Sentinel Colorado 7.14.2022

Hospitals release two theater shooting survivors

Families of theater shooting victims plan goodbyes

Movie massacre suspect mum as questions begin for university officials

Woman who escaped theater shooting giving birth

Funerals begin for Aurora theater shooting victims

Aurora theater shooting: Where to find help, support in aftermath

Victims’ families urge less usage of Holmes’ name

Colo. doctors treating rifle and buckshot wounds

Thousands gather to mourn victims

Shooting suspect was Anschutz student, university officials say

Memorials begin for Aurora theater shooting victims

Batman star Christian Bale visits Aurora theater shooting victims, memorial

Columbine survivors reach out to theater victims

Colorado shooting puts police chief in spotlight

Obama pledges to work with Congress on violence

More questions after Holmes appears in court, looking dazed and wide-eyed

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GALVANIZED: Aurora’s identity solidified by massacre

POLICE SCANNER: 12 killed, dozens wounded in Aurora shooting at movie theater

People leave messages at Colo. shooting memorial

Hollywood skirts blame in ‘Dark Knight’ shooting

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Report: Suspect described killings in package

AURORA TRAGEDY: After the massacre, shock lingers

Man behind Columbine crosses brings 12 to Aurora to honor massacre victims

AURORA’S TRAGEDY: After the massacre

Woman who escaped theater shooting giving birth

Baby of man wounded in Aurora theater shooting is born

Bomb squads disarm traps at Aurora suspect’s apt

Obama meets victims of Aurora theater shooting

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Protesting adversaries at home or dinner is blackmail and it never changes anything

If our only hope for justice and righteousness depends on harassing Supreme Court justices out of their overpriced steak dinners, then the end appears near for this New World democracy thing we’ve been trying.

Despite surging COVID-19 cases, endless mass shootings and Donald Trump seeking the final Jan. 6 horcrux, Fox Newsies continue to shriek in horror over Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s famous interruptus last week.

A small, impromptu protest formed outside Morton’s SteakHouse in Washington DC last Wednesday when word leaked out on social media that Kavanaugh was having dinner inside, according to Politico and other news media.

Politico reported Kavanaugh never heard nor saw the protest and left out a side door to avoid a scuffle after he finished dinner.

DAVE PERRY Editor

Morton’s poured gasoline on the smoldering red meat by issuing a statement that, “Honorable Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and all of our other patrons at the restaurant were unduly harassed by unruly protesters while eating dinner at our Morton’s restaurant,” officials said in their statement, the corporate restaurant is owned by Landry’s. “Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner.”

They went on to scold the stunt as being an “act of selfishness and void of decency.”

Zing.

The incident immediately became fodder for late-night comedy and punditry, making hay with the ripe irony of defending the dinner rights of a man who had just taken part in a move that pushed American women back into second-rate-citizen status.

Molière could not have created a richer device to expose the hypocrisy and iniquity of a man who lied his way to the top. It’s irresistible to hope that his $8 Bud tasted as bitter as his sworn testimony about the settled law and precedence of Roe vs Wade.

That Kavanaugh was outed at some boojie chain that gets $75 for a steak à la carte and serves it up with a pedestrian California red blend at $26 for a short pour, it’s easy to see why the cynics and comics are seriously sorry not sorry Kavanaugh had to leave before he had his pudding cake.

However, as much snarky fun and relief the Kavanaugh conniption provided, dogging, stalking, outing and doxing is nothing less than extortion.

Aurora has had a bad taste of this stuff, not unlike so many people in other places.

For years, rabid anti-abortion protesters have targeted the Aurora homes of physicians and other health-care workers connected to abortion clinics. Anti-abortion sympathizers smugly shrugged and clucked their tongues, adding that if you don’t want to be a victim of such antics,

don’t provide abortions.

The intent of protests like that is clear: frighten people in their homes or jobs to make them quit or change course. It’s blackmail.

In 2019, more than 100 protesters marched past the home and through the neighborhood of a man in charge of a GEO ICE immigrant detention center in Aurora.

Protesters yelled, “No ICE. No KKK. No fascist USA.”

The stunt terrified neighbors, many of whom did not feel like the home-protest drew them to the cause of activists.

One of the man’s neighbors, Kayla Iaquinta, 17, told The Sentinel then that she was friends with the detention center chief’s daughters, scared by the protest.

“They did nothing wrong, and this is making it worse for the community,” she said of the protest.

About a year later, activists protesting the Aurora City Council’s stance on police reform, in the shadow of the death of Elijah McClain at the hands of Aurora police and rescuers, took it to a lawmaker’s home.

A group calling themselves Community E marched and demonstrated in front of the home of Councilmember Francoise Bergan in 2020, demanding her support for police and immigration detention reforms.

Bergan courageously walked to the end of her driveway and engaged with them, explaining her stance behind votes on the city council. The group said it would continue a policy of “home protests” for political adversaries. After widespread push-back, it never really materialized.

Often, these terroristic tactics are less in your face but reach for the same idea: harass or blackmail someone into changing their mind, their job or their behavior.

I’ve had everything from signs left on my car saying, “I know what car you

drive,” to letters taped to the door of my house, to explicit, raging voicemails detailing how I should die because of my opinion on gun control.

Not only is it deeply wrong to clearly extort anyone, for any reason, but especially under the auspices of “free speech.”

And it changes nothing.

Kavanaugh has a lifetime ticket to the Supreme Court to continue wreaking havoc on American democracy and the rights of those he disdains.

Ruining his ribeye won’t change a damn thing. Neither will regularly reminding me that bad things happen to “big-nose” guys who continue to “cause trouble.”

All the home protests and ruined restaurant dinners in the world won’t restore critical rights stolen from American women.

Voting will.

Rather than offer tacit or full-throttled support for these extorty tactics, call them out and send the price of a sullied supper to an organization that runs ads for the candidate you agree with and against one you just can’t stand.

Push Congress and President Joe Biden into adding seats to the Supreme Court or imposing term limits or outright impeaching Kavanaugh for his corrupt and conniving schemes.

Protest all you want at their office, newsroom or government chambers.

Pressure Congress to throw out the banal and dangerous Senate filibuster rules that put the nation at grave risk by allowing minority Republic extremists to blackmail the entire nation. Elect lawmakers who will legislate the rights of women instead of ditch them.

But don’t do something as base as terrorizing people you loathe for good reason. It’s a stunt that changes nothing in all the wrong ways.

Councilmember Francoise Bergan talks with demonstrators who protested at her home in southeast Aurora Sunday Sept. 13, 2020. Protesters demanded Bergan back the firing of three officers implicated in the death of Elijah McClain in August 2019. SCREEN GRAB FROM FACEBOOK LIVE

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10 years after Aurora theater shooting, we’ve failed to stop the violence

James Holmes changed everything in Aurora, yet his unfathomable act of mass murder 10 years ago has changed little else outside of the city. Since July 20, 2012, when Holmes sneaked into a packed Aurora theater just after midnight and started shooting, a startling 595 Americans have been murdered during another 75 mass shootings, and another 1,105 have been wounded during mass shooting gunfire, according to a recent catalogue of shootings compiled by Rolling Stone Magazine.

That pales in comparison to the approximately 1 million Americans dead or injured from gun violence outside of mass shootings since the Aurora theater massacre.

The nation’s unwillingness to even slow, let alone end, epidemic gun violence is among America’s most shameful failures.

It isn’t that the United States is incapable of ending not just rampant mass murders, but the leading cause of childhood death among Americans: gun violence. We have refused to limit the power of American firearms. We permit virtually anyone older than 18, not yet old enough to drink beer, to obtain weapons designed for use in war or policing, engineered to efficiently and rapidly kill other human beings.

In what can only be described as dark, cruel comedy, gun aficionados say these assault weapons make great hunting rifles.

Congress and state governments have refused to require gun owners to prove their ability to safely wield and store a weapon so deadly it can kill dozens or even hundreds of people in minutes, yet we require extensive licenses to drive a car and even cut hair.

We refuse to limit how many semi-automatic firearms a gunman can own, yet we limit cats to five per household.

Few states are like Colorado, which at least limit firearm magazines to 15 rounds, more than enough to create a massacre without ever changing a clip. Most other states allow highly efficient semi-automatic weapons loaded with massive magazines to operate as virtual machine guns, allowing gunmen to take out dozens of people in a store, a school or even at a parade, all within seconds.

We allow virtually anyone a loophole to bypass background checks to buy a gun, even several of them, without regard for their criminal pasts or their current mental illness.

As of June 1, two-thirds of all Americans want stricter gun control laws, including meaningful universal background checks, according to a variety of recent polls, including those maintained by Gallup.

A stunning one-third of all Americans now believe all handguns should be banned, except for those used by police, these polls show.

More than 80% of gun owners believe all gun purchases in the United States should be subject to background checks, steady polling reveals.

And almost 60% of Americans say the need for reducing gun violence by implementing gun controls outweighs the need to ensure gun rights, the same polls show.

With so much overwhelming need and desire to control guns and gun deaths, how could 10 years have passed since the Aurora theater shooting and so little meaningful progress have been made?

Guns are an approximate $28 billion-a-year industry, several sources estimate. Gun-rights groups outspend gun-control groups 6 to 1 in lobbying members of Congress and state lawmakers, by as much as $16 million last year.

It’s not just money. Gun-rights play heavily into partisan primary races. For Republicans, that means that the most conservative voters often call the shots in primary races, ensuring gun-rights interests are backed by winning candidates.

In efforts to stay elected in swing congressional and legislative districts, many Democrats shy away from gun-control issues to keep their positions.

Democratic state Rep. Tom Sullivan, whose son Alex Sullivan was killed in the Aurora theater shooting, has long been a champion for common-sense gun control in the state. He has on more than one occasion lamented Democrats’ cold feet for meaningful gun control bills. It’s a problem that got worse after partisan recalls against two Democrats were successful in 2014, after the Colorado Legislature passed tepid magazine limits and background checks in the state.

Despite the consistent and growing desire for gun control, elected leaders won’t deliver it, and voters won’t make them.

And so 20 years have passed after the Columbine massacre. Now 10 years have gone by after the Aurora theater shooting and Sandy Hook elementary school cataclysm.

That decade has been long enough to prove, without a doubt, mass shootings and rampant gun violence will continue for the next decade, unless voters choose legislative and congressional candidates who will make gun control happen instead of rationalizing why it won’t.

No other democratic, Western nation lives like this. We don’t have to either.

ELWOOD WATSON

It’s the new, violent right

Earlier this week, a political ad from disgraced former Missouri governor and current Republican Senate candidate Eric Greitens was pulled from several social media sites for its alarmingly violent message.

The despicable ad depicts individuals in full military regalia employing a battering ram and hurling grenades into a barren residence. Holding a shotgun and grinning from ear to ear, Greitens says, “Today, we’re going RINO hunting.” He further encourages viewers to “Join the MAGA crew, get a RINO hunting license.”

RINO stands for “Republicans in Name Only,” a term initially ascribed to Republicans who don’t always adhere to the party line. However, these days any GOP politician who refuses to embrace theories of blatantly false propaganda or deviate (no matter how benignly) from the rabid bubble of right-wing delusion are confronted with derision and become frequent targets of violence from die hard hardcore Trumpists.

Greitens’s vile ad dropped days after Texas Republican convention delegates turned on two of its own conservative stalwarts. Senator John Cornyn was loudly booed because he’s was among 10 Republicans that negotiated with Democrats on a very modest gun reform bill after massacres last month at a Buffalo supermarket and a Uvalde, Texas elementary school.

Speaking of Texas, Republicans there adopted an aggressively far-right party platform that rejects “the certified results of the 2020 presidential election,” denounces “homosexuality and LGBTQ people” as an “abnormal,” pushes for schoolchildren to “learn about the humanity of the pre-born child,” and wants the 1965 Voting Rights Act to be “repealed” and “not reauthorized.” Talk about a dystopian agenda.

Instead of rejecting candidate Trump and his odious message of racism, sexism and xenophobia back in 2015, many right-wing Republicans saw an opportunity to regain executive power by coddling white supremacy and tapping into the regressive psyche of the

nation’s most banal impulses. Several years later, we are still enduring the results of such retrograde maladies.

In recent years, right-wing violence has been more commonplace and culminated in deadly results, be it the murder of physicians and staff members at abortion clinics, to Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina and Jewish synagogue attendees in Pittsburgh, to the very recent Buffalo supermarket massacre last month.

Recently, we have witnessed a dramatic and ominous increase in colossal acts of violence and intimidation directed at those who are seen as foes of the political, social and cultural right. That includes liberal and progressive politicians, members of the LGBTQ community, immigrants, public health officials, election administrators, and just about anyone who do not support the far right MAGA agenda. Even more distressing, such troubling trends show no signs of abating.

This is not to say that some supposed “RINOS” are indeed, their own worst enemy. In an effort to save face, these are the Republicans who engage in perverse doublespeak. They sporadically espouse pro-Trump rhetoric while trying to hide behind what minimal cloak of respectability they have remaining. Trying to have their political cake and eat it, too. Holding their soiled cards close to their badly stained vests, so to speak. In some ways, they are worse than the committed Trump supporters.

Make no mistake, Trump’s diehard base longs for the day when America returns to the nation it unmistakably resembled in the mid19th century. The Jim Crow era of the mid20th century was too benign for them. Their message is clear: either you are with them, or you are against them.

If you are a member of the latter category, they intend to deal with you by any violent means necessary. They have to be combated at all costs.

Elwood Watson is a professor of history, Black studies, and gender and sexuality studies at East Tennessee State University.

‘Aurora is not the place to steal cars’

IN A METRO REGION PLAGUED BY CAR THEFT, AURORA SEEKS BECOMING AN OUTLIER

BY MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer

Aurora could soon become the first city to punish those convicted of car theft in municipal court with mandatory jail time — a proposal meant to discourage thefts that has its detractors even on the City Council.

Relatively few car thefts are ever prosecuted, and only about a third of criminal charges brought by Aurora police are currently handled in municipal court. But council conservatives believe mandatory minimum sentencing will provide a necessary deterrent at a time when auto theft is becoming more prevalent.

“As local elected officials, we have an obligation and an opportunity to take action, to do more to improve public safety in our city,” Councilmember Dustin Zvonek said of the proposal, which he sponsored.

Critics of the measure say consequences usually don’t appeal to people committing crimes. Mandatory minimum jail sentences have also drawn criticism from those who believe the policies limit judges’ ability to sentence criminals based on the circumstances of a case while doing little to drive down crime.

The problem

It’s no secret that Aurora and Colorado are grappling with a surge in car thefts — a trend which, according to available data, has continued into 2022.

Between 2020 and 2021, the city saw a roughly 40% increase in the number of reported motor vehicle thefts, while the state saw an increase of about 34%, according to data compiled by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

Between the first quarter of 2021 and the first quarter of 2022, Aurora continued to experience

an increase in the number of auto thefts, which rose by about 26%, from 1,475 reported thefts to 1,857.

It’s not just Aurora. Motor vehicle thefts rose by more than 35% in Denver over the same period, while in Colorado Springs, they rose by close to 7%. After the first quarter of the year, Aurora’s theft rate was about 4.7 per 1,000 residents, compared to 5.4 thefts per 1,000 Denver residents, and 1.4 thefts per 1,000 Colorado Springs residents.

The trend is national, too.

“Cities across the United States have experienced an unprecedented rise in auto thefts and carjackings in recent years,” according to a report from David Glawe, president of the National Insurance Crime Bureau, given to a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in April.

Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman has called car thefts “the number-one issue for our city,” and the same trend of rising thefts is being seen in cities across the nation.

Zvonek and others have also expressed concerns about stolen vehicles being used in the commission of other crimes, and interim APD chief Dan Oates told Councilmember Steve Sundberg in June that “more and more, when we’re involved in contacting violent felons, there’s a stolen car associated with their activity.”

“It is not uncommon here in Aurora that when we are involved in an investigation into very serious criminal behavior, that it’s committed by someone who got to or from the offense in a stolen car,” Oates said last month.

In August, Glawe blamed the nationwide spike in auto thefts observed between 2019 and 2020 on “the pandemic, an economic

downturn, law enforcement realignment, depleted social and schooling programs, and, in still too many cases, owner complacency.”

Commander Mike Greenwell of the Colorado Metropolitan Auto Theft Task Force (C-MATT) attributed the state’s growing problem to the more frequent use of personal recognizance bonds, the reduction in penalties for certain crimes and the popularity of hard drugs such as fentanyl.

Some thieves will strip a vehicle for parts, while others will create fake titles, obscure vehicle identification numbers and try to sell a stolen car as a legitimate used vehicle, he said.

“It’s been years in the making,” Greenwell said. “Now, we have a lot of prolific auto thieves who know they’re not going to be held accountable.”

The task force includes about a dozen detectives, representing police agencies across the metro area. Greenwell said Aurora pulled its last officer off the task force in June, citing ongoing staffing problems in the police department.

Car theft crime and punishment

District courts handle the majority of auto theft charges brought by the Aurora Police Department, according to data obtained from the district attorney offices in the 17th and 18th judicial districts and the City of Aurora. City staffers have said the district court caseload includes felony charges and those associated with other, more serious crimes.

In 2021, the Aurora Police Department reported 5,569 auto theft incidents, according to FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data.

Information from the two area district attorneys’ offices and the City of Aurora shows Aurora police filed 382 motor vehicle theft charges, including 128 in municipal court. One additional motor vehicle theft case was filed in city court but re-filed in district court.

Colorado conservatives have zeroed in on criminal justice reform — specifically, changing bail and sentencing rules — as a potential driver of auto thefts and other crimes. The state legislature raised the dividing line between misdemeanor and felony motor vehicle theft in 2021, with the value of a vehicle triggering automatic felony charges raised from $1,000 to $2,000.

Other factors that can aggravate auto theft to the level of a felony under state law include:

- Using the vehicle to commit any crime, other than a traffic offense.

- Keeping the stolen vehicle for more than 24 hours.

- Disguising or trying to disguise the appearance of the vehicle.

- Causing $500 or more in property damage, including damage caused during the theft and damage caused to the vehicle or using the vehicle.

- Removing or trying to remove a vehicle identification number.

- Injuring another person while driving the vehicle.

- Leaving the state with the vehicle for more than 12 hours.

- Attaching or displaying license plates other than those issued for the vehicle.

The language of Aurora’s current municipal motor vehicle theft law also specifically excludes crimes that would be aggravated to the level of a felony under state law.

The new Aurora proposal

The car theft crisis has also highlighted the partisan split on Aurora’s council, as conservatives advocate for harsher criminal penalties and progressives argue that the city needs to expand its social safety net to discourage crimes of desperation.

The most significant policy push has come in the form of a mandatory minimum sentencing proposal by Zvonek, which would put first-time car thieves behind bars for at least 60 days and punish repeat offenders with at least 120 days’ imprisonment.

