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Attendees at the Parker High School 49th reunion reminisce at the “Memory Table” during the 49th Parker School reunion. The school served as an elementary and high school during its time, before larger schools in Douglas County.

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Canterberry resident John Jackson poses with his daughter Olivia, 2, and his son Elias, 4. Jackson says he hopes society progresses to a point where the color of his children’s skin won’t make any more difference to others than the color of the clothes they wear.

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JOHN JACKSON

Father, restaurant man and lifesaver About me I moved to Canterberry from Aurora about a year and a half ago.

It’s an upgrade in house size, but it’s really all about who’s in your neighborhood. There are a lot of parts of Aurora that I really like.

Of course, there are other parts that may not be and they kind of skew people’s opinion of it.

Everybody’s different, but growth and expansion, making good solid homes for people and having good schools is really what makes a good neighborhood, wherever that is. You have that in Aurora too, but you look at Parker now and where it was 15 years ago and that’s plenty of growth in itself.

Patience, and the Heimlich, is a virtue I work in restaurant management. I think people who eat out should appreciate that patience is a virtue. Understand that everyone there wants to take care of their guests, but take your time and appreciate the work that goes into it.

There’s the potential for a horror story once the drinks have started flowing, but I guess my best success story would be saving a woman’s life when she was choking in my restaurant. I had to perform the Heimlich maneuver on her and resuscitate her with CPR, she went out a little bit and I brought her back just before the paramedics got there and did the rest.

She gave me a cake from Whole Foods too. It wasn’t necessary, but it was nice.

Fatherly wisdom The kids, Elias is 4 and Olivia

is 2, always want the same thing at the same time. They’re starting to get better about respecting each other’s space and doing their own thing, but I guess that’s the biggest thing we work on. That, and to always use your words, not hands, to get what you want.

Hope for the future My hope for them is that they grow up to live in a world that’s accepting. They’re biracial children, but they’ll probably always get thrown into the “black” category because their skin is darker.

I hope people are more accepting and realize it’s just a different look, like a different shirt or a different pair of pants.

Our differences don’t make us weaker, they make us stronger.

Alumni from as long ago as 1947 converged at the historic Hilltop School, located at the intersection of Democrat and Hilltop roads, on Sept. 10 for the 49th Parker School Reunion.

An alumni tour of the downtown Schoolhouse, currently under renovation on Mainstreet, preceded the event at Hilltop, giving attendees an interesting perspective on the evolution of the town and school buildings.

Three members of the 1958 class attended, representing the largest showing of any class year.

Many attendees graduated from different high schools, as the Parker School was absorbed by Douglas County Schools after 1958. A number of the reunion attendees were students of the Parker School when it served as an elementary school, before it was closed.

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District’s direction at stake in school board election Four of seven seats on ballot, with no incumbents running

Forums scheduled for school board candidates

BY MIKE DIFERDINANDO AND ALEX DEWIND STAFF WRITERS

They come from different backgrounds and neighborhoods — and hold different educational philosophies — but parents from across Douglas County agree the upcoming school board election could change the course of the school district.

“The reformers have controlled DCSD for eight years,” parent Kelly Pointer said of the often-controversial majority that has led the district since 2009. “In that time, I have seen a lack of transparency, a lack of respect for teachers, parents and community members, a lack of fiscal responsibility and a lack of stability. Simply put, our district is a mess.”

Parent Lindsay Wolfe has a different outlook. Wolfe’s three kids transferred from a neighborhood school to American Academy in Parker, a charter school, where they are “getting exactly what they need.” She also backs many of the reforms the board has implemented, including a pay-for-performance model for teachers. She’s confident in the future of the district as long as it continues in the same direction, she said.

“If not,” said Wolfe, “I don’t know what we are going to do.”

Pointer, Wolfe and many others believe this election is pivotal, particularly because the board will have a big say next year in the district’s future with its choice of a permanent superintendent to replace Elizabeth Fagen, who resigned in July 2016. The position has been held by an

LOOKING AHEAD: ISSUE-FOCUSED CANDIDATE Q&AS Colorado Community Media is asking each of the candidates for the four seats on the Douglas County School Board for their stances on crucial issues. We plan to publish their answers in the Oct. 12 and 13 editions.

Here are the candidates: District B: Ryan Abresch, Anthony Graziano District D: Randy Mills, Chris Schor District E: Kevin Leung, Grant Nelson District G: Krista Holtzmann, Debora Scheffel

interim superintendent, Erin Kane, since then.

Eight years after the election of a reformminded school board effectively changed the direction and tenor of the Douglas County School District — the state’s third-largest with more than 67,000 students — its future could once again be on the threshold of change.

Sweeping change School board candidates who espoused reforms such as pay-for-performance evaluations for teachers and a form of school choice that would later include a controversial voucher program were elected in 2009. They introduced a host of new policies that, to many critics, changed the district too severely and too quickly, without enough community and teacher participation.

Many blamed the reforms for an exodus of hundreds of

top-performing teachers and administrators.

In early 2010, the school board hired Fagen, who would become increasingly unpopular among many district educators and community members because of curriculum and policy changes — and the ways in which they were implemented.

Like-minded candidates won elections in 2011 and 2013. For six years, supporters of the reforms held all seven seats on the board.

On the heels of years of strong vocal opposition by many parents, a shift occurred in 2015, when candidates who opposed the reform policies ousted incumbents Kevin Larsen, Craig Richardson and Richard Robbins. David Ray, Wendy Vogel and Anne-Marie Lemieux each won with at least 58 percent of the vote.

The result has been a divided board, with votes frequently falling 4-3 in favor of the reform-minded members,

The winning candidates will be elected to four-year terms.

Ballots will be mailed to voters the week of Oct. 16. Ballots must be received by Douglas County by 7 p.m. Nov. 7.

Meghann Silverthorn, James Geddes, Judith Reynolds and Steven Peck, none of whom is running for re-election. Silverthorn is term-limited, while the other members are not, but rather chose not to seek four more years on the board.

This year’s race To Ray, the 2017 election looks similar to the one in 2009.

“A slate of candidates, who were handpicked by a small group of political activists, won the election. They went on to hire a superintendent who was aligned to their agenda — and our district has paid the horrific cost ever since,” Ray said. “Fortunately, the community will have a chance to learn from past mistakes and not allow history to repeat itself.”

Ray is referring to the Elevate slate, made up of Randy Mills, Grant Nelson, Ryan Abresch and Debora Scheffel.

The four candidates, however, emphasize they are not linked to the reform-minded members of the board.

“A couple people have come up to me and asked if we’re just a continuation of the current board. I want to make clear we’re not,” said Nelson, who owns a commercial real estate business that operates throughout Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. “We have zero ties to them ... We’re doing this to try and put the Douglas County school board back in the center and be a reasonable, rational group of people.”

But some community members, such as Laura Mutton — a parent and outspoken voice of those opposing the board majority — wonder if this is a political move.

“Why aren’t any of the current majority board members running?” she said. “A decision like that appears to be an admission that they haven’t done their job well ... This (the slate) implies a very organized and possibly political effort in the school board race, which in other districts is composed of individuals, not slates.”

Anthony Graziano, Chris Schor, Kevin Leung and Krista Holtzmann are the four candidates running against Elevate, and they do not officially call themselves a slate. But most of their supporters — many of whom have painted all four of the candidates’ names on their car windows — are treating them as such, looking at them as the anti-reform team.

While the race technically features two candidates in each of four districts, in essence, the Nov. 7 election will be the culmination of a four-on-four contest.

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School district’s pay-for-performance suspended for one year School board unanimously approves the recommendation

BY ALEX DEWIND ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The seven members of the Douglas County School Board approved suspending the differentiated pay structure for licensed teachers and administrators for one year at the Sept.

19 board meeting.

Suspending the pay-for-performance structure for the 2017-18 school year gives teachers and administrators the chance to review and share their opinions about a revised teacher evaluation rubric developed over the past year, Steve Colella, the district’s chief of human resources, said at a Sept. 5 board meeting, when the recommendation to suspend differentiated pay for a year was made to the school board.

The recommendation follows “challenges” created by the simultaneous implementation of teacher evaluations and a differentiated pay system, Colella said.

In the 2012-13 school year, the school district implemented a teacher evaluation called CITE and an administrator evaluation called LEAD. The evaluation systems are required in all Colorado school districts under 2010’s Senate Bill 191, also called the Educator Effectiveness Bill.

The district also implemented a differentiated pay system based on performance. Based on the results of evaluations, teachers and administrators are rated as highly effective, effective, partially effective or ineffective.

They then receive differentiated raises based on the ratings.

Many community members say the reforms caused a flight of quality educators.

The district’s human resources department met with a group of teachers and administrators during the 2016-17 year to revise the CITE and LEAD rubrics. The district will allow teachers and administrators to get comfortable with the revised rubrics this school year. It will provide flat pay raises to employees rated “partially effective” and above in the 2018-19 school year. The amount will be decided next spring, when the district reviews its budget.

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‘This is the most impactful intervention . . . I’ve been part of’ County’s new mental health response team keeps mentally ill out of jail and emergency room

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

She was in her 50s, well-known to police — and diagnosed as psychotic.

For one Castle Rock woman, life was a frightful blur of delusions that left her convinced each of her neighbors was a dangerous criminal.

For years, she called authorities multiple times a day to report the smallest of perceived crimes. To her, simply finding someone’s discarded cigarette butt was enough to warrant a police report.

In a world consumed by mental illness, the woman became ostracized from most of her family. She lived in near solitude. She was afraid to leave her home.

Her closest companion was a cat, which she loved wholeheartedly.

Then, the cat got out.

Breaking cycles “I’ve been hearing about that lady for about four years from my officers,” Castle Rock Police Chief Jack Cauley told county commissioners Sept. 19.

“And, finally, we have gotten this lady some help. I mean, finally. It’s so nice to see.”

Cauley and several county staff members relayed the woman’s story at a special business meeting called by the Douglas County Board of Commissioners during which representatives from the county’s Mental Health Initiative updated them on the successes of its pihlot program, the Community Response Team, or the CRT. The woman in question was one of approximately 82 people the CRT team has worked with since its launch in May. In brief, the CRT is a team of emergency responders who strive to keep the mentally ill out of jail and out of the emergency room if what they truly need is psychological help.

“I’ve been in this business for 38 years,” Castle Rock Fire Chief Art Morales said. “I think during that 38 years a lot of time was spent not knowing what to do with the mentally ill community. We had protocols. We had policies. We had systems. But at the end of the day, these people were stuck in a revolving door.”

When authorities respond to calls involving behavioral health issues, their options were often limited to jail or transport to the emergency room, officials said.

But that has changed with the CRT, comprised of one law enforcement officer from the sheriff ’s office or Castle Rock police and one professional clinician. The two work from the same patrol car while a Castle Rock Fire Department paramedic team is on-call to

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RESULTS FROM THE CRT’S FIVE MONTHS IN ACTION The CRT team specifically targets people known to frequently call 911 or use emergency services, not due to a medical emergency, but as a result of their mental condition.

In one instance, a mentally ill individual was transported to the emergency department 19 times within a 12-month period. Fees for the hospital to administer services totaled more than $230,500.

The Mental Health Initiative estimates that in five months the CRT has been able to divert 16 people from jail and 24 people from entering the emergency department.

Once the CRT arrived to calls, they were able to release 120 law enforcement patrol units back into service.

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Approximately 100 people have been identified as “high utilizers,” or individuals frequently using the emergency systems. offer medical assistance when needed.

Sometimes the CRT team responds to active 911 calls. Law enforcement can request the team’s help when responding to calls they identify as a behavioral health situation. The CRT can also self-dispatch when it hears a 911 call they deem appropriate or if it is from a mentally ill subject with whom they are familiar. In other instances the CRT is referred to cases by departments such as the county attorney’s office.

For every person they contact, followup visits ensue to track their progress.

Those care management plans help monitor when a person needs prescription refills, the date of their next doctor appointment and if a person needs help getting to the appointments.

Rather than the emergency department, and rather than jail, many of the people contacted by the CRT were placed in inpatient psychiatric care, intensive outpatient care or were treated and kept on-scene.

“Cycles are being broken,” said Mental Health Initiative Coordinator Anne Mosbach.

Next steps After working with the CRT, the Castle Rock woman admitted she feared harming one of her neighbors and agreed to enter hospital care, Mosbach said.

The day of her hospitalization was also the day her cat escaped. Mosbach asked not to identify the woman or her exact mental condition, but said losing her beloved pet made leaving home that much more stressful.

This time she wasn’t alone.

Castle Rock police and a band of Boy Scout troopers set out across town to find the animal. They eventually resorted to setting a trap. Instead, they caught a raccoon. Luckily, the cat returned on its own and officials were able to reunite it with the woman.

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Sky-high rents squeeze longtime residents Housing prices put the hurt on workforce

WHAT’S IT COST? Median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in September for area cities in which the number was available at ApartmentList.com:

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Mary Ann Parker can’t talk about her apartment search without crying.

The 58-year-old on disability rents a room in a house in Commerce City for $750 a month, which eats up most of her $840 a month disability check.

She longs to live closer to her daughter and her newborn grandchild in Castle Rock, but after months of searching, she’s discouraged.

“I can’t even afford to put in application fees,” Parker said. “I can’t part with $50 for every place, just to be turned down over and over. And first and last month’s rent and a security deposit after that? It’s just impossible.”

Parker has moved several times over the last few years, chasing cheap rents that keep creeping up.

She narrowly missed a slot in a south metro housing authority when a change-of-address form didn’t go through, and she missed the notification. She’s been trying to apply to other housing authority boards around the metro area, but most aren’t accepting new applicants because the waiting lists are already years long.

Things are tense with the other boarders in the house, and one of her few sources of comfort is Butterfly, her certified therapy dog Papillon, who eases the symptoms of Parker’s PTSD, depression and anxiety.

“She keeps me from getting so lonely,” Parker said.

Parker’s story is emblematic of the challenges faced by renters across the metro area, where rents climbed 52 percent between 2005 and 2015, according to Apartment List, a rental listing site that also researches industry trends. An influx of people lured by a healthy job market have strained the capacity of the construction industry and pushed people like Parker to the margins.

“It’s basically two camps: The first is those that have moved here from somewhere else, many times with a job, many times from a more expensive market,” said Ron Throupe, the author of the quarterly Denver Metro Apartment Vacancy and Rent report and a professor at the University of Denver. “For them, the prices are not much of a burden.

“But those that have been here a long time, they’re living on the economy they grew from, and they’re on different footing than those inmigrating. They’re the ones feeling the pressures.”

‘People won’t want to stay’ The median rent in the Denver metro area was $1,377 in the second quarter, according to Throupe’s report, and builders can’t cut the ribbon on new apartments fast enough.

Mary Ann Parker wants to move from Commerce City to be closer to her newborn granddaughter in Castle Rock, but a white-hot rental market has left her discouraged and frustrated.

DAVID GILBERT More than 11,000 new apartments came online last year, and 10,000 more opened in the first half of 2017.

Vacancy rates remain low, around 5 percent. Colorado’s population continues to grow by roughly 10,000 people a month, with the overwhelming majority settling along the Front Range.

Skyrocketing housing prices have many young people looking elsewhere to start a family, said Sydney Bennet, a researcher with Apartment List. A recent study by the company found that two-thirds of Denver renters want to settle down somewhere else.

“If these cost trends continue, people won’t want to stay,” Bennet said.

“People from San Jose, San Francisco or New York move here because it’s comparatively more affordable.

But for people who have lived here for 20 or 30 years, it’s unprecedented.

You have a lot of strain on lower- and middle-income families who have never had to spend so much toward housing.”

Bennet said eventually the trends are likely to flatten out some, with in-migration slowing and apartment construction catching up, but prices

aren’t likely to come down.

That’s because the vast majority of new rental stock is high-end, Throupe said, with few builders bothering with workforce housing.

That leaves low-income earners with little wiggle room, and even exerts upward pressure on the rents on mid-range apartments.

A shortage of starter homes has meant many people can’t make the jump from renting to owning, Throupe said, after the recession knocked many custom home builders out of business and with tract home builders only now back in full swing.

What’s the solution?

One barrier to making the jump has been unintended consequences of Colorado’s decade-old construction defects law, which allowed as few as two owners in a condominium development to file class-action lawsuits against developers and builders for defective units for years after they were completed, said Republican state Sen. Jack Tate, who represents District 27, covering a swath of the southeast metro area, including Centennial and parts of Aurora.

Tate said the law meant that nearly

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all condo builders in the state were l mired in excessive litigation, and F made builders gun-shy about building more condos when apartments s were much lower risk. Condos are g generally considered a starting point w for new homeowners because of their lower cost than single-family m homes. Tate said the law meant that t condos went from 20 percent of the d o metro area’s new housing stock in l 2005 to only 2 percent today. r Tate cosponsored a bipartisan i reform bill aimed at reducing the l law’s impact by upping the classaction requirement to a majority of a condo development’s residents, and d narrowing the timeframe to a 90-day F M election period.

The law, signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper in May, took effect in early t m September. Tate said it’s too soon a to know if the law will spur condo development, but he hears optimism s d among builders. r “Homeownership is important,” Tate said “We should not underestimate how critical condominiums are t i as an entry point for young people and a place for older folks to downi size.”

C More action on the part of govi ernments may be necessary, said d Brad Evans, a former real estate agent turned consultant and selfproclaimed “professional agitator” t for smart growth.

Evans, who lives in Lakewood, said some cities are turning toward growth restrictions that only send rents and housing prices even higher. He’s fighting a proposal in Lakewood that he said will turn it into “the next Boulder.”

“Growth restrictions will murder people,” Evans said. “Tax rates will skyrocket. Granny in her 1960s ranch will be on the hook for a lot more in taxes.”

Evans said that both restricting and encouraging sprawl have their drawbacks.

“We need intergovernmental agreements on developing workforce housing,” Evans said. “We need a healthy mix of condos, townhomes, single family and for-rent product.

We can’t be afraid of change. Instead of battling, how do we collaborate?”

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Local responders tasked with national relief West, South Metro crews help with Irma, Harvey and Western wildfires

BY TOM SKELLEY TSKELLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

First responders see a lot of tragedy in their line of work, but Eric Hurst, who recently returned from assisting local emergency services in Orlando, Florida, after Hurricane Irma, described the experience as “especially eye-opening.”

“As I drove to Valdosta (Georgia), gas stations were all out of gas… it was a struggle to find fuel or find stores that had food,” said Hurst, public information officer for South Metro Fire Rescue.

“Then, heading south on I-75, just seeing the traffic jam of everyone going north and fleeing the storm… it was disaster movie-like,” he said.

Colorado Task Force 1, a FEMA-administered group composed of more than 200 members from more than a dozen Colorado departments, spread out across the United States over the last month as Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Harvey and ongoing wildfires in Oregon and California tested the limits of local resources.

The force included more than two dozen responders from the West Metro Fire Protection District and South Metro Fire Rescue.

Ronda Scholting, public information officer with West Metro, said 11 members of her district went to Texas and Florida. All but four — HAZMAT specialists assisting with potentially dangerous cleanup details — had returned as of Sept. 20, she said.

The work takes the crews far from their jurisdictions, but Scholting said it’s what they signed on for.

“These crews have gone to the floods in Lyons, they helped (in New York City) after 9/11,” she said. “Their job is to do whatever they’re called on to do.”

West Metro search teams combed through neighborhoods in four small

In Florida, members of Colorado Task Force 1 scour homes and structures damaged by Hurricane Irma to assess the general safety of the area and identify survivors in need of medical services or food and water.

COURTESY PHOTO islands in the Florida Keys, using boats they brought with them to search homes and structures and identify survivors in need of medical assistance, food or water.

Hurst coordinated law enforcement protection for Urban Search and Rescue teams, who may encounter looter-wary residents, abandoned methamphetamine labs or any number of dangerous circumstances upon entering flood-damaged homes.

While those teams headed south and east, other crews from both districts continued to battle wildfires to the west.

South Metro recently sent four firefighters to a 14-day deployment to the Eclipse Complex Fire near Happy Camp, California, replacing another four-person team after their two-week deployment ended.

Scholting said West Metro has sent teams to California and Montana this summer, while a four-person crew recently finished work in Oregon fighting the Miller Complex Fire and a team of three responders just completed their 14-day deployment in California.

As of Sept. 21, they were all on the

Members of the Colorado Task Force 1 assemble in the Florida Keys to perform search and rescue operations after Hurricane Irma.

Crews indentified citizens in need of medical assistance and food and water, using boats they brought with them to reach the small islands.

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road back to Colorado, “but that could change in an hour,” Scholting said.

In case any Coloradans worry local resources are being spread thin, Scholting said inter-departmental agreements at the local level ensure each district has the manpower needed to protect itself.

The big picture, she said, is cooperation between national and state organizations to serve citizens wherever help is needed.

Out-of-state forces came to Colorado to assist when floods struck Lyons in 2013, and they helped battle the Hayman Fire in 2002, as well as other wildfires since. It’s not a question of if Colorado will need the help again, it’s more likely a matter of when.

“Everyone does it with the assumption that if we need it, we count on being able to call on federal agencies,” Scholting said. “We may need this help at some point in time.”

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County Line Road Improvements near Park Meadows Retail Resort With a focus on congestion reduction, improved traffic flow and increased safety, road improvements are underway at County Line Road near the north entrance of Park Meadows. Completion of this construction phase is expected in November. More at www.cityoflonetree. com

Vacancy open for civic-minded history buff The Douglas County Historic Preservation Board has an immediate opening for a Douglas County resident who is also an archaeologist. Those interested may fill out an online application by October 13, 2017. Visit www.douglas.co.us and search: Historic Preservation Board.

