says Parvensky, “and it really correlated to both the deinstitutionalization as the state closed down the mental health facilities, and the funding that was promised to provide community-based services … never materialized.” Patrick Fox, a state Department of Human Services official who oversees the mental institutes at Fort Logan and Pueblo, says that additional mental health funding pledged by the state will work to alleviate pressure on emergency rooms and jails — and care for the Colorado’s most vulnerable populations where they are. But Parvensky, who has watched the state’s homeless population more than triple since he joined the nonprofit in 1985, believes the chronic underfunding will be tough to undo. “It’s a down payment,” says Parvensky, “but unfortunately it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the need we’re seeing here in the metro Denver area and across the state.”

says Beckman, she became aware of “blatant” errors including missing scores, incorrect calculations and improper weighting. “We were wondering how we had gotten this far without checking our work,” says Beckman, adding that in retrospect, the award should never have been publicly announced. “It was just such bad timing. It was awkward. It was not good.” Her division instead referred the matter to the Colorado Department of Personnel and Administration. That office found that the bid process was not only stocked with errors, says Beckman, but didn’t meet the requirements of the legislation creating the new behavioral health crisis system, including principles of cultural competence, strong community relationships and building on existing foundations. Harriet Hall was among those who were unhappy with the way the bid went the first time. She heads the Jefferson Center for Mental Health, and is part of a group of local partners who got together to apply to run the crisis centers. “Our sense of the competing bid was that those strong community relationships were non-existent,” Hall says. “And yet if you looked at the

scoring they were scored as high or higher as folks that have the community relationships.” But Covington says there was no requirement that the bidders have a history of operating in the state. Reviewers were impressed with Crisis Access’ focus on peer support and trauma-informed care, records show. If there’s any consensus, it’s that the state’s mistakes will be expensive to fix. A new bidding process means another costly effort by the mental health service providers applying for the job — not to mention those reviewing the proposals. Beckman says the disruption is worth it in order to re-do the bid process with a fresh crew and a clean slate. “When we’re done, everyone’s going to say, this is a really good process,” says Beckman. The state hopes to finalize the new contracts by Feb. 24 — four months later than planned.

Those who pose a risk to themselves or others may be admitted to the psychiatric emergency department. Dr. Kimberly Nordstrom, the medical director of that department, says more and more of the patients she sees don’t have primary care providers. That often means that she can’t prescribe medications — with their uncertain side effects and tailored dosing needs — even to those who are very ill. “I can’t start medicine with somebody who’s not going to be seen for six months,” Nordstrom explains. Others, says Colwell, are at the

brink of posing a risk to the community or themselves — but aren’t there yet. “Once their physical problems are taken care of, we can’t keep them,” says Colwell. But that doesn’t mean they won’t be coming back. I-News is the public service journalism arm of Rocky Mountain PBS and works in collaboration with news media throughout Colorado. To read more, please go to inewsnetwork.org. Contact health reporter Kristin Jones at kristinjones@rmpbs.org.

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Join forces to fight epidemic of mistrust Survey results about trust always turn our heads. As the saying goes we build credibility by the teaspoon and lose it by the bucket when we make a mistake in our line of work. A recent Gallup survey indicated people have confidence in newspapers with 9 percent at a “great deal” and 14 percent at “quite a lot.” It represented a slip from two years earlier when the numbers were 12 percent and 16 percent respectively. This year our lot was nestled below TV news but above big business in the bottom half of the summarized list. HMOs took the bottom spot, and the military took the top spot with 43 percent at “great deal” and 33 percent “quite a lot.” By the way, nice work by small business taking second place. And another recent survey, the annual governance survey Gallup poll, pointed out that confidence in government’s

our view ability to handle international problems tallied a low with 49 percent expressing a great deal or a fair amount of confidence, reportedly 2 percentage points down from the previous mark of 51 percent in 2007. But just this past week, we found sad numbers from another recent survey – The Associated Press-GfK Poll, conducted by GfK Public Affairs & Corporate Communications – that points to an erosion of trust person to person. In broad strokes, the survey mirrors reported trends that the percentage of people who believe most people can be trusted is in decline. The survey results asked respondents to share how much they trust “people who they may not know very well” in various

letter to the editor Questions for Congress

Congressman Mike Coffman, I have so many questions. Not just for you, but all so-called representatives. As you are the duly sworn representative of this district, would you mind answering a few questions? Why should we, as a representative of the people, vote for you or any other politician? Why should we vote for representation at all? I only ask this question as it seems that most congressional representatives fail to represent the people that elect them into office. It is not just limited to partisan politics, but the entire system of the U.S. government lately. Why do we currently have a star chamber and what is its purpose that is the FISA court? Why the secrecy and lack of accountability? Does the sitting government fear its people? What can you do about the rising concerns of an increasingly paramilitary citizen police force? What is the purpose of using a

SWAT team to serve warrants for nonviolent offenders? Is it control of the populace? It should be known that there are more U.S. citizens killed by police than from foreign or domestic terrorism. I never agreed with the implementation of the Patriot Act. The name itself sounds so patriotic, but it is nothing of the sort and is very antithetical to the entire U.S. ideology. Why do corporate interests seem more important than citizen interests to all politicians? Does the common citizen that does donate to a campaign have any voice anymore? Sorry for all the questions. I just don’t feel represented by anyone anymore except Google, Microsoft, Apple, Comcast and all of the rest of the megalopolies. Hoping for change that I will most likely never see, Steven Stormo Centennial

Thanksgiving leftovers are calorie-free treat Don’t you just love Thanksgiving leftovers? It could be the full meal just reheated and enjoyed as if it were Thanksgiving all over again. It could also be turkey soup, turkey salad, or turkey sandwiches, I love them all equally. And wouldn’t you agree that mashed potatoes and gravy just seem to taste even better on the second day? As much as I enjoy tasty reminders of the holiday, my favorite leftovers are the feelings of gratitude and appreciation for those very special people in my life and the blessings I have received. It sure does feel good when we can love on our friends and family members on Thanksgiving and shower them with the appreciation they deserve for standing by us, supporting us and loving back. And I especially love the feeling when I can tell them again on Friday, Saturday and Sunday just how much they mean to me. Talk about amazing leftovers, it just doesn’t get any better than that. Another benefit of gratitude leftovers is this, they are all calorie-free. We can partake in these tasty leftovers for days, weeks, months and years and never gain an ounce or an inch. As a matter of fact, with all of the energy we would use and excitement we would generate by actively pursuing things to be grateful for and people to appreciate, we may just lose a few ounces and inches. As good as the turkey, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce tastes, after too many days in the refrigerator they will all eventually need to be consumed or thrown away. That doesn’t happen with gratitude leftovers, as they can last for as long as we are willing to recognize just how meaningful and important they are to our own happiness and the health of

our relationships. Most of us are fed and fed well at Thanksgiving, we are nourished with tables and plates full of delicious food prepared by those closest to us that we have chosen to share the Thanksgiving holiday with. Sooner or later the initial meal and surplus goodies will be gone. But when we feed our attitude and spirit with the meals of gratitude and appreciation, we can live off of that nourishment for a very long time. That is why we need to remember that the leftovers don’t stop when Thanksgiving Thursday is just a few days gone in the rearview mirror, the star of the Thanksgiving Thursday meal is not the turkey, but rather the remembrance and acknowledgment of all that we have and for all of those we hold closest to us. I truly hope that you had a warm, wonderful, and happy Thanksgiving, and I hope that you will enjoy the calorie-free leftovers for a very, very long time. I would love to hear all about your leftovers at gotonorton@gmail.com and thank you all for making this a better than good week. Michael Norton is a resident of Highlands Ranch, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation and the CEO/ founder of www.candogo.com.

situations. The highest level of trust came for “people who have access to your medical records when you visit a doctor or hospital people,” with 50 percent choosing “a great deal/quite a bit.” Even in this top category, 29 percent said “just somewhat,” and 17 percent said “not much or not at all” in the same category. The highest level of distrust was in the category of “people driving the cars around you when you’re driving, walking or biking,” with 39 percent at “not much” or “not at all,” which makes sense given the random interactions on the streets. The three lowest levels of trust came in situations that are generally more random, such as interactions with people who swipe credit cards, people driving cars around you, and people met while traveling. The three highest levels of trust generally involved where the relationship may be less random and in some cases

involve an ongoing relationship, such as with people who have access to medical records, people who prepare food, and people meet while traveling or away from home. Seems like the more people are connected by the conveniences of modern life, the more disconnected they are in other ways, such as building trust. We notice that trust is stronger in smaller circles where people have repeated interactions with the people who make up their lives. While we do our best to increase trust and confidence from our offices, we see an effort that needs to take place neighbor by neighbor, group by group. It’s not too early for a New Year’s resolution. Be a joiner, join a local organization, learn how it works and get to know the people involved. And if you are already involved, look for another opportunity. Survey says – stronger connections bring more trust.

A breakfast toast to good companions Have you had a circumstantial breakfast lately? That’s what I call a breakfast that impresses you, and not just because of the food. You remember it because of whom you are with, or where you are, or the timing. On your honeymoon, eggs have never tasted better. Or worse. You just came back from a funeral, and you can’t even taste your food. Your best friend is sitting across the table from you. He just flew in from northern California. I just fixed breakfast, and I won’t remember what I ate an hour from now, especially if I do the dishes. There were no circumstances. Now, if I get food poisoning, that will change everything. I thought about my best circumstantial breakfast and my worst, and I came up with both of them right away. The best was almost too easy. It was on a Sunday at the Brown Palace. I have never seen so much food. It was either all right or all wrong. That’s the way I feel when I watch “Man v. Food.” Adam Richman attempts to eat more food in 30 minutes than most of us eat in a week. And more than some homeless people eat in a month. Richman is from Brooklyn, and he went to the same high school that Woody Allen went to, and my talented friend Susan went to: Midwood. He has a master’s degree from the Yale School of Drama, so he’s not just an everyday glutton.

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He retired from competitive eating in 2012, and has lost 60 pounds. I don’t like the word “brunch.” I don’t like the word “portmanteau” either, but that’s what the word “brunch” is, just like “smog.” Brunch is a combination of “breakfast” and “lunch.” Smog is a portmanteau of “smoke” and “fog.” I am going to call what we had that morning at the Brown Palace breakfast, even though it was brunch. I am not interested in All You Can Eat, but the circumstances were favorable for the choice. My best friend was in town from northern California, and sitting next to him was my sister, who was in town from suburban Detroit. I would have been happy with a sponge on my plate. Instead I had prime rib and asparagus tips, and about ten other things. I may have had turkey and dressing. There could have been salmon on my plate at one time. Choosing the worst was a snap. UCLA Smith continues on Page 9

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Pharmaceutical bill shows bipartisanship Located on every gallon of milk at any grocery store in the state of Colorado is a bar code that contains the history of that particular gallon — what dairy farm it originated from, where it was pasteurized, and when it expires, among other things. If there is a contaminated batch or an outbreak of disease, officials can trace where this milk came from and quickly respond. If you were to wander over a few more aisles at that same grocery store, to the pharmacy, you may be surprised to learn that no similar system of protection is in place. In fact, pharmacists cannot determine with any certainty where a prescription drug has been and whether it has been secured or safely stored on its way to the pharmacy. Making matters worse, there is no uniform oversight of this supply chain, where prescription drugs pass through many different hands (manufacturers, distributors, dispensers, and re-packagers). All that exists is a patchwork of state regulations that vary enormously from state to state.

