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District survey still being weighed School leaders say implementation must be carefully considered By Jane Reuter
jreuter@coloradocommunitymedia.com Community members repeatedly have requested a return of the once-annual Douglas County School District parent and employee surveys.
School board president Kevin Larsen recently said the idea is not off the table, but that it must be thoroughly examined. A parent survey has not been done since 2012, and DCSD discounted those results as too small to be statistically valid. Some parents believe the surveys are needed to gauge community satisfaction with the district’s policies and direction, and they again asked for their return during the March 3 Board Unplugged meeting at Parker’s Cimarron Middle School. “It’s something I think we could look at,”
Larsen said after the meeting. “To just say we’re going to do a survey, I think that’s got to be very carefully considered. How do we do that so the results we get from it truly represent the whole community and have meaningful, valid results we can base some things on? It really needs to be cross sectional, representative of everybody’s viewpoints.” Larsen also noted the board was elected based on an education reform platform, and a survey’s results likely wouldn’t prompt a change in direction.
He also said the key components of DCSD’s education reform — including pay-forperformance, the market-based pay scale and other policies — already are in place. “I don’t think we’re going to be dealing with so many changes,” he said. “We’re trying to just refine what we’ve already laid out.” Regardless, the Strong Schools Coalition is among many who continue to advocate for a survey. Coalition president Laura Survey continues on Page 7
Childc are tax credit advances Bill aims to help low-income families with child care costs By Vic Vela
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Isaac Johnson, 2, is curious as he traipses around the snow-covered playground at Redstone Park. Temperatures had been in the 50s all week until the March 7 snow.
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Everett Johnson, 6, takes all the snow with him as he goes down a slide on March 7 at Redstone Park, where he enjoyed a late winter snowfall with his family.
As a relentless snow kept falling, earlier than predicted, in Highlands Ranch, roads and parks were relatively empty on March 7. But the wintery weather didn’t deter Todd Johnson and sons Everett, 6, and Isaac, 2, from suiting up and heading out to Redstone Park to play. Temperatures dropped steadily, raining at a high of 43 degrees after dawn before hitting the freezing mark by afternoon. March is the snowiest month along the Front Range, racking up an average of more than 11 inches. Photos by Hannah Garcia
Apple Award winner teaches skills for a lifetime Journalism educator credits kids for program’s successes By Jane Reuter
jreuter@coloradocommunitymedia.com Mountain Vista High School journalism teacher Mark Newton knows most of his students won’t work in the rapidly changing profession on which he’s focused his life’s work. But he’s confident the skills gleaned through a better understanding of journalism will bolster them on any path they choose. “Sure, I want journalists,” Newton said. “But I realized a long time ago it really doesn’t matter what you’re going to do. I’m working to create people who will use the skills of journalism to set themselves apart in whatever they want to do. They’re going to understand the First Amendment, freedom, responsibility. The skills of journalism are what every employer wants.” That passion for his subject matter and students earned Newton the 2014 Secondary Teacher Apple Award from the Douglas County School District, announced during a March 1 ceremony at the downtown Den-
Mountain Vista High School journalism teacher and Apple Award winner Mark Newton consults with senior and VISTAj copy editor AJ Stowell. Courtesy photo ver Sheraton. The MVHS journalism program, called the VISTAj, includes the yearbook, a broadcast program and a news magazine. The
National Scholastic Press Association selected its Eagle Eye newsmagazine for the 2013Pacemaker Award — its highest honor. Award continues on Page 7
Low-income families who struggle to pay for child care could get some relief, under a Democrat-sponsored bill that cleared its first legislative hurdle on March 5. But Republicans on the House Finance Committee called the effort a “Band Aid” approach to a problem that they believe is not up to government to solve. House Bill 1072 would create child care tax credits to families who make less than $25,000 a year in federally-adjusted gross income. The credit would be equal to 25 percent of a taxpayer’s child care expenses. The new credit — which is capped at $1,000 — would only be available to those who do not qualify for existing child care tax credits that are tied to federal returns. Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Lakewood, a bill sponsor, told the committee that parents in poverty often face two choices — either give up their career endeavors to take care of their children or use a large portion of their incomes to pay for child care. “This bill will increase self-sufficiency by allowing parents to stay in the workforce,” Pettersen said. “Our child care expenses are one of the most expensive in the nation.” Marlana Wallace of the Colorado Fiscal Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank that supports the legislation, said that Colorado ranks as the fifth least affordable state for infant care and that child care costs often soak up as much as half of a lowincome family’s income. Only those who support the legislation provided testimony, including Megan Smith, an Alamosa single mother of a 7-year-old child. Smith said she moved to Colorado from Chicago to attend Adams State University five years ago and that she initially struggled to pay for child care. Smith said that she now has a good-paying job with the university and currently wouldn’t qualify for the tax credit. However, she told committee members that she remembers what it was like to struggle and that she hopes the legislation could help others going forward. “If I had that kind of assistance... it would have been a huge impact,” she said. “Every little bit helps.” Supporters of the bill said the legislation would fix a loophole that disqualifies many low-income families from receiving a tax Care continues on Page 8
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A forecast full of money comes our way The second half of the legislative session will be best summed up by an overused 1990s catch phrase. “Show me the money.” While lawmakers spent quite a bit of time working on flood legislation during the first half of the session, the real story right now is the flood of bills that are piling up in appropriations committees, waiting to be funded. The hundreds of bills that sit in appropriation limbo are like a casting room full of singing, animated bills that are auditioning for “School House Rock.” “But I know I’ll be a law someday. At least I hope and pray that I will. But today I am still just a bill.” Starting March 18, there’s going to be a lot of lawmakers sitting around praying that their bills will not only become law, but will receive funding to boot. That’s the day that the Joint Budget Committee is scheduled to announce the state’s revenue forecast for the upcoming fiscal year. The forecast will determine which bills get money and which ones don’t. Whatever happens after that day, the result is certain to disappoint some lawmakers. “We will have tough decisions as we move through (the appropriations process),” said House Speaker Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver. “There’s a lot of good ideas out there, but it doesn’t mean we can fund them all.” The JBC will do its best to cobble together a budget that comes close to the one that
Gov. John Hickenlooper has proposed — a $24 billion long bill that could result in hundreds of millions of dollars in additional funding for Colorado schools. In addition to Senate Bill 1 legislation, which would pump more than $100 million into higher education, the budget is also expected to include $230 million for K-12 education, as outlined by House Bill 1292, the Student Success Act. While the additional funding will go a long way in replacing money that was drained from education funding in recent lean budget years, even the sizable cash infusion is certain to leave some educators wanting more. Last month, school superintendents called on lawmakers to address the socalled “negative factor” in education funding, which came as a result of $1 billion in education budget cuts in recent years. Superintendents point to a healthier state education fund as a sign that perhaps this is the year they get all the funding they want,
will few strings attached. But that’s not going to happen. “They look at that fund and say, `Lets spend it,’ ” Ferrandino said of school superintendents. “The problem is when we spend it all down, then we’re in a place where there’s volatility and we can’t sustain it. It’s their job to do all they can to push for education, and I respect that. It’s our job as policy makers for the state to try to deal with all competing districts and look not just at the short term, but long term.” Senate President Morgan Carroll, DAurora, understands that there is “pent up frustration” on the part of school superintendents who haven’t been getting the funding that was originally expected through 2000’s Amendment 23 — the voterapproved initiative that required funding for education that exceeds the annual rate of inflation. Lawmakers had to take a chisel to that initiative in recent years. “Patience is running out and (superintendents) would like to catch up all at once, with no strings attached,” Carroll said. “And the reality is, within the revenue we have, we don’t mathematically have the option of zeroing out what’s referred to as the negative factor.” Education will make up the lion’s share of the budget. And there are several other funding areas that are certain to receive infusions — efforts aimed a flood and wildfire mitigation, as well as tax credits for business and families, to name a few.
But $24 billion gets eaten up pretty quickly during the sausage-making process. “People fight over more money than we do over less,” said Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs. Cadman said that about “a half a billion dollars in spending is waiting in line for the (budget forecast),” with Cadman equating those who are hoping for money to come their way as being “drunk monkeys” that already lined up. House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso, R-Loveland, said more money needs to go to transportation and education, but also said that it’s important to practice temperance when doling out cash — because you never know. “Yes, we have resources but we don’t want to extend ourselves where we get to the point where we are slashing and burning like we were a few years ago,” DelGrosso said. “That’s not fair to the people of Colorado, when you try to run a state that way.” So March 18 is going to be an awfully interesting day. There’s going to be some folks who are happy and some who aren’t. And there’s going to be some joyous “School House Rock” songs sung by bills that made it, while other sad little bills are left singing the blues. Vic Vela covers the Legislature for Colorado Community Media. He can be reached at vvela@coloradocommunitymedia.com. Or, follow him on Twitter: @ VicVela1.
SO MUCH INSIDE THE HERALD THIS WEEK At your request: Beatles tribute act gets up close and personal. Page 16
Fine art: Castle Pines artist shares her talent, stories in gallery. Page 14
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March Madness: Mountain Vista boys, Valor girls bound for Final Four in Boulder. Page 18
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Candidates gear up for metro district elections Multiple hopefuls vie for director positions in northwest and south central districts By Hannah Garcia
hgarcia@coloradocommunitymedia. com With nomination deadlines past, candidates are now preparing for the Highlands Ranch Metro District board of directors election on May 6. Five of the seven districts are up for election, with three candidates running unopposed. Incumbents Allen Dreher and Rick Owens, the board chair, are the only candidates for the southeast and west central districts, respectively. Renee Anderson, who ran unsuccessfully in 2012, is running unopposed for the southwest district. John Warnick, who holds the seat, is not seeking re-election. There are two candidates running for the northwest district, incumbent Nicholas Robinson and challenger Philip Cullen. Robinson served for 10 years from 19962006 before being re-elected to the seat in 2012. Cullen served as a director from 2010 to 2012, when he resigned due to disagreements with other board members. In the race with the most challengers, four candidates are vying for the south central seat. Incumbent Carolyn Schierholz will run against challengers Kevin Betts, Parrish
Salyers and Anthony Yarosh. Schierholz has served on the board since 2006. This week, the Herald is profiling the three candidates running in uncontested races.
Renee Anderson
“I decided to run for the director seat in this region as I believe one should always do what they can to stay informed, become involved, support the community they live in and assist where they can,” Anderson said. “Great can always keep getting better.” Anderson currently serves on the Highlands Ranch Parks and Recreation Foundation board of directors. She said she looks forward to working with the current administration, expressing satisfaction with the board’s “fiscal responsibility, as well as their support for improvements.” “It has become a significantly larger community than when I first moved Anderson here in 1991, and although the growth has now slowed, the continued need to improve and update the community remains,” Anderson said. Anderson grew up in Lakewood and graduated from Colorado State University with an occupational therapy degree in 1986. She has been married for 15 years and has two teenage children enrolled in a Douglas County charter school.
Allen Dreher
Dreher has served on the HRMD board of directors for 14 years. Currently the owner and managing broker of Preferred Professionals Real Estate, he has four children and eight grandchildren. He expressed pride in the current group of HRMD directors, citing a need for “a stable and cohesive board. One that, even if they don’t care for each other, respect each others’ efforts … Just Dreher look around and see how well the community is run and how well it functions,” he said. Dreher said his goals for the upcoming years are to stay on track to pay off bonds with a goal of being debt-free by the end of 2018. He also called for maintenance on partnerships with other municipalities and agencies in the area, moving forward with the Wildcat Regional Park concept and sorting through congestion issues on C-470. Dreher said the “greatest high” of his time with HRMD was the acquisition and refurbishing of the Highlands Ranch Mansion. “It is beautiful and a wonderful asset to the Highlands Ranch community,” he said. “There are very few lows. Thankfully.”
Rick Owens
First elected to the metro district board of directors in 2002, Owens has lived in Highlands Ranch with his family since 1989.
“(It’s) hard to believe it’s been 12 years since I first joined the HRMD board,” he said, listing the Highlands Ranch Mansion, Civic Green Park, reducing taxes twice and the construction of the veterans’ monument, among the organization’s achievements. “All of these pluses helped keep Highlands Ranch housing values up even during the recent nationwide housing crash.” On top of paying off the organization’s debt early, Owens said he wants to keep taxes low but “work with constituents to keep Owens Highlands Ranch a topranked community by investing in worthwhile amenities.” Owens specified tying the Town Center and other commerce hubs in Highlands Ranch to the RTD-0wned Light Rail transit system as a possibility. “I’m not sure what that looks like, but I think Highlands Ranch should lead in creating something truly unique in that regard,” he said. As an example, Owens said the metro district could use some of the mill levy that currently goes to paying off the organization’s debt to fund it and other initiatives. A profile of the candidates running for the northwest district, Philip Cullen and Nicholas Robinson, will appear in the March 20 edition of the Highlands Ranch Herald. Profiles of south central candidates will appear at a later date.
Fraudulent drug test bill fails in committee By Vic Vela
vvela@coloradocommunitymedia.com A Senate committee on March 5 rejected a bill that sought to impose legal penalties in cases where employees try to cheat on company-mandated drug tests. The Republican-sponsored effort had previously passed the House, but Democrats on the Senate’s State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee killed the legislation. The committee chairman wondered how accusations involving a fake or diluted drug test would hold up in a court of law if there were no actual visual proof that the employee was trying to cheat by using a urine-cleansing device. “Is it eye witness testimony that (determines that) this person used a Whizzinator or video proof that this person used a Whizzinator?” said Sen. Jesse Ulibarri, D-Commerce City. “I don’t believe that government belongs in the bathroom or the bedroom.”
