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A skeptical Aurora looks to another police chief for honesty and reform

If this Aurora police thing seems oh-so familiar, it’s not just you.

To nearly game-show fanfare, Aurora Interim Police Chief Art Acevedo was cheered onto the local media stage two weeks ago.

Chief Acevedo, come on down. You’re the next contestant on the Plight is Fright.

While too many Aurora councilmembers, administrators and much of the public forget, this is about being afraid — of the city’s own police officers.

Sure, there’s talk about the business of police reform and the “consent decree.” But while Aurora is trading police chiefs as if they were baseball cards, just about every person of color still lives in dread or paralyzing fear of having to come in contact with an Aurora police officer.

Latino moms, South Asian bookkeepers and even Black superintendents of districts all admit, and regret, that seeing APD red-and-blue flashing lights in the rear view mirror isn’t just unnerving like it is for white guys like me. Seeing a cop walking up to your car window borders on terror for people of color.

“I am a man. I am a Black man. I am a Black man in America,” Aurora Public Schools Superintendent Rico Munn wrote in an essay for the Sentinel in 2020. It was at a time less than two years ago when massive protests shut down Aurora highways, and one of Aurora’s former police chiefs worked to build trust and confidence in a police department that had obliterated it.

“I am a Black man in America who holds a position of relative authority and privilege,” Munn wrote. “All of these things are true, and all of these things hold meaning for me, especially at this moment in time. I love this country. America has afforded me the opportunity to worship as I please; to get a college degree and a law degree. In America, I have been able to earn a living, marry the girl of my dreams, raise two beautiful children and participate in the civic and cultural life of my community. But also in America, I have been spit on, called a nigger, harassed by the police, denied opportunities and watched Black friends and loved ones systematically jailed, impoverished and dehumanized. My relationship with America is complicated; I am outraged by injustice but never surprised by it. I celebrate what is good about America, but I never forget the lessons my father taught me.”

Munn’s father, who died this year, taught him that Black people in America must fear encounters with police, because too many police officers can’t be trusted to treat them as if they were white.

Those fears have been well-founded across the nation, and in Aurora.

There’s been much more than the horror of police tormenting, torturing and then killing Elijah McClain in August 2019 — and then three officers mocking his death for fun and selfies. The repeated grisly abuse of people of color, and even white people, at the hands of Aurora police officers is appalling.

The entire planet was subjected to video images of Aurora police forcing a car-full of Black girls and women being cuffed while face down on a scorching parking lot, during what was a botched stolen-car stop to begin with.

A young Black man was pistol whipped by

an Aurora cop during accusations of vagrancy, and the police body cam offered up the entire episode for the world to watch in horror.

Those are just a couple of APD “incidents” so horrible and happening so frequently that they prompted the state’s attorney general’s office to intervene. The state is demanding changes in Aurora because of “patterns and practices” of abusive force on people of color, and even white people.

Just as grievous as the episodes of calling Black people “porch monkeys” or forcing them to ride in the back of patrol cars cuffed and face down on the floor, begging for help, are the repeated and seemingly endless episodes of concealing the ugly truth about some police in the department.

The Aurora and Colorado Attorney General Consent Decree is about accountability and transparency as much as it is about getting police to stop abusing minorities.

As the sordid reality of what’s been going on at APD for the past decade began spilling out, and ranking APD commander Vanessa Wilson was ushered in as chief, change in earnest began.

Wilson promised accountability and transparency in the department, and she delivered it. Regularly.

She fired cops who pistol whipped Black men. She excoriated a police union chief for sending off patently racist and sexist emails to the rank and file.

She not only listened to people of color in Aurora, she acted on what they told her.

Wilson was making headway in insisting that most Aurora police really can and should be trusted, and so should the department. She had gotten the attention, and the trust, of Aurora communities of color.

Then, the city fired her.

Despite incredible explanations why, it’s become clear over the past several months that more APD upset was the result of thin-majority of recently elected white city councilmembers. These lawmakers publicly side with cops angry over Wilson’s demands for reform, accountability and the notion that police should be held to a high standard for their behavior.

Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky took to far-right radion airwaves to call out Wilson as “trash.”

That led to the return of former Aurora police chief Dan Oates, whose 15-minutes of fame

sizzled in a column last year he wrote for the WashingtonPost, arguing that police chiefs need to be able to fire rogue cops when they go rogue.

During the past six months, while Oates was holding the reins of APD, he talked about the need for trust, transparency and accountability.

Oates, however, looked the other way as a prominent police commander, Cassidee Carlson, became embroiled in a sordid episode of violating restraining orders while intervening in a pal’s messy divorce. Then he rebuffed two police boards demanding her discipline. And then he promoted her instead.

He did all that, and he diminished the APD internal affairs unit, and he obliterated the Chief’s Review Board, and neither he nor the city ever said a word to the public about what he’d done. If not for reporters at the Sentinel, the public would never know what Oates did while city administrators and council members stood by and watched.

Last week, the same city leaders didn’t rebuke Oates for secretly altering city police accountability, taking care of an old pal and undermining what little trust and credibility the department has clawed back. They threw him a party.

And, so here we are again. It’s the same city council members who lauded Oates for his fabulous brief tenure. The ones who looked away despite Oates also secretly un-firing a new Aurora officer sacked after being arrested for participating in a drunken brawl off duty, scrapping with the cops who arrested him.

The result is a city where more than half the residents are people of color, afraid that a slim majority of city lawmakers will stand behind their preferred concern about how Aurora cops are treated, and not the racial minorities those cops encounter.

So, welcome to Aurora, Chief Acevedo. Your message about transparency, accountability and showing the entire region that the Aurora Police Department, and every officer who works there, can be trusted to do the right thing is desperately needed and welcome.

Hundreds of thousands of people of color who live, work and shop here are anxious for you to make good on a promise that needs to be fulfilled now.

DAVE PERRY Editor

Aurora’s newly appointed interim police chief Art Acevedo at a press conference Nov. 15, 2022. SENTINEL COLORADO/Philip B. Poston

Awaiting a Trump conviction, the US still must suffer

With little surprise and even less public fanfare, the storied House Jan. 6 committee insisted this week that federal officials bring criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.

Federal law enforcement should not delay in seeking justice for the nation against atrocities committed by Trump and his allies during the 2020 presidential election, and the weeks that followed.

There is no doubt that Americans have grown weary from the barrage of disinformation and propaganda that erupts almost daily from Trump, a virtual army of social media trolls and his cronies at media outlets like Fox News.

The facts of the case against Trump for his fervent ploy to undermine and overturn the 2020 presidential election, and his role in the violent Jan. 6 insurrection, are profound, prolific and indisputable.

The work of the Jan. 6 committee serves as a solid indictment of Trump, not just a review of the facts.

With Trump’s GOP cronies racing toward control of the House, and their high hopes of undermining the solid work of the Jan. 6 committee, Americans now can look only to the nation’s police: The Department of Justice.

The nation can no longer just struggle with The Big Lie, it must end it. Trump was not cheated out of a second term, voters rightfully, overwhelmingly and honestly denied him.

For more than six, grueling years, Trump has been a cancerous disease, leaving the country badly injured.

The nation ran out of superlative insults for Trump even before he was sworn into office and immediately lied about how many people came to cheer that sad and ominous event.

In his wake, Trump left the White House and the greatest nation on Earth staggered. Never has the United States faced such a horrific and destructive foe — from inside the government.

Trump’s relentless mendacity and mediocrity created a stunning catalog of chaos and crime, only part of which was illustrated by the Jan. 6 committee.

In his failed attempt at dictatorship, he left the country unsteady. His allies continue to work to undermine voting rights for millions of Americans in hopes of suppressing the choices of every eligible American.

Even if the Department of Justice charges and convicts Trump for the crimes he committed, the nation must suffer those who’ve sworn their allegiance to him out of choice or out of fear.

In Colorado, Trump enjoys devotees like GOP congresspersons Lauren Boebert, Ken Buck and Doug Lamborn. Beyond being run-of-the-mill GOP Trump sycophants, these lawmakers fought against Trump’s two warranted impeachments and the accountability of the bi-partisan Jan. 6 committee.

Like Trump, these members of Congress passionately believe in gun worship, eliminating women’s reproductive rights, crushing immigrants, isolating the nation, destroying the Affordable Care Act, undermining truth and the free press, risking the planet by ignoring global warming and worst of all, ignoring or promoting The Big Lie.

That’s what Trump leaves behind in his wake of four years of democratic destruction, an atrocity founded on one thing above all: lying.

While theories already abound, we may never know how America came so close to suffering the fate of the Germans and Italians, bamboozled and destroyed by the fascists of the day.

With loud voices in the halls of Congress and across the airwaves, election deniers and Trump sycophants will continue to promote the Trump brand of fascism, even as the nation’s law enforcement seeks to hold him accountable.

Despite weariness from the unending lies and distortions by Trump and his cohorts, Americans must press not only for justice from Trump, but the active political crime scene he leaves behind.

ELWOOD WATSON, CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST

Reaction to Griner release is telling

It sure didn’t take long for right-wing media figures to criticize the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner.

Griner was released on Dec. 8 by the Russian government as part of a negotiated prisoner exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, nicknamed “the merchant of death.” Since the deal was made by the Biden administration, the Right predictably launched a perverse and sinister attack, politically weaponizing her release by employing racist and homophobic language.

Bout had been serving a 25-year sentence in the U.S. for more than a decade. Griner, who landed on U.S. soil at the end of last week, had been detained in Russia for several months – where she’d gone for a professional basketball job during the U.S. offseason – for accusations of possessing hashish oil. She was prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison in August. She was transferred to a Russian penal colony in early November after her appeal against the conviction was rejected.

Right-wing conservatives have brutally attacked Griner throughout her time in Russian custody, focusing on her identity as a Black, queer woman and targeting her previous protests against racial injustice as unpatriotic. Statements such as “America-hating lesbian pothead” and “Black lesbian millionaire athlete who broke the law in a foreign country” have been levied toward Griner.

Large segments of the Right have continued to attack her, as well as denounce President Biden (without evidence) for supposedly prioritizing her release over Paul Whelan – an ex-Marine who has been detained in Russia since 2018 because of spying allegations.

Newsmax host Benny Johnson attacked Griner as a “Black woman, lesbian woman, drug addict, America-hating – woke.”

Fox News host Tucker Carlson baselessly suggested the Biden administration didn’t secure Whelan’s release because he “is a Trump voter and he made the mistake of saying so on social media.” He went on to say Griner “hates the country so much she doesn’t want to hear its anthem. That’s the kind of position that gets you rewarded by Joe Biden.”

Pro-Trump talk radio host Michael Savage purported the same ideas, tweeting, “The choice of Griner over Whelan may reflect the preferences of

Biden’s political base. The WNBA star and celebrity is also a black lesbian, who protested the U.S. national anthem. Whelan is a middle-aged white man and a U.S. Marine.”

Right-wing nonsense notwithstanding, the family of Paul Whalen issued a most professionally honest statement to the media and the larger public:

“There is no greater success than for a wrongful detainee to be freed and for them to go home. The Biden Administration made the right decision to bring Ms. Griner home, and to make the deal that was possible, rather than waiting for one that wasn’t going to happen.”

David Whelan expressed his happiness for Griner, but also acknowledged he has major concerns about his brother.

“I can’t imagine he retains any hope that a government will negotiate his freedom at this point,” Whelan said in a statement. “It’s clear that the US government has no concessions that the Russian government will take for Paul Whelan. And so, Paul will remain a prisoner until that changes.”

