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State rep outlines goals for the session Staff report State Rep. Tim Dore, R-Elizabeth, District 64, took some time to answer the following questions from Colorado Community Media as the legislative session got underway.

Describe two bills you feel are of particular importance that you plan to sponsor this session and tell us why they are important.

Erin Kelly demonstrates alternative riding styles used in therapy. Photos by Rick Gustafson

Horses, people unite for therapy SaddleUp! Foundation is volunteer venue

By Rick Gustafson

Special to Colorado Community Media

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It’s the first Saturday morning of the new year.

Temperatures have dipped into single digits overnight, and the snow crackles under the tires of a sporadic flow of cars that slow as they enter the driveway north of Elizabeth. Following a short pause, the drivers ease forward, finding a gap between the SUVs, pickups, and sedans already lined up in front of the SaddleUp! Foundation’s powder blue metal riding arena.

Inside, it is cold but not freezing. The scent of hay and horse mixes with the smell of brewing coffee. Ten future SaddleUp volunteers sit or stand, sipping from Styrofoam cups under the lone radiant heater running the length of the hall’s ceiling as a few stragglers wander in. The coffee urn has sprung a small leak, and drops of coffee seep from the faucet.

Jamie Anthony, therapeutic riding instructor and SaddleUp’s volunteer coordinator, moves in and stops the leak with a quick twist of the faucet shank. In addition to working with students at SaddleUp, her job is to make things work, providing the proper mix for the center and the dozens of people who offer their time to the center’s outpatient and therapeutic horseback riding programs.

SaddleUp specializes in providing equine therapy for people with special needs. Also referred to as hippotherapy, the technique uses horses in physical, occupational, and speech therapy for patients with physical or mental impairments. While the facility does offer lessons to able-bodied individuals who want to improve horsemanship, the majority of the SaddleUp’s students have brain injuries, multiple sclerosis or autism.

“Autism is big for us because it is such a wide diagnosis for so many conditions,” Anthony said. ”A lot of disabilities fall into that.”

Equine therapy focuses on three areas: physical, mental, and emotional. In addition to strengthening core muscles required for riding, the horse’s natural rhythms combined with a horse’s warmer body temperature helps relax muscles, improve balance, and provide the riders the sensation of walking normally.

Teamwork is also an important part of the volunteer’s and rider’s experience. Each rider works with a certified therapeutic riding instructor (CTRI) and, ideally, two volunteers. Each team member performs specific duties such as leading and side walking to brace a rider. These activities cater to the student in ways they may not have experienced in the normal course of their lives.

The therapists feel this element of teamwork and the courage to mount an animal the size of a horse helps boost self-esteem.

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Later in the year, I plan to introduce legislation that will set up impact payment funds to counties that have had to spend additional money in law enforcement and educational costs related to the legalization of marijuana, giving especially rural counties much needed aid in off setting increasing cost.

What do you believe should be the top priority of your chamber of the Legislature this session?

Jobs, the economy and education. We need to do all we can bring good jobs to Colorado, all four corners of Colorado.

These jobs needs to be…good-paying jobs that provide real opportunity for hardworking Colorado families. The economy has been improving but there is still room for improvement, and decreasing the burden of regulations is a big step to making sure we have an economy that continues to grow. Education is key to our state’s future, and allowing parents, with local school boards and teachers decide what is best for our kids is the way to best educate the future of Colorado. We must reduce testing, expand local oversight and remove the federal and state overreach in our local schools.

With control of the Legislature being split, how can the two major parties best work together to ensure important legislation gets passed this session?

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My focus continues to be working on legislation that will assist the hardworking families of Colorado. With this in mind, I plan to introduce legislation that would restrict the use of EBT cards (which are basically “wel- Dore fare debit cards”) from being allowed to withdrawal monies from ATMs located at establishments with questionable moral character — strip clubs, marijuana shops and such. This would assure Colorado stays within federal requirements but also, and more importantly, assure that taxpayers money being used to assist those in tough times is being used for its intended purpose, buying baby formula, diapers or food for the family.

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If Republicans and Democrats work on truly what is best for Colorado, and ignore the political agendas of the special interests, we will be off to a good start. Each senator and representative is tasked to work for the people, and as soon as we lose sight of this, Colorado loses. We have an opportunity, as we do every year, to focus on what is right for the people of Colorado, and I hope my colleagues will join me this year in making that focus consistent.

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January 22, 2015

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Seminar looks at reasons for, symptoms of Internet addiction

SIGNS, SYMPTOMS OF INTERNET ADDICTION

By Mike DiFerdinando

LOSING TRACK OF TIME ONLINE: Do you frequently find

mdiferdinando @coloradocommunitymedia.com From “retweets” to “likes” and “shares,” how has social media and the Internet changed the way we measure our lives? And has that change led to negative and unintended consequences?

At a Jan. 15 seminar at the Douglas County Events Center titled “Social Media & Addiction,” Jim Baroffio, a psychologist, and Dennis Ballinger, a licensed counselor and program manager at the Arapahoe Douglas Mental Health Network, explored the idea of technology-related addiction.

The event was hosted by the Douglas County Prevention Work Group.

Baroffio spoke on what he described as the “techno self.”

“It’s basically an identity that is developed that is very specific to that means of technology,” Baoffio said.

According to Baoffio, the way we communicate, even down to the phrasing of the words and how long our attention span for a topic of conversation is, can be related to the platform we use to communicate — in this case social media.

A 2014 Pew Research Center study titled “Social Media Update 2014” found that 71 percent of American adults who are online use Facebook and 52 of adult users now use two or more social media sites.

Seventy percent of Facebook users post at least once per day, while 45 percent make multiple posts per day, according to the study.

And for the first time, more than half of all online adults ages 65 and older (56 percent) use Facebook. This represents 31 percent of all seniors.

“We communicate so much nonverbally.

How much of that do we lose in social media?” Baroffio said.

While use among adults has grown, Baroffio said his concern was for young people and children who may be so plugged in that they fail to develop needed social skills.

Baroffio points to millennial behavior such as looking at a smartphone while trying to have a conversation with another person

yourself on the Internet longer than you intended? Does a few minutes turn into a few hours? Do you get irritated or cranky if your online time is interrupted?

HAVING TROUBLE COMPLETING TASKS AT WORK OR HOME: Do you find laundry

piling up and little food in the house for dinner because you’ve been busy online?

Perhaps you find yourself working late more often because you can’t complete your work on time — then staying even longer when everyone else has gone home so you can use the Internet freely?

ISOLATION FROM FAMILY AND FRIENDS: Is your

social life suffering because of all the time you spend online? Are you neglecting your family and friends? Do you feel like no one in your “real life”— even your spouse — understands you like your

as an example of a missed social cue.

He said that the gap in social understanding may come from the fact that people of a certain age were either not born yet or don’t remember a time before the Internet and instant connectivity.

“Youth today don’t have that reference point, and I think there’s something very compelling there,” Baroffio said.

Is it simply a matter of altering social norms, or have our machines moved from important tools to addictive techno-drugs?

Ballinger sees these Internet-based escapes as creating more of a psychological compulsion or obsession than a physical addiction, for the most part.

“With something like video games, people get obsessed with them because it gives them a sense of mastery,” Ballinger said. “I found something I’m good at and I want to keep doing it.”

Ballinger said he would categorize something sexual like a pornography addiction to be closer to a physical addiction like drugs.

“This is communication. Some aspects

I’m concerned about, but in some ways we’re communicating more than we ever have,” Ballinger said. “Children are far more open than I think they’ve ever been. When we’re working with parents, I tell them `go online and read their Facebook. You’ll know everything about them because they document every minute of their day now.’”

Ballinger acknowledged that there are some serious concerns about the constant use of social platforms, such as cyberstalking and cyberbullying — a problem he said may in part be exacerbated by the fact that children who may be bullied at school no longer get a reprieve outside of it because of social media.

“They get bullied all day at school and then they come home and get bullied online all night and it just becomes a thing that they can never walk away from,” Ballinger said.

Ballinger said the best predictor of abuse is to look at how technology is affecting a child’s life.

“If you have a kid that’s doing really well in school, who is involved in social activi-

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FEELING A SENSE OF EUPHORIA WHILE INVOLVED IN INTERNET ACTIVITIES: Do you use the Internet as an outlet when stressed or sad, or for sexual gratification or excitement? Have you tried to limit your Internet time but failed?

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school and just wants to spend all day playing video games and not interacting with others, then that’s concerning.”

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January 22, 2015

Experts don’t see Holmes ever going free Finding of insanity unlikely to mean release in future

By Dan Elliott and Solomon Banda Associated Press

If James Holmes is found not guilty by reason of insanity in the Colorado theater massacre, he would be committed indefinitely to the state mental hospital and could — in theory, at least — be released someday.

But psychiatrists and attorneys say that’s highly unlikely, given the enormity of the shootings and the notoriety they have generated.

“He doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of ever walking off the grounds of the Colorado state hospital,’’ said Dr. Steven Pitt, a forensic Holmes psychiatrist based in Scottsdale, Arizona, who works on criminal cases but is not involved in the Holmes case.

Jury selection starts this week for Holmes, who is charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder in the July 20, 2012, shootings at an Aurora movie theater. Twelve people were killed and 70 were injured. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. His attorneys have acknowledged he was the gunman but say he is mentally ill and was gripped by a psychotic episode when he opened fire on a theater where more than 400 people were watching a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises.’’

Colorado law defines insanity as the inability to know right from wrong because of a mental illness or defect. The jury will make that determination based on evidence presented at the trial, including two courtordered sanity evaluations at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo.

The law sets no minimum time that people must remain in the state hospital after being found not guilty by reason of insanity, except to say they can’t ask for a release hearing in the first 180 days.

Patients who show progress can be granted a measure of independence, ranging from supervised movement around the hospital grounds through off-campus visits to unconditional release.

To qualify for unconditional release, Holmes would have to convince the hospital and the courts that he is no longer a threat to the public for the reasonably foreseeable future — the standard for release set by Colorado law.

That would be a tough case for Holmes to make, said Karen Steinhauser, a former Denver prosecutor who is now a defense attorney.

State records show the vast majority of people granted off-hospital-grounds privileges after being found not guilty of murder because of insanity were charged with killing someone they knew, usually a family member. Although the available court records are often sketchy, in some cases the insanity defendants believed the victim was somehow tormenting them.

Holmes, by contrast, is charged with a brutal attack on complete strangers.

“The issue is going to be, how do we know that this person no longer has that type of mental disorder that could cause him to go to a different place, to a different community, to a different area and do the same thing?’’ said Steinhauser, who isn’t involved in the Holmes case.

It would be nearly impossible for Holmes to convince a judge he was no longer a danger to himself or others, she said.

Pitt, the forensic psychiatrist, said it is theoretically possible that treatment by psychiatrists could put Holmes’ mental illness into remission and render him no longer a danger.

“Theoretically, is that possible? Absolutely,’’ he said.

“From a social policy perspective, given the enormity and the gravity of the offenses ... there will be such an uproar that I just can’t realistically ever see that happening in the foreseeable future,’’ Pitt said.

John Hinckley, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1981 shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three others, has been committed to a psychiatric hospital for 32 years. Hospital officials have said his mental illness has been in remission for decades, and he spends more than half of each

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‘The decision to release an insanity acquittee is a partly clinical process. It’s partly a socio-political process.’

Dr. Patrick Fox, Office of Behavioral Health deputy director month at his mother’s home.

Dr. Patrick Fox, a deputy director of the Office of Behavioral Health in the Colorado Department of Human Services, which oversees the state mental hospital, acknowledged that social and political factors as well as the notoriety of a crime can sometimes play a significant role in decisions about an insanity defendant.

“The decision to release an insanity acquittee is a partly clinical process. It’s partly a socio-political process,’’ Fox said. He declined

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to discuss Holmes’ case in particular, citing privacy issues.

The district attorney’s office that handled the original case can argue against such privileges before the judge decides, and prosecutors would certainly argue strongly against any freedoms for Holmes, Pitt said.

“For generations to come, he will see objection after objection after objection to this man receiving anything that people sense is remotely close to a sense of freedom,’’ Pitt said.

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January 22, 2015

Members of the Funugyz team, including co-owners Joe Oltmann, fourth from right, Tim Gibson, second from right, and Andrew Malkoski, far left. Photo by Chris Michlewicz

Funugyz makes best of move New location, atmosphere sparks uptick in business

By Chris Michlewicz

cmichlewicz @coloradocommunitymedia.com Funugyz, a longtime fixture of the Parker bar scene, is making the most of an involuntary move across the street.

It was a year and a half ago when the owners of Funugyz were told that the abandoned King Soopers in the Cottonwood Plaza Shopping Center would be rebuilt. The project meant that Funugyz and roughly a dozen tenants in outlying buildings on the opposite side of the parking lot would have to find another place to do business. People weren’t happy about being “pushed out,” but Funugyz used the opportunity to revamp its image, menu and atmosphere, says co-owner Joe Oltmann.

The bar officially re-opened Dec. 5 and business has increased dramatically ever since.

Natural lighting is the dominant theme in an open layout that’s inarguably more inviting than the subdued, dark environment of the old location. One-hundred-year-old reclaimed bowling lanes from Chicago have new lives as bar tops. Panels of wood from an old barn demolished in Steamboat Springs last summer were treated and serve as a backdrop in the dining area. It’s a distant cry from the “dive bar mentality” of the former space on the northwest corner of South

Parker Road and Cottonwood Drive, Oltmann said.

Now situated on the southwest corner of the intersection, Oltmann is proud to extoll the virtues of the new digs, previously a watering hole known as Pogue Mahone’s, and more recently, Clavin’s. But there are no signs of the old businesses. When Funugyz came in, walls were knocked down, a garage door was installed for an open air feel in the summer, and windows were added. An outdoor patio will have grass where dogs are welcome to hang out.

Much like the trendy bars that have popped up in downtown Denver, Funugyz possesses an older industrial feel, with open ceilings and galvanized steel making their presence felt. It has the feel of a restored hotspot, and the owners are trying to develop an East Coast-like culture, where “blue collar meets white collar meets no collar” and “everyone feels welcome,” Oltmann said.

The new space is smaller by 1,800 squarefeet, but the modern-yet-nostalgic ambience has provided a sizable bump in business.

Some menu items have been changed to reflect the “fresh” viewpoint. There is no freezer in the back because everything is served fresh. Unique items were added alongside favorites, like Funugyz’s famous chicken wings.

Funugyz, a Buff Brothers establishment, is at 17904 Cottonwood Drive and is open from 11 a.m. - 2 a.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. - 2 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Denise Blodig has another Twisted Wardrobe shop in Elizabeth, located in The Carlson Building, 239 Main Street, Photos

by Mike DiFerdinando

Water Tower Center gets new boutique Elizabeth merchant opens second location

By Mike DiFerdinando

mdiferdinando @coloradocommunitymedia.com After finding success with her women’s boutique in the small but historic town of Elizabeth, Denise Blodig decided to open a second location in the growing town of Castle Rock.

“I just think the whole town of Castle Rock is starting to boom,” Blodig said.

Her shop, Twisted Wardrobe Designs, is located in the new Acme Water Tower Center, 823 S. Perry St. “It’s kind of like this is a landmark — the architecture and everything. It’s just a great fit,” Blodig said.

Twisted Wardrobe’s original store also has a unique location in the historic Carlson Building on Main Street in Elizabeth.

The Carlson Building, 239 Main St., was

listed as a historical building by the Colorado State Registry in 1995. The 1890 building has the typical look of late 19th-century storefronts.

It contained a variety of retail and wholesale enterprises and contributed to the commercial history of Elizabeth.

Blodig was looking for something similar in her new location.

“I didn’t want to be over on Founders at all,” said Blodig, who ran a coffee shop in Castle Rock in the early 1990s. “I was here before all of that was here a long time ago and I like the small-town feel. I think it’s great, and I think everyone complements everybody from the restaurants to the boutiques. We each have different things and I think we all bring people to town for different reasons.”

Twisted Wardrobe, which opened on Nov. 22, specializes in the latest women’s fashions and accessories.

Prices range from $15 to $85.

“Fashion is constantly changing, so I’m always going to different markets trying to pull different things,” Blodig said.

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January 22, 2015

Lawmakers mull limits on drone surveillance Colorado could join other states in setting rules

By Kristen Wyatt Associated Press

Colorado lawmakers are considering regulating the use of drones, citing privacy concerns as they look to join at least 20 other states that have set limits.

A bill pending in the Colorado Senate would require law enforcement to have a warrant before using a drone, formally called an “unmanned aerial vehicle,’’ unless there is imminent threat to life or risk of a terrorist attack.

The measure would also set new limits for private citizens using drones, such as limiting their use to daylight hours and

within the operator’s sight, up to three miles.

“The intention is to protect the privacy of people with this new technology that is around us,’’ said the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Linda Newell, D-Littleton.

