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Douglas County, Colorado • Volume 27, Issue 3

December 5, 2013

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Water-rate increase in works Proposed hike would take effect next year By Ryan Boldrey

rboldrey@ourcoloradonews.com For the third straight year, Centennial Water and Sanitation District customers should expect to see a rate increase on their monthly bills. Following spikes of 2 percent in 2012 and 3.8 percent in 2013, Highlands Ranch residents are expected to see rates go up 6.8 percent this coming year. This year’s proposed increase is due to the district’s involvement with both the Water Infrastructure and Supply Efficiency Partnership (WISE) and Chatfield Reallocation Project, said Bruce Lesback, CWSD director of finance and administration. “We held off as long as we could before increasing rates to this level for our customers, but it appears both projects are now going forward,” Lesback said. For CWSD, the two projects are a major step toward cementing a long-term

water supply and not relying as much on groundwater or leased water. “We’ve got many years of full supply, but some of that full supply comes from leases that are not long-term,” CWSD General Manager John Hendrick told Colorado Community Media earlier this year. “We want to add to our portfolio with long-term or near-permanent surface water sources. “We’ve got ample groundwater for droughts, but in wet years we’ll now be able to take in more than we need to and top off our reservoirs with surface water.” Despite the rate increases, CWSD bills are expected to remain much lower than some of Highlands Ranch’s neighboring districts and, according to the district, the estimated bill for an average family in 2014 is expected to be around $750. For comparison’s sake, the average family living within the boundaries of Parker Water and Sanitation District, the Town of Castle Rock and Castle Pines North Metro District are all spending $1,200 or slightly more for water in 2013, while those who live in Stonegate Water and Sanitation District are spending just shy of $900.

This graphic illustrates the average estimated annual bill for Centennial Water and Sanitation District consumers in 2014 after the proposed rate increase, compared to what residents in neighboring communities paid in 2013. Graphic courtesy of Centennial Water and Sanitation District Castle Pines North is anticipated to raise its rates a small amount in 2014 and Parker has already approved a 2.56 percent increase for 2014.

A public hearing was held Nov. 25 on the proposed CWSD budget. The board of directors will vote to adopt the 2014 budget at its Dec. 16 meeting.

Ex-teacher sentenced in sex case Richard Johnson gets 20 years in prison By Ryan Boldrey

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A MILE-HIGH FIVE

Valor Christian teammates hold the trophy as quarterback A.J. Cecil kisses it after the Eagles defeated Fairview 56-16 in the Nov. 30 Class 5A state championship football game at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. The victory earned the school its fifth straight state football title. Find more coverage on Page 20. Photo by Tom Munds

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

jsmith@ourcoloradonews.com After a national search, Littleton City Manager Michael Penny has announced the names of six finalists for the Littleton Fire Rescue chief position. LFR serves Highlands Ranch. Division Chief Wayne Zygowicz is the only LFR employee to make the cut. The others are Christopher Armstrong, former division chief in Miramar, Fla.; Joseph Bruce, chief of North Metro Fire Rescue in Arvada; Gary Curmode, chief of the Sedgwick County Fire District 1 in Park City, Kan.; Jack McArthur, chief in Yuma, Ariz.;

Thomas Solberg, director of fire service training at Montana State University. John Mullin, chief since 2004, announced Aug. 23 that he would end his 40-year career effective Dec. 31. “How exciting for the new chief to be coming to an organization that is hungry to grow and hungry to go forward,” he told the Highlands Ranch Metro District board of directors Nov. 26. “Thank you for the support you have given me and the friendships I’ve made. It’s been a good run. It’s been fun being a part of this, this is a good place to live and work.” He announced his retirement on Aug. 23, four months after the firefighters’ association formally declared their lack of confidence in his leadership. “Once a proud and well-regarded emergency services provider, we have watched with dismay and disappoint-

ment as Littleton has been passed up by other metro fire departments,” the association wrote in an April 16 letter to Penny. “It pains us to see how far we have fallen under the leadership of John Mullin.” Mullin called the vote a distraction. “I turn 65 this October and will achieve 40 years in the fire service on April 1,” he said in a statement Aug. 24. “I leave a wonderful, adventure-filled career on my terms.” At the time, Joel Heinemann, president of the Littleton Firefighters Association, said the department was looking forward to a new start. “We wish him well in the next chapter of his life,” he said. “We’re excited about moving forward with the future of the Littleton fire department with new leadership.” Chief continues on Page 9

Former Rocky Heights Middle School teacher Richard Johnson was sentenced to 20 years in prison followed by 20 years in the state’s Sex Offender Intensive Supervised Probation program for sexually exploiting an eighth-grade student in 2011. The 32-year-old Centennial man was arrested in November 2012 and charged with 30 felony counts, including 10 each of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust and patterned sexual assault on a child by a per- Johnson son in a position of trust, as well as five each of sexual exploitation of a child and enticement of a child. After initially pleading not guilty, Johnson reached a deal with prosecutors and changed his plea this September, agreeing to two Class 3 felony counts of sexually exploiting a child and avoiding a trial in the process. “This is the ultimate example of betrayal,” said 18th Judicial District Court Judge Richard Caschette at the Nov. 27 sentencing in Castle Rock. “The community expects and deserves more of its teachers and people in a position of trust than was shown here and finds crimes of this nature against children the most repugnant of crimes.” The victim, who said she was 13 when Johnson “began grooming” her, addressed Johnson continues on Page 7

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View of piano is black and white The 74-year-old Knabe grand piano sits silent in the room behind them. But the three women sipping tea at the small dining room table feel the music settle into them with the quiet joy only an old, beloved companion can bring. Music. “It’s like food,” Dee Netzel, 86, says. “I couldn’t imagine life without it.” “It’s a passion,” says Donita Banks, 77, “a compulsion.” The piano belongs to the third woman, the tiniest, just now able to sit at the bench after two months battling a back injury. Rita Jo Tensly, 84, says simply: “I want to die at the piano.” ••• They call themselves “sisters” — Dee from a small Wisconsin town, Rita from New York City and Donita from Pueblo. All classical pianists, a love for music binds them tightly. But what brought them together originally was the Denver alumnae chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, an international music fraternity for women they joined while in college. Donita, the chapter’s archivist who chronicles the organization’s history in carefully constructed scrapbooks, spreads open an album on the table and points to a picture of smiling women, the SAI Singers. “There’s Dee and there’s me. We had a bicentennial program.” 1976. She turns to another page and another picture. 1995. Rita: “There I am in the front row.” Donita: “We were looking a little younger then.” All three burst into laughter. Another album contains photos of revered member Lela Putney, whose 104th birthday they celebrated in 2008. She left Denver several years ago to live near family and died at 108. Donita added the obituary and stories of her life to the scrapbook. Donita, who joined in 1960 and is one of the longest-running members, is adamant the SAI alumnae chapter was a key ingredient to Lila’s longevity. “What has kept us going,” she says, “has been music, friendship and service.” The chapter has 44 members from their

mid-20s to Dee, the oldest active member. About 25 attend monthly meetings from September to June in homes and churches throughout the metro area, wherever a good piano can be found. “I think one of the neat things about our group now is we are online,” Dee says, “and as careers bring people to our area, they look us up online and they find us.” The website also brings younger women to the graying chapter. Dee: “I love being with young people.” “It keeps me young,” Rita says. Dee: “We really aren’t categorized by age. … Music is just music.” “They like us for what we are,” Rita says. “Musicians.” ••• Donita, an only child, began playing at 7 when her parents brought home an old, Baldwin Acrosonic upright piano, signed by pianist Amparo Iturbi, sister of the famed pianist José Iturbi of Spain. “Really?” Rita asks. “Mmmhmmm,” Donita says, smiling, remembering. “I loved piano from the beginning.” In junior high school, she began accompanying the singers at church. In high school, she played for a singer who performed for service organizations and then was hired to accompany dancers at the Pueblo Conservatory of Music. She attended the University of Colorado on scholarship where a professor introduced her to contemporary music. Her son, her first child, was just seven weeks old when she accepted a job as 10.25 in.director at a Lakewood church, youth choir the start to a career as a freelance musician who combined one-woman shows with

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

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all young at one time.” Dee still practices every day, one of the reasons, she believes, that she doesn’t have any pain in her arthritic hands. Twelve years ago, macular degeneration clouded the sight in her left eye. In August, doctors found the beginning of the disease in her right eye. “I’m surviving,” Dee says and tells Donita and Rita about the musical program she played recently with a friend. “I played practically note-perfect. I’m going to keep going until I can’t see anything.” ••• The stories around the table this day compose a concerto of family remembered and talent ignited, of challenges faced and overcome, of the importance of sharing a singular passion with the world. They also, perhaps mostly, recount a friendship born, nurtured and sealed by the implicit understanding of a love and need for music and the deep happiness it brings. The piano waits across the room. A brass light that cost $100 arches over the music books of Debussy and Chopin resting against the piano rack. Rita’s $400 piano glasses lie on top. Rita: “It was worth it to me, to see the music … so I can play.” And play they will. Of that, there is no doubt. As long as they can, Donita says. Till, Dee concludes, the end. A benefit concert to raise money for “Mending Faces,” which sends doctors to the Philippines to operate on children with cleft palates, will be held Jan. 26 at 3 p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1600 Grant St., Denver. The concert is presented by the Denver Alumnae Chapter and Sigma Upsilon Chapter, Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity. Tickets are $25, $10 for students. Contact Rita Jo Tensly at 303-7486889 or rjtensly@comcast.net. Ann Macari Healey’s column about people, places and issues of everyday life appears every other week. She can be reached at ahealey@ourcoloradonews.com or 303-5664110.

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rboldrey@ourcoloradonews.com A new page on the Douglas County website has designs on becoming a onestop shop for rural residents and those considering moving into the area. “The goal was really to provide a warehouse of information for people moving to the rural areas,” said Douglas County planning supervisor Jeanette Bare. “It is a much different lifestyle for people coming from urban environments.” The project began with the initiation of a 30-person rural framework committee appointed by the Board of County Commissioners in 2009, made up mostly of rural residents as well as some developer consultants. According to Bare, the committee examined a broad range of topics of importance to those who live in the country. “These are actual stakeholders in the rural community,” she said. “I don’t want to imply that the website is their resulting document, but it was the beginning of the discussion in terms of what does it mean to live in rural Douglas County, what are the challenges and issues they face, and what are the values of rural living.” According to Bare, the county often gets calls and receives visitors seeking information on a wide range of topics including land management, water rights, septic systems, animal regulations, wildfire mitigation and more. The site hits on all those items with user-friendly links that guide people to documents, agencies and service providers. “The website is a guide to help residents make good decisions and be good stewards

‘The website is a guide to help residents make good decisions and be good stewards of the land’ Roger Patridge, Douglas County Commissioner of the land,” said Commissioner Roger Partridge. “I live in rural Douglas County and I certainly appreciate it. It presents a better idea of what rural living truly is.” Partridge said the best thing about the site is that its contents were initiated by people who live in the rural sections of the county and that it was not just developed by the planning department. “Douglas County presents residents with the unique ability to live in the country, but still work in the city,” he said. “But because we have such close country living, we want the residents to be as well informed as possible and give them a guide. A lot of people didn’t grow up rural but have chosen to move to rural areas later in life. “It’s all we can do to give them that information they need ahead of time and make country living as nice as possible for them. The site is very comprehensive. We’ve touched on numerous topics that will come up, many times from residents.” To visit the site, please go to www.douglas.co.us/planning/rural.

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For the first time in the 10-year history of the Highlands Ranch Chamber of Commerce annual Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot 5K, more than 3,000 runners showed up at Redstone Park for the event.

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The weather was one thing to be thankful for as a record number of runners flocked to Redstone Park for the 10th Annual Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot 5K. The Highlands Ranch Chamber of Commerce fun run, which raises money for the US National Guard, brought out more than 3,000 participants for the first time in event history as early-morning temperatures hit the high 40s and the sunshine beamed down from above.