Currently, sentencing is left to the discretion of judges in both city and district courts, although felonies, handled only by district courts, can include longer sentences and incarceration in prison rather than jail.

Without offering specific numbers, Greenwell said the majority of motor vehicle thefts handled by Denver-area police are perpetrated by repeat offenders. C-MATT specifically targets serial car thieves, helping law enforcement assemble larger and more complex cases.

Zvonek’s proposal for mandatory jail time could be the first ordinance of its kind passed by a municipality, according to the city’s chief public defender, Doug Wilson. A majority of City Council members gave it their blessing on June 27.

The council member described the tougher penalties as countering the effects of state law changes which prioritize “compassion for criminals” over justice.

The sentencing ordinance was accompanied by a plan including

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Invalid vaccines make up fraction of administered

Nearly 11 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Colorado since late 2020. Of those, the state health department says 20,559 have been determined to be “invalid.”

Those invalid vaccines — mostly due to not being stored correctly prior to being given to patients — only account for about .18% of total vaccines administered. Still, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has set out to notify every person who received those doses, which may not provide as much protection against infection, and advise them to get another shot.

So far, the state has notified 13,108 people, an agency spokesperson told The Sentinel.

Last month, the state suspended the vaccine program at the Colorado Alliance for Health Equity and Practice’s Family Medicine Clinic for Health Equity, which had operated 63 clinics around metro Denver, including several in Aurora, between Feb. 21, 2021 and Jan. 16, 2022 because CDPHE staffers said they found “issues related to storage and handling of COVID-19 vaccines at off-site clinics.”

1,810 adults and children 5-years-old and younger received COVID-19 vaccines at those clinics, which targeted many immigrant and non-English speaking communities in south Denver and Aurora.

In an attempt to reach those patients, a CDPHE spokesperson said

the department sent emails, text messages and made phone calls in addition to sending a news release to the media. Those communications were also translated into Spanish, Somali, Nepali/Nepalese, Arabic, Vietnamese and Simplified Chinese.

“When there is a potential need for re-vaccination because of invalid vaccines, CDPHE takes a multi-prong approach,” the department said in a statement. “We do broad communications in these circumstances, and we are also committed to contacting people for whom contact information exists, and provide specific guidance on getting revaccinated based on their vaccination history.”

Each vaccine provider in Colorado is required to enter all administered vaccines into a state database, called the Colorado Immunization Information System. If determined to be invalid, CDPHE will make a note on that record.

In some instances, the state health department said, people have had problems with records and verifying doses for work or international travel, but it has, so far, been infrequent. For the most part, to be considered “fully vaccinated” a person must receive two doses of Moderna or Pfizer or one dose of Jansen, also known as Johnson and Johnson, with the most recent dose at least 14 days prior to traveling. Regulations may vary by country.

People who have received an invalid dose should receive another shot, the department says.

“There are no negative side effects associated with receiving an invalid

dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The only risk associated with an invalid dose is that it may not offer protection from COVID-19 the way a valid dose does, and we cannot confirm the efficacy of the administered doses,” a department spokesperson said. “Specific revaccination guidance and recommendations comes from the CDC, and it depends on multiple variables. CDPHE works directly with vaccine manufacturers and CDC on these instances to determine what impacted patients need to do and communicates those instructions accordingly.”

Coloradans who have received an invalid vaccination and need additional support or have questions can contact CDPHE at cdphe_vacs@state. co.us or 303-692-2700.

— KARA MASON, Sentinel Managing Editor

Aurora Fox executive director parting

Aurora Fox Arts Center executive producer Helen R. Murray will depart this fall for a new role as the producing artistic director at the American Stage in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Murray will kick off the Fox’s 38th season with its first gala since the pandemic in September and “Futurity,” the first performance of the season in October before she leaves. A national search for her replacement will begin soon, the city announced in a Wednesday news release.

Murray came to the Fox three seasons ago after serving as artistic director of the Hub Theater in Virginia. She was responsible for shepherd-

ing the theater through the COVID-19 pandemic, which upended much of its scheduled 2020 performances and redefined live theater nationwide.

In a statement, Director of Library and Cultural Services for the city of Aurora Midori Clark praised Murray for her work during the pandemic.

“Helen helped elevate Aurora’s place in the professional theater industry with award-winning, high-quality productions and several premieres,” Clark said. “With her passion for thought-provoking shows and her intentional selection of diverse productions that contribute to conversations about important topics of our times, she set a solid precedent for the future of the Aurora Fox. Without a doubt, her shoes will be hard to fill.”

Murray said in a statement that it is bittersweet to leave the Fox but that she believes it is in good hands. She thanked the city for its support of her work.

“As the theater industry across the world struggled, Aurora saw the importance of the art we make and the stories we tell,” she said.

— CARINA JULIG, Sentinel Staff Writer

Second Chance Bike Shop searching for home

A cyclery fixing up free bikes for children and other Aurorans in need may reach the end of the road this fall if it can’t find a new home before the start of a redevelopment project.

Ernie Clark and Second Chance Bicycle Shop have built a legacy on

helping students get to school on time and giving Aurorans of modest means a reliable set of wheels for work.

Their storefront in the East Bank Shopping Center is packed wall-towall with bicycles, which Clark refurbishes with a team of volunteers. But big changes are in store for East Bank, part of which is being torn down and replaced with apartments.

Despite assurances that they would help Clark find a new location, the redevelopment team has so far not been able to find another place for the former New Jersey cop and his shop.

That leaves Clark’s one-of-a-kind cyclery and its annual Christmas giveaway of bikes for Aurora’s needy students in a precarious spot, with Clark saying they’ll need to find a new location by October to keep putting the rubber on the road.

“If not, there’s no way we can keep going,” Clark said. “It’s sad to say we can’t do it, but we can’t do it.”

It won’t be Clark’s first experience moving his nonprofit and its vast inventory of bikes, though he worries it will be their last if they can’t find another space in time.

The scrappy nonprofit started more than 15 years ago in a friend’s one-car garage. It’s since bounced back and forth between several spots across the city. Along the way, leaders from City Hall to the White House in Washington, D.C. have sung Ernie’s praises, celebrating his selfless endeavor to get bicycles in the hands of those who need them most.

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“It breaks my heart, you know? He helps so many kids,” said Tausha Wells of Pet Palace, who is Clark’s neighbor in the shopping center. “I know he’s really been trying to find a place. It’s good work he does in the community.”

The redevelopment of East Bank has put Wells in an awkward position, with property owner Kimco offering her a future in the space that Second Chance has occupied rent-free for four years. But until Clark moves, Kimco won’t be able to undertake planned renovations, meaning Wells can’t relocate her own business.

“We haven’t gotten a timeline for when that’s going to happen,” Wells said. “And we feel bad taking over his space, frankly.”

Marcus Pachner, a lobbyist and representative of the redevelopment team, told Aurora’s City Council in March that saving Second Chance was a “labor of love,” calling Clark “a remarkable man” providing “a remarkable community asset.”

“They’re not just a tenant,” Pachner said of Second Chance in March. “They are a part of the community.”

He told the council that the team was “working to pay off” outstanding utility bills owed by Second Chance and that Kimco and Evergreen Development Company had set aside $20,000 to help Clark move.

“We are looking at other sites to find him a location, and I am personally working with other corporations to support this remarkable thing,” Pachner told the group.

Three months later, that new location has failed to materialize. Pachner told The Sentinel it hasn’t been for lack of trying — he said his team has held around five planning meetings to discuss the future of Second Chance, and that they’re continuing to explore options with their business contacts.

“We just want Ernie to have his own destiny in front of him,” Pachner said. “Nobody has promised that we’ll find a space. But we’re all committed to trying to find a space to move Second Chance.”

As it has in the past, the city has also been on the lookout for ways to help Clark, but city spokesman Ryan Luby said in an email that they have yet to find commercial property owners willing to offer up free space.

“However, simultaneously, the city has reached out to other nonprofit organizations that might be willing to support Mr. Clark in different ways, and more information will be available at a future time should an arrangement develop,” Luby wrote. “We share in the community’s desire to support Second Chance Bicycle Shop and we are eager to help Mr. Clark find a new home for his shop to the extent that we are able.”

Clark expressed frustration with the redevelopment team, who he described as aloof and unavailable, despite Pachner’s insistence that he communicates with Clark at least twice a month.

Clark also said he was anxious to see Kimco and Evergreen deliver on its promise of $20,000 to defray moving costs, after it took them months to pay a water bill they had promised to take care of.

“I don’t know anything about what’s going on,” Clark said. “They say they’re going to do this, and

they’re going to do that, but they don’t do nothing.”

“I think he’d love to have even more frequent updates,” Pachner later said, adding that he wants to create a “standing meeting” with Clark so the two can have a regular time to catch up. “I think it’s fair that Ernie will be anxious during this time. But everyone is committed to helping Ernie.”

Pachner and Tina Hippeli of Evergreen said the $20,000 has been budgeted as part of the redevelopment and will be available once Clark is ready to move.

They acknowledged that, ultimately, the future of Second Chance may rest in the hands of a third-party benefactor who has yet to learn about Clark’s situation, and said they were committed to spreading awareness in hopes that someone with space to lend will step up.

Pachner suggested a storefront or even a warehouse space of up to 5,000 square feet would be able to accommodate Second Chance and its inventory of bicycles. Clark said he’s open to any and all offers.

The Second Chance founder said he had contacted the mayor’s office and warned that, if he can’t find space by October, he may give up on the shop.

“But I don’t want to give it up,” Clark said.

Second Chance Bicycle Shop is located currently at 4122 South Parker Road, and anyone interested in helping Clark — with an offer of space, volunteer help or monetary donations — can contact him at 720-270-5731.

— MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer

EDUCATION

APS agrees to teacher raise

Aurora Public Schools and the district union have reached a tentative agreement to increase educator salaries by an average of 8.5% in the upcoming school year, in what both parties say is one of the recent largest raises among Denver metro school districts.

“I am pleased to share that after months of negotiation, we have reached a tentative agreement on compensation,” district superintendent Rico Munn said in a July 6 message to district employees. “The upcoming salary increase for Aurora Public Schools employees will likely end up as one of the highest in the Denver metro area. It is also a testament to the district’s commitment to honor our staff for all of your hard work and dedication to serving our community.”

The Cherry Creek School District gave employees an average raise of 5.25%. Adams 14 gave employees a 3.5% cost of living increase. According to reporting from Chalkbeat Colorado negotiations in some other metro school districts, including JeffCo and DPS, are still ongoing.

Munn told The Sentinel that the increase was a measure of how important teachers and staff are to the district.

Having competitive salaries is “always a priority” for the district but it’s especially urgent this year as a nationwide educator workforce shortage makes recruiting and retaining staff more of a battle for districts, Munn

said. Most of the district’s employees will be returning next year but it still has openings it is hoping to fill during the summer.

“We ended the year strong as far as our staff coming back, but every year we need to hire additional staff and finding those has been a challenge,” he said.

The district spent more than 45 hours in negotiations this spring with members of the Aurora Education Association, the union representing the district’s teachers.

“We are very pleased that we negotiated the highest salary increase in the metro area,” AEA president Linnea Reed-Ellis told The Sentinel.

Reed-Ellis said that as inflation rises and the cost of living continues to go up, educators were adamant during negotiations about what they

needed in order to be able to continue to live and work in the district.

“We are committed to ensuring that teaching is sustainable in Aurora,” she said.

She said that the work “doesn’t stop here” and that the union will continue to advocate for school districts across the state to receive more funding.

The union negotiates salaries with the district every year, but this year renegotiated the entire master agreement as well. This is usually done every five or six years but had been postponed by mutual agreement during the pandemic, Reed-Ellis said.

The full contract will be available to view later this month, and will be voted on for ratification by union members in August. It will then go before the APS school board for final approval,

after which point raises and other stipulations of the new agreement will go into effect.

— CARINA JULIG, Sentinel Staff Writer

POLICE

Police shoot man in burning hotel

Police shot and killed a 51-yearold man on Tuesday after officers say the man set a motel room on fire and charged at them with a knife.

Interim police chief Dan Oates said during a news conference that officers and firefighters responded to a structure fire call at the Ranger Motel on East Colfax Ave. at approximately 11:15 a.m.

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When they arrived, Oates said police were confronted by a man wielding a knife, who had apparently set his room on fire. The man then barricaded himself inside of another room at the same motel. Police attempted to negotiate his surrender for about an hour.

At around 12:32 p.m., Oates said the man “exited the room with a knife in his hands and ran in the direction of one of our officers.”

“At that point, shots were fired,” Oates said. “He chose to come at an armed police officer with a rather large knife. … The officers were at (a) significant distance, but he charged one of the officers.”

Oates said three officers fired on the man, but it’s so far unclear how many shots were fired in total. He

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added that at least two officers fired sponge grenades and that “several” fired their rifles, but it was unclear whether those officers were counted among or in addition to the three.

When asked whether the man was armed with one knife or two, Oates said “multiple” knives were recovered from the scene of the crime.

A medic treated the suspect at the scene, and he was transported to the hospital but was later pronounced dead. Oates said the man was on parole for a 2005 murder conviction and had a “significant criminal history.” His identity was not released, as Oates said the man’s family has not been notified.

Oates said police have communicated with as many as 20 witnesses and believe bystander video was tak-

en of the incident in addition to video taken by two television stations.

“If there are any additional witnesses out there, we would love to talk to them,” he said

He encouraged witnesses who have not been interviewed by police to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

Oates said the Critical Incident Response Team for the 18th Judicial District will investigate the shooting.

— MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer

Teens shot in northwest Aurora

Two teenage males were shot and injured early July 8 in northwest Aurora, both sustaining non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

The two shooting victims were identified only as being 18 and 15 years old.

COURTS Man charged with murder

Police say a 43-year-old man faces first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of an unidentified man in an Aurora strip-mall parking lot that happened earlier this month.

Police said they arrested Eric Lenzy Morris, 43, Wednesday, without incident in connection with the shooting.

Police were called to the King Soopers strip mall at 15064 E. Mississippi Ave. at about 1:45 a.m. July 3 after reports of a shooting in the parking lot there.

“A man was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries from being shot,” Aurora police spokesman Agent. Matthew Longshore said in a statement. “Tragically, he did not survive and was pronounced deceased at the hospital.”

Hearing set for ex-chief’s partner

The partner of former Aurora police chief Vanessa Wilson appeared in court for the first time Friday on charges that she fabricated a child abuse allegation against Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky.

Niceta, a former employee of the Arapahoe County Department of Human Services, is accused 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.

Jurinsky posted on social media that she attended the brief court hearing and later confirmed that the presiding judge granted a protection order that directed Niceta to keep her distance from the councilwoman and her family.

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The shooting occurred at about 1:30 a.m. while the two were somewhere near East Colfax Avenue and Beeler Street in northwest Aurora, according to police.

After an initial investigation, police said a shooting suspect left the scene in a light-colored, four-door pickup truck, either a GMC or Chevrolet.

It’s unclear whether Morris connected to that truck.

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Police said there was no information at the time about a suspect in the shooting.

The identify of the slain man will be released later by coroner officials.

Niceta is accused of anonymously calling her employer and telling them that Jurinsky had sexually abused her own son. Investigators later determined that the tip was unfounded and traced the call back to a phone number belonging to Niceta, according to court documents.

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Police said anyone with information can call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867. Tipsters can remain anonymous and still be eligible for a reward of up to $2,000, police said.

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Police said anyone with information can call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867. Tipsters can remain anonymous and still be eligible for a reward of up to $2,000, police said.

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Jurinsky alleges that Niceta made the allegation after the council member criticized the former Aurora police chief on talk radio the day before.

Niceta’s next court date will be at 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 for arraignment.

— MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer

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California Department of Water Resources shows a drip irrigation system in place in a home garden in Moreno Valley, Calif. The system is preferable to traditional sprinklers as it applies water directly to plant roots, where it is needed.

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Grounds for growing

DROUGHT CONDITIONS SHOULDN’T PUT A DAMPER GARDENING

BY JESSICA DAMIANO, The Associated Press

Many people try to save water just to do the right thing (and save money too). But when serious drought hits, and state and local governments enforce restrictions, water conservation becomes non-negotiable.

So far this summer, nearly 65% of the United States and Puerto Rico is experiencing “abnormally dry” weather, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Almost 43% of those locations are contending with “moderate” drought, and nearly 47% with “severe,” “extreme” or “exceptional” drought. That means more than 109 million people are living under drought conditions.

And a lot of them have plants or yards to worry about.

Unfortunately, it’s a little late in the season to begin trying two of the best ways to conserve water in the garden. First, rain barrels and other rain harvesting methods are of little use when there’s no rain to fill them. Second, xeriscaping, the practice of planting drought-tolerant plants, many of them native to a region, works only if those plants are already in place. Consider both for next year.

Native plants are well-adapted to their climate and more tolerant of adverse conditions like drought. In California, for instance, where roughly 98% of the state is experiencing drought, plants like California poppy, California fuchsia, California lilac and manzanita are among the best native xeriscape plants to use.

Check the EPA’s compilation of drought-tolerant plant resources, listed by state, at epa.gov/watersense/what-plant to find your best options.

CHOOSING WHICH PLANTS TO WATER

If you’re gardening under water restrictions, prioritize which plants need water most and which can be sacrificed if need be. Newly planted trees and shrubs are high on the priority list. They require regular watering until their roots become established, which can take a full year.

Older trees, especially fruit, nut and ornamental trees, but also evergreens, can suffer from drought, so don’t forget about them.

Perennial flowers, which return year after year and are more expensive than annuals, should be next on the list, along with vegetables in their flowering and fruiting stages. Melons and squash, which have deep roots, can typically get by with less water than crops like corn, which have shallow roots.

Low on the list of priorities should be annuals, which are not long-term investments anyway; crops with high water needs, like beans, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, corn, lettuce and radishes; and plants growing in pots, as they require more water than their in-ground counterparts. None will likely thrive with the little water that can be offered under mandated restrictions.

WATERING EFFICIENTLY

Most plants require an average of 1 to 1 ½” of water per week under normal conditions, which amounts to a little more than a half-gallon of water per square foot of garden space. That need could increase, however, during periods of extreme heat, when the soil dries out more quickly.

Regardless, don’t apply your plants’ weekly water needs all at once. Divide it over two or three sessions per week, opting for deeper, less-frequent waterings over daily sprinkles, which are wasteful and ineffective at saturating roots. Watering deeply also establishes stronger, deeper roots that are better able to sustain plants when surface water becomes less available.

Avoid using overhead sprinklers, which wet foliage, pavement and other areas instead of directing water to plant roots. Instead, place soaker hoses or drip-irrigation tubing on the soil directly over roots. Watering cans and hand-held hoses aimed at the soil work, too.