“We love new technology ... (but) we want to make sure that those who Newell might have ill intent would be held accountable.’’

Newell has Republican support for her proposal, with two GOP senators signing on as co-sponsors. The Republicans call the proposal a needed check on government surveillance.

“Drones are becoming increasingly available at every level, and when it comes to government use, it needs to stay within the Fourth Amendment,’’ which

Marijuana health research skimpy, doctors conclude

By Kristen Wyatt Associated Press

A year after legalizing recreational pot sales, Colorado has more questions than answers about the health effects of legal marijuana.

A panel of doctors concluded months of meetings last week about the health effects of marijuana and how people are using it. Instead of reaching many conclusions, though, the doctors agreed the bulk of their recommendations should be calls for more research on the drug.

For example, the doctors looked at research on maternal pot use, or whether marijuana use by pregnant or nursing women affects their children.

They concluded there is “mixed evidence’’ that marijuana use by pregnant women results in birth defects. But their recommendation calls only for better education and surveys to find out more about maternal pot use, not a ban on selling pot to pregnant women.

The head of the physician panel, Mike Van Dyke of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said the doctors wanted to be careful not to call for health restrictions in light of extremely limited data on marijuana’s health effects.

“We’re a year into it. We don’t have the answers yet,’’ Van Dyke said. “We don’t know what the health effects of legalization are.’’

The panel included pediatricians, toxicologists and an addiction psychiatrist.

Among the gaps the doctors identified was pot use by adults. Doctors have years of survey

data on how schoolchildren use drugs including pot, but not much on how adults use pot.

Dr. Laura Borgelt, a pharmacologist at the University of Colorado-Denver, pointed out that there’s little known about adults aged 18 to 25, people old enough to be out of the house but young enough to be trying pot for the first time.

“I don’t know that those questions have been asked of that age group,’’ Borgelt said.

The panel also plans to ask for a study about the health effects of marijuana use by skiers, or whether pot use increases ski accidents. It’s a topic of interest in Colorado.

The doctors will send their recommendations to lawmakers by Jan. 31. Despite the scanty data, some lawmakers aren’t waiting to suggest new curbs on marijuana use for health reasons Rep. Jack Tate, R-Centennial, has suggested a bill requiring pot shops to post warnings about marijuana use by pregnant women, and to ban doctors from recommending medical marijuana to pregnant women. That measure awaits its first hearing.

The physician panel plans to keep working, meeting quarterly to review health data and new studies about marijuana.

Colorado recently approved almost $8 million for medical marijuana research, with the money coming from medical marijuana patient fees, but doctors agreed much more research is needed.

“If we do nothing else, we need to make clear how much more research is needed,’’ Van Dyke said.

guards against unreasonable search and seizure, said Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud.

But the drone proposal won’t be an easy sell to all. Law enforcement agencies haven’t said whether they support or oppose the measure, but in closed-door meetings last week, sponsors agreed to make some changes. The measure hasn’t yet been scheduled for a hearing, and there may be a rival drone proposal introduced in the House.

Law enforcement wants to make sure the measure doesn’t go too far and strip them of their ability to use drones to assist in things like accident recovery and disaster response.

For example, Mesa County sheriffs’ officers used drones last spring to assess damage from a May mudslide that killed three people. Drones can be used to watch for wildfires, or to check for

victims in mountainous rescue missions where human rescuers may struggle.

Many applications for drone use don’t have anything to do with criminal investigations, said Chris Johnson, head of the County Sheriffs of Colorado.

“I don’t particularly like the term `surveillance,’ because that isn’t mainly what they’re used for,’’ he said.

At least 20 states regulate drones and how law enforcement and the public can use them. Federal regulation is also expected from the Federal Aviation Administration, Johnson said.

Another sponsor of the measure, Democratic Sen. Lucia Guzman of Denver, said it’s time Colorado had some rules on drone use.

“Whether it’s the police or the FBI or my parents checking on me without my knowing it, I want to know my privacy is protected,’’ she said.

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Thanks, television guy, it’s been great Not much amuses me on television, except for late-night, two-for-one commercials, and a talk show host who used to be an Indianapolis weatherman.

Everything else is canned, laugh-tracked and happy crackers.

Where have you gone, Monty Python?

What is and isn’t funny isn’t up to me.

Except today.

“Portlandia” isn’t — not even close.

Most television comedy involves getting in and out of a wacky bind, with lots of systematic naughtiness, and all of it was written in a junior high locker room.

The weatherman and I go all the way back to his morning show in Los Angeles.

He’s been in my life ever since, the entire time and reliable, while I was moving from state to state, job to job, house to house, girlfriend to girlfriend, dog to dog, death to death — and even when I wasn’t reliable myself.

David Letterman used to have a gap between his two front teeth.

He is very bright, perceptive, articulate and nimble with words. Others think that he is arrogant, condescending and acerbic.

He simply didn’t accommodate fools, like Kristen Stewart, and guests who couldn’t keep up with him.

He makes references to references, so his audiences have to be informed and knowledgeable. Not just sycophants. Ellen.

His serious interviews were exacting, and just as good as the ones he had with Harvey Pekar and Crispin Glover. Joaquin Phoenix?

“What can you tell us about your days with the Unabomber?”

The show could be juvenile at times too.

Whenever Letterman said “Dick Cheney,” band member Will Lee howled. Chris Eliot lived under the stairs. There were a lot of Stupid Pet Tricks.

The nightly Top Ten List began because Letterman thought that People magazine’s top 10 lists were annoying.

The cards he threw behind him shattered invisible glass, and then I heard 13 seconds of José Feliciano’s “Old Turkey Buzzard.”

He used to go into the audience, and he used to do remote bits. The silliness subsided as he grew older, and especially after heart surgery.

I was waiting to order at My Brother’s Bar one night, and looking at the “Book of Top Ten Lists and Wedding Dress Patterns for the Husky Bride.”

I was crying with laughter when the waitress arrived.

She said, “I know. We’re out of onion rings.”

I will miss Darlene Love. Alan Kalter (“And now: Microscopic sea creature, David Letterman!”). Calvert DeForest (Larry “Bud”

Melman) died in 2007.

When Letterman pointed to Paul after the monologue, the band ripped into “You Really Got Me.” Or “25 or 6 to 4.” Or “In the Midnight Hour.”

Jennifer and I were looking around for something to watch on New Year’s Eve. Everyone was dancing and wiggling around, because that’s what entertains most people.

Then we saw Letterman and he was just standing there. Being exceptionally witty.

Perfect — for me, at least.

The more educated I became, the more I appreciated Letterman. Just about everything else on television is aimed at Mr. and Mrs. Nobody.

I go back to Steve Allen and Jack Paar, but I think my talk shows days are just about over.

None of the new ones interest me nearly as much as Letterman. I like Fallon. I don’t like his band. Stewart is good, but he doesn’t have a band at all.

Craig Ferguson is a face-making dolt, and he’s about as nuanced as a Shriners parade.

Leno has a nice car collection. That’s about it. He’s about as funny as a one-legged tap dancer.

Letterman and I are the same age. We have made it this far together, but he will never know how much he has meant to me.

“I’ve had way too much coffee. But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.”

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

Work hard to find life memories amid death Every one of us faces a time in our lives when we have to say goodbye to someone else. And in this case I am speaking specifically to that time in our lives when a close friend or family member passes away and we have come to that point where we say our final farewells.

In the past two weeks I have had to say goodbye to two very close friends who lost their individual battles with cancer. Both were relatively young and passed away much too soon, with both being survived by spouses and children. Very sad situations indeed, and I know many of you, if not most of you, have faced similarly sad situations and the passing away of friends and loved ones too.

As I prepared myself to deliver both eulogies as a remembrance and tribute to their lives, I found myself fighting the profound sadness that filled my heart and balancing that against the incredible joy and wonderful memories I experienced with each one of them. The sadness I felt was powerful and I cried as I wrote the words that I would be speaking and sharing at each of their services.

Yet even as the grief overwhelmed me, I was

captivated by the thoughts, stories, and rich history I experienced with my friends.

It turned out that the single best thing I did in order to alleviate some my blues and sorrow was to speak with other friends and family members. Now I know this happens as a natural part of remembering someone when we gather for memorial services. We speak to people we haven’t seen in years and we talk about the same old stories of high school fame or of youthful mischievous behaviors. And in some cases not-so-youthful mischievous behaviors. We talk about the good times and we seem to let the bad times slip into oblivion. All of this is very helpful for

some as they reminisce the good old days.

What I found most helpful was not just talking about the quick stories we share when we don’t know what else to say, but rather digging in and going deeper into some of the most meaningful events that were shared.

Some of the deepest feelings that others were willing to share. And as I asked those deeper questions and pressed slightly harder for more depth in their responses, I found the others very willing to open up and share more from their hearts.

In both cases as I probed my own memory, which led to intimate exchanges of information with the friends and family members, and a true celebration of life was forming in my mind and on my pad of paper. It became so much more than just what I was “supposed” to say during a eulogy or what would be deemed as “appropriate.”

What materialized were robust, dynamic, funny, loving, passionate and provocative life stories. Things worth celebrating and sharing with the world.

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Commissioner Rowland: Here’s the rest of the story As a general rule, county commissioners and staff don’t like to share our “dirty laundry” in public. We prefer to settle our differences in a professional and quiet way, not behind closed doors but out in the open where most issues are and can be quickly resolved with a little common sense and by communicating with each other.

But sometimes, someone throws down the gauntlet and leaves no choice but to set the record straight. This is one of those times, and because of a series of actions taken to go outside the normal boundaries for conflict resolution, and because local news stories have been published that I believe include intentional lies designed to disrupt, discredit and harm our local government functions and its employees, I feel I must attempt to give my side of the incident which I personally know to be true.

A small group of local liberal activists (my own term) have been badgering (again my own term) the county and our staff for weeks about the issue of posting meetings.

That’s fine, we are always open to suggestions for improvement, but the fact is they have increasingly demanded we expand the procedures beyond the legal requirements, to a point that would interfere with common sense and our ability to manage the affairs of the county and the day to day operation. We are now, and have been meeting all statutory requirements and more.

This boiled over on Jan. 5, when in what has been a regularly scheduled, properly posted Monday 9 a.m. administrative staff

GUEST COMMENTARY meeting held almost every Monday since April 13, took an unexpected turn.

The commissioners and staff had agreed the week before that we would need an update from staff on the proposed amendments to the Elbert County Zoning Regulations related to the Planning Commission. This process requires careful study, public input, Planning Commission review and certain legal posting timelines. We asked for an update on the legal timeline requirements from our planning director who had been checking and double checking the requirements so we would be compliant, and as the meeting began she started her update report.

Almost immediately, Commissioner Ross objected and stated that this discussion was supposed to begin at 10 a.m., not 9 a.m. He also acknowledged that he had notified the public and number of citizens of our planned discussion and had told them to come at 10 a.m. He then stood up and began to walk out of the room, at which time a rather “heated” argument between he and Commissioner Schlegel ensued, lasting about 30 seconds before Commissioner Ross abruptly left the room.

Within moments, after some brief discussion, the confusion was resolved with a simple compromise and solution that simply moved the discussion about the amendments to the end of the regular meeting, allowing anyone planning on arriving at 10 a.m. time to arrive. Unfortunately, Commissioner Ross

did not return to participate in the meeting and attempts to locate him were unsuccessful.

The subsequent and unexpected accusations about an illegal meetings are confusing and simply not true. It is shocking given the lack of any attempt to discuss, validate or resolve the confusion or the disagreement before the accusations appeared in the local print media. This is unfortunate and counterproductive knowing that we are always open to, even when we disagree, discussing and trying to resolve misunderstandings in a respectful and meaningful way with anyone who wishes to participate in the process.

These print articles imply that we, Commissioners Schlegel and Rowland, our county attorney and other staff, all participated in an illegal meeting without proper notice on Jan. 5, 2015 to discuss pending proposed amendments to the Elbert County Zoning Regulations. No illegal meeting took place, no decisions were planned, discussed or made and the implication that anything improper or illegal occurred is not only reckless and dishonest to the county and its staff, but now that it has been published is a serious disservice to honest citizens and taxpayers of the county.

We also now read in the current edition of the Prairie Times that one of the commissioners was in the parking lot following this Jan. 5 incident and during the meeting handing out “letters” implying by reason for his absence that his fellow commissioners and staff were upstairs engaging in an illegal meeting. I did

not witness this and do not know if this is true or not, but it is now in print and being read by many of our fellow citizens, and they rightly are asking questions about this entire incident. It is for that reason, and because of the seriousness of these accusations that I felt this letter, giving my personal observations and account of the incident were important to share.

I assure you that no illegal meeting took place, and we have documented copies of the original bulletin board posting, dated April 13, 2013 that has been on the bulletin board properly posted until it mysteriously disappeared near the time of this incident. We have multiple employees, including myself who will testify that the notice for the weekly 9 a.m. administrative meeting held almost every week since April 13, 2013 was on this board up to that time, and has now been replaced with another original, dated copy.

These kind of incidents are unfortunate and detract from the business of the county, and I regret having to publicly offer such detail, but as stated earlier, sometimes we simply have no choice but to set the record straight.

Robert Rowland Elbert County, Colorado The comments and statements in this letter are solely those of the author Robert Rowland, and do not reflect the opinions of any other person, the Board of County Commissioners or any other persons or agents of Elbert County Government.

Commissioner Ross weighs in on water During my campaign I stated that it was in our best interest that I become one of your county commissioners because my interests and yours are the same. I remain honored that a vast majority of you placed your trust in me.

As a property owner and resident of Elbert County, I am deeply concerned about the potential for mining and export of groundwater.

This resource is primarily a private property right of people like you and I. Groundwater in the Denver Basin Aquifers below Elbert County is confined and nonrenewable. This means that once this water is pumped from the ground it is on the way to being gone for good.

I do believe that we all can put our water rights to beneficial use per Colorado law.

Several years ago, I was alarmed to learn that a simple two-vote majority of your board

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of county commissioners could set in motion a groundwater mining operation in our county.

I do not believe that it is appropriate for your county commissioners to authorize or assist various entities to use power of eminent domain over us in the process of selling groundwater into other counties.

All that being said, I endorse and support two programs that have been initiated by The Elbert County Water Advisory Committee. These programs have the endorsement of state and federal agencies and are not intended to advance the desires of any particular special district or water authority.

Elbert County has recently begun a wellmonitoring program in concert with The United States Geological Survey. This is a good and

valid program to study and learn about rates of decline of our underlying bedrock aquifers.

We are also moving forward with a Water Supply Study, which will enable your county leaders to use this and other information in making well informed decisions with regards to commercial and residential growth in Elbert County.

I stated during my campaign and still maintain that it is not the role of our county government to facilitate the export of precious groundwater resources. Areas of Douglas and El Paso counties have managed to build beyond the limits of their water resources and have been looking at Elbert County as a potential source of supply. We must all be vigilant

today and in the future with regards to conserving and protecting our water rights and all of our property rights.

I will be scheduling public dialogue forums in the near future to learn your views and priorities for Elbert County. Please watch for times and locations in this and other publications as well as www.elbertcounty-co.gov.

In the meantime I can always be reached by phone or emails listed below.

Hope to see you soon.

Larry D. Ross, Elbert County commissioner, District 3 Office: (303)621-3114, Home: (303)621-2286 larry.ross@elbertcounty-co.gov LarryRoss57@gmail.com

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Giving the pastor and the priest fair warning of irreverent stories turned out to be the right move. Balancing humor with compassion, and finding a way to tell their “real” life story to celebrate a life well lived, allowed me to deal with my own grief better and gave me the ability to share the stories in a way far more meaningful than the “supposed to say” and “church appropriate” language.

You may never have to give a formal eulogy, but we all eulogize those we loved and lost in our hearts. So I share this story with you today so that maybe you too can find a little more relief and happiness by going

deeper into the memories you shared with those who have passed away. Talk to your cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends, find out what they knew and what they enjoyed most.

There is no doubt you will hear stories of love, laughter, mystery, hard work, character and a life worth celebrating.

If you are also dealing with the loss of a loved one, I give you my condolences. And if there is anything you would like to share with me, I would love to hear all about the way you are celebrating their life at gotonorton@ gmail.com. And when we give time to respect and grieve, but also find ways to truly celebrate what we had, it really will be a better than good week.

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

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Macy Collins of Meeker, tries to calm her Hampshire/Suffolk crossbred wether named Gizmo as the animal waits to be groomed for show in the barns at the 109th annual National Western Stock Show and Rodeo on Jan. 16 in Denver. Stockgrowers from across the country and Canada are taking part in the National Western, which is one of the largest livestock exhibitions staged in North America. Associated Press

Teen singer releases debut single Parker girl hopes for career in music

By Chris Michlewicz

cmichlewicz @coloradocommunitymedia.com Millions of young girls would love to write and perform songs that reach an audience, but not everyone puts in the time and dedication that Amanda May does.