Compare that to airport security. If every major U.S. airport had different security processes, with some easier to circumvent than others, imagine which one a terrorist would prefer. This is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. In 2009, nearly 130,000 vials of insulin where stolen, left unrefrigerated, and later found across the country in a national pharmacy chain after patients began reporting poor control of their insulin levels. Less than 2 percent of the insulin was ever recovered. And just a year ago, contaminated compounded drugs from a

center in New England caused a meningitis outbreak, which killed 64 people. All that’s about to change. A few weeks ago, the most comprehensive drug safety bill in a quarter-century became law. The Drug Quality and Security Act would track prescription drugs from the time they are manufactured to the moment they are delivered to the drugstore. Like UPS or FedEx, but for prescription drugs instead of packages. And it won’t add a penny to our deficit. These supply chain security provisions are the culmination of more than two years of bipartisan work we did with Senator Richard Burr, a Republican from North Carolina, in conjunction with a wide range of business and consumer groups. In a dysfunctional Congress that has deservedly earned its reputation for unprecedented levels of partisan gridlock, this bill passed both the House of Representatives and the Senate unanimously. It is a shining example of what can be achieved when we put our political differences aside and

work to tackle tough problems. Our common-sense proposal will help reduce the burden of a cumbersome, patchwork regulatory system, driving costs down, while also protecting families from counterfeit or tainted drugs. Now we’ll know who has handled the medicine we take and give to our kids and where and when they handled it. If Colorado fruit growers can track a peach from the tree to the store, consumers should reasonably expect the same level of scrutiny for their prescription drugs. Pharmacists in Colorado fill more than 60 million prescriptions every single year, and for many of us, the medications we take can mean the difference between life and death. Families purchasing these drugs deserve to know they are safe. Now, with the bipartisan and pragmatic Drug Quality and Security Act, they can have that peace of mind. Democrat Michael Bennet has represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate since 2009.

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DAUGHTERS OF the British Empire is a national organization with a philanthropic purpose. For almost a century, DBE has been a common bond for women of British heritage living in the United States. DBE is open to women who are citizens or residents of the United States who are of British Commonwealth birth or ancestry or who are married to men of British Commonwealth birth or ancestry. Nationally and locally, members contribute significantly to the good of their community and to the support of a retirement home established by DBE. There are six chapters in Colorado, including chapters in Littleton, Englewood, Centennial, Evergreen and Boulder County. Call Chris at 303-683-6154 or Olive at 303-347-1311, or visit www. dbecolorado.org and use the contact form available.

THE “NOON Hour,” a weekly event that allows the residents of Centennial to connect and communicate with Mayor Cathy Noon is every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Civic Center building located at 13133 E. Arapahoe Road. PROFESSIONAL AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of University Women, LittletonEnglewood Branch invites baccalaureates to participate in activities that further the goals of equity for women and girls, lifelong education and positive societal change. Meetings are usually Mondays each month, September through May, at Koelbel Library, Orchard Road and Holly Street, Centennial. Social time is followed by business meeting and informative program on subjects ranging from public policy issues to poetry. Call Pam Hansen at 303-753-0838. CENTENNIAL TRUSTED Leads is a professional referral organization that meets for breakfast at The Egg & I, 6890 S. University, Centennial, the first and third Thursdays at 7:45 a.m. Call 303-972-4164 or visit www.trustedleads.com LITTLETON LETIP meets from 7:16-8:31 a.m. every Tuesday for breakfast at Luciles, 2852 W. Bowles Ave., to exchange qualified business leads. Call Bob Hier at 303-660-6426 or e-mail hierb@yahoo.com. NON-PRACTICING AND Part Time Nurses Association meets from 12:30-2:30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month at the Southglenn Library, 6972 S. Vine St., Centennial. All nurses are invited to attend for medical presentations. Contact: Barbara Karford, 303-794-0354. SOCIAL CENTENNIAL ROTARY Club meets Tuesday from 7:10-8:30 a.m. at the Embassy Suites, 10250 E Costilla Ave., Centennial. Guests are welcome. For more information call Mary Alice Jackson at 303-400-3641 or visit www.bestrotary.com DAUGHTERS OF the American Revolution, Columbine Chapter meets at 1 p.m. the second Saturday of each month from September through May at the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce at the Streets at SouthGlenn, Centennial. If you are interested in attending or have questions regarding eligibility, contact Krispin at Krispin_L_Andersen@Q.com or Merry Snyder at mcs.dar88@comcast.net. DAUGHTERS OF the American Revolution, Mount Rosa Chap-

ter typically meets at 1 p.m. every first Monday of the month at Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly St. in Centennial. Call Gina Moore

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goofed up my student deferment, and I was notified by mail that a pre-induction physical was required. UCLA assured me that the deferment would be processed — after the physical. If you know Los Angeles you know MacArthur Park. You may know MacArthur Park if you don’t known Los Angeles, because of the Jimmy Webb song. It’s an awful song. The physical was performed a block away. Things were done to me that I would rather not discuss, and after it was over, they handed me a coupon for a free breakfast. Why didn’t I just get in my Volkswagen and go back to West Los Angeles? Because

DTC ROTARY Club meets from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. the first, third and fourth Tuesdays at the Glenmoor Country Club, 110 Cherry Hills Village. Guests are welcome. Contact Dana Arell at 720-339-7367 or visit www.dtcrotary.org. FIBROMYALGIA WOMEN’S Group for women wanting to get together to talk about positive things that have helped them and to make new friends. No fee; must live near Parker/ Centennial. Time and day to be figured out by group. Call Leslie at 303-791-8814.

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INTRODUCTION TO Square Dance class offered from 7-9 p.m. Mondays at Grandview Grange, 2280 Noble Place, Centennial. Visit www.SquareDanceEtc.com. NEWCOMERS CLUB of Centennial, for people new to the area, meets regularly for parties, classes, movies, lunches, coffees and more. E-mail newcomersdenver@msn.com. MOPS (MOTHERS of Preschoolers) meets from 9:15-11:30 a.m. on the first and third Fridays of each month at Our Father Lutheran Church, 6335 S. Holly St., Centennial. Child care is provided on-site for children ages birth to 4 years. The first meeting is free. Come enjoy breakfast, support and encouragement, and meet some new friends. Call or email Amy at 303-570-6027 or amyswieringa@comcast.net. ORIGINAL PORTS of Call Singles Club for ages 55 and older is a great way to meet new friends and get out among others in your situation! We call our selves a” Circle of Friends. We have a variety of interests, cards, theater, tours, dinners, lunches, golf , bowling and dances etc. It meets every second Monday at Sr. Ric on Miss. from 4-6 p.m. in Aurora. Call JoAnn at 303-751-5195 or just come. It meets every fourth Tuesday at Chads South of Sixth Avenue in Lakewood form 4-6 p.m. Call Mary Riney at 303-9858937. The third Wednesday at the Three Margaritas at 5130 S Wadsworth Blvd from 5-7 p.m. Call Jean Fox 303-730-2804. there was nothing in the refrigerator, and how bad can any breakfast be? I don’t know how to cook, but I can make a decent breakfast. I don’t remember the name of the place. It could have been Puddled Eggs, or Suspicious Hash, or Mush of Pork? They all describe the gobbets on my plate. I said that I would have been happy with a sponge on my plate at the Brown Palace, because I was with my best friend and my sister, who would make up for almost anything on the menu. That’s not really true. If Mike and Cindy had been with me at Puddled Eggs it wouldn’t have helped. The orange juice was poached. Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@ comcast.net

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Six finalists make cut for fire chief position Mullin leaving job at end of December By Jennifer Smith

jsmith@ourcoloradonews.com After a national search, Littleton City Manager Michael Penny has announced the names of six finalists for the Littleton Fire Rescue chief position. Division Chief Wayne Zygowicz is the only LFR employee to make the cut. The others are Christopher Armstrong, former division chief in Miramar, Fla.; Joseph Bruce, chief of North Metro Fire Rescue in Arvada; Gary Curmode, chief of the Sedgwick County Fire District 1 in Park City, Kan.; Jack McArthur, chief in Yuma, Ariz.; Thomas Solberg, director of fire service training at Montana State University. John Mullin, chief since 2004, an-

nounced Aug. 23 that he would end his 40year career effective Dec. 31. “How exciting for the new chief to be coming to an organization that is hungry to grow and hungry to go forward,” he told the Highlands Ranch Metro District board of directors Nov. 26. “Thank you for the support you have given me and the friendships I’ve made. It’s been a good run. It’s been fun being a part of this, this is a good place to live and work.” He announced his retirement on Aug. 23, four months after the firefighters’ association formally declared their lack of confidence in his leadership. “Once a proud and well-regarded emergency services provider, we have watched with dismay and disappointment as Littleton has been passed up by other metro fire departments,” the association wrote in an April 16 letter to Penny. “It pains us to see how far we have fallen under the leadership of John Mullin.”

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Mullin called the vote a distraction. “I turn 65 this October and will achieve 40 years in the fire service on April 1,” he said in a statement Aug. 24. “I leave a wonderful, adventure-filled career on my terms.” At the time, Joel Heinemann, president of the Littleton Firefighters Association, said the department was looking forward to a new start. “We wish him well in the next chapter of his life,” he said. “We’re excited about moving forward with the future of the Littleton fire department with new leadership.” The switch comes as South Metro Fire Rescue is studying the feasibility of joining forces in some fashion with LFR. A similar study conducted last year between LFR and the Englewood Fire Department recommended an eventual merger with Englewood’s department, but no real steps were taken toward that end. Mullin began his fire service with Little-

ton Fire Rescue in 1974, holding the ranks of firefighter, paramedic, lieutenant, captain, training officer and battalion chief. He accepted the position of chief of The Woodlands Fire Department in Texas in 1998. He kept that position for six years, then returned to LFR in 2004 to assume the chief’s job. He’s served on the Colorado Fire Chiefs Executive Board and represented that organization on the State of Colorado Hazardous Materials Volunteer Certification Board. He’s also been the Colorado vice president of the Missouri Valley Division’s executive board. Interviews will be conducted with the finalists Dec. 9. Five panels consisting of more than 40 people will participate in the process, including department directors, LFR staff, representatives from Highlands Ranch Metro District and Littleton Fire Protection District, other local fire chiefs and a citizens’ panel.