House Bill 1040 would have created a petty offense penalty for employees who attempt to defraud a drug test for occupations where the testing is required by law. Police, corrections officers, and commercial vehicle drivers are a few of the professionals who would have been McNulty impacted by the bill. Under the bill, those who try to hide their drug use through fake or diluted urine samples would have been subjected to fines of up to $5,000, depending on how many times they tried to cheat. The bill would not have applied in cases where business-mandated drug testing is not legally required. Some who testified in opposition to the bill said the legislation is clearly aimed at targeting marijuana users, with one witness calling it “the marijuana testing bill.”
Sen. Mark Scheffel, RParker, acknowledged that Amendment 64’s legalization of recreational pot use has created a “vast unknown in a new permissiveness,” but said there needs to be some teeth in cases where employees knowingly attempt to defraud drug tests. “As it stands now, other than (employee) dismissal, there is no penalty for what is described here,” Scheffel said. The original version of the bill would have created new criminal misdemeanor drug offenses for those who cheat on drug tests, which could have resulted in jail time. However, prior to passing the House, the bill was amended to create only petty offenses that carry fines, rather than time behind bars. Deputy Attorney General David Blake said the penalty would have been “a logical extension” of law that requires drug testing in certain professions. Blake also reminded those in the audience that employers are allowed to penalize workers for marijuana use, even
though pot consumption is now legal. But opponents of the effort said the bill is unfairly aimed at pot users. Terry Robnett, a medical marijuana patient and advocate, told the committee that because TCH metabolites are stored in fat cells, the drug leaves the body at a much slower rate than other substances. So, in many cases, marijuana will remain in a person’s blood 30 days after initial impairment. “You can go out on a Friday night and paint the town red with meth or cocaine and come in Monday morning and test perfectly clean,” Robnett said. “But, with marijuana, you’re screwed.” Denise Maes of the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado wondered why the government should be involved in this process to begin with. “There is a lot of discretion on the part of employer to fire at will,” she said. “It’s a matter left to the employer and employee.” Ulibarri agreed, saying that the loss of income from being fired “is a significant
penalty” and that the legislation attempts to “solve a problem that doesn’t exist.” The bill failed in the Democrat majority committee following a 3-2 party-line vote. Afterward, the bill’s House sponsor, Rep. Frank McNulty, R-Highlands
Ranch, blasted the committee’s vote. “It is unfortunate that Senate Democrats continue to choose criminals over the safety of Colorado citizens,” he said. “They refuse to admit that those falsifying drug tests are putting the rest of us at risk.”
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Highlands Ranch – If you’ve tried to sell your home yourself, you know that the minute you put the “For Sale by Owner” sign up, the phone will start to ring off the hook. Unfortunately, most calls aren’t from prospective buyers, but rather from every real estate agent in town who will start to hound you for your listing. Like other “For Sale by Owners”, you’ll be subjected to a hundred sales pitches from agents who will tell you how great they are and how you can’t possibly sell your home by yourself. After all, without the proper information, selling a home isn’t easy. Perhaps you’ve had your home on the market for several months with no offers from qualified buyers. This can be a very frustrating time, and many homeowners have given up their dreams of selling their homes themselves. But don’t give up until you’ve read a new report entitled “Sell Your
Own Home” which has been prepared especially for homesellers like you. You’ll find that selling your home by yourself is entirely possible once you understand the process. Inside the report, you’ll find 10 inside tips to selling your home by yourself which will help you sell for the best price in the shortest amount of time. You’ll find out what real estate agents don’t want you to know. To hear a brief recorded message about how to order your FREE copy of this report, call toll-free 1-800-508-7293 and enter 1017. You can call any time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Get your free special report NOW to learn how you really can sell your home yourself.
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Defending the right to access information “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectant.” Louis Brandeis wrote these words a century ago, before his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, to note the power of publicity as a cure for “social and industrial diseases” like the inequities fostered by the corporate monopolies of his time. Today all states have “sunshine laws,” a catchall term for statutes requiring openness in government — rules meant to guarantee access to public records and proceedings. Justice Brandeis would probably approve: Shed light on the workings of government and society is better off. Transparency is now such a popular concept, it’s become something of a buzzword. Mayors, school boards, city councils, the president — public officials at every level tout their transparency initiatives. Indeed, the Internet has made it possible for governments to easily share important information — budgets, agendas, minutes, databases — like never before. It’s a trend worth applauding. But not every bit of information regarded by the law as a public record is free of charge and easy to download. Far from it. And elected officials in some communities still conduct some public business behind closed doors. That’s why news and civic organizations nationwide are taking time this week —Sunshine Week — to educate the public about the importance of open government.
And that’s why, about a year ago, a littleknown, 27-year-old council of Coloradans decided to greatly expand its mission. The Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition (CFOIC) is a nonpartisan alliance of media outlets, civic groups, First Amendment lawyers and individuals founded in 1987 by Jean Otto, a long-time Rocky Mountain News editor. With a tiny budget, CFOIC volunteers mostly sponsored community forums, presented awards and filed court briefs in support of greater government transparency. Its most notable accomplishment was not a small one, helping to persuade the state judiciary to put court records online. But similar nonprofits in other states were doing much more — putting on seminars, developing online resources, reporting on issues and legislation, answering questions from citizens and journalists and playing the role of watchdog. Colorado needed the CFOIC to be more like them.
Why? The CFOIC is rooted in the belief that a healthy democracy depends on the free flow of information. To be engaged and to hold their elected officials accountable, citizens need to know what’s going on in their communities. They have a right to know. But it’s a right that shouldn’t be taken for granted. The State Integrity project recently gave Colorado an “F” for public access to information. Coloradans have no way to administratively appeal denials of access. Colorado has no agency monitoring governments for possible violations of access-to-information laws. If a Coloradan is denied access, the only recourse is to sue. This is frustrating for residents like Melody, who was denied information on how much employees of her local fire district are paid in salary and overtime. And Bill, who spent nearly $1,500 trying to show that his county commission was improperly meeting in secret. And Ruth, a state college professor who was billed $3,700 after requesting records from her employer. The news media play a vital role in using open-government laws to expose corruption, life-threatening problems or the need for policy reforms. But newsroom staffs have shrunk dramatically (or have disappeared entirely) in recent years, as have news media budgets to wage legal battles against violations of freedom-of-
information statutes. The CFOIC hopes to shore up the news media’s efforts in defense of access to information by providing Colorado journalists — and all residents — with a resource and partner. Among our initiatives: seminars and an FOI hotline supported by the state’s leading media-law attorneys. Visit our website at www.coloradofoic. org for resources, news and original reporting on open-government issues and legislation. To keep up with new entries, “like” our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter (@CoFOIC) or sign up for our emailed newsletter. We welcome new members and, of course, donations (we’re a 501(c)(3) nonprofit). You may already belong to a civic group that belongs to the CFOIC. Our growing membership includes (in addition to media organizations) the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, the Colorado Bar Association, Colorado Common Cause, Colorado Ethics Watch, the Independence Institute, the League of Women Voters of Colorado and the Society of Professional Journalists. Members represent varied interests and political persuasions but share a common passion for government transparency. Jeffrey A. Roberts, a former reporter and editor at The Denver Post, is executive director of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition.
It happens to the best of us
The story of the invisible stop sign “The Invisible Man” is a science fiction novella written by H.G. Wells. An exceptional film was made based on the book, and starred Claude Rains. The film came out in 1933, and the special effects are brilliant. There was another “Invisible Man,” a novel written by Ralph Ellison, published in 1952. It is very different than Wells’ book, because the invisibility is not science fiction, but rather “it addresses the many social and intellectual issues facing black Americans early in the twentieth century.” I think most of us have wished from time to time to be invisible, to eavesdrop, maybe to see something we weren’t supposed to see, or just to be further out of sight so we can read Kerouac. Some of us may feel like we are invisible to others, even when we are not. Underappreciated, undervalued. I live near a high school. It has an invisible stop sign. If there were a stop sign it would be right there at the exit, but there’s no there there, as Virginia Woolf would say. If there were a stop sign, maybe things would be a little less hazardous at lunchtime, and when the kids get out of school for the day. But since there is no sign, it’s hazardous. Let me tell you. You probably wondered where I was going with this. I am here today to do a public service. Here it is: go around. Maybe even way around. Or just don’t go near the school at that time at all. Sooner or later something unfortunate is going to happen, and I just hope it doesn’t happen to a white station wagon, or to a car filled with Brownies. I thought I had it figured out, when they have their lunch break. Not today. It was nonstop out of the parking lot, although one kid in a truck paused, and I was ready to give him a thumb’s up, and
then he turned right in front of me as if: I were invisible. The point is what? I think the point is to concede. No one wants to be scolded, told what to do or what not to do, so I say: “Kids, just keep on doing what you are doing, and the rest of us will adjust.” I know what I am going to do, and I think it will work for everyone else. Avoid the area, at least when the students have the cards. I can schedule my dental appointments at another time. And my veterinarian appointments at another time. I can do the same thing with my optometrist. Her office is on the other side of the school too. Or I could find those services in the other direction. Change dentists and doctors. My dentist can simply forward all of my records to a new office. It’s as simple as that. But really all I have to do is avoid the area altogether for three hours on every school day. That’s not asking much, is it? And if we all re-schedule our lives and appointments out of deference to an invisible sign and the young motorists who ignore it, at least we won’t be in touch with their insurance agents, or a body shop, or a chiropractor. See what I mean? Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@ comcast.net.
Recently I was watching a professional golf event on television and was reminded that even though these people are the very best in the world, they too can have a bad day or round, a terrible hole, or just a horrific shot or two. It does and can happen to the best of us. So many people I talk with have expectations of perfection. The perfect house, the perfect family, the perfect job, the perfect performance or the perfect relationship. And yes, some of the folks even talk about that perfect golf shot. What we have to remember is that even the professionals in any sport, career, or hobby have off days, tough times and bad shots. Here’s the difference, the professionals know that there will be a miscue from time to time. And although they strive for perfection, it’s really about achieving excellence. The difference between being a professional or playing at the highest level possible and the rest of the population is that in most cases they expect and understand that sometimes things will go wrong. It can happen to them, it can happen to you, it happens to the best of us and the rest of us. The thing is we can’t let those temporary setbacks or minor mistakes take us completely out of our game. Sure we will make a mistake, everyone does. Yes, we will have a bad or sad day, we all do.
Sometimes we will watch an event on television or a live event and we will witness a professional athlete, singer, or dancer make an error, miss a note or lyric, and maybe miss a step or two. It happens. And although sometimes we see a minor league response or immature behavior from a major league player, in most cases they handle it with grace and dignity. They may be burning inside from the mistake, but that is only because they know they can do better and want more out of themselves. Things happen, life happens, errors happen, and lapses in judgment happen. And they happen to the best of us from time to time. The question is, do we handle it like a rookie or like a seasoned professional? Do we overreact and make things worse? Or do we respond and make things better? I love Norton continues on Page 9
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Combating sexual assaults in the military We must end the scourge of sexual assaults in our military. When young women decide to serve their nation in the armed services, they should never be forced to live under a cloud of intimidation or sexual harassment. This is a challenge the military must confront and overcome. During my own military career, I have witnessed quite a number of challenges that the military had to confront. Each time it overcame the obstacles and always emerged as a more effective fighting force as a result. For example, in 1972, when I joined the U.S. Army, I found an Army that was fractured along racial lines with its combat effectiveness further compromised by an epidemic of drug and alcohol abuse. The combination of these factors produced an Army plagued by disciplinary problems, poor morale and very low retention rates. This was not just an Army problem but was evident in all of the branches of military service. The Army responded aggressively to resolve those problems and today, when I talk to the newest generation of young people serving in uniform, the challenges that our military faced in the 1970s is unthinkable to them today.
