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June 5, 2014 Douglas County, Colorado | Volume 27, Issue 29 A publication of

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Recovery continues for local woman

‘WHEN OCEANS RISE’

Highlands Ranch mother keeps hope in tomorrow

By Hannah Garcia

hgarcia@coloradocommunitymedia.

Austin Woodruff and Meagan Thwaites were among a group of graduates to perform the song, “Oceans,” by Hillsong UNITED at the May 30 Valor Christian commencement ceremony at Cherry Hills Community Church. For more on the school’s largest graduation to date, please turn to page 14. Photo by Ryan Boldrey

Golden eagle egg hatches in Ranch Event is first in three years

By Hannah Garcia

hgarcia @coloradocommunitymedia.com For the first time in three years, a golden eagle hatchling is calling Highlands Ranch home.

“The fact that we have an active golden eagle nest in the Backcountry is a good sign that our conservation efforts and planning have paid off,” Giebel said, claiming that the eagles have nested in the area for the past four years.

“The first year is the only other year an egg hatched,” Giebel said.

Giebel and a team of conservationists and Douglas County Search and Rescue volunteers ventured into Highlands Ranch’s Backcountry Wilderness Area on May 18 to band and observe the eaglet.

After asking Facebook fans to name the bird, Giebel said the golden eagle hatchling now goes by “Talon.”

Tony Head, a registered raptor bander and a paramedic captain with Littleton Fire Rescue, banded the bird, which will help the federal Bird Banding Laboratory, based in Maryland, collect data.

“The database currently has over 4 million band encounter records that document movement, longevity and sources of mortality for North America’s migratory birds,” Head said. “Similar efforts (were) performed last year on Cooper hawks in the Backcountry.”

Golden eagles are common to Colorado with 600-900 active nests, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Golden eagles rarely defend their nests, but merely fly a half mile or more away and perch and watch, which can result in chilling and overheating of eggs or starvation of nestlings.

Two segments of trails in the backcountry are closed due to the eagle nest, Geibel said. The Highlands Ranch Community Association trail that goes to the top of Wildcat Mountain, near where the eagle nest is located, and the Douglas County East-West Trail along the east side of Monarch, below

Tony Head bands a baby eagle in the Highlands Ranch Backcountry Wilderness Area on May 18. Courtesy photos

This golden eaglet is the first to hatch in the Highlands Ranch Backcountry Wilderness Area since 2010. the location of the nest, will both reopen once the eagle chick leaves the nest.

“Douglas County Parks and Trails has been great to work with to coordinate the closure of their trails,” Giebel said.

Anne Price, curator of raptors and a licensed falconer for the Raptor Education Foundation, was part of the team. Since 1980, REF has been educating the public about the lives of wild raptors, and their im-

portant roles in various ecosystems. Price said she observed the remains of prairie dogs and cottontail rabbits in the nest, indicative of the pest management role that the golden eagles serve in close proximity to their human neighbors in Highlands Ranch.

“It was gratifying to be able to put our expertise in handling adult eagles to use in banding the wild eaglet,” Price said.

Giebel said it only took a few phone calls to pull the team together to band the eaglet.

“Douglas County Search and Rescue is terrific at what they do and their assistance was critical. We’re lucky to have such a professional group of volunteers in Douglas County,” Giebel said.

Zach Jump, a volunteer with Douglas County Search and Rescue, said he was “fortunate to have opportunities to work in various aspects of our community.”

“It was exciting to get a brief glimpse into the natural wildlife we have in Highlands Ranch,” he said.

Wes Go, another DCSAR volunteer, said to “directly contribute to (the community’s) conservation is priceless.”

“I’m fortunate to live in a place that abounds with so much open space and wildlife. To be able to share my back yard with fellow community members who also value it is rich,” he said.

Kristin Hopkins says she only remembers “bits and pieces” of the week she spent cocooned in the ruins of her red Chevrolet Malibu after it careened and crashed off of U.S. 285.

Now, the Highlands Ranch mother of four, who lost both feet after the accident, is hopeful she’ll walk again soon with the help of prosthetics and physical therapy.

“I was there for six days,” Hopkins said in a phone interview. “I think the total amount of time I was awake was three to four hours when I was conscious. I remember writing on the umbrella. I remember trying to start the car, but I don’t know where I was going to go.”

Hopkins crashed her car some time after April 27, two days before her parents reported her missing to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, off of U.S. 285 near Fairplay. She was discovered by a couple driving by on May 4.

In the time she spent trapped and upside down, Hopkins said she also remembered trying to push out her shattered windows with a snow scraper and thinking about picking up her children from school. When she reached for her umbrella, scrawling “Need Dr! Hurt & Bleeding” and “Thirsty and hungry, six days with no food or water,” she called it her “glory moment.”

“I totally thought someone would see my little umbrella,” she said.

“When I came to, I was like, `what the heck happened’ and I looked around and realized I was in an accident. I never freaked out, never had a thought like, you know, `this is the end,’ ” Hopkins said. “ `It will be tomorrow.’ I never had a bad thought. `Tomorrow will be the day.’ ” In the days after she was found, Hopkins continues on Page 12

Kristin Hopkins goes through a series of exercises during a rehabilitation session May 21 at St. Anthony Hospital.

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County’s survey finds satisfied residents Sustained support not typical, pollster says

By Mike DiFerdinando

mdiferdinando @coloradocommunitymedia.com Residents continue to support Douglas County government, counter to trends seen elsewhere, said the head of a company that recently performed a survey paid for by the county.

The survey found many residents believe the county has a plan for the future, with a particular focus on the use and preservation of natural resources such as water.

Hill Research Consultants conducted the telephone survey of 600 registered voters in the county — 200 from each of the three commissioner districts — from April 3-7.

Of those surveyed, 67 percent said they feel things are moving in the right direction for the county, while 20 percent said they are moving in the wrong direction.

Twelve percent were not sure and 1 percent didn’t answer that question.

Fifty-one percent of those polled said economic conditions are staying the same and 40 percent said things are getting better.

Only 7 percent said things were getting worse economically.

“The general theme that I take away from the data is that there has been stability over time,” said David Hill of Hill Research Consultants.

Hill said that while he has generally seen dissatisfaction grow among the people he surveys nationally about their local governments since 2007, Douglas County has actually shown more support during that time.

When asked if Douglas County government listens to the people’s voice, 55 percent agreed and 11 percent strongly agreed, while 17 percent disagreed.

When asked if Douglas County leaders have an effective long-term, comprehensive plan for the county’s future, 52 percent agreed and 11 percent strongly agreed, while 16 percent disagreed and 6 percent strongly disagreed.

When asked if Douglas County spends tax dollars wisely, 54 percent agreed that they did and 10 percent strongly agreed, while 21 percent disagreed and 9 percent strongly disagreed.

“Douglas County has shown remarkable stability in the face of a lot of negative things that have happened,” Hill said.

District 3 Commissioner Jill Repella said she believes the community trusts the government’s plan for the future, because of-

Area graduates earn $65.5M in scholarships Staff report Douglas County School District’s Class of 2014 secured more than $65.5 million in scholarships; that includes scholarships to four students from the Boettcher Foundation.

Scholarships awarded to graduating Douglas County seniors to date total $65,527,528. That averages out to nearly $16,321 in scholarship dollars per graduate.

DCSD awarded 4,015 diplomas this year

to students at its nine regular high schools in Castle Rock, Highlands Ranch and Parker and three alternative high schools that include eDCSD, DC Oakes and Eagle Academy night school.

Boettcher recipients including ThunderRidge’s Elisabeth Collins, Highlands Ranch students Paul Marchando and Francis Commercon and Castle View’s Madeline Walden were awarded full-ride, merit-based scholarships to attend a fouryear college or university within the State of Colorado.

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“That’s extremely important for building trust,” Hill said. “That doesn’t exist everywhere.” He said the rotating nature of elected officials will often lead to a lack of long-term thinking and consistency.

Repella pointed to “one question that we’re encouraged by in particular, and it’s Q41: Douglas county leaders have an effective long-term comprehensive plan for the county’s future.

“In February 2000 it was 48 percent strongly agree and we’re up to 63 percent this year. That’s a significant incline that we’re in the right direction.

“It seems as though the community trusts the direction that we’re going in,” she added, “and I truly believe that the significant jump that we’ve seen in the last four to six years is because we strategically have those goals in place and there’s some consistency in what we’ve been focusing on.”

This year’s survey cost $36,984. Hill said the survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level for 50-50 splits.

That means the pollster is 95 percent certain that the results are accurate within 4 percentage points either way, for a relatively varied population.

Water ranks high

One area where Douglas County has made progress over the years is in its longterm approach to natural resources, specifically water.

Survey Respondents listed natural resources as their second highest priority for the county — after the economy — and 58 percent of people said water was the most important resource for the county.

Of people surveyed, 63 percent strongly agreed and 32 percent somewhat agreed that Douglas County should work in partnership with water districts to secure a long-term water supply and delivery system.

“Five years ago when we put our policy manual together and crafted those goals, those goals were very, very important and strategic,” Repella said. “Two of our highest goals were economic foundation and natural resources related to water. That was really a key area we were looking at in the survey to reconcile our citizens’ reaction to those efforts. The results of the survey not only support our efforts in that area, but I was surprised by how much they were encouraging our efforts in those areas. It was very, very positive. We’re on the right track with that.”

Survey results are at www.douglas. co.us/commissioners/documents/2014citizen-survey-results.pdf.

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Park Meadows welcomes new restaurant LYFE Kitchen offers healthy dining options to suit variety of diets

By Jane Reuter

jreuter@coloradocommunitymedia.com The people behind Lone Tree’s newest restaurant, LYFE Kitchen, believe their business is about more than food.

It’s about helping the country turn its eating habits down a healthier path.

“We believe we’re part of a movement,” said the company’s chief brand and communications officer Mike Donahue, who spoke at the restaurant’s May 28 soft opening.

“We believe we’re a campaign without an election date. We believe we’re out there to make a difference.”

LYFE, which opens officially June 6 in Park Meadows shopping center, raises the concept of healthy eating to new levels. Its name, an acronym for Love Your Food Every Day, sums up its aspirations.

Each entrée contains 600 calories or less and includes 1000 milligrams or less of sodium, with an emphasis on locally sourced food.

It offers entrees for those on vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free diets. Meat lovers need not despair; fish, chicken, sausage and even bison also are well-represented the menu.

Launched in 2011 by Mike Roberts — the former McDonald’s executive who helped introduce apples to Happy Meals — LYFE operates on the concept that food can taste great, and be healthy and affordable.

Its website lists six operating restaurants, include Lone Tree’s, but it’s on a fast growth track. A Boulder restaurant will open in the fall, and company plans call for a total of 250 sites in the next few years.

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Lone Tree LYFE owners DJ and Rachel Mitchell share the LYFE company roots; the two previously owned McDonald’s restaurants in Alamosa, Colorado Springs and Lone Tree.

Rachel admits she was hesitant when an enthusiastic DJ first told her about the LYFE concept. She had never tasted quinoa until she sampled LYFE’s quinoa crunch wrap.

“It’s intimidating, I find, to cook with quinoa and kale, to substitute (other ingredients) for butter and it still tastes good,” she said. “They found the secret.”

Kitchen manager Zach Gart, a recent graduate of University of Denver, shares the company’s dedication to nutritious food.

Originally trained in a more traditional style of cooking that emphasized the use of butter and cream, Gart realized that wasn’t consistent with his own lifestyle. LYFE’s menu is.

“Not only is the food absolutely delicious, it’s pure fuel,” Gart said. “It’s what your body needs to keep operating the best it possibly can.”

Sample menu items include roasted mushroom and goat cheese flatbread, squash lemon grass soup, grass-fed burgers and steaks, roasted salmon, tomato and fennel, flavored waters, smoothies and fresh-squeezed juice.

Wine and beer, including four Colorado craft beers, also are on the menu.

In a nod to Colorado, the menu also includes bison tacos. One wall is dedicated to a massive John Fielder landscape, and both a table and the façade on the outside patio are made of beetle kill pine.

The Mitchells, Gart and Donahue were among a team who participated in the May 28 “sprout cutting,” an event unique to LYFE during which staffers celebrate a restaurant’s opening by cutting a string of Brussels sprouts and

Diners sample food at the new LYFE restaurant at Park Meadows shopping center during the May 28 grand opening. Photo by Jane Reuter peppers.

“I feel humble at the vision of the brand,” DJ said. “It’s just such a beautiful thing, what we’re trying to accomplish.”

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rboldrey@coloradocommunitymedia.com In celebration of National Fishing Day, area youngsters are again invited to take part in the annual Kids Fishing Day at Fly’n B Pond in northwestern Highlands Ranch.

“Kids will have a chance to join local experts, help cast lines and teach them how to bait hooks,” said Courtney Kuhlen, spokeswoman for the Highlands Ranch Metro District Parks and Recreation Department.

“It’s great for kids who have never fished before and for those who have.”

The one-acre pond at the heart of Fly’n B Park will be stocked with trout, and kids ages 6- 14 will have the opportunity to enjoy the fishing pier or get out of the elements — rain or shine — at the on-site shelter.

Kuhlen said the Metro District is expecting between 75 and 100 children, and parents are encouraged to come out and spend the day with them.

“Because it is National Fishing Day, adults aren’t required to have a license like normal,” she said. “They can just come out and enjoy the day with their kids.”

There will also be between eight and 10 staff volunteers on hand to help teach kids all the ins and outs of fishing, Kuhlen added.

Fly’n B Park, 2910 W. Plaza Drive in Highlands Ranch, is one of four fishing ponds in the community. The other three are located at Redstone Park, Cheese Ranch Historical and Natural Area, and Spring Gulch Pond.

Catch and release is encouraged at all four sites.

The free event will occur from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. June 7 and pre-registration is required at www.highlandsranch. org. Registration closes at the end of the day June 6.

Two and a half year-old Sophia Duey of Highlands Ranch shows off her big catch of the day June 1, 2013 at the Highlands Ranch Metro District’s annual Kid’s Fishing Day at Fly’n B Park. More than 100 kids turned out for the event, and district staff and local fishing experts were on hand to help out the young anglers. This year’s event is slated for June 7. File photo

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The woman hired to replace Amber Sorg resigned from the Douglas County School District.

Sorg, who had resigned and planned to leave in June, was put on administrative leave for alleged misconduct six weeks before her scheduled departure.

The district-level decision to put her on leave came in the wake of a parent and student May 16 rally protesting a district-led review of teacher evaluations.

Because of Sorg’s abrupt departure, district leaders announced they’d bring in new principal Michelle Colton, who was serving as assistant principal at Acres Green Elementary, earlier than originally planned.

Colton had accepted the position at Rock Ridge before Sorg was put on leave, but chose not to step into her new role, according to a May 23 district letter to

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Absent a permanent principal, Rock Ridge assistant principal Julie Roach will head up the school.

Neither Sorg nor Colton could be reached for comment.

Colton is no longer employed at Acres Green Elementary.