Slash-mulch site open Take your ‘slash’ (dead branches and shrubbery) and dispose for free at the Douglas County’s slash-mulch site, 1400 Caprice Drive in Castle Rock, open on Saturdays-only from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. through October 28. Douglas County’s other slash-mulch site, at 7828 S. Colo. 67 (2.5 miles north of Deckers), is open on Saturdays from 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. year-round. For more information visit www.douglas.co.us and search: Mulch.

County offers wildfire mitigation tips to homeowners Interested in having a Douglas County wildfire mitigation expert come to your home to assess your property’s specific mitigation needs for free? Please contact the County’s Building Division at 303-660-7497.

Visit prehistoric times Oct. 7 & 21 More than 11,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, mammoths roamed Douglas County. Learn more by taking a tour of the world-renowned Lamb Spring Archaeological Preserve at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 7. For reservations or additional tour dates visit www. lambspring.org

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Douglas County women earn AAUW scholarships All three recipients are current students at Colorado universities STAFFREPORT

Three Douglas County women were awarded $1,500 scholarships from the Douglas County affiliate of American Association of University Women.

Leah Porter, Gretchen Stulock and Lauren Hallstrom are studying at Colorado universities.

Porter is studying business management and human resources at the University of Colorado at Denver. She has maintained a 4.0 GPA while raising two daughters as a single parent.

Last spring, she earned her associate’s degree in business from Arapahoe Community College. She was the only student member of the State Board of Community Colleges while at ACC. Porter grew up Malaysia and came to Colorado 10 years ago.

Stulock is a high school teacher at

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member board minority, a clean sweep of the four races is not necessary to transform them into the majority. One seat won by an anti-reform candidate would do that.

Big decisions Among the newly elected board’s first major decisions will be whom to hire as the permanent superintendent.

The school board has extended Kane’s contract as interim superintendent through the 2017-18 school year, which means the school district will hold off on a search until after the election.

Both Ray and Peck agree that who leads the district will be one of the new board’s most critical decisions.

“All four seats up for re-election this fall support public charter schools, merit pay for educators and Superintendent Erin Kane and her executive team,” said Peck, who has generally aligned himself with the board majority since his appointment in November 2016 to replace a member who resigned.

“Losing one of those four seats could bring significant change ...”

Ray also includes teacher retention, the needs of aging facilities and budget decisions that directly affect students in classrooms as issues with as vital importance as choosing a new superintendent.

“The upcoming election will determine whether the entire board reflects these values and priorities,” he said.

With continuing growth and aging buildings, the debate over the need for new tax measures is another key campaign issue.

Littleton High School and is pursuing a master’s degree in curriculum education at the University of Northern Colorado. She searches for ways to get involved with her students. She chaperoned a student trip to Costa Rica, served as a facilitator of a professional learning community and sponsored a Greenhouse Club. Outside of school, she is a highly skilled cellist for several theater groups and the Denver Trio Project.

Hallstrom is studying English and creative writing at Colorado State University. Her love of creative writing led her to publish two awardwinning middle-grade and Young Adult novels by the age of 15. Lauren placed first in the Colorado Independent Publishers Association competition, receiving the Gold Award in the Juvenile Fiction Category. As a volunteer at the Parker Library for seven years, she was a Reading Buddy and a mentor for children struggling with reading. All her volunteer work led the library to hire her as its first teenage employee. Hallstrom’s goal is to become a youth librarian.

A district panel comprising members of the District Accountability Committee, Long Range Planning Committee and Fiscal Oversight Committee told the board in March that it supports the placing of bond and mill levy questions on the 2018 ballot.

In 2015, the Long Range Planning Committee — community members and parents who study the district’s capital needs — estimated the district needs $275.1 million for current and future capital needs projects over five years.

Other major issues facing the district include the teacher pay-for-performance system, pending lawsuits over school choice and vouchers, and how teachers are evaluated.

At a crossroads Some parents and community members, such as Pointer, have made it clear they want something different from their school board.

“I am not interested in more of the same,” Pointer said. “I will not vote for candidates who are supported by the current and past majority who are responsible for creating this mess.”

But others, like Wolfe, believe the best path forward is a continuation of the current course — something she says the Elevate slate can provide.

“I am a firm believer in choice and doing what is best for our kids,” Wolfe said.

For parent Liz Wagner, who has supported the reform movement in the past, the district simply needs change.

“I’m a fiscal conservative who has historically voted for the reformer up until 2015,” Wagner said. “I’d like a balanced BOE who supports all students — charter, neighborhood, special education, gifted.”

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West Virginia fugitive apprehended after seven-year search

The help provided by the Mental Health Initiative didn’t end there.

The woman is now stabilized and responding well to medication, Mosbach said, and she has made arrangements to move in with an out-of-state relative who will act as a caretaker.

Most importantly, the woman now understands she suffers from a mental illness. Before working with the CRT, her delusions were her reality, Mosbach said.

There are additional success stories, officials said Sept. 19. Looking forward, the Mental Health Initiative would like to form a second CRT team to serve the county and, hopefully, generate even more success stories.

“How do we quantify the human impact?”

Mosbach said. “I’ve been a social worker for 10 years and this is the most impactful, thorough, thoughtful intervention that I’ve been part of.”

STAFF REPORT

On Sept. 15, Douglas County Sheriff ’s detectives and Parker Police Department officers apprehended a fugitive from West Virginia wanted since 2010 on child pornography charges, according to a news release from the sheriff ’s office.

The suspect, Jamie Castle, 39, was arrested without incident in Parker, according to Parker Police Public Information Officer Josh Hans.

Castle faced five felony warrants and one indictment for 153 counts of child pornography after Castle law enforcement in West Virginia searched his home in 2010. Castle was not arrested at that time and fled the state to avoid prosecution.

“We were very grateful to play our part and arrest this suspect that has been eluding law enforcement for seven years,” said Parker Police Department Deputy Chief Jim Tsurapas. “Justice can be served.”

The Buchanan County Sheriff ’s Office in West Virginia contacted the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office, believing Castle was living in the 8000 block of Prairie Clover Way in Parker. Follow-up by the FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Fugitive Task Force returned a possible address where the

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DACA students rally to renew eligibility, ‘mourn loss of dream’ In wake of program’s end, recipients feel ‘betrayed’ but not surprised

WHAT IS DACA? The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program allows undocumented immigrants to apply for the ability to live and work in the U.S. for renewable periods of two years. It depends upon, in part, if an individual:

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When she was 2 years old, Claudia Hurtado and her sister were taken across the border with people she didn’t know.

Separately, her parents crossed from Mexico to Texas, and there, met the people with their children, before coming to Denver to give them “a better future,” said Hurtado, who’s now able to work and live without fear of deportation because of the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals program. DACA started under President Barack Obama in 2012 when the federal government decided to change how it enforces immigration law.

When she was 13, Hurtado heard that her father was deported after taking a bus to visit his father’s grave in Mexico. After he crossed the border to El Paso, Texas, immigration officers there detained him.

“I remember my mom hiding it from us because we were young,” said Hurtado, now 16 and a Denver Public Schools student. She heard the news first from her sister.

For thousands of students in Colorado, eyeing the thin line between legal status and undocumented life is a daily occurrence — children brought to the United States by undocumented parents live with the possibility their family may be torn apart at any time.

But after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end of DACA on Sept. 5, more than 15,000 people with active DACA status in Colorado may see that line erased entirely. The federal government stopped accepting new applications Sept. 5, and those whose status expires before March 5 have until Oct. 5 to reapply. For those whose status is set to expire after March 5, the clock is ticking until their protections run out.

Acting fast “I was very angry, very frustrated,” said Saira Galindo, a student at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

“We all (had) a lot of questions (and) a lot of confusion because can we reapply, do we send it now, do we not renew?”

Galindo, vice president of RISE, a group of undocumented and DACAstatus students and allies at MSU, helped organize a walkout that led high school and college students through Denver to the Auraria Campus the morning of Sept. 5 to protest the potential rescinding of DACA. Students from several DPS high schools participated, said Galindo, a DACA recipient.

“Seeing all these young kids, all these schools, speak out was very empowering,” Galindo, 24, said, but “very devastating because people were crying. People were scared ... everyone was feeling literally everything at the moment.”

• Was less than 31 years old as of June 15, 2012.

• Came to the U.S. before their 16th birthday.

• Has continuously lived in the U.S. since June 15, 2007.

• Is currently in school, has graduated or earned completion from high school, earned a GED or is an honorably discharged military veteran.

• Has not been convicted of a felony, significant or many misdemeanors, and does not pose a threat to national security or public safety.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette stands with Seleste, left, and Vanessa, right, after holding a listening session at Bruce Randolph School in Denver Sept. 20 with DACA students and those with ties to undocumented immigrants. Vanessa and Seleste were born in the U.S., but Seleste’s stepfather was deported this year, and Vanessa’s father is in the deportation process this month.

Her brother is able to work under DACA, a program the Trump administration has announced will end in March unless Congress effectively extends it. “I understand laws have to be passed … but stopping DREAMers — (how) does that benefit the country?” Seleste said.

ELLIS ARNOLD But amid the panic, lawyers, law students, campus officials and student activists have banded together at colleges across metro areas to renew DACA protections for eligible recipients. On Sept. 16, pro-bono lawyers and staff from MSU and the University of Colorado Denver ran a workshop on the Auraria Campus that got DACA-renewal applications done for students from those two schools.

They paid the $495 renewal fee for the students.

Community College of Denver students, high school students and community members got help from the local Mexican consulate in Glendale at the workshop, said Galindo, whose RISE group and CU Dreamers, a similar group at UCD, helped organize it. For non-Mexican nationals, the workshop helped them apply for funds through the Mission Asset Fund, a San Francisco-based nonprofit.

In all, 33 people got renewals submitted or assistance applying that day. MSU started a fund to help with renewal fees — it covered the fee for seven students there, Saira said — and UCD pulled from the privately funded Student Relief Fund created

by University of Colorado regents in April. Five students have had the fee covered by that fund, said Angelica Lopez-Rodriguez, graduate assistant for undocumented student services at UCD. Similar renewal workshops took place Sept. 22 and 23 at Colorado State

University Fort Collins, Sept. 23 at the University of Denver and Sept. 27 at the University of Colorado Boulder, and will take place Sept. 29 at the University of Northern Colorado Greeley.

Under pressure At Arapahoe Community College in Littleton, some undocumented students dropped classes after DACA’s rescinding, officials said.

“I’ve been working in higher (education) for 20 years, and this feeling that `whoa, this might affect my ability to finish my education’ ... I’ve never (previously) felt that,” said Jeff Duggan, coordinator for communications at the college.

ACC doesn’t track its number of DACA students, said Lisa Matye Edwards, vice president of student affairs, but through anecdotal conversations, school officials have noticed.

She guessed ACC has about 30 students affected by DACA policy, and the school identified a pool of donated money it can use to help students pay their renewal fee.

The school put out a message to staff and students Sept. 5 and is connecting students to immigration attorneys, Matye Edwards said. Mental health counselors, and ACC staff who were once non-citizens, can speak to students about their anxiety, she said.

On Sept. 13, the State Board for Community Colleges and Occupational Education, which oversees 13 colleges in the state including ACC, adopted a

The term “Dreamers” has been applied to young undocumented immigrants at least in part because of the title of the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, first introduced in 2001 but never passed by both houses of Congress.

There are about 689,800 people with active DACA status in the country, with about 15,500 living in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website

resolution to support congressional action to preserve DACA protections.

Looking ahead With less than six months until recipients who do not have the chance to reapply for DACA begin to see their status expire, Congress will be under pressure to decide the fate of young immigrants.

U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Golden, supports the DREAM Act of 2017, which would give undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. before age 18 a path to citizenship through work, military service or attending college. He also supports the American Hope Act, which is similar but would not be based on those criteria.

He supported DACA when it was enacted in 2012.

“I was pleased to see Gov. Hickenlooper add Colorado’s name to a lawsuit challenging (President Trump’s) decision to end the DACA program,” Perlmutter said.

Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner tweeted a statement Sept. 5 saying he’s proud to cosponsor the DREAM Act. “Children who came to this country ... through no fault of their own must have the opportunity to remain here lawfully,” Gardner’s statement said.

A spokesperson for Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet said Bennet supports the DREAM Act and has supported DACA. SEE DACA, P35

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VOICES What could possibly be wrong about wanting a perfect world?

QUIET DESPERATION

Craig Marshall Smith

M

y therapist asked me to describe my perfect world.

“No one goes hungry, for one thing,” I said.

“Very admirable.”

“Affordable health care options for everyone.”

“Very admirable.”

“No one wears a baseball cap backwards except a baseball player.”

“Seriously?”

“Seriously. And no one uses the word `sustainable’ for at least a year. Maybe longer.”

Hypothetical questions are fun to think about and that’s it.

“What would you do with a million dollars?”

“If you only had 24 hours to live, what would you do?”

“If you could only take 10 albums to a deserted island, would Hootie’s be one of them?”

The world is far from perfect.

“It’s a work in progress,” someone said.

It doesn’t look like it’s going to be finished by the time I take the last train to Clarksville.

Some things are best left unfinished.

Franz Schubert’s beautiful “Symphony No. 8” is known as the “Unfinished Symphony.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” was never finished because he was interrupted when he was writing it by “a person from Porlock,” and when the person finally left, Coleridge forgot where the poem was headed.

(It was composed after he experienced an opium-influenced dream.)

Artist Gilbert Stuart’s most famous painting

is an unfinished portrait of George Washington that was on every classroom wall in my high school.

I asked my father, “Why would anyone buy unfinished furniture?”

“Son, it means unstained or unpainted.”

“Why isn’t it called unstained or unpainted furniture?”

It’s going to be a while before the Crazy Horse Memorial is finished.

Many authors, like Ernest Hemingway, have left stories and novels unfinished, only to have someone publish them posthumously — ostensibly to add further dimension to the author’s life, or to make money off of it. Take your pick.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

To get the best answers, make sure you ask the best questions WINNING WORDS

Michael Norton

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ere we are back in full swing of the new school year. My guess would be that many of you reading this column have already asked the question, “Did you do your homework?” And you probably heard something like a short and muffled, “No.” Or a “Yes” that didn’t sound quite convincing.

The question itself is not wrong, we all would like to inspect what we expect when it comes to homework, but it could be the way we ask the question or the tonality we use

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Choose to keep politics out Charter school parents: The quality of our future charter schools is in jeopardy!

As a charter parent, I’m concerned that DCSD’s BOE directors Geddes, Peck, Reynolds and Silverthorn have been approving charter school applications that do not fully meet the district criteria. DCSD’s charter application process starts with the Charter Application Review Team, or CART. It includes 17 DCSD staff, one DAC member, one LRPC member and one independent reviewer. CART reviews the application to determine if it meets the 19 criteria that were developed by the Colorado Department of Education’s Schools of Choice Unit and the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

Since 2016, Silverthorn, Peck, Reynolds and Geddes have voted to approve three charter applications that CART rejected: Leman Academy, Milestone Academy and Ascent Classical Academy. This means that recent CART recommendations are being ignored HALF the time! For Leman, CART stated that they did not meet seven of the 19 Columnists & Guest Commentaries Columnist opinions are not necessarily those of the Chronicle.

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criteria (37 percent). Milestone did not meet 8 (42 percent) of the 19 criteria.

Alexandria School of Innovation was the only charter denied by both CART and BOE — the only recent example of the BOE majority actually complying with a CART rejection. This will not produce quality charter schools. It increases the liability that a school will not meet the state performance standards and risks a high-quality education for our kids.

Why are these BOE directors disregarding the recommendations of their own staff and ignoring state-endorsed criteria? Are they approving charters simply to increase charter presence in alignment with the education reform movement, without any regard to the quality and competence of these schools? Our children deserve better! Vote for school board directors who aren’t connected to the reform movement. Vote for Graziano, Holtzmann, Leung and Schor — they will keep politics out of education.

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NORTON FROM PAGE 12

Sometimes we believe we already know the answers, and some of us already know all of the answers, if you don’t believe us, just ask us.

But the best part about asking questions when we believe we already know the answer, is that it gives the other person a chance to share their opinion and it also shows them respect.

Asking questions also helps us to stay out of arguments that are fueled by anger or prejudice of any kind. If we sense that we may not be on the same page when it comes to our opinions, we never have to arm wrestle anyone or place a stake in the ground about our own position or point of view. We can easily make that known calmly,

professionally and politely by asking questions instead of espousing our opinions or drawing any kind of line in the sand. Is there a place for a good old-fashioned debate?

Absolutely, but if you watch great debates, the person who typically wins is the person who asks the best questions in return or asks clarifying questions so that they know how to respond or answer.

Sometimes when I hear about relationships suffering I often hear that one person has stated their position or opinion and even possibly an ultimatum. Definitely not the best recipe for discussing something as important as the future of a relationship. Instead of stating something in a demanding or inconsiderate way, maybe something like, “I work all day too, I cook the dinner, and I wash the clothes. I really need you to step up and do something.” (Expletives excluded

intentionally). What if it sounded differently, “Can I ask you a question? With my heavy workload I can really use some help around the house. I know you work hard too, but is there something you can do to help me or something we can do together that would make things easier on both of us around here?”

Building on the thought of asking questions in relationships, think about each time we make that simple yet so very powerful statement, “I love you.” Here is what it might sound like in question form, “Do you know why I love you?”

Most humble and normal people would respond with, “I think so, but tell me more.” And now we have an opportunity to put even greater depth and meaning behind our “I love you” statement.

Using questions instead of statements will usually result in more meaningful conversations and

provide so much more clarity and insights. And, by the way, when we ask questions instead of making statements that can be challenged, most people will think we are the smartest people in the room.

So how about you, are you used to just sharing your opinion or making a statement first? Or do you make it a best practice of asking questions first, and asking the right questions that would reveal your position and point of view? Either way I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com. And when we can find the answers we seek through the right questions, 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.

RILEY

Carole Suzanne Riley 2/20/1946 – 9/19/2017

Carole Suzanne Riley “Suzy” was born on February 20, 1946 in Fort Wayne, Indiana and passed away in Denver, Colorado on September 19, 2017.

She lived in Indiana, Edmonton, Alberta, Vancouver, British Columbia, North Dakota, Kansas, Ohio, California and Colorado, spending thirty-nine years in southern California where she raised her two sons and had more dogs than we could count.

She was the neighborhood mom, the home where all of the kids wanted to be because she accepted each one for who they were and showed a genuine interest in each of them.

Suzy had a special gift of always making others feel welcome, showing an interest in them and entertaining them with her stories. She always put her family and friends first.

Mike and Pat, her boys, were proud of the effort she put into supporting Irish Northern Aid. They remember how she taught them not only to be themselves but she always told them to be true r to yourself and stand up for what you h believe in.

She loved children and ran a home childcare, so that she could be home with her sons when they were little.

Devoted to her boys, she supported

their interest in the Boy Scouts by serving as Den Mother and Boy Scout Leader.

She cherished her grandchildren marveling at each one’s talents and interests.

She wanted them to have a great time at Grandma’s and had fun planning movie nights, trips to the movies, baking cookies and other activities with them. But it was sharing everyday moments of feeding the chickens, collecting the eggs, growing fruits and vegetables, reading together and making up stories that will be treasured forever.

Suzy was the one you would call when you needed that special someone to stand up for you and believe in you. Her sister, Laurie, called her “coach” after Suzy was Laurie’s birth coach for her son Tyler’s delivery.

Auntie Tudie rescued her nieces from their mundane Muggle lives and introduced them to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The girls enjoyed their all-night movie marathons while visiting her in Denver. She always made them feel safe, because she told them that,

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“Auntie Tudie’s got a Glock and she’s not afraid to use it.”

Suzy was an avid reader and especially enjoyed Star Wars books. Maybe that is why she was such a good storyteller. Suzy told stories with enthusiasm sharing her humor and had a way of making everything more interesting and fascinating.

The first time Debbie, Suzy’s future sister-in-law, talked to her, it was on the phone and they talked for 3 hours.

Her stories of how she met Joe and how their romance evolved was so entertaining Debbie didn’t want the call to end for fear she wouldn’t have the chance to talk to this wonderful person again.

Little did Debbie know at that time that Suzy and Joe would marry and that she would have many opportunities for phone calls with Suzy over the coming years.

After moving to Colorado, her love of children brought her to Douglas County as a school bus driver. Suzy loved this job. She adored her co-workers and enjoyed getting to know the kids. One year, on the last day of school, she gave

each child a water balloon to throw at the bus when they got off. Coolest bus driver ever.

Suzy was a person who chose to define her life in her own way. She did not conform to others expectations. She did what she felt was right and succeeded at it.

Suzy shared nearly 29 years of marriage with the love of her life, Joey. Seen holding hands walking into the bus terminal, anyone seeing the way they looked at each other understood the depth of their relationship.

Suzy brought joy into people’s lives.

She will be dearly missed.

A devoted wife, mother, grandma, sister, aunt and friend, she is predeceased by her mother, M. June Lall and father, Tilak R. Lall, and survived by her husband, Joe, her eldest son Michael, his wife Corey, their son Jacob and daughter Fiona, and younger son Patrick and his daughter Alison, brothers Warren Lall and Nick Lall, sisters Cheri Wechsler and husband Jim and Laurie Lall, nephews Sean Stanford and Tyler Lall and nieces Kati and Jenni Wechsler.

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Slate will support teachers Improving our special education programs across DougCo is a subject close to my heart. I’m the mom of a son who required special education services. Thanks to school choice offered by DougCo, we were able to search for the best placement for him.

