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QUID HAS HEARD that the pervasive guns war in the metroplex and across Colorado has been won by legislative gun-control nabobs, and that all the guns may already be long gone. Or so it would seem, according to Denver mayoral hopeful Mike Johnston’s campaign. Seems that Johnston has been blitzing the Facebookverse with ads touting his anti-gun-lobby prowess, and that he already conquered the NRA, back when he was a wily lawmaker in the state Senate. Perhaps it’s another NRA, or the son of NRA, that seems to be alive and well and suing any state trying to enact real gun control and keeping Wayne LaPierre in mansions and missions.

Playing shell games with homeless people is pointless

So, Aurora, are you feeling about $2 million better about our homeless problem?

That’s, roughly, what the city has spent in the last year to buy a couple dozen shed-shelters, a few thousand meals, provide some showers and chase people away from their camping sites on city medians, highway shoulders and parks.

Just like in Denver, some other suburbs and just about every city large and small across the country, homelessness has been in our faces for the last few years.

It isn’t like homelessness is new to this nation or this community. It’s just that for decades since the Great Depression, we’ve been able to pretty much ignore it.

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AND QUID HAS HEARD that the hardest story in Aurora to describe in less than 30 seconds is the marathon melodrama unraveling, on occasion, in an Arapahoe County district courtroom. Seems that only a run-on sentence can do justice to the tale about a former Arapahoe County social worker who is alleged to have become so infuriated by a city councilperson trash-talking her former police-chief girlfriend that she turned in a fake complaint about the city councilor abusing her kid but got caught because she called the child crisis line using her own phone and then after being charged with the sham rolled out a fake brain-tumor story that she fed to her own lawyers and a Denver TV investigative reporter who repeated and told the judge all of this until some doctors noticed that the brain-tumor x-ray pictures she pushed around were actually purloined from a Wiki article on brain tumors and then photoshopped with all the finesse of someone who has only mastered “cut” and “paste” computer skills on their Chromebook so the year-old non-trial is now slated for another couple of months away and your faithful affiant just can’t wait to see what happens next. Or something like that.

Quidnunc, whose name comes from the Latin “what now,” is out and about as often as possible to bring you news overheard in elevators, rest rooms and spied in various e-mail boxes.

And that’s all the news that fits.

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The occasional wave of “vagrants” along East Colfax, or squatters in an abandoned house or building, have long been effectively chased over to Denver, and then back again, for a very long time.

But exorbitant housing costs, flagging wages, the pandemic, stunning inflation and cheap and plentiful street drugs and alcohol have made for a perfect storm of “what the hell happened” all along the Front Range, and, truly, all around the state.

“Luxury” accommodations for the luckiest of the homeless are on a relative’s couch or in their garage, or inside a working car with a heater.

The less fortunate, and there are thousands of them in the metroplex, many of them in Aurora, suck it up in tents or sleeping bags or even just puffy coats wherever they don’t get chased from.

In January 2021, Mayor Mike Coffman pretended to be homeless for a week along the Colfax corridor, sharing his week-long escapade with a local TV reporter, and drawing the moniker “Homeless Mike.”

Real homeless people, and those who work with them, had several other choice names for Coffman for bragging that, in just seven days, he had unlocked the secrets of homelessness.

He told TV reporter Shaun Boyd that most of the people on the street he encountered, without ever telling them who he really was, were drug addicts “choosing” daily highs over going to a shelter and getting a job.

During more than one public session of excoriation, Coffman was schooled about what treating addiction and mental illness are really like, and how the old get-a-job tropes do literally nothing to help someone to get it together.

The answer, Coffman said, was forcing them out of their camps. There never was a clear answer then as to what would happen to homeless people, often struggling with critical addiction and mental health issues, after they were shooed off their median or grassy patch alongside a bike trail.

Mike’s insistence on just getting them out of sight is a popular sentiment among some Aurora residents with homes.

“As long as you move them away from my house, I am for any technique used,” “Good Citizen” said in a comment on a story from last week looking back at a year of abating homeless camps. “A can of gasoline and a match comes to mind.”

Fortunately, Good Citizen’s only Aurora power is posting unnerving threats.

Experts warned that shooed homeless campers would just move to another nearby camping site.

A relative few of the people shuffled off have taken advantage of the cluster of shed-homes on a city-sponsored compound. Residents can stay no longer than 90 days and need to show some kind of progress toward resolving whatever got them

It’s mixed results, some positive, but mostly it’s people running out the clock and then moving on again, insiders and some residents say.

Bob Dorshimer, who’s worked with all kinds of people in crisis for a very long time, currently runs Mile High Behavioral Healthcare and the Comitis Crisis Center.

He knows what “best practices” are from decades of experience, not days.

He said success is not defined as people having an epiphany, throwing away their heroin syringe, taking on three jobs and getting a cool one-bedroom overlooking a street where their new-used car is parked.

“It starts with tucking in your shirt,” Dorshimer said. It’s long talks with trained people who care helping someone decide they might try therapy and methadone and just see what happens, and then doing it.

And he said it’s a misconception believing that these homeless campers are mostly partying millennials turning on, tuning in and dropping out.

Many of these people have been living in some kind of isolation and on the streets for so long that it can take weeks just to help them back into normal social behavior, like combed hair and socks.

He said he’s never encountered so many homeless people in their 60s and 70s during his entire career.

But even people closer to working age are far from ready to step right back into the fray.

“They aren’t anywhere near ready for resumes,” he said. “They need a belt.”

Dorshimer said Aurora’s push into “abating” camps may not have reduced homelessness by any meaningful measure, but the shuffling and outreach teams and frequent trips to the Comitis Day Resource Center and the dozens of new contacts has been helpful.

“We’ve had more engagement than ever,” he said last week. “I think that’s success.”

More success, he said, would come in spending the next $2 million not on “Band-Aid” notions like chasing people around or letting them cycle through shed villages.

It’s going to take more people taking more time to persuade more homeless people to talk about getting help getting dry or clean.

Just putting people in apartments with no strategic resources won’t work, he said. “Housing first has to come with much more than just housing.” Engagement is the key, he said.

And shoes.

“Shoes are the dead giveaway for homeless people looking for a job,” he said. Many of the people he knows need much more help re-entering the world of the housed.

“And decent shoes.”

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State lawmakers, Polis successful with gun laws

Around of applause for the determined and brave state lawmakers and Gov. Jared Polis for creating model gun control laws in Colorado, prompting what could be real ways to reduce gun violence.

Despite failing to ban the sale and ownership of assault-style weapons, state lawmakers made huge strides in signing into law meaningful reforms that have the certain potential to save lives.

The package of laws, however, accomplish a bevy of needed changes as well as critical modifications to existing state gun laws.

Essentially, the measure expands the state’s existing so-called “Red Flag” laws, allowing courts to remove guns from people who are proved to be a danger to themselves or others. The new laws also make it illegal to sell a gun to anyone under 21. Another measure imposes a three-day waiting period for purchasing a firearm. And probably the most important change makes it easier for people harmed by gun violence to sue firearm makers.

All of the changes are strategic advances meant to keep guns from minors and people who are emotionally ill-equipped to handle firearms.

Changes to the state’s red-flag law will allow people other than just police or family members to approach a court in an effort to have guns removed from unstable gun owners.

The law now allows teachers, mental health workers district attorneys, doctors and other health care providers to initiate a court request to remove guns from someone.

Just as important, the bill provides impetus and money for the state health department to create a public education campaign to help increase use of the law.

These important changes create a workaround from obstinate county sheriffs and law enforcement officials who have publicly said they won’t use or enforce the red-flag law because they see it as infringement of Second Amendment rights.

It’s been a cruel and irresponsible tact that almost certainly has cost lives across the state. Now, teachers, or medical professionals can get around errant deputy sheriffs, ensuring courts have an opportunity to remove guns before tragedy strikes.

In addition, new laws raise the age of buying a firearm in Colorado to 21. Given the potential destruction firearms can inflict, it’s only prudent to ensure adults decide gun access to minors and young adults.

Lawmakers failed, however, to extend the logic of requiring a higher age for gun purchase, possession and use.

There is no practical reason for anyone under the age of 21 to fire, possess or carry a civilian firearm. Rather than look the other way when children use firearms, state lawmakers should systematically find ways to prevent children embracing dangerous gun culture at an early age.

Related to that, earlier in the legislative session, Democrats imploded their own bill focusing on banning the sale of assault weapons. Doomed from the beginning, banning the sale — not possession — would have allowed tens of thousands of current assault-weapon-style rifles and guns to stay with Colorado owners. Worse yet, Colorado residents would have been able to buy them in neighboring states.

Since Congress is incapable any more of addressing the problem of gun violence, it’s important states like Colorado step and engage with these important bans.

Colorado should emulate the successes in Australia and New Zealand, which actually banned and then destroyed such weapons, helping ensure those nations enjoy some of the lowest gun violence rates in the world.

But among these meaningful Colorado successes, the most important change came from insistence from state Sen. Tom Sullivan, a critical legislative voice for gun control. Sullivan’s son, Alex Sullivan, was killed during the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. Ever since, Sen. Sullivan has insisted that the biggest way to reduce gun violence would come from putting pressure on the gun industry. By making it easier for family of gun violence victims to sue gun-makers and others, Colorado residents will become armed with the power of the purse to check the influence and recklessness of gunmakers, much in the same way the tobacco industry was stricken. Big tobacco ceased to be that after endless lawsuits checked its influence in state and federal legislatures and with the public.

While some of these changes won’t offer results immediately, measures like changes to the red flag law and prohibiting young adults from buying guns could save lives as soon as the new laws take effect. How long that will be is in question since local gun-rights activist organizations have already filed lawsuits in an effort to stymie the changes.

But Sullivan is right, the biggest influence will come in the next few years as lawsuits against gunmakers build, and judgements against gunmakers, pull cash from the companies, and effectively make changes in how guns are sold and marketed.

Pushing these bills into law wasn’t without risk for lawmakers. Several years ago, state lawmakers supporting similar gun bills were removed from office by a leveraged minority of far-right voters. While it appears there won’t be a repeat of those gun-owner theatrics, the political risk for this kind of legislation was real, and hasn’t passed.

Colorado residents should celebrate these iconic changes, and begin now to push for the ban of assault-style weapons across the state, next year.

Trump suckered CNN right in

To borrow a phrase from Claude Rains in “Casablanca,” I was shocked, shocked! to find that nonstop lying was going on in the MAGA game room at CNN.

Just as I (and many other rational observers) had warned in advance, CNN’s decision to gift a free hour to a pathological cult leader – to a criminal defendant, and, now, a convicted sexual abuser – did indeed fulfill our worst expectations.

As anyone who isn’t naive surely knew would happen, Trump suckered CNN right into his sewer. Actually, it was worse than that. CNN, anxious to get maximum ratings mileage from its MAGA informercial, attached a sewer pipe to his mouth and pumped his demagogic diarrhea directly into our homes.

How else could it have gone, given the network’s decision to pack the “town hall” audience with “star”-struck Trumpers who clapped and giggled at every lie and slur? He’s their favorite TV character. They know his shtick to a T and hooted their appreciation whenever he recited the rot that he posts on social media.

With CNN’s blessing, he pounded out his Greatest Hits. No wonder they responded with such gusto! Like when he defamed E. Jean Carroll (again) by calling her “wacko.” (Yes, they laughed at a victim of sexual assault.) Like when he said, over and over, that the 2020 election was stolen. Like when he said he wants to pardon “a large portion” of the jailed Jan. 6 traitors. Like when he said that his two impeachments were a con job ginned up by “crazy Nancy Pelosi.” Like when he critiqued the Access Hollywood tape by insisting (despite his words on tape) that he hadn’t talked about grabbing women per se, that he grabbed only when “women let you.”

Like when he condemned one of host Kaitlin Collins’ rebuttals by calling her “nasty.”

Collins tried her best to inject some factual reality by talking just as fast as her grifting guest, but as anyone with a shred of awareness has long known, there’s no way to stand in front of his blitzkrieg without being flattened. And I’m not going to waste my time fact-checking all his lies, because I have a life and so have you.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a respected scholar of fas-

cism, saw last night what so many of us knew would happen. She tweeted: “This is a propaganda spectacle designed to reinforce the leader cult – thus the relief and enjoyment of the audience at hearing favorite slogans and untruths…The more approval authoritarians get, the more they feel emboldened to be even more lawless. This is why this ‘town hall’ was so dangerous.”

Trump was certainly emboldened by the audience questions, which were more vapid and open-ended than any of us could’ve predicted. A succession of Trump 2020 voters and delegates posed brain-twisters like…What do you think about the “current debt situation?” and What would you do “to make things more affordable?” (His answer: drill for more oil.) And this was my favorite semi-question: “I’m worried that government will act to suppress gun rights.” (Trump’s answer, ignoring the civilian death toll of recent weeks, was that he’s the greatest Second Amendment champ in human history.)

Granted, the sick spectacle reminded those of us who love democracy what we’re up against on the road to 2024. Trump and duh Republican base hide in plain sight, making it abundantly clear what they’re willing to say and do to seize power. Maybe that will help galvanize enough Americans to stop them once again. David Jolly, a former Republican congressman, seems to think so; he tweeted last night that “Trump is not picking up a single new general election voter. And every voter who came out in 18, ’20 & ’22 to stop him now remembers why.” Maybe so.

But that does not excuse CNN for debasing itself. To do responsible journalism, it’s really not rocket science. If you feel compelled to put this guy on the air, you do it in a studio with two sharp questioners. At minimum, that format ups the odds of holding him at least somewhat accountable for his pathological lies. What you don’t do is precisely what the network did. The lesson is simple: Never fellate a fascist.

Dick Polman, a veteran national political columnistbasedinPhiladelphiaandaWriter in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, writes at DickPolman.net. Email him at dickpolman7@gmail.com

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Mayoral remake?

AURORANS COULD VOTE THIS FALL ON EMPOWERING CITY’S MAYOR, RESTRUCTURING CITY GOVERNMENT

Aurora voters may get the chance this November to grant the city’s mayor top executive powers while eliminating the city manager position, tightening term limits and adding another member to the City Council.

Suzanne Taheri, an attorney and former Republican candidate for the Colorado Senate, sent a copy of the draft City Charter amendment to Aurora’s city clerk earlier this month on behalf of Garrett Walls, a member of the Aurora Planning & Zoning Commission.

Walls did not respond to a request for comment. It’s unclear who authored the legislation.

Proponents of the amendment will next have to gather at least 12,017 signatures from registered Aurora voters, equivalent to 5% of the number of voters registered as of the 2022 regular election, before the item can be placed on the Nov. 7 ballot.

Currently, the city government of Aurora is run by the 11-person City Council, consisting of six council members elected by each of the city’s six geographically-distinct wards, four council members elected by the city as a whole and a mayor who is also elected by the entire city.

The council appoints a city manager, who is responsible for implementing policies passed by the council as well as overseeing the day-to-day operations of the city. In general, the city manager is responsible for the hiring and firing of employees, and the council is limited to communicating with the city manager if they want city staffers to do something in particular.

The mayor wields little more power than other council members — they are responsible for leading City Council meetings, breaking tie votes on ordinances and resolutions, and representing the City of Aurora at events.

This balance of power between an elected city council and an appointed city manager is common among Colorado cities and is known as a “council-manager” or “weak mayor” form of government.

It stands in contrast to the “council-mayor” or “strong mayor” form of government used in a few cities such as Denver, Pueblo and Colorado Springs, where the mayor has the power to veto legislation and direct city staffers.

Pueblo is currently embroiled in a controversy over an attempt by residents to ask voters to end that city’s strong-mayor form of government, according to stories in the Pueblo Chieftan.

Strong-mayor advocates say the system cuts down on bureaucracy and encourages a more focused city government while opponents say it encourages corruption and political spoils by eliminating checks and balances.

The charter amendment presented by Walls would eliminate the role of city manager and instead hand those responsibilities over to the mayor, who would serve a four-year term rather. The term limit for mayors and council members would also be lowered from three consecutive terms to two.

The mayor’s veto power would enable them to block ordinances unless a supermajority of eight council members voted to pass them.

An ordinance approved by the council would be sent to the mayor, who would have the option of signing it into law or sending it back to the council with their objections specified in writing.

If eight council members again voted to pass the ordinance after receiving the mayor’s objections, it would become law.

If the mayor did not sign an ordinance but also declined to send objections within five days, it would pass into law by default.

The council’s power to appoint a city attorney, municipal judge and court administrator would be handed over to the mayor. Also, the mayor rather than the council would be responsible for providing resources and manpower to the Civil Service Commission.

In the event of “public danger or emergency,” the mayor would be given extraordinary powers to govern the city by proclamation and take command of the city’s police department.

The mayor’s role as chair of council meetings would be handed over to a “council president,” who would be elected by a simple majority of council members to lead their meetings. A “vice president” would be elected the same way. The mayor may attend council meetings “at his discretion” and “be heard at any meeting of council.”

In the event of a vacancy on the council, a tie vote on filling the council seat would be broken by the mayor. If the mayorship becomes vacant, the role would initially be filled by the mayor’s chief of staff — an administrator appointed by the mayor who would directly to them. The chief of staff is not required to live in the city.

Council members would need to appoint a temporary replacement within 45 days of the seat opening up. If the appointment happened 90 or more days before a regular election, it would last only until that election. If it happened sooner, the appointee would continue until the subsequent election, unless the mayor’s current term would have expired with the pending election.