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Foundation work is well underway at Arapahoe Plaza, a large commercial development currently under construction on the southeast corner of Arapahoe Road and Quebec Street On Dec. 2, a team of plumbers were doing trench work at the site. Scheduled for completion in April 2014, the 8,200-square-foot building will feature a two-story, brick clock tower and space for four to five commercial tenants. The development is being built by Arapahoe Partners. Waner Construction is the general contractor on the project. Photo by George Lurie

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Victim was 13 when educator began ‘grooming’ process By Ryan Boldrey

rboldrey@ourcoloradonews.com Former Rocky Heights Middle School teacher Richard Johnson was sentenced to 20 years in prison followed by 20 years in the state’s Sex Offender Intensive Supervised Probation program for sexually exploiting an eighth-grade student in 2011. The 32-year-old Centennial man was arrested in November 2012 and charged with 30 felony counts, including 10 each of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust and patterned sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust, as well as five each of sexual exploitation of a child and enticement of a child. After initially pleading not guilty, Johnson reached a deal with prosecutors and changed his plea this September, agreeing to two Class 3 felony

counts of sexually exploiting a child and avoiding a trial in the process. “This is the ultimate example of betrayal,” said 18th Judicial District Court Judge Richard Caschette at the Nov. 27 sentencing in Castle Rock. “The community expects and deserves more of its teachers and people in a position of trust than was shown here and finds crimes of this nature against children the most repugnant of Johnson crimes.” The victim, who said she was 13 when Johnson “began grooming” her, addressed the court at the sentencing, as did both of her parents. The former Highlands Ranch middle school teacher, who sat stonefaced and stared straight ahead throughout the hearing, refused to speak, but did offer an admission of guilt and a desire to get psychiatric help in a letter that was read by his at-

torney. “He robbed me of all stability in my life,” said the now-16-year-old Rock Canyon student, stating that Johnson turned her against all her friends and her family so that he would be the only one she could turn to for emotional support. Once everyone else was gone from her life, she said the relationship quickly turned from an emotional one to one of “constant sex and constant obsessiveness,” and that the former teacher “had to always know where I was, who I was with and what I was doing. All the emotion was gone. The driving force was sex.” “I want him to know I am taking back all that he took from me,” she said. “I want him to know I am disgusted by his actions. I am stronger now than ever before and he needs to know that I fell in love with the man he pretended to be, not the sick man he truly is. ... I’m not Rick’s victim anymore, though. Today I become a survivor.”

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manager for KTK, said his company is on track to complete the project ahead of schedule. “It’s been going really well so far,” said Koppenhafer. “We’re making a ton of progress.” The King Soopers store, which originally

opened in July 1978, will close during part of January in order to allow for interior renovations to be completed, Koppenhafer said. The expansion will add 18,000 square feet, including a new deli, produce section and additional check stands. Other improvements include new indoor-outdoor seating areas, a sushi and cheese island, a new pharmacy and new flooring, lighting and HVAC system. Koppenhafer said the cost of construction on the project is $4 million.

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between managing the city and managing the county. “We don’t have that long-standing history, like Arapahoe County does, where we’ve always done things a certain way,” the mayor said. “Centennial is smaller and because we’re a contract-model city, we can be more nimble and, at least in some cases, move a lot more quickly.” As an example of one city-county relationship that works “amazingly” well, Noon cited the city’s arrangement with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, which is contracted to police Centennial, rated as one of the country’s safest cities. “Our relationship with the sheriff’s department couldn’t be better,” said Noon. “Sheriff (Grayson) Robinson and his staff do a stellar job for us.” As a city that contracts for many of its services, Centennial has fewer than 60 full-time employees. Arapahoe County, on the other hand, employs more than 1,950. And while Noon and the city council serve “part-time,” leaving day-to-day decisions to City Manager John Danielson and his staff, Arapahoe County commissioners work full-time and are elected to run the county. As mayor, Noon is paid $850 per month — or slightly more than $10,000 a year. (City councilors are paid $700 a month.) Base annual salary for Arapahoe County commissioners is $87,300. Newly elected District 1 City Councilor Kathy Turley said during her campaign that if she won a council seat, she would look into what she termed “strained relations” between the city and county. “I feel very strongly about the lack of collaboration happening with the county,” Turley said. “Both entities have a fiduciary responsibility to be working together and I don’t see that right now.” Doris Truhlar, who was just elected to city council in District 2, agrees with Turley. “I don’t think things between the city and county are very good,” said Truhlar. “I’m the new kid on the block … but from what I’ve already heard, current relations are disruptive and pretty poor.” Truhlar speculated some of the issues date back to “hard feelings” related to Centennial’s incorporation. “People need to get over it,” she said. “It’s old news.” Arapahoe County Commissioner Nancy Sharpe, whose

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“Some people were upset when we started because we removed some trees and took up some of the parking lot with construction equipment,” said Koppenhafer, who added that there are plans to redo the parking lot and add new trees and additional landscaping. “When we’re done,” Koppenhafer said, “it’s going to be one of the largest and most beautiful grocery stores in the area.” In the new section of the Dry Creek Shopping Center, Max Muscle, a sports nutrition store located next to Larkburger,

district includes Centennial, admitted recently that she and the other commissioners are aware of “issues” in the county’s relationship with Centennial officials. “I do think we have some communication problems, some things we need to work on,” Sharpe said. “Having good communication with our cities across Arapahoe County is really important to me,” said Sharpe, the former mayor of Greenwood Village who will be running for re-election next year. Sharpe said she believes the county and its cities have worked effectively together on certain issues and projects in the past, most notably, she said, “on open space issues and share-back funds.”

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“Actually, I think we’ve made a lot of progress (in improving city-county relations) since Commissioner Sharpe was elected,” said Noon, who credited Sharpe, while she was Greenwood Village mayor, with helping to improve that city’s relationship with Centennial. “The county has contributed in so many ways to the successes that Centennial has had and I’ve got great hope that our relationship is going to get better and better,” Noon said. “With a new council coming in, I know there’s a commitment to try to move forward,” she added. “It sounds like it should be very easy to do but sometimes that’s not the case.”

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Disabled teen finds spot on DU roster Pioneers hockey team welcomes local boy By Ryan Boldrey

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Cresthill Middle School eighth-grader Adam Encrapera (99) celebrates the University of Denver hockey team’s 3-1 win over Air Force Nov. 23 in the Pioneer locker room. Encrapera, who is living with Alstrom Syndrome, signed a letter of intent with the team Nov. 19 and is the squad’s newest honorary member. Photo by Ryan Boldrey meant to be a friendship. He is one of our brothers now and we want to bring him as much joy as we can when he is around the rink and be there for him when things maybe aren’t going so well for him off the ice.” Adam has his own stall in the Pioneer locker room, nameplate and all, and was also given a No. 99 jersey. He said he is still getting to know all the guys’ names and doesn’t have a favorite player yet, but so far

the experience has been special. “I’m going to try to get to many games as I can,” said Adam, who can’t hear without his hearing aids and listens to the game on his headphones while at the rink. A former adaptive hockey player, Adam used to use a hockey stick as a cane when he was little. And while he has spent a lot of time around his older brother Luke’s hockey and baseball teams, he has never truly had a team of his own, until now.

Adam Encrapera wheeled his chair into the University of Denver locker room following the Pioneers’ 3-1 victory over Air Force Nov. 23 at Magness Arena. Immediately, cheers erupted from the DU hockey team and a chant of “Adam, Adam, Adam,” quickly gained steam. The Pioneers were now 1-0 with their newest teammate — a 14-year-old Highlands Ranch youth who is one of just 500 people worldwide known to have Alstrom syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that affects every organ in the body with exception of the brain. Adam was diagnosed with AS at age 3. Legally blind and hard of hearing, the Cresthill Middle School eighth-grader has had fierce battles with liver disease and diabetes, has experienced countless seizures, had heart and kidney problems, had two back surgeries and spends his nights in bed hooked up to a breathing machine. In the past three years alone, he has also had just shy of 20 trips to the emergency room. On Nov. 19, in a special ceremony, he signed a letter of intent to become an honorary member of the Pioneers for the duration of the 2013-14 season, in which he will not just attend games, but get to be part of pre- and post-game activities with the team. “Adam is a local kid, likes hockey, is a big sports fan and it just seemed like a good fit for us, something all the guys are really excited about getting involved with,” said DU sophomore defenseman Wade Bennett, who is recovering from an injury and watched the Air Force game with Adam and his family in the stands. “We are truly initiating him into the Pioneer family,” Bennett continued. “It’s

“Every day is a challenge,” said his mother, Susan Encrapera. “When you can balance it with something that can give him hope, it encourages him and makes him feel like part of something. It helps him get through rough times.” Now, thanks to Team IMPACT — the national nonprofit organization that made the match — and the Pioneers hockey team, Adam has 25 new brothers to help him through those rough times.

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Crash survivor gives thanks Man meets with team that saved his life By Jennifer Smith

jsmith@ourcoloradonews.com It might sound cliché, but Roger Dean really does have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season. “It was a whole lot of events that individually don’t matter, but came together,” said the Parker resident. On Nov. 29 last year, Dean was heading to pick up his granddaughter from school in his small Chevy S-10 pickup when a drunk driver changed his life forever. He was stopped at a light along with several other cars when a lifted Ford F250 literally ran over his truck. Fortunately, an off-duty lieutenant with South Metro Fire Rescue was a few cars ahead of Dean and quickly called in the team of first responders that saved his life. Dean was able to thank that team Nov. 20 at Littleton Adventist Hospital, where he stayed for 60 days, when his rescue became a case study for trauma nurses. It was the first time he had been so bluntly presented with his own injuries. “Frankly, I was pretty nervous about coming,” he said. “But I kind of worked myself up to it. I’ve kind of been analytical about it. … It’s a little troublesome, but I’m OK with it.” He listened as the paramedics described how they found him slumped across the bench seat with his head smashed into the passenger window, face crumpled, one eye hanging out of the socket, blood coming out of both ears. Two things were clear: Dean hadn’t been wearing a seatbelt, and getting him out of the vehicle was going to be a challenge.

They were clear for the same reason — at the time, Dean weighed somewhere between 450 and 475 pounds. And perhaps unfortunately for him, he was conscious. “But he had a very calm demeanor, which is great,” said Dusty Stevens, Franktown firefighter. Dean was able to help keep his own airway clear, freeing his rescuers up to get him loaded up and on his way to LAH’s emergency room. “Roger had more anesthetics than I’ve ever seen,” said Kim Muramoto, director of trauma programs. Dean watched as Dr. Mark Elliott showed a graphic video of the procedure he used to try to save his damaged eye. “Sorry, Roger, that it didn’t help,” said Elliott. “That’s OK, you guys did everything you could,” said Dean. Muramoto described the challenges of sending him through the CAT scan, which is rated for 475 pounds. If he were to come into contact with the sides, the results wouldn’t be usable, and it could be dangerous to him, she said. She personally walked through with him to ensure that didn’t happen. Trauma surgeon Dr. Donald Conner added that he placed two operating tables together to work on Dean. He described Dean’s crushed chest, fractured sternum and head injuries. “It’s amazing how God has built the face,” Conner said. “It’s kind of like a builtin crumple zone. A lot of his scalp was detached from his skull.” He only had to endure one follow-up facial surgery, as it was determined braces would fix the rest of the damage. “I really was blessed. Things just went well for me, and I’m appreciative,” Dean said, adding that he’s gotten a new outlook on life since the accident, and thinks his sense of humor has gotten better.