Unfortunately, at that time, DougCo was not equipped to meet his particular needs. But, through hard work, perseverance and prayer, I am proud that our son now attends Colorado School of Mines.

As a health care professional myself who offers services for kids with ADHD, autism, and other issues, I am supporting the Elevate Douglas County team with Debora Scheffel because I believe she and the others provide the best opportunity to improve special education programs here as well as the very best education for all kids. Deb taught special ed kids here in Douglas County, got her master’s in special education from DU and then her Ph.D. She’s also done post-doctoral work in the link between language and learning. No other candidate can match her level of preparation and professional expertise. She was also a member of the Colorado State Board of Education, and now serves as dean of Colorado Christian University’s School of Education, teaching future teachers.

Many educators claim 1 out 6 kids require some sort special services. It takes a special teacher with a special school to optimize the talents of a special child.

I have confidence that Deb Scheffel and the other Elevate candidates — Randy Mills, Ryan Abresch and Grant Nelson — will give us the leadership needed to improve learning for all. These candidates and I, as a parent and former teacher’s aide, sympathize with the tremendous challenge for teachers to meet the needs of all students, from those with special challenges, to the average student, to those who are advanced.

I know the Elevate Douglas County School Board candidates will give all our teachers the support they need.

Cynthia Dalton Lone Tree Teachers must be valued I’m a mom of two kids who graduated from Douglas County Schools and I believe that Graziano, Holtzmann, Leung and Schor will work collaboratively to ensure our teachers are valued, parents are respected and kids are given the opportunity to thrive.

My kids were fortunate to have great teachers throughout their Douglas County experience. I want future generations to have that same experience and benefit from great teachers like my kids did.

Margie Hardaway Castle Pines

All voters should be informed During the 2017-18 school year, there are crucial issues facing taxpayers.

There is a school board election and possible vote to increase taxes to support our schools in 2018. Many of these issues focus on communicating with parents and informing them.

Schools host candidate forums to learn about what individuals running have in store for the future of our schools. These learning forums lack communication with the majority of voters and educating the 70 percent of non-parent taxpayers.

The majority of communication is after the fact. Efforts need to be made to inform all stakeholders so that all can make informed decisions and not rely on who spends the most money pushing their slate of candidates.

Communicate and get the 70 percent informed. If candidate forums are held, communicate to all stakeholders in your attendance area and not just parents.

Dave Usechek Parker Let’s reward extra effort A recent article in this publication implied that Superintendent Erin Kane is supporting pay-for-performance because it’s associated with rewarding teacher effort when she says, “We want to talk to our employees about what it is that motivates them and makes them want to bring their A-game every day”. The point is it doesn’t matter if every teacher brings their A game every day, teachers can

never be equal. She simply meant it’s teacher motivation that “makes our kids winners”. Next, I dismiss the parent who said, “I hope you never have to dry the tears of a 5-year-old when she learns that her beloved teacher is leaving”. This says more about the kind of non-dedicated teacher who would leave a classroom of 5-yearolds. That’s the kind of teacher you don’t want.

My experience leaves me unsympathetic with the many teachers who “have expressed dissatisfaction with salaries, competition among teachers because salaries are tied to subjects they teach, and hours of time spent on evaluations.” For most professions, compensation is directly tied to putting in an extra effort with willingness for inconvenience. I don’t know of any other profession where this attitude is held as a standard.

My belief is that it’s unfair to suspend pay-for-performance for teachers but continue it for secretaries, instructional assistants and food service workers. I disagree with board member Wendy Vogel, who likewise opposes it, but for the wrong reason.

She says it pits “classified and licensed employees against each other.”

Wrong, and the Dream Team candidates are aligned with her, Lemieux, and Ray on this and just about every issue.

I support the Elevate Douglas County slate of Randy Mills, Ryan Abresch, Debora Scheffel and Grant Nelson.

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‘When it comes to injuries, listen to your body’

West Metro Fire Rescue’s EMTs and paramedics familiarize themselves with the latest equipment and gear football players use during an Aug. 18 training session. The fire department worked with emergency room doctors from St. Anthony Hospital to help prepare for responding to injuries commonly seen during football season. CHRISTY STEADMAN

Experts share sports injury prevention advice

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efore entering her career, Julie Nickoley’s studies at Metro State required her to get clinical hours at different colleges and high schools across Colorado, where she worked with a professional to get onthe-job training. During these clinical hours, she diagnosed the first of three broken necks she has seen throughout her career as an athletic trainer.

The college football player was hit hard in the first quarter of the game, she said, but didn’t tell anyone about his neck pain. Then, he got hit again in the fourth quarter and finally pulled himself out of the game.

“He basically played the entire game with a broken neck,” said Nickoley, who is now the head athletic trainer for the Colorado Storm, a statewide youth soccer association.

This particular athlete — Nickoley wouldn’t identify him by name or which college he played for — was very lucky, she added. He wasn’t paralyzed and the spinal cord wasn’t damaged.

From bruises to broken bones, even the most experienced athletes are prone to injury. But there is some preventative advice out there.

First and foremost, it’s important to

5 TIPS TO AVOID SPORTS INJURIES • Get the gear. For any sport, the proper gear and protective equipment can protect athletes from injuries.

• Condition and stretch. Make sure your entire body is conditioned — not just the muscles being used in the particular sport or training.

• Play safe. Avoid reckless play and follow the rules when playing sports.

• Take a break. Even if it’s only one day a take care of your body, Nickoley said.

“The biggest thing I see with successful athletes is how they take care of their bodies,” she said. But “you don’t have to be a competitive athlete or have a background in sports to take care of your body.”

Nutrition and exercise are important for everyone’s health, Nickoley said.

Whether it be taking a walk in your neighborhood or going to the local rec center for a swim, everyone should get their heart rate up for at least 30 minutes a day.

Active people have lower rates of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and even some emotional problems such as depression and anxiety, said Heidi Christensen, medical director of Primary Care Sports Medicine for Centura Health. And for younger people, playing sports can help with self-esteem and socialization.

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week, it’s important to take some time off from training.

• Educate yourself. Coaches, athletic trainers and other sports medicine professionals are always happy to have conversations with athletes and provide advice.

Sources: Julie Nickoley, athletic trainer for Colorado Storm, and Heidi Christensen, medical director of Primary Care Sports Medicine for Centura Health tive and playing sports outweigh the risks,” Christensen said. “As long as you don’t play or exercise beyond your personal capabilities, you can help safeguard against injuries.”

When injuries happen West Metro Fire Rescue’s EMTs and paramedics started a three-week training session on Aug. 18, during which about 280 people worked with emergency room doctors from St. Anthony Hospital to help prepare for responding to injuries commonly seen during football season.

The training focused on new procedures in preparing injured players for the emergency room and/or potential surgeries, and familiarizing themselves with the latest equipment and gear football players use.

“We’re finding that as the equipment changes, so must our practice,” said Mike Binney, the fire department’s

EMS training lieutenant. “In the metro area, we want to be prepared for whatever we have to show up to.”

It might not always require a trip to the emergency room, Christensen said, it is always important to get a proper diagnosis from somebody who is professionally trained to do so that that treatment or rehab can start right away.

But “it’s not just about treating the injury to get the clear to return to the sport,” Christensen added. “It’s getting the proper tools to prevent a recurring injury.”

Too many people get right back into the sport as soon as the pain goes away, but this puts that person at a higher risk of reinjuring themselves, Christensen said.

People tend to sustain serious injuries because they pushed themselves above and beyond what they were conditioned for, Christensen said.

Whether you’re recovering from an injury, just becoming more active or beginning to train for a new sport, “it’s always a good rule of thumb to increase the level of activity gradually,” Christensen said.

But because athletes typically love their sport, they will often push the limits, Nickoley said.

“They love what they’re doing.

They’ll do whatever they can to keep playing,” she said. “And the body can handle a lot. But especially when it comes to injuries, listen to your body.”

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Siegel celebrates 30 years of keyboard conversations at Arvada Center

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t seems like everybody took a piano lesson or two in their lives.

I did for years, learning how to play some of my favorite Vince Guaraldi “Peanuts” songs, as well as the piano versions of some of my favorite pop songs at the time — stuff like the Dave Matthews Band.

As with everything, it all comes down to having a great teacher. I certainly did.

And for the past 30 years, Jeffrey Siegel has served as a proxy piano teacher to hundreds who came to his Keyboard Conversations at the Arvada Center. But instead of teaching how to play, he gives audiences a window into classical music and composers.

“Thirty years is a milestone in this disposable society,” Siegel said with a laugh.

“They haven’t disposed of me yet.”

An internationally known pianist, Siegel has been a soloist with many of the world’s top orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Moscow State Symphony, Munich’s Bayerischer Rundfunk, and the Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm Philharmonic.

Siegel kicks off his 30th season at the center on Oct. 4 with a focus on Leonard Bernstein, and will be hosting programs on music inspired by the night, storytelling through music, and the repertoire of masters like Beethoven, Liszt and Prokofiev during the season.

But it’s not only about the performances for Siegel. It’s about the whole picture. He answers audiences’ questions, gives history

CLARKE’S ALBUM OF THE WEEK Selection: Hiss Golden Messenger’s “Hallelujah Anyhow,” released on Merge Records.

Review: Sometimes when a musician is too prolific, I worry that it’s a sign they’re running out of good ideas, and just releasing anything they can. That’s not the case with Hiss Golden Messenger, whose latest effort comes out just a year after 2016’s fantastic “Heart Like a Levee.” “Hallelujah Anyhow” is leaner than that album, but it’s also more focused, catchier and wryer. I can’t get enough of the group, and can’t wait to see if he pulls a threepeat next year.

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and context to composers, pieces and musical eras, and shares stories.

Think of it as a one-off music education class. I know I always find more in a piece of music, classical or otherwise, if I know what the musician intended, or was experiencing at the time.

“Sometimes people have very specific questions, but often they’re happily general,” Siegel said. “So many would like the opportunity to ask a question of the performer on stage, but that opportunity never happens.”

Classical music can be particularly intimidating for the uninitiated, which is why this guided approach is so effective for Siegel. And it has led to some of his favorite memories at the Center, like when students, who normally wouldn’t be the interested in classical, came backstage to share how much the music moved them.

“I was so touched the music brought them backstage,” Siegel remembers. “Classical music can be like water on the desert. Even if a person isn’t a sophisticated concert goer, the music still gets through to them.”

The interaction with his audience is what has kept Siegel coming back for three decades, as is knowing he’s giving people an entry-point to a genre that is all about humanity. And in an age of digitalization when everyone has their eyes on a screen, that matters.

“We’re living today in the most robotic society ever. For a thinking, feeling person, there’s a greater need for something that really touches one, moves one, that cannot be gotten off a screen,” he said. “It’s about, as Bernstein called it, the ‘transformative power of music.’ It’s more necessary than ever before.”

Clarke Reader’s column on how music connects to our lives appears every other week. A community editor with Colorado Community Media, he would totally sign on for a Keyboard Conversation on Vince Guaraldi. Check out his music blog at calmacil20.blogspot.com.

And share how you got into classical music at creader@coloradocommunitymedia.com.

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Poetry and art have combined for the “Draft: Ekphrastic Art” exhibit on display through Oct. 31 in the Bellco Art Gallery at the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker.

A selection of the writer-and-artist teams will read and share their work from 6-8 p.m. Oct. 6 at the artist reception and reading. In addition to poetry readings and artist meet-and-greets, the reception will include music, food and a cash bar. It is free and open to the public.

“We teamed up artists and writers to see what came out of those collaborations, and the results are amazing,” said Rose Fredrick, PACE Center curator.

While the writers and artists hail from incredibly diverse backgrounds and styles, the final works produced are uniquely rooted in their own creative mediums while simultaneously sharing space in a world they created in tandem.

Though this show has about half the number of paintings of a typical exhibition, it is artistically loaded.

“Patrons should plan to give the collaborative artist duos plenty of time so they can take you on a journey into their worlds and to experience how words and pictures, when situated together, `speak’ to one another,” Frederick said.

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The pairs featured in the exhibit are Jan R. Carson and Roger E. Clark; Bob Campagna and Sylvia Eichmann; Doug Erion and Veronica Patterson; Sushe Felix and Ginny Hoyle; Michael Gadlin and Suzi Q. Smith; Tadashi Hayakawa with both Gina Valdés and Rosalía Hayakawa; Ron Hicks and Seth Brady Tucker; Adrienne Stein and Marj Hahne; Don Stinson and Susan Stinson; Michael Vacchiano with both Jennifer Itell and Lori Ryan.

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‘I do love a good ghost story’ Douglas County Libraries archivist presents frightening tales of county’s past

Douglas County Libraries archivist Shaun Boyd peeks around a corner among the shelves and files of the Philip S. Miller branch archives.

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October is the time for eerie ambience and spooky tales, and Douglas County Libraries archivist Shaun Boyd is looking forward to the opportunity to telling ghost stories to give county residents a few goosebumps and a lesson or two about local history.

“It’s like a spoonful of sugar,” she said. “It’s the fun hook to get people connected to their community through folklore.”

Boyd’s been immersing herself in the county’s old newspapers, records and maps for eight years. She com-

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Each event includes six tales of supernatural happenings in county buildings like the Old Stone Church in Castle Rock, the McIntyre Cabin near Parker and the Highlands Ranch Mansion. Creepy occurrences range from homicidal families in the 1860s to ghastly occurrences in the past few years.

“I’ve been collecting these stories since I started working here,” she said. “I do love a good ghost story.”

People often come into the Philip S. Miller library in Castle Rock to learn about the history of their homes and neighborhoods. Boyd said weaving together common tales of long-dead residents checking up on their successors was a natural, or supernatural, way to extend that curiosity to residents’ shared history.

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Then there was the time she, as a toddler, was napping in her grandmother’s bedroom.

“She came in to check on me… apparently I was standing straight up in my crib, pointing at the closet saying ‘Man! Man!’” Boyd said. “Apparently I was playing peek-a-boo with the ghost.”

Since the house was in Iowa, it’s unlikely to be part of Boyd’s discussions. Nevertheless, she hopes the stories she’s collected will give locals the chance to have fun and learn about the past they share with each other, and their predecessors.

The presentations may not be for the faint of heart, but Boyd said they are probably appropriate for most age groups. Probably.

“There is still the story of the little girl with the ax in her head,” she said.

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Queen City Jazz Band set to play at Littleton church

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ittleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton, begins its 25th season of its delightful Fine Arts Series with a free concert featuring the upbeat Queen City Jazz Band at 7 p.m. Oct. 6. The traditional jazz band Sonya Ellingboe has drawn fans since 1958 in the metro area. Littletonumc.org.

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Oct. 14 at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. Tickets: voiceswest.org, info, 303-973-9593.

Englewood Arts “South American Journey With Trio Cordilleras” will be presented at 2 p.m. Oct. 14 at Hampden Hall in the Englewood Civic Center. 1000 Englewood Parkway. Thomas Heinrich, cello; Elizabeth Kipper, violin; and Alejandro Cremaschi, piano.

Tickets one hour previously at the box office or at englewoodarts.org, 303-806-8901.

‘Abbey Road’ Lone Tree Arts Center presents “Classic Albums Live: Abbey Road” at 8 p.m. Oct. 7. A collection of musicians perform the album in its entirety.

Tickets: lonetreeartscenter.org, 720509-1000.

The Queen City Jazz Band will perform traditional jazz at 7 p.m. Oct.6 at Littleton United Methodist Church. (Free concert.)

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Lannie Garrett Lannie Garrett performs at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., downtown Littleton at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13, 14, 20, 21 and 2 p.m. Oct. 15 and 22. First week: “The Chick Sings A

Tribute to Frank Sinatra.” Second week: “Great Women of Song: From Billie to Bette.” Accompanied by the Errand Boys of Rhythm. Tickets: townhallartscenter.org or 303-7942787.

CJRO “West Coast Jazz” by the Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra, led by Art Bouton of Lone Tree, plays at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7 at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Tickets: $45, 720-898-7200, arvadacenter.org.

‘South Pacific’ “South Pacific” by Rodgers and Hammerstein plays through Oct. 15 at PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. Tickets: parkerarts.org, 303805-6800.

Depot Art Gallery “Beyond the Usual,” an exhibit featuring new techniques, opens Oct. 3 at the Depot Art Gallery, 2069 W. Powers, Littleton, with a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Open through Nov. 5: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. 303-795-0781.

Correction An incorrect date appeared last week in a story about “13 the Musical.” Performances will be at 2 and 7 p.m. Oct. 8 at the Denver JCC Elaine Wolf Theatre, 350 Dahlia St., Denver.

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THINGS to DO

THEATER

Auditions for ‘Rudolph’: 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3 at Spotlight Performing Arts Center, 6328 E. County Line Road, Ste. 102, Highlands Ranch. For ages 3-9, class runs 8 weeks and teaches singing, dancing and acting techniques. Class runs from 3:45-4:30 Tuesdays from Oct. 3 to December. Performance on Dec. 9.

Call 720-44-DANCE or go to www. spotlightperformers.com.

‘In the Heights’: shows through Sunday, Oct. 8 at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., Littleton. First musical production of the 2017-18 season. Reserved tickets on sale at the box office or online at www.townhallartscenter.org/in-the-heights.

August: Osage County: 7:30 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays; and 2:30 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 15 at Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Additional show at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18. After the Weston family patriarch disappears family tensions heat up and boil over in the ruthless August heat. Go to www.vintagetheatre. com or call 303-856-7830.

ART

Reuse Your T-shirts: 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30 at the Roxborough Librar y, 8357 N. Rampart Range Road, Ste. 200. Upcycle your old tees by using them to make new scarves, pet toys, bags, rugs and more. For all ages. Registration required; contact 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

Restore Old Photos: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3 at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Ed Campbell and Penny Mannel of “A Page is Turned” lead a presentation on how to restore old photos. Snacks and networking begin at 6:30 p.m.

Presented by the Highlands Ranch Historical Society.

Art Stop on the Go: 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5 at the Roxborough Library, 8357 N. Rampart Range Road, Ste. 200. Budding artists cultivate their inner Picassos with guests from the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, who present a children’s book and then lead a literature-based art project. For ages 6-12. Registration is required; contact 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

Modern Expressionism Workshop: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7 at First Presbyterian Church, 1609 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton.

Presented by the Heritage Fine

this week’s TOP FIVE Vampire 5K Run for Blood: 6:30-9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30 at Flat Acres Farm, 11321 Dransfeldt Road, Parker. Run as a citizen, or hide on the course as a vampire, seeking to transform victims with red powder as they run through woods, abandoned buildings and a haybale maze.

Post run party includes music, dancing, food, haunted house and more. Go to http://www.vampire5k.com/.

Backcountry BBQ: 5-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30 at Backcountry Base Camp, 6005 Ron King Trail, Littleton. Enjoy a barbecue dinner to raise money for the Backcountry Conservation and Education Fund nonprofit. Go to https://hrcaonline.org/about-us/guides-communication/calendar-schedules/ event-detail/backcountry-bbq-4

School Readiness Redefined: Beyond the A-BCs: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4 at Smoky Hill Library, 5430 S. Biscay Circle, Centennial; and 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5 at Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly St., Centennial. How can I get my child ready for kindergarten? Lisa Regalla, nationally-recognized expert in early learning, will show parents and caregivers how to go beyond the A-B-Cs and 1-2-3s by sharing fun, practical ideas for developing language, math and social skills, all key ingredients for kindergarten readiness. Save your spot at arapahoelibraries. org.

Ghost Towns of the Eastern Plains: 2-3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30 at the Englewood Public Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway, in the Anderson Room. Carl Sandberg returns to give us a tour of ghost towns on Colorado’s eastern plains. For adults and teens. Registration required. Call the Englewood Public Library at 303-762-2560 or email epl@englewoodco.gov.

Arts Guild of Arapahoe County.

For ages 18 and older, workshop is taught by Colorado artist Lance Green. Registration required; go to http://heritage-guild.com/ current-workshops.html.

MUSIC/MOVIES

Stratus Chamber Orchestra: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29 at First Plymouth Congregational Church, 3501 S. Colorado Blvd., Englewood; and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30 at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave., Denver. Features pianist Tanya Gabrielian. Call 303-388-4962, go to www.AugustanaArts. org or purchase tickets at the door.

Changing World of Medicare: 10:15-11:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 5 at the Lone Tree Library, 10055 Library Way, Lone Tree. Medicare’s open enrollment period is Oct. 15 to Dec. 7. Changes happen each year. Panel member experts will share what’s new and information to help you be a savvy Medicare plan shopper. All presenters are state or federal employees or have a contract with Medicare; there will be no sales. Presented by the Seniors’ Council of Douglas County. Call 303-663-7681 or email DCSeniorLife@douglas.co.us to RSVP.

worst blunders to ever make it to DVD. Showing this month: The Ice Pirates (1984, Rated PG, 91 minutes). Save your spot at arapahoelibraries.org.

Queen City Jazz Band: 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 6 at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. Opening concert of the 25th season of the church’s fine arts series. Admission is free.

Since 1958, the Queen City Jazz Band has been thrilling audiences with the great sounds of the jazz era, including the styles of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver and Ma Rainey. Everyone welcome.

EVENTS

Saturday Movie Matinee: 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30 at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” Henrietta Lacks is the unwitting pioneer of countless medical breakthroughs with the unauthorized harvesting of her cancerous cells in the early 1950s. Call 303795-3961 or go to littletongov.org.

Shredding, Electronics Recycling: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

30 in the parking lot at Kaiser Permanente Building, 9285 Hepburn St., Highlands Ranch.

Event is free, but donations are appreciated; proceeds will benefit the Highlands Ranch Community Scholarship Fund and the Cultural Affairs Association. Call 303-7912500 or go to www.HRCAonline. org/recycle.