Rock Ridge teacher evaluations led by Sorg designated the staff “effective” or “highly effective,” prompting a second, district-led evaluation that sparked parent protests.

DCSD officials said a Level 2 review is standard when evaluations don’t appear consistent with those of other schools.

Teachers’ ratings are tied to pay increases.

District leaders acknowledged Sorg’s alleged misconduct in a May 19 letter DCSD assistant superintendent of elementary education Ted Knight sent to parents.

Knight said he could not comment further because the issue is a personnel matter.

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County survey shows changing perceptions of schools Positive responses on annual survey have dropped since 2006

By Jane Reuter

jreuter@coloradocommunitymedia.com A county-sponsored survey about a variety of qualityof-life issues in Douglas County shows that perceptions about schools are changing.

More than 80 percent of residents surveyed earlier this year agreed that the county has good schools and educational opportunities — but that’s down from 90 percent in the survey’s first year.

“It’s trending in the wrong direction,” researcher David Hill said about education-related responses taken since

his company began the bi-annual Citizens Survey in 2006.

“There is (about) a 7-point decline in positive impressions of the county as a place where there are good schools.”

Hill said the decline in perceptions about schools is in contrast to steadily improving positive responses about other aspects of life in Douglas County.

The question is not specific to K-12 education, Hill pointed out, and doesn’t provide enough definitive data to reach any solid conclusions.

“One thing I would be cautious about is that as Douglas County has grown and become more diverse, part of the reaction here may not be just to K-12 schools, but that they want more access to community colleges, or some other kind of educational products that might be more available in downtown Denver,” said Hill, who founded Hill Research Consultants in 1988. “It indicates there’s something going on there that’s worth considering.”

The question posed of about 600 people in an April phone survey asks whether or not they agree Douglas County “has good schools and educational opportunities for all ages.”

In 2006, 90 percent of respondents agreed this was an accurate description. In 2014, 82 percent did — the lowest number of positive responses recorded since the question first was asked in 2006.

In 2006, 6 percent agreed this was not an accurate description. In 2014, 17 percent did — the highest number of negative responses recorded since 2006.

The Douglas County School Board began implementing education-reform policies in 2009 that have sparked resistance from some staff and community members.

An emailed comment provided by DCSD spokeswoman Paula Hans said, “What Douglas County parents, students,

and taxpayers are interested in are results. The Douglas County School District continues to deliver top results for our students.”

Hans cited statistics that show DCSD has one of the highest graduation rates in the Denver Metro Area, rising from 81.9 percent in 2009 to 88.8 percent in 2013, and the fact that the recently graduated Class of 2014 earned more than $65.5 million in scholarships.

The county survey overall showed the majority of residents are content with the direction the county is moving in and optimistic about the future.

“We are thrilled to learn that 98 percent of respondents believe Douglas County is a good place to raise a family, and that 92 percent of respondents believe Douglas County property values are strong,” Hans’ email read. “These are both strong indicators linked to K-12 education and local school districts.”

Community members have for months requested the district re-initiate its annual school-specific survey; the survey hasn’t been done since 2012, and DCSD discounted those results as too small to be statistically valid. Board president Kevin Larsen said during a March meeting the board would consider a survey.

In both 2006 and 2014, 601 people responded to the county’s citizen surveys.

Douglas County spokeswoman Wendy Holmes said county officials did not wish to comment on the school responses, instead deferring comment on the subject to Hill.

Hill Research Consultants has a national client base that includes public officials, schools, state and local government agencies, major corporations, chambers of commerce and public relations firms.

District liaison says she will act as a guide to asssist families

Q: What is your understanding of your responsibilities?

A: My understanding of my responsibilities is what is stated in … Senate Bill 193 that outlines the state law to create greater parent involvement in education. I have attended 30 SAC (School Accountability Committee) meetings so that I can get to know issues surrounding parent involvement, best practices and how I can be a resource to help parents in the district.

Q: Are you excited about the job? Why? A: I understand the importance of this job and am excited about the possibilities and the ability to collaborate with parents. I believe strongly in the mission and believe that what really matters at the end of the day is whether our children and their families have been prepared for a changing, transforming and quickly advancing world. I want to help guide them in that effort.

Q: Where do you live in Douglas County? Do you have kids in DCSD schools?

A: Castle Rock. Yes. Q: What’s your impression of DCSD overall?

A: I have a favorable impression of the district and the schools that comprise it. As a parent and a coach, I am more than confident in its ability to deliver the best education possible to the children that I know and care about. I am a reasonable person, so I also believe that, as with any place, people are going to differ in opinions and beliefs. I can provide them with the knowledge and guidance they need to make the best decisions for their kids based on accurate information.

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Staff report The Douglas County School District in April hired Katherine Brown as parent liaison in a new position called school-community partnership coordinator.

Brown’s starting annual salary is $58,000.

Colorado Community Media’s request to interview Brown was not granted by DCSD public information officer Paula Hans. Instead, written questions were submitted, and Hans provided Brown’s answers, which follow, via email.

Q: What do you think you bring personally and professionally that makes you well Brown suited to this position?

A: First of all, I am a parent and coach in the district who has now seen both sides of the equation — as a parent and as an employee. I never take the “parent” out of the equation because that is my first responsibility and my loyalty.

Therefore, I believe that all parents want to ultimately do what is best for their kids.

I have been trained in PROSCI* and have worked with children in poverty in educational situations throughout the world through an international charity, advocating for them and their families, and bringing awareness to their needs. I also am an advocate against violence against women and have worked with victims of violence in high school, college and professional organizations, advocating for their rights on campuses and bringing awareness to violence against women and Title IX.

State to review teacher evaluation system Union complaint prompts closer look at Douglas County program roll-out

By Jane Reuter

jreuter@coloradocommunitymedia.com The Colorado Department of Education has agreed to review the Douglas County School District’s teacher-evaluation system, a request made by the teachers’ union in May. Though the Douglas County Federation of Teachers’ request alleges the system is “invalid and unreliable,” the CDE said its decision to take a closer look doesn’t mean it concurs.

“It’s really based on the idea that the requester has identified some areas we just want to verify the district has addressed,” said CDE director of educator effectiveness Toby King. “We’ve identified we will do a review, and asked the district to provide artifacts.”

That’s in accordance with the process outlined by the CDE. Based on its review of the information submitted by DCSD, the state will either “prepare a response that may resolve the issue or that may indicate further investigation of the request is needed,” according to the CDE. Teachers’ union president Courtney Smith said the state’s decision is a small step in the right direction.

“It won’t be a victory until they force the district to address the serious concerns, and the harm and impact this system is having on teachers and in classrooms,” she said.

In response to news of CDE’s review, DCSD reissued the

response it sent in May, when the teachers’ union submitted the review request. The district response included an emailed comment attributed to school board president Kevin Larsen, stating, “The union complaint is another attempt to stir controversy and chaos where there is none.

This is a frivolous waste of time and resources.”

DCSD’s emailed response also said it works with its staff to address concerns related to the evaluations, and that it has implemented multiple checks and balances to ensure the system’s reliability and consistency.

Teacher and principal evaluations now are required in all Colorado school districts under Senate Bill 191, passed in 2010. Districts were allowed to adopt either the state’s teacher evaluation program, or create their own; DCSD designed and introduced its own in 2012.

The evaluations are part of DCSD’s pay-for-performance program. Based on self-evaluations, meetings with administrator-level evaluators and other factors, each teacher was assigned a rating ranging from “highly effective” to “ineffective.” Pay increases are tied to those ratings, and also to a new market-based pay scale.

Smith said DCSD failed to properly define the outcomes teachers needed to reach to secure peak ratings under the system, and hasn’t changed the evaluations despite numerous complaints during the roll-out year. That’s taken a toll on teachers’ morale and finances, and prompted many of them to leave the district, she said.

The longstanding contract between DCSD and the Douglas County Federation expired in 2012 after weeks of negotiations.

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Arrowsmith ends race for state House seat Neville is lone Republican standing to replace Murray

By Ryan Boldrey

rboldrey @coloradocommunitymedia.com State House District 45 candidate Patrick Neville, R-Franktown, will have to wait until November to run a contested race in the hopes of replacing Rep. Carole Murray, RCastle Rock, who is retiring from office.

Neville, who was running against Douglas County Clerk and Recorder Jack Arrowsmith for the Republican nomination, garnered 64 percent of the delegate vote at the party’s general assembly on March 22 to Arrowsmith’s 36 percent.

The vote placed both candidates on the primary ballot, but when Arrowsmith’s current office sends those ballots out to registered Republicans throughout the county in a couple days, his own name won’t be on them.

“My decision came not long after the county assembly,” Arrowsmith said. “I was gratified to make the ballot, but it was apparent that my opponent had the support of

the delegate body and I figured that ought to mean something.”

In a letter to supporters and party members, Arrowsmith said, “while some think a vigorous primary is the way to vet our candidates, I believe that these contentious races have had a devastating effect on the longterm well being of the party. …

“At some point we need to set aside self-interest and determine that the very survival of the Republican Party outweighs pride or agenda.

It will take tens of thousands of dollars to conduct a primary race … and these precious dollars can better be spent on defeating the Arrowsmith liberal agenda.”

Arrowsmith said Neville is “morally sound, has a great young family and seems to be a nice young man.” He is encouraging his supporters to vote for Neville come November when he faces Democratic chalNeville lenger Brandon Wicks of

New laws address child care costs Legislation closes loop hole to enable more assistance

By Vic Vela

vvela@coloradocommunitymedia.com Three bills that became law two weeks ago aim to alleviate the high cost of child care in Colorado.

The laws, signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper May 22, address a number of financial areas and are a response to Colorado being the fifth least affordable state for child care.

A key piece of the package creates child care tax credits for families that make less than $25,000 a year.

The new credit — which is capped at $1,000 per family per year — is available to those who do not qualify for existing child care tax credits that are tied to federal returns.

“It’s a lot of money when you’re only making $25,000 a year and trying to pay for child care,” said Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Lakewood, a bill sponsor.

The bill fixes a loophole that disqualifies many low-income families from receiving a tax credit that was set up by the state in 1996.

The child care tax credit that the new law replaces applied to families that earn less than $60,000 a year. But that credit was tied to federal income taxes, which doesn’t apply to many low-income families because their

earnings are sometimes too low to even have to file federal taxes.

Pettersen also co-sponsored a bill with Sen. Jeanne Nicholson, D-Black Hawk, that addresses cases when families receive pay increases at work that disqualifies them for continuing to receive child care assistance — a significant financial issue for families that has been dubbed the “cliff effect.”

The legislation sets up grant funding for the Cliff Effect Pilot Program, which allows families to phase out of assistance they receive through the Colorado Childcare Assistance Program, whenever they receive higher pay through their jobs.

“This bill helps parents seek jobs, promotions and pay raises without worrying about suddenly losing the assistance that helps them afford child care and be reliable employees,” Nicholson said. “This will eliminate a hurdle, or disincentive, for families working towards financial security.”

Nicholson also co-sponsored legislation that creates a reimbursement program that lowers child care center payments for lowincome families and recognizes child care centers that perform at a high level.

Pettersen said the bills should mitigate child care costs for people who could use help the most.

“We have some of the most expensive child care in the nation and this is one of the big barriers that families face,” she said.

Law ensures juveniles receive legal counsel

By Vic Vela

vvela@coloradocommunitymedia.com A new law guarantees that arrested juvenile defendants will receive a lawyer when they face a judge for the first time.

The law addresses a “concerning” statistic indicating that 45 percent of children go through the judicial process without having a lawyer present, according to Rep. Daniel Kagan, D-Cherry Hills Village, who sponsored the legislative effort this year.

The bill — which received bipartisan support from both legislative chambers — was signed into law on May 21 by Gov. John Hickenlooper. After an arrest, judges have 48 hours to determine whether to release a child or keep the person behind bars, pending trial. The bill ensures that juveniles who are making their first court appearance after being arrested will have legal counsel available at the hearing.

Before this law, juveniles were told that they have the option of speaking with a

lawyer. But being told that they have that right and actually having a lawyer present are two different things, Kagan said.

“The kids are like a deer caught in headlights,” Kagan said. “They don’t have a clue.

They’re thinking one thing and one thing only — `How in the hell do I get out of these shackles? I’ll go along with anything that a person wearing a tie or a robe tells me to do.’ But they’re not the child’s lawyer.”

The law also assists juveniles who are released from jail. When they receive a summons for their next court appearance, the summons will plainly state that they have a right “to a free lawyer” if they qualify financially, Kagan said. The summons will also have a phone number and website address to provide the youths with more information.

Kagan hopes that the law will prevent children from being unnecessarily locked up in the future. “It’s a very serious issue and I’m delighted that we’re finally addressing it,” he said.

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Neville called the move by Arrowsmith “extremely classy,” and said his former opponent acted the part of “an absolute gentleman.”

“There are not enough words to express how honored and humbled I am to have the

support of Jack Arrowsmith,” he wrote in his own letter to supporters. “It is a high honor to be the Republican nominee for House District 45. I will work relentlessly to fight against the leftist agenda with a staunch commitment to promote our conservative values every step of the way.”

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For a real good time, skip the good times One of my pet peeves is “pet peeves.”

Is that fair? It’s kind of like saying that you are opposed to flavored coffee because it is flavored.

I am opposed to flavored coffee because it is flavored. Coffee has to be black, and strong enough to clean my paint brushes.

We begin to have dislikes at an early age. It probably starts with vegetables. Especially vegetables that have been turned into a pudding, like beets.

I’m not sure what comes next. Being told to go to bed when you want to stay up.

Getting dressed up on Sunday morning.

Entertainment options were very limited when I was a kid. I don’t know what it would be like to have had a time limit on video games, because we didn’t have video games. We had Buffalo Bob Smith.

Now I have more dislikes than likes. I admit it. No es bueno. But I know myself, and what is and isn’t beneficial. The Cheyenne Frontier Days would not be beneficial. It would do me harm. This year there is a double feature: Kid Rock and special guest Joan Jett and the Blackhearts on July

25. Tickets are $39. No thank you.

I flew into LaGuardia a few years ago and waited for a cab right next to the Blackhearts’ gear. The girl I was with almost passed out, she was so thrilled.

Joan has had quite a career. She had one big hit a long time ago, but she is still rocking. I don’t know anything about Kid Rock, except that he is from Michigan, and that he is loyal to Michigan, which is fine with me. I was born in Michigan.

The rodeo part of Frontier Days is something I couldn’t watch. I know that, so I know enough to stay away. I helped out at the Highlands Ranch Rodeo a few

letter to the editor Leaving the Douglas County School District

It is with a heavy heart that my husband and I have decided to move our youngest child to Littleton Public Schools next year. In 2002, when we moved to our current home in Highlands Ranch, we thought we’d found the perfect place to live, with top-notch neighborhood schools. And although many dedicated staff members still remain in Douglas County School District, we believe the district has lost focus on creating the best learning environment for students.

