Sentinel Colorado 8.10.2023

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PERRY: Mayor Coffman caught underhanded in bogus scheme to crown himself mayor king

You just have to wonder whose side Mayor Mike Coffman is on — clearly it’s not his own.

That’s the logical conclusion after watching Aurora’s state-rep-turned-statesenator-turned-state-treasurer-turned secretary-of-state-turned-congressmanturned-mayor-turned-wannabe-mayorking politically strangle himself in front of all of Colorado.

While most of Aurora shrugs indifferently about whether we should take a sledgehammer to the city’s council-manager form of government, it clearly has kept Coffman staying up nights trying to figure out a way to change it.

No doubt, Coffman is hardly alone in his dismay that Aurora seems high-centered on a lot of issues. The Aurora political scene has not been unlike the congressional hyper partisan quicksand swallowing up all kinds of reforms and programs the city desperately needs.

Rather than look at ways to build bridges among scowling city council factions, it would appear that Coffman sees solution in creating the position of mayor king, and coronating himself as the first royal.

All of this would have been just tacky if he’d done it on the up and up. He could have cooked up this “strong mayor” scheme, made it clear he fancied himself the kind of guy who could run a big city, and try to sell it first to his fans, then to the city council and, ultimately, to voters.

Instead, Coffman secretly cooked up a 45-page rewrite of the city’s charter, changing the role of mayor to something a little like what they have in Denver and Colorado Springs and more like they have in China as Communist Party secretary general.

It’s exactly the kind of thing voters in Pueblo, stuck with their own mayor-king nightmare, are trying to undo right now.

It’s not that Aurora’s government structure doesn’t need a serious inspection, review and possibly a makeover. For certain, the city should quit electing candidates in three-way races or more who don’t even garner a majority of voters. Runoff elections have long been a solid solution that Aurora should consider.

And maybe it’s time for residents to consider changing the role of the mayor, who essentially is the chief ribbon cutter and meeting runner.

But a dramatic change in government is something momentous. It’s something to be proposed and scrutinized, refined and debated — in public, by the public.

Instead, Coffman cooked up a mayor-king scheme, peddled it to the usual rich Colorado Springs Republican suspects in secret. Then he talked some, err, friends, into signing an originating petition that he paid other Republicans from outside of Aurora to write up, and let it all happen.

Because neither the public nor the staff here at the Sentinel are stupid, it quickly became clear that it was indeed Coffman who cooked all this up and then refused to admit it — repeatedly.

Rather than draw scrutiny to a profound and compelling issue, he essentially behaved in every way the perfect example of why it’s a really bad idea to invest too much power in any one person.

Coffman had scuttled away from Sentinel reporter Max Levy on one occasion while Levy chased after him, rolling recorder in hand, for comment after an investigation here outed Coffman as the culprit.

After being clobbered time and again with stories in the Sentinel, a press conference held by just about every living Aurora area politician who hates the lying and the scheming and more than anything, the very idea, Coffman finally agreed to go on camera with 9News reporter Marshall Zellinger.

The Coffman-Zellinger interview will go down in Colorado journalism history as one of the most cringe-evoking pieces of video ever to flood the airwaves.

Zellinger, smiling, confronts a blinking, swaying and stammering Coffman for 15 agonizing minutes, about why he hid his involvement for so long.

Coffman’s word salad response was alarming, not in its stealth and swagger, but because it was so embarrassingly meager.

“Well, I just think that, it’s, ummm, you know, in hind-sight, who knows, it’s not about transparency, it’s about, to me it wasn’t an issue until it made the ballot.”

Pro-tip: Get your story straight before you talk to a reporter.

Few things are as important right now in a government and social media world seemingly overrun with liars, cheaters and peddlers of misinformation and disinformation than are transparency, accountability and forthright honesty.

But that was just the first minute into the interview. It got much worse.

“So that was the decision I made at the time.”

Coffman made clear he didn’t accidentally work to hide his involvement in a scheme that serves only him, not the city, not his elected peers and not the needs of the community, just his whim. He wasn’t coerced, cajoled or tricked into scheming and hiding, he did it on purpose, got caught and had to admit it to a TV reporter.

“I made a decision it wasn’t an issue until it made the ballot and that was a decision that I made,” he said.

Yes. Yes he did.

And even weeks ago, outed by the Sentinel and 9News as the culprit behind a petition drive that was powered by disinfor-

mation — and now the subject of a lawsuit and protests over how voters were misled about the intent and effect — he “made a decision” to keep it a secret.