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Hearing reveals actions before school election Unsuccessful candidate alleges improper activity By Jane Reuter

jreuter@ ourcoloradonews.com A seven-hour state-level hearing Dec. 2 revealed details about the collaboration between the Douglas County School District and consultants hired to write papers on the alleged success of its reform efforts. Plaintiffs in the hearing, who alleged violations of the Colorado Fair Campaign Practices Act, also introduced a contract between DCSD and the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) that explained the type of paper the district wanted to see. Previously, school officials said all payments to AEI came from the Douglas County Educational Foundation, but testimony revealed that the district paid for at least half of the $30,000 contract. The hearing, held at the Office of Administrative Courts in downtown Denver, was based on allegations that DCSD violated the state’s campaign law during the fall 2013 school board election campaign. Unsuccessful school board candidate Julie Keim filed the complaint. By 5 p.m. Dec. 2, the defendants had only just begun to present their side of the case, prompting the judge to schedule a continuance tentatively set for Dec. 10. Keim’s complaint alleges that DCSD’s pre-election actions were designed to ben-

From left, former Douglas County school board candidate Julie Keim testifies before Administrative Law Judge Hollyce Farrell and Keim’s attorney Craig Joyce at a Dec. 2 hearing in Denver. Photo by Jane Reuter efit the “reform” candidates in the race. Those four candidates, including incumbents Doug Benevento and Meghann Silverthorn, and newcomers Judi Reynolds and Jim Geddes, won the Nov. 5 election. Attorney Jason Dunn, hired by DCSD to represent the district in the case and accompanied at the hearing by DCSD legal counsel Rob Ross, said evidence doesn’t support Keim’s complaint. “There is no evidence it was done with the intent to support candidates,” Dunn said. “At the end of the day, this is about political theater.” AEI’s Rick Hess and Max Eden wrote a paper, “The Most Interesting School District in America,” that the

district emailed to parents Sept. 18 as a “just-released white paper” and did not identify as a district-paid product. The Feb. 6, 2013, contract between DCSD and AEI outlines a $30,000 payment and scope of services, asking the organization to “research, create, publish and publicize” a 25-30 page white paper with three to five sidebars. DCSD’s requirements for the paper included a description of the district, the problems its reforms are meant to address, how the reforms are “new and different,” district challenges in the face of its reforms and lessons learned. The district’s lead spokeswoman and its foundation director, Cinamon Watson, signed as

DCSD’s representative. Hess and Watson also exchanged emails about the paper in which the writer asked for further guidance. “Ideally, we would love for you all to help us help you,” Hess wrote in a March 22 email to Watson. “Rather, we would prefer it if you would tell us what you want us to focus on, what is most worthy of attention, what you’d like to see written about, and what your general angle on it and the paper is.” In her testimony, Keim also claimed statistics were “cherry picked” to reflect positively on the district, and that DCSD heavily edited Hess’ draft document, making 71 changes “that were, in my opinion, politi-

crime reports Tools stolen from garage

A resident of the 8500 block of Gold Peak Lane in Highlands Ranch filed a report with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Nov. 15 after noticing that $2,596 worth of tools had been stolen from his garage during a 75-minute window of time earlier that month. Tools included multiple saws and saw blades, drills, bit sets, a cable router, an orbital sander, wrench kit and 38-piece tool kit. There are no suspects at this time.

Vacant house vandalized

On Nov. 17, deputies responded to the 800 block of Ridgemont Circle in Highlands Ranch on a report that someone had broken into a bankowned property on the block. Neighbors had heard a noise that sounded like someone kicking in a door the night before and noticed that the side door into the garage and fence gate were standing wide open in the morning. After further investigation,

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the court at the sentencing, as did both of her parents. Johnson, who sat stone-faced and stared straight ahead throughout the process, refused to speak, but did offer an admission of guilt and a desire to get psychiatric help in a letter that was read by his attorney.

aside from the kicked-in door, there was no additional damage to the home inside or out. The house has been vacant for two years.

been taken hostage and he needed to wire more money so she could be released. The victim has since closed the second bank account.

Man falls victim to scam

A Highlands Ranch man who had never heard of a Nigerian money scam before began sending money to a Nigerian woman in November 2011, assuming it was to invest in an oil business she wanted to start. She led him to believe that she also had a romantic interest in him and informed him she was going to marry him. He never spoke to her on the phone but traded text messages weekly, and wired her $10,000 from his First Bank account through Western Union before the bank informed him he was being scammed and closed his accounts. He then opened up an account at another bank and wired an additional $2,000. The man contacted police after she texted him to say she had

Between the dates of Nov. 19 and Nov. 20 there were 11 reports of vehicle trespasses in Highlands Ranch and Acres Green, most of which involved the perpetrator stealing items from unlocked vehicles parked outside of homes in the community. Items stolen included mostly iPods and a garage door opener. In Highlands Ranch, vehicles were hit on the 13100 block of Regulus Drive, the 9300 block of South University Boulevard and the 1000 block of Riddlewood Road. In Acres Green, vehicles were broken into on the 13100 block of Spica Drive, the 100 block of Olympus Drive, the 800 block of Mercury Circle Acres Green, the 13100 block of Deneb Drive and the 0-100 block of Pegasus Drive.

“He robbed me of all stability in my life,” said the now-16-year-old Rock Canyon student, stating that Johnson turned her against all her friends and her family so that he would be the only one she could turn to for emotional support. Once everyone else was gone from her life, she said the relationship quickly turned from an emotional one to one of “constant sex and constant obsessiveness,” and that the former teacher “had to always know where I

was, who I was with and what I was doing. All the emotion was gone. The driving force was sex.” “I want him to know I am taking back all that he took from me,” she said. “I want him to know I am disgusted by his actions. I am stronger now than ever before and he needs to know that I fell in love with the man he pretended to be, not the sick man he truly is. ... I’m not Rick’s victim anymore, though. Today I become a survivor.”

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cal in nature.” A separate contract with former U.S. Secretary of Education Bill Bennett, who both wrote a paper and made a public speech weeks before the election, has not been released. District leaders revealed only under questioning following Bennett’s Sept. 25 public speech that he, too, is a paid consultant. They have said the $50,000 used to pay him came from a donation made to the Douglas County Educational Foundation, the

district’s nonprofit fundraising arm. “It feels like the district went out of its way to deceive the public that two experts wrote papers about how great the reforms are working,” Susan Meek, an activist who supported the losing candidates, testified. Though the two contracted documents were the focus of the Dec. 2 hearing, testimony also centered around alleged district restrictions on parent distribution of campaign material, online postings by two charter schools about election forums to which only the reform candidates were invited, and a sitting school board member’s Facebook posting — which Keim said suggested the district was seeking information to use against her. Two principals testified on behalf of DCSD as the defense began presenting its case late on Dec. 2. Principal Laura Wilson of Redstone Elementary, who had asked a parent volunteer to stop leaving fliers on cars parked in the school lot, said she was acting based on another parent’s complaint — not a district directive. Parker Core Knowledge Charter School Director Teri Aplin said she was unaware one of the candidate events posted with information sent to parents included only the reform candidates. Dunn moved Dec. 2 to dismiss the case, but Judge Hollyce Farrell rejected the motion.

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

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

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

getting to know all the guys’ names and doesn’t have a favorite player yet, but so far the experience has been special. “I’m going to try to get to many games as I can,” said Adam, who can’t hear without his hearing aids and listens to the game on his headphones while at the rink. A former adaptive hockey player, Adam used to use a hockey stick as a cane when he was little. And while he has spent a lot of time around his older brother Luke’s hockey and baseball teams, he has never truly

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

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

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

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

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Valor Christian to add arts building Auditorium, multiple studios part of sprawling complex By Ryan Boldrey

rboldrey@ourcoloradonews.com Valor Christian hosts its weekly chapel exercises in the gym. When it comes to performing arts, students build their sets in storage spaces, garages, or parking lots. They then travel to Lone Tree, Parker or Denver to put on a production. As for rehearsal space, director of the arts Arie Ringnalda calls the school’s existing conditions in the basement of the academic building “comically crowded.” That’s all about to change, however, as the school has plans to break ground on an 83,000-square-foot arts building in the spring of 2014 with the hopes of having much of it open for the 2015-16 school year. The new building will increase the number of total teaching spaces at the school from 55 to 75, with 22 of those tailored for specialized instruction in either arts or communication. There will be a full-size practice room for the school’s two symphonies, a black box theater that will double as a lecture hall, a TV production suite, professional-level recording studio, two dance studios, 3-D and 2-D art studios, and a photography room. The

In the foreground Valor Christian freshmen Brennan Gullick, left, and Parker Nolan work out a scene in the school’s existing makeshift rehearsal space. Valor is breaking ground on an 83,000 square-foot arts building this coming spring. Photo by Ryan Boldrey main attraction of the building, though, will be a 720-seat auditorium perfect for hosting the school’s productions, community theater and high school debate contests. “If you were asking me to put this on a scale of one to 10 as for level of excitement, it’s about a 14,” said dance instructor John DeYoung, whose current basement studio doubles as a Spanish classroom. “We’re get-

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ting out of a modified storage unit.” From there, DeYoung will take his students into a professional-style studio with dance bars, integrated lighting systems and mountain views. The change is but a microcosm of the overall transformation of the entire arts wing, which Ringnalda sees as necessary to fulfill Valor’s vision of running an elite arts

program that posValor Christmas itively spreads the produCtion message of Christ. “We’re basiWhat: Sacred Night cally offering a When: 7 p.m. Dec. 6-7, college-level pro4:30 p.m. Dec. 8 gram at the high Where: Central Presbyteschool level,” rian Church, 1660 Sherman Ringnalda said. St., Denver “One of our key How much: Free objectives is to Info: www.ValorArts.com give these kids a leg up when they go off to college. That is already happening now, but with the right facilities in place we will be able to do that at that much higher of a level. “There are 600-plus kids at Valor involved in arts between classes and after-school programs. The program is thriving now, but the space was never built to support it at the level we have been envisioning. It’s almost like we are buttoned up against a glass ceiling, we can see where we want to go (but) aren’t quite there yet.” When finished, the proposed building will have a look on the outside that will fit right in with the rest of the campus. “What they are planning is typical Valor, gorgeous,” said Highlands Ranch Community Association Developmental Review Committee chairman Woody Bryant. “It’s going to be beautiful.”

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• Immediately before and throughout the duration of a storm, remove vehicles from residential streets. Highlands Ranch Metro District Park Ranger Laura Lacerte, center, presents, from left, Jake Stanley, Patrick Mooney, Gianna Mannino and Ben Ramon with certificates for completing the 2013 Junior Ranger program. The junior rangers spend five days working with the Metro District’s rangers learning about wildlife, fire, flora, the environment and recreation in the area. Courtesy photo

paralyzed vets thank Coffman Staff report U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman was recently recognized for his work on behalf of veterans with the “Legislator of the Year” award from the Mountain States Chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America. Coffman, who spent 21 years in the military, is the chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the Veterans Committee. Earlier this year, he passed a bill out of the U.S. House that will expand training opportunities for veterans by allowing them to use their educational benefits for on-the-job-training and apprenticeship

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The switch comes as South Metro Fire Rescue is studying the feasibility of joining forces in some fashion with LFR. A similar study conducted last year between LFR and the Englewood Fire Department recommended an eventual merger with Englewood’s department, but no real steps were taken toward that end. Mullin began his fire service with Littleton Fire Rescue in 1974, holding the ranks of firefighter, paramedic, lieutenant, captain, training officer and battalion chief. He accepted the position of chief of The

programs in the private sector and for jobs in the federal government. He also sponsored legislation that reauthorized federal funding for adaptive sports programs for veterans, and introduced a bill to reform the Service-Disabled VeteranOwned Small Business procurement program so that it operates more effectively. “Mike Coffman has fought for this country in uniform and he is now fighting for our veterans here at home to make sure that they receive the care and the benefits that they have earned, and we are proud to recognize his service with this award,” said Mark Shepherd, the chapter’s executive director. Woodlands Fire Department in Texas in 1998. He kept that position for six years, then returned to LFR in 2004 to assume the chief’s job. He’s served on the Colorado Fire Chiefs Executive Board and represented that organization on the State of Colorado Hazardous Materials Volunteer Certification Board. He’s also been the Colorado vice president of the Missouri Valley Division’s executive board. Interviews will be conducted with the finalists Dec. 9. Five panels consisting of more than 40 people will participate in the process, including department directors, LFR staff, representatives from Highlands Ranch Metro District and Littleton Fire Protection District, other local fire chiefs and a citizens’ panel.

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The Dumb Friends League will host a series of one-day camps during the first week of January at the Dumb Friends League Buddy Center in Castle Rock. The camps help children learn lessons of compassion, respect and responsibility. Tuition is $50 for each camper. Enroll at www.ddfl.org/camp or call (303) 751-5772, Ext. 7231.

