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January 7, 2016

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Suspect in school threat charged as adult The other 16-year-old student must complete a psychiatric evaluation before charges can be filed

By Alex DeWind adewind@colorado communitymedia.com One of two 16-year-old female students accused of making a violent threat against Mountain Vista High School in Highlands Ranch has been charged as an adult with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder with

extreme indifference and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder after deliberation.

The bond for Sienna Johnson, who appeared in Douglas County court Jan. 5 in a green jumpsuit with handcuffs around her wrists, has been set at $1 million. Flanked by her public defender, she alternately scanned the room and stared at the floor without expression. Colorado Community Media is identifying her because of the adult charges.

The other suspect, who will be identified if charged as an adult, also appeared in court at an earlier hear-

ing Jan. 5 and was ordered to complete a psychiatric evaluation before charges can be filed.

Prosecutors said Johnson admitted to faking progress while being held at Children’s Hospital for a psychiatric review and told detectives she was determined to carry out the threat if released.

They said Johnson was a threat to herself and the community, in part, because of a detailed map she created in her journal with the letters “NBK,” which prosecutors said Threat continues on Page 5

District Attorney George Brauchler speaks at a court hearing on Jan. 5 for one of the 16-year-old female students accused of a threat against Mountain Vista High School.

“This is not a case that we want to guess wrong on, either for the juvenile or for the community,” he said. Photo

by Alex DeWind

Progress reports confusing to some Reports incorporate new measurement tools, use new online portal

By Mike DiFerdinando mdiferdinando@coloradocommunitymedia.com

A group of seniors works out together at the Lone Tree Recreation Center. Committing to fitness with a group of friends helps members stay accountable, several fitness instructors say. Photos by Mike DiFerdinando

Overcoming workout woes Pitfalls of New Year’s fitness goals can be intimidating for some

By Mike DiFerdinando mdiferdinando@coloradocommunitymedia.com For many, a new year means a new you.

Some 44 percent of Americans make a New Year’s resolution, according to a 2013 study by Pew Research Center. Of that group, 12 percent say they want to exercise more and 11 percent want to lose weight.

If you are trying to get back in shape in 2016, or just starting to work out for the first time, the road to better health can be fraught with potential pitfalls.

From gym intimidation, to staying on track or finding the right routine, heading into the gym can be easier said then done.

“I know some people get a little frustrated — the regulars who come year-round — that we get a big influx of people coming at the start of the new year,” said Kelsey Whisler, fitness supervisor at Goodson Recreation Center in Centennial. “I just hope those people will be welcoming and remember the first time they started coming to the gym and how intimidating it can be.”

Whisler suggests group classes as a way of easing back into fitness.

“If you have a friend who has been Workout continues on Page 4

People do cardio workouts at the Goodson Recreation Center in Centennial.

Parent Amy DeValk, who has a student at Arrowwood Elementary in Highlands Ranch, is frustrated: The new electronic report card leaves her more confused than clear about how her daughter is doing in school.

“The descriptions of outcomes and content are vague and somewhat meaningless,” she said. “For example, under math, one of the outcomes is ‘use appropriate tools strategically.’ What tools?

As they apply to what? Fractions, geometry, algebra? And what does strategically mean as it applies to math tools? Can she pick the right operation? There isn’t enough information provided. I should not need a cross-reference to understand how my child is doing in school or to interpret her progress report.”

DeValk is among some parents and teachers concerned about the Douglas County School District’s new Elementary Progress Report, a revised electronic report card system for elementary students.

The parents say it is difficult to understand and use. The teachers say the district gave little guidance for developing rubrics to evaluate student performance.

But some principals and district administrators, while acknowledging the system needs refinement, say the new assessment tool — which has been in development for 2 1/2 years — needed to be updated.

Unlike the previous report system, the new one measures students against the most recent standards and desired goals and provides a more accurate picture of what and how students are learning. Each school also has flexibility in adapting the report to its own values and principles.

“We wanted to be able to report out on our Guaranteed Viable Curriculum — so, not only Colorado state standards but also 21st Century Skills and various World Class Outcomes that we have,” said Ted Knight, assistant superintendent for Reports continues on Page 5

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January 7, 2016

Still finding ‘Faces Never Forgotten’

FACES AMONG US

HELLO

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My Name Is

A glimpse of the people in our community

KATIE ROBBINS

Project aims to match photos to Vietnam veterans

Small business owner, mom, Colorado transplant

By Jennifer Smith jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com

About me I’m not originally from Colorado.

My husband, Eric, is. He was born and raised in Englewood. We both went to CU, which is where we connected. We spent the last 10 years in Boston. But we wanted to be back here closer to family so, when we decided we wanted to move back, we talked about what we wanted to do. He has a culinary background and I ran a small business with my father in Boston. So we combined our interests and put together a business plan for Uncorked Kitchen.

A great area He could really pursue his passion for teaching cooking. We added the wine bar.

We knew there was not much in the way of cooking events or unique dinner experiences in the area so we saw the demand down here. The Park Meadows area is very popular and so we were fortunate to find this location and do a ground-up construction project.

What is Uncorked Kitchen?

We’ve had a little bit of a struggle getting the word out there about what we actually do. A lot of people think we are a restaurant. Or a kitchen supply store or a caterer. Once people come in and we are able to give them the tour and explain what we do, they’re very excited. What we like to say is that it’s a dinner party meets a cooking class. It’s

Katie Robbins and her husband own the newly opened Uncorked Kitchen in the Park Meadows area. Photo by Mike DiFerdinando all about the experience. Ultimately, you end up sitting down and enjoying the meal you have created.

My hobbies We have two small children. We have a 2/12-year-old and an almost 5-month-old baby. So, when I’m not at the business, I’m hanging out with them. Our 2 1/2-year-old loves cooking.

Any chance he gets, he’s sitting on the counter working with us.

My passions Enjoying great food, definitely. Trav-

eling and then health and fitness and general nutrition.

Hopes for the New Year?

I’m really excited to see what a full year of operations brings. We’ve just gotten our toe wet, being open for three months. So, I’m really excited to see what 2016 brings in terms of our business.

If you have suggestions for My Name Is..., contact Mike DiFerdinando at mdiferdinando@coloradocommunitymedia.com.

Family Owned, Family Run

Last June, Janna Hoehn reached out to Colorado Community Media for help with a huge project, and readers stepped up in a big way.

“The response has been amazing,” she said. “…Our heroes’ stories and sacrifice will never be forgotten.”

She is working on the “Faces Never Forgotten” project, created to find a photo of every single one of the 58,300 soldiers listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. “Putting a face with a name changes the whole dynamic of the wall,” she said. “It keeps our fallen heroes’ memories alive and will honor them.”

In June, Hoehn was specifically looking for 10 names from Arapahoe County and seven from Douglas County. With the help of readers throughout those counties, she’s down to just six and four, respectively.

Once found, all photos will be submitted to the “Wall of Faces” online memorial with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, as well as to the planned education center expected to be built adjacent to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

“I had always hoped I could to do something for the Vietnam veterans,” said Hoehn.

“The way they were treated when they returned, it was disgraceful.”

Even just the name of the schools the person attended can help, she says, and any bit of information somebody might have can’t hurt.

To submit a photo or for more information, email Hoehn at neverforgotten2014@gmail. com. To see photos of lost and fallen soldiers that have already been collected, visit www. vvmf.org.

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working out, go work out with them,” Whisler said. “They will show you the ropes and make you feel comfortable and help you get through that gym culture.”

Sharise Plescia, a personal trainer at Lone Tree Recreation Center, said accountability and consistency are keys to seeing results.

“One thing I tell people when I’m working with them is hold yourself accountable for your health regimen,” said Plescia. “So whether you use a calendar or a watch or iPad — or however you keep track of things — make sure you schedule in some fitness time every day. It doesn’t have to be vigorous. If you know you have a full day of work, kids, whatever it is, and you only have 10 minutes, guess what?

Ten minutes is better than nothing. You can make your workouts as vigorous as you would like in these 10 minutes.”

It’s also important to start low and go slow with new routines, said Hillary Roemersberger, fitness and wellness supervisor at Parker Recreation Center.

“Many beginners make the mistake of starting out too aggressively and end up tired, sore or injured,” Roemersberger said. “When people go out too hard they tend not to stick with their workouts over an extended period of time. Develop new habits that you can stick with.”

Friends Francene Rose and Barbara Feuerstein work out regularly at Lone Tree Recreation center with a group of friends. That camaraderie helps keep them invested in keeping fit.

“You have to have someone you are accountable to, not just a trainer, but a group of friends or family,” Rose said. “If I don’t show up, they come looking for me.”

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Offering a 50 percent discount on orientation throughout January. The Reformer is an apparatus comprising a seat and a series of pulleys that enable a multitude of exercises.

Who: Ages 16 and up When: Multiple days and times Where: Buck Recreation Center, 2004 W. Powers Ave., Littleton Price: $8.50 resident, $10.50 nonresident (January); $17 resident, $21 nonresident (after January) Bodypump The original barbell class that strengthens your entire body. This workout challenges all your major muscle groups by using weight-room exercises like squats, presses, lifts and curls.

Who: Ages 18 and up When: Starting Jan. 4, multiple days and times Where: Goodson Recreation Center, 6315 South University Blvd., Centennial Price: Free with admission ($4.25 to $5.25

resident, $5.50 to $7.25 nonresident) Register: Drop-in; reservations are recommended. Reserve your spot up to 24 hours in advance by calling 303-798-2476.

Espresso Express Get in, get a workout, and get on your way. This fitness class is designed for people with a busy lifestyle who want to stay fit.

Who: Ages 18 and up When: Starting Jan. 12, Tuesdays, 6:15-7 a.m.

Where: Lone Tree Recreation Center, 10249 RidgeGate Circle, Lone Tree Price: Free with admission ($4.25 - $5.25 resident, $5.50 - $7.25 nonresident) Register: Drop-in; no registration necessary Strong Bones Strengthen muscles and increase bone density with free weight and stretching exercises intended to improve overall strength, balance and mobility.

Who: Ages 18 and up When: Starting Jan. 7, Thursdays, 1-2 p.m.

Where: Buck Recreation Center, 2004 W. Powers Ave., Littleton Price: Free with admission ($4.25 - $5.25 resident, $5.50 - $7.25 nonresident) Register: Drop-in; no registration necessary

Tips for sticking with HEALTH GOALS Category: Stress Tip: Meditate What they said: “One of the biggest saboteurs of a healthy lifestyle is stress,” said Sharise Plescia, a personal trainer at Lone Tree Recreation Center. “I teach Tai Chi. It’s for all ages and its one way of helping you avoid that stress zone where everything goes out the window. When you’re stressed that’s when the diet goes bad, or you’re too stressed to even work out. Adding in some kind of meditation, even daily meditation, whether you do it at home or come to a club, you really need that. You need a good healthy balance in your life. That is what is really going to help keep you on your fitness goals and maintain them.”

Category: Senior fitness

Category: Recovery

Tip: Stay active

Tip: Stretching and diet are key

What they said: “They can come in, take a class, play bridge, talk, just stay active. The more exercise they get, the better off they are going to be. That’s the key to longevity and quality of life,” said Peggy Golden, fitness coordinator for Lone Tree Recreation Center. “Always let your instructor know or come in and consult with someone and let them know you are new to a program, or you have an ailment of some sort, or have had surgery or anything along those lines. Listen to your body.”

What they said: “Stretching and recovery days are OK as needed. Your body needs time to rehydrate, realign newlyformed muscle fibers and clear debris occasionally,” said Steven Palmer, a personal trainer and strength and conditioning specialist at Parker Recreation Center. “Keep your water bottle with you and rest when needed. Drink a lot of water. Understand that 80 percent of the weight loss battle is fought at the table and 20 percent in the gym. You can work out really hard, but if you aren’t fueling your body right you won’t see the results you want.”