The 13-year-old singer-songwriter from Parker released her first song on iTunes last month. “Sparks Always Spread,” which she describes as a “song about not doubting myself, even when it can be easy to do so,” follows in the footsteps of today’s superstars, like Taylor Swift. May’s ability to chronicle the ups and downs of being a teenager is a product of her years of experience on the acoustic guitar (no, really) and her creative wordplay.

The release of her debut single is a small step toward what she hopes is a career in music, but May makes it clear that she’s not in it for fame or glamour. She’s drawn by “the way songs are made.” May has sung from a young age and always had a fascination with the guitar, which she picked up in the second grade and never put down.

“I’m not just, like, a kid that’s messing with an instrument and forgets about it in two weeks,” she says.

May channels her energy into her craft and says she prefers songwriting over typical teenage activities like hanging out with friends and going to movies.

LEFT: Thirteen-year-old Amanda May, of Parker, just released her first song on iTunes. ABOVE: “Sparks Always Spread,” is May’s first single. Courtesy photos

May’s speaking voice and singing voice, as well as her poise and maturity, seem to reflect her intense focus, conveying the notion that she takes what she is saying very seriously. When talking about what separates her songwriting from modern pop artists, she mentions her inclusion of seventh chords and occasional dissonant bass notes and writing in different keys.

“I try to stay away from the typical pattern,” May says, carefully distancing herself from the formulaic tendencies of today’s popular music writers.

Of course, her mother, Leah Morin, is among her biggest cheerleaders, and she has been beyond impressed at her daughter’s ability to put together catchy, wellthought-out tunes.

“Her songwriting, from day one, has just been wise beyond her years. Very advanced,” Morin said.

Practicing for hours on end is “fun,” and May enjoys soaking up knowledge from her guitar teacher and vocal coach. Her goal is to make it as an artist, but she is not blind to the fact that it’s an industry that’s “really

cutthroat.” Her second career choice also involves reaching out to people with her words of wisdom. May’s fallback is pursuing a job as a psychologist or social worker.

But she has plenty of time to figure things out. Her next plan is to play again in the Stars of Tomorrow talent competition in Castle Rock this spring. From there, she plans to learn everything there is to know about recording her own material.

To download “Sparks Always Spread,” go to the iTunes store and type in “Amanda May.”

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In addition to the physical and mental benefits, riders form emotional attachments to the therapists, volunteers and especially the horses. This comes, in part, from the specific nature of the animals selected for the program.

Each horse is chosen for its ability to adapt to the unique riding situations they will encounter. Trainers blow bubbles near the animals and condition them to nonstandard riding such as unbalanced riders, students riding backwards, or kneeling. Horses lacking this temperament are not leased by the program.

Depending on the strength and disposition of the rider, activities in a onehour session can include the volunteer leader guiding the horse on a straight path. Stronger and more confidant students do “crazy walks” where the horse is guided through a series of zigzags. Still more advanced riders trot with their team alongside.

During any one-hour session, there can be up to five teams working in the arena simultaneously. So volunteers are trained to lead the animals at least two horse lengths away from other teams to allow the side walkers and therapists enough room to pass comfortably.

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New volunteer Teri Tynes tightens Surcingle under the supervision of veteran volunteer Theresa Sanderson. Photos by Rick Gustafson With as many as eight sessions in a single workday, the demand for volunteers is high, but the ideal volunteer is not necessarily the one with the most experience with horses. As with most organizations that rely on volunteers, showing up is a big asset. Anthony suggests that new volunteers start slow, taking a single two-hour shift rather than working the entire day.

Volunteers undergo background

Volunteers sign up for shifts following the morning’s training.

checks and must be physically able to do strenuous work. Anthony likes to set clear expectations for her volunteers, but says it is rare that someone contacts her who isn’t excited about the work, even though some of the work may involve mucking out stalls.

The morning of volunteer training begins with a video followed by a short tour. Then it is time for work. The group is broken into three small groups to simulate a day in the life of a volunteer.

Before the end of the morning’s threeand-a-half-hour session, each volunteer will have completed most of the tasks that encompass a typical volunteer day: saddling a horse with either Western or English tack; side walking and leading practice; and setting up a surcingle, a strap with handles that is commonly used for the therapy.

“We get so many great volunteers.

They each bring something unique,” Anthony says. “We’ve had people who volunteered and have stayed on for years, and others who show up a couple of times and we never see them again.

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Stage veteran opening kids’ theater academy Front & Center Theatre Academy opens Jan. 20

By Chris Michlewicz

cmichlewicz @coloradocommunitymedia.com Jordan Sommervold remembers exactly what she was thinking at age 12 when she watched her talented older sister singing and performing on a stage. “‘That is what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to be involved in that,’” she recalls. “It made me want to just go for it, and I never looked back.”

It was a defining moment, one that guided her down a path that she falls in love with at every turn. Now 28, Sommervold has reached yet another defining point in her life: opening her own musical theater academy in Parker. She does so with hopes of sharing the joy she felt — and feels — with a new generation kids.

The self-described “theater nerd” has spent the past seven years instructing children on the finer points of musicals, all-the-while maintaining an environment where fun and the idea just being yourself (or someone else entirely) reign supreme.

Front & Center Theatre Academy opened Jan. 20, with rehearsals at Joy Lutheran Church on Pine Drive near Lincoln Avenue and performances at Parker United Methodist Church near South Parker Road and Pine Drive.

The first productions will be selections from “Mary Poppins” for children ages 4-7

Jordan Sommervold, owner of Front & Center Theatre Academy, which opened Jan. 20 in Parker. Photo by Chris Michlewicz and “Annie” for children ages 8-12. The classes will meet once a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with a final performance at the end of the six-week session.

Sommervold is also planning a camp for “The Lion King” over spring break, and is

considering “Frozen” as a candidate for the summer sessions.

The Colorado native is utilizing not only her knowledge from seven years of teaching, but is applying what she learned in college and the tips she picked up from

DCBA Kickoff, Legislative Preview As the 2015 legislative session begins, that South Metro Denver Chamber (SMDC) has joined a new organization to improve the efficacy and efficiency of its public policy outreach. Effective immediately, the Chamber has joined the Douglas County Business Alliance and the services of the Capstone Group.

The Douglas County Business Alliance (DCBA) is a coalition of business organizations with a mission to provide a single voice for the Douglas County business community on business-related legislation focused on the following subjects: Transportation; Water; Business-Friendly Public Policy; Education; Tax Policy; Sustainable Development. The Douglas County Business Alliance is comprised of representatives from the following organizations: Castle Pines Chamber

of Commerce; Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce; Castle Rock Economic Development Council; Denver South Economic Development Partnership; Highlands Ranch Chamber of Commerce; Parker Chamber of Commerce; Parker Economic Development Council; South Metro Denver Chamber.

The Capstone Group, whose services the DCBA utilizes, is a full-service public affairs and government relations team based in Denver, Colorado.

“We are looking forward to partnering with our fellow DCBA members in utilizing the tremendous legislative services of Mary Marchun and the Capstone Group. Her organization provides comprehensive legislative reporting, lobbying services, and other important resources that we are eager to provide to our membership,” said Natalie Harden, SMDC director of

public policy and economic development.

The Chamber participated in the DCBA Legislative Preview and Legislative Kickoff Receptions last week, both of which hosted numerous members of the incoming Colorado State Legislature.

“The Capstone Group has a great reputation in the business and legislative communities and we look forward to working with them,” said Jeff Wasden, president of the Colorado Business Roundtable and SMDC Chair of Public Policy.

Chamber members will have access to Capstone’s legislative updates through the bimonthly Prosper newsletter. For more information on the Chamber’s public policy committees please visit www.bestchamber.com or call 303-795-0142.

United Launch Alliance Concludes Banner Year After 14 successful launches, major milestones in 2014, ULA sets its sights on 2015 Centennial, Colo., (Dec. 29, 2014) – United Launch Alliance, the nation’s premier space launch provider, congratulates its employees, suppliers and customers on another successful year, reliably and affordably launching 14 satellites to orbit with 100 percent mission success.

“What ULA has accomplished this year, in support of our customers’ missions, is nothing short of remarkable,” said ULA CEO Tory Bruno. “When you think about every detail – all of the science, all of the planning, all of the resources – that goes into a single launch, it is hard to believe that we successfully did it at a rate of about once a month, sometimes twice.”

This year, ULA’s 14-mission manifest spanned: • 9 national security space missions, including four Global Positioning System satellites for the U.S. Air Force • 3 space exploration missions, including NASA’s first Exploration Flight Test for Lockheed Martin’s Orion spacecraft • 2 commercial missions, including DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3, which provides the latest Earth imaging capabilities

Other major accomplishments in 2014 included: • The 51st successful launch of the Delta II • The 50th successful launch of the Atlas V • The 25th successful launch of the Delta IV • Twice successfully launching two different missions from two different coasts in one week • ULA’s 90th successful launch, an unmatched record of success “This year we were reminded just how hard rocket science can be,” said Bruno. “It takes a special group of people to be in this business, and I am truly humbled to work among dedicated individuals who have exhibited a total focus on precision, a passion for the science of rocketry and space, and a deep commitment to our purpose.”

This year also marked the start of the five-year contract between United Launch Alliance and the Air Force, a best-practice, multi-year acquisition process that will save the government $4.4 billion, ensure significant operations efficiencies, and create the needed stability and predictability in the supplier and industrial base, while meeting national security space requirements.

Additionally, this year ULA partnered

with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to develop a new domestic engine, an all-American rocket engine that will power ULA’s nextgeneration vehicles. The new engine, the BE-4, will lower the cost of launches and will meet both commercial requirements and those of the U.S. Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program.

Also this year, ULA and its partner, The Boeing Company, were selected to support NASA’s Commercial Crew program, sending critical cargo and the next generation of astronauts to the International Space Station. As America’s ride to space, ULA will launch Boeing’s manned CST-100 spacecraft by 2017, playing a pivotal role in advancement of human spaceflight.

“It goes without saying: ULA had a banner year,” Bruno said. “As we look ahead to 2015, we could not be more honored to continue supporting our nation in one of the most technologically complex, critical American needs: affordable, reliable access to space.”

For more information on ULA, visit the ULA website at www.ulalaunch.com

her older sister, Amy, who inspired her love for performing.

“She’s definitely pushed me to be more than I think I can be,” said Sommervold, an actress, singer and dancer.

At various times — and sometimes all at once — Sommervold has been in charge of casting, directing, writing, set design, costumes, make-up and choreography. It’s a lot of work, but every time she has the chance to instruct children and enable them to have a good time, “the light goes on for me,” she says. Each child gets a solo and speaking lines, and there is no prior experience required.

“It’s their time to just shine and have fun,” Sommervold said. “Whether they’ve been in productions before, I want to help them achieve excellence in theatre while building their self-confidence and creativity and losing their fear of judgment from others, and be able to just come and have a safe, fun afterschool activity.”

The plan is to eventually move Front & Center Theatre Academy into its own building with rehearsal and performance space. Sommervold wants to hire more people and expand into dance classes like ballet, jazz and hip-hop. She also wants to create improv groups and incorporate teens.

The first six-week session for “Mary Poppins” costs $150 and the six-week series of classes for “Annie” is $190. Space is limited and early registration is encouraged.

For more information, call 303-8682608, send an e-mail to fctheatreacademy@gmail.com, or go to www.fctheatre. com.

Calendar of Events

For a complete calendar of South Metro Denver Chamber events and for more information, visit our web site at www.bestchamber.com or call 303-795-0142.

Monday, January 19 Save Lives, Sort Medical Supplies with Projects C.U.R.E. 7:00 pm – Project C.U.R.E 10337 East Geddes Ave., Centennial, CO Tuesday, January 20 Dr. Bernard Weinstein presents – “Will Falling Oil Prices Derail the Shale Revolution” 2:00 – 3:00 pm – South Metro Chamber’s WhippleWood CPAs Conference Center 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial, CO Thursday, January 22 Health & Wellness Council & CU presents: Medicine in the Time of Ebola 3:30 – 5:00 pm - South Metro Chamber’s WhippleWood CPAs Conference Center 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 342, Centennial, CO Friday, January 23 8th Annual State of the State Luncheon 11:30 am – 1:30 pm – Sheraton Denver Downton Hotel 1550 Court Pl., Denver, CO $50 Sunday, January 25 “Glen Campbell – I’ll Be Me” movie screening CU South Denver Liniger Building – The Wildlife Experience 10035 Peoria St., Parker, CO $10

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SPORTS

January 22, 2015

Elizabeth girls count on defense for win Blue Devils’ lack of experience shows in 38-12 outcome

By Scott Stocker

Special to Colorado Community Media Defense was definitely on Elizabeth’s side when the Cardinals played host Fort Lupton on Jan. 9 in their Colorado 7 League encounter.

Elizabeth, which improved to 4-5 overall and 2-0 in league action, defeated Fort Lupton 38-12. Yet it wasn’t a night that the Cardinals of coach Jamie Schmalz had hoped for offensively. Defensively, the Blue Devils, coached

by Joe Gutierrez, now 1-6, 0-2, didn’t play that poorly.

Elizabeth led 11-1 after the first quarter and 16-3 going into the intermission. It was a half in which neither team was willing to give the other any time to come up the court by themselves. The compression of both teams

continued into the second half with both teams putting up determined efforts to get their offensive efforts on track.

Neither Elizabeth nor Fort Lupton had a player reach double figures. Fort Lupton’s Dominique Castanuela scored nine of the Blue Devils’ 12 points while Elizabeth was led

by Kelly Sweigart with seven.

“I think we played pretty well on defense and that certainly was a key for us tonight,” Sweigart said. “Our offense was off, but it did fall into place when we needed it. Our key was that we just wanted to stay together and work hard at both ends of the court. There is still a lot of work for us to do, though.”

Schmalz was pleased with the win, but had hopes for an overall better night.

“We played better as a team tonight and felt a lot stronger out there,” Schmalz said.

“We’re getting used to each other. I think we did well in our transitions. We still need to focus more on defense, but we were getting points back from our defensive efforts.

“We still need to shoot better,” Schmalz

continued. “But we are getting better and building our confidence. Hopefully this is the right time to get things going in our conference.”

Elizabeth’s Kaylyn Radtke only scored four points, but she was more than pleased with the defensive effort by the Cardinals.

“Our defense came out strong and that was a big difference tonight,” Radtke said. “It was a very low-scoring night and my shots were not falling. Defense made the difference and it’s good to get a league win.”

Castanuela is the lone returning starter back this season for the Fort Lupton girls. She knew that she was going to be on the Elizabeth list as a player to stop. She was, by the way, the only player for the Blue Devils to hit a basket from the field.

“It was very hard out there,” Castanuela said. “We played as a team, but we couldn’t seem to get the points. I feel we played fast and I just think it actually was a game we could have won had we been getting our baskets.

“We just need to calm down and to know

what is happening out there,” continued Castanuela. “We played out of control and we just needed a lot more defense from all of us. I just feel we need to play more of our offense together. I try to push myself in practice and my teammates, too.”

Gutierrez was pleased with the effort put forth by Castanuela, but he also knows it’s still going to be a long season for the Blue Devils.

“We couldn’t buy a basket to serve us and we missed at the free-throw line when we had the opportunities,” Gutierrez said. “It just seemed that we fell apart and had too many turnovers and that really hurt us. We wanted to slow down.

“Dominique had a swell game for us and she is the only one on the varsity back this season with any amount of playing time,” said Gutierrez. “She shows a lot of leadership, but we just don’t have the experience. We’re just young and inexperienced and we make a lot of mental errors. We just need to step up our game.”

Cardinals boys notch league win Boys basketball victory at Fort Lupton hinged on hard work

By Scott Stocker

Special to Colorado Community Media

Denver Nuggets guard Ty Lawson, left, is congratulated by center Jusuf Nurkic after Lawson scored a basket and drew a foul against the Memphis Grizzlies in the fourth quarter of a game Jan. 3. Associated Press

‘Bosnian Bear’ gives Nuggets a lift at center Rookie Jusuf Nurkic making a big impression

By Pat Graham Associated Press The “Bosnian Bear” loves chocolate cheesecake with vanilla mousse almost as much as video games and horror films.

Some might say Jusuf Nurkic (pronounced you-SOOF nur-KITCH) is just a 6-foot-11, 280-pound kid at heart. Others would say he’s really still a kid.

The Denver Nuggets decided to make the 20-year-old rookie their starting center by trading Timofey Mozgov to Cleveland in early January for two protected first-round draft picks.

That’s how much confidence they have in their bruiser from Bosnia-Herzegovina who’s only been playing basketball for five years.

He’s averaging 6.9 points and 5.1 rebounds this season, numbers that may even get him invited to the Rising Stars Challenge for rookies and second-year players during All-Star weekend next month.