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

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

letters to the editor Pity party for election losers

It surely seems to me that your newspaper is holding a pity party for the losers of the recent local school board elections. In your Nov. 14 issue we got to read about the grief and the depression being suffered by the supporters of the defeated challengers. Then in the Nov. 21 issue you have written about the disgruntled, sad, disappointed and truly exhausted Douglas County teachers who seem heartbroken with the election results. Your reporter seems to sympathize with the disaffected teachers by wringing her hands with them as they bare their hearts. The story incredibly claims that your newspaper couldn’t locate for an interview any teachers who are happy with the election results. As if that’s not enough, an adjacent story tells your readers how the election made the students at ThunderRidge high school most dissatisfied and concerned. Good citizens all know that minors aren’t yet wise enough to direct their own intellectual and moral formation. As such they also don’t get to vote until the age of majority. You do your readers no service by printing the views of children in our schools regarding the election outcome. We all should know that such opinions of high school students are not well grounded in the hard facts of life, and thus not newsworthy. Save it for the yearbook! The majority of voters in Douglas County don’t see things through the same lens as your education reporter. A lot of out-of-state money and muscle coming from supporters of the public teachers unions didn’t prevail at the ballot box. Post-election, I think there’s a lot of delight and satisfaction in our community in some education circles, but I haven’t read about it in your paper. Matt Werner Castle Rock

Too much subjective writing

Apparently Jane Reuter needs to get a new job, because she does not seem to understand the duties of her current one. As a journalist, her duty is to outline the facts in an objective manner, not subjectively grind away on a personal point of view. As a former journalist and Minnesota Public Radio broadcaster, I have read Ms. Reuter’s numerous stories (not articles) about the Douglas County School District with great dismay. Her latest attempt to color the issue in the Nov. 22-23 editions of the Douglas County newspapers finally prompted me to write. In just one paragraph of her half-page story, she uses more emotionally charged words than one would normally see in the editorial section. For example, whose metrics determined that those elected “narrowly won?” What objective measures are used to quantify the current board’s movement as “dramatic” reform? If they indeed “narrowly won,” how can they be “triumphing over” anyone? How on Earth did Ms. Reuter determine that the winners “triumphed” over “another slate largely supported by community groups”? If they won the election, doesn’t that clearly indicate that the winners were indeed supported by the community? Reasonable people can disagree about many things. However, journalists should not be allowed to voice their opinions shrouded under the cover of a news article. In any freshman journalism class, Ms. Reuter’s biased writings would be correctly categorized as opinion pieces. Elizabeth Hurd Parker Letters continues on Page 11

Thanksgiving leftovers are calorie-free treat Don’t you just love Thanksgiving leftovers? It could be the full meal just reheated and enjoyed as if it were Thanksgiving all over again. It could also be turkey soup, turkey salad, or turkey sandwiches, I love them all equally. And wouldn’t you agree that mashed potatoes and gravy just seem to taste even better on the second day? As much as I enjoy those tasty reminders of the holiday, my favorite leftovers are the feelings of gratitude and appreciation for those very special people in my life and the blessings I have received. It sure does feel good when we can love on our friends and family members on Thanksgiving and shower them with the love and appreciation they deserve

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

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

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

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for standing by us, supporting us, and loving us back. And I especially love the feeling when I can tell them again on Friday, Saturday and Sunday just how much they mean. Talk about amazing leftovers, it just

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

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

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

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‘Conservative’? Hardly

Now that the “conservative” school board members have been re-elected, and the amendment to improve funding of our schools has been defeated, I have several concerns: • According to the dictionary, a conservative is one who wants to conserve and preserve. A school board conservative would be one who wants to conserve those things that are held in high regard by our society — such things as respect for teachers; fewer students per classroom; the right of teachers to collective bargaining; teacher salaries and benefits that attract and retain the very best. • Since the board wants to end dialogue with teachers, cut the district’s budget, and not provide funds for necessary supplies, our school district is likely to see experienced teachers leave, to be replaced by the less experienced. • Will we continue to see receptacles with signs asking us to donate school supplies? Should one of the wealthiest counties in the country have to beg for paper and pencils? • Since our board and voters primarily want to reduce expenditures, “unnecessary “ and “non-academic” classes such as music, physical education, extracurricular activities and art will probably be reduced or eliminated, thereby depriving students of knowledge that could enhance their health, interests, creativity, and possibly deprive them of discovering a career path that will keep them motivated to stay in school. • With larger classrooms, fewer supplies, demoralized teachers, fewer “non-academic” classes and extracurricular activities, we will likely see a higher number of drop-outs. • Finally, with collective bargaining minimized or eliminated, what alternative will teachers have but to go on strike? And it will be the teachers, not the school board or the voters, who will be blamed.

Congressman Mike Coffman, I have so many questions. Not just for you, but all so-called representatives. As you are the duly sworn representative of this district, would you mind answering a few questions? Why should we, as a representative of the people, vote for you or any other politician? Why should we vote for representation at all? I only ask this question as it seems that most congressional representatives fail to represent the people that elect them into office. It is not just limited to partisan politics, but the entire system of the U.S. government lately. Why do we currently have a star chamber and what is its purpose that is the FISA court? Why the secrecy and lack of accountability? Does the sitting government fear its people? What can you do about the rising concerns of an increasingly paramilitary citizen police force? What is the purpose of using a SWAT team to serve warrants for non-violent offenders? Is it control of the populace? It should be known that there are more U.S. citizens killed by police than from foreign or domestic terrorism. I never agreed with the implementation of the Patriot Act. The name itself sounds so patriotic, but it is nothing of the sort and is very antithetical to the entire U.S. ideology. Why do corporate interests seem more important than citizen interests to all politicians? Does the common citizen that does donate to a campaign have any voice anymore? Sorry for all the questions. I just don’t feel represented by anyone anymore except Google, Microsoft, Apple, Comcast and all of the rest of the megalopolies. Hoping for change that I will most likely never see, Steven Stormo Centennial

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

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

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doesn’t get any better than that. Another benefit of gratitude leftovers is this, they are all calorie-free. We can partake in these tasty leftovers for days, weeks, months and years and never gain an ounce or an inch. With all of the energy we would use and excitement we would generate by actively pursuing things to be grateful for and people to appreciate, we may just lose a few ounces and inches. As good as the turkey, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce tastes, after too many days in the refrigerator they will all eventually need to be consumed or thrown away. That doesn’t happen with gratitude leftovers. They can last for as long as we are willing to recognize just how meaningful and important they are to our own happi-

ness and relationships. Most of us are fed and fed well at Thanksgiving, we are nourished with tables and plates full of delicious food prepared by those closest to us that we have chosen to share Thanksgiving with. Sooner or later, though, the initial meal and surplus goodies will be gone. But when we feed our attitude and spirit with the meals of gratitude and appreciation, we can live off of that nourishment for a very long time. I truly hope that you had a warm, wonderful, and happy Thanksgiving, and I hope that you will enjoy the calorie-free leftovers for a very, very long time. I would love to hear all about your leftovers at gotonorton@gmail.com and thank you all for making this a better than good week. Michael Norton is a resident of Highlands Ranch, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation and the CEO/founder of www.candogo.com.

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

there was nothing in the refrigerator, and how bad can any breakfast be? I don’t know how to cook, but I can make a decent breakfast. I don’t remember the name of the place. It could have been Puddled Eggs, or Suspicious Hash, or Mush of Pork? They all describe the gobbets on my plate. I said that I would have been happy with a sponge on my plate at the Brown Palace, because I was with my best friend and my sister, who would make up for almost anything on the menu. That’s not really true. If Mike and Cindy had been with me at Puddled Eggs it wouldn’t have helped. The orange juice was poached. Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast. net

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Kaiser opens Lone Tree center Christmas came early for Kaiser Permanente this year when it opened the doors to its new 275,000-squarefoot, six-story, multi-specialty center. The Lone Tree building, under construction for more than two years, welcomed its first patients Dec. 2. The facility, located on Park Meadows Drive across from the Lincoln light rail station, brings about 20 specialty services, 45 doctors and 300 additional employees to serve its approximately 128,000 south metro area members. “We’re bringing specialty care to where they live,” said Kaiser’s Dr. David Gladu, operations chief for surgical specialties and a longtime Lone Tree resident. “Up until now, most of our medical and surgical care was in downtown Denver. This will be much easier for patients.” Kaiser began its search for land in the area almost four years ago. “This property wasn’t even for sale,” project manager Mike Schultz said, adding that the site’s 20-acre size, its scenic views to the west, and easy access to Interstate 25 made it an ideal location. Kaiser approached the landowner, who agreed to sell it. “The drivers for this building were orthopedics, as well as the ability to do outpatient or day surgery,” Kaiser spokeswoman Amy Whited said. The building also includes oncology and infusion, allergy, gastroenterology, obstetrics and gynecology, pain management, medical imaging, palliative care and many other services, including a pharmacy and optical center. “With this building, mom could come in for an eye appointment, schedule an X-ray for a child and get lab work done,” Whited said. “You

Kaiser Permanente will host a community open house at its new Lone Tree facility on Park Meadows Drive, across from the Lincoln light rail station, from 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 14. Photo by Jane Reuter don’t have to drive across town anymore.” The area for the Lone Tree Kaiser’s drug infusion center carefully was reserved for a first-floor, west-facing site. “Those patients can be here from two to six hours,” Greg Mills, Kaiser’s south area administrator. “We gave them good real estate.” An outdoor seating located a few steps from the infusion center is designed to provide a comfortable waiting area for friends and family members. The effort to move away from the sterile atmosphere once common to hospitals and medical facilities is evident on every floor — from colorful accent walls and large, original murals to a whimsical, bicycle-themed sculpture that winds along the side of an open staircase. Even on the garden level and in rooms that house MRI, CT and other scanners, architects found ways to add natural light. Mills said that helps patients relax during what typically are tension-producing procedures.

The building includes a garden level and five additional floors. The fifth is unfinished space, reserved for future growth. The site also has room for two additional buildings and two parking structures; Kaiser has no timeline for any additional construction. Additional specialties, such as cardiology, endocrinology, neurology and dermatology, will be added during that second phase of development. With the opening of the new building, Kaiser has closed its Yosemite Street offices, which for three years provided orthopedic specialty care and other limited services from a leased space. Its landlocked Franklin Street facility in downtown Denver also has contributed to Kaiser’s multi-pronged recent expansion. In 2012, Kaiser opened the Fort Collins Medical Center and Loveland Medical Offices. In January 2014, it will open a new medical office building in Greeley. Statewide, Kaiser serves about 545,000 members.

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THINGS TO DO DEC. 5-17 HOUSE DECORATING CONTEST. Enjoy dressing your house

up for the holidays? Want to get rewarded for it? Turn in a digital entry form with a photo of your decorated house no later than 5 p.m. Dec. 5 at www.hrcaonline.org/contests for a chance at winning a cash prize of $50, $100 or $200, courtesy of Wells Fargo and the Highlands Ranch Community Association. The community will choose the winners through an online vote from Dec. 10-14; just make sure to have your holiday lights on from 5:30-8 p.m. each evening during the voting period. Winners will be announced Dec. 17. Call 303-471-8821 if you have any questions.

tary school choirs performing throughout the day and carolers courtesy of Mountain Vista High School. Free.

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TEDDY BEAR TEA. A fun time for kids and adults alike, bring the youngsters to Southridge Recreation Center, 4800 McArthur Ranch Road, for a Teddy bear tea party and enjoy a fun-filled musical kid’s show while creating memories to last a lifetime and indulging in plenty of holiday treats. Tickets are $11 in advance, $15 day of, and can be purchased at any rec center or by visiting www.hrcaonline.org. No children under 2 please and all children must be accompanied by a registered adult. Enjoy the tea from 10:30-11:15 a.m. Dec. 7, and show from 11:15 a.m. to noon at Southridge.

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sparkling wines at the Highlands Ranch Community Association’s Sparkling Wine Tasting from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Dec. 6 in the Tattered Cover Book Store, 9315 Dorchester St. in Highlands Ranch. This social setting, benefiting the Highlands Ranch Community Scholarship Fund, comes complete with live music, appetizers, and plenty of sparkling wines to taste. The cost is $17 in advance or $20 the day of the event, if it is not sold out. You must be 21 or older to attend. To purchase tickets, call 303-471-8859 or visit www.HRCAonline.org/tickets. For information, visit www.HRCAonline.org.