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Column collection ready for reading Smitty Smith’s long nose and big brown eyes grace the cover of Craig Marshall Smith’s recently published “This is not a daschund,” a collection of some of the writer/artist/Highlands Ranch curmudgeon’s columns from Colorado Community Media papers. Books are in stock at Tattered Cover bookstores on the shelves of Colorado writers, we are told. Smith said the title was inspired by painter Rene Magritte’s painting of a pipe, “The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe).”

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South Suburban’s 27th Annual Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Dec. 7 at Goodson Recreation Center, 6315 S. University Blvd., Centennial. Glass art, photos, paintings, candles, soaps, foods, decorations, scarves, hats, purses, jewelry and more … Admission is free and South Suburban’s Sparks Gymnastics team will offer free giftwrapping. The concession stand will be open for lunch.

ABOVE: The “View From Studio,” acrylic on canvas by rita derjue won first place in Littleton’s 2013 Own an Original Exhibit at the Littleton Museum. Margaretta Gilboy was the juror. RIGHT: “Summer,” porcelain by Ileana Barbu, won second place in the exhibit. Courtesy photos by Dustin Ellingboe

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Bright spot Admission is free at Littleton Museum By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@ ourcoloradonews.com Despite a distinct chill in the air, a large crowd turned out for the opening reception of the Littleton Fine Arts Board’s annual Own an Original Competition winners on Nov. 21. The bright, light show is a good antidote to winter blahs. There seem to be more unusual techniques than I recall in the many previous (more than 40) OAO shows. Juror Margaretta Gilboy selected 66 pieces of art from a much larger group of submissions by 125 artists, all from Colorado. They run from a large “Phoenix Rising” mixed media work to a small, bright blue stoneware tea set, with a great variety of artistic visions. Allow time to look closely when visiting, so you notice details such as the typewriter keys in Michelle Lamb’s delightful assemblage, “Reliquary of St. Obsolescence.” Gilboy has a lengthy list of exhibitions in her biography, as well as inclusion in museum and private collections. She teaches at the Denver Art Students League. Visitors can view three paintings by Gilboy that reflect her worldview, including a blend of cultures, to the right of the exhibit entrance. Her picks for the show are varied and intriguing, linked by expert technique in assorted media. She was surprised at how different pieces looked on the wall, compared to their

“Eight Eyes are Better Than Two” is the title for an exhibit of works by Andy Marquez and three of his students: Nancy Peterson, Fran Baron and Larry Stearns. It will be held in the atrium of the Littletown Building, 2329 W. Main St., Littleton, at 4-8 p.m. Dec. 11, 12, 13; and 10 to 3 p.m. Dec. 14. 303-797-6040.

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Young voices

The Young Voices of Colorado — 180 singers in several children’s choirs — will present a Holiday Concert at 4 p.m. on Dec 8 at the Newman Center, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Music by: Bach, Purcell, Caldwell, Ivy, Kesselman and traditional Christmas music. Tickets: at Ticketmaster.

The Littleton Own an Original Exhibition runs until Jan. 12, 2014 at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton. Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays; 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is free. 303-795-3050.

Chavez show appearance on the slides from which she made her selections. She particularly paused at Stefan Begej’s “To Infinity and Beyond,” with its exploded Buzz Lightyear figure, to exclaim about the difference. “Winery Afternoon,” an acrylic painting by Eldon Ward of Fort Collins, was awarded Best of Show. The painting, which gives us a view through a window to the outside lawn and a relaxed couple on the grass, reflects Ward’s career in architectural drafting, design, landscape design, project management and more. We will have the opportunity to view a large selection of his work next summer, since the Best of Show winner is given the chance to hold a one-person show the following year. “The spaciousness makes me feel happy,” Gilboy said of Littleton artist rita derjue’s large acrylic on canvas, “View From the Studio,” which won First Place. The bright, light palette derjue chose frames the mountain view she can see from her home studio window — a view she fiercely protects. Gilboy, who has also worked in ceramics, gave Second Place to Ileana Barbu’s

“Colorado Back Roads: 25 Years of Colorado Painting” by Lorenzo Chavez of Parker is exhibited at Elements 5280 Gallery, 5940 S. Holly St., Greenwood Village, through Dec. 14. 303-804-5280.

Word on the Streets

The Streets at Southglenn announces a holiday schedule that includes: Clydesdale Carriage Rides and Dickens Carolers on Saturdays from 4 to 8 p.m.; Denver Figure Skating Club Holiday show at 5 p.m. Dec. 14; Santa Photos with your pet from 2 to 6 p.m. Dec. 15; Jingle Bell DJ from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 21; Visit Santa at Guest Services, Fridays through Dec. 13, 4 to 8 p.m., Saturdays through Dec. 14, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sundays through Dec. 15, noon to 6 p.m.; and a skating Santa on Wednesdays from 4 to 8 p.m. at the CUBE, which is open for skating at various hours. See: shopsouthglenn.com/events/holiday.

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“Winery Afternoon,” acrylic on panel by Eldon Ward was awarded Best of Show in the 2013 Own an Original Exhibit at the Littleton Museum. gleaming “Summer,” a wallhung sculptural piece created in white porcelain. “It’s just so technically amazing,” said Gilboy.

Third Place went to Anna Kaye’s small, subtle graphite on paper drawing, “Sterling Braid,” another work that invites a close look.

The “Wind Crest Winter Wonderland Song and Dance Variety Show” will be held from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 9 at 3235 Mill Vista Rd., Highlands Ranch. Residents will showcase their talent. They will be joined by guests from the Colorado Dance Center and Bear Creek High School. Information/ RSVP: MelTansill@Erickson.com.

Auditions

America’s Got Talent will hold auditions for Season 9 on Dec. 7 at the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St., Denver. If interested, pre-register at http://www. americasgottalentauditions.com/.

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Lovely lights make holidays bright Area offers plethora of places to enjoy By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com Pull on the jackets and mittens and head outside for an evening surrounded by fanciful holiday lights. Enjoy music, seasonal entertainment and perhaps some warm cocoa as one enters a magical world. Some suggestions: • “Trail of Lights” at the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatﬁeld offers illuminated paths through the countryside, plus a decorated historic farm, where one can explore the Green Barn and silo, the children’s area and homestead. Here, you will also see illuminated antique tractors, a warming hut, fire pit and on some nights, hayrides. Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatﬁeld is located on Deer Creek Canyon Road, west off Wadsworth, just south of the C-470 intersection. Admission: $10-$12, $8-$10 member, $7-$9 child, $5-7 member child (depending on the date). Free 2 and under. Open nightly 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. through Jan. 1. • “Blossoms of Light” at Denver Botanic Gardens York Street offers lighted trees, paths and structures, with seasonal entertainment on some evenings, themed gardens and a synchronized light and musical showcase in the UMB Amphitheater. At both DBG gardens, warm drinks, treats and Holospex 3-D glasses are available for purchase. Admission: $10-$12/$8-10 member; $7-9 child/$5-7 member child (depending

The historic Hildebrand Farm at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield will be illuminated during “Trail of Lights” through Jan. 1. Photo courtesy of Scott Dressel-Martin on the date). Open nightly 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. through Jan. 1. • “Zoolights” at the Denver Zoo in City Park offers a stroll through 38 acres of lights, with 150 animated animal sculptures and a special Zoolights Lantern Festival in the new Toyota Elephant Passage. Seasonal entertainment: (text Dzoo to 56512 for schedule). Open 5:30 to 9 p.m. nightly through Jan. 5. Admission: $12 adults, $10 over 65, $8 children; free 2 and under; members receive a $2 discount on tickets. (Daytime admission does not include Zoolights.) The zoo closes at 5 p.m. and reopens at 5:30. • Denver’s City and County Building at 14th and Bannock streets is illuminated

through the season, as is Union Station and points in between, which may call for a driving tour. • Drivers in the south area will want to drive down Littleton’s Main Street, where thousands of lights twinkle nightly. A stop for a snack, tea, a drink, might be in order here. A special shopping night is planned on Dec. 7. • Hudson Christmas at Hudson Gardens, 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton, is open 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 6 and 7 and nightly Dec. 13 to 31. A collection of 250,000 lights will line paths for a walkthrough garden stroll. Santa will meet with children and hot cocoa will be available at several locations. Tickets: $9/$6 through

Tickethorse or at the garden shop or box office. • A Holiday Evening at the Farm is presented from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Dec. 8 only at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton. The outdoor event is lighted by Farilitos and an occasional bonﬁre. The two farm homes are decorated and there will be music, snacks and warm cider. There is musical entertainment. Tickets are available at the museum and Littleton’s Bemis Library in advance: $10 general public; $7, Friends of the Library/Museum members; $3 children. If any are left, they will be for sale at the gate on Dec. 8, but they often sell out in advance, since attendance is limited to 1,500. 303-795-3950.

Day’s birds are numbered

A SEASONAL SIGHT

Audubon depends on volunteers for tally By Sonya Ellingboe

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Hundreds of people came to Centennial Center Park on Nov. 23 to witness the city’s annual tree lighting.Photo courtesy of Neil Podoll Photography

Family members of all ages are invited to participate in an event that started in 1900 in New York’s Central Park and now extends through the U.S., Latin America and elsewhere in the world. Bird watching is said to be the No. 1 sport in America, according to the Outdoor Industry Foundation, said a story in Colorado Business magazine. In 1900, Dr. Frank Chapman, ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History at the north end of Central Park, suggested that instead of going out and shooting as many small birds as possible, people should go out and count them on a given day and compile a record of what they spotted. He sparked a movement that draws amateur “citizen scientists” and professionals out early in the morning on a given day between mid-December and early January to count birds seen within a set boundary and turn in the count to the Audubon So-

ciety. Results are tallied and sometimes they highlight an environmental threat or evidence of climate change, which will help conservationists in efforts to protect birds when and where possible. On Dec. 14, the Audubon Society of Greater Denver invites birders of all abilities to its Nature Center at Chatﬁeld from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. for a Christmas Bird Count and Holiday Party. Binoculars are available for loan and hot chocolate will bring added energy as families and individuals join the experts to see which feathered friends are visiting Chatfield that day. Make bird ornaments and decorate cookies. The event is free and there should be information about Audubon’s ongoing educational opportunities for all ages. (This center is especially adapted to share its enthusiasm with very young children and offers “Fledgling” programs.) Those who are interested, but not free that day, can check for other bird count opportunities in Denver (Dec. 14), Denver Urban (Jan. 1 at numerous locations), and Douglas County Dec. 28 at Roxborough State Park Christmas Bird Counts. Please register at 303-973-9530, info@denveraudubon.org.