Coffman didn’t want to tell anyone he dumped ten grand of his own money into this debacle, or that he talked the investors in a Colorado Springs dark-money PAC to spend more than $140,000 so far to try and force his plan onto the ballot.

The interview just gets worse for Coffman.

Zellinger asks him what he has to say about so many people complaining they were misled into signing the petition because it was being sold as having to do with term limits. The canvassers were caught deploying a patently immoral and possibly illegal bait-and-switch tactic to get people to sign.

He told Zellinger that “nothing precludes” the responsibility of voters to read all of the fine print outside the grocery store before signing on the dotted line.

In effect, Coffman says those who feel they were suckered into signing on the false pretense this whole thing is just about increasing term limits have no one to blame but themselves for being suckers.

At this point, Coffman is only two minutes into the 15-minute interview that could be a paid commercial for illustrating why a free and robust press is so important in preserving democracy and speaking truth to power.

If the entire debacle wasn’t so scandalous and dangerous in its scope and daring, it would just be awkward.

This is, however, not Coffman’s first rodeo, having run for and held more offices in his career than most people have jobs during their entire lives.

It’s stunning that Coffman didn’t see how something as compelling as the role of Aurora’s mayor could be turned into a career-killing scandal that questions his ability to be honest, forthright and even mostly sensible.

A clever politician would immediately plead guilty and throw himself on the mercy of the court of public opinion.

But nothing about this entire morass smacks of anything close to clever. Follow

Mayor Mike Coffman talks with 9News reporter Marshall Zelinger July 26, 2023 about his admitting that he is behind a petition drive for a ballot initiative to change Aurora’s government structure. SCREEN GRAB

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School’s back; so are Colorado vaccination woes

Kids are back in school and so, too, is the ever-increasing risk of them catching a severe or even lethal transmissible disease because parents of their peers are irresponsible in regards to mandatory vaccinations.

With rampant hysteria and disinformation in social media — also spread among celebrities and “influencers” — as well as increasingly complicated and sometimes unaffordable costs, mandatory vaccinations and changing laws to increase compliance fall to the wayside.

This is the perfect time to make state legislators talk about it.

While the United States, and especially states like Colorado, were muddling along before the COVID pandemic, the wildfire-spread of a communicable disease has illustrated the power and wisdom of developing and implementing vaccines.

We’ve said this repeatedly, and we — as well as others working to overcome the state’s dangerous ignorance — will keep repeating it until lawmakers take action: Colorado regularly ranks worst or near-worst in the nation for vaccination rates, and it’s costing lives, health and millions of dollars.

The American Academy of Pediatrics says that critical combined vaccination rates in Colorado is at an alarming low rate of 69%, putting thousands of children at risk of an outbreak.

The problem stems from past legislators, succumbing to fake science and political pressure, who were either sympathetic to misguided parents who didn’t want to vaccinate their children, or shortsighted in thinking that making it easy to “opt-out” of mandatory vaccines was just no big deal.

To date, Colorado still allows for a “philosophical” rejection of vaccine mandates.

The root of most of this growing crisis came from a regularly discredited study run by a discredited doctor to tie autism to childhood vaccinations, and the U.S. media bought the hoax, helping to legitimize it.

There is not one reputable pediatrician, pediatric organization, hospital, clinic or researcher that does not vehemently work to debunk the autism lie and beg parents to vaccinate their children.

In Colorado, it’s still easier to say that you don’t want to vaccinate children than to prove that you have, that despite feeble attempts to shore up vaccine mandates.

Many lawmakers, and too much of the public, erroneously believe that since the bulk of the “herd” was vaccinated against potentially lethal diseases such as measles, polio and whooping cough, we’re all protected.

They’re wrong. Dead wrong for some people.

The incidence of those diseases continues to increase as vaccination rates decline.

Recent reports of deaths of people with depressed immune systems sounded an alarm for all of us: Colorado, and the country, is at grave risk.

Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that only 93% of children starting kindergarten in the previous school year came to school fully vaccinated, a 1% drop from the school year before that.

The numbers are even more alarming in Colorado.

It means an increasing number of children are susceptible to entirely preventable diseases like measles, chickenpox, rubella and, astonishingly, polio. Active polio virus is now being regularly detected in places like New York where an unvaccinated man was paralyzed in 2022 by a polio infection.