As a highly involved parent who has attended many district meetings, I still have no clear picture of what a “World Class Education” looks like. Comments made by district leadership and hired speakers would indicate that parents should expect a radical change in their children’s education, but no substantial details are provided. I am unsure what “choice” means and few of the choices that I value appear to be of importance to the district. Instead, I have repeatedly watched the district spend millions of dollars on reform initiatives and self-promotion that have had little, if any, positive impact on my child’s education. Simultaneously, millions of dollars worth of questionable cuts to our schools have been made that

are directly and negatively impacting our students.

I believe our teachers are the most important assets in my child’s education. The refusal to acknowledge survey results that showed one out of every three high school teachers is looking to leave the district make me question if our board of education shares this same belief.

Most importantly, the board of education believes this district should be run like a business. Yet a business in which employees and customers feel unappreciated and disrespected by the organization’s leadership can hardly be considered successful. Until the board of education acknowledges that there are real and debilitating problems within the district, they clearly define their vision of a “World Class Education,” hold the district accountable to the public, and once again focus on doing what is best for students and teachers instead of political agendas, they are not providing the quality of education that the children in Douglas County deserve.

Laura Mutton, president, Strong Schools Coalition Highlands Ranch

$50 billion fund would boost infrastructure Last month, I had the honor of attending the grand opening of Denver’s Union Station. The new transit hub pays homage not only to the miners and pioneers who — more than 150 years ago — envisioned our city’s bright future, but also to our parents and grandparents who had the foresight and generosity to build the highways, waterways and energy infrastructure that helped make the American economy the largest in the world.

Unfortunately, we have not had the dignity to maintain the assets that they built for us, much less build the infrastructure our children will need to compete in a 21st-century economy. At a time when other nations are constructing cutting-edge road, rail, Internet and education capacity, our public infrastructure investment has dwindled to half of what it was 50 years ago.

The Highway Trust Fund, the funding vehicle that pays for most of the bridge, highway and road construction in this country, is expected to run out of money this summer. Last year, the U.S. received a D-plus letter grade on the Infrastructure Report Card from the American Society of Civil Engineers.

To make matters worse, the bill that authorizes transportation projects called MAP-21, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, is set to expire September 30.

It’s clear that we are falling woefully

years ago, and said to myself, “Never again, Smith.”

I have said “Never again, Smith,” many, many times. It means that I know better.

When I was younger, I went where I didn’t belong, because I had an open mind. I no longer have an open mind. Chances are if there are people there, I am not there.

Isn’t that charming? “Mildred, this here writer is a stiff.” It’s true. See if you can guess where I would rather be: The Indy 500. A New Year’s Eve party. The grand opening of an Ikea. Right here writing.

My ex always wanted to be somewhere.

I always wanted to be nowhere. You can probably guess what happened.

She wanted to surprise me — a mistake to begin with — on my 50th birthday.

She had tickets to San Francisco to spend the weekend with my best friend and his wife.

I was very unhappy, and showed it. One detail she left out was money. She had none. I don’t know how she afforded the airfare.

I had very little, and I knew my credit

card would have had an infarction.

We didn’t go, and she refused to see me for weeks.

I can’t think of too many things that are worse than surprise parties. Oh, there are hundreds of things in life that are worse, but not when it comes to my perception of a good time.

You might be planning a surprise party right now. Good for you. People, other people, love them. That moment when your boyfriend walks in the door and his friends and marginal friends jump up and say, “Surprise!” and “Speech!” — now you’re talking.

I went to one about 25 years ago, and the guest of honor almost walked. She was appalled. Later that night, she and her girlfriend had words. And they weren’t words of love.

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

Take some steps for uncommon results This is not a “hot off the press” news flash, but rather a simple yet powerful reminder: “Common sense is not always common practice.” You have certainly heard this before, and I have absolutely heard it myself and even repeated it in classroom training, keynote speeches, and from time to time have shared it in this column over the past few years.

What I wanted to do in this column is take this principle to the next level. Recently I shared how important fundamentals are to success in both our personal and professional lives. However, now let’s talk about not just common sense, but those lesser-known best practices that actually deliver uncommon results.

For a few of us, we are exactly where we want to be in life. We are settled, content, happy and may have no desire or need to look for anything that elevates or disrupts our splendid contentedness. Now for the rest of us who truly desire “uncommon results,” we need to continue to follow the blocking and tackling fundamentals that have gotten us this far, but now we need to look beyond the basics and proven fundamentals and search out the advanced ideas and best practices to help propel us as we continue on the upward journey of our success.

So where do we go or how do we search for those best practices that can add value to our lives? Here are three ideas that have helped me over the years and that you may also find useful and help lead you to

uncommon results.

1. Identify the person, group, or team that you believe excels in the area you are trying to advance in or improve. Upon connecting with them, invite them to coffee or arrange a call or meeting and just ask them what they have found to be the differentiators or best practices that have helped them to achieve uncommon results. You will be amazed to find out just how open and willing they will be to share their success story with you.

2. Get out of your comfort zone and try something new. Even as you are enjoying the benefits of your success or achievements, push yourself to try something new that will stretch you and push you to the next level.

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Rather than arguing over which party got us into this dire situation or pointing fingers at who’s to blame, some of us in Congress have been working on solutions. Here’s one that will help.

Earlier this year, Republican Senator Roy Blunt and I introduced the Partnership to Build America Act. It establishes a $50 billion infrastructure fund to support hundreds of billions in loan guarantees and financing authority for state and local governments.

The fund could be used to finance the construction of roads, highways, ports, canals, schools and other infrastructure projects — urgently needed projects like the Arkansas Valley Conduit in southeast Colorado or the widening of Interstate 25 north of Denver, to pick just two examples.

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Rally set to fight teenage suicide Dark times will pass, says speaker for HRHS event

By Jane Reuter

jreuter@coloradocommunitymedia.com Les Franklin lost two sons to suicide, one as a teenager and another as an adult.

He’s since devoted his life to helping those who may be considering suicide and who have suffered its impacts.

Franklin is among several speakers who will highlight the LoveMirrorMirror teen suicide prevention rally, set for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 14 at Highlands Ranch High School.

Other speakers will include Cresthill Middle School Principal Sid Rundle, Second Wind Fund director Richard Eveleigh and Katie Higgins, a recent high school graduate.

The three-hour event also includes a resource fair, with booths representing a va-

riety of youth-oriented community groups, a video presentation and a free fitness class sponsored by Littleton-based Ballet Physique.

The rally was organized by a Douglas County resident who was moved to action after witnessing her teenage daughter’s reaction to a friend’s suicide.

“She attended her first funeral for a high school friend last year,” said Robin Pasley, a mother of four who works at TW Telecom.

“I just started seeing the struggles she’s been having, and the pressures kids are under.”

To date in 2014, four Douglas County teenagers have been lost to suicide, according to Coroner Lora Thomas.

Pasley was surprised at the amount of resources available to help teens, and realized others might be similarly unaware of those resources, as well as the issue of teen suicide.

“I want to bring it out into the light so other people can see,” she said.

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Franklin, who’s given thousands of presentations in both the United States and Canada, looks forward to sharing his message with Douglas County families.

Franklin and his wife Marianne founded the Denver-based Shaka Franklin Foundation for suicide prevention and awareness, named after the 16-year-old son they lost to suicide, in 1990. In 2000, the couple’s only other child, 31-year-old Jamon, was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning.

“Not a day goes by I don’t think about my sons,” Les Franklin said. “I miss being called `Dad’ and `Pops’ by my sons, the Father’s Day cards I’d get from them. I look at my friends who have grandchildren and great-grandchildren. I’ll never have any of those things.”

But, Franklin said, “We know what we’re doing has had an impact.”

“I never would have ever done anything like this if it hadn’t been for the loss of my sons. It’s committed us to reach out and try to help other young people. We need to

find ways to stem the tide.”

Franklin encourages parents to nurture an open, loving, nonjudgmental relationship with their children, one that lets teens feel comfortable discussing any aspect of their lives.

He also encourages kids to talk to adults if they fear for a friend’s life.

“It’s better to have an ex-friend than a dead friend,” Franklin said. “I tell children, never, ever keep it secret. It’s something you’ll live with the rest of your life, if they’re telling you something like this and you don’t speak out and tell someone.”

He also lets teens know life’s darkest moments will pass.

“Everyone’s going to be in the valley at some time, but ultimately, you’ll get out of it; you’ve just got to give yourself time,” Franklin said. “Learning how to deal with adversity is part of becoming an adult.”

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Highlands Ranch Courtney Camden, Sabrina Dermody, Hayley Hawkins, Kendall Marlow, Matthew Morrison and Alexandra Stone, of Highlands Ranch, were named to the fall 2013 dean’s list at Azusa Pacific University.

Nicholas James Furman, of Highlands Ranch, was named to the fall 2013 dean’s list at Washington University in St. Louis. Furman is enrolled in the university’s school of engineering and applied science.

Randi Applehans, Cameron Bush, Ginger Hamilton and Nowlan Savage, of Highlands Ranch, were named to the winter term dean’s list at Augustana College. Applehans is a senior majoring in psychology and biology. Bush and Hamilton are freshman with undecided majors. Savage is a junior majoring in biochemistry and pre-medicine.

Caitlin Cumpson, Katelyn Keith, Allison McCloskey and Dakoda Wright, of Highlands Ranch, earned the fall 2013 dean’s citation in the Monfort College of Business at the University of Northern Colorado.

Meredith Rollins, of Highlands Ranch, participated in Southwestern University’s 2014 Research and Creative Works Symposium in April. Rollins presented a poster titled “Behaviresearch project Changes in Children with Autism Specrum Disorder Associated with Equine Assisted Activities and Therapy.” The research was done with Professor Jacquie Muir-Broaddus.

Kelly Stanek, of Highlands Ranch, was named to the fall 2013 dean’s list at Biola University.

Luke Prichard, of Highlands Ranch, was certified as a CRLA Level II Tutor for the Tutoring Center at Fort Lewis College. Prichard’s major is business administration, finance option.

Austin Herrema and Shelby Herrema, of Highlands Ranch, participated in the Dordt College Ideafest in April. Austin is a senior majoring in engineering and minoring in the Kuyper Scholars Program. He presented “Aesthetics of Technology” and “Bread for Hope - Senior Design.” Shelby is a junior majoring in individual studies, with minors in the Kuyper Scholars Program and Spanish. She presented “The Elevation of Photography to Fine Art: Asking the Wrong Questions.” Austin also graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Dordt.

Katrina Lewis, of Highlands Ranch, was awarded the dean’s scholarship from Cornell College.

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the norm or beyond common practices to realize uncommon results.

Again, if you are content and happy with where you are with the achievements of your goals and dreams, that is awesome.

But if you have ever dreamed of going higher, further, or faster and truly desire more in the way of achieving uncommon results, apply all or at least one or two of

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The act would also encourage publicprivate partnerships, which will help stretch the fund’s financing to cover more high-priority projects. Even by the most conservative estimates, these projects would create thousands of jobs across the nation.

The fund itself would not be created by taxpayers, but by U.S. companies. The act encourages businesses to contribute to the fund by creating an incentive to bring a limited amount of their earnings back to the country from overseas.

This bill is not a cure-all. It is not a permanent fix to the insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund, nor will it take the place of MAP-21, both important legislative vehicles that Congress needs to

the above best practices and see if you too can be one of those people whose achievements shout out “uncommon results.”

Whether you are in the land of contentment or on the road to uncommon and better results, I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com. And as we appreciate where we are or pursue uncommon results, it really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of Highlands Ranch, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation and the CEO/ founder of www.candogo.com.

address in the next four months.

Whether it’s an interchange reconstruction in El Paso County to improve traffic flow, or a road-widening project in Alamosa County to improve visitor access to the Great Sand Dunes, this bill will provide a valuable tool in the toolbox so that local mayors, county commissioners and city councilors don’t have to wait on a dysfunctional Washington to get moving on much-needed infrastructure projects.

As Denver’s Union Station shows, we’re a nation and a state that builds big things, and builds them to last.

Each generation has labored to leave more behind for their kids.

Ours should be no exception.

This commonsense, bipartisan legislation will help us take a step in that direction.

Democrat Michael Bennet has represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate since 2009.

Ben Franklin Academy graduated its first class of eighth-graders on May 22. Here, principal Bob Barber presents some of the 45 students with their middle school certificates. BFA is a kindergarten through eighth grade core knowledge public charter school in Highlands Ranch. It opened in 2011. Photo courtesy of Chad Greenberg

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Clarity Commons: A tribute to Claire Friends of family plan an acre of peace on Arapahoe High campus

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jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com Bob Lembke can’t talk about Claire Davis without tearing up.

“She just had a certain spark to her.

Most young children do, she just had a little different something,” he said on May 29.

Lembke had known Claire since his two children, Adrienne and Corinne, befriended the two Davis children, Alexander and Claire, in preschool. The two sets of parents hit it off, too, and they all became lifelong friends.

After the Dec. 13 shooting at Arapahoe High School that ultimately claimed Claire’s life, Lembke knew he had to do something to help his friends through their grief.

“They’re still grieving deeply the loss of their daughter and the loss of their future plans with her,” he said. “They’re holding firm in their message of forgiveness, and developing their new normal day by day. … It changes the future, and they’re slowly coming to grips with that and understanding what that means. They’re trying to make sense of the senseless.”

Lembke says Jason Dunkel, the director of business services at Littleton Adventist Hospital who served as a buffer between the Davis family and the onslaught of the outside world, played a key role in bringing the family to forgiveness as quickly as they were able.

“My wife and I forgive Karl Pierson,” Michael Davis, Claire’s father, told the world on Jan. 1, during a memorial service at the National Western Stock Show Complex. Pierson is the student who shot Claire moments before killing himself in the Arapahoe High School library.

Claire Davis will be memorialized on the campus of Arapahoe High School by way of a one-acre peaceful respite that will be unveiled on Aug. 16, Claire’s birthday.

Davis was killed in the Dec. 13 shooting. File photo It is with that attitude of grace that Lembke and Dunkel conceived of Clarity Commons, a peaceful respite on the AHS campus that they hope to unveil on Claire’s birthday, Aug. 16, two days before school starts.

Lembke stresses it will be a tribute to life, not a reminder of tragedy.

“It should be about life and vitality and joy, and not about death. So this is not a memorial. We hope it’s a place of mindfulness, to ponder where you are, who you are, what’s your place in the cosmos. To be aware of the moment you’re in...”

Claire is only mentioned by name once throughout the plaza, on a pillar with the following Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Littleton Public Schools donated an acre at University Boulevard and Dry Creek Road, and agreed to maintain it for at least 35 years. Littleton Adventist Hospital and its foundation kicked in $50,000 each, and another $75,000 has been raised from private donations. Local businesses are donating services, and Lembke hopes

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An artist’s rendering of what Clarity Commons will look like upon completion. Courtesy image lots of people will take the opportunity to leave a message for the future by buying a brick paver for the walkway.

“We’re really looking for members of the community to put their stamp on this place,” he said. “Kids hopefully will leave messages for others or for their future selves. … Every one of them, to some degree, has been changed by this. Some profoundly, some positively, some maybe not. It’s been a consistent drumbeat about how to deal with the worst side of life.”