Category: Motivation Tip: Music can make a difference What they said: “Find a playlist that makes you feel like a superhero, then spend the time you work out thinking you’re that superhero,” Palmer said. “Have you ever seen Batman quit?”

Category: Routine Tip: Take it slow What they said: “I think people get so gung ho and say, ‘It’s Jan. 1, I have to start working out. I’m going to do six days a week,’ and that’s too much,” said Kelsey Whisler, fitness supervisor at Goodson Recreation Center in Centennial. “It’s too overwhelming.

If you haven’t been working out, try one day per week. Be reasonable and be gentle with yourself. You’re going to eat some chocolate cake at some point and that’s OK.”

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accurate picture of students’ progress and performance.

Eastmond usually sends parents detailed emails “explaining where their child is at and what they are working on,” she said. “The World Class Outcomes are so vague and difficult to quantify. We were not given a rubric to grade from. I feel we should have been provided a grade-level rubric — we were not — to accurately rate on World Class Outcomes. There is not an area for behavior. It is also very inconsistent as each elementary school wrote their own.”

District parent Kelli Slothouber has two children at Cougar Run Elementary, a third-grader and a fifthgrader, and said she was disappointed to find her older child’s report was different than her younger child’s.

report, which understandably was super-frustrating,” Marquez said.

District officials said they are continuing to work with teachers and parents to answer questions and improve the new system.

“Finding the best ways to communicate with our parent population is challenging and a place for focus for continued improvement,” said Judith Reynolds, school board vice president. “As with all new processes, there is a learning curve for all that are involved. My hope is that we can take the best of the new report and the intent for a more individualized reporting process and build on that in the future.”

Board member David Ray, who was a teacher and principal in the district for more than 20 years, said he’s

New progress reports are more than two years in the making

elementary. “As a teacher, if you’re teaching those skills and are not able to report out on them, you’re not able to give parents the full picture.”

By Mike DiFerdinando The Elementary Progress Report mdiferdinando@coloradocommunitymedia.com was used for the first time Dec. 19 and made available to elementary-school Rick Kendall, principal at Roxborough Primary, led a parents through the Engaged Parent committee of principals, teacher and parents that began Portal, the online platform that suplooking at revisions to the old elementary progress report ports the new system.

2 ½ years ago.

Previously, parents tracked their “We started that process because we had an elemenchildren’s academic performance tary progress report that wasn’t flexible for different through the Infinite Campus system. schools and was not a report that parents were reading,” It allows parents to log on to their Kendall said. children’s individual grade reports Kendall found, when he checked last summer, and follow their progthat only about 20 percent of parents had logged ress online. Infinite in to their children’s progress reports in Infinite Campus is still being Campus. “I know how hard teachers worked on used in the middle those, and it was disappointing to know their and high schools.

Collaboration important skills The new Elementary Progress Rehard work wasn’t even looked at.”

In the new progports include the following terminol- Creativity District principals have access to statistics The most important information is ress reports, grading ogy, which also is used throughout that show them how many parents log into the is still assessed on a identified and taught deeply Communication the Douglas County School District system. They cannot see what parents view or four-point scale — Teaching produces sustainable as among its stated objectives as download once logged in.

21st Century Skills: exceeding, meeting, learning to what skills students should be The Infinite Campus system also had limitaapproaching or workGlobal Awareness developing, along with what teachtions on what could be changed to reflect current ing below expected The most important content and Creativity standards and rubrics, along with what could ers should be focusing on in their grade-level standards. skills are assessed authentically be written to convey a student’s performance, classroom instruction.

And the report also Financial Literacy All learning activities are relevant district administrators said. still includes attenFollowing is how the district defines Communication and naturally integrative “I remember a parent asking me what the “V” dance information. the terminology. meant to one of their child’s life skills grades,” But the new eleProblem Solving “Digital native” students are Kendall said. “I said, ‘Oh, that’s a checkmark.’

Guaranteed and Viable Curricumentary reports differ engaged Critical Thinking Those were the limitations of Infinite Campus. It lum: from the old version couldn’t even make a checkmark to show that.”

Through advocacy, students develop Health/Wellness because they not only Tells each grade-level teacher, Kendall said he met and worked with teachers deep understanding of self, world, detail student progResiliency/Adaptability student and parent the learning and parents at his school when developing the career and their own personal ress, but also update that is expected by the end of new reports and said many other principals did Civic Responsibility parents on how chilpathway to success each school year or course. These the same. dren are progressing System Thinking Intervention is personalized expectations are the same for every Although some teachers say they don’t like toward the district’s district school based on course and Teamwork/Collaboration the differences of the progress reports among Using technology as a tool — among stated objectives of grade level. schools, the district wanted to keep parameters incorporating World A World-Class Education requires many others somewhat broad so that teachers could customClass Outcomes, the 4Cs: that: Students learn from mistakes ize the report to what they are teaching and 4Cs (critical thinking, Critical Thinking Content be a vehicle for developing through restorative practices different schools could tailor it to match their creativity, commuvalues, said Ted Knight, assistant superintendent nication and colfor elementary. laboration) and 21st “Teamwork, responsibility, you name it,” Century Skills into student learning. “convinced that there is no such thing She worried about being able to Knight said.

“If a school community values certain skills (See definition box.) as a perfect student progress report.” clearly evaluate her children’s progover others, we wanted the school and the tool to be able According to Carrie Stephenson, Introducing a new version typiress from year to year and whether to report that.” director of schools for elementary, the other districts would understand cally comes with questions and some new system also fixes some limitaconfusion from parents used to the the assessment language used in the tions of the old Infinite Campus old system, he said. But he also said progress reports. system, allowing teachers to customa disconnect exists between what the “How would I be able to comize their fields and categories and exdistrict wants to communicate to parpare their report cards from school panding space for teacher comments. to school?” she said. “If we moved ents and what parents want to know.

“For example, if a teacher was go“For many years, since introducwithin the district, they might be ing to teach science one semester and somewhat the same, but what about ing the first standards-based progress social studies a second semester, our report, we have consistently received a different district or a different The Aurora—South Metro SBDC previous system would require them the message from parents that this state?” helps existing and new businesses to put in a NA (not applicable) for is not a meaningful communication Another Arrowwood Elementary grow and prosper through science for a semester,” Stephenson tool,” Ray said. “I believe the majorparent, Michelle Marquez, said she workshops and consulting. said. “Now, they can take what is in ity of our elementary parents simply had trouble logging into the new their lesson plans and have that on want to know if their child is readreports.

The following workshops will be the report for each specific semester.” ing at the appropriate level, making “The delivery portal has lots of held in the South Metro area: But Kelli Eastmond, a kindergarten glitches and was unable to deal with adequate growth in how they write, teacher at Arrowwood Elementary, developing a mathematical foundathe volume, which left parents unBusiness Plan Basics said the new reports don’t paint an tion and behaving appropriately.” able to access their child’s progress

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stands for “Natural Born Killers,” a violent 1990s movie that some say inspired the Columbine High School shooters in 1999. The map allegedly outlined where the largest number of students would be at certain times of the school day.

Prosecutors also said Johnson purchased a BB gun to practice shooting and attempted to purchase weapons.

The prosecution team includes Jason Siers, senior chief deputy for the 18th Judicial District, and Deborah Wrenholt, deputy district attorney.

Johnson’s public defender, Ara Ohanian, said prosecutors have “grossly exaggerated” the case against Johnson.

Judge Paul King, who oversaw the hearing, granted Ohanian’s request for a hearing to ask that Johnson’s case be transferred to juvenile court. That hearing is scheduled for March 30.

The two teens were arrested Dec. 12 after a student reported the threat to the Douglas County Sherriff’s Office through Text-A-Tip, a service that allows high school students to convey concerns about safety, drugs and other issues anonymously.

The threat was to harm students and staff at Mountain Vista in Highlands Ranch during the week of Dec. 14, according to Superintendent Elizabeth Fagen. Officials deemed the threat credible and took action immediately.

Johnson had her first court hearing on Dec. 17, but prosecutors asked for a delay before the filing of charges.

Prosecutors cited social media in their case against Johnson. Her Tumblr account, a social media blog, has since been taken down but was “extremely violent,” ac-

cording to Wrenholt. She posted photos of classroom violence and references to school shootings, prosecutors said.

Judge King scheduled a court date for Jan. 13 to determine if an affidavit with more information about Johnson’s journal entries and other potential evidence will be released. Johnson’s attorney asked that it remain sealed.

Denver-area media outlets have filed a request to unseal the documents.

The other defendant appeared in court for the first time Jan. 5, wearing a green jumpsuit with shackles on her wrists and ankles. She sat quietly at the stand with her father beside her and her mother behind.

She remains uncharged until crucial information is obtained, including a mental health evaluation and access to her cell phone, according to 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler. Her next court appearance is Jan. 14, when charges could be filed.

The teen’s parents agreed to release her cell phone password only if a search warrant is presented, according to her attorney, Dagna Van Der Jagt, who declined to comment after the hearing. The teen’s attorney also filed a motion arguing the girl’s diary was unlawfully seized by authorities and requesting documents remain sealed.

It is not known if she will be charged as an adult.

“We just haven’t come to that conclusion yet,” Brauchler said.

Brauchler said he plans to remain closely involved in the court process. “… There is enough out there that I think people can conclude this has the potential to be something that is of extreme significance to members of this community,” said Brauchler, who lives in Highlands Ranch. “This is important to get right. This is not a case that we want to guess wrong on, either for the juvenile or for the community.”

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Words connected Parker, community Longtime journalist, who died Jan. 2, wrote about business, entertainment and more

By Ann Macari Healey ahealey@coloradocommunitymedia.com Wendy Aiello first met Penny Parker when Parker was working at the Rocky Mountain News covering retail, tourism, restaurants and advertising. They became fast friends.

“She was smart and funny,” said Aiello, a public relations executive in Denver.

“She made me laugh every time I talked to her. She truly loved being a reporter and enjoyed being in the thick of things in Denver.”

When Parker died Jan. 2, she was still writing about entertainment, restaurant and philanthropic happenings in the Denver metro area in her popular weekly column “Mile High Life” for Colorado Community Media.

Parker “Penny helped connect our suburban readers to what was happening in the Denver metro area,” said Jerry Healey, Colorado Community Media publisher. “Her voice can never be replaced.”

Parker died in her Capitol Hill condominium at 12:30 p.m. Jan 2, exactly one month after her 62nd birthday. The cause of death has not been determined, her husband, Greg Henry, said.

“Penny loved the battle for a scoop, whether she was writing a business story about the ski industry or finding out about John Elway’s engagement,” Henry said. “Penny loved the ‘On the Town’ column and working at the Rocky. Leaving

the Rocky left a void in her life she was never able to get back. But she loved connecting with her readers on Facebook and in person.”

Parker also is survived by her son, Mackenzie Parker Harden, 25, to whom she was devoted and who lives in New York. A family memorial and celebration of life will be held at an as-yet undetermined time, Henry said.

A longtime journalist known for her tenaciousness, humor and competitiveness, Parker was a features and business reporter at The Denver Post until the rival Rocky Mountain News hired her in 2000 to write “On the Town,” a column about the “famous and near-famous” — as Henry put it — in the Denver sports, business and entertainment worlds.

She covered major events such as the 2008 Democratic National Convention, the 2005 NBA All-Star Game, the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the 2001 NHL Stanley Cup finals. She also garnered respect for her relentlessly thorough and determined business coverage.

“At the Rocky, Penny was our greatest nemesis, especially with her terrific ski coverage,” said Don Knox, former Denver Post and later, Rocky Mountain News, business editor, who competed against Parker at the height of Denver’s newspaper wars. “She was everywhere at a time when it seemed like every Colorado resort was up for sale or changing hands. What really stood out was her persistence — once she got her teeth into a ski story, she never let go, and that defined her among her generation of reporters.”