The fact is Griner has been unapologetic in promoting her platform to speak on issues that impact people of color. In 2020, she was staunchly critical of about the initial lack of investigation being conducted in the death of Breonna Taylor and was very vocal about the murder of George Floyd.

“We should not play the national anthem during our season,” she told the Arizona Republic at the time. “I think we should take that much of a stand. I don’t mean that in any disrespect to our country.”

Griner explained that her father had fought in Vietnam and served as a law-enforcement officer for 30 years. “I wanted to be a cop before basketball,” she said. “I do have pride for my country.”

Her comments dripped with pride, candor, patriotism, and honesty. It is evident she is a person who loves her nation, but like many others who criticize it, she wants it to live up to the values of fairness and equality that it supposedly professes for all of its citizens

Sad to say, the same cannot be said of her racist and homophobic right-wing critics.

Elwood Watson is a professor of history, Black studies, and gender and sexuality studies at East Tennessee State University. He is also an author and public speaker.

COMMUNITY LEADERS SAY AURORA COUNCILMEMBER MOCKING MEXICANS, MUSLIMS AND OTHERS IN FACEBOOK ADS ‘OFFENSIVE’ AND ‘RACIST’

BY MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer

An Aurora City Councilmember filmed himself imitating Mexicans, Arab Muslims, South Asians and other minority groups as advertisements for his sports bar in 2020, drawing scorn from a spectrum of community leaders.

TheSentinelwas alerted via a confidential tip to the existence of the videos showing Councilmember Steve Sundberg, who was elected in 2021, promoting Legends of Aurora Sports Grill by performing stereotypical impressions of various groups.

Community leaders shown the videos responded with frustration and disappointment, while Sundberg did not respond to multiple requests for comment and a detailed list of questions sent Monday.

“It’s disrespectful, and it’s insulting to our city. Aurora is a very multicultural city. What’s his intent, just to get people to go to his business? That’s not the right way,” said Lucy Molina, a Chicana mother of two and community organizer who works in Aurora.

“I used to run a restaurant and a bar, and I would have never done something like that for bank.” she said. “It’s horrible. It shows so much bad taste. ‘Mal gusto,’ we say.”

Often described as Colorado’s most diverse city, Aurora is home to close to 390,000 people, around 21.2% of whom identify as foreign-born, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. More than a quarter of the city, 29%, identifies as Hispanic or Latino. Around 16.6% of Aurorans are Black, 6.6% are Asian and 10.6% are two or more races.

“Using brash stereotypes of our communities does not respect the many hard working families that live and contribute to Aurora,” said Dilpreet Jammu, a leader in the local Sikh community and executive director of Colorado Sikhs.

“Aurora is one of the most diverse cities in our state, and we value the contributions of all citizens to make this a wonderful and safe place to live.”

Three former Legends employees, who spoke with The Sentinel on the condition of anonymity, said Sundberg came up with the ideas for the videos himself and encouraged workers to take part.

While none recalled Sundberg threatening workers into participating, they said the supervisor-employee relationship between Sundberg and his employees made some feel uncomfortable saying “no.”

Sundberg imitates a variety of accents in the videos while wearing costumes that resemble stereotypical depictions of Mexicans, Arab Muslims and other groups.

In one video, he sits cross-legged on a carpet, dressed in a turban and robe, and brandishes a scimitar after being offered bacon by an employee. He then repeatedly exclaims “haram,” a term referring to behavior prohibited under Islamic law, such as eating pork.

In another video, Sundberg wears a Mexican falsa blanket, folded to look like a poncho, and pretends to be a translator for a kitchen employee, saying in Spanish that the man has “26 girlfriends” and asking if the viewer likes his large “conejos,” which literally means “rabbits.”

Colorado State University associate professor of Spanish Andrea Purdy, who translated the clip for The Sentinel, questioned whether Sundberg instead meant to say the similar word “cojones,” which is Spanish for “testicles.” Sundberg also imitates a Mexican accent throughout the video.

“What is offensive to me about the video is putting in a Latino employee in this situation of seeming to be the person with language dominance and then have the person who owns the business pretend to be a Spanish translator,” Purdy wrote in a follow-up email. “It may be that he thought it was funny, but it has racist overtones nonetheless.”

He imitates a South Asian accent in another video meant to promote the curry sold by Legends as well as in a video promoting the Maharaja IPA produced by Avery Brewing Co.

In another video promoting Legends’ dark lager beer — referred to by its German name, “schwarzbier,” meaning “black beer” — Sundberg imitates a German accent as he performs a skit revolving around the stereotype of Black men having large penises.

The discovery of the videos marks the second time this year that Sundberg’s workplace behavior has been called into question. In October, TheSentinelreported that Sundberg had been investigated for making sexually suggestive comments in the presence of city employees.

In another video, Sundberg dresses as a Viking; jokes about “raping and pillaging season coming up soon;” refers to a woman, apparently a Legends bartender, as a “bar wench;” and asks another if she wants to be his “shield maiden.”

The videos in which Sundberg imitated Arab Muslims, South Asians and Mexicans, and joked about Black men and rape were

posted on the Legends Facebook page in 2020 and remained publicly available as of Monday afternoon.

Community leaders reacted to the videos with anger and disappointment. Iman Jodeh — spokeswoman for the Colorado Muslim Society and who represents the district including Legends in the Colorado House of Representatives — said the videos were “clearly not intended to welcome a diverse population to Sundberg’s establishment.”

Two years ago, Jodeh became the first Muslim elected to Colorado’s General Assembly. The child of Palestinian immigrants and refugees who came to Colorado in the 1970s, she was raised in Aurora and is also the first Palestinian-American to earn a seat in the legislature.

“How can diverse communities trust that our government is working for our best interest when our elected officials use cliche stereotypes to mock our heritage, our religious practices, and our struggles?” Jodeh asked in response to the videos.

“I’m not sure what’s more offensive about this pathetic use of trite, racist tropes: his desperate attempt for financial gain at the expense of marginalized people or his blatant disregard of the impact perpetuating these stereotypes has in a community needing to come together, decrease racial tension, and increase inclusivity when he is an elected official in this city.”

Aurora NAACP president Omar Montgomery said that, beyond the videos, he was additionally disappointed by Sundberg’s involvement in council decisions to eliminate unfilled positions in the city’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and in an office created to monitor the actions of police following the death of Elijah McClain.

Sundberg was the first to suggest that the council cut the city’s diversity office and joined fellow conservatives in supporting the cuts to the internal police monitor during the 2023 budgeting process.

Montgomery said videos like those posted on the Facebook page of Sundberg’s business hindered the city in its goal of building trust with residents of color.

“If he wants to make jokes about diversity and things of this nature, maybe he ought to fund that office so it can do the work of educating our city and our council members that Aurora is a diverse city,” Montgomery said.

“We need to do all we can to increase trust, and some of what the council does continues to drive a wedge between communities of color and the city itself. Commercials like these are not a good way of developing trust.”

Qusair Mohamedbhai — a Denver-based attorney and a member of the South Asian community who has represented high-profile Aurora clients such as the family of Elijah McClain — said he believed Sundberg’s mocking of certain ethnicities could open the door for employees to sue him for creating a hostile work environment.

“That costume with the poncho and everything, that’s like Exhibit A for ‘my boss is a racist,’” Mohamedbhai said. “The fact that he’s trying to advertise his business… I hope it has the exact opposite effect.”

If Sundberg was discriminating against customers on the basis of race, Mohamedbhai warned he would also be running afoul of the state’s public accommodation laws. Mohamedbhai said the videos reminded him of recent debates about the appropriateness of ethnic groups being used as mascots by schools and sports teams.

“It reminds me of that phrase, ‘my culture is not a costume,’” Mohamedbhai said.

Aurora City Councilmember Steve Sundberg imitates an Arabic individual while advertising a meal special at his bar Legends. The bars facebook page is filled with a bevy of cultural appropriation videos. Screengrab from a Facebook video.

Bennet leads suffrage monument bill

Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet co-introduced bipartisan legislation earlier this month that puts a Women’s Suffrage National Monument one step closer to reality.

The legislation ensures that the monument would be located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Along with former Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, Bennet authored a bill in 2019 — 100 years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment — that created the memorial. A special act requires another authorization for the memorial to be located on the Mall.

“It is the land that holds our national memory. And yet, walking the grounds of the National Mall today, you will encounter war memorials and monuments honoring civil rights heroes and past presidents,” Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation Executive Director Anna Laymon said of the two-mile stretch of land between the U.S. Capitol and Lincoln Memorial.

“You will stand in awe of the giants who have earned their place in our national story. But you won’t see women. With the support of Congress, that is all about to change.”

Gardner and Bennet’s legislation two years ago successfully granted Colorado artist Jane DeDecker the ability to install her sculpture “Every Word We Utter,” which commemorates the women who were pivotal in the movement: Susan B.

Anthony, Elizabeth Lady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul, and Ida B. Wells.

“Every word we utter, every act we perform, waft unto innumerable circles beyond. The work of which Stanton spoke is not yet done,”Decker said of her sculpture in 2019. “I believe that ‘Every Word We Utter’ will inspire young women to take action, make their voices heard and continue the movement.

For Bennet, the monument is another symbol in the fight for equality.

“American history has been a struggle between our highest ideals and our worst impulses, and between the promise of equality and the reality of inequality. This bipartisan legislation recognizes and commemorates our nation’s long journey toward securing equality for all,” he said in a statement. “The National Mall has been the site of historic calls for progress, and this monument deserves this most dignified location in both our nation’s capital and our nation’s history.”

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., also co-sponsored the legislation.

— KARA MASON, Sentinel Managing Editor

EDUCATION Seglem replaces Munn in APS

Aurora Public Schools chief of staff Mark Seglem has been nominated to serve as interim superintendent next semester as superintendent Rico Munn prepares to leave the district in a phased exit.

The board of education voted last week to nominate Seglem as interim by a 5-2 vote, with board members Stephanie Mason and Nichelle Ortiz opposed. There was no discussion before the vote. The action item was added to the meeting agenda Monday after the board met in executive session Sunday to receive legal advice on how to proceed with the superintendent search.

The district announced Dec. 2 that Munn would be leaving once his contract expired at the end of June. As part of a transition plan that he presented to the board and that it approved at its last meeting, he will be placed on leave for the spring semester and an interim superintendent will be named while the board searches for his permanent replacement. He will also serve as a contractor for the first semester of the next school year to help the new superintendent.

The board did not name the candidate before the meeting, but Seglem was Munn’s suggestion in the transition plan, which said that he had extensive leadership and management experience and is fa-

miliar with the issues impacting the district.

“His leadership would provide the necessary consistency and stability during a search process,” Munn said. “Moreover, as he does not intend to apply for the superintendent role, his presence will not complicate the search process.”

Seglem has been APS’ chief of staff since 2019. He previously served as an executive in a number of different organizations and is a retired U.S. Navy commander. During his time as a division director in the Department of Defense in the early 2000s, he oversaw a budget of over $100 billion.

The board will have a special meeting on Jan. 3 to officially appoint Seglem to the role.

At the end of the meeting, which was Munn’s last as superintendent, he thanked the district’s students and their families for their support and for allowing him to serve them over the past nine years.

“It’s something that I will never take for granted,” he said.

He described Seglem as “an incredibly steady hand through an insanely difficult time.”

During public comment, a number of people affiliated with local education equity group RISE Colorado spoke to thank Munn for his work at APS and to ask the board to commit to including students and families in the search for his replacement.

Several speakers said they did not understand why Munn would not be seeking to renew his contract and that they wanted the board to be more transparent about what led to that decision.