Water only in the morning (or in the evening, if absolutely necessary), but avoid midday, when moisture is likely to evaporate before reaching roots.

Consider using so-called gray water, recycled household water, to water plants. Unsalted water left over from boiling eggs or vegetables provides a nutrient-rich bonus. Dish and bath water that’s not too soapy won’t harm ornamental plants. Just don’t apply it to edibles. And water captured while rinsing fruits and vegetables can be used around the garden.

OTHER TIPS FOR REDUCING THIRST

Keep beds and borders free of weeds, which compete with your plants for water and nutrients. A 3-inch layer of bark mulch, wood chips or gravel around plants will help prevent weed seeds from taking hold, retain soil moisture and keep the soil cooler.

Set mower blades high to promote deeper roots. Taller grass needs less water because it grows slowly and shades the soil. Repair or replace leaky hoses and bib connections.

Some don’ts: Avoid fertilizing plants during drought; This might seem counterintuitive, but fertilizers promote fast growth, which increases the need for water. Avoid using weed killers, which tend to drift to other areas in hot weather; they’re less effective in high temperatures anyway.

Don’t plant anything new, and avoid pruning plants, which stresses them and increases their water needs.

Going forward, consider replacing the lawn with native groundcovers. Incorporate generous helpings of compost into beds and planting holes to improve water retention. Observe the sun-exposure requirements on plant tags (shade lovers need more water when exposed to too much sun). And use more native plants.

Next summer, this could be easier.

First Responders Celebration at Aurora City Hall

Mosaic of Cultures: Aurora’s Mexican Community

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FIlm on the Field, Stanley Movie Night at Stanley Marketplace

July 17, beginning at dusk. Stanley Marketplace 2501 Dallas St, Aurora, CO 80010. Visit https://www. stanleymarketplace.com/happenings/stanley-movie-night-film-onthe-field for more information.

Batter up! In one of Tom Hanks more underrated performances, maybe just after Money Pit, A League of Their Own will be screening Sunday, July 17, in the field just west of your favorite trendy Aurora marketplace, Stanley Marketplace.

We all know this classic film and it’s more than appropriate for the kiddos as well, so there’s little reason you shouldn’t treat this as your weekend family activity.

Stanley gives the “pro-tip” of picking up a snack from one of the several food vendors inside the marketplace. Maybe scoop up a few adult bevvies to throw back while you’re enjoying this free event. Grease and The Goonies are slated to screen in August and September, respectively.

See you at the cinema!

Rescue Puppies and Yoga Fundraising with Vibe Wellness at Stanley Marketplace

9:30 a.m. on the Third Saturday of July, August and September. Stanley Marketplace 2501 Dallas St, Aurora, CO 80010. Visit https://www. stanleymarketplace.com/happenings/rescue-puppies-yoga for more information.

PUPPIES! And now that I have your attention, let’s turn that effort into re-aligning our chi, every third Saturday through the end of the Summer and into October. Vibe Wellness, Mile High Lab Mission and Stanley Marketplace have gotten together to offer a cute and relaxing fundraising opportunity, with a suggested donation of $20.

Stanley Marketplace recommends you get there 15 minutes early to assure ample time to park and get to the event on time. Vibe Wellness also asks that you sign up ahead of time on their website, myvibewellness.com.

12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday July 16 on the Great Lawn at the Aurora Municipal Complex. !5051 E. Alameda Pkwy. Free. Visit https://t.co/hfXSow1pID for more information.

Come celebrate and thank our first responders, by attending the First Responders Celebration at the Aurora Municipal Complexes Great Lawn. This fun filled afternoon is presented by the Aurora City Council’s Public Safety, Courts and Civil Service Policy Committee and sponsored by the Aurora Police Charitable Foundation. Make sure to bring the kiddos along because beyond the typical summer festival accoutrements of food trucks, live music and even ice cream, there will be a bevy of public safety equipment to check out. Make sure you take advantage of this reason to get outside and have some family fun while showing appreciation for those that serve our community.

Open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. The exhibit is expected to be up until April 2023 15051 E. Alameda Pkwy. Free. Visit auroragov. org or call 303-739-6660 for more information.

Lavender Festival at Chatfield Farms

Clyfford Still, Art and the Young Mind

July 16-17 at the Denver Botanic Gardens: Chatfield Farms. 8500 W Deer Creek Canyon Road, Littleton, CO 80128. Visit www.botanicgardens.org or call 720-865-3500 for more information.

March 11 — Aug. 7 Clyfford Still Museum

1250 Bannock St., Denver Wednesday-Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tickets $10 adults and free for children 17 and under, purchase online at clyffordstillmuseum.org

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Presents: Aly and the Genie at Vintage Theater

One doesn’t have to look far for Aurora’s vibrant roots. One in five people here are foreign born and according to the latest census, more than 20% of residents have family origins in Mexico. That brings the city great food, dance, art, and, especially, pride — all of which will be on display at the Aurora History Museum for the next year. For the exhibit, museum staff conducted outreach in both English and Spanish to gather input about Mexican culture in Aurora. “The people of Mexican descent who call Aurora home come from all walks of life and have their own individual stories of immigration or a long family history that predates Colorado statehood,” museum director T. Scott Williams says. Over the next year various Latino artists will display their work at the museum, and on June 9, the community can gather at the exhibit for an opening reception. This showcase attempts to capture the stories of people who make Colorado’s third largest city, a mosaic of cultures. Entrance to the museum is always free.

Dark Universe at the Gates Planetarium

Can ‘ya smell it? That sweet floral, but somehow, herbal scent that is immediately recognizable after the first time it blesses your senses. The beautiful light purple bundles, a hue so fine the plant got its own color named after it. It can only be Lavender. It should come as no surprise this heavenly scented herb has its own festival. Lucky for all of us, it’s in Littleton at Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms. At this heady festival, not only will you be able to meander through the grounds and take in the beauty, but there will also be dye demonstrations, local music and performances, local artists and artisans, barrel train rides and a craft area where kids can plant their own flower and decorate the pot to take home with them. It’s certainly a great event for a family day, and the activities will tucker the little ones out, which is something all the parents can likely appreciate.

Have you ever wondered what an art exhibit designed by young children would look like? Through August, the Clyfford Still museum is bringing this unique idea to life in an exhibit that was “co-created” with children across the Front Range. Clyfford Still was a leading figure in the abstract expressionist movement, and the Denver museum that houses a large collection of his work is carrying on his iconoclastic legacy with this exhibition, which is part of an initiative to welcome children into the museum. The first four galleries will feature Still’s work, with paintings hung at a low eye-level specifically for young viewers. The rest will display artwork that children from six months to eight years old from Fort Collins, Denver, Lafayette and Boulder helped curate. According to the museum website, these local children “selected and arranged their favorite artworks; shared their perspectives for the gallery and audio content; and helped design interactive activities.” Really puts a new spin on the jab that modern art is so abstract that “a child could do it.”

Times vary on weekends of July 1-17. 1468 Dayton St, Aurora, CO 80010. $15 for Adults, $10 for children 18 and under and Seniors. Visit www.vintagetheatre.org/performances/roshnialygenie for more information.

With the summer beginning, and school being out, it can sometimes be taxing to find ways to entertain the children without sticking a screen in front of their face. The Vintage Theater has the answer for some good old fashioned fun. Aly and the Genie is a play that showcases fun and exciting dances and side splitting dialogue, tailor made for a younger audience. The Vintage describes this 70-minute performance as perfect for patrons of all ages who want to have a great time at the theater.

Playing June 3 through Sept. 1. Monday-Saturday beginning at 2:45 p.m. and daily at 12:15 p.m. 2001 Colorado Blvd. Denver, CO 80205, tickets on sale at www.dmns.org

The great beyond is the focus of the newest showing at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s Gates Planetarium, a summer favorite for when it’s just too hot to do anything else. Sit back, cool off and let your mind wander: Are we alone? How big is the universe? How much is there that we don’t know? Neil deGrasse Tyson narrates “Dark Universe”, making it a true experience, whether you’re there for the educational experience or just really into the unknown.

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Leaving his mark

REGIS JESUIT MULTI-SPORT STAR DALLAS MACIAS REVELS IN WINNING HALLOWED FRED STEINMARK AWARD AS EXCITING FUTURE AWAITS IN THE GAME OF BASEBALL

Dallas Macias has played against football teams coached by Colorado prep legend Dave Logan, and now the two have something in common.

They are the first (Logan) and most recent winners (Macias), respectively, of the esteemed Freddie Steinmark Award, which annually goes to the top senior athlete in the state in terms of athletic excellence and character.

Macias received the prestigious award in a small ceremony July 12 from Sammy Steinmark, brother of venerable state legend Freddie Steinmark, for whom the award was created in 1972.

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“Dave Logan won the first one and obviously that one sticks out,” Macias said. “I heard how great of an athlete he was growing up from my dad and others around me, so that means something. He coaches at Cherry Creek and I’ve gotten to play against his teams, so it’s pretty awesome to be in the same category as him as well.”

But Macias was most proud to be linked with the name of Freddie Steinmark, a multiple-sport star at Wheat Ridge High School in the 1960s who went on to play football at the University of Texas.

Steinmark — also an outstanding student and contributor to his community — died of cancer at 22 years old in 1971, three years after helping the Longhorns win the national championship.

Macias was nominated by Regis Jesuit football coach Danny Filleman and Regis Jesuit baseball coach Matt Darr, who both counted on him for his play as well as his leadership. Macias watched the movie made about Steinmark’s life — “My All-American” — and read other accounts, which

convinced him that it would be special to be associated with Steinmark in any way.

“I did my research and it seemed like Freddie was a lot more than just an athlete,” Macias said. “Obviously, he was a great athlete, played multiple sports and did his thing there, but it was more about how he treated others and how he went about his life.

“I thought it would be an awesome award to win because that’s similar to how I try to do my thing. I’m an athlete, and I love sports, but more importantly, I want to treat others the right away and be a good person.”

Requirements for application include a 3.0 or better GPA, a minimum of two sports played during a year and selection to 1st team all-state in one sport and minimum 1st or 2nd team all-league in another.

Macias achieved that with a 3.73 GPA as well as all-state first team honors in baseball and honorable mention all-state accolades in football. Additionally, he volunteered with Special Olympics and as a youth baseball coach, while he is a devoted member of his church.

Macias said he got a phone call from Dan Watkins of the Colorado High School Coaches Association — which oversees the award — while he was in Arizona doing some work ahead of the upcoming Major League Baseball draft.

Macias is now the fifth winner of the award from an Aurora school and first city male winner since Pat Manson of Aurora Central won in 1986 after Rangeview’s Terry Taylor Jr. received it the year prior. Grandview’s Addison O’Grady received the female Steinmark Award in 2021, while Smoky Hill’s Annie Perizzolo (2007) is the other local winner in the female category, which arrived in 1974.

Macias is eager to see where his baseball future will lie, either right away the professional ranks or at an elite level of NCAA play at Oregon State. That will be determined by how things turn out for him in the July 17-19 MLB draft.

Coming off a senior season in which he hit .522 with a state-leading 17 doubles and eight home runs with 31 RBI — which won him Colorado’s Gatorade Player of the Year award — for a Regis Jesuit team that qualified for the Class 5A Championship Series, Macias is currently ranked No. 235 overall by MLB.com.

If he’s taken there in the draft, that would be in the eighth round and he would have to decide between signing or playing with the Beavers in hopes of improving his stock for the draft in the future. Regis Jesuit has had some cachet in the draft for quite some time and last year, pitcher Alec Willis was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the seventh round, and signed for $1 million.

Macias got a look at many of the other prospects during his time in Arizona and at the MLB Draft combine and believes he belongs.

“Being from Colorado, there’s always a little bit of doubt at first whether you can play at the same level in other places,” he said. “I think you 100 percent can. The competition is everywhere, and good players come out of different locations. Everybody there is good, and I think I can compete with all of them.”

Either way, there’s not a downside to either avenue as long as Macias is on the diamond, where he has loved to be since his dad, Gene, coached him beginning at 9 years old.

“I love Oregon State, so it’s a 1A or 1B situation,” Macias said. “Both are amazing options for me. I just love playing baseball. Obviously I need to take the best opportunity for myself, but either way, I’ll be happy.”

Many awards: Dallas Macias concluded an outstanding prep athletic career at Regis Jesuit High School as the 2022 male winner of the Freddie Steinmark Award. Photo by Courtney Oakes/Sentinel Colorado

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WOMEN’S FOOTBALL Mile High Blaze win WFA Division 2 championship

The Mile High Blaze — which played several of its home games at Aurora Public Schools Stadium — won the Division II championship of the Women’s Football Alliance.

The Blaze captured the title with a 21-20 victory over the Derby City Dynamite on July 9 at Tom Benson Stadium in Canton Ohio, home of the National Football League’s Hall of Fame.

To win the championship, the Blaze won their last six games, including a 12-6 semifinal win over the Houston Energy June 25 that earned them the chance to play in Canton. In the championship game, quarterback Kimberly Santistevan threw for three touchdowns.

The Blaze team — coached by Rob Sandlin with a variety of assistants from the Aurora area — featured some local ties, as one of its top players is Leilani Camaal, a multi-sport athlete who is set to begin her senior year at Vista PEAK Prep.

The Blaze franchise was established in 2013 and features women of a variety of ages and walks of life, who all pay for the opportunity to play, fundraise for the chance to play road games and serve a variety of different roles.

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Hog Wars canceled for 2022 season due to low numbers of teams

Hog Wars, the annual strength and teamwork competition for Aurora-area prep linemen started by Rangeview High School, has been canceled this summer.

New Raiders head coach Chris Dixon had been set to p ick up the tradition, but said that a lack of teams committed to participate forced the cancellation.

Hog Wars returned in the summer of 2021 after it was lost in 2020 due to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Eaglecrest won the event — which is made up of a handful of strength-based competitions — for the first time last season when seven city programs were involved.

Gateway (2011), Overland (2012), Cherokee Trail (2013), Vista PEAK (2019) and Eaglecrest (2021) have been able to claim titles at the event, which has been won by Rangeview on the other 11 occasions since the event started in 2005.

GIRLS SWIMMING Grandview honored by NISCA for academics

The Grandview High School girls swim team proved just as competitive in the classroom as in the pool

itself during the 2021-22 season.

Coach Karen Ammon’s Wolves

— who finished sixth at the Class 5A girls state swim meet — continued a long tradition of academic excellence as it garnered another national Scholar Award from the National Interscholastic Coaches Association (NISCA).

The Wolves were the lone Colorado boys or girls team honored as they garnered a Silver Award with a cumulative team Grade Point Average of 3.712, which was the 97th-highest GPA in the country among programs with at least 12 or more athletes. Grandview also garnered a Silver Award in 202021 and has developed a tradition of earning NISCA Scholar Award honors.

NISCA has not yet issued its list of individual Academic All-Americans, while its list of swimming All-Americans included boys swimmers from Regis Jesuit and Smoky iIll as well as girls from Regis Jesuit.

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Centennial League scheduled to be aired

80 times in new season

Athletes in the Centennial League — especially in football and girls volleyball — will get a lot more screen time coming up in the new prep athletic season.

Media company FanVu announced an agreement with the league — which is comprised of Aurora-area programs in Cherokee Trail, Eaglecrest, Grandview, Overland and Smoky Hill in addition to nearby Arapahoe, Cherry Creek and Mullen — to broadcast 80 games/ contests in the fall and winter of the 2022-23 sports season.

“Anything to promote our sport and high school sports in Colorado — specifically the Centennial League — is an awesome thing,” Grandview football coach Tom Doherty said in a statement announcing the schedule.

Added Eaglecrest girls volleyball coach Morgan Garrow: “I’m very honored to hear Eaglecrest volleyball will be part of the Centennial League Network. I think it’s a great opportunity to promote Colorado volleyball. And promote our league — because it is, in my perspective, one of the top leagues in the state with really good players and coaches.”

In terms of girls volleyball, two Centennial League teams played for the Class 5A state championship last year as Cherry Creek defeated Grandview (which has appeared in the last two state title matches), while the Cherry Creek football team also took the state title.

Live viewing of game broadcasts is free, while FanVu announced that on-demand viewing can be accessed via daily or monthly subscriptions ranging from $3.99 to $9.99.

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Colbey Ross playing in NBA Summer League

Former Eaglecrest High

School basketball star Colbey Ross is currently in Las Vegas playing in the NBA Summer League for the Portland Trail Blazers.

Ross — who won a Class 5A state championship with Eaglecrest before he departed for a stellar career at Pepperdine University — made the 14-player roster for the Summer League, which began July 5 and continues through July 17.

The 6-foot, 180-pound Ross had six points and four assists in Portland’s opening loss to the Detroit Pistons, while he then turned in an eight-point performance

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and the New Orleans Pelicans and had four points and four rebounds agains the New York Knicks.

Trail Blazers face the Houston Rockets on July 14 and then will play further contests based on their final record. Portland’s Summer League team has another player with Colorado ties in former University of Colorado star Jabari Walker.

Top left: The Mile High Blaze women’s semipro football team — which includes Vista PEAK senior-to-be Leilani Camaal, right — won the Division II national championship in the Womens’ Football Alliance on July 9 in Canton, Ohio. The Blaze played many of their home games in Aurora at Aurora Public Schools Stadium, including a June 25 semifinal against the Houston Energy. (Photo by Courtney Oakes/Sentinel Colorado). Middle left: Rangeview High School was set to host Hog Wars, the strength and teamwork competition for Aurora prep lineman on July 13, but the event was canceled due to not enough teams participating (Photo by Courtney Oakes/Sentinel Colorado). Bottom left: Emerson Deferme and the Grandview girls volleyball team took on Cherry Creek in an all-Centennial League Class 5A girls volleyball state championship match last fall. The league will be featured heavily in the upcoming season in broadcasts (Photo by Courtney Oakes/ Sentinel Colorado). Above: Former Eaglecrest basketball star Colbey Ross is part of the Portland Trail Blazers’ team that is currently playing in the NBA’s Summer League in Las Vegas. (Photo by David Becker/Associated Press)

10 YEARS AFTER THE SHOOTING

Time hasn’t healed the wounds from the Aurora theater shooting; probably nothing will

Ten years is not long enough.

A decade after James Holmes unleashed a new kind of horror on July 20, 2012 in Aurora, when he killed 12 people and physically maimed dozens more in the Aurora theater shooting, the anguish simmers just under the surface, surprising me still.

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RIGHT: Judy Goos, left, hugs Isaiah Bow, 20, eyewitnesses, as Terrell Wallin, 20, right, looks on, outside Gateway High School where they were brought for questioning after the July 20, shooting. (AP Photo/Barry Gutierrez)

BELOW: Tom Sullivan holds a photograph of his son, Alex Sullivan, as he pleads with the media to help him find his son, outside Gateway High School on Friday, July 20, 2012

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Time, as it turns out, does not heal all wounds. That became apparent over the past few days as we collected our thoughts, memories and interviews into a package of material marking 10 years after the massacre. Calling it an “anniversary” seems obscene to me, like so many things have become after that day and the years since.

