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The Sentinel would love to tell you what went on behind closed doors at city hall in January before city lawmakers agreed to pay $16,000 to a fellow lawmaker being rebuked for trashtalking then-police chief Vanessa Wilson on talk radio.
First, when TheSentinelsued the city to force them to provide the recording of a closed meeting among council members, which clearly violated the spirit and letter of Colorado open meeting laws, we won our case. Briefly.
The Sentinel is still fighting the mystery.
This all started earlier this year when Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky appeared Jan. 27 on a local right-wing talk radio show.
Jurinsky spent considerable on-air time disparaging changes in Aurora’s beleaguered police department.
During the radio show, KNUS host Steffan Tubbs asked Jurinsky how she would fix staffing and other problems in the police department.
“We remove the chief immediately, and with her takes out the trash of the deputy chief of police, Darin Parker.”
She also called now-former police chief Vanessa Wilson “trash.”
Wilson was later fired by the Aurora city manager, who insists it had nothing to do with pressure from Jurinsky’s. Parker retired after Wilson was sacked.
The radio talk and other events prompted fellow Councilmember Juan Marcano to seek censure proceedings against Jurinsky.
Jurinsky said her comments were free speech. Marcano said she crossed a line and was illicitly interfering with Aurora government, including admission that she tried to persuade Wilson to replace Parker.
And so Jurisnky lawyered up with local lawsuit icon David Lane. The city hired outside lawyers to begin the process of finding out just whether Jurinsky’s behavior and meetings actually did violate city regs.
On March 14, the city council met in executive session to talk about the censure issue, a dubious move to begin with, given that the public has every right to understand the allegations and any defense Jurinsky could offer.
During the meeting, according to city council members and staff there, attorneys were supposed to provide details on fact-finding, shedding light on Marcano’s claims and Jurinsky’s public admissions. They were also there to provide counsel to city lawmakers on legal ramifications, dangers and options.
They did none of that, according to multiple sources.
Instead, reportedly, the secret meeting became a verbal melee with Jurinsky angrily making a variety of claims, including that her own attorney should have accompanied her in the closed city council meeting.
This really happened, witnesses said.
After time spent arguing, but before paid outside city lawyers could present any evidence or advice on the allegations against Jurinsky, Mayor Mike Coffman polled city council members on whether to kill the whole thing.
When you’re an elected official, it’s called voting. When you’re defending the
city’s illegal vote behind closed doors, it’s called “polling.”
When TheSentinel demanded a recording of the meeting to find out what was said to persuade lawmakers against a censure process that, under city law, must be carried out in public, we were told that it was a legally private matter because attorneys were in the room.
A week later, the city, in public session, without explaining, agreed to pay Jurinsky $16,000 tax dollars to hire Lane to defend her for allegations the public only read about here and never heard about in a required meeting.
So The Sentinel, backed by lawyers from Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, asked a local court to decide whether Aurora violated open meetings law by allow city council members to decide, in secret, a measure that would hand over $16,000 to a fellow lawmaker to defend against allegations that the city paid to research and never even considered.
On July 26, Arapahoe County Judge District Court Judge Elizabeth Beebe Volz agreed with TheSentinel and ordered the city to come clean.
Sort of.
Rather than ruling that the city abused the open meeting law by pretending it fell under attorney-client privilege, the judge ruled the city had not posted the closed meeting correctly, under state law.
“The Court finds that the subject of the Executive Session was to receive information from counsel on the process to be followed in addressing a censure complaint. The Council did not ‘vote’ on ending the censure action as alleged in TheSentinel ’s complaint, however, there was a roll-call taken on what direction to give to legal counsel on how to proceed. While this action might very well fall into the category of legal advice, the Court is still faced with the fact that the announcement of the Executive Session does not appear to comply with the requirements of the applicable statutes.”
Then Beebe Volz essentially asked whether that was OK with Aurora.
They said “no.” Last week, Beebe Volz agreed.
“Here, it appears clear to the Court that
the March 28, 2022 public meeting of the Council clearly identified what took place at the March 14, 2022 executive session and that the Council publicly considered the proposed action to adopt a stipulation to terminate any further investigation into Council Member Jurinsky’s conduct,” Beebe Volz said in the ruling.
Clearly, the city did not offer any detail or explanation to the public in its March 28 meeting.
And despite the judge giving Aurora a temporary win on an onerous technicality, we’re determined to force the city to tell the public what went on inside that meeting.
Who stopped the city’s rented attorneys from presenting what they gleaned during their investigation? What were the arguments made by city lawmakers in defense of and against Jurinsky’s behavior? Who considered it good government to award a fellow lawmaker $16,000 without following the law?
City law unequivocally makes clear that a city council member can be awarded legal fees to defend against censure only after the case is adjudicated — publicly — by fellow lawmakers, and only after the accused city lawmakers is acquitted by a vote.
That never happened, unless it happened in the secret meeting.
We’re not done yet. We’ve agreed to pursue further legal action in the case.
Not only are rulings on cases like this important to Aurora, making clear that the public’s business must be conducted in public, but it’s critical for every resident in the state.
Allowing Aurora lawmakers to secretly decide one another’s political fates, and spend taxpayer money on consequences, is anathema to open, responsible government.
The fastest and easiest way forward is for the city to just release the recordings of this secret meeting without a court forcing them. Doing the right thing in the future will be much easier by just deciding to do the right thing now. All that takes is six votes on the city council.
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If fewer cops, more potholes, shorter library and rec center hours, or doused streetlights make $2 a month in reduced paycheck taxes seem like a good idea, tell your city councilperson to vote “yes” on a plan to shed Aurora’s head tax.
A few conservative Aurora lawmakers are proposing to ditch the city’s so-called “occupation privilege tax” as a way to free businesses and taxpayers from the oppressive burden of levies and regulations, all for a whopping $24 a year.
Also known as a “head tax,” the decades-long levy — like those in Denver and other nearby cities — charges most people who collect paychecks from an Aurora business $2 a month, and it imposes the same tax on the worker’s employer.
Despite the minimal clip, the tax raises about $6 million a year in revenue, which is a relatively small part of Aurora’s ever-growing $475 million annual budget.
Despite that, $6 million is a considerable amount of money, and carving it out of the city will have considerable consequences.
It appears that most, or all of the city lawmakers behind this move, have sat on the city’s Citizen Budget Advisory Committee. They should be well aware of how the Aurora budget process works, and how many millions of dollars more the city always needs, not less.
Despite the “less-is-best” conservative philosophy of government, people who live and work in Aurora understand the immediate need for more traffic enforcement, more senior citizen transportation and services, more programs to divert youth from crime and toward better academics, better roads, improved bike lanes, and myriad other things that make a city better for everyone.
It’s doubtful anyone treasures paying their 50 cents a week, or that businesses find joy in adding their monthly $2 and having to do the bookkeeping required to offer the money up.
But in the big picture of hassles and encumbrances for those who work and employ others in the city, the head tax is a hefty nothing-burger.
The biggest problem is where $6 million won’t be spent next year, and each year.
It’s more than alarming for recently elected city lawmakers to keep making proposed spending cuts by the seat of the pants without first determining the apparent and unintended consequences.
Clearly mistaken is the attitude among some city lawmakers that the head tax is offensive because it signals that it is a “privilege” to work or employ others in the city.
“In terms of sending a signal that we want to continue to be the most business-friendly city in the state … we have to, I think, change our mental model and recognize that it’s actually a privilege for us to have employees here, and it’s not a privilege for them to work here,” Councilmember Dustin Zvonek told fellow lawmakers last week when the measure was being discussed.
Residents who live here, and pay hundreds of millions of dollars in property and sales taxes, have every right to expect the government to ensure that the interests of residents always, fairly prevail in decisions made about businesses. Always.
Aurora’s amazing success at attracting and retaining a wide variety of businesses is boosted not by $2 tax gimmicks and puffery, but by ensuring the city is well run, safe and offers quality schools, a variety of affordable homes, reliable roads and infrastructure, reasonable utility costs, a safe environment, dependable water and a stable, credible government.
That costs money, and it requires practiced politics, not populist talk-radio clips.
Killing the city’s head tax will be easy. Responsibly replacing it with raised fees or increased sales taxes, or property levies, a requirement for such a move, will be harder.
YOUR LETTERS
Democrats have been disastrous
Editor: The upcoming midterm elections are the most important of our times. Today’s radical Democratic party has orchestrated more damage to America in two years than our worst foreign adversaries could have ever dreamed of accomplishing.
The list is long but includes the most obvious and immediately painful intentional destruction of our energy independence creating hardships on families just to heat their homes and fuel their vehicles.
The destruction of our hard earned sovereignty by failure to finish the border wall and allowing the foreign invasion from all over the world to continue unabated spreading disease, increasing crime, the fentanyl deaths , and overburdening our cities medical, welfare and police services.
The gross negligence of the unorganized withdrawal from Afghanistan costing 13 US lives and the abandoning and thereby giving $85,000,000,00 of taxpayer purchased military equipment to the enemy.
Raging inflation and the insult to taxpayers by paying off the so called student loans estimated to cost every taxpayer over $2,000.00.
The misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, which NOT ONE SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTED FOR costing up to $739,000,000,000.00 and instead of adding border security may be used to hire up to yet another 86,0000 IRS Agents. Lest we forget how President Obama weaponized the IRS against conservative organizations.
This list is just touching on the damage the Democratic party has inflicted on America making the midterm elections the most important in our lifetime to stop the insanity.
—Frank Gardner, via letters@sentinelcolorado.com
Editor: As an early childhood professional, mother and grandmother, I believe no child should go hungry in Colorado. Unfortunately, child hunger in Colorado is more severe than previously thought.
More than 60,000 kids in Colorado can’t afford school meals, but they also fall short of qualifying for free and reduced-price lunch programs. In addition, nearly 40% of Colorado families struggle to put food on the table for their children. If passed by voters this November, Proposition FF, Healthy School Meals for All, will be a powerful step forward in fighting food insecurity in Colorado. Proposition FF provides the resources our schools need to prepare meals from scratch with healthy and nutritious ingredients and provides funding for schools to purchase ingredients from Colorado farmers and ranchers to use in healthy school meals.
I have seen firsthand the difference that one meal can make for a student. A preschooler who was in my class was unable to make it through the morning without melting down. This impacted his ability to engage in our activities and his ability to form friendships. We started to give him a breakfast when he came in from the bus and there was a dramatic, positive difference in this boy’s day! He did not have a behavioral issue. He was simply hungry! Studies show that providing kids with a healthy breakfast and lunch makes them more attentive and engaged in the classroom, leading to better grades, higher attendance rates, and higher graduation rates. Proposition FF gives every Colorado kid a better shot at success by ensuring they have healthy meals.
That is why I urge fellow Coloradans to vote yes on Proposition FF in November. It will help keep Colorado children healthy and allow them to thrive in school. By voting yes, we can help ensure that every child in Colorado will be able to succeed now and well into the future. — Susan Hill, via letters@sentinelcolorado.com
An end to Aurora’s so-called “occupation privilege tax” on businesses and employees may be in sight under a proposal by council conservatives that would also leave a $5.9 million revenue hole in the city’s budget.
Also called a “head tax,” the levy imposes a monthly $2 tax on businesses for each employee, and $2 monthly from each employee of an Aurora-based business.
The cut would save individuals working in Aurora $24 a year, while most businesses would save $24 per year, per employee. What impact this would have on the City of Aurora is unknown and would depend on what the City Council removed from the budget to compensate.
Budget manager Greg Hays said during a policy committee meeting Tuesday that the $5.9 million in lost revenue is greater than the general fund budgets of at least four different city departments.
“We would have to go find that money from somewhere,” Hays said. “It is a significant amount of money.”
Manager of tax Jeffrey Edwards said that if the council didn’t want to cut funding for police, fire, 911 dispatching, courts, transfers or other mandates, they would have to cut 5% from the $117 million remaining of the city’s $475 million budget, consisting mostly of other personnel
and supplies.
Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky, the proposal’s sponsor, said she thought the cut was the right move to lift an “additional, unnecessary, burdensome tax” from businesses and workers.
“The fact that we have a tax on businesses and workers in the City of Aurora stating that it’s their privilege to do business in this city or be a worker in this city, I can’t believe this has never been brought up before, but I think that we absolutely need to change our mindset on that,” she said Tuesday.
Aurora’s “occupational privilege tax” was introduced in 1986 to offset the cost of public benefits such as police and fire protection, and road maintenance enjoyed by those who work in the city, according to Edwards.
The annual revenue collected via the tax goes into the city’s general fund, which is mostly fed by sales and use tax. A portion of the privilege tax is also remitted as part of the tax-increment financing deal in the Aurora Urban Renewal Authority, Edwards said.
He said that, today, Aurora is one of five Colorado cities that impose such a tax, along with Denver, Greenwood Village, Glendale and Sheridan.
“This was essentially a way for us to distribute the tax burden for the city to those that are coming into the city to work,” Edwards said.