Bad Movie Night: 6:30-9 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 3 at Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly St., Centennial. Join us to watch awful and awfully entertaining movies for the sheer joy of laughing at some of the

AAUW Candidate Forum: 6:308:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3 at South Suburban Lone Tree Hub Lobby, 8827 Lone Tree Parkway. American Association of University Women sponsors Douglas County

School Board Candidate Forum.

Open to the public. Contact Beryl Jacobson at 303-688-8088 or berylmjacobson@gmail.com.

Fall Holiday Fun Time: 6-7 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 3 at Southglenn Library, 6972 S. Vine St., Centennial. Children ages 5-12 are invited to enjoy juggling, fall magic and even an opportunity to spin some plates. Save your spot at arapahoelibraries.org.

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Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Celebrate the harvest and enjoy performances of traditional Chinese arts, including the lion dance by the Great Wall Chinese Academy.

For all ages. Registration required; contact 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

Wordpress Meetup: 1-2 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 7 at Castlewood Library, 6739 S. Uinta St., Centennial. Teens and adults are invited to join fellow Wordpress users to talk, troubleshoot, and tinker with your site in a friendly, hands-on environment. Save your spot at arapahoelibraries.org.

Writing Compelling Characters Workshop: 4-5:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8 at Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly St., Centennial. Great characters are at the very heart of the stories we write. But how can you create characters who will stay with readers long after they turn the final page? This workshop for teens, taught by R.M. Romero, author of “The Dollmaker of Krakow,” will explore characters and the vital role they play in writing of all genres. Save your spot at arapahoelibraries.org.

Nonprofit Funding: Friday, Oct. 13 is the deadline to apply for funding in 2018 from the City of Englewood through the council’s Aid to Other Agencies program. Call Christa Graeve at 303-762-2310 with questions.

Applications available at http:// www.englewoodgov.org/home/ showdocument?id=18036.

HEALTH

Cholesterol and Your Heart: 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Oct. 3 at South Denver Heart Center, 1000 SouthPark Drive, Littleton.

Explore medicine, lifestyle and natural alternatives to managing cholesterol. Presented by Susan Buckley, RD, CDE, and Renee Julien, RN. Call 303-744-1065 or go to www.southdenver.com.

EDUCATION

George C. Evans Post 103 Membership Meeting: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4 at the Buck Recreation Center, 2004 W. Powers Ave., Littleton. October and November activities are on the agenda.

Fall Fun Night: 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5 at the Lone Tree Library, 10055 Library Way. Drop in for family fun with life-sized games, a kids’ carnival, dance party, storytime, costumes and more. No registration required. Information at 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

Chinese Moon Festival: 11 a.m.

Saturday, Oct. 7 at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline

Mini Law School: 6-7:30 p.m.

Tuesdays through Oct. 24 at CU South Denver in Lone Tree. Course is seven weeks and is taught by law school faculty. Those who cannot attend the live lectures can choose Livestream and recorded viewing options; class materials and links to the lectures will be sent so participants can watch at their own pace. Registration required; go to http://www. colorado.edu/law/minilawschool.

Editor’s note: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week. Send listings to calendar@coloradocommunitymedia.com. No attachments, please. Listings are free and run on a space-available basis.

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Patches feature pumpkins, mazes, frights STAFF REPORT

It’s fall in Colorado, and that means pumpkins, corn mazes, hayrides and zombies. The Colorado Department of Agriculture has compiled a list of the events planned. Go to www.colorado. gov and search “pumpkin patch” for the complete list.

Here are some of the area attractions:

Nick’s Fall Festival When: open Sept. 30 to Oct. 31; hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Where: Nick’s Garden Center and Farm Market, 2001 S. Chambers Road, Aurora Contact: 303-696-6657; www.nicksgardencenter.com Enjoy a straw maze, tractor ride through the tunnel of terror, train

Lakota Gardner, 2, of Thornton, picks out the perfect pumpkin from the Maize in the City pumpkin patch in 206. Face painting is among the many activities offered at the corn maze again this year on Sept. 29. ride, jumping castles, pedal kart racetrack and more. Tokens needed for some activities; all-activity pass available. Concessions and cafe open on weekends. Nick’s Giant Pumpkin Weigh Off is from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Maize in the City When: open every day from Sept. 29 through Oct. 31; hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; last maze ticket sold at 5 p.m.

Where: 10451 McKay Road, Thornton Contact: www.maizeinthecity.com Find your way through the 20-acre Crazed Corn Field Maze by answering personalized questions or picking from one of several categories in the smart phone trivia game. Highlights for younger visitors are the mini maze, a petting zoo, hay and pony rides, jumping castles, air slid, obstacle course and playground.

Visitors also may choose from hundreds of shapes and sizes of pumpkins, with 11 varieties to choose from.

Create your own fall scene with hay bales and corn stalks.

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Mines students thinking big with tiny homes Denver’s national sustainability expo to feature house design

IF YOU GO… The U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon is open to the public from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 5-8, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 9 and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 12-15.

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

They may be small, but tiny homes are a huge thing right now.

And Colorado School of Mines is making one that’s even more futuristic.

“We’re putting a science-y twist on a pop culture thing,” said Katie Schneider, a junior at Mines majoring in engineering physics.

The Mines Tiny House is a 220-square-foot dwelling that utilizes some of the latest in energy efficient and sustainable technology.

“We’re very focused on being net-zero,” Schneider said, who has been involved with the Mines Tiny Home since her freshman year in 2015.

Students have been working on the project for nearly two years. It is an extracurricular project, and all the work has been done after school and on weekends.

Expected completion date will be sometime next spring.

Once finished, some of the features will be a composting toilet, automated window shades controlled by a mobile device and a water efficient shower head. It will be propane-free — completely powered by solar — and not even hooked up to utilities.

Timothy Ohno, associate professor of physics and faculty advisor for Mines Tiny House, estimates the value of the home to be about $40,000

It will be located at 61st Avenue and Pena Station near Denver International Airport.

It is a free event.

For more information, visit www. solardecathlon.gov.

The Mines Tiny Home, a net-zero, 220-square-foot dwelling being built by students attending the Colorado School of Mines will be on display at the Sustainability Expo part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, which this year takes place Oct. 5-9 and Oct. 12-15. PHOTO COURTESY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES or $50,000 once complete.

After it’s finished, the tiny home will have a permanent place on campus and used as a classroom and meeting space, as well as an educational and outreach tool in the community, said Emilie Rusch, public information specialist for Mines.

There’s been probably between 120 and 150 students who have been involved with the Mines Tiny Home in some way, Ohno said, but the core group has been about 20 students. All majors and classes are represented, Schneider added, but a couple challenges have been that everyone is a fulltime student, and none of them are construction majors.

In fact, Mines does not have construction management or architecture programs offered in the curriculum.

“It’s been a learn-as-wego project,” Schneider said.

“For the most part, it’s been a

bunch of engineers thinking about what would be a good placement for a kitchen.”

But, she added, it’s something to be incredibly proud of.

“It’s a very unique project,” Schneider said. “It’s something Mines has never done before.”

In fact, the Mines Tiny Home will be on display at the Sustainability Expo part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon this year. The Solar Decathlon is a collegiate competition that challenges student teams to design and build full-size, solar-powered houses. The Sustainability Expo is a consumer-facing exposition showcasing energy solutions and services.

This is the first year for the event to come to Denver, Ohno said, adding it usually takes place in Washington D.C. or California.

“It’s a very exciting event for us, as a state, to host,” he said.

For the expo, the desire is to demonstrate the students builidng process, Ohno said.

The solar panels and battery will be installed, and some of the framing will be done.

“Visitors will be able to get a behind-the-scenes look at the construction process and the decisions that went into maximizing every square inch of space for livability and energy efficiency,” Rusch said.

To compete in the Solar Decathlon, it takes at least five faculty advisors, and a typical team is about 150 students, Ohno said. The competition is made up of 10 contests that blends design excellence and smart energy production with innovation, market potential, and energy and water efficiency.

“The teams really need two to three years to prepare for

THE MINES TINY HOUSE To learn more about the Colorado School of Mines’ Mines Tiny House, visit http://minestinyhouse.weebly.com.

it,” he added.

But, Ohno added, participating in the expo will build moral. And building the tiny home will help prepare students for the next Solar Decathlon in 2020 — and Mines is planning on competing that year, Ohno said.

For many of the students involved with the Mines Tiny Home, it’s become a passion project, Schneider said.

“I’ve never been interested in going to energy — I am a physics major pursuing an aerospace career,” she said.

But “this just struck my eye as something unique. Everything I’m learning, from working with industry professionals to how to best insulate my home and what windows to buy, will have a huge impact on my life moving forward.”

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MERCHANDISE

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Over 25 booths, free parking, no entrance charge Everything from home baked goods to decorations and gift items Lunch will also be available in our Luncheon “Cafe” Homemade meatball sandwiches and homemade soup ANNOUNCEMENTS Misc. Notices Seeking info about attack on golden retriever July 29 in Lion’s Park in Golden.

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Book delves deep into history of Douglas County Castle Rock Writers Group divided topics about plethora of locations

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Frankstown, Pine Valley, Plum, Cherry Valley, Spring Valley, Westcreek, Louviers, Roxborough, Larkspur … some are names we use today and others remain attached to older images and maps. But all are part of the Douglas County story, as most recently told by the Castle Rock Writers Group in a book published at the end of August.

Group members were each responsible for a chapter of historic photos and copy about the towns that have evolved, and the introduction is written by Shaun Boyd, archivist at the Douglas County History Research Center. In addition to landscapes and structures, we learn about cowboys — and girls, miners, teachers, developers, business people, kids who were expected to earn their keep early on and interesting interactions among the above — sometimes on horseback and often by walking for many miles …

The cover photo depicts a pair of fashionable Edwardian ladies

exclaiming over the beauty of rock formations at what is now Roxborough State Park. Henry Persse named the area for his family home in Ireland — an area that he hoped to develop into a luxury resort for wealthy Easterners, but at first featured a brick factory. His special formula for bricks died with him when he was killed by a tram in downtown Denver in 1918, according to writer Susan Trumble, who compiled Chapter Eight.

Debbie Buboltz and Derald Hoffman produced the first chapter: “Castle Rock, County Seat Takes Shape,” with a photo of the iconic formation behind early buildings and a story about how six sections were laid out by Jeramiah Gould and John Craig. The depot followed, and the Masonic temple, a rooming house, school and soon, Wilcox Street. Products from the stone quarry south of town are seen throughout the metro area.

Also distributed through the metro area were dairy products. Milk cans were hauled to creameries which shipped them to Denver via train or wagon — or made cheeses for sale (see Larkspur and others.)

“Franktown and Southeastern Valleys: From Seeking Gold to Homesteading” is compiled by James Hansmann, Kathleen McCoy and Elizabeth Wallace. Originally, it

was called Frankstown, after James Frank Gardner, entrepreneur and politician.

Chapter Three: “Highlands Ranch, Daniels Park and Castle Pines, Wildcat Mountains Tamed,” by Peggy A. Cummings, includes photos of the hunt at the Phipps Ranch, surrounding the present location of the beautifully restored Highlands Ranch Mansion. Included: a young early child Phillips family member, mounted on a pet pony in front of the mansion’s fireplace.

“Larkspur, Perry Park and Greenland: Douglas County’s Dairyland” are described by James Hansmann as tranquil green meadows, with fresh, healthful mountain air — a health and tourist mecca as well as productive ranch land. Shades of former inhabitants include one of the ancient, curious, bent, manipulated trees the Utes used for messaging and worship.

“Lone Tree and Happy Canyon, From One Small Tree” by Kathleen McCoy includes photos of the Schweiger property, which has been carefully restored. Since the original tree was not found, a blue spruce was planted at the corner of Lincoln and Yosemite on Arbor Day, 1998.

Chapter Six is about Louviers and the DuPont Company’s role in Colorado, written by Alice Aldridge-

Dennis. Some buildings pictured are still standing.

“Parker: The 20 Mile Landmark” is by Kathleen McCoy and Elizabeth Wallace talks about a town on the route of the Gold Rush. Originally called Pine Grove, it has Ute history as well.

“Sedalia, Town at the Crossroads,”

by Laura Smallegan Adema, talks about an early settlement at the junction of East and West Plum Creeks, with orchards, the historic St. Philip’s Church and the legendary Bud’s Bar. The final chapter: “Western Region and Platte River: Rugged and Beautiful” is also by Adema and includes the Penley Ranch, partially on what was a Ute campground, now at the edge of Pike National Forest, and Diamond Jack, a gangster/cowboy (Leland Varain). Also in this section: Strontia Springs, submerged by a dam in Waterton Canyon.

Tidbits of local history invite further exploration in the many museums and private collections cited throughout, as well as nice Sunday drives. The book is priced at $21.99 and it should be available at events and locations throughout the county. (Including the 2017 Castle Rock Writers Conference on Oct. 20 and 21. See castlerockwriters.com.)

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Punkin’ Chunkin’ When: Saturday, Oct. 7 and Sunday, Oct. 8; hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Where: 26000 E. Quincy Ave. (Arapahoe Park racetrack), Aurora Contact: auroragov.org/ punkinchunkin Watch for flying pumpkins as chunk teams traveling from out of state see who can hurl a gourd the farthest. The range is long enough to accommodate world record holders, and the air cannon teams have their sights set on the onemile mark.

The festival also will feature family activities, a pumpkin patch, entertainers, a beer garden and food vendors both days, an open car show, and a Corvette Fall Blast Car Show, in partnership with the Central Colorado Corvette Club.

An evening concert by nationally touring country artist The Swon Brothers kicks off the festival at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6; gates open at 5 p.m. Concert tickets include admission to the festival for the entire weekend.

Pumpkin Patch of Centennial When: Open daily from Oct. 7-31; hours are 10 a.m. to dusk.

Where: Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, 8545 E. Dry Creek Road, Centennial Contact: 303-740-2688 or

pumpkinpatchofcentennial@ gmail.com; www.facebook.com/ PumpkinPatchCentennial/ A variety of pumpkins and gourds are for sale, and photo opportunities are included.

Proceeds from the patch help support projects that serve the homeless and hungry in the metro area. These include St. Francis Center, St. Clare s Supper Ministry, Covenant Cupboard Food Pantry, Family Tree House of Hope, and the HAAT project for the homeless in Arapahoe and Douglas Counties.

Pumpkin Harvest Festival When: open Saturday, Oct. 7 and Sunday, Oct. 8; hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest St., Denver Contact: info@fourmilepark.org; www.fourmilepark.org Old-time fall festival where guests can build a scarecrow, play pioneer games, take a horse-drawn wagon ride, enjoy historic demonstrations and take a tour of the Four Mile House Museum. Learn how families lived and prepared for the season during the late 1800s. Beer garden and local food vendors will be onsite. Guests also will get to select pumpkins from the patch.

Admission is free; charges apply for refreshments, pumpkins and some activities.

CALF s Harvest Day Agricultural Festival When: Saturday, Sept. 30; hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Where: Lowell Ranch, 2330 S. I-25 (East Frontage Road), Castle Rock Contact: 303-688-0126 or calf@ thecalf.org; www.thecalf.org Highlights include a U-pick pumpkin and gourd patch, hayrides, carriage rides and agricultural exhibits. New this year are tours of the pumpkin patch.

Colorado Pumpkin Patch When: open daily through Oct. 29; hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Monday to Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday to Sunday.

Where: Sky Cliff Center, 4600 E. Highway 86, Castle Rock; back 20 acres of property Contact: 719-799-6708 or coloradopumpkinpatch@gmail. com; www.coloradopumpkinpatch. net Includes pre-picked pumpkin patch, hayrides, a petting zoo with a large variety of animals, pumpkins, straw bale pyramid, football training camp, a giant jumping pillow, an 80-foot slide, giant tube swings, outdoor games, rubber duck races, a kids maze, and a cornbox. School groups, corporate picnics, birthday parties, and families of all sizes welcome.

Flat Acres Farm Fall Festival When: Open Wednesday to Sunday through Oct. 31; hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Where: 11321 Dransfeldt Road, Parker Contact: 303-805-1038; www. flatacresfarm.com Bring the entire family to join in the fun of the corn maze, snake tunnel, corn kernel boxes, petting zoo, kids hay bale maze, giant swing set and many other activities. Before leaving be sure to stop by the pumpkin patch and pick that perfect carving pumpkin.

Reapers Hollow & Dead End Motel When: open Sept. 30, Oct. 1, 7-8.

13-15, 21-22, 28-29 and Oct. 31; hours are 7-10 p.m.

Where: Flat Acres Farm, 11321 Dransfeldt Road, Parker Contact: 303-805-1038; http:// www.reapershollow.com/ For the scare of your life, come enjoy the outdoor haunted corn maze. If daring enough this trail will take you through the corn and adventure through the woods. Will you dare to enter?

The Patch In Elizabeth When: open Saturdays and Sundays from Sept. 30 to Oct. 29; hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; weekday field trips by reservation.

Where: 39980 Fox Trot Circle, Elizabeth Contact: 720-446-6001 or info@ thepatchinelizabeth.com; www. thepatchinelizabeth.com Family-friendly pumpkin patch with hay rides, sack slide, straw mountain, petting zoo, corn crib, games and concessions.

Corn Maze; Pumpkin Festival When: maze is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday through Oct. 29; hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday; festival is Friday, Oct. 13 to Sunday, Oct. 15; hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, 8500 W. Deer Creek Canyon Road, Littleton Contact: 720-865-4338; www. botanicgardens.org Wind your way through seven acres of corn. The maze can be viewed from two 15-foot tall illuminated bridges. Visitors under the age of 10 can explore the minimaze. Tickets to the maze also include one hayride, a barrel train ride (for children 12 and under) and unlimited jumping on a giant pillow. Pony rides and hamster balls are available for an additional fee. Vendors will sell favorite fall foods such as funnel cakes, hotdogs, freshly squeezed lemonade and kettle corn.

Tickets to the pumpkin festival include access to the 10-acre pumpkin patch and family and children’s activities.

Pumpkin prices vary by size; the average price is $8. It is recommended to bring a wagon to transport pumpkins. Free pumpkin daycare is available while you enjoy the rest of the festival. Discounted maze tickets available during festival.

After Dark Corn Maze; Dead Zone Scream Park When: open Oct. 6-29; hours are 7 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday; 7-11 p.m. Sundays, Oct. 15, 22 and 29; and 7-11 p.m.

Thursdays, Oct. 19 and Oct. 26.

Where: Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, 8500 W. Deer Creek Canyon Road, Littleton Contact: 720-865-4338; www. botanicgardens.org or https://www. deadzonescreampark.com/ The lights are out in the corn maze and visitors can find their way through with only the light of a glow stick. The after-dark maze is not haunted. Dead Zone Scream Park includes admission into the corn stalkers haunted maze, after dark maze and a haunted hayride.

Recommended for ages 13 and up.

Pumpkin Festival; Pumpkin Patch When: Festival is Saturday, Sept.

30; hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; patch is open through October; from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends.

Where: Jared s Nursery Gift & Garden Center, 10500 W. Bowles Ave., Littleton Contact: 303-979-6022 or jaredsgc@jaredsgarden.com; www. jaredsgarden.com Pumpkins available during October; cost is based on the weight of the pumpkin (usually $5-$20).

Festival includes straw maze.

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DATED OPPORTUNITIES Volunteer Connections - Arapahoe County “Take an active role in your government, make a difference in the lives of your neighbors, and extend the reach of services into your local communities. Your enthusiasm, personal talents and fresh perspectives keep Arapahoe County First in Colorado, First in Service.”

Need: Numerous volunteer roles for individuals, families and groups including one-time events and ongoing/weekly shifts. Human services, senior resources, open spaces, special events, etc. See website for complete list: www.arapahoegov. com/volunteer.

Age: Ages 6 and older, depending on the opportunity.

Contact: Nira Duvan, volunteer coordinator, at 303-738-79387 or nduvan@arapahoegov.com Other: Arapahoe County Fair needs volunteers from July 28-31. Go to http://www. arapahoecountyfair.com/volunteer.html Mothers of Multiples A support club for parents of twins, triplets and quadruplets in the Denver Metropolitan Area, www.mothersofmultiples.com Need: Volunteers willing to work during our bi-annual consignment sale at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Castle Rock on Aug. 11-12. Work can include sale set up and take down, organizing, unloading, cashiering and more.

Requirements: 15 years and older; must work minimum of one four-hour shift, but multiple shifts available over two-days.

Work entails a lot of walking and standing and lifting for some shifts. Briefing by phone or on-site orientation.

Contact: Margaret Brawley, sale.codirector@mothersofmultiples.com or 720-4548715 Highlands Ranch Household Chemical Roundup Allows Douglas County residents to safely dispose of unwanted and unused household chemicals.

Need: Day-of volunteers to help in a variety of capacities including registration, unloading, paint, batteries and more.

Requirements: Ability to work outside, in warm temperatures for an extended period.

When: Saturday, Aug. 12 Location: Shea Stadium at Redstone Park in Highlands Ranch Contact: Kari Larese, Highlands Ranch Metro District, klarese@highlandsranch.org ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office Domestic Violence Program Provides information and support to crime victims Need: Victim Adocates interact with and support victims of domestic violence.

They also provide resource referrals and explain processes to victims.

Requirements: 20 hours of training required; volunteers must commit to one morning a week at the Justice Center in Castle Rock.

Contact: Mel Secrease, 720-733-4552 or msecrease@da.18.state.co.us.

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Need: Walk to End Alzheimer’s committee members.