Other miscellaneous parts of

the amendment would eliminate emergency ordinances as a category of legislation, along with the council’s contingent fund. The mayor’s new powers would go into effect at the first regular City Council meeting in December 2023.

The city’s current mayor, Mike Coffman, told a Denver TV news station in December that he would be running for re-election but declined to comment on the proposed charter amendment, saying in an email that he would wait to see if it gathered enough signatures.

Councilmember Juan Marcano, who has filed paperwork to challenge Coffman for the mayorship, said he opposes the amendment and strong mayor governments in general.

“I don’t think strong executives are a good arrangement for a functioning democracy, period. I think they consolidate way too much power in one position,” Marcano said.

“There’s a lot of advantage to having a council-manager form of government, where the council who comes from diverse life circumstances, educational backgrounds and political beliefs gets to set the direction for the city, and it’s up to a professional administrator to implement that vision of the council.”

He said he worried that leaving the hiring and firing of city staffers in the hands of an elected mayor could invite nepotism and create instability within the organization of the city.

Marcano also disagreed with how the chief of staff role was defined, objecting to the idea that an unelected administrator living

outside of the city could step into the mayor role in the event of a vacancy.

Besides empowering the mayor, another major change accomplished by the amendment would be adding a fifth at-large council member.

Marcano said he disliked the idea of adding another at-large representative, as the existence of those seats has granted an outsized amount of influence to the city’s affluent southeastern ward, with four council members hailing from Ward VI.

Two council members and the mayor live in Ward V, located next to Ward VI in south Aurora. The remaining four wards have a single representative each, even though the geography contains a majority of the city’s population, encompassing the central and northern parts of the city.

Marcano also questioned the extent to which Coffman was promoting the amendment behind the scenes, saying the mayor mentioned during an unrelated executive session earlier in the year that he planned to send a strong-mayor amendment to voters, after which Coffman backtracked and said that he planned to support a citizen-led amendment. Coffman later declined to comment on Marcano’s description of the conversation.

Once the sponsors of the amendment submit their signed petitions to the city clerk’s office, the clerk will have 30 days to determine whether the petitions are sufficient. If the clerk finds that they are, opponents will have 20 days to protest the finding of sufficiency. After that, the item may be placed on the November ballot.

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Social worker accused of falsely accusing Aurora lawmaker loses lawyers after false brain tumor allegations

Two lawyers withdrew Monday from representing a former social worker charged with falsifying allegations of child abuse against an Aurora city lawmaker after prosecutors raised doubts about the veracity of claims about a brain tumor.

Former Arapahoe County Department of Social Services employee Robin Niceta is facing charges of retaliating against an elected official, a sixth-degree felony, and making a false report of child abuse as a mandatory reporter, a second-degree misdemeanor. She has pleaded not guilty.

The charges stem from an incident last year when Niceta made a report that Aurora city Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky was abusing her son. Niceta was a caseworker in the Arapahoe County DHS at the time and was the romantic partner of former Aurora police chief Vanessa Wilson. The allegations, which were determined to be not credible, were made a day after Jurinsky insulted Wilson on a local radio show, calling her “trash.”

Throughout the case, Niceta has made the claims through her legal team that she was too ill to travel from New Mexico to Colorado for

court dates, and that she was nonverbal following an assault in 2021 that left her seriously incapacitated. On a judge’s order, Niceta appeared in court in person Monday after having attended the past several hearings remotely from her parent’s house in New Mexico, where she is currently living.

At the end of March, Niceta’s lawyers submitted a motion to the court asking for her mental competency to stand trial to be evaluated. The documents included medical records stating that Niceta had glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, and could potentially only have months to live.

After the documents were reported on by local TV news stations, their veracity were called into question online, including by Dr. Eric Strong of Stanford, who the judge said called the court last week to raise his concerns. The prosecutor’s office also said that they had difficulty determining whether or not the medical records were legitimate.

In court Monday, a prosecutor said that he had spoken to someone who he was led to believe was Niceta’s doctor in New Mexico, but has since been unable to verify that person exists.

Two of Niceta’s lawyers asked to be released from the case Monday citing irreconcilable differences, a petition the judge granted. He denied a request from the prosecutors to revoke Niceta’s ability to live out of state, but said that moving for-

ward she will be required to attend all of her court dates in person.

Niceta is next scheduled to appear in court for a motions hearing on July 5. A trial is set to begin Aug 1.

Aurora City Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky talks with reporters May 15, 2023 in the hallway at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in Centennial. Jurinsky was falsely accused of abusing her toddler son two years ago by then social-worker Robin Niceta after Jurinsky called former Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson “trash” during a talk-radio show. At the time, Niceta was in a ronmatic relationship with Wilson. PHOTO BY PHILIP

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Following the hearing, Jurinsky said that she was happy that the medical documents had been called into question and said she hoped that Niceta will face additional charges for allegedly falsifying documents.

“I feel very vindicated today,” she said.

Aurora apartment complex reopening with new name after September explosion

An Aurora apartment complex that expelled its tenants last fall after an explosion in a utility room is reopening under a new name.

Stella on the Park, formerly

known as Parkside Collective, is advertising apartments with leases starting as soon as June 1.

On the morning of Sept. 10, an explosion tore through the walls of a fourth-floor electrical room at the complex, raining debris onto the sidewalk outside and damaging adjacent apartments.

Aurora Fire Rescue investigators later ruled that the incident was the result of an underground electrical fire generating hydrogen gas, which vented into the utility room, where a spark of static electricity caused the gas to detonate.

The incident caused upheaval for hundreds of tenants, who were forced to evacuate and later told their leases were being canceled. Some apartments were subsequently burglarized before tenants had the chance to remove their belongings.

While repairs to the complex wrapped up this week, an attorney representing former tenants in what may become a class-action lawsuit against Washington-based property management firm Holland Residential said former Parkside residents are still reeling from personal and financial losses caused by the explosion.

“At this point, I don’t think what Holland has done is enough. I don’t think these insurance companies that they’re all insured under have done enough,” Jessica Prochaska of law firm Burg Simpson said.

“This was an explosion that changed all these people’s lives.

There were some people who had to move out of state because they couldn’t even live here anymore. It’s just so hard to describe the disruption that this caused for our clients.”

The Sentinel tried to contact Holland Residential for this story, but the company did not respond to multiple email and phone messages.

According to Aurora Fire Rescue investigators, the trouble began during Parkside’s construction, when an electrical conduit buried under the curb and gutter on the west side of the complex was shifted out of place, causing the PVC plastic insulation to crack and damaging the wires inside.

Over time, water was able to seep through the cracked insulation, further damaging and corroding the electrical wires. An electrical arc within the conduit could have then produced extreme temperatures capable of igniting the PVC insulation, generating hydrogen chloride gas that in the intense heat would have decomposed into hydrogen and chlorine gases, officials said.

The buoyant hydrogen gas would have been able to travel up the smoldering electrical conduit into the fourth-floor electrical room, where it accumulated until an unknown source of static electricity sparked disaster.

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overpressure wave which destroyed the electrical room,” investigator Derek Haffeman wrote. “This overpressure wave displaced walls in the immediate area and also traveled the fourth-floor hallways and hat channels.”

Haffeman wrote after firefighters spoke with Parkside residents that “multiple witnesses reported the lights in their units were flickering minutes, hours and even days before the explosion occurred.” Many residents exited their units shortly before the explosion in response to a fire alarm that coincided with smoke billowing out of wall vents on the building’s west side.

Bystanders also took cellphone video that showed smoke emanating from a gap in the pavement above where the conduit was buried shortly before the explosion. Investigators excavated the section of pavement and found fire damage to the conduit and an accumulation of water, which guided their conclusions about the cause of the explosion.

City of Aurora spokesman Michael Brannen wrote in an email that a building permit was issued Feb. 2 for rebuilding and repairing the damage caused by the explosion, and that the repair work was finished last week.

Holland Residential did not respond to an email asking what work had been done to ensure the complex is safe for new tenants and what inspections of the property had taken place since the explosion.

Brannen wrote that city representatives had inspected the repair work on a regular basis — the permit allows for a combination of plumbing, electrical, mechanical and structural work.

He said the city’s inspection was limited in scope to the work described in the permit application, adding that the property owner and the engineer who performed the damage assessment after the explosion would ultimately decide when tenants would be allowed to return.

Aurora Fire Rescue will also inspect the building one year after the repairs are completed and a new certificate of occupancy is issued, he said.

While police received reports of break-ins at 18 apartments after Parkside was evacuated, Aurora Police Department spokesman Joe Moylan wrote in an email that no suspects were ever identified.

Moylan said police guarded the complex from Sept. 17, the day after the first reported burglary, through Sept. 27, when residents were allowed to return and collect their belongings. Holland Residential was criticized at the time by tenants who said the company failed to protect their belongings after they were forced out by the explosion.

Tenants were initially not allowed to return to the complex, forcing some to leave behind essentials like prescription medication, Prochaska said. When tenants were finally allowed to retrieve their things, some apartments were al-

ready ransacked, and Prochaska said some tenants had to leave behind large items that they couldn’t move on short notice.

“And we all know the real estate market in Denver is hard, and trying to find places with a comparable rental value that had vacancies on such short notice is very difficult,” she said.

“Some were able to turn to their renters insurance, but not everyone had it and some weren’t paid out. So it’s hard when you’re paying out of pocket, and you’re trying all of a sudden to find a new place to live.”

Prochaska said Holland Residential had provided pro-rata payment to tenants for unused rent but that the company had otherwise done little to help her clients recover from the explosion.

While she would not speculate when the class-action lawsuit would be filed by Burg Simpson, she questioned whether there was anything Holland Residential could do to fully compensate former tenants for their trouble.

“I don’t know what they can do to make it right at this point,” she said.

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COPS AND COURTS

Man posing as immigration agent to assault Aurora girl sentenced to 40 years

A registered sex offender who posed as an immigration official in order to sexually assault a young girl was sentenced Monday to decades in prison.

At the time of the assault, Kenneth Lee, 66, was on parole for a nearly identical crime years earlier. On May 8, he was sentenced to 40 years in prison, according to a statement from the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

According to police records, on Dec. 9, 2021 Lee knocked on the door of an apartment complex on Chester Street in Aurora and identified himself as an immigration official. Two adults and a 7-year-old girl were inside. After entering, Lee demanded to speak to the girl privately in her room.

“The victim’s mother said the man was in the bedroom with her daughter for approximately five minutes before walking out of the apartment and leaving in an unmarked Minivan,” the statement said. “After the man left, the mother asked her daughter what happened and the daughter indicated she had been sexually assaulted.”

The family contacted police, who identified Lee based on surveillance video of his car and data from a GPS ankle monitor he was wearing. He was arrested the following day.

While researching Lee’s previous criminal history, investigators discovered he was listed as a “violent sexual predator” and had been convicted for two similar sexual assaults.

Lee was sentenced in 2014 to

23 years in prison for an assault on the child of a Vietnamese immigrant family. According to an affidavit, Lee identified himself as a doctor from an immigration agency, asked to privately examine a 9-year-old girl, and then sexually assaulted her.

He was paroled in 2020 after serving 9.5 years of his sentence, a decision that parole officials said at the time was not connected to the pandemic and was based on an assessment that determined he was at a “low range to re-offend.”

Lee pleaded guilty to sexual assault on a child, a class 4 felony, burglary, a class 3 felony and sexual exploitation of a child, a class 3

felony.

“Based on the facts surrounding this case and previous criminal cases, this defendant targeted immigrant and refugee families and victimized women and children who had no idea they were letting a dangerous predator into their homes,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Gary Dawson said in a statement. “I can only hope this new prison sentence will actually keep Mr. Lee behind bars for the rest of his life so he will not be able to victimize anyone else in our community.”

After Lee’s arrest, District Attorney John Kellner criticized the parole board’s decision to release him

early, a belief he reiterated after the sentencing.

“It’s disheartening and appalling when a person convicted of sexually violent crimes gets released after serving a fraction of their sentence,” Kellner said in a statement, describing Colorado’s parole system as “lenient. “The community deserves accountability and transparency as to how and why a sexually violent predator was set free so early.”

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Spin doctors

Something was lacking for the small scene of West Coast Swing dancers in the greater metro area — a place for them to dance.

Derek Newman recognized the problem for this once niche group and in turn started the Denver Westies group in 2014.

West Coast Swing is a style of dance that is similar to the traditional Swing dancing that is the more popular variety, but instead of Benny Goodman, the music danced to is contemporary with a slower tempo.

Newman approached the Mercury Cafe in Denver, which plays host to the group on Wednesday nights, but with a typical crowd near 200 there was a need for a second night. Stampede happily opened their dance hall to the Westies on Monday nights.

“We wanted to keep building the community, and we started the second night,” Newman said. “It’s a place for us to grow,” he said about Stampede.

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Home and Garden

Leaf time for adjustment

BEFORE YOU TRANSFER GARDEN PLANTS OUTDOORS, MAKE SURE THEY’RE HARDENED OFF

It’s prime planting time in many regions. Gardeners are flocking to garden centers for annuals and starter plants. And those who have grown plants from seeds indoors might be gearing up to transplant them in the garden now. But seedlings can’t typically go straight from an indoor nursery or home growing station to outdoor gardens without risk. They need to be hardened off first. Hardening off means gradually introducing plants to environmental conditions like sunlight, wind and temperature fluctuations. Without it they could get sunburned or go into shock from more sun, wind or cold than they’re used to. Stressed plants might recover, but their growth could be set back by a few weeks.

It’s prime planting time in many regions, and gardeners are flocking to garden centers for annuals, and herb and vegetablestarter plants. Likewise, those who have grown plants from seeds indoors may be gearing up to transplant them in the garden now.

But regardless of their origins, seedlings can’t typically go straight from an indoor nursery or home growing station to outdoor beds and borders without risk. They need to be “hardened off” first.

The term refers to gradually introducing plants to environmental conditions like

sunlight, wind and temperature fluctuations that they haven’t yet experienced. If plants aren’t adequately hardened off, they could get sunburned or go into shock from more wind exposure or lower temperatures than they’re used to.

Stressed plants may recover, but the ordeal usually sets their growth back by a few weeks.

Start by placing plants outdoors in a sheltered, partially shady spot for incrementally longer periods each day for about a week before planting them in the garden. Shade is important because even your sunniest window (or a grow light) is no match for the direct rays of the sun.

Select a day after the danger of frost has passed and when the temperature is above 45 degrees Fahrenheit. Place plants outside for an hour (set a timer), then bring them back inside to a warm spot, ideally under grow lights. Repeat this on the second day for two hours, and add an hour of outdoor time each day for a week, after which they can safely be planted in their permanent homes, whether in the ground, a raised bed or a container.

Check the weather and keep an eye on conditions throughout the process. Bring plants inside if rain or severe wind threatens during their outdoor time.

No worries if there’s no shade in your garden. I harden my plants off under my patio table. Under a tree, shrub or row of hedges would work equally well. If you have none of those, shade plants with an umbrella or floating row cover.

If absolutely necessary, and as long as the weather isn’t hot, you can even plant your seedlings directly in the ground and harden them by covering each individually with a plastic, gallon-size milk container with its bottom and cap removed. Burying the bottom in a few inches of soil will hold the container in place, and you can water plants through the pouring hole at the top. Remove the container for each day’s hardening-off session, setting it back into place and securing it into the soil afterward. Be aware that high temperatures and intense, direct sunlight may “cook” your plants, especially in Southern gardens, so gauge conditions and use your judgment before attempting this.

If you started plants in a greenhouse, they’ve already been growing in direct sunlight, so the process is abridged: Open the windows for a few hours each day for about a week, then move seedlings to a sheltered outdoor spot for two hours the first day and four hours the second day. After that, they should be good to go.

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This May 9, 2023, image shows annual and vegetable seedlings being “hardened off,” or gradually acclimated to outdoor weather conditions, in Glen Head, NY. Jessica Damiano via AP Associated

There’s a growing movement called No Mow May that asks people to abstain from mowing their lawns until June first. The intention is admirable. The idea is to let grass and weeds grow and bloom to provide food and shelter for essential pollinators early in the season, when that’s hard for them to find. But AP gardening columnist Jessica Damiano thinks it’s not a good idea. For one thing, she says, some of those bees and butterflies you’re trying to protect might get shredded with the first mow of the season. And grass that’s shaded by tall weeds can get fungal diseases. Also, weeds and invasive plants that take hold won’t disappear once the mowing commences. She says it’s better to plant native plants or wildflowers instead of grass.

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve heard about the #NoMowMay movement that’s been gaining steam on social media and in eco-conscious circles these past few years.

Started in 2019 by citizen scientists in the United Kingdom, the call for homeowners to abstain from mowing their lawns during the month has spread to other countries, including the U.S.

The intention is admirable: Let your grass and weeds grow and bloom to provide food and shelter for essential pollinators like bees and butterflies early in the season, when such necessities may be scarce.

Frankly, I think it’s a terrible idea.

need to establish a permanent cover for insects,” not merely temporary housing.

“Bees tell each other where the food is, and pollinators (when they discover an unmown lawn) will remember to come back to it again and again,” Yeh said. “Then on June 1st, when the food disappears, it’s not good for them.”

Hibernating insects have memories that span not only from day to day but from year to year, Yeh said. So she recommends planting early blooming shrubs, trees and plants to establish a permanent food source they can remember and rely on as adults when they emerge from dormancy.

Other problems with the practice, Yeh noted, include “confusing insects when the grass is suddenly low again. That gives predators the opportunity to take advantage of them.”