BLUE CHRISTMAS. Do you feel “blue” around the holidays? Do you avoid connecting with the celebration of the season? St. Andrew United Methodist Church presents Blue Christmas, a service of comfort and hope, from 5-6 p.m. Dec. 8, at 9203 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch. This special service is for those who are living with the loss of a loved one, depression, broken relationships, loneliness or just the need to step away from the chaos of the season. Come as you are. All are welcome. Call 303-794-2683 for more information or visit www.standrew-umc.com

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HOMETOWN HOLIDAY. The annual tree lighting is at 5 p.m.

SUPPORT MEETING. PFLAG, Parents, Families, Friends of Lesbians, Gays, Gender Support meets from 7-8:45 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the Highlands Ranch Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd. We offer support as well as a speaker or video. Everything is confidential and all are welcome. If you have questions or want more detail, contact us at info@ pflaghighlandsranch.org.

Dec. 6 in Town Center South, off of Dorchester. The event will also feature a visit from Santa himself, carols, entertainment and plenty of food from 4:30-7:30 p.m. in Town Center South.

DEC. 6 SPARKLING WINE TASTING. Come enjoy some holiday cheer with friends from around the Ranch. Listen to live holiday music while tasting a variety of sparkling wines and enjoying a nice selection of appetizers. Tickets are $17 in advance or $20 day of the event if it doesn’t sell out and can be purchased at any rec center or by visiting www.hrcaonline.org. Must be 21 years or older to attend. All proceeds benefit the Highlands Ranch Scholarship Fund. Event is from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Dec. 6 at Tattered Cover Book Store, 9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch, 303-470-7050. DEC. 6, DEC. 21 SENIOR ACTIVITIES. Cherry Hills Community Church, 3900

Grace Blvd., Highlands Ranch, presents senior fellowship activities every month. Seniors will attend “Disney on Ice” on Dec. 6; and will take a Christmas lights bus tour and dinner on Dec. 21. Visit chcc.org/seniors.

DEC. 7 HOLIDAY CELEBRATION. Santa arrives at the Highlands Ranch Mansion, 9900 Ranch Road, at 10:15 a.m. Dec. 7 in a fire engine as the Grinch walks the grounds all day. There is absolutely no on-site parking but free shuttles will run from Mountain Vista High School, 10585 Mountain Vista Ridge, beginning at 9:45 a.m. for the 10-3 event. There will be refreshments available, free tours of the mansion, horse-drawn hayrides, puppet shows on the hour starting at 10:30, reindeer games, vendors selling holiday cards and crafts, eight elemen-

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VOLUNTEER ROUND-UP. The National Western Stock Show and Rodeo needs 150-200 volunteers in guest relations, children’s programs, horse and livestock shows, and the trade show. The 108th stock show is Jan. 11-26. To learn more about the volunteer opportunities and to set up an interview for a volunteer spot, attend the National Western volunteer round-up from 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, at the National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver. For information and to fill out a volunteer application, go to http://www.nationalwestern. com/volunteer/ or contact Kellie at 303-299-5562. DEC. 13-15 HOLIDAY SHOW. Christmas at the Ranch: Extra Ordinary will be presented at 7 p.m. Dec. 13, at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dec. 14, and at 6 p.m. Dec. 15, at Cherry Hills Community Church, 3900 Grace Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Tickets on sale Nov. 13. Visit chcc. org.

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

SSPR craft fair Dec. 7

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

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

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

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reflect her worldview, including a blend of cultures, to the right of the exhibit entrance. Her picks for the show are By Sonya Ellingboe varied and intriguing, linked sellingboe@ by expert technique in assorted ourcoloradonews.com media. She was surprised at how different piecDespite a dises looked on the IF YOU GO tinct chill in the wall, compared to air, a large crowd their appearance The Littleton Own an Origiturned out for on the slides from nal Exhibition runs until Jan. the opening rewhich she made 12, 2014 at the Littleton Muception of the her selections. seum, 6028 S. Gallup St., LitLittleton Fine She particularly tleton. Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Arts Board’s anpaused at Stefan Tuesdays through Fridays; 10 nual Own an Begej’s “To Infinity a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays; 1 to Original Comand Beyond,” with 5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is petition winits exploded Buzz free. 303-795-3050. ners on Nov. 21. Lightyear figure, to The bright, light exclaim about the show is a good difference. antidote to winter blahs. There “Winery Afternoon,” an seem to be more unusual tech- acrylic painting by Eldon Ward niques than I recall in the many of Fort Collins, was awarded previous (more than 40) OAO Best of Show. The painting, shows. which gives us a view through Juror Margaretta Gilboy se- a window to the outside lawn lected 66 pieces of art from a and a relaxed couple on the much larger group of submis- grass, reflects Ward’s career in sions by 125 artists, all from architectural drafting, design, Colorado. They run from a large landscape design, project man“Phoenix Rising” mixed media agement and more. work to a small, bright blue We will have the opportunity stoneware tea set, with a great to view a large selection of his variety of artistic visions. Al- work next summer, since the low time to look closely when Best of Show winner is given visiting, so you notice details the chance to hold a one-persuch as the typewriter keys in son show the following year. Michelle Lamb’s delightful as“The spaciousness makes semblage, “Reliquary of St. Ob- me feel happy,” Gilboy said of solescence.” Littleton artist rita derjue’s large Gilboy has a lengthy list of acrylic on canvas, “View From exhibitions in her biography, the Studio,” which won First as well as inclusion in museum Place. The bright, light palette and private collections. She derjue chose frames the mounteaches at the Denver Art Stu- tain view she can see from her dents League. Visitors can view home studio window — a view three paintings by Gilboy that she fiercely protects.

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

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

Wind Crest Wonderland

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

Caribbean Christmas concert

The One World Singers, including members from Centennial, Englewood and Littleton, will present “A Caribbean Christmas Mass” at 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 14, with the Pan Jumbie Steel Pan Band. The concerts will be at the landmark St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 2201 Dexter St., Denver. Tickets: $15, free 12 and under, A $6 optional drink and dinner is available after the 7 p.m. show. Tickets: oneworldsingers.org.

Free Laughs off Santa Fe “Winery Afternoon,” acrylic on panel by Eldon Ward was awarded Best of Show in the 2013 Own an Original Exhibit at the Littleton Museum. Gilboy, who has also worked in ceramics, gave Second Place to Ileana Barbu’s gleaming “Summer,” a wall-hung sculptural piece created in white porcelain. “It’s just so technically

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

Visionbox presents an open rehearsal of “A Night of Laughs: American and British Comedy,” the culmination of a five week acing class plus performances by Visionbox members and actors on Dec. 8. Doors open for a drink and food by Nova Catering at 6 p.m. at Skylite Station, 910 Santa Fe Dr., Denver. Show at 6:30 p.m. Information: 720-810-1641, visionbox.org.

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Wartime fears come into play in ‘Snow’ By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com In many instances, we complain about the transition of a well-loved book to film and stage, but Kevin McKeon’s adaptation of the best-selling “Snow Falling on Cedars” by David Guterson works quite well — due in large part to a skillful director, Sam Wood. The complicated story starts in 1954 with Kabuo Miyamoto (Dale Li) on trial for the murder of Carl Hein, who had been a childhood friend. The script then proceeds to tell the backstory through numerous flashbacks: to a teenage love affair between Ishmael Chambers (Ben Cowhick) and Hatsue Mitamoto (Arlene Rapal); to the Japanese-American farmers who raised strawberries and wanted to buy more land; to the announcement of the Pearl Harbor bombing; the growing prejudice against — and eventual arrest and internment of — Japanese-American citizens who were residents of the island in Puget Sound where the story takes place. Maria Cheng as Fujiko Imada and Rob Payo as Hisao Imada reflect another sort of prejudice in warning their daughter, Hatsue, against dating a white boy because “you couldn’t trust them.” The set is a simple suggestion of a waterfront with minimal set pieces from which the audience is transported to the Manzanar Relocation Camp in Central California — and elsewhere. (It was one of 10 in the U.S., includ-

Dale Li, Arlene Rapal and Ben Cowhick are in the cast of “Snow Falling on Cedars” at the Vintage Theatre. Courtesy photo narrow studio theater ing Amache in southeastern Colorado, where highlighted numerous IF YOU GO 110 Japanese-Americans flashbacks clearly, movwere incarcerated during “Snow Falling on Cedars,” ing the complex story World War II.) adapted from David along to its conclusion. There is a battle scene Guterson’s award-winning Director Sam Wood where Ishmael is woundnovel by Kevin McKeon, and a polished cast had ed and a series of flashplays through Dec. 15 at their timing precise as Vintage Theater’s studio backs interspersed with we transitioned back theater, 1468 Dayton St., courtroom arguments and forth through the Aurora. Performances: 7:30 and witness-questioning years. p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; by Nels Gudmundsson A strong cast and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: (veteran actor Roger Siwell-written script re$25/$20 advance, 303-856mon, who actually is a mind us of an unfor7830, vintagetheatre.com. lawyer), defending Mitunate piece of history yamoto, and prosecutor we may have forgotten. Alvin Hooks (David CerI hope some audience vera). Lighting technician Jen Orf had members will be moved to find the ongoing responsibility in staging this book at their library and enjoy Guterson’s fine writing after seeing “Snow play. The lighting in the small, long and Falling on Cedars.”

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The historic Hildebrand Farm at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield will be illuminated during “Trail of Lights” through Jan. 1. Courtesy photo by Scott Dressel-Martin

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Concert held at St. LukeÕ s United Methodist Church 8817 S. Broadway, Highlands Ranch CO 80129

Area offers plethora of places to enjoy By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com Pull on the jackets and mittens and head outside for an evening surrounded by fanciful holiday lights. Enjoy music, seasonal entertainment and perhaps some warm cocoa as one enters a magical world. Some suggestions: • “Trail of Lights” at the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatﬁeld offers illuminated paths through the countryside, plus a decorated historic farm, where one can explore the Green Barn and silo, the children’s area and homestead. Here, you will also see illuminated antique tractors, a warming hut, fire pit and on some nights, hayrides. Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatﬁeld is located on Deer Creek Canyon Road, west off Wadsworth, just south of the C-470 intersection. Cost: $10-$12, $8-$10 member, $7-$9 child, $5-7 member child (date dependant). Free 2 and under. Open nightly 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. through Jan. 1. • “Blossoms of Light” at Denver Botanic Gardens York Street offers lighted trees, paths and structures, with seasonal entertainment on some evenings, themed gardens and a synchronized light and musical showcase in the UMB Amphitheater. Warm drinks, treats and Holospex 3-D glasses are available for purchase. Cost: $10-$12/$810 member; $7-9 child/$5-7 member child (date dependant). Nightly 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. through Jan. 1. • “Zoolights” at the Denver Zoo in City Park offers a stroll through 38 acres of lights, with 150 animated animal sculptures and a special Zoolights Lantern Fes-

tival in the new Toyota Elephant Passage. Seasonal entertainment: (text Dzoo to 56512 for schedule). Open 5:30 to 9 p.m. nightly through Jan. 5. Admission: $12 adults, $10 over 65, $8 children; free 2 and under; members receive a $2 discount on tickets. (Daytime admission does not include Zoolights.) The zoo closes at 5 p.m. and reopens at 5:30. • Denver’s City and County Building, 14th and Bannock, is illuminated through the season, as is Union Station and points in between. Driving tour anyone? • Drivers in the south area will want to drive down Littleton’s Main Street, where thousands of lights twinkle nightly. A stop for a snack, tea, a drink, might be in order as might a special shopping night Dec. 7. • Hudson Christmas at Hudson Gardens, 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton, is open 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 6 and 7 and nightly Dec. 13 to 31. A collection of 250,000 lights will line paths for a walkthrough garden stroll. Santa will meet with children and hot cocoa will be available at several locations. Tickets: $9/$6 through Tickethorse or at the garden shop or box office. • A Holiday Evening at the Farm is presented from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Dec. 8 only at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton. The outdoor event is lighted by Farilitos and an occasional bonﬁre. The two farm homes are decorated and there will be music, snacks and warm cider. There is musical entertainment. Tickets are available at the museum and Littleton’s Bemis Library in advance: $10 general public; $7, Friends of the Library/Museum members; $3 children.If any tickets are left, they will be for sale at the gate on Dec. 8, but they often sell out in advance, since attendance is limited to 1,500. 303-795-3950.