But conservatives say they wanted to ax the tax, arguing that it is instead a privilege for Auro-
ra to be facilitating the work of local businesses and employees.
“In terms of sending a signal that we want to continue to be the most business-friendly city in the state … we have to, I think, change our mental model and recognize that it’s actually a privilege for us to have employees here, and it’s not a privilege for them to work here,” Councilmember Dustin Zvonek said while speaking in support of the tax cut.
The scope of the cut and the fact that it was being introduced just weeks before the council is scheduled to finalize the city’s 2023 budget led others to express skepticism.
Councilmember Crystal Murillo called it a “last-minute” addition to the budget and pointed out that Jurinsky was introducing a large cut whose impacts were unclear the day after the council voted to require that policy proposals come with a cost estimate.
The ordinance concerning cost estimates, which passed unanimously on first reading Monday, will require the city manager to prepare an estimate before an item is voted on that includes the projected financial impact of a policy to the city and where the money would come from to pay for it.
A council member bringing forward an item outside of the budgeting process would also be required to find additional revenue or cuts to off-
about why some services the organization has claimed to offer haven’t actually been available to the public.
Sheehan started running Mind Springs in August after his longtime predecessor, Sharon Raggio, resigned last winter following an investigation by the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab), a nonprofit involving more than 160 Colorado news outlets. That investigation exposed longstanding problems with Mind Springs: quality and safety of care, access to care, and lack of transparency in how it spends tens of millions of state and federal tax dollars. That news report was part of a broader investigation into flaws – some of them fatal – within Colorado’s statewide mental health safety net system and state regulators’ inaction about them.
COLab has since exposed allegations by several former Mind Springs employees that the organization had them falsify thousands of patient records in an effort to make its treatment programs seem more effective and secure funding from the state. Those fraud allegations are currently under investigation by Rocky Mountain Health Plans, which contracts with the state to administer Medicaid funding to Mind Springs, among other safety-net providers.
With its news partners at the Colorado Springs Gazette and Denver Gazette, COLab also exposed a pattern of “life-threatening prescription errors.” A review found that in a sampling of 58 outpatient clients who were prescribed high doses of the tranquilizer benzodiazepine between February 2020 and February 2021, there were concerns about the quality of care given to 52, and 28 (48%) received care so poor they faced “severe, life-threatening impact.” State officials kept those findings secret despite mounting public concerns about Mind Springs. Sheehan has said his organization has addressed the problem.
Responsibility to regulate Mind Springs and Colorado’s 17 other tax-funded community mental health centers is split between three state departments: the Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF), which doles out Medicaid funding, the Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), which controls the centers’ licensing, and the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA), which launched in July as a cabinet-level agency that, generally speaking, has replaced the Office of Behavioral Health in contracting with and setting care standards for community mental health centers.
Dr. Morgan Medlock, an emergency psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist who runs the BHA, has promised “vast reforms” to Colorado’s mental health safety-net system, including far greater transparency and accountability. Her agency touts Wednesday’s cease and desist as an example of its commitment to “lead boldly,” even though Mind Springs already had addressed safety problems earlier this month by moving the ado-
lescent unit out of Building D.
Mind Springs CEO Sheehan has since his hiring two months ago acknowledged long standing problems at Mind Springs. He said late Tuesday the organization has, under his leadership, been “improving every day.”
— SUSAN GREENE, CoLab News
The body of a famed U.S. extreme skier who went missing this week after falling from the world’s eighth-highest mountain was recovered Wednesday and transported to Nepal’s capital.
Hilaree Nelson, 49, was skiing down from the 8,163-meter (26,775-foot) summit of Mount Manaslu with her partner, Jim Morrison, on Monday when she fell off the mountain.
Her body was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Kathmandu where doctors planned to perform an autopsy.
Rescuers searching by helicopter located Nelson’s body on Wednesday after failing to find her on Tuesday and Monday, when bad weather hampered their search.
Also on Monday, an avalanche at a lower elevation on the same mountain killed a Nepalese man and injured several other climbers.
Hundreds of climbers and their local guides were attempting to reach the summit during Nepal’s autumn climbing season.
Nelson, from Telluride, Colorado, and Morrison, from Tahoe, California, are extreme skiers who reached the summit of Mount Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest mountain, in 2018.
Nepal’s government has issued permits to 504 climbers during the autumn season. Most are climbing Mount Manaslu.
— ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beginning Wednesday, Aurora Public Schools is hosting a series of public meetings to discuss the boundary process for new schools and schools that are closing and being repurposed as part of its Blueprint APS facilities plan.
Soliciting community input is one aspect of the district’s decision making process when considering how to draw new boundaries, according to documents on the APS school board website. Additionally, an internal boundary committee is working to identify potential scenarios.
District criteria when rezoning includes minimizing impact to students and their families, preserving communities and neighborhoods, minimizing bus ride times and maximizing building capacity, according to documents.
Recommendations will then go to the board for final approval. The district is currently in the process of putting together new boundaries for students who attend Sable, Par-
is and Sixth Avenue elementaries, which will close at the end of the current school year.
Tentatively, the district expects Sable students to be redirected to Park Lane and Altura and Paris Students to Crawford and Montview. Sixth Avenue students are tentatively expected to attend the new P-8 school the district is building on the former site of Lyn Knoll Elementary.
Boundary settings will be presented to the school board at its December 6 meeting. The community meetings are scheduled as follows: Paris Principal/Parent Coffee,
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METRO
Oct. 11 @ 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Location: Paris Elementary School
Sable Boundary Open House, Oct. 13 @ 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Sable Elementary School
Paris Boundary Open House, Oct. 26 @ 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Location: Paris Elementary School
Murphy Creek Parent/Teacher Conferences, Oct. 27 @ 3:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Location: Murphy Creek P-8
— CARINA JULIG, Sentinel Staff Writer
A 35-year-old white man was shot and killed by Aurora police on an East Colfax RTD bus after he created some kind of disturbance at an alternative sentencing facility and then, wielding a knife, robbed a nearby convenience store, according to Aurora police.
It was the third officer-related shooting in Aurora in eight days.
Aurora interim Police Chief Dan Oates said the events leading to the shooting began at about 6 p.m. Sunday when Arapahoe County Sheriff Deputies were called to a regional alternative sentencing program facility at East Colfax Avenue and Moline Street.
A deputy was dispatched to re-
trieve the man, not identified by police, because of the rules violation, Oates said. The man was reportedly wielding “a large knife.”
When the deputy arrived, he confronted the man briefly, who crossed the street to a nearby convenience store and went inside.
Employees and witnesses inside the store called 911 to report a robbery there, and the deputy saw the man leave the store and get on an RTD bus.
By then, Aurora police had arrived and officers also got on the bus to confront the man.
Oates said the officers deployed at first a police dog to get the man off the bus and then taser weapons.
At some point, “two other officers fired their handguns,” Oates said, striking the suspect.
He was taken to a nearby hospital and died from his injuries at about 6:30 p.m., police said.
No one else was injured during the robbery or on the bus, police said.
The 17th Judicial District Critical Incidence Response Team will lead the investigation into the shooting, as spelled out by state law regulating the investigation of officer-involved shootings.
It was the third officer-related shooting in just over a week.
Early Saturday, police chased two robbery suspects in a vehicle, forced them to crash their car near Denver International Airport and then fired on one suspect who brandished a gun, killing him, according to Denver police.
The incident began about 2 a.m. Saturday after a 7-Eleven store at East Colfax Avenue and Sable Boulevard was robbed, according to Denver Police chief Ron Thomas.
Witnesses said the store was robbed by two men who fled in a small, dark-colored SUV.
About 5:30 a.m., Aurora police in the area believed they came across the robbery suspects in their car and attempted to stop them, Thomas said.
The suspects fled and Aurora police pursued them, chasing them north toward DIA.
At one point, Aurora police attempted a maneuver to force the fleeing suspects off the road, causing the car to crash, police said.
Several police ran to the car, and the driver got out of the car brandishing a “long gun,” Thomas said.
Three Aurora police officers fired “several times” at the man, killing him, police said.
The other occupant of the car was apparently not injured, but was arrested at the scene. Denver police said only that the occupants in the car were adult males.
An Aurora police officer involved in the chase was injured during the forced crash and taken to a nearby hospital. He is reported to have suffered only minor injuries.
Last week, Aurora police were pursing a car-theft suspect that also resulted in an officer-related shooting.
At one point, the man fled from police, who opened fire on the man after he brandished a gun. A few
days later, Denver police evidence revealed the man had actually raised his gun to his head and shot himself during the confrontation. Police have not released any evidence in the case.
— SENTINEL STAFFPolice now say a man who was shot by Aurora police officers during a chase in on Saturday shot himself in the head at the same time, and his death has been ruled a suicide.
The Sentinel has requested the police body camera video, but it has not been released.
Aurora police officers approached Anthony Edwards, 31, the driver of a suspected stolen car, as he left a store at a gas station and he immediately fled, Denver police, who are investigating the shooting, said in an update last week.
Edward drew a handgun and pointed it at officers who were chasing him, and one officer fired at Edwards, but it’s not known if Edwards was struck or injured then, police said.
Edwards continued running, pointing the gun at officers, and two officers fired a combined five rounds at him, police said. Simultaneously, Edwards raised his handgun to his head and fired once, police said.
In the initial briefing on the shooting Sept. 24, acting Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas did not mention that Edwards had shot himself, just that at least two officers had fired at him after he pointed a weapon at the officers.
In a statement, Denver police said they were able to provide the new information after completing interviews and reviewing body camera video.
— THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An Aurora man has been arrested and accused of multiple counts of child sexual assault — part of a pattern of abuse that may have continued for a decade or more, according to an announcement Friday by police.
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Leopoldo Zapata-Valdenegro, 64, was arrested Sept. 21, nearly a year after police launched an investigation into a sexual assault reported by a young girl. Police said they identified multiple children who are believed to be victims of Zapata-Valdenegro during the course of their investigation.
Charges against Zapata-Valdenegro of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust with a pattern of abuse were filed by the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Adams County, where the case will be prosecuted.
Police spokesman Matt Longshore said police could not release additional details about the alleged victims’ ages nor Zapata-Valdenegro’s relationship them.
The police announcement said detectives believe more children may have been victimized by Zapa-
ta-Valdenegro and encouraged anyone with information about incidents involving the man to call the police agency where the incident would have occurred.
Information and tips can also be provided anonymously to Metro Denver Crime Stoppers by calling 720-913-7867 or by submitting a report online at www.metrodenvercrimestoppers.com.
— MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff WriterA mentally ill man charged with killing three people in 2015 at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic because it offered abortion services will not be forcibly medicated as he appeals a federal judge’s order allowing the involuntary treatment.
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ruled that involuntary medication was the only realistic approach with a substantial chance of making Robert Dear, 64, competent to stand trial and was also in the best interest of his overall health, both mental and physical.
Dear’s attorneys appealed the order to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and on Monday Blackburn ruled that Dear would not be involuntarily medicated while the appeal is considered, which could take several months. Federal prosecutors did not object to the order being put on hold, according to court records.
Dear’s federal public defenders challenged the involuntary medication order in part because it allows force to also be potentially used to get Dear to take medication or undergo monitoring for any potential side effects to his physical health.
Dear’s lawyers have argued that forcing Dear to be treated for his delusional disorder could aggravate conditions including untreated high blood pressure and high cholesterol. However, in the appeal, they say that Blackburn’s decision to give prison doctors the right to force treatment or monitoring for other ailments is “miles away” from the limited uses for forced medication allowed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The appeal noted that the last forced medication order reviewed by the 10th Circuit took three months to resolve.
Dear’s prosecution has stalled, first in state court and then in federal court, because he has been repeatedly found mentally incompetent to stand trial since his arrest and he has refused to take medication.
During a three-day hearing this summer on whether he should be forcibly medicated, prosecutors argued that medication had a substantial likelihood, based on research and the experience of government experts, to make Dear well enough to meet the legal standard for mental competency — being able to understand proceedings and assist in his defense.
A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado is accused of trying to sell classified information to a hostile foreign government in an attempt to pay off his debts and “help balance” the world’s scales, according to court documents released Thursday.
But while Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, believed he was talking to a representative of a particular nation “with many interests that are adverse to the United States,” he was actually talking to an undercover FBI agent, according to his arrest affidavit. After initially sharing excerpts of classified documents and one full document this summer,
Dalke was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly agreed to transmit more information using a secure connection investigators had set up at Denver’s train station.
Dalke, who is charged with three violations of the Espionage Act, appeared in Denver federal court Thursday. He is being represented by a lawyer from the federal public defender’s office, which does not comment publicly on their cases.
The arrest affidavit did not identify the country Dalke allegedly believed he was providing information to, but it noted that he speaks basic Spanish and Russian and that he tried to verify that the undercover agent was actually working for the foreign government, rather than “americans (sic) trying to stifle a patriot,” by using a website for the Russian government’s external intelligence agency.