Requirements: Individuals who love to help plan and execute. Our Walk to End Alzheimer’s attracts more than 10,000 people, so planning committee members are essential.

Contact: Deb Wells, 303-813-1669 or dwells@alz.org.

Angel Heart Project Delivers meals to men, women and children with life-threatening illnesses Need: Volunteers willing to deliver meals to clients in the South Denver area.

Requirements: Attend an orientation and submit to a background check before volunteering. Training provided to all new drivers. Deliveries start at 1 p.m. and last until 3 p.m.

Contact: 303-830-0202 or volunteer@ projectangelheart.org.

Animal Rescue of the Rockies Provides foster care for death-row shelter dogs and cats throughout Colorado Need: Foster families for animals on lists to be euthanized Contact: www.animalrescueoftherockies. org.

ASSE International Student Exchange Program Organizes student exchange programs Need: Local host families to provide homes for boys and girls age 15-18 from a variety of coutries.

Contact: Cathy Hintz, 406-488-8325 or 800-733-2773 Audubon Society of Greater Denver Provides engaging and educational birding and wildlife programs at the Audubon Nature Center at Chatfield State Park and throughout the Denver metro area.

Need: Volunteers lead birding field trips and assist with nature programs, office projects, fundraising and community events.

Location: Chatfield State Park and offsite locations around Denver.

Age requirement: 18 years or older for year-round volunteers; 13-17 for summer camp programs.

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AYUSA: International Youth Exchange Program Promotes quality exchange programs for high school students from around the world.

Need: Host families for international high school students ages 15-18 studying in the Denver area.

Requirements: To provide students with a safe home, meals and transportation for 5-10 months. All family types are considered. Must fill out onlilne application and pass background check.

Contact: Adrienne Bivens, 720-467-6430 or abivens@ayusa.org. Go to www.ayusa. org.

Castle Rock Senior Activity Center Provides services to local seniors Need: Volunteer drivers to take seniors to appointments, the grocery store, pharmacies and more.

Contact: Juli Asbridge, 720-733-2292 Children’s Hospital Colorado South Campus, Highlands Ranch Contact: 720-777-6887

Colorado Humane Society Handles animal abuse and neglect cases Need: Volunteers to care for pregnant cats, dogs and their litters, as well as homes for cats and dogs that require socializing or that are recovering from surgery or injuries.

Contact: Teresa Broaddus, 303-961-3925

Works with abused and neglected children in Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties Need: Advocates for children, to get to know, speak up for and ensure their best interests in court Contact: 303-695-1882 or www.adv4children.org.

Colorado Refugee English as a Second Language Program Teaches English to recently arrived refugees, who have fled war or persecution in their home country. In Colorado, refugees are from Afghanistan, Burma, Bhutan, Somalia, Iraq, Eritrea and D.R. Congo, among others.

Need: Volunteers to teach English. Tutoring takes place in the student’s home.

Refugees live throughout Denver, but the largest concentrations are in Thornton, near 88th Avenue and Washington Street, and in east Denver/Aurora, near Colfax Avenue and Yosemite Street.

Other details: Tutors do not need to speak the student’s language. Most participants are homebound women and small children, adults who are disabled, and senior citizens. Many are not literate in their first language, and remain isolated from American culture.

Requirements: Volunteers must attend training at Emily Griffith Technical College in downtown Denver. Sessions take place every 6-8 weeks. Go to www.refugee-esl. org for information and volunteer application.

Contact: Sharon McCreary, 720-423-4843 or sharon.mccreary@emilygriffith.edu.

Douglas/Elbert Task Force Provides assistance to people in Douglas and Elbert counties who are in serious economic need, at risk of homelessness or in similar crisis.

Need: Volunteers to assist in the food bank, client services and the thrift store Treasures on Park Street.

Contact: Marion Dahlem, 303-688-1114, ext. 32 Dumb Friends League Harmony Equine Center Cares for homeless horses and other equines.

Need: Volunteers to work with horses and other opportunities.

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Golfer has a grip on goals as state approaches

VICTORY WITHIN REACH

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Legend junior shortstop Payton Lincavage makes a diving catch of a blooper in the top of the seventh inning to retire the side with runners in scoring position and keep the Sept. 20 Continental League game against Douglas County tied. Then she led off the bottom of the seventh with a triple and came home to score the winning run on an infielder grounder to give the Titans a key 7-6 win over the Huskies, which kept Legend near the top of the league standings.

JIM BENTON

BY THE NUMBERS

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Victories in six games against Rampart for the Ponderosa football squad following a 56-17 win on Sept. 22.

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Average on five punts for Douglas County’s Max Bevenridge in a 33-20 victory over Northglenn on Sept.

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Wins in the past six games for the Chaparral boys soccer team following the Sept. 19 shutout 1-0 overtime win over Highlands Ranch.

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Hits in four innings for the Castle View girls softball team in a 15-0 win over Heritage on Sept.

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Assists for the Highlands Ranch volleyball team in back-to-back wins over Columbine and Regis Jesuit on Sept. 20 and 21.

Standout Performers Kieran McMullen, Rock Canyon He fashioned a 1-under-par on Sept. 18 at Plum Creek Golf Course and the senior tied for individual medalist honors at the Class 5A Central Regional golf tournament.

Lauren Lowry, Castle View The senior setter had 50 assists in a 3-2 volleyball victory over Mountain Vista in a top three matchup on Sept. 19.

Joshia Davis, Valor Christian

Cameron Klein, Ponderosa

He scored three touchdowns while rushing for 197 yards and the junior caught two passes for 29 yards in the top-ranked Eagles’ 34-21 football win over Pomona on Sept. 22.

The sophomore goalkeeper made 15 saves in a 1-0 shutout soccer victory over Castle View on Sept.

22.

Annalisa Ingoi, Mountain Vista The senior was 4-for-4 with three runs batted on Sept. 20 in an 8-1 softball conquest of rival ThunderRidge.

Cassie Davis, Highlands Ranch The sophomore had 18 kills in a 3-1 volleyball victory over Regis Jesuit on Sept 21.

Colorado Community Media selects six athletes from area high schools each week as “Standout Performers.” Preference is given to athletes making their debut on the list. To nominate an athlete, contact Jim Benton by noon on Sunday at jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com

akewood’s Jack Castiglia will be making his fourth appearance in the Class 5A boys state golf tournament and the senior has something to prove.

Castiglia was this OVERTIME season’s Jefferson County League 5A medalist with a stroke average of 70, but he is the first to admit the two-day state tournament is different from regular season tourneys and the regional qualifyJim Benton ing.

In the previous three state tournaments, Castiglia’s resume shows a tie for 37th place as a freshman then ties for 28th and 35th the next two years.

The Class 5A state tournament is scheduled for Oct. 2-3 at Common Ground Golf Course in Aurora.

“You can definitely feel a more competitive vibe,” said Castiglia. “Everyone is there because they deserve to be there after doing good in their regionals. Everyone is there to try to defend their school and play as well as possible. It’s also run more professionally and it brings out the best golf in everybody.”

Castiglia was second in the 5A Western regional with an even-par 72 at the Broadlands Golf Course on Sept. 18 and the University of Northern Colorado commit is ready to show his ability in the biggest high school tourney of the season.

“I have something to prove,” he said.

“I definitely haven’t proved anything in the past three state tournaments.

My freshman year I was young and actually didn’t play that bad. But my sophomore and junior years I didn’t play like I did during the season and didn’t show what I can do.

“I played good this year. I made a grip change after last year’s state and I’ve been working with it. I have to prove that I got used to it and I have to play as well as possible.”

There will be attention on several area golfers and teams that also have something to prove.

Arapahoe won the 5A Western regional qualifying tournament on Sept. 18 at Broadlands Golf Club and Heritage won the Southern regional at the Colorado Springs Country Club.

Rock Canyon qualified its four-player team with a runner-up finish in the 5A Central at Plum Creek and Valor Christian was the 4A Region 4 champion in the tournament played Sept.

19 at the Colorado Springs Country Club. Lutheran was second to qualify as a team in the 3A region 1 meet at Hollydot.

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Local players headed to state golf tourney STAFF REPORT

Area qualifiers for the state high school golf tournaments. The Class 5A state tourney will held at Common Ground in Aurora, the 4A at Raccoon Creek in Littleton and the 3A at Indian Peaks in Lafayette. Each of the tournaments is Oct. 2 and 3.

Class 5A Team qualifiers Arapahoe, Heritage, Rock Canyon Individuals Arapahoe: Tommy Packer, Alex Yano, Jay Yano, Caleb Busta.

Castle View: Dillon Baker, Casey Jacobsen

Chaparral: Bryce Howard, Tyler Mulligan Cherry Creek: Cade Kilkenny, Max Malden, Carter Kovarik, Grey Brewer Heritage: Sam Blackwood, Ben Carrington, Cameron Bajay, Parker McNitt Highlands Ranch: Jackson Crist, Tarek Salem, Andrew Davis, Brendan Fricke Lakewood: Jack Castiglia, Ryan Liao Legacy: Grant Hoos, Hunter Hayes, Cormac Arroyo Legend: Ryan Kennedy Mountain Range: Connor Jones, Josh Thomson Mountain Vista: Nick Kim Ralston Valley: Landon Thunell, Jack Larson

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Frozen Four moves to Pepsi Center Semifinal games and the 2018 state boys hockey final will be held at the Pepsi Center.

The Colorado Avalanche will host the semifinal games at 5:30 and 7 p.m. on March 1 and the championship game on March 6, with the time to be determined.

Last season’s Frozen Four games were held at Magness Arena at the University of Denver.

Jim Benton is a sports writer for Colorado Community Media. He has been covering sports in the Denver area since 1968. He can be reached at jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com or at 303-566-4083.

Valor Christian: Jake Welch, Hunter Khan, Ty Findlow, Trevor White Wheat Ridge: Peyton Lorentz

Class 4A

Team qualifiers Lutheran

Team qualifiers Valor Christian Individuals D’Evelyn: Medhaj Shrestha Golden: Nick Mancini, Chance Sundarapura Green Mountain: Gabe Goodman, Oliver Gibbons Littleton: Jacques Goffinet Ponderosa: Mac Konrad, Garrett Zinn, John Fulton

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ioned a 1-under-par 71 to win the Western regionals individual title and Heritage’s Sam Blackwood was the co-medalist at the Southern regional with a 1-under-par 70.

Rock Canyon’s Kieran McMullen shared medalist honors at the Central regional.

Packer was 12th in the state tourney last season and Backwood tied for 24th.

Playing steady will be a key.

“You have to stay consistent and not make any big mistakes, especially at Common Ground,” explained Castiglia. “You have to take advantage of some of the easier holes because some of the holes coming down the stretch can really get to you.”

Rock Canyon: Kieran McMullen, Finn Olson, Jake Daniel, Henry Dunkleberger ThunderRidge: Evan Kaloc, Zach Swanson, Sam Ostravich

Chaparral • The football team will be looking to climb over the .500 mark for the season with a win against ThunderRidge in its fifth game of the campaign on Sept. 29 at Shea Stadium. The Wolverines are 2-5 in the series with the Grizzlies.

• The boys soccer team has not fared well against ThunderRidge but ended a six-game winless streak against the Grizzlies last season with a 2-1 victory. The teams meet Sept. 28 at Shea Stadium in Highlands Ranch, with ThunderRidge holding a 5-2-1 edge in the series.

• Senior outfielder Adrienne Visintine is the top 5A softball home run hitter in the state with 10, according to statistics compiled through games of Sept. 24. She is also tops with a 1.722 slugging percentage.

Legend • Defense has been a strong point so

Class 3A

Individuals Englewood: Thomas O’Connor Faith Christian: Macklin Brockmeyer Lutheran: Westin Pals, Cole Williams, Owen Deas Jefferson Academy: Jacob Mason, Jace Repola Holy Family: Garrett Green, Alex Mumm SkyView Academy: Luke Wright

News and notes from local high school sports programs

far this season for the football team.

Junior Caden Meis leads 5A statistics in tackles after four games with 58 and a 14.5 average. Senior Tate Wildmeman is second in the state with five sacks.

• Senior linebacker/ strong safety Chad Muma played his first game of the season after surgery to repair a ruptured patella tendon and made 22 total tackles, including one sack in 21-13 loss to Chaparral on Sept. 23.

• The softball team used its seventhinning magic in the bottom of the inning to pull out one-run wins over Douglas County on Sept. 20 and Rock Canyon on Sept. 21. The Titans pushed home the winning run in home half of the seventh in a 7-6 victory over Douglas County and scored four runs in the last half inning to secure a 10-9 triumph over Rock Canyon.

Lutheran • The boys soccer team snapped a three-game losing streak with its Sept.

22 victory over Bishop Machebeuf.

• It is unlikely that the school volleyball winning streak will be broken in the near future.

The girls volleyball team took a 10-match winning streak into games the week of Sept. 25, but Alicia Oakes’ 2012 team won the 2A state title with a 28-0 record and then her team won the first six matches of the 2013 season to stretch the school winning streak to 34 matches. Oakes is still the Lions coach.

Ponderosa • Heading into a Sept. 29 game against Pueblo Centennial, the football team is averaging 496 yards a game in total offense and will be playing a team it has beaten the past two seasons by a combined score of 69-0.

• Ryan Neale, a senior playing No. 1 singles, remains unbeaten with an 8-0 record with state-qualifying tennis regionals scheduled to be completed by Oct. 7.

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Requirements: Must be 21 years of age or older; retired individuals are great. Must complete a employment application, pass a background check, and complete interviews. After being sworn in, in the first three months of membership, complete a minimum of 45 hours of orientation and training curriculum. After this 90-day probationary period, members must log a minimum of 10 hours of month and attend monthly training meetings.

Persons ages 15-20, may join the Elbert County Sheriffs Explorer POST that is associated with the Posse.

Contact: David Peontek at djp1911@msn. com or 303-646-5456. Go to http://www. elbertcountysheriff.com/posse.html; print out and complete an employment application and turn it into the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office in Kiowa, “Attn: David Peontek.”

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Gateway Battered Women’s Shelter Serves victims of family violence in Aurora and Arapahoe County Need: Volunteers help with crisis-line management, children’s services, legal advocacy, community education and other shelter services.

Donations: Also accepts used cell phones (younger than 4 years) to give to victims.

Mail to Gateway at P.O. Box 914, Aurora, CO 80040, or drop them off at Neighborly Thrift Store, 3360 S. Broadway, Englewood Requirements: Must attend a 26-hour training session; bilingual skills welcome Contact: Jeneen Klippel-Worden, 303-3431856 or jkworden@gatewayshelter.com Girl Scouts of Colorado Youth organization for girls Need: Troop leaders, office support, administrative help and more Age requirement: Men and women, 18 and older Contact: www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org, inquiry@gscolorado.org or 1-877-4045708 Glenn Garcelon Foundation Empowers and supports brain tumor patients and their caregivers.

Need: Volunteers for annual fundraiser (Sept. 9, 2017) at The Retreat at Solterra, Lakewood. Opportunities to help include promotion, food prep, silent auction, check-in, clean up).

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Global Orphan Relief Develops and supports programs bringing light, comfort and security to orphans around the world Need: Super stars with website development, users of the abundant resources of social media. Those with great connection ability are needed to help with the development of the donor pool.

Contact: Those interested serving this faith-based Colorado nonprofit can contact Deitra Dupray, 303-895-7536 or dadupray@comcast.net.

GraceFull Community Cafe Provides a place in Littleton where people of all backgrounds can gather, eat well and be inspired to give back. Cafe is open for breakfast and lunch, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. A partner of the GraceFull Foundation.

Need: Opportunities for food preparation, guest service, cleaning and dishwashing.

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tion Works with Therapeutic Recreation Program and Special Olympics Need: Volunteers to help teach classes, coach Special Olympics, provide athletes support during Special Olympics practices, assist with special events, and help participats succeed in the therapeutic recreation program.

Contact: Summer Aden, 303-471-7043 or www.hrcaonline.org/tr Hospice at Home Need: Volunteers help patients and their families with respite care, videotaping, massage and other tasks. Home study training is available.

Contact 303-698-6404 Hospice of Covenant Care Nonprofit, faith-based hospice Need: Volunteers to support patients and families Contact: 303-731-8039 Lone Tree Police Department Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS) Provides assistance within the Police Department in both Administrative and Patrol functions.

Need: Volunteers are needed to assist with many areas within the Police Department to include patrol functions, fingerprinting, and fleet maintenance.

Requirements: Must attend the Lone Tree Police Department Citizen’s Police Academy, and submit to a background check. Additional training is provided based on area of interest. Patrol volunteers must commit to a minimum monthly hour requirement.

Contact: Tim.Beals@cityoflonetree.com or 720-509-1159.

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We’re looking for someone with a creative eye to join our production team in a fast-paced environment.

The ability to design pages quickly and efficiently is a must as we publish 18 newspapers each week, but a successful candidate will be able to make these pages pop, while paying close attention to detail. Familiarity with InDesign and newsroom experience are preferred, but not required. Two years of experience at a weekly or daily newspaper are also preferred, but not required. Duties will extend beyond page design, to include helping create dummies for the newspapers and toning of photos.

This full-time position comes with benefits that include health insurance and paid vacation time. Send your resume, cover letter and three samples of page designs to efranks@ coloradocommunitymedia.com

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Parker Democrats meets at 7 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month for discussion of timely topics, led by knowledgeable speakers, at the South Metro Fire Station 45, 16801 Northgate Drive, Parker. Visit www.douglasdemocrats.org for information.

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Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident.

He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

Professional BNI Connections (www. thebniconnections.com) invites business owners to attend its meeting held each Tuesday, 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the Lone Tree Recreation Center, 10249 Ridgegate Circle. There is no charge to attend a meeting as a guest. Please visit www. thebniconnections.com or contact Jack Rafferty, 303-414-2363 or jrafferty@ hmbrown.com.

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I read it once and I won’t read it again.

Picking up where someone left off sometimes works out and sometimes it doesn’t.

“Poodle Springs” didn’t work out.

The film version of “Gone With the Wind” did.

George Cukor directed it for three weeks, and then Victor Fleming took over. Fleming won the Academy Award for Best Director for “Gone With the Wind.”

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Thomas More coined the word “Utopia” in 1516 about a fictional island society. How many times have you heard someone say an island would be the perfect way to get away from it all?

Hurricane Irma was not a friend to that thought, was she? For the first time in 300 years, no one is living on Barbuda. I didn’t even know it existed.

The population is — or was — less than 1,700.

Robert De Niro wants to rebuild it.

He said, “It’s just a beautiful place, and it’s quiet, and the people are nice.”

That sounds perfect to me: beautiful, quiet, and nice people. And I wouldn’t mind being the Invisible Man now and then either, for a number of reasons.

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Bennet “believes Dreamers should feel empowered to continue contributing to our society — not scared of being deported from the only country they know as home,” the spokesperson said.

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, said that in January he introduced the BRIDGE Act, which would be a “backup” plan to give undocumented immigrants legal presence and ability to work — under similar criteria to DACA — for three years.

“What I hope is a more permanent solution (can pass),” said Coffman, who supports a proposal to combine elements of the DREAM Act with added border security, but not a wall, along with Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder.

They put it together in mid-September along with a small bipartisan group in Congress and planned to introduce it into debate soon, Coffman said.

Trump has told Congressional Democrats he would accept some kind of DACA fix in exchange for added border security measures and that the wall would not be a part of the discussions, Politico reported Sept.

14. Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan supports that kind of pairing of policies.

“Trump’s announcement probably gives momentum to the effort to pass (comprehensive immigration reform),” Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver,

• My sister and I “feel betrayed by” the decision, said Saira Galindo, a DACA recipient.

“We give so much to the community, we volunteer, we pay our taxes ... And we’re being treated like this. We’re mourning our dream ... even if I get my degree, I can’t work.”

• “My daughter, she cried and cried,” said Maria, 56, a mother with two DACA-status children, one of whom attends Aurora Community College. She “doesn’t know Mexico.

She doesn’t know what she’s gonna do there.”

• Westminster supports “DACA until a longerterm solution ... can be passed ... DACA recipients contribute (hundreds of millions of dollars) to Colorado’s annual gross domestic product (GDP) ... Such figures don’t factor in the social and cultural contributions,” said Mayor Herb Atchison. Westminster “wants to say, ‘You are welcome here.’ ” • “As a country, we have not punished children for the wrongful acts of their parents.

Why are we starting now?” said Laura Christman, mayor of Cherry Hills Village. said.

In the meantime, students like Claudia Hurtado will be waiting. Her family fought her father’s deportation case, and he was allowed to stay, partly because of his five children.

She wants to attend CU Boulder and become a lawyer.

She plans to help people with immigration cases.

A form that must be filled out for DACA recipients to reapply for their status.