Bob Burdick, retired editor of the Rocky Mountain News, remembers Parker as an energetic and knowledgeable member of metro Denver’s business and journalism scenes.

MILESTONES Phoebe Katherine Schneider, of Lone Tree, was named to the fall 2015 dean’s list at the University of North Carolina Asheville Kelsey Brum, of Parker, graduated in December 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Union University.

Lindsey Flemmer, of Parker, earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from the University of Kansas.

Melissa Jerger, of Parker, earned a master of business administration from Chadron State College.

Christopher Walker Patten, of Parker, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration in December 2015 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Keegan Rogers, of Parker, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Hofstra University.

Michael Joseph Schentag, of Parker, graduated in December 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Only you can hold yourself back How many times in our lives have we uttered the word “If?” “If only I would have…”

“I could have made it if only I didn’t …”

“If the sun wasn’t in my eyes.”

“I would have been on time if I didn’t run into traffic.”

If, if, if, if, if.

There is an old saying that goes like this, “If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, every day would be Christmas.” You see “if” has always been the scapegoat or excuse as to why we don’t accomplish what we had set out to achieve. “If” the gym wasn’t closed I would have gotten my workout in. “If” the church parking lot wasn’t so full I would have attended service. “If” my friends would just stop talking about me, I would stop talking about them.

Such a small little word right? I mean really, two letters, “if,” but such a powerful and big little word.

Even in its smallness, in its precarious position between success and failure, the word “If” has become the easiest way out for many of us when it comes to rationalizing and justifying why we are not who we want to be or where we want to be in life. Accepting “if” is like giving ourselves permission to accept the defeats, mishaps, and barriers to success that will challenge us along the way

from time to time.

What we need to understand is that regardless of our age, our position, our social status, our race and our sex, there is only one person on the planet that can stop us from reaching success and becoming all that we were meant to be and Michael Norton achieving everything WINNING that we want to be, do, and have. And that WORDS one person who holds that ultimate power is the same person who greets us each morning as we look in the mirror. That’s right, the only person stopping you is…you.

This happens because we get caught up in and buy into the “ifs” and the “If only” excuse making talk track or script that we rehearse over and over again until the myth becomes fact.

So here’s one potential solution for anyone who has become trapped in the “if” cycle of life, replace the word “if” with the word “when.”

“When the gym is closed I will run laps

around the building and do push-ups and sit-ups.”

“When the parking lot is full at church, I will park around the corner and walk, even though I may enter during the first hymn.”

“When my friends seem like they are talking about me, I will listen to what they have to say, change what I need to change, and offer love and forgiveness. Never speaking poorly about them in return.”

The world will certainly serve up its challenges and attempt to thwart our plans at times. And when that happens we can either buy into the problem and hide behind the excuse of “if” or we can say, “When the world gives me lemons, I will make lemonade.” I know it’s an old cliché, but it just felt like the right thing to share.

How about you? Do you live in the world of “Ifs and buts?” or do you take a more responsive and proactive approach toward life and live for new opportunities, claiming future successes with a “Can do” attitude?

Either way I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com. And as we replace the word “of” with the word “When” it really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corp., strategic consultant, and business and personal coach.

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Darkness welcome, but just a light amount

Craig Marshall Smith

QUIET DESPERATION

When I mentioned to a friend that I like it when it gets dark here at 5, she said, “Then why don’t you move to Barrow? They don’t see the sun for 67 days in a row come winter.”

I am not so sure I would care for that, except as a narrative concept.

Darkness at 5 is fine.

The population of Barrow, Alaska, is less than 5,000, or roughly the number of shoppers in my King Soopers on a Saturday.

There’s a high school and they field athletic teams. The Barrow High Whalers. Recently they

reached the semifinal game of the Alaska Small School Football Championship.

And then it was lights out.

As much as I like the early darkness these days, that would be too much.

I wonder what the depression rate is?

Light bulb sales are the highest in the United States.

On the flip side, Barrow has 80 days of uninterrupted sunlight.

I just checked. It’s 4:30 p.m. in Barrow, and minus 20.

And dark as pitch.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR That property is not in Larkspur Regarding the article in last week’s paper pertaining to motorsport regulations and motorcross tracks, I would like to correct Shanna Fortier’s reference to “a track being built on a property in Larkspur.” No such track has been or is being built in the town of Larkspur. The property in question, although having a Larkspur mailing address, is in unincorporated Douglas County and the town has no jurisdiction over that location.

To further clarify, Larkspur town government has no regulatory authority over decisions made regarding use of this property and is committed to retaining the rural lifestyle and scenic nature of the community.

Residents and business owners having questions or issues should direct them to Douglas County.

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January 7, 2016

What is a senior citizen? Not us, of course Many years ago when I turned 50, some funny things began to happen.

People started interacting with me in whole new ways.

My doctor started conversations with, “Now that you are 50….” My bank told me about its special services for seniors and, wherever I went shopping or other leisure activities, people took the time to tell me about their senior discounts. Like a tadpole to frog, I had morphed and been reclassified into this thing called senior citizen.

AARP is in your mailbox two days before you turn 50.

McDonald’s is willing to classify customers looking for a discount as a senior if they are 50, 55, 60 (depending on who you ask), or simply if they “look it,” according to a May 2012 post from the huffingtonpost.com. Ouch!

Can a senior citizen be defined

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It makes me wonder why someone would live there.

I think it would be a good encampment for a fugitive. It’s about as undesirable as it gets, presumably for bounty hunters too.

It is its own kind of punishment.

The area is best known for a tragedy.

Pilot Wiley Post and humorist Will Rogers both died in a plane crash near Point Barrow in August, 1935.

Post was 37. Rogers was 56.

Post was the first pilot to fly solo around the world.

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“She seemed to know just about everyone and every place, and she could easily recite a list of potential venues — new or old — to try,” he said. “She will be missed.”

Parker also gained a large following, when after being diagnosed with breast cancer, she shared her experience through her column.

“She really struck a chord with readers because all of us had a personal connection to someone who fought cancer,” Henry said.

When the Rocky Mountain News closed in 2009, she moved back to the Denver Post as a business columnist until being laid off in 2012, Henry said.

Parker continued writing her “On the Town” column for the society website blacktie-colorado.com until 2014. This

as someone who works or someone retired?

Many times, senior is related directly to retired, which in turn is related in some people’s minds Naioma Walberg as diminishing capabilities.

LIVING AND Don’t say that AGING WELL too loudly around Harrison Ford, 73, who is still fighting the dark side of the Force in future galaxies, or Alex Trebek, 75, who is still giving clues on “Jeopardy!”

And don’t say it too loudly to those

who worked hard and were successful enough to retire to pursue lifelong dreams.

When it comes to the government, it usually applies to individuals who are 65-plus and eligible to receive full Social Security benefits, pensions and medical benefits. West’s Encyclopedia of American Law defines a senior citizen as “Elderly persons, usually more than 60 or 65 years of age.” Any definition that uses the term “elderly persons” definitely makes being classified as a “senior” sound much more appealing.

Fortunately, there are some upside perks for suddenly becoming reclassified.

Automobile insurance companies, as well as many restaurants and event venues, offer discounts. Travel can become cheaper and, most important, you are eligible for the National Parks

Golden Eagle Pass at 62 — a coveted reward that makes you contemplate getting a fake ID. Predictions that one in four people will be over 65 by 2039 means that seniors are everywhere. Sometimes, you can identify these individuals as the ones who are a little grayer, a little slower and wearing a sweater in 85-degree weather. But don’t be fooled, sometimes they are the most tech savvy people in the room. You may even find yourself talking to one.

So what is a senior citizen?

Not us, of course.

As Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who was 90 when he retired from the Supreme Court in 1932, once said: “Old is 15 years older than I am now.”

Rogers wrote, “When I die, my epitaph, or whatever you call those signs on gravestones, is going to read: `I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I dident (sic) like.’ I am so proud of that, I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved.”

Post and Rogers preceded Carole Lombard in airplane deaths.

And of course Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper.

Maybe you already know this: Waylon Jennings gave up his seat on the plane to The Big Bopper, because J.P. Richardson was ill.

Add: Glenn Miller, Ricky Nelson, Otis Redding, Jim Croce, Stevie Ray Vaughn, John Denver, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Patsy Cline.

Back to Barrow: It seems to me that 67 days without a glimpse of sunshine would have a negative effect on personality, behavior and things like productivity, creativity and even morale.

Maybe not.

It must be wonderful to see the gradual return of daylight.

I am sure the residents all have the dates, when the light will go low, go out, and then begin to come back on.

Do you remember “Darkness Darkness” by the Youngbloods?

“Darkness darkness, be my pillow.

Take my head and let me sleep. In the coolness of your shadow. In the silence of your deep.”

At this time of the day, at this time of the year, the neighborhood is silent.

I am sure the mall is hopping, and downtown Denver is crawling. But in this little territory, all I hear are the sounds that I make.

I might feel differently if I had a 4-year-old and a 5-year-old.

Then the darkness and the closeness might not be so poetic and profound.

But I don’t.

It’s really perfect. And I always want to hold on to it.

I haven’t always felt this way. But introversion will do that to you.

These are my days. These are my nights. And I am thankful for them.

past year, Henry said, she worked in retail sales for Macy’s and Dillard’s with occasional freelance work in public relations, marketing and writing.

An avid Denver Broncos fan, Parker also loved her dogs, friends and playing golf and was passionate about cooking and dining out, her friend, Aiello, said.

In lieu of flowers, Parker’s family asks that donations be sent to her favorite charities: Sense of Security, www.senseofsecurity.org, which provides financial help to breast cancer patients; Denver Dumb Friends League, www.ddfl.org; or The First Tee of Denver, www.thefirstteeofdenver.com.

Once competitors but always friendly, Knox and Parker ended up working for The Denver Post together as columnists — he covering retail, she writing about general business.

“Penny never gave up on life’s work as a teller of stories ...,” Knox said. “She reveled in it, even though the business changed on all of us.”

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Recreation Lone Tree Ladies 9-Hole Golf. Applications are now being accepted for the 2015 Thursday morning 9-hole golf group. The group is open to women golfers ages 18 and older. Applications and more information are available in the Lone Tree Pro Shop or visit www.LTL9Hole.ghinclub.com Contact Nancy Cushing, league president, at 720-560-9333 or email LTL9hole@gmail.com.

Salty Dog Sailing Club If you love to sail or want to try, if you don’t have a boat, if you have a boat but don’t sail enough because you cannot find a crew, the Salty Dog Sailing Club is for you. The club meets the second Thursday of the month. Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. with the business meeting commencing at 7 p.m. Go to www.saltydog.org for meeting locations and directions.

SilverSneakers Fitness, Silver&Fit at ACC The Arapahoe Community College fitness center offers

the SilverSneakers Fitness and Silver&Fit programs for seniors in the south metro Denver area. For more information about health and fitness options at ACC, call 303-797-5850.

Social A Dreampower Animal Rescue / PAALS adoption for cats, dogs and more meets from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Park Meadows PetsMart. Call 303-6889503.

Breakfast Club Singles 50 plus meets the third Saturday each month at the Ridge Grill, Castle Pines North Country Club, 1414 Castle Pines Parkway.

This is an active singles group with opportunities to make new friends while enjoing various activities such as dinners, sports, theater, etc. Reservations are required; cost is price of your meal. Make reservations or find information by calling 303-814-8428.

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Naioma Walberg is a member of the Senior Council of Douglas County.

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Hydrotherapy provides physical relief and helps women relax between contractions. Photo by Jennifer Mason Rainey

January 7, 2016

Mother and baby skin-to-skin time is one of the priorities with a natural birth. Photo by Monet Moutrie

Back to the roots with natural childbirth Many women in the south metro area choose to use midwives

WHAT IS A CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE? Certified nurse midwives are registered nurses who have obtained a master’s degree in nursing and specialize in women’s health. They have passed a national certification exam and must renew their certification every eight years.