There’s also the potential to disturb a nest of bunnies when mowing, she said, calling the discovery “the most horrible experience you can have.”

An all-or-nothing approach would be better. If you really want to make a difference, consider replacing the entire lawn, or part of it, with native plants or planting a wildflower meadow. Both will provide permanency for birds and pollinators while shrinking or eliminating the lawn, which frankly, has no redeeming value aside from subjective aesthetics, anyway.

When planting for beneficial insects, Yeh advises creating a corridor or path of pollen- and nectar-rich plants for migratory pollinators to travel along in-

No mow May? Maybe no.

Some of those pollinators you set out to protect will likely get shredded up with the first mow of the season. Grass will no doubt get shaded by tall weeds, which can lead to fungal diseases. And weeds and invasive plants that take hold during the month won’t simply disappear once the mowing commences. That might lead people to apply chemical pesticides they wouldn’t otherwise use.

And what about rodents, snakes and other undesirables that also will likely avail themselves of the shelter?

Perplexed by the seemingly runaway-train popularity of the now-annual event, I called Tamson Yeh, turf specialist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County in New York. “Is it me?” I asked.

“I think it’s a terrible idea, too,” she said. “It’s such a nice slogan, but letting the grass grow high and allowing it to do its thing, and then suddenly mowing it back is really counterproductive.”

Yeh sees the movement as a “feel-good, stop-gap measure, because if you want to have an impact, you

stead of spacing plants far apart.

Postponing fall cleanup until spring, which spawned another movement called #LeaveTheLeaves, will create safe havens for pollinators to lay their eggs and hibernate within. To allow time for them to emerge from dormancy, wait until after spring temperatures have remained above 50 degrees for an entire week before clearing away last season’s plant debris.

For those set on letting their lawns go wild this month, Yeh cautions that “allowing grass to go to seed will kill it,” so remove seedheads if they form.

It’s also important to reintroduce mowing gradually.

“The best height for grass is 3 inches tall, but if you’re mowing it down from 5 or 6 inches, do it over several sessions,” she advised, adding that cutting grass by more than one-third of its height at one time can cause it to go into shock.

The gradual approach “also will give insects a chance to realize it’s not a good place for them anymore,” she said. Hopefully, they’ll take the hint and move on to safer spaces.

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A PARENTS’ GUIDE TO SOCIAL MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT REGS

A bipartisan group of senators recently introduced legislation aiming to prohibit all children under the age of 13 from using social media. It would also require permission from a guardian for users under 18 to create an account. It is one of several proposals in Congress seeking to make the internet safer for children and teens. But making laws and regulating companies takes time. What are parents — and teens — supposed to do in the meantime? Tips from experts include setting limits, communicating and approaching kids with respect, curiosity and interest.

When it comes to social media, families are seeking help.

With ever-changing algorithms pushing content at children, parents are seeing their kids’ mental health suffer, even as platforms like TikTok and Instagram provide connections with friends. Some are questioning whether kids should be on social media at all, and if so, starting at what age.

Lawmakers have taken notice.

A bipartisan group of senators recently introduced legislation

aiming to prohibit all children under the age of 13 from using social media. It would also require permission from a guardian for users under 18 to create an account. It is one of several proposals in Congress seeking to make the internet safer for children and teens.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday the Federal Trade Commission said Facebook misled parents and failed to protect the privacy of children using its Messenger Kids app, including misrepresenting the access it provided to app developers to private user data. Now, the FTC is proposing sweeping changes to a privacy order it has with Facebook’s parent company Meta that would include prohibiting it from making money from data it collects on children.

But making laws and regulating companies takes time. What are parents — and teens — supposed to do in the meantime? Here are some tips on staying safe, communicating and setting limits on social media — for kids as well as their parents.

IS 17 THE NEW 13?

There’s already, technically, a rule that prohibits kids under 13 from using platforms that advertise to them without parental consent: The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act that went into effect in 2000 — before today’s teenagers were even born.

The goal was to protect kids’ online privacy by requiring websites and online services to disclose clear privacy policies and get parents’ consent before gathering personal information on their kids, among other things. To comply, social media companies have generally banned kids under 13 from signing up for their services, although it’s been widely documented that kids sign up anyway, either with or without their parents’ permission.

But times have changed, and online privacy is no longer the only concern when it comes to kids being online. There’s bullying, harassment, the risk of developing eating disorders, suicidal thoughts or worse.

For years, there has been a push among parents, educators and tech experts to wait to give children phones — and access to

social media — until they are older, such as the “Wait Until 8th” pledge that has parents sign a pledge not to give their kids a smartphone until the 8th grade, or about age 13 or 14. But neither social media companies nor the government have done anything concrete to increase the age limit.

IF THE LAW WON’T BAN KIDS, SHOULD PARENTS?

“There is not necessarily a magical age,” said Christine Elgersma, a social media expert at the nonprofit Common Sense Media. But, she added, “13 is probably not the best age for kids to get on social media.”

The laws currently being proposed include blanket bans on the under-13 set when it comes to social media. The problem? There’s no easy way to verify a person’s age when they sign up for apps and online services. And the apps popular with teens today were created for adults first. Companies have added some safeguards over the years, Elgersma noted, but these are piecemeal changes, not fundamental rethinks of the services.

“Developers need to start building apps with kids in mind,” she said.

Some tech executives, celebrities such as Jennifer Garner and parents from all walks of life have resorted to banning their kids from social media altogether. While the decision is a personal one that depends on each child and parent, some experts say this could lead to isolating kids, who could be left out of activities and discussions with friends that take place on social media or chat services.

Another hurdle — kids who have never been on social media may find themselves ill-equipped to navigate the platforms when they are suddenly allowed free rein the day they turn 18.

TALK, TALK, TALK

Start early, earlier than you think. Elgersma suggests that parents go through their own social media feeds with their children before they are old enough to be online and have open discussions on what they see. How

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scene & herd

Stanley Summer Series at Stanley Marketplace

June 10 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 2430 Havana St. Aurora, CO 80014. Visit http://alturl.com/z436z for more information.

Brewery Boot Camp at A Bit Twisted Brewpub and BBQ

Second Sunday of the Month from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. 2501 Dallas St. Aurora, CO 80010. Visit http://alturl.com/owfwh for more information.

We might have found your Sunday plans for you. Well, the second Sunday of the month anyways.

Stanley Marketplace is bringing in live music and performers as well as their best vendor friends for a fun afternoon, chock full of entertainment, eating and shopping.

Bringing lawn chairs or blankets is highly encouraged, ya know, for that additional comfort while hangin’ in the sun, catching the vibes, supporting local businesses and sipping on a refreshing beverage.

And be sure to check on the theme for the day before heading out. It’s always a little fun to dress on theme for sunny day parties.

Park Lights and Movie Nights: Minions: the Rise of Gru at Mission Viejo Park

Do you dabble in the macabre? Is your interest piqued by the world of oddities? If so, Stampede is hosting an event tailored to you. In addition to the bevy of hearses that will be on display, there will also be a Morbid Curiosities Carnival, a collection of vendors selling spooky and odd wares and art. And what’s a convention without live music and food to add to the overload of entertainment that will surely greet you upon your arrival. Tim Cappello will be preforming as well — he was the sax player in the Lost Boys. Y’all know the scene. “I Still Believe.”

If your interests are stoked, consider checking this event out. Should be quite the scene.

Southlands Summer Events at Southlands Mall

May 20 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. 3095 S. Peoria St. Unit B, Aurora, CO 80014. Visit https://bit. ly/3kOdmmx for more information.

Time to shed those winter pounds. The ones that we instinctively pile on to keep us oh so cozy during those chilly winter months. We’ve all got them. Even if it was just one or two that we happily added to the waistline.

A Bit Twisted Brewpub is hosting an hour-long bootcamp to sweat those residual wing calories.

The class is $15 and includes discounted barley pops for that much needed post-workout beer. Fun fact, they host this class every third Saturday of the month. For your own benefit, longevity and health, we suggest you consider becoming a regular. Exercise is good for everyone. The same applies for craft beer.

June 3 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 2802 S. Havana St. Aurora, CO 80014. Visit http://alturl.com/stqcf for more information.

Tis the season for outdoor markets and bazaars — cue the return of the second season of the monthly Havana Street Global Markets. This event plays host to the rich diversity that our city boasts so proudly. We are, as Vendors from all around the world offer tasty delicacies, complimented by a bevy of music and entertainment, including some new faces to the markets.

A new event, in a night market, will also take place this year promising to provide an even more electric atmosphere after the sun goes down.

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May 31 at 6:30 p.m. 3999 S. Mission Viejo Pkwy. Aurora, CO 80013. Visit http://alturl.com/fjznp for more information.

A classic summer event is returning to Aurora. Park Lights and Movie Nights are free screenings of family-fun movies that happen twice a week, Wednesdays and Thursdays at varying parks throughout the city and they’re starting the season with a real stitch of a film, Minions: The Rise of Gru. And June 1 at Expo Park, School of Rock will be screening. Two funny movies two nights in a row. I dare you to find something better to do in the middle of the week. And while you’re mulling that dare over, plan on attending these movies. Check the link above for the season’s schedule.

Times vary throughout the Summer. 6155 S Main St, Aurora, CO 80016. Visit shopsouthlands.com for more information.

Southlands is always buzzing with special events, and the upcoming summer and fall will hold true to tradition. Running mid-May through October, the Southlands Farmers Market will be a fine place to not only pick up local produce, but you’ll find a bevy of other local goods like pasta and baked goods. The Farmer’s Market is every Saturday from 8 a.m. – 1 p.m.

You’ll find some of the freshest seasonal local produce in the area here, as well as fresh baked goods, jams and jellies, and wares and works of art from local artisans. A nice little Saturday.

Colorado Remembers 10th Anniversary Ceremony at the Colorado Freedom Memorial

would your child handle a situation where a friend of a friend asks them to send a photo? Or if they see an article that makes them so angry they just want to share it right away?

For older kids, approach them with curiosity and interest.

“If teens are giving you the grunts or the single word answers, sometimes asking about what their friends are doing or just not asking direct questions like, ‘What are you doing on Instagram?’ but rather, ‘Hey, I heard this influencer is really popular,’” she suggested. “And even if your kid rolled their eyes it could be a window.”

Don’t say things like “Turn that thing off!” when your kid has been scrolling for a long time, says Jean Rogers, the director of the nonprofit Fairplay’s Screen Time Action Network.

“That’s not respectful,” Rogers said. “It doesn’t respect that they have a whole life and a whole world in that device.”

SETTING LIMITS

Rogers says most parents have success with taking their kids’ phones overnight to limit their scrolling. Occasionally kids might try to sneak the phone back, but it’s a strategy that tends to work because kids need a break from the screen.

“They need to an excuse with their peers to not be on their phone at night,” Rogers said. “They can blame their parents.”

Parents may need their own limits on phone use. Rogers said it’s helpful to explain what you are doing when you do have a phone in hand around your child so they understand you are not aimlessly scrolling through sites like Instagram. Tell your child that you’re checking work email, looking up a recipe for dinner or paying a bill so they understand you’re not on there just for fun. Then tell them when you plan to put the phone down.

May 27 at 10:00 a.m. 756 Telluride St. Aurora, CO 80011. Visit http://alturl.com/z2era for more information.

The Colorado Freedom Memorial is ringing in their 10th year with free pancakes — oh, displays of military vehicles and artifacts, a military flyover and ceremonial honors by the U.S. Air Force Honor Guard and Drill team.

That’s not all. The Sound of the Rockies and the Beverly Belles will be performing tributes and honors for Colorado’s fallen.

Did we mention the free pancakes?

Instead, Rogers suggests asking them questions about what they do on their phone, and see what your child is willing to share.

Kids are also likely to respond to parents and educators “pulling back the curtains” on social media and the sometimes insidious tools companies use to keep people online and engaged, Elgersma said. Watch a documentary like “The Social Dilemma” that explores algorithms, dark patterns and dopamine feedback cycles of social media. Or read up with them how Facebook and TikTok make money.

“Kids love to be in the know about these things, and it will give them a sense of power,” she said.

YOU CAN’T DO IT ALONE

Parents should also realize that it’s not a fair fight. Social media apps like Instagram are designed to be addictive, says Roxana Marachi, a professor of education at San Jose State University who studies data harms. Without new laws that regulate how tech companies use our data and algorithms to push users toward harmful content, there is only so much parents can do, Marachi said.

“The companies are not interested in children’s well-being, they’re interested in eyes on the screen and maximizing the number of clicks,” Marachi said.

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Preps

The Eaglecrest boys volleyball team came into the state tournament at Overland High School as the seventh overall seed, but made itself all the way to the championship match.

Seedings sometimes to go out the window once the ball goes up in a state tournament and that was certainly the case over three days of play as coach Chad Bond’s inspired Raptors rose to the occasion against higher-seeded foes the entire step of the way as they nearly won a state championship.

Eaglecrest nearly took down Discov-

tors followed that opening round win up with a five-set victory over Valor Christian — which they had lost to twice during the regular season — and the 25-22, 25-22, 23-25, 20-25, 15-12 victory put them into the match between the two undefeated teams in the championship bracket.

Going against a Discovery Canyon team that had lost just once all season, Eaglecrest won the first set and also took the fourth set after going down 2-1, but the Thunder prevailed 15-11 to deal the Raptors their first loss of the double-elimination tournament (23-25, 25-14, 25-22, 20-25, 15-11).

Raptors big rise

ery Canyon — last season’s state champion — in a championship bracket match, then lost again to the Thunder 25-21, 16-25, 25-17, 25-18 May 13 with the title on the line.

The Raptors opened the tournament with a bang, as they drew a rematch with Aurora rival Cherokee Trail in the first round. The second-seeded Cougars had won all three of the previous meetings, but Eaglecrest came out without fear.

Senior outside hitter Ayden Shaw piled up 27 kills, sophomore Jackson Shaw added 15 and the Raptors were adept at finding the open floor in the key situations on their way to a rousing 29-27, 2125, 25-23, 26-24 victory.

Eaglecrest overcame a 23-kill effort from Cherokee Trail star John Clinton and gained some belief that it could make a run in the tournament. That proved to be the case as the Rap-

Resilient Eaglecrest got another shot at Discovery Canyon after a 25-22, 25-21, 23-25, 25-23, victory over fourth-seeded Legend in an elimination match as Ayden Shaw remained locked in with a team-high 18 kills.

Discovery Canyon again was up to the challenge in the rematch and finally brought an end to the Raptors’ magical run with a fourset victory.

Still, it was a definite step forward for a program that will move on without some key seniors in Shaw, libero Dennis Ancheta, outside hitter Alex Opferman and senior Andrew White, but got encouraging performances from Jackson Shaw, freshman setter Dillan Ancheta and others.

Cherokee Trail, meanwhile, came into the state tournament with high hopes given its 22 wins in the regular season and the presence of a very veteran lineup.

Coach Mike Thomsen’s team rebounded from the opening loss to Eaglecrest with a 1925, 25-21, 25-23, 25-19 win over sixth-seeded

Bear Creek in its first elimination match, then moved on to play a Legend team that lost to Discovery Canyon.

The Cougars battled with the Titans for four grueling sets, but Legend prevailed 24-26, 2725, 25-21, 27-25 to end Cherokee Trail’s season.

Overland played host to the state tournament for the second consecutive season and had to deal with an issue on the opening day. All the rain that fell the previous night and continued through the day created a leak in the roof in the East Gym, which was to have matches as well.

Instead, matches were all shifted to the West Gym and that created a logjam on the opening day.

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BOYS VOLLEYBALL ABOVE: Eaglecrest seniors Ayden Shaw (6) and Dennis Ancheta, right, smile after the handshake line following the seventh-seeded Raptors’ four-set win over second-seeded Cherokee Trail in a boys volleyball state tournament opening round match on May 11 at Overland High Schoolr. BELOW: Eaglecrest sophomore Jackson Shaw, left, is wrapped up by junior Izy Maru following the first win for the Raptors, who made it all the way to the state championship match on May 13 before losing to Discovery Canyon. Photos by Courtney Oakes/Sentinel Colorado

LAST RESORT

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“Last Resort” is a Colorado News Collaborative-led investigation by Chalkbeat Colorado, The Colorado Sun and KFF Health News into the collapsing system of schools that serve some of Colorado’s most vulnerable students. The state is now scrambling to shore up what are known as facility schools, which enroll thousands of students a year with intense mental and behavioral health needs. Sentinel Colorado is a member of COlab, a statewide collaborative group of Colorado newspapers and media.

LEFT: Third Way Center in Denver provides high school classes, vocational programs, and residential housing to adolescents often have histories of abuse, neglect, or have mental illness.

BELOW: Teens are usually referred to Third Way Center by the Department of Human Services, Division of Youth Services, local mental health centers, or other private placements. Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America

Colorado racing to save the schools that serve children whose home districts can’t or won’t meet their intense needs

Erin Schneiderman used to get calls in the middle of the day two or three times a week to pick her son up from his Denver elementary school.

The third-grader had run away or was standing in the hallway screaming. Meltdowns could last for hours. School was just too loud and crowded, with too much unpredictability, for a child with autism who craved routine.

Denver Public Schools decided Schneiderman’s son should go to a privately run school that specializes in serving children with intense behavioral, mental health or special education needs. But when it came time to start fourth grade, he still didn’t have a spot. The boy spent two months at home, most of that time getting no education at all.