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watching a professional athlete after they have made an error, fumbled a football, or missed an easy lay-up. If you watch the true professionals, or the cameraman captures the moment on television, you will see them all replaying the situation on the field or on the sideline. You can watch as a golfer who hit his ball into the water, stand in the same spot, swinging again, visualizing a different outcome and knowing what he or she did wrong. They don’t throw the club, blame others or point fingers. They just know that errors and mistakes happen and they happen to
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Mutton said she’d like to see separate surveys given to parents, students, DCSD employees and community members. “An election is not a survey,” she said. “I think we need a survey in order to provide transparency regarding the support for these initiatives, and also accountability that the changes being implemented are successful. “With 70 percent of Douglas County residents not having children in the schools, parents are a minority. Parent voices have been lost with the addition of outside enti-
the best of us, even the very best of us. We don’t want to go out looking to make a mistake; that is not the message. The message is that when challenges come our way, when things do not go according to our plan or meet our expectations, we simply need to recognize that it happens from time to time and we need to adapt and course correct, learn from it and move on towards the pursuit and achievement of our endeavors. Does it happen to you? How do you handle it? I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com and when we learn how to adapt to the `things’ that happen in our lives, it will be 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.
in August. By March, it’s a book with thousands of pictures and thousands of stories.” That, Newton said, stands in stark contrast to an English essay typically viewed by only a student, teacher and parent. Newton encourages his students to test their own boundaries. That may include repeatedly contacting the White House to request an interview with President Obama, or on a local scale, supporting them when they pulled together a successful fall 2013 school board candidate forum. “If you don’t ask, you’re never going to get the opportunity,” said Newton, who’s also there to help them learn from the experience of failure. “I say, `I’m your trampoline.’ You’re going to hit the ground, but you’re going to bounce higher. You learn just as much from a loss as you do from a victory.” Not knowing which any given day will bring is part of what Newton loves about his job. “It’s different every day, but the core of journalism is still the same,” he said. “I feel that way about education, too, and I love that about each kid. Every day, they’re different but they’re kind of the same.”
ties influencing our school board election.” Mutton thinks a survey is particularly needed given the controversy surrounding the board’s policies and what she views as one-way communication from the district to the community. “I would say our community is more divided than ever, and it’s really hurting our schools,” she said. “It’s time we work together and restore that trust in our school district; surveys are a critical step in that process.” DCSD, she noted, “should be accountable to taxpayers about what the district is doing.” “We keep on hearing it’s going to be done,” she said. “I think people are getting frustrated by that same response. We really need a timeline and a commitment.”
might feel pressure to resolve a problem that he or she might feel reflects poorly on their own leadership or be an embarrassment to the reputation of their command, and that this could lead to cases not being properly vetted and prosecuted. The net result could be fewer victims having the confidence to step forward and to testify against their attackers. This is why I support taking the reporting of sexual assaults outside of the chain-of-command and will work with Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) to ensure these allegations can be investigated by independent military authorities, and if necessary, prosecuted accordingly. This is not a partisan issue. This is about protecting the young men and women who step forward to risk their lives in defense of our freedom. I am proud to stand with my Democratic colleagues to ensure we end the scourge of sexual assaults in our military. U.S. Representative Mike Coffman is a retired combat veteran with a combined 21 years of military service between the U.S. Army, Army Reserve, U.S. Marine Corps and the Marine Corps Reserve. He is a member of the House Armed Services Committee.
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Even with an Apple Award in hand, Newton deflects credit for the program’s success. “I got it because I have great kids,” he said. “The students in our program are so exceptional. This just celebrates who they are and their voice.” The six-year MVHS teacher, married to a Denver Public Schools teacher and the father of two grown children, also is president of the national Journalism Education Association. He believes journalism’s lessons dovetail with the shift in education, and DCSD’s emphasis on the four C’s — creativity, collaboration, critical thinking and communication. “The journalism we’re teaching today is the kind of education everybody wants,” Newton said. “It’s authentic. It’s real world. It’s taking everything you’ve learned and making a product people will judge. “A yearbook is 340 pages that are blank
But today, our military is confronted with a new and very different challenge, an epidemic of sexual assaults that is again, seriously compromising the combat effectiveness of our military. Today, our soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airmen, are among the most accomplished of their generation. The standards of the young men and women who serve in our military have never been higher than at any time in our nation’s history. One fundamental factor that has driven up recruiting standards has been that many of the military’s occupational career fields have been opened up to women. By adding women into the mix we have increased the pool of eligible recruits raising the standards to make our military the most professional that our country has ever had. Unfortunately, with the increase
in women serving in uniform there has been a reprehensible increase in the number of sexual assaults and a culture within our military that, knowingly or unknowingly, has tolerated it. Members of the U.S. House and Senate have been debating how best to combat the epidemic of sexual assaults that have plagued our military. We seem to have fallen into two camps. The first supports the leadership of our military in wanting to resolve allegations of sexual assaults within the chain-of-command. The second believes that we should have independent military prosecutors deal with sexual assault cases to remove the stigma of reporting the assaults and encourage women to feel comfortable in stepping forward to bring their assailants to justice. I strongly believe that any allegations of sexual assault should be reported to authorities outside of the chain-of-command and thus should be procedurally treated separately from all other violations listed under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Questions of sexual assault, regarding military coworkers within the same unit, are always highly sensitive in nature and my concern is that a unit commander
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credit that was set up by the state in 1996. The current child care tax credit that’s on the books applies to families that earn less than $60,000 a year. But the credit is tied to federal income taxes, which doesn’t apply to many low-income families because their earnings are too low to even have to file federal taxes. “Middle-class families get a child care tax credit, so lets give the lower income earners tax credits because they are taxpayers, too,” said Rep. Daniel Kagan, D-Cherry Hills. “They are mothers and fathers, too.” About 55,000 families would qualify for the credit, which could reduce state revenues by more than $47 million over the next four fiscal years, according to bill information from the Legislative Council. The bill also provides a three-year sunset
clause, meaning the Legislature can evaluate the tax credit down the road to see if it is something worth continuing. However, Republicans questioned the effectiveness of the bill. House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso, R-Loveland, said families often have to make decisions about their expenses, including energy bills and car insurance rates, which can also run high. DelGrosso said that it’s not the state’s role to triage which expenses should be granted governmentsponsored relief. DelGrosso also said it is better policy to provide financial relief to families by keeping the government out of taxpayers’ wallets to begin with. “We need to start looking at ways to allow people to keep the money we have instead of giving people more money,” DelGrosso said. The bill passed the Democrat majority committee following a 7-5 party-line vote. The legislation now heads to the House Appropriations Committee before it receives a full vote in the House.
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Dueling versions of a bill aimed at creating stiffer penalties for those who commit sex crimes on children were heard in legislative committee hearings last week, but only one survived. The House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee on March 3 gave unanimous approval to a Democratsponsored bill that would create a Colorado version of Jessica’s Law. The law is a national initiative that came as a result of the 2005 rape and murder of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford of Florida. The law would impose mandatory minimum sentences for sexual assaults on children. House Bill 1260, sponsored by Rep. Mike Foote, DLafayette, creates a minimum sentencing structure of 10 years behind bars for crimes of sexual penetration of a child under the age of 12. The bill would also set a minimum sentence of 24 years for serious cases of sexual assault, and judges would be able impose life sentences, if they believe the punishment is warranted. Meanwhile, a Republican effort to create a “Jessica’s Law” statute failed. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Libby Szabo, R-Arvada, would have created the identical version of Florida’s law, which imposes a 25-year minimum sentence for sexual assaults on children. Foote, a Boulder County deputy district attorney, said Szabo lifted the Florida law “almost word for word.” He said her bill was “over-broad in its consequences” and would have been subjected to constitutional challenges. Szabo’s bill failed in the same committee on a party-line vote. Foote’s bill now heads to the House Appropriations Committee, before it receives a full vote in the House.
Regulatory reform bill dies
A Democrat majority House committee on March 5 killed Republican legislation that sought to ease penalties on small businesses that break new state rules. House Bill 1033, sponsored by Rep. Libby Szabo, RArvada, would have allowed small businesses with 100 or fewer employees to receive warnings rather than fines when they commit first-time violations of state rules that are less than a year old. The bill was backed by Republicans and several business groups. However, Democrats on the House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee voted in unison against the bill. Szabo said Democrats got their marching orders from the AFL-CIO, the only group to testify against the bill during the committee hearing.
Bill addresses statutes on related offenses in sex crimes
A bill that does away with statute of limitations for crimes that accompany sex offenses is making its way through the Legislature with bipartisan support. Right now, sex crimes that involve a DNA sample are not subject to statute of limitation guidelines, but crimes that often occur during the commission of a sex crime — such as burglary and kidnapping — do fall under statute of limitations laws. Senate Bill 59 — sponsored by Sen. Lucia Guzman, D-Denver, and Rep. Polly Lawrence, R-Douglas County — would do away with those limitations, allowing courts to consider those crimes for sentencing purposes. The bill sailed through the House on March 6, with only three Republicans voting no. The bill had previously passed the Senate. The legislation now heads back to the Senate for consideration of the House amendments.
Small business tax credit measure advances
A House committee on March 6 gave unanimous approval to a bill that creates tax credits for business personal property. House Bill 1279 — sponsored by Democratic Reps. Dave Young of Greeley and Dianne Primavera of Broomfield — creates a credit for business personal property taxes for companies with $25,000 or less in equipment value. Young said that about 55,000 Coloradans will qualify for the tax credit. Other versions of the bill had suffered defeats in previous legislative sessions. However, this year’s effort does not cut into revenue that is collected by local governments or school districts. The bill passed the House Business, Labor, Economic and Workforce Development Committee following an 11-0 vote and now heads to the House Finance Committee for further consideration.
Newspaper legal notices bill signed into law
Gov. John Hickenlooper on March 7 signed into law a bill that organizes newspaper legal notices on a statewide website. Colorado law requires that all legal notices be published in newspapers of wide circulation that reside within the county where the notices apply. House Bill 1056, sponsored by Rep. Carole Murray, R-Castle Rock, creates a statewide legal notice website that is run by an organization that represents newspapers. Jerry Healey, publisher of Colorado Community Media, joined Murray and Hickenlooper at the bill signing, which took place inside the governor’s office.
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Ride-sharing services Affordable housing bill clears House may soon be regulated By Vic Vela
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Legislation passes Senate with bipartisan support By Vic Vela
vvela@coloradocommunitymedia.com Ride-sharing service companies will be subject to state regulations — but not to as strict a standard as are traditional taxi services — under a bill that passed the Senate on March 10. Transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft allow passengers to book rides through a smart phone application. The companies have been able to provide services without government regulations because they claimed to have fit under a different operating model than taxi companies, an assertion that has upset the taxi industry. But legislators were forced to take regulatory action after the Public Utilities Commission began investigating whether companies like Uber and Lyft Harvey are complying with state transportation rules. “I think it’s an important bill and it’s something that has to be done because the PUC is saying these businesses are acting outside of the law,” said Sen. Ted Harvey, R-Highlands Ranch, a bill sponsor. “And, without this bill, they would no longer be able to do business.” The bill is one of many nationwide responses to the relatively new industry — Uber, for example, began operating four years ago. Local governments across the U.S. have struggled with determining whether transportation network companies fall under the umbrella of a motor vehicle service or as web-based transportation companies that are entirely different animals, altogether. The bill would require businesses like Uber and Lyft to carry liability insurance, conduct background checks on drivers,
inspect vehicles and receive permission to operate from the PUC. The amended version of the bill also requires that drivers not be allowed to drive more than eight hours in any 24-hour period and that companies keep files containing driver insurance and proof of background checks on file. However, the bill would not require companies like Uber and Lyft to comply with the same set of guidelines that regulate taxi companies, such as regulation of rates and operational requirements. Taxi companies say that the new transportation network companies are hurting their business because they are not required to comply with costly regulations. Sen. Cheri Jahn, D-Wheat Ridge, a bill co-sponsor, said she understands those concerns and hopes that lawmakers will examine taxi regulations at another time. “We are more than happy to look at that, but that’s not this bill,” Jahn said. Jahn lauded companies like Uber and Lyft for creating “an entirely new class of jobs” that attracts part-time drivers, such as college students and retirees, who are looking to make a few bucks. Jahn also said that while it’s good to see these companies thrive, it’s just as important to make sure that riders feel safe. “It is our job to make sure there are protections for consumers and we believe we have done that,” Jahn said. While the bill had strong bipartisan support — it passed the Senate following a vote of 29-6 — there was some dissent. Sen. Owen Hill, R-Colorado Springs, blasted the attempts to impose “wet blanket” regulations on the new industry. Hill — who said he has logged 193 trips through Uber — tried unsuccessfully to attach an amendment that would have put off the implementation of the PUC regulations until next year. “When does the PUC have constitutional authority to say who can and can’t pick someone up and take them somewhere else, as part of a private contract?” Hill said. The bill now heads to the House.
A Democrat-sponsored bill that aims to provide more access to affordable housing in Colorado passed the House on March 4, following a party-line vote. Democrats see the bill as an overdue piece of legislation that would help struggling families obtain roofs over their heads, including those who were affected by last year’s flooding that ravaged parts of the state. But House Republicans said Democrats’ own policies have contributed to the lack of affordable housing and that the bill’s effort to help flood-impacted families doesn’t go far enough. House Bill 1017 would provide tax incentives to developers who construct affordable or reasonably-priced homes. The bill also gives the state’s Home Investment Trust Fund the ability to make more lowinterest loans available for the purposes of affordable housing construction. The bill would impact the state’s General Fund by $40 million over the next decade. Rep. Crisanta Duran, D-Denver, the bill’s sponsor, said the legislation is a response to the increasing need for affordable housing in Colorado, where rents continue to rise, causing more people to become priced out of their neighborhoods. “It is an issue that has hit every single corner of our state, in both urban and rural areas,” Duran said before the House vote. A bill amendment that was added prior to the House vote would give housing priority to those who were affected by last year’s
floods in the northern part of the state. However, House Republicans said they needed more assurance that the bill would give priority to flood victims and proposed an amendment that would require 50 percent of the money to be set aside for that purpose. That and several other Republican amendments failed. And Republicans wondered whether this bill would do anything to help the state’s affordable housing issues, to begin with. Rep. Cheri Gerou, R-Evergreen, said that Democrats’ own regulations on the construction industry - which were meant to provide more consumer protections - have raised insurance costs and have made it less desirable for developers to build affordable homes. “We’ve basically killed affordable housing in the private sector and this bill does nothing to help that,” Gerou said. House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso, R-Loveland, agreed with his Republican colleague. “We think we’re going to dangle a few dollars of a credit in front of someone and that it’s somehow going to solve the problem?” he said. “We’re kidding ourselves.” But Rep. Jonathan Singer, D-Longmont, quoted Chinese philosopher Confucius as he accused Republicans of playing politics for not getting their way in the amendment process. “While on the road to revenge we need to be prepared to dig two graves,” Singer said. “We as a body cannot afford to waste time with petty partisanship when it comes to the flood or this bill.”