It certainly hasn’t taken him long to pick up the game — or the English language. He understands what he’s hearing just fine.

Except, of course, when coach Brian Shaw yells at him during practice. Only then does he act like he can’t understand.

“He’s clever,” said Shaw. “He’ll try to use that ‘I don’t understand’ card when it’s convenient for him to use it. He understands all right.

“That’s the one thing about basketball — the things that you do on the court are universal. So there may be different words for different things in different languages, but a pick and roll is still a pick and roll, a post-up is still a post-up, a shot is a shot. In terms of that, there’s no barrier. He has a good understanding, because he has such a high basketball IQ.’’ His story of discovery is actually quite remarkable. Here’s the condensed version: An agent saw a newspaper article on Nurkic’s father, a big, burly policeman. The agent contacted the father to see if he by chance had a son, which he did — a teenager named Jusuf.

“He looked at me, and I was normal size, and he said, ‘That kid is going to be in the NBA,’ ” said Jusuf Nurkic, who was dubbed “Bosnian Bear” by the team early in the season but also likes “Bosnian Beast” as a nickname. “We all just smiled, because it was crazy.”

After all, Nurkic didn’t know a thing about the game. Even more, he couldn’t shoot. But

they found him a coach, who taught him how to shoot.

And then Nurkic grew. And grew.

He turned into a big man with nifty foot work who can effortlessly run the floor, which immediately attracted the Nuggets’ attention. So much so that they acquired him on draft night, sending their 11th overall pick (Doug McDermott) to Chicago for Nurkic (No. 16) and guard Gary Harris (No. 19).

From the start, Nurkic’s been as advertised — a bashing force inside with some finesse, too.

“We were lucky, because he’s making us look smart. But he deserves all the credit,’’ general manager Tim Connelly said. “He doesn’t want to just fit in. He wants to make a mark.”

To fight homesickness, Nurkic said he calls family and friends quite a bit, plays lots of “NBA 2K15” and goes to movies. Since he doesn’t like to cook, he dines out quite often as well. His favorite restaurant is the Cheesecake Factory, where he typically orders the chocolate tuxedo cream cheesecake for dessert.

This month, his family is in town and he’s playing tour guide when he’s not on the court.

“It’s great to have family here,” Nurkic said. “It feels like home.”

It was a game of spurts for both the Elizabeth and home-standing Fort Lupton boys basketball teams in their Colorado 7 League encounter on Jan. 9. And when it counted the most, the Cardinals had the spurt that brought forth their victory.

Elizabeth, paced by a 24-point effort by Jacob Gavitt and coached by Mike Boss, defeated Fort Lupton, 64-55, to improve to 4-5 overall and 2-0 in the league. Fort Lupton, coached by interim coach Lee Amato, dropped to 3-5, 0-1.

Fort Lupton led 13-6 after the first quarter and even upped the count to 18-6 with 4:46 to go in the second quarter and 28-19 with 1:47 remaining. It was beginning to look like a good night for the Blue Devils. But it wasn’t to be.

Elizabeth scored the final six points of the second quarter to trail 28-25 at the half. The Cardinals were then able to tie the score, 2828, one minute into the third quarter on a basket by Aaron Stone and a converted free throw

by Evan Visocky.

From there, Elizabeth would fashion a 44-35 lead going into the final quarter. Both teams would finish the game, each scoring 20 points in the fourth.

It was a comeback and finish relished by Gavitt. He was quite pleased with the way the Cardinals came back, especially the 10-1 run by his teammates to round out the third quarter and their 44-35 lead heading into the fourth.

“We played bad in the first quarter, but in the second we were able to come out a lot stronger,” said Gavitt, a 6-4 senior. “We were able to have a strong finish tonight. The key was to stay calm, stay smart, but play aggressive. We just didn’t want to let up. We’ve worked hard since we’ve come back from our holiday break. We just didn’t want them to get an advantage over us.”

Stone, also a 6-5 senior, came through with 17 points for Elizabeth. Along with Gavitt, the Cardinals were also joined in the double-figure column by Visocky with 11 points.

“I think we put a lot of pressure on ourselves in the first quarter and we didn’t play that well,” Stone said. “We slowed down and we were able to come through with some fine efforts in the second quarter and for the rest of the game.

“We didn’t want to force ourselves,” Stone continued. “I’m excited about getting started Boys continues on Page 13

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again after the break and I think we have a good chance to win our league. It’s just going to take a strong effort on all our parts.”

Fort Lupton, with Nate Cooke helping to lead the way, was never out of the game. With 1:48 left in the game, the Blue Devils had cut Elizabeth’s margin to 52-51. But the Cardinals would score their next 12 points, six from Gavitt, while allowing their opponent only four over that time span to pull out their victory.

Indeed, it was a victory well achieved, according to Boss.

“Fort Lupton was ready to give us a game and I’m proud of the way the boys played tonight,” Boss said. “We started slow in

the first quarter, but we were able to pick it up. We had to figure out what offense they were playing and it took a bit of time to figure it out, too.

“Our key was to play as strong as we could and pick up the pieces from our mistakes,” said Boss. “We worked hard and our strategy paid off. There were some times that had me shaking my head, but the boys were able to pull it off.”

With the Fort Lupton comeback seeming to be working strong, Cooke felt his team was going to pull it out. Teammate Isaiah Padilla had the same thoughts.

“This was a tough one and we should have played better,” said Cooke, who scored a team-high 15 points for the Blue Devils. “In the second half they were able to pull it out against us and to get through our defense. We didn’t execute at the free-throw line and that didn’t help us. We just had to double

down on our efforts the rest of the way.”

Added Padilla, “We were being fairly effective in the first half, but we should have shot better through the game. We just couldn’t pull it out. It wasn’t a bad game, but it was a tough one.

We never let up and I think we gave it a good effort. I just didn’t want to let my teammates down for my part.”

Fort Lupton’s head coach, Jim Roedel, had to be out of town, so Amato sat in his place.

“It was a pretty good first half as we were able to have the lead,” Amato said. “Overall, their size bothered us. Our offense was off in the second half and defensively, we couldn’t force the turnovers like we should have and wanted to. We were rushing our offense in the second half when we needed to be more patient. They just got away from us.”

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Music Teachers’ Association meets at 9 a.m. every first Thursday at Parker Bible Church, between Jordan and Chambers on Main Street. All area music teachers are welcome. Call Lucie Washburn, 303-814-3479.

THE ELBERT County Sheriff’s

Posse is a nonprofit volunteer organization that is part of the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office. As volunteers we support the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office, all law enforcement in our county, and the community at large. For more information or a membership application, go to http://www.elbertcountysheriff.com/ posse.html, or contact Dave Peontek at 303-646-5456.

THE ELIZABETH Food Bank, 381 S. Banner in Elizabeth (next door to Elizabeth Presbyterian Church) needs to let the public know that we are available to help anyone who needs food.

The hours are Friday 12:30-3 p.m. and Saturdays from 9-11:30 a.m. Other times by appointment.

LAWYERS AT the Library, a free legal clinic for parties who have no attorney, will be offered from 6-9 p.m. the second Tuesday of every month at the Elizabeth Library, 651 W. Beverly St. Volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help fill out forms and explain

the process and procedure for the areas of family law, civil litigation, criminal defense, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law and civil protection orders. Walk-ins are welcome. Everyone will be helped on a first-come, first-served basis.

MYSTERY BOOK Club meets at 9:30 a.m. the first Saturday of each month at the Simla Public Library. The group enjoys talking about a variety of mystery authors and titles. We also periodically host a Colorado author during our meetings. Everyone may join us, and registration is not required. Visit the Simla Branch of the Elbert County Library District at 504 Washington Avenue, call 719-541-2573, or email farabe@ elbertcountylibrary.org.

THE OUTBACK Express is a public transit service provided through the East Central Council of Local Governments is open and available to all residents of Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson and Lincoln counties and provides an economical and efficient means of travel for the four-county region. Call Kay Campbell, Kiowa, at 719- 541-4275. You may also call the ECCOG office at 1-800-825-0208 to make reservations for any of the trips.

You may also visit http://outbackexpress. tripod.com. To ensure that a seat is available, 24-hour advance reservations are appreciated.

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ings and correspondence to: Tod J. Smith, Esq., LAW OFFICE OF TOD J. SMITH, LLC, 2919 Valmont Rd., Suite 205, Boulder, Colorado 80301, tod@tjslaw.com, (Attorney for Applicant). 2. Description of Conditional Appropriative Rights of Exchange 2.1. Background. In Case No. 13CW3183 (which has been consolidated with Case Nos. 13CW3180 and 13CW3182), United seeks a conditional storage right in the 70 Ranch Reservoir, which will be located in the S1/2 of Section 3, Township 4 North, Range 63 West of the 6th P.M. and a portion of the NE1/4 of Section 10, Township 4 North, Range 63 West of the 6th P.M. in Weld County, Colorado. In that case, United also seeks a conditional appropriative water right for diversion and delivery through the Haren Pipeline to recharge in the Haren Recharge Site. The Haren Pipeline will divert from the South Platte River in the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 8, Township 4 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado. (The point of diversion for the Haren Pipeline was inaccurately identified in the application in Case No. 13CW3183, which will be amended to correctly identify the point of diversion as described above.) The Haren Recharge Site is located in the SW1/4 of Section 16, Township 4 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado. The Pond has been constructed and is operational. In Case No. 13CW3180, United seeks a conditional right of storage in Gilcrest Reservoir which will be located within parts of Section 2, Township 3 North, Range 67 West, and Sections 23, 26, 34 and 35, Township 4 North, Range 67 West, all of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado. 2.2. Nature of Claim. United seeks approval of conditional appropriative rights of exchange of the substitute sources of supplies stored in 70 Ranch Reservoir recharged in the Haren Recharge Site and stored in Gilcrest Reservoir. 2.3. Exchanges Requested: 2.3.1. Rates of Flow. 2.3.1.1. From 70 Ranch Reservoir discharge - 100 cfs 2.3.1.2. From the point of accretions on the South Platte River from the Haren Recharge Site, described below in paragraph 2.3.7.2 – 38 cfs 2.3.1.3. From Gilcrest Reservoir discharge – 260 cfs 2.3.1.4. From the St. Vrain Pipeline discharge – 50 cfs 2.3.1.5. From the Brighton Lateral discharge – 50 cfs 2.3.1.6. From discharge at United Diversion Facility No. 3 – 50 cfs 2.3.2. Date of Appropriation.

December 31, 2014 2.3.3. How Appropriation Was Initiated. A resolution directing United staff and consultants to prepare and file this application was passed by the United Board of Directors on December XX, 2014, a copy of which is attached to this application as Exhibit 1. The appropriation date is based on the date this application was filed. 2.3.4. Date Water First Applied to Beneficial Use. Not applicable, conditional water right. 2.3.5. Uses.

United seeks the right to use the water exchanged pursuant to this application for the uses set forth in paragraph 2.8 of the application in Case No. 13CW3183 and paragraph 2.8 of the application in Case No. 13CW3180. 2.3.6. Sources of Substitute Supply. 2.3.6.1. Applicant’s water stored in 70 Ranch Reservoir. 2.3.6.2. Applicant’s water recharged at the Haren Recharge Site that accretes to the South Platte River. 2.3.6.3. Applicant’s water stored in Gilcrest Reservoir. 2.3.6.4. Applicant’s water stored in Brighton Lateral Reservoir. 2.3.6.5. Applicant’s water stored in United Reservoir No. 3. 2.3.7.

Exchange-From points. 2.3.7.1. Point of discharge from 70 Ranch Reservoir to the South Platte River will be located in the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 2, Township 4 North, Range 63 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado. 2.3.7.2.

Point at which water recharged at the Haren Recharge Site accretes to the South Platte River is located in the SW1/4 of Section 8, Township 4 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado. 2.3.7.3. Point of discharge from Gilcrest Reservoir to the South Platte River will be constructed as an inlet/outlet structure located in the NE1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 26, Township 4 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado. 2.3.7.4 Confluence of St. Vrain Creek and the South Platte River which is located in the SW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 34, Township 4 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado.

2.3.7.5. Point of discharge from the St. Vrain Pipeline to the South Platte River will be located in one of the following locations: (1) at a point located upstream of the Highway 66 Bridge as it crosses the South Platte River which will deliver water to the South Platte River in the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 19, Township 3 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado; (2) at a point upstream of the Highway 66 Bridge as it crosses the South Platte River, which will deliver water to the South Platte River in the SE1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 24, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado or the SE1/2 of Section 25, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado; or (3) at a point near the SW1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 11, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado. Once discharged to the South Platte River, the water may be exchanged to the points described below in paragraphs 2.3.8.4 and 2.3.8.5. 2.3.7.6. Point of discharge from the Brighton Lateral to the South Platte River will be located within either the NW1/4 of the NW1/4, or the NE1/4 of the NW1/4, both of Section 18, Township 1 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado. 2.3.7.7. Point of discharge from United Reservoir No. 3 to the South Platte River is located on the east bank of the South Platte River in the SW1/4 of Section 26, Township 1 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado, located 1,636 feet east of the west line and 1,531 feet north of the south line of said Section 26. The Exchange-From Points are shown on the map attached to the application as Exhibit 2A. 2.3.8. Exchange-To points. 2.3.8.1.

Haren Pipeline Diversion will be located in the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 8, Township 4 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado. 2.3.8.2.

Gilcrest Reservoir is an off-channel Reservoir located within parts of Section 2, Township 3 North, Range 67 West, and Sections 23, 26, 34 and 35, Township 4 North, Range 67 West, all of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado. Points of diversion for Gilcrest Reservoir are planned to be located: (1) adjacent to the Jay Thomas Ditch Diversion Dam in the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 11, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado; (2) at the proposed inlet/outlet structure described above in paragraph 2.3.7.3. 2.3.8.3. St. Vrain Pipeline Diversion (United Diversion Facility No. 5) will be located at one of the following locations or any point between these two locations: (1) 500 feet west and 200 feet north of the SE corner of Section 20, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado; or (2) the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 10, Township 3 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado. 2.3.8.4.

United Diversion Facility No. 3 is located on the east bank of the South Platte River in the SW1/4 of Section 26, Township 1 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado, located 1,636 feet east of the west line and 1,531 feet north of the south line of said Section 26.

2.3.8.5. Burlington Canal Headgate is, pursuant to a changed point of diversion decreed in Case No. 02CW403, located on the east bank of the South Platte River in the NE1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 14, Township 3 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., City and County of Denver, Colorado.The Exchange-To Points are shown on the map attached to the application as Exhibit 2B. 3. Names and Addresses of the Owner of the Structure and the Diversion Facility Listed Above, and land on which the diversion facilities will be located. 3.1. The 70 Ranch Reservoir will be owned by the Applicant which has a permanent easement for the land on which the Reservoir, the points of diversion and discharge for the Reservoir will be located.

That land is owned by 70 Ranch, LLC, 8301 East Prentice Ave., Suite 100, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111. 3.2.

The Haren Recharge Site and the land on which the Site is located are owned by the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, 3209 West 28th Street, Greeley, Col-

South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado, located 1,636 feet east of the west line and 1,531 feet north of the south line of said Section 26.

2.3.8.5. Burlington Canal Headgate is, pursuant to a changed point of diversion decreed in Case No. 02CW403, located on the east bank of the South Platte River in the NE1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 14, Township 3 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., City and County of Denver, Colorado.The Exchange-To Points are shown on the map attached to the application as Exhibit 2B. 3. Names and Addresses of the Owner of the Structure and the Diversion Facility Listed Above, and land on which the diversion facilities will be located. 3.1. The 70 Ranch Reservoir will be owned by the Applicant which has a permanent easement for the land on which the Reservoir, the points of diversion and discharge for the Reservoir will be located.

That land is owned by 70 Ranch, LLC, 8301 East Prentice Ave., Suite 100, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111. 3.2.

The Haren Recharge Site and the land on which the Site is located are owned by the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District, 3209 West 28th Street, Greeley, Colorado 80634 and the Applicant. 3.3. The Haren Pipeline will be owned by the Applicant. 3.4. The Haren Pipeline Diversion will be owned by the Applicant and will be located on land owned by RML Properties Investors, 8301 East Prentice Ave., Suite 100, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111.

3.5. Gilcrest Reservoir and the land on which the Reservoir is located are owned

by Gilcrest Reservoir, LLC, 9171 Towne Centre Drive, Suite 465, San Diego, California 92122. The Jay Thomas Diversion Dam and the land on which it is located are owned by the Public Service Company of Colorado, d/b/a Xcel Energy, Inc., 1800 Larimer Street, Denver, Colorado 80202-1414. 3.6. The St. Vrain Pipeline will be owned by the Applicant. The currently planned diversion structure will be located on land for which the Applicant has a permanent easement. The downstream alternative is at the Goose Quill Diversion Structure which is owned by the Public Service Company of Colorado d/b/a Xcel Energy, Inc., 1800 Larimer Street, Denver, Colorado 80202-1414. 3.7. The United Diversion Facility No. 3 is owned by the Silver Peaks Metropolitan District, 8301 East Prentice Ave., Suite 100, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111. 3.8.