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

sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com Vocal music students from four area high schools have been rehearsing together in preparation for the St. Luke’s Performing Arts Academy Holiday Festival on Dec. 13, according to James Ramsey, director of music and arts ministries at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Highlands Ranch. Nearly 200 singers will perform. Classic carols and favorite songs are on the program, plus a festival chorus song titled “Betelhemu,” with all the movements and drums. There will be a reading of “The Night Before Christmas” and “an identified guest dressed in red and white halfway through the program.” Guest musicians include Frank Perko, organ; Gretchen Martin, piano; Dave Shugert, guitars; and Robb Heskett, drums. Ramsey said he created summer performing arts programs to provide arts experiences for K-12 students — growing from 26 students in 2006 to 500 in 2013. Programs included: a two-week summer theater intensive, culminating in a musical production; School of Rock Camp;

IF YOU GO The St. Luke’s PAA Holiday Festival performances will be at 6 and 8 p.m. on Dec. 13 at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 8817 S. Broadway, Highlands Ranch. Admission: $10, tickets available at stlukespaa.org. Students and families are encouraged to bring donated items for a student-chosen charity.

Band and Orchestra Camps; Acting Camp; Theater Summer Camp Pre-K to 1st Grade; and Audition Workshops. This fall, Ramsey connected with Mountain Vista High School choir directors Maja Buck and Schehera McKasson; Rock Canyon High School Director Julia Dale; ThunderRidge High School Director Ryan Wolterstorff; and St. Mary’s Academy Director Roberta Hamilton Griggs “to advance the importance of music in our schools,” where budgets can be a problem. “I believe school music and art programs are a critical component of a student’s development towards American ingenuity and innovation by fostering creativity,” he said. “I believe we can change the landscape of our culture through the performing arts through leadership, empowerment, character and community.” Next year, the plan is to move PAA from summer programs to year-round.

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Day’s birds are numbered Audubon uses volunteers for Christmas count

IF YOU GO The Audubon Center is at 11280 Waterton Road, Littleton. Drive south on Wadsworth to the south end of Chatfield State Park and turn left into the marked parking lot.

By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com Family members of all ages are invited to participate in an event that started in 1900 in New York’s Central Park and now extends through the U.S., Latin America and elsewhere in the world. Bird watching is said to be the No. 1 sport in America, according to the Outdoor Industry Foundation, said a story in Colorado Business magazine. In 1900, Dr. Frank Chapman, ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History at the north end of Central Park, suggested that instead of going out and shooting as many small birds as possible, people should

go out and count them on a given day and compile a record of what they spotted. He sparked a movement that draws amateur “citizen scientists” and professionals out early in the morning on a given day between mid-December and early January to count birds seen within a set boundary and turn in the count to the Audubon Society. Results are tallied and sometimes they highlight an environmental threat or evidence of climate change, which will help conservationists in efforts to protect birds when and where possible. On Dec. 14, the Audubon Society

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

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“Young Frankenstein,” with book by Mel Brooks, music and lyrics by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, plays Dec. 13 to Feb. 2 at Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Town Hall’s education director Seth Maisel will play Frederick Frankenstein — pronounced “Fronkensteen” — the mad scientist’s New York son, who insists he is actually a sane scientist. Deb Flomberg is director. Performances: 7:30 Fridays and Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays, plus 6:30 p.m. Dec. 31.Tickets coat $31 ($26 advance), 303-856-7830,vintagetheatre. com.

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“Monty Python’s Spamalot” brings those legendary errant knights, with their clopping hoof sounds, to Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, through March 1. Performances: Wednesdays through Sundays. (Check websites for time and ticket prices.) 303-499-6000 ext.4.

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Valor makes it 5 in a row

Valor senior Christian McCaffrey (5) dives across the goal line for one of his four touchdowns as the Eagles rolled to a 56-16 win over Fairview in the Nov. 30 Class 5A state championship game at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. McCaffrey was selected as the team’s most valuable player. Photo by Tom Munds

Eagles romp past Fairview in state title game By Jim Benton

jbenton@ourcoloradonews.com Valor Christian’s players held up one hand as they gathered near the goalposts under the Sports Authority Field scoreboard.

It was the Eagles’ adaptation of a high five. Valor won its fifth consecutive Colorado state football championship Nov. 30 with a 56-16 romp over previously unbeaten Fairview in the Class 5A championship game. The Eagles have captured one Class 3A title, two Class 4A crowns and now the past two Class 5A state championships. In the five title contests, Valor outscored the opposition, 210-48. Next season Valor will have its sights set on matching Limon’s all-time Colorado record of six consecutive state titles. The

Badgers won six in a row between 1963-68. Valor will graduate 19 seniors, but 60 players listed on the roster for the state championship game were underclassmen and a majority of them saw action during the season. “I’m not sure about the future outside of we feel blessed to have some kids in our program who are great leaders, mature, humble and we expect them to fill the gap of leadership left by our seniors,” said Eagles coach Rod Sherman. “We’ll see where we end up next year from an offensive and defensive standpoint. We have developed a legacy and tra-

dition in this program. It’s not about winning, it’s about being prepared, playing as hard as we can and playing with class.” Valor, an independent, could end up playing in the Centennial League in 2014. There are six alignment proposals to be considered Dec. 5 and five of them have the Eagles joining the Centennial League. “Definitely, this team can keep winning,” insisted junior defensive back Brian Dawkins Jr. “All I have to say is, bring it on.” Valor brought it on early and often against Fairview as the Eagles (13-1) Valor continues on Page 22

Defense sets the tone in title tilt Overlooked ‘D’ shines for repeat champions By Jim Benton

jbenton@ourcoloradonews.com Clarke Cooper and Brian Dawkins Jr. are two of Valor Christian’s overlooked players. The duo play defense in a program that is renowned for its offensive standouts. However, Valor’s defense didn’t waste time setting the tone against Fairview’s prolific passing attack in the Eagles’ 56-16 romp in the Class 5A state championship game Nov. 30 at Sports Authority Field. Cooper, a 250-pound senior defensive end who also plays as a tight end and long snapper, sacked Knights quarterback Anders Hill twice on Fairview’s first three plays from scrimmage. “I didn’t expect to come out and get pressure on the first three plays of the game,” said Cooper. “It was big for us. It’s always important to get a good start. The secondary coverage and the D line pass rush went hand in hand. “My defensive line mate Nick Rigali gets a lot attention to his side, so sometimes I get one-on-ones. It really helps to play with great players and have such a great sec-

ondary behind you.” Dawkins, a junior defensive back, knocked down two passes and then intercepted one on the Knights’ second possession to set up Valor’s second touchdown as the Eagles grabbed a 14-0 lead. “We wanted to set the tone early in the game to show the other team that we came to play,” said Dawkins. “We just came to dominate.” Fairview entered the game averaging 315.5 yards per game passing, but managed just 208 yards against Valor and finished with 199 yards of total offense. The Knights had minus 9 yards rushing as Valor had seven sacks. Cooper was credited with 3.5 sacks of Hill. Junior defensive end Brandon Biggs had 1.5 sacks while Turner Henington, another junior defensive end, and senior linebacker Justin Falls each had one quarterback sack. Dawkins led the team with six total tackles, while Falls, Biggs and junior defensive back Quintin Holley each had five tackles. “We kept rotating defensive linemen to keep them fresh,” said Valor coach Rod Sherman. “Sometimes in our program the offense is flashy and it overshadows the defense. “We play great defense. I know when I

Valor’s Brian Dawkins Jr. (9) tackles Fairview’s Sam Martin (83) as David Corral (8) moves in to help if necessary during the Nov. 30 state championship game. Photo by Tom Munds talked about the track meet that this game was going to be, it didn’t sit well with our defensive guys. It’s true in any sport, offense overshadows defense. I think when

people look at our program they sometimes say it is the Valor Christian McCaffrey show but we have a lot of guys who can play.”

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Arapahoe senior made net gains Krantz excels all over volleyball court

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jbenton@ourcoloradonews.com Whitney Krantz feels comfortable any place on a volleyball court. Krantz can play in the front row or the back row. Her versatility is one of the reasons the 6-foot Arapahoe High School senior was selected as the Colorado Community Media South Metro Volleyball Player of the Year. “I’m what they call a six-rotation outside hitter, which means I play in the front row and also in the back row,” explained Krantz. “Outside hitters don’t play in the back row, they just go and hit. “I really enjoy the back row. It’s something I used to struggle with a lot but I think back row and defense takes a little bit more confidence than the front row because you really have to push yourself to go for a ball, you can’t hesitate because the second you hesitate you are not going to get the dig. I played all the way around, got a lot of court time, so that was fun.” Krantz, who along with Grace Marlow were key players in leading Arapahoe to a runner-up finish in the Class 5A state tournament, finished the season with 295 kills (3.2 per set), 229 digs (2.5 per set), 47 blocks and 27 service aces. “Generally the people that play in the back row are a little bit shorter and they are quick on their feet and always low and moving,” said Krantz. “When I first started playing volleyball I didn’t really understand how to get low to the ground.” Krantz was Arapahoe’s 2013 Most Valuable Player and coach Cara Seyers boasts about how Krantz was able to adapt wherever she was playing. “She played all around,” said Sey-

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jbenton@ourcoloradonews.com SkyView Academy is in Highlands Ranch. Skyview High School is in Thornton. Randy Scherer, the athletic director for the third-year SkyView Academy

public charter school, has to constantly remind officials and competing schools of that fact. “There have been times when one of our officials goes to the wrong school,” said Scherer. “Or a school shows up here because they have a game scheduled at Skyview High School. They look it up and we pop up. There have been some weird things where things have been confused. “That’s the one thing we’ve really

had to emphasis when we talk to other schools: `We’re the SkyView that is in Highlands Ranch, and not the one in Thornton.’” SkyView Academy fields teams in volleyball, baseball, boys and girls soccer, cross county, basketball and track and field. Scherer has been one of the individuals in charge of creating an athletic program. SkyView continues on Page 23

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dominated from the opening kickoff with a strong defense that contained the Knights’ prolific passing attack and an offense that struck quickly but also mounted scoring drives of 80 (twice) and 71 yards. The Eagles never punted in the title game that drew a crowd of 11,482 fans. Valor kept pressure on Fairview quarterback Anders Hill and scored three times on its first four plays to jump ahead 21-0 in the first 6:10 of the game. The Eagles used a 35-point spree to swell their lead to 56-8 in the fourth quarter. The last 21:34 of the contest was played with a running clock, and Sherman shuffled reserves into the game midway through the third quarter. “I never in my wildest dreams thought the score would have got this way,” said Sherman. “We played great defense. We were able to bring some different pressures. We were able to go up 14-0 and it made it harder for their offense and defense. It was huge for us to get the lead because they hadn’t had to play from behind too much.” Valor’s offense, operating behind a stellar line, did its part too. Christian McCaffrey, Valor’s senior running back who signed a letter of intent to play at Stanford, rushed for 129 yards on 12 carries and scored twice. He also caught five passes for 92 yards and two TDs. In the second half, he touched the ball only once. McCaffrey finished the season with 46 touchdowns, which gave him 141 in his career. He wrapped up his prep career by scoring at least one TD in 43 straight games. “I so happy, I can’t express how I feel,” said McCaffrey who was part of the senior class that won four state titles. “All our guys played well. Going out with a broom is something kind of special.” Quarterback A.J. Cecil was 15-of-16 for 245 yards and four touchdowns. He rushed for 65 yards and his only flaws

Eric Lee Jr. carries the ball into the endzone for Valor Christian’s first touchdown during the Nov. 30 Class 5A state championship football game at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Photo by Tom Munds on an otherwise perfect game were an interception and fumble. “I thought A.J. played arguably his best game of the year,” said Sherman. Valor senior Paul Grizzle, in his first season as a kicker, booted eight extrapoint kicks, giving him single-season state records for points (85) and consecutive conversions. Eric Lee Jr., Marcus Wilson, Stone Watson and Nathan Whatmore also had TDs for the Eagles, who have won 22 straight state playoff games. Valor’s defense forced three turnovers and thwarted a Fairview offense that came into the game averaging 45 points. The Knights had defeated three Douglas County teams (Mountain Vista, Douglas County and ThunderRidge) en route to the title game. Fairview, which had passed for an average of 315.5 yards per game, had 208 yards passing but finished with

199 yards of total offense on 63 plays. The Knights had minus 9 yards rushing as Valor, the No. 2 seed, had seven sacks. The top-seeded Knights held a 36:38-26:22 edge in time of possession and ran 14 more offensive plays than the Eagles, who finished with 523 yards of total offense. “We respect Valor,” said Fairview coach Tom McCartney. “They were tremendous in every aspect of the game. The reason the score got out of hand was Valor’s play, because we came into the game ready and prepared. We may not have taken care of the ball like we usually do, but give them credit because they played an outstanding game on both sides of the ball.” Valor’s only loss of the season came by a field goal at the hands of Bingham, a Utah high school that won that state’s large-school championship.