They hope Clarity Commons will be a place where kids can feel safe and at peace.

“It would be great if kids could have a place to go and have time out, almost like a mental-health checkup,” said Dunkel. “… It’s the beginning of good. It’s just the beginning. I think the Davises are going to have a lot to say at some point, so this is

just a springboard. I think this project is helping get them through, and is part of how they’re maintaining. The fact that a silver lining even exists from this scenario is a miracle. But they’re trying to find all the good that can come from something so tragic.”

Lembke believes that ultimately, Claire’s purpose in life might have been to get others to think, to love, to care, to forgive.

“We want this to be a history lesson without being preachy, to say that tolerance and forgiveness is the normative expectation for an Arapahoe High School student,” he said. “It’s an attempt to connect with the future.”

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Hopkins said she remembers hearing the chatter of nurses and frantically trying to write a message to them, saying she cried when she was first able to communicate with them.

Hopkins said she still doesn’t remember why she traveled to Park County in the first place.

“I’ve seen neurologists and they’ve told me, `you

know, you may never remember.’ The brain is an interesting thing,” Hopkins said. “Half of me would like to know, the other half is OK not knowing.”

Hopkins was moved from St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, where she has been recovering, to a rehab facility on May 29, something her father Glen Morgan called “a great step in her progress.”

“It has been quite exhausting,” Morgan said. “From not knowing where she was and then finding out that she was found, it was quite draining to say the least. (My wife and I) continue to remark to each other how much attitude she has in getting through what she has endured.

She is a strong woman and we compliment her every chance we get.”

Hopkins said her children have been coping well with the accident and the amputation of her feet. She has, too, for that matter.

“I keep saying this is my reality. This is me, this is my life now,” she said. “I can curl up and cry, or I can show everyone what I can do. Me crying cannot help and it won’t make my feet grow back.”

Hopkins said her goal is to “make my life as normal as possible,” whether that means going back to work or going to school for certification to become a teacher or, a new career she’s considering, a profession in physical therapy.

“Am I going to have setbacks? Yes,” she said. “Am I going to just move on and not worry? Yes, I am.”

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Douglas County DMVs get digital waiting lines System alerts customers when they reach front

By Mike DiFerdinando

mdiferdinando @colorado communitymedia.com The wait at the DMV may not have gotten any shorter, but at least you’ll know where you stand.

Lavi Industries’ QtracVR queuing system is now installed in motor vehicle offices in Castle Rock, Park Meadows Center and Highlands Ranch.

County officials held a live demonstration of the system on May 20.

“We didn’t really know how many people were waiting in our lobbies and we didn’t know what they were waiting for,” said W.B. Jones, IT systems coordinator for the Douglas County clerk and recorder.

The virtual queuing system features a self-service kiosk for customer check-ins.

The kiosk captures necessary information to route customers to an appropriate “virtual waiting line” based on the customer’s transactional needs.

Customers are provided a ticket with a unique call number, and screens placed in the waiting area display digital media and provide visual and audible queuing prompts to direct customers to the appropriate station for service.

The system also includes a mobile handheld check-in device that allows greeters to dispense tickets to customers using wireless ticket dispensing units.

“Supervisors can see how many people are waiting for a particular service and how long they have been waiting,” Jones said.

He said that supervisors will also be able to look at individual locations and see where additional resources are needed.

Lavi’s Qtrac Media Manager, a centralized media management control system that is operated from the clerk and recorder’s office in Castle Rock, has been integrated into the queuing system, which allows centralization of the content displayed across seven monitors.

This content, integrated into the queuing displays, provides an opportunity for the county to promote information and entertainment to patrons as they wait for service.

Virtual queuing has come to the forefront in recent years as businesses and government agencies strive to improve the waiting line experience. Virtual queuing eliminates the need for a physical waiting line, instead relying on technology to place people into queues and call them forward when they are at the “front of the line.”

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Valor Christian valedictorian Cody Bratten speaks some parting words of wisdom to the school’s Class of 2014 May 30 at Cherry Hills Community Church. Bratten will attend MIT in the fall.

Valor Christian graduate Lucas Challenger gets his tassel turned after receiving his diploma May 30 at Cherry Hills Community Church. Challenger, who will attend Purdue University in the fall, was one of 202 graduates at Valor this year. The class is the school’s largest yet.

ABOVE: Valor Christian graduate Kyle Whitmore received an honorary diploma on May 30. Whitmore, who entered a coma after his junior year, has shown signs of recovery.

RIGHT: Valor Christian graduate Gabrielle Marchino receives the spiritual character award from Board of Education Director Jane Norton at the school’s commencement.

The fifth and largest class to date in Valor Christian’s brief history saw 202 graduates walk across the stage May 30 at Cherry Hills Community Church. Individual students were honored for excellence and Dr. Gary Fisher, director of academics at the school, delivered a powerful and thoughtful commencement address that inspired the students to give a rousing impromptu ovation to their teachers, families and friends.

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This panda relaxes in China’s Wolong National Nature Reserve, where conservation efforts are ongoing as described in the film, “Pandas: the Journey Home” at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Courtesy photos

National Geographic film shown at museum

By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe @coloradocommunitymedia.com Starting on June 6, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science will present a new National Geographic nature film, “Pandas: The Journey Home,” which sounds like a fine way to start a summer vacation focused on exploration. It tells a hopeful story of the effort to save these charismatic creatures, which are extremely endangered, with only about 1600 left worldwide.

The film, directed by Nicholas Brown, was shot in China at the Bifengxia Panda Base and the Wolong National Nature Reserve — in 3-D, which made shooting terribly difficult, due to the weight of the cameras.

After decades of successful captive breeding, the reserve has hit a target of 300 giant pandas. The next step is to reintro- Children meet a playful panda cub up close and personal at China’s Wolong National Nature Reserve, as shown in duce breeding animals to the wild in the “Pandas: The Journey Home” at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. reserve.

The 40-minute film, presented by National Geographic Entertainment, was made after the filmmakers were given ac- ity, and to follow a group of wild pandas in when the animals were moved to semi-wild cess to the Wolong National Nature Re- their mountain habitat. enclosures and left alone to learn how to be serve, with the support of the Chinese Director Nicholas Brown (a Colorado wild again.

Wildlife Conservation Association and the native who lives in London) compared Documenting the apparently successful China Conservation and Research Center the Chinese efforts to save the panda to release of Tao Tao into the wild was “a profor the Giant Panda. It can be hoped that the space program in scope and expense. found moment in conservation history,” this success story provides a model for In China, the panda is the symbol for the Brown said. other megafauna threatened by man-made whole environment.

“Conservation is usually about trying factors: expansion and habitat destruc“When you save the panda, you’re sav- not to make things worse. Here, for the first tion. Perhaps other governments will be ing a vast amount of old-growth forest and time, was an opportunity to make things inspired by the Chinese example. bamboo forest ecosystems in the Sichuan better. It could be seen as the moment Filmmakers recorded birth, nursery Province, which is the place known to be when the tide turned.” care and teaching of panda cubs and were the cleanest and environmentally pristine.

It is noted that the film is more than a granted special permission to record the Saving the panda means waters will run family-friendly entertainment about cudrelease of Tao Tao, a panda bred in captiv- clean again and wildlife will thrive. That’s dly pandas. This positive story has optimisall being done under the banner of the tic and surprising ramifications for conserpanda,” he said. vation and the planet.

The Chinese professor leading the program, Zhang Hemin, is affectionately known as “Panda Papa.” His advice helped the American crew navigate political niceties on several occasions.

“Pandas: The Journey Home” will be shown at 11:30 a.m.

Doors were opened when the project asand 3 p.m., with additional shows at 7 p.m. on Fridays and sociated with the China Wildlife ConservaSaturdays, at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 tion Association. The production crew took Colorado Blvd., Denver. For ticket prices and other details, three trips to China, starting in August 2012 visit dmns.org/imax/current-films. (One can purchase filmMother panda carries her cub in China’s Wolong National when they filmed newborn pandas, weighonly tickets or a combination that includes a museum visit.)

Nature Reserve. This shot is from “Pandas: The Journey ing in at only 90 grams. They returned to shoot 3- or 4-month-old pandas and again Home,” which is being shown in Denver this June.

if you go

The fourth season of ABC’s reality series “Extreme Weight Loss” debuted May 27 with a red-carpet reception at The United Artists Denver Pavilions Theatre downtown.

Charita, the Colorado Springs contestant, was guided on her yearlong weightloss journey by Anschutz Health and Wellness Center’s Dr. Holly Wyatt along with other participants who spent the first three months of their quest at the center in Aurora.

Wyatt, alongside fitness specialist Chris Powell, was the guiding force behind steering participants toward their yearlong goal of safely losing up to half their body weight. ABC will air 13 two-hour episodes of the hit show locally from 7 to 9 p.m.

Tuesdays on Channel 7.

Charita, who is featured with Oklahoma resident Ty in the first episode, and Wyatt attended the red-carpet premiere along with more than 200 community and Anschutz medical campus leaders and CEO/ executive producer JD Roth.

During the run of the show, Wyatt is writing a blog at www.thedenverchannel. com/entertainment/extreme-weightloss-medical-director-holly-wyatt-blogsabout-charita-ty-weight-loss-journey.

Denver eateries on best list

Thrillist (www.thrillist.com), a national website that has an opinion on all things food and drink-related in the U.S., has bestowed “bests” to three Denver eateries.

Included in The 21 Best Southern Restaurants Outside of the South is Tom’s Home Cookin’, 800 E. 26th Ave., a Denver favorite for Southern fare.

Thrillist recommends the fried catfish paired with green beans and fried okra.

“The name here says it all — this is home cooking, and even if you’ve never met Tom, you’ll be begging to be adopted so you can inhale this instead of whatever you’re hacking at your house.”

Sweet Action Ice Cream, 52 Broadway, was included in Thrillist’s 21 Best Ice Cream Shops in America. Here’s the scoop: “What you’re ordering: Pocky and Red Bean if you’re feeling interesting, Milk Chocolate if you’re feeling boring. Our man in Denver tried every single one of the flavors at Sweet Action, and, although he didn’t care much for vegan Maple Walnut or Vanilla Rose, he can vouch for nearly every other flavor as being worth at least several samples. But as sexy as Salted Malt Butterscotch and Cinnamon Roll sound, the champion of the taste was a simple milk chocolate described as `a scoop of goodness ...’”

If you prefer drinking your calories instead of eating them, check out Williams & Graham, 3160 Tejon St., the Denver speakeasy that made Thrillist’s The 33 Best Cocktail Bars in America.

“A cocktail-themed bookstore is the front for this barely-lit speakeasy co-owned by a guy named the 2014 Bartender of the Year by the Nightclub and Bar Awards.

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Ranch gets sounds of swing, big band “Kickin’ Into Summer” with the Highlands Ranch Concert Band’s big band group, Swing Shift, will get the season underway at 6:30 p.m. June 14. Swing Shift will perform a variety of swing and big band arrangements in this free concert at Civic Green Park, 9370 S. Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. For information on how to join the Highlands Ranch Concert Band and/or Swing Shift, visit hrconcertband. org or contact band president Kelley Messall, 303-683-4102.

Highlands Ranch looks back

The Highlands Ranch Historical Society is seeking input from early residents of, or workers in, Highlands Ranch as the organization develops a series of programs on “Highlands Ranch Then and Now.” Did you live or work there in the 1980s?

The focus will be on the transition from single-family ownership into the master planned community.

Those people are invited to the Highlands Ranch Mansion from 4-7 p.m. on June 9 for a free mansion tour and meeting with the historical society’s board of directors. Wander on your own from 4 to 5 p.m.; join a conducted tour from 5 to 6 p.m; meet in the conference Room from 6 to 7 p.m. to collectively debrief and make plans for future programs. (Individual follow-ups will take place.) RSVP to Sara, 303-470-3428, VicePresident@HighlandsRanchHistoricalSocierty.org or Nancy Linsenbigler, 720932-6990, President@HighlandsRanchHistoricalSociety.org

Kiddie movies

The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema at Aspen Grove in Littleton announces a series of classic family movies at 10 a.m. Mondays through Fridays, with a $1 admission, which will go to the Denver Film Society’s Young Filmmakers Workshop. June selections: June 2-6: “Charlotte’s Web”; June 9-13: “Jumanji”; June 16-20: “Karate Kid”; June 23-27: “Annie”; June 30-July 4: “Space Jam.” Later films will be listed at drafthouse.com/denver/littleton.

Magical memories

Memories in the Making Art Auction of works by artists, families and professional artists will be held at 6 p.m. June 13 at the Denver Tech Center Hyatt. Included: live music, a walk-around feast, silent and live auction items and meeting with professionals who donate art. Tickets: alz.org/co, 303-813-1669.

Court the Arts

The Greater Castle Rock Art Guild will present its second annual Court the

Swing Shift, the big band offshoot of the Highlands Ranch Concert band, will perform a free concert, Jazz on the Green: Kickin’ Into Summer, at 6:30 p.m. June 14 at Civic Green Park in Highlands Ranch. Courtesy photo Arts Festival on June 7-8. Fine artists and craftsmen will show and sell their original creations on the lawn on Wilcox Street between Third and Fourth streets in downtown Castle Rock, across from the Art on the Edge Gallery, 314 Wilcox St. Admission is free. Find a treasure. Call 303-660-0856.

Denver Comic Con

The Denver Comic Con will be held June 13-15 at the Colorado Convention Center, with exhibits, panels and people who create comics that will interest fans of all ages, including the Comic Book Classroom.

Tickets and information: DenverComicCon.com. Also happening in conjunction: Rock Comic Con, the Nerd Rock Music Festival in the evenings at the Armoury, 2048 Larimer St., Denver. RockComicCon.com.

Sunset artists

The Artists of Sunset Studio (Julie Mason, Beth Samuelson, Lydia Digby, Ruth Work, Sherry Sherman, Linda VG Kelley, Marlene Sanderson) will hold an exhibit at Solid Grounds Coffee House, 6504 S. Broadway, Littleton, with a reception on June 6 from 5-8 p.m. 303-209-7494.

curtain time

What’s on the horizon.

Lone Tree, Colorado

`Sabine Women’ revisited “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” is presented by Highlands Ranch-based Performance Now Theatre Company from June 13-29 at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Performances: 7:30 pm.

Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays. Tickets: 303-987-7845, lakewood.org/CulturalCenter/.

Cross-dressing bank robber Lone Tree, Colorado

Put us on your spring and summer calendar.

The RidgeGate community is thriving this season, with many fun, free events that will inspire you and your family to reconnect with nature, move your body, and meet your neighbors. Plan now to join us.

Friday, June 6, 6:30 – 8pm

beautiful outdoor setting at the state-of-the-art Lone Tree

Free Nature Hike: Botany of the Ute

Arts Center. Find the full schedule and purchase tickets

Location: Register online to receive details

at lonetreeartscenter.org.

To those who know Colorado’s botanical secrets, there’s a bounty waiting in the hills. Learn about the sources

Saturday, June 21, 7:30 – 9pm

of food, shelter, tools and pigments that were available to the Ute tribe, who lived in this area for hundreds of

Free Nature Hike: Celebrating the Summer Solstice

years before Western settlers arrived. Ages 5+.

