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General Store 45 sells a wide variety of things, including many convenience-store staples. Photos by Jennifer Smith
The Window Shoppe is getting good exposure at its new location in the Little Town office building on Main Street.
Smokin’ Fins opened June 29, serving sushi, ribs, even alligator.
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If you haven’t been to downtown Littleton lately, you might not recognize it. Gone are some oldies but goodies, including Jose’s restaurant and Valley Feed and Supply. But a flurry of new faces has arrived, bringing along what nearly everyone calls a sense of vibrancy. Here’s a look at some of the recent additions.
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General Store 45/Workhorse 45 Part convenience store, part marketing and design firm, the store is selling a line of items
with the tag line it created for the city: “L-Town will fun you up.” General Manager Austin Curry said the front of the building is a “modern vintage general store” that sells a lot of natural and organic products along with grab-and-go sandwiches and soda, juice, eggs, milk and some fresh produce. Then there’s the eclectic stuff like mustache-shaped chip-bag clips, selfie sticks, nosew buttons, vintage-style toys, kitchen gadgets and shoeshine kits. “It’s just stuff we think is really cool,” said Curry. And if you happen to need any branding or design work done while you’re grabbing a Ga-
torade, you’re in just the right place. Workhorse 45 counts among its clients the Denver Broncos, Harlem Globetrotters and a number of the healthy brands it sells.
Smokin’ Fins
Having just opened June 29, the new restaurant in the old Opus space features sushi, seafood, meats smoked on site, burgers, salads, street tacos and more. Priced in what partner Ken Boyle calls the “polished casual” range, the entrees average around $15. The most expensive item, at $34.99, is the Smokin’ Ribs Trio. Main continues on Page 12
Last hurrah for superintendent June 25 school board meeting was final one for Scott Murphy By Jennifer Smith
jsmith@colorado communitymedia.com In the last of his long goodbyes, Superintendent Scott Murphy exited his 25-year career with Littleton Public Schools on June 25 to a standing ovation, tears, hugs and an official resolution declaring, “his servant leadership, skilled fiscal and political expertise, sincere compassion and unwavering dedication to the Littleton Public Schools District is unsurpassed.” Now officially retired, Murphy looks forward to traveling with his wife, Teri Chavez, and serving on a variety of education-related boards and committees. He’s also teaching school finance at Regis University, and spends time feeding the homeless at St. Elizabeth’s on the Auraria Murphy continues on Page 12
The Littleton Public Schools Board of Education applauds Superintendent Scott Murphy in the last moments of his final board meeting on June 26. Murphy is now officially retired. Photo by Jennifer Smith
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Mark Mack owns Woodlawn Liquors. Photo by Jennifer Smith
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Owner of Woodlawn Liquors ‘I definitely consider myself local’ I lived in Nebraska until I was 14, then we moved to Denver and I went to Sheridan High School. I live in Englewood now. I definitely consider myself local, since I’ve been here 49 years. I’ve just always been here, I can’t imagine living anywhere but in the south-metro area. The people are nice here. From the corporate world to small business I was tired of the corporate world. I worked
for an oil company as vice president of production for years. Then I worked at Meadow Creek Truck Supply in Denver for two years. Now I work a lot more, and I don’t get to play as much golf, and no vacations. I’m here seven days a week. Corvettes, clubs and kids I like to golf, like I said. And work on my 1980 Corvette. And I have four grandkids, two boys and two girls, ranging from 8 months to 6 years old. I like to take them swimming, and color with them and stuff like that. All about family How much I love my grandchildren and my family. Family is No. 1 to me. I have two kids. My daughter, Natalie, is a teacher at Damon Runyon Elementary School. My son, Jeremy, worked here for a long time, but now he works for Republican National Distributors, a liquor distributor here in Littleton. By Jennifer Smith. If you have suggestions for My Name Is…, contact her at jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com.
Likely hoping that past controversies between the city of Littleton and Sterling Ranch are water under the bridge, Sterling Ranch is hoping Littleton will offer a temporary helping hand with wastewater treatment. “We’ve started down the road of a wastewater system,” Mary Kay Provaznik, utilities director at Dominion Water and Sanitation District, told city council on June 23. “Our plant is operational now, it’s just more efficient to use yours with so few homes.” Sterling Ranch broke ground on June 6, west of Santa Fe Drive and south of Chatfield Reservoir. It will eventually be home to more than 30,000 people. The first project, Providence Village, includes 800 homes that will take a few years to complete and sell. Dominion will be the water and wastewater service for the entire Sterling Ranch community. It kicked in funds to double the size of Roxborough Water and Sanitation District’s new facility, still in the design stages, in exchange for use of RWSD’s current one. “Dominion WSD proposes to upgrade the existing Roxborough wastewater treatment plant in phases, and based on demand, to serve the Sterling Ranch development,” reads a 2009 study undertaken by consulting firm Tetra Tech. “... Title to the wastewater facil-
ity will be transferred from Roxborough WSD to Dominion WSD at the time the plant goes back into service. … RWSD stopped operating their wastewater treatment plant and now sends wastewater flows to the Littleton/Englewood wastewater treatment plant.” A fact sheet about the new Roxborough facility says the district has an intergovermnetal agreement with Dominion to build a plant that can handle 8 million gallons of water a day. “By doubling the size of the WTP, the Roxborough community will benefit financially as Dominion Water District will be paying its share of the costs,” it reads. Dominion is offering to pay Littleton $200 per home per year for start-up and emergency service, with a minimum of $400,000. It’s only for wastewater services, not water, and Provaznik expects the arrangement to last just three or four years. Back in 2010, when Sterling Ranch founders Harold and Diane Smethills and Jack Hoagland were asking Littleton to annex the 3,400acre project in Douglas County, estimates were that the city stood to make roughly $65 million from tap fees alone. The majority of the council at the time was opposed to annexation, saying the cost of added infrastructure necessary to accommodate it would outweigh any financial benefits. The same council ultimately made a deal with Denver Water that essentially nixed any future annexation. In exchange for a one-time payment of $2.6 million, council agreed the water company would not have to serve any new areas brought into the city.
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Louis’ Diner feels like home Family business keeps regulars coming back By Jennifer Smith
jsmith@colorado communitymedia.com It’s the kind of place where the honey is in bears, the coffee is in exactly the right kind of mug for a diner, and the sirloin and eggs special is just $5.99. The kind of place that makes folks like Larry Young feel right at home. Young has been visiting Louis’ Diner twice a day, pretty much every day, for about eight years, following it to Woodlawn Shopping Center when the business moved from Englewood seven years ago. “I’m all alone,” said Young, a retired baker who’s lived in the same Englewood home for 68 years, as his waitress set his hot-turkey sandwich in front of him. “I have two daughters, but I haven’t seen them for about 45 years. I was married one time. She just took off with them.” Young says his favorite meal is Louis’ pot roast, but the salads and soups are good too. “Sometimes I want something special, and they’ll make it for me,” he said. “They do everything for me. This business is nice and smooth, it doesn’t back up, the food comes right out. Sometimes people take my table and I have to find another one.” Across the aisle from his usual table in the late morning of June 29 sat a young couple with a story at its beginning. “Is this a date? It’s breakfast, so I’m saying it’s a date,” said Marco as Hazel blushed. The two met a few weeks ago at a Foam Wonderland show at the National Western Complex, billed as the “Ultimate Foam Party Experience.” Marco graduated from Heritage High
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For $10, plus a convenience fee, you can get discounted tickets to the Arapahoe County Fair online at www.arapahoecoun- M tyfair.com by July 23. A daily admission a ticket includes unlimited carnival rides and access to the rodeo, mutton bustin’, B fireworks, a petting farm, concerts and motor-sports event called Monster Metal j Mayhem. It’s also time to start thinking about being a volunteer, helping greet visitors and judging contests, or signing up to enter open class contests like baking, or goodies from the garden Regularly priced tickets are $15 at the gate. Parking is $5 per vehicle. Kids under 3 feet tall get in free. The fair is July 23 through July 26.
Keep Littleton Beautiful Littleton residents have been participating this summer in getting rid of things they no longer need through the Keep Littleton Beautiful Summer Clean-Up Program. There are only a few slots available for a city crew to come to your home and pick up old furniture, appliances, tires, electronics and lumber. Garbage and hazardous materials are not accepted. A limited number of pick-up times are available on Thursdays in July. Schedule an appointment by calling 303-795-3744.
Louis’ Diner has been in Woodlawn Shopping Center for about 7 years now. Photo by Jennifer Smith
Moments in time from your community School in 2014 and has lived in Littleton for eight years. He visits Louis’ a couple times a month for the food and the atmosphere, he said. “I like Littleton,” he said. “I just don’t have to worry here. I can be carefree and not worry about my own safety. I feel at home in Littleton.” It’s stories like these that keep Louis Aguilar Jr. cooking up a storm in the kitchen, dinging a bell every time an order’s up to alert the servers.
“Serving the people is the best part of having a restaurant,” he said. “The people are nice, everybody’s really friendly. In the morning, most people are regulars. They always get the same thing, and you know them by their order.” Aguilar’s father has been in the restaurant business for 25 years, and it’s kept much of the family working together. On Mondays, young Aguilar’s grandfather Fernando even comes in to help with the dishes. “It’s a good, friendly environment,” said Louis, 22. “Everybody gets along fairly well, and we do a great job being a team.”
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School safety panel issues report Members ask LPS board to allow them to continue work By Jennifer Smith
jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com The committee examining safety and mental-health issues for Littleton Public Schools presented its findings to the LPS Board of Education on June 25, stressing what the members say is one overarching message: “We believe that LPS and the greater community recognize an emphasis on high achievement and high performance, with the unintended consequences of creating a climate for mental-health issues and pressures on students. Given that, there need to be supports for students (and, by extension, parents) around coping skills, resiliency and recovery.” Committee members said the emphasis should be on prevention rather than intervention. “We need to be able to give them support and coping skills for the times they’re not the best,” said Tammy Harimon. To that end, mental-health supports should be in place at even the preschool level, they say. “A lot of teachers say, `By the time they get to me, it’s too late,’” said Jim Stephens,
committee chair. The eight-page report lists 10 specific recommendations to improve the safety procedures, mental-health programs and communication systems of the district. It ends with the suggestion that the board reauthorize the committee to continue its work. “It quickly became apparent that this work is complex and requires deeper study and analysis than the initial timeframe could allow,” it reads. “Continuing the committee would build off of existing knowledge and momentum to avoid delay in furthering the work.” The group could function as a monitoring body into the future, say its members, for local systems and possibly at a higher level in conjunction with a similar committee created by a new state law. Both were created in the wake of the December 2013 Arapahoe High School murder/suicide, in which Karl Pierson shot himself to death after mortally wounding fellow student Claire Davis. “The backdrop of this was Arapahoe High School, but it’s so much more complex,” said superintendent Scott Murphy, who charged the committee in December 2014. The report lays out several core values to be considered when evaluating alternatives, with the first being: “Schools should
not be a fortress. Finding a balance of safety and welcoming school climate is critical.” Listening to the students themselves is important to the group, as well. There are two high-schoolers among them now, but they’d like to have more should the board authorize them to move forward. One of the most specific suggestions is to create mental-health liaisons in school communities to help families find outside resources. This is based on the recognition that families are primarily responsible for their children’s mental health, though the district is there to support them. “Sometimes it’s about helping families get to the resources, not being the resource,” said Lucinda Hundley. As part of its work, the committee identified strengths that already exist in the systems, things like good collaboration with outside agencies and a crisisresponse team. But making the public more aware of what’s already good is a challenge. “I don’t think the public understands thoroughly, but it was the beginning of a conversation,” said Hundley. The report will be available online at www.littletonpublicschools.net. For more information, contact Mike Jones at mdjones@lps.k12.co.us.
PANEL’S SUGGESTIONS A summary of the LPS safety committee’s recommendations: Ensure uniform security training across the district for anyone inside the building, including volunteers and parents. Create a consistent numbering system for rooms inside all buildings. Continue to conduct regular emergency drills. Annually review data and processes related to security. Bring in an independent security expert to audit systems every three to five years. Place greater emphasis on mental health for preschoolers and elementary students. Designate research-based interventions that schools must choose from. Designate mental-health liaisons to help families find resources. Establish a districtwide minimum level of mentalhealth staffing. Regularly review communication processes, purpose, strategies and team structure.
Recent deaths put river safety in focus Body identified High water levels, fast as missing tuber currents have made for dangerous conditions By Mike DiFerdinando
mdiferdinando@colorado communitymedia.com Heavy rain and snow melt have have led to high waters and fast currents at many of the bodies of water in the Denver metro area and throughout Colorado. In recent weeks, several people have lost their lives as a result of water accidents, including two tubers from the south metro area: Joseph Goodwin, a Heritage High graduate, in the South Platte River in Sheridan on June 20, and Steven Kelly, a Chaparral graduate, in the Arkansas River in Pueblo on June 21. On June 27, the body of Robert Jacobs, of Castle Rock, was found in the South Platte River in Waterton Canyon. Local and state agencies urge caution this summer when swimming, boating and otherwise enjoying the water. And they say to stay away from shorelines with fast-moving water. Metro-area officials also have encouraged people to stay off the South Platte River for the time being. “We are recommending everyone stay off the river until it returns to its `bankful’ (average annual maximum) flows of 650 (cubic feet per second) or less, and even then to always wear a life vest,” said Skot Latona, supervisor of South Platte Park in Littleton. In some areas, including Englewood, the South Platte has been flowing at
more than 3,000 cfs in recent weeks. Jefferson and Douglas Counties had closed the South Platte from the mountains to Chatfield reservoir to recreational use. Downstream of Chatfield, the river traverses a greater number of jurisdictions, and has never been formally closed to use. Technically, it does remain open to the public, though that does not mean it has been endorsed as safe for all users. “People should continue to use extreme caution in making their choice about floating the river,” Latona said. “At these flow levels, we recommend the river only be floated by skilled whitewater boaters with all proper safety equipment.” State law requires children 12 and under, when using any “vessel,” to wear life vests, and all others to have a life vest on board. Under current definitions, this specifically excludes things like inner tubes and pool toys. “That does not mean those types of floatation aids, or the conditions they are used in, are any safer than a canoe or kayak, and in fact are much likely more dangerous,” Latona said. “We believe children should always wear a life vest when in lakes or rivers with areas greater than knee deep and that adults should as well.” Here are some tips from authorities to stay safe:
In the event of flooding • Move to higher ground • Have a plan in the event of rising water • Be aware that roads in the area may close without notice
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Boaters must carry one wearable personal floatation device for each person on board. If the boat is more than 16 feet in length, an additional throwable device is required. Children 12 years of age and younger are required to wear a PFD whenever their vessel is on the water, except when they are in an enclosed cabin or below deck.
General tips: • Never go on the water alone. • Know your abilities and limitations and plan accordingly. • Scout the river ahead of time for hazards like debris and dangerous conditions. • If you fall in the river, point your feet downstream and look for a point to get out. Never put your feet down and try to stand. • Get out of the water as soon as possible. •If you see someone fall in, throw him or her a floatation device or rope; if the effort is not successful, then go for help. •Dress for the water temperature, not the air temperature •Take swim lessons • Keep your children within reach Sources: Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office and Colorado Parks and Wildlife
tmunds@colorado communitymedia.com The Denver Medical Examiner’s Office has confirmed the body found June 28 in the South Platte River is that of 21-year-old Joseph Goodwin, who disappeared in the South Platte River while tubing June 20 in Sheridan. The examiner reports the body was located in the river near Exposition Avenue about noon June 28 and Goodwin was pronounced dead at the scene. The autopsy was performed June 29 and the examGoodwin iner’s statement said the cause of death is still under investigation. On June 20, Goodwin, a Littleton resident, was tubing with three other people at the boat chutes located just north of Union Avenue near Centennial Park in Englewood. Authorities say the fast-running stream knocked Goodwin off his tube and into the turbulent water. Searchers combed the river and the banks the remainder of that afternoon and continued the search June 21. The search was officially called off late in the afternoon June 21. On June 29, Andrew Goodwin said the family said the family is working on arrangements for a location and date for a memorial service. Goodwin had attended Heritage High School and served in the Marines.
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 26 ruling to allow same-sex marriage across the nation didn’t change policy in Colorado, which has seen gay nuptials since last October. But the news was welcomed by many in the Denver metro area as a sign of progress. “I am so excited for all my constituents, friends, and fellow citizens who have been waiting for this day of equality,” said state Sen. Linda Newell, D-Littleton. “This historic decision from our highest court is long overdue.” Likewise, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Democrat whose 1st District includes Denver, Englewood, Columbine Valley and Bow Mar, enthusiastically supported the ruling. “Finally, every loving couple in the United States may choose to express their commitment in marriage and Newell be assured of its legal benefits and responsibilities,” she said. “This is a proud moment in our ongoing march toward full equality.” County clerks in Colorado have been issuing same-sex marriage licenses since October 2014, upon the orders of the state’s attorney general after the nation’s top court declined to hear appeals on the matter. On June 26, county clerks in the metro area, including in Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson counties, said it was business as usual. A spokeswoman for Arapahoe County said the clerk has issued 212 marriage licenses to samesex couples since Oct. 7. The Supreme Court’s ruling came by the closest of margins, 5-4, and the justices were divided along what many consider conservative-liberal lines. A spokesman for the Colorado Republican Party deDeGette ferred to the Republican National Committee’s statement when asked for comment. The RNC said marriage issues should be left to state officials. “The Supreme Court failed to recognize the states’ constitutional role in setting marriage policy, instead finding a federal role where there is none,” according to the statement. “In doing so, they have taken power away from the states and from the people to settle the relevant issues for themselves. “As a party, we believe in the importance of traditional marriage between a man and a woman and remain committed to finding common ground to champion the family’s role in society.” U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a Republican whose 6th District includes Littleton, Highlands Ranch and Centennial, didn’t denounce the decision, but said there are Coffman more important issues for the community and nation to tackle. “It is time we move forward and focus on the big debates of our day — how to keep our country safe and get Americans back to work,” he said. The president and CEO of Focus on the Family, a Colorado Springs-based Christian ministry, called the court’s decision “disappointing.” “Although this result was predicted by many observers, the action of the court is nonetheless startling in its rejection of a societal understanding of marriage that goes back to the dawn of civilization,” Jim Daly said in a statement posted on the group’s website. Not all religious leaders shared that thought. “I was very pleased, and I hope the United MethodButler ist Church will follow up that decision with its own decision this coming year, in 2016, at the general conference, making same-sex marriage legal in the church,” said Rusty Butler, lead pastor at Arvada United Methodist Church.
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Former residents of Highlands Ranch were the first to obtain civil union in Littleton By Jennifer Smith jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com Tommy Craig and Josh Wells got a wonderful welcome-home surprise when they arrived back in the United States on June 26 after two weeks in Spain and learned that their marriage would now be legally recognized throughout the entire country. “I didn’t have Internet access on the plane, and my phone blew up like crazy when we landed in New Jersey,” said Wells. “It doesn’t affect us directly since our Colorado marriage was already recognized federally, but it’s awesome for
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all of the couples that live in states that did not yet have marriage equality.” Craig and Wells, who lived in Highlands Ranch at the time but have since moved to Denver, were the first couple to obtain a civil union at Littleton’s Arapahoe County Courthouse on May 1, 2013, the day the law making such unions legal in Colorado took effect. The two men, both of whom were Eagle Scouts, have been together for 14 years. They had a commitment ceremony in September 2004 in front of about 100 guests. Their parents walked them down the aisle, they exchanged rings and lighted a unity candle. They both wore white tuxedoes and had a maid of honor and a best man each. Their civil union was far simpler than that soiree. They obtained their license, then Judge Christine Shauche performed a brief ceremony. “We got to say our vows again,” said Craig.
Court decision a nice surprise for Sheridan woman Staff report Tawnee Bradford said she was pleasantly surprised by the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage. “I believed the decision legalizing the marriage of same-sex partners nationwide would happen eventually, but I figured that probably wouldn’t happen for another 20 years,” she said. “We are very happy to see it happen now. It clears up a lot of gray areas. For example, if you traveled to another state, you would have to check to see if that state recognized same-sex marriage.”
Bradford said she and her partner, Tyne Swarts, have been a couple on and off for about 10 years. “A few years ago, we began living together,” she said. “We talked about it and when the state ruling legalized same-sex marriage, we went to the courthouse and got married.” The couple lives in an apartment in Sheridan. Bradford is a cook and Swarts is a driver for Uber. “Our schedules don’t always mesh so we treasure our time together,” Bradford said. “We have a good marriage and a good life. I am glad I am married to Tyne.”
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When Eugene Sanders heard last week about the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that same-sex couples had the right to marry nationwide, he was working at his part-time job, which tempered his response. “I couldn’t really react the way I wanted to in my mind,” said Sanders, a recent graduate of Arapahoe Community College. “I was overwhelmed with emotions because it was something Sanders that I wanted and others that I knew wanted for a long time. That’s why the Supreme Court’s there: the ultimate people to make this decision.” Sanders views the struggle to legalize gay
marriage as part of a larger human-rights issue around the world and throughout history. At ACC, he revived the Equality Club in 2013, and as president of the group he began an education campaign on LGBT rights. Sanders, who graduated from ACC in December and now attends the University of Colorado Denver, said he often turned to theater to spark the conversation. The Equality Club worked to bring performances to the college, and he credited ACC with generally being open-minded and supportive. ACC recognized Sanders as student of the year and as one of the college’s “rising stars” for the 2013-14 school year. “People see gay people in a certain light — we’re all different people,” Sanders said. “I was put in motion to educate as many people as possible.”
Castle Pines resident Rob Hanna is South Suburban Parks and Recreation District’s new executive director, taking the helm on July 31 as the district nears its 60th anniversary. “We are excited that Rob will be leading South Suburban to the next level of greatness,” said John Ostermiller, board president. “Rob is a solid performer and has proven himself to be a dedicated leader who works exceptionally well with partners and agencies. He’s a collaborator and is responsible for creating an open environment that has contributed to high levels of community engagement.” The SSPR board of directors voted unanimously to hire Hanna on June 17, luring him away from his current position as director of parks, recreation and golf for the Town of Castle Rock. Hanna says he enjoyed his tenure in Castle Rock and is most proud of his involvement in the design and construction of Philip S. Miller Park, having negotiated the town’s first public/private partnership to bring the project to fruition. It’s a 300-acre park with zip lines, synthetic fields, an outdoor amphitheater, splash pads, adventure playground and the Epic Adventure Tower. The Miller Ac-
tivity Center includes indoor synthetic turf, trampolines, an indoor playground and a leisure pool. Hanna also developed the first intergovernmental agreement with the Douglas County School District, which provides for the joint development and use of facilities. It reduced construction expenses and increased the availability of recreational facilities for the community. Hanna has 17 years of park and recreation experience, and has been in his current position since 1998. He is a certified parks and recreation professional and a registered landscape architect. He holds a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from Texas Tech University. Hanna replaces Dave Lorenz, who retired March 31 after a 48-year career with Hanna the district. In February, the board hired national executive search firm Peckham & McKenney to conduct a national search to replace Lorenz. More than 60 candidates applied from around the country, and the top three were interviewed by advisory committees on June 11. South Suburban Parks and Recreation provides and manages parks, trails, open space and recreation facilities and programs for 146,000 residents living in Littleton, Lone Tree, Sheridan, Columbine Valley, Bow Mar, western Centennial and portions of unincorporated Jefferson, Douglas and Arapahoe counties.