“I think it is important that we know the cause for the non-renewal of his contract,” said parent Bertha Moran through a Spanish interpreter. “It is also important that we understand the board of education’s vision for the future of our school district.”

Neither Munn or the board have said much about what led to his departure. Last week, Munn told The Sentinel that a “conflict of vision” with the board led to his decision not to seek to continue on once his current contract expires. To read this full story, visit www.sentinelcolorado.com.

— CARINA JULIG, Sentinel Staff Writer

CCSD names mental health center

The mental health day treatment facility Cherry Creek Schools is building will officially be named Traverse Academy following a vote by the district board of education at its meeting last week.

The name was selected out of about 40 suggestions from district community members, contractors and staff at Children’s Hospital Colorado and the University of Colorado School of Medicine, according to board documents, and Traverse was one of five finalists.

“This name is a nod to the four great Traverses in Colorado mountain climbing, representing the obstacles to be overcome to move from one great peak to the next,” board documents said.

The day treatment center will be a partnership between the district and the CU Anschutz department of psychiatry and Children’s Hospital Colorado, which will provide the clinical staff for the facility.

The center is being built with money from a $150 million bond measure approved by voters in 2020, and is expected to cost around $15 million. It is scheduled to open in the fall of 2023 at the district’s Joliet campus.

Built in response to Colorado’s dearth of intensive mental health resources for children and adolescents, the treatment center is believed to be the first of its kind partnership and has drawn national recognition. It was profiled recently in Education Week, a national publication focused on education policy.

A recent article in the Washington Post about schools using telehealth therapy for mental health treatment mentioned Cherry Creek and Aurora Public Schools, which both contracted with the online treatment provider Hazel Health this year for mental health counseling.

It’s possible that APS may be exploring creating its own mental health treatment facility as well. A document outlining potential future projects for the district that Superintendent Rico Munn put together as part of his departure mentions a day treatment center.

Munn told The Sentinel there are no concrete plans to build anything but it’s something the district is exploring as a possibility and if there’s a way it could be funded.

“There’s no secret that there is greater need for day treatment options,” he said.

At Monday’s CCSD board meeting, board member Anne Egan praised the district for its work and thanked voters for approving the bond measure.

“Cherry Creek is leading the way in mental health treatment,” Egan said.

Several speakers during public comment specifically highlighted the importance of mental health resources for LGBTQ students. This was the first meeting since the Nov. 20 shooting at a Colorado Springs gay club that killed five people.

“As a school district, anything we can do to help these children feel safe and included is a matter of life and death,” district parent Andrea Mohamedbhai said.

Lora Lei Berglund, a seventh grade student at Prairie Middle School, cited data from LGBTQ suicide prevention nonprofit the Trevor Project and asked the district to ensure that teachers are trained to be accepting of LGBTQ students.

According to a 2022 survey from the Trevor Project, 45% of LGBTQ seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, and 60% of LGBTQ youth who wanted mental health treatment in the past year were not able to access it.

“Students should feel welcomed at school no matter what,” Berglund said.

Sentinel Staff Writer

METRO

Grant focuses

on vaccine confidence

Parents lined up Wednesday morning along Aurora Central High School’s east parking lot to receive free groceries and other staples at the school’s fall market, part of a series of drives at APS schools in partnership with Aurora Interfaith Community Services.

To the side of carts of produce, the Tri-County Health Department had a booth where employees were distributing free COVID-19 tests and an information sheet about vaccines for kids. Before 10 a.m., all the tests had been taken.

Since the pandemic began, the department has been working with APS to make sure community members have accurate information about the COVID-19 vaccine and know where they can get tested or vaccinated. That work has been strengthened this semester with a grant the district received from the Institute for Educational Leadership in partnership with Kaiser Permanente and the National Association of School Nurses.

The grant is from the institute’s Champions for School Health Vaccination Challenge and focuses on increasing COVID-19 vaccine confidence and improving vaccine equity, according to the organization’s website.

B Lewis, a community schools impact manager at APS, said that in 2020 the district realized that there was a lot of misinformation circulating about the vaccine, and decided to partner with Tri-County to make sure it was consistently delivering accurate and reliable information to students and their families.

Over the summer, the district heard about the grant and applied in the hopes of increasing its outreach to the district’s ACTION Zone schools, which have a high population of immigrant and refugee families.

This semester, Lewis said the district partnered with Tri-County to hold 11 vaccine clinics in the ACTION Zone, where a total of 281 people ended up getting vaccinated, including over 100 people at APS’ back to school kickoff. It also hosted four focus groups for people who speak a primary language other than English, including Spanish, Swahili, Burmese and Nepali.

In the focus groups, healthcare professionals and interpreters had one-on-one conversations with people to answer any questions or concerns they had about the vaccine, Lewis said. In total 87 people participated in the focus groups, and of those 50 were referred to a local clinic after expressing interest in getting vaccinated.

Lewis said the main questions people asked were whether it was still necessary or important to get vaccinated at this point in the pandemic and if the vaccine is safe for children.

“There’s a lot of misinformation out there when it comes to vaccines, especially for kids,” said Jesus Valle, a community outreach worker at Tri-County.

Along with two coworkers, Valle was staffing the booth at Aurora Central, where he spoke to families in English and Spanish.

Valle said the team is more focused on having individual conversations than trying to reach every single person. If they convey accurate information to one family, “that message will spread.”

In total, Lewis said the district will ultimately receive $20,000 to $25,000 from the grant, which it used to print materials and to plug a gap in funding for its family liaisons for special populations department.

“A lot of money went to that gap and to continue their positions,” she said.

Next semester, Lewis said the district will have a partnership with Latino Healthcare to host vaccination clinics in the Action ZONE each month. Though Tri-County is disbanding, she said the district expects to work with many of the same people in the new Adams and Arapahoe health departments. That includes Valle, who will be moving to Arapahoe County Public Health.

“It’s been really nice to consistently work with the same folks and to hear them say they’re still committed to the work and will still be here,” Lewis said.

— CARINA JULIG, Sentinel Staff Writer

Pine Ridge creates ‘sensory hallway’

Each year for the past four years, the Cherry Creek School District has allowed each school in the district to apply for $1,000 wellness grants, which can be used for anything related to student or teacher health and wellness.

In previous years, Pine Ridge Elementary School nurse Jessica Puga had used the grants for mental health resources for kids, yoga mats for students and staff and upgrades to the school’s lactation room.

This year, she decided to do something more out of the box.

The school has a lot of bare walls, and Puga decided to create a sensory hallway along part of the wall leading into the library. With the help of her health liaison, Puga stocked up on materials from JoAnn’s Fabric and set to work.

The wall has been up for about a month and has been a big hit with Pine Ridge’s 700-plus students. It has different textures, including sequins that can be used to draw patterns and write words, and colored tiles that react when you step on them.

Along with the main wall, Puga also created a caterpillar inside the school’s National Park themed library — which she also designed — that has different textures and elements that kids can move around.

“We have a lot of indoor recess in the winters and it’s a place where kids can come and have an outlet,” Puga said. She’s seen some students use the hallway when they get overstimulated by being in a loud classroom and need a couple minute break.

The hallway has been particularly helpful for kids with special needs, she said, who often have more tac-

tile needs. One student with autism Puga works with frequently who was always looking for things he could touch and interact with while in school particularly inspired her to create the wall. So far, she said he seems to love it.

Puga hopes the wall — which gets sprayed down with lysol ever day after school for sanitation — lasts in its current form through the end of the school year. She plans to add onto it over the years, she said. Polton Elementary has a similar project, and Puga said she put together a list of all the materials she bought if other schools in the district want to build their own wall

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Glass acts

HOLIDAY ADVICE FOR HOME BARTENDERS, PLUS 4 FESTIVE COCKTAILS

BY LOUISE DIXON, Associated Press

Looking to create a bit of winter luxury when tending bar at home this holiday season?

London’s top cocktail-makers have some tips.

“Christmas is a special time when you want to join with friends and family. And sometimes, the centerpiece of any happiness is to have a good drink,” says Salvatore Calabrese, an Italian-born drinks expert and author who has been making cocktails at top hotels, bars and private clubs for over 40 years.

Currently at the cocktail bar Velvet, at London’s fivestar Corinthia hotel, Calabrese goes by the nickname “The Maestro.”

And The Maestro’s advice?

First, choose the right glassware.

“The glass is the star. It’s the canvas of the drink,” he says. So if it looks elegant, things already feel festive. Next, think about the quality of the ice and how it dilutes the drink.

“Remember, ice is like the heat for the chef when he is cooking,” Calabrese says.

Cracked ice cubes that disintegrate in your palm are a no-go, as is crushed ice for Christmas. “It’s not a Tiki night,” he jokes. “It is about an elegant night, so make the effort and maybe you can make your own homemade ice.”

Also, he advises, plan. Even prepare your cocktail in advance. Especially when a drink is a little complicated.

“Put it in the freezer or in the fridge, so it’s nice and cold, so the only thing you have to do is to put it in a mixing glass or, to show off, put it in the shaker and shake,” Calabrese says.

Jake Burger, co-owner of The Distillery, a 19th century pub and gin distillery in London’s Notting Hill neighborhood, says that knowing when to shake and when to stir is something a lot of home mixologists get wrong.

“It’s fun using a cocktail shaker, so people think we should shake everything,” he jokes. But it’s only really needed when using fruit juices, egg whites or cream, he says. Otherwise, stirring is best.

“As a general rule, if all the ingredients are alcoholic, you probably don’t need to shake it,” says Burger. “So as an Englishman, it pains me to say it, but James Bond got it wrong. A martini should definitely be stirred, not shaken.”

Liana Oster, bar director at The NoMad Hotel London, suggests adding some seasonal luxury by decorating your glasses. She creates a peppermint-bark paint by melting equal parts cacao butter and white chocolate, with a few drops of peppermint essence added in. She then paints a swirl on one side of a cold glass, sprinkles some crushedup candy cane on it, and then places it in the fridge until needed.

This works particularly well with a heavier cocktail with a lot of body, as at will “mellow it out” on the palate, Oster says.

Alex Girvan, brand ambassador for Masons of Yorkshire, has more ideas on garnishes. For his chocolate orange martini, Girvan explains how he creates simple yet delicious dipped-chocolate candied fruits.

First, dehydrate orange slices by placing them on a baking sheet, sprinkling them with a bit of brown or fine granulated sugar (known in Britain as caster sugar), and

then putting them in the oven on low heat for about an hour, until dried out. Then melt some dark chocolate and dip the slices. Place them in the fridge until hard.

To serve, balance them on the side of the glass.

Girvan also suggests a sharing platter of garnishes, “almost like a charcuterie board.” By laying out rosemary, orange peel and lemon zest on sticks, “everybody can just pick the one that they like and pop it into their drink, and maybe they’ll try something that they’ve never had before,” he says.

“Just make a little effort,” Calabrese sums up, “because really, a great cocktail is a great journey from the beginning.

“And when you taste something nice and delicious, the world seems to be a better place.”

Four cocktail recipes:

WINTERTIME NEGRONI, from The Distillery

1 ounce London Dry Gin

1 ounce Campari

0.5 ounces sweet vermouth

0.5 ounces sloe gin

Mix ingredients together over ice and stir. Serve over fresh ice and garnish with an orange wedge studded with cloves.

SCROOGE SOUR, from Common Decency, at The NoMad Hotel London

1 egg white

0.75 ounces simple syrup

0.75 ounces lemon juice

2 ounces Irish whiskey

Pour the egg white into the larger tin of your shaker, and the simple syrup and lemon juice into the smaller tin. Dry shake together in the shaker to emulsify the egg and the alcohol.