The Burlington Canal Headgate is owned by the Farmers Reservoir and Canal Company, 80 South 27th Street, Brighton, Colorado 80601. 3.9. The Brighton Lateral discharge will be owned by the Applicant.

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January 22, 2015

Public Notices Name Changes PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on November 18, 2014 that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Elbert County Combined Court.

The petition requests that the name of Colter Lane Heltibridle be changed to Colter Lane Asbury Case No.: 14 C 135 By: Joleen Jenkins Court Judicial Assistant Legal Notice No: 23117 First Publication: January 15, 2015 Last Publication: January 29, 2015 Publisher: The Elbert County News

Notice To Creditors PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Karen K. Cochran, Deceased Case Number: 2014 PR 9 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Elbert County, Colorado on or before May 22, 2015 or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert James Cochran Personal Representative 5500 CR 114, Box 896 Elizabeth, Colorado 80107 Legal Notice No: 23130 First Publication: January 22, 2015 Last Publication: February 5, 2015 Publisher: Elbert County News

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO DECEMBER 2014 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of DECEMBER 2014 for each County affected.

14CW48 GORDON S. SAVAGE, JR. AND CAROL E. SAVAGE, 36923 Forest Trail, Elizabeth, CO 80107. 303-6460547. APPLICATION FOR UNDERGROUND WATER RIGHTS IN THE DENVER BASIN AQUIFERS UNDERLYING APPLICANT’S PROPERTY IN ELBERT COUNTY. Applicant seeks to adjudicate the well, permit 139581, and to adjudicate the non tributary and not nontributary Denver Basin groundwater underlying a 5.01 acre tract of land lying in the NW1/4, NW1/4, S33, T7S, R64W of the 6th PM including the Dawson, Denver, Arapahoe and Laramie-Fox Hills aquifers.

THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of FEBRUARY 2015 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

Legal Notice No.: 23121 First Publication: January 22, 2015 Last Publication: January 22, 2015 Publisher: The Elbert County News Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO DECEMBER 2014 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of DECEMBER 2014 for each County affected.

14CW3175 United Water and Sanitation District, acting by and through the United Water Acquisition Enterprise (“United” or the “Applicant”), c/o Robert Lembke, 8301 East Prentice Ave., #100, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111, (303) 775-1005. APPLICATION FOR CONDITIONAL RIGHT OF SUBSTITUTION AND EXCHANGE IN ADAMS, ARAPAHOE, DENVER, DOUGLAS, ELBERT, MORGAN AND WELD COUNTIES. Please send all pleadings and correspondence to: Tod J. Smith, Esq., LAW OFFICE OF TOD J. SMITH, LLC, 2919 Valmont Rd., Suite 205, Boulder, Colorado 80301, tod@tjslaw.com, (Attorney for Applicant). 2. Description of Conditional Appropriative Rights of Exchange 2.1. Background. In Case No. 13CW3183 (which has been consolidated with Case Nos. 13CW3180 and 13CW3182), United seeks a conditional storage right in the 70 Ranch Reservoir, which will be located in the S1/2 of Section 3, Township 4 North, Range 63 West of the 6th P.M. and a portion of the NE1/4 of Section 10, Township 4 North, Range 63 West of the 6th P.M. in Weld County, Colorado. In that case, United also seeks a conditional appropriative water right for diversion and delivery through the Haren Pipeline to recharge in the Haren Recharge Site. The Haren Pipeline will divert from the South Platte River in the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 8, Township 4 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, Colorado. (The point of diversion for the Haren Pipeline was inaccurately identified in the application in Case No. 13CW3183, which will be amended to correctly identify the point of

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THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of FEBRUARY 2015 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

Legal Notice No.: 23129 First Publication: January 22, 2015 Last Publication: January 22, 2015 Publisher: The Elbert County News

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO DECEMBER 2014 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of DECEMBER 2014 for each County affected.

14CW3148, Sharon and Ronald Bibeau, James and Mary Buitt, Dotson Industries, LLC, Judith Golightly, Ann Lopez, Das Manninen, Robert and Nicole Onsager, Robert and Heidi Sterner, Tyler and Kaela Teunissen, Amanda Tullis, and John and Cathy Weitzman, c/o 7121 Sun Country Drive, Elizabeth, CO 80107 (James J. Petrock, Petrock & Fendel, 700 17th Street, #1800, Denver, CO 80202), NOT NONTRIBUTARY DENVER AND NONTRIBUTARY ARAPAHOE, AND LARAMIE-FOX HILLS AQUIFERS, ELBERT COUNTY, 50.9 acres being Lots 6, 8, 9, 10, 44, 48, 49, 51, 52, and 322, Filing 1, Lot 1, Filing 3, and Lot B, Filing 5, Sun Country Meadows, generally located in in parts of the SW1/4 of Section 23, and the NW1/4 of Section 26, T6S, R64W of the 6th P.M., as shown on Attachment B (Subject Property). The location of the lots satisfy the requirements of Local Rule 3(b)(1) as shown Attachment C. Applicants will own a pro-rata interest in the total amount of groundwater requested herein underlying their respective lots. Estimated Amounts: Denver: 28 acre-feet; Arapahoe: 23 acrefeet; Laramie-Fox Hills: 11 acre-feet. The Denver aquifer groundwater underlying each lot will not include amounts associated with existing exempt wells as described on Attachment A hereto for each lot, or pursuant to the water supply approval for the subdivision. Use: domestic, commercial, irrigation, stockwatering, fire protection, and augmentation purposes, both on and off the Subject Property. Applicants request that this Court determine that Applicants have the right to withdraw all of the legally available groundwater lying below the Subject Property, through wells or additional wells which may be completed in the future as well fields, including in combination with the same type of groundwater underlying other lots in the subdivision which may be decreed in separate cases, if Rule 11.B, 2 CCR 402-7 is satisfied. Further, Applicant prays that this Court grant the application and for such other relief as seems proper in the premises. (8 pages).

THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of FEBRUARY 2015 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

Legal Notice No.: 23122 First Publication: January 22, 2015 Last Publication: January 22, 2015 Publisher: The Elbert County News

Notices BER 2014 for each County affected. feet; Laramie-Fox Hills: 4 acre-feet. The Denver aquifer groundwater underlying each lot will not include amounts associ14CW3153, Harold Atwater Jr. and ated with existing exempt wells as deBrenda Atwater, Danny and Patricia scribed on Attachment A hereto for each Catlin, Thomas and Gayle Chavez, Brad lot, or pursuant to the water supply apDelinger, Jode Dieterle and Virginia Litproval for the subdivision. Use: domestic, tlefield, Beth and Randy Dotson, Micommercial, irrigation, stockwatering, fire chael and Michelle Elliott, Richard and protection, and augmentation purposes, Theresa Espinoza, James and Jean both on and off the Subject Property. ApFairclough, Gerald Gilkey, Joni Granda, plicants request that this Court determine Terrence Harris, Barbra and Christophthat Applicants have the right to withdraw er Hermes, Laura and Josef Janku, all of the legally available groundwater lyRhonda and Timothy Kilduff, Mark and ing below the Subject Property, through Tana Lamoreaux, Gary LeValley, Jenwells or additional wells which may be nifer Longfellow, Alan and Tracey Mccompleted in the future as well fields, inCoy, Richard and Diane Midiri, Robert cluding in combination with the same type Mitchell, Darron Perlmutter, John and of groundwater underlying other lots in the Denise Reiter, Randy Rought, Lu Rae To advertise your publicRubink, notices callRutkowski, 303-566-4100 subdivision which may be decreed in sepRobert Jr. and Lisa arate cases, if Rule 11.B, 2 CCR 402-7 is Marie Rutkowski, Michael and Terri satisfied. Further, Applicant prays that this Saurber, David and Carol Sears, David Court grant the application and for such Sears, Terri Somers, Mark and Lori other relief as seems proper in the Stephens, and Steve Trujillo c/o 7639 premises. (7 pages).

Shenandoah Drive, Elizabeth, CO 80107 (James J. Petrock, Petrock & Fendel, THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY 700 17th Street, #1800, Denver, CO THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN 80202), NOT NONTRIBUTARY DENVER PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS AND NONTRIBUTARY ARAPAHOE, AND LARAMIE-FOX HILLS AQUIFERS, ELCLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICBERT COUNTY, 70.6 acres being Lot 90, ATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND Filing 1, and Lots 5A, 6A, 15A, 17A, 19A, OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS 20A, 21A, 22A, 24A, 29A, 30A, 32A, 33A, MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN 34A, 36A, 57A, 58A, 59A, 60A, 61A, 62A, THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. 64A, 66A, 68A, 70A, 71A, 72A, 73A, 75A, 76A, 80A, Filing 3, Sun Country Meadows, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any generally located in in parts of the SE1/4 party who wishes to oppose an applicaof Section 23, T6S, R64W of the 6th P.M., tion, or an amended application, may file as shown on Attachment B (Subject Propwith the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, erty). The location of the lots satisfy the Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement requirements of Local Rule 3(b)(1) as of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why shown Attachment C. Applicants will own the application should not be granted, or a pro-rata interest in the total amount of why it should be granted only in part or on groundwater requested herein underlying certain conditions. Such Statement of Optheir respective lots. Estimated Amounts: position must be filed by the last day of Denver: 39 acre-feet; Arapahoe: 32 acreFEBRUARY 2015 (forms available on feet; Laramie-Fox Hills: 15 acre-feet. The www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s Denver aquifer groundwater underlying office), and must be filed as an Original each lot will not include amounts associand include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of ated with existing exempt wells as deeach Statement of Opposition must also scribed on Attachment A hereto for each be served upon the Applicant or lot, or pursuant to the water supply apApplicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or proval for the subdivision. Use: domestic, certificate of such service of mailing shall commercial, irrigation, stockwatering, fire be filed with the Water Clerk. protection, and augmentation purposes, both on and off the Subject Property. ApLegal Notice No.: 23124 plicants request that this Court determine First Publication: January 22, 2015 that Applicants have the right to withdraw Last Publication: January 22, 2015 all of the legally available groundwater lyPublisher: The Elbert County News ing below the Subject Property, through wells or additional wells which may be completed in the future as well fields, inPublic Notice cluding in combination with the same type of groundwater underlying other lots in the DISTRICT COURT, subdivision which may be decreed in sepWATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO arate cases, if Rule 11.B, 2 CCR 402-7 is DECEMBER 2014 WATER RESUME satisfied. Further, Applicants pray that this PUBLICATION Court grant the application and for such other relief as seems proper in the TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED premises. (11 pages).

IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are noIN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS tified that the following is a resume of all CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICwater right applications and certain ATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND amendments filed in the Office of the WaOWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS ter Clerk during the month of DECEMMUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN BER 2014 for each County affected.

THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. 14CW3152, John Atwood, Richard and Laurie Burton, Jenifer and James YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any Chappel, Sherry and Robert Heater, party who wishes to oppose an applicaJohn and Julie Kelty, Donald and tion, or an amended application, may file Elaine Knoll, Jon Medrano, Lloyd and with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Edna Morris, Karen Porter and Helen Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement Davies, John Riley, Matthew and of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why Sherry Settle, Laurie Silber, and Leola the application should not be granted, or Smith c/o 43526 Stampede Court, Elizawhy it should be granted only in part or on beth, CO 80107 (James J. Petrock, Petcertain conditions. Such Statement of Oprock & Fendel, 700 17th Street, #1800, position must be filed by the last day of Denver, CO 80202), NOT NONTRIBUFEBRUARY 2015 (forms available on TARY DENVER AND NONTRIBUTARY www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s ARAPAHOE, AND LARAMIE-FOX HILLS office), and must be filed as an Original AQUIFERS, ELBERT COUNTY, 42.6 and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of acres being Lots 35, 37, 38, 306, 310 and each Statement of Opposition must also 312, Filing 1, Lots 8A, 43A, 44A, and 45A, be served upon the Applicant or Filing 3, Lots 38C, 41C, and 43C, Filing 5, Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or Sun Country Meadows, generally located certificate of such service of mailing shall in in parts of the N1/2 of Section 26, T6S, be filed with the Water Clerk.

R64W of the 6th P.M., as shown on Attachment B (Subject Property). The locaLegal Notice No.: 23126 tion of the lots satisfy the requirements of First Publication: January 22, 2015 Local Rule 3(b)(1) as shown Attachment Last Publication: January 22, 2015 C. Applicants will own a pro-rata interest Publisher: The Elbert County News in the total amount of groundwater requested herein underlying their respective lots.

Estimated Amounts: Denver: 21.8 acrePublic Notice feet; Arapahoe: 20 acre-feet; Laramie-Fox Hills: 9.3 acre-feet. The Denver aquifer DISTRICT COURT, groundwater underlying each lot will not WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO include amounts associated with existing DECEMBER 2014 WATER RESUME exempt wells as described on Attachment PUBLICATION A hereto for each lot, or pursuant to the water supply approval for the subdivision.

TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED Use: domestic, commercial, irrigation, IN WATER APPLICATIONS stockwatering, fire protection, and augIN WATER DIV. 1 mentation purposes, both on and off the Subject Property. Applicants request that Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are nothis Court determine that Applicants have tified that the following is a resume of all the right to withdraw all of the legally availwater right applications and certain able groundwater lying below the Subject amendments filed in the Office of the WaProperty, through wells or additional wells ter Clerk during the month of DECEMwhich may be completed in the future as BER 2014 for each County affected. well fields, including in combination with the same type of groundwater underlying 14CW3164 East Cherry Creek Valley other lots in the subdivision which may be Water and Sanitation District (“ECCV”), decreed in separate cases, if Rule 11.B, 2 6201 S. Gun Club Road, Aurora, CO CCR 402-7 is satisfied. Further, Applicant 80016 , (c/o Brian M. Nazarenus, Esq., prays that this Court grant the application Sheela S. Stack, Esq., Susan M. Ryan, and for such other relief as seems proper Esq., and Allison P. Altaras, Esq. RYin the premises. (8 pages).

LEY CARLOCK & APPLEWHITE, 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 3500, Denver, CO THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY 80203, Telephone: 303-863-7500, AttorTHESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN neys for ECCV); APPLICATION FOR PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CONDITIONAL WATER STORAGE RECLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICFILL RIGHTS, IN ADAMS, ARAPAHOE, ATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND DENVER, DOUGLAS, ELBERT, JEFFEROWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS SON, MORGAN, AND WELD COUNTIES. MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN 2. Introduction. ECCV has developed an THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR integrated system for the diversion, accreBE FOREVER BARRED. tion, collection, storage, transmission, and treatment of its water rights. The integYOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any rated system, which is also referred to as party who wishes to oppose an applicathe Water Supply Project or the Northern tion, or an amended application, may file Project, is designed to provide ECCV with with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, a long-term, sustainable municipal water Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement supply for its service area located in Arof Opposition, setting forth facts as to why apahoe County, Colorado. A map of ECthe application should not be granted, or CV’s service area is attached as Exhibit 1. why it should be granted only in part or on According to ECCV’s Water Conservation certain conditions. Such Statement of OpPlan, at full build out which is expected to position must be filed by the last day of occur in twenty years, ECCV will require FEBRUARY 2015 (forms available on approximately 15,000 acre-feet per year of www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s raw water supply. The water approprioffice), and must be filed as an Original ated by this application is necessary to and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of help ECCV meet that projected need. 3. each Statement of Opposition must also Description of Conditional Water Storage be served upon the Applicant or Refill Rights. ECCV seeks the approval of Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or three conditional water storage refill rights: certificate of such service of mailing shall (1) a water storage refill right for Barr Lake be filed with the Water Clerk. (“ECCV 2014 Barr Lake Water Storage Refill Right”), (2) a water storage refill right Legal Notice No.: 23125 for United Reservoir No. 3(“ECCV 2014 First Publication: January 22, 2015 United Reservoir No. 3 Water Storage ReLast Publication: January 22, 2015 fill Right”), and (3) a water storage refill Publisher: The Elbert County News right for Gilcrest Reservoir (“ECCV 2014 Gilcrest Reservoir Water Storage Refill Right”) (collectively “Water Storage Refill Public Notice Rights”). A map showing the locations of the storage and diversion facilities deDISTRICT COURT, scribed below is attached as Exhibit 2.

WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO 3.1. Name and Legal Description of the DECEMBER 2014 WATER RESUME Storage Facilities. 3.1.1. Barr Lake. Barr PUBLICATION Lake is an off-channel reservoir located in Sections 15, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, and TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED 33, Township 1 South, Range 66 West of IN WATER APPLICATIONS the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado.