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December 5, 2013

BOYS BASKETBALL PREVIEW

Free throws can be arc of triumph By Jim Benton

jbenton@ourcoloradonews.com The outcome of many basketball games is decided from 15 feet away from the basket. “Free-throw shooting is one of the most important things in winning a basketball game,” said Valor Christian senior Garrett Baggett, who made 82 percent of his attempts from the charity stripe last season. “If you miss 10 free throws and lose by two points, if you had made five of 10 you win the game.” Coaches substitute late in games not only to get good defensive or offensive players on the floor, but also to get better free-throw shooters in the lineup. “It always comes down to free throws,” said Highlands Ranch coach Bob Caton. “Sometimes not just making a free throw but getting a lot of free throws too.” Valor Christian coach Ronnie DeGray tries to make sure his players have their feet correctly aligned and their shooting methods are correct. After that, it us up to the player. Coaches have numerous approaches such as free-throw ladders, team competition and other shooting drills with awards and the usual running punishment to put pressure on players to make free throws during practice. Free-throw shooting provides a chunk of almost every basketball practice. “We like players to get comfortable,” explained Caton. “Every kid when he shoots a free throw should have a pattern, whatever they like to do. Then you want to have the good form, the proper form. One thing you don’t do, if a kid is making a good percent of his free throws, you leave him alone. If he is not making a good percent of his free throws, then you work with him. Then you want repetition, where everything becomes a habit.” Baggett made 63 of 76 free-throw attempts and is one of the best returning south metro area boys players in free throw percentage. “I have a routine I do before every freethrow shot,” said Baggett. “I’ll walk to the top of the key, look at the rim a little bit,

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“As a new high school, one thing you need to do is establish a good reputation,” he said. “If you schedule games, you have to show up and play. As the school was building out we had to wait out facilities. The gym wasn’t done the first year. Actually it wasn’t done until partway through the second year of the high school. So we had to play a lot of away games and travel. “That was tough at times because as a school is getting established, a lot of schools don’t have space on their schedules for those schools. They want to play schools that make you look good when it is time to be picked for the playoffs.” SVA has been diligent about putting the right foot forward. “We want to established good relationships with other schools and other athletic programs,” said Scherer. “We want people

BOYS BASKETBALL PLAYERS TO WATCH SOME OF the top boys basketball players in the south metro area for the 2013-14 season: GARRETT BAGGETT, 5-11, senior, Valor Christian JONATHAN BARNES, 6-8, senior, Ponderosa WILL BOWER, 6-3, junior, Cherry Creek ZACH BRAXTON, 6-8, senior, Highlands Ranch ETHAN BRUNHOFER, 6-2, senior, Arapahoe TAYLOUR CAVANAUGH, 6-5, senior, Douglas County ELIJAH CHERRINGTON, 6-3, senior, Legend JOSH CLAUSEN, 6-3, junior, Lutheran CALVIN COOKE, 6-3, senior, Douglas County MATT DOWSEY, 6-5, senior, Castle View MICHAEL EGEBERG, 5-10, senior, Heritage CHASE FOSTER, 6-5, senior, Valor Christian TYLER GARCIA, 5-9, junior, Rock Canyon

Garrett Baggett, an 82 percent free throw shooter, takes a foul shot during a recent practice. Photo by Jim Benton shoot. I’d shoot about 100 free throws a day. I think that’s where it developed. I could always improve on my free-throw shooting. I’d like to shoot 90 percent this year.” Other accurate free-throw shooters returning this season include Highlands Ranch’s Evan Motlong, who also hit 83 percent of his attempts (44 of 53). Lutheran’s James Willis (83 of 110) and Cherry Creek’s Griffin Parr (54 of 72) each connected on 75 percent, while Rock Canyon’s Mitch Lombard (56 of 77), Jake Holtzmann (72 of 99) of Chaparral and Cherry Creek’s Will Bower (37 of 51) were 73 percent shooters. As a team, Cherry Creek made 74 percent of its free throws. Valor and Mountain Vista made 71 percent of their attempts in 2012-13. Highlands Ranch ranked near the bottom of the Continental League, hitting 61 percent of its free throws. “Sometimes it’s who gets fouled and if

he is a good shooter,” said Caton. “Last year we had a couple guys who didn’t shoot very well. If they had shot better, we would have been in great shape.”

around us to like us and want to play us. As we grow, we hope our programs are competitive, but at the same time it’s more important for us that they know we have good kids and we are going to do things the right way.” This is the first year that SVA is a Colorado High School Athletic Association member school, and the Hawks made their presence felt at the recent Class 2A state cross country championships. Regional champion Ben Butler ran fourth in the state meet with a time of 16:52.6 to spark the Hawks, coached by Scherer, to a seventh-place finish. SVA was second in the regional meet. The SVA girls were third in the regionals and 11th at state, paced by Mary Satkowski’s 22nd-place finish in 22:45.5 at the state championships. “There has kind of been kind of a swell in school pride with some of that,” added Scherer. “It’s cool because we haven’t been around that long but we can go compete with schools that have been around a long time and hold our own. The kids are really proud of what they did.”

Enrollment has increased at SkyView Academy and the CHSAA will move the Hawks from 2A to 3A next season. The Classification and League Organizing Committee on Nov. 12 approved SVA to compete in the 3A Metro League beginning in the 2014-15 school year. The Metro League includes Lutheran, Colorado Academy, Faith Christian, Jefferson Academy, Kent Denver, Machebeuf, Manual, Peak to Peak and St. Mary’s Academy. “There are going to be some sports where there is going to be a learning curve, and it will take us a little while to get to the level of some of the Metro League teams, but we also think great competition is going to make us better,” said Scherer. “We think we have a couple teams that can mix it up with those guys pretty quickly.

“We’re really excited. I’ve been to a few league meetings. There are private schools in the Metro League, there are charter schools and traditional public schools, and they all seemed to get along. I know that is kind of a hot topic these days with the private, charter and public schools, but they all seem to get along and perform at a high level.” Scherer didn’t rule out the possibility of adding sports to the SVA lineup. “We are looking at our options for athletics for the next few years,” he said. “One thing we want to do is we are in CHSAA, we joined the Metro League, so we kind of want to get ourselves established with the sports we have but once we get that done we want to continue to offer options for our kids.”

Email your ideas to Sports Reporter Jim Benton at jbenton@ourcoloradonews.com or call him at 303-566-4083.

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catch the ball and get a feel for it, take three dribbles to get in a rhythm, eyes on the rim and shoot it.” The waving and other methods students use to distract free-throw shooters doesn’t bother Baggett. “All the waving doesn’t usually bother me because I have my head down when I dribble so at the last second is when I pull up, look at the rim and shoot it,” he said. “So I really don’t see all that when I shoot the ball. “It depends on the situation if I think about the importance of a free throw. If it’s a close game, I’ll think a little bit more. I just think about it like any other shot, it’s a routine that I’ve always had.” Baggett got into a free-throw shooting routine early. “I used to be homeschooled in middle school,” he recalled. “I’d finish my school work by noon and I’d just go out and

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MITCH LOMBARD, 6-1, junior, Rock Canyon ZACH MIHALICZ, 6-8, senior, Legend CHRIS MOODY, 6-5, sophomore, Chaparral EVAN MOTLONG, 6-2, senior, Highlands Ranch GRIFFIN PARR, 6-3, senior, Cherry Creek JAKE PEMBERTON, 6-3, senior, Mountain Vista TOM SKUFCA, 6-3, junior, Heritage RYLEY STEWART, 6-3, junior, Highlands Ranch BRENDAN TILL, 6-2, senior, Arapahoe JAMES WILLIS, 6-0, sophomore, Lutheran

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Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE RENOTICED AND REPUBLISHED PURSUANT TO CRS 38-38-109(2)(b)(II) Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2012-1366 To Whom It May Concern: On 10/11/2013 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: VICKY HAMMOND Original Beneficiary: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WELLS FARGO BANK, NA Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 8/19/2009 Recording Date of DOT: 9/1/2009 Reception No. of DOT: 2009069449 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $352,735.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $339,748.69 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 59A, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 122-N, 1ST AMENDMENT, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 10736 Chadsworth Lane, 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, January 29, 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: 12/5/2013 Last Publication: 1/2/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 10/11/2013 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: REAGAN LARKIN Colorado Registration #: 42309 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (303) 865-1400 Fax #: (303) 865-1410 Attorney File #: 12-11586 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2012-1366 First Publication: 12/5/2013 Last Publication: 1/2/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0619 To Whom It May Concern: On 9/30/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: LEE ANN KNUTSON Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR NATIONAL MORTGAGE CENTER DBA PRICELINEMORTGAGE Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 5/30/2000 Recording Date of DOT: 6/7/2000 Reception No. of DOT: 00039182 Book 1854 Page 810 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $163,500.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $142,670.10 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 22, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 101-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9778 S. Bucknell Way, 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, January 22, 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: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 10/2/2013

deed of trust. Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 22, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 101-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9778 S. Bucknell Way, 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, January 22, 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: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 10/2/2013 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 #: 1159.00591 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

Public Trustees

Legal Notice No. 2013-0619 First Publication: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE RE-NOTICED AND REPUBLISHED PURSUANT TO CRS 38-38-109(2)(b)(II) Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2011-0743 To Whom It May Concern: On 10/4/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: GREY MITCHELL AND MISHELLE MITCHELL Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 12/13/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 12/21/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005122325 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $267,920.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $267,214.27 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 33, HIGHLANDS RANCH, FILING NO 122-H, DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO. Which has the address of: 5064 Ashbrook Circle, Highlands Ranch, CO 80130 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, January 22, 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: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 10/4/2013 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: REAGAN LARKIN Colorado Registration #: 42309 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (303) 865-1400 Fax #: (303) 865-1410 Attorney File #: 11-02850 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2011-0743 First Publication: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0573 To Whom It May Concern: On 9/5/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: KIMBERLEY F REIFSNIDER AND ROBERT J REIFSNIDER Original Beneficiary: WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 10/25/2007 Recording Date of DOT: 10/31/2007 Reception No. of DOT: 2007084939 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $744,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $773,247.08 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 10, HIGHLANDS RANCH, FILING NO. 118-1, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 10312 Brookhollow Cir, Littleton, CO 80129 NOTICE OF SALE

AND ROBERT J REIFSNIDER Original Beneficiary: WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 10/25/2007 Recording Date of DOT: 10/31/2007 Reception No. of DOT: 2007084939 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $744,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $773,247.08 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 10, HIGHLANDS RANCH, FILING NO. 118-1, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 10312 Brookhollow Cir, Littleton, CO 80129

Public Trustees

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, January 8, 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: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 9/5/2013 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 #: 5600.58800 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0573 First Publication: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0589 To Whom It May Concern: On 9/13/2013 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: GEORGIA L ROBERTSON Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LENDER, AEGIS WHOLESALE CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 4/15/2003 Recording Date of DOT: 4/16/2003 Reception No. of DOT: 2003053056** DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $320,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $326,834.08 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. **MODIFIED THROUGH A LOAN MODIFICATION AGREEMENT EXECUTED 12/3/2007 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 46, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 110-J, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 10152 Mountain Maple 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, January 8, 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: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 9/13/2013 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: HOLLY DECKER Colorado Registration #: 32647 355 UNION BOULEVARD SUITE 250, LAKEWOOD, COLORADO 80228 Phone #: (303) 274-0155 Fax #: (303) 274-0159 Attorney File #: 13-049-25177 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0589 First Publication: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0590 To Whom It May Concern: On 9/13/2013 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: WILLIAM SIGLER AND JODIE SIGLER Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR OPTEUM FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR OPTEUM MORTGAGE ACCEPTANCE Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 8/3/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 8/11/2005

PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0590 To Whom It May Concern: On 9/13/2013 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: WILLIAM SIGLER AND JODIE SIGLER Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR OPTEUM FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR OPTEUM MORTGAGE ACCEPTANCE Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 8/3/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 8/11/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005075614 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $256,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $228,510.52 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 2, HIGHLANDS RANCH, FILING NO. 95-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9751 Clairton Place, Littleton, CO 80126