Location: Register online to receive details

Register at ridgegate.com/events.

Experience the spirituality of nature on a summer solstice hike up to the bluffs trail summit. We’ll learn about how

Friday, June 13, 4–5:30pm

RidgeGate Walk Concert: 17th Avenue All-Stars Location: Prairie Sky Park (just west of the Rec Center)

Enjoy a concert out on the grass with free live music,

the solstice has been celebrated throughout history, and in a variety of cultures. It’s a beautiful way to mark the first evening of summer, and the longest day of the year.

Ages 8+. Register at ridgegate.com/events.

food trucks and activities. This month, hear longtime Denver favorite a capella group, 17th Avenue All-Stars.

Take a walk on the one-mile paved path around the park, grab something to eat at a food truck and enjoy the summer sounds.

June 20– August 1 (multiple dates)

RidgeGate Presents Tunes on the Terrace

Tuesday, June 24, 6:30 – 7:30pm

Free Yoga in the Park Location: Belvedere Park (between RidgeGate Parkway and RidgeGate Circle on Belvedere Lane)

Show off your best tree pose! Grab your yoga mat for this free Yoga in the Park class in Belvedere Park.

No yoga experience is necessary, and no registration

Location: Lone Tree Arts Center Terrace Theater

is required! Classes take place on the last Tuesday of

This summer, RidgeGate is proud to again sponsor

each month throughout the summer. In case of heavy

Tunes on the Terrace, a series of summer evening

rain or lightning, class will be cancelled. Ages 8+.

concerts featuring performances ranging from the symphony to Motown and everything in between.

Enjoy dancing under the stars to live music in a

“Peggy Jo and the Desolate Nothing” is an original creation of Buntport Theater Company and Square Product Theatre Company at Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver, playing through June 21. Based on the life of a Texas woman who was a cross-dressing bank robber. Performances: 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays. Tickets: buntport.com.

Mrs. Robinson et al “The Graduate,” adapted by Terry Johnson, plays June 6-29 at The Edge Theatre, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood.

Directed by Rick Yaconis. Performances: 8 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Thursday, June 19; 6 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: theedgetheatre.com.

Small-scale musical “John and Jen” plays through June 21 at Cherry Creek Theatre Company, at Shaver-Ramsey Showroom, 2414 E. Third Ave., Denver. Director is Pat Payne. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 6:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: cherrycreektheatre.org.

A look at a hero “Lobby Hero” by Keith Lonergan plays through July 6 at Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Linda Suttle of Littleton is director. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2:30 p.m. Sundays and Saturdays, July 5. Tickets: 303-856-7830, vintagetheatre.com.

`Tempest’ and more “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare plays June 6-28 (select dates) in the Mary Rippon Theatre on the CU-Boulder campus. “I Hate Hamlet” plays June 12 to Aug. 9. Check website for dates on these and other productions in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s 2014 program: coloradoshakes.org.

Creede season starting “The Last Romance” plays June 6 to Aug. 13; “Annie Get Your Gun” plays June 13 to Aug. 23; and “The Liar” plays June 27 to Sept. 19 at Creede Repertory Theatre in beautiful Creede, in the mountains of southwestern Colorado. There will be additional plays in the company’s two theaters as the season progresses. For tickets and performance schedules, see: creederep.org. The theater offers a great several-day excursion in Colorado, with fine quality performances afternoons and evenings at 124 Main St. in Creede.

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June 5, 2014

Four pairs of eyes look at the West Greenwood Village show highlights local artists

By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia. com “Four Perspectives” is an exhibit of artworks by four experienced area painters: Lora Witt, Peggy Judy, Martha Hepperd and Victoria Ekelund. It will be displayed through June 27 at Elements 5280 Gallery in Greenwood Village.

An opening reception is planned from 6 to 8 p.m. June 6, where visitors can meet the artists.

“The concept behind the exhibition was to showcase these talented artists whose work is so different from one another. And it’s this diversity in how each artist executes their work that has shaped a strong show,” said gallery director George Rentz.

The subject matter may overlap, but method and approach make each artist unique as they produce intimate landscapes, contemporary Western images, watercolor batik and urban plein air landscapes/cityscapes.

Witt grew up in Colorado with a deep interest in the natural world — Western bot-

IF YOU GO Elements 5280 Gallery is located at 5940 S. Holly St., in the shopping center at Holly and Orchard. It is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 303-804-5280, elements5280.com. any and geology. She received her training at Colorado State University, the University of Denver and the Art Students League of Denver. Her website says: “The mundane part of nature that shies from notice; given a second glance presents its beauty. This is what I paint.”

Peggy Judy, a Colorado native, started painting as a child and continued through her high school and college years, when she attended Colorado State University, where she concentrated on illustration.

Judy, who lives in Broomfield, is married to an equine veterinarian and raises, breeds, trains and sells warmblood sport horses.

Her paintings reflect her interest in horses and wildlife.

Victoria Ekelund of Denver describes herself as an oil painter and impressionist painter who specializes in cityscapes, still life, figurative works and landscape paintings. She also accepts commissions to portray a special place, person or pet from photographs. “When I create a piece of art,

“Wyoming Sunrise,” a watercolor batik by Martha Hepperd, will be shown in “Four Perspectives” at Elements 5280 Gallery in Greenwood Village through June 27. Courtesy photo I first block in large basic shapes. Then I look for where I want movement within the piece, where I want my viewer to go,” she writes.

Dr. Martha Heppard, of Centennial, who paints in a complex watercolor batik technique on rice paper, grew up in Honolulu and attended Harvard for undergraduate

study and University of California School of Medicine and UC-Irvine. In 2004, she began to study oil painting with Molly Davis and then watercolor with Rick Brogan.

She has added Boris Shoshensky and Kevin Weckbach as instructors and currently teaches the watercolor batik technique to others.

Littleton’s littlest fuzzy creatures Babies on board include twin lambs at Littleton Museum

By Jennifer Smith jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com Baby season has begun at Littleton Museum with the arrival of adorable twin lambs born on the morning of May 27, much to the surprise of elementary-school kids who happened to be visiting at the crucial moment.

“We told them they didn’t

have to watch, but they were OK with it,” said museum employee Sebastian Fritz.

The mama sheep is very protective of her new little girls, herding them behind her and growling at visitors who linger too long.

“Mom did a good job,” said Fritz. “Two is always a test.”

Fritz said the lambs will get named once museum staff gets to know their personalities a little better.

That’s how Matilda the pig got her name, too.

She woke up from a deep sleep when she heard Fritz’s voice and lumbered over to him

for some cuddle time.

Though many of the farm’s pigs end up as somebody’s favorite breakfast meat, Matilda will be kept and bred.

Though she’s just a year old herself, she will hopefully have her first litter of babies sometime in August.

Another sure sign of spring is when Henry the peacock starts flashing his tail feathers for the peahens.

He’s in full swing right now and will lose his longest and prettiest feathers soon, so an early morning visit to the chicken coop should be on Littleton residents’ to-do list soon.

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June 5, 2014

Writer salutes national park’s 100th birthday Castle Rock woman has strong ties to state’s jewel

By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@colorado communitymedia.com As a young child, Mary Taylor Young of Castle Rock spent stretches of the summer at her grandparents’ cabin in Rocky Mountain National Park — back when private cabins were permitted.

She watched animals and birds among the trees and undergrowth, learned the names of flowers and rocks — and the rhythms of those splendid surroundings.

Her future was set.

The author of 15 books about Colorado, Young has recently published a handsome coffee-table book: “Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years,” which she will present to readers at two Arapahoe Library District branches during June.

From 11:30 am to 12:30 p.m. on June 13, she will be at Eloise May Library, 1471 S. Parker Road (Parker Road and Florida Avenue), and from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. June 25, she will repeat her program at Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly St. in Centennial.

She spent two weeks in 2012 as the park’s artist-in-residence, researching and writing in the historic William Allen White cabin in Moraine Park, and has taught nature-writing classes and been involved with the Rocky Mountain Nature Association.

She tells the story of Rocky Mountain National Park from not only 100 years ago, but a billion years ago — and stretches into the future.

Ute and Arapaho hunted game, trappers and explorers followed a call and

settlers moved into the Estes Park area and discovered that they needed to attract tourists.

Enos Mills, Joel and Patsy Estes and Abner and Alberta Sprague were among them.

Roads were engineered and constructed and visitors came by the thousands.

Recent concerns are that the park might be “loved to death.”

The book contains more than 250 historical and landscape photographs, including images by photographers William Henry Jackson, John Fielder and Erik Stensland and paintings by Charles Partridge Adams and Birger Sandzen.

Actual centennial celebrations for the park are scheduled starting this September and concluding a year later in Estes Park, in Rocky Mountain National Park itself and in Grand Lake.

A lengthy list of activities is available online — and it cautions that this is a work in progress and will grow considerably, with special hikes, wildlife studies, and art events such as plein air painters

Nature writer Mary Taylor Young of Castle Rock will appear at Eloise May and Koelbel Libraries in the Arapahoe Library District to introduce her new “Rocky Mountain National Park: the First Hundred Years” in June. Courtesy photo

“paint-out” and show at the Fall River Visitors Center.

Young is scheduled to speak about her book at 7 p.m. Sept. 26 at the Kawuneeche Visitor Center on the west side of

the park and at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center Auditorium on the east side.

See www.nps.gov/romo/planyourvisit/events.htm.

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“Before you order from their finely curated cocktail menu of classic ‘tails (helpfully organized by spirit) and a wealth of specialty cocktails, you first will have to be led through a bookcase that doubles as a secret entrance.

Once inside, don’t forget to pair your drink (go for the Sexual Chocolate with rye, vermouth, Cynar, maraschino liqueur, and chocolate mole bitters) with a steak burger that uses beef from a top-notch butcher shop down the street.”

Parker fun

The inaugural JAM OUT Blast is a professionally designed teen event providing a fun, safe dance party for high school students. A DJ will kick off the party with the latest dance hits at 6 p.m. June 7 at Parker Fieldhouse, 18700 E.

Plaza Drive. Tickets are $20 per person. Visit jamoutblast. com or call 303-536-1352.

The seen

Democratic insider Cole Finegan and Congressman Ed Perlmutter were seen leaving the reception May 27 at a Cranmer Park home for Vice President Joe Biden.

Overheard

Eavesdropping on a trash-talking preschooler during a recent tornado warning: “I’m going to hit that tomato right in the eye!”

Penny Parker’s “Mile High Life” column gives insights into the best events, restaurants, businesses, parties and people throughout the metro area.

Parker also writes for Blacktie-Colorado.com. You can subscribe and read her columns (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) at www.blacktiecolorado.com/pennyparker.

Reach her at penny@blacktiellc.com or at 303-619-5209.

Florence Crittenton Services

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Applications available call 970-531-3170 or email jjbeam@hotmail.com Coleman tent, great condition, 8 X 10', $55. Comfy, quality chair & ottoman, $50.Unsal vintage fire extinguisher, $30. 20 bottle wine rack, $24. 303 688-9171

“ Florence Crittenton Services is a community resource providing comprehensive multigenerational academic and support services to pregnant and parenting teen mothers and their families.”

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Exercise Equipment DP Help Mate 5.0 Treadmill $30 303-425-4681

Firewood Pine/Fur & Aspen

Split & Delivered $225 Stacking available extra $25 Some delivery charges may apply depending on location. Hauling scrap metal also available (appliances, batteries etc.)

Call 303-647-2475 or 720-323-2173

Furniture

TRANSPORTATION Autos for Sale Late model 55 Chevy pick up side step, custom totally rebuilt ene do end, 5100 miles, too much to mention $15,000/obo (303)422-5842

Parts 4 GOODYEAR TIRES-MTR 31X10.5-15. USED LIKE NEW.$100 EACH. CASH. CALL ED 303-940-6410

RV’s and Campers Bedroom, beautiful antique 3 piece Burlwood inlaid set, full size poster bed easily converted to queen, dresser and vanity. This will dress up your lovely older home. $500, must sell. call/leave 303 238 1168 For Sale- Solid oak dining table and hutch 303-907-2452

1979 Starcraft Pop up camper. sleeps 6, garaged for 26 years, canvas in great shape $950 or offer (303)423-7657 5th Wheel- 1999 Sunny Brook 24ft. 1 slide, new roof, queen bed.

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June 5, 2014

‘Music Man’ delights on Town Hall stage IF YOU GO

Willson classic presented in cheerful production

“The Music Man” plays at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St. in Littleton, through June 15. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays; and 6:30 p.m. on June 8. (No Saturday performance on June 14 due to the Littleton Block Party.) Tickets: $20-$40, 303-794-2787, ext. 5, or townhallartscenter.com.

By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe @coloradocommunitymedia.com As lights go up on Town Hall Arts Center’s production of “The Music Man,” a group of traveling salesmen are seated on a jerky train and a near-perfect rendition of Meredith Willson’s classic “Rock Island” has the audience at the start: “Ya gotta know the territory …”

Director Christopher Willard has each actor sit on a suitcase and jiggle with the train’s motion as we meet Professor Harold Hill’s nemesis — Charlie Cowell, the anvil salesman (Ed Hickok).

Town Hall alumnus Chris Boeckx, a Littleton native, who often performed at the city’s Town Hall center in the past, is now a practicing attorney and has returned with a nice sense of humor intact, to play the wannabe con man who “gets his foot

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caught in the door” when he falls for Miss Marian Paroo, the town’s savvy librarian/ piano teacher. Maggie Sczekan’s trained voice soars as Marian.

She harmonizes with the music man, the omnipresent quartet (the school board) and others.

As the folks of River City, Iowa, filter onstage for a July Fourth celebration, one is immediately impressed by Cindy Franke’s costumes in a dazzling assortment of black and white patterns and fabrics — really a clever way to present a pretty-much unified group of upright citizens.

In Act II, color appears as the climate changes.

Mayor Shinn (Bryan Walker-Smith) is given to malapropisms throughout and is

making the first of many attempts to recite Lincoln’s famous address: “Four score …”

At his side is the colorful Eulalie Shinn — comedienne LuAnn Buckstein is a natural fit here.

His honor is trying to keep track of daughter Zaneeta (Erica Lloyd — “Ye Gods!”), who has her eye on live-wire local boy Tommy Diljas (Carter Edward Smith).

The parallel story of Marian’s family blends in: Nancy E. Harris portrays her widowed Irish mama, who wants to see her married, and Carter Novinger of Littleton is appealing little brother Winthrop, who longs for a cornet when Hill proposes a brass band for town kids — “(Ya Got) Trouble” right here in River City …

Hill’s image of “76 trombones” intrigues many in town, although some are unsure of his “think method” of learning music (“you don’t bother with the notes”).

Kelly Kate’s choreography, most especially the scene at the library — but also for the Pickalittle Ladies and others — is charming and in some cases remarkably

Maggie Sczekan is Marian the Librarian and Chris Boeckx plays Professor Harold Hill, the itinerant salesman, in the Town Hall production of “The Music Man.” Courtesy photo complex, given the stage space.