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Skillful staging tells sad story Wartime fears play into Vintage Theater production

IF YOU GO “Snow Falling on Cedars,” adapted from David Guterson’s award-winning novel by Kevin McKeon, plays through Dec. 15 at Vintage Theater’s studio theater, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: $25/$20 advance, 303-856-7830, vintagetheatre.com.

By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com In many instances, we complain about the transition of a well-loved book to film and stage, but Kevin McKeon’s adaptation of the best-selling “Snow Falling on Cedars” by David Guterson works quite well — due in large part to a skillful director, Sam Wood. The complicated story starts in 1954 with Kabuo Miyamoto (Dale Li) on trial for the murder of Carl Hein, who had been a childhood friend. The script then proceeds to tell the backstory through numerous flashbacks: to a teenage love affair between Ishmael Chambers (Ben Cowhick) and Hatsue Mitamoto (Arlene Rapal); to the Japanese-American farmers who raised strawberries and wanted to buy more land; to the announcement of the Pearl Harbor bombing; the growing prejudice against — and eventual arrest and internment of — Japanese-American citizens who were residents of the island in Puget Sound where the story takes place. Maria Cheng as Fujiko Imada and Rob Payo as Hisao Imada reflect another sort of prejudice in warning their

Dale Li, Arlene Rapal and Ben Cowhick are in the cast of “Snow Falling on Cedars” at the Vintage Theatre. Courtesy photo daughter, Hatsue, against dating a white boy because “you couldn’t trust them.” The set is a simple suggestion of a waterfront with minimal set pieces from which the audience is transported to the Manzanar Relocation Camp in Central California — and elsewhere. (It was one of 10 in the U.S., including Amache in southeastern Colorado, where 110 JapaneseAmericans were incarcerated during World War II.) There is a battle scene where Ishmael is wounded and

a series of flashbacks interspersed with courtroom arguments and witness-questioning by Nels Gudmundsson (veteran actor Roger Simon, who actually is a lawyer), defending Miyamoto, and prosecutor Alvin Hooks (David Cervera). Lighting technician Jen Orf had ongoing responsibility in staging this play. The lighting in the small, long and narrow studio theater highlighted numerous flashbacks clearly, moving the complex story along to its conclusion. Director Sam Wood and a polished cast had their timing precise as we transitioned back and forth through the years. A strong cast and well-written script remind us of an unfortunate piece of history we may have forgotten. I hope some audience members will be moved to find the book at their library and enjoy Guterson’s fine writing after seeing “Snow Falling on Cedars.”

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Santa’s reindeer await his arrival at Bradford Auto Body on Main Street during Littleton’s Candlelight Walk, held each year the day after Thanksgiving. Thousands turned out to enjoy caroling, fire dancers, hot chocolate and warm cider, and Santa’s traditional visit. Photo by Jennifer Smith

Teens to raise voices in song Holiday fest coming to Highlands Ranch By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com Vocal music students from four area high schools have been rehearsing together in preparation for the St. Luke’s Performing Arts Academy Holiday Festival, according to James Ramsey, director of music and arts ministries at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Highlands Ranch. Almost 200 young singers from four area high schools will perform at 6 and 8 p.m. on Dec. 13 at St. Luke’s. Classic carols and favorite songs are on the program, plus a festival chorus song titled “Betelhemu,” with all the movements and drums. Guest musicians include Frank Perko, organ; Gretchen Martin, piano; Dave Shugert, guitars; and Robb

IF YOU GO The St. Luke’s PAA Holiday Festival performances will be at 6 and 8 p.m. on Dec. 13 at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 8817 S. Broadway, Highlands Ranch. Admission: $10, tickets available at stlukespaa.org. Students and families are encouraged to bring donated items for a student-chosen charity. Heskett, drums. There will be a reading of “The Night Before Christmas” and “an identified guest dressed in red and white halfway through the program.” Ramsey said he created summer performing arts programs to provide arts experiences for K-12 students — growing from 26 students in 2006 to nearly 500 in 2013. Programs included: a two-week summer theater intensive, culminating in a musical production; School of Rock Camp; Band and Orchestra Camps; Acting Camp; Theater Sum-

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Christmas Sing-Along is holiday on Hampden Annual concert set for Civic Center

IF YOU GO Hampden Hall is at 1000 Englewood Parkway, on the second floor of Englewood’s Civic Center. Christy Wessler’s Annual Christmas Sing-Along Concert will be at 7 p.m. Dec. 13. Tickets cost $15/$7.50 from producer Judy Duran, 720-270-5767 or at bighaired.com.

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sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com It all began about 10 years ago when Christy Wessler started a holiday sing-along with her Swallow Hill Music Association students. “It has morphed,” she said. “I told myself: Next year we can do this … And it has become a concert.” The Christymas Carolers were formed from her voice students and as the audience grew, a larger space was needed. Hampden Hall at the Englewood Civic Center offered a well-designed concert hall that was still close to the Swallow Hill neighborhood, so “Christy Wessler’s 11th Annual Christmas Sing-Along” will be presented there at 7 p.m. Dec. 13. She hopes to expand to a broader base of followers through the move. Wessler, who lives in Centennial, is music director at Denver’s Unity on the Avenue Church at 17th and Dahlia. She also teaches voice and performance classes regularly at Swallow Hill, where she served as a board

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“Guys on Ice — a musical about ice fishing” plays Dec. 13 to 22 at the Aurora Fox Studio Theatre, 8800 E. Colfax. Ave., Aurora. Meet fishing buddies Marvin and Lloyd, directed by Charles Packard. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22. Tickets: $26/$22/$13, 303-739-1970, Aurora Fox.org.

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Christy Wessler’s annual Sing-Along Christmas Concert will be held in Hampden Hall, Englewood Civic Center this year, on Dec. 13. Courtesy photo

be featured on the concert program. Wessler will be both emcee and soloist. She and the Christymas Carolers, accompanied by pianist Pamela Weng, will lead the audience in traditional carols. Well settled into a career as a performer, Wessler, a mother of four grown children and a grandmother, recalls a somewhat rough start. “I was smart in high school and started college majoring in social work and minoring in math — I hated everything and dropped out for a year and a half. My mother suggested I consider a drama major and I loved it!” She fortunately found her groove and has been performing ever since. Her most recent CD is “Angels Without Wings,” about the specialness of children with disabilities.

Seth Maisel will play Frederick Frankenstein —pronounced “Fronkensteen” — the mad scientist’s New York son, who insists he is actually a sane scientist. Deb Flomberg is director. Performances: 7:30 Fridays and Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays, plus 6:30 p.m. Dec. 31.Tickets cost $31 ($26 advance), 303-856-7830,vintagetheatre.com.

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Musical variety

“Home for the Holidays,” produced by Starkey for Lone Tree Arts Center, plays Dec. 12 to 22 at LTAC, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. This family-oriented production has a cast of about 50, with live music, new and traditional material. Arrive early to visit the handsome Lone Tree Art Exhibit and Sale in the lobby, adjacent hall and room. Tickets: 720-509-1000, LoneTreeArtsCenter.org.

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A MILE-HIGH FIVE

Valor teammates hold the trophy as quarterback A.J. Cecil kisses it after the Eagles defeated Fairview 56-16 in the Nov. 30 Class 5A state championship football game at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. The team victory earned the school its fifth straight state football title. Photos by Tom Munds

Valor claims another state championship By Jim Benton

jbenton@ourcoloradonews.com Valor Christian’s players held up one hand as they gathered near the goalposts under the Sports Authority Field scoreboard. It was the Eagles’ adaptation of a high five. Valor won its fifth consecutive Colorado state football championship Nov. 30 with a 56-16 romp over previously unbeaten Fairview in the Class 5A championship game. The Eagles have captured one Class 3A title, two Class 4A crowns and now the past two Class 5A state championships. In the five title contests, Valor outscored the opposition, 210-48. Next season Valor will have its sights set on matching Limon’s all-time Colorado record of six consecutive state titles. The Badgers won six in a row between 1963-68. Valor will graduate 19 seniors, but 60 players listed on the roster for the state championship game were underclassmen and a majority of them saw action during the season. “I’m not sure about the future outside of we feel blessed to have some kids in our program who are great leaders, mature, humble and we expect them to fill the gap of leadership left by our seniors,” said Eagles coach Rod Sherman. “We’ll see where we end up next year from an offensive and defensive standpoint. We have developed a legacy and tradition in this program. It’s not about winning, it’s about being prepared, playing as hard as we can and playing with class.” Valor, an independent, could end up playing in the Centennial League in 2014. There are six alignment proposals to be considered Dec. 5 and five of them have the Eagles joining the Centennial League. “Definitely, this team can keep winning,” insisted junior defensive back Brian Dawkins Jr. “All I have to say is, bring it on.” Valor brought it on early and often against Fairview as the Eagles (13-1) dominated from the opening kickoff with a strong defense that contained the Knights’ prolific passing attack and an offense that struck quickly but also mounted scoring drives of 80 (twice) and 71 yards. The Eagles never punted in the title game that drew a crowd of 11,482 fans. Valor kept pressure on Fairview quarterback Anders Hill and scored three times on its first four plays to jump ahead 21-0 in the first 6:10 of the game. The Eagles used a 35-point spree to swell their lead to 56-8 in the fourth quarter.

Valor senior Christian McCaffrey (5) dives across the goal line for one of his four touchdowns as the Eagles rolled to a 56-16 win over Fairview in the Nov. 30 Class 5A state championship game at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. The last 21:34 of the contest was played with a running clock, and Sherman shuffled reserves into the game midway through the third quarter. “I never in my wildest dreams thought the score would have got this way,” said Sherman. “We played great defense. We were able to bring some different pressures. We were able to go up 14-0 and it made it harder for their offense and defense. It was huge for us to get the lead because they hadn’t had to play from behind too much.” Valor’s offense, operating behind a stellar line, did its part too. Christian McCaffrey, Valor’s senior running back who signed a letter of intent to play at Stanford, rushed for 129 yards on 12 carries and scored twice. He also caught five passes for 92 yards and two TDs. In the second half, he touched the ball only once. McCaffrey finished the season with 46 touchdowns, which gave him 141 in his career. He wrapped up his prep career by scoring at least one TD in 43 straight games. “I so happy, I can’t express how I feel,” said McCaffrey who was part of the senior class that won four state titles. “All our guys played well. Going out with a broom is something kind of special.” Quarterback A.J. Cecil was 15-of-16 for 245 yards and four touchdowns. He rushed for 65 yards and his only flaws on an otherwise perfect game were an interception and fumble. “I thought A.J. played arguably his best game of the year,” said Sherman.