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Public Notices Commissioner’s Proceedings August 2017 Vendor Name 18TH JUDICIAL DIST VALE FUND 3M 402 WILCOX LLC AAPEXLEGAL SERVICES LLC ABBOUND, JERRY ACORN PETROLEUM INC ADAMS, CLAY ADAMS, JOHN ADAMS, ZANE ADAPTIVE INTERVENTIONS ADAPTIVE MICRO SYSTEMS ADASSA CORP ADVANCED PROPERTY MAINTENANCE INC AGFINITY INC AGGIE VET AND FARRIER SERVICES AGGREGATE INDUSTRIES ALCOHOL MONITORING SYSTEMS INC ALL ACCESS INC ALL ANIMAL RECOVERY ALLEN, GARRETT B ALLEN, MARTY GID ALLHEALTH NETWORK ALLIANT INSURANCE SERVICES INC ALLSOP, KATHERINE AMAILCO INC AMBU INC AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION AMERICAN SOLUTIONS FOR BUSINESS AMICUCCI, JUNE G AMK CONSTRUCTION LLC ANDREWS, CAROLYN AON CONSULTING INC APDC COLO LANGUAGE CONNECTION APODACA, TIM APODACA, TIM APPLEGATE GROUP INC ARAPAHOE COUNTY ARAPAHOE/DOUGLAS WORKS ARCHAEOLOGY REVIVAL CONSULTING ARCHITERRA GROUP INC ARMORED KNIGHTS INC ARNESON, SARAH JOAN ARNOLD, MARILYN ASCAP ASHLOCK, KENNETH F ASHWORTH, MARIA JEANINE ASSOCIATED BAG COMPANY AT CONFERENCE AUBURN VENTURES LP AUT ENTERPRISES LTD AUTOMATED BUILDING SOLUTIONS AXON ENTERPRISE INC BAJAJ, ANNA BAKER, LONNIE & SHELLEY BALDRIDGE, SAM BALDWIN, MARY BARNHART, RANDY & GINGER BAROFFIO PSY D, JAMES R BARRELLA, TOM BARRETT, JULIE BARTLETT, MICHELLE LEE BASELINE ASSOCIATES INC BATES, DOROTHY J BECKMANN, DALE OR MARY BELL, HEATHER BELL, JOHN BELL, MATT BEMAS CONSTRUCTION INC BENA, RONALD & THOMASINA BENNINGTON MERCANTILE BEYOND TECHNOLOGY INC BIGHORN LANDSCAPE MATERIALS BISHOP, JANELL ELIZABETH BJORK, PATSY LEE BLACK HILLS ENERGY BLACK WIDOW ARENA DRAG BLUE LINE DESIGN BLUE LINE RENTAL BLUE STAR POLICE SUPPLY LLC BOB BARKER COMPANY BOB MASSEY CAP INC BOBCAT OF THE ROCKIES

Amount $3,120.00 8,055.80 9,774.28 92.00 175.00 69,226.03 152.00 48.00 20.00 38,270.00 4,610.54 200.00 288.36 981.00 250.00 132,163.94 34.91 36,405.05 2,025.00 64.06 450.00 9,920.92 218,642.59 167.53 1,164.53 118.07 1,633.00 686.99 200.00 2,500.00 121.74 28,750.00 183.00 5,295.62 131.00 2,717.50 4,105.22 5,590.90 4,566.57 8,197.20 3,411.00 340.48 300.00 1,788.92 226.50 322.18 338.00 28.45 632.50 60,006.00 600.00 303,276.48 17.00 1,575.32 500.00 114.77 25.00 17,333.00 229.50 193.26 47.89 420.00 211.88 263.53 31.50 164.50 289.50 2,500.00 305.17 996.00 2,501.28 2,238.80 82.60 294.25 19,202.31 1,616.00 2,767.50 380.82 21.99 256.55 1,825.00 3,065.98

BODY, KATHY LEE 26.54 BORDEN, GINGER ANN & DENNIS HOWARD 260.89 BOWMAN CONSULTING GROUP LLC 5,854.00 BOY SCOUT TROOP #261 100.00 BRADLEY, MICHELLE SAMANTHA 42.27 BRIDDLE, BRAYLON 3.60 BRIDGEVIEW IT INC 13,881.00 BRIDGMAN, LARRY & HEATHER 2,500.00 BRINKWORTH, THOMAS ALLEN 340.01 BUCHANAN, DAVE 82.60 BUCKNER, CHARLES 280.50 BUCKNER, DON 54.88 BUTTON, ANGEL MARIE 613.81 CAGLE, KAREN B 125.00 CALDERARO, MATTHEW 29.60 CAMPBELL, STEVEN 35.40 CANDELARIA, PATRICIA 95.16 CAPSTONE GROUP LLC 4,500.00 CARAYANNIS, NICK 20.00 CARRELL, HOLLY 47.94 CASTER, KIM 455.00 CASTLE ROCK CONSTRUCTION 178,181.23 CASTLE ROCK HOME CARE INC 104.00 CASTLE ROCK SENIOR CENTER 21,157.84 CASTLETON CENTER WATER & SANITATION 568.46 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL COLORADO 1,066.25 CBM CONSULTING 7,045.25 CCMSI 275,969.29 CCMSI (FEE PAYMENTS ONLY) 3,130.83 CDOT 300.00 CEI GROUP INC, THE 1,242.26 CELSY, SHERRY 60.00 CEMEX MATERIALS INC 5,568.28 CENTENNIAL PRINTING 1,661.00 CENTURY LINK 25,531.11 CERTIFIED BUSINESS SERVICES 323.73 CGAIT ORGANIZATION 8,161.20 CGRS INC CH2M HILL

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684,122.00 9,570.65

Description Due to 18th Judicial District-VALE Sign Parts & Supplies Building/Land Lease/Rent Transcription Services Security Deposit Refund Fleet Tanks Fuel County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Other Professional Services Traffic Signal Parts Security Deposit Refund Other Repair & Maintenance Service Propane Medical, Dental & Vet Services Aggregate Products Other Professional Services Audio System Upgrades/Service Other Purchased Services Clothing & Uniforms County Fair Judge Other Professional Services Liability Insurance Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Service Contracts Operating Supplies/Equipment Professional Membership & Licenses Postage & Delivery Services Clothing & Uniforms Escrow Payable Travel & Office Expense Consulting Fees Other Professional Services Other Professional Services Travel Expense Other Professional Services Legal Services Other Professional Services Other Professional Services Landscape/Architectural Services Armored Car Services Travel Expense Security Deposit Refund Annual Music License County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Travel Expense Operating Supplies/Equipment Telephone/Communications Transportation Grant Services Predictive Risk Model Consultation Service Contracts Software/Hardware Subscription County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Mohawk LID 2015 Other Professional Services Travel Expense Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Other Professional Services Travel Expense Travel Expense Travel Expense Recruitment Costs County Fair Services/Fair Show Management Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Escrow Payable Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Fair Show Management Office Supplies Grounds Keeping Supplies Travel Expense Metro Area Meeting Expense Utilities/Gas Other Repair & Maintenance Supplies County Fair Service/Fair Marketing Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Clothing & Uniforms Prisoner Maintenance Supplies Fair Livestock Sale Equipment & Motor Vehicle Parts/ Tools Travel Expense Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Roads, Street, Drainage-Engineering Security Deposit Refund Travel Expense County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Contract Work/Temporary Agency Escrow Payable Travel Expense Travel Expense Travel Expense Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Travel Expense County Fair Judge County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Travel Expense Fair Marketing & Sponsorship Other Professional Services Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Travel Expense Other Professional Services Concrete Pavement Project Transportation Grant Services Transportation Grant Services Water & Sewer Utility Assistance Other Professional Services Workers Compensation Claims Review Fees/Bonds Security Deposit Refund Insurance Claims-Property County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Aggregate Products Printing/Copying/Reports Telephone/Communications Office Supplies Software/Hardware Support /Maintenance Fuel System Removal BPPT Tax Rebate

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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF HIGHLANDS RANCH 1,000.00 Professional Membership & Licenses CHARRY, JORGE A 4,000.00 Other Professional Services CHARRY, JORGE A 328.32 Travel Expense CHEMATOX LABORATORY INC 2,840.00 Medical, Dental & Vet Services CHRISTENSEN, NEAL, CPA 105.00 Conference, Seminar, Training Fees CHRYSO INC 261.25 Other Construction/Maintenance Materials CHSDA-COLO HUMAN SERVICES DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION 4,655.00 Professional Membership & Licenses CIANCONE, LAURA ELIZABETH 68.96 Travel Expense CINTAS CORPORATION 10,037.83 First Aid Supplies/Service Contracts CIPRIANO, LAURIE 217.94 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder CITY OF AURORA 15,706.18 Due to Aurora - Auto Use Tax CITY OF CASTLE PINES 90,253.53 Due to Castle Pines Auto Use CITY OF CASTLE PINES 18,372.46 Intergovernmental-Castle Pines CITY OF LITTLETON 3,950.84 Due to Littleton-Auto Use Tax CITY OF LONE TREE 3,500.50 Due to Lone Tree-MV License CITY OF LONE TREE 171,764.57 Intergovernmental-Lone Tree CL CLARKE INC 7,076.75 Other Professional Services CL CLARKE INC 383.25 Travel Expense CLARK, RAND M 493.52 Conference, Seminar, Training Fees CNDC-COLO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER 49,986.46 Transportation Grant Services CNW SERVICES 6,512.00 Escrow Payable COBITCO INC 1,417.86 Asphalt & Asphalt Filler COFFIN, DONNA J TALMICH 254.66 Conference, Seminar, Training Fees COLLINS ENGINEERS INC 1,156.00 Other Repair & Maintenance Service COLORADO BARRICADE COMPANY 4,192.50 Traffic Flow Delineators COLORADO BUFFALO GRILL 100.00 Security Deposit Refund COLORADO BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 9,888.50 Due to CBI - Concealed Handgun COLORADO CODE CONSULTING LLC 1,375.00 Plan Review Services COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA 21,155.92 Newspaper Notices/Advertising COLORADO CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL GROUP PLLC 169,146.75 Medical, Dental & Vet Services COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT 564.00 Due to State-PH Marriage Licenses COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES 2,865.00 Due to State-CO TBI Trust COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES 3,760.00 Due to State-HS Marriage Licenses COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH 350.00 Annual Permit Fee COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH 2,790.00 Professional Membership & Licenses COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE 2,772,685.80 Due to State - Auto Use Tax COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE 28,979.60 Due to State -Drivers License COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF STATE 13,344.00 Due to State - eRecording COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 13,250.00 State-CDOT COLORADO DESIGNSCAPES INC 253,094.63 Highlands Heritage Regional Park Projects COLORADO DOORWAYS INC 1,134.41 Other Repair & Maintenance Supplies COLORADO EQUESTRIAN PARTNERS 2,500.00 Escrow Payable COLORADO FARM BUREAU 300.00 Security Deposit Refund COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR WATER EDUCATION 250.00 Professional Membership & Licenses COLORADO JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT 311.00 Due to State - Family Friendly Court COLORADO PUMPKIN PATCH 50.00 Refund Event Application Fee COLORADO SECRETARY OF STATE 177.50 Due to State-Voter Confidentiality COLORADO STATE TREASURER 9,299.00 Unemployment Claims COLUMBINE PAPER & MAINTENANCE 415.14 Janitorial Supplies COMPASSCOM SOFTWARE CORP 1,990.39 Cell Phone Service*AVL COMPRI CONSULTING 14,784.00 Other Professional Services COMPUTRONIX INC 151,253.75 Other Professional Services CONTINUUM OF COLORADO 12,225.00 Other Professional Services COORS DISTRIBUTING COMPANY 9,506.00 Fair Events & Activities COPLAND, ANDREW 33.17 Travel Expense CORWIN, CHARLES A 107.37 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder COULTHURST, STEPHANIE 222.55 Travel Expense CRL ASSOCIATES INC 29,394.81 Roads, Street, Drainage-Engineering CROLEY INSURANCE & FINANCIAL INC 717.00 Liability Insurance 225.00 Refund of Site Plans CROWN CASTLE - WTA PROPERTY CT LIEN SOLUTIONS 15.00 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder CTS LANGUAGE LINK 42.97 Other Purchased Services CUMMINS ROCKY MOUNTAIN LLC 8,665.64 Other Repair & Maintenance Service CUNNINGHAM, DWIGHT 10,401.91 Other Professional Services CUNNINGHAM, DWIGHT 456.92 Travel Expense/Computer Supplies D2C ARCHITECTS INC 1,438.57 Design Services DALEY, DAN & LINDA 2,500.00 Escrow Payable DALY, MADELEINE MARIE 116.76 Travel Expense DASH CONCRETE 137.97 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder DAVIES, DREYA 46.80 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo DAVIS, JAMES B (JIM) 74.00 Travel Expense DAWN B HOLMES INC 17,200.00 Medical, Dental & Vet Services DC GROUP INC 5,604.50 Other Repair & Maintenance Supplies DCDESIGN AWARDS 520.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Marketing DCSO EXPLORERS POST 10-4 975.00 Training Services DEERE & COMPANY 16,841.83 Cars, Vans, Pickups DEERE EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION 15.00 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder DEHART, JEFF 19.26 Travel Expense DENOVO VENTURES LLC 2,682.50 Other Professional Services DENVER REGIONAL COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS 45,250.00 DRCOG-Participation Fees DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY STATE BUREAU 5,159.55 Travel Expense DESIGN CONCEPTS CLA INC 15,372.79 Design Services DEVELOPMENTAL PATHWAYS INC 1,818.49 Mill Levy Distribution Jul 2017 DIAL, JACOB P 400.00 County Fair Service/Fair Rodeo DIEXSYS LLC 36,772.03 Other Professional Services DIGITAL IMAGING BY DESIGN 1,515.57 Fair Advertising DILL, JERRY G 150.00 County Fair Judge DIRKSE, LYNDA 100.00 County Fair Judge DISTRICT ATTORNEY 350.00 Conference, Seminar, Training Fees DISTRICT ATTORNEY 1,214,370.32 Legal Services DMT ENTERPRISES INC 500.00 County Fair Service/Fair Event DODGE DATA & ANALYTICS 133.75 Newspaper Notices/Advertising DORSEY, JAMES MARTIN 60.00 Professional Membership & Licenses DOUGLAS CNTY EMERGENCY TELEPHONE SERVICE AUTHORITY 5,310.00 Software/Hardware Support /Maintenance DOUGLAS COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF’S ASSOC 763.75 Security Services DOUGLAS COUNTY HUSKIE QUARTERBACK CLUB 260.00 Security Deposit Refund DOUGLAS COUNTY INMATE WELFARE ACCOUNT 2,700.00 Other Prof Services/Booking Fees DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF 139.00 Process Service Fee DOUGLAS COUNTY TEMPORARY SERVICES 4,460.63 Contract Work/Temporary Agency DOUGLAS/ELBERT TASK FORCE 5,201.35 Senior Services Grant DREISZIGER, CASSIDY 83.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo DS ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING 350.00 Other Professional Services DUCY, WENDY 100.00 County Fair Judge DUDE SOLUTIONS INC 7,500.00 Software/Hardware Support /Maintenance DUMAS, CHRISTOPHER J 176.94 Clothing & Uniforms DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE 9,062.00 Other Purchased Services DUMONT, DANIEL 150.00 Professional Membership & Licenses E-470 PUBLIC HIGHWAY AUTHORITY 206,159.50 Due to E-470 Authority E-470 PUBLIC HIGHWAY AUTHORITY 1,816.08 Due to State-E470 Road Fees EATON, RICHARD 30.00 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder ECKHARDT, MARK E 312.70 Travel Expense ECONOLITE CONTROL PRODUCTS INC 7,335.00 Traffic Signal Equipment - Engineering EDGE, ASPEN 67.40 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo EDGECONNEX HOLDING LLC 13,143.59 BPPT Tax Rebate EDWARD KRAEMER & SONS 11,633.36 North Meadows Extension Project EITZEN, DWIGHT & SUZIE 2,500.00 Escrow Payable EJ USA INC 3,725.60 Other Construction/Maintenance Materials

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120.00 151.80 11,218.00 493.15 13,650.00 248.78 46,500.00 559.38 158.00

Professional Membership & Licenses Operating Supplies/Equipment Travel Expense Service Contracts Recruitment Costs Travel Expense Paint & Road Striping Travel Expense Software/Hardware Support /Maintenance ENTRATTER, FELICE A 35.40 Travel Expense ENVIROTECH SERVICES INC 162,408.30 Dust Suppressant/Salt & Other Ice Removal ENVISION IT PARTNERS 3,398.00 Software/Hardware Support /Maintenance ERNEST, STANLEY & DONNA M YOUNG 94.47 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder ERO RESOURCES CORPORATION 5,564.72 Other Professional Services EROSION CONTROL SOURCE LLC 98.00 Monitoring Airport Road ESPOSITO, CASSIDY 56.20 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo ESQUIBEL, BRIAN 5.20 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo EST INC 8,485.50 Design Services EVANS, SANDRA A 8,182.50 Other Professional Services EVANS, SANDRA A 364.76 Travel Expense FAMILY TREE 5,403.45 Other Professional Services FASTENAL COMPANY 260.42 Road & Sign Parts/Supplies FEDEX 102.10 Postage & Delivery Services FELSBURG, HOLT AND ULLEVIG 31,610.63 Roads, Street, Drainage-Engineering FIRE ALARM SERVICES INC 5,277.50 Other Repair & Maintenance Service FISCHER, BECKY ANN 82.60 Travel Expense FISK, JULIANN M 61.27 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder FLINN, NANCY 200.00 Fair Booth Refund FLINT TRADING INC 2,484.00 Paint & Road Striping FLYING HORSE CATERING INC 7,641.83 Fair Services/Beer Garden Labor FOOTHILLS PAVING & MAINTENANCE INC 1,046,950.26 Surface Treatment Project FRANKTOWN ANIMAL CLINIC 602.24 K-9 Food FRANKTOWN ANIMAL CLINIC 138.00 Medical, Dental & Vet Services FREDERICKS, FRANK 146.01 Travel Expense FRISKE, VALERIE DIANNE 68.00 Other Purchased Services FRITZ, TOM 7.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo FRITZ, TYLER 23.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo FRIZELL, ELIZABETH 78.79 Travel Expense FRONT RANGE LEGAL PROCESS SERVICE 231.00 Other Purchased Services FRONTIER FERTILIZER & CHEMICAL COMPANY 3,932.61 Other Repair & Maintenance Supplies FULTON, SIDONYA VIRGINIA 31.24 Travel Expense FUNNELLICIOUS INC 100.00 Security Deposit Refund G H PHIPPS CONSTRUCTION CO 5,336.71 Refund/Use Tax-Building GADZIALA, CAMILLE LOUISE 273.28 Travel Expense GALLS LLC 485.40 Clothing & Uniforms GALLS LLC 493.72 Operating Supplies/Equipment GARLAND, KEVIN S 38.10 Travel Expense GENERAL AIR SERVICE & SUPPLY 307.70 Equipment Rental GENESIS EVENT SOLUTIONS 26,125.75 Security Services GEREK, MARY LOUISE 190.83 County Fair Services/Fair Show Management GETZ, PATRICK J 19.90 Travel Expense GILA LLC DBA MUNICIPAL SERVICES BUREAU 80.18 Banking Service Fees GILMAN, GRETA 35.40 Travel Expense GIRARD, DAVID E 500.00 Other Professional Services GMCO CORPORATION 56,675.08 Dust Suppressant GMCO CORPORATION 8,200.00 Salt & Other Ice Removal GOEBEL, BREANN 6.63 Travel Expense GOLDER ASSOCIATES INC 19,428.70 Roads, Street, Drainage-Engineering GORDON HOLDINGS INC 36,870.35 BPPT Tax Rebate GORMAN, THOMAS J 14,146.83 Other Professional Services GORMAN, THOMAS J 237.71 Travel Expense GPO1916 LLC 800.00 Other Professional Services GRAFFT, DEAN LEWIS 150.00 Clothing & Uniforms GREAT AMERICAN BANK 15.00 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder GRIFFIN & SONS’ 2,694.00 County Fair Service/Fair Rodeo GRILLO, NICHOLAS 355.70 Travel Expense GROUND ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS INC 57,950.50 Construction Inspection Services GROUP14 ENGINEERING PBC 2,700.00 Regional Crime Lab Services GUIBERSON, DANA ELAINE 82.60 Travel Expense H2O CAR WASH 228.00 Fleet Car Wash Services HAM, ELIZABETH LEE ANN 255.36 Travel Expense HAMMER, JUDY 40.00 Travel Expense HANDY, MAKENNA 7.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo HANKS, TRAVIS EARL 77.04 Travel Expense HANLON, BROOKE KELSEY 75.00 County Fair Judge HANSON, JOEL 70.43 Travel Expense HARBISON EQUIPMENT REPAIR INC 6,522.90 Repairs-Equipment/Motor Vehicle HARRIS SYSTEMS USA INC 21,000.00 Software/Hardware Support /Maintenance HARRIS, CHRISTA 871.63 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder HARTIG, JAMIE CHRISTINE 350.25 Travel Expense HAULAWAY STORAGE CONTAINERS 350.00 Waste Disposal Services HAWKINS COMMERCIAL APPLIANCE 658.88 Other Repair & Maintenance Service HDR ENGINEERING INC 16,165.38 Roads, Street, Drainage-Engineering HEALTHCARE MEDICAL WASTE SERVICES LLC 584.70 Biohazard Waste Removal HELENA CHEMICAL COMPANY 432.00 Operating Supplies/Equipment HENNINGS, MELISSA 459.54 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder HEWITT ASSOCIATES LLC 1,087.75 Consulting Fees HICKEY, BRIAN 345.00 Refund/Parks Shelter HIGHLANDS RANCH LAW ENFORCEMENT 31,776.50 Cadet Training Academy HILVITZ, JOANN 86.07 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder HIRSCH, JEREMY 51.00 Travel Expense HIXON INC 43.20 Operating Supplies/Equipment HML TRAINING INC 7,076.75 Other Professional Services HOAGLUND, DREW EVAN 44.30 Travel Expense HODITS, SARAH 283.27 Travel Expense HOLLAND CONCESSIONS LLC 100.00 Security Deposit Refund HOME CARE ASSISTANCE OF DOUGLAS COUNTY 4,063.50 Senior Services Grant HOOD, JUSTIN 157.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo HORIZON VEGETATION MANAGEMENT 31,590.28 Noxious Weed Control Services HORTON, KENNETH 2,328.75 Statistical Services/Elections HSS - HOSPITAL SHARED SERVICES 70,545.02 Security Services & Supplies HSS - HOSPITAL SHARED SERVICES 36,975.00 Security System Integration HUDSON, KACI 25.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo HUDSON, KRISTEN 34.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo HULSLANDER, BRIDGET 15.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo HUMANE SOCIETY OF PIKES PEAK 63,616.68 Animal Control Services HUMMEL, TESS 96.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo HYDRO PHYSICS PIPE INSPECTION SERVICES 16,371.92 Other Professional Services HYDRO RESOURCES ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC 4,696.00 Escrow Payable ID EDGE INC 2,880.00 Operating Supplies/Equipment ID INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES LLC 3,764.75 Other Professional Services IJAMES, STEVE 3,521.42 Legal Services INFOMEDIA INC 1,600.00 Other Professional Services INLAND POTABLE SERVICES INC 84,497.60 Bingham Lake Fishing Dock Project INOVANT 259,470.33 BPPT Tax Rebate INSIGHT PUBLIC SECTOR INC 4,144.95 Software/Hardware Support /Maintenance INTEGRATED CLEANING SERVICES 27,326.45 Service Contracts INTELLECTUAL TECHNOLOGY INC 595.12 Kiosk Fees/Supplies IREA 170,680.08 Utilities/Electric Continued to Next Page 931650 and 931651