This recollection marks the 1,413th story filed by The Sentinel about the shooting, since that day. It’s been mountains of words and photographs that never seem to suffice.

I didn’t realize how close to the surface those July 20 emotions remain for me until I was talking with Heather Dearman last week about events planned for the decade commemoration. Neither of us made it through our brief conversation before we tried to keep on in choked-up voices.

Dearman’s cousin, Ashley Moser, was gravely injured during the shooting. Her daughter, Veronica, just 6, was killed. Since the shooting, Dearman has been an iconic force in creating the city’s stunning memorial to the shooting victims. She helps orchestrate events each year that focus on allowing everyone to heal in their own way, or in any way possible.

I don’t think that’s possible for me.

I first realized that during a journalism conference several years ago. I was on a panel focusing on how newsrooms handle disaster stories. Sadly, Colorado newsrooms have had plenty of experience with calamities over the years. Things like wildfires and other disasters seem to regularly turn a host of Colorado newsrooms into something akin to war rooms.

My fellow journalists talked about the grueling hours that follow disasters. This, in an industry that already mercilessly blurs the professional and personal lives of all its disciples.

As disaster unfolds, reporters deal with information blockades, unrelenting tension and in some cases, fear. Colorado journalists are a storied lot, regularly involved in the kind of events that make

reporters’ hearts quicken and people draw near.

On July 20, 2012, as the police scanner was crackling in the dark newsroom when I shuffled in, I knew the drill.

In the almost 30 years I’ve been doing this, I’ve had too many occasions to wallow in the funk of death. Traffic deaths. Shooting deaths. Deaths from disease. Death from weird accidents. Deaths from war. The stench of death hangs on people and places like mildew. It never ceases to be offensive or less shocking.

In time, it fades but never completely goes away. Dealing with death as a journalist is like being part of a show. I couldn’t possibly pose questions to a parent who’s lost their son in battle or a lake drowning — for the sake of a story. But I have often portrayed a reporter who could and did.

Many times I have played the journalist horrified by the details of a calamity but still write a story or flesh out details, like with the Aurora Chuck E. Cheese’s shootings, or the 1998 Labor Day massacre and the Columbine massacre.

I’ve raced around death unfazed to make changes in style, in fact, and on time. Sometimes, after playing the part of the stolid reporter, I’ve made morbid banter about the situation or simply looked past the grisly reality, only to toss around tough talk later on.

July 20 was like nothing I’ve ever encountered in so many ways. The shocking proximity and sheer gruesomeness of the massacre came close to being overwhelming, but it wasn’t. That came later. The newsroom that day wasn’t a cacophony of commands and movie cliches. It was fearsomely silent. With clenched jaws and darting eyes, about 15 of us scrambled to relay layers of horror as they unfolded at the theater, at Holmes’ apartment and his former school on Anschutz.

Despite the complexity of covering the event, the chaos, the magnitude of the horror, and the endlessly ringing phones, we all stayed in character. Staffers at The Sentinel gave flawless performances of journalists under the gun.

No doubt we all carried off mountains of anguish from the task of wallowing in the stench of so much atrocity and death for so long, but relief in the form of a few stolen sobs, a lot of deep breaths and a little restless dozing made the show possible for endless hours when no one left.

And then days went by. Victims’ stories turned into obituaries. Then weeks passed and the details about guns, insanity, donations and the crime scene turned into another court story. Time, so it seemed,

had grown over the raw fear and pain from my role as a newspaper editor in one of those places where these kinds of things happen. We spend every day for months covering the gruesome and grueling trial.

I confused being numb with being healed.

So I was taken aback when I picked up my cue at a conference and launched into my lines about what happened in Aurora, in our newsroom.

Without warning, it was July 20 again. It was kids we knew crawling away from a ferocious gunman across dead bodies and pools of blood in a smoky dark theater just steps from our newsroom. It was cops I knew who dragged dying kids the same age as my daughter to chaotic emergency rooms in a scene reserved for wars or terrorist attacks.

It was Tom Sullivan’s face at Gateway High School, just hours after the shooting. He and his family raced to the front of the school, choked with people sent there by police and families desperate to find their loved ones. Tom was frantically waving around a photo of his son, Alex. He was near hysteria with fear and agony, begging anyone in the crowd who recognized Alex to tell him where he was and if he was alive.

He wasn’t.

When people talk about how awful mass shootings are, you will never know how truly ghastly these calamities are unless you’re a victim of the atrocity, or you encounter someone like Tom Sullivan as it unfolds. He was nearly destroyed that day when confronted with having lost a child to such an atrocity. Tom was among the courageous from that day and went on to become a state lawmaker. He’s worked tirelessly to stop more days like July 20.

Tom’s face, the crowd of petrified people, the makeshift memorial, it all just reappears. It’s too much, too close, too fast.

I couldn’t stay in character, and I had to frequently stop talking to keep it together as I relayed the oppressive grief, anger and horror each of us here at The Sentinel endured for days, then weeks and now years. Even as I write this, I still can’t play the journalist part for this scene. I don’t want to.

Ten years later, it’s the same.

I can’t tell you how disheartening it’s been to discover that my fail safe, the one thing I think we’ve all counted on, is a myth. Time does not heal all wounds. Not this one. Not yet.

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A decade to absorb the unthinkable

Creating an identity seems always to have frustrated Aurora, long-time community leaders have often said.

A sprawling suburb with no real center, the city for years longed for something to define it, to shake off the image of just another sea of beige housing developments. Something more than the place east of Denver.

Many say July 20, 2012, changed all of that.

Toting a deadly arsenal and decked out in mili-

JULY 20, 2012

tary-grade armor, a lone gunman stormed an Aurora movie theater, indiscriminately blasting rounds from an assault rifle and shotgun into a terrified crowd. The rampage spanned just 72 seconds, but it left 12 moviegoers dead and dozens more wounded.

Beyond the carnage and suffering, the massacre stripped Aurora of its lamented anonymity. Like Virginia Tech before it and Newtown after, Aurora post-July 20 is “one of those places,” forever bound to the American gun violence that shocks the world with increasing frequency.

Joining this unenviable club recently are the towns of Uvalde, Texas and Highland Park, Illinois. Despite the association with the mass shooting, however, the city’s former mayor said the city has grown to accept and build on the tragedy of the shooting. The city has incorporated its fate into a new role as a leader in healing and moving past such disasters, local memorial foundation volunteers say.

“Ten years out, we’re offering different ways to heal for everyone in the community,’ said Heather Dearman, foundation CEO. The list of events is inside this section.

Former Mayor Steve Hogan said the theater shooting absolutely enveloped Aurora, but it’s never defined it.

While Aurora will for at least generations be harnessed to the tragedy, it’s absorbed the distinction but moved on in what some say is a healing process for communities struck by such tragedies.

During the 10-year marker of the theater shooting, a host of public events are slated by the 7/20 Foundation, a group made up mostly of families of theater shooting victims and even the victims themselves.

Healing takes time, community leaders and mental health officials say. A very long time.

Just after the shootings, there was an outpouring of sympathy. Aurora was one of the unlucky few that instantly became synonymous with unthinkable murder.

For the past decade, however, it’s been Aurora leaders and officials reaching out to other police departments and communities, helping them past their own crisis.

Above all, many Aurora officials say they rec-

ognize and appreciate how differently people react to and deal with the event, which not only directly affected hundreds of people, but indirectly impacted tens of thousands in the region.

To mark ten years since the theater shooting, the Aurora History Museum is curating a unique exhibit of photos and artifacts from the initial days and weeks after the massacre.

Relatively new to Aurora, museum curator Chris Shackelford said the assignment of creating a visual recollection of the tragedy came with an unusual tie to his life just after college in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Shackelford was attending a midnight opening of the same Batman movie as in Aurora, nearly at the exact same time.

He said he left the theater charged by the show and began searching the internet for first reviews when he got home. There he saw news that there’d been a shooting in a Colorado theater hosting a premiere screening just like the one he saw. Like many Americans, he was shocked by the growing threat of a mass shooting, this time inside a movie theater, he said.

Ten years later, he’s curating an exhibit focusing on the disaster, choosing among poignant photos and select momentos from the massive impromptu memorials that grew near the theater after the shooting.

He and Heather both think the upcoming events and museum exhibit will offer residents and newcomers an opportunity to reflect on the gravity of the massacre but leave with a sense of hope, if for no other reason, because Aurora has become a place of solidarity.

Despite the heartache and horror the shooting caused, it’s left a community that’s resolute on many fronts.

Read on for some thoughts from area residents and their impressions of changes in Aurora and state law, or the lack of those changes.

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ABOVE: Friends and family members of the massacre victims mourn at a prayer vigil Sunday evening, July 22, 2012 at the Aurora Municipal Center. The community of Aurora came together for a prayer vigil to honor the victims of the massacre. Marla R. Keown/Aurora Sentinel

BELOW: The sun sets behind the 7/20 Memorial Foundation Reflection Memorial Garden which is now complete after the installation of the sculpture Ascentiate. The sculpture features 83 cranes, 70 for those injured and 13 for those lives lost, including the unborn child of Ashley Moser. The garden is located near the Aurora Municipal Center and is open to the public.

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‘It just stays with you’

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REFLECTS ON ‘CATACLYSMIC’ NIGHT OF THEATER SHOOTING

n the evening of July 19, 2012, Aurora’s Police Chief, Dan Oates, returned home to get some rest after a hockey game. Twenty minutes later, not long after midnight, he was woken up by a phone call from his deputy chief, Terry Jones. “It was the only sleep the cheif would get before responding to what Oates now calls “the most cataclysmic event of our professional lives.”

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Opect — I try never to use his name — but the suspect had told us about IEDs and his apartment being loaded with explosives.”

“Terry said, ‘There’s been a shooting at the mall, and it’s pretty serious,” said Oates, who left the police department in 2014 and returned earlier this year to serve as interim chief. “We were speculating that it was two gangsters shooting at each other. And I remember he said, ‘It sounds pretty chaotic over the radio. I’m heading over, and you’d better head over, too.’”

Located near the Town Center at Aurora mall, the Century 16 movie theater was hosting a midnight screening of the new Batman film that night, and Theater 9 was packed with as many as 400 eager moviegoers.

Oates arrived to a chaotic scene. An officer briefed him on the situation and delivered the grisly news: a dozen people had been fatally shot in Theater 9, and an unknown number were wounded. Police had begun rushing gunshot victims to the hospital in squad cars after ambulances were unable to reach the theater in the scramble.

Officers were also still searching for a second shooter, unaware that James Eagan Holmes, who had already been taken into custody, was the lone gunman.

“I was so shocked. I said, ‘You’ve got to give that to me again,’” Oates said. “I couldn’t process it. I think my brain couldn’t process what was going on initially.”

The number of wounded was eventually pegged at 70, including those injured by bullets and tear gas grenades fired by Holmes, as well as those hurt while trying to escape.

Oates called Jim Yacone, who was then in charge of the FBI’s Denver Division, to report what he feared could be an act of terrorism.

“I remember telling him, ‘Wake up everybody. We need every federal agent you can get here, because this is massive,’” Oates said. “We also knew that the sus-

He also called George “Skip” Noe, at that time Aurora’s city manager, to tell him what was happening at Century 16; Noe said he would alert the city’s elected officials.

“And then it was hours of just managing the incident,” Oates said. “There’s a lot of that evening that’s a blur, still.”

For police and the more than 1,000 people who were in or near the theater when Holmes opened fire, the night was far from over. Faced with interviewing a massive group of potential witnesses, police arranged bus transportation to Gateway High School, which served as a reunification point for many families as well as the place where some learned of the tragic deaths of children, siblings and friends.

Oates spoke emotionally about driving to Gateway to meet Mike Hawkins, the Aurora officer who carried out the body of 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan, who was shot along with her mother, Ashley Moser. Ashley survived; her unborn child and Veronica did not.

“I went to Gateway, not as the chief, but to find that officer,” Oates said. “I had this need to find this officer and just give him a hug. … It was the right thing to do.”

Detectives from the Aurora Police Department and the FBI interviewed hundreds of witnesses through the night and into the morning of the 20th.

The chief returned to police headquarters at around 5:30 a.m. At the time, he said the telephones of the department’s public information officers were unusable because of the volume of incoming calls from media outlets as far away as Sydney and Beijing.

That morning, bomb experts from the FBI, ATF and Adams County also began dismantling the jungle of complex explosive devices rigged inside of Holmes north Aurora apartment, which contained computers and other potential sources of evidence.

Oates described the team as “a wonderfully coordinated effort” and an example of one of the ways law enforcement worked to

bring Holmes to justice and avert further harm — after two days of work, the group would successfully disarm Holmes’ apartment with no injuries and with minimal damage to the apartment itself.

Once Holmes’ Paris Street apartment building was evacuated, the mood turned from terror to grief, as the community of Aurora mourned the tremendous loss of life at Century 16. President Barack Obama met with survivors on July 22 and delivered a speech at University of Colorado Hospital, joined by Oates and elected officials.

That was 10 years ago. But for many of the people who were present or knew someone who was injured or killed in the Century 16 shooting, the events of July 20, 2012, can feel like yesterday.

“It just stays with you,” Oates said. “Everyone in this town knew somebody in that theater.”

Some elements of the Aurora police response, like the in-the-moment judgment to transport 27 victims using police cars when ambulances were unavailable, have been praised and, according to Oates, incorporated into the policies of police departments across the country.

A third-party review of the police department’s handling of the incident specifically notes that “if the police cars had not been used for rapid transport of seriously wounded victims, more likely would have died.”

Oates said the shooting also drew the department’s attention to the need to establish a unified command structure between police and firefighters if another event like the July 20 shooting was to take place.

Unfortunately, mass shootings have continued to claim lives in Colorado and across the nation — less than five months after the events in Aurora, another lone gunman killed 26 young children and school employees in Newtown, Connecticut.

“I felt that we were sort of climbing back

to normal,” Oates said. “And then Sandy Hook happened, and I felt there was this collective depression here in the city to watch another community go through that horror.”

Oates said he was skeptical of the ability of gun control laws passed since 2012 to curb incidents like the Century 16 shooting, calling Colorado’s red flag law “only moderately helpful.”

While he said he believed the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which lasted from 1994 to 2004, may have had an impact on mass shootings, he said he wasn’t sure if another similar ban would have the same effect today.

He remembered “seething” after being asked a question about gun control policy at the first press conference following the shooting.

“This horrific event had occurred to my community, and I was wondering why is it that the only people and the only time we ask about gun policy are police chiefs after mass shootings?,” he said. “Why weren’t we as a society facing up to that issue long long before?”

What he does know is that, during the worst night of many Aurorans’ lives, the city’s police acted professionally and with courage.

“Our cops performed superbly that night,” Oates said.

Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates encourages continued support for the families of the massacre victims Tuesday afternoon, July 24, 2012 at the Bozarth Auto Dealership near South Havana Street and East Asbury Avenue. Ed Bozarth, his family, and partners donated three separate checks totaling $50,000 to the victims’ families, the Aurora Police Department and the Aurora Fire Department.

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Aurora led the way for innovations in mental health treatment

BY CARINA JULIG, Sentinel Staff Writer

In the immediate aftermath of the Aurora theater shooting in 2012, the Aurora Mental Health Center’s board of directors passed a resolution stipulating that it would not charge any out-of-pocket fees to anyone who had been impacted by the shooting.

The need for services was high but the commitment was upheld, officials said.

Ten years later, that guarantee is still being honored. AMHC continues to treat survivors from that night, a testament to the long tail of trauma that gun violence leaves in its wake.

At press time, the number of patients and estimated cost to the mental health center was unclear.

dar. Then Aurora Public Schools superintendent John Barry found out about the shooting at 1:15 a.m. when his chief operating officer called to give him the news. Barry is an Air Force veteran who was in the Pentagon on 9/11, but it was Columbine that he said prepared him most for the shooting. After the 1999 shooting, the district put together an incident response team, which enabled it to jump into action immediately after the shooting and coordinate with first responders.

in the aftermath.

For people of all ages, the shooting affected their sense of safety. The theater shooting was one of the first high-profile attacks in a place where people went for entertainment — attacks at a gay nighclub, a music festival and a country-western bar were yet to happen. Over and over again, Anderson said mental health providers encountered people struggling with how to restore their sense of safety, which is an important step in recovering from trauma.

“There was a sense of, where in the community can I be safe if not a movie theater?” she said. The smell of popcorn, the classic movie theater treat, turned into a trigger for some survivors.

MENTAL HEALTH

Leaders in Aurora drew on previous experiences of crisis events to respond to the shooting, and in turn have passed on the lessons they learned to other communities in the state and across the nation.

But the prevalence of mass shootings in the decade since is discouraging.

At the time of the Aurora theater shooting, “we were already living in a world where these shootings were more commonplace than anyone should find acceptable and nothing at all has changed to make us any safer,” said Vincent Atchity, president and CEO of Mental Health Colorado.

Atchity credited Colorado’s extreme risk protection order (ERPO) law, which went into effect in 2020, as the one major piece of legislation passed after the shooting that has made a meaningful impact in gun deaths. The organization lobbied heavily for the law while it was going through the legislature, which it framed as a suicide prevention measure due to Colorado’s high rate of gun suicides.

However, Atchity said the state has not done enough to publicize the law since it was passed. He remembers being in New York City shortly after 9/11, where the subway cars were plastered with “if you see something, say something” posters. He wishes there had been a campaign on a similar scale to promote ERPOs.

“I don’t think the state has ever done a very good job of making people aware of this single tool we have to prevent these kinds of things, and I think that’s regrettable,” he said.

But in the early hours of the morning following the Aurora shooting, legislation wasn’t yet on anyone’s ra-

Then-recent Gateway High School graduate A.J. Boik was one of the people killed in the attack, and many APS students were in the theater, including the Gateway football team which had gone out to celebrate. Paris Elementary School students and their families were further traumatized by the evacuation of the area around the perpetrator’s apartment building, which the shooter had rigged with explosives.

With just two weeks between the shooting and the district’s first day of school, Barry and his leadership team decided to put a priority on making sure the school had additional mental health resources and other supports for students throughout the ensuing school year.

A case study drafted by the Harvard Kennedy School Program on Crisis Leadership analyzing APS’ reaction to the shooting detailed how some people in the district were skeptical of Barry’s decision, worrying that paying too much attention to the incident would backfire. But as the school year went on, that attitude faded.

“I used to tell people, we are not first responders,” Barry told The Sentinel. “But we are second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, whatever responders and we need to be able to deal with this thing as it goes forward.”