Dalke also requested that the agent verify their association with the foreign government by posting on an official website or through a report in one of the media services associated with its government, the arrest affidavit said.
Dalke, an Army veteran who lives in Colorado Springs, worked for the NSA, the U.S. intelligence agency that collects and analyzes signals from foreign and domestic sources for the purpose of intelligence and counterintelligence, as an informa-
tion systems security designer for less than a month this summer, according to the affidavit.
According to his arrest affidavit, Dalke, who has degrees related to cybersecurity, began communicating by encrypted email with the undercover agent in late July after the agent wrote to him saying the agent had been informed that they should talk about “items of mutual benefit.” At one point, Dalke allegedly told the agent that his heritage “ties back to your country,” which is why he said he has “come to you as opposed to others”, it said.
The documents he shared before his arrest included a threat assessment of the foreign government he believed he was helping, a plan to update a cryptographic program for a federal agency, a threat assessment of sensitive U.S. defense capabilities, some of which relate to the foreign government at issue, and a document related to a “foreign government leader” whose identity or nation is not described, according to the arrest affidavit.
According to the document, Dalke told the undercover agent that he had $237,000 in debts. In 2017, he filed for bankruptcy because of student loan and credit card debts, it said. He allegedly told the undercover agent that providing the classified information for payment was “an opportunity to help balance scales of the world while also tending to my own needs.”
At another point, Dalke said that he did not think the United States is as great as it thinks it once was, the affidavit said.
“It is all about the businesses and their money, not anything about the people or those that serve it to include the military,” he said, according to the document.
The case is the latest prosecution involving a government worker accused of trying to pass classified information to someone they thought was a foreign government representative. Jonathan Toebbe, a Navy nuclear engineer, was arrested along with his wife, Diana, in October 2021 on charges of trying to sell submarine secrets to a foreign government. Both have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.
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set the impacts of the item.
While Jurinsky said Tuesday that there was a surplus in the budget and that she felt she shouldn’t be required to identify spending cuts to offset the tax break, city staffers confirmed that the tax cut would mean an ongoing $5.9 million annual cut to revenues.
“Coming into the conversation and just saying that, oh, we have a surplus, and therefore I don’t really need to look for the accompanying piece of where this ongoing revenue would come from, is concerning to me,” Murillo said. “There will be budget implications. … I would like a better understanding of where city
management would take those ongoing funds.”
Zvonek replied that it was fortunate the budget discussion was happening at the same time, so the council could figure out how to make the cut work.
“I think now’s actually the perfect time to move it forward,” he said. “It means we’ll have to do some work, but that’s OK, because that’s what we were elected to do.”
While Murillo opposed the item moving forward from the Management & Finance Policy Committee, council members Curtis Gardner and Dustin Zvonek voiced support, meaning it is on track to be considered by the entirety of council at a future meeting.
Against the backdrop of one of the most competitive Class 5A state tournaments in recent memory, Eaglecrest rose to the occasion.
The Raptors qualified for the state tournament as a four-player team for the first time in program history — which stretches back more than three decades — and they made the most of their appearance Oct. 3-4 at City Park G.C.
BY COURTNEY OAKES Sports EditorFifth place in the Centennial League standings for the season, Eaglecrest finished in a tie with Cherry Creek for fifth place in the final standings and shared high honors for the loaded league.
“I’m really happy, I didn’t expect to get top 10, but I just wanted to have fun the entire time,” said White, who finished just one stroke out of a four-way tie for fourth place, two out of a two-way tie for second and just three behind winner Caleb Michaels of Monarch.
“There’s always shots where you think if you hit slightly better or made this putt it would be difference, but it doesn’t take away from the experience,” he added.
15th place. Coach Craig Rogers’ Raiders shot 20 strokes better in the second round than in the first, but were unable to move up due to a lot of stellar play by teams in front of them.
Senior Jake Irvine posted Regis Jesuit’s top result for the second straight season as he followed up a 16th-place showing in 2021 with a tie for 36th place this season after rounds of 75 and 73.
Fantastic frosh: Eaglecrest freshman Gregory White finished in a tie for 8th place in his first Class 5A state tournament. He shot 3-under-par 69 Oct. 4 in the final round at City Park G.C..
“To finish tied with Cherry Creek and a couple of spots ahead of Arapahoe — teams you think will usually be in contention to win a state championship — shows how well our kids played over these two days,” Eaglecrest assistant coach John Olander said.
“These guys worked so hard for this and to see that pay off for them is pretty cool.”
The Raptors were led by freshman Gregory White, who closed with a fantastic round of 1-under-par 69 to move up the leaderboard and finish in a tie for eighth place.
He debuted with a 71 and then shaved off two more strokes with a three-birdie round that could have been better if a few short misses had fallen.
When he finished his round, White — who posted Eaglecrest’s top individual finish at the 5A state tournament since Davis Bryant won the state title in 2017 — was greeted with a hug and smile from older brother, Andrew, who watched his last few holes after he finished with a plus-1 71 to finish his fourth career state tournament appearance.
After a 78 in the opening round left him tied for 59th on a loaded leaderboard, Andrew White improved enough to finish in a tie for 38th. His best career finish came as a freshman in 2019, when he tied for 16th place.
In his first state tournament, junior Noah Bennett — who came in with a goal to break 80 both days — shot rounds of 72 and 76 to finish in a tie for 36th, while senior Preston Unrein shot five strokes better in his second round than in his first and finished in a for 62nd.
The other team score for an Aurora program came from Regis Jesuit, which finished in
Sophomore Roland Thornton tied for 44th, senior Eli Handler shot 76 in the second round after 90 in the opening round and senior Cole Dewey shot 73 in the second round after he was disqualified from the opening round for self-reporting an incorrect scorecard.
White wasn’t the only freshman from an Aurora program to shoot under par, as Cherokee Trail’s Brayden Forte matched him with a 1-under 69 in his second round, which brought him in 11 strokes ahead of his opening round. He made four birdies in his last 18 holes.
A triple bogey on the par-5 Hole No. 9 in the first round held Forte down on the leaderboard as he finished in a tie for 38th place.
Forte’s teammate, sophomore Christopher O’Donnell, shot rounds of 79 and 76 to finish in a tie for 62nd. He shot seven strokes lower this year than in 2021, when he finished in a tie for 52nd place.
Grandview junior Michael Rosman played in the state tournament for the first time and shot rounds of 78 and 77 to finish in a tie for 62nd place.
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The Regis Jesuit boys tennis teams is one of four teams left standing after the first two rounds of the inaugural Class 5A boys state tennis team tournament.
The Raiders — seeded third in the 16-team tournament debuted by the Colorado High School Activities Association — downed sixth-seeded Ralston Valley 6-1 Oct. 1 at Colorado Athletic Club-Inverness to keep alive their state championship hopes.
Coach Laura Jones’ Regis Jesuit team advanced to a semifinal matchup at No. 2 Valor Christian Oct. 11. No. 4 Fossil Ridge plays at No. 1 Cherry Creek in the other semifinal match, with the winners moving on to play Oct. 18 at City Park.
“There were a couple of close matches, but we were fortunate and played well enough to make it through to the semifinals,” Jones said. “I’m really proud of how we’ve played these first two matches.”
Third-seeded Regis Jesuit opened the state tournament Sept. 28 with a 7-0 sweep of Boulder, which it defeated 5-2 just over a week previous. The two losses for the Raiders in the regular season meeting with Boulder came at Nos. 1 and 2 singles, but Clay Dickey (No. 1) and Agustin Azcui (No. 2) won three-set matches this time for Regis Jesuit to secure the sweep.
Dickey, Azcui (who won a third set tiebreaker) and Brady Jenkins gave the Raiders a singles sweep of Ralston Valley, while they also won three of the four doubles matches. The No. 1 duo of KC Eckenhausen and Liam McDonnell came through in three sets, while Aidan Sobolevsky and Carl Siegel (No. 2) and Devin McCausland and Adam Rydel (No. 4) also won in doubles for Regis Jesuit. The No. 3 doubles team of Joe Dorais and Tyler Ryan had a set lead slip away in a three-set loss.
Jones hopes for another victory against Valor Christian, but has enjoyed the advent of the tournament.
“There’s a lot of good competition going on out there,” she said. “It’s a really high level of play and it’s so exciting to watch. I think the kids feel it. They feel the excitement of being there and for each other. I’m so glad that Colorado decided to do go to this format.”
The Grandview boys tennis team made it through a round of the inaugural Class 5A boys state tennis team tournament before its run ended in the quarterfinals Oct. 1.
Coach Jeffrey Ryan’s Wolves were seeded No. 8 in the 16-team tournament and moved through the opening round with a 4-3 victory over ninth-seeded Monarch Sept. 28, which set them up with a rematch with Centennial League foe and top-seeded Cherry Creek.
Grandview lost its league match
to Cherry Creek 6-1 with the win coming at No. 1 singles from Eduard Tsaturyan, who forfeited his match to the Bruins’ Aram Izmirian in the rematch as the Wolves lost 7-0.
To reach the rematch with Cherry Creek, Grandview had to get past Monarch and did so 4-3 on its home court. The No. 2 doubles team of Josh Son and Alex Eckley clinched the win for the Wolves with a three-set victory, which joined singles wins from Tsaturyan (No. 1) and Justin Son (No. 3) and the No. 3 doubles team of Mark Yon and Caleb Hodges in the victory.
Qualifying for the Class 5A boys tennis individual state tour-
nament will take place Oct. 6-8 with local teams spread out depending on how they finished in their leagues.
Regis Jesuit plays host to the 5A Region 4 tournament at Colorado Athletic Club-Inverness Oct. 6-7 with a field that also includes Smoky Hill. Eaglecrest and Grandview both play Oct. 6-7 at Region 3 at North Lake Park, the same place Cherokee Trail and Vista PEAK play Oct. 7-8 in the Region 7 tournament.
Overland is at the Oct. 6-7 Region 5 tournament at City Park, while Hinkley heads to Valor Christian Oct. 6-7 for Region 2.
The top finishers in all three singles and four doubles positions advance to the 5A state individual tournament Oct. 13-15 at City Park.
The Aurora area is now without an undefeated football program, as Eaglecrest’s unbeaten start came to an end in Week 6.
The Raptors’ loss was one of several in the week — which marked the advent of league play for the majority of teams — as city teams finished with a combined 3-8 mark.
Grandview earned one of those victories, while simultaneously adding to the city’s loss column with its 34-23 victory over Eaglecrest Oct. 1 at Legacy Stadium. The teams squared off to open 5A League 4 play and their matchup served as the centerpiece of the Cherry Creek Schools’ Military Appreciation event.
Above left: Overland’s Talil Seals-Fisher (14) and Curtis Bunton IV celebrate one of their three connections for touchdowns in the Trailblazers’ 34-32 Homecoming football win over Westminster Sept. 30. Left: Grandview’s Donavon Vernon (35) heads upfield during the Wolves’ 34-23 Week 6 football win over Eaglecrest Oct. 1. Top right: Regis Jesuit No. 2 singles player Agustin Azcui earned wins against Boulder and Ralston Valley as the Raiders advanced to the semifinals of the Class 5A boys state tennis team tournament. Above: Grandview’s Alex Eckley returns a serve during the Wolves’ Class 5A boys state tennis team quarterfinal loss at Cherry Creek Oct. 1. Photos by Courtney Oakes/Sentinel Colorado
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A Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter sat in the parking lot outside the stadium for fan tours and circled the stadium prior to kickoff the game. Once the action began, Grandview (5-1, 1-0) established a ground game that would carry it to victory. Donavon Vernon rushed for 233 yards and two touchdowns, Liam Szarka also had two rushing scores and Chase Dahir had another. Jacob Schmitt threw touchdown passes to Peyton Taylor and Zavion Gamble for the Raptors (5-1, 0-1, while Diego Cearns returned a second half kickoff for a touchdown.
Overland picked up a thrilling 34-32 Homecoming victory over Westminster Sept. 30 in 5A League
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7 play at Stutler Bowl thanks to a furious rally in the fourth quarter.
The Trailblazers (3-3, 1-0) faced a 12-point deficit in the final period, but an interception by Quincy Humphrey gave them a spark.
Talil Seals-Fisher threw three touchdown passes to Curtis Bunton IV, including two in the fourth quarter rally, and Jarrius Ward rushed for a pair of scores.
In a driving rain Sept. 30 at Lou Kellogg Stadium, Regis Jesuit snapped a two-game losing streak with a 42-14 win over Douglas County to start the 5A League 6 slate. D’Andre Barnes caught two touchdown passes from Exander — the first of which covered 91 yards — for the Raiders (3-3, 1-0), while Carroll also found Dylan McCullough with a TD pass. Anthony Medina scored twice and Adin Chase once on the ground for Regis Jesuit.