Then hard shake with ice and pour over a strainer into your glass.

Add 0.75 ounces mulled wine slowly into the corner of the glass, and then sprinkle edible gold dust over the half of the surface to cover and garnish.

TRUFFLE SAZERAC, from Velvet, at Corinthia London

0.8 ounces Bourbon

1 ounce Cognac

Homemade truffle syrup (you can make your own by heating a few drops of truffle oil with a teaspoon of sugar)

A few drops of orange bitters

Mix ingredients together over ice and stir. Serve over fresh ice and garnish with a slice of fresh truffle.

MASON’S CHOCOLATE ORANGE MARTINI

2 ounces chocolate vodka

1 ounce triple sec

Mix ingredients together over ice and stir. Serve in a martini glass and garnish with a chocolate-dipped, candied orange segment.

scene & herd

20th Anniversary of Santa’s Big Red Sack at The People’s Building

Dec. 1 through 24 with showtimes varying depending on performance date. 9995 E Colfax Ave, Aurora, CO 80010. Visit rattlebrain.vbotickets. com/events for more information.

Running for 20 years now, Santa’s Big Red Sack has become a mainstay in the canon of holiday events in the metro area. Described as a non-stop sketch comedy experience, it is full of music and technology, offbeat wit and memorable characters. You’ll likely burst at the seams as these players take your run-of-the-mill traditions of the holiday season and transform them into an amalgam of all things silly.

After two decades, you can be confident in the gut-busting entertainment that’s lined up for 24 days at The People’s Building in Aurora. General Admission tickets are available for $15.

Let Us Know All Your scene & herd

Nov. 25 - Jan. 1 Fri-Sun only 5-8:30 p.m. then Nightly starting Dec. 16. Ticket prices vary depending on age. 8500 W Deer Creek Canyon Rd. Littleton, CO 80128. Visit www. botanicgardens.org/events/special-events/trail-lights for more information.

Tis the season for aesthetically pleasing, brightly colored Christmas lights. Chatfield Farms is throwing their hat into the arena for another year. The trail is just under a mile long and features native trees lining the walking path, filled to the limb with strands of lights. An alternative path is also available, offering an abbreviated stroll, as it were. There are a handful of fun features throughout, as well, including a new feature where the amphitheater lights will be programmed to dance with music — there are singing Christmas trees, a children’s play area and a variety of drinks and treats, like hot cocoa and kettle corn.

Starting Dec. 16, Santa will be available to collect all the wishes of your doe eyed children. Those who want to visit with Kris will need to buy an additional ticket for $5.

Denver Christkindlmarket at Civic Center Park

Christmas in Color Lights Show at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds

Nov. 28 through Jan. 1. 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. each night at the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds. Ticket prices vary. Visit https://christmasincolor.net for more information.

Jingle jingle. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, so goes the jaunty holiday tune. In that spirit, you may want to head out to the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds this holiday season and fill your eyes with bright, visually stimulating Christmas lights throughout the fairgrounds.

The light show, which will be synchronized to holiday music and plays through your radio, will feature millions of lights rife for viewing from the comfort of your own vehicle – crank those seat warmers and bring a snack. This holiday activity is the Christmas light car ride of your childhood, but much, much bigger and brighter. And since it runs through year’s end, there is plenty of time to take this fun voyage in east Aurora. Prices vary depending on the selected date.

The Pond Ice Rink at Southlands Mall

Christmas at Gaylord

Rockies

Running until Jan. 1. 6700 N Gaylord Rockies Blvd, Aurora, CO 80019. Visit christmasatgaylordrockies. marriott.com for more information.

If you’ve been to Christmas at Gaylord Rockies in the past, then you know they like to go all out when it comes to their interactive displays. This year is no different, and this hack could argue it is their finest yet. A Charlie Brown Christmas is the theme and Gaylord is coming in hot with ice cold ice sculptures. In the vein of their previous ICE! Show, you can expect towering sculptures carved into our favorite Charles Schultz characters from various scenes of the holiday cartoon.

The Christmas activities don’t stop there either. Throughout the grounds of the hotel, you can take in the more than 3 million lights, ride bumper cars on an ice rink or grab a S’mores kit and get to roasting around the fire with your loved ones.

Whichever you choose, be it one or all, you can be rest assured that there isn’t any shortage of activity if you head out to Gaylord to take part in the festivities.

Running through Dec. 23 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sun. - Weds. and until 9 p.m. Thurs. - Sat. Visit https://www. christkindlmarketdenver.com/ for more information.

This Friday is the last day to visit the authentic German Christmas market, which is back for another year in downtown Denver. For more than 20 years this market has popped up in Denver providing a fun experience and opportunity to scratch gifts from the always growing list of gifts for your friends and family.

Not only are their hand-made knick-knacks and tchotchkes available for purchase, but delicious snacks to munch on as you stroll through the aisles of booths from local artisans.

The Mile High Tree is also situated at the Christkindl Market, so maybe go in the evening to fill your eyes with brightly colored lights. The event is free and open to the public and runs pretty much all day every day of the week until Christmas eve-eve.

Nov. 11 - Feb. 26 with hours varying based on the day. 6155 S Main St, Aurora, CO 80016. Visit www. shopsouthlands.com for more information.

Opening scene… A Charlie Brown Christmas. Now, replace yourself with the ever so graceful Snoopy and glide your way around The Pond, the skating rink located in the town square of Southlands Mall in southeast Aurora. It’s the quintessential holiday activity (even if we aren’t quite getting all that wintery blustery weather forecast just yet), so you’re going to want to do yourself a favor and check the schedule so you can head out east and show your best Kristi Yamaguchi impersonation. Times and admission prices vary.

Preps

Right: Regis Jesuit senior Sophia Frei, center, leaves the wall on her way to winning the 100 yard backstroke at The REX Coaches Invitational girls swim meet on Dec. 19 at the Veterans’ Memorial Aquatic Center.

Below: Grandview’s Paige Dailey waves as she is introduced as one of the finalists for the Hoyt Brawner Award during the Coaches Invitational.

Below middle: Cherokee Trail’s Emme Metzmaker smiles before leading off the 400 yard freestyle relay at the Coaches Invitational.

Bottom: Smoky Hill freshman Mya Noffsinger takes a breath on her way to winning the consolation final of the 200 individual medley at the Coaches Invitational.

Aurora girls swimmers took some of their final strokes ahead of the upcoming winter break The REX (Abelein) Coaches Invitational meet Dec. 16-17.

At the same venue where the Class 5A state championship meet will be decided in a few months — the Veterans’ Memorial Aquatic Center — four city teams finished in the top 12 among the 5A teams that competed in the meet that included teams from multiple classifications.

GIRLS SWIMMING

Regis Jesuit senior Sophia Frei provided the only victory among the swimming events for Aurora programs and her win in the 100 yard backstroke provided a late meet highlight for coach Nick Frasersmith’s Raiders, who scored 673 points to finish behind only winner Cherry Creek (731.50).

The Raiders have started the season strong despite lower numbers in the pool than usual according to Frasersmith.

Grandview also has set the tone for the season with strong performances in dual meets, including a tight victory over Cherokee Trail and a defeat of Arapahoe in Centennial League duals.

Coach Karen Ammon’s Wolves got a boost in the diving competition as sophomore Addison Campbell racked up an 11-dive score of 436.35 points to win the competition. When the swimming had concluded, Grandview also had an event runner-up in Paige Dailey, who finished second in the 100 breaststroke.

Dailey, who clocked a time of 1:03.12 to finish only behind Arapahoe’s Ryan Johnston (1:02.66), also was honored as one of three finalists for the prestigious Hoyt Brawner Award, which is given to the top senior swimmer/scholar/citizen as voted by coaches.

Early waves

BY COURTNEY OAKES Sentinel Colorado

Frei, a University of North Carolina commit, dominated the field in the backstroke with a time of 54.34 seconds, which is faster than her state time of 54.95 at last season’s state meet that earned her NISCA All-American status. Frei also finished third in the 100 butterfly and teamed with fellow senior Sophie Mitsuoka along with junior Charlotte Burnham and sophomore Taylor Hoffman on a second-place 200 medley relay team.

Burnham (an impact transfer from Mullen) and freshman standout Taylor Johannsen each recorded a pair of top-five finishes to help lead Regis Jesuit, which got off to a good start to the meet the previous day in diving. Junior Sarah Mann finished as the event runner-up with a score of 432.60 points, while the Raiders also had the fifth-place finisher in junior Kathryn Jewell and the seventh-place finisher in junior Maya Kriz.

Between relays and individual events, junior Amelia Brown was in the pool for four championship heats for the Wolves as she finished third in 100 freestyle and fifth in the 50 free. Grandview also finished fifth in the 200 free and 400 free relays on its way to 462 points.

Cherokee Trail swam to eighth with a total of 340 points on the strength of a three relays that finished in the top eight. Junior Emme Metzmaker and a trio of freshmen —Jameson Young, Bella Lane and Aria Clouse — finished a city-best third in the 200 freestyle relay for coach Kevin Chatham’s Cougars. The three first-year swimmers scored individually in two events apiece as well.

Freshmen have also made a major splash at Smoky Hill, as the contributions of frosh Cameryn Walkup and Mya Noffsinger helped coach Susan Stone’s team to 12th place. Walkup’s fifth-place finish in the 500 freestyle was the top result for the Buffaloes, while she also scored in another event and helped two relays, as did Noffsinger, who scored in two events as well.

PHOTOS BY COURTNEY OAKES/SENTINEL COLORADO

Preps

WEEK PAST

The week past in Aurroa prep sports

MONDAY, DEC. 19: The Grandview boys basketball team cruised to a 78-43 victory over Basic (of Henderson, Nevada) by the score of 78-43 to open play in the Gatorade Division of the Tarkanian Classic in Las Vegas. Zane Cole (14 points), Breven Anderson (13) and Gallagher Placide (12) led Wolves. ...The Grandview girls basketball team also picked up an out of state victory as it topped Canyon (Calif.) 46-32 in its first game in the Dan Division of the Nike Tournament of Champions in Phoenix. ...The Vista PEAK girls basketball team christened play in the Sapphire Division of the Tarkanian Classic in Las Vegas with a 54-30 victory over Foothills (Nevada). ...SATURDAY, DEC. 17: For the second straight season, Eaglecrest’s Blythe Cayko won a championship at the Reno Tournament of Champions girls wrestling tournament, as she ruled the 185-pound bracket at the national gathering. Cayko went in as the No. 2 seed and pinned two opponents in the first period to make the final against top-seeded Reece Woods of Idaho, who she pinned in 1 minute, 12 seconds. Teammate Chasey Karabell finished as the runner-up at 100 pounds as she upset the No. 1 seed in the quarterfinals before she lost by technical fall in the finals to Grace Romans of Texas. The Raptors finished fifth out of 43 scoring teams. ...Adonias Cantu earned sixth place at 106 pounds for the Eaglecrest boys wrestling team at the Reno Tournament of Champions as he won his first three matches, rebounded from a semifinal loss and earned his way to the fifth-place match. The Raptors finished 56th in the team standings, while Grandview took top honors with a tie for 44th place though no wrestlers placed. ...Regis Jesuit’s Garrett Reece won the 138-pound bracket at the Northern Colorado Christmas Classic boys wrestling tournament to help the Raiders (who also got a fifth-place finish from heavyweight Dirk Morley) to 20th-place in the team standings. Jay Everhart grabbed seventh place at 113 pounds for Cherokee Trail, which finished in 30th place. ...Three Aurora teams (Vista PEAK, Regis Jesuit and Overland) competed at the Northern Colorado Christmas Classic girls wrestling tournament and earned a combined handful of places. The highest places among locals were runner-up results for Regis Jesuit’s Alexis Segura at 125 pounds and Vista PEAK’s Leilani Camaal at 155 pounds. The Bison, who were 15th out of 54 scoring teams, also had place-winning performances from Jayden Abreo (3rd at 140) and Amelia Bacon (6th at 120), while Overland’s lone placer was Vianca Mendoza, who was sixth at 125 pounds. ...The Vista PEAK boys basketball team rolled past previously undefeated Eagle Ridge Academy 73-57 on the road in a game in which 10 different players contributed