The district worked with AMHC to ensure that there were extra counselors in every school, and national experts helped craft age-appropriate ways for teachers to discuss the shooting with students on the first day back. Aurora pastor Reid Hettich helped organize a group of religious leaders that met to discuss how the faith community could help students.

Kirsten Anderson, AMHC’s chief clinical officer, said that students had much of the same reactions as older people to the shooting but were more at the mercy of their physical environment. Schools can be loud, crowded places with a lot of triggers, and truancy was one of the responses that some students had

APS’ sense of security was rattled again when, six months after the shooting, 26 people were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Some teachers struggled with how to respond.

“I didn’t know how to deal with this because I’m not going to lie to the kids and say that won’t happen because I can’t say that with conviction,” Paris Elementary fourth grade teacher Paula Hedin said in an interview for the Harvard case study.

Barry and other members of APS’ leadership team, along with Aurora first responders, ended up speaking to people in Newtown about what they had been through. AMHC has been consulted in the response to the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting, the Boston Marathon Bombings and the STEM and Arapahoe high school shootings. Being able to pass on advice to other members of “the club no one wants to join” is bittersweet.

“It’s very important that communities support each other because you do learn a lot of lessons,” Anderson said.

Anderson testified to the immense strength of survivors but said that the prevalence of mass shootings in the years since continues to be “an enormous trigger” for many. It’s pretty reliable that every time a shooting reaches the news, AMHC will see an uptick in people reaching out for support.

“Back then the hope was certainly that this horrible thing happened and it impacted so many lives and we would just hope that would lead to some substantial change so that that would not be continuing to happen,” Anderson said. “And unfortunately it seems to be happening more frequently than it was back in 1012.”

In this April 22, 2015 photo, Dr. Kirsten Anderson, the Disaster Coordinator with Aurora Mental Health Center, poses for a photo inside the Aurora Strong Resilience Center, a free counseling center opened in 2013 for anyone coping with anxiety, flashbacks and other responses to reliving the Aurora theater shootings through testimony and news accounts. AP Photo/Brennan Linsley

GUN POLITICS AFTER THE SHOOTING LOOK MUCH THE SAME

Sen. John Hickenlooper, then the governor of Colorado, arrived in Aurora the morning of July 20, 2012, to review the scene of the theater shooting where 12 people had been murdered hours earlier. He remembers vividly the video police took of the theater and debris.

“There was popcorn everywhere. You could see blood on the seats. And there were no people, which somehow made it more chilling,” he recalls a decade later.

In the days after the shooting, Hickenlooper, along with then-Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan and former President Barack Obama, made it a priority to meet with and visit the survivors and the families of the dead.

Then, as so often it goes, the conversation turned to legislation.

The theater shooting was a catalyst for lawmakers to act on gun violence, though they were met with vehement pushback at nearly every turn. Along with the safety threats — Democratic Party Chairperson Morgan Carroll, who was a state senator representing Aurora at the time, received nine credible threats the following legislative session — opponents also warned they’d end political careers.

In 2013, opponents of gun control legislation made good on their promise to recall sitting lawmakers who signed onto bills that limited gun magazines to 15 rounds and required universal background checks on gun sales. Sen. Angela Giron and Senate President John Morse, both Democrats from Southern Colorado, were recalled after an influx of cash and campaigning from the gun lobby. Later, Democratic Sen. Evie Houdak resigned her seat.

For years after, state Democratic leaders say, those recall efforts had a chilling effect on tackling gun legislation, even if polling showed they had public opinion on their side and friendly donors, such as Michael Bloomberg, were willing to step in and help.

“If the entire community were really voting on this, I don’t actually think those folks would have been recalled. But because the state statute was designed so that you can recall for any reason or no reason at all, and the math that triggers a recall is at an irregular time, with no real campaign apparatus to drive voter turnout, you have an intense minority of people that were able to overthrow the will of the majority of voters, by, in my opinion, abusing the recall process,” Carroll said.

In the end, there were questions about whether the recalls really came down to opinions on gun laws, but it didn’t stop Democrats from tapping the brakes on gun legislation.

“The general assembly, like any organi-

zation, has a personality. It’s the aggregate personality of all the people in the Senate and House and when they see two pretty good senators taken out in a recall, I think that makes everybody a little more cautious,” Hickenlooper said.

Giffords, a pro-gun control advocacy group, says by some measures Colorado has made significant progress on passing laws believed to prevent dangerous shootings. Universal background checks, extreme risk protection orders, domestic violence gun laws, a child access prevention law and extended background check periods are all counted among what the state “does well.”

“I think that Colorado has done a lot and we know that states with strong gun laws have fewer gun rates than states with weak gun laws,” said Allison Anderman, Senior Counsel and Director of Local Policy at Giffords.

Still, the state saw gun purchases spike in the last two years, non-fatal shootings rose 136% between 2019 and 2021 in Aurora, and a handful of mass shootings happened across the state since 2013, including last year at a Boulder grocery store where a 21-year-old gunman killed 10 people.

“Colorado has done a better job… but that still doesn’t diminish the fact that we’re seeing more shootings, more mass shootings, every year,” Hickenlooper said. “I think that (there is a) culture of violence. There’s so many guns in the systems, and even if we stopped any gun purchases tomorrow, even then there is this culture of violence. Other countries have the same mental health challenges and issues and cycles of the economy that create ways of anxiety for their citizens, but they don’t have these shootings.”

Hickenlooper was himself the target of criticism in his own party as being a hold up

for legislation. In the days after the shooting, Hickenlooper said on CNN that he was skeptical any laws would have stopped the shooter in Aurora.

“If it was not one weapon, it would have been another, and he was diabolical,” he said.

Rep. Tom Sullivan, whose son Alex was killed in the Aurora theater shooting, said even today he runs into opposition in his party on gun legislation. He was elected as a Democrat in 2018, running unabashedly on gun safety legislation.

“Two out of the four years I’ve been in the House, we weren’t even allowed to run gun legislation,” he said. “I’ve had heated conversations with the last two speakers of the Colorado House as to why bills aren’t put up. These aren’t even monumental (bills)…. This is like, lost and stolen firearms, raising the minimum age of buying an assault rifle. It’s been 22 years since Columbine and we don’t even have a definition of assault rifle.”

This legislative session, Democrats considered running a measure raising the age from 18 to 21 to buy an assault-style rifle, but a bill never materialized.

That frustration is echoed on the federal level, as many advocates and voters say a package of gun bills agreed upon in the House and Senate still doesn’t go far enough. President Joe Biden signed the legislation into law earlier this month. The bills strengthen background checks for young gun buyers, encourage states to enact red flag laws and include $13 billion to bolster mental health programs.

Looking back at the last decade, Sullivan wonders if Democrats would have had an easier time and be less hesitant today if they’d taken a different approach a decade ago.

“What if in 2013 they had just done two bills? Would we not have had two senators

recalled and one resigned? Would we not have continued to have the Democratic Party in fear of having a day-to-day conversation of prevention because of how it’s going to impact their caucus?” he said.

So many people have been touched by gun violence now, Sullivan said he wants Coloradans to look at the legislature and know that work on the issue is happening at the Capitol, just like transportation or education. Even if a bill doesn’t pass on the first try.

“I can learn from that,” he said. “But I’m running out of time.”

Despite the frustration, Sullivan is confident that the laws passed in Colorado have made a difference.

“The pendulum has swung back and we have saved lives because of the work that has happened over the last 10 years. I can tell you people are alive because of that work,” he said. “Certainly not enough, and we will continue to work on that. But parents are tucking in kids who they might not in all probability if we had been doing nothing.”

Giffords says Colorado still misses the mark on gun owner licensing, assault weapon restrictions, waiting periods, concealed carry laws and open carry regulations, but it’s hard to say whether the hill ahead of Democrats is steeper than the last.

“Some of these proposals poll well,” Anderman, with Giffords, said. “So why state politicians aren’t introducing or moving them is really a question for them.”

Governor John Hickenlooper addresses the media Friday afternoon, July 20, 2012 near the Century 16 theater in Aurora. A gunman wearing a gas mask and body armor opened fire in a crowded Aurora movie theater with an assault rifle, shotgun and pistol during a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” movie Friday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 59 more. Sentinel Colorado file photo

BY KARA MASON, Sentinel Managing Editor

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10 years after the shooting

Scenes from the aftermath of the Aurora theater shooting July 20, 2012, at a make-shift memorial site and during a city-led memorial service in the days following the shooting. Below left, former Police Chief Dan Oates at the service. File photos by Sentinel Colorado and Associated Press photographers.

Ten years ago, the trajectory of Zack Golditch’s life took a turn.

Now, the survivor of the Aurora theater shooting hopes to positively alter the path of another Aurora Public Schools student with a life-changing scholarship.

football field, where he went on to play on scholarship as an offensive lineman at Colorado State University and then had chances with a variety of franchises in the National Football League before that dream came to an end. Before it became evident that a big professional payday wouldn’t come to pass, Golditch hoped

Altering another life

Survivor Zack Golditch hopes 5K & scholarship can be life changing

BY COURTNEY OAKES Staff Writer

Aurora theater shooting survivor Zack Golditch has tried to give back to his community in several ways over the last decade and he’s found another way, as his combination 5K/scholarship idea for the 7/20 10year anniversary is intended to lend a helping hand financially to a student in the same Aurora Public Schools system he attended.

Golditch, a Gateway High School graduate and star offensive lineman on the football field, now works for South Metro Fire Rescue.

The inaugural Hero’s Journey 5K run on July 23 will wind through Aurora to the 7/20 Memorial Reflection Garden and fund a scholarship for an Aurora Public Schools student that culminates a dream Golditch — who graduated from Gateway High School a year after the tragedy — has had for a long time.

“My life was changed that night and hopefully this scholarship can change the life of another student in a good way,” Golditch, 27, told The Sentinel.

Golditch — then 17 years old — attended the “Dark Night Rising” premier at the theater with his sister and some fellow Gateway classmates when a stray bullet from the attack in an adjacent theater passed through his neck. It happened during an action sequence in the movie, so Golditch thought somebody had lit a firecracker in the theater and he got hit by a spark.

He rushed outside to find a chaotic scene and was taken to the hospital in the immediate aftermath of the shooting and gained a deep appreciation for the courage of the first responders he witnessed.

While the tragedy changed him on the inside, Golditch continued on his path on the

to start a foundation or a scholarship himself. Now, he has the chance to do so through the combination race-scholarship, which he presented to 7/20 Foundation CEO Heather Dearman, who has made it happen for the 10th anniversary.

“It was just the idea of a way to get people together,” he said. “I’ve never done a 5K before, but I know people who have done them and they seem so inclusive and so motivating. It gets people out in the sunshine to get some exercise. A 5K doesn’t sound too intimidating unlike a marathon. It was something I put out there and she (Dearman) ran with it. She’s built a great team and got many hands involved. It’s evolved and it should be a great, great event.”

Golditch is most looking forward to the end result: giving back to help an Aurora Public Schools senior that he can identify with to help them achieve a brighter future. The APS Foundation will handle the logistics of the scholarship.

“Not seeing all my friends go to college and being fortunate enough to have my school paid for through football, I couldn’t imagine taking on the burden of college debt,” he said. “With

all those things piling up, I thought it would be a great goal for a scholarship to help somebody in Aurora Public Schools with those things. ...I just felt it was one of the ways I could give back to APS and to Aurora for everything they had done for me after 7/20.”

The biggest way the shooting affected him was implanting a spark in him to help others.

At first, he wanted to become a police officer, but the law enforcement aspect of the job wasn’t for him. Then, Golditch discovered the work of firefighters and it spoke to him. Less than a year after his career as an athlete ended, he was hired with South Metro Fire Rescue and has worked there for the last two years.

“It replicated the role sports had in my life, to join the real world ultimate sports team,” he said. “I had the perspective of being scared and afraid and wanting to help and be on the other side. ...This is a team sport, just with a different mission. I’m never alone now. I always have somebody by my side working towards the same common goal.

“I’ve loved every single second of it and I’m grateful.”

Golditch is living life to the fullest with a job that fulfills him and makes a difference in the community.

He also has a big milestone coming up in October when he will marry fiancé, Sara, whom he met at CSU. It will be another major step in his life that almost didn’t happen if there had been a different outcome that night.

“It’s tough to describe because so much has happened in my life in the last 10 years,” Golditch said. “I was 17 when it happened and I’m 27 now. The most critical and monumental steps of my early life have happened since then. It feels like a long time ago, but I still remember it like it happened last week. It’s wild to think it has been 10 years. It’s funny because now I’m old enough to where I can say I vividly remember things that happened 10 years ago.”

File photo by Courtney Oakes/Sentinel Colorado

2012 Aurora theater shooting by the numbers

12 Killed

72 Wounded

10,000 People from across the state attended the formal vigil ceremony July 22, 2012 at the Aurora Municipal Center’s Great Lawn.

160 Cardboard boxes containing memorial items including teddy bears, letters, candles and signs, collected by city employees and stored in a warehouse in an undisclosed location. Some items were later provided to families of victims. Some items were “cremated” because of their condition. The ashes were used in memorial objects later on. The Aurora History Museum has acquired the bulk of the remaining items.

$738,451.61 Total city staff overtime costs related to the theater shooting through August 2012.

1,138 People counseled by Aurora Mental Health in the first year.

1,019 Staff hours dedicated to counseling those people.

$35,000 Annual cost to operate the city’s Aurora Strong Community Resilience Center, which offered free services such as group and individual counseling and music, art and exercise therapy activities for victims of tragedies. The center eventually closed.

$313,637.95 Grant money given to the city of Aurora by the U.S. Department of Justice to help cover overtime costs associated with the shooting.

300 Candles collected by city employees from the makeshift memorial at the corner of South Sable Boulevard and East Centrepoint Drive.

$248,927 Paid by the city to a public safety consultant firm for the purposes of conducting an after-action report of the theater shooting.

FREE How much counseling cost for a victim of the theater shooting, still

500+ Hours worked by city disaster team.

60+ Events to help or raise money for victims in the first year.

1,000 Paper cranes sent to the city made by teens at Fort Zumwalt West High School in O’Fallon, Missouri, as symbols of peace and hope.

$1.4 Million dedicated by Aurora Mental Health to the response from the shooting in the first year.

3,000 Number of law enforcement officers from agencies including Aurora Police Department and FBI who worked on the theater shooting case.

$5 Million donated to victims of the Aurora shooting between July and November 2012.

$23,811 Cost of substitute teachers for Aurora Public Schools related to the July 20 shooting.

$118,333 Donated money to Aurora Public Schools to help defer costs related to the shooting.

444 Officers filed reports related to the shooting in the court case against the accused shooter.

$251,984.95 Total resources dedicated by Aurora Public Schools to help after the shooting.

$20,559 Cost in overtime hours from Aurora Public Schools employees.

900 Students counseled

26 Average age of a victim killed in the theater. Veronica Moser, 6 was the youngest, Gorden Cowden, 51, was the oldest.

$463,000 Raised to help victims in Aurora Public Schools alone.

72 Seconds — total time officials estimate the attack lasted.

56 Number of lab personnel assigned by the city and Arapahoe County to help process wounds and victims.

27 Therapists at 25 schools across the city.

1,600+ People served by the 7/20 disaster team.

7 Number of nonprofits statewide that immediately set up relief organizations in the days after the shooting. Minutes after the shooting, Aurora police responded with 129 officers and 52 police to the scene.

$950,000 Cost to Cinemark to renovate Century Aurora 16 after the shooting.

No. 9 - Theater where the shooting happened. The theater has since been renamed to “Theater H” or “Theater XD.”

12 Crosses Donated by Greg Zanis, of Aurora, Ill., to the temporary memorial immediately set up outside the theater after the shooting.

16 Hours - How long Greg Zanis drove from his home to deliver the crosses to the memorial.

27 Other law enforcement agencies were called to help Aurora police with the shooting.

SNOWDON: A front row seat to the most haunting show on Earth

BY QUINCY SNOWDON, Special to The Sentinel

Istill feel that Dave Perry sold me a bill of goods.

Perry, The Sentinel editor, ever kind and annoyingly unflappable, had just hired me to be an “arts and entertainment reporter” for The Sentinel. He and another editor had for some implausible reason saved a resume I’d submitted to be an intern at the outfit.

In the interview, we talked about favorite books, authors, playwrights and politics. Nursing a hangover from the night before, I feigned my way through the sit-down on Peoria Street. I think I even wore a tie.

“We’d love you to write more about music,” I remember Perry saying with that pesky sincerity.

“Amazing,” I remember thinking. “That sounds great.”

Cut to my second week on the job, when I got assigned to cover a beer festival in Denver.

“This is ridiculous,” I thought. “I cannot believe they are paying me for this stuff.”

What was not entirely articulated to me at my second-ever pitch meeting was that the festival wasn’t held solely as a weekend respite teeming with the latest in titillating suds. It was “A Night to Remember,” a gathering held at Four Mile Historic Park to honor the life of Alex Teves, one of the 12 people slain in the 2012 Aurora theater massacre.

The event was organized by Alex’s parents, Tom and Caren, and the owners at his local watering hole, Copper Kettle.

There’s still a slideshow of photos from the 2014 gathering on the website for Tom and Caren’s nonprofit organization, the Alex C Teves ACT Foundation. I can be seen wearing a blue t-shirt with greasy hair — undoubtedly un-shampooed — talking to one of the organizers. Always professional, I’m pretty sure I was wearing Birkenstock sandals.

I had no idea what I was doing there. This was not the “Almost Famous” tour bus bacchanalia I had envisioned when I was ostensibly afforded a job as a “music” writer.

Perry was a liar. Yes, there was music at this festival, but he was goading me to ask, like, serious and meaningful questions to a grieving mother. This was in a wholly different ZIP code than writing about the latest “Bright Eyes” album, an assignment that up until that point, had been perhaps the most meaningful in my abbreviated career.

I remember my eyes getting wet while talking to Caren that day, but repeatedly trying to blink them back to stasis so as not to smudge the quotes I’d scribbled on my first real reporter’s notebook.

Caren appreciated the ensuing story, and we kept in touch as 21st century people do in the following years — via Twitter. A year later, we had a long phone call in which she lamented how we had named her son’s killer despite her pleas not to do so in honor of the “no notoriety” movement.

The tears I was able to eschew at the park now appeared as a torrent. I wept after hanging up with Caren.

On paper, Alex and I weren’t at such different stages of our lives. He was 24 and had just graduated from the University of Denver when he was killed. I was 23 and still a somewhat recent grad from the same institution when I started covering his murderer’s trial at the Arapahoe County District Courthouse in 2015. I desperately didn’t want to disappoint or distance his mother with my coverage.