Three Aurora teams went down to defeat on Sept. 29 as Smoky Hill (1-5, 0-1 in 5A League 4 play) fell to Arapahoe 37-22 despite 112 yards rushing and two touchdowns from Tyliq Bowers; Cherokee Trail (3-3, 0-1 in 5A League 4) got a late touchdown pass from Eliot Ming to Noah Greer but fell to top-ranked Cherry Creek 34-7 at Legacy Stadium and Armani Patterson rushed for a touchdown and Jah Alexander caught a scoring pass from Abunu Asfaw, but Rangeview (23, 0-1 in 5A League 2) couldn’t keep pace with Legacy in a 35-14 loss at APS Stadium.
Tatum Starks got the Hinkley football team on the board in its Sept. 30 matchup with Thornton at APS Stadium, but the Thunderbirds (0-6, 0-3 in 4A League 8) couldn’t catch up in a 47-6 defeat. On the same night, Aurora Central dropped a 14-12 road contest at Adams City and is now 2-3 overall and 0-1 in 4A League 7 play.
Gateway’s two-game winning streak came to an end Oct. 1 with a 33-0 defeat to visiting Widefield at APS Stadium as the Olys now sit 2-3 and 2-1 in 4A League 8. D’Quan McClennon’s kickoff return touchdown sparked Vista PEAK in its matchup with Thomas Jefferson at All-City Stadium, but the Bison (1-5, 0-1 in 4A League 8) came up just short in a 21-20 loss.
MONDAY, OCT. 3: The Grandview softball team blanked Arapahoe 4-0 for a Centennial League sweep of the Warriors as Makayla Valle struck out 11 and allowed just one hit in seven innings. Zoe Vondruska homered and drove in three runs and Peytann Weiland had the other RBI for the Wolves. ... Hailey Buttshaw and Ryan Bergen had four hits apiece to back Addison Mower as the Eaglecrest softball team topped Smoky Hill 16-5. ...The Overland boys soccer team topped Eaglecrest 3-1.
...The Eaglecrest girls volleyball team swept Mullen 25-19, 2515, 25-23. ... SATURDAY, OCT.
1: The Cherokee Trail softball team split a doubleheader as the Cougars defeated Smoky Hill 226 after they dropped an 11-9 contest to Douglas County. ... Izzy Ervin drove in three runs, while Kaitlyn Hendrian doubled twice and plated a run as the Eaglecrest softball team topped Cherry Creek 9-5. ... Dagem Tadesse scored both goals for the Regis Jesuit boys soccer team in a 2-0 home victory over Ponderosa.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 30: The Cherokee Trail boys cross country team finished in second place behind Valor Christian in the 5K Sweepstakes race at the Desert Twilight meet in Arizona. Hunter Strand led the Cougars with a ninth-place finish among 216 competitors, while Brady Smith and Beck Gutjahr finished 23rd and 25th, respectively. The Cherokee Trail girls were 11th in the 5K Sweepstakes race with Mckenna Mazeski posting the top finish in 33rd. ...The Grandview girls volleyball team rallied from
a two-set deficit, but eventually fell at Cherry Creek 25-23, 25-20, 17-25, 21-25, 15-12 in a rematch of last season’s Class 5A state championship match. Emerson Deferme had 14 kills and Gabriella Placide 13, Brenna Kelly had 17 digs and Evelyn Klumker 42 assists for the Wolves. ...The Grandview boys soccer team topped rival Cherokee Trail 1-0 at Legacy Stadium on a bicycle kick goal by Ryan Williams Courtney Hall had the assist and Nikhil Patel made four saves for the Wolves. ... THURSDAY, SEPT.
29: The Cherokee Trail softball team dealt Grandview its first Centennial League loss with a 9-4 victory on the Wolves’ home field. Addi Krei tripled and drove in three runs and Cayman Lightner struck out nine in a complete game effort. Ashley Miller and Maya Sprague drove in runs for Grandview. ...The Eaglecrest girls volleyball team held off a challenge from Overland for a 26-24, 25-9, 25-15 home win as Hannah Brinkma n
and Janna Preskorn added 10. ...The Regis Jesuit field hockey team scored two goals in each half for a 4-0 win at Cheyenne Mountain. ... Samuel Acosta, Samuel Addai-Opoku, Juan Alvarez, Christopher Castrejon, Emiliano Rico , and Miguel Ruiz scored for the Hinkley boys soccer team in a 6-2 win over Denver West at All-City Stadium. ... Danny Vasquez had a hat trick in the Eaglecrest boys soccer team’s 3-2 win over Smoky Hill Yassine Assoungdam and Herman Lopez Cisneros scored for the Buffs.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28: Elizabeth Kelly drove in four runs and five other players had RBI for the Overland softball team in a 12-11 walk-off win over the FNE Warriors. ... Makayla Valle struck out 12 and scattered three hits in the Grandview softball team’s 15-1 Centennial League win over Mullen. ...The Vista PEAK softball team dropped a 7-6 contest to Denver North despite three hits from Nayely Duran and two hits and three stolen bases from Anastasia Molina Sanaa Grant registered 10 kills to pace the Cherokee Trail girls volleyball team to a 25-16, 25-19, 25-19 win over Eaglecrest , which got an eight-kill effort from Janna Preskorn . ....The Grandview girls volleyball team defeated Arapahoe 25-13, 25-16, 18-25, 25-14 on a night that saw three players reach double digits in kills ( Emerson Deferme with 17, Gabriella Placide with 11 and Peyton Belcher with 10). ... Jessica Da silva Martinez had six kills and three aces to help the Smoky Hill girls volleyball team to a 25-21, 25-23, 25-19 win against Overland Ayden West had 11 kills and Joy Aburto nine in the Vista PEAK girls volleyball team’s 25-15, 25-16, 21-25, 25-12 loss to Denver South. ...The Overland co-op gymnastics team topped Ponderosa and Rock Canyon in a three-team meet that saw the Trailblazers score 170.700 points. Kyla Burke finished on top of the all-around standings as well as first in the vault, uneven bars and balance beam. ... TUESDAY, SEPT. 27: The Rangeview boys soccer team piled up a season-high in goals in an 8-3 win over Hinkley at APS Stadium. Alexis Salas had four of the goals plus an assist, while Devyn Mena scored twice for the Thunderbirds. ...The Aurora Central boys soccer team topped Skyview 2-1. ... Joy Aburto racked up 21 kills and Kenzie Kirby dished out 27 assists as the Vista PEAK girls volleyball team downed Lakewood 25-22, 25-21, 25-14, 25-17. ...The Regis Jesuit boys soccer team dropped its first game to a Colorado team as it lost 1-0 to Rock Canyon. ... Sydney Cornell scored three goals and Carly Kennedy had three assists as the Regis Jesuit field hockey team rallied past St. Mary’s Academy 4-1. ...The Gateway girls volleyball team swept Adams City.
The week ahead in Aurora prep sports
THURSDAY, OCT. 6: Week 7 of the football season begins with Overland on the road at Thornton at 6 p.m., while Aurora Central takes the home turf at APS Stadium at 6:30 p.m. against high-flying Broomfield and Grandview plays Arapahoe at Littleton Public Schools Stadium at 7 p.m.. ... Boys tennis regional tournaments begin in a variety of locations as teams were divided based on final league standings. ...Some quality girls volleyball matchups have Grandview playing at Cherokee Trail and
Eaglecrest at Smoky Hill , both with 6:30 p.m. first serves. ...The Grandview boys soccer team plays host to Mullen at 8 p.m. at Legacy Stadium. ...In a softball matinee, Grandview plays Cherry Creek at Village Green Fields at 1 p.m. ...The Rangeview boys soccer team has a road test at Denver South at 6:30 p.m. in a key DPL matchup ... FRIDAY, OCT.
7: Friday Night Lights has Vista PEAK playing host to Ponderosa at 6:30 p.m. at APS Stadium for Homecoming, which will also be celebrated by Eaglecrest with its 7 p.m. game at Legacy Stadium against Cherokee Trail. Smoky Hill kicks off at 7 p.m. at Cherry Creek. ... ...Several Au-
rora cross country teams head to Northglenn for the Pat Amato Classic. ... SATURDAY, OCT. 8: The Regis Jesuit football team travels to Pine Creek for a 1 p.m. kickoff, while Rangeview has a 2 p.m. kickoff at APS Stadium against Horizon. ... The Grandview softball team plays host to Eaglecrest at 11 a.m., the same time Smoky Hill is home to Mullen and Cherokee Trail plays Cherry Creek at Village Green Fields. ... The Regis Jesuit field hockey team welcomes Cherry Creek to Laber Field for a 10 a.m. contest between two of the state’s top teams. ...A girls flag football jamboree for Cherry Creek Schools’ teams begins at
8 a.m. at Stutler Bowl. ... MONDAY, OCT. 10: The Cherokee Trail girls volleyball team plays at Cherry Creek with a 6:30 p.m. first serve. ... TUESDAY, OCT. 11: The Class 5A boys state tennis team tournament resumes with semifinal matches, which includes Regis Jesuit playing at Valor Christian. ...The Cherokee Trail boys soccer team has an 8 p.m. visit to Littleton Public Schools Stadium.
“We don’t have cars. We don’t have transportation. This is our only outing,” said Mahmude, one of three Afghan refugee women who spoke with Rocky Mountain PBS reporters about their new lives in Colorado.
BY DANA KNOWLES AND LINDSEY FORD, Rocky Mountain PBSThe women left Afghanistan when the United States completed its military withdrawal last year. None of them wanted to use their last names and all of them spoke with the help of an interpreter who translated Dari, an Afghan dialect of Farsi, into English.
Mahmude has been in the U.S. for eight months and says Monday is now her favorite day of the week. “This is the highlight of my life, coming here every Monday. I’m happy to be here in the United States as my home country isn’t safe.
The women come to Ekar Farm, an urban farm next to Denver Academy of Torah that started 14 years ago mainly serving the Jewish community.
In 2020, the pandemic forced Ekar Farm shift toward doing outreach across the city by collaborating with various nonprofits like Denver’s Metro Caring, an anti-hunger organization. All the produce that Ekar grows is donated to people in
the metro area who are experiencing food insecurity, including these Afghan women and their children. Metro Caring and Ekar are partnering with Denver’s International Rescue Committee to transport them back and forth to the farm.
“What seems like a simple opportunity to grow food carries a lot of dimensions. The program allows the women to be around other people from their home country,” said Mireille Bakhos, who works with International Rescue Committee in Denver. “The media often highlights the war and challenges in Afghanistan but [these] programs are about resilience and the endless possibilities of human connections. It is about the power of people to heal and nurture positive change from the ground up, literally.”
The program runs from May through October due to weather. The women cultivate a small section of land and use the produce to cook fresh meals for their families at home in Denver.
Razye came from Afghanistan to the United States more than three years ago and says she grew up farming in her home country.
“I was a rancher. I had my own animals and I had big farm back in Afghanistan, so when I come to this farm, I feel so excited,” she said, explaining how the tomatoes and potatoes are her favorites to take home and cook. “We make food that reminds me of my country back home,
and that’s the happiest I’ve been.”
Anywhere from 70,000 to 80,000 Afghan refugees are now living in the United States. According to the Colorado Refugee Program, Colorado has welcomed around 2,500 refugees since July of 2022. The United Nations Refugee Agency says that Afghans are one of the largest refugee populations in the world with an estimated 2.6 million registered across the globe in countries like Pakistan and Iran.
For Monira, who has been in Colorado for almost a year, the opportunity to connect and socialize with other women from her country is just as important as bringing home fruit and vegetables.
“First, we come here and we say ‘hello’ and we have a quick chat, and talk, and after that we harvest,” she said, adding that being around people who come from the same country makes it easier to live in a new and unfamiliar place. “This is a country that’s unknown and new for us, so coming here to see people who speak the same language, and we became fast friends, and we talk.”
Monira hopes her work on the farm can help her life evolve into something new.
“My wish is to be able to start working and repay what people in Colorado have done for us, and find a job to contribute to this country, and this state,” she said.
The Friends of the Aurora Public Library Book Outlet is easy to walk by if you aren’t looking for it, tucked away as it is in a nondescript storefront on Iliff Square. But thousands of books flow through the small building each month, as volunteers receive and then sell donations ranging from the latest literary bestsellers to paperback thrillers.
Not only is the bookstore the best value bibliophiles are likely to get in town, with trade paperbacks selling for as little as 25 cents and new releases just $5, it also goes towards a million-dollar plus effort to preserve the Aurora Public Library for its current and future patrons.
Launched in 1987, Friends of APL is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, and has donated over $1.1 million dollars to the library since its inception.
“We were all shocked,” said Mary Lewis, the Friends’ current volunteer coordinator, upon realizing just how much money had been raised over the years.
The Book Outlet is a labor of love, currently staffed by an all-volunteer team of 54. As they celebrate the milestone, the Friends hope to spread the word about the outlet to more people in the Aurora area so that it can be a source of funding for the library for many years to come.
Aurora’s public libraries are the beneficiaries of the city’s largest used book store
Midori Clark, director of Aurora’s Library and Cultural Services department, said the Friends’ support is invaluable to the library system.
“It would be very hard for us to do our jobs as well as we do them without their support,” Clark said. “Their continued advocacy and their energy is really inspiring and helps us serve the community so much better than we could do on our own.”