Valor senior Paul Grizzle, in his first season as a kicker, booted eight extra-point kicks, giving him single-season state records for points (85) and consecutive conversions. Eric Lee Jr., Marcus Wilson, Stone Watson and Nathan Whatmore also had TDs for the Eagles, who have won 22 straight state playoff games. Valor’s defense forced three turnovers and thwarted a Fairview offense that came into the game averaging 45 points. The Knights had defeated three Douglas County teams (Mountain Vista, Douglas County and ThunderRidge) en route to the title game. Fairview, which had passed for an average of 315.5 yards per game, had 208 yards passing but finished with 199 yards of total offense on 63 plays. The Knights had minus 9 yards rushing as Valor, the No. 2 seed, had seven sacks. The top-seeded Knights held a 36:38-26:22 edge in time of possession and ran 14 more offensive plays than the Eagles, who finished with 523 yards of total offense. “We respect Valor,” said Fairview coach Tom McCartney. “They were tremendous in every aspect of the game. The reason the score got out of hand was Valor’s play, because we came into the game ready and prepared. We may not have taken care of the ball like we usually do, but give them credit because they played an outstanding game on both sides of the ball.” Valor’s only loss of the season came by a field goal at the hands of Bingham, a Utah high school that won that state’s large-school championship.

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Boys BasketBall preview

Free throws can be arc of triumph By Jim Benton

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jbenton@ourcoloradonews.com The outcome of many basketball games is decided from 15 feet away from the basket. “Free-throw shooting is one of the most important things in winning a basketball game,” said Valor Christian senior Garrett Baggett, who made 82 percent of his attempts from the charity stripe last season. “If you miss 10 free throws and lose by two points, if you had made five of 10 you win the game.” Coaches substitute late in games not only to get good defensive or offensive players on the floor, but also to get better free-throw shooters in the lineup. “It always comes down to free throws,” said Highlands Ranch coach Bob Caton. “Sometimes not just making a free throw but getting a lot of free throws too.” Valor Christian coach Ronnie DeGray tries to make sure his players have their feet correctly aligned and their shooting methods are correct. After that, it us up to the player. Coaches have numerous approaches such as free-throw ladders, team competition and other shooting drills with awards and the usual running punishment to put pressure on players to make free throws during practice. Free-throw shooting provides a chunk of almost every basketball practice. “We like players to get comfortable,” explained Caton. “Every kid when he shoots a free throw should have a pattern, whatever they like to do. Then you want to have the good form, the proper form. One thing you don’t do, if a kid is making a good percent of his free throws, you leave him alone. If he is not making a good percent of his free throws, then you work with him. Then

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Garrett Baggett, an 82 percent free throw shooter, takes a foul shot during a recent practice. Photo by Jim Benton

mitch lomBarD, 6-1, junior, Rock Canyon

you want repetition, where everything becomes a habit.” Baggett made 63 of 76 free-throw attempts and is one of the best returning south metro area boys players in free throw percentage. “I have a routine I do before every freethrow shot,” said Baggett. “I’ll walk to the top of the key, look at the rim a little bit, catch the ball and get a feel for it, take three dribbles to get in a rhythm, eyes on the rim and shoot it.” The waving and other methods stu-

chriS mooDy, 6-5, sophomore, Chaparral

dents use to distract free-throw shooters doesn’t bother Baggett. “All the waving doesn’t usually bother me because I have my head down when I dribble so at the last second is when I pull up, look at the rim and shoot it,” he said. “So I really don’t see all that when I shoot the ball. “It depends on the situation if I think about the importance of a free throw. If it’s a close game, I’ll think a little bit more. I just think about it like any other shot, it’s a routine that I’ve always had.”

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GALLERY OF GAMES & weekly horoscope

Zach mihalicZ, 6-8, senior, Legend evan motlonG, 6-2, senior, Highlands Ranch Griffin Parr, 6-3, senior, Cherry Creek Jake PemBerton, 6-3, senior, Mountain Vista tom Skufca, 6-3, junior, Heritage ryley SteWart, 6-3, junior, Highlands Ranch BrenDan till, 6-2, senior, Arapahoe JameS WilliS, 6-0, sophomore, Lutheran

SALOME’S STARS FOR THE WEEK OF DEC 5, 2013

ARIES (Mar 21 to Apr 19) Decisions involving your finances might seem to be foolproof. But they could have underlying risks you should know about. Don’t act on anything until all the facts are in. TAURUS (Apr 20 to May 20) You’re attracted to a situation that appeals to your Bovine intellect. And that’s good. But don’t neglect your passionate side when romance comes calling later in the week. GEMINI (May 21 to Jun 20) A recent development enhances that special relationship. Spending more time together also helps make the bonding process stronger. Expect news about a possible career change.

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GALLERY OF GAMES

CANCER (Jun 21 to Jul 22) A suspicious situation should be dealt with before it leads to serious problems. Get all the facts needed to resolve it. Then refocus your energies on those tasks that need your attention. LEO (Jul 23 to Aug 22) Try to be more open-minded in working toward a resolution of that standoff between yourself and a colleague or family member. A little flexibility now could work to your advantage later. VIRGO (Aug 23 to Sept 22) You might feel a bit threatened by a proposed workplace change. The best way to deal with it is to ask questions. You’ll find that those involved will be happy to provide you with the facts. LIBRA (Sept 23 to Oct 22) Feeling alone in a crowd during the early part of the week is an unsettling emotion. But your spirits soon perk up, putting you into the right mood to start making holiday plans. SCORPIO (Oct 23 to Nov 21) A pesky problem should be dealt with immediately so you can put your time and effort into something more important. Someone from your past could have significant news for you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 to Dec 21) High-energy aspects dominate, both on the job and at home. Use this time to put some long-range plans into operation. Things level off later in the week. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 to Jan 19) Even the usually gregarious Goat might feel overwhelmed by a flurry of activities. Be patient. Things soon return to your normal social routine. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 to Feb 18) Career choices that seem too confusing to deal with at this point probably are. More information would help uncomplicate them. On the personal side, a friend might need your advice. PISCES (Feb 19 to Mar 20) Your Piscean imagination is stimulated by possibilities you see in a new opportunity. But keep those ideas to yourself until you feel ready to translate them into a workable format. BORN THIS WEEK: You have an ingratiating way of helping people deal with their fears. Have you considered a career in social work or with the clergy? © 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

Centennial Citizen 21

December 6, 2013

Arapahoe senior made net gains Krantz excels all over volleyball court

PICKING THE ATHLETES OF THE YEAR

By Jim Benton

jbenton@ourcoloradonews.com Whitney Krantz feels comfortable any place on a volleyball court. Krantz can play in the front row or the back row. Her versatility is one of the reasons the 6-foot Arapahoe High School senior was selected as the Colorado Community Media South Metro Volleyball Player of the Year. “I’m what they call a six-rotation outside hitter, which means I play in the front row and also in the back row,” explained Krantz. “Outside hitters don’t play in the back row, they just go and hit. “I really enjoy the back row. It’s something I used to struggle with a lot but I think back row and defense takes a little bit more confidence than the front row because you really have to push yourself to go for a ball, you can’t hesitate because the second you hesitate you are not going to get the dig. I played all the way around, got a lot of court time, so that was fun.” Krantz, who along with Grace Marlow were key players in leading Arapahoe to a runner-up finish in the Class 5A state tournament, finished the season with 295 kills (3.2 per set), 229 digs (2.5 per set), 47 blocks and 27 service aces. “Generally the people that play in the back row are a little bit shorter and they are quick on their feet and always low and moving,” said Krantz. “When I first started playing volleyball I didn’t really understand

Castle Rock

CHOOSING COLORADO Community Media’s South Metro Athletes of the Year was a combined effort. Area coaches were asked for their thoughts, and their input was weighed heavily when CCM’s sports staff made the final selection for each sport. ELIGIBLE ATHLETES come from all the high schools in Douglas County, the high schools in the Littleton Public Schools District and from Cherry Creek High School. how to get low to the ground.” Krantz was Arapahoe’s 2013 Most Valuable Player and coach Cara Seyers boasts about how Krantz was able to adapt wherever she was playing. “She played all around,” said Seyers. “She was as important to our defense as she was to our offense.” However, Krantz confessed she adores the offensive aspect of the game and executing a successful spike. “As an outside hitter, kills are one of my favorite parts of volleyball,” said Krantz, who has signed a letter of intent to play next season at Lehigh. “I worked a lot with my coaches on just mixing up my shots. There’s always room for improvement to become a better player. “Overall it was a really fun season. I worked on improving my game, which my teammates helped a lot because it is a big team sport. They helped me not only work on my physical game but my mental game. It was probably the best season I’ve had in my high school career. Part of that was because of experience and learning the game a little better.”

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Parker

Community Church of Religious Science Sunday services held in the historic Ruth Memorial Chapel at the Parker Mainstreet Center

...19650 E. Mainstreet, Parker 80138

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& Children’s Church 10:00 a.m.

Visit our website for details of classes & upcoming events.

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Denver Tech Center

Parker evangelical Presbyterian church

9030 Miller road Parker, Co 80138 303-841-2125 www.pepc.org

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Sunday Worship - 10:00am Bible Study immediately following Wednesday Bible Study - 7:30pm

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Highlands Ranch

Arapahoe senior Whitney Krantz (14), shown here during state playoff action, is Colorado Community Media’s South Metro Volleyball Player of the Year. File photo

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Fargo Bank, N.A. of Deed of Trust: December 18, 2008 County of Recording: Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust: December 23, 2008 Recording Information (Reception Number): B8138608 Original Principal Amount: $199,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $186,414.29 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: LOT 6, BLOCK 1, FOREST PARK FILING FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 7771 S. Columbine Street, Centennial, CO 80122. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

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22 Centennial Citizen

Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 1378-2013

Public Trustees Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 1377-2013 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 12, 2013, 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): CHRISTI TOMLIN Original Beneficiary(ies): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR PREMIER MORTGAGE GROUP, L.L.C. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust: April 30, 2004 County of Recording: Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust: May 04, 2004 Recording Information (Reception Number): B4081421 Original Principal Amount: $155,700.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $129,627.79 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO AND INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE Also known by street and number as: 7688 S. STEELE STREET, CENTENNIAL, CO 80122. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: C.R.S.§38-35-109(5) PURSUANT TO AFFIDAVIT OF SCRIVENER’S ERROR RECORDED ON 9-5-20 13 AT RECEPTION #D3111796 TO CORRECT THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION. 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, 01/08/2014, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, 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: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 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: 09/12/2013 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Eve M. Grina #43658 David R. Doughty #40042 Jennifer K. Cruseturner #44452 Sheila J. Finn #36637 Elizabeth S. Marcus #16092 Janeway Law Firm PC 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 30954 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012 1377-2013 Exhibit A CONDOMINIUM UNIT 91, IN BUILDING 17, MONTEREY CONDOMINIUMS PHASE 2, IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND SUBJECT TO THE DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS, OF MONTEREY CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED JULY 26, 1983 IN BOOK 3942 AT PAGE 1, SAID CONDOMINIUM IS FURTHER DEPICTED AND DESCRIBED BY THE MAP OF DISCOVERY AT MONTEREY PHASE 2 RECORDED AUGUST 18, 1983 IN PLAT BOOK 67 AT PAGES 1-6, ALL IN THE RECORDS OF THE CLERK AND RECORDERS OFFICE OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY, THIS CONVEYANCE IS MADE AND ACCEPTED AND IS HEREBY GRANTED SUBJECT TO THE DECLARATION OF COVENANTS AND RESTRICTION RECORDED JULY 26, 1983 IN BOOK 3924 AT PAGE 1, ALL OF WHICH BY THIS REFERENCE THERETO ARE HEREBY EXPRESSLY INCORPORATED IN AND MADE A PART HEREOF AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH HEREIN, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Legal Notice NO.: 1377-2013 First Publication: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 1378-2013 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 12, 2013, 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 M Rankin Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for Home Savings of