Today, nearly five years later, the few options for Colorado students like Schneiderman’s son have dwindled further. In 2004, Colorado had 80 of these specialized programs known as facility schools. Now there are just 30

that serve an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 children a year. A single school serves all of western Colorado. On the Front Range, another school is set to close soon.

Meager state funding, dire staffing shortages and changes to federal law have pushed the system to the brink. Lawmakers hope a cash infusion and regulatory changes will spur the opening of new schools — even as school districts are seeking their own solutions.

When there’s no open facility school seat, children may languish at home. They may remain in a mental health facility longer than they need to, taking up a bed that could be used by another child stuck in a hospital emergency room. Or they may stay in classrooms, struggling to learn, coming undone, lashing out almost daily and disrupting the learning of their classmates.

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Parents pay the price in lost jobs, and children pay the price in squandered potential.

Public schools have an obligation to educate every child. Facility schools — which operate at the crosscurrents of education, mental health, disability and trauma — serve as placements of last resort when public schools can’t or won’t meet a child’s needs.

“K-12 was set up to educate the masses,” said Cori Woessner, a career public school educator who isn’t sure her own son with disabilities would have finished high school without the more supportive environment provided in facility schools.

“We’re not talking about the masses. We’re talking about the kids with the most severe needs that need the most support to be a productive member of society. To even have a chance at it.”

Facility schools balance academics and therapy

Facility schools offer academic programs within larger therapeutic settings. Some facilities serve children in foster care who need mental health care, or children in the juvenile criminal system who need treatment before returning home. The more common scenario is that students live at home and school districts send them to day treatment programs.

“Once we make that decision, it’s not because we don’t like kids and we’re sending them somewhere else,” said Callan Ware, the executive director of student services in Englewood Schools, a small district south of Denver. “We are saying we like them so much, we care about them so much — and we’re admitting to you we don’t have what it takes to support them and we’re going to find it and we’re going to pay for it.”

Some critics say facility schools too often end up warehousing kids who, with more support, could have stayed in their home schools. Oversight is spread across multiple state and local agencies. When a school district recommends a facility school, parents have no easy way to know if the school is good or safe, though they rarely get a choice about placement.

“Students don’t need to be segregated in order to have their needs met and be successful in school,” said Lewis Bossing, senior staff attorney with the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. “We think that there are a number of different kinds of supports that can be put in place so that, for the most part, students can be served in general education settings.”

The Tennyson Center for Children is a facility school located in a bright, modern building in a residential Denver neighborhood. The staff seems to have endless patience for be-

haviors that would likely get a student kicked out of public school.

On a recent Friday, an elementary student ran up and down the hallway letting out a series of screams between his spelling words and math problems.

The boy was working with a staff member in one of the “nooks” — a small recessed room without a door where students can retreat if they’re feeling overwhelmed.

“I don’t want to do any more work!” the boy said, coming out of the nook and kicking the wall.

“To earn our positive breaks with staff, we have to complete work,” the staff member said, reminding the boy that he was working toward earning computer time in the library.

“It’s hard for me,” the boy said. He asked why his classmates, who had just completed a worksheet on Presidents Day, were earning points for good behavior and he wasn’t.

“Because they stay in class,” the staff member calmly told him as he pouted and fumed. “Part of the expectation of being in school is staying in class.”

The boy went back into the nook and screamed again.

When funding dries up, kids are funneled down

Children with these challenges were once institutionalized in psychiatric facilities that created their own schools. But since the 1990s, the philosophy has shifted toward community-based care. The Medicaid dollars that supported the previous system dried up.

Twenty residential treatment facilities closed in Colorado between 2007 and 2017, according to newspaper reports. On the heels of those closures, Congress passed the Family First

Prevention Services Act, which sought to keep more children with relatives or foster families and placed limits on government-funded residential care.

More residential programs closed. Options in rural Colorado — where the nearest school might be hours from home — became even more scarce.

“Great if we move away from facilities that aren’t cutting the mustard or doing what we need, but now we’ve gone too far,” said Becky Miller Updike, executive director of the nonprofit Colorado Association of Family and Children’s Agencies, which represents residential facilities.

More children in crisis are now funneled into day treatment programs. But the funding hasn’t increased.

Low funding means it’s hard to hire staff, which limits how many students they can serve. The job is hard, and new hires don’t always stay.

The aides at Spectra School, which started as a therapy clinic for children with autism, take 40 hours of behavior technician training and often wear bite guards and spit shields. Despite those precautions, founder Amy Gearhard said in January that three Spectra staff members had suffered concussions on the job, and two were out on workers’ compensation claims.

“You can’t pay them $15 an hour,” she said.

But the staff who stay at facility schools say they’re drawn to working with this population of kids.

“These alternative schools give kids chances to do it again and be successful,” said Renée Johnson, the executive director of Third Way Center, a residential facility that serves students in foster care or youth corrections. “That feeling of success is so important to build on.”

from one setting to another.

Schneiderman’s son did so well at Tennyson Center in Denver that everyone agreed he should go to public middle school, she said. But even with a dedicated teacher in a small program for students with disabilities, his meltdowns returned. Schneiderman began getting calls again to pick him up midday.

The controlled environment at Tennyson had made it hard to predict how or if her son might struggle once he returned to public school, she said.

Partway through seventh grade, an advocate suggested Schneiderman’s son try something different. Evoke Behavioral Health is not a facility school, but a private day treatment program specializing in a type of intervention called applied behavioral analysis, or ABA. Evoke calls itself a “school alternative.”

Fewer schools means longer waitlists

A statewide snapshot taken on Dec. 1 each year found 1,266 students in facility schools in late 2017 but just 769 students in these schools in 2022. That’s a 40% decrease.

It’s not because the demand has decreased. Students who would wait two or three weeks for placement 15 years ago are now waiting “anywhere between two, three, or sometimes even six months for a placement,” said Courtney Leyba, Denver Public Schools senior manager of extended school support.

In the wait, students can unravel even more.

Until he got into a facility school two months into his fourth grade year, Schneiderman’s son would have meltdowns over literally anything, she said.

Schneiderman ended up having to take a leave from her job. An in-home tutor the district promised didn’t start working with him until he’d already been home more than a month.

“It felt like we were completely lost in a system that we had no idea how to navigate,” Schneiderman said. “That had to have been one of the worst periods of our lives for sure.”

Moving ahead toward an uncertain future

A state law signed by Gov. Jared Polis this spring more than doubles facility school funding and seeks to make it easier to open new schools. Parents, advocates and special education experts all say that meeting the needs of some of Colorado’s most vulnerable children will require more than just saving the schools. Families need more options all along the spectrum of inclusion and separation, and children need more care as they make precarious transitions

Evoke, she said, has been life-changing. Now that she’s not picking her son up midday, she’s able to work full-time again. And her goofy 13-year-old eighth grader, who loves video games, science fiction audiobooks, and skiing with his parents, is thriving.

But that progress means his time at Evoke is coming to an end.

Because he’s doing so well, Schneiderman said the school district wants him back in public school.

“As a parent, that is terrifying. Absolutely terrifying,” Schneiderman said. “There’s no in-between options that we can find. We can’t figure out what our next step is.”

How Colorado is filling gaps as last-resort schools dwindle

Help is finally coming to Colorado’s facility schools, which often serve as a last resort for some of the state’s most vulnerable students.

A new state law will cut red tape and boost funding for the collapsing system, which serves children with intense behavioral, mental health or special education needs. The law also aims to train local teachers and staff, especially in rural areas, to serve such students closer to home.

While experts are hopeful, they acknowledged it won’t entirely fix the problems that led 50 privately run facility schools to close in the past 20 years, leaving just 30 open today.

“It’s a huge, complex system, and it’d be naive to think one piece of legislation is going to fix everything,” said Paul Foster, the executive director of exceptional student services for the Colorado Department of Education. “But the legislation is trying to take that into account.”

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Licensed therapist Stacy Archuleta walks students through several important points for the group during the day’s group therapy session at the Hilltop Day Treatment school in Grand Junction, Colorado. Gretel Daugherty/Special to The Colorado Sun

likeliest candidates to become facility schools — small private programs that already serve students with disabilities — have said they’re not interested.

Meanwhile, public school districts have been starting programs of their own. But the new legislation does little to support these “missing middle” programs. The leader of one regional consortium said the state should be funneling money to them instead.

In a state that has long underfunded both education and behavioral health, there are gaps everywhere and no shortage of work to be done. However, there are also models, here and elsewhere, that point toward a better way to serve what can be a forgotten population.

New rules make it easier to form facility schools

Soon, specialized private programs will be able to apply just to the Colorado Department of Education to get licensed as facility schools, instead of first getting licensed as a day treatment facility through the Department of Human Services.

The goal is to remove an expensive and often irrelevant layer of bureaucracy encountered by schools such as The Learning Zone. The small school in Littleton teaches nonverbal students who have rare genetic disorders, Down syndrome, autism, and other disabilities to use devices that allow them to communicate by pushing buttons that convey words or phrases.

When it sought licensing as a day treatment center, it was subjected to a checklist of safety requirements and psychological goals geared toward an entirely different population of students — those with mental health issues and trauma.

Getting more of these programs approved as facility schools matters because school districts are more likely to pay for placement in state-approved programs.

Private programs offer more options — at a cost

Firefly Autism in Lakewood isn’t a school. It doesn’t have teachers or students. Instead, the 42 children and young adults who spend their days there are called “learners.” They work one-on-one with certified behavior experts to learn life skills. To become a facility school, Firefly would have to hire teachers and a special education director and follow a curriculum aligned to state academic standards.

“We’ve been open for 20 years,” President and CEO Amanda Kelly said. “To make such a massive change, we just don’t know if that’s what Firefly should do.”

Humanex Academy, a private middle and high school in Englewood that serves neurodiverse students, doesn’t want to become a facility school because it disagrees with the goal of returning students to public

school.

“We didn’t want districts to say, ‘How soon can you fix them and give them back to us?’”

Principal Kati Cahill said. “I always was a proponent of public education. But unfortunately the existing system isn’t set up to meet the needs of these kids.”

School districts like Cherry Creek filling the gaps

Boards of Cooperative Educational Services, or BOCES, are regional associations of school districts that pool resources to provide a service they would not be able to alone.

Sandy Malouff is the executive director and special education director for the Santa Fe Trail BOCES, which serves six rural school districts in southeastern Colorado. Malouff started a day treatment program — Southeast Alternative Learning Academy in La Junta — years ago because metro Denver facility schools were too far away, and students who did attend those schools often struggled when reintegrating into their home schools.

The Pikes Peak BOCES School of Excellence serves students from more than a dozen districts around Colorado Springs who might otherwise need a facility school. A satellite location in the tiny town of Calhan puts services within reach for rural families.

Executive Director Pat Bershinsky said the state should put more money into programs that keep children connected to their home districts. “The kid’s not just put in a facility somewhere and forgotten about,” he said.

In the Aurora area, Cherry Creek School District is building its own treatment program that officials say is unlike any other. Traverse Academy will serve 60 students in three sep-

arate wings, with varying levels of therapy and academics. Children’s Hospital Colorado and the University of Colorado Department of Psychiatry will provide clinicians to work alongside the educators.

“With the closure of these facilities, we just have more kids in crisis who are left with no option,” said Tony Poole, the district’s assistant superintendent of special populations. “It means we have kids in significant crisis walking our hallways every day.”

Advocates want more inclusion, not just more institutions

Some advocates say the real solution lies with helping public schools support students in traditional classrooms, not in creating more separate programs.

“When you build it, they will come,” said Diane Smith Howard, an attorney with the National Disability Rights Network. “What we have learned is: Anytime you create a program, the slots get filled. And they don’t necessarily get filled with kids who want to be there.”

When students do go to specialized settings, supporting their successful return to their home school is critical. Teachers at Brook Valley South in Nebraska show teachers at students’ home schools how to carefully track behavior through the day and watch for patterns.

Teacher Carrie Fairbairn recalled one student who would run up and down the aisle of the bus badgering other students until they assigned him a seat behind the talkative driver who chatted the whole way to school.

“Lo and behold,” Fairbairn said. “Zero bus issues.”

“Sometimes folks are so quick to see that label on a kid: [emotional disability] or behavior disorder,” she added. “And you’re like, ‘move his seat.’”

are responsible for monitoring the schools, but those visits in some cases happen only every two years and reports from the state education and human services departments aren’t readily available to the public. The Colorado Sun and Chalkbeat Colorado filed multiple requests under public records laws to receive reports, some of which were redacted, that offer a glimpse into the facility school environment.

Maintaining separate schools for children who act out aggressively, frequently run from school, or have severe medical or intellectual needs is controversial, with some parents and disability rights advocates questioning whether they are holding centers for kids with behavior problems. It’s clear Colorado needs more facility schools to accommodate the growing number of children with behavioral health struggles, but advocates also want enough information to ensure kids are safe and learning.

“We we don’t really have a choice but to make them better”

More state money for vulnerable student schools contrasts with progress

Colorado is doubling the funding next year for schools that enroll students whose mental health or medical needs are too intense for regular schools to handle, calling for 12 new schools to open within the next three years.

The number of these specialized schools, which operate as day centers or are part of residential treatment facilities or hospitals, has fallen over the past two decades to 30 from 80. They offer a combination of therapy and academics in an effort to stabilize thousands of students a year so they can return to their home schools.

But even as the state attempts to shore up a system that’s been sapped by staff shortages, inadequate state funding and other challenges, it is nearly impossible for parents and other members of the public to get answers to a fundamental question: Are students enrolled in the schools safe and learning?

Facility schools are intended to act as temporary programs of last resort to stabilize students so they can successfully return to their home schools. Yet, the state does not keep track of how many students return to regular school or how many eventually graduate.

The state requires facility school students to take its standardized tests, but does not provide individual school results, citing student privacy because the classes are so small.

The schools exist at the intersection of the educational, mental health and juvenile justice systems. Multiple state agencies

The prime sponsor of the new law that will pour an additional $18 million into facility schools next year, increasing their funding by 2.6 times what’s in current law, agrees that Colorado needs more data about whether facility schools are working. Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, an Arvada Democrat and chair of the Joint Budget Committee, hopes her legislation will force the various state agencies that oversee the schools to cooperate and report better data on outcomes within a few years. It also requires that schools earn accreditation in order to receive state funding through the new law.

“There are some facilities where we do question whether they are simply warehousing kids and whether they offer good programming,” said Pamela Bisceglia, executive director of Advocacy Denver, which speaks up for Denver Public Schools children with special needs. She has visited several facility schools over the years with parents who are deciding where to place their children. Some are clean, calm and excelling at teaching children, she said. And some are not.

Bisceglia recalled visiting one Denver school where children ages 5-17 were all in the same room, some lying on the floor, no one interacting with each other, while several staff members in the room were scrolling on their phones.

“They were simply trying to keep them from hurting themselves or others,” she said. “There wasn’t any learning going on. There wasn’t any individualized therapy.”

The Arc Pikes Peak Region believes all children should attend their neighborhood schools

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Riley George is dropped off at the J. Wilkins Opportunity School, a facility school in Colorado Springs. Rae Ellen Bichell/KFF Health News

rather than facility schools where they end up cut off from their peers, said Connie McKenzie, an advocate for children with disabilities. If children do end up in a facility school, their time there should be temporary, with the goal that they will gain skills so they can return to their neighborhood school.

“In actuality, I don’t think that happens as often as anyone would like,” McKenzie said. “In my experience, a lot of times when kids are sent to facility schools, they never return to their neighborhood schools. Sometimes it’s a moving target for them to try to meet to get back into that neighborhood school. Sometimes they just never learn the skills that the school feels that they need.”

Maureen Welch, a member of a task force that studied facility schools for the past year and whose son attended one, said Colorado needs “a lot of light and sunshine” to illuminate the process of approving facility schools in the next few years. She wants to make sure the state is bringing in quality programs ranging from small, neighborhood startups that serve a handful of students with related issues, to large, national operations.

“We need to actually have them learn and move forward,” Welch said. “Yes it’s expensive, but we don’t really have a choice but to make them better. What are we going to do? Put these kids in the correctional system? There is no place to put them because there are not institutions anymore. We will always have a population of kids that can’t be served in a public school district situation.”

Under the new law, schools must receive accreditation based on recommendations from the state facility school board, a panel created in 2008. Board chairperson Steven Ramirez did not return multiple requests for comment from The Colorado Sun and its partners.

The Office of Facility Schools, within the Colorado Department of Education, pushed back on the characterization that facility schools are just a place to keep kids that school districts don’t want to deal with anymore.

“Are there facilities somewhere out there that exist that maybe aren’t being as effective as they need to be or warehousing kids? I don’t think we can eliminate that as a possibility,” said Paul Foster, the executive director of exceptional student services for the education department. “I think we can pretty safely say if they’re in our facility school system, that that’s not the case.”

If it were the case, he said, monitoring visits by the department would have turned up “serious or even egregious” violations instead of the more pedestrian problems that they

more commonly find.

Facility schools are not rated based on their test scores in the same way that traditional public schools are, Foster said. While students at facility schools are required to take state standardized tests, state officials take into account that students have “unique and pretty significant needs — and that’s why they’re in a facility school setting,” Foster said.

Callan Ware, the executive director of student services for Englewood Schools, a small district south of Denver, said that when she sends a student to a facility school, it’s because their behavior is so dysregulated — they’re skipping class, getting kicked out, or harming themselves — that they struggle to concentrate and learn.

“While we do absolutely have academic expectations of facility schools, the No. 1 goal is, let’s learn the skills you need to be successful in a public setting,” Ware said.