The library had a previous volunteer organization before the current Friends of the APL, but it dissolved many decades ago. In the 1980s, the library staff held a once-a-year book sale to raise money but at the end of the sale still had many leftover books. It was at that point that Kathy Groth decided to help restart the organization.
The Friends launched in 1987 and formally received a 501c3 designation the next year. When the book outlet first began it operated out of the Central Library, before moving to a storefront on Chambers and Alameda that left a lot to be desired, according to longtime volunteers. There was a bee infestation and at one point, groundhogs chewed a hole straight through the floor.
The Book Outlet moved to its current location in 2005, where it has a small but densely packed room full of books, albums and DVDs. An employee-only back room full of even more books is where volunteers sort, catalog and price donations before they go out.
“It’s a madhouse, but we pass the fire inspection each year, which always surprises me,” Lewis said with a laugh.
The average number of donations varies significantly, but everyone could remember the largest single donation the outlet has received. In the early 2000s, the son of a Colorado Springs couple donated his late parents’ personal library of 100,000 books, which had to be driven up in about 20 trailers and placed in a rented storage unit.
The husband was a collector of rare books, particularly about military history, and the wife collected cookbooks, among other things. The Friends sold about half in a single-day sale that included some very valuable finds.
“There was stuff in there you couldn’t find anywhere else,” said volunteer Keith McGechie.
Most donations are less exciting, but every single book that is donated helps the Friends raise money for the library. Lewis said that the Outlet probably takes in over twice as many books as it sells each month. Books are organized by section and priced according to book type and whether or not they are a new release. Volunteers decide based on a number of factors which books to place on the shelves, which to donate to other places and which to get rid of.
For a while, the Friends put books that they didn’t think would sell in a dumpster, which they said was a difficult experience. Groth, who was in charge of discards for many years, said she and her family amassed a personal library of over 6,000 books because there were so many instances where she couldn’t bear to throw a book away.
But putting books in the trash backfired sometimes. At one point Groth was transporting books in her car to a dumpster outside a local King Soopers, where she could sort and discard them surreptitiously on site. But then, ““somebody found them, pulled them all out, and donated them back to the library.”
Since March, the Friends have been contracting with the company Dream Books Co., an online book recycling company started by a local entrepreneur. Books that don’t sell will be recycled and the paper used to make more books, insulation or other products. The Friends receive two cents per pound and have already received about $500 that way, Lewis said.
Plenty of books are purchased by the public, however. So many that in the first 25 years the Book Outlet was in operation it raised $600,000 for the library, despite the fact that in its first decades most of its books sold for as little as 10 or 20 cents.
“We used to have a nickel shelf,” volunteer David Origlio remembered.
That figure was discovered in 2021 when Lewis was going through old filing cabinets and discovered a proclamation the Aurora City Council had written for the Friends’ 25th anniversary, recognizing it for its efforts and for the money it had raised.
She tallied up the numbers to see how much it had raised in the ensuing decade. When it came out to over $1 million, everyone was stunned.
As of mid-September the Friends of the APL has raised a cumulative total of $1,107,250 for the library system, including over $30,000 so far in 2022.
It still sells most books for just a few dollars, and has regular sales based on what sections most need clearing out in a given month, Lewis said. To celebrate its 35th anniversary it held a sale where everything in the store was just 35 cents, and it also holds multiple half-off sales every year for the Friends’ 500-plus members, who also receive a regular 10% discount as part of the bargain.
The Book Outlet was closed for several months during the pandemic in 2020, and opened with reduced days. It’s now back to its regular hours of Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day.
Origlio said he used to come in right before opening on Saturday and would often be the ninth or 10th person in line waiting for the store to open. The Outlet has a lot of regulars who will come in each week and check their favorite section just to see what’s new — including Lewis’ husband, a history buff.
Booksellers from across the area as well as out of state will come too to stock up, along with scouts who will scour the shelves to see if there are any finds they can sell for a markup online or to another bookstore.
Volunteers do plenty of their own book buying too, with Groth joking that they all pay to work there.
“It is a sickness if you work here,” Lewis said. “I always said my dream job was at Tattered Cover but I’d spend everything I made at Tattered Cover, so this is much cheaper for me.”
Along with selling directly to customers, the bookstore also makes a brisk trade selling books to people staging homes, and donates books to other organizations that reach out as well.
Groth recalled seeing a request from the Adams 14 school district years ago for books for students, and loaded up the entire back of her car and drove to the district office.
“The woman who had placed the ad cried when I showed up with all these books for children,” she said.
Another time, she was in an alley with her car full of books waiting for an organization she was making a donation to to open up. A man walked by and asked if she needed any help carrying things.
“He sees all the books and says ‘Do you have any books in Spanish?’” Groth recalled. “And he went off down the alley with an armload.”
She’s also donated to the Adams County Jail, but only went once because the requirements for what could be donated were so strict: no sex, drugs or violence.
“That leaves out almost everything — including the Bible,” Groth said.
Foreign-language books, particularly in Spanish and other commonly spoken local languages, are one thing that the Friends say they would like the Outlet to receive more of than it currently does. The donations it does get are quite eclectic, though its most frequent authors include big-name thriller and romance novelists: David Baldacci, James Patterson, Danielle Steele, John Grisham and the like.
“It goes in cycles — whatever’s hot at the time,” McGechie said.
The Outlet receives a lot of religion books from the local seminaries as well as a lot of textbooks and children’s books, he said. Any teacher who shows their school IDs can receive books for their students for half price, and the Outlet tries to keep books that are frequently taught in schools on hand so that students and teachers can pick copies up for cheap.
Volunteers will also write down the names of books that people are interested in and will give them a call back if it shows up as a donation — which it often does. People often think the Outlet has an online database it can use to look up which books it has, but it’s a pretty lowtech operation, with volunteers writing out requests on paper slips and taping them to the shelves.
Along with books the Outlet also receives a lot of DVD and album donations from people who are downsizing their physical media collections in favor of streaming — but young people will come in to then go through the albums.
Puzzles are also a big hit, and were particularly popular during the pandemic. They were bought and donated back frequently, with Lewis saying they probably sold a few of the same puzzles five or 10 times. That happens with books too.
“People will read a book, bring it back, and it’s already marked and you just put it back on the shelf,” McGechie said.
Much ink has been spilled on the decline of reading in favor of movies, TV, social media and other proclivities. But despite all the things competing for readers’ attention, the Friends say that print is far from dead.
“There’s lots of people who still love books,” Lewis said. “People still want to hold a book in their hands.”
The money that the bookstore raises goes mostly to helping pay for the costs associated with programs, as well as things like maintenance needs, Friends of the APL vice president Heather Garber said. Programs are important because they keep the library relevant, she said.
“And that’s really what we need to do, because if they don’t stay relevant then people will stop going there,” Garber said.
Programming includes the library’s annual summer reading program, as well as things like author visits throughout the year and educational programs on things as varied as “how to update your resume to Dr. Seuss storytime,” Clark said.
The library’s current annual budget is about $6 million, according to Clark. That may sound like a lot, but the money goes fast, particularly as costs for books, furniture and just about everything else have risen post-pandemic.
“Every dollar the Friends gives us is greatly appreciated,” Clark said. Clark said that the Friends’ dedication to the library inspires her, and she hopes that it will still be around long after she is gone.
“It is amazing that a group of volunteers can get together and have such an impact on an organization,” Clark said. “It’s a real pleasure being able to work with them just knowing how big their hearts are and how hard they work to get funding for the library.”
On the cover: The Friends of the Aurora Public Library Book Outlet sees a bevy of customers and receives donations daily. The staff is made up strictly of volunteers, most of whom have been there for decades.
Left: Thousands of books are stored in the back stock area of the Friends of the Aurora Public Library Book Outlet.
“There’slotsofpeoplewhostilllovebooks”
— Mary Lewis, Friends’ current volunteer coordinator
Oct. 30, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. 9995 E Colfax Ave, Aurora, CO 80010 Visit https://fb.me/e/22Iqpx3rw for more information.
Professional jazz musicians lend their talents in leading an all-ages all out jam session in the catacombs of The People’s Building. This event is tailored to a more amateur crowd and the monthly gathering provides an opportunity to learn from professionals helpful skills as well as ever crucial jam etiquette.
It’s mentioned that pre-ordering food from neighborhood eateries, so you may want to plan for a snack. That said, the bar will be open and fully stocked with wine, canned cocktails and barley pops from Lady Justice.
So grab your tenor sax, make sure you got a fresh reed and come down to The People’s Building at the end of the month.
Oct. 16, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 2501 Dallas St. Aurora, CO 80010. Admission is free
Yes, summer was fun, especially with the folks at Stanley Marketplace in north Aurora. But fall is looking like a bale of excitement too. From all the cozy beers you’re sure to find at Cheluna Brewing Co. to cooking classes at Create Cooking School that will help you master dining-in during the cold months, you’ll want to make the trek to 2501 Dallas St. And on Oct. 16, make sure to stop by for the free fall festival, which will feature all sorts of vendors. Snacks, costume contests, and, yes, pumpkin picking. Find more info at www.stanleymarketplace.com
Oct. 28-30 during normal hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 2121 Children’s Museum Dr, Denver, CO 80211. Visit mychildrensmuseum.org for more information.
For three days the Children’s Museum of Denver at the Marisco Campus will be transforming the museum into what they’re describing as a “Spook-tacular Wonderland of Fun.” And in looking at the list of funtivities, they’re pretty right on in that description.
The festival includes a variety of themed activities for the kiddos, including tasty treats from The Teaching Kitchen, Monster Carnival Games, a crafting area, Spooky Science performance, meet and greets with live creatures, Campfire storytimes and rides on the BooChoo train.
Entry is free for members, $17 for non members ages 2-59 and $15 for those 60 and older.
Sept. 16 - Oct. 30 Fri-Sun from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 8500 W Deer Creek Canyon Rd. Littleton, CO 80128. Visit www.botanicgardens.org/events/ special-events/corn-maze for more information.
A favorite Autumnal pastime has returned to Chatfield Farms. Yep, the corn maze is back! This year’s maze spans seven acres and takes an estimated one hour to complete. The theme is described as a “dino-mite exploration of a prehistoric time” so… ya know, not to spoil anything but it might be in that descriptor. There’s more than just the maze at Chatfield if you pop in on the weekends. There’s a mini-maze for the youth, escape room, for an additional fee, barrel train rides for the kiddos (included with the purchase of mini-maze tickets). Food vendors will be on site and picnic tables available on a first come first served basis.
Tickets run $15 for adults, $13 for seniors 65 and over, $11 for children between 3-11 and children under 2 get free entry.
Oct. 9 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 7711 E Academy Blvd, Denver, CO 80230. Visit wingsmuseum.org/events/ family-day-with-united-airlines for more information.
It’s pretty well known that Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum is packed wall to wall in the old airplane hangar turned museum with a bevy of exciting exhibits that is sky high. Lucky for you, they’ve got an event planned for this weekend that is the perfect excuse to pay a visit.
United Airline employees, including pilots and technicians, will be available to answer questions about their careers as well as interactive activities and experiences.
The event is included with the price of museum admission.
Oct. 15, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. 15120 E. Hampden Ave., Aurora, CO 80014. Visit www.eventbrite.com/e/ dry-dock-brewing-co17th-anniversary-tickets-396189341987 for tickets and more information.
Feeling dapper, are we? Well it just so happens that it’s costume season, and you can certainly get along dressing as someone drenched in class from what some would consider a “simpler time.”
Dry Dock is turning 17 and to celebrate they are hosting a Banned Booze Ball. And believe it when I say there is a host of pretty original entertainment, from a pop-up tattoo parlor on-site to a cigar trailer. You and your partner can take swing dance lessons then cut a rug to some live classic American jazz and gypsy jazz tunes. Or if you happen to be rolling solo, find yourself a swell gal or fella and see if y’all have a peachy keen time. Then obviously get yourselves matching tattoos.
And as mentioned, Dry Dock wants to see you in your best “Prohibition/Speakeasy” attire.
General Admission tickets are $50 and VIP tickets are $80, with VIP getting you early entry and a complimentary t-shirt.
Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16 at 3 p.m. Cherokee Trail High School, 25901 E. Arapahoe Road Aurora, CO 80016. $20, more details at www. aurorasymphony.org
What does fall sound like? The “sweatha weatha” skit from Saturday Night Live featuring Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph comes to mind, but if your ears are on the search for something a little less jarring than two moms from the Bronx, you may want to try the Aurora Symphony. The group is presenting its fall masterworks on Oct. 15 and 16 at Cherokee Trail High School. Conductor Kyle Reply is leading the symphony in its season opener. The program repertoire includes four works, under the theme “American Voices.” Do yourself a favor and search out the setlist before heading to the show on Oct. 15 or 16. “The Oak”, a symphonic poem from Florence Price, is eery and quiet, kind of like if you took a long walk through the park on a dreary evening and then turned in for an old film noir flick only to find it mirrored your entire day.