points. Carson McDonald’s 18 points led the way, while Nasir Mills had 11 and Kyree Polk 10. ...A three-goal second period helped propel the Cherry Creek co-op ice hockey team past Ralston Valley 4-3 at Family Sports Center. Ayden Schmidt (Cherokee Trail) had a goal and an assists, while James Lembke (Grandview), Alexsei Suchkov and Dominic Suchkov also scored for the Bruins. ...The Eaglecrest boys basketball team finished in fourth place at the Cherry Creek Holiday Classic with a 67-45 loss to host Cherry Creek. Garrett Barger had his third double-digit effort of the tournament with 12 points. Rangeview finished in sixth after a 50-32 loss to Rocky Mountain. ...The Cherokee Trail boys basketball team ended up fourth in the Charger Challenge with a 70-68 double-overtime loss to host Chatfield. A handful of Cougars reached double figures in Michael Steinbrinck (15 points), plus Cade Brook, Keean Lloyd and Alonzo Rodgers (all with 12) and David Behrendt (10). ...Jamaea Johnson-Gonzalez (23 points) and Alayna McClain (19) alone outscored the Far Northeast Warriors in the Aurora Central girls basketball team’s 61-35 victory.

FRIDAY, DEC. 16: The Grandview boys basketball team controlled the key parts of the fourth quarter on its way to a 69-61 road win at Regis Jesuit in a high-energy battle of nearby Aurora schools. Simon Kibbee and Gavin Placide had 15 points apiece to lead the Wolves, while Joe Dorais made six 3-pointers on his way to a game-high 24 points and TaRea Fulcher added 20 for the Raiders. ...The Eaglecrest boys basketball team saw a double-digit lead disappear in a 71-65 loss to Mountain Vista in a championship semifinal at the Cherry Creek Holiday Classic. LaDavian King finished with 30 points, while Garrett Barger added 15 and Joshua Ray 10

for the Raptors, who moved into the third-place game. ...Michael Manville scored five goals, Carter Schick had five assists and Ian Beck lit the lamp and dished out three assists in the Regis Jesuit ice hockey team’s 7-1 win over Resurrection Christian. ...The Rangeview boys basketball team picked up a win in the consolation semifinals of the Cherry Creek Holiday Classic with a 64-47 victory over Fairview. Mareon Chapman tallied 18 points, DeMarco Duncan 14 and Khiem Davison 11 for the Raiders. ...The Cherokee Trail boys basketball team lost to Arvada West 57-56 in double overtime in a championship sermifinal of the Charger Challenge at Chatfield. Keean Lloyd had 15 points, Amari Chandler 14 and Alonzo Rodgers 12 for the Cougars. ...Chanin Jenings (Cherokee Trail) had a goal and two assists to help the Cherry Creek co-op ice hockey team to a 6-1 victory over Summit at Family Sports Center. ...Siraaj Ali was the lone player from the Overland boys basketball team in double figures as he scored 16 points in the Trailblazers’ 70-47 loss at Rock Canyon. ...The Vista PEAK boys wrestling team dropped a 40-39 dual match to Chatfield despite seven victories, including consecutive wins by fall from Jason Leadens, Ezekiel Taylor, Oscar Valdez and Joseph Maes Zachary Lee and Carlos Robles also had pins and Jorge Hernandez-Garcia won by decision. ...The Vista PEAK girls basketball team fell to Arvada West 62-45 in non-league play as Amirah Pena (14 points) and Ashlyn Stapleton (11) reached double figures. ...The Hinkley girls basketball team got a 22-point effort from Emma Josephson and 10 more from Karen Peprah in a 48-23 win over KIPP Denver Collegiate. ...THURSDAY, DEC. 15: The Regis Jesuit boys basketball team went on the road and came away with a 70-66 victory at Valor

Christian in a game fueled by TaRea Fulcher’s 24-point effort. Cole Records contributed 13 points and Damarius Taylor 11 for the Raiders. ...Four Smoky Hill boys basketball players scored in double figures in an 88-72 home victory over Pueblo South. Rickey Mitchell scored 23 points to pace the Buffaloes, while Carter Basquez contributed 16, Lorenzo Contreras 13 and Torian Gasaway 12. ...The Cherokee Trail boys basketball team opened the Charger Challenge at Chatfield with its first win of the season as it downed Heritage 61-51. Keean Lloyd poured in 26 points and Alonzo Rodgers added 12. ...Garrett Barger racked up 23 points and DeAndre Brown 20 as the Eaglecrest boys basketball team earned a 69-55 victory over Rocky Mountain to open the Cherry Creek Holiday Classic tournament. ...Nine Eaglecrest girls basketball players got in the scoring column in a 70-22 road victory at Brighton that saw Shyann Farbes take team-high honors with 17 points. Brooklyn Bickerstaff chipped in 12 points, Anjolene Ramiro 11 and Laci Roffle 10. ...Despite double-digit efforts from Hana Belibi (15 points), Coryn Watts (14) and Iliana Green (13), the Regis Jesuit girls basketball team couldn’t quite keep pace with Valor Christian in a 61-54 road loss. ...Charlegh Reeves tallied 20 points to pace the Gateway girls basketball team past DSST Green Valley Ranch 68-23. Iyana Faraji went for 14 points and Samari Williams 10 in the winning effort for the Olys. ...The Grandview girls swim team won all 12 events in a 138-37 Centennial League dual victory over Mullen. Caroline Payne, Baylie Renner, Keira Vail, Amelia Brown, Kateryna Fajda, Becky Hildebrand, Kya Guikema, Megan Doubrava and diver Addison Campbell all won events.

...The Cherokee Trail girls swim team got two wins from Jameson

Young and Sarah Woren and others from Sage Trusler, Morgan Walker, Emma Metzmaker and Aria Clouse plus a relay sweep in a 147-42 Centennial League win over Eaglecrest. The Raptors’ win came in the diving competition from Taylor Browning Pilot Horst claimed the 50 yard freestyle and finished second in the 100 freestyle for the Overland girls swim team in its 141-21 Centennial League loss to a lower level Cherry Creek team at Utah Park. ...

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 14: Sparked by a 16-7 advantage in the third quarter, the Rangeview girls basketball team downed visiting Broomfield 53-47. D’Ajha Horton tallied 13 points, Zane Bullock and Danielle Washington added 12 apiece and Jenesse Byrd scored 11. Hamza Mursal (19 points), Johnathan Lyons (12) and Jaleel Dixon (11) scored in double figures for the Overland boys basketball team, which dropped an 83-63 home contest to ThunderRidge. ...Dashawn Jenkins (113 pounds), Zach Majernik (138), Zach Brophy (190) and Elijah Villegas (215) won by fall and Jacob Castellano earned a decision at 144 pounds as the Smoky Hill boys wrestling team battled Arapahoe before it dropped a 46-33 Centennial League dual. ...TUESDAY, DEC. 13: The Smoky Hill boys basketball team earned a large 71-68 road win at Valor Christian behind a 40-point effort from Rickey Mitchell. ...The Eaglecrest girls basketball team downed visiting Vista PEAK 52-23. Laci Roffle (16 points) and Shyann Farbes (13) scored in double figures for the Raptors, while. Eianna Jackson topped the Bison with eight. ...The Grandview girls basketball team got another 22-point effort from Sienna Betts and won 49-37 at Fort Collins. ...Destiny Moore got the Overland girls basketball team off to a fast start in a 55-21 home win over Englewood.

Left: Smoky Hill’s Rickey Mitchell (1) skies to finish a lob during the Buffaloes’ 88-72 win over Pueblo South Dec. 15. Top: Overland’s Destiny Moore, left, scores an inside basket in the Trailblazers’ 55-21 win over Englewood Dec. 13 at Overland High School.

Above: Eaglecrest’s Peyton Taylor (3) rises for a layup during the Raptors’ loss to Mountain Vista at the Cherry Creek Holiday Classic. Dec. 16. (Photos by Courtney Oakes/Sentinel Colorado)

Big need. No sympathy.

BY KARA MASON, Sentinel Managing Editor

For months, Liz Watts has been searching for a new Aurora location for the food pantry she started just before the pandemic began in 2020.

Her wish list is relatively short: air conditioning, adequate parking and a ground level entrance for shoppers who are elderly or disabled.

“You’d be surprised how hard that is to find. But, you know, the biggest bar to clear is the discrimination. That is my biggest problem,” she said in October, after looking for six months. “Once people hear what I do it’s, ‘Oh, no, we don’t want your kind of business in this complex.’ That’s what they say. They don’t even try to hide it.”

Watts formed Food Connect Colorado just before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. She had visions of a “client choice” operation, which looks much like a normal grocery store. Those in need of food could stop in, grab a basket and pick up pantry items, fresh produce, meat, bread and more.

Liz Watts looks into the storage unit that houses all of the shelving and other required equipment necessary for running a food pantry, Dec. 16, at the Public Storage off of I-225. Watts is currently struggling to find a new location due to a reluctance of property owners willing to offer a lease as a result of the stigma of clientele that frequent food pantries.

That all changed in March 2020 when nearly all food pantries switched to drive–thrus to curb spreading the respiratory virus.

Instead of stocking shelves at a shop, Watts and a group of volunteers would put together boxes of food for people in

need, and there were a lot of people in need, she said, especially when layoffs started.

One day each week, from May through November 2020, Watts and her crew would hand out 144 boxes of food at Del Mar Park in central Aurora.

“That was the limit our truck could hold. And those 144 boxes were usually gone in an hour and fifteen minutes…We almost always ran out before we could serve everyone (in the line.) Some people couldn’t come then, they’d have work or kids at school or something. They couldn’t come until like 3:30 p.m. or 4 p.m. And they’d show up and everything would be gone. We’d turn people away every week. Every week.”

When pandemic restrictions waned and Watts and her volunteers were forced from the parking lot, the pantry was moved into a warehouse on Airport Boulevard in eastern Aurora. Each Thursday, the pantry opened and served about 48 households.

The people Food Connect Colorado served were moms and dads, grandparents, people barely surviving on government assistance. Some were disabled. Mostly all of them worked. They were thankful for the resource, Watts said, especially when they also had to divert most of their income to the rising cost

Photo by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado

Food pantry operator says she can’t find a home for local project despite increased need

of housing, healthcare, and often childcare.

But that’s not the clientele most leasing agents Watts has met with envision when they learn she is looking for a space for a food pantry, even as she presents data about the people who were visiting the pantry, a quarter of them households with schoolaged children.

“They just didn’t want to hear it. They’ve already got in their mind this image of the derelict druggie,” she said. “It’s not those people at all…They’re not sitting around at home and coming in and getting their free food.”

Building or complex representatives expressed worries over having more homeless people on the premises too, though Watts would explain that wasn’t really who was seeking out food pantries.