She recalled one student who struggled with boundaries and impulsiveness and who routinely got sent home from public school for touching other students in class. After less than a year of daily therapy in a facility school, the student “totally turned it around,” she said. His engagement in academic tasks skyrocketed and when he returned to public school, “we could see the kind of student he could be because he wasn’t getting kicked out of class all the time.”

Human services reports reveal safety issues involving cleaning chemicals, restraints

The job of ensuring students are safe and getting a quality education in facility schools falls to multiple state agencies.

The Colorado Department of Education is charged with making sure the schools are following curriculum guidelines and the components of students’ individualized special education plans. The state Depart-

ment of Human Services, which includes the child protection division, monitors schools to make sure students are safe. Human Services licenses schools in day-treatment or residential centers, while the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment licenses those in hospitals.

When Colorado lawmakers implemented the Office of Facility Schools at the state education department in 2008, they ordered the office to create curriculum standards, graduation guidelines and an accountability system for the schools. While those standards were written, some of the performance data isn’t tracked or is not easily accessible to the public.

In response to a records request, the Colorado Department of Education provided average standardized test scores across all facility schools — they are lower than the state average, which state officials attributed to their intense behavioral health needs. Colorado’s strict student privacy law requires redacting data about small student groups, and the state wouldn’t provide any test data for individual schools.

The Colorado Sun and its partners gleaned what data we could by seeking documents under state open records laws. The state doesn’t track graduation rates or keep a count of how many students return to their home districts after attending a facility school. The Department of Human Services charged $90 for redacted reports on child safety. One police department said it would cost $4,700 for copies of reports that could shed light on why police were called so frequently to a facility school and the residential center where it’s housed in Colorado Springs.

The state human services department conducts regular inspections of schools in day-treatment and residential centers, focusing on whether children’s rights are protected. When the division receives

12 schools cited by education department in past five years

In the past five years, the Colorado Department of Education has ordered 12 facility schools to take corrective action for violations ranging from not uploading individualized special education plan documents, using curriculum not aligned to state standards, and cutting into academic time by pulling students out of class for therapy, according to monitoring and corrective action reports reviewed by Chalkbeat Colorado

Five of those 12 schools are closed now. That means seven of the 30 facility schools currently operating — or about 23% — have had violations in the past five years. Most were addressed by the next time state monitors visited.

a complaint about the way a child was restrained or injured, a state monitor investigates to determine if the school violated state regulations regarding child abuse or neglect. The Colorado Sun reviewed a year’s worth of school monitoring documents after receiving redacted reports through state open records laws.

The reports shed light on the often chaotic, and at times unsafe, environment at schools for students with a history of behavior problems deemed too much for regular schools to manage.

Mount Saint Vincent, a Denver day treatment center with a school, was cited last summer after a child was able to get ahold of cleaning chemicals and spray them at staff, sending a worker to the emergency room with possible eye and inhalation injuries.

The school was cited again in September after a father of one of the students complained about a red mark on his child that he said was from being held down by staff members on a “hot sidewalk.” A state report says the child threw a water bottle and began hitting two workers after being told to complete math before playing. The staff members restrained the child in a supine hold, face up on a paved courtyard, as the child screamed “Let my arm go” and “The concrete hurts.”

Tennyson Center, another Denver day treatment center, was cited in January for failing to supervise a child who had a known history of cutting herself. The girl hurt herself in a bathroom after staff failed to check on her, according to one Colorado Department of Human Services report.

Devereux Cleo Wallace, which has a day treatment school in Westminster that is closing at the end of this school year, was investigated after a worker chased after and collided with a child running toward a maintenance shed containing tools.

Poplar Way Academy, inside a behavioral health hospital in Littleton, was cited for cluttered and dirty learning areas, “minimal structure,” and lots of downtime for the 17 students who were there when the monitors visited last June.

“Students had control over the radio and music was playing loudly as they worked,” said the report, which was by far the most egregious of 88 monitoring reports reviewed for this story. “There were no redirections for inappropriate language or behaviors, and students were often left unsupervised or allowed to walk out of the classroom with no redirection. Inappropriate boundaries were noted among students,” who were male and female.

The school is different from most in that it’s for teenagers who have been admitted to a hospital on mental health holds, meaning they were deemed a danger to themselves or others. The average length of stay is just four to five days, the report says.

The school’s director of special education, Deon Roberts, said that since state officials’ last visit, the school has hired more teachers, increased staff training and expanded the curriculum. The school is “committed to continuous improvement while providing much-needed educational services to a challenging population of students,” she said in an email.

The majority of the violations, however, are for “quick fixes” that schools can address with more training or resources, said Judy Stirman, director of facility schools at the state education department.

State education officials try to help schools with a background in mental health treatment understand their educational obligations, said Foster, with the state education department. “If I’m a therapist or someone at a facility school, I’m looking at the whole package, and so I may not understand that the school side of it has committed to a certain plan for this child in addition to the treatment plan you’re doing.

“Special education is pretty

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The Tennyson Center For Children, founded in 1904, provides community programs, schooling and daycare services to children who are neglected or abused. Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America

technical, so you can have technical violations,” he said. “Don’t hear me say that technical violations don’t need to be treated seriously. But a technical violation that is quickly remedied is not usually harmful to the student.”

Facility schools with violations get a visit each year from a pair of state monitors. Schools without violations get a visit every other year from monitors who use a 98-item checklist. In addition to whether schools are complying with the mounds of federal requirements related to special education, the monitors determine whether teachers are properly licensed and staff are using positive behavior interventions with students and not punitive ones, for example.

The reports provide a window into what the schools look and feel like. Many describe bright classrooms with student artwork on display. They note that most schools use a reward system where students with good behavior earn tickets that they can redeem for prizes. Some schools hold events like talent shows and carnivals. One has a basketball team. Another has a student choir. A few have therapy dogs, gardens, or culinary arts programs.

Juvenile records laws shield information about safety

Several of Colorado’s facility schools include a mix of students who live at home with their parents and students who are in foster care and live in the residential treatment center that contains the school.

This clouds transparency about the safety of the schools, since police regularly visit residential centers for young people who might have lived in multiple foster homes and juvenile justice centers.

Public records requests from The Sun to police departments in Colorado Springs and Denver revealed a constant drumbeat of emergency calls to facility schools or programs housed in the same complexes.

Between April 2021 and the end of March, for example, Colorado Springs police responded hundreds of times to the J. Wilkins Opportunity School, 10 Farragut Ave., and the residential program across the street, 17 Farragut Ave., police records show.

More than 100 emergencies were reported at the school, including 18 assaults as well as sexual assaults, threats, harassment, 911 hangups and suicide attempts. The residential facility, where some of the students live, accounted for more than 470 police calls during that period, with dozens more reports of assaults, threats, indecent exposure, missing children and sexual offenses, the records show.

No details were provided beyond the time, date and nature of each call. Police said a request for more records of those calls would require an estimated $4,700 payment for research

and redaction fees.

Managing outbursts and aggressive behavior is nothing new at the J. Wilkins Opportunity School, said Lauren Campbell, the chief operating officer of the Griffith Centers, which runs the school and residential program.

“Some of that behavior is why these kids — a good portion of them — are here,” Campbell said. “It’s not an ideal piece of learning, clearly, but unfortunately it’s the safest place for most of these students to be in general.”

When police are called, the children involved in the emergency are separated from other students, so officers aren’t entering classrooms, Campbell said. That minimizes disruptions and allows staff to restore order and return to teaching, she said.

A threat that might get a child suspended or even kicked out of another school often results in a safety plan involving special accommodations, such as a temporary transfer to a different classroom.

Campbell said calls to police had increased in the past two years, citing a staffing shortage that made it harder for workers to defuse conflicts on their own.

The campus used to operate five residential centers, housing up to 40 children. But they closed all but one after the passage of the federal Family First Prevention Services Act, which pushed states to send fewer children to residential care.

The closures reduced the campus staff by roughly 50%, and the only remaining residential center was reserved for the kids with the severest needs, leading to more frequent calls for help, Campbell said.

Still, the emphasis remains on keeping children safe, and on campus.

“They end up in less troublesome situations than in a school setting,” she said. “We’re less likely to press charges than a school would. If they’re here,

we’re not suspending them, either.”

In Denver, police similarly logged thousands of calls per year to facility schools or the complexes housing them, also for reports of assaults, missing children and various disturbances, records show. But Denver police declined to provide incident or arrest reports that would disclose more detail, citing a state law meant to protect juveniles’ privacy.

McKenzie, with The Arc Pikes Peak Region, worries Colorado isn’t doing enough to make sure kids at facility schools are safe.

“There isn’t that oversight,” said McKenzie, who advocates for a handful of families each year whose kids end up attending facility schools, noting some students are terrified of returning to one.

“They were afraid,” she said. “They were legitimately afraid of what was going to happen to them if they went back to a place where they felt they had been abused.”

Becky Miller Updike, director of the Colorado Association of Family and Children’s Agencies, which represents some of the largest youth treatment facilities in Colorado, is hopeful that this year’s legislation will set facility schools on a trajectory of better funding and more accountability.

“With this new investment from the legislature, facility schools will now track data and access technical assistance more robustly than ever before,” she said. “We will have new ways to measure what’s working and what’s not.”

Zenzinger’s legislation requires multiple state agencies to work together to help current schools function better and new ones open.

“Facility schools don’t neatly live under one department. That’s why they are such a challenge,” she said. “We are definitely mandating a new level of

with cheerful colors and maps, are on one side of the building of the Dahlia Campus for Health and Well-Being. On the other side are the mental health center’s counseling offices where children get individual and family therapy.

The school has a capacity for 24, yet only 14 desks are full — even as school districts across Colorado are scrambling to find spaces for children whose needs are beyond what they can handle.

Program manager Erica Edewaard said that’s because many of the children who’ve been referred to Skyline in recent months have behavioral issues more intense than even Skyline can accommodate. Some of the kids referred by school districts, she said, need residential treatment.

cooperation between these different departments so that they are each doing their part.”

As part of the new accreditation requirements, schools will have to report additional data showing student outcomes, and the new law provides funding for data collection because “we absolutely would like to track things a little bit better,” Zenzinger said. A task force that has studied facility schools for the last year and made recommendations ahead of Zenzinger’s legislation will continue to meet and help determine what data the schools are required to report.

“We want them to be accredited and deliver good quality public education,” she said. “Obviously they aren’t traditional schools. You are not going to have passing periods and a full schedule every day. But we want to make sure that children in facility schools are able to graduate and go on to college and have productive lives.”

One child out of 11 returned to a regular school

On a recent day at Skyline Academy in Denver, elementary school children read quietly at their desks as a flat-screen television at the front of their classroom played soothing music and showed a trickling waterfall.

The desks at Skyline, which is run by Denver’s community mental health center WellPower, have bungee rubber bands that stretch from one chair leg to the other so kids can put their feet on them and bounce as they study fractions or read aloud. Each child gets a plastic rainbow wiggle slug they silently twist and curl in their palm, helping them relieve anxiety. Children can use standing desks or “wobbly” stools inside of regular chairs. There is a “chill room” and a “peace room” containing bean bags and swings where students can hang out if the classroom gets too stressful.

The classrooms, decorated

Skyline, not far from busy Martin Luther King and Colorado boulevards, won’t accept children who repeatedly run away because they could get hit by cars. Under state law, schools like Skyline are not allowed to lock their doors and staff are prohibited from physically restraining students unless there is imminent risk of danger to themselves or others. Skyline also won’t typically take kids with a history of destroying property or assaulting teachers or other students, especially if they are nearly the same size as Edewaard’s staff.

“I also have to take into consideration the size of the student relative to the size of my staff,” Edewaard said. “If I’m always relying on just my two tallest staff members, that’s going to burn them out really quickly.”

The goal at Skyline is that students learn to cope with their anxiety, depression or attention disorder so they are able to function and learn in a regular classroom. For most, however, a direct transition to regular school is not that easy.

Eleven students have left Skyline in the past year, according to data provided by the school. Three students left for hospitalization or a residential treatment program, one “aged out” and a handful of others went to other step-down or specialized school programs.

Only one returned to a regular classroom.

Melanie Asmar is a senior reporterforChalkbeatColorado, coveringDenverPublicSchools. ContactMelanieatmasmar@ chalkbeat.org

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A “chill space” room at Skyline Academy provides a separate space from classrooms where students can seek a darker, quieter environment to emotionally decompress and self-soothe. Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America

Right: Regis Jesuit senior Truman Inglis won the Class 5A state championship in the 50 yard freestyle and had two teammates finish in the top six as well as the Raiders earned big points in the event.

Middle: Members of the Regis Jesuit boys swim team gather on the medal podium with the Class 5A state championship trophy it won in competition May 12 at the Veterans’ Memorial Aquatic Center. (Photo courtesy Ray Chen/Array photos)

Below: Grandview sophomore Oliver Schimberg became the program’s second all-time Class 5A state champion when he catpured the 100 yard backstroke.

The Regis Jesuit boys swim team lost twice to Cherry Creek during the regular season, but the Raiders came up with the result that mattered the most May 12.

The Bruins got the better of them at a dual meet that came with some discouragement, but the Raiders gained some confidence despite a loss at the John Strain Memorial Invitational.

The teams gathered again to go head-to-head over two days at the Class 5A state meet at the Veterans’ Memorial Aquatic Center and this time, Regis Jesuit came out on top with a 10.5-point victory that netted the program its second straight state title and 24th all-time.

Coach Nick Frasersmith’s Regis Jesuit team

its season best with a 1:23.47 that brought it in just ahead of runner-up Monarch, which went 1:23.94.

The Raiders had four top-18 finishers in the 100 yard backstroke and three consolation finalists in the 100 breaststroke, then sewed up the meet with a third-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay from Inglis, Krauss, Wendt and senior Charlie Klein.

For the meet, 15 Regis Jesuit swimmers scored in at least one event and five made championship finals in two events.

Inglis coupled his 50 freestyle title with a thirdplace result in the 100 freestyle, while Krauss finished fourth in the 200 and fifth in the 500, Anderson grabbed fourth in the 50 free and fifth in the 100 butterfly, Wendt captured sixth in the 50 free and eighth in the 100 and senior Harry Kerscher came in sixth in the 100 backstroke and ninth in the 100 butterfly.

Raiders repeat

cruised to victory in 2022, but this time it was competitive the entire way as the Raiders had to overcome the lack of a single diver, while Cherry Creek came into the finals with an advantage as it had the state champion in Luke Ogren.

Regis Jesuit set itself up for a big finish with a good performance in the May 11 prelims and finished it off with a state title that included a pair of event championships, both involving senior Truman Inglis.

The Raiders got a big boost of points in the 50 yard freestyle with three championship finalists and all three — Inglis and fellow seniors Carter Anderson and Hawkins Wendt — finished in the top six. First to the wall was Inglis, who won the championship in the event in a time of 20.79 seconds, which brought him in just in front of Legacy’s Tegan Barrier, who clocked a 20.91.

Just behind were Anderson in fourth and Wendt in sixth. All three of those 50 freestyle finalists would team up with fellow senior Ronan Krauss later to win the 200 yard freestyle relay.

Regis Jesuit came in seeded first in the event and the senior foursome chopped some time off

Coming off a runner-up finish behind Cherry Creek at the Centennial “A” League Championship meet, Smoky Hill finished as the second-highest Centennial League program in the final standings with a fifth-place finish, which was an improvement by one spot from 2022.

Coach Scott Cohen’s Buffaloes got a pair of top-three individual finishes from junior Daniel Yi, who was again the 5A runner-up in the 100 breaststroke and also took third in the 200 individual medley.

Smoky Hill also got points from the thirdfourth finish of sophomore Ian Noffsinger and junior Jake Baker in the 500 freestyle and placed in the top nine of all three relays.

Ninth-place Grandview had only its second alltime state champion crowned as sophomore Oliver Schimberg claimed the title in the 100 backstroke with a time of 48.87 seconds to beat Monarch’s Gavin Keough to the wall. Schimberg joined John Martens as Grandview’s all-time champions.

Cherokee Trail — which finished 16th — got its top finish from sophomore Bronson Smothers, who came in third in the 50 freestyle, while the Cougars won the consolation heat of the 400 freestyle relay and placed in all three relays.

Overland had the only diver in the field in sophomore Chad Hamilton, who placed 20th.

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GIRLS LACROSSE Regis Jesuit makes it to 1st 5A state title game

The Regis Jesuit girls lacrosse team will play for the Class 5A state championship for the first time thanks to an 11-7 semifinal victory over Valor Christian May 16 at Englewood HIgh School.

In a game that started nearly two hours late and finished very late due to two lightning delays in the previous game, coach Crysti Foote’s sixth-seeded Raiders built a 7-4 lead at halftime and held off a charge from the Eagles in the second half en route to their first final.

Regis Jesuit advanced to the 5A state championship game at 7:30 p.m. May 19 at the University of Denver. Its opponent will be top-seeded Colorado Academy — 17-7 winner over Cherry Creek in the other semifinal — which will be in search of its eighth straight state title.

Senior Ava Rogala and sophomore Maddy Jokerst scored four goals apiece for Regis Jesuit (12-4), which also got two scores from junior Phoebe Rogala and another from senior Carly Kennedy. Freshman goalie Rayn Parker and the Raiders’ defense played well in the second half to hold off Valor Christian, which was in search of a third straight trip to the state championship game. Regis Jesuit got to avenge an 11-7 loss to the Eagles early in the season as well.