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Former Littleton business owner Tatiana Klamo was shot with her own handgun when her son pulled the trigger, killing her before shooting himself on Jan. 31 at the family’s home in Highlands Ranch, according to police. “The mother owned the gun,” said Sgt. Ron Hanavan, spokesman with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. The department did not initially release information about the gun used in the murder-suicide. Robert Klamo, 15, shot and killed his mother as his two sisters, Sonia and Julia, escaped out of a second-
story window from the Fox Hunt Circle home. He then shot and killed himself with the same gun. The son reportedly suffered from mental health issues. The case is still technically open because the department is still waiting on reports from other agencies before they close the file, Hanavan said. “We want to make sure we do a thorough investigation,” he said. A memorial service was held for Tatiana Klamo on March 9 at the Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch. Friends have also opened an account, the Tatiana Klamo Memorial Fund, which directly benefits the family. Donations can be made at any FirstBank location. This type of shooting is relatively rare in Douglas County, Hanavan said, adding that Highlands Ranch is “a safe place to live.”
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As part of its race series, the Highlands Ranch Community Association is hosting a St. Patrick’s Day 5k at 9 a.m. on March 15 at Town Center South, located at 9352 Dorchester Street where the race will start and finish. Once finished, participants can enjoy beer, food and music. An obstacle course will be set up at Town Center for children and adults to enjoy throughout the event. After the awards ceremony, children ages 5-12 can participate in a free Kids Obstacle Course Race. Prizes will be awarded for the first 200 finishers. A leprechaun will be hiding a golden kettle bell along the course. The first one to find and return it wins $100 cash.
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The Women’s Crisis & Family Outreach Center’s 14th annual Empty Bowl event will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. March 28 at the Douglas County Event Center, 500 Fairgrounds Road, Castle Rock. At the Empty Bowl, a fund-raiser, people will be able to pick out a hand-thrown bowl as well as a variety of soups, bread and desserts donated by area restaurants. There will also be live music, provided by The Jay & Neil Show, and a silent auction with all proceeds benefiting the agency. “We are excited to move this event back to Friday night to engage more of the community. The support and donations raised from Empty Bowl are essential to helping victims and their families work through the healing process of dealing with domestic violence,” said Amy McCandless, the crisis center’s director of development. For tickets or to reserve tables, go to www.thecrisiscenter.org, or contact Heather Orr at hmorr@thecrisiscenter. org, or call 303-688-1094, ext. 15.
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Proposed power line to go through Highlands Ranch 125-mile-long line would bring power from wind farms of eastern plains to county By Virginia Grantier
vgrantier@coloradocommunitymedia. com A proposed power line that will run about 125 miles from northeast Colorado would wind through both Parker and Highlands Ranch. The line, which would go through Aurora, Parker, then west through Surrey Ridge and into the Highland Ranch open space, is needed to carry power from wind farms and to increase the system’s reliability, said Mark Stutz, spokesman for Xcel Energy. The 345 kV transmission line would run parallel — about 75 feet away from — the existing 230kV line constructed in the 1960s. The poles for the new line will be about 100 feet tall in most places — same
height as those of the existing line. “(The line is) important for delivering new generating sources on the eastern plains… and provides for better system reliability so we’ll be in service at all times,” Stutz said. He said currently there are about a dozen existing wind farms and they expect more in the next couple years. Public meetings have been scheduled in Parker on March 17 and 20. Stutz said there will be experts available on such topics as line location, construction issues and health experts to address any concerns. Derek Holscher, principal right of way agent for Xcel, said the line would be located in the company’s right-of-way corridor, which is about 210 feet wide. He said when the line, as proposed, comes into Douglas County, it will head south through the Ponderosa Hills subdivision, and then by Canterbury Golf Course and through the Villages of Parker. Heading west, it will cross Parker Road near the
20 Mile Road intersection. It will then go past Parker Pavillions shopping center and Bradbury Ranch subdivision. From then on, it goes primarily through open space, except for the Surrey Ridge area west of Interstate 25, he said. The line terminates at the Daniels Park substation, which is just north the City of Castle Pines’ northern border near Monarch Boulevard.
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jreuter@coloradocommunitymedia.com Douglas County School Board President Kevin Larsen said the board aims to meet its late March deadline filling Justin Williams’ vacant District F seat. Under Colorado law, a new board member must be named 60 days after the vacancy was declared. If there is no appointment by the 60th day, the board president must make the appointment. The board accepted Williams’ resignation at the Jan. 21 meeting. “We’re doing everything we can to fall in that time frame,” Larsen said. “Even if it reverts to me to make a decision, my decision would be reflective of what the board decides.” Board members interviewed 10 candidates during the March 3 Board Unplugged meeting at Parker’s Cimarron Middle School.
It’s anticipated construction would take place possibly in 2017, and it would be in service in 2019. The two public meetings scheduled in Douglas County are both in Parker: 6-8 p.m. March 17 at Parker Arts Culture & Events Center, 2000 Pikes Peak Ave.; and 6-8 p.m. March 20 at The Wildlife Experience, 10035 Peoria St.
Larsen said they also planned later to interview an 11th candidate, David Ray, who was traveling and could not attend the meeting in Parker. Candidates include former teacher and stay-at-home mom Leah Bliesmer, retired teacher and Community Accountability Committee organizer Gary Colley, Parker salon owner Suzanne Cortright, real estate agent Gerald Elwell, attorney and American Academy board member Shaylee Holland, investment firm CEO and DCSD long-range planning committee member Dilpreet Jammu, former DCSD employee Ray, former District Accountability Committee member Richard Robbins, retired teacher Mary Strain, former District Accountability Committee member and local Republicans captain Franceen Thompson and Avaya engineer Raymond Varela. The District F seat represents portions of eastern and southern Parker and some of Elbert County. The term will expire in November 2015, at which time the board member chosen for the seat will need to seek election or step down.
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Tulo steps to plate for kids There’s no question that cancer treatment takes a toll on the mind and body of its patients (and as a breast cancer survivor, I can relate). From diagnosis through treatment, the resistance and fortitude of cancer patients is tested. For patients at Children’s Hospital Colorado’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, an upcoming trip was designed specifically to escape these pressures and allow them to focus on just being a kid. Colorado Rockies All-Star shortstop and friend of Children’s Colorado, Troy Tulowitzki, is underwriting an all-expense paid trip to the Colorado Rockies spring training camp for more than 20 patients and their medical caregivers. While in Scottsdale, Ariz., the children will enjoy an exhibition game, meet-andgreet sessions with players and coaches and even some one-on-one downtime with the players. “Last year, I presented Troy with the proposal to fund this trip and he immediately agreed,” said Jim Kellogg, vice president of community and retail operations for the Colorado Rockies. “That’s just the kind of guy he is, he genuinely wants to help and give back wherever he can.”
Denver actor shares in Oscar glow
By Virginia Grantier
It might not vgrantier@ colorado have been a communitymedia.com pretty picture to some people, seeing a 9-yearold girl, from a struggling family, scrubbing walls for 25 cents an hour so she could pay for a pair of shoes. “But it made me what I am today,” said artist and art teacher Katherine McNeill, 72, of Larkspur, owner of McNeill Fine Art Gallery, 363 Village Square Lane, Castle Pines. Now, there are a multitude of pictures, some valued in the multi-thousands of dollars. On a recent night, a nearby restaurant, Duke’s, had a waiting line, so wait-listers wandered into McNeill’s gallery to drink in the art — and there were also drinks. McNeill offers a glass of wine, as well as a tour. The gallery has some of her paintings, many of them aspentree scenes in oil. There are painted words on the painted tree trunks, meant to be like the wood carvings that Western Slope sheepherders long ago left on trees — now called “shepherd’s art,” she said. Other McNeill paintings are far and wide — in Europe, Latin America, Hawaii, elsewhere. She has several artists’ work in her gallery — all Colorado artists — and stories about them: like the sculptor who can’t talk anymore, the result of a serious illness, but still creates his art; and the jewelry maker who mines his own topaz and other gems and cuts them himself. But there’s also her story. McNeill’s parents and seven children left Canada in 1951. Her jack-of-all-trades dad was hoping for better financial opportunities. She said things remained hard. She dreamed of becoming a singer or ice skater, never thought about art, although she liked to work with her hands. She fell in love right after high school — is still married to Robert McNeill after almost 54 years, and started raising kids, and working various jobs — was a cake decorator at one point, a hair dresser, seamstress and dental technician. But eventually, she took an art class so she could paint the unique old oak trees in Santa Rosa, and she’d spend evenings sitting on the living room floor by the fireplace painting while her doting husband sat near her. Robert managed a drug store, long hours, and eventually they decided to make a change so he could have more time with the kids. They bought a feed store in Woodland Park and moved to Colorado. So, for a few years she was loading hay
and grain into vehicles and then sometimes in the store she’d paint. She said her first commission happened when a customer saw her painting and asked McNeill to paint Pikes Peak for him. Then another admirer, George Peak, a successful investor, saw her work. He told her he wanted to pay for her to be able to study and have time to paint. She found out he had a habit of using his money to help. He had paid for college tuition for a couple of waitresses after finding out their stories, she remembers. “He gave me an opportunity,” she said. She started studying with instructors. But later, the McNeills lost their store. She also lost her desire to paint for a while. They moved to Denver. She would get a teacher’s aide position and later a receptionist job at an environmental consulting firm and again just painted on the side. What helped launch her art career happened after she learned there was a call out for artwork for the state’s capitol building. In her off-hours, while her husband did all the housework, she painted a 76-inch-wide painting of Mt. Wilson. It didn’t win a spot, but in 1993 the firm she worked for needed artwork for a new office. She told them they may not know that she painted, but she had a painting they might like. They liked: Bought it for $2,500. But tough times weren’t over. Robert had started a new job in Nevada, then lost it. She, meanwhile, had given notice at her job to join him and her firm already had hired someone else. Now they both, getting on in years, were unemployed. She said on her way to her last day of work she remembers crying, that she just wanted to paint, and remembers asking God to write something in the clouds telling her what to do. When she got to work, the company president called her into his office, told her to sit down, and then slammed his fist on his desk. He asked her what in the world had she been doing all this years — why hadn’t she been painting, that she could make a living doing it. He then commissioned her to do eight paintings for the office.
Colorado native Scott Takeda wasn’t able to attend the Academy Awards Sunday night, but he has come a long way from being a lambkin at Fort Collins High School. The Hollywood actor-director had a vested interest in the March 2 Oscar results. He had a part in the popular “Dallas Buyers Club,” the much-acclaimed film that earned a Best Actor Oscar for Matthew McConaughey and a Best Supporting Actor award for Jared Leto during the 86th Academy Awards ceremony. Takeda remains a true Coloradan, living in his beloved Bonnie Brae neighborhood in south Denver. “My family’s here,” he said. “I married my very lovely bride. When I’m not in front of the camera, I’m behind the camera. I’m used to flying to do corporate films. I’ve (flown) 17,000 miles in six weeks.” Takeda said that he has six agents around the country who scout potential film roles for him. As for landing his part in “Dallas Buyers Club,” he said, “My Louisiana agent contacted me about that role. Probably a couple of weeks passed. I got the callback when landing in Denver. I walked off my flight and happened to see a flight leaving for New Orleans and walked on that flight.” As far as working with McConaughey, who lost 40-some pounds for his role, Takeda said that surprisingly the hunky actor “had a lot of energy.” “I found him to be a complete gentleman, right up there with Will Ferrell. (He was) really easy to work with. I was seeing the effects of his weight loss, but it was impossible for him not to be incredibly nice. He stayed in character, but during periods in the makeup trailer, he would drop character.”
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LiveWell, CRA join forces on `Take It Home’
LiveWell Colorado, a nonprofit organization committed to preventing and reducing obesity in Colorado, has joined forces with the Colorado Restaurant Association to kick off the “Take It Home” pilot program, aimed at helping people maintain a healthy lifestyle while eating at their favorite restaurants. Beginning Friday, four participating restaurants will offer “Take It Home” to-go containers to encourage patrons to think about boxing up a portion of their meal and consuming a balanced portion size. Four Denver-area restaurants, representing several different cuisine options and price points, are participating in the program, including all three Sam’s No. 3 locations, Elway’s Cherry Creek, Racines and Osteria Marco. Program materials available within the restaurants will encourage guests to consider packaging part of their meal in order to help them mindfully select a portion size that supports their healthy lifestyle. “Our goal in supporting this campaign is to remind people who you can eat out and be healthy at the same time — people don’t have to choose between the two. This program serves as a reminder not to overeat while you are busy socializing,” said Sonia Riggs, chief operating officer of the Colorado Restaurant Association. “Denver has an exciting, vibrant restaurant scene, and we want to help people enjoy it in a mindful, healthy way.”