It’s not just a cause for missed school or misery. These diseases can be and are deadly.

One death followed a measles outbreak at Disneyland six years ago that sickened 100 people, all because foolish, misled, selfish people have avoided childhood vaccination rules.

Real scientists and medical professionals have been unequivocal: The purported danger of childhood vaccines are lies. Dangerous lies. Colorado must join California and similar states in solving an ailing public health problem that’s easy to cure.

Four years ago, California virtually eliminated all exemptions to that state’s childhood vaccination policy.

Colorado must join that state and require every child who attends a public school or college undergo vaccination.

The state cannot command these vaccinations, but lawmakers certainly can force scofflaws to stay away from public programs and venues. Schools, rec centers, colleges, day cares and employers should all demand that people comply with vaccination programs.

It’s almost unthinkable that a country like the United States would slide back decades in health care progress, risking the lives of millions of Americans potentially exposed to diseases we nearly eradicated — because of lies, laziness or ignorant fear.

If parents still won’t listen and comply, then lawmakers must act to protect the rest of the public, and even the naive or selfish from themselves.

Cannabis laws are changing — drug testing must change, too

Voters and politicians are reshaping America’s marijuana laws for the better. The possession and use of cannabis is now legal for medical purposes in 38 states and legal for adult recreational use in 23 of those.

Unfortunately, antiquated and discriminatory drug testing policies often haven’t kept up with these changes.

It’s reasonable for employers to expect sobriety on the job. But requiring would-be hires and employees to undergo urine screens for past cannabis exposure are invasive and ineffective. They neither identify workers who may be under the influence nor contribute to a safe work environment.

That’s because conventional urine tests only identify the presence of non-psychoactive “metabolites” — by-products that linger in the body’s blood and urine well after a substance’s mood-altering effects have ended.

Even the U.S. Department of Justice acknowledges: “A positive test result, even when confirmed, only indicates that a particular substance is present in the test subject’s body tissue. It does not indicate abuse or addiction; recency, frequency, or amount of use; or impairment.”

Carboxy THC, marijuana’s primary metabolite, is fat-soluble and can remain detectable in urine for days, weeks, or even months after a person has stopped using cannabis. It doesn’t provide any definitive information about how often an employee uses cannabis, when they last consumed it, or whether they were under the influence when they took the test.

Aside from these practical limitations, there are larger philosophical questions raised by random workplace cannabis testing — especially in jurisdictions where the possession and use of marijuana is now legal under state law.

Studies indicate that employees who consume cannabis during their off hours are little different from their peers. Their workplace performance seldom differs from their co-workers, many of whom consume alcohol, and they don’t pose any increased safety risk.

According to an exhaustive review by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, “There is no evidence

to support a statistical association between cannabis use and occupational accidents or injuries.”

This begs the question: Why are we okay with policies that single marijuana users out and discriminate against them?

Fortunately, in a growing number of jurisdictions, lawmakers are doing away these outdated and discriminatory policies.

The District of Columbia plus California, Connecticut, Montana, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island — as well as major corporations like Amazon — have amended their rules so that many employees are no longer terminated from their jobs solely because of a positive drug test for THC metabolites.

The states of Michigan, Nevada, and Washington — along with local governments in Atlanta, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and elsewhere — have also enacted laws prohibiting certain employers from taking action against new hires because of a failed drug test for marijuana.

Lawmakers in other states and localities should follow suit and amend workplace cannabis testing regulations in accordance with the plant’s rapidly changing cultural and legal status.

Those who consume alcohol legally and responsibly while away from their jobs aren’t punished by their employers unless their work performance is adversely impacted. Those who legally consume cannabis should be held to a similar standard.

Paul Armentano is the Deputy Director for NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

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State backtracks on full-time preschool for 11,000 kids with risk factors as APS steps up in Aurora

CYNTHIA COBB, AURORA’S EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION DIRECTOR, SAID THE DISTRICT WILL COVER THE COST OF FULL-DAY CLASSES FOR FAMILIES THE STATE REJECTED FOR EXTRA HOURS

BY ANN SCHIMKE AND CHALKBEAT COLORADO

Nikki Spasova expected her 4-year-old son to get free full-day classes through the state’s new universal preschool program since he’s still learning English.

But just two weeks before Kristian was set to start preschool, Spasova learned that wasn’t the case. Instead, the state program will cover just 15 hours of preschool, the same hours offered to Colorado children who don’t face barriers to success in school.