“Homeless people can’t cook. In all of my food banking years we would occasionally get a homeless person, but it’s not really helpful to them. They have no place to cook,” she said. “Our first question was, ‘Do you have a can opener?’ Because if you don’t, you can’t even open a can of fruit. None of them have any sort of heating or cooking. They can maybe sneak into the 7 Eleven and heat something in the microwave.”

Hunger Free Colorado estimated in 2021 that one in three Coloradans lack access to nutritional food. That statistic was down compared to the height of the pandemic, but the organization says it’s still a historical high for the state. Households with children face even higher levels of hunger, 44% struggle with access to food.

Between Adams and Arapahoe counties, according to non-profit Feeding America, a little more than 100,000 people are considered food insecure.

Hunger Free Colorado has been working with state lawmakers since 2018 to fund the Food Pantry Assistance Grant program, which Watts took advantage of during the pandemic. The goal of the grant is to provide pantries with healthier options: “high-quality fresh produce, meat, and dairy, ideally from Colorado-based producers.”

In 2020, with the arrival of pandemic federal aid dollars, the legislature removed a $20,000 cap on individual grants and a requirement that purchased food had to be certified Colorado Proud. More importantly to Watts, the bill allowed 20% of funds to be used on indirect expenses, double what the grant normally permits.

Dana Wood, who works with the Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger to distribute the funds approved by the state legislature each year, told the Sentinel nutritious food is in high demand, especially in communities where it’s more difficult to access.

“This funding makes a huge impact...I’m hearing from food pantries that their numbers are only increasing. More people are coming, with inflation being re-

ally high. I think now we’re starting to hear about layoffs in organizations. There’s just an overall food supply chain issue. So all of those things converge,” she said. “(Pantries) are not able to keep up. They’re still seeing really high numbers, and wanting to provide really high quality, nutritious foods that are hard to get because of either cost or because they’re just not available.”

Getting food is the least of Watts’ worries, however. There’s more than enough from local grocers and Food Bank of the Rockies to supply a pantry, Watts said. Without pantries, perfectly fine food is dumped in the garbage at the end of the day.

“It’s crazy that it’s all here, and all I have to do is come and get it and put it where people can come and get it. That’s basically what food insecurity is. It’s a logistical problem,” she said.

More than anything, she needs money for operating expenses.

“I need money for rent, utilities, and refrigeration. That’s what you can’t afford and that’s what most of us food banks need money for, because most of (us) are operating on a shoestring,” Watts said.

Providing grant opportunities for those sorts of expenses isn’t as easy.

“It’s a little more difficult to find funders that will fund people, and transportation and storage, things that aren’t as exciting to fund but are actually a really needed resource in order to keep up with demand,” Wood said. “I’m hearing both, that people still need money for food, because they’re seeing lots of people, and they want nutritious food. But they also want to pay folks for their time. Things break down. They need to pay for repairs on refrigeration. They need to pay rent and utilities, so I definitely am hearing more of that need.”

Last July, when Watts moved into the Airport Boulevard location the rent was $1,880 per month. Renewing came with a $500 monthly increase, which didn’t seem practical for a location that was extremely hot during the summer, had little parking and wasn’t very accessible for seniors or people with disabilities.

Her search for a new location has led Watts to shopping centers, meetings with local government officials, town halls, and almost a spot on the Community College of Aurora’s Lowry Campus, but a technicality of the land being federally owned meant it can only be used for educational purposes. Three months of planning and excitement ended abruptly.

Watts sees Food Connect Colorado as a way to help people from facing even more dire situations, like eviction — which can throw people into a vicious loop of hardship that’s nearly impossible to escape — or forgoing important medication or medical attention.

“Coming to us made all the difference in the world, because if they got their groceries from us they could use their money, their disability or Social Security to

pay the rent, or buy their medicine,” she said. “These people are all living on the edge. They’re just hanging on by their fingernails.”

City of Aurora staff and lawmakers have talked often over the last several years about measures that keep people from becoming homeless, such as rental assistance, but funding food pantries isn’t a “core service” despite there being pockets of food insecurity throughout the city, Aurora Director of Housing and Community Services Jessica Prossner said. The city has provided some food pantry funding, especially during the pandemic.

There isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution, either. While some people need prepared food, like Meals on Wheels, others just need help accessing it.

“Sometimes a very large food pantry is not as meaningful as other services where people are already gathered” such as a church, she said.

Watts has sought out help from city staff and her own coun-

cilmember, but it’s done little to help secure a location for the pantry.

“It’s just not something the private sector is willing or able to take over,” Aurora City Councilmember Juan Marcano said. “It’s also happening with housing, healthcare and more. I would like to see us tackling this issue with public investment.”

In the meantime, Watts is still searching.

“I keep looking, but a lot of these places that I’ve looked at, I’ve already called and they’ve told me no,” she said earlier this month.

Ideally, she wants to operate the pantry in Aurora, where she lives and sees a need. But she’s considered looking outside city limits, maybe in Denver’s Montbello neighborhood or near Glendale.

“I’m so desperate,” she said. “I’m thinking of posting on NextDoor. That’s when you know you’re desperate.”

A storage unit just west of I-225 is filled to the brim with the shelves and refrigerators that used to serve Food Connect Colorado. The food pantry was forced to adjust and eventually close at the onset of the pandemic. Photos by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado

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Principal Yvonne Jackson praised Puga for always coming up with creative ideas for the school.

The wall is a big hit with kids, she said, and the sequins seem to be their favorite part. Whenever she walks students back to class and they pass the wall, they always stop.

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Judged dismissed Club Q shooter concerns

A judge dismissed the 2021 kidnapping case against the Colorado gay nightclub shooter even though she had previously raised concerns about the defendant stockpiling weapons and explosives and planning a shootout, court transcripts obtained Friday by The Associated Press reveal.

Relatives, including the grandparents who claimed to have been kidnapped, had also told Judge Robin Chittum in August last year about Anderson Aldrich’s struggles with mental illness during a hearing at which the judge said Aldrich needed treatment or “it’s going to be so bad,” according to the documents.

Yet no mention was made during a hearing this July of the suspect’s violent behavior or the status of any mental health treatment.

And Chittum, who had received a letter late last year from relatives of Aldrich’s grandparents warning

the suspect was certain to commit murder if freed, granted a defense attorney’s motion to dismiss the case as a trial deadline loomed and the grandparents had stopped cooperating.

The revelation that Chittum regarded the defendant as a potentially serious threat adds to the advance warnings authorities are known to have had about Aldrich’s increasingly violent behavior and it raises more questions about whether the recent mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs could have been prevented.

Five people were killed and 17 wounded in the Nov. 19 attack. Aldrich was charged last week with 305 criminal counts, including hate crimes and murder. Aldrich’s public defender has declined to talk about the case, and investigators have not released a motive.

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said transcripts of court hearings in the case confirmed his view that “more could have been done to prevent the violence.”

Dershowitz acknowledged that he didn’t know every detail in front of Chittum during the hearings but said that while judges are typically supposed to be umpires, “judges are usually more aggressive in cases like this, when the handwriting is on the wall.”

In many cases, Dershowitz said, prosecutors can overreach to get a conviction, but “here, you have the legal system failing.”

Chittum’s comments in Aldrich’s

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kidnapping case had previously been under a court seal that was lifted last week at the request of prosecutors and news organizations including the AP. Chittum’s assistant, Chad Dees, said Friday that the judge declined to comment.

“You clearly have been planning for something else,” Chittum told Aldrich during the August 2021 hearing, after the defendant testified about an affinity for shooting firearms and a history of mental health problems.

“It didn’t have to do with your grandma and grandpa. It was saving all these firearms and trying to make this bomb, and making statements about other people being involved in some sort of shootout and a huge thing. And then that’s kind of what it turned into,” the judge said.

Aldrich — whose defense lawyers say is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns — spoke to Chittum in court that day about repeated abuse as a young child by their father and longtime struggles with severe post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder, the transcript shows.

(The vast majority of people with mental illnesses are not violent, studies show, and experts say most people who are violent do not have mental illnesses. Additionally, nonbinary people and advocates warn against making assumptions about people with nontraditional gender identities.) To read this full story, visit www.sentinelcolorado.com. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

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COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0488-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On September 16, 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)

Zachary Vaught

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

July 27, 2020

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 03, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

E0097586

Original Principal Amount

$201,286.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$198,275.78

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

CONDOMINIUM UNIT NO. B, BUILDING NO. 40, EMBARCADERO IN WILLOWRIDGE CONDOMINIUMS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECLARATION RECORDED ON JULY 14, 1982 IN BOOK 3661 AT PAGE 145, SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO THE DECLARATIONS RECORDED ON DECEMBER 14, 1982 IN BOOK 3755 AT PAGE 224, THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED ON JULY 14, 1982 IN BOOK 57 AT PAGE 40 AND THE SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED ON DECEMBER 14, 1982 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 2229235, OF THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY RECORDS, TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE FOLLOWING LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS: GARAGE SPACE NUMBER B40; COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 12594 E PACIFIC CIR UNIT B, 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, 01/18/2023, 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 11/24/2022

Last Publication 12/22/2022

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: 09/16/2022

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 # 22-027475

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. 0508-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described

Deed of Trust:

On September 30, 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 R STOLTZ

Original Beneficiary(ies)

ABN AMRO MORTGAGE GROUP, INC.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, as Trustee for the benefit of the Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust, Series 2019-4

Date of Deed of Trust

December 30, 2003

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

January 23, 2004

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) B4015049

Original Principal Amount $196,000.00

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.

LOT 2, BLOCK 4, VILLAGE EAST UNIT 2, 8TH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 11671 E COLORADO DR, 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, 02/01/2023, 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 12/8/2022

Last Publication 1/5/2023

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: 09/30/2022

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 # 00000009561960

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. 0522-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On October 7, 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)

George Kofa

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for USAA Federal Savings Bank, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

June 11, 2018

County of Recording

Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust

June 13, 2018

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

D8057295

Original Principal Amount

$325,395.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$293,553.66

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 16, BLOCK 5, HIGHPOINT SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 10, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 4274 S Fundy Way, 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, 02/08/2023, 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 12/15/2022

Last Publication 1/12/2023

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: 10/07/2022

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 # CO-20014

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. 0535-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On October 14, 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)

David H. Fikes and Meghan E. Seabury

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Freedom Mortgage Corporation, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Freedom Mortgage Corporation

Date of Deed of Trust

December 11, 2019

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

December 18, 2019

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

D9139252

Original Principal Amount

$385,241.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$371,635.29

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 3, Block 8, Stratus at Eagle Bend Subdivision filing No. 1, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 7611 South Yakima Ct, Aurora, CO 80016. 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, 02/15/2023, 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 12/22/2022

Last Publication 1/19/2023

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: 10/14/2022

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 # CO11900

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 NOTICEMAILING CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0514-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On September 30, 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)

Hyun Jun AND Margarita Falcon 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

October 31, 2018

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

November 01, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

D8108118

Original Principal Amount $164,900.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $157,357.18

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

CONDOMINIUM UNIT NO. 37, BUILDING C, BERKSHIRE PLACE CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED MAP THEREOF, AND ACCORDING AND SUBJECT TO THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR BERKSHIRE PLACE CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED IN BOOK 2162 AT PAGE 698 OF THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY RECORDS, AND ANY APPLICABLE SUPPLEMENTS OR AMENDMENTS THERETO, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN: 1975-05-2-08-031

Also known by street and number as: 15777 E 13Th Place, 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, 02/01/2023, 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 12/8/2022

Last Publication 1/5/2023

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YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS SHALL BE SENT WITH ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES.