Oct. 7 - Oct. 31 during the regular hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 6252 W. 104th Ave. Westminster, Colorado 80020 Visit www.butterflies.org for more information.
Pumpkin Spice is running rampant so that must mean it’s “Spooky Season” as well. The Butterfly Pavilion is going full speed ahead with bringing some literal creepy crawlies to the pavilion during the last three weeks of October. Featuring spiders from 20 different countries including the painfully appropriate Skeleton and Pumpkin Patch Tarantulas. There’s even some interactive options where you can walk among the Orb Weavers, with Malaysian variants that can be as large as an adult hand. If you aren’t petrified by the thought of being surrounded by spiders, be sure to get out to the Butterfly Pavilion and inundate yourself in the bevy of arachnids. Entry is included with the purchase of a general admission ticket.
COMBINED NOTICE -
PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0352-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On July 1, 2022, 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)
Alberto Rangel
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as beneficiary, as nominee for Royal Pacific Funding Corp.
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
Royal Pacific Funding Corporation
Date of Deed of Trust
July 03, 2019
County of Recording
Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust
July 10, 2019
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D9067210 Book: NA Page:
Original Principal Amount
$313,600.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$310,989.50
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 2, BLOCK 1, FOX HILL FILING NO.
5, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO
Also known by street and number as: 19585 East Tufts Circle, Centennial, CO 80015.
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, 11/02/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, 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 Publication9/8/2022
Last Publication10/6/2022
Name of PublicationSentinel
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; DATE: 07/01/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alexis R. Abercrombie #56722
David W Drake #43315
Scott D. Toebben #19011
Randall S. Miller & Associates PC 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202
(720) 259-6710
Attorney File # 22CO00165-1
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
COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0358-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On July 1, 2022, 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)
VERONICA GAYEN VIGO
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR NBKC BANK
or Book/Page No.)
D8082339 Original Principal Amount $140,000.00
Outstanding Principal Balance $137,284.25
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 of the terms thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION LEGAL DESCRIPTION CONDOMINIUM UNIT 209, BUILDING 35, DISCOVERY AT SMOKY HILL CONDOMINIUMS PHASE VII, IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND SUBJECT TO THE DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OF DISCOVERY AT SMOKY HILL CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED AT THE CLERK AND RECORDERS OFFICE, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, AND MAP RECORDED ON AUGUST 31, 1982 IN BOOK 58 AT PAGE 14, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO RECORDS. SAID CONDOMINIUM UNIT IS FURTHER DESCRIBED AND DEPICTED ON THE MAP FOR DISCOVERY OF SMOKY HILLS CONDOMINIUMS PHASE VII, RECORDED MAY 9, 1983 IN BOOK 64 AT PAGES 1 THROUGH 8, AND DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED NOVEMBER 24, 1982 IN BOOK 3741 AT PAGE 471, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 16955 E PIEDMONT DR UNIT D, AURORA, CO 80015. 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, 11/02/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, 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 Publication9/8/2022
Last Publication10/6/2022
Name of PublicationSentinel 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;
DATE: 07/01/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Anna Johnston #51978
Ryan Bourgeois #51088
Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557
Randall Chin #31149
Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391
Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711
Attorney File # 00000009521261
The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information
COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0363-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On July 8, 2022, 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)
Jesus Salvador Ramirez
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE
AUTHORITY
Date of Deed of Trust
September 04, 2020
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
January 14, 2021
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
E1007076
Original Principal Amount
$429,084.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$418,301.59
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 8, BLOCK 3, THE DAM - FILING NO.
3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
PARCEL IF NUMBER: 197336201107
Also known by street and number as: 12512 E Amherst Cir, Aurora, CO 80014. 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, 11/09/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, 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 Publication9/15/2022
Last Publication10/13/2022
Name of PublicationSentinel 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;
DATE: 07/08/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531
N. April Norton #34861
David R. Doughty #40042
Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592
Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 22-027836
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
COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0375-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described
Deed of Trust:
On July 19, 2022, 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)
Marina Litvin
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for Amerifirst Financial, Inc., Its Successors and Assigns
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
AmeriHome Mortgage Company, LLC.
Date of Deed of Trust
November 20, 2017
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
November 20, 2017
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D7132010
Original Principal Amount
$393,416.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$378,468.73
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 9, BLOCK 60, THE CONSERVATORY SUBDIVISION FILING NO.1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
Also known by street and number as: 20556 East Flora Drive, Aurora, CO 80013. 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, 11/16/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, 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 Publication9/22/2022
Last Publication10/20/2022
Name of PublicationSentinel 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; DATE: 07/19/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Erin Croke #46557
Steven Bellanti #48306
Holly Shilliday #24423
Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755
McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122
Attorney File # CO-22-940203-LL
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
COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0409-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On August 2, 2022, 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)
Chalana Sims
Original Beneficiary(ies)
UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE
AUTHORITY
Date of Deed of Trust
June 20, 2008
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
July 01, 2008
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
B8075475
Original Principal Amount $143,318.00
Outstanding Principal Balance $96,828.40
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 2, BLOCK 1, HUTCHINSON HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 4, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
Also known by street and number as: 3109 South Pagosa Street, Aurora, CO 80013. 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, 11/30/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, 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 Publication10/6/2022
Last Publication11/3/2022
Name of PublicationSentinel
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; DATE: 08/02/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531
N. April Norton #34861
David R. Doughty #40042
Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592
Lynn M. Janeway #15592
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 22-028024
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
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531
N. April Norton #34861
David R. Doughty #40042
Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592
Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 22-028040
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
COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0394-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On July 29, 2022, 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)
Juan Carlos Mendoza Memije
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE
AUTHORITY
Date of Deed of Trust
December 16, 2019
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
December 13, 2019
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D9137917
Original Principal Amount
$343,660.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$331,821.63
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 25, BLOCK 4, SEVEN HILLS SUB-
DIVISION FILING NO. 4, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
APN: 1975-34-4-17-005
Also known by street and number as:
19733 E Girard Ave, Aurora, CO 80013.
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, 11/30/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, 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 10/6/2022
Last Publication 11/3/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel
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;
DATE: 07/29/2022
Susan Sandstrom,
Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By:/s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531
N. April Norton #34861
David R. Doughty #40042
Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592
Lynn M. Janeway #15592
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 22-027874
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
COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0395-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described
Deed of Trust:
On July 29, 2022, 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) Blanca Gardenia Maesas
Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CITYWIDE HOME LOANS, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
Date of Deed of Trust
June 11, 2014
County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust
June 16, 2014
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D4051311
Original Principal Amount
$92,297.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$78,908.79
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.
SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
LOT 73B, RAINTREE EAST, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 23 AT PAGE 90; TOGETHER WITH THE RIGHTS SET FORTH IN THAT CERTAIN DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS, RECORDED IN BOOK 2120 AT PAGE 169 TO 189 INCLUSIVE, AND TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR PARKING AND STORAGE OVER THAT PORTION OF LOT 73D SHOWN ON EASEMENT NO. 3 ON EASEMENT LOCATION PLAN RECORDED IN BOOK 2143 AT PAGE 618, WHICH EASEMENT IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF AND APPURTENANT TO SAID LOT 73B, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
Also known by street and number as: 10001 EAST EVANS AVENUE #73B, DENVER, CO 80247. 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, 11/30/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, 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 10/6/2022
Last Publication 11/3/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel 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;
DATE: 07/29/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alison L Berry #34531
N. April Norton #34861
David R. Doughty #40042
Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592
Lynn M. Janeway #15592
Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990
Attorney File # 22-028015
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
COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0396-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described
Deed of Trust:
On July 29, 2022, 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)
Donald W Lamb and Melinda A Lamb
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Fifth Third Mortgage Company
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
Fifth Third Bank, National Association
Date of Deed of Trust
March 15, 2012
County of Recording Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
March 23, 2012
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D2032399 Book: N/A Page:
Original Principal Amount
$182,200.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
$148,209.57
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.
THE NORTH 24 FEET OF LOT 38 AND
THE SOUTH 33 FEET OF LOT 39, BLOCK 4, GAMBLE ADDITION, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 795 HAVANA STREET, AURORA, CO 80010.
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, 11/30/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, 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 10/6/2022
Last Publication 11/3/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel
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;
DATE: 07/29/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Alexis R. Abercrombie #56722
David W Drake #43315
Scott D. Toebben #19011
Randall S. Miller & Associates PC 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710 Attorney File # 22CO00163-1
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
COMBINED NOTICE -
PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0398-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On July 29, 2022, 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)
Aldo R. Castillo Original Beneficiary(ies)
KeyBank
vided 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 6, BLOCK 1, ALTON PARK FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 1223
S Akron Way, Denver, CO 80247.
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, 11/30/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, 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 10/6/2022
Last Publication 11/3/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel 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;
DATE: 07/29/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Amanda Ferguson #44893
Heather Deere #28597
Toni M. Owan #30580
Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155
Attorney File # CO11820
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
COMBINED NOTICE -
PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0399-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On July 29, 2022, 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)
Lauren Elizabeth Warfield
Original Beneficiary(ies)
Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for First Centennial Mortgage Corporation, Its Successors and Assigns
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
Caliber Home Loans, Inc.
Date of Deed of Trust
December 05, 2016
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
December 22, 2016
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
D6149128
Original Principal Amount
$190,000.00
Outstanding Principal Balance
OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
Also known by street and number as: 12211 E Tennessee Dr Unit 107, Aurora, CO 80012. 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, 11/30/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, 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 10/6/2022
Last Publication 11/3/2022
Name of Publication Sentinel 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;
DATE: 07/29/2022
Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado
By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:
Erin Croke #46557
Steven Bellanti #48306
Holly Shilliday #24423
Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755
McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122
Attorney File # CO-22-941049-LL
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
COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103
FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0400-2022
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described
Deed of Trust:
On July 29, 2022, 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)
Juan A. Balcazar and Guadalupe Balcazar
Original Beneficiary(ies)
American United Mortgage Corporation
Current Holder of Evidence of Debt
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
Date of Deed of Trust
December 28, 1998
County of Recording
Arapahoe
Recording Date of Deed of Trust
January 07, 1999
Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)
A9003748
Original Principal Amount $113,825.00
Outstanding Principal Balance $97,971.85
Association
of Evidence of Debt
D8119142 Original Principal Amount $120,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $98,364.85
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 pro-
$196,365.98 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. SEE ATTACHED EXHIBIT A EXHIBIT “A” BUILDING 4, UNIT 107, CEDAR COVE II CONDOMINIUMS FILING NO. 2, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED JANUARY 11, 1996 IN PLAT BOOK 125 AT PAGES 83-91 AND THE THIRD SUPPLEMENT TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP OF CEDAR COVE II CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED JULY 16, 1999 IN PLAT BOOK 164 AT PAGES 1112 OF THE REAL PROPERTY RECORDS OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO, AND THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION DATED JANUARY 30, 1996 AND RECORDED JANUARY 30, 1996 UNDER RECEPTION NO. A6011418, AND FIRST AMENDMENT TO CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION RECORDED MARCH 26, 1996, UNDER RECEPTION NO. A6036294 AND SECOND AMENDMENT TO CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION RECORDED JULY 10, 1996, UNDER RECEPTION NO. A6087987 AND FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL RECORDED JULY 16, 1999 AT RECEPTION NO. A9115874, AND ANY AND ALL AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS RECORDED IN THE REAL PROPERTY RECORDS
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 7, BLOCK 49, HOFFMAN TOWN SIXTH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO
Also known by street and number as: 762 Revere Street, Aurora, CO 80011. 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, 11/30/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, 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.
the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. the day before the sale, then between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. on the day of the auction. A complete list of all items will be available for review in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Room 1400 (1st floor), Aurora, Colorado.
Terms of the sale will be cash, certified check, Visa, American Express, or Mastercard at the conclusion of the sale. The successful bidder will be required to remove all items after the close of the sale. All sales are final WITH NO WARRANTY. Any and all bids can be rejected at the discretion of the City of Aurora.
/s/ Kadee Rodriguez, City Clerk
First Publication: October 6, 2022
Final Publication: October 20, 2022
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JHL Constructors on behalf of the Aerotropolis Area Coordinating District (AACMD), a quasi-municipal corporation and political subdivision of the State of Colorado, notifies all qualified persons/companies that proposals will be received for contracting work and services in connection with the Filing 9 Roadways and Drainage Channel improvements at The Aurora Highlands in Aurora, CO. This request for proposal includes work associated with roadways and drainage channel as follows: Asphalt pavement, sidewalks, curb & gutter, edge drain, signage & striping, storm drainpipe, rip rap, trickle channel, forebays, outlet structures, pond maintenance paths, box culverts, electrical. JHL will be the representative for the metro district for the work. Electronic submission of proposals must be submitted and received by JHL at AuroraHighlandsInfo@jhlconstructors.com on or before 2:00 p.m. MST on October 27th, 2022.