But I cannot underscore enough just how clueless I was in the greater galaxy of journalistic knowhow. Prior to pinch-hitting coverage

for a few days of the seemingly interminable and devastating trial, I’d covered court only once for The Sentinel when reporter Brandon Johansson was out of town. I got summarily scolded for forgetting to write down the judge’s name. It was not my thing.

That summer, Johansson got tied up at precisely the wrong time — twice. After impeccably detailing the shooting, the aftermath, the memorials, the jury selection and the trial for some three years, he was unable to cover the day the verdict was read, and later the sentencing.

That left me, a dolt, to write up the biggest and most horrific story to ever get a dateline from this fair burg. I got word to head to the courthouse while working from an Aurora Panera Bread — the same building that once housed the Chuck E. Cheese where yet another one of the city’s mass shootings unfolded — in an Arcade Fire t-shirt and jeans. I was told “please tell me you have a change of clothes” before heading out. Luckily, I did.

Those afternoons were blurry amalgams of sorrow and ire and relief and pain, emotions that floated through my psyche but were quickly suppressed in an effort to just get some godforsaken copy down. I remember fixating on Sandy Phillips’ emerald shawl, an item I later learned belonged to her late daughter, Jessica Ghawi.

The magnitude of how I grappled with those sentiments was in no way comparable to what the likes of Sandy, Caren and Tom have felt, feel and will continue to feel, but they’re still there, somewhere in my mental mantle. They’ve persisted through the years of ensuing coverage on the memorials, the films, the civil litigation and the politicians that lingered and spun out of the tragedy.

It’s a funny thing, this journalism business. You ask — sometimes beg — people for candor, honesty and access, and yet for decades traditionalists have said to give nothing back. Say thank you, express empathy, but keep it all at an arm’s length and shuffle on to the next post in WordPress.

It’s not healthy or sustainable, and yet it’s the way the industry, if you can call it that anymore, hums. I think it’s changing. I hope it is.

I was but a microbial observer of the fallout from that day in July of 2012, though I know I’ll remember those courtroom wails and scowls and stares for a lifetime. The three-year mark, the five-year mark and now the 10-year anniversary of such loss are merely numbers. The anguish persists, and the stings keep coming with each new barrage of bullets across this bifurcated land.

By virtue of my position on the masthead of Aurora’s local paper, I got swallowed into the unholy sorority of souls and communities convulsed by gun-related cataclysm. That most unenviable list has grown nightmarishly long in the decade since the Century 16 attack, though I know the scrolls of names will only grow.

I haven’t spoken to Caren in years, but I deeply hope she’s able to scratch out some semblance of solace this July, somehow. So send her some well wishes — she once told me “well wishes means so much. Thanks, Quincy,” when I’d clumsily attempted to offer some warmth. To my jaded surprise, it turns out people indeed appreciate that stuff.

Well wishes, Caren.

10 year memorial events

7/20 Foundation: Events for 10 years after, a ‘metamorphosis’

The 7/20 Foundation is hosting a number of events to commemorate the Aurora theater shooting over the next week, including its annual midnight vigil, 5K and a number of events July 23 on Aurora’s great lawn. The theme for this year’s events is “metamorphosis,” to honor how the attack transformed the city and changed people’s lives forever. Register online and find more information at 7-20memorial.org.

AJ’s Haze beer release

Thursday, July 14 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Six Capital Brewing

16701 E. Iliff Avenue Suite B

Six Capital Brewing partnered with the 7/20 Foundation and the family of theater shooting victim A.J. Boik to create a beer in A.J.’s honor. The IPA “A.J.’s Haze” will debut this Thursday at the brewery and will also be served at the beer fest on July 23, with a portion of the proceeds from each beer going to the 7/20 Foundation.

10th Annual Midnight Vigil Remembrance

Tuesday, July 19, 11:30 p.m.

Aurora Municipal Center garden

15151 E. Alameda Parkway

The vigil will start with a candlelight procession at 11:30 p.m. and will include prayer, a walk through the remembrance garden and a procession of first responders. The event will also be livestreamed on the Foundation’s Facebook page starting at midnight.

Hero’s Journey 5K

Saturday, July 23 9 a.m.

The 5K will begin at the Aurora Metro Station across from the theater and end at the 7/20 Memorial reflection garden. Proceeds from the race go to the Zack Golditch opportunity scholarship. Runners 21 and over will receive a wristband for unlimited beer tasting at the beer garden.

Reflection Ceremony

1:45 to 3 p.m.

Aurora City Hall Great Lawn

The reflection ceremony will honor the lives lost during the shooting and “acknowledge the continued healing journeys of survivors, first responders, and community leaders,” according to the Foundation.

After the reflection ceremony, there will be a beer garden, food trucks, live music and chalk art festival on the great lawn, along with a variety of wellness and community outreach booths. This year’s festival will have a particular focus on the healing power of art, according to the 7/20 Foundation. The beer garden will be from 3:00-6:30 p.m., and food trucks and live music from 3:00.-7:00 p.m. Bands performing include Brushfire and Latin Sol. The chalk art will be at the reflection garden on the southeast side of City Hall.

At 7:20 p.m. The Strauss Chamber Orchestra and Life/Art Dance will perform at the Reflection Garden. The immersive tribute will also include a poetry reading by former Aurora poet laureate Assetou Xango and video and visual art from DAVA students.

— CARINA JULIG, Sentinel staff writer

Quincy Snowdon was a reporter for SentinelColoradoforseveralyears,covering education,politics,cityhall,policeandcourt beatsduringhistenure.

“Ascentiate” is a memorial sculpture composed of 83 crane-like birds dedicated to victims and survivors of the Aurora theater shooting. The feature is part of a memorial garden at city hall. Philip B. Poston/Sentinel Colorado

Aurora history museum exhibit features photos, mementos from July 20 shooting

Photos and select memorial objects left behind at makeshift memorials will be part of a Aurora theater shooting exhibit opening next week for about a month. Details about the exhibit are forthcoming.

Top: 1,000 paper cranes were folded by a community in Missouri and were sent to Aurora to assist in the time of grief following the 7/20 theater shooting. Some cranes have scripture written on them and other notes of compassion and sympathy.

Left: A resin model of the statue at the 7/20 memorial garden will be on display at the Aurora History Museum, along with several other pieces remembering the tragedy.

Right: A “We will rise” Batman bracelet. The bracelets were part of a strong Aurora campaign after the shooting.

Photos by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado

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SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 1670 S Espana Way, 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, 08/17/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 6/23/2022

Last Publication 7/21/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 04/15/2022

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Norton #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-027250

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. 0200-2022

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

On April 19, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Juan Sapien Gomez

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

May 14, 2018

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

May 16, 2018

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

D8047730

Original Principal Amount

$311,258.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$296,723.70

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 34, BLOCK 2, STONE RIDGE PARK SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN #:197520304034

Also known by street and number as: 1828 South Idalia Street, 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, 08/17/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 6/23/2022

Last Publication 7/21/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 04/19/2022

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Norton #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-027288

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. 0202-2022

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

On April 19, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Jesse Williams

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

October 11, 2019

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

October 17, 2019

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

D9111170

Original Principal Amount

$209,632.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$204,688.98

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

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION

EXHIBIT A

PARCEL A: LOT 29C, RAINTREE EAST, AS PER MAP RECORDED FEBRUARY 20, 1973, AT RECEPTION NO. 1341156,

TOGETHER WITH THE RIGHTS SET FORTH IN THAT CERTAIN DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED APRIL 19, 1973 IN BOOK 2120 AT PAGE 169 TO 189, INCLUSIVE, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

PARCEL B: A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT FOR PARKING AND STORAGE OVER THAT PORTION OF LOT 29D SHOWN AS EASEMENT NO. 3 ON EASEMENT LOCATION PLAN RECORDED JULY 3, 1973, IN BOOK 2143 AT PAGE 618 TO 619, INCLUSIVE, WHICH EASEMENT IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF AND APPURTENANT TO SAID LOT 29C, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. PARCEL ID NUMBER: 031264804

Also known by street and number as: 9901 E Evans Avenue #29C, 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, 08/17/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 6/23/2022

Last Publication 7/21/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 04/19/2022

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Norton #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-026760

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. 0206-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On April 19, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

NATHAN R. ALTON

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

February 01, 2017

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

January 03, 2018

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

D8000832

Original Principal Amount

$334,706.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$311,496.29

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 13, BLOCK 5, BOX ELDER CREEK RANCHES SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 1573 S NUTMEG ST, BENNETT, CO 80102. 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.

that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 08/17/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 6/23/2022

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978

Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557

Randall Chin #31149

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

Attorney File # 00000009482514

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. 0217-2022

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

On April 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Robert Unpingco

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust November 16, 2020 County of Recording Arapahoe

Date of Deed of Trust

2020

Original Principal Amount $446,758.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $438,569.87 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 7, BLOCK 2, PRIDE’S CROSSING SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 18, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN: 2073-10-3-37-010

Also known by street and number as: 19091 E WHITAKER PL, 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, 08/24/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Norton #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-027348

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. 0220-2022

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

On April 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Fidel Chaparro

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA MORTGAGE

LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

April 07, 2017

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 12, 2017

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

D7041404

Original Principal Amount

$209,632.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$198,697.57

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 2, BLOCK 2, ZURCHER’S SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

A.P.N.: 031071780

Also known by street and number as: 1380 Lima Street, Aurora, CO 80010. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 08/24/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 6/30/2022

Last Publication 7/28/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO

A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE

A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 04/22/2022

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Norton #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-027186

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

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0242-2022

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

Deed of Trust:

On April 29, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Eric Ray

Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

May 11, 2020

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

May 14, 2020

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

E0056935

Original Principal Amount

$353,479.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$344,439.19 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 14, BLOCK 18, PHEASANT RUN FILING NUMBER 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN# 031689171

Also known by street and number as: 4706 South Ouray Way, 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, 08/31/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/7/2022

Last Publication 8/4/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE

A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 04/29/2022

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Norton #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-027424

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. 0250-2022

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

Deed of Trust:

On May 6, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

KAREN ESCOBAR BARRIENTOS

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

April 15, 2020

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 20, 2020 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

Original Principal Amount $312,240.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$308,829.40

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 9, BLOCK 29, THE UNION PACIFIC LAND COMPANY, SECOND ADDITION TO THE TOWN OF DEER TRAIL, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 1195 5TH AVE, DEER TRAIL, CO 80105-8082. 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, 09/07/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/14/2022

Last Publication 8/11/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 05/06/2022

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755

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

Attorney File # CO-22-914886-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. 0256-2022

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

On May 10, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

JEFFREY JOHN NAU

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS BENEFICIARY, AS NOMINEE FOR FIRST CALIFORNIA MORTGAGE COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION

Date of Deed of Trust

June 02, 2017 County of Recording

Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust

June 06, 2017

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

D7062934

Original Principal Amount

$142,762.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$133,689.75 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT A EXHIBIT A CONDOMINIUM UNIT NO.103, BUILDING 15, SUNFLOWER CONDOMINIUMS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECLARATION RECORDED MAY 18, 1981 IN BOOK 3415 AT PAGE 572, AND SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED DECEMBER 31, 1981 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 2134769 OF THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO RECORDS, TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE FOLLOWING LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS: PARKING SPACE NO. 150 AND GARAGE NO. 334, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE,

COMBINED NOTICE -

PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0213-2022

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

Deed of Trust:

On April 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Sean Weir

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR PRIMARY RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

October 04, 2019

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

October 07, 2019

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

D9106871

Original Principal Amount

$206,196.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$204,514.22

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 12, BLOCK 1, APACHE MEADOWS SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN#: 1975-05-1-19-020

Also known by street and number as: 1445 Norfolk Street, Aurora, CO 80011.

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

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 08/24/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 6/30/2022

Last Publication 7/28/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 04/22/2022

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Norton #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-027332

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. 0214-2022

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

Deed of Trust:

On April 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

ERIN L MCELDOWNEY

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR HALLMARK HOME MORTGAGE, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Original Principal Amount $300,700.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $285,857.30

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

Lot 21, Block 15, Mesa Filing No. 1, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado Also known by street and number as: 20427 E Milan 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, 08/24/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 6/30/2022

Last Publication 7/28/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 04/22/2022

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Norton #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-026750

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. 0215-2022

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

On April 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Bonnie Zella AND James Zella

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

October 19, 2016

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

October 20, 2016

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

D6120023

Original Principal Amount

$150,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$140,409.57

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION EXHIBIT A LOT 1, BLOCK 1, HEATHER GARDENS FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO, TO-WIT: PARCEL 1: AN UNDIVIDED 1/144TH INTEREST IN AND TO SAID LOT, SUBJECT TO EASEMENTS OF RECORD, INCLUDING SUCH EASEMENT AS MAY BE SET OUT IN THE DECLARATION OF CONDOMINIUM OF HEATHER GARDENS AS FILED OF RECORD, EXCLUDING ANY INTEREST IN THE BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT SIT-

MENT BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT HEREIN CONVEYED. PARCEL 2: ALL OF THAT SPACE OR AREA WHICH LIES BETWEEN THE CEILING AND THE FLOOR, AND THE WALLS OF THE APARTMENT AT 13626 E. BATES AVE., APT. 211, (FOR CONVENIENT REFERENCE NUMBERED AS UNIT 25149 IN BUILDING NO. 203), NOW OR HEREAFTER CONSTRUCTED ON SAID LOT, SAID BUILDING BEING LOCATED SUBSTANTIALLY AS SHOWN ON THE AREA PLAT PLAN FILED OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO, RECORDED FEBRUARY 9, 1973 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 1339813.

PARCEL 3: AN UNDIVIDED 1/48TH INTEREST IN AND TO THE BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT THEREIN INSTALLED AND APPURTENANT THERETO WITHIN WHICH THE ABOVE DESCRIBED SPACE OR AREA IS LOCATED.

TOGETHER WITH: THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE PATIOS AND BALCONIES, AIR CONDITIONERS OR OTHER APPLIANCES WHICH PROJECT BEYOND THE SPACE OR AREA ABOVE DESCRIBED AND CONTIGUOUS THERETO.

(1) A RIGHT OF WAY, IN COMMON WITH OTHERS, FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS TO AND FROM THE PROPERTY ABOVE

(2) THE RIGHT TO USE STAIRS, HALLS, PASSAGE WAYS AND OTHER COMMON AREAS IN THE BUILDING DESCRIBED IN PARCEL 2 ABOVE IN COMMON WITH OTHER OWNERS OF SUCH BUILDING, INCLUDING THEIR AGENTS, SERVANTS, EMPLOYEES AND INVITEES.

(3) THE RIGHT TO USE COMMON AREAS IN SAID LOT IN COMMON WITH OTHER OWNERS OF SPACE OR AREAS IN BUILDINGS NOW OR HEREAFTER CONSTRUCTED ON SAID LOT, EXCEPT THE USE OF THE COMMON AREAS LOCATED IN BUILDINGS OTHER THAN THAT DESCRIBED IN PARCEL 2 ABOVE, INCLUDING THEIR AGENTS, SERVANTS, EMPLOYEES AND INVITEES.

(4) THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE AND OCCUPY PARKING STALL NO. 91 IN PARKING LOT NO. 2, LOCATED SUBSTANTIALLY AS SHOWN ON THE AREA PLAT PLAN FILED OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO, RECORDED AUGUST 24, 1973 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 1376808, SHOWING THE LOCATION OF THE ABOVE NUMBERED STALL, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. PARCEL ID NUMBER: 1973-36-1-40-119

Also known by street and number as: 13626 E Bates Ave #211, 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, 08/24/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 6/30/2022

Last Publication 7/28/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO

A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE

A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 04/22/2022

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Norton #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-026514

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. 0219-2022

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

Deed of Trust:

On April 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Joseph Fields

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR SIGN ON THE LINE INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

March 15, 2019

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 01, 2019

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

D9027269

Original Principal Amount

$319,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $313,746.22

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 24, BLOCK 8, AURORA HIGHLANDS SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 1750 S Walden Way, 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, 08/24/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 6/30/2022

Last Publication 7/28/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 04/22/2022

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Norton #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-027306

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. 0221-2022

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

Deed of Trust:

On April 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Manuel F Angel Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR PRIMARY RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

November 07, 2018

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

November 16, 2018

Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D8112797

Outstanding Principal Balance

$316,797.24

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 2, SUMMER BREEZE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN #: 2073-04-1-19-008

Also known by street and number as: 3708 S Truckee 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, 08/24/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 6/30/2022

Last Publication 7/28/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 04/22/2022

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Norton #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-027351

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. 0224-2022

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

On April 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

LANCE A. MCNEILL AND CAROLINE J. MCNEILL Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR HOMECOMINGS FINANCIAL NETWORK, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY

AMERICAS, AS TRUSTEE FOR RESIDENTIAL ACCREDIT LOANS, INC., MORTGAGE ASSET-BACKED PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES

2006-QA3

Date of Deed of Trust

February 27, 2006 County of Recording

Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust

March 06, 2006

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

B6035523

Original Principal Amount

$180,333.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$130,285.30

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 4, BLOCK 12, MURPHY CREEK SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 4, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. PARCEL ID NUMBER: 197719117004

Also known by street and number as: 24701 EAST WYOMING CIRCLE, AURORA, CO 80018. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF

Outstanding Principal Balance

$345,669.68

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 4, BLOCK 11, KINGSBOROUGH KNOLLS SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 16325 E ALABAMA DRIVE, 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, 09/07/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/14/2022

Last Publication 8/11/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 05/06/2022

Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978

Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557

Randall Chin #31149

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

Attorney File # 00000009491853

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. 0253-2022

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

On May 6, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

BRIAN W. PRICE AND DEBRA A. PRICE

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS BENEFICIARY, AS NOMINEE FOR LAND HOME FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt LAND HOME FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.