A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO SECTION 38-38-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED; A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO SECTION 38-38302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE NO LATER THAN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS AFTER THE SALE;

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, 02/01/2023, 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 12/8/2022

Last Publication 1/5/2023

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: 09/30/2022

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 # 22-028468

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

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PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0516-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On October 4, 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)

Aurelio Emanuel Herrera Bustillos AND Myah G Anderson

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR SYNERGY ONE LENDING, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

August 24, 2020

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 27, 2020

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

E0111850

Original Principal Amount

$335,805.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$324,606.23

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 SOUTH 2 FEET OF LOT 11, ALL OF LOTS 12 AND 13, BLOCK 5, COLFAX VILLA RESUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 1973-03-4-04-006

Also known by street and number as: 1056 Fulton Street, Aurora, CO 80010-3920. 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, 02/01/2023, 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.

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: 10/04/2022

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 # 22-028453

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.

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CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0517-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On October 4, 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) SEAN BRISTOL

Original Beneficiary(ies) WEINBERG SERVICING, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

WEINBERG SERVICING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

February 23, 2022 County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

February 25, 2022

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

E2022501

Original Principal Amount $150,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $150,000.00 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. PLEASE SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO. EXHIBIT “A” TO NOTICE OF ELECTION AND DEMAND FOR SALE BY PUBLIC TRUSTEE

Public Trustee Sale No. 0517-2022

Legal Description of Property Condominium Unit 104 in Condominium Building 3, MEADOW HILLS V CONDOMINIUMS, according to the Condominium Map thereof recorded July 15, 1997 under Reception No. A7085717 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, Colorado, and as defined and described in the Condominium Declaration for Meadow Hills V Condominiums, recorded July 14, 1997 under Reception No. A7084595 in said records, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. Property address (for information only): 4035 South Dillon Way, Unit 104 Aurora, CO 80014

Also known by street and number as: 4035 SOUTH DILLON WAY, UNIT 104, 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, 02/01/2023, 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 12/8/2022

attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Amy K. Hunt #37160

Timmins LLC 450 East 17th Avenue, Suite 210, Denver, CO 80203 (303) 592-4500

Attorney File # 4035 SOUTH DILLON WAY

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. 0521-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On October 4, 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) SHAWN POOLE AND RACHEL WILLIAMS

Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

December 15, 2017

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

December 19, 2017

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

D7142312

Original Principal Amount

$368,207.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$338,566.47

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 30, BLOCK 7, BRIARWOOD SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 2893 S. SALIDA COURT, 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, 02/01/2023, 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 12/8/2022

Last Publication 1/5/2023

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: 10/04/2022

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 # 00000009607888

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. 0524-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On October 7, 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)

David Kemerer

Original Beneficiary(ies)

St Convin, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt D&E, LLC Date of Deed of Trust

April 06, 2022

County of Recording

Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 07, 2022

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

E2039304

Original Principal Amount

$35,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$35,000.00

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 104, Block 1, The Dam Filing No. 5 County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado Also known by street and number as: 13062 East Amherst Avenue, Aurora, CO 80014-3433.

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, 02/08/2023, 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 12/15/2022

Last Publication 1/12/2023

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: 10/07/2022

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:

Alanna Boswell #51175

Jean C. Arnold #13126

Arnold & Arnold, LLP 7691 Shaffer Parkway, Suite A, Littleton, CO 80127 (720) 962-6010

Attorney File # 13062 EAST AMHERST

AVENUE

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. 0530-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On October 11, 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)

SEAN MCCLAY

Original Beneficiary(ies)

COST FUND 1, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

COST FUND 1, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

March 01, 2022

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

March 02, 2022

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

E2024246

Original Principal Amount $509,600.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $509,600.00

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 45, ARAPAHOE HEIGHTS, SECOND FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 7441 SOUTH ODESSA CIRCLE, CENTENNIAL, CO 80016. 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 De-

mand 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, 02/08/2023, 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 12/15/2022

Last Publication 1/12/2023

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: 10/11/2022

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:

Robert T. Cosgrove #12217

Burns, Wall and Mueller, P.C. 303 East 17th Avenue, #920, Denver, CO 80203-1299 (303) 830-7000

Attorney File # 7441 SOUTH ODESSA

CIRCLE

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. 0531-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On October 11, 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)

GREGORY NELSON

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR FCF SERVICES INC.

DBA FIRST CHOICE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION

Date of Deed of Trust

April 21, 2009

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

May 04, 2009

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

B9045250

Original Principal Amount

$195,395.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$156,333.64

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.

LOT 9, BLOCK 1, VILLAGE EAST UNIT 3, 1ST FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 1485 S. KINGSTON STREET, 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, 02/08/2023, 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 12/15/2022

Last Publication 1/12/2023

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: 10/11/2022

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 # 00000009626813

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. 0532-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On October 11, 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)

Beatriz Adriana Avila Lopez AND Gerardo

Avila Lopez

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR HOMEAMERICAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND AS-

SIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION

Date of Deed of Trust

December 09, 2016

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

December 14, 2016

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

D6144204

Original Principal Amount

$381,058.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$379,827.28

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 6, BLOCK 3, TRADITIONS SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 4, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

APN #: 1977-08-3-04-003

Also known by street and number as: 42 N Jackson Gap Way, Aurora, CO 80018.

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, 02/08/2023, 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 12/15/2022

Last Publication 1/12/2023

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: 10/11/2022

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 Winecki #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 # 22-028581

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

CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2022-74

FOR AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, REZONING A PARCEL OF LAND MEASURING 22-ACRES, MORE OR LESS, AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF 6TH AVENUE AND AIRPORT BOULEVARD FROM MIXED-USE CORRIDOR ZONE DISTRICT (MU-C) TO BUSINESS/TECH ZONE DISTRICT (I-1) AND AMENDING THE ZONING MAP ACCORDINGLY (6TH AVENUE AND AIRPORT BOULEVARD ZONING MAP AMENDMENT)

Ordinance 2022-74 was finally passed at the December 19, 2022, regular meeting of the City Council and will take effect on January 21, 2023. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https://www.auroragov.org/city_hall/ public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_

notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: December 22, 2022

Sentinel CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2022-75

FOR AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, AMENDING CHAPTER 146 OF THE CITY CODE TO CREATE A DEFINITION FOR DATA CENTERS AND TO ALLOW DATA CENTERS AS A CONDITIONAL AND PERMITTED USE IN INDIVIDUAL INDUSTRIAL ZONING DISTRICTS

Ordinance 2022-75 was finally passed at the December 19, 2022, regular meeting of the City Council and will take effect on January 21, 2023. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https://www.auroragov.org/city_hall/ public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_

notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: December 22, 2022

Sentinel

CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO

Ordinance 2022-76

AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE AND SALE BY THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, ACTING BY AND THROUGH ITS UTILITY ENTERPRISE, OF FIRST-LIEN SEWER REVENUE BONDS (PIPELINE / INTERCEPTOR PROJECT), SERIES 2023, IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $46,000,000, FOR THE PURPOSE OF FINANCING, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, THE COST OF ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SEWER SYSTEM OPERATED BY THE UTILITY ENTERPRISE, PLEDGING CERTAIN FUNDS AND REVENUES OF THE ENTERPRISE TO THE PAYMENT OF SUCH BONDS, PRESCRIBING THE FORM OF SUCH BONDS, AND PROVIDING OTHER DETAILS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH Ordinance 2022-76, which was introduced on December 19, 2022, will be presented for final passage at the January 09, 2023, regular meeting of the City Council. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https://www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: December 22, 2022

Sentinel

CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO

Ordinance 2022-77

FOR AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, REPEALING ARTICLE V “EMPLOYER OCCUPATIONAL PRIVILEGE TAX” AND ARTICLE VI “EMPLOYEE OCCUPATIONAL PRIVILEGE TAX” OF CHAPTER 130 OF THE CITY CODE OF THE CITY OF AURORA, AND OTHER RELATED MATTERS

Ordinance 2022-77, which was introduced on December 19, 2022, will be presented for final passage at the January 09, 2023, regular meeting of the City Council. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https://www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: December 22, 2022 Sentinel

64TH AVE. ARI AUTHORITY NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 64th Ave. ARI Authority (the “Authority”) of Adams County, Colorado, will make final payment at the offices of Simmons & Wheeler, P.C., 304 Inverness Way South, Suite 490, Englewood, CO 80112, at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, January 9, 2023, to:

Dynaelectric Company, Inc.

345 Sheridan Boulevard Lakewood, Colorado 80226

for all work done by said Contractors for the East 64th Ave. Lighting Package, all of said work being within or near the boundaries of the 64th Ave. ARI Authority, in Adams County, State of Colorado.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, provisions, team hire, sustenance provender or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done and whose claim therefore has not been paid by the Contractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a written verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim, Attn: Ann E. Finn, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado, 80228, with a copy to MaryAnn McGeady, Esq., McGeady Becher, PC, 450 Est 17th Ave., #400, Denver, Colorado, 80203, at or before the time and date hereinabove shown. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such written verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release 64th Ave. ARI Authority, its Board, officers, agents, and employees of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 64th Ave. ARI Authority

By: /s/ Ann E. Finn Secretary

First Publication: December 22, 2022

Final Publication: December 29, 2022

Sentinel

AURORA HIGH POINT AT DIA METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Aurora High Point at DIA Metropolitan District of Adams County, Colorado, will make final payment at the offices of CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP, 8390 E. Crescent Parkway, #500, Greenwood Village, CO 80111, at 10:00 a.m., on Monday, January 9, 2023, to: Dynaelectric Company, Inc.

(Lisbon Street Project) 345 Sheridan Boulevard Lakewood, Colorado 80226

for all work done by said Contractor for the Lisbon Street Project, all of said work being within or near the boundaries of the Aurora High Point at DIA Metropolitan District, in Adams County, State of Colorado.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, provisions, team hire, sustenance provender or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done and whose claim therefore has not been paid by the Contractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a written verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim, Attn: Ann E. Finn, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado, 80228, with a copy to Colin Mielke, Esq., Seter & Vander Wall, P.C., 700 E. Orchard Road, Suite 3300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, 80111, at or before the time and date hereinabove shown. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such written verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release Aurora High Point at DIA Metropolitan District, its Board, officers, agents, and employees of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Aurora High Point at DIA Metropolitan District

By: /s/ Ann E. Finn Secretary

First Publication: December 22, 2022

Final Publication: December 29, 2022

Sentinel

AURORA HIGH POINT AT DIA METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Aurora High Point at DIA Metropolitan District of Adams County, Colorado, will make final payment at the offices of CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP, 8390 E. Crescent Parkway, #500, Greenwood Village, CO 80111, at 10:00 a.m., on Monday, January 9, 2023, to: Dynaelectric Company, Inc. (Denali Street Project) 345 Sheridan Boulevard Lakewood, Colorado 80226

for all work done by said Contractor for the Denail Street Project, all of said work being within or near the boundaries of the Aurora High Point at DIA Metropolitan District, in Adams County, State of Colorado.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, provisions, team hire, sustenance provender or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done and whose claim therefore has not been paid by the Contractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a written verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim, Attn: Ann E. Finn, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado, 80228, with a copy to Colin Mielke, Esq., Seter & Vander Wall, P.C., 700 E. Orchard Road, Suite 3300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, 80111, at or before the time and date hereinabove shown. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such written verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release Aurora High Point at DIA Metropolitan District, its Board, officers, agents, and employees of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Aurora High Point at DIA Metropolitan District

By: /s/ Ann E. Finn Secretary

First Publication: December 22, 2022

Final Publication: December 29, 2022 Sentinel BEFORE THE COLORADO GROUND WATER COMMISSION DETERMINATIONS OF WATER RIGHT

KIOWA-BIJOU DESIGNATED GROUNDWATER BASIN AND NORTH KIOWA BIJOU GROUND WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT - ARAPAHOE COUNTY

TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to section 37-90-107(7), C.R.S., and the Designated Basin Rules, 2 CCR 410-1, Ron Williams and Tamara Williams have applied for determinations of rights to allocations of designated groundwater from the Laramie-Fox Hills, Arapahoe and Denver aquifers underlying 75.81 acres generally described as a portion of Section 21, Township 5 South, Range 61 West of the 6th P.M. The applicant claims ownership of this land and control of the groundwater in these aquifers underlying this property. The groundwater from these allocations is proposed to be used on the described property for the following beneficial uses: residential, irrigation, recreation, piscatorial, agriculture, livestock watering, replacement, firefighting and commercial, either directly or after storage.