The Raiders defeated No. 3 ThunderRidge 16-11 in the quarterfinals May 13 at EchoPark Stadium after they opened the postseason with a 20-4 home win over No. 11 Rock Canyon May 10.

TRACK & FIELD Large city contingent set for state meets

The track & field season reaches the finish line with the multi-classification state meet that is scheduled to be contested May 18-20 at Jefferson County Stadium.

It appears that another big meet could be in store for local teams in the wake of last season, which saw the Grandview boys repeat as Class 5A state champions with Cherokee Trail as the runner-up, while Cherokee Trail took second place in 5A as well.

On the boys side, all four members of last season’s 4x800 meter relay state championship-winning team for Cherokee Trail (seniors Reuben Holness, Evan Armstrong, Beck Gutjahr and Logan McGowan) return, as do half of Grandview’s defending 4x100 and 4x200 meter teams in seniors David Maldonado and Luke Trinrud. Also back is three of the four members of Cherokee Trail’s 4x400 meter relay winner in Holness plus junior Kahari Wilbon and sophomore Peyton Sommers.

Among Aurora girls, Cherokee Trail’s Symone Adams — last season’s 5A 100 meter dash state champion —has battled injury and is not entered in any open events, while all

of Aurora’s other state champions graduated.

In all, 39 individuals and 17 relay teams from eight Aurora programs (Cherokee Trail, Eaglecrest, Grandview, Overland, Rangeview, Regis Jesuit, Smoky Hill andn Vista PEAK) will compete in the 5A boys meet, while one qualifier from Lotus School of Excellence is part of the 2A meet. Eight city programs (Cherokee Trail, Eaglecrest, Grandview, Hinkley, Rangeview, Regis Jesuit, SMoky Hill and Vista PEAK) will send 35 individuals and 16

relay teams to the 5A girls meet. For a full list of Aurora state qualifiers, state schedule and full coverage, visit sentinelcolorado.com/preps.

GIRLS TENNIS

densed Class 5A girls individual state tennis tournament May 13 at City Park.

The Raiders’ duo won three straight matches since their only previous defeat of the season and were a set towards finishing it off with a state title before the Fairview tandem of seniors Virginia Gomulka and Elizabeth Roth roared back for a 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 victory.

“It was their goal to win state since the beginning of the season,” Regis Jesuit coach Jennifer Armstrong said. “I’m so proud of our D1 players for taking the first set, then it became very competitive from there. They made adjustments to what we were doing and we made adjustments to compensate, but then our energy got down.

Regis Jesuit No.

1 doubles team place second at 5A tourney

The Regis Jesuit No. 1 doubles team of senior Quinn Binaxas and junior Mary Clare Watts made it all the way to the final match of the con-

Gomulka and Roth, who made it to the No. 1 doubles championship match for a third consecutive season, but were still looking for their first title. Regis Jesuit came through in the opening set — the first set the Knights lost all season — before the Knights dug in and fought back claim the title.

“They played two seniors who were definitely on a mission.”

Along the way to the final of the tournament — which was shortened from three days to two due to rain that washed out the opening day —

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TOP: Regis Jesuit seniors Ava Rogala (7), Charlotte Ford (15) and Heather McFadden celebrate after the Raiders’ 11-7 win over Valor Christian in a Class 5A girls lacrosse state semifinal game on May 16 at Englewood High School. LEFT: Cherokee Trail’s Kaelan Kombo, shown, plus teammates Kahari Wilbon, Beck Gutjahr and Peyton Sommers set the Coloraod all-classification record in the 4x400 meter relay at the Centennial League Championship meet and will try to help the Cougars make a run at the 5A state title May 18-20 at Jeffco Stadium . ABOVE: Regis Jesuit senior Quinn Binaxas, shown, and partner Mary Clare Watts finished second at No. 1 doubles in the Class 5A girls individual state tennis tournament May 13 at City Park.. (Photos by Courtney Oakes/Sentinel Colorado)

Binaxas and Watts earned another win over the Cherry Creek team of Riley Loehr and Sabrina Sharma, who they defeated 3-6, 7-6, 6-2 after winning a match between the two in the quarterfinals of the 5A state team dual tournament.

Binaxas and Watts opened the tournament with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Rocky Mountain’s Rachel Hodsden and Isabelle Kinder, got past Cherry Creek in the quarterfinals and handled Fossil Ridge’s Becca Fahner and Abby Seager 6-3, 6-3 in the semifinals.

It was the second straight topthree place at No. 1 doubles for Watts, who placed third in 2022 with then-partner Lucy Filippini, a junior who played No. 3 singles this season. Binaxas qualified for state at No. 2 singles last season and finished 1-2.

The No. 2 doubles team of sophomore Ebba Svard and junior Brenna Radebaugh earned a first-round win (a 6-1, 4-6, 6-2 defeat of Castle View in a Continental League rematch)  before they lost to eventual state champion Maya Brakage and Jane Roth of Fairview in the quarterfinals.

The same was the case for the No. 3 doubles team of junior Elise Holt and freshman Otilya Martino, who picked up a 6-3, 0-6, 6-4 victory over a team from Arapahoe to start before dropped a straight sets quarterfinal to eventual state champions Farrah Bendell and Karissa Manley.

In the past, both Regis Jesuit teams would have dropped into the playback bracket with a chance to make it back to the third-place match, but that didn’t happen this season due to the constraints made by the weather. Instead, the two semifinal losers at each position turned around and placed for third place.

All three Regis Jesuit singles players — senior Madison Wei at No. 1, senior Paige Wolf at No. 2 and Filippini at No. 3 — all dropped opening round matches, as did the No. 4 doubles team of sophomores Cait Carolan and Lily Beebe.

Wei and Filippini earned their third career appearances at the state tournament as did Watts, while it was a second trip to state for Wolf, Radebaugh, Svard and Carolan.

GIRLS TENNIS Vista PEAK’s Johnson falls in 4A state opener

Freshman Francesca Johnson, the first state qualifier in Vista PEAK girls tennis history, lost her only match at the Class 4A state tournament May 12 at Pueblo City Park.

As a regional runner-up, Johnson ended up going against Longmont’s Lauren Pavot in the opening round and she dropped a 6-2, 6-3 decision.Pavot turned around and lost to Cheyenne Mountain’s Stephanie Zhou in the second round, which ended Johnson’s playback possibility.

Johnson was the first state tennis qualifier for an Aurora Public Schools program since 2011, when Rangeview — coached by current Vista PEAK coach Simon Morwood — had the No. 3 doubles team of Christiana Dedi and Melissa Kolanek and the No. 4 doubles team of Hannah and Rachel Carnes made it to the 5A state tournament.

BOYS LACROSSE Regis Jesuit tops Cherokee Trail to reach 5A quarterfinals

The third-seeded Regis Jesuit boys lacrosse team defeated No. 14 Cherokee Trail 14-2 May 13 at Lou Kellogg Stadium in a Class 5A boys lacrosse second round playoff game.

Coach Jim Soran’s Raiders came off a first-round bye — which followed a big 13-12 win over topranked Cherry Creek in the regular season finale — and got going after a low-scoring first period to improve to 14-2 on the season.

Regis Jesuit moved into a May 17 quarterfinal contest on its home field against sixth-seeded Kent Denver. For quarterfinal results, visit sentinelcolorado.com/preps.

Cherokee Trail finished the season 9-8 in its first season under head coach Matt Cawley, who picked up his first playoff win with the program in the previous round.

The Cougars played Chatfield in a downpour at Legacy Stadium May 11 and came away with a dramatic 11-10 victory on an overtime goal by senior Craig Nam.

TRACK & FIELD

Cherokee Trail boys, Grandview girls win Centennial League titles

The Cherokee Trail boys and Grandview girls prepped for the upcoming state meet with title-winning performances at the Centennial League Championship meet, which finished May 13 at Stutler Bowl.

The Cougars racked up 164 points with help from seven event victories, punctuated by a Colorado all-classification state record set by the 4x400 meter relay team of Kaelan Kombo, Kahari Wilbon, Beck Gutjahr and Peyton Sommers, who clocked a time of 3 minutes, 13.02 seconds, to top the previous record of 3:14.72 set by Rangeview in 2012. Sommers also won the 100 meters in the state’s fastest time thus far (10.50 seconds), while McKay Larsen (800 meters), Hunter Strand (1,600 meters) and Taylor Waters (pole vault) also won inidividually and Cherokee Trail took the 4x800 meter relay.

Runner-up Grandview had winners in the 200 meters (David Maldonado), 400 meters (Liam Szarka) and 300 meter hurdles (Gibby Leaf-

green) plus the 4x200 meter team. Third-place Eaglecrest saw Peyton Taylor take the league title in the high jump, then run a leg on the 4x100 meter relay team that won in the second-fastest time in the state thus far (41.68 seconds). Overland won three events with a sweep of the throws by Jarrius Ward along with Curtis Bunton IV’s long jump crown.

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Creek. The Wolves had the champion in both hurdles events in Gabriella Cunningham, while they had the winners in the high jump (Dallis Robinson and 400 meters (Anna Wehrenberg) along with the winning
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TOP: Cherokee Trail’s Evan Mata, left, evades a Chatfield defender during the fourth quarter of a Class 5A boys lacrosse first round state playoff game on May 11 at Legacy Stadium. The Cougars topped the Chargers 11-10 in overtime, then lost to third-seeded Regis Jesuit May 13. (Photo by Courtney Oakes/Sentinel Colorado) LEFT: Eaglecrest sophomore Connor Brennan throws a pitch during the Raptors’ 14-2 win over Smoky Hill in a Centennial League Challenge game May 9. (Photo by Courtney Oakes/Sentinel Colorado). ABOVE: Regis Jesuit’s Paige Wolf returns a serve during a No. 2 singles match at the Class 5A girls individual state tennis tournament May 12. (Photo by Philip B. Poston/Sentinel Colorado)

4x100 meter relay team (which ran the state’s fastest time of 47.90 seconds) and 4x400 relay as well.

Third-place Eaglecrest saw Jaylynn Wilson (100 meters), Bianca Gleim (200 meters) and Blythe Cayko (shot put) win individually, while the 4x200 meter relay team claimed the league title in 5A’s fastest time of 1:41.72.

Fourth-place Cherokee Trail had great success in the field events with long jump and triple jump titles for Kaeli Powe along with Sydnie Bernard’s pole vault win.

TRACK & FIELD

Rangeview girls second at City League meet

The Rangeview girls finished as the runner-up at the City League track & field meet, which finished May 13 at AllCity Stadium. The Raiders had a pair of individual champions in Zane Bullock — who took the long jump — and triple jump winner Elisha Davis in addition to a victorious 4x100 meter relay team.

Fifth-place Vista PEAK had a pair of two-event winners in Kendall McCoy — who swept the two hurdles events — and Avery Williams, who grabbed the 100 and 200 meter crowns. Ninthplace Hinkley got its points from Leilah Swanson, who finished atop the meet in both the discus and shot put.

Nathan Hunholz gave Aurora teams a clean sweep in the throws by winning the boys discus and shot put to help Vista PEAK, which finished a city-best fourth. Tytus Hettich took the pole vault and the 4x200 meter relay team also won for the Bison.

Rangeview tied for fifth place with fuel from two field championships (Kevin Frazier in the high jump and Micah Dobson in the triple jump), while Hinkley finished 12th.

GIRLS LACROSSE Cherokee Trail falls to Evergreen in 2nd round

The Cherokee Trail girls lacrosse team’s season ended in the second round of the Class 4A state playoffs for a second straight season with an 18-7 road loss at Evergreen May 11.

In a matchup of teams that share the Cougars as a mascot, 14th-seeded Cherokee Trail fell to third-Evergreen to finish the season 9-8.

Coach Blake Macklin’s Cherokee Trail team got three goals from junior Kyla Bieker (who finished with nine goals in two postseason games), plus two from sophomore Lorelei Gearity, while juniors Aubrey Benton and Kyra Shipp also tallied.

BASEBALL

Grandview drops final of Centennial Challenge

The Grandview baseball team won the regular season matchup with Cherry Creek, but went down to defeat when the team met again May 13 in the Centennial League Challenge championship game.

The Wolves sent sophomore Jax Pfister to the mound again against the Bruins after he threw a complete game in a 4-2 win May 1, but he allowed nine runs (five earned) in a 10-6 loss. Tanner Pachorek drove in three runs and Clifford Goldy triple

and had two RBI for Grandview.

Cherokee Trail finished third with a 5-2 victory over Mullen behind a strong effort from senior Logan Reid, who struck out 11 and allowed five hits and two runs in six innings.

Senior Bowen Tabola doubled and drove in a pair of runs, while senior Tommy Munch had two hits and an RBI, while sophomore Akoi Burton also drove in a run for the Cougars, who finished the tournament 2-1.

Eaglecrest won two straight after a first round loss to place fifth with a 5-1 win over Arapahoe. Sophomore

Connor Brennan struck out nine and allowed just one hit and one run in 5 2/3 innings, while senior Braylan

Bell, juniors John Rossi and Brayden

Stufft (two RBI) and sophomore Noah Brown had two hits apiece.

WEEK PAST

The week past in Aurora prep sports

MONDAY, MAY 15: Clifford Goldy tripled and drove in three runs and

Tanner Pachorek drove in two runs and scored times as the Grandview baseball team finished the regular season witih an 8-5 win over Denver East. ...The Regis Jesuit baseball team fell to Rock Canyon 4-1 in a game that was resumed from earlier due to weather. ...SATURDAY, MAY 13: Hudson Alpert pitched a complete game and scattered four hits and struck out eight as the Regis Jesuit baseball team blanked Pine Creek 1-0. Andrew Bell drove in Evan Di Tanna with the only run for the Raiders. ...German Villalobos threw a complete game and also had two hits, but the Aurora Central baseball team fell to Skyview 4-3. Edgar Alejos Torres had two hits and joined Jorge De LosSantos with RBI for the Trojans. ...Ethan Brennesholtz had the lone hit for the Gateway baseball team in a 15-0 loss to Adams City.

THURSDAY, MAY 11: The Eaglecrest boys volleyball team opened the state tournament with a 29-27, 21-25, 25-23, 26-24 victory over Cherokee Trail in a matchup of two Aurora programs. ...TUESDAY, MAY 9: Madalyn

Hopkins, Isabelle Rogers and Lexi Yi had goals, but the Grandview girls soccer team dropped a Class 5A first round state playoff game to Chatfield on penalty kicks. ...Kiana Sparrow scored early in the second half for the Cherokee Trail girls soccer team but the Cougars couldn’t get the equalizer in a 2-1 loss to Rocky Mountain in a Class 5A first round state playoff game. ...Brooke Metcalfe’s goal brought the Regis Jesuit girls soccer team into a brief tie with Ralston Valley, but the Raiders ceded three goals in a short span in a 4-1 loss in a Class 5A first round state playoff game. ... Tony Crow’s grounder brought in Spenser Smock with the winning run as the Grandview baseball team got a 6-5 walk-off win in 10 innings over Cherokee Trail in the championship semifinals of the Centennial League Challenge. Braedan Reichert drove in three runs and Bowen Tabola had three hits for Cherokee Trail. Brayden Harbin homered twice and drove in five runs and the Eaglecrest baseball team scored 10 runs in the

bottom of the fifth inning for a 14-2 walk-off win over Smoky Hill in Centennial League Challenge play. Connor Brennan threw a complete game four-hitter and Braylan Bell also homered and drove in three runs, while Noah Carrillo picked up the lone RBI for the Buffs. ...Max McGinnis threw two scoreless innings for the Rangeview baseball team in a 3-2 win over Lincoln. Darris Davenport, Ryan Luevanos and William Stevenson drove in runs for the Raiders. ...The Vista PEAK baseball team piled up its season-high in runs in an 18-2 victory over Thornton in a game that saw Anthony Porras finished with four hits in four atbats with a double, triple and five RBI. Conner Angelini drove in two runs and scored three times for the Bison.

Cherokee Trail’s Kaleigh Babin-

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eaux shot a 2-under-par 70 at Saddle Rock G.C. on her way to a five-stroke victory in the final Centennial League girls golf tournament. Bead Boonta shot a 77 to finish in fourth place and help the Cougars finish in second place behind Cherry Creek. TOP: Rangeview held a late Signing Day ceremony for athletes May 11 that included signees in track & field, lacrosse, basketball and golf. ABOVE LEFT: Grandview baseball players splash water onto Tony Crow, center, after his groundball brought in the winning run to give the Wolves a 6-5 walk-off win in 10 innings over Cherokee Trail May 8 in a Centennial League Challenge game. The Wolves went on to finish as the tournament runner-up. ABOVE RIGHT: Grandview freshman Lexi Yi (20) gets a hug after she scored a goal in the Wolves’ loss to Chatfield on penalty kicks in a Class 5A girls soccer first round state playoff game May 8. (Photos by Courtney Oakes/Sentinel Colorado) SPRING PHOTO GALLERIES AT COURTNEYOAKES.SMUGMUG.COM

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FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0062-2023

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

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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 42, WILLOW TRACE SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 6, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 4405

S Jebel Ln, Aurora, CO 80015.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/05/2023, 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 5/11/2023

Last Publication 6/8/2023 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: 03/03/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 # 23-029406

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. 0068-2023

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

On February 17, 2023, 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)

MILAN CHYTIL

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LOANDEPOT.COM,

LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

LoanDepot.com, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

December 04, 2021

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

December 10, 2021

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

E1187254

Original Principal Amount

$407,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$401,636.15 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 3, BLOCK 3, STERLING HILLS SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 8, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 2417 S HALIFAX 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, 06/21/2023, 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 4/27/2023

Last Publication 5/25/2023

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: 02/17/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 M. Chin #31149

Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009721044

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

SALE NO. 0069-2023

FORECLOSURE

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

On February 17, 2023, 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) HUNG NGUYEN AND THU NGUYEN

Original Beneficiary(ies)

CQ INVESTMENT, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

CQ INVESTMENT, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

May 01, 2018

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

May 15, 2018

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

D8047262

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.