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 12, 2013, 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 M Rankin Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for Home Savings of America, a Federal Savings Association Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: EverBank Date of Deed of Trust: April 24, 2009 County of Recording: Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust: May 05, 2009 Recording Information (Reception Number): B9045918 Re-Recording Date of Deed of Trust: August 02, 2013 Re-Recording Information (Reception Number): D3097673 Original Principal Amount: $139,194.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $131,087.85 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO AND INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE Also known by street and number as: 2862 West Centennial Drive Unit E, Littleton, CO 80123. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

Public Trustees

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, 01/08/2014, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, 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: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 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: 09/12/2013 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Robert J. Aronowitz, Esq. #5673 Lisa Cancanon #42043 Emily Jensik #31294 Joan Olson, Esq. #28078 Jennifer H. Trachte #40391 Monica Kadrmas #34904 Catherine A. Hildreth #40975 Aronowitz & Mecklenburg, LLP 1199 Bannock St., Denver, CO 80204 (303) 8131177 Attorney File # 4380.01629 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012 1378-2013 Exhibit A CONDOMINIUM UNIT E, THE STEEPLECHASE III CONDOMINIUMS TOGETHER WITH GARAGE NO. E, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON MARCH 10, 1999 AT RECEPTION NO. A9040507, 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 STEEPLECHASE III CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED ON MAY 28, 1997 AT RECEPTION NO. A7062094, IN SAID RECORDS. FIRST AMENDMENT RECORDED JUNE 10, 1997 AT RECEPTION NO. A7068621, SECOND AMENDMENT RECORDED AUGUST 26, 1997 AT RECEPTION NO. A7106125. THIRD AMENDMENT RECORDED SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 AT RECEPTION NO . A7120772, FOURTH AMENDMENT RECORDED OCTOBER 22, 1997 AT RECEPTION NO. A7133751. FIFTH AMENDMENT RECORDED NOVEMBER 14, 1997 AT RECEPTION NO. A7144586 AND MAY 15, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. A8054388. SIXTH AMENDMENT RECORDED APRIL 29, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. A8062276, SEVENTH AMENDMENT RECORDED APRIL 29, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. A8062278, EIGHTH AMENDMENT RECORDED JUNE 11, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. A8088540. NINTH AMENDMENT RECORDED JULY 23, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. A8112705, TENTH AMENDMENT RECORDED AUGUST 21, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. A8133076, ELEVENTH AMENDMENT RECORDED AUGUST 26, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. A8135482, TWELFTH AMENDMENT RECORDED SEPTEMBER 24, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. A8152381, THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT RECORDED OCTOBER 14, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. A8163819, FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RECORDED NOVEMBER 19, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. A8187115, FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT RECORDED DECEMBER 14, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. A8203144, SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT RECORDED JANUARY 12, 1999 AT RECEPTION NO, A9005917, SEVENTEENTH AMENDMENT RECORDED JANUARY 12, 1999 AT RECEPTION NO. A9005919, AND EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT RECORDED MARCH 19, 1999 AT RECEPTION NO. A9940506, COUNTY OF ARA P A H O E , S T A T E O F C O L O R A DO Legal Notice NO.: 1378-2013 First Publication: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

Public Trustees Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 1387-2013 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 16, 2013, 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): Fernando Gallegos and Kimberly Gallegos Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for American Southwest Mortgage Corp Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, NA Date of Deed of Trust: December 23, 2011 County of Recording: Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust: December 29, 2011 Recording Information (Reception Number): D1128609 Original Principal Amount: $214,166.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $209,556.45 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: LOT 14, BLOCK 22, NOB HILL SECOND FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 7085 South Cherry Drive, 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, 01/15/2014, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, 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: 11/21/2013 Last Publication: 12/19/2013 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: 09/16/2013 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Caren Jacobs Castle #11790 Deanna L. Westfall #23449 Reagan Larkin #42309 Britney Beall-Eder #34935 Kimberly L. Martinez #40351 Christopher T. Groen #39976 Cynthia Lowery #34145 The Castle Law Group, LLC 999 18th Street #2201, Denver, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 Attorney File # 13-05435 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012 Legal Notice NO.: 1387-2013 First Publication: 11/21/2013 Last Publication: 12/19/2013 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 1398-2013 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 17, 2013, 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): Robert E. Tomasi III Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Provident Funding Associates, L.P. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust: December 18, 2008 County of Recording: Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust: December 23, 2008 Recording Information (Reception Number): B8138608 Original Principal Amount: $199,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $186,414.29 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: LOT 6, BLOCK 1, FOREST PARK FILING FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 7771 S. Columbine Street, Centennial, CO 80122. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

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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, 01/15/2014, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, 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: 11/21/2013 Last Publication: 12/19/2013 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: 09/17/2013 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Caren Jacobs Castle #11790 Deanna L. Westfall #23449 Reagan Larkin #42309 Britney Beall-Eder #34935 Kimberly L. Martinez #40351 Christopher T. Groen #39976 Cynthia Lowery #34145 The Castle Law Group, LLC 999 18th Street #2201, Denver, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 Attorney File # 13-05137 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012 Legal Notice NO.: 1398-2013 First Publication: 11/21/2013 Last Publication: 12/19/2013 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS CRS 38-38-111(2.5b)(3a,b,d)(5) PUBLIC TRUSTEE SALE NO. 1410-2012 To: Record Owner of the property as of the recording of the Notice of Election and Demand or other person entitled. You are advised that there are overbid funds due you. This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust and Notice of Election and Demand: Name of Record Owner as evidenced on the Notice of Election and Demand or other person entitled: Scott Finnegan Address of Record Owner as evidenced on the recorded instrument evidencing the owner's interest: 1075 E Fremont Cir S, Centennial, CO 80122--1459 Recording Date of Deed of Trust: June 09, 2010 Recording Information: D0054891 Recording Date of Notice of Election and Demand: December 19, 2012 Recording Information of Notice of Election and Demand: D2146272 Legal Description of Property: LOT 10, BLOCK 35, SOUTHGLENN FIFTH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Street Address of Property: 1075 E Fremont Cir S, Centennial, CO 80122 NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS I sold at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on 9/11/13, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, to the highest and best bidder for cash, the real property described above. An overbid was realized from the sale and, unless the funds are claimed by the owner or other persons entitled thereto within five years from the date of sale, the funds due to you will be transferred to the general fund of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, or to the State Treasurer as part of the "Unclaimed Property Act", pursuant to Colorado law. First Publication: 11/28/13 Last Publication: 12/26/13 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Date: 10/24/13 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012 Legal Notice NO.: 1410-2012 First Publication: 11/28/13 Last Publication: 12/26/13 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 1464-2013 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 2, 2013, 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): Ann Ibison Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as nominee for Englewood Mortgage Company Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, NA Date of Deed of Trust: February 18, 2005 County of Recording: Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust: March 03, 2005 Recording Information (Reception Number): B5030768 Original Principal Amount: $116,651.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $100,900.51 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 oth-

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 2, 2013, 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): Ann Ibison Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as nominee for Englewood Mortgage Company Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, NA Date of Deed of Trust: February 18, 2005 County of Recording: Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust: March 03, 2005 Recording Information (Reception Number): B5030768 Original Principal Amount: $116,651.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $100,900.51 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: LOT 119, THE KNOLLS WEST, FILING NO. 1 COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 7013 South Knolls Way, Centennial, CO 80122. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

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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, 01/29/2014, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, 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: 12/5/2013 Last Publication: 1/2/2014 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: 10/02/2013 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Robert J. Aronowitz, Esq. #5673 Lisa Cancanon #42043 Emily Jensik #31294 Joan Olson, Esq. #28078 Jennifer H. Trachte #40391 Monica Kadrmas #34904 Catherine A. Hildreth #40975 Aronowitz & Mecklenburg, LLP 1199 Bannock St., Denver, CO 80204 (303) 8131177 Attorney File # 9105.06199 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012 Legal Notice NO.: 1464-2013 First Publication: 12/5/2013 Last Publication: 1/2/2014 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - RESTART - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-109(2)(b)(II) FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0471-2013 Republished to restart foreclosure stayed by bankruptcy and reset sale date. To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 4, 2013, 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): Gail Susan Linnea Peterson and Maxwell Scott Peterson Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for IndyMac Bank, F.S.B. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. f/k/a The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. as successor-in-interest to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Trustee for MASTR ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGES TRUST 2005-6, MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES, Series 2005-6 Date of Deed of Trust: April 28, 2005 County of Recording: Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust: May 04, 2005 Recording Information (Reception Number): B5063641 Original Principal Amount: $209,200.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $206,662.25 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: LOT 3, BLOCK 9, BEL-VUE HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7301 S Delaware Ct, 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, 01/29/2014, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, 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: 12/5/2013 Last Publication: 1/2/2014 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

December 6, 2013 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, 01/29/2014, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, 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: 12/5/2013 Last Publication: 1/2/2014 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: 10/04/2013 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Robert J. Aronowitz, Esq. #5673 Lisa Cancanon #42043 Emily Jensik #31294 Joan Olson, Esq. #28078 Jennifer H. Trachte #40391 Monica Kadrmas #34904 Catherine A. Hildreth #40975 Aronowitz & Mecklenburg, LLP 1199 Bannock St., Denver, CO 80204 (303) 8131177 Attorney File # 3500.01694 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012