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Good times return for holiday tradition July 4 Family Fun and Fireworks event always brings out crowds By Tom Munds
tmunds@colorado communitymedia.com Communities and agencies have joined forces to continue the tradition of the July 4 Family Fun and Fireworks celebration at Cornerstone and Belleview parks. “The event is pretty much the same as it has been in past years,” said Becky Motcham of the city of Littleton Public Relations Office. “About the only change is there won’t be a fishing derby this year.” This is the 20th year the cities of Englewood, Littleton and Sheridan, along with South Suburban Parks and Recreation District and Arapahoe County, have worked together to put on the event. Xcel Energy, the Colorado Credit Union, Herbaly Exploration and Land Rover of Denver have stepped up as private sponsors to help put on the event. Every year, it takes a small army of volunteers to help put on the celebration. This year, that includes representatives from the Arapahoe Rescue Patrol and the Englewood Police Volunteers. Also, Englewood Country Buffet, an event sponsor, provides food to feed police officers, firefighters and volunteers. Belleview and Cornerstone, two of the parks clustered near the intersection of West Belleview Avenue and South Windermere Street, provide the location for July 4 celebration. The celebration is very popular, and several thousand people were at the parks for last year’s event. The numbers approximately double as the sun goes down and people begin parking and gathering along adjacent streets in the area near the parks to watch the fireworks. The parks are open all day, and people generally begin arriving early, pick a good spot to watch the fireworks and set up for the day. As more and more people arrive, Cornerstone Park begins to look like a tent city as families set up canopies and tents on the grassy areas.
Fireworks like this will light up the sky at the annual July 4 Family Fun and Fireworks Festival at Cornerstone and Belleview parks, located east of the intersection of West Belleview Avenue and South Windermere Street. File photo Organizers ask all who plan to attend to be aware that no alcoholic beverages, glass containers or personal fireworks, including sparklers, are permitted in the park. Roving patrols of police officers and park rangers have been advised to confiscate fireworks, issue tickets and escort violators from the park. Another challenge is parking. The available spaces at the parks and at the nearby Littleton Service Center at 1800 West Belleview Ave. fill quickly. Those attending should obey no-parking signs, as tickets will be issued to violators. While festival activities don’t begin un-
Conservancy formed to save canal High Line Partners raising preservation funds By Jennifer Smith
jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com The High Line Canal now has an official protector, and her name is Harriet LaMair. “This is the big picture. This will be what will make the High Line Canal the legacy for our community in the future,” said LaMair, the executive director of the new High Line Partners Conservancy. LaMair, a former Cherry Hills Village City Council member, visited Littleton City Council June 24 to rally support for the conservancy. She worked with Mayor Pro Tem Bruce Beckman on the High Line Canal Working Group, formed in 2010 to study ways to save the canal. “There isn’t going to be water in the canal anymore, and that’s the bottom line,” said Beckman. Denver Water owns the canal and the water in it, when there is water in it, but plans to repurpose it over the next few years. It has very junior water rights, so it and the old cottonwood trees that line its banks have languished through the drought years. And because several cities, including Englewood and Littleton, have outlawed planting female cottonwoods, the trees are likely doomed anyway. The canal costs $1 million a year to operate, but it never did what it was supposed to do. It was built in 1887 with the expectation it would irrigate 80,000 acres of prairie, turning them into farmland, but it never served more than 25,000 acres. But its winding 71 miles have become an important recreational amenity to the communities it serves, starting at Strontia Springs at the base of Waterton Canyon all the way to Green Valley Ranch near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. So representatives from each community formed the working group and have issued two complete studies so far. “Through the implementation of the prioritized improvements listed in the plan, the High Line Canal of the future will, for the first time in its existence, meet the needs of an entire Canal continues on Page 8
What will become of Ketring Lake? Staff report After Denver Water took over Littleton’s service in 1970, it agreed to keep Ketring Lake full, to the extent possible, with water channeled from the High Line Canal. But after several years of drought conditions, Denver Water has mostly left the canal empty, and the lake was drying up in 2013. As part of a long-term solution, the city paid $18,000 for a study on the feasibility of drilling to access underground aquifers. Charlie Blosten, Littleton’s director of public works, requested $500,000 in the 2014 budget to cover design, testing and construction of a well that would not only fill the lake but water up to 30 acres at Ketring Park, Littleton Museum, Bemis Library, Gallup Park and Gallup Gardens. He expected to need at least that much more in the 2015 budget to complete design of pumping and irrigation systems. Council rejected that request. “I have a huge concern with the price tag,” said Mayor Debbie Brinkman during a September 2013 study session. “I don’t want to just let it sit there and get messy and icky. … But I don’t think Ketring Lake is sustainable, and I don’t think drilling a well for $1 million is a good idea right now.” She suggested using the money for a master plan of the area, which might include “repurposing” the lake. At the same time, former City Manager Larry Borger suggested diverting water from Englewood’s McClellan Reservoir in Douglas County. Englewood is legally obligated to let Littleton have 35 acrefeet of water a year to replace evaporated water in Cooley Lake, which is south of South Platte Park. But Littleton only uses about 19 acre-feet a year, so Borger feels the city has a right to do whatever it wants with the other 16.
til 3 p.m., there are activities underway nearby, like at the Colorado Journey Miniature Golf Course at Belleview and Windermere. Across Belleview, Pirates Cove Aquatic Park is open and, in Belleview Park, the miniature train and children’s farm are in operation. A fee is charged for all these activities. About 3 p.m., festival activities get underway. At Cornerstone Park, there are vendors with food items for sale ranging from roasted turkey legs to kettle corn, plus there are for-fee attractions including bounce houses. A smaller number of food vendors will
set up in Belleview Park. Free festival activities at Cornerstone Park including face painting by the Drug Free Marshals that begins at 3 p.m. and the landing by the Air Life helicopter at 6 p.m. The band Buckstein will be playing country music on the show wagon stage from 7 to 9 p.m. The finale of the event comes about 9:30 p.m. when a fireworks show about 20 minutes long will be set off from the ballfields on the north side of Belleview. The fireworks display is planned whether or not it rains.
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Late Steckel leaves legacy in Milestones Project Celebration of life will be held July 25 By Sonya Ellingboe
sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia Dr. Richard Alan Steckel of Littleton died June 19 at the age of 72. He leaves behind his wife, Michele, a loving family and a legacy of photographs meant to help people around the world realize how we are all connected. A celebration of Steckel’s life will be held at 3 p.m. on July 25 at Arapahoe Community College. The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to the Milestones Project, c/o Colorado Business Bank, 2409 W. Main St., Littleton CO 80120. In 1999, the Steckels started traveling and assembling the Milestones Project, which has 73,000 photographs celebrating children as they recognize a milestone— the loss of a tooth, a first step, a first friend, a first day of school, etc. They collected stories from the children, as well as quotations from world leaders. These photographs have been compiled into 11 widely-distributed educational books for children as well as traveling exhibits that have been shown at libraries, schools and at 11 international airports, including DIA. The Steckels were honored by the Friends of the United Nations and the National Education Association.
A related project, which is a legacy to his Littleton community, is a special permanent photography installation, “Littleton: My International Home Sweet Home,” at Arapahoe Community College. Dedicated in November 2007, it features 37 large images of local adults and children who came from other countries to live, work, study or operate a business in Littleton. Storyboards accompany the photographs. There are three groups: Littleton merchants, elementary school children in Littleton schools and people affiliated with ACC or the Spring International Language Institute (students, faculty, staff). They came from Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Democratic Republic of Congo, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Nepal, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Spain, Syria, Thailand, Venezuela and Vietnam. Prior to Steckel’s focus on the Milestones Project, he came to Denver to head the Children’s Museum from 1976 to 1984, converting it from a failing institution into a successful one through his approach of social entrepreneurship. The museum will dedicate a space in his honor. In addition to Michele, his wife of 52 years, Dr. Steckel is survived by his daughters Robin, Traci and Jill, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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Turner Kids Remember their Mom and Dad Jay and Eleanor Turner were residents of Englewood for three decades, from the late 40’s till late 70’s. Jay worked at C. A. Norgren in Littleton starting just after WWII, Eleanor was the Englewood Welcome Wagon Hostess in the 50’s. They were long-time members of the Englewood Methodist Church. Eleanor passed away in 1994 and Jay in
2000, leaving behind four children: Lee, Kaye, Karen, and Paul, all EHS grads. On the occasion of the upcoming marriage on July 4th of the first of four grandchildren, Lauren Turner in Santa Fe NM, Jay and Eleanor’s four children remember them and thank them for their
Event celebrates global trade The Consular Corps Celebration on June 22 was a chance for people to connect with Colorado leaders as well as representatives of international markets. It was the first formal event held at the new AMG National Trust Bank headquarters facility in Greenwood Village and about 150 people showed not only for tasty hors d’oeuvres, but to hear from national and international officials, put on by the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Consulate. Guests included Larry A. Mizel from MDC; Gov. John Hickenlooper; president of CSU-Global, Becky Takeda-Tinker; Denver Mayor Michael Hancock; Arapahoe, Douglas, Jefferson and Adams County commis-
sioners; numerous international leaders and 30 or so honorary and consuls general. “This unprecedented gathering of international leaders marks the formal launch of the chamber’s new global commerce initiative, designed to facilitate international trade and economic development. It will provide an exceptional opportunity for these leaders to communicate and network as never before,” a press release said. Hickenlooper spoke about the importance of trade relationships and applauded what Colorado has done so far in the realm of trade. After Hancock praised the room on international connections and the importance of education around the world, consuls general and honorary consuls were introduced and welcomed on stage for photos. The night ended in a couple of hours of connecting and networking.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock was a guest speaker at the Consular Corp Celebration on June 22 in Greenwood Village. Hancock’s remarks included praise for Colorado’s hard work with education, international trade and installation of new jobs.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper spoke at the Consular Corps Celebration in Greenwood Village on June 22. He spoke about the importance of trade relationships in the state of Colorado.
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unconditional love, gentle but firm guidance, and the foundations of the strong faith they share in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Thanks Mom and Dad, we remember you with much love, fondness, and admiration! See you in Heaven! Lee Turner (Houston) , Paul Turner (Littleton), Kaye Baumgartner (Tucson) and Karen Holesworth (Phoenix).
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community as the preserved and enhanced High Line Canal Recreation and Trails Corridor, Colorado’s new ‘emerald strand,’” reads the group’s 2012 study on preserving the canal. One idea that’s been floated is to convert the entire canal into a rain garden, a concept that’s been gaining popularity as municipalities struggle with water issues. Rain gardens are shallow depressions that are planted with deep-rooted native plants and grasses. They collect runoff from hard surfaces such as streets and driveways, slow
it down and then allow it to naturally soak into the ground. Littleton has one on the Mary Carter Greenway behind the Carson Nature Center. The new conservancy will act as more of a fundraising arm than a study group. It’s already received a Gates Family Foundation grant for $$50,000 and another $130,000 from Great Outdoors Colorado, along with commitments from Denver Water, Arapahoe County and Bellco Credit Union. “For the first time, all the parties are together at the table in good faith, and Denver Water is on board,” said LaMair. Going forward, LaMair will spend quite a bit of time on the campaign trail, holding public meetings in each jurisdiction. “Not using the canal for water might cause serious consternation,” she said.
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‘Almost’ good enough isn’t good enough “Almost” is only a six-letter word, but so very important. And its importance and relevance could be situational, and maybe it even comes down to our own perspective and how we choose to view all of the “almost” events in our lives. Recently while driving from Denver to Des Moines, Iowa, we “almost” made it into Des Moines in time to avoid the tornado warnings and storm. I mean we were about 25 miles from town when the radio alert interrupted our music and alerted us to a tornado warning and to seek shelter immediately. Luckily it was just a very severe thunderstorm with high wind and rain, and we arrived safely; however, it was a bit unnerving as debris filled the highways, and trucks were sideways along the road. “Almost” there was just not good enough. How many of us have experienced an event or situation where we avoided a serious accident or collision where we could have been hurt or seriously injured? You know, the kind of near-miss where we tell the story to a friend and we say something like, “You should have seen it, there we were just walking along when all of a sudden a rock slide came and ‘almost’ wiped us out!” The good news in these situations is that we were “almost” in trouble but we survived to tell our story. The “almost” events can be very exhilarat-
ing, for sure, as they get our heart rate going and stimulate our thinking and our actions. But there is another kind of “almost” that serves as more of a de-motivator in our lives that could be even more dangerous than those near-misses and close calls. If you have ever Michael Norton found yourself saying, WINNING “I almost went to the gym today” or “I almost WORDS started reading that book,” you know what I might be referring to. It is in these “almost” moments, events and situations where we can caught in the trap of “almost” achieving our goals and dreams. When this happens we have to look at the barriers, obstacles and excuses that cause us to “almost” achieve our goals instead of pushing past and realizing success. “I almost went to the gym, but my friend came by with a pizza and I just couldn’t say no.” Now that is an excuse that could have been avoided with a commitment to a goal of better physical fitness and getting in shape. “I almost went to the gym, however as I stepped out of my car
I twisted my ankle and needed to go for an X-ray.” This is a real obstacle that needs to be addressed before moving on with the pursuit of our goals. The point is this, we can “almost” do anything. And if we just shifted our mindset and took the emphasis off of the word “almost” and placed our focus on the word “do,” we would increase our effectiveness and productivity in every area of our lives. I know, I know, living with an “almost” attitude is so much easier, it really is. It gets us out of any promises, commitments and expectations we have made to ourselves and others. If we could just get past the “almost” there mental barrier and get our heads and hearts around the “being” there or “getting” there success stories of our lives, there is no doubt in my mind that we can all meet with a higher level of personal and professional achievement. How about you, are you “almost” there or are you there? Either way I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com. And when we move from “almost” there to “being” there, it really will be a better than good week. Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.
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I had a nightmare. I was in an elevator with five other people. They were all strangers to me, and they were all strangers to each other. All of them were on the phone. Tapping daway or talking, heads down, oblivious to meach other. It was a cage of monkeys seeing and monkeys doing. Courtesy was out the window. Any speck of politeness was out the window. Respect was out the window. Those are arcane words. I gotta make a phone call now, right here, in front of anyone, anywhere, at any time, no matter what it looks like, and it can’t really bother anyone because everyone around me is doing it. Except me. And it wasn’t a nightmare. It just happened, in a New York City hotel. They all got on without looking up, and bumped into each other without apologizing. One of them got off without looking up and ran right into the doorframe. At about floor 19, I started to speak, in my distinctive voice, the lyrics of “A Day in the Life.” “Four-thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire.” It went unnoticed. “And though the holes were rather small, they had to count them all.” Unnoticed. “Now they know how many holes it takes to
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fill the Albert Hall.” Nothing. “I’d love to turn you on.” “What did you say?” a woman with an accent said. More than nine in 10 of us have cell phones. There is zero etiquette when it comes to using them. “Phone anyplace and get in someone’s face,” is one marketing slogan. I am here to tell you that you look
like fools. Looking like fools isn’t what it used to be. I remember when you had to balance a Walnetto on your nose to look like a fool. I know that your call or your text is mighty crucial. A must to make. Lindbergh just landed at Le Bourget, and you need to tell all of your friends. Your pants are on fire. Meet me at 8 and don’t be late. “Did you hear what he said about my elbow implants?” It must be a way to look connected. To be with it. Take a selfie. Take another selfie. Take another selfie. Take another selfie. Take another
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selfie. Take another selfie. Text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text. You don’t care what you look like, but I sure wish you would watch where you are going. There is no eye contact to begin with in New York. It’s a misdemeanor. At a minimum it is referred to as “creepy.” It’s not as bad here, but just about. When was the last time you saw a teenager without a phone in their hand? I know that I am an anomaly. When I leave the house, I want to be out of reach. Leave a message on my landline and I will get back to you. But if I am out and about, leave me alone. Rudeness used to mean something. Now it means nothing. Am I am old and cranky? Thankfully, yes. An elevator is a great place to show exactly what has become of human behavior. When the doors opened, a punk with a backward cap left in front of a 40-something woman. Both of them were on the phone, and she didn’t seem to mind. People are people. I just don’t happen to want to be one of them sometimes. I have hammered this nail before, I know that. And I am sure I will again. Short of living in a lighthouse — which I have considered — it’s the only way to avoid foundering in the babble and drivel. Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.
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I awoke Friday morning to a beautiful rainbow, not outside my window, but on my Facebook feed. Just as interracial marriage is now simply considered “marriage,” so too is LGBT marriage in all 50 states. This news came nearly 24 hours after the Supreme Court also deemed government tax subsidies within the Affordable Care Act to be constitutional. I felt that these court rulings would prove to the opposition that their beloved country has made these decisions purely based on our Constitution to most prominently include equality. We have just witnessed not one but two historical Supreme Court decisions, both related to human rights. While both decisions result in positivity, I cannot help but wonder why these were cases at all. It does not shine a modern or inclusionary light on our country when such questions as “Should everyone have affordable healthcare?” or “Should everyone be free of discrimination when it comes to legal rights?” must be asked.
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to leaders in Congress, regional business groups like the Colorado Business Roundtable, the Colorado Space Coalition and the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry, as well as agriculture groups like the Colorado Farm Bureau and the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, joined us in expressing support to keep the bank working with businesses in our state. Ex-Im Bank President Fred Hochberg also visited the state recently to meet with business leaders about the importance of reauthorizing the bank. He visited Droplet Measurement Technologies, the ExportImport Bank 2015 Small Business Exporter of the Year, which exported nearly $12 million in American-made goods since 2007.
Coolerado, a company we visited in 2012 that designs and manufactures awardwinning energy-efficient air conditioners, received resources from the Ex-Im Bank to export more than $1.2 million in goods to 25 countries. And through our “Beyond Colorado” workshop series, we met with countless businesses across the state that expressed interest in working with the Ex-Im Bank to expand their operations and export their goods overseas. The Ex-Im Bank plays an important role in leveling the playing field for U.S. goods in global markets. It supports Colorado businesses and provides them with opportunities to expand their reach abroad, sell made-in-America products around the world and create new jobs at home. Here in Colorado, Ex-Im Bank customers represent many of our key industries including aerospace, renewable energy, manufacturing and oil and gas. Without the bank, many businesses in
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these industries will lose access to a key resource. And at a time when the world economy is becoming increasingly competitive, we should be trying to expand opportunities to reach global markets, not take away a proven, effective tool. We can all agree there is no shortage of agencies in Washington that could be cut back, overhauled or completely closed down. But only in Washington would they choose to dismantle an agency with a proven track record of success that actually returns money to the taxpayers. Reauthorizing the bank’s charter is a common-sense decision and one that is important to the economy of the state and the country. We have committed to Colorado businesses that we will support the Export-Import Bank, and we will continue fighting for it in Congress. Democrat Michael Bennet has represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate since 2009.
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Priddy implemented programs to annually replace vehicles, asphalt, trees and irrigation systems. He also developed a system of management that conserves water, preserves open space and supports effective management standards for park maintenance. Thanks to those efforts, the district is able to maintain green parks and athletic fields and a complete and thorough network of safe and beautiful trails. One of Priddy’s proudest accomplishments was acquiring a new service center in 2012 to accommodate the growing needs of the district. He was actively involved in the district’s three long-range planning groups that resulted in the Gold Medal 2020 plan. He is a member of the Colorado Parks and Recreation Association and the National Certification Board, and he has been a licensed and certified leisure professional for 24 years. He and his wife, Connie, lived in Littleton for many years, where they raised their daughters. They now live in Highlands Ranch and remain active in the south metro community.
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Think Tank The city’s only tattoo parlor opened in April, and owner Matt Sager said things are going even better than expected. “Things are going great, and we’re doing awesome,” he said. “People say we have a great vibe, that we’re homey, comfortable, professional and clean.” With brick walls and hardwood floors, the store is reminiscent of a warm and inviting downtown salon. The walls are filled with colorful pieces done by Sager and his other three artists, some quirky, some elegant. Think Tank will welcome the community to several gallery shows throughout the year, so even those who don’t want a tattoo have a chance to appreciate the art. Fundraisers for local nonprofits are also on Sager’s to-do list.
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at $34.99, is the Smokin’ Ribs Trio. It features baby-back ribs, alligator and something called pacu, a Brazilian freshwater fish that can weigh as much as 60 pounds. The partnership has another restaurant, Lucky Fins, in Greeley, but Boyle is excited to be opening in downtown Littleton. “It’s awesome, vibrant, active,” he said. “For lack of a better word, it’s cool. It’s refreshed, but it still maintains that historic feel. … The genuine diversity is what I really love.”
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Sales associate Kayla Douglas says the boutique where she works is all about beauty on a budget. Most items are less than $80, with the goal of nothing more than $100. “It’s guilt-free shopping,” she said. Most items are made in America, and many are even more local than that. Owner Molly Hakes pours her own soy candles, which burn for about 60 hours, and sells organic tea made by Teakoe, a company operated by her new husband, Craig. The store also sells pieces by local jewelers. Douglas, a 2010 graduate of Littleton High School, loves working on Main Street so much that she has two jobs there. She’s also a stylist at Indulgence Salon. “There’s a big sense of community here, and there are easy ways to be a part of the community,” she said.
The Trujillo family finally found a suitable buyer for Jose’s restaurant, which closed in September 2013 after 47 years on Main Street. The winner is the sixth Colorado franchise of Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, which sells a variety of Mexican food and, yes, margaritas. Prices are reasonable, with combo meals selling for around $8.49.
The Paper Chandelier Open for just six weeks, owner Cailin Clements says her shop is a consignment boutique for style-savvy women. The “paper” part of the name represents recycling, of which consignment is a form, she said. And as for the chandelier? “Just because you’re shopping consignment doesn’t mean you can’t shop in a
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Campus. He thanked the board for supporting him through his nine years in the role of superintendent, saying it takes a team to sail a ship through sometimes-rough waters. “I just want to say thank you to a great team of sailors,” he said. “I just had the good
beautiful atmosphere,” Clements said. This is a new venture for Clements, though she owned a children’s clothing consignment store in Littleton at one time. “I enjoy styling, and helping women feel good about themselves,” she said. “But this way they get a better price point on the high-end brands.” Clements is also loving life on Main Street. “Everyone is really helpful, and we’re all helping each other,” she said. “And a lot of people who come in are just out enjoying their day, so they’re in a good mood. Everyone just wants everyone to be successful.”
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After seven years on the east of Main Street, the family that owns The Green Bride is expanding into a new venture on the west end. They’ve had a vineyard in Firestone for about five years — one of the largest in Colorado, said winery Manager Brittany Thurman — and are now excited to showcase the fruits of their labor in a winery that will include a tasting room, snacks and regular visits by food trucks. “Everything will be stomped, pressed, bottled and sold right there,” said Green Bride Manager Holly Meils. They’ll sell mostly blended reds with a few whites, said Thurman. “Colorado is an interesting place to grow, because of the winter,” explained Meils. “They all have to be really strong vines.” They’re hoping to be open by early July.
terior-design business for more than 35 years, but just a month ago moved her business from Englewood into the Little Town office building, where the Arapahoe County Trustees Office once was. “We do interior design from A to Z,” said Sophie Zatzkis, Lacroix’s assistant. “We needed a bigger place, more walk-ins, more exposure.” They certainly have the exposure they were looking for now, with two sides of the space lined with windows. Some of them look into the work area, filled with material, sewing machines and everything required for them to do all work on site. “It’s nice because if a customer wants to change something, it’s right here,” said Zatzkis. “And we have a very nice view we didn’t have before. It’s a very nice street. We’re getting to meet people now.”