By Shanna Fortier sfortier@coloradocommunitymedia.com When Claire Reifert became pregnant with her first child, she knew she would follow in her mother’s footsteps with natural childbirth. And in April 2014, she gave birth to her son with the help of a midwife at a birthing center in Englewood.

“One of my favorite things about seeing the midwives,” said Reifert, an engineer who lives in Centennial, “is they are scientific-based and they contribute to research themselves.”

But she also chose to use a midwife for the comfort factor.

“Being able to have the possibility to move how you want to move, and not put yourself in weird positions to fit what the medical staff wants, is important,” she said.

Reifert is part of a growing trend among women nationwide who want to have natural, unmedicated childbirth. According to data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, certified nurse midwives delivered 8 percent of all babies born in the United States in 2014. That’s up from 7.8 percent in 2013 and 7.6 percent in 2012 and 2011.

A midwife is a traditional care provider for mothers and infants with expertise and skills in supporting women to maintain healthy pregnancies. In Colorado, certified nurse midwives — who can deliver babies — are licensed by the Colorado Board of Nursing. Midwives can be used in a hospital, a free-standing birth center, a doctor’s office or at home.

With midwife practices becoming more common, local hospitals also are responding to that desire by partnering with certified nurse midwives and providing tools to enhance delivery, including labor balls, birth swings and birthing tubs.

In the south metro area, Sky Ridge Medical Center, Castle Rock Adventist Hospital, Swedish Medical Center and

South Denver Midwives, all of whom are certified and work with Littleton and Castle Rock Adventist hospitals, for instance, provide a wide range of healthcare for women from a teenager’s first period, through pregnancy/birth/post-partum, and extending into menopause.

Once women have birthed with a midwife at a center, many choose to deliver their second or third child in their homes. Photo by Monet Moutrie

In Colorado, certified nurse midwives are licensed by the Colorado Board of Nursing and are independent health care providers who can prescribe a full range of substances, medications and treatments. They also focus on research and partnering with women.

Source: South Denver OB/GYN & Midwives

Littleton Adventist Hospital staff certified nurse midwives.

“We are committed to really doing what it takes to make sure those midwife patients have a good experience,” said Jacque Northrup, birth concierge at Castle Rock Adventist Hospital, adding that about 30 percent of women who give birth at Castle Rock Adventist have an unmedicated and natural experience.

In 2013, 308,221 babies nationwide were born with the assistance of a midwife in a hospital, the CDC reported.

But although the trend seems new, certified nurse midwife Aubre Tompkins, of Mountain Midwifery in Englewood, says midwifery and community birthing, as she calls it, is actually the standard — the original way. Giving birth in hospitals, she says, only became mainstream in the 1930s and ’40s.

“What’s happening now is things are coming back to the traditional route,” Tompkins said. “Many families are rediscovering community birthing, and I think it’s wonderful.”

Tompkins’ birthing center, which opened in 2006, has been home to more than 2,000 births and has seen a steady rise in patients over the past year.

“One of the reasons is because thinking about choice is becoming more prevalent in the broader culture,” Tompkins said. “It’s very normal for families to not do a lot of investigating and just go to the doctor their friend or mom went to.

Now, there is a lot more messaging about the value of thinking about your birth and what your immediate start as parents looks like.”

As a midwife, she serves a dual purpose, Tomkins said.

The first is to offer psychological and physical support. The other is to clinically make sure mother and baby are safe and healthy.

One tool midwives use to make mothers comfortable is the birthing pool.

“The water is amazing,” Tompkins said, noting that 50 percent of mothers at her facility give birth in the pool. “Hydrotherapy provides physical relief. The

big thing is that it helps people relax in between contractions. During labor, you need to relax and let it happen.”

For Reifert, the experience with her son went so well she plans to give birth to her second child in June with the help of a midwife.

Not all mothers who choose midwifery initially know that’s the route they want to take.

“I don’t think I really thought much of natural delivery before reading about it,” said Jennifer Eckert, of Aurora, who delivered her first child naturally in 2012. “As I did more research, I got more concerned about having to go to a hospital and loved the idea of letting things happen in their own time and natural course.”

When it comes down to it, the person who is the real expert is the one who is pregnant, Tomkins said: She knows her body and what feels right.

“I really want to involve them in their care,” she said of mothers-to-be. “That’s one of the hallmarks of midwifery care.”

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‘Explosion of Color’ highlights award-winning painters Commissioner’s Choice recipients include Cindy Welch of Castle Rock

IF YOU GO “Explosion of Color” will be displayed Jan. 8 to March 4 in the lobby of the Lone Tree Arts Center, 100075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays and two hours prior to performances. A reception for the artists will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Jan. 22. Sales are handled through the box office.

By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia.com Winners of the 2016 Commissioner’s Choice awards at Lone Tree Arts Center have been announced: Diane Cornish and Cindy Welch.

The two painters will present a show called “Explosion of Color” at LTAC from Jan. 8 through March 4, with art available for sale. A reception for the duo will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22.

Diane Cornish was born in Chicago and showed an early inclination toward art. “No surface was safe from Crayola markings,” says her website bio. Her childhood was nomadic, and she lived in Arizona, Oregon, California, Hawaii and, eventually, Colorado, which continues to be her home. Her background includes the persona of Ollie the clown, courtroom artist for the Douglas County News-Press, political cartoonist and art teacher for 28 years.

Her main emphasis is on watercolor, although she also has a passion for photography and paints from her own photographs of nature. “When I am outside with my camera, I see paintings everywhere,” she wrote. She is a member

“Castle Rock and Pikes Peak,” a watercolor by Cindy Welch, is included in the Commissioner’s Choice exhibit “Explosion of Color” from Jan. 8 to March 4 at Lone Tree Arts Center. Courtesy photo of the Castle Rock Art Guild, with work exhibited at the Art on the Edge Gallery, 414 Wilcox in Castle Rock. She also belongs to the Arizona Art Alliance and Casa

Grande Valley Fine Arts Association and exhibits with both.

Cindy Welch, of Castle Rock, started winning awards for her art as a high

school student, including a full-tuition scholarship to Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, where she majored in commercial art and developed a special interest in watercolor.

Her first job at a Denver design studio involved layout and design, with pen and ink and airbrush. She also drew architectural renderings for several builders — a skill that shows today in her series of paintings of Castle Rock’s scenery and historic buildings, which are available for sale as prints from Colorado Art and Framing Gallery. She is a member of the Castle Rock Art Guild and exhibits at Art on the Edge Gallery.

She publishes four community newsletters and operates a community website called CastleRockBound.net, which has information on events, businesses and where to sled in Castle Rock.

Albums that made a difference in 2015 Music has always reflected the times, so it’s fitting the best releases of the year are searching, personal works that defy compartmentalization in any particular genre.

Following are the albums that had the biggest impact on me over the past 12 months. They provided comfort, posed questions and served as solid ground in a tumultuous year of widespread violence and social change. A year that reminded us at every stop to never take for granted the most important things in life.

We can only hope the music of 2016 lives up to this year.

Here’s my best of the best:

1. “To Pimp A Butterfly” - Kendrick Lamar Lamar captured 2015 in 80 sprawling minutes — at times violent, transformative, harrowing and beautiful. Lamar went beyond hip-hop, exploding the genre’s sonic palette through the incorporation of funk, acid jazz and come-toJesus gospel into his music.

The sheer scope of Lamar’s lyrical insights is astounding. From the new civil rights anthem “Alright,” to the vitriol (both outward and inward) of “The Blacker the Berry,” he covered all the bases and made it look easy. He also created President Obama’s favorite song of the year by breathing fire into a tired cliché

on “How Much A Dollar Cost.”

Music didn’t get any more vibrant or vital.

2. “I Love You, Honeybear” Father John Misty The funniest, bitterest and wisest album about the triClarke Reader als of love in a long LINER time, Josh Tillman (the real name of NOTES Father John Misty) created a masterpiece for romantics — secret, hopeless and everyone in between.

Although Tillman created a persona to give him a little distance on the album, “Honeybear” still ends up being a startlingly intimate story about falling in love with his now wife. He channels the wit and hidden romance of Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson and Tom Waits while sounding unlike any other artist.

To know what modern romance sounds like, check out this album: Tillman delivered a dissertation on the subject.

3. “E•MO•TION” - Carly Ray Jepsen

After creating one of the century’s biggest pop hits with “Call Me Maybe,” Jepsen disappeared for three years, and people began to write her off as a one hit wonder.

But one listen to “E•MO•TION” demonstrates why she was so quiet: she was busy crafting a pop masterpiece, the kind of knock-you-out, kick-down-the-door, hit machine that completely blasts away any who try to resist its charms. This is what musical joy sounds like.

Music snobs, consider yourself on notice — this thing goes from start to finish, and if you have a problem with pop perfection, get over it. Jepsen can’t be stopped.

4. “Surf” - Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment The best soul and jazz album wrapped into one shining whole, “Surf” is home to perhaps the happiest and most hopeful music of the year.

The Social Experiment is a group of Chicago musicians formed and led by Chance the Rapper, who broke into the rap scene on his 2013 mixtape “Acid Rap.” Here, Chance demonstrates how visionary he is — he’s not bound just by rap and is looking to bring other genres into his orbit.

“Surf” is relentlessly positive. From the affirmations of “Wanna Be Cool” to

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5. “Beauty Behind the Madness” - The Weeknd Dark, mysterious, sexy. That about describes the music Abel Tesfaye creates as The Weeknd, and he’s built a pop album that filters this worldview through Michael Jackson’s knack for writing hooks.

Tesfaye isn’t searching for love. Any affection in his world is physical, flammable and fleeting. The deepest he feels is the desire that the women he meets find someone they can love — because it sure won’t be him.

It’s escapism and sounds fantastic coming out of any speaker.

Tesfaye produced the soundtrack for the Tinder world, where love is just a swipe away.

For a night.

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THEATER/SHOWS Children’s Musical Production Spotlight Performing Arts Center presents “Beauty and the Beast,” a fulllength children’s musical production that is the end product of a 15-week class for children ages 3-12 years. Performances are at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 8-9, and 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 9, at Spotlight Performing Arts Center, 6328 E. County Line Road, Unit 102, Highlands Ranch. Call Spotlight Performing Arts Center to order tickets; 720-443-2623. Go to www.spotlightperformers.com.

MUSIC/CONCERTS Samba Boot Camp Adventures in Dance presents Samba Boot Camp from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 16, at 1500 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton. Camp is good for the intermediate dancer, with samba techniques and amalgamations. Go to www.adventuresindance.com. Lunch is included.

ART/CRAFTS ‘Ellis Island’ Viewing The Parker Genealogical Society will watch the History Channel’s “Ellis Island” at its January meeting, Saturday, Jan. 9, at Stroh Road Fire Station, 19310 Stroh Road, Parker. Meeting is at 1:30 p.m.

DAR Presentation Castle Rock Historical Society welcomes Paula Lasky from the Daughters of the American Revolution on Thursday, Jan. 14, at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Have you ever wondered if you could be part of the DAR? Lasky will speak on how to trace your ancestors to see if you could be part of the newly formed chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Castle Rock. Refreshments will be served at 6:45 p.m. with the presentation starting at 7. Contact the Castle Rock Museum at 303-814-3164, museum@ castlerockhistoricalsociety.org, or www. castlerockhistoricalsociety.org. Admission is free.

British Comedy The British are coming to the Theatre of Dreams in Castle Rock. Martin Lewis, British comedy magician, has performed the feats of illusion and magic in Tokyo, London, Australia, Europe and more. Lewis will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, and Saturday, Jan. 16. Keith Fields, comedy magician, stars in “A Brit of Magic,” an interactive show that includes magic, comedy and stunts. He will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6. Reservations required for all shows, as seating is limited. Go to www.Tickets.AmazingShows.com or call 303-660-6799. Theatre of Dreams is at 735 Park St., Suites C & D, Castle Rock. Go to www.AmazingShows.com.