“Rumplestiltskin” is a familiar Grimm’s fairy tale about a lovely young woman, the miller’s daughter; a prince; a king in financial trouble and a magical little dwarfish person. Billie McBride directs a cast of professional actors in this Denver Children’s Theatre production at the Mizel Arts and Cultural Center, 350 S. Dahlia St.,
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The current issue of 5280 magazine is out and instead of its traditional eight picks for top new restaurants, this year they upped the ante to 10. Probably because there are so many worthy newbies in town, many I haven’t even had a chance to visit! They include: Acorn at The Source, Lower 48 Kitchen, The Curtis Club, Los Chigones, Cafe Max, The Plimoth, Session Kitchen, Old Major, Olive + Finch, and Beast & Bottle. For more information on each of the selections, visit www.5280.com and search “The 10 Hippest, Most Delicious Restaurants in Denver Right Now.” Check them out and let me know what you think!
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Winning Girl Scouts highest honor Two Highlands Ranch teens complete service projects By Hannah Garcia
hgarcia@coloradocommunitymedia. com Two Highlands Ranch teens have earned the highest award in Girl Scouting. Elisabeth Collins from ThunderRidge High School and Garrett Ann Nevins from Mountain Vista High School were both awarded the Gold Award, a service project-based accolade involving research and team-building with the end goal of meeting a community need. For her project, Collins founded and directed “Improvisation Sensation!” for five high schools in the Douglas County School District. The event consisted of an improvisational workshop, dress rehearsal, dinner and community performance attended by more than 100 people, according to the Girl
Scouts of Colorado. The project gave participants the opportunity to overcome public speaking anxiety and to perform spontaneously in a caring and supportive environment, Girl Scouts of Colorado spokeswoman Amanda Kalina said. Collins shared her curriculum with the Girl Scout community for future use. For her project, Nevins spent a week teaching 18 high school special-needs students to make fleece pillows with the goal of learning a life skill and Collins connecting them with the community. The project required the students to focus on following directions, develop and use math skills, and work on hand-eye coordination while making the pillows, which were donated to the Ronald McDonald House. Working with a student intern program
at her school that helps special needs students, Nevins said she was inspired by one of those students. “Being around the kids, I really fell in love. They’re so fun to work with,” Nevins said. “One day, one of the students said, `I wish I could help others like others help me.’ It really opened my eyes.” Nevins, who is looking to pursue a future career in special education, said the project took about a year to complete with fundraising efforts and application deadlines. Other student Nevins interns with the program and teachers also assisted in the project. “Earning the Girl Scout Gold Award designation is truly a remarkable achievement, and these young women exemplify leadership in all its forms,” said Stephanie Foote, CEO of Girl Scouts of Colorado. “They saw
a need and took ownership of helping to develop a solution and took action to make it happen. Their extraordinary dedication, perseverance and leadership is making the world a better place.” Last year, 38 Girl Scouts statewide, one from Highlands Ranch, earned Gold Awards, Kalina said. Only about 1.7 percent of Girl Scout alumnae have earned the distinction nationally since the program’s inception, totaling 1 million out of 59 million, according to Kalina. The Gold Award has been part of the Girl Scout program since 1916. Some universities and colleges offer scholarships unique to Gold Award recipients, and girlsBallet who enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces may receive advanced rank in recognition of their achievements, according to the organization. For more information about the Girl Scouts of Colorado, visit www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org, call 1-877-404-5708 or email inquiry@gscolorado.org.
Beatles Tribute asks audience for memories Each audience member has an opportunity to request a song and share a related memory as “Yesterday and Today, the All-Request Beatles Tribute” plays at Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree at 8 p.m. on March 28. The group takes requests and organizes them into a program for a specific audience. Are you reminded of a break-up? A first kiss? A special friend? A particular concert? Tickets start at $36, 720-509-1000, www.LoneTreeArtsCenter.org.
Ireland in photographs
Littleton photographer Peggy Dietz has an exhibit called “Ireland… Thru My Lens,” which runs through March 30 at the Roxborough Library, 8375 S. Rampart Range Rd., Suite 200 in Roxborough. Hours: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 12 to 5 p.m. Sundays.
`Magic Moments’
The annual musical production, “Magic Moments,” will play at 7:30 p.m. March 20-22 and 2 p.m. March 22-23 at the Anschutz Family Theatre at Kent Denver, 4000 E. Quincy Ave., Englewood. “Marry You” is the 2014 title of the musical which includes actors who are physically and intellectually challenged. Proceeds go to supporting organizations. Tickets: $29/$223, 303-575-1005 ext. 2 (leave message) or Sales@magicmomentsinc.org.
Highlands Ranch Concert Band plays March 23
“A World of Delight: Endemic Music From Around the Globe” is the inviting
name of Highlands Ranch Concert Band’s next concert at 2 p.m. March 23 at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch. The program includes; “Songs from the Catskills” by Johan Meij; “Oro Quemado” by W. Rhoads; “The Black Man” by John Philip Sousa; “An Outdoor Adventure” by Aaron Copland; “Tritsch Tratsch Polka” by Johann Strauss. Free admission. www.hrconcertband.org.
Intro to genealogy
The Columbine Genealogical and Historical Society invites members and prospective members to “Introduction to Genealogy” from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on March 18 at Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Centennial. The presenter will be professional genealogist Deena Coutant. (Good for all levels.) At 1 p.m. Kirk
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Amy Lineberry came to The Ballet Physique feeling both mentally and physically low. She quickly lost 15 pounds and gained tone, but the biggest change was invisible. “After I saw what it did for me - not only my body but my happiness, my marriage, my kids, my energy - eventually for me, the t Lone fitness piece became a byprodience uct,” said Lineberry, part owner of the fitness studio that recently o opened its second site in Lone Tree. “The energy, the way you feel when you’re in that space - it really makes you feel like a better person. It’s infectious.”
Lineberry partners with Kristin Zurek, who opened the first Ballet Physique in Littleton three years ago. Using a ballet barre as its focal point, the 60-minute ballet fitness classes build long muscles and enhance posture. The five different formats include moves ranging from yoga- and Pilatesstyle stretches to aerobics and cardio sequences. “Strong is the new skinny,” Lineberry said. “It’s not so much about pounds; it’s about looking good and feeling good,” Zurek is a professional dancer who moved to Colorado from the East Coast. A certified fitness instructor with the American Council on Exercise, she developed her own style of barre class based on her love for the athleticism of ballet. In opening her own studio, she also was determined to provide clients with not only a solid workout, but a sense of community. Zurek’s downtown Littleton
studio’s success inspired her to open the second site on Park Meadows Drive in Lone Tree. The studio across the street from Sam’s Club joins a collection of fitness studios along Park Meadows that includes yoga, Pilates and boxing among other options. Lineberry was among her first clients. “We care about the individual here,” she said. “We know about their families. It’s important to us that they are not only getting their physical needs met. We’re lifting them up, too. This is a place to be, not just a place to come.” The Ballet Physique offers new students an introductory deal of 10 consecutive days of unlimited classes for $20. Regular classes are available on a drop-in basis, in multi-class packages or on monthly rates. The Lone Tree studio is at 7600 East Park Meadows Drive. For more information, visit www. theballetphysique.com.
By the end of April, Highlands Ranch residents will have a healthier new dining option in a market saturated with fast food restaurants. Modmarket, a regional chain with seven stores open along the Front Range, is coming to Highlands Ranch in the spring. The restaurant will be located at the site of the former Schlotzky’s Deli near the intersection of Highlands Ranch Parkway and Broadway, across the street from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office substation. Although the Ranch has a slew of fast-food options, Modmarket is different, according to co-founder Anthony Pigliacampo. The chain serves up a “farm-fresh,” madefrom-scratch menu that avoids preservatives and processed ingredients, according to Modmarket’s website. “We thought Highlands Ranch needed a Modmarket,” Pigliacampo said. “We would have opened a store in Highlands Ranch two years ago, but there weren’t any real estate opportunities.” Most of the food on Modmarket’s menu is sourced from a regional chain of suppliers from Arizona, California and Texas, but the menu will include local produce when it is available, Pigliacampo said. The opening comes during a long-held fast-food fatigue among residents. During a Highlands Ranch Community Association meeting on Feb. 18, candidates for the upcoming board of directors’ election told residents to stop frequenting these chains.
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“Members of our staff have spoken to Shea (Properties),” director Dennis Seymour said. “We all want a better class of establishments, but it has fallen on deaf ears. All we can do is speak with our pocketbooks.” When reading emails from patrons, Pigliacampo said that Highlands Ranch was the most frequently requested location for a new restaurant. He said he is confident that Highlands Ranch residents will buy into the restaurant’s healthybut-quick style of service. “Restaurants work when they’re run well,” Pigliacampo said. “Highlands Ranch is a pretty well-educated community, and what we’ve seen is that the more educated communities tend to care more about what they’re putting into their bodies.” The Highlands Ranch store is part of a recent expansion for the company, which also opened restaurant on the 16th Street Mall in Denver in late February. Modmarket is also opening two other stores this year, one at Denver International Airport and its first out-ofstate location in Flower Mound, Texas. The company has been operating since September 2009. Pigliacampo said the company would like to expand to a national market in the future. “The plan was always to expand,” Pigliacampo said, claiming that as the restaurants expand, more resources become available. “We don’t really have a terminal number of restaurants in mind. We firmly believe people would eat better if they had better options, and most of our competitors aren’t really offering those options.” Each new restaurant usually hires 30 employees, including management and staff, Pigliacampo said.
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ARIES (Mar 21 to apr 19) Take time from your busy schedule to check out what’s going on around you. You might find that someone has been secretly trying to pull the wool over those beautiful Sheep’s eyes. TAURUS (apr 20 to May 20) Once again, the Bovine’s boldness pays off in uncovering the source of a disturbing workplace situation. Your personal life calls for patience, as a certain matter plays itself out. GEMINI (May 21 to Jun 20) Forget about going all out to impress someone in your personal life. Just being yourself is all that matters. a workplace decision will need more time. Don’t rush into it.
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CANCER (Jun 21 to Jul 22) Some supersensitive Crabs might take offense at what they perceive as a slight. But a closer look points to a simple misunderstanding. The weekend holds a welcome surprise. LEO (Jul 23 to aug 22) Sure, you can roar your head off over someone’s failure to keep a promise. But the wiser course would be to ask why it happened. Be prepared for an answer that might well surprise you. VIRGO (aug 23 to Sept 22) a developing relationship needs time to find its direction. So please be patient and resist pushing things along. a recently cooleddown workplace situation could heat up again. LIBRA (Sept 23 to Oct 22) Congratulations. Your well-thought-out proposal seems to be working. Someone who hasn’t agreed with you on most things in the past could turn out to be one of your major supporters. SCORPIO (Oct 23 to Nov 21) Things seem to be going well. However, you can still expect criticism -some of it pretty heavy. But as long as you can back up your position, you’ll be able to rise above it. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 to Dec 21) Making an effort to smooth over even the smallest obstacles now will go a long way to assuring that things run smoothly once you’re set to move on with your plans. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 to Jan 19) You should be able to continue with your plans once you get past those temporary delays. Surprise, surprise. an offer to help comes from a most unlikely source. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 to Feb 18) Prioritizing your tasks is important this week because of all those demands you have to deal with. The pressure eases in time for you to enjoy the weekend. PISCES (Feb 19 to Mar 20) Save your energy and stay focused on what has to be done, despite all those distractions you’re likely to face. You should see some evidence of real progress by week’s end. BORN THIS WEEK: You are a generous, giving person who is always ready, willing and more than able to help others in need. © 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Mountain Vista makes Final Four Golden Eagles avenge 2013 semifinal loss, beat Eaglecrest By Jim Benton
jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia. com Jake Pemberton ignored the high-pressure situation and came through in the clutch for the Mountain Vista boys basketball team. Pemberton calmly sank two free throws with 7.1 seconds left to snap a tie and propel the Golden Eagles to a 65-61 victory over Eaglecrest March 7 in the Class 5A state quarterfinals at the Denver Coliseum. Mountain Vista (25-1) will make its second consecutive Final Four appearance when the Golden Eagles confront unbeaten Fossil Ridge (26-0) in an 8:30 p.m. semifinal matchup March 14 at the CU Events Center. Eaglecrest, the defending state champions, beat Mountain Vista in last season’s Class 5A semifinals, but Pemberton’s two free throws were followed by a desperation shot by the Raptors that missed and a pair of free throws by Graham Smith with one second remaining. And the Golden Eagles avenged last year’s setback. “I was thinking about it when I was walking to the line and knew it could be for the game,” admitted Pemberton. “Then I told myself it was like any other shot. I didn’t think about it because I would probably miss if I thought about it. I just shot. They both went in. I was just feeling it from the foul line.” Mountain Vista coach Bob Wood said he felt confident with Pemberton shooting with the game on the line. “I was happy Jake was going to the line because he shoots 80 percent,” said Wood. “I’d rather have him there than anybody else. If you told me you have seven seconds to go and you have your best free throw shooter on the line, I’d take that. “That’s what happened. Jake hit them and they didn’t get a very good shot and we got the rebound.” Mountain Vista trailed 28-25 at halftime, but the Golden Eagles came out motivated in the third quarter, grabbed the lead and at one point built it up to seven points.