Instruction to Respondent documents may be obtained from the CMaR Contractor, JHL Constructors, Inc. on or after Thursday October 6th, 2022. Please contact AuroraHighlandsInfo@jhlconstructors.com for access to the Instruction to Respondent documents. Upon inquiry from interested parties, RFQ documents will be made available electronically through BuildingConnected only. JHL Constructors will accept proposals from respondents that represent best capabilities to perform contracting services. JHL reserves the right to waive irregularities in any proposals. Performance and Payment bonds and proper insurance coverage will be required.
First Publication: October 6, 2022
Final Publication: October 20, 2022
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INVITATION TO BID
The Aurora High Point at DIA Metro District (hereinafter called the “Owner”) will receive sealed Bids for the 66th & 67th Avenue Street Light Project (the “Project”) at 18591 E 64th Ave, Denver CO, 80249 until 10:00 am. October 27, 2022. At such time, Bids received will be publicly opened and read aloud.
A description of the Work to be performed is: new streetlighting consisting of light poles including foundations, underground conduit, and conductors
Bid packages will be available for pickup after 10:00 am. on October 10, 2022. Send request for bid documents to Nate Lapp at Nate@silverbluffcompanies.com. Include company name, contact name, and contact information.
Bids shall be made on the forms furnished by the Owner and shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope and endorsed with the name of the Bidder. A Bid Bond in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total Bid amount will be required. The Bid Bond will be retained by Owner as liquidated damages should the Successful Bidder fail to enter into a Contract with the Owner in accordance with the Bid. Bidders must supply a list of Subcontractors providing $10,000 or more in labor and/or materials to the Project.
Attention is called to the fact that Bidders offer to assume the obligations and liabilities imposed by the Contract Documents. The Successful Bidder for the Project will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Labor and Materials Payment Bond in the full amount of the Contract Price, in conformity with the requirements of the Contract Documents.
Bidders are hereby advised that the Owner reserves the right to not award a Contract until sixty (60) days from the date of the opening of Bids, and Bidders expressly agree to keep their Bids open for the sixty (60) day time period. Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive any informality, technicality or irregularity in any Bid, to disregard all non-conforming, non-responsive, conditional or alternate Bids, to negotiate contract terms with the Successful Bidder, to require statements or evidence of Bidders’ qualifications, including financial statements, and to accept the proposal that is in the opinion of the Owner in its best interest. Owner also reserves the right to extend the Bidding period by Addendum if it appears in its interest to do so.
Any questions concerning this bid shall be directed in writing to: Nate at Nate@silverbluffcompanies.com no later than October 21, 2022.
Publication: October 6, 2022
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NOTICE OF ADOPTION PROCEEDING AND SUMMONS TO RESPOND PURSUANT TO 19-5-105(5), C.R.S. Case No. 2022JA30014, 2022JA30015
TO: TYE PARRIS
Adoption of Preston James Parris and Ethan William Parris
To the above-named Respondent:
You are hereby notified that a Petition for Custodial Adoption has been filed and if you wish to respond to the Petition, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 35 days after this Notice is served on you.
Your response must be accompanied by the applicable filing fee of $192.00.
Your failure to file a Response, or to appear, within 35 days after service, and, in the case of an alleged father, your failure to file a claim of paternity under Article 4 of Title 19, C.R.S., within 35 days after service, if a claim has not previously been filed, may likely result in termination of your parental or your alleged parental rights to the minor child.
The Petition for Custodial Adoption and Petition to Terminate the Parent-Child Legal Relationship Pursuant to 19-5-101, et seq., C.R.S., Affidavit of Abandonment are filed in the court file in the above-described action.
First Publication: October 6, 2022
Final Publication: November 3, 2022
Sentinel NOTICE OF HEARING FOR CHANGE OF NAME FOR A FAMILY SUPERIOR COURT OF ARIZONA IN MARICOPA COUNTY Case No. CV2022-10196
IN THE MATTER OF ABBY RICHARDSON AND PATRICK DEWAYNE RICHARDSON.
Hearing Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Hearing Time: 2:30 p.m.
Hearing Type: Name Change for a Family
Please select the link below to attend your hearing from your computer, tablet, or smartphone. Both video and audio must be enabled and working at the time of your hearing for your case to be heard.
Your hearing will be held by video via Microsoft Teams before:
Commissioner Brian Kaiser
Judicial Assistant: Basilia Gonzalez Division Email: sec02@jbazmc.maricopa.
gov Judicial Assistant Phone: 602-506-3915
Microsoft Teams Hearing Link: https://tinyurl.com/jbazmc-sec02
First Publication: October 6, 2022
Final Publication: October 27, 2022
Sentinel NOTICE OF HEARING TO INTERESTED PERSONS Case No. 22PR30712
In the Interest of: Jerhico Isai Perez Alvarado
Minor
Petitioner: Jerico Alvarado Juarez and Respondents: Basilia Alvarado Juarez and Arnoldo Antonio Perez Scot
To all interested persons: A hearing on the petition identified below will be held via WEBEX at the following date, time, and location.
Date: October 26, 2022
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Courtroom or Division: 12
Magistrate Bradley Virtual Courtroom
Meeting Number (access code): 925 265 231 https://judicial.webex.com/amanda.bradley
Join by phone Tap to call in from a mobile device (attendees only)
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The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the respondent’s right to make decisions about the respondent’s personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The respondent must appear in person unless excused by the court. The petitioner is required to make reasonable efforts to help the respondent attend the hearing.
The respondent has the right to be represented by an attorney of the respondent’s choice at the respondent’s expense. If the respondent cannot afford an attorney, one may be appointed for the respondent at state expense. The respondent may
request a professional evaluation. The respondent has the right to present evidence and subpoena witnesses and documents; examine witnesses, including any courtappointed physician, psychologist, or other qualified individual providing evaluations, and the Court Visitor; and otherwise participate in the hearing. The respondent may ask that the hearing be held in a manner that reasonably accommodates the respondent. The respondent has the right to request that the hearing be closed, but the hearing may not be closed if the respondent objects.
Lisa A. Guerra, Esq.
Atty. Reg. #.:41583
THE GUERRA LAW OFFICE L.L.C.
3600 S. YOSEMITE ST., SUITE 520 DENVER, CO 80237 Phone: (303) 347-090 E-mail:lisaguerra@ theguerralawoffice.com
Fax Number: (303) 347-0901
First Publication: October 6, 2022
Final Publication: October 20, 2022
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NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 32-1-304, C.R.S., that there were filed in the District Court in and for the County of Adams, State of Colorado, on September 23, 2022, Petitions requesting the organization of two (2) proposed metropolitan districts, pursuant to the provisions of Section 32-1-301, et seq., C.R.S. (collectively, the “Proposed Districts”).
The Proposed Districts are The Aurora Highlands Metropolitan District Nos. 4 and 5. Notice is further given that a combined Service Plan for the Proposed Districts, and a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Aurora, Colorado, approving the Service Plan for the Proposed Districts, were also filed with the Court in this matter as required by law. Said documents are now on file at the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Adams County, Colorado, and are available for public inspection.
The purposes of the Proposed Districts are to provide the Public Improvements (as defined in the Service Plan) and related operation, maintenance, and covenant enforcement services within and without the boundaries of the Districts, as such power and authority is described in the Service Plan.
The Proposed Districts encompasses approximately 39.619 acres, which are generally located west of Monaghan Road, between East 56th Avenue and East 26th Avenue, County of Adams, State of Colorado, and the legal description of each of the Proposed Districts is provided on Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference.
NOTICE IS GIVEN that any time after the filing of the Petitions for Organization of the Proposed Districts in the District Court in and for the County of Adams, but no later than ten (10) days before the day fixed for the hearing thereon, the owner of any real property within the Proposed Districts may file a petition with the Court stating reasons why said property should not be included in the Proposed Districts and requesting that said real property be excluded therefrom. Such petition shall be duly verified and shall describe the property sought to be excluded. The Court shall hear said petition and all objections thereto at the time of the Hearing on the Petitions for Organization and shall determine whether, in the best public interest, said property should be excluded or included in the proposed special district.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that by an Order of the District Court in and for the County of Adams, a Public Hearing on said Petitions for Organization will be held on October 25, 2022 at 8:30 a.m., in a Virtual Courtroom of Division W, at the Adams County District Court, at which time and place any parties or persons in interest may appear if they so desire, within the limitations provided by law.
THE OCTOBER 25, 2022 HEARING IS SET FOR 8:30 A.M. VIA WEBEX.
EXHIBIT A Legal Description ALL OF PARCEL’S A AND B AS DESCRIBED IN SPECIAL WARRANTY DEED RECORDED AT RECEPTION NO. 2018000102101 IN THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO, SITUATED IN THE SOUTH HALF OF SECTION 16, TOWNSHIP 3 SOUTH, RANGE 65 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, CITY OF AURORA, SAID COUNTY AND STATE, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
PARCEL A - THE AURORA HIGHLANDS MD NO. 4 INITIAL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES
COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 16, WHENCE THE EAST QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 16 BEARS N00°11’37”W A DISTANCE OF 2,648.27 FEET;
THENCE S89°51’48”W ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID SECTION 16 A DISTANCE OF 1,940.30 FEET TO THE
POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE S89°51’48”W ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID SECTION 16 A DISTANCE OF 852.46 FEET; THENCE
N00°04’00”E A DISTANCE OF 752.01
FEET;
THENCE N89°51’48”E ALONG A SOUTH-
ERLY LINE OF A PARCEL OF LAND DESCRIBED IN BOOK 3811, PAGE 286, RECEPTION NO. B01020168 RECORDED AUGUST 29, 1991 IN THE ADAMS COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDERS OFFICE A DISTANCE OF 648.29 FEET;
THENCE S15°08’12”E ALONG A WESTERLY LINE OF A PARCEL OF LAND DESCRIBED IN SAID BOOK 3811 AND PAGE 286 A DISTANCE OF 778.53 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; CONTAINING AN AREA OF 12.954 ACRES, (564,285 SQUARE FEET), MORE OR LESS.
PARCEL B - THE AURORA HIGHLANDS MD NO. 5 INITIAL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES
COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 16, WHENCE THE EAST QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 16 BEARS
N00°11’37”W A DISTANCE OF 2,648.27 FEET;
THENCE S89°51’48”W ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID SECTION 16 A DISTANCE OF 434.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING;
THENCE S89°51’48”W ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID SECTION 16 A DISTANCE OF 1,444.19 FEET;
THENCE N15°08’12”W ALONG A EASTERLY LINE OF A PARCEL OF LAND DESCRIBED IN BOOK 3811, PAGE 286, RECEPTION NO. B01020168, RECORDED AUGUST 29, 1991 IN THE ADAMS COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDERS OFFICE A DISTANCE OF 778.54 FEET;
THENCE N89°51’48”E ALONG A SOUTHERLY LINE OF A PARCEL OF LAND DESCRIBED IN SAID BOOK 3811 AND PAGE 286 A DISTANCE OF 1,644.94 FEET;
THENCE S00°11’37”E ALONG THE WESTERLY LINE OF A PARCEL OF LAND DESCRIBED IN SAID BOOK 3800, PAGE 94 IN THE ADAMS COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDERS OFFICE A DISTANCE OF 752.01 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; CONTAINING AN AREA OF 26.665 ACRES, (1,161,530 SQUARE FEET), MORE OR LESS. ALL LINEAL DISTANCES ARE REPRESENTED IN U.S. SURVEY FEET.
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Publication: October 6, 2022
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NOTICE OF HEARING REGARDING DETERMINATION OF HEIRS
Case No. 2022PR30554
In the Matter of the Determination of Heirs or Devisees or Both and of Interests in Property of: CLARA IRMA FRANKLIN a/k/a ERMA FRANKLIN, Deceased.
TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a hearing has been set for OCTOBER 17, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time via WebEx in Division T1. The WebEx instructions are attached as an exhibit.
Respectfully submitted this 13th day of September 2022.
Oney D. Barnes, Sr. 868 N. Orchard Ave., Canon City, CO
Corrina Sanwick 140 S. Wright Rd., Janesville, WI 53546
Gladys Betts 22755 Farm Road 1010, Washburn, MO 65772
Larry Walker 7782 Blockade Village, Seligman, MO
65745
Barbara Smith
19609 Farm Road 1043, Exeter, MO 65647
Julie Morlan 22507 Whiplash Ln., Washburn, MO 65772
Colleen K. Homola
8550 W. 46th Ave., Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
Stephen Tourangeau
106 Catherine St., East Haven, CT 06512
Donette Smith
173 Barn Hill Ln., Newington, CT 06111
Tammy Peterson
4522 Barby Ln., Madison, WI 53704
Corrina Sanwick 140 S. Wright Rd., Janesville, WI 53546
Attorneys for Applicant: JOHN GLENN LAW, LLC
John P. Glenn, #26804 1400 Orange Court Fort Collins, CO 80525 Phone: 970-232-3323
Fax: 970-797-1845
Email: jglenn@johnglennlaw.com
First Publication: September 22, 2022
Final Publication: October 6, 2022 Sentinel
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATIONAL ELECTION (PROPOSED) EASTERN HILLS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 21-23 NOVEMBER 8, 2022 §1-13.5-510(2), 1-13.5-1105(2)(d), 1-13.5-502 C.R.S.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the eligible electors of the (proposed) Eastern Hills Metropolitan District Nos. 21-23 of the City of Aurora, Arapahoe County, Colorado.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an organizational election is to be held on Tuesday, the 8th day of November, 2022, and that said election shall be conducted by mail ballot. Accordingly, ballots will be distributed by U.S. Mail not earlier than October 17, 2022, and not later than October 24, 2022, to eligible electors of the District entitled to vote in the election. The purpose of the election is to submit to the eligible electors of the proposed District referenced above, the question of organization of the proposed District, election of the initial members of the Board of Directors and the voting upon certain ballot issues and ballot questions concerning taxes, debt, revenue, and spending summarized below, as applied to the proposed District.