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Company officials say they’re not ready to reveal too many details about plans for the new restaurant on the west end of Main Street in what had been several automotive-related businesses over the course of the years. But it was granted a liquor license in April, and the Historic Preservation Board approved a secondstory patio. This will be a third location for The ViewHouse, with others in LoDo and Centennial. They host a variety of special events, from yoga to modeling competitions to Sunday Funday to bRUNching, a monthly brunch and 5k run. The menu offers wide variety, with everything from chicken and waffles on up to the $30 Kona beef, which is the most expensive item. Most entrees are between $12 and $25.
“He’s always challenged us to celebrate the good things together,” while also taking a hard look at the challenges, said Nichols. State Sen. Linda Newell, D-Littleton, even made a special appearance to wish Murphy well and give him an official Senate proclamation in his honor. “Your steadfast devotion is evidenced by Littleton Public Schools being consistently one of the best,” it read. On a more personal note, she thanked him as the mother of two daughters who grew up in LPS.
“I want to share as a person my experience and my gratitude,” she said. Murphy’s name will live on in the district thanks to the Murphy Legacy Fund, which will support security and mental-health efforts. And he said he’s confident the district will be in good hands under the leadership of Brian Ewert, formerly the superintendent of Englewood Public Schools. “Brian is a good, good man, and I know he’s a good superintendent,” said Murphy. “He’ll bring wisdom and kindness, with a great head and a good heart.”
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twalker@colorado communitymedia.com Wearing a giant smile and a khaki visor labeled “The Honey Gal,” Debra Ann Rivera called out to the crowd as she squirted whipped caramel honey onto wooden sticks for visitors to try. “I’ve got Colorado honey!” Rivera calls herself the honey gal because that’s who she is and what she does. She’s one of hundreds of vendors who sells products at famers markets in the Denver metro area. On a recent Wednesday, Rivera was working the market at Aspen Grove in Littleton. It’s one of five locations run by Metro Denver Farmers’ Markets. “Here, the public gets great exposure to a variety of produce, even organic, which people love nowadays,” Rivera said. “Remember those days of taking a family trip and seeing a sign that says ‘Cherries, apples and peaches,’ and just dying to stop and see what it was all about?” The best part of farmers markets is getting to be outside and tasting products, she said. “There’s this old nostalgic Americana feeling that people get when they can come buy local wildflower honey or fresh fruit from a stand,” Rivera said. Metro Denver’s market manager, John Herian, said Colorado honey isn’t something you can find at every store, and products like that are what keep the markets going. He said he encourages customers to come out and support local farmers, as this year has been a difficult one. “It’s a hard year for farmers because of replanting and delayed harvesting,” he said. “It makes it difficult to make their loan payments. Situations like this will put some farmers out of business, and sadly that happens all the time.” With heavy rain and hailstorms in spring, customers have been holding back on visiting the markets he oversees because of lack of produce, he added. “People tend to come to the farmers markets, especially ours, because we have the most farmers with fresh produce,” he said. “What they should know is to come and investigate the market to see what other goodies are available that they can’t find anywhere else.”
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Castle Rock: 8 a.m. to noon, Saturdays, July 11 through Oct. 3, Third and Elbert streets, Castle Rock Centennial: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., July 18, features a market for kids; 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Aug. 15; 13050 E. Peakview Ave. (Centennial Center Park) Highlands Ranch: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or sellout, Sundays through Nov. 1, 9288 Dorchester St. (Highlands Ranch Town Center) Lakewood: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or sellout, Saturdays through Sept. 26, 9077 W. Alameda Ave. (Mile Hi Church) Mazzotti Farms of Hudson supplied fresh produce including tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, peppers and green beans while at the Aspen Grove farmers market in Littleton on its second day open, June 24. culture, said Djehba Salih of Aurora. Through her business, Kente Konnection, she sells shea butter directly from Ghana, the African nation of her heritage. “You come to these markets, and a lot of it is always Americanized,” Salih said. “I started this up because I wanted to get back to my roots. My dad was born in Ghana, and my husband is from there.” The shea butter, which comes in giant, rotund ball shapes, is handmade by women and children in Africa through a sustainable program, she said. Salih admitted she was hesitant at first to come to the Centennial Artisan and Farmers Market, which is not affiliated with the Metro Denver group, but after she was formally invited, she decided to give it a try. “We sit back and laugh because in Ghana we’ve been making shea from nuts for hundreds of years, and here people sell products where they just put a drop of it in there and sell it for twice as much,” she explained. Saby Bujdoso operates a traveling, tikistyle, fresh-squeezed lemonade stand in Highlands Ranch — perfect for summertime farmers markets, he said. Every week he teams up with two other partners from Littleton to sell kettle corn and Danish pastries. “Farmers are the key to a farmers market. Without them I wouldn’t have all these lemons,” Bujdoso said. One of the only vendors with fresh produce at the Centennial market on June 20 was Diego Hernandez of Denver’s Ant D’s Fine Foods. He said the key to a great market is consistency. “If you’re not consistent, people won’t
come,” he said. “They need routine. It’s important to come out to the same spots.” Hernandez, a fourth-generation jam maker, sells a lot of jam. But it’s not just about jams and jellies — he has a variety of fresh produce, including mushrooms, eggs, peppers, peaches and strawberries. At the Highlands Ranch Farmers Market, Sean O’Connel, an employee of Mazzotti Farms in Hudson, said everything is late this year when it comes to produce. But his vendor stand had quite the spread of flowers, green beans, tomatoes and spinach. “I’d say by August 1, we’ll have a lot more. Everything from carrots and onions to beets and melons,” he said.
Produce still matters For some visitors, famers markets are marked on their calendar, while others come across them by accident. John Tinkler of Roxbourough said he was perusing offerings at the Highlands Ranch Town Center while waiting on a table at a nearby restaurant when he sampled some pork green chile from Mama Montoya’s out of Littleton. “I was just kind of here by accident, but I’ve been to this market the most,” he said. “I like to see what it’s like every week — check out the different products. I’ll probably be taking some of that pork green chile home today.” Also at the Highlands Ranch market was Littleton resident Peggy Rodger, and she knew exactly what she was leaving with when she arrived.
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“I was here last weekend, but now there’s a super deal. The flowers are buy one, get one. Now, I’m just waiting for the organic produce to come in,” Rodger said. Others come and don’t find what they’re looking for. Several customers in Centennial mentioned the lack of fresh produce and that some of the markets in the area are more like street markets. Amanda Wentworth and her 22-monthold son, Kyler, were sharing a frozen treat while walking down the long aisle of the Aspen Grove farmers market. She said she comes to the market to support local businesses. For Wentworth, a Littleton resident, it’s “absolutely” necessary that the markets have fresh produce when in season. Monica Sharp, of Littleton, who was adorned with recyclable bags on each arm, agreed. “I probably wouldn’t come here if they didn’t have any produce, especially because Colorado is known for growing so much. It’s very important, but I do like some of the other things here,” she said.
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Chowing down continues amid massive storm Not even a massive storm that swept through Genesee and pulverized the rest of the metro area on the night of June 24 could dampen the spirits of media members gathered at the new Hideaway Kitchen + Bar to see the space renovation and sample fine fare from new executive chef Nick Shankland, who laid out an impressive spread. The restaurant, owned by Alan Zizmor, closed its doors in December and reopened in April with the new chef, new general manager Scott Tallman, a Denver restaurant veteran, and a new attitude. Zizmor, who largely relied on locals who have supported the restaurant through its growing pains, largely change the menu to a shared-plates concept, and let Shankland, whose resume includes stints at Colt & Gray, Old Major and Central Bistro, work his culinary magic on the menu. Our group was treated to tasting portions of fig, tomato and white chocolate salad off the lunch menu, farro risotto off the vegetarian side, mussels and Manila clams from the seafood list, house-made sausage from the farm category, fried naked chicken and pork ribs from the comfort food list, crabcake Benedict off the brunch menu and cherry hand pie with sour ice cream for dessert. Each course was beautifully paired with wine and cocktail samples. Hideaway features a gorgeous outdoor patio with humongous umbrellas, which shielded us from the downpour. The restaurant serves lunch and dinner daily, along with Sunday brunch. For reservations and more information, go to www.hideawaykitchen.com or call 303-526-0556.
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why Project Angel Heart — which prepares and delivers meals to people with lifethreatening illnesses — has partnered with Dining Out Denver and Boulder to offer the Denver Dining Out Passbook. The passbook offers two-for-one and other discounts at more than 50 restaurants in the Denver metro area. A portion of every Passbook sold benefits Project Angel Heart. Special pricing for friends of Project Angel Heart (donors, volunteers and friends) are offered the $100 book for $49.50 plus free shipping. To get this special deal, enter the coupon code “angelheart50” when you check out at www. diningout.com/denverboulder/product/ denver-dining-passbook/#. You’ll enjoy two-for-one and other deals at more than 50 restaurants like: Squeaky Bean, Solitaire, Il Posto, Lower48, Zengo, Tamayo, Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizza, Leña, Little India, Los Chingones, Adelita’s, The B Side, Blackbird, Black Pearl, Bubu, Butcher’s Bistro, Café Brazil, City O’ City, DiFranco’s, Gaetano’s, Ignite!, Ink! Coffee, La Biblioteca de Tequila, La Sandia, (located at Park Meadows Mall in Lone Tree) Little Man, Milk & Cake, Pizza Republica (Greenwood Village), Shells & Sauce, Sugarmill and Greenwood Village’s The Wooden Table. Passbook deals are valid through June 30, 2016. Remember to enter the coupon code “angelheart50” when you check out to get your passbook for just $49.50 (plus free shipping).
Teller Bar launches drink ritual
Teller Bar, the signature social lounge at The Renaissance Denver Downtown at the Colorado National Bank, has launched the Renaissance Bar Ritual, an experiential
event, which will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. five nights a week. The Renaissance Bar Ritual program encourages guests to make time for the 5 to 9 p.m. period of the day, after the 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. work is completed. As part of Renaissance Hotels’ “Business Unusual” philosophy, the Bar Ritual is designed to defy the notion of conventional business travel by helping guests uncover local experiences. Rather than passively sitting at the bar, patrons are invited to discover more about local spirits and wines, and, most evenings, take part in making a spirited punch. Each week, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, original punch recipes using local spirits will be showcased. Guests will actively take part in crafting the recipe, with the assistance of Teller Bar’s bartenders. Those participating will then be able to sip and enjoy their creation. Each Wednesday, or “Winedown Wednesday,” will feature complimentary wine tastings, which will also often be highlighted by meet-andgreets and talks from winery owners.
Overheard
Eavesdropping on woman to another at the Ry Cooder, Sharon White and Ricky Skaggs concert at Denver Botanic Gardens: “No wonder you like bluegrass. You done a man wrong.” Penny Parker’s “Mile High Life” column gives insights into the best events, restaurants, businesses, parties and people throughout the metro area. Parker also writes for BlacktieColorado.com. You can subscribe and read her columns (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) at www.blacktie-colorado.com/pennyparker. She can be reached at parkerp1953@gmail.com or at 303-619-5209.
CURTAIN TIME On stage in Aurora
“Always a Bridesmaid” plays July 10 to Aug. 30 at Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Aug. 27; 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: vintagetheatre.com.
Magic moments
“Blithe Spirit” by Noel Coward plays July 10 to Aug. 1 at Spark Theatre, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays; no show on July 17 or July 23. Tickets: sparktheater.org.
Up in Evergreen
“Forbidden Broadway” will be performed by Evergreen Players July 10-Aug. 2 at Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: evergreenplayers.org.
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Denver Botanic Gardens isn’t just about flowers
Food program helps many people around metro area By Sonya Ellingboe
sellingboe@colorado communitymedia.com Starting in 2010, Denver Botanic Gardens launched the first community-supported agriculture (CSA) program at a U.S. botanic garden, with weekly seasonal distributions to members in Denver and Littleton — about 265 members in 2015, according to program manager Josie Hartt. In 2014, the Botanic Gardens expanded outeach to underserved communities through urban food initiatives. And in May of this year, a three-year grant from Kaiser Permanente was announced to support expansion in Denver-area food deserts, where access to fresh produce is slim to none for some families and individuals. Through cooperation with the Denver Housing Authority and Denver Human Services, three weekly farm stands are available at DHS offices at 1200 Federal Blvd., 4685 Peoria St. and 3815 Steele St. Food stamps are accepted at all locations. Hartt, who comes from a background as an educator, has been with DBG for 10 years. In family and children’s programs she has recognized a disconnect, with kids and adults, about where food comes from. “We need a CSA. We need to know a farmer.” Six acres are devoted to sustainable farming, with no pesticides or herbicides, for the CSA program and another quarter-acre specifically for the farm stands, she said. A market grower oversees the farming and farm stands and works with the Veterans Reintegration Program to offer hands-on farming and vocational training. A coordinator was also hired to work with the farm stands. CSA shareholders pay a flat $475 in advance for the season, and distribution is once weekly at both the Chatfield and York Street gardens. More than one planting is possible, and
the end of the season depends on the weather. Volunteers are recruited to pick and weed. Some members assist in harvesting and others come out on “gleaning days” to gather leftovers after regular harvesting is done in an area. “You-pick” days are pretty popular, Hartt said. Some volunteers gather and sell cut flowers from the cutting garden. Working shareholders receive a discount at the end of the season. Regarding the farm stands, Hartt said they used to donate CSA leftovers to food banks, but were “unable to track produce after it left our hands — didn’t know if it impacted lives…” With the Kaiser grant, they can produce specifically for each farm stand — Hispanic families may want different items than others, for example. And the program has just started an arrangement with Commissary Kitchens to prepare healthful snacks that don’t require cooking for homeless individuals and families served by DHS to be distributed from farm stands. All produce is labeled in English and Spanish, with nutritional information and recipes. Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield was formed after the land was declared a flood zone following the 1965 flood (not fit for housing). The website shows some current flooded fields. The historic Hildebrand Farm is included in the property and restored for use, including the historic Deer Creek School. There are chickens, goats, two edgy miniature horses, two turkeys and some ducks in residence. Each year, 10 acres of pumpkins are planted and grown for sale at the October Pumpkin Festival. There is a barn where many weddings are held, wetlands and other ecological zones to hike, and about 250 different kinds of birds to be seen in the course of a year. Educational programs include beginning farming, farm camps for kids and more. And it’s a lovely place to walk, tucked against the hogbacks.
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Chatfield Farms features six acres of sustainably grown fresh produce, which is distributed to CSA members in local communities and at inner-city farm stands. Courtesy photo
Sidewalk sale boosts Arapahoe libraries Books, collectibles, DVDs and audiobooks will be available at Southglenn Library’s Super Sidewalk Sale at the library’s entrance, 6972 S. Vine St., in the Streets at Southglenn. Sale hours: from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on July 10 and 11; noon to 4 p.m. July 12. The Friends of the Arapahoe Libraries host this and other book sales, as well as sell books on Amazon. The organization granted the Arapahoe Library District more than $100,000 in 2014 for events, materials, equipment and more. To join: 303-5427279 or arapahoelibraries.org.
Southglenn Library holds its Super Sidewalk Sale July 10-12 outside the entrance, as it did in this 2014 photo. Courtesy photo
Arapahoe Philharmonic competition
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The 2015-2016 Vincent LaGuardia Jr. Conducting Competition is open to young conductors between the ages of 18 and 28 who are U.S. residents not yet regularly employed in the conducting field. The winner will conduct Edvard Grieg’s “Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46” in concert with the Arapahoe Philharmonic on Nov. 6 and will be presented with a check for $500. Devin Patrick Hughes, music director and conductor of the Arapahoe Philharmonic, will mentor the winner during his/her week with the orchestra. Eligibility and application requirements are available at arapahoe-phil.org/competitions/conducting-competition. Deadline: July 31 at 11:59 p.m.
Music and a movie
July 10 is the next date for Centennial Center Park, 13050 Peakview Ave., Centennial, to host music, food and family-friendly films from 7 to 10 p.m. The movie is “Epic” and Mike Masse will make music. Free. centennialco. gov/events, 303-325-8000.
Films for opera fans
The Met: Live in HD 2015 Summer Encores will include “La Traviata” on July 8; “La Fille du Regiment” on July 15, “The Merry Widow” on July 22 and “Aida” on July 29. For theater locations,
visit: fathomevents.com.
Hiking in Nepal
Ann Price will talk about her 1,100-mile hike across Nepal from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on July 14 at Bemis Library, 6014 Sonya Ellingboe S. Datura St., Littleton. She SONYA’S celebrated her SAMPLER 65th birthday on a glacier. She will share photographs and anecdotes. 303-795-3961.
Quilt, Craft and Sewing Festival
The Douglas County Fairgrounds, exit 181, Plum Creek Parkway, is the location for the Rocky Mountain Quilt, Craft and Sewing Festival on July 9-11. Latest supplies, fabrics, notions, patterns, tools and more. Information: quiltcraftsew.com.
Focus on poison
“The Power of Poison” opens on July 10 at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver. Plants and animals rely on poisons for
offense and defense, murder and medicine. Live poison dart frogs will be displayed in a re-creation of Colombia’s remote Choco Forest. An exhibit discusses the forensics of detecting poison and more. Information: dmns.org, orT call 303-370-6000.
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Entries for the annual, juried Kaleidoscope Exhibition will be acceptedB from 9 to 10:30 a.m. on July 11 at Colo-s rado Gallery of the Arts, in the Annexc at Arapahoe Community College, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Accepted media: ceramics, drawing, jewelry, glass, metals, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, woodworking. Art instructor Gigi Lambert will be the juror from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Unaccepted art is to be picked up from 1 to 3 p.m. Fee: $10 per entry — no limit on number of entries. Show runs July 13 to Aug. 14, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. July 17. Information: trish. sangelo@arapahoe.edu.
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“Hugo and Rose,”a new novel by Littleton native Bridget Foley, is set “in a familiar suburb.” Courtesy photos
Author Bridget Foley, who just published “Hugo and Rose,” is a Littleton native whose parents still live in the area.
Former Coloradan will be in area to discuss new book
her life and adventures on a magical island, always the same place and with the same companion — a boy her age named Hugo. Both grow up to a point, but are not adults in the dreams, which continue into her grown-up married life. She has hit a familiar point in some women’s lives, when she is stressed, overworked, overweight and seeks escape in a familiar fantasy world — but when she sees a grown-up version of Hugo at a drive-in, her real world goes out of control. The reader who enjoys fantasy will be intrigued with the consistent and colorful descriptions of the island, with its pink sand, blue waters, remote magic city and scary monster spiders — as are her young boys when she shares the vision with them. Shades of Oz? The novel combines a fantasy writer’s
‘Hugo and Rose’ tells of unease, escape By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@colorado communitymedia.com Writer Bridget Foley says she has “always been a storyteller.” One of several children, she grew up in Littleton — where her parents still live in the same house. She graduated from Littleton High School and attended the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She has been an actress and screenwriter and her first novel, “Hugo and Rose,” published in May by St. Martin’s Press, shows a cinematic flair with the creation of
a vivid imaginary world. She now lives near Seattle with her husband and children. Foley will make two appearances in the Denver area in July to read and discuss her new book with readers: at 7 p.m. on July 10, she will visit the BookBar, 4280 Tennyson St., Denver, and at 7 p.m. July 28, she will appear at Tattered Cover, Aspen Grove, 7301 S Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. “Hugo and Rose” takes place in a suburb of Denver, Foley said, but there is little to recognize — not that it matters to the storyline. Rose is a suburban housewife with three children and a busy surgeon/husband, who adores her, but is gone a lot. Since she was 6 years old and hospitalized while recovering from a bicycle accident, Rose has had consistent dreams of
The Stubby Shillelaghs will perform on the Celtic Main Stage at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, July 11, and on the Whiskey Pub Stage at 5:30 p.m. July 12 during the Colorado Irish Festival at Clement Park. Courtesy photo
Colorado Irish Festival is three days of fun Clement Park is site for music, games, dance, food By Sonya Ellingboe
sellingboe@colorado communitymedia.com From July 10-12, the 2015 Colorado Irish Festival will take over Clement Park along Bowles Avenue west of Littleton for a weekend of music, dance, food, fun, games and heritage. Visitors will find two music stages — Celtic Main Stage and Clontarf Whiskey Pub Stage — with dancers competing for awards, Irish games, food and drink and Gaelic goods. Young dancers from Wicks School of Irish Dance open the festivities
from 5:30 to 6 p.m. on July 10 (free admission from 5 to 6 p.m.) followed by an official welcome, the Commoners and Angus Mohr, Moxie Strings, Chancer’s Hooley and Delilah’s Revenge. All repeat at different times over the next two days. Bands with fanciful names continue to perform from 10:30 a.m. to 9:45 p.m. on July 11 and 10:30 to 6:45 on July 12: Pandora Celtica, the Stubby Shillelaghs, The Town Pants, The Screaming Orphans, the Elders and Gaelic Storm, Mice in the Mug, Indigent Row, Big Paddy, Juice O’ the Barley and Avourmeen. Members of the Stubby Shillelaghs will be sharing some new music with listeners and publicizing a proposed new fall album, having just completed
a Kickstarter campaign to produce it. Gaelic football will feature men’s and women’s teams, and hurling for men and camogie for women feature an Irish sport that predates written history and is described as having elements of hockey, baseball and lacrosse. Information at denvergaels. com. Admission after 6 p.m. on July 10 is $10; on July 11 and 12, it’s $15. (Children under 12 with an adult are admitted free.) July 12 begins with Mass at 9 a.m. Free admission for Mass. Students with valid ID, seniors over 65 and military personnel with active ID are admitted for $10 per person Hours: July 10, 5 to 10 p.m.; July 11, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; July 12, Mass at 9 a.m., gates open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
detailed creation of an alternate world with a contemporary woman’s feeling of confinement in what looks like an idyllic life, which fails to offer intellectual fulfillment. Her fantasy extends here to finding that someone else has shared the same dream world with its challenges and pleasures. Has she lost touch with reality or will she regain control of her life? A psychiatrist enters the picture. Interesting storytelling, although I found some descriptions of island adventures hard to follow. And the jumble of emotional reactions are frightening to contemplate when she’s also caring for children and husband. The last quarter of the novel is unsettling and whipped into a storm. Not quite a beach read, but…
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‘Lucky Guy’ is abrasive but still entertaining Ephron play was last she wrote in her life By Sonya Ellingboe
sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia.com Lights go up on a motley bunch of 1980s New York tabloid reporters singing loudly in McGuire’s Irish Bar. Almost loudest of all is Mike MacAlary, a friend of the late playwright Nora Ephron — and a well-known columnist, who wrote for the New York Daily News and the New York Post, mainly about police corruption in his city. Andrew Uhlenhopp is convincing in the part of a loud, Irish reporter whom we alternately love and hate. The time, in “Lucky Guy,” on stage in Lakewood’s Edge Theater — is the 1980s/1990s. MacAlary’s story is told via a variety of reporters and editors who knew and interacted with him: editor Hap Hairston (Dwayne Carrington); John Cotter (Wade Livingston); Bob Drury (Sam Gilstrap); Michael Daly (Tupper Cullum); and more (cast of 15) … Abby Apple Boes plays his long-suffering wife, Alice. As the play begins, MacAlary is hoping for his own column and the chance to outpace famous reporter Jimmy Breslin. He hires manipulative lawyer Eddie Hayes (a sharp-dressing, smarmy Kevin Hart) to manage his career — almost like an agent. He and others go back and forth between papers, boozing and muckraking. Family clearly comes second to these competitive, self-centered men. Director John Ashton know the territory — he spent 20 years as a reporter with the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post and Westword, and 25 years in the theater world as actor, director, producer and theater owner. (He is also an external affairs officer with FEMA, responding to disasters.) Experience shows in the way he stages this large cast of good-sized men in the Edge Theater’s limited playing space — and in the variety of ways they each create a character. MacAlary was so badly injured in an accident that he died and was revived. Then he developed cancer, and while under treatment for that, he skipped out of a chemo session and snuck into the hospital room of Haitian Abner Louima, who had been brutally tortured by the police. His resulting stories won him a Pulitzer Prize in journalism and brought attention to a situation that still draws atten-
The Edge Theater’s production of “Lucky Guy” takes audiences back to the tabloid wars in New York City, told through the eyes of Mike MacAlary. Photo by RDG Photography tion years later. Ephron’s last play might have benefited from a bit more crafting, had she lived to really finish it, but it does give a strong picture of an era that no longer exists. And the performances are strong — it’s just not an entirely pretty picture!