Disney’s Mary Poppins With the Banks children running rampant, a magical nanny flies in to save the day in this fantastical musical. Featuring songs you know and love like “Chim Chim Cheree,”and “A Spoonful of Sugar.” All the fun of the film is brought to life on stage in this “Supercalifragilistic-expialidocious” production. Show runs from Friday, Jan. 15-31 at the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. A sensory-friendly performance is at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28. For times, tickets and information, go to www.ParkerArt.org or call 303-805-6800.

‘Violet’ Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., Littleton, presents “Violet” from Friday, Jan. 15, to Sunday, Feb. 7. Violet tells the story of a young woman’s quest for beauty amid the image obsessed landscape of the 1960s. Violet dreams of a miraculous transformation through the power of faith.

Convinced that a televangelist in Oklahoma can heal her, she hops a Greyhound bus and starts the journey of a lifetime. Along the way, Violet forms unlikely friendships with her fellow riders, who teach her about beauty, love, courage and what it means to be an outsider. Tickets available at the box office, 303-794-2787, ext. 5, or online at www.TownHallArtsCenter.org.

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Literature Based Art Budding artists ages 6-12 will enjoy Art Stop on the Go, during which an artist from the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art will present a book, then lead participants in a literature-based art project. Sessions offered at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 11, at the Parker Library, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive; and at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, at the Roxborough Library, 8357 N. Rampart Range Road. Registration is required. Call 303-791-7323 or go to www.DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

EVENTS Nonfiction Book Club Forming Club members read stories about real people who made a difference in this world, or who inspire us because they overcame great setbacks in life. Some people wield great power or enlighten us about cultures or events in history. Nonfiction adds to your knowledge and increases critical thinking skills. History can be so much stranger than fiction. Our meetings will be individuals reading different books on the same subject, discussing what we learned, liked or didn’t like. Contact evelyn.poulo@gmail.com for a list of books and submit your own favorites. Kickoff is at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, at the Parker Library, in the conference room. First topic will be Arab women authors speaking out about their culture. Book should be completed by meeting date; get reading.

Find, Use, Interpret Family Histories What is family history, and how is it different from genealogy? What are all of those numbers and what do they mean? How can I find others that may or may not have been published? Learn some basic definitions, resources and search strategies at the Columbine Genealogical and Historical Society program “Compiled Family Histories and Genealogies: How to Find Them, Use Them and Interpret Them” with James Jeffrey, genealogy specialist with Western History and Genealogy at Denver Public Library. Program runs from 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, at Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Centennial. Contact society President Joyce B. Lohse at Joyce4Books@gmail.com. Go to www.ColumbineGenealogy.com.

Coloring for Adults Adult coloring is all the rage. Douglas County Libraries will host “Coffee and Coloring” for adults at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, at the Parker Library, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive. Registration is required. Call 303-791-7323 or go to www.DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Christmas Tree Recycling, Mulch Centennial residents can dispose of Christmas trees through Sunday, Jan. 17. Trees must be free of ornaments and decorations. Sites are open from sunrise to sunset. Artificial trees are not accepted. Disposal sites are: Lookout Park, 5455 S. Riviera Way; Pine Creek Hollow Park, 6140 S. Tower Road; and Willow Spring Service Center, 7100 S. Holly St. Free mulch will be available at all sites.

Adventures in Dance Learn the jive, lindy hop, Charleston and hustle in a workout format at Swing Aerobics from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Mondays through Jan. 26. Dance to blues and popular rock while learning the West Coast Swing from 7-8 p.m. Tuesdays through Feb. 23. Learn the merengue and bachata club dances from 8-9 p.m. Wednesdays through Feb. 24. Learn to glide across the floor with the Viennese waltz and the waltz from 7-8 p.m. Thursdays through Feb. 25. Classes are in the group room at Adventures in Dance, 1500 W. Littleton Blvd., Suite 207, Littleton. Go to www.adventuresindance. com.

HEALTH South Metro Community Blood Drives A number of community blood drives are planned in the South Metro area. For information or to schedule an appointment, contact the Bonfils Appointment Center at 303-363-2300, unless otherwise noted. Go to www.bonfils.org. Upcoming blood drives are: Sunday, Jan. 10, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E. Parker Road, Parker; Sunday, Jan. 10, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Faith Lutheran Church, 303 N. Ridge Road, Castle Rock (Karen Johnson, 720-272-1464); Monday, Jan. 11, 9-10:40 a.m. and noon to 2:30 p.m., Crescent Parkway Building, 8400 E. Crescent Parkway; Tuesday, Jan. 12, 9-10:40 a.m. and noon to 2:30 p.m., One DTC Building, 5251 DTC Parkway, Greenwood Village; Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2-6:30 p.m., West Bowles Community Church, 12325 W. Bowles Ave., Littleton; Thursday, Jan. 14, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m., Douglas County Government, 301 Wilcox St., Castle Rock; Friday, Jan. 15, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker; Saturday, Jan. 16, 7:30 a.m. to noon, St. Thomas More Parish Center, 7071 E. Otero Ave., Centennial (720-482-3577); Sunday, Jan. 17, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Crossroads Community Church, 9900 S. Twenty Mile Road, Parker.

Free Nutrition, Cooking Class Free Heart Health nutrition classes and cooking demonstrations are offered from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13 (The Roll of Stress in Brain and Heart Health); Wednesday, Jan. 20 (Using Spices for Health and Flavor); Wednesday, Jan. 27 (Food Addiction) at the South Denver Heart Center, 1000 Southpark Drive, Littleton. Join Richard Collins, M.D., “The Cooking Cardiologist,” along with Susan Buckley, RD, CDE, as they share their expertise on Heart Healthy nutrition and cooking solutions.

For more information or to register, call 303-744-1065, www.southdenver. com.

Divorce Recovery Workshop A 10-week seminar that promotes healing for those who are going through a divorce or end of a love relationship is presented beginning Thursday, Jan. 14, at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch. The first Rebuilding When Your Relationship Ends seminar session runs from 6:30-8:30 p.m. The series offers education, support, and optional social activities. Complimentary child care provided with advance registration. For cost and other information, or to register, contact Beth Walker at 720-352-9915 or bethdwalker@gmail.com.

SilverSneakers Fitness, Silver&Fit The Arapahoe Community College fitness center offers the SilverSneakers Fitness and Silver&Fit programs for seniors in the south metro Denver area. For more information about health and fitness options at ACC, call 303-797-5850.

EDUCATION Free ACT/SAT Practice Students will be able to take free ACT/SAT practice tests at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, Jan. 9, at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Students will receive detailed performance analysis, helping them determine which test to take for real. Presented by Kaplan.

Registration is required; call 303-791-7323 or go to www.DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

History of Football Join Active Minds for a look at the most popular sport in America.

Football is entertainment and big business. Program traces the history of the game, from Johnny Unitas to Peyton Manning, telling a few of the great stories of the game along the way. Program also covers some of the sports challenges and opportunities, including player concussions and the rise of fantasy football. Program runs from 3-4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13, at RiverPointe, 5225 S. Prince St., Littleton. Call 303-7970600 to RSVP. ESL Family Night Students who speak English as a second language will get help with the college application process during Douglas County Libraries’ ESL family night at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Other highlights of the event include information on accessing students’ grades online and literacy opportunities for students and adults. Registration is encouraged; call 303-791-7323 or go to www.DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Practice English Skills Practice your English class gives adult mixed level English language learners an opportunity to practice speaking English. Adults from all levels and language backgrounds are welcome at 10:30 a.m. Saturdays at Douglas County Libraries in Parker, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive, and in Highlands Ranch, James H. LaRue branch, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd. No registration is required.

Continuing Education Program Metropolitan State College of Denver offers a continuing education program for adults. Most classes are from 6-8 p.m.

Wednesdays, for two to four weeks, and cost varies.

Most take place at the Student Success Building on the Auraria Campus, with other classes taking place at the South Campus (I-25 and Orchard) and the Center For Visual Arts on Santa Fe Drive. For list of classes, go to www.msudenver.edu/learnon or call 303556-3657. Application not required. More information on Facebook www.Facebook. com/msudenverlearnoninitiative.

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Grasslands programs take root Offerings part of partnership with Denver Botanic Gardens

By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia.com In 2015, the Plains Conservation Center engaged more than 10,000 students in its mission of educating as many people as possible about the endangered grasslands here and throughout the world. In 2016, that number should expand as the Denver Botanic Gardens collaborates with the PCC in a partnership with both organizations’ education programs.

It’s a natural combination since both are focused on plant science and understanding ecosystems. Both are SCFD funded.

One third of the earth’s surface is grasslands, according to the PCC’s website — and 70 percent of that area is degraded. North America alone has lost 80 percent of its grasslands. This leads to climate change, floods, famine and poverty worldwide. The next generation will inherit this situation and needs to understand it.

All programs will be held at the PCC’s 1,000-acre Aurora campus and will begin with class registration on Jan. 15.

The new partnership will not alter the present program offerings. Included: • Prairie Perspectives: Grades 3-5. An overnight program in which children adopt the persona of an 1800s-era Cheyenne Indian and of a homesteader as they learn about the prairie

ecosystem.

• Day Tours: Grades 1-6. Provides students with one or a combination of three programs on grassland ecology, Cheyenne Indian skills and sod homesteading.

• Preschool and Kindergarten Tours: Younger learners have hands-on experiences to stimulate curiosity and a love of the natural world.

• Ecological Monitoring: Grades 6-8.

Students engage in real field science, ranging from bird surveys to prairie dog ethnography.

The programs allow kids to learn about 19th century settlers, sod houses and more. They can go on nature walks and learn about bird watching. There are also Cheyenne teepees with 1830s artifacts.

The center hosts a farm-to-table dinner each season and offers free admission to those who want to walk through on their own. There are fees for the education programs.

The Plains Conservation Center is also working with an additional 7,900 acres farther east, south of Strasburg on West Bijou Creek. There is a pronghorn herd there and a place to study about the extinction of dinosaurs. (Can only be accessed with a guide.) The website offers a good deal of interesting reading about how holistic range management, proper use of grazing animals, can renew the soil, countering global warming. “Find your roots in the grasslands” is the PCC invitation to all.

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Richard Lambert Foundation’s Family Grief & Healing Center is offering a 12 Week Grief Support Workshop from 6:00 - 7:30 pm on Thursday’s from January 14 thru March 31st. Have you been impacted by the loss of a family member or friend? The death of someone you loved is frightening, painful and lonely. Our core 12 week workshop will focus on understanding grief and allowing yourself to mourn, helping to gain strength and understanding that hope and healing are possible. Discussion is based on the materials and training by Dr. Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D. The workshop is open to all adults 18 and over and is free of charge. To register for the workshop call or text Susan at 303-875-2347 or email info@richardlambertfoundation.org

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Misc. Notices Appliances Notice of Public Hearing: Public comments for a Colorado State Low Income Housing Tax Credit application for the construction of the proposed Independence Village Apartments, to be located at 1310 Independence Street and 9450 W. 13th Avenue in Lakewood, CO. The meeting shall take place on Tuesday, January 12th at 5:30 pm at the Lakewood Cultural Center’s Community Room located at 470 S. Allison Parkway – Lakewood, CO – 80226.

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‘History of America’ focus of event

Dr. Richard Kurin will speak about his new book, “The Smithsonian’s History of America in 101 Objects,” at 1 and 7 p.m. on Jan. 11 at the History Colorado Center. He is the institution’s undersecretary for history, art and culture, and he offers a new perspective on American history, explaining how objects end up in Sonya Ellingboe the Smithsonian collection SONYA’S and encouraging us to reconsider objects we think SAMPLER we know and understand.