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Legal Notice NO.: 0471-2013 First Publication: 12/5/2013 Last Publication: 1/2/2014 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 1444-2013 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 30, 2013, 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): Brian Brito Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for American Mortgage Network, Inc. , A Delaware Corporation Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, NA Date of Deed of Trust: December 19, 2008 County of Recording: Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust: February 10, 2009 Recording Information (Reception Number): B9012474 Original Principal Amount: $177,655.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $165,840.15 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: LOT 1, BLOCK 13, COLUMBINE LAKE TOWNHOUSES PHASE III, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 4635 West Ponds Circle, Littleton, CO 80123. 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, 01/29/2014, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, 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: 12/5/2013 Last Publication: 1/2/2014 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: 09/30/2013 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Caren Jacobs Castle #11790 Deanna L. Westfall #23449 Reagan Larkin #42309 Britney Beall-Eder #34935 Kimberly L. Martinez #40351 Christopher T. Groen #39976 Cynthia Lowery #34145 The Castle Law Group, LLC 999 18th Street #2201, Denver, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 Attorney File # 13-05933 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012 Legal Notice NO. 1444-2013 First Publication: 12/5/2013 Last Publication: 1/2/2014 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 1471-2013 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 3, 2013, 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 Marion Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration

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December 6, 2013

Surgeries provide chance for uninsured OpWalk in second year at Parker Adventist By Chris Michlewicz

cmichlewicz@ourcoloradonews.com It’s not very often that people look forward to surgery. For Eddie Gallegos, going under the knife means new opportunities, and a chance to get his life back. His knee, injured in a 1999 car accident and re-aggravated when he slipped on ice in 2011, causes excruciating pain, to the point where he can’t stand for more than half an hour without having to sit. Sometimes, he is unable to sleep. Gallegos was forced to quit his job at a warehouse, leaving him without health insurance. He has relied on a wheelchair and pain medication from a free clinic for the last two years, just to get by. A phone call last spring changed everything. After narrowly missing the cut the year before, Gallegos was selected for Operation Walk, a not-for-profit volunteer organization that provides free surgical treatment for patients without access to adequate medical care. It’s the second year for the OpWalk program, as it’s commonly known, at Parker Adventist Hospital. Gallegos, 52, literally counted down the days to the surgery and went to great lengths to avoid getting sick ahead of his knee replacement surgery Dec. 2. The night before, he was unable to sleep for a reason other than debilitating pain: nerves. When Eddie Gallegos, 52, said he was both nervous and grateful going into a knee surgery as part of OpWalk, which provides surgery and pre- and post-operative care at no cost to asked what he was most looking forward patients without insurance. Photo by Chris Michlewicz to after regaining his mobility, he gives an To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following deanswer that underscores how difficult evscribed Deed of Trust: On September 17, 2013, the undersigned eryday tasks have become. cident in 1999 and removed a few years regain his mobility and ideally regain entry he hasn’t in probably 5-10caused years,” Public Trustee the Johnson Notice of Elec“I don’t know, I’d like to walk to King later. It allowed the bone to heal, but cre- into the workforce and potentially obtain said. tion and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Soopers and buy something and walk ated a deformity that created stress on insurance,” he said. OpWalk provides allofaspects of treatthe County Arapahoe records. Grantor(s): Stephanie A Zellers The current holder of home, `cause usually I get there and then I the Evidence of Debt cartilage. Eventually, the carGallegos says he looks forward to work- ment, surgery, Original hospitalization, and preand Craig D. Zellers secured by the Deed of surrounding Trust, described have to call for a ride back,” he said. Originalcare. Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Elecherein, has filed Notice tilage of Election onand the joint broke down, resulting ing again, not to mention climbing stairs and post- operative Four other patronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nomDemand for sale as provided by law and His mother, sitting nearby as nurses in bone-on-bone chafing, said Dr. Derek without being on all fours. He’s also awaittients were scheduled to receive inee for Innovate Lending surgery Solutions, a in said Deed of Trust. Colorado Corporation THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given prepped him for surgery, became emoJohnson, who was instrumental in bringing simple escapes, like walking in the this month at Parker at no CurrentAdventist Holder of Evidence of cost. Debt: Flagthat I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. tional as he talked about dealing with his star Bank,donated FSB on Wednesday, 01/29/2014, the East to Parker Adventist. ing at OpWalk grass, playing with his dog and using his Other goods Date were by St. Anof Deed of Trust: February 23, 2009 Hearing Room, County Administration struggles. He credited his Building, parents5334 with Colorado TheStreet, knee replacement, which involves snowblower. Johnson looks forward to thony North Rehabilitation, County of Recording: Arapahoe South Prince Recording Date of Deed of Trust: March Colorado,, sell to the highest and helping him maintain a senseLittleton, of normalcy. Anesthesia Consultants, Sound Inpatient taking a centimeter of bone from both the meeting with a rejuvenated man in six 11, 2009 best bidder for cash, the said real propGallegos is considered a young patient Recording Information (Reception erty and all interest of thefemur said Grantor(s), Physicians, Diversified Radiology, Crown and tibia and inserting a joint made weeks. Number): B9024491 Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for for a knee replacement, butthe was the ofperZimmer Rocky Mountain, ofindebtedness metal and plastic, will be a “life-changPrincipal Amount: $330,284.00 purpose paying the “It’s going to be great to see him back Point Pharmacy,Original Outstanding Principal Balance: provided inAsaid Evidence of Debt sefect candidate for OpWalk surgery. rod er,” after the first of the year when he’s been Timberview Clinic, $ 3 1 0On-Q, , 3 8 5 . 7 8 Centura Health cured by the Deed of Trust, plusJohnson attorneys' said. fees,the the expenses other items Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you was inserted into his tibia after car ac-of sale and“Hopefully To: Record Owner ofhim the property as of at Home, and Denver Vail Orthopedics. this will allow to get up, up and walking and using his leg in a way allowed by law, and will issue to the purare hereby notified that the covenants of the recording of the Notice of Election and To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 3, 2013, 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 Marion Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Guild Mortgage Company, A California Corporation Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Guild Mortgage Company Date of Deed of Trust May 04, 2011 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust May 10, 2011 Recording Information (Reception Number) D1044246 Original Principal Amount $151,070.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $146,601.34 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO AND INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE Also known by street and number as: 3020 West Prentice Avenue Unit F, Littleton, CO 80123. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

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chaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 12/5/2013 Last Publication: 1/2/2014 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: 10/03/2013 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Caren Jacobs Castle #11790 Deanna L. Westfall #23449 Jennifer Griest #34830 Britney Beall-Eder #34935 Kimberly L. Martinez #40351 Reagan Larkin #42309 Christopher T. Groen #39976 Cynthia Lowery #34145 The Castle Law Group, LLC 999 18th Street #2201, Denver, CO 80202 (303) 865-1400 Attorney File # 13-06721 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012

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1471-2013 EXHIBIT A CONDOMINIUM UNIT F, CONDOMINIUM BUILDING 4, STEEPLECHASE CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON AUGUST 26, 1985 IN PLAT BOOK 85 AT PAGES 22-23 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 STEEPLECHASE CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED MARCH 16, 1985 IN BOOK 4391 AT PAGE 471 AND AS AMENDED BY THE 4TH STATEMENT TO ANNEX LAND RECORDED AUGUST 26, 1985 IN BOOK 4526 AT PAGE 382 IN SAID RECORDS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Legal Notice NO.: 1471-2013 First Publication: 12/5/2013 Last Publication: 1/2/2014 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS CRS 38-38-111(2.5b)(3a,b,d)(5) PUBLIC TRUSTEE SALE NO. 0744-2013 To: Record Owner of the property as of the recording of the Notice of Election and Demand or other person entitled. You are advised that there are overbid funds due you. This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust and Notice of Election and Demand: Name of Record Owner as evidenced on the Notice of Election and Demand or other person entitled: Sandra K Nutter Address of Record Owner as evidenced on the recorded instrument evidencing the owner's interest: 47 Adams Cir #C, Fairfield, OH 45014 Recording Date of Deed of Trust: October 05, 2004

Demand or other person entitled. You are advised that there are overbid funds due you. This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust and Notice of Election and Demand: Name of Record Owner as evidenced on the Notice of Election and Demand or other person entitled: Sandra K Nutter Address of Record Owner as evidenced on the recorded instrument evidencing the owner's interest: 47 Adams Cir #C, Fairfield, OH 45014 Recording Date of Deed of Trust: October 05, 2004 Recording Information: B4175706 Recording Date of Notice of Election and Demand: May 06, 2013 Recording Information of Notice of Election and Demand: D3055969 Legal Description of Property SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO AND INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE Street Address of Property 7440 S. Blackhawk Street, Unit 7102, Englewood, CO 80112

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NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS I sold at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on 9/4/13, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, to the highest and best bidder for cash, the real property described above. An overbid was realized from the sale and, unless the funds are claimed by the owner or other persons entitled thereto within five years from the date of sale, the funds due to you will be transferred to the general fund of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, or to the State Treasurer as part of the "Unclaimed Property Act", pursuant to Colorado law. First Publication: 12/5/13 Last Publication: 1/2/14 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Date: 10/24/13 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee 0744-2013 Exhibit A CONDOMINIUM UNIT R-7-102, WINDMILL CREEK ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED ON JANUARY 3, 2002 AT RECEPTION NO. B2001523, AND DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR WINDMILL CREEK RECORDED JANUARY 3, 2002 AT RECEPTION NO. B2001524, IN OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012 Legal Notice NO.: 0744-2013 First Publication: 12/5/13 Last Publication: 1/2/14 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 1341-2013 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 5, 2013, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in

Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 1341-2013

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To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 5, 2013, 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): Gerald B Ryan and Stephanie A Ryan Original Beneficiary(ies): Ameriquest Mortgage Company Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: JPMC Specialty Mortgage LLC Date of Deed of Trust: January 05, 2001 County of Recording: Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust: January 16, 2001 Recording Information (Reception Number): B1006272 Original Principal Amount: $151,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $155,867.71 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: LOT 38, FOUR LAKES SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 4B, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 2059 E Phillips Lane, Littleton, 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, 01/08/2014, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, 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: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 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: 09/05/2013 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone

● 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: 09/05/2013 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Robert J. Aronowitz, Esq. #5673 Lisa Cancanon #42043 Emily Jensik #31294 Joan Olson, Esq. #28078 Jennifer H. Trachte #40391 Monica Kadrmas #34904 Catherine A. Hildreth #40975 Aronowitz & Mecklenburg, LLP 1199 Bannock St., Denver, CO 80204 (303) 8131177 Attorney File # 1068.06398 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012

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Legal Notice No.: 1341-2013 First Publication: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 1395-2013 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 17, 2013, 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 A Zellers and Craig D. Zellers Original Beneficiary(ies): Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Innovate Lending Solutions, a Colorado Corporation Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Flagstar Bank, FSB Date of Deed of Trust: February 23, 2009 County of Recording: Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust: March 11, 2009 Recording Information (Reception Number): B9024491 Original Principal Amount: $330,284.00 Outstanding Principal Balance: $310,385.78 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: LOT 4, BLOCK 18, SOUTHGLENN FOURTH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 6736 S Franklin St, Centennial, CO

the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property to be foreclosed is: LOT 4, BLOCK 18, SOUTHGLENN FOURTH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 6736 S Franklin St, Centennial, CO 80122. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

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