IF YOU GO “Lucky Guy” runs one more weekend — through July 5 — at the Edge Theater, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: theedgetheater.com, 303-232-0363.
“Winter Blanket in Paradise Valley,” an oil-on-linen by susiehyer, is exhibited in her show at Lone Tree Arts Center. Photo by Sonya Ellingboe
Evergreen painter’s work in exhibition Lone Tree gallery show to run through July 23 By Sonya Ellingboe
sellingboe@colorado communitymedia.com Painter susiehyer lives and gardens in Evergreen, according to her website, with her husband, sometimes one or two grown children, two cats and numerous elk, deer and other wildlife. Her “Day and Night” exhibit of landscape paintings fills the gallery space at Lone Tree Arts Center through July 23. She began drawing as a young child, studied at Moravian College, the Baum School of Art and the University of West Florida in the 1970s. In Denver she attends the Art Students League and has studied with Quang Ho, Kim English, Ron Hicks, Jay Moore and Kevin Weckback. She has also completed the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Certificate in Botanical Art and Illustration. As a working artist since 1976, she has
IF YOU GO Work by susiehyer is for sale through the Lone Tree Arts Center box office, at 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and before performances. 720-509-1000, lonetreeartscenter.org
received numerous awards. She travels to paint en plein air as well as to make sketches and photographs as reference for work in her home studio. She is involve in Plein Air Artists of Colorado and Oil Painters of America, and recent painting trips have included the American Southwest, Mexico, Tahiti, Hawaii, Corsica, France, Taos, Rocky Mountain National Park, Portugal, California and coastal New Jersey. She teaches from her Evergreen studio and is invited to jury local and national exhibits.
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Review: ‘Max,’ about a kid, his dog and gun smugglers By Jocelyn Noveck Associated Press
It’s officially summer. What better time for a heartwarming caper movie about a troubled but noble Texas teen, his troubled but noble dog, and those crazy, mean gun smugglers they tangle with? Yes, we said crazy, mean gun smugglers. Mexican cartels, too. If that doesn’t sound like normal PG-rated fare to you, well, you’re right, there’s nothing too normal about “Max.’’ Billed as a family adventure, this movie is probably best described as a mix of “Lassie’’ and “No Country for Old Men.’’ It’s like they invited the Coen brothers, or maybe Quentin Tarantino, to script a few scenes of a “Dora the Explorer’’ episode. We could go on with the analogies, but let’s just say that there are still some people who’ll appreciate “Max,’’ directed and co-written by Boaz Yakin, because they love dogs, and thus any film about a good dog is a worthwhile endeavor. And the dog IS good. But beware: This is not a movie for small children. We begin in Afghanistan, where Max (a Belgian Malinois, actually played by four pooches) is a highly trained military dog, performing risky searches alongside his devoted handler, U.S. Marine Kyle Wincott. We see Max singlehandedly locate a Taliban weapons cache in a secret compartment in a home. But then tragedy strikes, and Kyle is killed. Back in Texas, the Wincott family — Mom Pamela (Lauren Graham, totally underused), Dad Ray (Thomas Haden Church) and teenager Justin (Josh Wiggins) — are grieving at the funeral when they meet Max, who, heartbreakingly, knows his boss is in the coffin. Max, understandably, is suffering from trauma, and is hard to handle. He only seems calm around Justin; he senses the boy is Kyle’s brother. The family brings the dog home. At first, Justin, sensitively portrayed
by the sweet-faced, soulful Wiggins, wants no part of training a dog. He’s obsessed with video games, and resentful of his father, who he feels has always favored hero Kyle. He’d rather stay in his room than manage a growling canine. But the movie dispenses with all that pretty quickly. Soon, Justin and Max are fast friends, nursing each other through tough times. Spicing things up a bit is a love interest for Justin, the plucky Carmen (Mia Xitlali), cousin of Justin’s buddy Chuy (Dejon LaQuake), a typical movie best bud whose every line is, like, yo, more clichéd than the next. And then things get really strange. Trouble comes in the form of Tyler Harne (Luke Kleintank), Kyle’s childhood buddy and fellow Marine, back from Afghanistan. We already knew that Tyler was up to some nefarious activity in the war zone, involving disappearing guns, but we learn the true nature of his troublesome dealings when he’s back home, and hitting up Ray for a job. As in many kid movies, the kid understands what’s going on a lot quicker than the parents. Ray thinks Tyler’s a good guy. Justin knows otherwise. Soon, Justin, Max, Carmen and Chuy are off on a mystery-solving adventure in the woods — just three kids, a couple bikes, and a dog. It’s just that a bunch of guys with serious firepower are after them, and, as the Wicked Witch of the West would say, their little dog, too (actually he’s not so little, but still.) It’s indeed heartwarming to watch Max’s heroics, and Wiggins is appealing. Still, as you’re saying “Aw,’’ and even tearing up a few times, you may also be saying something else out loud, too, as this plot goes haywire: “Really? What were they thinking?’’ “Max,’’ a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America “for action violence, peril, brief language and some thematic elements.’’ Running time: 111 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.
Butterflies at Chatfield is a showcase, 1,500-square-foot structure that features butterflies native to Colorado. With luck, a visitor will see a monarch like this. The structure features more than 50 indigenous Colorado plants as a habitat. Courtesy photo
Butterflies back at Chatfield Pavilion, gardens working together on summer project By Sonya Ellingboe
sellingboe@colorado communitymedia.com Monarch, painted lady, passion butterfly, queen, pipevine swallowtail, viceroy, red admiral and more will be in residence … For a second summer, the Butterfly Pavilion and Denver Botanic Gardens have cooperated on a seasonal habitat experience called Butterflies at Chatfield. The structure is 1,500 square feet, and new chrysalids are delivered every week to emerge in a custom chrysalis chamber as visitors watch. The structure is planted with a garden of more than 50 native Colorado plant species that provide a habitat for the butterflies. This collection will provide good information for gardeners who want to join the movement towards planting more varieties that are especially attractive to pollinators.
IF YOU GO The Botanic Gardens at Chatfield is located at 8500 W. Deer Creek Canyon Road, Littleton. (Just south and west of the intersection of Wadsworth and C/470.) Butterflies at Chatfield is open daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (last entry at 3 p.m.). A $5 parking fee per non-member vehicles includes admission to Chatfield. There is a separate admission ticket for the butterfly house: $4 non-members; $2 DBG and Butterfly Pavilion members; free age 2 and under. Botanicgardens.org.
The Butterfly Pavilion, located in Westminster for 19 years, was the first standalone invertebrate zoo in the United States and has grown to expect nearly 300,000 visitors annually. It has four indoor exhibit areas, 11 acres of public gardens, education classrooms and event space. The Gardens at Chatfield, established after the 1965 flood, is a 750-acre native plant display with working and historic farms in south Jefferson County.
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Space and Rocketry
Castle Rock History Museum presents Martin Marietta/ Lockheed Martin: Space and Rocketry in Douglas County at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 9, at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Refreshments will be served at 6:45 p.m. Contact the Castle Rock Museum at 303-814-3164, museum@castlerockhistoricalsociety. org or www.castlerockhistoricalsociety.org. Admission is free.
Art Guild Member Exhibitions
Members of the Heritage Fine Arts Guild of Arapahoe County will have their nature-inspired paintings featured in exhibits at Parker and Porter Adventist hospitals. Exhibits are sponsored by the Healing Arts Program of the Rocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation in support of the two hospitals. The framed images on display will be available for sale as unframed originals. The information desk and gift shop at each hospital will each have a price list and contact information for purchasing the pieces. The Parker hospital exhibit is open through Sunday, July 5, and features 12 paintings. Select pieces will remain at the facility’s Cancer Center through Aug. 5. The Porter hospital exhibit is open through Monday, July 6, and features eight paintings. Go to www.heritage-guild.com.
Outdoor Movie
Outdoor Free outdoor movies are planned at Centennial Center Park, 13050 E. Peakview Ave., Centennial. Live music, food and family-friendly films (all rated PG) are planned. Live music begins at 7 p.m. and movies start at dusk. Friday, July 10: “Epic” and music by Mike Masse; Friday, July 24: “Frozen” and music by Deja Blu. Go to www.centennialco.gov/events or call 303-325-8000.
Local History Presentation
Larkspur residents and others with an interest in local history will enjoy a free Douglas County History Research presentation at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 11, at the Larkspur Firehouse. Members of the Larkspur Historical Society will be on hand to answer questions. To register, call 303-791-7323 or visit DouglasCountyLibraries.org.
Outdoor Storytime
Douglas County Libraries’ Mr. Cliff heads outside for a summery storytime session at 10:45 a.m. Saturday, July 11, on the lawn of the Wilcox Building, Third and Wilcox streets, Castle Rock. The outdoor storytime, complete with stories, music and magic, will replace the regular 10:30 a.m. Saturday storytime at the library. No registration required.
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Family Tree Maker is a great tool for people researching their family histories. Douglas County Libraries presents a free workshop on the benefits and use of the software. Program is at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 7, at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Call 303-791-7323 or visit DouglasCountyLibraries.org. Celebrate Cats Forget the dog days of summer. The Dumb Friends League is going to the cats at its seventh annual CatFest from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 11, at the league’s Quebec Street Shelter, 2080 S. Quebec St., Denver. Cat lovers will meet dozens of adoptable cats and kittens, enjoy clicker-training demonstrations, get pet behavior and veterinary advice, and enjoy music, food and more at the outdoor “Meow Market.” The event will also feature a sneak peak at the league’s new 1,200-square-foot Cat Pavilion and a stroll through the “Be a Cat” enrichment exhibit. Adoption fees will be waived for all adult cats (1 year and older), plus cat adopters will receive a free goodie bag. All cat adoptions include a spay/neuter surgery, initial vaccinations, a microchip ID implant and a free office visit with a participating veterinarian. Admission to CatFest is free, and all ages are welcome. Adoption pricing specials during CatFest will also be honored at the Buddy Center in Castle Rock and all partner locations where Dumb Friends League cats are available for adoption. Visit www.ddfl.org/catfest or call 303-751-5772, Ext. 1378. Farmers’ and Street Markets The Highlands Ranch Community Association’s farmers’ and street markets are open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 25, at Town Center, 9288 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch. For details, pick up a Colorado Farm Fresh Directory at any HRC recreational center or go to http://hrcaonline.org/ClassesCamps-Activities/ Events/Calendar-Events/ctl/viewdetail/mid/5667/itemid/7479/d/20150503.
A number of community blood drives are planned in the South Metro area. For information or to schedule an appointment, contact the Bonfils Appointment Center at 303-363-2300, unless otherwise noted. Go to www.bonfils.org. Upcoming blood drives are: Sunday, July 5, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., New Hope Presbyterian Church, 3737 New Hope Way, Castle Rock; Sunday, July 5, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Ave Maria Catholic Church, 9056 E. Parker Road, Parker; Wednesday, July 8, 8-9:40 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Western Union, 12500 E. Belford Ave., Englewood (contact Amy Kelly, 720-332-3136); Thursday, July 9, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m., Coram Inc., 12450 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite A 1, Centennial; Thursday, July 9, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m., Pulte Mortgage, 7390 S. Iola, Englewood; Thursday, July 9, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-:30 p.m., Plaza Tower One, 6400 S. Fiddler’s Green Circle, Greenwood Village; Friday, July 10, 10-11:40 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m., The Club at Pradera, 5225 Raintree Drive, Parker; Saturday, July 11, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox, Castle Rock; Saturday, July 11, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Parker Bible Church, 4391 E. Mainstreet, Parker (contact Kahl Forington at 303-841-3836).
EDUCATION Summer Camps Arma Dei Academy, 345 E. Wildcat Reserve Parkway, Highlands Ranch, offers a number of summer camps. Call 303-346-4523 or register online at www.armadeiacademy.com. Camps for grades 2-5 include Movie Making, 9 a.m. to noon, July 6-10. Camps for grades 5-8 Rocketry, 1-4 p.m. July 6-10 and Underwater Robotics, 9 a.m. to noon, July 13-17. Wizard Camp Registration is now open for Theatre of Dreams Wizard Camps, open to all ages, from 7 to adult. Cost includes all supplies and a tote bag. Sign up at least two weeks before class. Sessions are offered Monday through Thursday, July 6-9 and Aug. 3-6. Camps run from 9:30 a.m. to noon each day, and recital show for family and friends will be at noon on the last day of each session. Camps take place at Theatre of Dreams, 735 Park St., Castle Rock. Call 303-660-6799. To sign up, send $175 check, payable to Dream Masterz, to 3721 Starflower Road, Castle Rock, CO 80109-8453. Check will not be cashed until a minimum of 10 participants sign up for session. Past Present and Future of the Douglas County School District Before 2009, Douglas County was the go-to district in Colorado for families wanting quality public education for their kids, and for teachers dedicated to providing it. Since then, the situation has changed. Many claim there’s trouble in paradise; meanwhile, the district paints a picture of “better than ever.” What is the truth and how does it affect you and your children? Join Douglas County Parents at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, for a presentation and informal discussion of Douglas County schools issues and impacts. Bring questions, concerns, ideas. Meeting will be at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock, in the Castle Rock Bank Room East. Go to www.douglascountyparents.com or contact Jason at jason@ douglascountyparents.com. Equine Exploration Camp Students in third to sixth grades will spend two days learning about all things horse through interactive hands-on activities. Campers will learn about horse anatomy, body language, markings and more. They will meet an ambassador horse and learn how they can help homeless equines in Colorado. Equine exploration camp dates are Thursday, July 9, and Friday, July 10; hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Registration is open through Friday, July 3. Register online at www.ddfl. org/horse-education, or call 303-751-5772. ACC Star Parties Arapahoe Community College presents star parties from 9:3011:30 p.m. Sunday, July 12, and Friday, July 17, at the Littleton campus. Both events are free and open to the public. The parties are in an open house format. ACC will provide a telescope, along with cookies and fruit punch. ACC Astronomy Professor Jennifer Jones leads the program. Contact jennifer.jones@arapahoe.edu or 303-797-5839.
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Jacob Barrett, of Englewood, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, from the University of Wyoming. Ian Bowers, of Englewood, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Hastings College. Marie Darabaris, of Englewood, graduated magna cum laude in May with a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Creighton University. Ghada Mohamed Elshimi, of Englewood, graduated in May with a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Hillary Enyert, of Englewood, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in special education, K-12 teaching, from the University of Wyoming. Corey Finn, of Englewood, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at the University of Vermont. Finn is a junior majoring in business administration. Karly Gelinas, of Englewood, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies, liberal arts, from the University of Wyoming. Ryan Glover, of Englewood, graduated in May with a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Wyoming. Cole Horan, of Englewood, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Cornell College. Marissa Kaufmann, of Englewood, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and French minor from the University of Kansas. Victoria P. Kirkemo, of Englewood, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Clarkson University. Kirkemo is a junior majoring in chemical engineering. Anna Korbel, of Englewood, graduated with a master’s degree in education from the University of Kansas. Megan D. Lasher, of Englewood, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree from Colby College. Lasher majored in mathematical sciences and film studies (independent). She is the daughter of Heide Lasher, of Englewood, and Jeffery Lasher, of Englewood, and a graduate of Cherry Creek High School. Jamie Loschen, of Englewood, graduated in May with a doctor of audiology from the University of Wyoming. Alex Lucas, of Englewood, graduated with a bachelor’s degree of fine arts in design, with minors in business, history of art and French from the University of Kansas. Benjamin Myers, of Englewood, was named to the dean’s list at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thomas Murphy, of Englewood, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Kansas. Ashley Ortiz, of Englewood, graduated in May with a doctorate in English from the University of Kansas. Payton Phillips, of Englewood, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Kansas. Thomas Robinson, of Englewood, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from the University of San Diego. Austin Roper, of Englewood, was named to the spring 2015 president’s list at Chadron State College. Gabriel Scally, of Englewood, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree biological sciences, pre-health and biomedical sciences, from the University of Wyoming. Andrew Simon, of Englewood, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in theater arts from the University of Wyoming. Francisco Solis, of Englewood, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Wyoming. Andrew Vogel, of Englewood, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Kansas. John Wattles, of Englewood, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Bucknell University. Shadi Aoutabachi, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Eric Anttila, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Hastings College. Karley Arguello, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in human services from the University of NebraskaLincoln. Natalie Autrey, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Harding University. Autrey is a sophomore early childhood education major. Jordan Balkema, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in audiol-
ogy and speech-language sciences from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kallie Bindner, of Littleton, was recognized as a KCAC and an NAIA all-academic athlete in women’s soccer for the 2014-15 fall/winter session at Ottawa University. Awards were given during the university’s spring honors convocation in April. Alyse Brennecke, of Littleton, graduated in May with a master’s degree in sport and exercise science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Hayley Brooks, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Goshen College. Brooks is a senior majoring in English writing. Adam Carroll, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Bucknell University. Marta Cary-Skovrinski, of Littleton, graduated in May with a master’s degree in negotiation and dispute resolution from the school of law at Creighton University. Hannah Clark, of Littleton, was awarded for English Literature, Peer Tutor during Ivy Day at Chadron State College. Clark also was named to the spring 2015 president’s list at Chadron. Nathan Cole, of Littleton, graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of San Diego. Alexis Cox, of Littleton, was named a Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. Cox is an anthropology and biochemistry major at Fort Lewis College. Cox also is minoring in forensics and exercise science. Gerald Crites, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in sport and exercise science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Abigail Daurio, of Littleton, graduated in May with a master’s degree in speechlanguage pathology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Jordan Dierkens, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in special education, K-12 teaching, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kyle Donaghy, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Julianne Dufault, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in recreation, tourism and hospitality from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Michelle Elkins, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, public relations and advertising media, from the University of NebraskaLincoln. Daniel Ellis, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, management, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Allison Esch, of Littleton, graduated summa cum laude in May with a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Stephanie Fiala, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies, elementary teaching, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Shelby Foster, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, public relations and advertising media, from the University of NebraskaLincoln. Heidi Geyer, of Littleton, graduated in May with a master’s degree in mathematics, teaching, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Mikayla Graham, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Juliana Grover, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in sport and exercise science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Alison Grush, of Littleton, graduated in May with a master’s degree in speechlanguage pathology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Stepahnie Guyer, of Littleton, graduated in May with a degree in educational specialist, school psychology, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Ashley Marie Halverson, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at South Dakota State University. Christopher Hastings, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, marketing, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kyeong A. Heon, of Littleton, graduated with honors in May with a doctor of pharmacy degree from Creighton University. Kelsey Hizer, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 honors list at Concordia University. Hizer is a senior. Milestones continues on Page 28
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SPORTS
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A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME For high school athletes, finding the right college is now driven by technology By Jim Benton
jbenton@colorado communitymedia.com Mike Brookhart was a three-sport standout who graduated in 1979 from Cherry Creek High School. Despite his talent, Brookhart wouldn’t have become a four-year baseball letterman and team captain at the University of Northern Colorado if not for baseball coach Marc Johnson. “Marc Johnson made the calls for me to the University of Denver, University of Wyoming and Northern Colorado,” said Brookhart, Cherry Creek’s boys basketball coach and the school’s former football coach. “Then the coach would come and see me. That’s kind of the old way.” Recruiting has changed immensely with email, Twitter, YouTube, showcase events and myriad summer camps on college campuses. Bill Bufton, Valor Christian’s college recruiting coordinator, has seen the Recruit continues on Page 23
Summer basketball tournaments for high school players often draw college recruiters. Here, Rock Canyon plays Eaglecrest in the Continental-Centennial League Challenge in June. Photo by Jim Benton
Websites play major role By Nick Puckett
npuckett@colorado communitymedia.com Recruiting websites have become one of the most popular tools for many high school athletes aspiring to play college sports. The sites allow athletes to create profiles for databases used by college coaches seeking a specific type of athlete. Coaches can then contact the athlete, as long as all NCAA regulations are met. Adam Toyama, director of recruiting for football at the University of Colorado, said he uses some sites for “supplemental information.” “Some sites have their transcripts,” said Toyama. “(We can see) whether or not they can get into the University of Colorado.” Toyama declined to comment on the extent to which the program uses the websites. Athlete profiles usually consist of basic information, athletic honors, statistics, highlight videos and photos. Per NCAA regulations, athlete profiles, in order for a coach to contact the athlete, must also include academic records and a written statement of the athlete’s intent. Andy McKernan, content strategist at the National Collegiate Sports Association, said the group’s website, NCSAsports.org, operates like a “match.com … for coaches and athletes,” where coaches can filter through a database of athlete profiles depending on what they are looking for, and athletes can find coaches in need of a roster spot. Most sites allow the user to create a profile for free. For a fee, some sites contact coaches — who must have a paid membership — on behalf of the athlete; provide users access to recruitment consultation by recruiting experts; produce, edit and distribute highlight videos; or even allow the user featured coverage on the site.
“It’s well worth it to spend a little bit of money to earn a scholarship,” said Mike Alexander, director of recruiting at MVPSportsRecruiting.com. “It’s a huge weight off a parent’s shoulders.” When asked if the site was profitable, Alexander replied with a chuckle, “Yes. It’s my job. It better be.” The price can vary depending on the amount of exposure the athlete is looking for, the number of coaches who access the sites’ athlete-profile database and quality of the profiles themselves. For a little extra cash, some sites even throw in professional scouting evaluations. MVP Sports Recruiting and NCSASports. org, like most recruiting websites, focus on getting smaller-name athletes recruited by smaller schools, as well as Division I-caliber athletes. “Everyone knows about the ranked players,” said Alexander. “It really helps the D-II and D-III college coaches because they don’t have the budget to travel and go to select games across the country.” Alexander said most users of the site seek a school based on academic merit first, then worry about earning an athletic scholarship to help pay for the school. Overall, the sites are designed as middle men between coaches and athletes. “Families can fall into the trap of relying on a local resource like a coach who is stretched too thin or an athletic director,” said McKernan. Some sites, like NCSAsports.org, offer grants to students who can’t afford the premium membership based on academic and athletic merit. Access to new high school recruiting technology is a double-edged sword: It provides opportunities for scholarships, but typically at a high price. “With new technology there are new issues,” said Toyama. “Everything is constantly evolving. It’s good and bad.”