LOT 49, BLOCK 4, SADDLE ROCK RIDGE FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 22406 EAST MAPLEWOOD PLACE, AURORA, CO 80015. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/21/2023, 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 4/27/2023

Last Publication 5/25/2023

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: 02/17/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 Graham #26809

Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher LLP 360 South Garfield Street, 6th Floor, Denver, CO 80209 (303) 333-9810

Attorney File # 26842.0002

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. 0070-2023

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

On February 21, 2023, 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)

Cross Creek 3, LLC

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Boomerang Finance SUB-REIT LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

BFSR4, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

April 27, 2022

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

May 13, 2022

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

E2053786

Original Principal Amount

$447,750.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$417,000.00

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 Nine (9), Block Three (3), Highpoint Subdivision Filing No. 1, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 18839 E. KENT PL, 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, 06/21/2023, 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 4/27/2023

Last Publication 5/25/2023

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: 02/21/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 # CO21010

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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COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0071-2023

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

On February 21, 2023, 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)

ANDREW LAU AND ANN THERESA LAU

Original Beneficiary(ies)

LIBERTY REVERSE MORTGAGE, INC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

May 11, 2007

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

June 06, 2007

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

B7071882

Original Principal Amount

$289,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$194,749.03

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 2, BLOCK 45, SANDPIPER SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 2993 SOUTH SCRANTON STREET, 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, 06/21/2023, 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 4/27/2023

Last Publication 5/25/2023

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: 02/21/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755

McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-22-947951-LL

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado

Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0078-2023

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

On February 28, 2023, 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) Jenniffer Roderick

Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0079-2023

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

On February 28, 2023, 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)

Michael Lucas

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

July 15, 2020

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

July 29, 2020

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

E0095679

Original Principal Amount

$272,964.00

Principal Balance

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 Exhibit A Condominium Unit 7, Building 2, Discovery at Smoky Hill Condominiums in accordance with and subject to the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions of Discovery at Smoky Hill Condominiums, recorded at the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, and Map recorded on August 31, 1982 in Book 58 at Page 14, County of Arapahoe, Colorado records, said Condominium Unit is further described and depicted on the Map for Discovery at Smoky Hill Condominiums, recorded November 24, 1982 in Book 59 at Pages 60-67, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

Also known by street and number as: 16956 E Piedmont Drive Unit F, Aurora, CO 80015.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/28/2023, 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 5/4/2023

Last Publication 6/1/2023

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: 02/28/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 # 22-026813

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. 0080-2023

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

scribed Deed of Trust:

On February 28, 2023, 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)

Tiffany Newton

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Caliber Home Loans, Inc., Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Caliber Home Loans, Inc.

Date of Deed of Trust

November 02, 2020

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

November 13, 2020

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

E0157444

Original Principal Amount

$204,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$193,395.68

Outstanding Principal Balance

$261,839.95

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. 702, BUILDING NO. G, THE FLATS AT FULTON COURT, AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION OF THE FLATS AT FULTON COURT, RECORDED ON MARCH 23, 2001 AT RECEPTION NUMBER B1042476, IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY, AND ANNEXATION RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 29, 2001 AT RECEPTION NUMBER B1204316, AND ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP OF THE FLATS AT FULTON COURT, RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 29, 2001 AT RECEPTION NUMBER B 1204313, IN SAID RECORDS, TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE PARKING SPACE NO. 702, TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE GARAGE SPACE NO. G65, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 10010 East Gunnison Place #702, Aurora, CO 80247. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/28/2023, 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 5/4/2023

Last Publication 6/1/2023

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: 02/28/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 # 23-029368

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. 0082-2023

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

On February 28, 2023, 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)

Erika Soto Vargas AND Jorge Gonzalez

Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES,

LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

April 06, 2020

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 14, 2020

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

E0044606

Original Principal Amount

$419,230.00

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.

CONDOMINIUM UNIT C, 18761 EAST WATER DRIVE, ROCK RIDGE CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON JUNE 6, 2005 AT RECEPTION NO. B5081875 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 ROCK RIDGE CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2003 AT RECEPTION NO. B3213684, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 18761 E Water Dr Unit C, Aurora, CO 80013-6518. 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, 06/28/2023, 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 5/4/2023

Last Publication 6/1/2023

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: 02/28/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-23-953612-LL

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado

Revised 1/2015

Outstanding Principal Balance $400,577.87

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 1, BLOCK 5, BIJOU KNOLLS, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF AND ACCORDING TO THE CORRECTION PLAT RECORDED JUNE 29, 2004 UNDER RECEPTION NO. B4115747 AND ACCORDING TO THE REPLAT OF BIJOU KNOLLS CORRECTION PLAT RECORDED DECEMBER 2, 2014 UNDER RECEPTION NO. D4113040, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 709 S Pine St, Byers, CO 80103.

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, 06/28/2023, 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 5/4/2023

Last Publication 6/1/2023

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: 02/28/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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

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AUTHORITY
County
Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of
December
Recording Information (Reception No.
or Book/Page No.) D6148748 Original
$181,649.00 Outstanding
Date of Deed of Trust December 21, 2016
of Recording
Trust
22, 2016
and/
Principal Amount
$166,109.37
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PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0084-2023

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

On February 28, 2023, 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)

John David Barnedt, Jr AND Anne K Barnedt

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

April 14, 2022

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 22, 2022

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

E2045190

Original Principal Amount

$466,914.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$464,605.32

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows:

Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 9, BLOCK 4, TRADITIONS SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 8, RECORDED DECEMBER 22, 2017 AT RECEPTION NO. D7144473, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN/PARCEL ID: 1977-08-3-34-009

Also known by street and number as: 25662 East Bayaud Place, 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, 06/28/2023, 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 5/4/2023

Last Publication 6/1/2023

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: 02/28/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 # 23-029194

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. 0087-2023

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

On March 3, 2023, 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)

Hannah E Obukohwo

Original Beneficiary(ies)

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

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

July 22, 2016

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 25, 2016

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

D6094410

Original Principal Amount

$127,950.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$108,751.45

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

UNIT 6, BUILDING 13, CHARLESTON PLACE CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE MAP THEREOF RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY IN BOOK 34 AT PAGE 47 AND ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS FOR CHARLESTON PLACE RECORDED IN SUCH RECORDS IN BOOK 2773 AT PAGE 196, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 14015 E Utah Circle, 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, 07/05/2023, 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 5/11/2023

Last Publication 6/8/2023

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: 03/03/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 # 23-029415

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. 0088-2023

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

On March 3, 2023, 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)

JULIE BISHOP

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRA-

TION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR WR STARKEY MORTGAGE, L.L.P.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Truman 2021 SC9 Title Trust Date of Deed of Trust

August 12, 2004 County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 17, 2004

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

B4146713

Original Principal Amount

$136,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$101,362.74

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

Also known by street and number as: 4832 SOUTH GENOA STREET, CENTENNIAL, CO 80015. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: C.R.S.§ 38-35-109(5) LEGAL DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN CORRECTED BY SCRIVENER’S AFFIDAVIT RECORDED 09/29/2021 AT RECEPTION NO. E1150341 IN THE RECORDS OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/05/2023, 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 5/11/2023

Last Publication 6/8/2023

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: 03/03/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 M. Chin #31149

Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391

Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009466327

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. 0090-2023

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

On March 3, 2023, 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)

Angel Rivas

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN PACIFIC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

December 09, 2021

County of Recording

Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust

December 14, 2021

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

E1188765

Original Principal Amount

$353,479.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$348,982.90

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 EAST 50 FEET OF LOT 9, AND THE WEST 10 FEET OF LOT 10, BLOCK 5, GAMBLE ADDITION, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 1973-03-4-25-010

Also known by street and number as: 10470 East 7th Avenue, Aurora, CO 80010.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/05/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Little-

ton, 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 5/11/2023

Last Publication 6/8/2023

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: 03/03/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 # 23-029404

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. 0092-2023

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

On March 3, 2023, 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) ANDRES BUSTOS, NAYELI-DIOSDADODIAZ DELEON AND MIGUEL BUSTOS

Original Beneficiary(ies)

NEST HOME LENDING, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt CORNERSTONE HOME LENDING, A DIVISION OF CORNERSTONE CAPITAL

BANK, SSB

Date of Deed of Trust

June 23, 2021

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

June 25, 2021

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

E1101511

Original Principal Amount

$461,077.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$460,769.67

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows:

Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 8, BLOCK 8, ADONEA SUBDIVISION FILING NO.7, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 26260 E 3RD PLACE, 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, 07/05/2023, 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 5/11/2023

Last Publication 6/8/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel

IF

Greenspoon Marder LLP 1401 Lawrence Street, Ste. 1900, Denver, CO 80202 (954) 491-1120

Attorney File # 23-000024/75152.0008

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. 0095-2023

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

On March 7, 2023, 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)

Citlalli G. Lopez Marquez AND Oscar A. Carrillo

Original Beneficiary(ies)

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

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

July 14, 2017

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

July 18, 2017

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

D7080536

Original Principal Amount

$314,204.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$286,961.28

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 10, BLOCK 3, KINGSBOROUGH SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 8, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN #: 197522209003

Also known by street and number as: 1242 South Argonne Circle, Aurora, CO 80017.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/05/2023, 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 5/11/2023

Last Publication 6/8/2023

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: 03/07/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 # 23-029378

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

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Adriana Collado-Hudak #56275 Stuart Knight #50076

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THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 9, BLOCK 3, FOX HILL FILING NUMBER ONE, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.
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:
03/03/2023
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PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0096-2023

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

On March 7, 2023, 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)

CHRISTOPHER E. SJAARDEMA

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR BROKER SOLUTIONS, INC. DBA NEW AMERICAN

FUNDING

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Date of Deed of Trust

May 29, 2015

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

June 02, 2015

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

D5057073

Original Principal Amount

$226,345.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$206,752.23

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 of the terms thereof

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 33, BLOCK 2, MEADOWOOD FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as:

15725 EAST BROWN AVE, AURORA, CO 80013.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/05/2023, 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 5/11/2023

Last Publication 6/8/2023

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: 03/07/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 M. Chin #31149

Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391

Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009738436

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. 0097-2023

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

On March 7, 2023, 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)

MATTHEW COHOON AND TRISHA MA-

RIE COHOON

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LOANLEADERS OF AMERICA, INC.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

J.P. MORGAN MORTGAGE ACQUISITION CORP.

Date of Deed of Trust

February 07, 2019

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

March 26, 2019

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

D9025434

Original Principal Amount

$187,700.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$183,092.71

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 14, BLOCK 5, MEADOWOOD FILING

NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 16273 E BROWN PLACE, 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, 07/05/2023, 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 5/11/2023

Last Publication 6/8/2023 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: 03/07/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 M. Chin #31149 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009686528

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. 0101-2023

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 7, 2023, 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)

Quincy London Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR BROKER SOLUTIONS, INC.DBA NEW AMERICAN FUNDING, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

August 17, 2020

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 19, 2020

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

E0106904

Original Principal Amount

$410,649.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$398,922.05

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 17, BLOCK 6, EAST CREEK SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN #: 1975-17-1-27-017

Also known by street and number as: 417 S Airport Blvd, Aurora, CO 80017. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

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, 07/05/2023, 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 5/11/2023

Last Publication 6/8/2023

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: 03/07/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 # 23-029427

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. 0102-2023

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

On March 10, 2023, 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)

Qiuanna Mingo

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

April 16, 2008 County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

May 05, 2008

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

B8051510 Book: N/A Page:

Original Principal Amount

$90,969.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$80,295.60

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, Lexington East Subdivision Filing No. 2, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 19658 East Bails Place, Aurora, CO 80017.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/12/2023, 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.

number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Alexis R. Abercrombie #56722

David W Drake #43315

Scott D. Toebben #19011

Randall S. Miller & Associates PC 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710

Attorney File # 23CO00049-1

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado

Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0104-2023

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 10, 2023, 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)

WHITNEY A. POST

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR LOANDEPOT.COM, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

LoanDepot.com, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

May 01, 2020

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

May 04, 2020

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

E0052963

Original Principal Amount

$345,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$340,705.26

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 43, BLOCK 4, THE DAM-FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 12539 E AMHERST CIR, AURORA, CO 80014.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/12/2023, 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 5/18/2023

Last Publication 6/15/2023

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: 03/10/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, 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 M. Chin #31149

Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391

Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009741430

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. 0106-2023

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

On March 10, 2023, 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)

Jeff Gardner

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for First Western Trust Bank, Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust

February 06, 2018

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

February 13, 2018

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

D8014315

Original Principal Amount

$182,250.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$167,678.59

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows:

Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 25, BLOCK 12, STERLING HILLS SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 9, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 2506 S Flanders 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, 07/12/2023, 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 5/18/2023

Last Publication 6/15/2023

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: 03/10/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755

McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-23-954511-LL

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado

Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0107-2023

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

On March 10, 2023, 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)

Cross Creek 3, LLC

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Boomerang Finance SUB-REIT LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

BFSR4, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

June 01, 2022

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

June 07, 2022

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

E2062151

Original Principal Amount

$388,350.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$360,050.00

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the

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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-
First Publication 5/18/2023 Last Publication 6/15/2023 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: 03/10/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone
Honest

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

As required by the Colorado Liquor Code, as amended, notice is hereby given that an application for a Hotel & Restaurant Liquor License has been received by the Local Licensing Authority for the granting of a license to sell fermented malt, vinous and spiritous liquors by the drink on premise. The application was filed on March 24th, 2023, by WBC Southlands LLC dba Waldos Chicken and Beer for a location at 24153 East Prospect Avenue, Aurora, CO 80016. The corporate members reside within and outside of Colorado.

A Public Hearing to consider the application has been scheduled to be held before the Local Licensing Authority on June 16th, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be held virtually. Please contact Lisa Keith at 303-739-7568 or lkeith@auroragov.org for meeting information.

Provided either the applicant or protestant(s) desire to use petitions to prove the needs of the neighborhood, and the desires of the inhabitants, the petitions may not be circulated before May 18th, 2023, and must be returned by 12:00 noon on June 6th, 2023, for review and verification by the City of Aurora Liquor Licensing staff.

Information as to the application, procedures, or remonstrances, may be handled with the Liquor Licensing Office up to and including the date of the public hearing.

Lisa Keith Licensing Officer 303-739-7568

Publication: May 18, 2023

Sentinel BEFORE THE COLORADO

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION

COMMISSION

NOTICE AND APPLICATION FOR HEARING

DOCKET NO. 230500148

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES AND TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

The Director of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has applied to the Commission for an Order requiring Robert L Bayless Producer LLC (Operator No. 6720) to implement the Financial Assurance Plan submitted in its Form 3 (Doc. No. 403214542) without Demonstrated Costs.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to §§ 34-60-101 to -130, C.R.S. and the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure, 2 CCR 404-1, that the Commission has scheduled this matter for hearing on:

Date: July 12, 2023

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Place: Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission 1120 Lincoln St., Suite 801 Denver, CO 80203

The Notice and Application for Hearing and related information is available at http:// cogcc.state.co.us/reg.html#/hearings by scrolling to the appropriate Docket month and locate “Enf_Docket” link.

Publication: May 18, 2023

Sentinel BEFORE THE COLORADO

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION

COMMISSION

NOTICE AND APPLICATION FOR HEARING

DOCKET NO. 230500146

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES AND TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

The Director of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has applied to the Commission for an Order requiring Beren Corporation (Operator No. 7800) to implement the Financial Assurance Plan submitted in its Form 3 (Doc. No. 403237956) without Demonstrated Costs.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to §§ 34-60-101 to -130, C.R.S. and the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure, 2 CCR 404-1, that the Commission has scheduled this matter for hearing on:

Date: July 19, 2023

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Place: Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission

1120 Lincoln St., Suite 801 Denver, CO 80203

The Notice and Application for Hearing and related information is available at http:// cogcc.state.co.us/reg.html#/hearings by scrolling to the appropriate Docket month and locate “Enf_Docket” link.

Publication: May 18, 2023

Sentinel

BEFORE THE COLORADO OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION

NOTICE AND APPLICATION FOR HEARING DOCKET NO. 230500149

TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES AND TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Pursuant to Rule 503.g.(11)., the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Staff has applied to the Commission for an Order against Chaco Energy Company (Operator No. 10017) (“Chaco”) to Require Chaco to implement Form 3 (DOC. NO. 403246153) without demonstrated costs.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to: 1) the general jurisdiction of the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission of the State of Colorado under § 34-60-105, C.R.S.; 2) specific powers granted pursuant to § 34-60-106, C.R.S.; 3) the Colorado Administrative Procedures Act at § 24-4105, C.R.S.; and 4) the Commission’s Series 500 Rules at 2 C.C.R. 404-1, that the Commission has scheduled this matter for hearing before a COGCC Hearing Officer at the following date, time, and location (subject to change):

Date: July 19, 2023

Time: 9:00 a.m.