Mountain Vista’s Jake Pemberton races to capture a loose ball during the March 7 Class 5A state quarterfinals against Eaglecrest. Pemberton got the ball and scored two of his 15 points to help his team advance to the Final Four with a 65-61 win. “Probably the coach’s speech was the difference in the third quarter,” confessed Pemberton. “He was so upset. In the first half we weren’t playing well. We’ve been down at halftime. We’ve been there before. Coach gave a great speech. We came out pumped and ready to go.” Wood wouldn’t recite his halftime discourse but did praise his team for its gritty composure. “We didn’t play a very good first half,” he said. “We turned the ball over nine times, we shot 25 percent ... part of it was we were nervous and part of it was Eaglecrest was really good on defense. “I thought we did a great job in the third quarter. We got to the basket, we got some fouls, made some free throws, got penetration and got some good looks at the hoop. In the fourth quarter it was back and forth. Again we made enough plays down the stretch and made enough free throws to hold on. This is a resilient team, they’ve been behind a few times and they come
Mountain Vista’s Jonathan Moore gets fouled by Eaglecrest defender Marquel Murphy (23) during the March 7 Class 5A state quarterfinals at the Denver Coliseum. Moore hit one of two free throws to help his team advance to the Final Four with a 65-61 win. Photos by Tom Munds back.” Mountain Vista held a 61-55 lead with 1:40 to play but Eaglecrest used a 3-point basket and free throws by Elijah Ross to tie the game with 13.7 seconds remaining. Pemberton was then fouled driving to the basket and sank the key free throws. “Last year we lost to Eaglecrest to go to the state championship,” said Pemberton. “They were the defending state champions and this year it was good to beat them to go to the Final Four.”
Fossil Ridge, one of four top-seeds to make the semifinals, presents another challenge for Mountain Vista whose only loss this season came to Arapahoe — a team Fossil Ridge just eliminated in the quarterfinals. “We always look to the next game,” said Pemberton. “If we play really well the whole game, we can have a chance to play for the state championship. Coach always tells us we have the potential to be the best team in the state if we all play like we can.”
Valor girls avenge loss to reach semis Eagles win 16th straight, top Sand Creek in Great 8 By Jim Benton
jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia. com Games against Sand Creek, at least this season, seem to have a major impact on the Valor Christian girls basketball team. Sand Creek embarrassed the Eagles in a 67-34 defeat Jan. 3, dropping Valor’s record to 7-3. Since, the Eagles, have won 16 straight games. The 16th win in the streak may have been the sweetest, a 67-60 retaliation victory over the Scorpions in a March 8 Great 8 game at the Denver Coliseum which earned the Eagles their first trip in school history to the Class 4A Final Four. Valor (23-3) will face undefeated Broomfield (26-0) March 13 in a 5:30 p.m. semifinal contest at the CU Events Center. “That was the turning point of our season,” said Valor coach Sherryl Klosterman, referencing the Jan. 3 meeting between the two schools. “The difference the second time was we played a more half-court style of defense, a more contain-style rather than our normal aggressive trapping and leaving the backside exposed. We just kind of contained them a little better.” Valor went into the fourth quarter trailing Sand Creek 45-44, but Caroline Bryan swished a 3-point basket that started a decisive surge that saw the Eagles outscore the Scorpions 23-15 and punch a ticket to
Valor forward Kendall Bradbury (32) scores two of her 14 points during the March 8 Class 4A state quarterfinals against Sand Creek. The Eagles came on strong in the last quarter to advance to the Final Four with a 67-60 win. Photo by Tom Munds Boulder. “It gave us the momentum that we needed,” said Bryan, who led the Eagles with 22 points. “It picked up the pace of the game and
gave us the excitement and cockiness that we needed to go out and finish it off.” Valor made 18 free throws in the final 5:06 of the game to seal the victory. The Eagles were 28-of-36 at the charity stripe in
the second half and hit 33-of-47 free throws in the game. “Momentum was on our side and we knew if we could just stay aggressive and draw fouls we were going to get them into foul trouble, which we did, and that was key. “We talked about staying aggressive and playing our game which is pass and cut, ball movement and not trying to score too early. When we play aggressive, we play better. We’re a pretty decent free throw shooting team.” Bryan, a 5-foot-10 junior on a team with all underclass regulars, was 7-for-10 at the free throw line and was credited with four assists. Kendall Bradbury scored 14 points and pulled down 10 rebounds, while Madison McCoy added 13 points. Valor now faces a tough semifinal assignment against Broomfield, last season’s 4A runner-up, and a program that won five state titles between 2007 and 2011. “I feel we are playing real well,” said Klosterman. “The kids are confident. They are not getting rattled when we get behind, they are playing together and the kids on the bench are mentally into the game and throwing out suggestions. It’s just a really good team atmosphere.” Bryan is eager to confront the challenge of playing Broomfield. “We’re playing awesome and I could not be more proud of my team,” she said. “It feels incredible to be going to Boulder. It is actually a dream. I could not be more excited.”
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Highlands Ranch girls fall to Lakewood By Daniel Williams
dwilliams@coloradocommunitymedia.com Revenge is a dish that Mackenzie Forrest likes to serve up by raining jump shots all over defenders. The Lakewood sophomore is still an underclassman, yet she remembers all too well the pain that she and her teammates suffered while being eliminated by Highlands Ranch during the Sweet 16 of last year’s state tournament. Fast-forward 361 days and how
Highlands Ranch sophomore Symone Starks has her shot contested by Lakewood sophomore Madeline Miller, middle, and senior Jessica Brooks, right, during the second half March 4 in the Class 5A girls basketball Sweet 16 at Lakewood High School. The Tigers defeated Highlands Ranch, 62-52. Courtesy photo by Dennis Pleuss
the tables have turned as the No. 2 Tigers beat the No. 3 Falcons 6252 in the Sweet 16 of the 5A state tournament March 4 at Lakewood High. “We remember them beating us at this point last season and we didn’t want to feel like that again,” Forrest said. “We have used that game not only as motivation tonight but it has motivated us all season.” The Tigers overwhelmed Highlands Ranch at times during the contest, like when they outscored the Falcons 22-7 in the second quarter. But it was Highlands Ranch that overcame a big deficit, coming all the way back down 11 points at halftime and nearly ripping the Tigers’ hearts out. The Falcons tied the game 51-51 with just three minutes left in the contest, showing the heart of a champion who refused to go away. Highlands Ranch chipped away at the Tigers’ lead and slowly
but surely they positioned themselves to steal the game as senior Ciera Morgan hit three 3-pointers to get her team back into the game. Morgan finished with 13 points and Logan Opheim led the Falcons with 15 points. But Lakewood’s best players played their best basketball down the stretch, getting a big-time effort from Forrest who had a gamehigh 24 points and five steals, with 11 of those points coming in the fourth quarter. Highlands Ranch, which has won seven state titles since 2000, will return much of the core of its team next season and is expected to again be a title contender. “I am proud of everything our girls accomplished this season,” Highlands Ranch assistant coach John Steck said. “We lost some girls this season, we are young, so I am still proud of our group and excited about the future.”
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Littleton
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Sunday Worship: 10:45AM & 6PM Bible Study: 9:30AM Children, Young People & Adults 4391 E Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado 80134 Church Office – (303) 841-3836
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Alongside One Another On Life’s Journey
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United Church Of Christ Parker Hilltop
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Joyful Mission Preschool 303-841-3770 7051 East Parker Hills Ct. • Parker, CO 303-841-3739 www.joylutheran-parker.org Parker
Community Church of Religious Science Sunday 10:00 a.m. at the historic Ruth Memorial Chapel on Mainstreet
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Highlands Church of God The Bahá’í Faith
“The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.”
Meeting Sun at 11am at Northridge Rec Center 8801 S. Broadway Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
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the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 2/13/2014 Last Publication: 3/13/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 12/18/2013 GEORGE J KENNEDY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: CYNTHIA LOWERY-GRABER Colorado Registration #: 34145 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (303) 865-1400 Fax #: (303) 865-1410 Attorney File #: 13-07865 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/
Recording Date of DOT: 2/3/2006 Reception No. of DOT: 2006009893 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $324,750.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $333,369.91 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 62, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 72-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 6851 East Eagle Place, Highlands Ranch, CO 80130
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Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE AMENDED Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0598 To Whom It May Concern: On 9/16/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: ROBERT W. TURNER AND JEAN L. TURNER Original Beneficiary: GB HOME EQUITY, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: TECHNE INVESTMENTS GROUP, LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 1/21/2003 Recording Date of DOT: 1/28/2003 Reception No. of DOT: 2003011116 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $65,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $64,842.34 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 467, HIGHLANDS RANCH, FILING NO. 118-G, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 384 W. Winterthur Way, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 2/20/2014 Last Publication: 3/20/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 2/6/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: KENNETH J BUECHLER Colorado Registration #: 30906 1621 18TH STREET SUITE 260, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (720) 381-0045 Fax #: (720) 381-0382 Attorney File #: TURNER *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0598 First Publication: 2/20/2014 Last Publication: 3/20/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0782 To Whom It May Concern: On 12/17/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: DOUGLAS S. TROWBRIDGE AND TERESA TROWBRIDGE Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR CDC FINANCIAL GROUP Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 7/22/2002 Recording Date of DOT: 8/13/2002 Reception No. of DOT: 2002080107 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $179,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $145,202.55 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 25, BLOCK 9, ACRES GREEN FILING NO. 6, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 13115 Mercury Drive, Littleton, CO 80124 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 2/13/2014 Last Publication: 3/13/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 12/18/2013 GEORGE J KENNEDY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: CYNTHIA LOWERY-GRABER Colorado Registration #: 34145 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (303) 865-1400
Public Trustees
Legal Notice No.: 2013-0782 First Publication: 2/13/2014 Last Publication: 3/13/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0783 To Whom It May Concern: On 12/17/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: CYNTHIA E SIWA Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR TAYLOR, BEAN & WHITAKER MORTGAGE CORP. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 12/2/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 12/21/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005122375 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $144,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $128,145.71 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 35, BLOCK 3, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 4, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 8474 Tanglewood Street, Littleton, CO 80126 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 2/13/2014 Last Publication: 3/13/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 12/18/2013 GEORGE J KENNEDY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: LISA CANCANON Colorado Registration #: 42043 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 3850.100002.F01 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0783 First Publication: 2/13/2014 Last Publication: 3/13/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0788 To Whom It May Concern: On 12/19/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: MICHAEL MURPHY Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 11/10/2011 Recording Date of DOT: 11/15/2011 Reception No. of DOT: 2011071815 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $311,888.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $305,731.76 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to timely make payments as required under the Deed of Trust. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 21, BLOCK 1, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO.5, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 953 Shadow Mountain Drive, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certific-
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MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTI-
SERIES 2006-OA5 20 FICATES, Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 1/25/2006
NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 2/13/2014 Last Publication: 3/13/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 12/26/2013 GEORGE J KENNEDY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: EVE M GRINA Colorado Registration #: 43658 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: Attorney File #: 31058 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/
Public Trustees
Legal Notice No.: 2013-0788 First Publication: 2/13/2014 Last Publication: 3/13/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0789 To Whom It May Concern: On 12/19/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: LISA R. STANLEY Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICA'S WHOLESALE LENDER Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 2/2/2007 Recording Date of DOT: 2/9/2007 Reception No. of DOT: 2007012827 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $279,920.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $192,485.27 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 40, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 118-D, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 1031 Sparrow Hawk Drive, Littleton, CO 80129 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 2/13/2014 Last Publication: 3/13/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 12/26/2013 GEORGE J KENNEDY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JOAN OLSON Colorado Registration #: 28078 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 1269.22487 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0789 First Publication: 2/13/2014 Last Publication: 3/13/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0793 To Whom It May Concern: On 12/20/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: STUART L RASBACH AND JANET L RASBACH Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2006-OA5, MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-OA5 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 1/25/2006 Recording Date of DOT: 2/3/2006 Reception No. of DOT: 2006009893 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $324,750.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $333,369.91 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 62, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 72-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 6851 East
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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 written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 2/13/2014 Last Publication: 3/13/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 12/26/2013 GEORGE J KENNEDY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JENNIFER H TRACHTE Colorado Registration #: 40391 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 1269.22378 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0793 First Publication: 2/13/2014 Last Publication: 3/13/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0795 To Whom It May Concern: On 12/20/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: KATHLEEN DYE AND JOHN ARCHIBALD Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR U.S. BANK, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 5/1/2008 Recording Date of DOT: 8/13/2008 Reception No. of DOT: 2008056634 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $187,600.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $176,075.86 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: FAILURE TO PAY PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST WHEN DUE TOGETHER WITH ALL OTHER PAYMENTS PROVIDED FOR IN THE EVIDENCE OF DEBT SECURED BY THE DEED OF TRUST AND OTHER VIOLATIONS OF THE TERMS THEREOF. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 232, HIGHLANDS RANCH, FILING NO. 121-C, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 740 Timbervale Trl, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 2/13/2014 Last Publication: 3/13/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 12/26/2013 GEORGE J KENNEDY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: GIOVANNI CAMACHO Colorado Registration #: 44364 333 W. COLFAX AVENUE SUITE 450, DENVER, COLORADO 48302 Phone #: (720) 259-8626 Fax #: Attorney File #: 13CO00411-1 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0795 First Publication: 2/13/2014 Last Publication: 3/13/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0808 To Whom It May Concern: On 12/27/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: MATTHEW L HOWARD, AND ROBIN L HOWARD Original Beneficiary: MOUNTAIN CREST MORTGAGE, INC.. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 2/10/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 2/22/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005015026 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $264,100.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $240,390.01 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you