Date of Deed of Trust

September 21, 2015

County of Recording

Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust

October 23, 2015

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

D5122342

Original Principal Amount

$255,795.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$210,355.30

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 29, BLOCK 3, WILLOW TRACE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 20423 E. GRAND 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, 09/07/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/14/2022

Last Publication 8/11/2022

Name of Publication Sentinel

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 05/06/2022 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Deanne R Stodden #33214

Messner & Reeves LLC 1430 Wynkoop Street, Suite 300, Denver, CO 80202 (303)

623-1800

Attorney File # 7729.0258

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 - RESCISSIONPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-113(4)(b)

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0252-2022

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

On May 6, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Derek A Chapman AND Kari J Chapman

Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR PRIMARY RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

September 20, 2018 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust

September 21, 2018

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

D8093985

Original Principal Amount $350,533.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $334,422.46

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 5, PARK VIEW MEADOWS SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO APN #: 2073-14-2-17-006

Also known by street and number as: 5228 S Jericho Way, Centennial, CO 80015.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 09/07/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

Single Publication 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

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

First Publication: July 7, 2022

Final Publication: July 21, 2022 Sentinel CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2022-32

FOR AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, AMENDING SECTIONS

146-3.3.2.H AND 146-4.8.5.D OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TO ADDRESS BUILDING LENGTH STANDARDS OF MULTIFAMILY BUILDINGS

Ordinance 2022-32, which was introduced on June 27, 2022, will be presented for final passage at the July 11, 2022, regular meeting of the City Council. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https://www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022 Sentinel CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2022-32

FOR AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, AMENDING SECTIONS 146-3.3.2.H AND 146-4.8.5.D OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TO ADDRESS BUILDING LENGTH STANDARDS OF MULTIFAMILY BUILDINGS

Ordinance 2022-32 was finally passed at the July 11, 2022, regular meeting of the City Council and will take effect on August 13, 2022. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https:// www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022 Sentinel

CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2022-33

FOR AN ORDINANCE SUBMITTING TO A VOTE OF THE REGISTERED ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, AT THE STATEWIDE GENERAL ELECTION COORDINATED IWTH A SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION ON NOVEMBER 8, 2022, A PROPOSAL TO AMEND ARTICLE 3-3 OF THE AURORA CHARTER TO CONFORM THE QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTIVE OFFICERS OF THE CITY WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION

Ordinance 2022-33 was finally passed at the July 11, 2022, regular meeting of the City Council and will take effect on August 13, 2022. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https:// www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022

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CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2022-34

FOR AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, REPEALING CHAPTER 10 OF THE AURORA CITY CODE AND, REPEALING THE REQUIRMENT FOR AMUSEMENT ENTERPRISE LICENSES, AMUSEMENT DEVICE DISTRIBUTOR’S LICENSES, AMUSEMENT DEVICE VENDOR’S LICENSES, AND AMENDING CHAPTER 26 RELATING TO SELF-SERVICE DEVICES

Ordinance 2022-34 was finally passed at the July 11, 2022, regular meeting of the City Council and will take effect on August 13, 2022. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https:// www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022 Sentinel

CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2022-35

FOR AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, AMENDING SECTION 1463.3.5.R OF THE CITY CODE PERTAINING TO DISTANCE RESTRICTIONS BETWEEN RETAIL LIQUOR STORES AND LIQUOR-LICENSED DRUGSTORES

Ordinance 2022-35 was finally passed at the July 11, 2022, regular meeting of the City Council and will take effect on August 13, 2022. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https:// www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022 Sentinel

CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2022-36

FOR AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE USE OF LEASE-PURCHASE FINANCING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF A LEASEPURCHASE AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN AURORA CAPITAL LEASING CORPORATION, AS LESSOR, AND THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, AS LESSEE; AUTHORIZING OFFICIALS OF THE CITY TO TAKE ALL ACTION NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY; AND RELATED MATTERS

Ordinance 2022-36 was finally passed at the July 11, 2022, regular meeting of the City Council and will take effect on August 13, 2022. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https:// www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022 Sentinel CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2022-37 FOR AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, AMENDING SECTIONS OF THE CITY CODE PERTAINING TO MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES IN THE AURORA MUNICIPAL CODE AND OTHER AMENDMENTS TO THE CITY CODE TO COMBAT THE INCREASE IN MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT AND RELATED OFFENSES

Ordinance 2022-37 was finally passed at the July 11, 2022, regular meeting of the City Council and will take effect on August 13, 2022. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https:// www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022 Sentinel

CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2022-37

FOR AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, AMENDING SECTIONS OF THE CITY CODE PERTAINING TO MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES IN THE AURORA MUNICIPAL CODE AND OTHER AMENDMENTS TO THE CITY CODE TO COMBAT THE INCREASE IN MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT AND RELATED OFFENSES

Ordinance 2022-37, which was introduced on June 27, 2022, will be presented for final passage at the July 11, 2022, regular meeting of the City Council. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https://www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022

Sentinel CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2022-38

FOR AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, AMENDING SECTION 134451 OF THE CITY CODE PERTAINING TO AUTOMATIC VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION CITATIONS

Ordinance 2022-38 was finally passed at the July 11, 2022, regular meeting of the City Council and will take effect on August 13, 2022. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https:// www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022

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CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2022-39

FOR AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, AMENDING SECTIONS 26346 AND 26-347 AND REPEALING SECTION 26-348 TO ALLOW MOBILE ICE CREAM VEHICLES WITHIN THE CITY

Ordinance 2022-39 was finally passed at the July 11, 2022, regular meeting of the City Council and will take effect on August 13, 2022. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https:// www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022

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CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO Ordinance 2022-40

PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, REZONING A PARCEL OF LAND MEASURING 5 ACRES MORE OR LESS AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF EAST 38TH AVENUE AND HELENA STREET FROM RESIDENTIAL – RURAL DISTRICT (R-R) TO BUSINESS/TECH DISTRICT (I-I) AND AMENDING THE ZONING MAP ACCORDINGLY (EAST 38TH AVENUE & HELENA STREET ZONING MAP AMENDMENT)

Ordinance 2022-40, which was introduced on July 11, 2022, will be presented for final passage at the July 25, 2022, regular meeting of the City Council. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https://www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022

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Ordinance 2022-41

A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, FOR A ZONING MAP AMENDMENT TO REZONE THREE PARCELS OF LAND TO AIRPORT DISTRICT (AD) AND MEDIUM DENSITY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT (R-2) FOR APPROXIMATELY 242 ACRES OF LAND, LOCATED WEST OF E-470 AND ALONG THE 48TH AVENUE ALIGNMENT (WINDLER ZONING MAP AMENDMENT)

Ordinance 2022-41, which was introduced on July 11, 2022, will be presented for final passage at the July 25, 2022, regular meeting of the City Council. The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the City Clerk’s Office, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado, and on the city’s website at: https://www.auroragov.org/city_hall/public_records/legal_notices/ordinance_notices/.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Case Number(s): 2018-1006-10

Applicant: Planning and Development Services

Application Name: Unified Development Ordinance - Text Amendment for Minimum Distance Between Retail Liquor Stores

You are hereby notified that a public hearing will be held on July 25, 2022, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the regular meeting of the City Council of the Aurora Municipal Center, first floor, located at 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Aurora Colorado. This will be a “hybrid” meeting with both in-person and virtual attendance options. Please go to the City of Aurora website (auroragov.org) for instructions on participation. PUBLIC HEARING AND INTRODUCTION OF AN ORDINANCE FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE TO INCLUDE MODIFICATIONS TO THE MINIMUM DISTANCE BETWEEN RETAIL LIQUOR STORE ESTABLISHMENTS FROM 2,000 FEET TO 1,500 FEET.

Site Location: Within the Boundaries of the City of Aurora

At said meeting any person in interest may appear and be heard on the requested approval.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Case Number(s): 2021-2007-00

Applicant: Kum & Go

Application Name: Kum & Go C-Store and Fueling - Zoning Map Amendment

You are hereby notified that a public hearing will be held on July 25, 2022, starting at 6:30 p.m. At the regular meeting of the City Council of the Aurora Municipal Center, first floor, located at 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Aurora Colorado. This will be a “hybrid” meeting with both in-person and virtual attendance options. Please go to the City of Aurora website (auroragov.org) for instructions on participation. PUBLIC HEARING AND INTRODUCTION OF AN ORDINANCE FOR A ZONING MAP AMENDMENT TO REZONE 2.97 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, FROM R-2 (MEDIUM DENSITY DISTRICT) TO MU-C (MIXEDUSE CORRIDOR DISTRICT).

Site Location: Southwest Corner of E Mississippi and Kenton Way

Site Size: 2.97 acres

At said meeting any person in interest may appear and be heard on the requested approval.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022 Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Case Number(s): 2022-4007-00

Applicant: Landmark at Town Center LLC

Application Name: Landmark at Town Center - Appeal

You are hereby notified that a public hearing will be held on July 25, 2022, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the regular meeting of the City Council of the Aurora Municipal Center, first floor, located at 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Aurora Colorado. This will be a “hybrid” meeting with both in-person and virtual attendance options. Please go to the City of Aurora website (auroragov.org) for instructions on participation. PUBLIC HEARING FOR AN APPEAL, BY AN ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNER, OF AN ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION TO APPROVE A SITE PLAN FOR 272 MULTIFAMILY UNITS IN SIX BUILDINGS AND A COMMUNITY CLUBHOUSE AND POOL.

Site Location: Northeast Corner of S Catawba Way and E 6th Parkway

Site Size: 8.25 acres

At said meeting, any person in interest may appear and be heard on the requested approval.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022 Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Case Number(s): 2022-4015-00

Applicant: Kairoi Residential

Application Name: Metro Center Kairoi PA-C2 & PA-C3

You are hereby notified that a public hearing will be held on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, starting at 6:00 p.m. at the regular meeting of the Planning Commission of the City of Aurora, Colorado. THIS MEETING WILL BE A VIRTUAL MEETING, PLEASE GO TO THE CITY OF AURORA WEBSITE (AURORAGOV.ORG) FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON PARTICIPATION. The hearing will consider a request for approval for a Site Plan for 423 multi-family residential units in five buildings, detached garages, a pool, a small urban park and other onsite amenities.

Site Location: Southeast Corner of S Dawson Street and Centrepoint Drive

Site Size: 11.6 acres

At said meeting any person in interest may appear and be heard on the requested approval.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Case Number(s): 2022-4031-00

Applicant: Dominium

Application Name: Summit View at Metro Center

You are hereby notified that a public hearing will be held on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, starting at 6:00 p.m. at the regular meeting of the Planning Commission of the City of Aurora, Colorado. THIS MEETING WILL BE A VIRTUAL MEETING, PLEASE GO TO THE CITY OF AURORA WEBSITE (AURORAGOV.ORG) FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON PARTICIPATION. The hearing will consider a request for approval for a Site Plan for a four-story 222-unit senior residential building. An adjustment is being requested for building length.

Site Location: Northeast Corner of Center Avenue and Centrepointe Drive

Site Size: 6.85 acres

At said meeting any person in interest may appear and be heard on the requested approval.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Case Number(s): 2022-6018-00; 2022-6018-01

Applicant: Christian Brothers Automotive Corp

Application Name: Christian Brothers at Eagle Bend Marketplace

You are hereby notified that a public hearing will be held on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, starting at 6:00 p.m. at the regular meeting of the Planning Commission of the City of Aurora, Colorado. THIS MEETING WILL BE A VIRTUAL MEETING, PLEASE GO TO THE CITY OF AURORA WEBSITE (AURORAGOV.ORG) FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON PARTICIPATION. The hearing will consider a request for approval for Conditional Use for an automotive use in a PD (Planned Development) zone district and a Site Plan for an approximate 5,500 square-foot auto repair shop with nine bays.

Site Location: Northwest corner of E Aurora Parkway and Gartrell Road

Site Size: 0.89 acres

At said meeting any person in interest may appear and be heard on the requested approval.

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: July 14, 2022 Sentinel

AMENDED SUMMONS FOR ALLOCATION OF PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Case Number: 22DR30206

In re the Parental Responsibilities concerning: ELVA CARDENAS GALLARDO & JOSE RAMON DIAZ AGUILAR Petitioner and

JESSICA ABEYTA and JOHN DOE

Respondent

To the Respondent named above this Summons serves as a notice to appear in this case.

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

If you were served outside of the State of Colorado or you were served by publica-

tion, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 35 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action.

You may be required to pay a filing fee with your Response. The Response form (JDF 1420) can be found at www.courts. state.co.us by clicking on the “Self Help/ Forms” tab.

The Petition requests that the Court enter a Order addressing issues involving the children such as, child support, allocation of parental responsibilities, (decision-making and parenting time), attorney fees, and costs to the extent the Court has jurisdiction.

Notice: Colorado Revised Statutes §1410-123, provides that upon the filing of a Petition for Allocation of Parental Responsibilities by the Petitioner and Co-Petitioner, or upon personal service of the Petition and Summons on the Respondent, or upon waiver and acceptance of service by the Respondent, an automatic temporary injunction shall be in effect against both parties until the Final Order is entered, or the Petition is dismissed, or until further Order of the Court. Either party may apply to the Court for further temporary orders, an expanded automatic temporary injunction, or modification or revocation under §14-10125, C.R.S.

A request for genetic tests shall not prejudice the requesting party in matters concerning allocation of parental responsibilities pursuant to §14-10-124(1.5), C.R.S. If genetic tests are not obtained prior to a legal establishment of paternity and submitted into evidence prior to the entry of the final order, the genetic tests may not be allowed into evidence at a later date.

Automatic Temporary Injunction – By Order of Colorado law, you and the other parties:

1. Are enjoined from molesting or disturbing the peace of the other party; and

2. Are restrained from removing the minor child(ren) from the state without the consent of all parties or an Order of the Court modifying the injunction; and

3. Are restrained, without at least 14 days advance notification and the written consent of all other parties or an Order of the Court, from cancelling, modifying, terminating, or allowing to lapse for nonpayment of premiums, any policy of health insurance or life insurance that provides coverage to the minor child(ren) as a beneficiary of a policy.

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

Date: May 26, 2022

/s/ M. Evan Sweet Atty Reg #: 12949

Attorney for the Petitioner

First Publication: June 23, 2022

Final Publication: July 21, 2022 Sentinel

BEFORE THE COLORADO GROUND WATER COMMISSION DETERMINATIONS OF WATER RIGHT LOST CREEK DESIGNATED GROUNDWATER BASIN AND LOST CREEK GROUND WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT - ARAPAHOE COUNTY

TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to section 37-90-107(7), C.R.S., and the Designated Basin Rules, 2 CCR 410-1, Kimball L. Jordan, Sr. has applied for determinations of rights to allocations of designated groundwater from the Laramie-Fox Hills, Lower Arapahoe, Upper Arapahoe and Denver aquifers underlying 57.45 acres generally described as the SW 1/4 of the SW 1/4, and the W 1/2 of the SE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 12, Township 4 South, Range 64 West of the 6th P.M. The applicant claims ownership of this land and control of the groundwater in these aquifers underlying this property. The groundwater from these allocations is proposed to be used on the described property for the following beneficial uses: domestic, including in-house use, irrigation, agriculture, commercial, industrial, recreational, fire protection, livestock watering and replacement.

In accordance with section 37-90-107(7), the Colorado Ground Water Commission shall allocate groundwater from the above aquifers based on ownership of the overlying land. A preliminary evaluation of the application finds the volume of water available for allocation from the aquifers underlying the above-described property to be 1,380 acre-feet for the Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer; 781 acre-feet for the Lower Arapahoe aquifer; 684 acre-feet for the Upper Arapahoe aquifer and 1,806 acre-feet for the Denver aquifer. The amount in the Denver aquifer represents a reduction in the volume of water available for allocation due to the existence of a small capacity well, permit no. 75742, withdrawing water from beneath the described property. These amounts are subject to final evaluation, and subsequent to issuance of the determinations, adjustment to conform to the actual local aquifer characteristics.

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

years.

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

Upon Commission approval of determinations of rights to the allocations, well permits for wells to withdraw the allocations shall be available upon application, subject to the conditions of each determination, the Designated Basin Rules, and approval by the Commission. Such wells must be completed in the aquifer for which the right was allocated and must be located on the 57.45 acres of above described property. Any person wishing to object to the approval of these determinations of rights to allocations must do so in writing, briefly stating the nature of the objection, the name of the applicant, a general description of the property, and the specific aquifers that are the subject of the objection. The objection, including a required $10 fee per application being objected to, must be received by the Colorado Ground Water Commission by close of business August 13, 2022. Objections should be sent via email to DWRpermitsonline@state.co.us, upon which the objector will be emailed an invoice for paying the fee online. If the objector is unable to provide the objection via email please contact 303-866-3581.

First Publication:July 7, 2022

Final Publication: July 14, 2022 Sentinel

INVITATION TO BID

Electronic (PDF) Sealed Competitive Proposals will be received by East Cherry Creek Valley Water & Sanitation District for the 2022 Well Rehabilitation Project until 10:00 a.m. local time on July 29, 2022. Provide sealed proposals through QuestCDN virtual bid. A pre-bid meeting will be held on the project site at 10:00 am on July 12, 2022.

The work to be performed under this Contract consists of furnishing and installing all materials, equipment, accessories, and labor for all operations necessary to complete electrical, instrumentation and HVAC system improvements at eight (8) well station sites, including RTU replacements and MCC replacements and improvements.

Contract Documents may be obtained electronically starting on July 7, 2022 at www.eccv.org under the Resources and Information menu by clicking on Request for Bids. The user will then enter the bid number 8239014 into the search field and click the search button to find the project. Download the digital documents for $15. Contact QuestCDN Customer Support at 952-233-1632 or info@questcdn.com for assistance in membership registration, downloading digital project information and vBid online bid submittal questions. Project bid documents must be downloaded from QuestCDN which will add your company to the Planholder List and allow access to vBid online bidding for the submittal of your bid (which is required for this project). Bidders will be charged a fee of $30 to submit a bid electronically. For this project, bids will only be received and accepted via the online electronic bid service through QuestCDN.com

The Bidder to whom a contract is awarded will be required to furnish “Performance and Maintenance” and “Labor and Material Payment” bonds to the District. The “Performance and Maintenance” and “Labor and Material Payment” bonds shall be furnished in the amount of 100 percent of the contract, in conformity with the requirements of the Contract Documents. The District reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, or to accept that proposal or combination of proposals, if any, which in its sole and absolute judgment, will under all circumstances best serve the District’s interest. No proposal will be accepted from any firm, person, or corporation, who is a defaulter as to surety or otherwise, or is deemed incompetent, irresponsible, or unreliable by the District Board of Directors.

Contractor shall be prepared to participate in an interview if so desired by the Owner as soon as the afternoon of the second business day following the date that bids are due.

No proposals will be considered which are received after the time indicated above, and any proposals so received after the scheduled closing time shall remain unopened.

East Cherry Creek Valley Water & Sanitation District

First Publication: July 7, 2022

Final Publication: July 14, 2022

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NOTICE OF ADOPTION HEARING

Case No.: 22JA28

In re the Matter of the Petition of: Daniel Miller

For the Adoption of a Child.

COMES NOW the Petitioner, Daniel Miller, by and through his counsel, Eric M. Edwards, and herein sends notice of the Court ordered ADOPTION HEARING:

ADOPTION HEARING:

Date: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2022

Time: 8:00 AM

Duration: 1 Hour

Location: WEBEX INSTRUCTIONS: https://judicial.webex.com/meet/don.toussaint Phone: +1-720-650-7664

Access code: 927 831 127 then press #, # (no attendee ID is needed)

If you fail to appear at that hearing, the Court may enter orders against you. Please do not bring children to the hearing. If you do bring children, your hearing may be vacated and you will have to reschedule.

DATED this 22nd day of June, 2022.