Tickets: $8.50 members; $6.50 students; $16 nonmembers with museum admission; $10 nonmembers, lecture only. History Colorado Center is at 1200 Broadway, Denver. Historycolorado. org/event/Smithsonian, 303-866-2394.

Also at the History Colorado Center is the Tiny Library Concert Series: Thunder and Rain at 7 p.m. Jan. 19, part of a series of acoustic shows by local Colorado musicians in the Stephen H. Hart Library. Tickets: $10.

Sherlock “The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes” at Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, takes visitors to Victorian London to solve crime in Holmes’ distinctive style. “Elementary, my dear Watson.”

On exhibit in Denver through January. Dmns. org/Sherlock.

Feed winter birds Audubon Society of Greater Denver is holding its annual Birdseed Sale now, with an order deadline of Feb. 5. Seed pickup will be at the Audubon Nature Center on Feb. 13 from 10 a.m. to noon at 9380 S. Wadsworth Blvd., Littleton (the south end of Chatfield State Park). For information, call 303-973-9530 between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. Order online at denveraudubon.org. (While on the website, look at the many hikes and trips offered. Tropical birds and Monarch butterflies sound really appealing

about now in the depths of winter.)

Nature photography The top 250 in the annual “Share the View” international nature photography contest will be displayed at University of Colorado South (formerly Wildlife Experience) 10035 Peoria St., Parker, with a special recognition event from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 13. RSVP by Jan. 11 at 303-9739530 or info@denveraudubon.org.

Genealogists The Columbine Genealogical and History Society announces two meetings in January at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Centennial. Jan. 12, 1-3 p.m.: “Compiled Family Histories and Genealogies: How to Find them, Use them and Interpret Them” with James Jeffrey, genealogy specialist, Western History and Genealogy, Denver Public Library, Central Branch. Jan. 19, 1-3 p.m.: “Tracing your Norwegian Ancestors” with Marylee Hagen, cultural director and genealogy support director, Fjelldalen Lodge, Sons of Norway, Denver. Guests are welcome to these meetings. Information: Joyce Lohse, president, Joyce4Books@gmail.com.

Museo “Jerry De La Cruz: A 45-Year Retrospective” is exhibited at the Museo De Las Americas, 861 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, until Jan. 16. The Denver native and noted artist reflects on his journey as he explored different styles and techniques.

‘Super Indian’ “Super Indian: Fritz Scholder” showcases more than 40 paintings and lithographs by Scholder at the Denver Art Museum through Jan. 17. The exhibit explores how the artist blended figurative and pop art into remarkable, sometimes in-your-face images. The Denver Art Museum is on 13th Street between Broadway and Bannock Streets, with parking garage on 12th St., just west of Broadway. Denverartmuseum.org.

New members “First Impressions,” art by new Littleton Fine Arts Guild members, opened Jan. 6 at the Depot Art Center, 2069 W. Powers Ave., Littleton. Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.

Admission free. 303-795-0781.

Parker’s Nancy Begley is ‘Mary Poppins’

By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@colorado communitymedia.com Nancy Begley was familiar with the P.L. Travers book and with the movie, but of her lead role in PACE Center’s Jan. 15-31 production of “Mary Poppins” she said, “It’s a dream I didn’t know I had — it’s really exciting. Two months prior to the auditions, I knew I wanted to play the role, and spent lots of time with the Disney Studio study guides.

They included information on dialogues and accents. I learned about 90 percent. I grew up as a dancer so standing in first position (as in ballet) is not a stretch.”

The posture, accent and nononsense behavior were easy to manage. “Like Mary, I have a lot of very specific views about how kids should be, about how families should be… We rehearse at the Parker Mainstreet Center. It’s fun being part of my community.” She has lived in Parker for eight years and is a Colorado native.

Begley graduated from Metropolitan State University with a BFA in musical theatre and has been recognized by the Denver Lyric Opera Guild, Rocky Mountain Theatre Association and Broadway World, and she has played in a number of musicals — most recently as Anita in “West Side Story.”

She is a vice president at a metroarea bank by day. “I come from a financial family,” she said (it pleases her that Mr. Banks, the father in the play, is a banker).

On a personal note, she said, “I graduated in 2008 at 250 pounds and with my weight-loss journey, these kinds of roles are now possible for me.”

Readers may recall that Mary Poppins arrives at the Banks’ home, 17 Cherry Street Lane, London, by

IF YOU GO PACE Center, with its 536seat theater, is at 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays; and 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, which is a sensory friendly performance, designed for patrons with sensory sensitivities and special needs. Sound and light levels are lower and even, startling effects are eliminated, and house lights are kept half-on throughout. Tickets range from $16 to $25. Advance reservations are recommended.

ParkerArts.org or 303-805-6800. flying with her parrot-handled umbrella. That entailed some flying lessons at the CU Opera Shop, Begley said. Bert has to fly too, and he has to go upside down. A harness has been custom made for each of them. “I’d trust them with my life,” Begley said of the technicians.

“Mary Poppins” is a collaboration between PACE Center and Inspire Creative Theatre Company. Gary Lewis is the show’s director and has said that Begley is “an incredibly talented artist.” During the three-hour show, the audience can expect wellknown songs such as “Spoonful of Sugar” and “Let’s Go Fly a Kite,” as well as the familiar chimney sweep dance sequence.

Begley said that Levi Hirsch (Michael Banks) and Regan Fenske (Jane Banks) “are the best child performers I’ve ever worked with.”

Mary and the kids will be in the lobby after the show to interact with kids in the audience, she said.

“Performing brings me joy — being part of something so magical … and seeing joy on faces of kids in the audience,” Begley said.

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18 Lone Tree Voice

SPORTS

January 7, 2016

LOCAL

Local players winning at numbers game

Steve Ketchum talks to the Ponderosa basketball team during practice. While coaching the Mustangs — which after more than 10 years of losing seasons are 6-2 heading into the new year — he is living with friends in Aurora. His family lives in Aspen.

Courtesy photo

Coach’s family a full-court affair Steve Ketchum, who has seven sons, is feeling at home at Ponderosa

By Jim Benton jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com When all his sons are home, Ponderosa boys basketball coach Steve Ketchum can field a basketball team.

That’s because Ketchum and his wife, Mardi, have seven sons: Two are from Mardi’s first marriage and five are adopted — three from the Denver foster care system and two from Haiti.

“When Mardi and I decided we were falling in love and we were talking marriage, the first question I asked her was, ‘Would you be willing to have more children?’” Ketchum said. “I said, ‘What about adopting?’ and she said, ‘Absolute-

ly.’ She had always dreamed of having seven kids — and she has seven sons.”

Ketchum, 57, has coached basketball for 32 seasons, including a stint in Missouri and 16 seasons in Aspen, where his family lives. This season at Ponderosa, a Class 4A school playing in the 5A Continental League, is his first in Parker but his 33rd season overall of high school coaching. He is living with friends in Aurora for the season, which could last until early March if the team makes the playoffs.

His wife, Mardi, is chief financial officer of Terrapin Investments and Management Corp., a hotel ownership and management company headquartered in Aspen. Four of the couple’s adopted sons live with her at the Ketchum home in Basalt. CJ, an avid runner and crosscountry skier, is studying in an advanced private school in Branson, Missouri.

One of Mardi’s sons from her first marriage, Zac Paris, 31, is a ski instructor and organic farmer living in Aspen.

The other, Cody Paris, 32, is an associate professor at Middlesex University in Dubai.

A school that ‘felt like home’ In April 2014, Ketchum, also CEO and owner of Aspen Basketball Academy, a summer program that takes teams to play in Europe, stepped away from high school coaching because he wanted to spend more time with his family. He mentored his son’s competitive basketball teams during the 201415 season.

But “I could tell he was getting a little antsy,” said Mardi. “I told him to go find another job. It came up on the Front Ketchum continues on Page 19

Rock Canyon sustains success on the court Jaguars win 10th game with victory over Smoky Hill

By Jim Benton jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com Rock Canyon, playing without graduated star guards Mitch Lombard and Tyler Garcia, doesn’t have the go-to guy to bail them out this season, so everybody is contributing.

The Jaguars won their 10th game in 12 starts Jan. 2 with a 74-47 romp over visiting Smoky Hill.

“Obviously Mitch and Tyler last year were very special players,” said Rock Canyon coach Kent Grams. “All our guys last year were complementary players to them. We don’t have a guy that can take over a game now.

“So we have to play more as a team to be successful. We emphasize making the extra pass and making sure we are playing team defense. That’s what the game is all about, seeing how many good shots we can turn down to get a great shot. Our team is very unselfish.”

Key moments Smoky Hill scored the first basket of the second quarter to pull within 17-12, but Rock Canyon went on an 11-0 run and the Buffs went 5:04 without scoring as the Jaguars swelled their lead to 16 points.

Rock Canyon led by 30-plus points

Rock Canyon’s Isaac Hirsch (24) drives to the hoop against Smoky Hill. Hirsch scored nine points in the 74-47 Rock Canyon victory. Photo by Jim Benton three times in the fourth quarter.

Key players/statistics Sam Masten, a 6-foot-3 sophomore, led the Jaguars with 27 points.

Isaac Hirsch, a 6-4 senior, scored nine points and added eight assists, 11 rebounds and three steals.

“We don’t have the superstar factor like we did last year but we’re playing a lot better as a team,” admitted Hirsch. “It’s not difficult for us to be unselfish. It’s the next man up for us. Every game we have

a new person scoring over 20 points. We never know who it is going to be.”

Colin Rardin finished with eight points for the Jaguars.

They said it Grams has been impressed with the Jaguars’ leadership.

“We had the right leaders in the right spots with Isaac, Payton (Berman) and Noah (Beck),” he said. “They are Jaguars continues on Page 20

It’s true that many times the most valuable player on a basketball team doesn’t have gaudy statistics, but it’s still meaningful to highlight a few of the state individual leaders from games played before the holiday break.

Jim Benton Kolton Peterson of Lakewood is the fifthOVERTIME leading boys scorer in Class 5A with a 21.8 scoring average, according to a list compiled by maxpreps. com, a website dedicated to high school sports. Ralston Valley’s Antonio Capley is second in rebounding with an average of 11.5 a game and ranks just ahead of Mountain Vista’s Jake Belknapp and Dallas Walton of Arvada West, who have pulled down 11.3 rebounds a game.

Mountain Vista’s Isaac Essien is the state’s 5A assist leader with an average of 7.4 a game. Arapahoe’s Joseph Kleeman is second in steals with 3.1 a game.

Valor Christian’s Jeremy Randle leads all Class 4A 3-point shooters as he has connected on 53 percent of his attempts, while Ponderosa’s Derek Hansen is second with a 51-percent shooting accuracy from long range.

In 5A girls scoring statistics, Pomona’s Ashley Madden is scoring 26.5 points a game to rank second in the state. Ralston Valley Ashley Van Sickle is the state leader with 7.3 assists per game and is second in steals with a 4.7 average.

Jaz’myne Sipes of ThunderRidge is Colorado’s second-leading 5A rebounder with 11 per game while Lutheran senior Kristen Vigil is tops in 3A steals with 5.3 per game and is second with 5.7 assists.

Faith Christian’s Makena Long is the 3A statistical leader by making 50 percent of her 3-point attempts.

Eye on the national team Sebastian Anderson, an eighth-grader at Ranch View Middle School in Highlands Ranch, has his sights set on being one of the 24 players who will be selected this spring to be on the Under-15 Boys national soccer team.

Anderson, who plays for Real Colorado, was one of 48 players invited to the national camp last September and he was among the 36 players to take part in the final team camp Dec. 13-20 in Sunrise, Florida.

In the December camp there were 32 players, including Anderson, from the U.S. Soccer Development Academy at the U14 level and four nondevelopment players.

“It was a great feeling when I first got the email to come back for the second camp,” said Anderson. “It was great to know all the work has paid off and I had another chance to prove myself in front of all the coaches.