IN WATER DIV. 1 3.1.2. Gilcrest Reservoir. Gilcrest Reservoir is an off-channel reservoir located Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all within a part of Section 2, Township 3 water right applications and certain North, Range 67 West and Sections 23, amendments filed in the Office of the Wa26, 34, and 35, Township 4 North, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, ter Clerk during the month of DECEMBER 2014 for each County affected.

Colorado. 3.1.3. United Reservoir No. 3.

United Reservoir No. 3 is an off-channel 14CW3153, Harold Atwater Jr. and reservoir in the E1/2 of Section 26, Township 1 South, Range 67 West of the 6th Brenda Atwater, Danny and Patricia P.M., Adams County, Colorado. 3.2.

Catlin, Thomas and Gayle Chavez, Brad Name and Legal Description of the DiverDelinger, Jode Dieterle and Virginia Litsion Facilities. 3.2.1. United Diversion Fatlefield, Beth and Randy Dotson, Micility No. 3. The headgate is located on chael and Michelle Elliott, Richard and the east bank of the South Platte River in Theresa Espinoza, James and Jean the SW1/4 of Section 26, Township 1 Fairclough, Gerald Gilkey, Joni Granda, South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Terrence Harris, Barbra and ChristophAdams County, Colorado. The maximum er Hermes, Laura and Josef Janku, rate of diversion claimed is 250 c.f.s.

Rhonda and Timothy Kilduff, Mark and 3.2.2. Burlington Ditch. The headgate, Tana Lamoreaux, Gary LeValley, Jenpursuant to the changed point of divernifer Longfellow, Alan and Tracey Mcsion decreed in Case No. 02CW403, is a Coy, Richard and Diane Midiri, Robert point on the east bank of the South Platte Mitchell, Darron Perlmutter, John and River in the NE1/4 of the SW1/4 of SecDenise Reiter, Randy Rought, Lu Rae tion 14, Township 3 South, Range 68 Rubink, Robert Rutkowski, Jr. and Lisa West of the 6th P.M., City and County of Marie Rutkowski, Michael and Terri Denver, Colorado. The headgate is locSaurber, David and Carol Sears, David ated at approximately latitude 039° 47’ Sears, Terri Somers, Mark and Lori 24.69” N, longitude 104° 58’ 9.97” W. The Stephens, and Steve Trujillo c/o 7639 UTM coordinates are approximately NAD Shenandoah Drive, Elizabeth, CO 80107 1983 UTM Zone 13S 502616.89 mE (James J. Petrock, Petrock & Fendel, 4404471.42 mN. The maximum rate of 700 17th Street, #1800, Denver, CO delivery is 900 c.f.s. 3.2.3. Gilcrest Reser80202), NOT NONTRIBUTARY DENVER voir Diversion Facilities. Gilcrest ReserAND NONTRIBUTARY ARAPAHOE, AND LARAMIE-FOX HILLS AQUIFERS, ELvoir will have two points of diversion as

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO DECEMBER 2014 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of DECEMBER 2014 for each County affected.

14CW3150 Christopher Azulay and Janell Spicer, Craig and Ranae Baukema, Gloria Blouch, JuliAnna and Steven Brown,Gerry and Christine Hayes, Kenneth and Christine Hein, Jeffrey House, Laurence and Kathleen Jenni, Robert and Laverne Lindsey, James and Judy McCreer, Douglas McNeil Jr. and Lynda McNeil, William and Linda Mock, Ken and Vickie Perrier, Dixie Sawyer, Joshua Slack, Fred and Beverly Teel Living Trust, Richard and Tammy Thomas, Margaret Usher, Marvin and Rhonda Vaughan, and Daniel and Sabrena Zonneveld, c/o 43719 Evening Star Court, Elizabeth, CO 80107 (James J. Petrock, Petrock & Fendel, 700 17th Street, #1800, Denver, CO 80202), NOT NONTRIBUTARY DENVER AND NONTRIBUTARY ARAPAHOE, AND LARAMIE-FOX HILLS AQUIFERS, ELBERT COUNTY, 49.2 acres being Lots 317 and 318, Filing 1, and Lots 3C, 4C, 5C, 6C, 9C, 10C, 13C, 16C, 18C, 20C, 23C, 25C, 54C, 55C, 56C, 58C, 60C, AND 61C, Filing 5, Sun Country Meadows, generally located in parts of the N1/2 of Section 26, T6S, R64W of the 6th P.M., as shown on Attachment B (Subject Property). The location of the lots satisfy the requirements of Local Rule 3(b)(1) as shown Attachment C. Applicants will own a pro-rata interest in the total amount of groundwater requested herein underlying their respective lots.

Estimated Amounts: Denver: 27 acre-feet; Arapahoe: 23 acre-feet; Laramie-Fox Hills: 11 acre-feet. The Denver aquifer groundwater underlying each lot will not include amounts associated with existing exempt wells as described on Attachment A hereto for each lot, or pursuant to the water supply approval for the subdivision.

Use: domestic, commercial, irrigation, stockwatering, fire protection, and augmentation purposes, both on and off the Subject Property. Applicants request that this Court determine that Applicants have the right to withdraw all of the legally available groundwater lying below the Subject Property, through wells or additional wells which may be completed in the future as well fields, including in combination with the same type of groundwater underlying other lots in the subdivision which may be decreed in separate cases, if Rule 11.B, 2 CCR 402-7 is satisfied. Further, Applicant prays that this Court grant the application and for such other relief as seems proper in the premises. (9 pages).

THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of FEBRUARY 2015 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

Legal Notice No.: 23123 First Publication: January 22, 2015 Last Publication: January 22, 2015 Publisher: The Elbert County News Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO DECEMBER 2014 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of DECEMBER 2014 for each County affected.

14CW3151, Chad Brooks, Kevin Edwardson and Krisi Aryan-Edwardson, Sheila Gaston, Conner Holmes, Melvin and Mary Kramp, Richard and Roseann Manjeot, David Ray Moffitt Irrevocable Trust, and Lars Walters c/o 7363 Shenandoah Drive, Elizabeth, CO 80107 (James J. Petrock, Petrock & Fendel, 700 17th Street, #1800, Denver, CO 80202), NOT NONTRIBUTARY DENVER AND NONTRIBUTARY ARAPAHOE, AND LARAMIE-FOX HILLS AQUIFERS, ELBERT COUNTY, 17.3 acres being Lots 28C, 32C, 33C, 47C, 49C, 50C, 51C and 52C, Filing 5, Sun Country Meadows, generally located in in parts of the N1/2 of Section 26, T6S, R64W of the 6th P.M., as shown on Attachment B (Subject Property). The location of the lots satisfy the requirements of Local Rule 3(b)(1) as shown Attachment C. Applicants will own a pro-rata interest in the total amount of groundwater requested herein underlying their respective lots. Estimated Amounts: Denver: 9 acre-feet; Arapahoe: 8 acrefeet; Laramie-Fox Hills: 4 acre-feet. The Denver aquifer groundwater underlying each lot will not include amounts associated with existing exempt wells as described on Attachment A hereto for each lot, or pursuant to the water supply approval for the subdivision. Use: domestic, commercial, irrigation, stockwatering, fire protection, and augmentation purposes, both on and off the Subject Property. Applicants request that this Court determine that Applicants have the right to withdraw all of the legally available groundwater lying below the Subject Property, through wells or additional wells which may be completed in the future as well fields, including in combination with the same type of groundwater underlying other lots in the subdivision which may be decreed in separate cases, if Rule 11.B, 2 CCR 402-7 is satisfied. Further, Applicant prays that this Court grant the application and for such other relief as seems proper in the premises. (7 pages).

THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDIC-

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United Reservoir No. 3. United Reservoir 3.2.2. Burlington Ditch. The headgate, United seeks to add point(s) of diversion by the decrees in Case Nos. 02CW404, certain conditions. Such Statement of OpBER 2014 for each County affected.

No. 3 is owned by United, 8301 E. Pren- 15 pursuant to the changed point of diverfrom the Beebe Seep Canal for delivery of 03CW442, and 10CW306 to replace deposition must be filed by the last day of tice Ave. Suite 100, Greenwood Village sion decreed in Case No. 02CW403, is a water to storage in Highlands Reservoir. pletions from pumping of water for delivFEBRUARY 2015 (forms available on 14CW3173 United Water and SanitaCO 80111. By virtue of the Amended and point on the east bank of the South Platte 2.3. Additional Point(s) of Diversion for ery to ECCV’s service area from the www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s tion District, acting by and through the Restated Water Supply Agreement River in the NE1/4 of the SW1/4 of SecHighlands Reservoir. Point(s) of diversion ACWWA/ECCV Well Field. ECCV will office), and must be filed as an Original United Water Acquisition Enterprise between ECCV, FRICO, and United, ECtion 14, Township 3 South, Range 68 from the Beebe Seep Canal for delivery of also use each of the Water Storage Refill and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of (“United” or the “Applicant”), c/o CV has the right to use 250 acre feet of West of the 6th P.M., City and County of water to storage in Highlands Reservoir Rights as a source of replacement water each Statement of Opposition must also Robert Lembke, 8301 East Prentice storage and space available storage in Denver, Colorado. The headgate is locmay be located at one, two or all of the folpursuant to the ECCV 70 Ranch Augbe served upon the Applicant or Ave., #100, Greenwood Village, ColorUnited Reservoir No. 3. 4.5. United Diverlowing locations: 2.3.1. In the NW1/4 of ated at approximately latitude 039° 47’ mentation Plan decreed in Case Nos. Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or ado 80111, (303) 775-1005. APPLICAsion Facility No. 3. United Diversion FacilNE1/4 of Section 31, Township 1 North, 24.69” N, longitude 104° 58’ 9.97” W. The 02CW404 and 03CW442. 3.8.2. Use in certificate of such service of mailing shall TION FOR CONDITIONAL WATER ity No. 3 is owned by Henderson AggregRange 65 West of the 6th P.M., Weld UTM coordinates are approximately NAD ECCV’s Recharge Projects. ECCV will be filed with the Water Clerk.

RIGHT FOR DIVERSION TO STORAGE ate Ltd., P.O. Box 700, Henderson, CO County, Colorado. 2.3.2. In the SE1/4 of 1983 UTM Zone 13S 502616.89 mE use each of the Water Storage Refill IN HIGHLANDS RESERVOIR IN ADAMS, 80640. United has a perpetual easement the SW1/4 of Section 31, Township 1 4404471.42 mN. The maximum rate of Rights for recharge by delivering the waLegal Notice No.: 23128 ARAPAHOE, DENVER, DOUGLAS, ELrecorded on July 8, 2005, at Reception North, Range 65 West of the 6th P.M., delivery is 900 c.f.s. 3.2.3. Gilcrest Reserter to ECCV’s recharge facilities located in First Publication: January 22, 2015 BERT, MORGAN AND WELD No. 20050708000723150 in the real esWeld County, Colorado.

2.3.3.

In the voir Diversion Facilities. Gilcrest Reserthe Beebe Draw and on 70 Ranch pursuCOUNTIES. Please send all pleadings Last Publication: January 22, 2015 tate records of Adams County, Colorado, NE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 31, Townvoir will have two points of diversion as ant to the terms and conditions of the deand correspondence to: Tod J. Smith, Publisher: The Elbert County News which easement permits United to use ship 1 North, Range 65 West of the 6th described below. 3.2.3.1. Jay Thomas crees in Case Nos. 02CW404 and Esq., LAW OFFICE OF TOD J. SMITH, United Diversion Facility No. 3. ECCV P.M., Weld County, Colorado. 2.4. Date of Ditch Diversion Dam. (also known as the 03CW442. 3.8.3. Use in ECCV’s ExLLC, 2919 Valmont Rd., Suite 205, and United have entered into an agreeSouth Diversion). This point of diversion Appropriation. December 31, 2013. 2.5. changes. ECCV will use each of the WaBoulder, Colorado 80301, tod@tjsment to allow ECCV to use the facility. for Gilcrest Reservoir will be located adjaHow Appropriation Was Initiated. The apter Storage Refill Rights as a source of law.com (Attorney for Applicant). Descrip4.6. Jay Thomas Diversion Dam. The Jay cent to the Jay Thomas Ditch Diversion plicant filed an application for a storage substitute supply for the appropriate rights tion of Conditional Appropriative Water Thomas Diversion Dam and the land at Dam and will be located on the east bank water right in Highlands Reservoir on of exchange decreed in Case Nos. Right 2.1. Background. In Case No. Public Notice the point of diversion for Gilcrest Reserof the South Platte River in the NW1/4 of December 31, 2013, in Case No. 02CW404 and 03CW442, 11CW280, and 13CW3182 (which has been consolidated voir are owned by Public Service Comthe NW1/4 of Section 11, Township 3 13CW3082. United’s Board of Directors 11CW285. 3.8.4. Municipal Uses Within with Case Nos. 13CW3180 and CHILD FIND pany, d/b/a Xcel Energy, Inc., 1800 LarNorth, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., passed a Resolution approving the filing of ECCV’s Service Area. ECCV will use 13CW3183), United seeks a conditional imer Street, Suite 1300, Denver, CO Weld County, Colorado. 3.2.3.2. North Dithis application for additional points of dieach of the Water Storage Refill Rights for appropriative water right for storage in East Central BOCES and/or its member 80202-1414. The facility will only be used version. This point of diversion for Gilversion of Highlands Reservoir which is all municipal, industrial, and irrigation Highlands Reservoir. Highlands Reserdistricts would like to locate all 0 through with the permission of Public Service crest Reservoir will be located on the attached to this application as Exhibit 1. uses, including but not limited to domestic, voir will be an off-channel reservoir loc21 year olds, who may have a disability.

Company. WHEREFORE, ECCV reSouth Platte River downstream of the con2.6. Date Water First Applied to Beneficial ated in the NW1/4 of Section 32, Townirrigation, mechanical, manufacturing, quests that the Court enter a decree fluence of the South Platte River and the Use. Not applicable, conditional water commercial, industrial, exchange, augship 1 North, Range 65 West of the 6th The Colorado Department of Education granting the conditional water storage reSt. Vrain River in the NE1/4 of the SW1/4 right. 2.7. Amount Claimed. As described mentation and replacement, recharge, P.M., Weld County, Colorado. The Resermaintains a comprehensive child identificfill rights and for such other relief it deems of Section 26, Township 4 North, Range in paragraph 2.4 of the application in Case voir is described in more detail in parasubstitute supply, adjustment and regulaation system consistent with Part B of proper. (7 pages, and 2 exhibits) 67 West of the 6th P.M., Weld County, No. 13CW3182. 2.8. Rate of Flow. 15 cfs graph 2 of the application in Case No. tion of water supply, including further exIDEA and ensures that each Local EduColorado, to allow for the diversion of surfor each point of diversion, and/or 15 cfs change with other water systems and with 13CW3182. The claimed points of divercation Agency (LEA), in collaboration with THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY face water from the South Platte River and combined. 2.9. Source of Supply. Water other water users, and for all other benefision in Case No. 13CW3182 for the Higha variety of community resources, asTHESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT pumping into Gilcrest Reservoir for storaccruing to the Beebe Seep Canal cial uses within the service area of ECCV lands Reservoir are: (1) the United Diversumes the leadership role in establishing IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS age. 3.2.3.3. Diversion Rate. A maximum throughout the length of the Canal from located in Arapahoe County, as it now exsion Facility No. 3, which diverts from the and maintaining a process in their comCLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICrate of 250 cfs in aggregate for the two Barr Lake to the point(s) of diversion. ists or may exist in the future, and/or the east bank of the South Platte River in the munity for the purpose of locating, identifyATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND Gilcrest Reservoir diversion facilities de2.10. Uses. United seeks the right to use service area of others with whom ECCV SW1/4 of Section 26, Township 1 South, ing and evaluating all children, birth to 21 OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS scribed above. 3.3. Dates of approprithe water diverted to storage from the may contract to provide water, water delivRange 67 West of the 6th P.M., Adams years, who may have a disability and may MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN points identified in paragraph 2.3 above, ation. December 30, 2014. 3.4. How apery, and water delivery infrastructure.