Attorney for Petitioner: Eric M. Edwards, Atty. No. 45576

LAW OFFICE OF ERIC M. EDWARDS, LLC

600 17th Street, Suite 2800 Denver, CO 80202

Phone: (303) 634-2245

Email: Eric.Edwards@EdwardsLawDenver.com

/s/ Eric M. Edwards, Atty. No. 45576 Attorney for Petitioner

First Publication: June 30, 2022

Final Publication: July 28, 2022

Sentinel NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

NOTICE is hereby given that Aurora Crossroads Metropolitan District No. 1 of the City of Aurora, Arapahoe County, Colorado (the “District”), will make final payment at Englewood, Colorado, on August 1, 2022, at the hour of 1:00 p.m. to Summit Excavation & Grading LLC of Wyoming, for all work done by said Contractor(s) in construction or work on the Crossroads Overlot Grading Project performed within Aurora Crossroads Metropolitan District No. 1, Arapahoe County, Colorado.

Any person, copartnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such contractors or their subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractors or their subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim, to Aurora Crossroads Metropolitan District No. 1 on or before the date and time hereinabove shown for final payment. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release Aurora Crossroads Metropolitan District No. 1, its directors, officers, agents, and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD

OF DIRECTORS

Aurora Crossroads Metropolitan District No. 1

By: /s/ Lisa Johnson, Manager of the District

First Publication: July 14, 2022

Final Publication: July 21, 2022

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unpaid, and an account of such claim to: Independent District Engineering Services, LLC 1626 Cole Blvd, Suite 125, Lakewood, CO 80401, on or before the date and time herein above shown for final payment.

Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release the Sky Ranch Community Authority Board, its directors, officers, agents, consultants, and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS SKY RANCH COMMUNITY AUTHORITY BOARD

By: /s/ Independent District Engineering Services, LLC, Stan Fowler, PE District Engineer for the Sky Ranch Community Authority Board

First Publication: July 7, 2022

Final Publication: July 14, 2022 Sentinel

NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the AEROTROPOLIS AREA COORDINATING METROPOLITAN DISTRICT of Adams County, Colorado, will make final payment on or after July 21, 2022, to:

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. 1627 Cole Boulevard, Suite 200 Lakewood, CO 80401 for all work done by said Contractor for the Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District, THE AURORA HIGHLANDS MAINSTREET PHASE 1 AND PHASE 2, 42ND AVENUE PHASE 1 AND AURA BOULEVARD PHASE 1 ASPHALT PAVING PROJECT, all of said work being within or near the boundaries of Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District, in the City of Aurora, State of Colorado.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, provisions, team hire, sustenance provender or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done and whose claim therefore has not been paid by the Contractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a written verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District, Attention: Denise Denslow, 8390 East Crescent Parkway, Suite 300,Greenwood Village, CO 80111 with a copy to McGeady Becher P.C., 450 E. 17th Avenue, Suite 400, Denver, CO 80203-1254 at or before the time and date hereinabove shown.

Failure on the part of any claimant to file such written verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release AEROTROPOLIS AREA COORDINATING METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, its Board, officers, agents, and employees of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District

First Publication: July 14, 2022

Final Publication: July 21, 2022

Sentinel NOTICE OF HEARING WITHOUT APPEARANCE BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO C.R.P.P. 24 and ‘ 15-10-401, C.R.S. Case No. 22PR30649

****Attendance at this hearing is not required or expected. ****

In the Matter of the Estate of:

DAVID SCHERZI, a/k/a DAVID ANTHONY SCHERZI, Deceased.

TO: Possible Additional Unknown Heirs

ing. Failure to timely set the objection for an appearance hearing as required will result in further action as the court deems appropriate.

/s/ James A. Kaplan Atty Reg #: 7741 Rausch Sturm LLP 5500 S. Quebec St., Ste. 260 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

First Publication: June 30, 2022

Final Publication: July 14, 2022

Sentinel NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING IN RE THE CONSOLIDATED SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED SERVICE PLAN FOR GREEN VALLEY RANCH EAST METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 6 – 14 AND THE ORGANIZATION OF GREEN VALLEY RANCH EAST METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 9 – 14, CITY OF AURORA, ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there has been filed with the City Clerk, City of Aurora (the “City”), Adams County, Colorado, an amended and restated service plan and related documents for the existing Green Valley Ranch East Metropolitan District Nos. 6 – 8 and the proposed Green Valley Ranch East Metropolitan District Nos. 9 – 14 (collectively, the “Districts”). A map of the Districts and the proposed amended and restated service plan are now on file in the office of the City Clerk, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, First Floor, Suite 1400, Aurora, Colorado 80012, is and are available for public inspection.

NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Aurora (the “City Council”), Adams County, State of Colorado, will hold a public hearing at 6:30 P.M., on Monday, the 8th day of August, 2022, in the City Council Chambers Aurora Municipal Center, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Aurora, Colorado 80012 and accessible online at AuroraTV.org or via telephone at (855) 695-3475, for the purpose of considering the adequacy of the service plan and to form a basis for adopting a resolution approving, disapproving or conditionally approving the service plan for the proposed Districts.

The Districts are metropolitan districts as that term is defined in Section 32-1103(10), C.R.S. The Districts are located entirely within the City of Aurora, Adams County, Colorado and are generally described to be a portion of Section 13 and a portion of Section 24, Township 3 South, Range 66 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, City of Aurora, County of Adams, Colorado.

may be filed no later than ten (10) days before the day fixed for the public hearing on the service plan, but the City Council shall not be limited in its action with respect to the exclusion of territory based upon such request. The petitioner proposing the organization of the Districts shall have the burden of proving that the exclusion of such property is not in the best interests of the Districts. All protests and objections must be submitted in writing to the City Council at or prior to the hearing or any continuance or postponement thereof in order to be considered. Any request for exclusion shall be acted upon before final action of the City Council. All protests and objections to the Districts must be submitted in writing to the City Council at or prior to the hearing or any continuance or postponement thereof in order to be considered.

All protests and objections to the Districts shall be deemed waived unless presented at the time and in the manner specified.

Dated this 29th day of June.

Publication: July 14, 2022

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING IN RE THE ORGANIZATION OF EASTERN HILLS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 21-23, CITY OF AURORA, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there were filed with the office of the City Clerk of the City of Aurora, Colorado, a service plan and related documents (the “Service Plan”) for the proposed Eastern Hills Metropolitan District Nos. 21-23 (collectively, the “Districts”). The Service Plan is now on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Aurora, and is available for public inspection.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that pursuant to Section 32-1-204, C.R.S., a public hearing on said Service Plan and related matters will be held before the City Council of the City of Aurora at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, August 8, 2022, at the Aurora Municipal Center, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Aurora, Colorado. The purpose of the public hearing shall be to consider the adequacy of the Service Plan to form a basis for adopting a Resolution approving, conditionally approving, or disapproving the Service Plan.

ing”). The public hearing will take place in-person at the Aurora Municipal Center, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Aurora, Colorado 80012. The public hearing may be held via teleconference with advanced posting of call-in and log-in information on the City’s website:

(https://www.auroragov.org/city_hall/mayor_city_council).

The purpose of the Public Hearing is to consider the Proposed Service Plan and form a basis for adopting a resolution approving, conditionally approving, or disapproving the Proposed Service Plan. The maximum property tax mill levy to be imposed for debt service within the District shall be fifty (50) mills. This mill levy may be adjusted if there are changes in the method of calculating assessed valuation or any constitutionally mandated tax credit, cut or abatement.

In accordance with Sec. 122-34(e) of the Aurora Code, any person owning real property within the boundaries of the District may request that such property be excluded from the District, prior to the approval of the Proposed Service Plan, by submitting such request to City Council no later than ten (10) days prior to the Public Hearing.

The District is generally located south of CO E-470, east of Parker Road, and south of the county line border between Arapahoe and Douglas Counties, in the City of Aurora, Colorado. The District currently consists of undeveloped land. The District will be a Title 32 metropolitan district. The District will be organized to facilitate the development of commercial property.

NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that all protests and objections must be submitted in writing to the City Council at or prior to the Public Hearing or any continuation or postponement thereof in order to be considered, and that all protests and objections to the Proposed Service Plan shall be deemed waived unless presented, in accordance with Sec. 122-32 of the Aurora Code, at the time and in the manner specified above.

BY

ORDER OF THE AURORA CITY COUNCIL

Publication: July 14, 2022

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

NOTICE is hereby given that Sky Ranch Community Authority Board of Arapahoe County, Colorado, will make final payment at 8390 East Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, CO 80111, on or after July 18, 2022, to the following:

Nelson Pipeline

6300 S Syracuse Way, Suite 420 Centennial, CO 80111

For all work done by said Contractor in construction or work on Sky Ranch CAB Filing 4 Wet Utilities and performed for the Sky Ranch Community Authority Board in the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such contractors, their subcontractors or suppliers, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies rental machinery, tools or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefore has not been paid by the contractors or their subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time for final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and

Last Known Address, if any: Unknown

A hearing on Petition for Adjudication of Intestacy and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative for (brief description of relief requested) Order of Intestacy, Determination of Heirs and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued:

Date: July 20, 2022

Time: 8:00 a.m.

Courtroom or Division: 12

Address: 7325 South Potomac Street, Centennial, CO 80111

***** IMPORTANT NOTICE*****

Any interested person wishing to object to the requested action set forth in the motion/petition and proposed order must file a written objection with the court on or before the hearing and must furnish a copy of the objection to the person requesting the court order. JDF 722 (Objection form) is available on the Colorado Judicial Branch website (www.courts.state.co.us). If no objection is filed, the court may take action on the motion/petition without further notice or hearing. If any objection is filed, the objecting party must, within 14 days after filing the objection, contact the court to set the objection for an appearance hear-

The purpose of the Districts is to plan for, design, acquire, construct, install, relocate, redevelop and finance public improvements. The public improvements are part or all of the improvements authorized to be planned, designed, acquired, constructed, installed, relocated, redeveloped and financed as generally described in the Special District Act, except as specifically limited in the service plan. The Districts shall dedicate the public improvements to the City or other appropriate jurisdiction or owner’s association in a manner consistent with the approved development plan and other rules and regulations of the City and applicable provisions of the City Code of the City of Aurora. The Districts shall be authorized, but not obligated, to own, operate and maintain public improvements not otherwise required to be dedicated to the City or other public entity, including, but not limited to street improvements (including roads, curbs, gutters, culverts, sidewalks, bridges, parking facilities, paving, lighting, grading, landscaping, and other street improvements), traffic and safety controls, retaining walls, park and recreation improvements and facilities, trails, open space, landscaping, drainage improvements (including detention and retention ponds, trickle channels, and other drainage facilities), irrigation system improvements (including wells, pumps, storage facilities, and distribution facilities), and all necessary equipment and appurtenances incident thereto. The Districts shall not be authorized to provide for fire protection facilities or services, television relay and translation facilities or services, or plan, design, acquire, construct, install, relocate, redevelop, finance, operate or maintain a golf course (unless pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement with the City). The maximum mill levy imposed for debt service shall not exceed fifty (50) mills as adjusted for changes in the method of calculating assessed valuation on or after January 1, 2004, with the exceptions provided in the proposed amended and restated service plan. The maximum period of time that the Districts may impose their Debt service mill levy is fifty (50) years after the year of the initial imposition of the debt service mill levy unless certain requirements, as outlined in the proposed amended and restated service plan, are met.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that pursuant to § 32-1-203(3.5), C.R.S., as amended, and Section 122-34 (e) of the City Code of the City of Aurora, Colorado, as amended, an owner of real property within the Districts may file a petition with the City Council, stating reasons why said property should not be included in the Districts and requesting that such real property be excluded from the Districts. Such petition

The initial boundaries of the Districts consist of approximately 412 acres generally located southwest of the intersection of E. Alameda Avenue and S. Powhaton Road in the City of Aurora, Arapahoe County, Colorado. A full legal description is available from the office of Spencer Fane LLP, 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 2000, Denver, Colorado 80203.

The Districts shall be metropolitan districts and have the power and authority to provide the public improvements as described in the Service Plan as such power and authority are described in the Special District Act and other applicable statutes, common law and the Constitution, subject to the limitations set forth in the Service Plan. The maximum mill levy for debt service shall be fifty (50) mills for each District, as adjusted and subject to conditions as stated in the Service Plan.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that pursuant to Section 32-1-203(3.5), C.R.S., as amended, no later than ten days prior to the public hearing on the Service Plan, any owner of real property within the District(s) may file a petition with the City Council of the City of Aurora (the “City Council”) requesting that such real property be excluded from the District(s). The City Council shall not be limited in its action with respect to the exclusion of property based upon such request. Any request for exclusion shall be acted upon before final action of the City Council concerning approval of the Service Plan.

By: /s/ City Clerk Aurora, Colorado

Publication: July 14, 2022

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED SERVICE PLAN

KINGS POINT SOUTH

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3 CITY OF AURORA, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to Section 32-1-204(1), C.R.S., and Sec. 122-32 of the Aurora Code of Ordinances (the “Aurora Code”), a Proposed Service Plan (the “Proposed Service Plan”) for Kings Point South Metropolitan District No. 3 (the “District”) has been filed with the City of Aurora, Office of Development Assistance. The Proposed Service Plan is available for public inspection by contacting Blair M. Dickhoner, Esq. of the Offices of White Bear Ankele Tanaka & Waldron, 2154 E. Commons Avenue, Suite 2000, Centennial, Colorado 80122, by phone at (303) 858-1800, or by email at bdickhoner@wbapc.com. A public hearing on the Proposed Service Plan will be held by the Aurora City Council (the “City Council”) on August 8, 2022, at 6:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the City Council may hear such matter (the “Public Hear-

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2022PR168

Estate of Craig Dean Johnson aka Craig D. Johnson, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe County District Court on or before November 14, 2022 or the claims may be forever barred.

Marco D. Chayet Jennifer R. Oviatt

Personal Representative

18th Judicial District Public Administrator’s Office P.O. Box 460749, Denver, CO 80246

Phone:303-355-8520

First Publication: July 14, 2022

Final Publication: July 28, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S.

Case No. 2022PR217

Estate of Joe Mikel Varela aka Joe M. Varela aka Joe Varela aka Mikel Varela, 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 November 1, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael A. Johnson

Personal Representative 3280 Wagner St. Strasburg, CO 80136

First Publication: July 7, 2022

Final Publication: July 21, 2022

Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS BY PUBLICATION

PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2022PR218

Estate of Leonhard Herbstreit, 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 October 30, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kerry A. Sherman

Personal Representative P.O. Box 54 North Hampton, NH 03862

First Publication: June 30, 2022

Final Publication: July 14, 2022

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other ways the city could offset the impacts of auto theft, including creation of a fund to reimburse victims for getting their stolen vehicles out of impound, enhancing prosecution and sentencing for habitual offenders and those failing to appear in court, and by lobbying for harsher penalties for car theft at the state level.

“Together, they will send a very clear message that Aurora is not the place to steal cars,” Zvonek said of the mandatory minimum sentences.

Councilmember Juan Marcano pushed back on Zvonek’s proposal to introduce mandatory minimums, insisting that sentencing minimums don’t deter criminals, a position also held by the city’s chief public defender.

The American Civil Liberties Union, the bipartisan Coalition for Public Safety, the libertarian Cato Institute and others also argue that mandatory minimums limit judges’ ability to make sentencing decisions based on the unique circumstances of a case.

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or other types of property crime — it (should be) to address the stark inequality in our society,” he added.

Ian Farrell, an associate professor of law at the University of Denver, said in an email to The Sentinel that mandatory minimum sentencing is being increasingly rejected because of the restrictions it places on judges.

“Nor is there any evidence that increasing the penalties in this manner will have any effect on (the) frequency with which cars are stolen,” he wrote. “The impulse to respond to a social concern by trying to be ‘the most punitive’ possible strikes me as a knee-jerk reaction lacking the degree of deliberation that ought to be brought to bear before imposing mandatory jail time on people.”

on the ordinance’s sunset date in 2024.

“My concern is the cost of doing nothing,” Zvonek countered when Marcano inquired about the plan’s cost. “My concern is the cost that the victims of car theft incur.”

Arapahoe County Sheriff Tyler Brown, a Democrat, spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting to endorse the bill.

“I am in support of this, and I think it’s necessary as we look forward to protect individual citizens and their property,” Brown said. “We are ready to handle the increase of people at the Arapahoe County Detention Facility.”

“We’re going to take revenge on these people, and that’s supposed to make us feel good,” Marcano said. “We have more people in this country, in the land of the free, than (in) any other country in the world in jail, and we are not any safer for it.”

“When we’re looking at evidence-based approaches to reduce crime — whether it’s motor vehicle theft

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When Councilmember Alison Coombs asked what percentage of motor vehicle thefts are charged in municipal court, deputy city attorney Pete Schulte stated incorrectly that the city court handled the “vast majority” of those charges, adding that cases are handled more quickly and result in more appropriate sentences.

Data obtained by The Sentinel from the city and the two DAs’ offices indicate that, since at least 2018, the city court has handled around only a third of auto theft charges filed by Aurora police yearly.

Luby later wrote in an email that “most motor vehicle theft-only cases are filed in Municipal Court whereas motor vehicle theft cases that include additional charges, such as felony charges or other charges with no municipal counterpart (i.e. DUI, no driver’s license etc.), may be filed in state court.”

Coombs joined Marcano and Crystal Murillo in voting against the mandatory sentencing rules, though all council members voted in favor of Zvonek’s plan of other ways to address auto theft.

Council members also speculated about the unknown added cost of more jury trials and imprisoning more car thieves. Schulte told the council that the costs and relative value of the sentencing changes could be re-evaluated

Council conservatives said they supported the mandatory sentencing rules as a way of discouraging motor vehicle theft and raising Aurora’s profile as a uniquely punitive city.

“We need to get tough on crime,” Councilmember Francoise Bergan said. “Our citizens are victims of motor vehicle theft, and if you don’t think that is serious, you should have your own vehicle stolen, because it means you can’t go to work. It means you’re out of money.”

“I believe that, come October or November of this year, we will see a decline in car theft because of this ordinance, because of the plan that we are putting forward and because of the actions that APD will take in order to start making sure that our community is safe,” Zvonek said.

The council voted 7-3 last month and 6-4 on July 11 to introduce the mandatory minimum sentences for motor vehicle theft and voted unanimously to pass the associated plan.

Greenwell said the Denver metro area is experiencing around 89 auto thefts each day, with more than twice as many vehicles stolen in the past four months than there were over the same period pre-pandemic.

“Really, it’s repeat offenders. Because, guess what? They don’t go to jail,” Bergan said. “The public is sick of it. We cannot continue to have vehicles stolen in the City of Aurora and impacting people’s personal lives, who are true victims. And if there are harsher penalties, good.”

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