Willson’s familiar score and a nostalgia for summers past — did they ever really exist? — combine to deliver a most pleasant evening of theater, with a polished, skillfully directed production that sends one out with a smile.

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Trinity

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Franktown Lutheran Church & School

Sunday Worship 8:00 & 10:45 a.m.

Trinity Lutheran School & ELC (Ages 3-5, Grades K-8)

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Castle Rock

Lone Tree

First United Methodist Church

Lone Tree

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

Services:

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

Church of Christ Sunday Worship - 10:00am Bible Study immediately following Thursday Bible Study - 7:30pm Currently meeting at: Acres Green Elementary School 13524 Acres Green Drive Serving the southeast Denver 303-688-9506 www.LoneTreeCoC.com area

Highlands Ranch

Non-Denominational 9:00 am Sunday WorShip

Pastor Paul Flannery “It’s not about us... It’s about serving others... T hen God gets the Glory!”

2121 Dad Clark Drive 720.259.2390 www.HFCdenver.org

Parker

Parker

Joy Lutheran Church

Where people are excited about God’s Word.

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

Sharing God’s Love

SErviCES:

Saturday 5:30pm

Joyful Mission Preschool 303-841-3770 7051 East Parker Hills Ct. • Parker, CO 303-841-3739 www.joylutheran-parker.org United Church Of Christ Parker Hilltop

Greenwood Village

10926 E. Democrat Rd.

Sunday Services 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

 Worship  Sunday · 8:00 am & 10:30 am sunday school

9:15 am · for children and adults

preschool

Serving the community ages 21/2 – 6 years “Love, Learn, Laugh”

www.ChristsEpiscopalChurch.org TWITTER: @CECCastleRock

Littleton

www.faithcrco.org 303-688-3476

Welcome Home!

Cowboy Church with Kevin Weatherby Line camp - Castle Rock Sundays 10 am DC Fairgrounds – Kirk Hall www.savethecowboy.com

Alongside One Another On Life’s Journey

www.gracecolorado.com

Congregation Beth Shalom Serving the Southeast Denver area

Call or check our website for information on services and social events! www.cbsdenver.org

303-794-6643

Highlands Ranch

303 N Ridge Rd. • Castle Rock • CO

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

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

First Presbyterian Church of Littleton

You are invited to worship with us:

Sundays at 10:00 am

Grace is on the NE Corner of Santa Fe Dr. & Highlands Ranch Pkwy.

(Across from Murdochs)

303-798-8485

Parker evangelical Presbyterian church Connect – Grow – Serve

Sunday Worship

8:45 am & 10:30 am 9030 Miller road Parker, Co 80138 303-841-2125 www.pepc.org

Abiding Word

Open and Affirming Lutheran Church

Sunday Worship

8:00 am Chapel Service 9:00 & 10:30 am Sanctuary 10:20 am St. Andrew Wildflower Sunday School 9:00 & 10:30 am

303 798 6387 www.st-andrew-umc.com

www.gracepointcc.us

Parker, CO • 10am Worship www.uccparkerhilltop.org 303-841-2808

GRACE PRESBYTERIAN

Christ’s Episcopal Church 615 4th Street Castle Rock, CO 80104 303.688.5185

Sunday 9:30am

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

8391 S. Burnley Ct., Highlands Ranch

(Next to RTD lot @470 & University)

Worship Services Sundays at 9:00am

303-791-3315

pastor@awlc.org www.awlc.org

The Bahá’í Faith

“The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.”

Weekly children’s classes, devotions and study DouglasCountyAssembly@gmail.com 303.947.7540

Parker

Community Church of Religious Science Sunday 10:00 a.m. at the historic Ruth Memorial Chapel on Mainstreet

303.805.9890 www.ParkerCCRS.org

9203 S. University Blvd.

Highlands Ranch, 80126

An Evangelical Presbyterian Church Sunday Worship 10:30 4825 North Crowfoot Valley Rd. Castle Rock • canyonscc.org 303-663-5751 “Loving God - Making A Difference”

A place for you

Sunday

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

1609 W. Littleton Blvd.

(303) 798-1389 • www.fpcl.org

To advertise your place of worship in this section, call 303-566-4091 or email kearhart@ColoradoCommunityMedia.com.

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THINGS TO DO Editor’s notE: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week.

Send listings to calendar@coloradocommunitymedia.com.

No attachments, please. Listings are free and run on a spaceavailable basis.

through oct. 26

Farmers’ market The Highlands Ranch Com-

munity Association’s farmers’ and street markets will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays from May 4 to Oct. 26 in Town Center, 9288 Dorchester St. in Highlands Ranch.

June 6-15

Carnival HigHlands Ranch Carnival is from June 6-15 in the west parking lot at Mountain Vista High School, 10585 Mountain Vista Ridge. Hours are 1-11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 4-11 p.m. Monday through Friday. Go to http://hrcaonline.org/hrcainfo/calendarhrca/tabid/275/ctl/ viewdetail/mid/1302/itemid/5717/d/20140606/Carnival.aspx.

Admission to the carnival grounds is free. Ride tickets sole at the box office. Contact 303-791-2500. Weather information available at 303-471-8888.

June 7

trails day Help build a new trail in Highlands Ranch,

Event is free. Coffee and lunch will be available for purchase.

Contact Jodie McCann at jmccann@highlandsranch.org or 720-240-4922.

June 10

PrivaCy vs. protection Join Active Minds from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 10, at Tattered Cover, 9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch, for a discussion of the tension between combating terrorism and protecting individual privacy rights. We will review various domestic surveillance techniques used by the government and explore the implications for how far this power should extend. This event is sponsored by Vi Living. Call 303-470-7050.

June 10

attorney to speak The PFLAG Highlands Ranch chapter meets from 7-8:45 p.m. Tuesday, June 10, at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. All meetings are confidential and all are welcome.

Meeting will begin with support and is followed by a program by an attorney who specializes in LGBT matters. Email info@ pflaghighlandsranch.org.

June 14

from 8-10 a.m. Saturday, June 7, as part of National Trails Day. Be prepared to work hard and get a little dirty while building a trail that Highlands Ranch residents will enjoy for years to come. Contact Kari Larese, klarese@highlandsranch.org or 720-240-4909.

kidFest HigHlands Ranch Metro District sponsors the ninth annual KidFest from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 14, at Civic Green Park. Activities, live entertainment, food and a variety of vendors are planned. Event is free. Go to www. highlandsranch.org or call 303-791-0430.

June 7

June 14

Fishing day The Highlands Ranch Metro District

invites anglers to join local experts for a day of reeling in the big ones from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 7, at Fly’n B Park, 2910 W. Plaza Drive. This is a free event; however, registrations are limited. Register online at www.highlandsranch.org, or call 303-791-2710 for more information.

June 10

Blood drive St. Andrew United Methodist Church blood drive, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, June 14, inside the children’s wing at 3350 White Bay Drive, Highlands Ranch.

Contact Charles Green at 720-231-7908 or visit bonfils.org.

Blood drive Christ Lutheran Church blood drive,

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday, June 15, inside the Fellowship Hall at 8997 S. Broadway, Highlands Ranch. Contact the church office at 303-791-0803 or visit bonfils.org.

June 23

golF tournament A charity golf tournament to benefit AFA Wounded Airman Program and the local Air Force family is planned for Monday, June 23, at Heritage Eagle Bend Golf Course, 23155 E. Heritage Parkway, Aurora. The tournament is a scramble format and begins at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start. Sponsorships are available and donations for a silent auction are welcome. Registration for players and sponsors can be found at www.defensetournament.golfreg.com.

June 24, June 28

auditions CHildrEn and teens ages 5 and older may audition at 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 24, or 9:30 a.m. Saturday, June 28, for Spotlight Performing Arts Center’s production of “Wizard of Oz.” Rehearsals are from 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesdays, or 9-10:30 a.m. Saturdays, and performances will be in October.

Auditions, rehearsals and the show will be at 6328 E. County Line Road, No. 102, Highlands Ranch. Go to www.spotlightperformers.com or call 720-443-2623 for tuition rates and more details.

July 26

touCh a truck Highlands Ranch Touch-A-Truck

is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 26 at Cherry Hills Community Church. Kids can get behind the wheel and meet their hometown heroes. Event is free. Go to http://hrcaonline.org/ hrcainfo/calendarhrca/tabid/275/ctl/viewdetail/mid/1302/ itemid/5752/d/20140726/Touch-a-Truck.aspx. Horn-free hour is from 9-10 a.m.

June 28

June 14

Car show Show off your classic ride at the Highlands

senior Fun Adults are invited to Redstone Park for a fun-filled morning outdoors, from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday, June 10. Activities include fitness demonstrations, bocce ball, lawn tennis, cornhole, live entertainment, educational booths, and more. Door prizes and 10 free lunches will be given away.

June 15

Ranch Classic Car Show from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 14 at Cherry Hills Community Church. Guests get in free; cost applies for those showing cars. Register at the Recreation Center at Eastridge, 9568 University Blvd., or at http://hrcaonline.org/ hrcainfo/calendarhrca/tabid/275/ctl/viewdetail/mid/1302/ itemid/5790/d/20140614/Classic-Car-Show.aspx

Big Band The Highlands Ranch Concert Band’s big band group Swing Shift kicks off its summer concert series at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 28, at Civic Green Park, 9370 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Go to www.hrconcertband.org.

Concert is free.

June 30 to July 6

roCketry CluB Arma Dei Academy, 345 E. Wildcat

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GALLERY OF GAMES & weekly horoscope

Reserve Parkway, Highlands Ranch, offers a number of clubs that are open to Highlands Ranch and the surrounding communities. A hiking club for first- to fourth-graders meets from 8:45 a.m. to noon Monday, June 30, to Sunday, July 6. Different theme each day. Cost includes T-shirt. To register, call 303-3464523 or email lpayne@armadeiacademy.com.

July 7-18

soCCer CliniC Arma Dei Academy, 345 E. Wildcat Reserve Parkway, Highlands Ranch, offers a number of clubs that are open to Highlands Ranch and the surrounding communities. A 10-day soccer camp, led by coach Steve Marshall, a semi-pro English soccer player, meets from 8-11 a.m. Monday to Friday, July 7-11 and July 14-18. Camp covers fundamentals.

To register, call 303-346-4523 or email lpayne@armadeiacademy.com.

aug. 1, 15, 22

movie showings Join the Highlands Ranch Community Association for free films in the park in August at Civic Green Park. Movies start at dusk. Admission is free. Movie schedule is Aug. 1, “Happy Feet Two,” Aug. 8, “Despicable Me 2,” and Aug. 15, “The Lego Movie.” Go to http://hrcaonline.org/ hrcainfo/calendarhrca/tabid/275/ctl/viewdetail/mid/1302/ itemid/6691/d/20140801/Film-in-the-Park.aspx.

aug. 14-15

leadershiP summit Cherry Hills Community Church presents the Global Leadership Summit Aug. 14-15 at 3900 Grace Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Live via simulcast from Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago, this year’s speaker lineup includes filmmaker, actor and philanthropist Tyler Perry; Passion City Church pastor and Passion Movement founder Louie Giglio; and best-selling author Patrick Lencioni. Register at www.chcc.org (priority code LEAD14HS). Contact Roxanne Dennett, 303-325-8281 or rdennett@chcc.org.

aug. 29

sing-a-long say goodbye to summer with a “Frozen” sing-a-long on Aug. 29 at Civic Green Park. Bring a picnic, wear those princess dresses and enjoy a night of singing and winter fun. Sing-a-long starts at dusk. Go to http://hrcaonline.org/hrcainfo/calendarhrca/tabid/275/ctl/viewdetail/ mid/1302/itemid/6704/d/20140829/Summer-Sing-a-Long. aspx.

SALOME’S STARS FOR THE WEEK OF JunE 2, 2014

ARIES (Mar 21 to Apr 19) There’s nothing an Aries Lamb likes less than having to tackle a humdrum task.

But finding a creative way to do it can make all the difference. A more exciting time awaits you this weekend.

TAURUS (Apr 20 to May 20) Finishing up a job on time leaves you free to enjoy your weekend without any Taurean guilt pangs. A romantic attitude from an unlikely source could take you by surprise.

GEMINI (May 21 to Jun 20) Moving in a new career direction might be seen by some as risky. But if you have both the confidence to see it through and the facts to back you up, it could prove rewarding.

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GALLERY OF GAMES

CANCER (Jun 21 to Jul 22) Holding back on a decision might be difficult, considering how long you’ve waited for this opportunity. But until you’re able to resolve all doubts, it could be the wiser course to take.

LEO (Jul 23 to Aug 22) You still need to move carefully where financial matters are concerned. Better for the Lion to move slowly than pounce on a “promising” prospect that doesn’t keep its promises.

VIRGO (Aug 23 to Sept 22) A rejection of an idea you believe in can be upsetting. But don’t let it discourage you. Get yourself back on track and use what you’ve learned from the experience to try again.

LIBRA (Sept 23 to Oct 22) The early part of the week could find you looking to balance your priorities between your family obligations and your career responsibilities. Pressures begin to ease by week’s end.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 to nov 21)An associate’s problem could cause unavoidable delays in moving ahead with your joint venture. If so, use the time to look into another project you had previously set aside.

SAGITTARIUS (nov 22 to Dec 21) Although a financial problem could be very close to being resolved in your favor, it’s still a good idea to avoid unnecessary spending for at least a little while longer.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 to Jan 19) Support for some unwelcome workplace decisions begins to show up, and continues to build, so that by week’s end, the gregarious Goat is as popular as ever.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 to Feb 18) Congratulations.

Deciding to attend a social function you might have earlier tried to avoid could turn out to be one of the best decisions you’ve made in a long time.

PISCES (Feb 19 to Mar 20) Getting into a new situation could prove to be a more difficult experience than you expected. Don’t hesitate to ask for advice in coping with some of the more irksome challenges.