RECRUITING MARKETERS National Collegiate Sports Association (NCSAsports.org) How it works: Profile is put into a database that matches athletes to coaches who may be interested. Site offers varying exposure depending on membership status. Premium membership includes scouting evaluation. Price: $795-$4,995 Collegiate Sports Association-Prep Star (CSAPrepStar.com) How it works: Athletic consulting company that contacts coaches via mail and email on behalf of the athletes. Athlete profile is put into a database that can be accessed by coaches with memberships. Price: $1,000-$2,995 MVPSportsRecruiting.com How it works: Site contacts coaches who may be interested with athlete profile. For premium membership, athlete is promised more exposure and the site will produce and edit athlete’s highlight video. Price: $300
DO-IT-YOURSELF SITES Hudl.com How it works: High school coaches
upload game video, stats, scouting reports and presentations for team use, but athletes can create individual profiles for recruiting purposes. Athletes can send profile to coaches of their choosing. Price: $800-$3,000 BeRecruited.com How it works: Profile is put into a database that matches athletes to coaches who may be interested. Consulting on writing letters to coaches included. Premium membership allows players to contact coaches directly and promises five times the exposure than free membership. Price: $14.99/month Sportsworx.com How it works: Profile is put into a database that matches athletes to coaches who may be interested. For premium membership, athletes can access key recruiting information from recruiting experts. Price: $300-$1,250 StarAthletesOnline.com How it works: Provides four easy to use comprehensive tools - Custom Website, Educational Resources, Performance Vault, and a Collegiate Database - for families of student-athletes. Price: $30/month, $225 for a year; $75 for each subsequent year
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#R E CRU I T I NG
You’ve got to pay to play By Jim Benton
jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com It can be expensive for athletes to catch the attention of college recruiters at a summer camp, recruiting event or national tournament. Ponderosa senior-to-be quarterback Nick Wilson went to the Boston College camp along with tight end Matt Brady. Both players were scheduled to attend other camps, as well. “It is pretty expensive but my parents definitely support me in everything I do,” said Wilson, who passed for 1,423 yards last season and rushed for another 564 yards. Brady has an arrangement with his parents. “I kind of have an agreement with my parents as long as I work hard and train as much
as I can, they are willing to help me get to the next level,” he said. “It’s hard to get to the next level without putting yourself out there.” Lou Arvanetes’ son Bridger is a sophomore at Ponderosa and is going to several camps, including Cincinnati and Montana. “You have to sell yourself, it’s not like it used to be,” said Arvanetes. “It’s a financial commitment in all sports. For him football is his choice. We (are going) went to Cincinnati because his grandfather could see him and we (are going) went to Montana because that’s where he was born.” It has become almost necessary for players and teams to attend camps because that’s become a good place get face-to-face exposure to coaches and display athletic talents. “Part of it is playing with club teams and playing out of state because there are a lot of college coaches there,” said 6-3 Arapahoe
junior basketball player Kyle Lukasiewicz, who averaged 9.5 points a game as a sophomore. “I’d say recruiting is mostly with the club teams because that’s what most colleges look at. Once you get spotted, then they call Lukasiewicz your high school.” Valerie Ortega, a juniorto-be catcher for the Mountain Range softball team, plays for the Colorado Stars. “The good part about being on my team, the Colorado Stars Gold, is our head coach (Dan Burns) pays for our flights, hotels and food whenever we travel,” she said. “So the only financial stuff my parents have to deal with is just the fee for the season. “On my competitive team we have three
coaches and one coach is strictly for recruiting. I started sending out emails to colleges my freshman year just giving them information and I sent a skills video. I sent one to the University of Pittsburgh, and that coach liked what she saw and sent an email to my recruiting coach and said, ‘We’re going to see her during the summer, and we’re interested in her.’ So I’m a verbal to Pittsburgh right now.” Burns and the Colorado Stars host a Louisville Slugger Independence Day Tournament that last season attracted 363 coaches from 255 colleges and 160 teams from 30 states. All tournament profits support the Boulder competitive Girls Softball Program, which covers the Stars’ travel expenses to tournaments. Club fees are $2,000 per season.
Going camping, clubbing Staff report
Summer sports camps and club play are among the most important facets of the recruiting game. Here’s what three area high school athletes have to say:
Marc Muma, football Riley Craig, softball
The Mountain Range senior-to-be, who hit .527 last season, has committed to Stony Brook University. She said playing in summer club softball tournaments in front of college coaches was pressurized. “I knew I had to be on my A game and always be focused, even though I might have made a mistake,” she explained. “I knew I had to shake it off because that’s what coaches look at. It was very nerve-racking too because you want to look and play your best in front of coaches no matter if they are D-I, D-II or D-III. I was very nervous.”
Matt Brady, football
The Ponderosa senior-to-be tight end, who moved back to Parker after playing last season in Utah, considers camp exposure very important. “It’s hard to get to the next level without putting yourself out there,” he said. “Not very many kids are going to have some colleges looking for them. You’ve got to get your name out there and start talking to coaches.”
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evolution. “With the technology now, it actually makes it easier because you can send a quick email to a coach and load your hudl. com film or YouTube video,” he said. “But now instead of coaches getting packages every day of DVDs, their email boxes are just getting slammed.” But ThunderRidge football coach Joe Johnson questions whether technology has really improved the recruiting process. “It used to be that it was pretty much a hard-and-fast rule that somebody from the (college’s) staff had to visibly and personally see a kid and make contact before they would (make) an offer,” he said. “Once a kid gets an offer, other teams start to jump on the bandwagon, and they haven’t seen or met the kid, in some cases. That is really shocking to me. That seems like a bad policy. A lot of information can get put on sites that a kid pays for, and they put whatever they want on there.”
Getting noticed
Many high schools have employed recruiting personnel, and club teams have coaches that specialize in recruiting. Much of the early contact with college
Former Cherry Creek football coach Mike Brookhart now coaches the Bruins’ basketball team. Photo by Jim Benton coaches comes during off-season club tournaments and showcases. Athletes are encouraged to email coaches and let them know their schedule of club tournaments or high school games. Many of the showcase events are now labeled recruiting tournaments attract college coaches, who at one event can look at several players who have contacted them. “That’s what draws them to these events,” said Mountain Range girls soft-
The junior-to-be quarterback at Legend High school, who passed for 1,401 yards last season, went to the Peyton Manning Passing Academy last year and will attend camps at UCLA, the University of Colorado and Wyoming this summer. “I’m going to the UCLA camp just to check it out and have fun playing with all those California guys that go to that camp,” Muma said. “I just do it to get some insight of how good other people are and to get some extra coaching. “In the Manning camp, mostly the college players had some really good tips of what to do and how they played in their high school career and what they do now. It was really eye-opening.”
ball coach Dane Craig. “You have to send emails directly to these schools, and it starts at a young age. They come and say, ‘Hey this girl has been emailing me for six months. I’ll see how she plays.’ It’s all about emails and YouTube videos.” Bufton agrees that a little advance notice on an athlete’s part is helpful. “Coaches at an AAU tournament, club tournament or showcase aren’t just walking around trying to find a diamond in the rough,” he said. “Those days are completely over.” Technology also has helped high school athletes get on colleges’ radars earlier, and some are making commitments as early as their sophomore seasons. College basketball recruiters know all about Lakewood’s Kolton Peterson. The junior-to-be was the second-leading Class 5A scorer in the state last season with 23 points per game. Peterson was playing in the Continental-Centennial basketball challenge in Littleton on June 18, and after the game he spent time outside talking on his cell phone to an interested college. “June 15 was the first day schools could talk to you,” said Peterson. “I actually got nine calls, and I just got off the phone with Northern Iowa. College coaches come to a lot of events in July.”
The eyes don’t lie
Many colleges maintain the personal aspect of recruiting, though they often fa-
cilitate it through modern means. “We’re able to contact players by emailing or texting them,” said Metro State University women’s golf coach Ben Portie. “I don’t sign a player unless I see them play, how they act on the course and watch their temperament. That’s old school.” Craig, an assistant coach who helps with recruiting for the Colorado Stars summer team, agrees that emails and videos don’t show everything. “A lot of these recruiters will come, watch girls warm up and won’t even stay for the game,” he said. “Or they’ll watch how the girls react after a strikeout, after an error or how they react after getting a home run hit off them. They’ll even watch to see if they carry their own bag after a game, how they talk to the coach, do they hang out with the team, are they a leader on the field and stuff like that. So much of building a team these days is about fit.” That’s also still true from the athlete’s perspective, in many cases. Jake Staiano, who helped Valor Christian win the Class 4A state golf championship in 2013 and 2014, signed to play at Colorado State University, but not without making sure the school suited him. “It worked both ways,” Staiano said. “I contacted them and coach (Christian) Newton, and he came to see me. I made two trips to Fort Collins to see the school. It was just the best place for me.”
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ROUNDUP All-State teams The following are local members of the 2015 All-State teams, which are presented by CHSAANow.com, ColoradoPreps.com and MaxPreps:
Girls Soccer Class 5A All-State - Second Team: Emma Maloney , Cherry Creek
Baseball Class 5A All-State - First Team: Blake Goldsberry, Cherry Creek Second Team - Aeneas Roberson, Cherry Creek Honorable Mention - Tanner O’Tremba, Cherry Creek
Boys Lacrosse Class 5A All-State Coach of the Year - Bryan Perry, Cherry Creek First Team - Dylan Johnson, Michael Morean, Maxwell Tennant, Cherry Creek Second Team - Keaton Komatz, Heritage; Brian Wilson, Arapahoe Third Team - Joe Timm, Littleton
Girls Lacrosse All-State First Team - Caroline Perry, Eliza Radochonski, Cherry Creek
More baseball All-Colorado 7 League: Sam Westra, second team, Englewood Cherry Creek – Pitcher Nate Sweeney, a senior-tobe for the Bruins, verbally committed to play collegiate baseball for the University of Arizona.
Former NBA All-Star Chauncey Billups is at the head of the line as young campers prepare to start a shooting drill dur- Campers launch shots at the basket during a fast-paced shooting exering the Chauncey Billups Summer Basketball Academy, which was held June 22-25 at the Parker Fieldhouse. Photos cise during the Chauncey Billups Summer Basketball Academy, which by Jim Benton was held June 22-25 at the Parker Fieldhouse.
Billups’ camp focuses on fundamentals Staff report For three days at the Parker Fieldhouse, 150 basketball players between the ages of 6 and 17 went through fundamental drills and fun activities at the Chauncey Billups Summer Basketball Acad-
emy. Billups — a star at George Washington High, the University of Colorado and in the NBA — plus a group of Nothing But Net coaches had the players in age-group sessions working in dribbling, passing, defensive and
shooting drills. There was also instruction on speed and agility. And there were games, including the “money shot,” which the players enjoyed while maintaining Billups’ camp philosophy of making sure kids are coachable with a level of discipline, while
having fun. This year’s celebrity coach was 2015 NBA All-Star Kyle Lowry of the Toronto Raptors. Each camper received a T-shirt, basketball, an autographed item from Billups and Lowry, plus photos of both players.
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Broadway, Littleton in the meeting room on the first, second, and third Thursday of every month. Meeting time is 8-9:15 a.m. Visitors are welcome. Call Jenifer at 303-221-6550.
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NON-PRACTICING AND Part Time Nurses Association meets from 12:30-2:30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month at the Southglenn Library, 6972 S. Vine St., Centennial. All nurses are invited to attend for medical presentations. Contact: Barbara Karford, 303-794-0354.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY Republican Break-
fast Club meets the first Wednesday of each month at Maggiano’s DTC, 7401 S. Clinton St., Englewood. Breakfast buffet opens at 6:45 a.m. and program lasts from 7:15-8:30 a.m. Contact Myron Spanier, 303-877-2940; Mort Marks, 303770-6147; Nathan Chambers, 303-804-0121; or Cliff Dodge, 303-909-7104.
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AAUW, AMERICAN Association of University Women, Littleton-South Metro Branch, invites graduates who hold an associate or higher degree from an accredited institution to participate in activities that advance equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research. Meetings are usually the second Monday of each month, September through May, at Southglenn Library, Vine and University in Centennial. Social time at 6:30 p.m. is followed by a short business meeting and informative programs. Contact membership chair Barb Pyle at barbpyle@yahoo.com. AMERICAN BUSINESS Women’s Associa-
tion meets on the second Wednesday each month at 6:30 p.m. welcoming women, working or not, to Success Chapter programs for success and positive living. Call Lori Smith at 303688-3100 ext. 360 or e-mail loris@intermountain-rea.com for upcoming speakers and events at Marriott Denver South, 10345 Park Meadows Drive, Littleton.
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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.
CERTUS PROFESSIONAL Network meets for its Littleton networking event from 9:30-11 a.m. the fourth Thursday of the month at Panera Bread, 3702 River Point Parkway, Littleton. Build your network, grow your business, network less. Our events are structured to connect professionals with the resources, power partners and leaders to expand their business and the business of others. Open to all industries, includes 30 minutes of open networking and organized introductions to the group. Cost: $12 non-CERTUS members at the door. First participants pay half price. RSVP not required. More info about CERTUS™ Professional Network at http://www. CertusNetwork.com. CONTACTS UNLIMITED is a business and
professional leads group that meets at Courtesy Ford, 8252 S.
WOMEN INVESTMENT Group Master Mind Group meets to empower all women to build a real financial freedom through the power of real estate in any market condition. We network, share ideas, leads, resources and encourage each other. We meet once a month. For meeting information, call Lorena 303-981-6539 or e-mail WomenInvestmentGroup@ comcast.net.
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DENVER WALKING Tours Denver area residents and visitors are invited to experience downtown Denver through a free walking tour, a two-hour excursion that starts in Civic Center Park, winds through downtown past more than a dozen of Denver’s distinctive landmarks and ends in front of Coors Field. Tours are offered every day. No reservations needed. Tours are free, and tips are encouraged. Go to http://www. denverfreewalkingtours.com/ for details.
ment of Rockler Woodworking Store, 2553 S. Colorado Blvd.
SAINT PATRICK’S Brewing Company offers bocce ball and ping pong tournaments. Bocce ball tournaments are at 2 p.m. Sundays, and ping pong is from 7 p.m. to close Thursdays. Play is first-come, free play. Saint Patrick’s is at Santa Fe and Bowles, right on the river. Call 303-718-7575. SALTY DOG Sailing Club If you love to sail or want to try, if you don’t have a boat, if you have a boat but don’t sail enough because you cannot find a crew, the Salty Dog Sailing Club is for you. The club meets the second Thursday of the month. Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. with the business meeting commencing at 7 p.m. Go to www.saltydog.org for meeting locations and directions. STROLLER STRIDES is a group fitness program that provides moms with a challenging workout and the opportunity to build relationships and gain the emotional support needed to adjust to the tremendous life change called motherhood. Classes are offered at 9:30 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at DeKoevend Park, near University and Arapahoe, and at 9:30 a.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at Clement Park, near Wadsworth and Bowles. For more information, visit the Stroller Strides Web site at www.strollerstrides.com or call Kathy or Karen Zawadzki at 888-684-0641 or e-mail kandk@ strollerstrides.net. WESLEY WRITERS is a small group of vignette
FRIDAY DANCE Night Saint Patrick’s Brewing Company offers First Friday Dance Nights. Dance floor complete with lights and DJ. Outdoor beer garden with fire pit right on the river at Santa Fe and Bowles. Call 720-366-9147.
memoir writers who meet at 10 a.m. the third Saturday of each month at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St. Share stories of the joys and sorrows of our yesteryears. No fees.
LADIES GOLF League at Raccoon Creek Golf Course, Littleton, is accepting new members. Call 303-973-4653.
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MEADOWS WOMEN’S Golf League offers relaxing Tuesday mornings of friendly golf for ladies at the Meadows Golf Course, 6937 S. Simms St., near Ken-Caryl Ranch. The league plays 18 holes weekly from mid-April to mid-October. This fun group competes for prizes while playing from the red tees. Afterward, lunch can be ordered on the patio overlooking the course. Call Laura at 303-526-9598. REC AND Rock for ages 10-14 meets from 7-11 p.m. every first and third Saturdays at the Goodson Recreation Center in Littleton. The cost is $6. Call 303-798-2476 ext. 11. ROCKY MOUNTAIN Basketball Academy club, expert training for youth basketball players grades fifth through 12th meets twice per week and operates all year. Play in leagues and tournaments. Send inquiries to ronkburgin@ yahoo.com. ROCKY MOUNTAIN Woodturning Club
meets at 6 p.m. the first Tuesday of every month in the base-
AMERICAN LEGION George C. Evans Post 103 Attention military veterans: Do you believe in patriotism and in helping our veterans, our children and our communities? Join the Littleton American Legion George C. Evans Post 103 at 7 p.m. the first Wednesday of every month at the Buck Recreation Center, 2004 W. Powers Ave., Littleton. Visit www. legionpost103.org or call 720-287-2139.
CREATIVE COUNSELING Center is a network of mental health providers with offices in Denver, Aurora, Lakewood and Littleton. To meet therapists or to learn about locations, scheduling and fees, visit www.ccc-denver.com or call 303-267-2310. ENGLISH CONVERSATION Sessions. Go to the Bemis Public Library Friday mornings from 9-10:30 a.m. to practice English in an informal group and learn about American culture. No registration is required. Call 303-795-3961. NUTRITION CLASSES. Free bootcamp class meets at 8:30 a.m. three Saturdays per month at L-Town Nutrition, 1360 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton. Go to the park for a fun,
energizing start to the weekend. Visit our Facebook pages for updates: Littleton 24Fit Club or L-Town Nutrition. Also offered is a Body Exchange Challenge. This consists of weekly meetings to discuss both nutrition and fitness. We deliver all of the tools that you need to help you reach your goal. There is an optional fitness class offered after the class. The class meets Wednesdays at noon or 6 p.m. You can join the challenge anytime, the fees are prorated. Visit L-Town Nutrition, call Gen McKenna at 303730-2038 or email ltownnutrition@gmail.com to sign up.
SINGLE DADS Resource Center Inc., a nonprofit organization, offers free parenting classes such as “The Ins and Outs of Single Fathering Parenting” focused on single fathers. Classes are from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesdays at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 6322 S. Lakeview St., Littleton. Call Jamey O’Donnell, founder and executive director of the group, at 720-298-2021 or e-mail info@sdrci.org. SUMMIT CANCER Solutions is a nonprofit organization that offers exercise programs in the Denver Metro area to adult cancer survivors. Our goal is to improve the health and well being of cancer survivors through exercise. Contact us at 303-409-2206, e-mail us at info@summitcancersolutions.org or visit www.summitcancersolutions.org.
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AMERICAN NEEDLEPOINT Guild, Colorado Columbine Chapter, meets third Mondays each month, except August and December. Call Doris at 303-4038703.
ANTIQUE CLUB meets the second Saturday each month from 10 a.m. to noon at Antique Gallery, 5501 S. Broadway, Littleton. Call 303-794-8100. ARAPAHOE COUNTY Young Democrats meetings are the third Thursday each month. Call Benjamin Godfrey at 303-745-3418 or e-mail bhgodfrey@qwest.net. AMAZING TITAN Toastmasters meets from 6-8 p.m. Mondays at Marie Callender’s, Dry Creek Court and Broadway. Call Art Gomen at 303-762-9726. BEMIS EVENING Book Group meets at the library, 6014 S. Datura St., in Littleton, the third Monday each month at 7 p.m. Call 303-795-3961. BEMIS KNITTING Group invites knitters to the library’s knitting group, which meets Fridays at 2 p.m. in Sophie’s Place. Just bring a pair of needles and a skein of yarn. Beginners learn skills such as casting on, knitting, pearling, and casting off, while experienced knitters get project ideas and provide hints and tips. The group is creating mittens, scarves and hats for elderly library users at Bemis’ sister libraries in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. Clubs continues on Page 31
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Stepfanie Hodson, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Matthew Keenan, of Littleton, graduated in May with a master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. David Kerr, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in history, secondary teaching, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Taylor Kilpatrick, of Littleton, graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of San Diego. Kilpatrick participated in the university’s honors program. Rebecca Kring, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Saint Mary’s University. Kring is the daughter of Gary and Jolinda Kring. Rachel Kubowicz, of Littleton, graduated summa cum laude in May with a bachelor’s degree from Creighton University. Kathryn Kurtenbach, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Kansas. Michael Landon, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies, elementary teaching, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Michael Lazzeri, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree from Creighton University. Jessica Lebel, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in atmospheric science from the University of Kansas. Alicia Loe, of Littleton, graduated in May with a master’s degree in criminal justice from the University of NebraskaLincoln. Meaghan Lorenz, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Rachel Lukowicz, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Doane College. Lukowicz is a junior; she is a graduate of Heritage High School.
July 2, 2015 Meredith Lutz, of Littleton, was inducted into the Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society at Bucknell University. Lutz also was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Bucknell. She is a graduate of Arapahoe High School. Anne Macri, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Nicholas McGee, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Hastings College. Savannah Morris, of Littleton, graduated in May with bachelor’s degrees in business administration, management, and business administration, computer information systems, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Rebecca Morton, of Littleton, graduated cum laude in May with a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies, elementary teaching from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Jeremiah Alan Mulloy, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at South Dakota State University. Lauren Nicholas, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in nutrition from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Mollie Owston, of Littleton, graduated summa cum laude in May with a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies, elementary teaching, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Lia Palazzolo, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in film and media studies from the University of Kansas. Sarah Parker, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Harding University. Parker is a senior early childhood education major. Laura Parson, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in sport and exercise science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Jennifer Peterson, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Brandon Phillips, of Littleton, received the Ackerman Scholarship, given for outstanding academic performance and extracurricular involvement, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mary Josephine Pollmiller, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in education and human sciences
from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Amy Reams, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer information systems, from the University of NebraskaLincoln. Daniel Reynolds, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in sport management and business minor & communication studies minor from the University of Kansas. Benjamin Rhodes, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Nicole Roberts, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, pre-health and biomedical sciences, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Jill Schrader, of Littleton, graduated in May with a master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Lauren Shomaker, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Hastings College. Sydney Sells, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in dietics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dana Smith, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in sport and exercise science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Steven Smith, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Justin Spelic, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, marketing, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Maria St. John, of Littleton, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of San Diego. Derek Streeter, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Thomas Strunc, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree from Creighton University. Debbi Stutz, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies, early childhood education, from the University of NebraskaLincoln. Teagan Sytsma, of Littleton, was selected to oversee concerts for the 2015-16 academic year on the student as-
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sociation’s executive council at Hastings College. Elizabeth Tidwell, of Littleton, was awarded the Alpha Chi Outstanding FirstYear Student at Hastings College. Tidwell also was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list. Michelle Tinglum, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 president’s list at Chadron State College. Nicole Tucker, of Littleton, graduated summa cum laude in May with a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Derek Vander Velde, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Gabriel Verges, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Saint Mary’s University. He is the son of Constantine and Nancy Verges. Maureen Walsh, of Littleton, was recognized for Accounting during Ivy Day at Chadron State College. Walsh also was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Chadron. Cameron Ward, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kevin Watanabe, of Littleton, graduated in May with an educational specialist degree in educational leadership from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Jessica Webb, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s honor roll at Kansas Wesleyan University. Paige Weinard, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Hastings College. Ryan Wendell, of Littleton, was inducted into the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society at Bucknell University. Wendell is a graduate of Heritage High School. Wendell also was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Bucknell. Malcolm Whye, of Littleton, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, management, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Eleanor Wurzweiler, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Bucknell University. Zachary Zahnow, of Littleton, was named to the spring 2015 dean’s list at Doane College. Zahnow is a freshman; he is a graduate of Heritage High School.