Place: Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 801 Denver, CO 80203

The Notice and documents related to this matter can be found on our “Hearing eFiling System Document Search” page https://oitco.hylandcloud.com/DNRCOGPublicAccess/index.html. Select “Search for Docket Related Documents” from the pull-down menu, use the above “Docket Number”, and select “Search”.

Publication: May 18, 2023

Sentinel BEFORE THE OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION BY CAUSE NO. 1

KLABZUBA OIL & GAS INC. FOR A VARIANCE FROM THE RECLAMATION REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 1004.c (1)(3), ADENA FIELD,MORGAN DOCKET NO. 221000274 COUNTY, COLORADO TYPE: VARIANCE NOTICE OF HEARING

Klabzuba Oil & Gas, Inc. (Operator No. 10148) (“Klabzuba” or “Applicant”), filed an Application for an order approving a variance from the reclamation requirements of Rule 1004 to further reclaim the surface land in the below-described lands (the “Application Lands”). This Notice was sent to you because the Applicant believes you may be an interested party in the Application Lands.

APPLICATION LANDS Township 1 North, Range 58 West, 6th P.M. Section 13 NE1⁄4NW1⁄4 Section 11 NENW SUBJECT WELL

DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION OF HEARING (Subject to change)

The assigned Hearing Officer will hold a hearing only on the above referenced docket number at the following date, time, and location:

Well Name Crone, B F #1 API No. 05-087-05317 Location ID 393646

Date: Time: Place: July 12, 2023 9:00 a.m. Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission The Chancery Building 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 801 Denver, CO 80203

PETITIONS DEADLINE FOR PETITIONS BY AFFECTED PERSONS: June 12, 2023

Any interested party who wishes to participate formally must file a written petition with the Commission no later than the deadline provided above. Please see Commission Rule 507 at https://cogcc.state.co.us, under “Regulation,” then select “Rules.” Please note that, under Commission Rule 510.l, the deadline for petitions may only be continued for good cause, even if the hearing is continued beyond the date that is stated above. Pursuant to Commission Rule 507, if you do not file a proper petition, the Hearing Officer will not know that you wish to formally participate in this matter and the date and time of the hearing may change without additional notice to you. Parties wishing to file a petition must register online at https://oitco.hylandcloud. com/DNRCOGExternalAccess/Account/ Login.aspx and select “Request Access to Site.” Please refer to our “eFiling Users Guidebook” at https://cogcc.state.co.us/ documents/reg/Hearings/External_Efiling_ System_Handbook_Decemb er_2021_Final.pdf for more information. Under Commission Rule 508, if no petition is filed, the

Application may be approved administratively without a formal hearing.

Any Affected Person who files a petition must be able to participate in a prehearing conference during the week of June 12, 2023, if a prehearing conference is requested by the Applicant or by any person who has filed a petition.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For more information, you may review the Application, which was sent to you with this Notice. You may also contact the Applicant at the phone number or email address listed below.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if any party requires special accommodations as a result of a disability for this hearing, please contact Margaret Humecki at Cogcc.Hearings_Unit@state. co.us, prior to the hearing and arrangements will be made.

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLO-

RADO

By /s/ Mimi C. Larsen, Secretary Dated: April 28, 2023

Klabzuba Oil & Gas, Inc.

c/o Ghislaine G. Torres Bruner Rin Karns Polsinelli PC 1401 Lawrence Street, #2300 Denver, CO 80202 gbruner@polsinelli.com rkarns@ polsinelli.com

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Final Publication: June 15, 2023

Sentinel

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LAMAR COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS PROCEEDING

Petition of Adoption No: 23A-004

IN RE: Caylee Ariana Hechler, f/k/a Caylee Ariana Diaz

Marcus Shane Peek For adoption of minor child

TO: FERNANDO DIAZ, biological father of CAYLEE ARIANA HECHLER, f/k/a CAYLEE ARIANA DIAZ, a female born in Longview, Gregg County, Texas, last known address is Arapahoe County, Colorado.

Pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 19-8-12 you are hereby notified that on April 27, 2023, a Petition for Adoption was filed for confirmation of relinquishment of parental rights of the biological father and full termination of parental claims and potential rights of the biological father, in the Superior Court of Lamar County, Georgia, Civil Action File No. 23A-004, with regard to the minor female child known as CAYLEE ARIANA HECHLER, f/k/a CAYLEE ARIANA DIAZ, born to CASSI HECHLER PEEK, a/k/a CASSI LYNN HECHLER, in 2016.

Petitioner’s application alleges that the current whereabouts of the biological father is somewhere in Arapahoe County, Colorado, and asks the Court to terminate the parental claims of any possible biological father with respect to the child arising from the legal parental relationship so that adoption may occur. Unless within thirty (30) days of the date of the first publication of this notice you file:

(1) a petition to legitimate this minor pursuant to O.C.G.A. 19-7-22; and

(2) notice of such Petition in the Superior Court of Lamar County in Griffin, Georgia, you will lose all rights to the child and will neither receive notice of nor be entitled to object to the adoption of this child.

You are advised that a hearing will be held in the Chamber of the Honorable William A. Fears, Superior Court of Lamar County, at 9 o’clock A.M on the 5th day of July 2023, to determine why the prayers of the Petitioner should not be granted.

Zachary W. Davis Georgia Bar No. 369402 Attorney for Petitioner Pasley, Nuce, Mallory & Davis, LLC 101 South Hill Street P.O. Box 647 Griffin, Georgia 30224 (770) 227-9880, (770) 227-9212 fax

First Publication: May 11, 2023

Final Publication: May 25, 2023

Sentinel

INVITATION TO BID

SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT FILING NO. 11 GRADING PROJECT

Notice is hereby given that Second Creek Ranch Metropolitan District (“District”) seeks bids from qualified contractors for site grading services located generally at Quemoy Street and North Rome Street, City of Aurora, County of Adams, Colorado (“Project”) as outlined in the Second Creek Ranch Metropolitan District– Filing No. 11 Grading Project: Bid Documents, dated May 18, 2023 which can be obtained by contacting the District as follows:

Second Creek Ranch Metropolitan District c/o Icenogle Seaver Pogue, P.C., General Counsel 4725 S. Monaco Street Denver, CO 80209 KOgden@ISP-Law.com (303) 867-3011

Sealed Bids are due by June 8, 2023, not later than 3:00 P.M. MT to the District at 4725 S. Monaco Street, Denver, CO 80209 and/or via e-mail sent to KOgden@ISPLaw.com. Bids not received by 3:00 P.M. MT will not be considered. Bids will not be publicly opened and read.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

Publication: May 18, 2023 Sentinel

INVITATION TO BID

SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT PA-13 PARK GRADING PROJECT

Notice is hereby given that Second Creek Ranch Metropolitan District (“District”) seeks bids from qualified contractors for site grading services south of East 48th Avenue and Tibet Road, City of Aurora, County of Adams, Colorado (“Project”) as outlined in the Second Creek Ranch Metropolitan District– PA-13 Park Grading Project: Bid Documents, dated May 18, 2023 which can be obtained by contacting the District as follows:

Second Creek Ranch Metropolitan District c/o Icenogle Seaver Pogue, P.C., General Counsel 4725 S. Monaco Street Denver, CO 80209 KOgden@ISP-Law.com (303) 867-3011

Sealed Bids are due by June 8, 2023, not later than 3:00 P.M. MT to the District at 4725 S. Monaco Street, Denver, CO 80209 and/or via e-mail sent to KOgden@ISPLaw.com. Bids not received by 3:00 P.M. MT will not be considered. Bids will not be publicly opened and read.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

Publication: May 18, 2023

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NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED

AMENDED 2023 BUDGET AND HEARING

SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed amended budget will be submitted to the SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT for the year of 2023. A copy of such proposed amended budget has been filed in the office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 East Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, where same is open for public inspection. Such proposed amended budget will be considered at a hearing at the special meeting of the Second Creek Ranch Metropolitan District to be held at 10:00 A.M., on Friday, May 26, 2023. The meeting will be held via video conference at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8243670368

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ArQT09 and via telephone conference at Dial-In: 1-719-359-4580, Meeting ID: 824 3670 3684, Passcode: 668632. Any interested elector within Second Creek Ranch Metropolitan District may inspect the proposed amended budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the amended 2023 budget.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

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Publication: May 18, 2023 Sentinel

NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED AMENDED 2022 BUDGET AND HEARING

SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed amended budget will be submitted to the SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT for the year of 2022. A copy of such proposed amended budget has been filed in the office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 East Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, where same is open for public inspection. Such proposed amended budget will be considered at a hearing at the special meeting of the Second Creek Ranch Metropolitan District to be held at 10:00 A.M., on Friday, May 26, 2023. The meeting will be held via video conference at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8243670368

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ArQT09 and via telephone conference at Dial-In: 1-719-359-4580, Meeting ID: 824 3670 3684, Passcode: 668632. Any interested elector within Second Creek Ranch Metropolitan District may inspect the proposed amended budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the amended 2022 budget.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

SECOND CREEK RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/ ICENOGLE | SEAVER | POGUE A Professional Corporation

Publication: May 18, 2023 Sentinel

NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

On or after May 25, 2023, THE CHERRY CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 5 of ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO, will make final payment to MARK YOUNG CONSTRUCTION, LLC as the general contractor for the fleet fence project at MAINTENANCE WEST, located at 9301 E Union Avenue, Greenwood Village, Colorado, 80111. All claims relating to this contract must be filed with David Henderson, Deputy Chief of Operations, Cherry Creek School District No. 5, 9301 E Union Avenue, Greenwood Village, Colorado, 80111 before May 25, 2023.

Board of Education Cherry Creek School District No. 5 County of Arapahoe

First Publication: May 11, 2023

Final Publication: May 18, 2023

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NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE SALE

Please take notice StoreLocal Storage Co-Op Englewood located at 3411 S Irving St Englewood CO 80110 intends to hold a public sale to the highest bidder of the property stored by the following tenants at the storage facility. The sale will occur as an online auction via www.storagetreasures.com on 5/26/2023 at 12:00 PM. Eldon Keightley unit #0970. This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply. See manager for details.

First Publication: May 11, 2023

Final Publication: May 18, 2023

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2023PR30113

Estate of Cynthia I. Wagner, 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 September 4, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Attorney for Personal Representative

Marco D. Chayet

Jennifer R. Oviatt

Personal Representative 18th Judicial District Public Administrator’s Office P.O. Box 460749, Denver, CO 80246 (303) 355-8520

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Final Publication: May 18, 2023

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PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2023PR30402

Estate of Marjorie L. Donathan aka Marjorie Louise Donathan aka Marjorie Donathan, 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 September 4, 2023, or the claims may before forever barred.

Elizabeth A. Donathan

Personal Representative

486 DeWitt Ave. Belleville, NJ 07109

Attorney for Personal Representative

Patrick M. Plank

Atty Reg #: 24024

26 W. Dry Creek Circle, #420

Littleton, CO 80120

Phone: 303-794-5901

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Final Publication: May 18, 2023

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2023PR30410

Estate of Kristine M. Elletson, 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 September 4, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Attorney for Personal Representative

Marco D. Chayet

Jennifer R. Oviatt

Personal Representative

18th Judicial District Public Administrator’s Office

P.O. Box 460749, Denver, CO 80246

(303) 355-8520

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Final Publication: May 18, 2023

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2023PR30446

Estate of Thelma Marie Rodriguez aka

Thelma Rodriguez, 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 September 4, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kimberley Rodriguez-Martinez

Personal Representative 308 Gorman Ave. Belen, NM 87002

Attorney for Personal Representative

Michael P Barry, Atty. Reg.#: 35342

Ball & Barry Law, PLLC 2701 Lawrence St., Ste 101 Denver, CO 80205

Phone:720-536 4660

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Final Publication: May 18, 2023

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PUBLIC NOTICE

Diversified Transfer & Storage, Inc. has reached a legal settlement with some Colorado employees. You may be affected. For details see https://dtssettlement.com.

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Final Publication: June 1, 2023

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PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF AN ADULT ARAPAHOE COUNTY COURT, COLORADO Case No. 23C100283

PUBLIC NOTICE is given on April 14, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court. The Petition request that the name of Carrie Lynn Stovall be changed to Carrie Lynn Aulton.

/s/ Clerk of Court/ Deputy Clerk

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Final Publication: May 18, 2023

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STATE OF NEW YORK SURROGATE”S COURT, COUNTY OF ESSEX

Proceeding for Probate

PROBATE CITATION

In the Estate of Derrald S. Grass, Deceased CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

TO: Kathy A. Grass an heir-at-law, and next of kin of Derrald S. Grass deceased, of whose places of residence and post office address is unknown and cannot, after due diligence and diligent inquiry therefore be ascertained, A Petition having been filed by Mark E. Coon, who is domiciled at 1357 Glenover Way Marietta, GA 30062

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE for the Surrogate’s Court, Essex County, on July 18, 2023 at 2:00 p.m._ why a decree should not be made in the estate of Derrald S. Grass lately domiciled at The Elderwood at Ticonderoga 101 Adirondack Drive, Ticonderoga, Essex County, New York, admitting to probate a Will, dated July 15, 2015, a copy of which is attached, as the will of Derrald S. Grass, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters of Administration issue to Mark E. Coon.

HON. Richard B. Meyer, Surrogate /s/ Mary Ann Bader, Chief Clerk

(Note: The citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear, it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney to appear for you.)

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Final Publication: May 25, 2023

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S

Case No. 2023PR30329

Esate of Averic Irene Heineken, 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 September 18, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gerald Smith

Personal Representative

54 Juniper Loop Aiken, SC 29803

Attorney for Personal Representative

Whitney A. Hey

Atty Reg #: 51575

2955 Professional Place, Ste. 300 Colorado Springs, CO 80904

Phone: 719-520-1474

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Final Publication: June 1, 2023

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2023PR030434

Estate of Patrick Eugene Derr aka Patrick E. Derr, 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 September 11, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Haruko Derr, Personal Representative

c/o CHAYET & DANZO, LLC

650 S. Cherry St., #710 Denver, CO 80246

Phone: 303-355-8500

First Publication: May 11, 2023

Final Publication: May 25, 2023

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2023PR104

Estate of Wilma A. Hicks, De-ceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are re- quired to present them to the Per- sonal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before September 11, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

John E Howard

Personal Representative

17838 E Oxford Place Aurora CO. 80013

First Publication: May 11, 2023

Final Publication: May 25, 2023

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2023PR30386

Estate of Rodney John Gunther aka Rodney J. Gunther, 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 August 18, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert D. Taylor, P.C.

Atty Reg #: 9989 6500 S. Quebec St., #300

Centennial, CO 80111

Phone: 303-793-0511

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Final Publication: June 1, 2023

Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2023PR030523

Estate of Justine M. Ansell, 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 September 29, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Attorney for Personal Representative

Anna L. Burr, #42205

Atty. Reg. #: 42205

Law Office of Anna L. Burr, LLC

2851 South Parker Road, Suite 972 Aurora, Colorado 80014

Phone: 720-500-2076

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Final Publication: June 1, 2023

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2023PR30320

Estate of John Thomas Butterfield aka John T. Butterfield, 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 September 15, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kelly Gelina

Personal Representative 480 Amesbury Rd. Haverhill MA, 01830

Attorney for Personal Representative

Nathaniel J. Thompson

Atty Reg #: 41219

Law Office of Nathaniel J. Thompson, LLC

P.O. Box 2267

Centennial, CO 80161

Phone: 720-319-7049

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Final Publication: June 1, 2023

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR30395

Estate of Angela Dawn Craig aka Angela D. Craig, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before September 18, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Tyler Craig

Personal Representative

c/o Steven M. Weiser, Esq.

Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher, LLP

360 S. Garfield St., 6th Floor

Denver, Colorado 80209

Phone: 303-333-9810

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Final Publication: June 1, 2023

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR30400

Estate of Stephen Jay Cohen, 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 September 18. 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Cheryl Cahoon-Cohen

Mark E. Cohen

James E. Cohen

Personal Representatives

c/o Steven M. Weiser, Esq.

Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher, LLP

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

Phone: 303-333-9810

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Final Publication: June 1, 2023

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2023PR30423

Estate of Anita E. Marui, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the 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 September 11, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Darell D. Schmick

Personal Representative 16543 E. Yale Pl. Aurora, CO 80013

Attorney for Personal Representative Diana J. Payne, #12831

Howard J. Beck, # 3075 Beck, Payne, Frank & Piper, P.C. 3025 S. Parker Road, Suite 200 Aurora, CO 80014 Phone: 303-750-1567

First Publication: May 11, 2023

Final Publication: May 25, 2023 Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2023PR30466

Estate of Donna Jean Biznett-Holler aka Donna Jean Biznett Holler aka Donna Jean Biznett aka Donna B. Holler, 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 September 18, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred. Tyler Allen Wilson Personal Representative 10001 E. Evans Ave., Apt. 71A Denver, CO 80247

Attorney for Personal Representative

Bette Heller, Esq.

Atty. Reg. #: 10521

19671 E. Euclid Dr., Centennial, CO 80016

Phone: 303-690-7092

First Publication: May 18, 2023

Final Publication: June 1, 2023

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR30481

Estate of Stuart James Sutton aka Stuart J. Sutton aka Stu Sutton, 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 September 18, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Attorney for Personal Representative Lawrence P. Hartlaub

Atty Reg #: 320 13009 S. Parker R., #390 Parker, CO 80134

Phone: 720-488-2771

First Publication: May 11, 2023

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