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Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0808
March 13, 2014
To Whom It May Concern: On 12/27/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below PUBLIC NOTICE to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: MATTHEW L HOWARD, AND ROBIN L HOWARD Highlands Ranch Original Beneficiary: MOUNTAIN CREST NOTICE OF SALE MORTGAGE, INC.. Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0013 To advertise public notices call 303-566-4100 Current Holder of Evidenceyour of Debt: CITIMORTGAGE, INC. To Whom It May Concern: On 1/6/2014 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 2/10/2005 the undersigned Public Trustee caused Recording Date of DOT: 2/22/2005 the Notice of Election and Demand relatReception No. of DOT: 2005015026 ing to the Deed of Trust described below DOT Recorded in Douglas County. to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Original Grantor: MICHAEL C KELLEY Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECDebt: $264,100.00 TRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, Outstanding Principal Amount as of the INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE date hereof: $240,390.01 FOR CTX MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: JPare hereby notified that the covenants of MORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASthe deed of trust have been violated as SOCIATION follows: Failure to pay monthly installDate of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/8/2006 ments due Note Holder. Recording Date of DOT: 6/23/2006 THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE Reception No. of DOT: 2006053374 A FIRST LIEN. DOT Recorded in Douglas County. The property described herein is all of the Original Principal Amount of Evidence of property encumbered by the lien of the Debt: $192,000.00 deed of trust. Outstanding Principal Amount as of the Legal Description of Real Property: date hereof: $189,540.11 LOT 7, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you 97-F, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE are hereby notified that the covenants of OF COLORADO the deed of trust have been violated as Which has the address of: 9717 S Red follows: Failure to pay principal and inOakes Pl, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 terest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of NOTICE OF SALE Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described other violations of the terms thereof. herein, has filed written election and deTHE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE mand for sale as provided by law and in A FIRST LIEN. said Deed of Trust. The property described herein is all of the THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given property encumbered by the lien of the that on the first possible sale date (unless deed of trust. the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. WedLegal Description of Real Property: nesday, April 16, 2014, at the Public Condominium Unit 32C, Highland Walk Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Condominiums, in accordance with and Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public aucsubject to the Condominium and Special Subassociation Declaration for Highland tion to the highest and best bidder for Walk Condominium Association, Inc., of cash, the said real property and all inHighlands Ranch Community Association, terest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs Inc. recorded on June 6, 2003, at Recepand assigns therein, for the purpose of tion No. 2003084513, the Supplemental paying the indebtedness provided in said Condominium Declaration for Highland Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Walk Condominium Association, Inc. and Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses Highland Walk Amenities Association, Inc. of sale and other items allowed by law, recorded on February 18, 2004 at Recepand will deliver to the purchaser a Certifiction No. 2004017345 and the Condominiate of Purchase, all as provided by law. um Map for Highland walk Condominiums, First Publication: 2/20/2014 Phase 3, recorded on February 18, 2004, Last Publication: 3/20/2014 at Reception No. 2004017346, in the OfPublisher: Douglas County News Press fice of the Clerk and Recorder of Douglas Dated: 12/30/2013 county, Colorado. County of Douglas, GEORGE J KENNEDY State of Colorado. DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee Which has the address of: 10570 ParkingThe name, address and telephone numton Lane #C-32, Highlands Ranch, CO bers of the attorney(s) representing the 80126 legal holder of the indebtedness is: HOLLY DECKER NOTICE OF SALE Colorado Registration #: 32647 The current holder of the Evidence of Debt 355 UNION BOULEVARD SUITE 250, LAKEWOOD, COLORADO 80228 secured by the Deed of Trust described Phone #: (303) 274-0155 herein, has filed written election and deFax #: (303) 274-0159 mand for sale as provided by law and in Attorney File #: 13-049-25720 said Deed of Trust. *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given SALE DATES on the Public Trustee webthat on the first possible sale date (unless site: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustthe sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wedee/ nesday, April 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Legal Notice No.: 2013-0808 Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for First Publication: 2/20/2014 cash, the said real property and all inLast Publication: 3/20/2014 terest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs Publisher: Douglas County News Press and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said PUBLIC NOTICE Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses Littleton of sale and other items allowed by law, NOTICE OF SALE and will deliver to the purchaser a CertificPublic Trustee Sale No. 2014-0002 ate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 3/6/2014 To Whom It May Concern: On 1/3/2014 Last Publication: 4/3/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused Publisher: Douglas County News Press the Notice of Election and Demand relatDated: 1/6/2014 ing to the Deed of Trust described below GEORGE J KENNEDY to be recorded in Douglas County. DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee Original Grantor: TAMARA K. KING AND The name, address and telephone numRICHARD MARK KING bers of the attorney(s) representing the Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELEClegal holder of the indebtedness is: TRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, JENNIFER H TRACHTE INC. AS NOMINEE FOR MERITAGE Colorado Registration #: 40391 MORTGAGE CORPORATION 1199 BANNOCK STREET , Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: LNV DENVER, COLORADO 80204 CORPORATION Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 10/25/2006 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Recording Date of DOT: 11/7/2006 Attorney File #: 1068.100002.F01 Reception No. of DOT: 2006095976 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE DOT Recorded in Douglas County. SALE DATES on the Public Trustee webOriginal Principal Amount of Evidence of site: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustDebt: $432,000.00 ee/ Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $423,617.89 Legal Notice No.: 2014-0013 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you First Publication: 3/6/2014 are hereby notified that the covenants of Last Publication: 4/3/2014 the deed of trust have been violated as Publisher: Douglas County News Press follows: the failure to timely make payments as required under the Deed of Trust. PUBLIC NOTICE THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. Highlands Ranch The property described herein is all of the NOTICE OF SALE property encumbered by the lien of the Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0015 deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: To Whom It May Concern: On 1/7/2014 LOT 19, PLUM CREEK ACRES, the undersigned Public Trustee caused COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF the Notice of Election and Demand relatCOLORADO ing to the Deed of Trust described below Which has the address of: 9206 West Rato be recorded in Douglas County. mona Avenue, Littleton, CO 80125 Original Grantor: GORDON ERWIN MARSHBURN NOTICE OF SALE AND LESA A MARSHBURN The current holder of the Evidence of Debt Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECsecured by the Deed of Trust described TRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, herein, has filed written election and deINC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE mand for sale as provided by law and in FOR COUNTRYWIDE BANK, FSB said Deed of Trust. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BANK THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given OF AMERICA, N.A. that on the first possible sale date (unless Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 11/26/2007 the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. WedRecording Date of DOT: 12/4/2007 nesday, April 23, 2014, at the Public Reception No. of DOT: 2007094013**** Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public aucOriginal Principal Amount of Evidence of tion to the highest and best bidder for Debt: $239,927.00 cash, the said real property and all inOutstanding Principal Amount as of the terest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs date hereof: $249,729.70 and assigns therein, for the purpose of Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you paying the indebtedness provided in said are hereby notified that the covenants of Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of the deed of trust have been violated as Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses follows: A violation of the covenants of of sale and other items allowed by law, said Deed of Trust for reasons including, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificbut not limited to, the failure to make payate of Purchase, all as provided by law. ments as provided for in the Deed of Trust First Publication: 2/27/2014 and Negotiable Instrument.***Loan ModiLast Publication: 3/27/2014 fication Agreement made on November Publisher: Douglas County News Press 17, 2011 Dated: 1/6/2014 THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE GEORGE J KENNEDY A FIRST LIEN. DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The property described herein is all of the The name, address and telephone numproperty encumbered by the lien of the bers of the attorney(s) representing the deed of trust. legal holder of the indebtedness is: Legal Description of Real Property: ELIZABETH S MARCUS LOT 101, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING Colorado Registration #: 16092 NO. 93-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, STATE OF COLORADO. ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Which has the address of: 787 PoppyPhone #: (303) 706-9990 wood Pl, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126Fax #: 4700 Attorney File #: 31315 The Deed of Trust was modified by a doc*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE ument recorded in Douglas County on SALE DATES on the Public Trustee web4/7/2010, Reception number 2010021549. site: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustReason modified and any other modificaee/ tions: Legal Description.
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Legal Notice No.: 2014-0002 First Publication: 2/27/2014 Last Publication: 3/27/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0013 To Whom It May Concern: On 1/6/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: MICHAEL C KELLEY Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR CTX MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC
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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 written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certific-
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Highlands Ranch Herald 21
March 13, 2014
No. 1 Eagles bounced from state playoffs Valor boys fall in overtime to Pueblo East in Great 8
sports roundup Smith to Southern Illinois
Mountain Vista senior running back Tanner Smith, who suffered a torn ACL and meniscus during the second game of the football season, has accepted a preferred walk-on offer with a guaranteed spot on the Southern Illinois University football team for next season.
By Jim Benton
jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com
Stepp wins 200 butterfly
Nebraska Omaha freshman Morgan Valor Christian’s boys basketStepp, a Douglas County High School ball team, like almost all high graduate, won the Summit League school squads, struggles when championship in the 200 butterfly shots are not falling. with a season-best time of 2:04.06 durThe top-seeded Eagles shot ing the meet in Indianapolis, poorly when the game was on the line in a March 8 Great 8 Bruetting named to U.S. team contest against Pueblo East at Simona Bruetting of Highlands the Denver Coliseum and were Ranch will be one of 40 players to ushered out of the Class 4A state represent the United States in the 34th playoffs after suffering a 62-56 ITF Seniors World Tennis Championovertime loss to the squad from ships. Colorado’s Steel City. The event will be held at different “They put the ball in the hole clubs across the Palm Beach Gardens more than we did,” said Valor and Baca Raton area in Florida from coach Ronnie DeGray. “Hats off April 21-26 for team competition and to them. They made plays late. Valor’s Garrett Baggett (23) puts up a jump shot during the March 8 Class 4A quarterfinals against Pueblo East at the Denver Coliseum. April 27-May 4 for individual matches. We shot the ball well all season. Baggett hit the shot for two of his team-high 18 points but Pueblo East came on strong in overtime to win, 62-56. Photo by Tom Munds Bruetting is the captain of the In the games we didn’t win, it Suzanne Lenglen Cup Women’s 35 and was because we didn’t shoot the To Whom It May Concern: On 1/13/2014 over team. ball well.” the undersigned Trustee caused the first half and was ahead 47- offense with 18 points, Chase Public Valor, a 2013 Class 4A state the Notice of Election and Demand relatValor, which finishes the seato the Deed of Trust described below 43 with 1:56 remaining in the Foster scored 12 andingChristian runner-up, will graduate eight to be recorded in Douglas County. son with a 21-5 record, shot 36.2 Sherry aims at NCAA championships fourth quarter. It looked like the McCaffrey added 10 points. Fos- THERESA seniors off its roster. Original Grantor: AHMANN percent for the game but was a Tim Sherry, a sophomore at the Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELEC- an unbelievable Eagles were going to escape with ter, the 6-foot-5 senior who led “It’s been TRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, mere 2-for-10 in the overtime University of Alaska Fairbanks, will be INC., season ACTING SOLELY To Whom Itpointed May Concern: On 1/13/2014 a victory, but Pueblo East’s Dylan Valor in scoring on the rideAS forNOMINEE those seniors,” FOR LENDER, RESMAE MORTGAGE the undersigned Public Trustee caused and 1-for-4 during the final four competing in the NCAA Rifle ChampiGavin, who scored a game-high and is bound for SanCORPORATION Francisco out DeGray. “They worked so the Notice of Election and Demand relatminutes of the fourth quarter. onships March 14-15 at Murray State Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. ing to the Deed of Trust described below 27 points, used a screen to drive next fall, had trouble getting hard for this program. They BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS to be recorded in Douglas County. The Eagles were 3-for-7 at the University. There are 34 schools that SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF Originaldid Grantor: CHRIS HUDSON AND down the lane for a layup with untracked in the early morning came out and they everyAMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, MICHELLE HUDSON foul line down the stretch of regsponsor rifle teams and the NCAA one second showing on the contest and was 3-of-12 from thing asked of them. AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASOriginal Beneficiary: UNIVERSAL LENDThe property described herein is all of the ulation time while trying to hold holds an all-division championship. ALLE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FORwasING property encumbered thegame lien of at the 49. clock to tie by the the field. “Our goal toCORPORATION get back to THE MLMI TRUST SERIES 2006-RM2 Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:Sherry, a graduate of Mountain deed of trust. the lead. Deed of TrustBoulder (DOT): 3/27/2006 COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE Legal Description Real Property: Eastofmade just one field goal “He’s been our guyDate all ofseason this year and bring it Recording Date of DOT: 4/4/2006 AUTHORITY “They were a tough team,” Condominium Unit No. 2402, Lincoln Vista, is on a partial athletic scholarthe four-minute extra ses- and we tried to put theReception ball inNo. hisof DOT: home but the ballDate didn’t bounce 2006027926 The current holder of the Evidence of Debt of Deed of Trust (DOT): 7/24/2009 Squarein Lofts, County of Douglas, State of addedbyDeGray. had a couple ship at Fairbanks. DOT Recorded in Douglas County. secured the Deed “We of Trust described Recording Date of DOT: 9/9/2009 Colorado, according to the Amended and sion but converted 12-of-15 free hands and let him create for ev- our way. The program is buildOriginal Principal Amount of Evidence of herein, has written election and deReception No. of DOT: 2009071468 ThisUSA project Restated Condominium Map thereof reruns butfiledwe knew they would ranked sixth in Debt: $207,400.00 mand for sale as provided by law and in DOTbe Recorded in Douglas consists of constructing a 2-span, continucorded throws on Octoberto 14, 2005 at Reception notch the upset vic- erybody else but sometimes the ing. We’re going to a force to County.He is currently Outstanding Principal Amount as of the said Deed of Trust. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of inous, come back.” prestressed concrete in box3 girder No. 2005098823,and the Declaration reshooting air rifle and eighth ball falls for you and sometimes be reckoned withDebt: years down the date hereof: $205,808.46 THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given $247,336.00 (precast) pedestrian bridge over C-470. corded tory. on June 17,2005 at Reception No. had an 11-point lead in position Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 that Valor on the first possible sale date (unless as of the smallbore. 2005054931 as amended in the filed rst Garrett Baggett Valor’s not,” said DeGray. road.” (4) (i), you Outstanding Principal Amount