SALOME’S STARS FOR RELEASE WEEK OF JUNE 29, 2015
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Making things more complicated than they need to be can be a problem for the typically orderly Lamb. Try to look for a less intricate way to accomplish the same goals. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Avoiding personal involvement in a troubling situation might be advisable at this time, especially since you probably don’t have all the facts. The weekend brings a surprise. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) A problem with a colleague you thought had been resolved could recur. However, this time you’ll be able to rely on your record to get a quick resolution in your favor. Good luck.
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CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Giving your self-esteem a boost could be a good idea for the Moon Child, who might feel a bit daunted by the week’s occurrences. Just focus on all your positive accomplishments. LEO (July 23 to August 22) The “mane” attraction for the Lovable Lion this week is -- what else? -- love. New relationships move to new levels, while long-standing partnerships are strengthened. VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) A recent workplace problem will prove to be one of miscommunication, and once the matter is settled, you should have a better chance of getting your proposals approved. LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Good news! After dealing pretty much in the dark with a matter that seemed to be taking forever to resolve, you should soon be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) A positive message should help lift that energy-draining sense of anxiety, and you should soon be able to deal with even the peskiest matter, whether at work or personal. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) Try to control that heated Sagittarian temperament while dealing with what you believe to be an unfair matter. A cool approach is the best way to handle things. CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Nursing hurt feelings could keep you from learning what went wrong. Ask your partner, a family member or a trusted friend to help you reassess your actions in the matter. AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Nature is dominant this week. Try to spend time outdoors with someone special. An act of kindness in the past might be recalled by a person you believed was out of your life. PISCES (February 19 to March 20) An upcoming career decision could be based on how well you might be able to apply your artistic talents. Be sure to use the finest samples of your work to make a strong impression. BORN THIS WEEK: Doing good things for others comes easily to you. You are considered a good friend, even by those you might hardly know. © 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
August 14, 2005 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B5087222 Original Principal Amount $87,300.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $74,587.15
Public Notices On April 15, 2015, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.
Public Trustees Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0218-2015 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On April 7, 2015, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records. Original Grantor(s) GRACE GODSEY Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR PRISM MORTGAGE COMPANY Current Holder of Evidence of Debt GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC Date of Deed of Trust March 05, 2002 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 13, 2002 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B2047794 Original Principal Amount $95,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $76,418.98 Pursuant to CRS §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 thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 51, BLOCK 14, SPRING CREEK AT FOXRIDGE - AMENDED, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7587 SOUTH MONACO WAY, CENTENNIAL, CO 80112. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/29/2015, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 6/4/2015 Last Publication: 7/2/2015 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent 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 THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 DATE: 04/07/2015 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Elizabeth S. Marcus #16092 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 David R. Doughty #40042 Alison L Berry #34531 Kelly Murdock #46915 Eve M. Grina #43658 Courtney E Wright #45482 Sheila J Finn #36637 Janeway Law Firm PC 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 15-006716 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO.: 0218-2015 First Publication: 6/4/2015 Last Publication: 7/2/2015 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0241-2015 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On April 15, 2015, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records. Original Grantor(s) JESSICA L. GRACE & PAUL S. GRACE Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt MIDFIRST BANK Date of Deed of Trust April 30, 2007 County of Recording
Original Grantor(s) JESSICA L. GRACE & PAUL S. GRACE Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt MIDFIRST BANK Date of Deed of Trust April 30, 2007 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust May 02, 2007 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B7055668 Original Principal Amount $217,191.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $193,362.17
Public Trustees
Pursuant to CRS §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 thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 21, BLOCK 11, BROADMOOR, THIRD FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 5835 SOUTH DELAWARE STREET, LITTLETON, CO 80120. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 08/05/2015, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 6/11/2015 Last Publication: 7/9/2015 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent 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 THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 04/15/2015 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Elizabeth S. Marcus #16092 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 David R. Doughty #40042 Alison L Berry #34531 Kelly Murdock #46915 Eve M. Grina #43658 Courtney E Wright #45482 Sheila J Finn #36637 Janeway Law Firm PC 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 15-007164 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO.: 0241-2015 First Publication: 6/11/2015 Last Publication: 7/9/2015 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0260-2015 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On April 21, 2015, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records. Original Grantor(s) KRISTA MARIE HOLDER Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR TAYLOR, BEAN & WHITAKER MORTGAGE CORP. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt SELENE FINANCE LP Date of Deed of Trust June 10, 2005 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust August 14, 2005 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B5087222 Original Principal Amount $87,300.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $74,587.15 Pursuant to CRS §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 thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. ATTACHED HERETO AS EXHIBIT 'A' AND INCORPORATED HEREIN AS
Pursuant to CRS §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 thereof.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
Public Trustees
ATTACHED HERETO AS EXHIBIT 'A' AND INCORPORATED HEREIN AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH. Also known by street and number as: 5250 SOUTH HURON #10-103, LITTLETON, CO 80120. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 08/12/2015, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 6/18/2015 Last Publication: 7/16/2015 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent 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 THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 04/21/2015 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Elizabeth S. Marcus #16092 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 David R. Doughty #40042 Alison L Berry #34531 Kelly Murdock #46915 Eve M. Grina #43658 Courtney E Wright #45482 Sheila J Finn #36637 Janeway Law Firm PC 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 15-007046 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 0260-2015 Exhibit A CONDOMINIUM UNIT 103, IN CONDOMINIUM BUILDING 10, HICKORY PLACE CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON MARCH 5, 1984, IN BOOK 72 AT PAGES 75 THROUGH 77 AND THE 10TH SUPPLEMENT RECORDED NOVEMBER 30, 1989, IN BOOK 102 AT PAGES 64 THROUGH 67 IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECO RDER OF THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR HICKORY PLACE CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED ON MARCH 14, 1984 IN BOOK 4110 AT PAGE 592, AND AMENDED DECLARATION RECORDED AUGUST 7, 1984 IN BOOK 4230 AT PAGE 282, AND THE 9TH ANNEXATION RECORDED NOVEMBER 20, 1989, IN BOOK 5823 AT PAGE 584, IN SAID RECORDS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Legal Notice NO.: 0260-2015 First Publication: 6/18/2015 Last Publication: 7/16/2015 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Public Notice COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0285-2015 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On April 28, 2015, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records. Original Grantor(s) Mary L. Nackerud and Alan L. Nackerud Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for AMPRO Mortgage, Corporation Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Bank of America, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust May 25, 2005 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 10, 2005 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B5085601 Original Principal Amount $421,600.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $395,671.09 Pursuant to CRS §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 thereof.
Notices
Mortgage, Corporation Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Bank of America, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust May 25, 2005 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 10, 2005 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B5085601 Original Principal Amount $421,600.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $395,671.09
Pursuant to CRS §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 thereof.
Public Trustees
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 8, BLOCK 3, THE VILLAGE IN COLUMBINE VALLEY, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 9 Village Court, Littleton, CO 80123. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 08/19/2015, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado,, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 6/25/2015 Last Publication: 7/23/2015 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent 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 THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 04/28/2015 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Holly Shilliday #24423 Jennifer Cruseturner #44452 Iman Tehrani #44076 Joan Olson #28078 Erin Robson #46557 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 150, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-14-631016-JS The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO.: 0285-2015 First Publication: 6/25/2015 Last Publication: 7/23/2015 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent
Name Changes PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on June 5, 2015 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
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Public notice is given on June 11, 2015 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
PUBLIC NOTICE The petition requests that the name of ToCameruca advertise your public notices callTO 303-566-4100 NOTICE CREDITORS David Morgan be changed to David Morgan Camerucci Estate of Charles W. Smith, Case No.: 2015 C 300623 aka Charles Smith, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30467 Tammera Herivel By: Deputy Clerk All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to Legal Notice No: 56360 present them to the Personal RepresentFirst Publication: June 25, 2015 ative or to the District Court of Arapahoe Last Publication: July 9, 2015 County, Colorado on or before October Publisher: Littleton Independent 18, 2015 or the claims may be forever barred. PUBLIC NOTICE
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Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on June 11, 2015 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court. The petition requests that the name of Julie Rae McGinley be changed to Julie Rae McMorris Case No.: 2015 C 300630 Tammera Herivel By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 56361 First Publication: June 25, 2015 Last Publication: July 9, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on June 12, 2015 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court. The petition requests that the name of Caitlyn Nola Thomas be changed to Caeden Nolan Thomas Case No.: 2015 C 300636 Tammera Herivel By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 56362 First Publication: June 25, 2015 Last Publication: July 9, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on June 11, 2015 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court. The petition requests that the name of Trevor Stephen Morris be changed to Trevor Stephen McMorris Case No.: 2015 C 300631 Tammera Herivel By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 56371 First Publication: June 25, 2015 Last Publication: July 9, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on June 17, 2015 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court. The petition requests that the name of Carolyn Kirchoff Brockman be changed to Carolyn Jean Kirchoff Case No.: 2015 C 300680 Tammera Herivel By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 56395 First Publication: July 2, 2015 Last Publication: July 16, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on June 10, 2015 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court. The petition requests that the name of Christopher Wade Kauppinen be changed to Kristina Marie Kauppinen Case No.: 15 C 300625 Tammera Herivel By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 56354 First Publication: June 18, 2015 Last Publication: July 2, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice To Creditors
Steven C. Smith Personal Representative 7198 Whitby Court Castle Pines, CO 80108 Legal Notice No: 56342 First Publication: June 18, 2015 Last Publication: July 2, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE Docket No.: NO15P1525EA Commonwealth of Massachusetts, The Trial Court, Norfolk Probate and Family Court Estate of Andrew Burgess Damp, Date of Death: October 1, 1995
To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Alexander F. Damp of Milton, MA, whom has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.
The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner. Legal Notice No: 42984 First Publication: June 25, 2015 Last Publication: July 9, 2015 Publisher: The Golden Transcript Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of CHARLES B. MALDENEY, a/k/a CHARLES B. MALDENEY, JR. a/k/a CHARLES MALDENEY a/k/a CHARLES BERNARD MALDENEY, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30426
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe County District Court, Colorado on or before October 20, 2015, or the claims may be forever barred. Ginger Burch Maldeney Personal Representative P.O. Box 461954 Aurora, CO 80046-1954 Legal Notice No.: 56351 First Publication: June 18, 2015 Last Publication: July 2, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Ruth Ann Johnson, Deceased Case Number 15 PR 30200
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe County District Court, Colorado on or before October 19, 2015, or the claims may be forever barred. Martin R. Nelson, Esq., for Michael J. Mitchell Personal Representative 5601 S. Broadway, Suite 355 Littleton CO 80121 Legal Notice No.: 56356 First Publication: June 18, 2015 Last Publication: July 2, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of John J. Olson, aka John James Olson, aka John Olson, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30438
The petition requests that the name of Valkiria Peres Dean be changed to Valkiria Peres Pinto. Case No.: 15 C 300600
Public notice is given on June 4, 2015 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 25, 2015 or the claims may be forever barred.
Tammera Herivel By: J. Kaufmann, Deputy Clerk
The petition requests that the name of Abdikani Aden Bare be changed to Said Abdi Ahmed. Case No.: 2015 C 300626
Nancy A. Barbour, Personal Representative 6219 Trailhead Road Highlands Ranch, CO 80130
Tammera Herivel By: J. Kaufmann, Deputy Clerk
Sharon L. Tyson, Personal Representative 6551 Conlan Drive Jeddo, MI 48032
Legal Notice No: 56344 First Publication: June 18, 2015 Last Publication: July 2, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on June 4, 2015 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
Legal Notice No: 56355 First Publication: June 18, 2015 Last Publication: July 2, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
The petition requests that the name of Tambra Lou Sands be changed to Tambra Lou Betts Case No.: 2015 C 300598
Public notice is given on June 22, 2015 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.
Tammera Herivel By: Deputy Clerk
The petition requests that the name of Yong Kyun Kim be changed to Kevin Yongkyun Kim Case No.: 15 C 300692
Legal Notice No: 56343 First Publication: June 18, 2015 Last Publication: July 2, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on June 11, 2015 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court. The petition requests that the name of David Morgan Cameruca be changed to David Morgan Camerucci Case No.: 2015 C 300623 Tammera Herivel By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 56360
Legal Notice No: 56370 First Publication: June 25, 2015 Last Publication: July 9, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Marjorie J. Cartwright, aka Marjorie Cartwright, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30522
Tammera Herivel By: J. Kaufmann, Deputy Clerk
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 26, 2015 or the claims may be forever barred.
Legal Notice No: 56386 First Publication: July 2, 2015 Last Publication: July 16, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent
Victoria Anne Hoffmann, Personal Representative 7428 South Ogden Way Centennial, CO 80122
Notice To Creditors
Legal Notice No: 56374 First Publication: June 25, 2015 Last Publication: July 9, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent
PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Charles W. Smith, aka Charles Smith, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30467
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ASHER MICHAEL GUMBINER, a/k/a Asher Gumbiner, a/k/a Asher M. Gumbiner, Deceased Case Number 2015PR30437
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to
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Phone: 303-986-1200 Fax: 303-988-8913 Case Number: 09C312512
Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ASHER MICHAEL GUMBINER, a/k/a Asher Gumbiner, a/k/a Asher M. Gumbiner, Deceased Case Number 2015PR30437
Notice To Creditors
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe, County, Colorado on or before November 3, 2015, or the claims may be forever barred. Sheera L. Gumbiner Personal Representative c/o Holland & Hart LLP P.O. Box 8749 Denver, CO 80201-8749 Legal Notice No.: 56382 First Publication: July 2, 2015 Last Publication: July 16, 2015 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Littleton Independent
PUBLIC NOTICE Notice To Creditors NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Paul Gregory Villard, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30520
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before November 15, 2015 or the claims may be forever barred. Grace Ann Bibona, Personal Representative 12 Palomino Lane Ranch Mission Viejo, CA 92694 Legal Notice No: 56381 First Publication: July 2, 2015 Last Publication: July 16, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bonnie Ball, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30518
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Henriette M. Schuerman, aka Henriette Maria Schuerman, aka Henriette Marie Schuerman and Henriette Schuerman, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30402
Jacqueline Walsh Personal Representative 3800 S. Fox Street Englewood, CO 80110 Legal Notice No.: 56387 First Publication: July 2, 2015 Last Publication: July 16, 2015 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jennie L. Soderstrom, aka Jennie Louise Soderstrom, aka Jennie Lou Soderstrom, aka J.L. Soderstrom and Jennie Soderstrom, Deceased, Case Number 15 PR 30539 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, on or before November 2, 2015, or the claims may be forever barred. Karl Roy Soderstrom, Personal Representative 4901 Redwood Drive Littleton, CO 80123 Legal Notice No.: 56388 First Publication: July 2, 2015 Last Publication: July 16, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Paul Gregory Villard, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30520
Notice To Creditors
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Edith H. Dunn, aka Edith Hedwig Dunn, and Edith Dunn, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30496 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 19, 2015 or the claims may be forever barred. Kathleen A. Fitzgerald Personal Representative 8113 E. Hinsdale Drive Centennial, Colorado 80112
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 19, 2015 or the claims may be forever barr ed.
Janet Lee Preston Personal Representative 6002 E. Nichols Avenue Centennial, Colorado 80112
Legal Notice No: 56345 First Publication: June 18, 2015 Last Publication: July 2, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent
Legal Notice No: 56367 First Publication: June 25, 2015 Last Publication: July 9, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent
PUBLIC NOTICE
PUBLIC NOTICE
Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Joyce Y. Brost, aka Joyce Yvonne Brost, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30533
Public notice is given on June 4, 2015 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court. The petition requests that the name of Ashley Susan Cunningham be changed to Ashley Susan Black. Case No.: 15 C 300596 Tammera Herivel By: J. Kaufmann, Deputy Clerk
PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Edith H. Dunn, aka Edith Hedwig Dunn, and Edith Dunn, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30496
All drinking water, including bottled water, may reasonably be expected to contain at least small amounts of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does not necessarily indicate that the water poses a health risk. More information about contaminants and potential health effects can be obtained by calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline (1-800-426-4791) or by visiting http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants.
/s/ Clerk of the Court Clerk of the Court Legal Notice No.: 56365 First Publication: June 25, 2015 Last Publication: July 23, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent
NOTICE TO SHOW CAUSE WHEREAS, Plaintiff has moved this Court pursuant to said rules of civil procedure that the judgment entered in the instant matter on August 28, 2009 in favor of the Plaintiff and against the Defendant(s) which judgment remains unsatisfied, be revived, NOW THEREFORE,
PUBLIC NOTICE COUNTY COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO 1790 W. LITTLETON BLVD. LITTLETON, CO 80120
IT IS ORDERED, the Defendant(s) , LAURA L. PANNELL , shall show cause within fourteen (14) days from the service of this Notice to Show Cause if any she has, why the judgment heretofore entered should not be revived with like force and effect.
Plaintiff: UNIFUND CCR PARTNERS vs. Defendant(s): KENNETH BROWN INDIVIDUALLY and CUSTOM ELECTRICAL SERVICES, LLC
WITNESS the hand and seal of the Clerk of the Court in LITTLETON, Colorado, this 14th day of April, 2015.
David A. Bauer, #7576 David A. Bauer, P.C. 2594 South Lewis Way, Suite A Lakewood, Colorado 80227 Phone: 303-986-1200 Fax: 303-988-8913
/s/ Clerk of the Court Clerk of the Court Legal Notice No.: 56364 First Publication: June 25, 2015 Last Publication: July 23, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent
NOTICE OF HEARING To: John Doe Pursuant to §15-10-401, C.R.S., you are hereby notified that the above-named Petitioner has filed in this Court a verified Petition seeking to adopt a child.
Case Number: 09C311178 Division: NOTICE TO SHOW CAUSE
WHEREAS, Plaintiff has moved this Court pursuant to said rules of civil procedure that the judgment entered in the instant matter on August 28, 2009 in favor of the Plaintiff and against the Defendant(s) which judgment remains unsatisfied, be revived, NOW THEREFORE,
PUBLIC NOTICE COUNTY COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO 1790 W. LITTLETON BLVD. LITTLETON, CO 80120
If applicable, an Affidavit of Abandonment has been filed alleging that you have abandoned the child for a period of one year or more and/or have failed without cause to provide reasonable support for the child for one year or more.
Plaintiff:UNIFUND CCR PARTNERS vs. Defendant(s): YOOJIN LEE
You are further notified that an Adoption hearing is set on July 9, 2015, at 2:30 p.m. in the court location identified above.
David A. Bauer, #7576 David A. Bauer, P.C. 2594 South Lewis Way, Suite A Lakewood, Colorado 80227
You are further notified that if you fail to appear for said hearing, the Court may terminate your parental rights and grant the adoption as sought by the Petitioner.
Phone: 303-986-1200 Fax: 303-988-8913 Case Number: 09C312512
IT IS ORDERED, the Defendant(s), KENNETH BROWN INDIVIDUALLY and CUSTOM ELECTRICAL SERVICES, LLC, shall show cause within fourteen (14) days from the service of this Notice to Show Cause if any they have, why the judgment heretofore entered should not be revived with like force and effect. WITNESS the hand and seal of the Clerk of the Court in LITTLETON, Colorado, this 12th day of March, 2015.
NOTICE TO SHOW CAUSE
Legal Notice No.: 56320 First Publication: June 4, 2015 Last Publication: July 2, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent
/s/ Clerk of the Court Clerk of the Court
WHEREAS, Plaintiff has moved this Court pursuant to said rules of civil procedure that the judgment entered in the instant matter on September 18, 2009 in favor of the Plaintiff and against the Defendant(s) which judgment remains unsatisfied, be revived, NOW THEREFORE,
Government Legals
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to All persons having claims against the present them to the Personal Representabove-named estate are required to ative or to the District Court of Arapahoe present them to the Personal RepresentCounty, Colorado on or before November 15, 2015 or the claims may be forever ative or to the District Court of Arapahoe Public County, Colorado on or before October barred. INVERNESS WSD 2015claims Drinking Quality Report 19, 2015 or the mayWater be forever barred. For Calendar Year 2014 Grace Ann Bibona, Personal Representative Public Water System ID: CO0203012 Kathleen A. Fitzgerald 12 Palomino Lane Personal Si Representative Ranch Mission Viejo, CAes 92694 Esta información importante. no la pueden leer, necesitan que alguien se la traduzca. 8113 E. Hinsdale Drive Centennial, Legal Notice No: 56381 We are pleased to present to you this year’s water quality Colorado report. Our80112 constant goal is to provide you with a safe and dependable supFirst July 2,Please 2015 contact KELLY CONOVER at 303-649-9857 with any questions about the Drinking Consumer Confidence ply Publication: of drinking water. Legal that Notice No: 56350 Last Publication: Julypublic 16, 2015 Rule (CCR) or for participation opportunities may affect the water quality. This report is available for public viewing online at First in Publication: June 18, 2015 and the Douglas County NewsPress legal section. You Publisher: Littleton Independent www.invernesswater.org. It will also be published the Littleton Independent Publication: July 2, 2015 can also call the office at 303-649-9857 for anLast email or paper copy. Publisher: Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent General Information
WITNESS the hand and seal of the Clerk of the Court in LITTLETON, Colorado, this 9th day of April, 2015.
Case Number: 09C312158
In the Matter of the Petition of: Sunny Craig Heydorn and Jason Keith Heydorn For the Adoption of a Child Case Number: 2015JA39
Legal Notice No: 56389 First Publication: July 2, 2015 Last Publication: July 16, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent
IT IS ORDERED, the Defendant(s), YOOJIN LEE, shall show cause within fourteen (14) days from the service of this Notice to Show Cause if any he/she/they has/have, why the judgment heretofore entered should not be revived with like force and effect.
David A. Bauer, #7576 David A. Bauer, P.C. 2594 South Lewis Way, Suite A Lakewood, Colorado 80227 Phone: 303-986-1200 Fax: 303-988-8913
Arapahoe County District Court 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, CO 80112
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before November 2, 2015 or the claims may be forever barred.
WHEREAS, Plaintiff has moved this Court pursuant to said rules of civil procedure that the judgment entered in the instant matter on September 18, 2009 in favor of the Plaintiff and against the Defendant(s) which judgment remains unsatisfied, be revived, NOW THEREFORE,
Plaintiff: CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A. vs. Defendant(s): LAURA L. PANNELL
Public Notice
Kevin L. Ehlers Attorney for the Personal Representative Kevin Ehlers Law, P.C. 13976 W. Bowles Ave., Suite 202 Littleton, Colorado 80127
Legal Notice No: 56346 First Publication: June 18, 2015 Last Publication: July 2, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent
PUBLIC NOTICE COUNTY COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO 1790 W. LITTLETON BLVD. LITTLETON, CO 80120
Misc. Private Legals
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before October 26, 2015 or the claims may be forever barred.
Edward B. Lee, Esq. Deputy Public Administrator as Personal Representative 7400 East Caley Avenue Suite 300 Centennial, Colorado 80111-6714
PUBLIC NOTICE
Legal Notice No: 56390 First Publication: July 2, 2015 Last Publication: July 16, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Robert Ardell Knutson, aka Robert A. Knutson, aka Robert Knutson, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30508
Misc. Private Legals
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Walt Whitelaw, aka Walt R. Whitelaw, aka Walter Richard Whitelaw, aka Walter R. Whitelaw, aka Walter Whitelaw, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30498
Justin W. Blow, Esq. Attorney to the Personal Representative 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 100 Centennial, Colorado 80112 303-741-2400
PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE TO SHOW CAUSE
Misc. Private Legals
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before November 2, 2015 or the claims may be forever barred.