At said election, the eligible electors of the District shall vote for Directors to serve the following terms of office on the Board of Directors of the District.
The names of the persons nominated for Director to serve until the next regular election following organization are:
There are no candidates for this position
There are no candidates for this position
The names of the persons nominated for Director to serve until the second regular election following organization are:
Josh Brgoch
Bryan Horan
Tom Clark
At said election, the electors of the District shall vote for the following Ballot Issues and Ballot Questions certified by the proposed District:
BALLOT ISSUE A (Operations Tax Increase – Unlimited Mill Levy)
BALLOT ISSUE B (Operations and Maintenance– Fees)
BALLOT ISSUE C (Capital Costs – Ad Valorem Taxes)
BALLOT ISSUE D (Aurora Regional Tax Levy)
BALLOT ISSUE E (Revenue Debt Question)
BALLOT ISSUE F (Special Assessment Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE G (Water Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE H (Sanitation Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE I (Streets Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE J (Traffic and Safety Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE K (Parks and Recreation Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE L (Transportation Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE M (Television Relay Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE N (Mosquito Control Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE O (Security Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE P (Business Recruitment Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE Q (Fire Protection Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE R (Operations and Maintenance Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE S (Directional Drilling Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE T (Refunding)
BALLOT ISSUE U (Reimbursement Agreements as Debt)
BALLOT ISSUE V (De-TABOR)
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Earlene Kehoe 3440 S. Corona St., Apt. 301, Englewood, CO 80113
Joyce Cordery 944 Dalrymple Road, Las Cruces, NM 88007
Tammy Peterson 4522 Barby Ln., Madison, WI 53704
BALLOT ISSUE W (TABOR non-ad valorem tax revenues)
BALLOT ISSUE X (Mortgage)
BALLOT ISSUE Y (Intergovernmental Agreement Authorization)
BALLOT ISSUE Z (Multi-Fiscal Year IGA)
BALLOT ISSUE AA (Aurora Regional IGA
Authorization)
BALLOT ISSUE BB (Master IGA and Private Parties)
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Attorney for Personal Representative
Nathaniel J. Thompson
Atty Reg #: 41219
Law Office of Nathaniel J. Thompson, LLC
P.O. Box 2267
Centennial, CO 80161
Phone: 720-319-7049
First Publication: October 6, 2022
Final Publication: October 20, 2022
Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.
Case No. 2022PR30801
Estate of Carl Martin, Deceased.
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before January 29, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Attorney for Personal Representative
Russell K. Bean
Atty. Reg. #: 15889
16890 E. Alameda Pkwy, #471985
Aurora, CO 80047
Phone: 720-889-2230
First Publication: September 29, 2022
Final Publication: October 13, 2022
Sentinel
NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.
Case No. 2022PR30944
Estate of Roger Dale Witt aka Roger Witt aka Roger D. Witt, Deceased.
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 February 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Attorney for Personal Representative
Tammy D. Conover Conover Law, LLC
Atty Reg #: 34006 6161 S. Syracuse Way, Ste. 270 Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Phone: 303-376-6224
First Publication: October 6, 2022
Final Publication: October 27, 2022
Sentinel
NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.
Case No. 2022PR30967
Estate of Norma Irene Gerber aka Norma I. Gerber, Deceased.
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 January 29, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Michael J. Gerber
Co-Personal Representative 335 Clayton St. Denver, CO 80206
Linda Gerber Johnson
Co-Personal Representative 5921 S. Brook Valley Way Centennial, CO 80121
Frank M. Gerber, Jr.
Co-Personal Reprsentative 6224 E. Keim Drive Paradise Valley, AZ 85253
Attorney for Personal Representatives
Fred J. Diss
Atty Reg #: 16509
Ashley L. Thompson
Atty Reg #: 44059 Robinson, Diss and Clowdus, P.C. 3200 Cherry Creek South Drive, Ste. 340 Denver, CO 80209
Phone: 303-861-4154
First Publication: September 29, 2022
Final Publication: October 13, 2022
Sentinel
Atty Reg #: 48759 Elizabeth D. Mitchell
Atty Reg #: 31346
Ambler Keenan Mitchell Johnson, LLC
950 S. Cherry St., Ste. 1650
Denver, CO 80246
Phone: 303-407-1542
First Publication: September 29, 2022
Final Publication: October 13, 2022
Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.
Case No. 2022PR31035
Estate of Jeremy Michael Chavez aka Jeremy M. Chavez aka Jeremy Chavez, Deceased.
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 January 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Jesus Armando Romero Rangel,
Personal Representative
C/o Baker Law Group, LLC
8301 E. Prentice Avenue, Suite 405 Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Phone: 303-862-4564
First Publication: September 22, 2022
Final Publication: October 6, 2022
Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.
Case No. 2022PR31065
Estate of Louisa B. Lundeberg aka Louisa Basking Ludeberg aka Louisa Lundeberg aka Bonnie Louisa Lundeberg aka Bonnie Lundeberg, Deceased.
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 February 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Laury E. Bowman
Personal Representative
6952 S. Prescott St. Littleton, CO 80120
Attorney for Personal Representative
Patrick M. Plank
Atty Reg #: 24024
26 W. Dry Creek Circle, #420 Littleton, CO 80120
Phone: 303-794-5901
First Publication: October 6, 2022
Final Publication: October 20, 2022
Sentinel
NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.
Case No. 2022PR31068
Estate of Paula Ronan aka Paula Ronan Abrams aka Paula Ruth Ronan aka Paula Ronan Schott, Deceased.
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 January 29, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Attorney for Personal Representative Shelley Thompson,
Atty Reg #: 39999
Burns, Figa & Will, P.C.
6400 S. Fiddlers Green Circle, #1000 Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Phone: 303-796-2626
First Publication: September 29, 2022
Final Publication: October 13, 2022
Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2022PR31130
NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.
Case No. 2022PR454
Estate of Henry C. Blum, Jr., Deceased.
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 January 22, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Diane M Mandile
Personal Representative 779 School St. Webster, MA 01570
First Publication: September 22, 2022
Final Publication: October 6, 2022
Sentinel
NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.
Case No. 2022PR30792
Estate of Jennifer Behunin, Deceased.
All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before February 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Denise BehuninPersonal Representative 6114 Utica St. Arvada, CO 80003
Attorney for Personal Representative
Nathaniel J. Thompson
Atty Reg #: 41219
Law Office of Nathaniel J. Thompson, LLC P.O. Box 2267 Centennial, CO 80161
Phone: 720-319-7049
First Publication: October 6, 2022
Final Publication: October 20, 2022
Sentinel ORDER FOR PUBLICATION FOR RELINQUISHMENT Case No. 2022JR12
IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF: Chad Clifton AND Shauna Clifton FOR THE RELINQUISHMENT OF A CHILD, Nevaeh Clifton.
The Court, having considered the Motion for Publication of Notice and the Affidavit of Diligent Efforts for Relinquishment, is satisfied that the Petitioner has used due diligence to obtain personal service on the Presumed or Alleged Mother Shauna Clifton at any address available, and that such efforts have failed; or that efforts to obtain same would have been to no avail, the Respondent Mother Shauna Clifton cannot be found for personal service, and the address of the Presumed or Alleged Mother Shauna Clifton(s) remain(s) unknown.
Therefore, the Motion is granted, and the Court orders that service of the Notice of Expedited Relinquishment on the Presumed or Alleged Mother Shauna Clifton shall be by publication of the Notice by a single publication in an Arapahoe County newspaper.
Hearing Date: November 2, 2022 at 4pm. Via Webex https://judicial.webex,com/ meet/bonnie.mclean or call in +1-720-650-
7664 Access code: 925 850 797 then press #, # (no attendee ID is needed)
Date: September 14, 2022
NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.
Case No. 2022PR31007
Estate of Gerald W. Tindall aka Gerald Tindall, Deceased.
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 January 29, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Linda Tindall
Personal Representative
c/o Baysore & Christian Fiduciary Services, LLC
7000 E. Belleview Ave., Ste., 150 Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Phone: 303-789-9139
First Publication: September 29, 2022
Final Publication: October 13, 2022
Sentinel
NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.
Case No. 2022PR31030
Estate of Clark Raymond McKinstry, Jr. aka Clark R. McKinstry, Jr. aka Clark McKinstry, Jr. aka Clark Raymond McKinstry aka Clark R. McKinstry aka Clark McKinstry, Deceased.
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 January 30, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Constance M. McKinstry
Personal Representative
1584 S. Tucson St. Aurora, CO 80012 Attorney for Personal Representative
Estate of Lucille Vigil, Deceased. All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court, Colorado, on or before February 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Leroy Harris Jr.
Personal Representative 3436 Lafayette St. Denver, CO 80120
Attorney for Personal Representative
David A. Imbler, Esq.
Atty. Reg. #: #52038 Of Counsel, Spaeth & Doyle, LLP 501 S. Cherry St., Suite 700 Glendale, CO 80246
Phone: 303-385-8058
First Publication: October 6, 2022
Final Publication: October 20, 2022
Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION
PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.
Case No. 2022PR364
Estate of Mable D. Jarrett, Deceased. 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 January 31, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.
Christopher J. Jarrett, Personal Representative 12028 East Harvard Ave. Aurora, CO 80014
Matthew J. Casebolt, Esq.,
Atty. Reg. #37110
Casebolt Law Corporation PC 1777 S. Harrison Street, Suite 1500 Denver, CO 80210
Phone: 303- 757-3344
First Publication: September 29, 2022
Final Publication: October 13, 2022
Sentinel
PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF AN ADULT ARAPAHOE COUNTY COURT, COLORADO Case No. 22C100567
PUBLIC NOTICE is given on September 9, 2022, 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 Jayne Elise Anderson be changed to Jayne Elise Melina.
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Publication: October 6, 2022 Sentinel WATERSTONE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1 NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING AND NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2023 BUDGET AND NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO 2022 BUDGET
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Waterstone Metropolitan District No. 1 (the “District”) Arapahoe County Arapahoe, State of Colorado, will hold a special meeting (the “Meeting”) at 11:00 A.M. on October 14, 2022, at 9193 S. Jamaica Street, 4th floor, Englewood, CO 80112 for the purpose of conducting such business as may come before the Board. Pursuant to § 32-1-903, Colorado Revised Statutes, interested parties are encouraged to join the meeting and participate in the public hearing by telephone at: 1 719 359 4580 US , or by videoconference at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82792995668 ?pwd=Q2kza1k0TW5NREJhYmZXTHE2
QlJqZz09&from=addon Meeting ID: 827 9299 5668, Passcode; 008368.
FURTHER, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed budget has been submitted to the District for the fiscal year of 2023. A copy of the proposed budget has been filed in the office of CliftonLarsonAllen, 9193 S. Jamaica Street, 4th floor, Englewood, CO 80112, where the same is open for public inspection. Such proposed budget will be considered at the meeting of the District to be held at 11:00 A.M., October 14, 2022. Any interested elector within the District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2023 budget.
FURTHER, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed amended budget has been submitted to the District for the fiscal year of 2022. A copy of the proposed amended budget has been filed in the office of CliftonLarsonAllen, where the same is open for public inspection. Such proposed amended budget will be considered at the meeting of the District to be held at 11:00 A.M. on October 14, 2022. Any interested elector within the District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2022 budget amendment. The meeting is open to the public.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
WATERSTONE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1
By: /s/ MILLER LAW PLLC
PRELIMINARY AGENDA
1. Call to Order
2. Declaration of Quorum
3. Consider Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes
4. Public Hearing to Consider Approval of 2022 Budget Amendment, as required
5. Public Hearing to Consider Approval of 2023 Budget
a. Adopt 2023 Budget, Certify Mill Levy, Appropriate 2023 Expenditures
6. Consider Approval of 2023 Annual Administrative Resolution
7. Consider Approval of Resolution Waiving Workers’ Compensation Insurance for 2023
8. Consider Approval of 2022 Audit Exemption Resolution, if applicable
9. Other Business
10. Adjourn
Publication: October 6, 2022 Sentinel
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