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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, January 8, 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: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 9/13/2013 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 #: 4380.01635 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0590 First Publication: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0595 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: HEATH B. FIRESTONE AND SHELLIE HARTSHORN Original Beneficiary: LENDERS DIRECT CAPITAL CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S.BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE STRUCTURED ASSET INVESTMENT LOAN TRUST, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-6 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/11/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 3/16/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005022655 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $232,760.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $252,426.17 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 51, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 122-B, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9996 Strathfield Lane, 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, January 8, 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: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 9/17/2013 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 #: 13-05286 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0595

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: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 9/17/2013 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 #: 13-05286 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

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Legal Notice No.: 2013-0595 First Publication: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0604 To Whom It May Concern: On 9/26/2013 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: ESTHER NOBLE Original Beneficiary: FINANCIAL FREEDOM SENIOR FUNDING CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: ONEWEST BANK, FSB Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/5/2001 Recording Date of DOT: 3/12/2001 Reception No. of DOT: 01019180 Book 1983 Page 1796 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $324,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $127,434.62 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 make full payment of the debt after death of the Borrower 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 165, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 121-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 1384 West Braewood Avenue, 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, January 15, 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: 11/21/2013 Last Publication: 12/19/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 9/27/2013 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 #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 31035 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0604 First Publication: 11/21/2013 Last Publication: 12/19/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0605 To Whom It May Concern: On 9/20/2013 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: KIMBERLEY S JORDE AND DAREN A JORDE Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LENDER, TRANSLAND FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 10/8/2002 Recording Date of DOT: 10/14/2002 Reception No. of DOT: 2002106529** DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $206,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $184,703.80 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. **MODIFIED BY LOAN MODIFICATION AGREEMENT DATED 10/8/02 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 425, ROXBOROUGH VILLAGE FILING NO. 16-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9721 Marmot Ridge Circle, 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, January 8, 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: 11/14/2013

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 425, ROXBOROUGH VILLAGE FILING NO. 16-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9721 Marmot Ridge Circle, Littleton, CO 80125

December 5, 2013

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Legal Notice No.: 2013-0605 First Publication: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0606 To Whom It May Concern: On 9/20/2013 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: RONALD H. SAUL Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LENDER, WR STARKEY MORTGAGE, L.L.P. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 2/13/2008 Recording Date of DOT: 2/20/2008 Reception No. of DOT: 2008011926 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $287,600.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $264,419.06 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. 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 4, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING 122R, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 10850 Hickory Ridge Lane, 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, January 8, 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: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 9/26/2013 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: TONI DALE Colorado Registration #: 30580 355 UNION BOULEVARD SUITE 250, LAKEWOOD, COLORADO 80228 Phone #: (303) 274-0155 Fax #: (303) 274-0159 Attorney File #: 13-914-25187 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0606 First Publication: 11/14/2013 Last Publication: 12/12/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0623 To Whom It May Concern: On 9/30/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: FARIDEH DEANGELIS Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR PROVIDENT FUNDING ASSOCIATES, L.P. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 8/1/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 8/10/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005075062 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $228,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $225,159.97 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 10, HIGHLANDS RANCH-FILING NO. 111-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 9705 South Spring Hill Street, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129

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 10, HIGHLANDS RANCH-FILING NO. 111-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 9705 South Spring Hill Street, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129

December 5, 2013

Public Trustees

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, January 22, 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: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 10/2/2013 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 #: 13-06161 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0623 First Publication: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0624 To Whom It May Concern: On 9/30/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: BRADFORD CAMERON BUTLER AND HARUMI BUTLER Original Beneficiary: WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, FA Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/14/2003 Recording Date of DOT: 4/15/2003 Reception No. of DOT: 2003052231 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $160,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $128,566.07 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: THE FOLLOWING REAL PROPERTY SITUATE IN THE CITY OF LITTLETON, DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO, TOWIT: LOT 26, BLOCK 2, PARCEL 1 AT ROXBOROUGH VILLAGE FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. BY FEE SIMPLE DEED FROM MICHAEL F. MANCINELLI AND MARIE A. MANCINELLI AS SET FORTH IN DEED INSTRUMENT NO. 9828896 AND RECORDED 4/22/1998, DOUGLAS COUNTY RECORDS. Which has the address of: 7565 Dusk St, 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, January 22, 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: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 10/2/2013 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: CATHERINE A HILDRETH Colorado Registration #: 40975 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 1068.06448 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0624 First Publication: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0626 To Whom It May Concern: On 10/4/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: GT EXPRESSIONS, LLC Original Beneficiary: PREMIER BANK Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: PREMIER BANK Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 4/28/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 4/29/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005037644 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $1,760,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $1,136,706.53 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 and 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.

to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: GT EXPRESSIONS, LLC Original Beneficiary: PREMIER BANK Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: PREMIER BANK Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 4/28/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 4/29/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005037644 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $1,760,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $1,136,706.53 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 and 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 A-2, Province Center-Filing No. 1A, 2nd Amendment, County of Douglas, State of Colorado Together with all existing or subsequently erected or affixed buildings, improvements and fixtures; all easements, rights of way, and appurtenances; all water, water rights and ditch rights (including stock in utilities with ditch or irrigation rights); and all other rights, royalties, and profits relating to the real property, including without limitation all minerals, oil, gas, geothermal and similar matters, (the "Real Property") located in Douglas County, State of Colorado. Which has the address of: 8804 S. Colorado Blvd, Littleton, CO 80126

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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, January 22, 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: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 10/15/2013 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: EMILY J CHARLESWORTH Colorado Registration #: 38109 4582 S. ULSTER STREET PKWY SUITE 1650, DENVER, COLORADO 80237 Phone #: (720) 488-5428 Fax #: 1 (720) 488-7711 Attorney File #: GT EXPRESSIONS *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0626 First Publication: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0632 To Whom It May Concern: On 10/4/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: COLLEEN COSTIGAN Original Beneficiary: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 8/31/2011 Recording Date of DOT: 9/7/2011 Reception No. of DOT: 2011054010 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $233,144.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $220,838.38 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 52, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 100-K, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9010 S Miners Place, 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, January 22, 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: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 10/7/2013 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 #: 9104.00385 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0632 First Publication: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

of sale and other items allowed by law,

25and will deliver to the purchaser a Certific-

Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0631 To Whom It May Concern: On 10/4/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: DEBORAH A. NOELL Original Beneficiary: OPTION ONE MORTGAGE CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR OPTION ONE MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-5, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-5 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 9/16/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 9/21/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005089721 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $171,950.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $165,065.79 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 67-A-A, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 121-B 4TH AMENDMENT, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 1232 Carlyle Park Cir, Highlands Ranch, CO 801296965 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, January 22, 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: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 10/7/2013 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 #: 4500.00052 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0631 First Publication: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0633 To Whom It May Concern: On 10/4/2013 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: SUSAN L HUBBARD Original Beneficiary: WORLD SAVINGS BANK, FSB Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 4/28/2006 Recording Date of DOT: 5/2/2006 Reception No. of DOT: 2006036663 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $324,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $351,294.08 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 39, HIGHLANDS RANCH -- FILING NO. 118-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 10031 Sage Sparrow Ct, Littleton, CO 80129-6237 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, January 22, 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: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 10/7/2013 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 #: 5600.58809 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

ate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 10/7/2013 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 #: 5600.58809 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

Public Trustees

Legal Notice No.: 2013-0633 First Publication: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0641 To Whom It May Concern: On 10/9/2013 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: MARY SUSAN LANE Original Beneficiary: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 7/30/2004 Recording Date of DOT: 8/5/2004 Reception No. of DOT: 2004081659 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $294,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $171,502.47 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 22, BLOCK 1, PULTE HOMES AT ROXBOROUGH VILLAGE FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 7703 Elmwood Street, Littleton, CO 80125 The Deed of Trust was modified by a document recorded in Douglas County on 7/9/2013, Reception number 2013056758. Reason modified and any other modifications: Legal Description. 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, January 29, 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: 12/5/2013 Last Publication: 1/2/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 10/9/2013 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: KIMBERLY L. MARTINEZ Colorado Registration #: 40351 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (303) 865-1400 Fax #: (303) 865-1410 Attorney File #: 13-01879 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0641 First Publication: 12/5/2013 Last Publication: 1/2/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0648 To Whom It May Concern: On 10/11/2013 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: ROLANDO IRIARTE Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR COLORADO HOME FUNDING, INC D/B/A AMERICAN HOME FUNDING, INC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 11/10/2009 Recording Date of DOT: 11/30/2009 Reception No. of DOT: 2009090161 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $108,924.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $103,717.87 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: Building 48, Unit 102, Canyon Ranch Condominiums, in accordance with and subject to the Declaration for Canyon Ranch Condominium Association, Inc., recorded on December 19, 1995 in book 1307 at page 260, Annexation recorded on August 7, 1997 in book 1454 at page 152 and the Condominium Map recorded on December 19, 1995 at reception number 9560424, in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Douglas County, Colorado, County of Douglas, State of Colorado. Which has the address of: 8301 S Pebble Creek Way #102, 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, January 29, 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

on December 19, 1995 in book 1307 at page 260, Annexation recorded on August 7, 1997 in book 1454 at page 152 and the Condominium Map recorded on December 19, 1995 at reception number 9560424, in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Douglas County, Colorado, County of Douglas, State of Colorado. Which has the address of: 8301 S Pebble Creek Way #102, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126

Public Trustees

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 December 28, 2013 final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and Brannan Sand and Gravel Company, LLC for the 2013 Asphalt Overlay Project, Douglas County Project Number CI 2013-003 in Douglas County; and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said Brannan Sand and Gravel Company, 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 December 28, 2013, 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.

Government Legals Public Notice NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to: OCCUPANT - A Cory Siegel, President c/o The Mountain Improvement Association, Inc - Anderson, Dude & Lebel PC, Attorneys at Law - Board of Directors of the Association c/o Woodmoor Mountain Homeowners Assoc - Brian Haskins, President c/o The Mountain Ranch Company - Craig C Ramsey - Guy L Welch, Agent for the Association - Nelson & Donna Parkinson aka Nelson Parkinson and Donna Parkinson - Nelson F Parkinson - Steven N Arnold, Secretary c/o The Mountain Ranch Company -The Mountain Improvement Association, Inc aka Mountain Improvement Association, Inc - The Mountain Ranch Company aka Mountain Ranch Company - Thomas N Mace, as President of the Association c/o Woodmoor Mountain Homeowners Association Woodmoor Mountain Homeowners Association aka "Association" - Woodmoor Mountain Homeowners Association a Colorado non-profit corporation You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 21st day of October 2010 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to Craig C Ramsey the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit: LOT 8 WOODMOOR MOUNTAIN 2 3.021 AM/L and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to Craig C Ramsey. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2009; That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of Nelson & Donna Parkinson for said year 2009.That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said Craig C Ramsey at1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 20th day of March 2014, unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 21st day of November 2013. /s/ Diane A. Holbert County Treasurer of Douglas County Legal Notice No.: 924555 First Publication: December 5, 2013 Last Publication: December 19, 2013 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 December 28, 2013 final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and Double R Excavating, Inc. for the Wildcat Reserve / Broadway Intersection Project, Douglas County Project Number CI 2013-009 in Douglas County; and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said Double R Excavating, Inc. 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 December 28, 2013, 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 Neil Sarno, 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.: 924560 First Publication: November 28, 2013 Last Publication: December 5, 2013 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, By: Frederick H. Koch, P.E., Public Works Engineering Director.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the proposed budgets for the County of Douglas and all its agencies, the Douglas County Law Enforcement Authority, the Douglas County Woodmoor Mountain General Improvement District, the Douglas County Local Improvement District No. 07-01-Lincoln Station, and the Douglas County Public Trustee have been submitted to the Board of County Commissioners of Douglas County for the ensuing year 2014. The Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing to consider the adoption of the proposed budgets on December 10, 2013 beginning at 2:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Commissioner’s Hearing Room, Phillip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado. Any interested elector of Douglas County may file an objection to the proposed adopted budget prior to its final adoption by the Board of County Commissioners. A copy of said resolution may be obtained for inspection at the offices of the County Commissioners at the above address in Castle Rock, Colorado, or viewed on-line at www.douglas.co.us.

Legal Notice No.: 924559 First Publication: November 28, 2013 Last Publication: December 5, 2013 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Legal Notice No.: 924583 First Publication: December 5, 2013 Last Publication: December 5, 2013 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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.