Legal Notice No: 56350 First Publication: June 18, 2015 Last Publication: July 2, 2015 Publisher: Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent
PUBLIC NOTICE
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Arapahoe County District Court, Colorado on or before November 2, 2015 or the claims may be forever barred.
Notice To NOTICE Creditors PUBLIC
Legal Notice No.: 56372 First Publication: June 25, 2015 Last Publication: July 23, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent
IT IS ORDERED, the Defendant(s), YOOJIN LEE, shall show cause within fourteen (14) days from the service of this Notice to Show Cause if any he/she/they Notice has/have, why the judgment heretofore • Nephelometric Turbidity Unit (NTU) − Measureentered of the clarity or cloudiness of water. Turbidity in excess of 5 NTU is just noticeable to should not be revived with like the typical person. force and effect. • Compliance Value (No Abbreviation) – Single or calculated value used to determine if regulatory contaminant level (e.g. MCL) is met. WITNESS the hand andAverage seal of (RAA) the Clerk Examples of calculated values are the 90th Percentile, Running Annual and Locational Running Annual Average (LRAA). of the Court in LITTLETON, Colorado, this • Average (x-bar) − Typical value. • Range (R) − Lowest value to the highest value.9th day of April, 2015. • Sample Size (n) − Number or count of values (i.e. number of water samples collected). /s/ Clerk of the • Parts per million = Milligrams per liter (ppm = mg/L) − One partCourt per million corresponds to one minute in two years or a single penny in Clerk of the Court $10,000. • Parts per billion = Micrograms per liter (ppb = ug/L) − One part per billion corresponds to one minute in 2,000 years, or a single penny Legal Notice No.: 56365 in $10,000,000. First Publication: June 25, 2015 • Not Applicable (N/A) – Does not apply or not available. Last Publication: July 23, 2015 Publisher: LittletonContaminants Independent Detected
INVERNESS WSD routinely monitors for contaminants in your drinking water according to Federal and State laws. The following table(s) show all detections found in the period of January 1 to December 31, 2014 unless otherwise noted. The State of Colorado Detected Contaminants requires us to monitor for certain contaminants less than once per year because the concentrations of these contaminants are not exINVERNESS WSD routinely monitors for contaminants in your drinking water according to Federal and State laws. The following table(s) show all detections found in the period pected to vary significantly from year to year, or the system is not considered vulnerable to this type of contamination. Therefore, some INVERNESS WSD 2015 Drinking Water Quality Report January 1 to December 31, 2014 unless otherwise noted. The State of Colorado requires us to monitor for certain contaminants less than once per year because the concentrations of the Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants inFor drinking water than the general population. Immunocompromised persons of our data, though representative, may be more than one year old. Violations and Formal Enforcement Actions, if any, are reported in Calendar Year 2014 contaminants are not expected to vary significantly from year to year, or the system is not considered vulnerable to this type of contamination. Therefore, some of our data, thoug such as persons with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, persons who have undergone organ transplants, people with HIV-AIDS or other representative, the next section of this Public Water System ID: CO0203012 may be more thanreport. one year old. Violations and Formal Enforcement Actions, if any, are reported in the next section of this report. Esta es información importante. no la pueden leer, necesitan que alguien seThese la traduzca. immune system disorders, some elderly, and infants can beSiparticularly at risk of infections. people should seek advice about Note: detected contaminants sampled lastin 5this years in this report. no tables appear in thiswere section then no last round Note: OnlyOnly detected contaminants sampled within the last within 5 years the appear report.appear If no tables appear in thisIf section then no contaminants detected in the We drinking are pleasedwater to present to their you this year’scare water providers. quality report.For Ourmore constant goal is to provide with a safe and and dependable supply of drinking water. contactaKELLY from health information aboutyou contaminants potential health effects, or Please to receive contaminants were detected in the last round of monitoring. monitoring. CONOVER 303-649-9857 with any questions about the Drinking Confidence RuleCenters (CCR) or for for public participation that may affect water quality. This copy ofatthe U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyConsumer (EPA) and the U.S. Disease Controlopportunities (CDC) guidelines on the appropriate means to lessenfor thepublic risk ofviewing infection by Cryptosporidium and microbiological contaminants callinthe Safe Drinking Waterand Hotline at report is available online at www.invernesswater.org. It will also be published theEPA Littleton Independent the Douglas Lead and Copper Sampled in the Distribution System (1-800-426-4791). County NewsPress legal section. You can also call the office at 303-649-9857 for an email or paper copy.
General Information The sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As All water drinkingtravels water, including bottled water,ofmay be expected to ground, contain at it least small amounts of some contaminants. The presence of some contaminants does not necessarily over the surface thereasonably land or through the dissolves naturally occurring minerals and, in cases, radioactive ndicate that theand watercan poses a health risk. More information and potential health or effects canhuman be obtained by calling the Environmental Agency’s Safe material, pick up substances resultingabout fromcontaminants the presence of animals from activity. Contaminants that Protection may be present Drinking Water Hotline (1-800-426-4791) or by visiting http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants. in source water include:
• Microbial contaminants: viruses and bacteria that may come from sewage treatment plants, septic systems, agricultural livestock
Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water than the general population. Immunocompromised persons such as persons with cancer undergoing operations, and wildlife. hemotherapy, persons who have undergone organ transplants, people with HIV-AIDS or other immune system disorders, some elderly, and infants can be particularly at risk of • Inorganic contaminants: which can behealth naturally-occurring result from about urbancontaminants stormwater orordomesnfections. These people should seek salts advice and aboutmetals, drinking water from their care providers. For or more information and runoff, potential industrial health effects, to receive a discharges, oil and gas production, or farming. opyticofwastewater the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and themining, U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines on appropriate means to lessen the risk of infection by • Pesticides and herbicides: may come a variety of sources, such agriculture, urban stormwater runoff, and residential uses. Cryptosporidium and microbiological contaminants callfrom the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline at as (1-800-426-4791).
• Radioactive contaminants: can be naturally occurring or be the result of oil and gas production and mining activities. Organic chemical contaminants: including synthetic volatile organicponds, chemicals, are of travels industrial processes The• sources of drinking water (both tap water and bottled water) includeand rivers, lakes, streams, reservoirs,which springs, andbyproducts wells. As water over the surface of and the land or hrough the ground, it dissolves naturally occurring mineralsfrom and, in some cases, radioactive material, and can pick upand substances from the presence of animals or from human petroleum production, and also may come gas stations, urban storm water runoff, septicresulting systems.
ctivity. Contaminants that may be present in source water include: • order Microbial contaminants: viruses andis bacteria may come sewage treatment plants, septic systems, agricultural livestock operations, and wildlife. In to ensure that tap water safe that to drink, thefrom Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment prescribes regulations • Inorganic contaminants: salts and metals, which can be naturally-occurring result from urban stormwaterThe runoff, industrial or domestic wastewater discharges, oil and gas limiting the amount of certain contaminants in water provided byorpublic water systems. Food and Drug Administration regulations production, mining, or farming. establish limits for contaminants in bottled water that must provide the same protection for public health. • Pesticides and herbicides: may come from a variety of sources, such as agriculture, urban stormwater runoff, and residential uses. • Radioactive contaminants: can be naturally occurring or be the result of oilin andDrinking gas production and mining activities. Lead Water • Organic chemical contaminants: including synthetic and volatile organic chemicals, which are byproducts of industrial processes and petroleum production, and also may come from gas stations, urban storm water runoff, and septic systems.
If present, elevated levels of lead can cause serious health problems (especially for pregnant women and young children). It is possible
that tolead levels atwater yourishome higher than otherofhomes in theand community a result of materials in your home’s plumbing. n order ensure that tap safe to may drink, be the Colorado Department Public Health Environmentas prescribes regulations limitingused the amount of certain contaminants in water If youbyare concerned about your you may wish toestablish have your tested. When your water hasprovide been the sitting several provided public water systems. Thelead Foodin and Drugwater, Administration regulations limits water for contaminants in bottled water that must samefor protection for public hours, you can minimize the potential for lead exposure by flushing your tap for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using water for drinking health. or cooking. Additional information on lead in drinking water, testing methods, and steps you can take to minimize exposure is available in Drinking Water from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (1-800-426-4791) or Lead at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/lead.
f present, elevated levels of lead can cause serious health problems (especially for pregnant women and young children). It is possible that lead levels at your home may be higher than other homes in the community as a result of materials usedSource in your home’s If you areand concerned about lead(SWAP) in your water, you may wish to have your water tested. When your Waterplumbing. Assessment Protection water has been sitting for several hours, you can minimize the potential for lead exposure by flushing your tap for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using water for drinking or cooking. Additional informationDepartment on lead in drinking water, testing methods, and steps you canhas take provided to minimizeus exposure available from the Assessment Safe Drinking Water Hotline or at The Colorado of Public Health and Environment with ais Source Water Report for(1-800-426-4791) our water http://www.epa.gov/safewater/lead.
supply. For general information or to obtain a copy of the report please visit http://wqcdcompliance.com/ccr. The report is located under “Source Water Assessment Reports”, andSource then Water “Assessment Report by County”. Assessment and Protection (SWAP)Select ARAPAHOE County and find 203012; WSD by Health contacting KELLY CONOVER 303-649-9857. The Source provides or a to screeningTheINVERNESS Colorado Department of or Public and Environment has provided usat with a Source Water Assessment ReportWater for our Assessment water supply. ForReport general information obtain a copy of level evaluation of potential contamination that could occur. It does not mean that contamination has or Report will occur. We can use this he report please visit http://wqcdcompliance.com/ccr. The report is located under “Source Water Assessment the Reports”, and then “Assessment by County”. Select ARAPAHOE information to evaluate the need improve ourKELLY current water treatment capabilities andWater prepare for future threats.evaluation This of County and find 203012; INVERNESS WSD to or by contacting CONOVER at 303-649-9857. The Source Assessment Reportcontamination provides a screening-level can help us ensure that quality water delivered to your homes. In addition, water assessment provide a water potential contamination that could occur. It finished does not mean thatisthe contamination has or will occur. We can usethe thissource information to evaluate the need results to improve our current reatment capabilities and developing prepare for future contamination This canplan. help usPotential ensure that quality finished water is delivered in to your addition, the source water assessment starting point for a source waterthreats. protection sources of contamination our homes. sourceInwater area are listed on esults a starting point for developing a source water protection plan. Potential sources of contamination in our source water area are listed on the next page. the provide next page.
Please contactcontact us to learn about what you can dowhat to helpyou protect sources, anydrinking questions water about the Drinking Water Consumer Confidence Report, to learn more Please usmore to learn more about canyour dodrinking to helpwater protect your sources, any questions about the Drinking bout our system, or to attend scheduled public meetings. We want you, our valued customers, to be informed about the services we provide and the quality water we deliver to you every Water Consumer Confidence Report, to learn more about our system, or to attend scheduled public meetings. We want you, our valued day.
customers, to be informed about the services we provide and the quality water we deliver to you every day. Source
Source Type
WELL 3R
Our Water Sources
Water Type
Potential Source(s) of Contamination
Well
Groundwater
Above and Below ground storage tanks, auto repairs facilities, autobody and painting, hazardous waste generators and manufacturing facilities
PURCHASED FROM DENVER
Consecutive Connection
Surface Water
SAME AS ABOVE
WELL 1R
Well
Groundwater
SAME AS ABOVE
WELL 4R
Well
Groundwater
SAME AS ABOVE
NO 2 WELL
Well
Groundwater
SAME AS ABOVE
Contaminant Name
Time Period
90th Percentile
Sample Size
Unit of Measure
90th Percentile AL
Copper
07/13/2013 to 09/27/2013
0.27
30
ppm
1.3
Lead
07/13/2013 to 09/27/2013
5.9
30
ppb
15
Sample Sites Above AL
90th Percentile AL Exceedance
Typical Sources
No
Corrosion of household plumbing systems; Erosion of natural deposits
No
Corrosion of household plumbing systems; Erosion of natural deposits
1
Disinfection Byproducts Sampled in the Distribution System Name
Year
Average
Range Low – High
Sample Size
Unit of Measure
MCL
MCLG
Highest Compliance Value
MCL Violation
Typical Sources
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
2014
7
0 to 20
12
ppb
60
N/A
No
Byproduct of drinking water disinfection
Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)
2014
11.29
0 to 25
12
ppb
80
N/A
No
Byproduct of drinking water disinfection
Contaminant Name
Year
Average
Range Low – High
Sample Size
Unit of Measure
MCL
MCLG
MCL Violation
Typical Sources
Gross Alpha
2014
3.9
3.9 to 3.9
1
pCi/L
15
0
No
Erosion of natural deposits
Combined Radium
2014
1.5
1.5 to 1.5
1
pCi/L
5
0
No
Erosion of natural deposits
Radionuclides Sampled at the Entry Point to the Distribution System
Inorganic Contaminants Sampled at the Entry Point to the Distribution System Contaminant Name
Year
Average
Range Low – High
Sample Size
Unit of Measure
MCL
MCLG
MCL Violation
Typical Sources
Arsenic
2014
2
2 to 2
1
ppb
10
0
No
Erosion of natural deposits; runoff from orchards; runoff from glass and electronics production wastes
Barium
2014
0
0 to 0
1
ppm
2
2
No
Discharge of drilling wastes; discharge from metal refineries; erosion of natural deposits
Fluoride
2014
1.2
1.2 to 1.2
1
ppm
4
4
No
Erosion of natural deposits; water additive which promotes strong teeth; discharge from fertilizer and aluminum factories
Unregulated or Secondary Contaminants**
**Secondary standards are non-enforceable guidelines for contaminants that may cause cosmetic effects (such as skin, or tooth discoloration) or aesthetic effects (such as taste, odor, or color) in drinking water. Contaminant Name Year Average Range Sample Size Unit of Measure Secondary Standard Low – High Total Dissolved Solids
2014
148
148 to 148
1
ppm
500
Violations, Significant Deficiencies, and Formal Enforcement Actions Violations
Terms and Abbreviations Terms and Abbreviations
MaximumContaminant Contaminant Level (MCL) − The level of alevel contaminant allowed in drinking water. in drinking water. ••Maximum Level (MCL) − highest The highest of a contaminant allowed TreatmentTechnique Technique (TT) process intended intended to reduce thetolevel of a contaminant water. ••Treatment (TT)− A − required A required process reduce the levelinofdrinking a contaminant in drinking water. • Action Level (AL) − The concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment and other regulatory requirements. • Action Level (AL) − The concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment and other regulatory requirements. MaximumResidual Residual Disinfectant Level (MRDL) − The highest of a disinfectant in drinking water. There is convincing evidence thatisaddition of a disinfectant is ••Maximum Disinfectant Level (MRDL) − Thelevel highest level of aallowed disinfectant allowed in drinking water. There convincing necessary for control of microbial contaminants. evidence that addition of a disinfectant is necessary for control of microbial contaminants. • Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) − The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MCLGs allow for a • Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) − The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected margin of safety. risk to health.Residual MCLGs allow forLevel a margin of safety.− The level of a drinking water disinfectant, below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MRDLGs do • Maximum Disinfectant Goal (MRDLG) • Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level Goal (MRDLG) − The level of a drinking water disinfectant, below which there is no known or not reflect the benefits of the use of disinfectants to control microbial contaminants. expected risk health. MRDLGs not areflect the benefits of the use of disinfectants to control microbial contaminants. • Violation (NotoAbbreviation) − Failuredo to meet Colorado Primary Drinking Water Regulation. ••Violation (No Abbreviation) − Failure to meet a Colorado Primary Drinking Regulation. Formal Enforcement Action (No Abbreviation) − Escalated action taken by the State (dueWater to the risk to public health, or number or severity of violations) to bring a non• Formal Enforcement Action Abbreviation) − Escalated action taken by the State (due to the risk to public health, or number or compliant water system back into(No compliance. severity of violations) to bring non-compliant water system backorinto compliance. • Variance and Exemptions (V/E) a − Department permission not to meet a MCL treatment technique under certain conditions. ••Variance and(No Exemptions (V/E) − Department permission notvalue. to meet a MCL or treatment technique under certain conditions. Gross Alpha Abbreviation) − Gross alpha particle activity compliance It includes radium-226, but excludes radon 222, and uranium. ••Gross Alphaper(No − Gross alpha particle activity compliance value. It includes radium-226, but excludes radon 222, and Picocuries literAbbreviation) (pCi/L) − Measure of the radioactivity in water. uranium. • Nephelometric Turbidity Unit (NTU) − Measure of the clarity or cloudiness of water. Turbidity in excess of 5 NTU is just noticeable to the typical person. ••Picocuries per liter(No (pCi/L) − Measure of or the radioactivity in to water. Compliance Value Abbreviation) – Single calculated value used determine if regulatory contaminant level (e.g. MCL) is met. Examples of calculated values are the • • • •
90th Percentile, Running Annual Average (RAA) and Locational Running Annual Average (LRAA). Average (x-bar) − Typical value. Range (R) − Lowest value to the highest value. Sample Size (n) − Number or count of values (i.e. number of water samples collected). Parts per million = Milligrams per liter (ppm = mg/L) − One part per million corresponds to one minute in two years or a single penny in $10,000.
Name
Category
Time Period
Health Effects
Compliance Value
TT Level or MCL
DI(2-ETHYLHEXYL) PHTHALATE
MONITORING, ROUTINE MAJOR - MONITORING & REPORTING
01/01/2014 - 12/31/2014
N/A
N/A
N/A
Additional Violation Information Note: If any violation relates to failing to install adequate filtration or disinfection equipment or processes, or have had a failure of such equipment or processes then the water may be inadequately treated. Inadequately treated water may contain disease-causing organisms. These organisms include bacteria, viruses, and parasites, which can cause symptoms such as nausea, cramps, diarrhea, and associated headaches. Explanation of the violation(s) and the steps taken to resolve them:
Legal Notice No.: 927375 First Publication: July 2, 2015 Last Publication: July 2, 2015
These violations were a result of a late sample submission.
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BEMIS NONFICTION Writers’ Group. Unpublished nonfiction writers of personal essays and/or articles meet the second Monday each month at 6:30 p.m. in the café area of Sophie’s Place at the library. Take a pencil and five copies of a recent essay, no longer than 650 words, to share and read aloud. Elaine Kallos, a language arts instructor, facilitates the group. BENEVOLENT AND Protective Order of Elks Lodge No.1650 meets at 8 p.m. Thursdays at 5749 S. Curtice St., Littleton. Call 303-794-1811. BOARDS OF Directors of the Southgate Water District and the Southgate Sanitation District, Arapahoe and Douglas counties, meet at 4 p.m. the second Tuesday each month at office of the districts, 3722 E. Orchard Road, Littleton. Agenda information for each meeting is posted at Southgate office not less than 24 hours before meetings. BOY SCOUTS of America Pack 633 welcomes all first- through fifth-graders to join any time during the year. Call Nick Erlenburg at 303-471-4172. THE BREAKFAST Club Singles 50 Plus meets on the second Saturday of each month at Maggiano’s at 7401 S. Clinton Street, Englewood at 9 a.m. Arrival is 8:30 a.m. and buffet starts at 9 a.m. Must RSVP the Hotline at 303-794-3332 for reservation.
COLUMBINE LADIES We welcome new members to our fun loving group. Join us for games (bridge, canasta, MahJongg and pinochle). Enjoy monthly luncheons at great restaurants and quarterly social events. Dues are $24 annually. Visitors are welcome. For more information or to make a reservation to attend our next luncheon, call Jackie Hirt at 303-972-3384. COLUMBINE COMMUNICATORS Toast-
masters can help if speaking in public makes you anxious. We improve your communications and leadership skills in a thoughtful, supportive environment. Our club meets from 7-8:30 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of the month at the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Station, 11139 Bradford St., Littleton. Visitors are welcome. Contact Herb Dreo at herb@dreomc.com (303-763-7334) or Pam Toyen at ptoyen7@hotmail.com (303570-8606). Visit http://columbine.toastmastersclubs.org/
CURRENT EVENTS Group meets the first Wednes-
days of the month from 1-3 p.m. at the Buck Recreation Center, 2004 Powers Ave. in Littleton. Call 303-730-4609.
DAUGHTERS OF the American Revolution, Mount Rosa Chapter meets at 1 p.m. every first Monday of the month at locations in the Littleton, Centennial and Highlands Ranch area with a social hour following the meeting unless otherwise noted. Contact Linda at lindarg@aol.com for information about membership in the DAR. Go to http://mountrosa.coloradodar.org/.
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Prince St., Littleton. Call or email for time: 303-798Plaintiff: UNIFUND CCR PARTNERS City of Englewood, County of Arapahoe, vs. Colorado. BROOKRIDGE nial,SELF-STOREvergreen and Boulder County. Call Chris at 303-683-6154 1800 or mail@innerinitiative.org. Go to www.innerinitiative.org Defendant(s): AGE will sell to satisfy the lien on the or Olive at 303-347-1311 or visit www.dbecolorado.org and use KENNETH BROWN INDIVIDUALLY and property stored at 101 E. Centennial AvCUSTOM ELECTRICAL SERVICES,Club LLC meets Public Notice enue,the Englewood, 80113 by the folCHATFIELD SERTOMA first and CO the contact form lowing persons. The inventories listed be-available. third Mondays Bistro Aspen Grove, 7301 S.low Santa Fe Drive, David A. Bauer, at #7576 NOTICE TO BIDDERS were notated by the tenants at the David A. Bauer, P.C. time of rental. BROOKRIDGE SELF- CLUB is a fun and exciting way to meet DISCOVERY Littleton. LindaSuite Holloway at 303-423-4197 or linda@ 2594 SouthContact Lewis Way, A Sealed Bids in an envelope marked: STORAGE makes no representation or new friends and enjoy recreational activities. include Lakewood, Colorado 80227 “West Floyd AvenueActivities Improvements, warranty that the units contain said inventbessieshope.org. Phone: 303-986-1200 Project Number: SHPF 1408” ories. sports, arts and crafts, drama, singing, dancing, board and Fax: 303-988-8913 Attention: Randy Mourning, COFFEE AND Conversation Group connects L. RICE computer games, group and individual Public Works Director D-1: BERNICE activities. Volunteer Case Number: 09C311178 Dayton St. #116 people in the community who like to discuss 6833 books,S.current exist forwill people older than Student Division: be received and15. opened by volunteers the City of Greenwood Village, CO opportunities 80112 Sheridan at the City Hall, 4101 South FedFurniture, eventsNOTICE and anyTO topic of interest. The group meets from Bedding, 10-11 Space canHeaters, earn community service hours. Club meets third Saturday SHOW CAUSE eral Blvd, Sheridan, CO 80110 on July 10, Bicycle Parts, Boxes, Misc. Bags 2015 at 10:00 a.m. Church, 8817 South a.m. the second Monday of each month in Sophie’s Place at each month at St. Luke’s United Methodist WHEREAS, Plaintiff has moved this Court F-8: JENNIFER M. CURRY Bemis Public Library, S. Datura St., Littleton. snacksAve. Broadway. Call Jenita Rhodes pursuant to said rules6014 of civil procedure Plans, Specifications and Bid forms may 15418Free E. Oxford at 303-791-0659. that the judgment entered in the instant be obtained at City Hall, 4101 South FedAurora, CO 80013 Furniture, Bedding and beverages are28, provided. 303-795-3961. matter on August 2009 in Call favor of the eral Blvd., Sheridan, CO 80110, beginDRY CREEK Sertoma Club. only all Women’s Plaintiff and against the Defendant(s) ning on June 22, The 2015. A non-refundable F-13: CHRISTINE M. NEAL which remains unsatisfied, be deposit ofmeets twentyfor five dollars ($25.00) 130 W. Grand Ave. #207Sertoma club in the metro THEjudgment COLUMBINE Genealogical and Historarea breakfast at 7 shall a.m.will revived, NOW THEREFORE, be required for each set. Checks be Englewood, CO 80110 ical Society meets at Lutheran Church ofFurniture, the Holy Spirit, made payable to City at ofToast Sheridan. theMisc. first and of the month Restaurant, Vacuum, Boxes, Bagsthird Wednesday IT IS ORDERED, the Defendant(s), 6400 S. University Centennial. ProgramF-29: meetings theJEFF HEBER 2700 W. Bowles Ave., Littleton, or for lunch onheld the atsecond Fri-W. KENNETH BROWNBlvd., INDIVIDUALLY Pre-bid meeting will be the site, CMR are INC. and CUSTOM SERVICES, Floyd Avenue and S. Bryant Street, 5970 Vine St.and second TuesdayELECTRICAL of each month, except in June, July,S.August day of the month at interesting restaurants. The club comprises LLC, shall show cause within fourteen (14) on July 1, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. Greenwood Village, CO 80121 days from the service workshop of this Notice to and Generator, December. Genealogy programs early-birdMisc. meet-Construction women Materials, dedicated to the common goal of helping people in the Show Cause if any they have, why the The work consists of approximately 300 Scaffolding, Ladders, Tools, Ramps, ings are the third Tuesday of each month, in June, July, Hitch, community with fundsfeet andofvolunteer especially to in the judgment heretofore entered should not except roadwaytime, reconstruction include Lights, Vacuum, Carts, Boxes be revived with like force and effect. removal of existing concrete and asphalt; areawith of hearing health.and Helpinstallation make a difference through SERvice August and December. Visit www.ColumbineGenealogy.com or of concrete driveways, Purchases must be made cash and
WITNESS the hand and seal of the Clerk of the Court in LITTLETON, Colorado, this 12th day of March, 2015.