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134,546.64 7,950.00 678,681.33 2,446.00 720.00 14.93 18.73 61.61 12,837.00 81,712.00 2,200.00 8,931.27 24.00 1,198.70 400.00 43,581.00 220.96 18.00 85.00 300.00 2,300.00 345.00 6,000.00 1,007.07 664.50 753.50 18,000.00 10,950.00 5,000.00 99.99 4,358.00 22,318.62 2,306.25 325.00 67.98 130.17 2,375.00 23.00 82.60 375.86 3,390.00 284.67 5,800.00 1,000.00 400.00 82.60 27,183.90 1,390.00 83.57 75.00 60.00 10,178.61 1,181.70

LIFELOC TECHNOLOGIES INC 132.61 LIGHTING ACCESSORY & WARNING SYSTEMS 61,088.64 LINCOLN STATION METRO DISTRICT 608.78 LINDQUIST, JUSTIN 450.00 LINDT, TANNER JOEL 82.60 LINKEDIN CORPORATION 4,905.00 LIVING CENTER LLC 920.00 LOCLYZ MEDIA SERVICES 5,150.00 LOEWECKE, TRACEY 1,474.00 LONER, FRANK H 500.00 LONGORIA, MARK T 450.00 LORD, EMILY MARY 290.13 LOUVIERS WATER & SANITATION 3,948.08 LOVEJOY, LAUREN 147.81 LYLE SIGNS INC 4,425.50 LYLES, CELESTENE (TENA) 243.75 LYTLE WATER SOLUTIONS LLC 10,220.20 MACKLIN SHEPHERD, JULIE MARIE 125.00 MADSEN, SCOTT T 96.80 MAKELKY, DAN 154.62 MALONE, CHARISSA 14.00 MANN, KRISTINA LYNN 20.97 MARION, MAC 10.40 MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS INC 1,790,420.69 MATABI, JOTHAM 480.91 MCCABE, ANNE 102.00 MCCAUGHEY, BAILEY 40.00 MCKEOWN, BRIAN CLAY 82.60 MCKINZIE, CHRISTY 22.90 MCLELAND, KATRINA 82.60 MCMANUS, KYLE 1,531.09 MEAD, TIFFANY 200.00 MEESKE, TAYLOR 200.00 MEISSNER, TROY 74.90 MERRITT, LORI 4.00 MERS, BRETT LAYNE 287.83 METRO DENVER BUSINESS FORMS 676.34 METRO DENVER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP 700.00 MGT OF AMERICA INC 7,195.00 MHL PHOTOGRAPHY 1,650.00 MICROFLEX CORP 929.30 MIHELICH, DONALD 450.00 MILLER WENHOLD CAPITOL 10,000.00 MOBILE VIEW LLC 6,500.00 MOFFITT JR, ROBERT ROYAL 82.60 MONTGOMERY, CANDACE ANN 22.90 MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER 64.90 MORRICAL, LAURIE 275.67 MOSBACH, ANNE ELIZABETH 364.23 MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC 930.00 MOUNTAIN MOBILE TELEVISION LLC 7,138.02 MOUNTAIN VIEW ELECTRIC INC 221.41 MTM RECOGNITION 1,762.38 MUDGETT, TRACEY 76.51 MULLER ENGINEERING COMPANY INC 6,052.50 MUNGAI, JAMES 8,585.00 MUSCO SPORTS LIGHTING LLC 1,700.00 MUSGROVE, SQUEAK 126.00 MUSGROVE, STOCKTON 64.00 NARROW IS THE ROAD RACING LLC 50.00 NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION INC 140.00 NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CHANGE 680.00 NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BUREAU LLC 1,638.00 NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION 850.00 NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE CO 13,696.55 NATURE’S EDUCATORS 100.00 NCAFC GROUP LLC 5,080.75 NELSON, BECKY 253.10 NET TRANSCRIPTS 2,330.88 NICHOLSON-KLUTH, HOLLY 35.65 NIX, ZAK 100.00 NMS LABS 1,170.00 NOBLE INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY CORP 563.52 NOBLE PRODUCTIONS INC 8,500.00 NORCHEM DRUG TESTING 275.30 NORTHWEST SIGN RECYCLING LLC 5,262.07 NORTHWOODS CONSULTING PARTNERS INC 2,000.00 O J WATSON COMPANY INC 14,785.61 O’CONNOR SMITH, KATHRYN REBECCA 211.86 OFFICE DEPOT 87.67 OLD TYME CONCESSION 100.00 OMERTA STORM WATER MANAGEMENT 19,552.97 ONENECK IT SOLUTIONS 25,189.98 OPUS DESIGN BUILD LLC 12,090.00

Computer Equipment Parking Lot Striping Purchasing Cards 07/05/17-08/04/17 Other Repair & Maintenance Service Fair Show Management Travel Expense Travel Expense Travel Expense Roof Inspections Construction/Regional Crime Lab Conference, Seminar, Training Fees Other Professional Services Books & Subscription Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Other Professional Services Cars, Vans, Pickups Travel Expense County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo County Fair Judge Security Deposit Refund Recruitment Costs Security Deposit Refund Other Repair & Maintenance Service BPPT Tax Rebate Clothing & Uniforms Other Professional Services Animals & Livestock Other Professional Services Escrow Payable Travel Expense Other Repair & Maintenance Service Building/Land Lease/Rent Asphalt & Asphalt Filler Legal Services Clothing & Uniforms Other Professional Services Tree Removal Services County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Travel Expense Travel Expense Pavement Design Services Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Reimbursement/Landscaping Repair Professional Membership & Licenses Entertainment/Open Space Day Travel Expense Legal Services Conference, Seminar, Training Fees Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Fair Marketing & Sponsorship Conference, Seminar, Training Fees Telephone/Communications Software/Hardware Support /Maintenance Operating Supplies/Equipment Vehicle Up fitting Sales Tax Revenue Jun 2017 County Fair Judge Travel Expense Recruitment Costs Medical, Dental & Vet Services Other Professional Services Other Professional Services Other Professional Services County Fair Judge Travel Expense Water & Sewer Metro Area Meeting Expense Sign Parts & Supplies Metro Area Meeting Expense Water Consulting Services County Fair Judge Travel Expense Travel Expense County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Travel Expense County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Asphalt Overlay Project Travel Expense County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Travel Expense Travel Expense Travel Expense County Fair Services/Fair Show Management County Fair Judge County Fair Judge Travel Expense County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Travel Expense Printing/Copying/Reports Conference, Seminar, Training Fees Consulting Fees County Fair Services/Fair Live Operating Supplies/Equipment Insurance Claims-Property Other Professional Services Fair Advertising Travel Expense Travel Expense Travel Expense Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Travel Expense Radio Equipment BPPT Tax Rebate Utilities/Electric Recognition Programs Travel Expense Design Services Consulting Fees Other Professional Services County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Refund Event Application Fee Other Repair & Maintenance Service Court Subpoena Response Other Professional Services Professional Membership & Licenses BPPT Tax Rebate County Fair Service/Fair Event Other Professional Services Metro Area Meeting Expense Other Professional Services Travel Expense Mounted Patrol Service Forensic Testing Operating Supplies/Equipment County Fair Service/Fair Event Medical, Dental & Vet Services Sign Parts & Supplies Other Professional Services Insurance Claims-Property Metro Area Meeting Expense Office Supplies Security Deposit Refund Road Repair, Maintenance & Overlay BPPT Tax Rebate Escrow Payable

4,631.00 Software/Hardware Support /Maintenance 129.59 Fleet Maintenance 60.10 Travel Expense 150.00 CJS-Fees Refund 82.60 Travel Expense 2.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo 55.00 Conference, Seminar, Training Fees 211.20 Travel Expense 181.90 Travel Expense 8,587.39 Equipment Rental 388.00 Equipment Rental 75.00 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder 875.00 Workers Compensation Claims 130.24 County Fair Services/Fair Show Management PARKER SENIOR CENTER INC 5,455.63 Transportation Grant Services PARKER WATER AND SANITATION 5,690.60 Water & Sewer PARKER, GUNNER 28.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo PARKER, SOPHIA 10.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo PARKS, COLORADO STATE 646.00 Due to State - State Park Pass PAUL, ALLISON NICOLE 163.61 Travel Expense PCS MOBILE 177,660.00 Software/Hardware Support /Maintenance PEAK FACILITATION GROUP 977.50 Other Professional Services PEAK OFFICE FURNITURE INC 35,536.92 Furniture/Office Systems PHILLIPS 66 PIPELINE LLC 59,018.00 Escrow Payable PHIPPEN, SARAH 100.00 County Fair Judge PHOENIX SUPPLY LLC 1,014.82 Prisoner Maintenance Supplies PINERY HOMEOWNERS 247.97 Security Services PINERY WATER & WASTEWATER 7,112.56 Water & Sewer PIONEER LANDSCAPING MATERIALS 6,187.57 Other Repair & Maintenance Supplies PLACE I GO LLC, THE 40.00 Other Purchased Services PLUM CREEK CATERING 5,955.00 Catered Meal/Fair Marketing & Sponsorship PLUMBLINE SERVICES 181.25 Mechanical Permit Refund PMAM CORPORATION 9,948.29 Alarm Administration Expenses POWER EQUIPMENT COMPANY 6,400.00 Equipment Rental POWER, DENNIS 138.00 Travel Expense PRECISION DYNAMICS CORPORATION 335.74 Operating Supplies/Equipment PRICE, MALLORIE AMBER 368.08 Travel Expense PRO COM - PRO COMPLIANCE 1,458.00 Medical, Dental & Vet Services PRO DISPOSAL & RECYCLING 4,928.13 Waste Disposal Services PRO PLUMBING SERVICES 1,736.00 Other Repair & Maintenance Service PRORODEO HALL OF FAME 1,000.00 Golf Tournament - One Golf Team PRCA PROPERTIES 1,557.00 Fair Advertising PROFESSIONAL RODEO COWBOYS ASSOCIATION 40,000.00 Fair Rodeo Prize Money PROFORMANCE APPAREL CORP 498.75 County Fair Awards/Fair Marketing 257.17 Operating Supplies/Equipment PSI -PLOTTER SUPPLIES INC PUBLIC TRUST ADVISORS LLC 5,833.33 Accounting & Financial Services PUBLICATION PRINTERS CORP 13,303.16 Printing/Copy/Fair Marketing & Sponsorship PUEBLO DODGE CHRYSLER JEEP RAM 111,928.00 Cars, Vans, Pickups PURPLE COMMUNICATIONS INC 255.00 Interpreting Services QUINTERO, CAITLIN ANNE 375.04 Travel Expense R.E. MONKS CONSTRUCTION 52,479.33 Road-Street Drainage-Construction RAMPART HELICOPTER SERVICE LLC 21,600.00 Other Professional Services RATKOVCH, RANDI 3.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo READY MIXED CONCRETE CO 4,620.00 Other Construction/Maintenance Materials RED WING SHOE STORE 361.58 Clothing & Uniforms REDWOOD TOXICOLOGY LABORATORY INC 6,456.89 Other Professional Services REILAND, CALI 21.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo REMY CORPORATION 6,212.50 Consulting Fees REPICCI’S ITALIAN ICE & GELATO OF DENVER 100.00 Security Deposit Refund REPORTSNOW INC 1,050.00 Other Professional Services REPP, THOMAS RICHARD 147.77 Travel Expense RESPEC CONSULTING & SERVICES 6,902.34 Other Professional Services RICH, SHERI 300.00 Security Deposit Refund RICHLAND TOWERS-DENVER LLC 4,630.00 Building/Land Lease/Rent RIEFENBERG, JENNIFER 100.00 County Fair Judge RIGGS, CAROLYN S 247.80 Travel Expense RIGHT ON LEARNING 7,080.00 Other Professional Services RILEY, KRISTEN 40.80 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo RK WATER 1,613.34 Service Contracts RMOMS 250.00 Drug Testing RMRM - ROCKY MOUNTAIN RECORDS MANAGEMENT 12.00 Operating Supplies/Equipment ROBENSTEIN, BRAD 79.23 Travel Expense ROBERT HALF TECHNOLOGY 38,443.00 Other Professional Services ROBERTS, DANIEL ROY 271.89 Travel Expense ROCK ESTATES PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION 212.50 Contracted Snow Removal ROCK, THE 812.86 Other Professional Services ROCKY MOUNTAIN AIR SOLUTIONS 68.02 Operating Supplies/Equipment ROCKY MOUNTAIN EXCAVATING INC 30,619.30 Road-Street Drainage-Construction ROCKY MOUNTAIN INFORMATION NETWORK 250.00 Professional Membership & Licenses ROCKY MOUNTAIN MAP SUPPLY 358.50 Operating Supplies/Equipment ROCKY MOUNTAIN PAVEMENT 200,905.99 Road Repair, Maintenance & Overlay ROGERS, PAUL MARSHALL 502.80 Travel Expense ROHR, MADALYN 28.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo ROSE, KENNETH 499.00 Conference, Seminar, Training Fees ROYCE INDUSTRIES LC 501.64 Other Repair & Maintenance Service RULLI, KYLE MATTHEW 48.58 Travel Expense RUSSELL, KALLIE 32.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo RYDERS PUBLIC SAFETY LLC 1,873.15 Clothing & Uniforms SAFARILAND LLC 83.45 Operating Supplies/Equipment SAFEWARE INC 2,578.63 Other Repair & Maintenance Service SANDELL, WYATT 32.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo SATRIANA & BISCAN LLC 38.53 Postage & Delivery Services SCHMIDT, SANDRA SUE 2,167.75 Other Professional Services SCHROEDER, SHELBY 80.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo SCHWEIGER RANCH FOUNDATION 10,000.00 Community Programs/Sponsorship SCOTT, EVAN LAWRENCE 390.99 Travel Expense SEAL, ED 147.20 Travel Expense SECURITY CENTRAL 22,203.49 Security Services SECURITY TRANSPORT SERVICES 3,492.05 Transportation of Prisoners SEDALIA LANDFILL 5,471.37 Waste Disposal Services SEDALIA WATER & SANITATION 182.76 Water & Sewer SEIB, CYNTHIA 2,500.00 Escrow Payable SEMPERA 13,680.00 Consulting Fees SENTER, GOLDFARB & RICE LLC 1,025.00 Legal Services SFA INC 200.00 Security Deposit Refund SHADY TREE SERVICE LLC 14,000.12 Property Maintenance Services SHAVER, ZANDRA 140.85 County Fair Services/Fair Show Management SHILOH HOME INC 660.00 Building/Land Lease/Rent SHILOH HOME INC 16,072.50 Other Professional Services SHOUSE, LARRY 64.90 Travel Expense SIGNDESIGN 810.00 Operating Supplies/Fair Livestock Sale SILKWORTH, DENISE RYAN 205.40 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder SILVA CONSTRUCTION INC 189,122.75 Justice Center Concrete Replacement Project SILVA CONSTRUCTION INC 815,559.70 Sidewalk Repair & Handicap Retrofit SIMMONS, SHANNON 12,632.50 Driveway Repair Reimbursement SKELTON, JAMES N 122.91 Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder SKY CLIFF CENTER 1,500.00 Development Disability GrantAgriculture Program SKY CLIFF CENTER 3,288.75 Senior Services Grant SKY RIDGE MEDICAL CENTER 64,012.36 BPPT Tax Rebate SKYE TEAM LLC 3,928.90 Leadership Academy SLATE COMMUNICATIONS 1,266.00 Other Professional Services SMITH, KAREN A 300.00 Election Judges/Referee Fees SMITH, SAVANAH 21.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo SORENSEN, RACHEL 136.00 County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo SOTOMAYOR, NANCY 161.33 Travel Expense SOURCE OFFICE PRODUCTS 2,435.84 Office Supplies SOUTH METRO FIRE RESCUE AUTHORITY 1,168.00 Building/Land Lease/Rent SOUTHLAND MEDICAL LLC 207.09 Operating Supplies/Equipment SPAULDING, MELINDA 149.91 Travel Expense SPECTRA CONTRACT FLOORING SERVICES 15,975.00 Other Professional Services SPRADLIN PRINTING INC 385.00 Event Sponsorships

SPRINT SPURLOCK, ANTHONY G. STARKEY, VICTORIA STATEWIDE INTERNET PORTAL AUTHORITY STEELE, JANA STERLING RANCH COMMUNITY AUTHORITY BOARD STEVENS - KOENIG REPORTING STEWART TITLE GUARANTY COMPANY STONEGATE VILLAGE METRO STROUSE, KELLY A STUART, RAVEN SUDS FACTORY CAR WASH & DETAIL CENTER SUMMIT PATHOLOGY SUMMIT PRO RODEO LLC SUN FOUNDATION SURREY SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY SUTTON, SCOTT SVENDSEN, SHARON SWANSON, ROY SWARCO REFLEX INC SWARTZ, RICHARD S SWEEP STAKES UNLIMITED SYMBOL ARTS T & A ROPING T BONE CONSTRUCTION INC T D MERTLICH INC TAGLIONE, HEATH J TALBERT, JENNIFER TAYLOR, VIVIAN A TAYLOR, VIVIAN A TD SERVICE CO TELERUS INC TERRACARE ASSOCIATES LLC THOMAS, BRETT MATTHEW THOMPSON, JOHN WOODROE THOMSON REUTERS WEST

528,071.00 156.30 415,290.00 22,911.16 111.93 72.58 165.00 345.00 59,000.00 1,500.00 3,781.44 681.59 23.21 60.00 21,160.00 244.08 1,110.00 1,485.50 1,305.00 49,618.96 6,240.00 270.88 60.00 9,807.58 1,444.93 13.00 750.00 284.50 38.94 254.66 5,732.61

THREE PEAKS VETERINARY LLC TIERRA GROUP INTERNATIONAL LTD TILMAN, TERRYL T-MOBILE USA INC TO THE RESCUE TODD COMPANIES INC TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK MILLER ACTIVITY TOWN OF LARKSPUR TOWN OF LARKSPUR TOWN OF PARKER TOWN OF PARKER TOWN OF PARKER TPM STAFFING SERVICES TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROLS INC TRANSOFT SOLUTIONS INC

125.00 4,452.48 129.80 102.00 38,351.76 1,425.00 529,327.36 491,481.53 20,174.53 1,800.00 25.50 1,358.17 295,743.90 4,045.19 233,167.03 15,256.99 7,273.80 810.00

TRETO, TERESA & ROSENDO TRI-COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT TRINITY SERVICES GROUP INC TRIP SAVERS COURIERS TRIZETTO CORPORATION TROXLER ELECTRONIC LABORATORIES INC TRUE NORTH SURVEYING & MAPPING TRUJILLO, MITCHEL E & DEBORAH L TSIOUVARAS SIMMONS HOLDERNESS INC TUCKER, TODD B TWITTY, ALYSSA UG PRODUCTS COMPANY INC ULINE UMB BANK UNCC UNIFIRST CORPORATION UNITED REPROGRAPHIC SUPPLY INC UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT DENVER URS CORPORATION US BANK US BANK EQUIPMENT FINANCE VACURA, CRAIG VENDINI INC

60.00 371.70 115.02 66,657.13 3,968.46

7,200.00 967.63 35,402.24 159.00 72,300.35 137.00 600.00 190.25 7,617.38 192.00 2.80 252.38 686.09 3,919.60 1,921.25 1,519.03 215.68 2,695.58 37,988.96 8,046.02 295.00 113.81 350.00

VERIZON WIRELESS SERVICES VICKERMAN, LARRY G

2,321.05 128.88

VILLANUEVA, BERNABE VISA U.S.A. VISITING ANGELS OF DENVER VMWARE INC

163.48 32,642.13 6,770.25 85,325.08

VODNIK, CHRIS VONAGE BUSINESS VOSS SIGNS LLC VUKOVINSKY, MELANIE ANNE W.E. O’NEIL CONSTRUCTION WADE, WES WAGNER, LISA WALTER, RYAN WALZ, ELIZABETH ANN WATER & EARTH TECHNOLOGIES INC WELSBY, LOUISE V WEMBER INC WES TEST WESTERN PAPER DISTRIBUTORS INC WESTERN STATES FIRE PROTECTION CO WETHERBEE, ERIN LEIGH WHITE CONSTRUCTION GROUP WHITE, ALI WILCOX CAPITAL LLC WILDCAT SHOPPING CENTER LLC WILLARD, LARRY WILLIAMS, KELLY ANN WILLIAMSON, MELISSA WILLIS OF FLORIDA WILSON & COMPANY INC WILSON, MARTIN DAVIS WIZ-QUIZ DRUG SCREENING SERVICE WL CONTRACTORS INC WOMMACK, ANDIE WOODRICK, MARYJO WOODRICK, PHILLIP LEE WORTH, WILLIAM J XCEL ENERGY XPERIENCE PROMOTIONS YAMADA, JILL - PETTY CASH DCSO YATES, ANDREW LEE YOUNG WILLIAMS PC ZAPFE, MIKE TOTAL AMOUNT OF DISBURSEMENTS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2017