“The second time was a lot calmer because I knew a lot of the kids that came back from the first camp. I was more familiar with everyone. I just played like I usually play and let my play show for itself.”

Wrestling rankings Week three of the “On the Mat” rankings have been released, and Pomona looks like the team to beat in Class 5A. The Panthers are No. 1 in Tim Yount’s Class 5A team rankings, with Legacy third, Ponderosa fifth and Chaparral 11th.

Yount, Colorado’s wrestling guru, has a full-time job but has been compiling weekly individual and team rankings for the past 22 years after examining results.

Four Pomona individual wrestlers are Benton continues on Page 20

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Ketchum

Juggling two worlds At a Ponderosa basketball practice before the holiday break, Ketchum constantly interacted with his players, demonstrating Continued from Page 18 techniques, yelling encouragement, applauding good moves.

Range.”

“I tell my players every day, ‘Thank you Denver offered more opportunities at for saving my marriage,’” Ketchum said higher-level coaching, Ketchum said. PUBLIC NOTICE jokingly. “‘I can yell at you, get it all out, and “Pondo was the first place I interLone Tree I can go home and relax.’”

NOTICE OF SALE viewed,” he said. “I just fell in love with Tim Sale No. 2015-0261 Public Trustee But Ketchum doesn’t yell much. And he Ottmann, the athletic director. The school To Whom It May Concern: On 10/9/2015 seems to be enjoying coaching at the high felt like home. This felt like family.”

11:46:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and school level again.

Ottmann knows he hired the rightrelating to the Deed of Trust deDemand “At times, he gets intense, but other scribed below to be recorded in Douglas person to run the Mustangs basketball County. times he’s really mellow,” said team captain program.

Grantor: ANDREW RHODES Derek Hansen, a junior. “You can go talk to “Coach K and I share many Original of the same AND BRADLEY RHODES Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELEChim one-on-one as a player. ...He opens up coaching values,” he said. “HisTRONIC incredible REGISTRATION SYSTEMS and he actually likes it when you go talk to INC,.ethic AS NOMINEE FOR BANK OF knowledge of the game and work AMERICA, N.A. him and ask him questions outside of prachave already had a huge impact on our Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: The Ketchum family poses for a picture during the holiday break. In the back row, from NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC tice. We are playing with more confidence, boys basketball program. Our players now left,6/4/2010 are Zac Paris, Steve Ketchum, Mardi Ketchum and Cody Paris. In the front row, from Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): Date of DOT: 6/18/2010 and as a team we trust each other more.” believe they can win and carryRecording that confileft, are King Ketchum, Cory Ketchum, Rocky Ketchum, Dre’ Ketchum and CJ Ketchum.

Reception No. of DOT: 2010036941 dence into every game.”

Hansen said players are aware of KetDOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Courtesy Original Principal Amount of Evidencephoto of After more than 10 years of Debt: losing seachum’s big family. $415,390.00 Outstanding sons, the Mustangs are 6-2 heading intoPrincipal the Amount as of the “He’s actually got two of (his sons) with tape, but they became members of the date hereof: $379,056.10 Ten-year-old Dre’, adopted through the new year. him now,” Hansen pointed out during a Ketchum clan in January 2011.

Denver foster care system, agreed.

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of that there are a lot of pictures post-Christmas practice attended by Rocky “They all act like brothers — they fight “The fact the deed of trust have been violated as Distance from family ‘tugs at heart strings’ and Dre’. follows: the failure to make timely paylike brothers and they love like brothers,” with Dad and us together around the house Ketchum traveled home during ments Christas required under the Deed of Ketchum isn’t sure how long the family’s Mardi said.

“The best thing is they all have helps a little,” he said, “but it’s not the same Trust. mas break but won’t return for good until long-distance situation will last. He believes somebody to play with.

If they are not as having him here.

I miss him.

We have fun THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE after the Ponderosa basketballAseason.

He FIRST LIEN. three of his sons have the ability earn athgetting along with one brother, they go to together.” admits it’s not easy living apart from his letic scholarships in football or basketball The property described herein is all of PUBLIC NOTICE another’s room and play with someone family. the property encumbered by the lien of and said the competition in the Denver Building a family else.

It’s kind of like having a big slumber the deed of trust.

Lone Tree “It tugs at my heart strings every day NOTICE OF SALE area could help them.

Ketchum met Mardi 16 years ago, when party because they are always shifting into Legal Public Trustee Sale No. 2015-0275 not to be with the boys,” he said.

“I Description think of Real Property: LOT 59, CARRIAGE CLUB FILING NO. “The plan is for me to be here long she was a single mom and he was coacheach other’s room.” about them every day and try to call theOF DOUGLAS, STATE OF To Whom It May Concern: On 10/20/2015 3, COUNTY term,” he said. “But I’ll have to do what is ing her sons in basketball.

They married in COLORADO. 8:30:00 AM the undersigned Public TrustLiving in Aspen was an adjustment for boys every single night and talk to each one ee caused the Notice of Election and Debest for our family.”

2003 andOban soon after begantoexpanding their the Haitian boys, who had to learn the PUBLIC NOTICE Which hashow the address of: 7809 mand relating the Deed of Trust deof them, tell them I love them and ask Court, Lone Tree, CO family.

80124-9771 scribed below to be recorded in Douglas That could mean eventually moving the English language. their day went, what’s going on at school NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF County.

NOTICE OF SALE REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN family to Douglas County because of its From the Denver foster care system, “They were 6 and 9 when we got them, and sports and their teams.”

Original Grantor: VALLIE J HOUSTON SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR good schools, he said. adopted whoBeneficiary: is 15 and a high ELEC- so they remembered the earthquake Theboys, current holder of thethey Evidence of Debt CJ, Original MORTGAGE ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED — not The distance isn’t easy for the secured by the Deed of Trust described TRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, But for now, Ketchum juggles his two freshman; Cory, CJ’sSOLELY younger having any food and they have To some either. herein, has filed writtenschool election and deINC., ACTING AS NOMINEE Everypretty Person in Actual Possession or mand for sale as provided by law and in isFOR MEGASTAR FINANCIAL CORP., Occupancy of the hereinafter Described worlds. brother, who 14 and in eighth grade; and crazy stories about living in Haiti and the “It’s pretty tough because I really miss said Deed of Trust.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person BANK NATIONAL Public the Notice Whose Name waslove Taxed or spending time with boys and Dre’, who is in fourth grade. ASSOCIATION, AS horrific conditions,” Mardi said.in “They re- the Same “I my Dad helping me and working with me,” THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET Specially Assessed, and to all Persons King and Rocky, 11, were evacuated coaching them,” he said of his sons.OF “But I that on the first possible sale date (unless member how bad things were, so they keep having an Interest or Title of Record in or SECURITIES CORPORATION MORTNOTICE OF PURCHASE REAL said King, 14, originally from Haiti. “It’s the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wedto the said Premises and To Whom It May GAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF from Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. missed coaching at a high level.

Ponderosa things in perspective and help everyone in harder when he’s not here or I’m not with nesday, February 10, 2016, at the Public Concern, and more especially to: ATES, SERIES 2006-S1 APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street,aCastle Date of Deed Trust (DOT): 11/29/2005 OF TREASURER’S DEED him.”

It took year because of ofgovernment red our family keep perspective.” OCCUPANT – A.A. Investments was a perfect fit.”

Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public aucInc., a Recording Date of DOT: 12/2/2005 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. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

Reception No. of DOT: 2005116364 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $32,850.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $30,773.54

Public Notices Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE Lone Tree NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2015-0261 To Whom It May Concern: On 10/9/2015 11:46:00 AM 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 RHODES AND BRADLEY RHODES Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC,. AS NOMINEE FOR BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/4/2010 Recording Date of DOT: 6/18/2010 Reception No. of DOT: 2010036941 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $415,390.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $379,056.10 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to make timely 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 59, CARRIAGE CLUB FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 7809 Oban Court, Lone Tree, CO 80124-9771 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, February 10, 2016, 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. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

If you believe that your lender or servicer has failed to provide a single point of contact (38-38-103.1 CRS) or they are still pursuing foreclosure even though you have submitted a completed loss mitigation application or you have been offered and have accepted a loss mitigation option (38-38103.2 CRS), you may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General (720-508-6006) or the Consumer Finan-

If you believe that your lender or servicer has failed to provide a single point of contact (38-38-103.1 CRS) or they are still pursuing foreclosure even though you have submitted a completed loss mitigation application or you have been offered and have accepted a loss mitigation option (38-38103.2 CRS), you may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General (720-508-6006) or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (855-411-2372) or both. However, the filing of a complaint in and of itself will not stop the foreclosure process.

Public Trustees

First Publication: 12/17/2015 Last Publication: 1/14/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 10/9/2015 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: KELLY MURDOCK Colorado Registration #: 46915 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 15-009113 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2015-0261 First Publication: 12/17/2015 Last Publication: 1/14/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Lone Tree NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2015-0275 To Whom It May Concern: On 10/20/2015 8:30:00 AM 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: VALLIE J HOUSTON Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR MEGASTAR FINANCIAL CORP., Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET SECURITIES CORPORATION MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-S1 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 11/29/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 12/2/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005116364 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $32,850.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $30,773.54 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 21, LONE TREE FILING 13A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF

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.

Public Trustees

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

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 21, LONE TREE FILING 13A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 7464 La Quinta Lane, Lone Tree, CO 80124 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 17, 2016, 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. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

If you believe that your lender or servicer has failed to provide a single point of contact (38-38-103.1 CRS) or they are still pursuing foreclosure even though you have submitted a completed loss mitigation application or you have been offered and have accepted a loss mitigation option (38-38103.2 CRS), you may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General (720-508-6006) or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (855-411-2372) or both. However, the filing of a complaint in and of itself will not stop the foreclosure process.

First Publication: 12/31/2015 Last Publication: 1/28/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 10/20/2015 CHRISTINE DUFFY 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 #: Fax #: Attorney File #: 4500.101277.F01 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2015-0275 First Publication: 12/31/2015 Last Publication: 1/28/2016 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Notices

Government Legals Public Notice Public Meeting Notice Centennial Airport Noise Exposure Map Update (per 14 CFR Part 150) Centennial Airport is updating the Part 150 Noise Exposure Map (NEM). Part 150 is a voluntary Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) program that sets guidelines for airport noise compatibility planning. The NEM is the Part 150 document that provides the current and fiveyear forecast of aircraft noise exposure levels.

As part of the process, all interested parties are invited to an informational public open house to learn more about the NEM Update study.

When: Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, 5:30-7:30 PM Where: Ramada Englewood Hotel and Suites 7770 S Peoria St, Englewood, CO 80112 More Information: www.centennialairport.com In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), Centennial Airport will not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require an auxiliary aid/service to participate in this open house please make the request by calling 719-488-5908, no later than 48 hours prior to the meeting.