BORN THIS WEEK: Your strong sense of duty makes you a valued and trusted member of your community. Have you considered a career in law enforcement? © 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 2, 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: 5/8/2014 Last Publication: 6/5/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/11/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: DANIEL J CULHANE Colorado Registration #: 22196 1600 BROADWAY SUITE 1400, DENVER, COLORADO Phone #: (303) 945-2077 Fax #: (720) 420-5998 Attorney File #: FOSTER *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 34, ROXBOROUGH VILLAGE FILING NO. 13, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 7809 Canvasback Circle, Littleton, CO 80125

Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2013-0760 To Whom It May Concern: On 12/5/2013 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: MARK W HOLLOWAY AND LISA TAYLOR-HOLLOWAY Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR PREMIER MORTGAGE GROUP, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: CAPITAL ONE, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/24/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 6/30/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005059495 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $400,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $369,880.26 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 29, HIGHLANDS RANCH, FILING 122-K, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 2750 Timberchase Trail, 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, July 9, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 5/22/2014 Last Publication: 6/19/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 5/12/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: LISA CANCANON Colorado Registration #: 42043 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 1237.100002.F01 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2013-0760 First Publication: 5/22/2014 Last Publication: 6/19/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0097 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/11/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: JASON DANE FOSTER AND SHERIDAN KAY FOSTER Original Beneficiary: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: FORE RIVER, LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 4/11/2007 Recording Date of DOT: 5/1/2007 Reception No. of DOT: 2007035172 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $37,607.08 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $37,607.08 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 in the payment of principal and interest installments and other sums required under the provisions of said 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 184, ROXBOROUGH VILLAGE, FILING NO. 16-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 7658 Brown Bear Way, 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, July 2, 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: 5/8/2014 Last Publication: 6/5/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/11/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: DANIEL J CULHANE Colorado Registration #: 22196 1600 BROADWAY SUITE 1400,

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Legal Notice No.: 2014-0097 First Publication: 5/8/2014 Last Publication: 6/5/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0101 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/12/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: KORY D. ELLER Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR COLONIAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE, A DIVISION OF COLONIAL SAVINGS, F.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: COLONIAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE, A DIVISION OF COLONIAL SAVINGS, F.A Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/21/2013 Recording Date of DOT: 3/22/2013 Reception No. of DOT: 2013023929 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $330,896.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $328,758.07 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: LOT 181 HIGHLANDS RANCH-FILING NO. 122-W, 1ST AMENDMENT, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 5313 Fullerton Cir, 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, July 2, 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: 5/8/2014 Last Publication: 6/5/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/14/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: CYNTHIA LOWERY-GRABER Colorado Registration #: 34145 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (303) 865-1400 Fax #: (303) 865-1410 Attorney File #: 14-00429 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2014-0101 First Publication: 5/8/2014 Last Publication: 6/5/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0102 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/12/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: PAUL W. PAXTON AND CECELIA A. PAXTON Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LENDER, CASTLE MORTGAGE GROUP Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: HSBC BANK USA, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 10/5/2004 Recording Date of DOT: 10/15/2004 Reception No. of DOT: 2004106468 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $240,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $195,988.31 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 34, ROXBOROUGH VILLAGE FILING NO. 13, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 7809 Canvasback 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, July 2, 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

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Legal Notice No.: 2014-0102 First Publication: 5/8/2014 Last Publication: 6/5/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0103 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/12/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: SHELLY A. BAKER Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR EQUIFIRST CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 12/5/2008 Recording Date of DOT: 12/11/2008 Reception No. of DOT: 2008083191 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $140,015.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $130,675.93 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: Condominium Unit #11 E, SUGARMILL CONDOMINIUMS, according to the Condominium Map recorded August 1, 1984 at Reception No. 332781 and Declaration for Sugarmill Condominium Association, Inc., of Highlands Ranch Community Association, Inc., dated July 26, 1984 and recorded August 1, 1984 in Book 532 at Page 354; and Supplemental Declaration for Annexed Property No. 6A dated July 26, 1984 and recorded August 1, 1984 in Book 512 at Page 472; County of Douglas, State of Colorado Which has the address of: 870 Summer Drive Unit #11, 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, July 2, 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: 5/8/2014 Last Publication: 6/5/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/14/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: LISA CANCANON Colorado Registration #: 42043 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 9696.100105.F01 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2014-0103 First Publication: 5/8/2014 Last Publication: 6/5/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0107 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/17/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: MONTY E.CHRISTNER AND VIOLA GALVIN Original Beneficiary: UNIVERSAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/6/2006 Recording Date of DOT: 4/5/2006 Reception No. of DOT: 2006028261 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $188,028.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $168,454.49 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 timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the

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MONTY E.CHRISTNER AND VIOLA GALVIN Original Beneficiary: UNIVERSAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/6/2006 Recording Date of DOT: 4/5/2006 Reception No. of DOT: 2006028261 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $188,028.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $168,454.49 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 timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.

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 6, BLOCK 3, PULTE HOMES AT ROXBOROUGH VILLAGE FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 9908 Fairwood Street, Littleton, CO 80125

Public Notices 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, July 2, 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: 5/8/2014 Last Publication: 6/5/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/14/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: TONI DALE Colorado Registration #: 30580 355 UNION BOULEVARD SUITE 250, LAKEWOOD, COLORADO 80228 Phone #: (303) 274-0155 Fax #: (303) 274-0159 Attorney File #: 14-946-26203 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

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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, July 9, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 5/15/2014 Last Publication: 6/12/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/19/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: TORBEN M WELCH Colorado Registration #: 34282 1430 WYNKOOP STREET SUITE 300, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: Fax #: Attorney File #: 7328.0046 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2014-0107 First Publication: 5/15/2014 Last Publication: 6/12/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0111 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/18/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: ANDREW L. JOHNSON AND CHASSITY M. JOHNSON Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR GUARANTY BANK AND TRUST COMPANY Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: CHRISTIANA TRUST, A DIVISION OF WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT AS TRUSTEE OF ARLP TRUST 4 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 9/10/2004 Recording Date of DOT: 9/16/2004 Reception No. of DOT: 2004096549 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $166,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $177,722.21 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.***Loan Modification Agreement made on June 4, 2010 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 7, BLOCK 3, PULTE HOMES AT ROXBOROUGH VILLAGE FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9900 Fairwood Street, 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, July 9, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 5/15/2014 Last Publication: 6/12/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/19/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JENNIFER H TRACHTE Colorado Registration #: 40391 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 4500.00140X *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2014-0111 First Publication: 5/15/2014 Last Publication: 6/12/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0117 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/24/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: DAVID A RENTON Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELEC-

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, July 16, 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 inPUBLIC NOTICE terest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs To advertise notices 303-566-4100 assignscall therein, for the purpose of Highlands Ranch your publicand paying the indebtedness provided in said NOTICE OF SALE Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0117 Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, To Whom It May Concern: On 3/24/2014 and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificthe undersigned Public Trustee caused ate of Purchase, all as provided by law. the Notice of Election and Demand relatFirst Publication: 5/22/2014 ing to the Deed of Trust described below Last Publication: 6/19/2014 to be recorded in Douglas County.

Publisher: Douglas County News Press Original Grantor: DAVID A RENTON Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECDated: 3/25/2014 TRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, ROBERT J. HUSSON INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee FOR LENDER, AMERICA'S WHOLEThe name, address and telephone numSALE LENDER bers of the attorney(s) representing the Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: THE legal holder of the indebtedness is: BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA WAYNE E VADEN THE BANK OF NEW YORK,AS TRUSTColorado Registration #: 21026 EE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS PO BOX 18997 , OF THE CWMBS INC., CHL MORTDENVER, COLORADO 80218 GAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2006Phone #: (303) 377-2933 OA5, MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH Fax #: (303) 377-2934 CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-OA5 Attorney File #: 14-081-05376 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 1/11/2006 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE Recording Date of DOT: 1/17/2006 SALE DATES on the Public Trustee webReception No. of DOT: 2006004571 site: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustDOT Recorded in Douglas County. ee/ Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $265,300.00 Legal Notice No.: 2014-0124 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the First Publication: 5/22/2014 date hereof: $266,475.57 Last Publication: 6/19/2014 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you Publisher: Douglas County News Press are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as PUBLIC NOTICE follows: Failure to pay monthly installments due Note Holder.

Highlands Ranch THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE NOTICE OF SALE A FIRST LIEN. Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0125 The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the To Whom It May Concern: On 3/24/2014 deed of trust. the undersigned Public Trustee caused Legal Description of Real Property: the Notice of Election and Demand relatLOT 31, BLOCK 1, HIGHLANDS RANCH, ing to the Deed of Trust described below FILING NO 52-C COUNTY OF to be recorded in Douglas County.

DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Original Grantor: ANDREW M. HASTWhich has the address of: 1838 MounINGS tain Sage Pl , Highlands Ranch, CO Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELEC80126-2660 TRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, The Deed of Trust was modified by a docINC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE ument recorded in Douglas County on FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, 3/17/2014, Reception number INC. 2014012931. Reason modified and any Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: other modifications: Legal Description.

NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/1/2004 NOTICE OF SALE Recording Date of DOT: 3/12/2004 Reception No. of DOT: 2004025350 The current holder of the Evidence of Debt DOT Recorded in Douglas County. secured by the Deed of Trust described Original Principal Amount of Evidence of herein, has filed written election and deDebt: $216,000.00 mand for sale as provided by law and in Outstanding Principal Amount as of the said Deed of Trust. date hereof: $228,374.79 THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you that on the first possible sale date (unless are hereby notified that the covenants of the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wedthe deed of trust have been violated as nesday, July 16, 2014, at the Public follows: Failure to pay principal and inTrustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle terest when due together with all other Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public aucpayments provided for in the Evidence of tion to the highest and best bidder for Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and cash, the said real property and all inother violations of the terms terest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs thereof.***FANNIE MAE LOAN MODIFICand assigns therein, for the purpose of ATION AGREEMENT effective May 01, paying the indebtedness provided in said 2013 Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses A FIRST LIEN. of sale and other items allowed by law, The property described herein is all of the and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificproperty encumbered by the lien of the ate of Purchase, all as provided by law. deed of trust.

First Publication: 5/22/2014 Legal Description of Real Property: Last Publication: 6/19/2014 LOT 118, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING Publisher: Douglas County News Press NO. 122-O, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, Dated: 3/25/2014 STATE OF COLORADO ROBERT J. HUSSON Which has the address of: 10651 RiverDOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee brook Cir, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126The name, address and telephone num7512 bers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: NOTICE OF SALE HOLLY DECKER The current holder of the Evidence of Debt Colorado Registration #: 32647 secured by the Deed of Trust described 355 UNION BOULEVARD SUITE 250, herein, has filed written election and deLAKEWOOD, COLORADO 80228 mand for sale as provided by law and in Phone #: (303) 274-0155 said Deed of Trust.

Fax #: (303) 274-0159 THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given Attorney File #: 14-943-26177 that on the first possible sale date (unless *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. WedSALE DATES on the Public Trustee webnesday, July 16, 2014, at the Public site: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustTrustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle ee/ Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for Legal Notice No.: 2014-0117 cash, the said real property and all inFirst Publication: 5/22/2014 terest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs Last Publication: 6/19/2014 and assigns therein, for the purpose of Publisher: Douglas County News Press paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses PUBLIC NOTICE of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a CertificHighlands Ranch ate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

NOTICE OF SALE First Publication: 5/22/2014 Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0124 Last Publication: 6/19/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press To Whom It May Concern: On 3/24/2014 Dated: 3/25/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused ROBERT J. HUSSON the Notice of Election and Demand relatDOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee ing to the Deed of Trust described below The name, address and telephone numto be recorded in Douglas County. bers of the attorney(s) representing the Original Grantor: JEFFREY D HAHN & legal holder of the indebtedness is: CAROL C HAHN JOAN OLSON Original Beneficiary: COUNTRYWIDE Colorado Registration #: 28078 HOME LOANS, INC. 1199 BANNOCK STREET , Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: THE DENVER, COLORADO 80204 BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA Phone #: (303) 813-1177 THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS SUCFax #: (303) 813-1107 CESSOR TRUSTEE TO JPMORGAN Attorney File #: 9696.100131.F01 CHASE *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE ON BEHALF SALE DATES on the Public Trustee webOF THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF site: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustTHE CWHEQ INC., CWHEQ REee/ VOLVING HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES Legal Notice No.: 2014-0125 2005-H First Publication: 5/22/2014 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 4/9/2004 Last Publication: 6/19/2014 Recording Date of DOT: 4/19/2004 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Reception No. of DOT: 2004038824 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of PUBLIC NOTICE Debt: $82,700.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the Highlands Ranch date hereof: $74,142.55 NOTICE OF SALE Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0126 are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as To Whom It May Concern: On 3/27/2014 follows: Failure to pay principal and inthe undersigned Public Trustee caused terest when due together with all other the Notice of Election and Demand relatpayments provided for in the Evidence of ing to the Deed of Trust described below Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and to be recorded in Douglas County. other violations of the terms thereof.

Original Grantor: ALYSON B GARDINER AND NICHOLAS K ELLINGSON THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECA FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the TRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, property encumbered by the lien of the INC., AS NOMINEE FOR U.S. BANK deed of trust.

N.A., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Legal Description of Real Property: Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. LOT 48, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION NO. 117-F, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 1/4/2008 STATE OF COLORADO. Recording Date of DOT: 1/7/2008 Which has the address of: 10040 MatReception No. of DOT: 2008001100 thew Lane, Highlands Ranch, CO 80130DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

8042 Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $153,589.00 NOTICE OF SALE Outstanding Principal Amount as of the The current holder of the Evidence of Debt date hereof: $145,787.97 secured by the Deed of Trust described Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you herein, has filed written election and deare hereby notified that the covenants of mand for sale as provided by law and in the deed of trust have been violated as said Deed of Trust. follows: FAILURE TO PAY PRINCIPAL THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given AND INTEREST WHEN DUE TOGETHthat on the first possible sale date (unless ER WITH ALL OTHER PAYMENTS the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. WedPROVIDED FOR IN THE EVIDENCE nesday, July 16, 2014, at the Public AND DEBT SECURED BY THE DEED OF Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle TRUST AND OTHER VIOLATIONS OF Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public aucTHE TERMS THEREOF. tion to the highest and best bidder for THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE cash, the said real property and all inA FIRST LIEN. terest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs The property described herein is all of the and assigns therein, for the purpose of property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust. paying the indebtedness provided in said Legal Description of Real Property: Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses BUILDING 46, UNIT 101, CANYON RANCH CONDOMINIUMS, IN ACORDof sale and other items allowed by law, ANCE WITH AND SUBJECT TO THE DEand will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

CLARATION OF CANYON RANCH CONFirst Publication: 5/22/2014 DOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. RELast Publication: 6/19/2014 CORDED ON DECEMBER 19, 1995 IN Publisher: Douglas County News Press BOOK 1307 AT PAGE 260 AT RECEPDated: 3/25/2014 TION NUMBER 9560422, ANNEXATION

June 5, 2014

Public Trustees

Public Trustees

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 46, UNIT 101, CANYON RANCH CONDOMINIUMS, IN ACORDANCE WITH AND SUBJECT TO THE DECLARATION OF CANYON RANCH CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. RECORDED ON DECEMBER 19, 1995 IN BOOK 1307 AT PAGE 260 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 9560422, ANNEXATION RECORDED FEBRUARY 28, 1997 IN BOOK 1411 AT PAGE 1518 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: 3825 Canyon Ranch Rd #101, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126

June 5, 2014

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, July 16, 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: 5/22/2014 Last Publication: 6/19/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/28/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: GIOVANNI CAMACHO Colorado Registration #: 44364 333 W. COLFAX AVENUE SUITE 450, DENVER, COLORADO 48302 Phone #: (248) 335-9200 Fax #: (248) 335-1335 Attorney File #: 13CO00833-1 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2014-0126 First Publication: 5/22/2014 Last Publication: 6/19/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0134 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/9/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: NICHOLAS M. HEYL Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR CITYWIDE HOME LOANS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WELLS FARGO BANK, NA Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 5/15/2013 Recording Date of DOT: 5/21/2013 Reception No. of DOT: 2013041918 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $180,708.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $179,565.44 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to timely make payments as required under the Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 14, BLOCK 4, PULTE HOMES AT ROXBOROUGH VILLAGE FILING NO. 1, AS SHOWN ON MAP RECORDED APRIL 2 , 1 9 9 6 U N D E R R E C E P T ION N O. 8603618, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9861 Fairwood Street, 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, July 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/10/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JENNIFER H TRACHTE Colorado Registration #: 40391 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 9104.100083.F01 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2014-0134 First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