County, Colorado, located 1,636 feet east be eligible for services and supports unTHE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR for the uses described in paragraph 2.8 of propriation was initiated. ECCV gave no3.8.5. Right of Reuse and Successive of the west line and 1,531 feet north of der Part C or special education services BE FOREVER BARRED. the application in Case No. 13CW3182. 3. tice of the appropriation of each of the Use. In addition to the uses described in the south line of said Section 26; and (2) under Part B of IDEA. The Applicant does not seek any changes, three Water Storage Refill Rights by filing paragraphs 3.8.1. through 3.8.4., above, the Burlington Canal Headgate which is, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any modifications or amendments to the the Application in this matter on DecemECCV asks the Court to decree that it has pursuant to a changed point of diversion Ages 0 through 5 year-old concerns party who wishes to oppose an applicaclaims made in the application in Case ber 30, 2014. 3.5. Date water first apthe right to use, reuse, successively use decreed in Case No. 02CW403, located should be directed to the following: tion, or an amended application, may file No. 13CW3182, except for the addition of plied to beneficial use. Not applicable. and dispose of by sale, exchange, augon the east bank of the South Platte River with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, point(s) of diversion described in this ap3.6. Amounts Claimed. 3.6.1. ECCV 2014 mentation, or otherwise, to extinction all in the NE1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 14, • Cheyenne County (Cheyenne Wells and Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement plication. 4. The Applicant intends to seek Barr Lake Water Storage Refill Right. water under the Water Storage Refill Township 3 South, Range 68 West of the Kit Carson Schools) of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why to consolidate this case with Case No. 9,000 acre-feet per water year. Water Rights for the uses described above with6th P.M., City and County of Denver, Col• Lincoln County (Genoa-Hugo School) the application should not be granted, or may be stored under the ECCV 2014 Barr 13CW3182 (which has been consolidated in ECCV’s service area as it currently exorado. In Case No. 02CW403, the District • Yuma County (Idalia & Liberty Schools) why it should be granted only in part or on Lake Water Storage Refill Right after the with Case Nos. 13CW3180 and ists or may exist in the future. 3.8.6. PaCourt, Water Division No. 1 addressed the • Kit Carson County (Bethune, Stratton, certain conditions. Such Statement of Opfirst fill of the ECCV 2011 Barr Lake Wa13CW3182), and will recognize the applicper Fill and Carryover Exclusions. ECCV issue of seepage gains in the Beebe Seep Arriba-Flagler & Hi-Plains Schools) position must be filed by the last day of ter Storage Right is completed in each waability of statements of opposition filed in asserts its intent to use the Water StorCanal, See Findings of Fact, Conclusions • Arapahoe County (Byers, Deer Trail, FEBRUARY 2015 (forms available on ter year and Barr Lake may be refilled that case to this application without the age Refill Rights for all purposes associof Law and Order, Case No. 02CW403 at Strasburg & Bennett Schools) www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s once under this refill right during each waneed for those opposers in Consolidated ated with a refill storage right under Color¶¶ 435-446 (Sept. 5, 2008). The Court • Washington County (Arickaree office), and must be filed as an Original ter storage year. 3.6.2. ECCV 2014 Case Nos. 13CW3180, 3182 and 3183, to ado law, including but not limited to exclufound, in part, that: Seepage and return & Woodlin Schools) and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of United Reservoir No. 3 Water Storage Refile statements of opposition to this applicsion from any paper fill or carryover obligflows [in the Beebe Seep Canal] may not • Adams County (Bennett, Strasburg, each Statement of Opposition must also fill Right. 1,000 acre-feet per water year. ation. 5. Names and Addresses of the ations. 4. Names and addresses of the be reused, but rather, are subject to apByers and Deer Trail Schools) be served upon the Applicant or Water may be stored under the ECCV Owner of the Structure and the Diversion owner of the diversion and storage facilitpropriation and administration under the • Lincoln County (Limon & Karval Schools) Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or 2014 United Reservoir No. 3 Water StorFacility Listed Above. The claimed points priority system as any other waters of a ies listed above. 4.1. Barr Lake. Barr • Elbert County (Agate & Kiowa Schools) certificate of such service of mailing shall age Refill Right after the first fill of the ECof diversion will be constructed in the Lake is owned by the Farmers Reservoir natural stream. See Ready Mixed Con• Kit Carson County (Burlington Schools) be filed with the Water Clerk.

CV 2011 United Reservoir No. 3 Water Beebe Seep Canal which is operated by and Irrigation Company (“FRICO”), 80 crete Co. v. Farmers Reservoir & IrrigaStorage Right is completed in each water the Farmers Reservoir and Canal ComSouth 27th Avenue, Brighton, Colorado tion Co., 115 P.3d 638, 642 (Colo. 2005).

Please contact: Stacey Schillig, Child Find Legal Notice No.: 23127 year and United Reservoir No. 3 may be pany, 80 South 27th Street, Brighton, Col80601. By virtue of the Amended and ReSee also Water Supply & Storage Co., Coordinator - (719) 775-2342, ext. 133 First Publication: January 22, 2015 refilled once under this refill right during orado 80601. (5 pages, 1 exhibit page) stated Water Supply Agreement between 733 P.2d at 682-83. This is true whether Last Publication: January 22, 2015 each water storage year. 3.6.3. ECCV ECCV, FRICO and the United Water and the seepage flows directly to the stream or All 5 through 21 year-old concerns should Publisher: The Elbert County News 2014 Gilcrest Reservoir Water Storage THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY Sanitation District (“United”), ECCV has is intercepted by a private ditch on its way be directed to the local school district adRefill Right. 3,000 acre-feet per water THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT the right to use its pro rata shareholder to the stream. Ready Mixed Concrete, 115 ministrator, special education teacher, year. Water may be stored under the ECPublic Notice IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS storage space and space available storP.3d at 642. Those waters are available East Central BOCES (719) 775-2342, ext.

CV 2014 Gilcrest Reservoir Water StorCLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICage. 4.2. Burlington Ditch. The Burlingfor and subject to appropriation and ad101. age Refill Right after the first fill of the ECDISTRICT COURT, ATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND ton Ditch is owned by FRICO, 80 South ministration under the priority system just OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS CV 2011 Gilcrest Reservoir Water StorWATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO 27th Avenue, Brighton, Colorado 80601. as other waters of the natural stream.

Services for infants and toddlers are MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN age Right is completed in each water year DECEMBER 2014 WATER RESUME By virtue of the Amended and Restated Comstock v. Ramsey, 55 Colo. 244, 255voluntary.

THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR and Gilcrest Reservoir may be refilled PUBLICATION Water Supply Agreement between ECCV, 59, 133 P. 1107, 1111 (Colo. 1913). Id. BE FOREVER BARRED. once under this refill right during each waFRICO and United, ECCV has the right to at ¶ 436. The Water Court also found that The East Central BOCES member ter storage year. 3.7. Source. South TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED use a portion of the capacity of the Burl“the amount of the seepage gain [in the schools are: Bennett, Strasburg, Byers, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any Platte River. 3.8. Uses. ECCV seeks a IN WATER APPLICATIONS ington Ditch. 4.3. Gilcrest Reservoir. GilBeebe Seep Canal] averages 1,200 to Deer Trail, Agate, Woodlin, Arickaree, Liparty who wishes to oppose an applicadecree granting the right to use the Water IN WATER DIV. 1 crest Reservoir is owned by Gilcrest 1,300 af per year from 1927-2005.” Id. at mon, Genoa-Hugo, Karval, Kiowa, Kit Cartion, or an amended application, may file Storage Refill Rights as follows: 3.8.1.

Reservoir, LLC, 9191 Towne Centre ¶ 438. See also Order re: Englewood’s son, Cheyenne Wells, Arriba-Flagler, Hiwith the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Use in ECCV’s Plans for Augmentation.

Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are noDrive, Suite 210, San Diego, CA 92122.

Motion for Determination of Question of Plains, Stratton, Bethune, Burlington, tified that the following is a resume of all Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement ECCV will use each of the Water Storage Any use of Gilcrest Reservoir for storage Law, Case No. 10CW306, District Court, Liberty, and Idalia.

Refill Rights as a source of replacement water right applications and certain of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why will be done pursuant to a lease agreeWater Division No. 1 (March 13, 2014). water in the ECCV Augmentation Plan deamendments filed in the Office of the Wathe application should not be granted, or ment with Gilcrest Reservoir, LLC. 4.4.

2.2. Nature of Claim. By this application, References: IDEA, ter Clerk during the month of DECEMcreed in Case No. 02CW403, as amended why it should be granted only in part or on United Reservoir No. 3. United Reservoir United seeks to add point(s) of diversion Part C, Section 303.320-323 by the decrees in Case Nos. 02CW404, BER 2014 for each County affected. certain conditions. Such Statement of OpNo. 3 is owned by United, 8301 E. Prenfrom the Beebe Seep Canal for delivery of IDEA, Part B, Section 300.125 03CW442, and 10CW306 to replace deposition must be filed by the last day of tice Ave. Suite 100, Greenwood Village water to storage in Highlands Reservoir.

ECEA CCR 301-8 2220-R-4.01-4.04(4) 14CW3173 United Water and Sanitapletions from pumping of water for delivFEBRUARY 2015 (forms available on CO 80111. By virtue of the Amended and 2.3. Additional Point(s) of Diversion for East Central BOCES Comprehensive Plan ery to ECCV’s service area from the tion District, acting by and through the www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s Restated Water Supply Agreemen t Highlands Reservoir. Point(s) of diversion Section III Process of Identifying ACWWA/ECCV Well Field. ECCV will United Water Acquisition Enterprise office), and must be filed as an Original between ECCV, FRICO, and United, ECfrom the Beebe Seep Canal for delivery of (“United” or the “Applicant”), c/o also use each of the Water Storage Refill and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of CV has the right to use 250 acre feet of water to storage in Highlands Reservoir Legal Notice No.: 23131 Rights as a source of replacement water Robert Lembke, 8301 East Prentice each Statement of Opposition must also storage and space available storage in may be located at one, two or all of the folFirst Publication: January 22, 2015 pursuant to the ECCV 70 Ranch AugAve., #100, Greenwood Village, Colorbe served upon the Applicant or lowing locations: 2.3.1. In the NW1/4 of United Reservoir No. 3. 4.5. United DiverLast Publication: January 29, 2015 ado 80111, (303) 775-1005. APPLICAmentation Plan decreed in Case Nos. Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or sion Facility No. 3. United Diversion FacilNE1/4 of Section 31, Township 1 North, Publisher: The Elbert County News TION FOR CONDITIONAL WATER 02CW404 and 03CW442. 3.8.2. Use in certificate of such service of mailing shall ity No. 3 is owned by Henderson AggregRange 65 West of the 6th P.M., Weld ECCV’s Recharge Projects. ECCV will RIGHT FOR DIVERSION TO STORAGE be filed with the Water Clerk. ate Ltd., P.O. Box 700, Henderson, CO County, Colorado. 2.3.2. In the SE1/4 of IN HIGHLANDS RESERVOIR IN ADAMS, use each of the Water Storage Refill 80640. United has a perpetual easement the SW1/4 of Section 31, Township 1 Rights for recharge by delivering the waARAPAHOE, DENVER, DOUGLAS, ELLegal Notice No.: 23128 recorded on July 8, 2005, at Reception North, Range 65 West of the 6th P.M., ter to ECCV’s recharge facilities located in BERT, MORGAN AND WELD First Publication: January 22, 2015 No. 20050708000723150 in the real esWeld County, Colorado. 2.3.3. In the the Beebe Draw and on 70 Ranch pursuCOUNTIES. Please send all pleadings Last Publication: January 22, 2015 tate records of Adams County, Colorado, NE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 31, Townant to the terms and conditions of the deand correspondence to: Tod J. Smith, Publisher: The Elbert County News which easement permits United to use ship 1 North, Range 65 West of the 6th crees in Case Nos. 02CW404 and Esq., LAW OFFICE OF TOD J. SMITH, United Diversion Facility No. 3. ECCV P.M., Weld County, Colorado. 2.4. Date of 03CW442. 3.8.3. Use in ECCV’s ExLLC, 2919 Valmont Rd., Suite 205, and United have entered into an agreeAppropriation. December 31, 2013. 2.5. changes. ECCV will use each of the WaBoulder, Colorado 80301, tod@tjsment to allow ECCV to use the facility.

How Appropriation Was Initiated. The apter Storage Refill Rights as a source of law.com (Attorney for Applicant). Descrip4.6. Jay Thomas Diversion Dam. The Jay plicant filed an application for a storage substitute supply for the appropriate rights tion of Conditional Appropriative Water Thomas Diversion Dam and the land at water right in Highlands Reservoir on of exchange decreed in Case Nos. Right 2.1. Background. In Case No. the point of diversion for Gilcrest ReserDecember 31, 2013, in Case No. 02CW404 and 03CW442, 11CW280, and 13CW3182 (which has been consolidated voir are owned by Public Service Com13CW3082. United’s Board of Directors Public Notice 11CW285. 3.8.4. Municipal Uses Within with Case Nos. 13CW3180 and pany, d/b/a Xcel Energy, Inc., 1800 Larpassed a Resolution approving the filing of PaymeNts for PublicatioN December ECCV’s Service Area. ECCV will use 13CW3183), United seeks a conditional imer Street, Suite 1300, Denver, CO this application for 2014 additional points of dieach of the Refill Rights for appropriative water right for storage in 80202-1414.

The facilitycurtis will only be used version which is fuND 10 Water Storage GeNeral fuND 585,104.43 cArlson reimbursement 38.00 Jim shArpof Highlands Reservoir reimbursement 143.50 richArd brown plAnning commission 115.80 allfuND municipal, industrial, and irrigation Highlands Reservoir.

Highlands Reserwith the permission of Public Service attached to this application as Exhibit 1.

15 HealtH fuND 3,892.49 curtis stAnko reimbursement 100.00 Jimmie pettit reimbursement 100.00 rmmi operAting expense 7,378.50 uses, including but not limited domestic, voir will be an off-channel reservoir locWHEREFORE, ECCV re2.6. Date Water First Applied to Beneficial fuND 20 roaD aND to briDGe fuND Company.169,232.98 d-J petroleum . fuel 53,566.41 JoAn m. white election Judges 432.50 portA pot rentAl monthly utilities 195.00 ated in the NW1/4 of Section 32, Townirrigation, the CourtdAniel enter rosAles a decree Use. NotsAnders applicable, conditional water fuND 25 mechanical, salesmanufacturing, aND use tax fuND quests that 601,021.21 plAnning commission 46.00 JohAnnA reimbursement 52.15 robert thomAsson election Judges 990.00 commercial, industrial, exchange, augship 1monthly North, Range 65 West of the 6th granting the11,699.84 conditional dAns watertrAsh storage reright.butler 2.7. Amount Claimed.reimbursement As described fuND 40 lea fuND utilities 130.20 John 468.86 rock pArts co operAting expense 4,437.11 mentation recharge, P.M., civil Weldreturn County, Colorado. The Reserfill rights and for such other relief itZebley deems in paragraph 2.4 of the application in Case fuND 50 and replacement, HumaN services fuND 19,528.09 deborAh 11.00 John deere finAnciAl operAting expense 400.34 rky mtn spring substitute and regulavoir ismonthly described in more detail in paraand 2 deep exhibits) No. 13CW3182.

2.8. Rate of Flow. 15 cfs fuND 83 supply, adjustment meaDow statioN Debt svcproper. (7 pages, 150.00 rock utilities 8.45 John r or shirley & suspension operAting expense 25.80 tion of water includingestates further ex2 of the application in Case No. fuND 84 supply,foxwooD Debt svc 150.00 diAmond boleJAck graphreimbursement 100.00 Afor hArdin (250.00) rod wilson deputy comp 100.00 each point of diversion,operAting and/or 15 expense cfs fuND with 90 other water coNservatioN trust digitcom electronics operAting Julie stewArt electionWater Judges 625.00 ron turner plAnning commission 93.00 change systems and with 13CW3182.

Theexpense claimed points of 736.69 diverTHE WATER381.86 RIGHTS CLAIMED BY combined.

2.9. Source of Supply. dominion voting kAtee whetstone-kolm Judges 77.50 roslyn k swofford election Judges 692.50 other water users, and for all other benefision in Case No. 13CW3182 for the HighTHESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT accruing to the Beebe election Seep Canal systemsRIGHTS expense 1,000.00 kelley, sheilA reimbursement 234.88 running creek Quick cial uses within the service area of ECCV lands operAting Reservoir are: (1) the United DiverIN PRIORITY ANY WATER throughout the length of the Canal from veNDor Name traNsactioN cHeck donyelle inhulsen sion Facility election 192.50 kim brugh Judges 745.00 lube Auto mAintenAnce 142.76 located in Arapahoe County, as it now exNo.Judge 3, which diverts from the CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICBarr Lake to the point(s)election of diversion. amouNt esp AND ltd Autoof repAir 1,911.65 kimbAll midwest operAting expense 266.47 sAfe built buidling inspection 2,257.77 ists or may exist in the future,DescriPtioN and/or the east bank the South Platte River in the ATED WITHIN THIS drAgon DIVISION 2.10. Uses.