Please read the legal notices. Legal Notice No.: 2013-0633 First Publication: 11/28/2013 Last Publication: 12/26/2013

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CLUBS IN YOUR COMMUNITY EDITOR’S NOTE: To add or update your club listing, e-mail calendar@ourcoloradonews.com. POLITICAL DOUGLAS COUNTY DEMOCRATS executive committee meets at 7 p.m. every first Tuesday at various sites. Contact Ralph Jollensten at 303-663-1286 or e-mail ralphw@comcast. net. Social-discussion meetings are in Highlands Ranch, Castle Rock, Parker and Lone Tree. Visit douglasdemocrats.org and click on calendar for more information.

SERVICE

NETWORKING FOR THE NOT-WORKING meets from 8:30-10 a.m. the first Tuesday of every month in the Fireside Room at Cherry Hills Community Church, 3900 Grace Blvd., Highlands Ranch. If you are looking for a safe environment in which to learn, share and be encouraged, come to a meeting. Visit chcc.org/career for more information.

AMERICAN LEGION HIGHLANDS RANCH POST 1260 meets at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month at the Northridge Recreation Center, 8801 S. Broadway, Highlands Ranch. Call 720-663-1260.

RECREATION FALCON YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION baseball board meeting is at 7 p.m. every fourth Thursday at Highlands Ranch Community Association offices, 48 W. Springer Drive. Call 303-791-6244.

REPUBLICANS OF HIGHLANDS RANCH meet every last

Friday of the month at the Cafe Mon Ami, 9579 S. University, Unit No. 150, at 7 a.m. Speakers of local, state and national political office address the group. Call Rick Murray at 303-9333292, or e-mail at rickmrry@yahoo.com.

FALCON YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION executive board meetings are at 7 p.m. every second Wednesday at the Highlands Ranch Community Association offices, 48 W. Springer Drive. Call 303-791-6244.

PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS LEADS GROUP meets at 7:15 a.m. Wednesdays at LePeep at Quebec Street and County Line Road. Call Rita Coltrane at 303-792-3587.

HIGHLANDS RANCH CYCLING CLUB has weekly rides and a variety of cycling experiences for the cycling enthusiast. The club also meets regularly for club business. Visit www. highlandsranchcycling.com or call Bernie Greenberg, 303-7916792.

HIGHLANDS RANCH BUSINESS LEADS INC., call Dale

Weese at 303-978-0992.

HIGHLANDS RANCH CHAMBER LEADS GROUP meets

HIGHLANDS RANCH GARDEN CLUB. Whether you are an experienced gardener or a novice, you will always find something of interest at the Highlands Ranch Garden Club. For information, visit www.hrgc.org.

at 11:45 a.m. Mondays at The Egg and I in Town Center at Dorchester and Highlands Ranch Parkway. Call Jim Wolfe at 303-703-4102.

HIGHLANDS RANCH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, call

303-791-3500.

RUNNING CLUB meets at 7:30 a.m. every Saturday in the parking lot of Southeast Christian Church. Walkers, joggers and runners are welcome. Call John at 720-842-5520.

HIGHLANDS RANCH LEADS CLUB meets at 7:30 a.m.

Thursdays at Le Peep on South Quebec Street. Call Kathy at 303-692-8183.

HIGHLANDS RANCH LEADS CLUB meets at 7:15 a.m. Thursdays at The Egg and I in Town Center at Dorchester and Highlands Ranch Parkway. Call Del Van Essen at 303-302-3139. HOME RECORDING GROUP of Highlands Ranch is an informal network of recording enthusiasts and studio musicians interested in sharing knowledge, resources and pizza. Call Scott, 303-791-3811. LITTLETON LETIP meets from 7:16-8:31 a.m. every Tuesday for breakfast at Luciles, 2852 W. Bowles Ave., to exchange qualified business leads. Call Bob Hier at 303-660-6426 or

Castle Rock

e-mail hierb@yahoo.com.

YOGA CLASS. Health Ministries at St. Andrew United Methodist Church welcomes the community to their health class: Yoga helps improve flexibility, balance, alignment, posture, toning, strengthening, relaxation and awareness. Class is offered from 9:45-10:45 a.m. Wednesdays. Sessions are 10 weeks, and drop-ins are welcome. Cost is $90 per 10 weeks or $15 per session. All levels are welcome. For information, contact the leader Martha who has taught yoga for many years, Call 720-480-2164, ihealing@msn.com. St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Call 303-794-2683 for information or visit www. st-andrew-umc.com.

Highlands Ranch

1200 South Street Castle Rock, CO 80104 303.688.3047 www.fumccr.org

Services:

Saturday 5:30pm Sunday 8am, 9:30am, 11am Sunday School 9:15am Little Blessings Day Care www.littleblessingspdo.com

Open and Welcoming

Sunday Worship

“Loving God - Making A Difference” 

A place for you

 Franktown

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Trinity Lutheran Church & School

Sunday Worship 8:00 & 10:45 a.m. Trinity Lutheran School & ELC (Ages 3-5, Grades K-8)

HIGHLANDS BREAKFAST OPTIMISTS meet every first and third Mondays from 7-8 a.m. at Le Peep Grill at County Line and Quebec Street. Call Miles Hardee, 303-973-6409. HIGHLANDS RANCH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY meets the first Tuesday of every month at the Highlands Ranch Library at 7 p.m.

SOCIAL CASTLE ROCK BRIDGE CLUB plays a friendly ACBL-sanctioned duplicate game at 1 p.m. every Monday and Wednesday. For more information, a schedule of games and lessons, or directions to the Lowell Ranch 4H location at 2330 South I-25 East Frontage Road, go the website at castlerockbridge.com. For assistance in finding a bridge partner, call Georgiana Butler at 303-810-8504. Visit www.castlerockbridge.com.

HIGHLANDS RANCH HISTORICAL SOCIETy meets from 7-8:30 p.m. the third Monday of each month at Southridge Recreation Center, 4800 McArthur Ranch Road. Great programs ($1 voluntary donation for non-members) and group rate tours offered including some RTD tours. Leave message at 641-7153900 ext. 147406, email HRHistoricalSociety@comcast.net or see www.highlandsranchhistoricalsociety.org .

“CHAI” LANDS RANCH/SOUTH DENVER METRO JEWISH COMMUNITY COMPANY. Call 303-470-6652.

HIGHLANDS RANCH JAYCEES meets at 7 p.m. every first and third Tuesdays at the Highlands Ranch Recreation Center. The meetings are open for people ages 21-40. Call Suzy Driscoll at 303-791-1049.

FIBROMYALGIA WOMEN’S GROUP for women wanting to get together to talk about positive things that have helped them and to make new friends. No fee; must live near Parker/ Centennial. Time and day to be figured out by group. Call Leslie at 303-791-8814.

HIGHLANDS RANCH LIONS CLUB meets first and third Thursdays at 7 p.m. at Romano’s, 32 W. Springer Drive, Highlands Ranch. Visit www.HighlandsRanchLions.org or call Corky Carlson at 303-791-0099.

FRIENDSHIPS ARE GOLDEN is a local nonprofit club organized through love and collections of Sam Butcher’s Precious Moments Figures. Throughout the year we provide support to local charities. We meet once a month on the fourth Thursday of every month at Julie’s Hallmark 9441 S University Blvd. in Highlands Ranch from 6:30-9 p.m. For more information please contact Bry at Julie’s Hallmark 303-683-1146.

Littleton

Alongside One Another On Life’s Journey

THE HIGHLANDS RANCH/LITTLETON CHAPTER OF MOTHERS and More meets the second Tuesday of each month. See www.mothersandmore.org/chapters/highlandsranchlittletonCO/ or e-mail hrmothersandmore@hotmail.com for more information.

Parker

Joy

You are invited to worship with us:

8:00 am Chapel Service 9:00 & 10:30 am

www.st-andrew-umc.com

Grace is on the NE Corner of Santa Fe Dr. & Highlands Ranch Pkwy. (Across from Murdochs)

Sunday School 9:00 & 10:30 am

303-798-8485

9203 S. University Blvd. Highlands Ranch, 80126

Littleton

(Next to RTD lot @470 & University)

303-791-3315

pastor@awlc.org www.awlc.org

Sunday

8:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

1609 W. Littleton Blvd. (303) 798-1389 • www.fpcl.org

Welcome Home!

Weaving Truth and Relevance into Relationships and Life

worship Time 10:30AM sundays 9:00am Spiritual Formation Classes for all Ages 90 east orchard road littleton, co

303 798 6387

Saturday 5:30pm

Sunday 8:00 & 10:30am

Education Hour: Sunday 9:15am Joyful Mission Preschool 303-841-3770 7051 East Parker Hills Ct. • Parker, CO 303-841-3739 www.joylutheran-parker.org

Lone Tree

Church of Christ

Currently meeting at: 9220 Kimmer Drive, Suite 200 Lone Tree 80124 303-688-9506 www.LoneTreeCoC.com

Connect – Grow – Serve

Sunday Worship

8:45 am & 10:30 am

Parker

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

...19650 E. Mainstreet, Parker 80138

New Thought...Ancient Wisdom Sunday Service

& Children’s Church 10:00 a.m.

Visit our website for details of classes & upcoming events.

303.805.9890

Denver Tech Center

Parker evangelical Presbyterian church

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

Lone Tree

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

8391 S. Burnley Ct., Highlands Ranch

Worship Services Sundays at 9:00am

SErviCES:

www.gracecolorado.com

 303-841-4660 www.gracepointcc.us www.tlcas.org  To advertise your place of worship in this section,  call 303-566-4091 or email kearhart@ourcoloradonews.com.

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TAIZE-STYLE SERVICE, a meditative hour of prayer, song, scripture and the labyrinth, is offered from 6:45-7:45 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 3350 E. White Bay Drive, Highlands Ranch. Child care is provided for this hour. The labyrinth is also available for individual meditation and prayer from 4 p.m. until the service on fourth Thursday, and from 4-8 p.m. on the second Thursdays. Call 303-794-2683 or visit www.st-andrew-umc.com.

GRACE PRESBYTERIAN

Sundays at 10:00 am

 Sunday Worship 10:30  4825 North Crowfoot Valley Rd. Abiding Word  Castle Rock • canyonscc.org Lutheran Church 303-663-5751

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GREAT BOOKS. Great Books Discussion Groups meet at Douglas County Libraries in Lone Tree, Highlands Ranch and Castle Rock (Philip S. Miller). Great Books is a forum for thoughtful adults to read and discuss significant works of fiction, philosophy, political science, poetry and drama. Afternoon and evening times are available; groups meet once every 2-4 weeks. No registration is required. For information, call 303-791-7323 or visit DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA

Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors.

303-794-2683 Preschool: 303-794-0510

An Evangelical Presbyterian Church

MANSION TOURS. The Highlands Ranch Metro District invites the public to visit the Highlands Ranch Mansion for free during regular open hours from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday. Visit www.HighlandsRanchMansion.com or call 303-791-0177.

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GENEALOGY 101 is a small group of novice and advanced non-professional genealogists who meet at 10 a.m. the second Saturday of each month in Room 206 at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 8817 S. Broadway, Highlands Ranch. The group is geared to assist each other in our journeys into discovering the lives of our ancestors. No fees.

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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

www.parkerbiblechurch.org Meets at the Marriott DTC 4900 S Syracuse St, Denver, CO 80237

10 am every Sunday Free parking December Study:

The Cast of Christmas Pastor Mark Brewer

Pastor David Fisher Fellowship & Worship: 9:00 am Sunday School: 10:45 am 5755 Valley Hi Drive Parker, CO 303-941-0668

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United Church Of Christ Parker Hilltop 10926 E. Democrat Rd. Parker, CO • 10am Worship www.uccparkerhilltop.org 303-841-2808

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Holiday Boutique Saturday, December 7th 9:30 am to 2:00 pm FIVE PARKS DEPOT 13810 West 85th Drive Arvada, CO 80005 Creative Handmade Gifts

Bicycles 27" Mountain Bike .All components in good condition. Slanted bar makes for a good beginner's or girls bike. (812)322-2804

ELECTRIC BIKES: New & used No Gas, License, or Registration. 303-257-0164

Building Materials

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Savio House is looking for Foster Parents to provide a temporary home for troubled teens ages 12-18. We provide training, 24/7 support and $1900/month. Adequate space and complete background and motor vehicle check required. Ideally there are no other teens in the home and one parent would have flexible daytime schedule. Contact Michelle for more information at 303-225-4073.

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