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, July 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/10/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JENNIFER H TRACHTE Colorado Registration #: 40391 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 9104.100083.F01 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

Public Trustees

Legal Notice No.: 2014-0134 First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Englewood NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0136 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/9/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: KRISTEN M. HULETT AND JONATHON S. HULETT Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR DHI MORTGAGE COMPANY LTD Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR OPTEUM MORTGAGE ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION, ASSET-BACKED PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-5 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 7/26/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 8/2/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005071452 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $110,621.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $110,452.76 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: 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: UNIT 305, CONDOMINIUM BUILDING 1, CANYON CREEK CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP FOR CANYON CREEK CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED ON JULY 22, 2005, AT RECEPTION NO. 2005067313, IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OF CANYON CREEK CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 25, 2005, AT RECEPTION NO. 2005016274 IN SAID RECORDS, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 8420 Canyon Rim Trail #305, Englewood, CO 80112 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, July 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/10/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JENNIFER H TRACHTE Colorado Registration #: 40391 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 4380.100032.F01 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2014-0136 First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

tion 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: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/10/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JENNIFER H TRACHTE Colorado Registration #: 40391 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 4380.100032.F01 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

Public Trustees

Legal Notice No.: 2014-0136 First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0137 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/9/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: NICHOLAS J. GANGA AND WILLIAM D. HEETER Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LENDER, SHEA MORTGAGE, INC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: CITIMORTGAGE, INC. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 10/28/2002 Recording Date of DOT: 10/29/2002 Reception No. of DOT: 2002114047 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $370,300.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $309,894.25 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 65, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 118-L, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 735 Ridgemont Circle, 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, July 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/10/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: TONI DALE Colorado Registration #: 30580 355 UNION BOULEVARD SUITE 250, LAKEWOOD, COLORADO 80228 Phone #: (303) 274-0155 Fax #: (303) 274-0159 Attorney File #: 14-049-26339 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

23 PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0139

Public Trustees

To Whom It May Concern: On 4/9/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: JACK M. EVANS Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR PROVIDENT FUNDING ASSOCIATES, L.P. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: PROVIDENT FUNDING ASSOCIATES, L.P. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 8/13/2003 Recording Date of DOT: 8/21/2003 Reception No. of DOT: 2003126406 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $522,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $390,994.78 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 73, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 54-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 73 Falcon Hills Drive, Littleton, CO 80126 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/10/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: CYNTHIA LOWERY-GRABER Colorado Registration #: 34145 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (303) 865-1400 Fax #: (303) 865-1410 Attorney File #: 14-01432 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2014-0139 First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0140 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/9/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: BLAIR C. YOUNG Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN MORTGAGE NETWORK, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 12/21/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 12/28/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005124257 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $199,760.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $180,821.58 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 20, BLOCK 5, ACRES GREEN FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 954 Mercury Circle, Littleton, CO 80124

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $180,821.58 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 20, BLOCK 5, ACRES GREEN FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 954 Mercury Circle, Littleton, CO 80124

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, July 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/10/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: CYNTHIA LOWERY-GRABER Colorado Registration #: 34145 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (303) 865-1400 Fax #: (303) 865-1410 Attorney File #: 13-07672R *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2014-0140 First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0143 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/9/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: DAVID W BOYLL AND DEBORAH A BOYLL Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR SHEA MORTGAGE, INC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF THE CWMBS INC. CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2005-28, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-28 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 8/29/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 8/30/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005081940 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $525,550.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $522,748.47 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 360, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 122-Y, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 3764 Fairbrook Point, Highlands Ranch, CO 80130

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, July 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/10/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: MONICA KADRMAS Colorado Registration #: 34904 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 1720.100021.F01 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

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Legal Notice No.: 2014-0143 First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Government Legals Public Notice REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) #022-14 ANNUAL AUDIT SERVICES The Finance Department in coordination with the County Manager of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests proposals from responsible and qualified firms of Certified Public Accountant(s) to perform the County’s Financial Audit for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2014. The audit will include the OMB Circular A-133 Audit (and associated Data Collection Form), and technical guidance associated with the preparation of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). The audit shall be completed in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards, as included in the Statements of Auditing Standards published by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Government Auditing Standards published by the Comptroller General of the United States, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-133, Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations. Respondents to this RFP should have extensive experience and qualifications in addition to a knowledgeable background.

The RFP documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain EPurchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. RFP documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website.

Proposal responses will be received until 4:00 p.m. on Monday, July 7, 2014

by Douglas County Government, Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Two (2) hardcopies and one (1) CD/Flash-drive copy of your proposal response shall be submitted in a sealed envelope, plainly marked “Request for Proposal (RFP) #022-14, Annual Audit Services”. Electronic/faxed proposals will not be accepted. Proposals will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any proposals so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said proposal and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items and/or services with the successful firm.

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Legal Notice No.: 2014-0137 First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE

Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2014-0139

To Whom It May Concern: On 4/9/2014 the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: JACK M. EVANS Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR PROVIDENT FUNDING ASSOCIATES, L.P. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: PROVIDENT FUNDING ASSOCIATES, L.P. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 8/13/2003 Recording Date of DOT: 8/21/2003 Reception No. of DOT: 2003126406 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $522,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $390,994.78 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 73, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 54-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 73 Falcon Hills Drive, Littleton, CO 80126 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014

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, July 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/10/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: CYNTHIA LOWERY-GRABER Colorado Registration #: 34145 999 18TH STREET SUITE 2201, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (303) 865-1400 Fax #: (303) 865-1410 Attorney File #: 13-07672R *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 30, 2014, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 6/5/2014 Last Publication: 7/3/2014 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/10/2014 ROBERT J. HUSSON DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: MONICA KADRMAS Colorado Registration #: 34904 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 813-1177 Fax #: (303) 813-1107 Attorney File #: 1720.100021.F01 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

Please direct any questions concerning this RFP to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor at 303-660-7434 or criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

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Practice makes perfect for Falcons’ swimmer Mueller’s two state titles earn him honors as south metro’s best

By Jim Benton

jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com Highlands Ranch graduating senior Nathan Mueller worked all season to make sure he was ready to meet all the challenges and challengers in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle races at the Class 5A Boys Colorado State Swimming Championships.

“Nathan started the season very focused,” said Highlands Ranch head coach Christina Kwon. “He requested, if possible, that I put him in the 200 freestyle and 500 freestyle for every meet.

He wanted to really be prepared to win by the time we got to state.

“Although Nathan has always been a very strong and dedicated swimmer, he spent his senior season working on pacing correctly and sharpening his turns in order to be the best.”

Mueller was the best in the May 17 state finals, winning state championships in both events with All-American times.

He touched up in 1 minute, 38.26 seconds in the 200 and 4:27.41 in the 500.

For that dedication and excellence, he has been selected as the Colorado Community Media South Metro Boys Swimmer of the Year.

“The 500 freestyle is such a mental race,” he said. “I just thought if I swam it a bunch I would be more comfortable mentally with it. I’d have much different race strategies to go after by practicing it a lot.”

Mueller, bound for the University of Wisconsin, didn’t sneak up on anyone this year as he carried the top Class 5A times in the 200 and 500 freestyles into the state meet.

“I went in with the mindset of being real confident in myself and knowing that I could do it,” he said. “It was kind of the mental state I put myself in that I didn’t leave any room for doubt. That’s what I had to do in order to win. Every time you get behind the blocks there is always a little nervousness. I just took a deep breath, got up on the block and went.

“It was a lot of fun to end my high school career like that winning two state titles. The swimming season as a whole was a fun experience to finish high school with people I really like and enjoy, and doing the sport I love.”

Nathan Mueller of Highlands Ranch High School is Colorado Community Media’s South Metro Boys Swimmer of the Year. Courtesy photo

Ponderosa player passes, shoots way to top Junior helps lead Mustangs to state title en route to player of year honors

By Jim Benton

Ponderosa’s Jack Griffin is Colorado Community Media’s South Metro Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year. Courtesy photo

‘As a coach I am continually impressed with his talent and

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athleticism, but it is his

Jack Griffin looks like a typical junior at Ponderosa High School.

On the lacrosse field, he plays like a creature from Greek mythology, at least according to the announcers of one particular opponent.

During Ponderosa’s semifinal game against Steamboat Springs May 14, Griffin scored seven goals and added an assist in a 17-13 victory.

Steamboat announcers referred to Griffin as a “mythological beast.”

The game could also be viewed on the Steamboat Radio website, and Griffin tuned in to the broadcast after the game to watch it.

“I laughed at that,” he said. “I thought it was funny. I watched that whole broadcast of the game and they were calling everybody on both teams funny names like that.”

There was nothing funny about Griffin being named the Colorado Community Media South Metro boys lacrosse Player of the Year, however.

Griffin scored 57 goals for the Class 4A state champion Mustangs and dished out 38 assists for a season total of 95 points.

He was second among Class 4A players in points and groundballs (140). He was third in goals, fourth in assists and fourth in face-off percentage (.667).

“Jack is a phenomenal lacrosse player and athlete,” said Ponderosa coach Patrick Tierney. “Achieving a high rank in scoring from the midfield position, on top of being one of the best face-off guys in the state, makes him an extremely dangerous player.

“Teams prepare to try to stop him, but he trusts his teammates to finish goals which significantly contributed to the success of our team. As a coach I am continually impressed with his talent and athleticism but it is his love and passion for the game that elevates him as one of the best

love and passion for the game that elevates him as one of the best lacrosse players in the state.’

Patrick Tierney lacrosse players in the state.”

Griffin admits he had trouble giving up the ball before this season.

“I had a good year,” he said. “I led the team in assists and that was the biggest part for me making myself better this year.

Last year and my freshman year I didn’t have as many assists and I probably could have.

“I took more shots and held onto the ball when I could have passed it. This year I had my head up better and move it around better.”

Moving the ball around was no easy adjustment for Griffin.

“At first it was difficult but once I noticed the right moments to be moving the ball around, it not only helped my team score more by getting other players goals but it also freed me up more because they were more worried about other players being scoring threats and not just me,” he said.

Griffin will be playing for the Denver Elite club team this summer and hopes to improve on his face-off techniques.

“I’m going to try to get better on face offs this summer,” Griffin said. “Usually I don’t take very many of them in the club season.

Every summer we play in a very high level in the tournaments we go to with Denver Elite so hopefully I can get a few more face offs to help my game there.”

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Elephant Rock draws 6,500 cyclists

LEFT: Riders get in position at the Douglas County Fairgrounds to hit the starting line for the 27- and 32-mile races June 1. TOP: David Dickey of Littleton gets a pre-race adjustment from Aaron Docter of the Highlands Ranch BikeSource location. BikeSource had a number of mechanics on hand to make sure riders were ready for the course. Photos by Paul DiSalvo

Director calls event the best in 27-year history

By Jim Benton

jbenton @coloradocommunitymedia.com Cyclists surrounded Scot Harris on a warm morning at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Castle Rock. The music was loud and the winds that regularly pound the area were light.

Harris, the director of the Subaru Elephant Rock Cycling Festival, claimed the June 1 event was one of the best yet in its 27-year history, despite fewer riders.

“This year it looks like (we had) about 6,500 riders which is kind of right in the range,” Harris said. “We’ve had as many as 7,800, and last year we were at 7,000. Al-

though our numbers weren’t as big as they have been, this was absolutely the best.

“We just wanted to do some things differently this year. Parking has always really been hard coming into the Events Center with just the one way in. We worked super hard to make that work better and it totally worked. We added an Italian lunch, we had live music this year and the weather was beautiful. There’s no question this was a really a good one if not best ever. It just wasn’t our biggest.”

Cyclists had the option to ride 100-, 62-, or 32-mile courses or take on the 27-mile fat tire track and there was also an eightmile course for families and a ride for kids.

“It was not a race,” Harris said. “We try to create a course for cyclists of all ages and abilities. It has kind of become a little bit of an institution for the cycling community.

Everybody kind of looks at it as the kickoff to the season. When we started the event

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that’s what we wanted. We wanted to have an early season training ride.

One of the riders that trekked the 62mile course was Janet Rost of Greenwood Village. Rost, 60, had a liver transplant in May 2012 but participated in her second Elephant Rock Ride this year. She finished the 32-miler in 2013 and moved up to the

62-mile course this year.

“Never in a million years did I think I would be doing this,” she said. “Two years ago I could hardly go to the grocery store. I could hardly walk to the mailbox to get my

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mail. I have always been pretty active as an adult but when my liver started failing, I couldn’t do anything.

“A year after surgery I did the Elephant Rock. I was feeling so good and wanted to participate to raise money to help other transplant recipients and donors.”

Others, such as Kurt Lausman of Westminster, use the race to prepare for a busy summer of biking and running races.

“They call this the unofficial first start to the biking season,” said Lausman, who rode the 32-mile course.

“It’s always beautiful in Castle Rock and I do it every year. This is usually my first big ride of the year. This is always well organized and everything is really well done here and that’s what makes it so nice.

“There’s just an excitement about being here. There are tons of bikers all over, there’s great energy and a good feel. That’s what gets me ready for the season. I’m primed and ready to go mentally and physically for a good year.”

Jonah and LuAnne Sperando of Colorado Springs rode 62 miles on a tandem bike.

“It’s something fun that we can do together,” related Jonah Sperando. “And the tandem bike, we think is more fun than a single bike. The hills are more challenging but that makes it more rewarding. Communication is key.

We wear headsets, kind of like you see on motorcycles.

We can sort of plan our steps along the way. In 14 years of riding a tandem we haven’t had too many arguments.

We have witnessed a fair amount of arguments on a tandem but we’ve been fortunate.

“We enjoyed the atmosphere with all the folks out. It’s early in the summer and it’s a way to get out and get motivated early in the season. It motivates you perhaps for the rest of the summer. We had a lot of fun.”

Reagan Benger literally got to ride the 32-mile course.

Reagan is 21-months old and rode in a trailer behind her Dad’s bike.

Chris Benger of Highlands Ranch is an avid cyclist who plans to race in the Ride The Rockies and his wife Monica accompanies him but usually doesn’t ride except for in events like the Elephant Rock Ride.

“I ride all the time,” said Chris. “This is my hobby. I do it all the time. I’ll do the Ride the Rockies next week. It was a chance to get Reagan out and ride in the trailer. It was tough pulling it uphill and into a head wind.”

Monica claimed everybody had fun on the ride.

“Reagan slept for a while,” she said. “It was fun. It was a family day. I’m the one cheering at the end on the Ride the Rockies. I’m not riding that.”

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