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/s/ Clerk of the Court Clerk of the Court
Legal Notice No.: 56372 First Publication: June 25, 2015 Last Publication: July 23, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF LIENED PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that a public sale will be held on or after JULY 21, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. at 101 E. Centennial Avenue, City of Englewood, County of Arapahoe, Colorado. BROOKRIDGE SELF-STORAGE will sell to satisfy the lien on the property stored at 101 E. Centennial Avenue, Englewood, CO 80113 by the following persons. The inventories listed below were notated by the tenants at the time of rental. BROOKRIDGE SELFSTORAGE makes no representation or warranty that the units contain said inventories. D-1: BERNICE L. RICE 6833 S. Dayton St. #116 Greenwood Village, CO 80112 Furniture, Bedding, Space Heaters, Bicycle Parts, Boxes, Misc. Bags F-8: JENNIFER M. CURRY 15418 E. Oxford Ave. Aurora, CO 80013 Furniture, Bedding F-13: CHRISTINE M. NEAL 130 W. Grand Ave. #207 Englewood, CO 80110 Furniture, Vacuum, Boxes, Misc. Bags F-29: CMR INC. JEFF HEBER 5970 S. Vine St. Greenwood Village, CO 80121 Generator, Misc. Construction Materials, Scaffolding, Ladders, Tools, Ramps, Lights, Vacuum, Hitch, Carts, Boxes
Purchases must be made with cash and paid for at the time of purchase. No one under the age of 18 is allowed to attend the sale. The landlord reserves the right to bid at the sale. All purchased goods are sold “as is” and must be removed by 6:00 PM on the day of the sale. Buyers must provide a current original or a photocopy of their original resale permit at time of sale in lieu of sales tax. This sale is subject to prior cancellation in the event of settlement between landlord and obligated party.
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Legal Notice No.: 56380 First Publication: July 2, 2015 Last Publication: July NOTICE 9, 2015 PUBLIC Publisher: The Englewood Herald Littleton NOTICE Independent TO CREDITORS Estate of Adeline Czarny Adams, Aka Adeline C. Adams, Aka Adeline Adams, Fka, Adeline L. Czarny, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 30523 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before November 2, 2015 or the claims may be forever barred. Alan J. Czarny Personal Representative c/o Ford H. Wheatley, IV, 10019 4866 East Kentucky Avenue, Unit E Denver, Colorado 80246-2258 Legal Notice No: 56391 First Publication: July 2, 2015 Last Publication: July 16, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent
paid for at the time of purchase. No one under the age of 18 is allowed to attend the sale. The landlord reserves the right to bid at the sale. All purchased goods are sold “as is” and must be removed by 6:00 PM on the day of the sale. Buyers must provide a current original or a photocopy of their original resale permit at time of sale in lieu of sales tax. This sale is subject to prior cancellation in the event of settlement between landlord and obligated party.
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Legal Notice No.: 56380 First Publication: July 2, 2015 Last Publication: July 9, 2015 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Littleton Independent
Government Legals Public Notice NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed Bids in an envelope marked: “West Floyd Avenue Improvements, Project Number: SHPF 1408” Attention: Randy Mourning, Public Works Director will be received and opened by the City of Sheridan at the City Hall, 4101 South Federal Blvd, Sheridan, CO 80110 on July 10, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. Plans, Specifications and Bid forms may be obtained at City Hall, 4101 South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, CO 80110, beginning on June 22, 2015. A non-refundable deposit of twenty five dollars ($25.00) will be required for each set. Checks shall be made payable to City of Sheridan. Pre-bid meeting will be held at the site, W. Floyd Avenue and S. Bryant Street, on July 1, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. The work consists of approximately 300 feet of roadway reconstruction to include removal of existing concrete and asphalt; and installation of concrete driveways, sidewalks, curb and gutter, block retaining wall and hot mix asphalt. All Bids must be accompanied by a certified check payable to City of Sheridan in an amount of at least 5% of the Bid in the form of a certified check or bid bond.
sidewalks, curb and gutter, block retaining wall and hot mix asphalt.
All Bids must be accompanied by a certified check payable to City of Sheridan in an amount of at least 5% of the Bid in the form of a certified check or bid bond.
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Bids may not be withdrawn for a period of ninety (90) days after the time fixed for bid closing. The Owner reserves the right to waive irregularities or technical defects as the best interests of the City may be served, and may reject any and all bids, and shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder as determined by the City. Legal Notice No.: 56366 First Publication: June 25, 2015 Last Publication: July 2, 2015 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT NOTICE is hereby given that the Polo Reserve Metropolitan District (“District”) of the City of Littleton, County of Arapahoe, Colorado, will make final payment at the offices of Collins, Cockrel & Cole, P.C., 390 Union Boulevard, Suite 400, Lakewood, Colorado, on Monday, July 13, 2015, at the hour of 9:00 a.m. to Colorado Water Well Pump Services & Supply, Inc., for all work done by said Contractor(s) for a construction project performed within the District and commonly known as the Polo Reserve Irrigation Pump Station Improvements Project. Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such contractors or their subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractors or their subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim, to the District, whose address is c/o Collins, Cockrel & Cole, P.C., 390 Union Boulevard, Suite 400, Lakewood, Colorado, 80228 on or before the date and time hereinabove shown. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release the District, its Board of Directors, officers, agents, and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim.
TO MAnkind and make new friends while you are at it. For more information contact Carol at 303-798-3912 or bcworth@aol. com.
looking to serve the community and who wish to find a fun active service club. Contact Terry Boucher, 303-880-7559 or bouchertp@aol.com.
THE HIGHLANDS Ranch/Littleton Chapter of Mothers and More meets the second Tuesday of each month. See www.mothersandmore.org/chapters/highlandsranchlittletonCO/ or e-mail hrmothersandmore@hotmail. com for more information.
THE LOVING Hands crocheting and knitting group meets one Saturday a month from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Parish Hall at St. Frances Cabrini Parish, 6673 W. Chatfield Ave. (intersection of Pierce) in Littleton. For those who cannot attend but can work on projects at home, we are always in need of newborn and infant hats and booties as well as bereavement gowns/fetal pouches. Check out our Loving Hands Ministry Web page at www.saintfrancescabrini.org or call Karen at 303-7918385 for a schedule, patterns, list of needs, and other details.
JOB’S DAUGHTERS International, Bethel No. 33, of Littleton, is a youth organization for girls ages 1120 who have a Masonic relationship with either Master Masons, Job’s Daughters, Eastern Star or other Masonic organizations. The girls meet first and third Mondays at 7:15 p.m. at the Masonic Hall across from the Melting Pot restaurant. THE LEAGUE of Women Voters of Arapahoe County has two meetings per month. No unit meetings are in June through August, but the two unit meetings per month will begin again in September on second Monday evenings and second Thursday mornings. Call 303-798-2939. LITTLETON GARDEN Club meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month, September through May. A speaker is featured at each meeting. Guests are welcome. Go to www.littletongardenclub.org. LITTLETON JUNIOR Chamber of Com-
merce, Jaycees, welcomes interested parties between the ages of 21-40 to become involved with this social and community service organization. Jaycees meet at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday each month at Burt Chevrolet, 5200 S. Broadway, and at 7 p.m. the third Tuesday each month at Breckenridge Grille, 2852 W. Bowles Ave. Call 303-914-0180 or visit littletonjaycees. org.
THE LITTLETON Lions Club meets the first and third Thursdays each month at the Egg and I, 2630 W. Belleview Ave. No. 100, from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. We have been serving the Littleton Community since 1949. Sight and Sight Conservation. Interesting programs and speakers. For membership information call Jeff Bridges 303-730-7616 or Al Wieder 303-730-3085. PUBLIC NOTICE LITTLETON NEWCOMERS Club is a social NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT
MOMS CLUB, Moms Offering Moms Support, of Littleton is part of a national organization offering support for women and families during their child-raising years. All interested stay-at-home moms can call Lurae Beck at 303-933-6749. MOMS IN Touch International is an interdenominational Christian organization in which moms meet for one hour a week to pray for their children and schools. To find out where moms are meeting to pray, call Nancy Villarreal at 303-761-1967. MOPS, MOTHERS of Preschoolers, meets at South Fellowship, 6560 S. Broadway, Littleton, three blocks north of Arapahoe Road. Join moms with kids ages newborn to kindergarten for a morning of speakers, crafts and discussion. The kids are in a nearby classroom with nurturing teachers. Club meets the second and fourth Thursdays from 9-11:30 a.m. Call Andrea at 303-683-3593. THE OPTIMIST motto is “Friend of Youth.” In keeping with this and our Optimist creed, the Breakfast Optimist Club of Littleton shares its time, energy, and love with the deserving children of our community. Call John Hammer at 303-9728065 for additional information. The club meets from 7-8 a.m. Fridays at The Bistro at Aspen Grove, 7301 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. ORDER OF the Eastern Star, Manzanita Chapter meets at 7:30 p.m. the second and fourth Thursdays of the month at 5718 S. Rapp St., Littleton. Members of Eastern Star are welcome. Call 303-985-5864 or 303-759-5936.
club for women ingiven Littleton areas. Come NOTICE is hereby thatand the the Polosurrounding Reserve Metropolitan District (“District”) of need to be new to have fun and meet new friends. You don’t the City of Littleton, County of Arapahoe, PLATTE CANYON Sertoma Club meets on the Colorado, finalgroups payment at thebridge and other card the area towill join.make Interest include offices of Collins, Cockrel & Cole, P.C., second and fourth Thursdays of each month at Bistro Aspen games, wineBoulevard, tasting, book clubs, animals, luncheons, 390 Union Suite 400,party Lakewood, Colorado, onmany Monday, July 13,Our monthly general Public Notice Grove, 7301 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. We are a community stitch and chat, and other events. 2015, at the hour of 9:00 a.m. to Colorservice group with particular interest in serving those in ado Waterand Well Pump Services & SupCITY OF SHERIDAN meetings luncheons are the third Wednesday of each ply, Inc., for all work done by said ConNOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING need of LAWS hearingOFand speech assistance. We also promote our month. Callfor 303-430-4898 and leave your name and number tractor(s) a construction project PURSUANT TO THE LIQUOR performed within the District and comTHE STATE OF COLORADO national heritage through a FreedomPublic Week Notice Essay Contest for or e-mail littletonnewcomersclub@yahoo.com. Visit www. monly known as the Polo Reserve Irrigation Pump Station Improvements NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THATmiddle Blazinschools in the Denver metro area. New numerous littletonnewcomersclub.org or contact MaryLynn Rector Project. CITY OF SHERIDAN Wings, Inc. d/b/a Buffalo Wild Wings, by Contact Norman at 303NOTICE OF ADOPTION applicationcoffee dated May members 15, 2015,and hasguests re- are welcome. (marylynnr66@gmail.com) to attend a get-acquainted Any person, co-partnership, association of OF ORDINANCE quested the licensing authority of the City 794-3086 or normid2@msn.com. or for information. persons, company or corporation that has of Sheridan to grant a Hotel & Restaurant furnished labor, materials, team hire, On the22nd day of June, 2015, the City Liquor License for Blazin Wings, Inc. d/b/a sustenance, provisions, provender, or oth- from Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, Buffalo Wild 3900 River Point GAMMA Lambda Chapter of LITTLETON SERTOMA meets 7-8 a.m. theWings at PRECEPTOR er supplies used or consumed by such approved on final reading the following OrParkway, Sheridan, CO 80110 to sell contractors or their subcontractors, in for or breakfast dinance: malt, vinous Beta liquors. Sigma Phi meets every first Tuesday from Septemfirst, third and fifth Friday each month and a and spirituous about the performance of the work conber to Maythe at members’ housesORDINANCE in Sedalia, Highlands Ranch, programtoatbethe Shack Sports Grill, Mineral tracted done or that supplies rental andABroadway, NO. 6-2015 Public Hearing to consider apmachinery, tools, or equipment to the explication has been scheduled to be Littleton. at 6:30 of a.m. they welcome ndividuals LittletonofortheCastle CallORDINANCE 303-688-6576OForTHE 303-688-3255. CITY COUNtent used Doors in the open prosecution theand work, held before the City Council CityRock.AN CIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLand whose claim therefor has not been of Sheridan acting as the Local LicensORADO, AMENDING SECTION 10-1 OF paid by the contractors or their subconing Authority on July 13, 2015 at 7:00 ARTICLE I OF CHAPTER 10 OF THE tractors, at any time up to and including p.m. in the City Council Chambers, SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODE REthe time of final settlement for the work Sheridan City Hall, 4101 S. Federal GARDING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LIcontracted to be done, is required to file a Blvd., Sheridan, CO 80110. CENSING verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim, to Name and addresses of the Applicants Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are availthe District, whose address is c/o Collins, are: able for public inspection in the office of Cockrel & Cole, P.C., 390 Union the City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101 Boulevard, Suite 400, Lakewood, ColorBuffalo Wild Wings, Inc., South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado. ado, 80228 on or before the date and time 5500 Wayzata Blvd., Ste. 1600, hereinabove shown. Failure on the part of Minneapolis, MN 55416, Legal Notice No.: 56384 any claimant to file such verified stateParent Company First Publication: July 2, 2015 ment of claim prior to such final settleSally J. Wold, 7001 Dublin Road, ment will release the District, its Board of Last Publication: July 2, 2015 Edina, MN 55439, Directors, officers, agents, and employPublisher: Englewood Herald President/CWO & Director ees, of and from any and all liability for Littleton Independent James M. Schmidt, 71325 25th Ave. N., such claim. Plymouth, MN 55447, Vice President Mary J. Twinem, 15015 44th Ave. N., PUBLIC NOTICE All of the above is pursuant to §38-26-107, Plymouth, MN 55446, C.R.S. CFO/Secretary & Treasurer TOWN OF COLUMBINE VALLEY Emily C. 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CODES TO BE ADOPTED INLast Publication: July 2, 2015 CLUDE 2014 NATIONAL ELECTRIC Publisher: Littleton Independent ARLENE SAGEE, CMC, CITY CLERK CODE; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THERETO FOR THE PURLegal Notice No.: 56383 POSE OF PROVIDING MINIMUM Public Notice First Publication: July 2, 2015 STANDARDS TO SAFEGUARD LIFE OR Last Publication: July 2, 2015 LIMB, HEALTH, PROPERTY AND THE CITY OF SHERIDAN Publisher: Englewood Herald PUBLIC WELFARE. PRIOR TO THE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Littleton Independent PUBLIC HEARING, THE CODES WILL PURSUANT TO THE LIQUOR LAWS OF BE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION DURTHE STATE OF COLORADO Public Notice ING REGULAR OFFICE HOURS, IN THE TOWN OFFICE, 2 MIDDLEFIELD ROAD, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT Blazin CITY OF SHERIDAN COLUMBINE VALLEY, CO. THE TOWN Wings, Inc. d/b/a Buffalo Wild Wings, by NOTICE OF ADOPTION TRUSTEES WILL CONSIDER THE ADapplication dated May 15, 2015, has reOF ORDINANCE OPTION OF THE PROPOSED CODES quested the licensing authority of the City AT THEIR MEETING ON JULY 21, 2015 of Sheridan to grant a Hotel & Restaurant On the22nd day of June, 2015, the City FOLLOWING THE PUBLIC HEARING. Liquor License for Blazin Wings, Inc. d/b/a Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, Buffalo Wild Wings at 3900 River Point approved on final reading the following OrBY ORDER OF THE BOARD Parkway, Sheridan, CO 80110 to sell dinance: OF TRUSTEES, malt, vinous and spirituous liquors. TOWN OF COLUMBINE VALLEY ORDINANCE NO. 6-2015 /S/ J.D. MCCRUMB, TOWN CLERK A Public Hearing to consider the application has been scheduled to be AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNLegal Notice No.: 56385 held before the City Council of the City CIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLFirst Publication: July 2, 2015 of Sheridan acting as the Local LicensORADO, AMENDING SECTION 10-1 OF Last Publication: July 2, 2015 ing Authority on July 13, 2015 at 7:00 ARTICLE I OF CHAPTER 10 OF THE Publisher: Littleton Independent p.m. in the City Council Chambers, SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODE RESheridan City Hall, 4101 S. Federal GARDING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LIBlvd., Sheridan, CO 80110. CENSING Name and addresses of the Applicants Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are availare: able for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101 Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc., South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado. 5500 Wayzata Blvd., Ste. 1600, Minneapolis, MN 55416, Legal Notice No.: 56384 Parent Company First Publication: July 2, 2015 Sally J. 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Bids may not be withdrawn for a period of ninety (90) days after the time fixed for bid closing.
The Owner reserves the right to waive irregularities or technical defects as the best interests of the City may be served, and may reject any and all bids, and shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder as determined by the City. Legal Notice No.: 56366 First Publication: June 25, 2015 Last Publication: July 2, 2015 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent
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Graffiti leaves a mark Warm weather brings rise in vandalism at parks, trails By Taryn Walker
twalker@colorado communitymedia.com In less than 10 years, South Suburban Parks and Recreation District has seen more than 1,200 incidents of graffiti at its parks, trails and facilities, racking up $301,145 in damage. It’s a difficult problem to tackle and one that isn’t going away, said Dan Scheuerman, senior park ranger for South Suburban. “About 95 percent of this is just stupid stuff done by kids,” Scheuerman said. “I don’t know if it’s a cultural thing, but people have been doing this forever.” With summer’s warmer weather and longer days, incidents of graffiti are likely to rise, Scheuerman said. Highlands Ranch Metro District park ranger Kat Wentworth said she sees some sort of graffiti just about every other day. In the last year, she and her full-time staff of four have had to report at least 100 incidents to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.
Cleaning up
Scheuerman has created a formula to determine the cost of graffiti removal, which sometimes has to be done on monument signs that cost $2,000. “It depends on the surface,” he said. “If it’s paintable, it’s 50 cents a square foot, if it’s worse, it can be up to $5 a square foot.” Often, a chemical application has to be used or a high-pressure power washer is needed, and with limited resources, it’s not easy, Scheuerman said.
Metro district park rangers carry graffiti-removal packs in their trucks every day and have been trained to use a pressure washer, sandblaster and paint-removal chemicals, Wentworth said. “Our goal is to remove it immediately and not publicize it, because that’s what they want and we’re not going to let them win in the end,” she said. Playground equipment requires chemical use, and because of its porous texture, new paint won’t adhere. Eventually the property that’s damaged will have to be removed and replaced, costing thousands. A new playground normally costs upward of $50,000 in equipment alone, Scheuerman said. “Mothers with little kids don’t want to be subjected to (graffiti),” he said. “The graffiti doesn’t even make sense; a lot of times it’s profanity, (obscene) drawings or just scribbles. We try to clean it up within a day or as fast as possible.”
Keeping an eye out
South Suburban encompasses 41 square miles in Lone Tree, west Centennial, Sheridan, Littleton and other nearby communities. Although no areas are immune, the Sheridan Skate Park is hit the most, Scheuerman said. However, the installation of three security cameras has made a big impact, he said. “It’s been curtailing,” he said. “There used to be a point in time where you counted on getting tagged there, and now it’s different. But, a lot of times they (cameras) break. I put replacements up. People shake them or even shoot them with a BB gun, so we put them up higher. They’re worth $8,000 each, so all we can really do is move them around.” Vandalism can take as little as 10 seconds using spray paint,
markers or a pocketknife, adding to the difficulty of prevention. Douglas County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Ron Hanavan said the community plays a big role in keeping graffiti at bay. “The best thing we can do is to really rely heavily on the public,” he said. “Our philosophy in law is that we’re a part of the community and they are a part of us. We appreciate it when the community has eyes and ears and calls us if anyone sees something suspicious.” Castle Rock recently had an incident in which public outreach helped the police department catch suspected vandals. A total of 14 sites were tagged, inflicting $1,000 in property damage. A group of parents recognized their kids spray-painting a local park in surveillance video and immediately alerted the Castle Rock Police Department. “Caring for our town is a community effort,” said Castle Rock Police Chief Jack Cauley. “We appreciate everyone who shared the videos, and we especially thank the parents who did the right thing, even though it was difficult.” Three suspects ages 14-17 are now awaiting a court date with possible charges of criminal mischief and trespass.
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Crime and punishment
Hanavan said it’s hard to pinpoint what consequences vandals will have to face. It depends on whether they’re adults or juveniles and the extent of the damage, he said. Typically the person is charged with the crime, whether it be a felony or misdemeanor, and then, if convicted, ends up having to pay restitution for the cleanup of the public property. Sometimes juveniles may qualify for diversion
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and not have to go through court proceedings. Sometimes gang-related graffiti is suspected and forwarded to the investigation division, Hanavan said. The sheriff’s office doesn’t specifically keep track of graffiti incidents, as they’re put in the same category as criminal mischief, which includes things like breaking windows, Hanavan said.
“It’s kind of the catch-all law for damaging anyone else’s property, and those numbers are high,” he said. “There’s no short answer to how we handle this, because it may very well be that we catch a suspect, and that suspect has actually vandalized 15 different places on top of what we caught him for.”
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