Legal Notice No.: 928348 First Publication: December 31, 2015 Last Publication: January 7, 2016 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Also in: The Parker Chronicle The Lone Tree Voice The Highlands Ranch Herald The Castle Rock News Press The Castle Pines News Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to: OCCUPANT – A.A. Investments Inc., a Colorado Corporation, General Partner A.A. Investments Inc., a Colorado corporation, General Partner c/o E. S. Alba A.A. Investments Inc., a Colorado corporation, General Partner c/o John C Mitchell - Bainbridge Inc Retirement Trust FBO Allan Brandt - E.S. Alba, President, A.A. Investments Inc., a Colorado corporation as General Partner c/o A.A. Investments, Inc., a Colorado corporation, General Partnership - E.S. Alba, President, A.A. Investments Inc., a Colorado corporation as General Partner - E.S. Alba, President, A.A. Investments Inc., a Colorado corporation as General Partner c/o John C Mitchell - E.S. Alba, President, A.A. Investments Inc., a Colorado corporation as General Partner c/o Mineral & Highline Partnership, Ltd, a Colorado limited partnership, General Partnership - E.S. Alba, President, A.A. Investments Inc., a Colorado corporation as General Partner c/o I. & V. Partnership, a Colorado general partnership - Manfred Will aka Manfred Will et al -Mineral & Highline Partnership Ltd., a Colorado limited partnership, General

Colorado Corporation, General Partner To Every Person in Actual Possession or A.A. Investments Inc., a Colorado corporOccupancy of the hereinafter Described ation, General Partner c/o E. S. Alba Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person A.A. Investments Inc., a Colorado corporin Whose Name the Same was Taxed or ation, General Partner c/o John C Mitchell Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or - Bainbridge Inc Retirement Trust FBO Alto the said Premises and To Whom It May lan Brandt - E.S. Alba, President, A.A. InConcern, and more especially to: vestments Inc., a Colorado corporation as General Partner c/o A.A. Investments, OCCUPANT - Douglas County, Trustee Inc., a Colorado corporation, General Echols Family Trust - Gertrude A MikelPartnership - E.S. Alba, President, A.A. Inson and Edward Ehmann, Personal Repvestments Inc., a Colorado corporation as To advertise publicresentatives notices call 303-566-4100 of the John Ehmann EstateGeneral Partner - E.S. Alba, your President, John J Ehmann - John J Ehmann Estate A.A. Investments Inc., a Colorado corporc/o Gertrude A Mikelson & Edward ation as General Partner c/o John C Ehmann Ehmann - Juanita M Heiland c/o Mitchell - E.S. Alba, President, A.A. InDouglas County Treasurer - Rio Star LLC vestments Inc., a Colorado corporation as - The Estate of John J Ehmann c/o GerGeneral Partner c/o Mineral & Highline trude A Mikelson & Edward Ehmann Partnership, Ltd, a Colorado limited partnership, General Partnership - E.S. Alba, You and each of you are hereby notified President, A.A. Investments Inc., a Colorthat on the 5th day of November 2012 the ado corporation as General Partner c/o I. then County Treasurer of the County of & V. Partnership, a Colorado general partDouglas, in the State of Colorado, struck nership - Manfred Will aka Manfred Will et off at public tax lien sale to County of al -Mineral & Highline Partnership Ltd., a Douglas, Trustee the following described Colorado limited partnership, General real estate situate in the County of Partner c/o E. S. Alba - Mineral & Highline Partnership Ltd., a Colorado limited Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit: partnership, General Partner - Mineral & Highline Partnership Ltd., a Colorado lim2/6 MIN INT IN MOST S1/2N1/2NW1/4 9ited partnership, General Partner c/o John 9-66 TOTAL = 40.00 AM/L MIN INT = C Mitchell - O. & V. Partnership, a Color13.333 AM/L ado general partnership c/o E. S. Alba - O. & V. Partnership, a Colorado general partand said County Treasurer issued a certinership - O. & V. Partnership, a Colorado ficate of purchase therefore to County of general partnership c/o John C Mitchell Douglas, Trustee. That said tax lien sale State of Colorado, Department of Revenwas made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the ue year 2011. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of You and each of you are hereby notified John J Ehmann Estate % Gertrude A that on the 21st day of October 2010 the Mikelson and Edward Ehmann for said then County Treasurer of the County of year 2011 Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to Bainbridge Inc ReThat on the 23rd day of November 2015 tirement Trust FBO Allan Brandt the folsaid County of Douglas, Trustee assigned lowing described real estate situate in the said certificate of purchase to Echols County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to Family Trust.That said Echols Family wit: Trust on the 23rd day of November 2015 the present holder of said certificate, has LOT 709 CASTLE PINES made request upon the Treasurer of said VILLAGE #13A .86 AM/L County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said and said County Treasurer issued a certireal estate to the said Echols Family Trust ficate of purchase therefore to Bainbridge at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 21st day of Inc Retirement Trust FBO Allan Brandt.

April 2016 unless the same has been reThat said tax lien sale was made to satisdeemed. Said property may be redeemed fy the delinquent taxes assessed against from said sale at any time prior to the acsaid real estate for the year 2009; That tual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of Manfred Will for Witness my hand this 22nd day of Decemsaid year 2009.That a Treasurer’s Deed ber 2015 will be issued for said real estate to the said Bainbridge Inc Retirement Trust FBO /s/ Diane A. Holbert Allan Brandt at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the County Treasurer of Douglas County 21st day of April 2016, unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may Legal Notice No.: 928376 be redeemed from said sale at any time First Publication: January 7, 2016 prior to the actual execution of said TreasLast Publication: January 21, 2016 urer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 22nd Publisher: Douglas County News-Press day of December 2015.

Public Notice /s/ Diane A. Holbert County Treasurer of Douglas County NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS

Government Legals

Legal Notice No.: 928375 First Publication: January 7, 2016 Last Publication: January 21, 2016 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to: OCCUPANT - Douglas County, Trustee Echols Family Trust - Gertrude A Mikelson and Edward Ehmann, Personal Representatives of the John Ehmann EstateJohn J Ehmann - John J Ehmann Estate c/o Gertrude A Mikelson & Edward Ehmann Ehmann - Juanita M Heiland c/o Douglas County Treasurer - Rio Star LLC - The Estate of John J Ehmann c/o Gertrude A Mikelson & Edward Ehmann You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 5th day of November 2012 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, struck off at public tax lien sale to County of Douglas, Trustee the following described

Government Legals

A public hearing will be held on January 25, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. before the Douglas County Planning Commission and on February 16, 2016, at 2:30 p.m. before the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners in the Commissioners’ Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, CO. The hearing is for proposed amendments to the Douglas County Zoning Resolution (DCZR) to establish zoning regulations for motorsports activities. The proposed amendments affect the following DCZR Sections:

Section 3 – Agricultural-One (A-1) Section 4 – Large Rural Residential (LRR) Section 5 – Rural Residential (RR) Section 12 – Commercial (C) Section 13 – Light Industrial (LI) Section 21 – Use By Special Review (USR) Section 36 – Definitions

For more specific information, call Dan Avery or Kati Rider, Douglas County Planning, at 303-660-7460 regarding file #DR2015-016.

Legal Notice No.: 928394 First Publication: January 7, 2016 Last Publication: January 7, 2016 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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probably the best leaders I’ve seen at the high school level. They just understand how important every possession is, they value everything thing.”

Grams also called Hirsch a team building block.

“He is the foundation of what we’ve been building for three years,” the coach

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

DTC Kiwanis Club meets at 7 a.m. every Tuesday at Mimi’s Cafe, 9555 Park Meadows Drive, at the corner of Yosemite and Park Meadows. We are a growing club with 51 members. Our mission is assisting communities and “at risk” children in difficult home environments with financial and personal help and mentoring. Call Frank Zieg at 303-796-1213.

Douglas County Elks Lodge 2873 meets at 7 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of every month at the Douglas County Fairgrounds & Events Center, Kirk Hall, 500 Fairgrounds Drive, Castle Rock. The lodge is actively seeking a permanent venue in the Castle Rock area. All “Stray Elks” are invited to attend and to be involved in the growth and activities of this new social and community service organization. Call 303-941-0135 or email swgilbert@comcast.net.

Great Books Discussion Group meets on the first Thursday night of each month from 7 to 8:30

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said. “He’s everything a coach wants in a player. He’s very quiet, but he fills the stats sheet with everything that we want. It’s his ability to rebound, his ability to understand the game on both sides and his ability to make shots when we need them.

His game is so unbelievable and he’s such a great kid.”

Masten is the team’s leading scorer at 15.8 points per game, but Grams isn’t concerned about the sophomore forgetting about the team concept.

“He understands the way the game should be played,” Grams said. “He loves

playing with his teammates. There is definitely a balance. We need him to be able to score but at the same time he’s going to be double-teamed and see a lot of extra pressure. He’s got to be able to have the ability to make other people great. He’s doing a great job of being able to adjust.”

p.m. at the Lone Tree Library. Reading selections are short — plays, short stories, essays, or excerpts from longer works — and new members can come in at any time. We also watch Teaching Company lectures on “The Art of Reading.” Call Kerri Martin at 303-688-7628 or David Williams at 303-7088854.

Moms Offering Moms Support is a group for moms and kids. We offer our members playgroups, a monthly calendar of fun events, community service projects, and other various parties throughout the year. For more information on joining please contact us at momsclubhre@yahoo. com.

High Plains Chapter, Order of DeMolay, meets at 7 p.m. every second and fourth Monday in the Parker area. With Walt Disney, Mel Blanc and Walter Cronkite counted among its alumni, you won’t find another organization for young men between the ages of 12 and 21 years that offers character building, leadership training, and life skill development more than DeMolay. Contact the chapter for more information. Email:highplainsdemolay@gmail. com or visit www.coloradodemolay.org.

Mothers of Multiples (MOMS) Calling all mothers of twins, triplets, quadruplets. MOMS holds playgroups, Mom’s Night Out, twice-yearly kids’ consignment sales, and other social events for parents of multiples in and around Highlands Ranch.

For details, visit www.mothersofmultiples.com.

Highlands Ranch Rotary Club meets from 12:10-1:30 p.m. Thursdays at the Lone Tree Golf Club, 9808 Sunningdale Blvd. Each lunch features a speaker. The Rotary is a networking, service and social club. Contact Joe Roos at 720-648-5558 or visit highlandsranchrotary.org.

Living and Aging Well in Lone Tree, a speaker series luncheon, meets at 11:30 a.m. the second Monday of each month at the Lone Tree Golf Club and Hotel. Lunch reservations are required by noon Thursday the week prior to the event and cost $12 per person, which includes a beverage, lunch, dessert and tip. For information on the topic and to RSV P, visit www.cityoflonetree.com/agingwell.

Lone Tree Optimists meets from noon to 1:15 p.m.

Tuesdays at LePeep Restaurant, 7156 E. County Line Road. Call Miles Hardee at 303-973-6409.

Looking forward Rock Canyon, after a game Jan. 5 against Fort Collins, opens the Continental League season Jan. 15 against Douglas County.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Columbine Chapter meets at 1 p.m. the second Saturday of each month from September through May at the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce at the Streets at SouthGlenn, Centennial. If you are interested in attending or have questions regarding eligibility, contact Krispin at Krispin_L_Andersen@Q. com or Jewel Wellborn, regent, columbineregent@ hediusa.com.

Original Ports of Call Singles Club for ages 55 and older is a great way to meet new friends and get out among others in your situation! We call our selves a” Circle of Friends. We have a variety of interests, cards, theater, tours, dinners, lunches, golf , bowling and dances etc. It meets every second Monday at Sr. Ric on Miss. from 4-6 p.m. in Aurora. Call JoAnn at 303-751-5195 or just come.

It meets every fourth Tuesday at Chads South of Sixth Avenue in Lakewood form 4-6 p.m. Call Mary Riney at 303-985-8937. The third Wednesday at the Three Margaritas at 5130 S Wadsworth Blvd from 5-7 p.m. Call Jean Fox 303-730-2804.

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No. 1 heading into the new year. Justin Pacheco (113 pounds), Tomas Guiterrez (120), Theorius Robison (126) and 145-pounder Jason Romero top the rankings.

Mosha Schwartz of Ponderosa is the top-ranked 106-pounder, Legacy’s Ryan Deakin is first at 138 pounds and Cherry Creek’s Matt Finesilver is No. 1 at 152 pounds.

Other wrestlers who are ranked No. 1 included Jared Todd of Heritage (160), Chaparral’s Dawson Cranmer (170), Legacy’s Matt Hebel (182), Mountain Vista’s Trent Schultz (195 pounds) and Cohlton Schultz of Ponderosa (220).

Jim Benton is a sports writer for Colorado Community Media. He has been covering sports in the Denver area since 1968. He can be reached at jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com or at 303-5664083.

HAVE A SPORTS STORY IDEA? Email Colorado Community Media Sports Reporter Jim Benton at jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com or call 303-566-4083.

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