In accordance with section 37-90-107(7), the Colorado Ground Water Commission shall allocate groundwater from the above aquifers based on ownership of the overlying land. A preliminary evaluation of the application finds the volume of water available for allocation from the aquifers underlying the above-described property to be 1,710 acre-feet for the Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer; 1,952 acre-feet for the Arapahoe aquifer and 387 acre-feet for the Denver aquifer.

The amount in the Arapahoe aquifer represents a reduction in the volume of water available for allocation due to the existence of a small capacity well, permit no. 215734, withdrawing water from beneath the described property. These amounts are subject to final evaluation, and subsequent to issuance of the determinations, adjustment to conform to the actual local aquifer characteristics.

In accordance with section 37-90-107(7) (a), well permits issued pursuant to subsection 107(7) shall allow withdrawals on the basis of an aquifer life of one hundred years.

In accordance with Rule 5.3.6 of the Designated Basin Rules preliminary evaluation of the application finds the replacement water requirement status for the aquifers underlying the above-described property to be nontributary for the Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer, not-nontributary (4% replacement) for the Arapahoe aquifer and not-nontributary (actual impact replacement) for the Denver aquifer.

Upon Commission approval of determinations of rights to the allocations, well permits for wells to withdraw the allocations shall be available upon application, subject to the conditions of each determination, the Designated Basin Rules, and approval by the Commission. Such wells must be completed in the aquifer for which the right was allocated and must be located on the 75.81 acres of above described property. Well permits for wells to withdraw groundwater from the Denver aquifer would also be subject to the conditions of a replacement plan to be approved by the Commission.

Any person wishing to object to the approval of these determinations of rights to allocations must do so in writing, briefly stating the nature of the objection, the name of the applicant, a general description of the property, and the specific aquifers that are

the subject of the objection. The objection, including a required $10 fee per application being objected to, must be received by the Colorado Ground Water Commission by close of business January 21, 2023.

Objections should be sent via email to DWRpermitsonline@state.co.us, upon which the objector will be emailed an invoice for paying the fee online. If the objector is unable to provide the objection via email please contact 303866-3581.

First Publication: December 15, 2022

Final Publication: December 22, 2022

Sentinel DISTRICT COURT, ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

Case Number: 22CV31345

Division: A Courtroom: 506

Plaintiff: ROGGEN FARMERS ELEVATOR ASSOCIATION v. Defendants: JORGE MARTINEZ

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the verified complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the verified complaint may be obtained from the clerk of court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the verified complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.

This is an action by the plaintiff to retake possession of three Quality Steel 500-gallon propane tanks bearing serial numbers #W00160247, #W00159668, and #W00160249, currently located in Adams County, Colorado.

Dated: November 17, 2022

/s/ Francis L. Kailey Attorney for Plaintiff 822 7th Street, Suite 760 Greeley, CO 80631 Telephone: 970-352-3161

Email: fkailey@witwerlaw.com

First Publication: November 24, 2022

Final Publication: December 22, 2022

Sentinel DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE SUMMONS RE: PETITION FOR DECREE OF DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE WITHOUT CHILDREN Case No. 22DR31067

In re the Marriage of Petitioner: Oscar Luis Velasco and Respondent: Maribel Rico

TO THE RESPONDENT NAMED ABOVE, this Summons serves as a notice to appear in this case.

If you were served in the State of Colorado, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 21 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action.

If you were served outside of the State of Colorado or you were served by publication, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 35 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action.

Your response must be accompanied with the appropriate filing fee. After 91 days from the date of service or publication, the Court may enter a Decree affecting your marital status, distribution of property and debts, maintenance, attorney fees, and costs to the extent the Court has jurisdiction.

If you fail to file a Response in this case, any or all of the matters above, or any related matters which come before this Court, may be decided without further notice to you.

This is an action to obtain a Decree of: Dissolution of Marriage.

Notice: §14-10-107, C.R.S. provides that upon the filing of a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage or Legal Separation by the Petitioner and Co-Petitioner, or upon personal service of the Petition and Summons on the Respondent, or upon waiver and acceptance of service by the Respondent, an automatic temporary injunction shall be in effect against both parties until the Final Decree is entered, or the Petition is dismissed, or until further Order of the Court. Either party may apply to the Court for further temporary orders, an expanded temporary injunction, or modification or revocation under §14-10-108, C.R.S. Automatic Temporary Injunction – By Order of Colorado Law, You and Your Spouse are:

1. Restrained from transferring, encumber-

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2022PR31348

Estate of James Richard Belk aka James R. Belk, 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 April 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jay D. Belk

Personal Representative 823 S. Perry St., Ste. 110 Castle Rock, CO 80104

Attorney for Personal Representative

Jerry C. Burk

Atty Reg #: 12741 12835 E. Arapahoe Rd., Tower II, Ste. 780 Centennial, CO 80112 Phone: 303-793-3133

First Publication: December 22, 2022

Final Publication: January 5, 2023

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2022PR31350

Estate of Teresa Louise Atencio, 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 April 15, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

William P. Atencio

Personal Representative

c/o Steven M. Weiser, Esq.

Atty. Reg. #: 27535

Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher, LLP

360 S. Garfield St., 6th Floor Denver, Colorado 80209

303-333-9810

First Publication: December 15, 2022

Final Publication: December 29, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2022PR31352

Estate of Joan Ruth Page aka Joan R. Page, 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 April 22, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Mark R. Fairchild

Personal Representative

6620 Zinnia St. Aurora, CO 80004

Attorney for Personal Reprsentative

John F. Cook, LLC

Atty.Req #: 075

12101 E.2nd Ave., Suite 102 Aurora, CO 80011

Phone: 303-363-6200

First Publication: December 22, 2022

Final Publication: January 5, 2023

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2022PR31369

Estate of Geraldine L. Archambeau aka Geraldine Louise Archambeau aka Geraldine Archambeau aka Geri L. Archambeau

aka Geri Louise Archambeau aka Geri Archambeau, 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 April 15, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Daniel R. Dirgo

Co-Personal Representative

2922 S. Tower Way Aurora, CO 80013

David L. Archambeau

Co-Personal Representative 3022 S. Wheeling Way, #308 Aurora, CO 80014

Attorney for Personal Representatives Kirch Rounds Bowman & Deffenbaugh,

P.C. Charles E. Rounds, Esq.

Atty Reg #: 37786 Marketplace Tower II

3025 S. Parker Rd., Ste. 820 Aurora, CO 80014 Phone: 303-671-7726

First Publication: December 15, 2022

Final Publication: December 29, 2022

Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2022PR562

Estate of Shirley Rose Gassen, Deceased. All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before April 7, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Derek M. Gassen

Personal Representative

3393 E. Costilla Ave. Centennial, CO 80122

First Publication: December 8, 2022

Final Publication: December 22, 2022

Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO $15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2022PR31371

Estate of Pamela Mary Burrell aka Pamela M. Burrell aka Pamela Burrell, 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 April 21, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jacqueline Beck

Personal Representative

Attorneys for Personal Representative Baker Law Group, LLC

Brian R. Petz, #48662

Alex T. LeJeune, #56526 8301 E. Prentice Ave., Suite 405 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Phone: 303-862-4564

First Publication: December 22, 2022

Final Publication: January 5, 2023 Sentinel

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO CONSOLIDATED NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2021PR31045

Estate of Charles H. Writzmann, 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 April 22, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Attorney for Personal Representative

Amanda Halstead

Atty Reg #: 35477 Mills Halstead Zaloudek, LLC

600 17th Street, Suite 2800 S Denver, Colorado 80202-5428

Phone: 303-226-5861

First Publication: December 22, 2022

Final Publication: January 5, 2023

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2022PR31006

Estate of Tuman Granville Clayton, 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 April 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Melany Ubel

Personal Representative 7496 County Rd. 10 Fort Lupton, CO 80621

Attorney for Personal Representative

Nicholas Klimas

Atty Reg #: 48658 Gendelman Klimas, Ltd. 517 E. 16th Ave. Denver, CO 80203

Phone: 720-213-0687

First Publication: December 15, 2022

Final Publication: December 29, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2022PR31316

Estate of Harry David Shepherd aka Harry D. Shepherd aka Harry Shepherd aka David Shepherd aka Dave Shepherd, 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 April 8, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

David Edward Shepherd

Personal Representative 128 High Lane Durango, CO 81303

Kirch Rounds Bowman and Deffenbaugh, P.C.

Charles E. Rounds, Esq.

Atty Reg #: 37786 Marketplace Tower II 3025 S. Parker Road, Ste. 820 Aurora, CO 80014

Phone: 303-671-7726

First Publication: December 8, 2022

Final Publication: December 22, 2022 Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2022PR31360

Estate of Susan R. Tooley aka Susan Rae Tooley, 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 April 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dale Culver

Personal Representative 3321 S. Bellaire St. Denver, CO 80222

Attorney for Personal Representative Frank W. Suyat

Atty Reg #: 27514 Dill Dill Carr Stonbraker & Hutchings, P.C. 455 Sherman St., Ste. 300 Denver, CO 80203

Phone: 303-777-3737

First Publication: December 15, 2022

Final Publication: December 29, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2022PR22PR592

Estate of Patricia Marie Beierl aka Patricia M. Beierl aka Pat Beierl, 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 April 13, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Joseph Allan Beierl

Personal Representative 1570 S. Logan St. Denver, CO 80210-2633

First Publication: December 8, 2022

Final Publication: December 22, 2022 Sentinel

PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF AN ADULT ADAMS COUNTY COURT, COLORADO Case No. 22C1760

PUBLIC NOTICE is given on November 28, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Adams County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Letitia Anne Kelley be changed to Letitia Anne Blythe.

/s/ Byron L. Howell, Judge

First Publication: December 8, 2022

Final Publication: December 22, 2022 Sentinel

PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF AN ADULT ARAPAHOE COUNTY COURT, COLORADO Case No. 22C100794

PUBLIC NOTICE is given on November 21, 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 Erica Mendoza be changed to Erica Martha Quintana.

/s/ Clerk of Court/ Deputy Clerk

First Publication: December 8, 2022

Final Publication: December 22, 2022 Sentinel

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS FILED IN THIS COURT UNDER THE “UNIFORM DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE” AND “UNIFORM CHILD CUSTODY JURISDICTION” ACTS, due diligence has been used to obtain personal service within the State of Colorado and further efforts would be to no avail: therefore, publication has been ordered:

NUMBER NAME TYPE OF ACTION

2022DR001146 Vanessa LeEvette Jackson v Drew Steven Jackson Dissolution

2022DR001272 Briana Chanel Bell v. Michael Wayne Sanford Custody

2022DR001363 Krisyn Encinias v. Sherman Peacock Custody

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