152.86 3,573.89 329.80 100.00 1,330,111.00 82.60 105.00 2,500.00 192.28 5,076.75 240.75 20,097.45 53,189.14 12,235.85 6,849.00 321.70 69,533.93 1.20 4,218.30 19,489.08 63.00 917.39 300.00 10,411.11 61,029.69 35.40 805.00 41,022.00 424.95 62.44 25.00 32.53 4,051.46 275.24 167.90 28.14 49,727.97 73.62

Pager & Wireless Travel Expense Travel Expense Contract Work/Temporary Agency Insurance Claims-Property Escrow Payable Legal Services Building Purchase/104 4th Street Water & Sewer Travel Expense Travel Expense Fleet Car Wash Services Forensic Testing County Fair Service/Fair Rodeo Community Programs/Sponsorship BPPT Tax Rebate County Fair Judge Travel Expense County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Paint & Road Striping Travel Expense Process Service Fee Clothing & Uniforms County Fair Service/Fair Rodeo Court Room Refinish Project Other Professional Services Travel Expense County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Other Professional Services Travel Expense Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Telephone/Communications Lawncare Services Metro Area Meeting Expense Travel Expense Books & Software/Hardware Subscriptions Medical, Dental & Vet Services Other Professional Services Travel Expense Pager & Wireless Transportation Grant Services Other Professional Services Due to Castle Rock-Auto Use-Tax Intergovernmental-Castle Rock Water & Sewer Employee Program Costs Due to Larkspur-MV License Intergovernmental-Larkspur Due to Parker - Auto Use Tax Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Intergovernmental-Parker Contract Work/Temporary Agency Traffic Signal Parts Software/Hardware Support /Maintenance Insurance Claims-Property Oversight Inspection Services Inmate Meals Postage & Delivery Services BPPT Tax Rebate Operating Supplies/Equipment Roads, Street, Drainage-Engineering Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Roads, Street, Drainage-Engineering Travel Expense County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Operating Supplies/Equipment Operating Supplies/Equipment Banking Service Fees Other Professional Services Clothing & Uniforms Operating Supplies/Equipment Other Professional Services Roads, Street, Drainage-Engineering Banking Service Fees Service Contracts Travel Expense Equipment Rental/Fair Guest Services Cell Phone Service County Fair Services/Fair Show Management Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder BPPT Tax Rebate Senior Services Grant Software/Hardware Support /Maintenance Travel Expense Telephone/Communications Operating Supplies/Equipment Fee Refunds - Clerk & Recorder Parker Service Center Project Travel Expense Other Professional Services Escrow Payable Travel Expense Other Professional Services County Fair Services/Fair Show Management Design/Soft Costs Road Repair, Maintenance & Overlay Janitorial Supplies Other Repair & Maintenance Service Travel Expense Building Restoration Services County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Water & Sewer Building/Land Lease/Rent County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Travel Expense Recognition Programs Liability Insurance Roads, Street, Drainage-Engineering Travel Expense Other Purchased Services Traffic Signal On-Call Service Travel Expense Operating Supplies/Fair Administration County Fair Awards/Fair Rodeo Travel Expense Utilities Electric/Gas Operating Supplies/Equipment Metro Area Meeting Expense Travel Expense Other Professional Services Travel Expense

$20,504,146.38

THE ABOVE AND FOREGOING IS A CONDENSED STATEMENT OF THE BILLS APPROVED FOR PAYMENT DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2017 BY THE DOUGLAS COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS UNDER WHOSE DIRECTION THIS NOTICE IS PUBLISHED. N. ANDREW COPLAND, CPA, DIRECTOR OF FINANCE Legal Notice No.: 931650 and 931651 First Publication: September 28, 2017

Last Publication: September 28, 2017 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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38 Parker Chronicle Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2017-0170 To Whom It May Concern: On 7/20/2017 4:26:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: JOHN C. WASHINGTON AND ELIZABETH N. WASHINGTON Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY, A CALIFORIA CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/11/2016 Recording Date of DOT: 3/17/2016 Reception No. of DOT: 2016015847 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $417,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $410,630.30

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.

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

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 18, BLOCK 2 VILLAGES OF PARKER FILING NO. 5C COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 11240 Gallahadion Ct, Parker, CO 80138 NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 8, 2017, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

If you believe that your lender or servicer has failed to provide a single point of contact (38-38-103.1 CRS) or they are still pursuing foreclosure even though you have submitted a completed loss mitigation application or you have been offered and have accepted a loss mitigation option (38-38-103.2 CRS), you may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General (720-508-6006) or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (855411-2372) or both. However, the filing of a complaint in and of itself will not stop the foreclosure process.

First Publication: 9/14/2017 Last Publication: 10/12/2017 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 7/21/2017 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: EVE GRINA Colorado Registration #: 43658 7700 E. ARAPAHOE ROAD, SUITE 230 , CENTENNIAL, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (877) 369-6122 Fax #: Attorney File #: CO-17-775603-LL

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website : http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2017-0170 First Publication: 9/14/2017 Last Publication: 10/12/2017 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2017-0180 To Whom It May Concern: On 7/27/2017 3:56:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: SHELIA LANG Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR WR STARKEY MORTGAGE, L.L.P.,

Public Trustee Sale No. 2017-0180 To Whom It May Concern: On 7/27/2017 3:56:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Public Trustees

Original Grantor: SHELIA LANG Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR WR STARKEY MORTGAGE, L.L.P., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: SPECIALIZED LOAN SERVICING LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 4/30/2010 Recording Date of DOT: 5/6/2010 Reception No. of DOT: 2010027770 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $318,800.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $293,479.51 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower's failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

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

Legal Description of Real Property: A PARCEL OF LAND IN THE WEST 1/2 SECTION 7, TOWNSHIP 6 SOUTH, RANGE 65 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT WHICH IS THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 1, BLOCK 5, PONDEROSA HILLS, FILING NO. 2; THENCE SOUTH ALONG THE EAST LINE OF BLOCK 5, PONDEROSA HILLS FILING NO. 2, A DISTANCE OF 1020 FEET; THENCE EAST A DISTANCE OF 429.86 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE NORTH 0 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 22 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 1020 FEET; THENCE EAST A DISTANCE OF 429.975 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 0 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 44 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 1020 FEET; THENCE WEST 429.87 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9280 East Summit Road, Parker, CO 80138 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 15, 2017, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

If you believe that your lender or servicer has failed to provide a single point of contact (38-38-103.1 CRS) or they are still pursuing foreclosure even though you have submitted a completed loss mitigation application or you have been offered and have accepted a loss mitigation option (38-38-103.2 CRS), you may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General (720-508-6006) or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (855411-2372) or both. However, the filing of a complaint in and of itself will not stop the foreclosure process.

First Publication: 9/21/2017 Last Publication: 10/19/2017 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 7/28/2017 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ALISON L. BERRY Colorado Registration #: 34531 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 17-016194 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website : http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2017-0180 First Publication: 9/21/2017 Last Publication: 10/19/2017 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2017-0159 To Whom It May Concern: On 7/5/2017 11:19:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: BRENT HINES AND AMY HINES

Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2017-0159 To Whom It May Concern: On 7/5/2017 11:19:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Public Trustees

Original Grantor: BRENT HINES AND AMY HINES Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR COMMERCE HOME MORTGAGE Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 1/25/2016 Recording Date of DOT: 2/5/2016 Reception No. of DOT: 2016007004 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $356,125.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $350,874.62 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof.

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

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 41, STONEGATE FILING NO. 21A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLROADO. Which has the address of: 17545 Celestine Court, Parker, CO 80134 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, October 25, 2017, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

If you believe that your lender or servicer has failed to provide a single point of contact (38-38-103.1 CRS) or they are still pursuing foreclosure even though you have submitted a completed loss mitigation application or you have been offered and have accepted a loss mitigation option (38-38-103.2 CRS), you may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General (720-508-6006) or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (855411-2372) or both. However, the filing of a complaint in and of itself will not stop the foreclosure process.

First Publication: 8/31/2017 Last Publication: 9/28/2017 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 7/5/2017 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: NICHOLE WILLIAMS Colorado Registration #: 49611 1199 BANNOCK STREET , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 350-3711 Fax #: Attorney File #: 00000006809669 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trust ee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2017-0159 First Publication: 8/31/2017 Last Publication: 9/28/2017 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2017-0163 To Whom It May Concern: On 7/7/2017 2:25:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: MICHAEL THOMAS COSTELLO AND DIANNE ELIZABETH COSTELLO Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK, A CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: M&T BANK Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/27/2013 Recording Date of DOT: 7/9/2013 Reception No. of DOT: 2013057004 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

MICHAEL THOMAS COSTELLO AND DIANNE ELIZABETH COSTELLO Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK, A CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: M&T BANK Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/27/2013 Recording Date of DOT: 7/9/2013 Reception No. of DOT: 2013057004 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $241,872.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $225,319.46

Public Trustees

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof.

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

Legal Description of Real Property: PARCEL A A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 6 SOUTH, RANGE 65 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE EAST LINE OF SAID SECTION WHICH IS 493.1 FEET NORTH OF THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SECTION, THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 11 FEET WEST, A DISTANCE OF 445 FEET, THENCE NORTH 00 DEGREES 49 FEET EAST, A DISTANCE OF 493.1 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 11 FEET EAST, A DISTANCE OF 445.0 FEET, MORE OR LESS TO THE EAST LINE OF SAID SECTION, THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES 49 FEET WEST AND ALONG SAID SECTION LINE, A DISTANCE OF 493.1 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO PARCEL B A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS PURPOSES IN FAVOR OF PARCEL A ABOVE, OVER AND ACROSS THE EAST 30 FEET OF THE SOUTH 493.1 FEET OF SECTION 8 AND OVER AND ACROSS THE SOUTH 30 FEET OF SAID SECTION 8, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 12149 N Piney Lake Rd, Parker, CO 80138 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 8, 2017, at the Public Trustee's office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

If you believe that your lender or servicer has failed to provide a single point of contact (38-38-103.1 CRS) or they are still pursuing foreclosure even though you have submitted a completed loss mitigation application or you have been offered and have accepted a loss mitigation option (38-38-103.2 CRS), you may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General (720-508-6006) or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (855411-2372) or both. However, the filing of a complaint in and of itself will not stop the foreclosure process.

September 29, 2017S PUBLIC NOTICE Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2017-0171

Public Trustees

To Whom It May Concern: On 7/20/2017 4:27:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: SHANE A STECKEL Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CHERRY CREEK MORTGAGE CO., INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: PINGORA LOAN SERVICING, LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 10/2/2014 Recording Date of DOT: 10/3/2014 Reception No. of DOT: 2014057254 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $284,050.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $274,398.05

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower's failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

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

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 4, BLOCK 2, STROH RANCH FILING NO.9C, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 12775 Buckhorn Creek St, Parker, CO 80134 NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 8, 2017, at the Public Trustee’s office, 402 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

If you believe that your lender or servicer has failed to provide a single point of contact (38-38-103.1 CRS) or they are still pursuing foreclosure even though you have submitted a completed loss mitigation application or you have been offered and have accepted a loss mitigation option (38-38-103.2 CRS), you may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General (720-508-6006) or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (855411-2372) or both. However, the filing of a complaint in and of itself will not stop the foreclosure process.

First Publication: 9/14/2017 Last Publication: 10/12/2017 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 7/21/2017 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Dated: 7/10/2017 CHRISTINE DUFFY DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

DAVID R DOUGHTY Colorado Registration #: 40042 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 17-016065

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

SCOTT TOEBBEN Colorado Registration #: 19011 216 16TH STREET SUITE 1210, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (720) 259-6710 Fax #: Attorney File #: 16CO00640-3

Legal Notice No.: 2017-0171 First Publication: 9/14/2017 Last Publication: 10/12/2017 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

First Publication: 9/14/2017 Last Publication: 10/12/2017 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website : http://www.douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No.: 2017-0163 First Publication: 9/14/2017 Last Publication: 10/12/2017 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

PUBLIC NOTICE Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2017-0171 To Whom It May Concern: On 7/20/2017 4:27:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be

City and County Public Notice INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #036-17 ROBERT A. CHRISTENSEN JUSTICE CENTER SMOKE DETECTOR REPLACEMENT/UPDATE PROJECT

The Facilities, Fleet, and Emergency Support Services Department of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests bids from responsible, qualified companies to provide the labor and materials needed to replace the existing ionization smoke detectors with photoelectric smoke detectors in the Robert A. Christensen Justice Center. There are nine-hundred and thirty (930)

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September 29, 2017

Jewelry shop is one of a kind Tim Brown Jewelers in Elizabeth owned, run by married pair

BY TOM MUNDS TMUNDS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The display cases at Tim Brown Jewelers, located at 210 S. Elizabeth St. in Elizabeth, hold a wide range of jewelry, including the one-of-kind originals created by master goldsmith Tim and his wife Renee.

The Browns own and operate the shop on the south side of Safeway Center. They offer customer service that includes watch battery replacement and jewelry repair as well as the opportunity to have an item of custom jewelry created.

Elizabeth resident Connie Lehman said the jewelry store is a great addition to the community.

Tim Brown makes adjustments to the stone setting on a ring he is creating for a customer. Brown and his wife Renee own and “I love fine jewelry and I was happy operate their store in the Safeway Center in Elizabeth, where they do watch battery replacements, jewelry repairs and create when I heard a new jewelry shop was custom jewelry items for their customers. coming to Elizabeth,” she said. “I PHOTOS BY TOM MUNDS made my first visit and I was amazed quite a bit of engraving on the rodeo that this was the real deal when it queen crowns we made three years came to fine jewelry shops.” ago and they are still using them.”

Lehman said the shop carries a good Renee Brown was born in Engleselection of fine jewelry as well as the wood and grew up in Littleton. custom creations that are amazing.

“I have always liked art and I have She said Renee and Tim are masters always liked to draw,” the Littleat their crafts and, while she is a fan ton High School graduate said. “I of the shop and their work, she is only learned about jewelry designing one of a long list of customers who when I worked designer Judith admire and treasure their work.

Public Notice Ripka in Aspen. I don’t have the tal“We are Elizabeth’s full-service ent to create a piece of jewelry but I jewelry shop but our trademark is INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #036-17 can help design it. I think earrings our creation of original jewelry items ROBERT A. CHRISTENSEN JUSTICE CENTER are the hardest piece to design. It is for our customers,” Tim Brown said.

SMOKE DETECTOR a challenge to balance the size and “Renee is the designer and we work REPLACEMENT/UPDATE PROJECT shape of the piece with the stones together with the customer to finalThe Facilities, Fleet, and Emergency Support the customer wants us to use. But it ize all the detail for the one-of-a-kind Services Department of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, is fun and I love to do it.” piece I will create for them.”

Tim and Renee Brown created respectfully requests bids from responsible, qualified to of provide and The couple met while working for this ring as part of the custom Renee Brown and her husband Timcompanies hold one theirthe labor Generally the process of creating a materials needed to replace the existing ionizathe same jewelry maker in Arizona. jewelry selection they have on custom-made items they created and havewith forphotoelectric sale piece of custom jewelry begins with tion smoke detectors smoke the Robert Center A. Christensen display Justice and for sale in their shop They were married and decided to in their jewelry shop locateddetectors in theinSafeway the customer talking to Renee.

Center. There are nine-hundred and thirty (930) Public Notice smoke detectors to be replaced. located in the Safeway Center in come back home to Colorado. They bein Elizabeth.

The couple is celebrating their fourth “I spend time with the customer and INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) anniversary thisIFB month. try to discover what they want the gan working together creating custom documents may be reviewedElizabeth. and/or #036-17 at the location The printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing final piece to be,” Renee said. “I come ROBERT A. CHRISTENSEN jewelry in their Elizabeth home.

System website at www.rockymountainbidsysJUSTICE CENTER He theforbiggest challenge in up with a concept, and Tim and I cre“We found this space and we are celintroduced to jewelry-making when he tem.com.

IFB documents are notsaid available SMOKE DETECTOR purchase from Douglas County Government and PROJECT making a piece of jewelry is fabricatate a three-dimensional drawing we REPLACEMENT/UPDATE ebrating our fourth anniversary this took a class in high school. can only be accessed from the above-mentioned jewelry website. While IFB the documents The Facilities, Fleet, andin Emergency Support itemare from the metal and wire show to the customer. Then Tim goes month,” Tim said. “We love Elizabeth “I fell love with creating . theing available electronically, Douglas County cannot Services Department of Douglas County Govso it is the right size and shape to hold to work to create the item from the and it is great there are so many artiMore referred classes and jobs with jewelry accept electronic bid responses. ernment, hereinafter to as the County, respectfully makers requests bids from responsible, the stones in place. finalized drawing to provide jewelry sans that call the town home.” followed as I made something qualified companies to provide the labor and Three (3) copies of your IFB response shall be Brown said he also enjoys doing that meets the customer’s expectaBrown said the fourth anniversary I love doing career,” said.in“Ia sealed envelope materials needed to replace themy existing ioniza- he submitted plainly marked smoke detectors with photoelectric smoke “IFB No. 036-17, Robert A. Christensen Justice Public Notice engraving. tions, whether it is for daily weartion or celebration lasts through September really like what I do because it is detectors in the Robert A. Christensen Justice Center Smoke Detector Replacement/Update Noticeoccasions.”

Center. Therenever are nine-hundred thirty (930) Project”.

Electronic and/or faxed bid responses NOTICEsale OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE “I took an engraving class about 14 for wear onPublic special and includes prices on many boring.andThere seems to always smoke detectors to be replaced. will not be accepted. Bids will be received until PLANNING COMMISSION AND BOARD OF years and items. The shop is open from 10 a.m. be customers who need our services.

Tim INVITATION Brown was born FOR BID (IFB)in Colorado 11:00 a.m., on Friday, October 13, ago 2017 by the found I really enjoyed COUNTY COMMISSIONERS #036-17 up in California.

The IFB documents may be reviewed and/orI get Douglas County Finance Purchasdoing the work,” he said. “I have until 6 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday The most fun is when a request to Department, Springs and grew ROBERT A. CHRISTENSEN printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing ing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle A public hearing will be held before the Planat www.rockymountainbidsyswill not berings con- and other items. I did ning Commission 16, 2017, engraved and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.on onOctober Saturday . at 7:00 create a piece of jewelry.”Rock, Colorado 80104. Bids He smiledJUSTICE as heCENTER explained that heSystem was website SMOKE DETECTOR REPLACEMENT/UPDATE PROJECT

The Facilities, Fleet, and Emergency Support Services Department of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests bids from responsible, qualified companies to provide the labor and materials needed to replace the existing ionization smoke detectors with photoelectric smoke detectors in the Robert A. Christensen Justice Center. There are nine-hundred and thirty (930) smoke detectors to be replaced.

City and County

The IFB documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. IFB documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website. While the IFB documents are available electronically, Douglas County cannot accept electronic bid responses.

Three (3) copies of your IFB response shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “IFB No. 036-17, Robert A. Christensen Justice Center Smoke Detector Replacement/Update Project”. Electronic and/or faxed bid responses

tem.com. IFB documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website. While the IFB documents are available electronically, Douglas County cannot accept electronic bid responses.

City and County

Three (3) copies of your IFB response shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “IFB No. 036-17, Robert A. Christensen Justice Center Smoke Detector Replacement/Update Project”. Electronic and/or faxed bid responses will not be accepted. Bids will be received until 11:00 a.m., on Friday, October 13, 2017 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Bids will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any bids so received will be returned unopened.

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

sidered which are received after the time stated, and any bids so received will be returned unopened.

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

City and County

Please direct any questions concerning this IFB to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303660-7434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No.: 931664 First Publication: September 28, 2017 Last Publication: September 28, 2017 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

City and County Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS A public hearing will be held before the Planning Commission on October 16, 2017, at 7:00 pm, and before the Board of County Commissioners on October 24, 2017, at 2:30 pm, in the Commissioners' Hearing Room, 100 Third St., Castle Rock, Colorado, for approval of a use by special review for a Mining, quarry, sand/gravel operation, or similar extractive land use in the Agricultural One zone district. The subject land is located north of Crowfoot Valley Road approximately ½ mile northeast of its intersection with Pradera Parkway. For more information call Douglas County Planning, 303-660-7460

pm, and before the Board of County Commissioners on October 24, 2017, at 2:30 pm, in the Commissioners' Hearing Room, 100 Third St., Castle Rock, Colorado, for approval of a use by special review for a Mining, quarry, sand/gravel operation, or similar extractive land use in the Agricultural One zone district. The subject land is located north of Crowfoot Valley Road approximately ½ mile northeast of its intersection with Pradera Parkway. For more information call Douglas County Planning, 303-660-7460

City and County

File No./Name: US2016-018 / 6237 Crowfoot Valley Rd (AKA Stevens Mine), 1st Amendment Legal Notice No.: 931667 First Publication: September 28, 2017 Last Publication: September 28, 2017 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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