United seeks the right to use drive trAin industries eQuipment 381.33 kiowA storAge monthly 145.00 seAn gormAn operAting expense 163.00 service area of others with whom ECCV SW1/4 of SectionrepAir 26, Township 1 South, OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS the water diverted to storage fromutilities the AArms 175.00 dufford WITHIN wAldeck Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Adams kiowA & wAste signAl grAphics office supplies 807.64 may contract to provide water, softwAre water deliv-support pointswAter identified in paragraph 2.3 above, MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT AdvAnced QuAlity Autoinfrastructure.

Auto reApir 1,448.24 milburn professionAl serv 1,636 feet 152.50 wAter operAting 1,837.03 sprint monthly utilities 96.16 ery, and water delivery County, Colorado, located east THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR for the uses described in paragraph 2.8expense of AflAcRight of Reuse and Successive operAting expense 2,016.25 el pAso cty 2,700.00 kyrei Zion 1,025.82 stAples AdvAntAge office supplies 1,113.95 3.8.5. of theAutopsy west line and 1,531 feet north of BE FOREVER BARRED. the application in Case No. operAting 13CW3182.expense 3.

AgAte mutuAl to the uses described monthly utilities 25.87 elbert cty JAil cbi hotline 269.02 lArry ross does not seekreimbursement 161.88 stAte of co operAting expense 1,720.29 Use. In addition in the south line of said Section 26; and (2) The Applicant any changes, AirgAs intermountAin operAting 1,399.64 NOTIFIED elbert cty r&b fuel reimbursement lAw offices of frAnk stAte wire & terminAl operAting expense 71.03 paragraphs 3.8.1. through 3.8.4., above,expense the Burlington Canal Headgate260,645.53 which is, YOU ARE HEREBY that any modifications or amendments to the Al rogers reimbursement 100.00to oppose elbertancty s/o Jclaims bAll made in the application civil return 16.00 stephAni turner operAting expense 146.00 ECCV asks the Court to decree that it has pursuant to a changed point of diversion party who wishes applicain Case All Access operAting expense 3,051.00 golf tourn. cbi hotline 140.00 legAl shield legAl shield 607.80 stericycle operAting expense 152.51 the right to use, reuse, successively use decreed in Case No. 02CW403, located tion, or an amended application, may file No. 13CW3182, except for the addition of All-pro operAting 1,384.58 cty treAsurer 2,503.28 levi’s rAgs ii operAting expense 450.00 stone oil co fuel 28,919.14 and dispose of by sale, exchange, aug-expense on theoperAting east bank expense of the South Platte River with the Water Clerk, elbert P. O. Box 2038, point(s) of diversion described in this apAmber reilmAnn reimbursement 98.00 a verified eliZAbeth fire dept. in theoperAting expense 150.00 lincoln operAting expense 818.62 sundAnce printing operAting expense 184.56 mentation, or otherwise, to extinction all NE1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 14, Greeley, CO 80632, Statement plication.cty 4. The Applicant intends to seek Anthony corrAdo election Judges 1,075.00 enertiA consulting mArini diesel this case with operAting expense 1,600.92 sysco food svcs operAting expense 5,420.94 water under the Water Storage Refill Township 3 South, Range 68 West of the of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why to consolidate Case No. Applied concepts operAting expense 72.00 gr llc operAting expense 16,420.00 mArJorie f. white election Judges 625.00 tAser internAtionAl trAining 350.00 Rights for the uses described above with6th P.M., City and County of Denver, Colthe application should not granted, or 13CW3182 (which has been consolidated ArApAhoe heAting svc operAting expense 5,130.16 fAirbe point mArk leAchmAn operAting expense 15.00 ted dole reimbursement 100.00 in AsphAlt ECCV’s service area co as it currently ex-expense orado.monthly In Case utilities No. 02CW403, the District why it should be grantedcommunicAtions only in part or on w i t h louise C a s eJAcobson N o s . 1 3 CoperAting W 3 1 8 0 aexpense nd speciAlties operAting 331,541.21 245.90 mAry 60.00 terry tweedy reimbursement 100.00 ists or may exist in the future.operAting 3.8.6. Pa-expense Court, Water Division No. 1 addressed the certain conditions.

Statement of Op13CW3182), will recognize the applicAuto glAss guys 280.00SuchfArmers trophies mAryrobin b. and wills election Judges 355.00 the hArtford hArtford 1,224.14 perAuto-cholor Fill and Carryover Exclusions.

ECCVrentAl issue cbi of seepage Seep position must163.50 be filed by the last day of abilitymArtinich of statements of opposition filed in system eQuipment & engrAve hotline gains in the Beebe 55.50 mAtt contrAct service 132.50 the lighthouse operAting expense 781.00 asserts intent to use the Water StorCanal,operAting See Findings of Fact, Conclusions FEBRUARY 122.88 2015 (forms available that case to this application without expense the bArryits mitchell rAdio pAger flAgler coop on expense 595.50 mcAfee operAting 363.78 thimgAn professionAl services 9,000.00 age Refill Rights all purposes associof Law and Order, Case No. 02CW403 at www.courts.state.co.us or in the business Clerk’s need for internAtionAl those opposers inAuto Consolidated beverly susAnfor shick election Judges 190.00 frontier mcc&les repAir 258.90 thin Air communicAtions operAting expense 2,651.24 ated with a refill storage right under Color¶¶ 435-446 (Sept.

5, 2008). The Court office), and must be filed as an Original Case Nos. andrepAir 3183, to bill hendrix monthly utilities 200.00 product monthly utilities 3,450.48 medved co 13CW3180, 3182 Auto 458.43 thomAs reuters west contrAct services 207.00 ado law, hills including but not limited to exclufound,operAting in part, that: Seepage and return and include 4,784.09 $158.00 filing A copy of file statements blAck energy monthly utilities g&kfee. svcs expense 62.30 mhc kenworthof - opposition to this applictom beshore plAnning commission 138.00 sion from any paper fill or carryover obligflows [in the Beebe Seep Canal] may not each Statement of Opposition must also ation.

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Names and Addresses of the bob wAre plAnning commission 117.00 gcr tire centers operAting expense 6,900.00 co springs Auto mAintenAnce 1,247.47 tony bAker plAnning commission 159.00 ations.

Names and addresses of theexpense be reused, but rather, are subject 293.46 to apbe s e r v e d33,059.00 u p o n t h egrAinger Applicant or Owner ofAllyn the Structure andcivil the return Diversion borAl4.

AggregAtes operAting bldg repAir And mAint michelle 20.00 town of dillon operAting expense 508.16 owner of the diversion and storage facilitpropriation and administration under the Applicant’s Attorney an affidavit Facility Listed Above. The reimbursement claimed points br&on lenderink reimbursement 45.09 and greAt west lifeor& mike cowAn 100.00 town of simlA monthly utilities 120.30 priority system as any other waters of a iescArolyn listed above.

4.1. Barr Lake.

Barrservice certificate of such of mailing shall of diversion in the burgener contrAct 400.00service Annuity mike grAeff will be constructed reimbursement 200.00 tri cty heAlth dept operAting expense 839.17 Lake is owned by the Farmers Reservoir stream. See Ready Mixed Conbe filed with the Water Clerk.

Beebe Seep Canal which is operated by cArolyn sheridAn reimbursement 100.00 operAting expense natural 88,226.99 mike peAvler reimbursement 100.00 truckhugger tArp and Irrigation Company (“FRICO”), 80 crete Co. v. Farmers Reservoir & Irrigathe Farmers Reservoir Canalbenefits ComcAsey crAven reimbursement 100.00 greenleAf wAste mines & AssociAtes pc and other 276.36 systems operAting expense 84.50 South 27th Avenue, Brighton, Colorado tion Co., 115 P.3d 638, 642 (Colo. 663.51 2005).

Legal Notice No.: 23127solutions pany, 80 South Brighton, ColcAterpillAr finAnciAl monthly utilities monogrAms by k27th & k Street,operAting expense 0.00 true vAlue hArdwAre operAting expense 1,461.13 80601. and Re-expense First Publication: Januarygreenlee’s 22, 2015 pro Auto See also Water Supply & Storage Co., orado 80601. pages, 1 exhibit page) svcs By virtue of the Amended operAting 7,294.12 mountAin view(5electric monthly utilities 367.58 tyler technologies operAting expense 8,081.00 stated Supply Agreement betweenexpense 733 P.2d at 682-83.

This is true whether cdw Water government operAting 22,300.52 operAting expense 1,068.36 nAncy e. hArris election Judges 275.00 umb bAnk fee 300.00 Last Publication: JanuarycAre 22, 2015 ECCV, FRICO and the Unitedmonthly Water and centurylink utilities 3,235.92 ground engineering the seepage operAting 5,830.00 neve’s uniformsRIGHTS CLAIMED operAting expense 199.96 ups postAge 14.24 flowsexpense directly to the stream or Publisher: The Elbert County News THE WATER BY certifiedDistrict lAborAtories 362.90 guAdAlAJArA operAting 800.00 nextel monthly utilities 2,475.82 veriZon wireless monthly utilities 2,143.12 Sanitation (“United”), operAting ECCV hasexpense is intercepted by expense a private ditch on its way THESEcommunicAtions APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT election Judges 160.00 gwendolyn k seifriedto theelection Judges 545.00 office of district verns tv & rAdio operAting expense 19.99 thechArles right to wAlker use its pro rata shareholder stream. Ready Mixed Concrete, 115 IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS chemtox operAting 2,215.00 hArbor freight tools supplies 105.96 Attorney operAting expense 120,320.25 wAgner eQuipment co operAting expense 478.03 storage space and space available stor-expense P.3d tools at 642.And Those waters are available CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICchief supply corpDitch. The operAting 310.94 hAulin hAss tire Arnold AssociAtes contrActAND services 5,110.00 wAnco operAting expense 60.00 age.

4.2.

Burlington Burling-expense for and subject to appropriation and adATED & WITHIN THIS DIVISION mcknight reimbursement 100.00 recycling tire disposAl phillip olbert election Judges 292.50 wAste mAnAgement monthly utilities 800.99 toncliff Ditch is owned by FRICO, 80 South ministration under the priority system51.25 just OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS collision hendricks mArk reimbursement 308.30 phoenix technology operAting expense 38,086.25 willie Jones operAting expense 55.00 27th Avenue, Brighton, Colorado 80601. as other waters of the natural stream.

MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN trAining 300.00 hensley bAttery llc Comstock operAting expense 1,178.02 pioneer s& PROVIDED co expense 1,018.20 winterberg oil co operAting expense 484.00 Byreconstruction virtue of the Amended and Restated v. Ramsey, 55 Colo. 244, 255THE TIME BY operAting STATUTE OR co dept of public hewlett pAckArd operAting expense 2,854.98 pitney bowes postAge 254.97 winwAter operAting expense 361.00 Water Supply Agreement between ECCV, 59, 133 P. 1107, 1111 (Colo. 1913). Id. BE FOREVER BARRED. sAfety 1,481.00 home depot credit svc operAting expense 293.40 power eQuipment co operAting expense 1,419.26 witt boys-nApA operAting expense 1,815.06 FRICO and United, ECCV hasoperAting the right toexpense at ¶ 436.

The Water Court also found that coadept Agriculture 80.00 honnen eQuipment co“the amount operAting expense power motive corp NOTIFIED operAting expense 132.60 wrigley enterprises operAting expense 205.00 use portion of the capacity operAting of the Burl-expense of the seepage gain2,172.76 [in the YOU ARE HEREBY that any co stAte pAyrollGilreimbursed 5,291.67 ilene Allison grAvel fee averages 1,200 2,312.40 poysti & AdAms operAting expense 4,041.68 xerox corp monthly utilities 1,880.05 ington Ditch.extension 4.3. Gilcrest Reservoir.

Beebe Seep pit Canal] to party who wishes to oppose an applicacomcAst operAting expense 582.93 ireA monthly utilities 8,566.84 pronghorn country Ace operAting expense 73.90 y time operAting expense 60.40 crest Reservoir is owned by Gilcrest 1,300 af per year from 1927-2005.” Id. at tion, or an amended application, may file community mediA of coTowne Advertising 206.00 interstAte bAttery ¶ 438.operAting expense 471.91 psi systems expense 494.80 Zee medicAl sAfety supplies 364.13 Reservoir, LLC, 9191 Centre See also Order re: Englewood’s with the Water Clerk, P. operAting O. Box 2038, connie mills election Judges 460.00 inventory trAding co operAting expense 1,082.00 purewAter dynAmics operAting expense 50.00 Drive, Suite 210, San Diego, CA 92122.

Motion for Determination of Question of Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement corporAte billing llc operAting 1,677.64 J&s contrActors expense District1,777.28 Quill corp office 126.17 legal Notice No.: 23119 Any use of Gilcrest Reservoir for storageexpense Law, operAting Case No. 10CW306, Court, of Opposition, setting forth facts assupplies to why pool ctsi insurAnce 187,365.31 JAmes duvAll 207.50 rAchel Anne buchAnAn election Judges 602.50 first Publication: January 22, 2015 willcty beheAlth done pursuant to a lease agreeWaterelection DivisionJudges No. 1 (March 13, 2014). the application be granted, or cty sheriff’s of co dues 3,670.18 JAnet turbett election Judges 470.00 rAlph burns should not reimbursement 100.00 last Publication: January 22, 2015 ment with Gilcrest Reservoir, LLC. 4.4.

2.2.

Nature of Claim.

By this application, why it should be granted only in part or on credit svc co civil process 30.00 Jerri speAr reimbursement 100.00 rAnchl& news Advertising 6.92 United Reservoir No. 3.

United Reservoir United seeks to add point(s) of diversion certain conditions.

Such Statement of OpPublisher: elbert county News credit union of co operAting expense 14,976.92 Jill duvAll election Judges 275.00 rAttlesnAke drAin building repAir 125.00 No. 3 is owned by United, 8301 E. Prenfrom the Beebe Seep Canal for delivery of position must be filed by the last day of tice Ave. Suite 100, Greenwood Village water to storage in Highlands Reservoir.

FEBRUARY 2015 (forms available on CO 80111. By virtue of the Amended and 2.3. Additional Point(s) of Diversion for www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s Restated Water Supply Agreement Highlands Reservoir. Point(s) of diversion office), and must be filed as an Original between ECCV, FRICO, and United, ECfrom the Beebe Seep Canal for delivery of and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of CV has the right to use 250 acre feet of water to storage in Highlands Reservoir each Statement of Opposition must also storage and space available storage in may be located at one, two or all of the folbe served upon the Applicant or lowing locations: 2.3.1. In the NW1/4 of United Reservoir No. 3. 4.5. United DiverApplicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or sion Facility No. 3. United Diversion FacilNE1/4 of Section 31, Township 1 North, certificate of such service of mailing shall ity No. 3 is owned by Henderson AggregRange 65 West of the 6th P.M., Weld be filed with the Water Clerk. ate Ltd., P.O. Box 700, Henderson, CO County, Colorado. 2.3.2. In the SE1/4 of 80640. United has a perpetual easement the SW1/4 of Section 31, Township 1 Legal Notice No.: 23128 recorded on July 8, 2005, at Reception North, Range 65 West of the 6th P.M., First Publication: January 22, 2015 No. 20050708000723150 in the real esWeld County, Colorado. 2.3.3. In the Last Publication: January 22, 2015 tate records of Adams County, Colorado, NE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 31, TownPublisher: The Elbert County News which easement permits United to use ship 1 North, Range 65 West of the 6th United Diversion Facility No. 3. ECCV P.M., Weld County, Colorado. 2.4. Date of and United have entered into an agreeAppropriation. December 31, 2013. 2.5. ment to allow ECCV to use the facility.

How Appropriation Was Initiated. The ap4.6. Jay Thomas Diversion Dam. The Jay plicant filed an application for a storage Thomas Diversion Dam and the land at water right in Highlands Reservoir on the point of diversion for Gilcrest ReserDecember 31, 2013, in Case No. voir are owned by Public Service Com13CW3082. United’s Board of Directors pany, d/b/a Xcel Energy, Inc., 1800 Larpassed a Resolution approving the filing of imer Street, Suite 1300, Denver, CO this application for additional points of di80202-1414. The facility will only be used version of Highlands Reservoir which is with the permission of Public Service attached to this application as Exhibit 1.

Company. WHEREFORE, ECCV re2.6. Date Water First Applied to Beneficial quests that the Court enter a decree Use. Not applicable, conditional water granting the conditional water storage reright. 2.7. Amount Claimed. As described fill rights and for such other relief it deems in paragraph 2.4 of the application in Case proper. (7 pages, and 2 exhibits) No. 13CW3182. 2.8. Rate of Flow. 15 cfs for each point of diversion, and/or 15 cfs THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY combined. 2.9. Source of Supply. Water THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT accruing to the Beebe Seep Canal IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS throughout the length of the Canal from CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICBarr Lake to the point(s) of diversion.

ATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND 2.10. Uses. United seeks the right to use OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS the water diverted to storage from the points identified in paragraph 2.3 above, MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR for the uses described in paragraph 2.8 of

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