the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 3/6/2014 Last Publication: 4/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 1/8/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JOAN OLSON Colorado Registration #: 28078 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 1269.100024.F01 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/
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Amendment to the Declaration of Condominium for Lincoln Square Lofts recorded October 14, 2005 at Reception No. 2005098822 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Douglas County, Colorado, as amended from time to time. Which has the address of: 10176 Park Meadows Drive #2402, Littleton, CO 80124
The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 485, ROXBOROUGH VILLAGE FILING NO. 16-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9562 Marmot Ridge Cir, Littleton, CO 80125
NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 3/6/2014 Last Publication: 4/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 1/8/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JOAN OLSON Colorado Registration #: 28078 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 1269.22520 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/
NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 3/6/2014 Last Publication: 4/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 1/13/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: MONICA KADRMAS Colorado Registration #: 34904 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 1410.00507 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/
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Legal Notice No.: 2014-0019 First Publication: 3/6/2014 Last Publication: 4/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press
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To Whom It May Concern: On 1/7/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: S. MATTHEW ROSE Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR CASTLE & COOKE MORTGAGE, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 10/15/2010 Recording Date of DOT: 10/22/2010 Reception No. of DOT: 2010069779 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $197,507.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $189,554.74 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: A violation of the covenants of said Deed of Trust for reasons including, but not limited to, the failure to make payments as provided for in the Deed of Trust and Negotiable Instrument. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: Condominium Unit No. 2402, Lincoln Square Lofts, County of Douglas, State of Colorado, according to the Amended and Restated Condominium Map thereof recorded on October 14, 2005 at Reception No. 2005098823,and the Declaration recorded on June 17,2005 at Reception No. 2005054931 as amended in the first Amendment to the Declaration of Condominium for Lincoln Square Lofts recorded October 14, 2005 at Reception No. 2005098822 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Douglas County, Colorado, as amended from time to time. Which has the address of: 10176 Park Meadows Drive #2402, Littleton, CO 80124
To Whom It May Concern: On 1/8/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: HUGH D NOBLITT Original Beneficiary: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: SPECIALIZED LOAN SERVICING LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 4/25/2011 Recording Date of DOT: 4/29/2011 Reception No. of DOT: 2011027339 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $196,650.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $192,579.86 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 485, ROXBOROUGH VILLAGE FILING NO. 16-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9562 Marmot Ridge Cir, Littleton, CO 80125
NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in
NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in
PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0019
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PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0028 To Whom It May Concern: On 1/13/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: THERESA AHMANN Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LENDER, RESMAE MORTGAGE CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR THE MLMI TRUST SERIES 2006-RM2 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/27/2006 Recording Date of DOT: 4/4/2006 Reception No. of DOT: 2006027926 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $207,400.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $205,808.46 Pursuant to C.R.S. §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 monthly installments due Note Holder. Said Deed of Trust was rerecorded on 9/15/2009, under Reception No. 2009072715. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 34, ACRES GREEN FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF
are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay monthly installments due Note Holder. Said Deed of Trust was rerecorded on 9/15/2009, under Reception No. 2009072715. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 34, ACRES GREEN FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 13697 Omega Circle, Littleton, CO 80124
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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 written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 7, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 3/13/2014 Last Publication: 4/10/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 1/14/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: HOLLY DECKER Colorado Registration #: 32647 355 UNION BOULEVARD SUITE 250, LAKEWOOD, COLORADO 80228 Phone #: (303) 274-0155 Fax #: (303) 274-0159 Attorney File #: 13-945-25816 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2014-0028 First Publication: 3/13/2014 Last Publication: 4/10/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0030 To Whom It May Concern: On 1/13/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: CHRIS HUDSON AND MICHELLE HUDSON Original Beneficiary: UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 7/24/2009 Recording Date of DOT: 9/9/2009 Reception No. of DOT: 2009071468 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $247,336.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $261,283.23 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property:
date hereof: $261,283.23 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 53, ROXBOROUGH VILLAGE FILING NO. 14A., COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 7218 Pine Hills Way, Littleton, CO 80125
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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 written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 7, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 3/13/2014 Last Publication: 4/10/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 1/14/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ALISON L. BERRY Colorado Registration #: 34531 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: Attorney File #: 31731 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2014-0030 First Publication: 3/13/2014 Last Publication: 4/10/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press
Government Legals Public Notice PUBLIC INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed bids for QUEBEC STREET WEST PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE PROJECT, DOUGLAS COUNTY PROJECT NUMBER CI 2011-019 will be received by the Owner, Douglas County Government, Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104, until Tuesday, April 15, 2014, at 3:00 p.m. This project consists of constructing a 2-span, continuous, prestressed concrete box girder (precast) pedestrian bridge over C-470. The Contract Documents may be examined at the above address after 10:00 a.m. on Monday, March 17, 2014, and copies of the Contract Documents may be obtained upon payment of $35.00 for each set. The $35.00 is non-refundable. (Additional charge if mailing is required.) A PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, at the Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104. The Bid Opening will be conducted at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15,
The Contract Documents may be examined at the above address after 10:00 a.m. on Monday, March 17, 2014, and copies of the Contract Documents may be obtained upon payment of $35.00 for each set. The $35.00 is non-refundable. (Additional charge if mailing is required.)
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A PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, at the Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104. The Bid Opening will be conducted at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15, 2014, at the same address. The Project includes the following major items and approximate quantities: • Steel Piling (HP 10X57) - 299 LF • Pedestrian Railing (Steel) - 490 LF • Concrete Class D (Bridge) - 306 CY • Reinforcing Steel - 35,500 Lbs. • Masonry Landscape Wall (Dry Stack) 144 SF • Cut Stone Veneer - 1,573 SF • Prestressed Concrete Box Girder (Depth 32”-48”) - 2,506 SF Prior to submitting a Bid Proposal, Bidders shall have received prequalification status (active status) with the Colorado Department of Transportation to bid on individual projects of the size and kind of work as set forth herein. Any questions on the bidding process may be directed to Dennis Lobberding, Project Manager at 303.660.7490. For Planholder Information, Please Call 303.660.7490 (Front Desk) Legal Notice No.: 925086 First Publication: March 13, 2014 Last Publication: March 20, 2014 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on April 12, 2014 final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and Chato’s Concrete, LLC for the 2013 Sidewalk Repair and Handicap Retrofit Throughout Douglas County, Douglas County Project Number CI 2013-005 in Douglas County; and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said Chato’s Concrete, LLC for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said April 12, 2014, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Board of County Commissioners, c/o Public Works Engineering Director, with a copy to the Project Engineer Terry Gruber, Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104. Failure on the part of claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve said County of Douglas from all and any liability for such claimant's claim. The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, By: Frederick H. Koch, P.E., Public Works Engineering Director. Legal Notice No.: 925087 First Publication: March 13, 2014 Last Publication: March 20, 2014 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press
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jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia. com Highlands Ranch lost its rhythm in the second half and lost the game. Dominique Collier and Denver East pulled away from the Falcons in the second half and posted a 64-44 Great 8 triumph March 7 at the Denver Coliseum. There were six lead changes and seven ties in the first half as the teams battled to a 23-23 halftime tie. Collier went on a scoring spree in the second quarter, however, that carried into the second half, and the Angels outscored Highlands Ranch, 41-21, in the final two quarters. “Their length hurt us a little bit and the passing lanes were covered up,” said Highlands Ranch coach Bob Caton. “We got out of rhythm and once we got out of rhythm it was pretty tough. They are a tough team. And Collier showed why he’s the player he is. I was very happy with the first half but unfortunately the game didn’t end then.” Highlands Ranch led 11-8 in the first quarter but Collier, the 6-foot-2 senior who will play next season for the University of Colorado, scored the next 26 points for East
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Jaguars season comes to close in Sweet 16 Rock Canyon to graduate four starters from this year’s squad By Jim Benton
jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com It could be difficult to recognize Rock Canyon’s girls basketball team next season. The Jaguars’ 2013-14 campaign ended March 4 with a 59-43 Sweet Sixteen loss at Cherry Creek in the Class 5A state playoffs. Rock Canyon finished the season with a 17-8 record but will lose stalwart senior starters Lexy Thorderson, Morgan Roos, Erin McClarie and Kendall Koslosky to graduation. The four seniors accounted for 49.3 points per game this season, or 78.3 percent of the Rock Canyon scoring. The four were also credited with 74.2 percent of the Jaguars’ rebounding. “Our seniors were definitely the heart and soul of the scoring of the team,” said coach Becky Mudd. “We are really going to miss them. But I hope what they started here is something we can build on. “It’s going to take lots of hard work next season. … We don’t have the size coming back, we’re going to have to play a little bit of a different style with a more guard-oriented team. It’s just building each year on what we do so that they know what they are doing and have experience doing
Rock Canyon’s Lexy Thorderson (22) gets off a shot over Cherry Creek defender Laura Pranger (35) during a Sweet 16 contest between the two schools March 4. Thorderson scored a team-high 11 points for the Jaguars, but the Bruins advanced to the quarterfinals with a 59-43 win. Photo by Tom Munds it.”
ins flirted with leads of 10 points or more for the remainder of the game. The closest Rock Canyon could come was seven points with 2:48 remaining in the third quarter. The Jaguars forced a myriad of turnovers in the third quarter but many times failed to capitalize with points off those turnovers. “Eppard was just penetrating well and getting all the shots underneath,” said Mudd. “We just gave up too many layups in the first half
In that final playoff encounter against Cherry Creek, the Jaquars learned that patience sometimes can be an asset in mounting a comeback. Creek, fueled by the inside play of Mikaela Eppard, went on a 10-0 run midway through the first period and forced the Jaguars to play from behind the rest of the game. Eppard scored 17 of her game-high 24 points in the first half as the Bru-
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and had to play from behind. “We got it down to seven but then they built it right back up again. We just couldn’t close the gap. … We just didn’t finish well around the basket. We were rushing. “Instead of working each offensive possession, we were trying to do too much too fast. When we would get turnovers we needed to come down and get points out of them. We were pressing and trying to do it all at once.” Thorderson, Rock Canyon’s leading scorer, was limited to two free throws in the first half by Cherry Creek freshman Laura Pranger but she led the Jaguars with 11 points in the game. McClarie and Roos each had 10 points. Mudd, who took over as Rock Canyon’s coach this season after a successful tenure at Denver Christian, admitted the change was a hard adjustment. “Great kids, awesome basketball players and they bring so many skills and stuff to the table,” she said. “It was hard on the kids to change some of the things they were doing when we came in. I know it set them back a little. I hurt for the kids. They didn’t get to continue on. “They had high expectations for the year. The Cherry Creek loss didn’t meet those expectations. Looking ahead, we obviously want to continue doing what these girls started … to bring Rock Canyon around to (being) a good basketball school.”
Scoreboard MOUNTAIN VISTA HIGH SCHOOL Boys basketball State Tournament Mountain Vista boys beat Ralston Valley in the Sweet 16, 68-38 and Eaglecrest in the Great 8, 65-61 to move on to the Final Four in the State Tournament. Carson Simon was the Player of the Game against Ralston Valley and Ray Beresford was the Player of the Game against Eaglecrest.
VALOR CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL Girls basketball State Tournament Valor Christian girls get to move on to the Final Four in the State Tournament after beating Sand Creek 67-60 in the Great 8. Valor Christian was down by one point at halftime, but their 20 points in the third and 23 points in the fourth secured the win. They will play Broomfield in the Final Four.
in their opening game of the 2014 campaign. Freshman standout Cam Dyke led Valor with two goals and an assist in her high school debut. Classmate Tess Boade also made waves with a goal of her own. Along with the outstanding attack from the rookies, veteran players Jastin Redman, Cydney Billups, and Allie Miller showed their leadership and experience. Redman finished the night slating one goal and two assists, while Billups and Miller added a goal and an assist, respectively.
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