Colorado’s universal preschool plan called for children like Kristian to get up to 30 hours a week at no cost to their families, provided there was enough money. It turns out there isn’t.

In the final weeks before school starts, that shortfall triggered a provision in state law that tightened eligibility requirements so that only children who are low-income and have a second risk factor will receive full-day classes.

Instead of half of 4-year-olds being of-

fered free full-time preschool, just 13% will.

Some of the affected children are learning English, like Kristian. Many more are from low-income families — and money for additional child care subsidies is limited, too. Meanwhile, the state is sticking to its plan to offer 15 tuition-free hours to all 4-year-olds, even those from well-todo families — more hours than required by state law.

“To cut back on the ones who really need it does not feel fair,” said Jean Doolittle, the owner of Southglenn Montessori Preschool in Centennial where Kristian is enrolled. “Instead of taking a little bit from everybody, they took a lot from those who need it most.”

The decision illustrates the trade-off Colorado leaders made in designing the new preschool program, which launches this month. Many early childhood advocates cheered Colorado’s move from a preschool program that targets certain kids to one that’s open to all 4-year-olds, but as the

program rolls out, some providers are concerned the universal model shortchanges children facing the toughest odds.

Four-year-old Kristian, whose native language is Bulgarian, is among nearly 11,000 Colorado children who won’t be offered tuition-free full-day preschool this fall. The news has left families and providers scrambling with only days or weeks before school starts.

At least one district — Aurora Public Schools — has decided to cover the cost of full-day preschool for families the state rejected for the extra help.

But many families will either have to come up with the extra tuition money, switch their child to a half-day program, or bow out altogether.

For Kristian’s parents, the last-minute switch means they’ll have to pay $428 a month more than they’d planned.

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“We can barely make it,” said Spasova.

When state officials asked voters in 2020 to approve a nicotine tax to help pay for universal preschool, they promised 10 tuition-free hours a week to any Colorado 4-year-old whose family wanted it. Last fall, they decided to offer 15. At the same time, state officials planned to provide 30 hours a week to children with the highest needs — those from low-income families, with limited English skills, with a special education plan, are homeless, or are in foster care.

The state’s online application told parents that extra hours for students with any one of the five risk factors “will be added” after their application is reviewed,

But when demand for the new program exploded, there wasn’t enough money for everything.

Dawn Odean, Colorado’s universal preschool director, said Colorado’s 2022 preschool law dictated which groups would get prioritized for preschool funding and didn’t guarantee that students with risk factors would get extra hours.

State officials expected about half of Colorado 4-year-olds — around 30,000 — to participate this year, but is on track to exceed that.

Conor Cahill, a spokesperson for Gov. Jared Polis, said in an email Wednesday that sign-ups

have hit 36,000.

That’s a number legislative staff worried about as far back as February, estimating it would cost $30 million more than the $322 million budgeted for universal preschool to serve all those additional children, according to a budget memo. To avoid too many signups in the first year, they recommended no extra funding for marketing universal preschool. The governor’s office used its own funds to pay for marketing and now touts that the state has surpassed its goals for enrollment in the first year.

Additionally, Cahill said the governor wants to offer 18 hours of preschool a week to all 4-yearolds by the end of his second term in 2026.

Odean, when asked how she would respond to families whose children have risk factors and who feel misled, said “that’s a hard one” and that the department is always looking at how they can give families more clarity.

“Are we getting to our most vulnerable?” she said. “I don’t think we know that at this point, but there is definitely all eyes on that consideration.”

In the Aurora district, officials expected about 1,200 universal preschool students to qualify for full-day funding because they have a risk factor, but only around 300 met the new criteria. Cynthia Cobb, Aurora’s early childhood education direc-

tor, said the district will cover the cost of full-day classes for families the state rejected for extra hours.

“I’m grateful that the district has made the commitment that at this point we’re not changing any of their programming.”

Like other providers, she said the state application wasn’t clear. Since it indicated that families would get extra preschool hours if they had one risk factor, some families simply checked a single box even if they had multiple risk factors.

“So they may have said we speak another language at home and I’m done, I’ve got my risk factor,” said Cobb.

When the pandemic hit, Kristian had just turned one. He ended up spending lots of time with his parents on empty playgrounds or family hikes, but little time with people who might have exposed him to conversational English, Spasova said.

When he started at Doolittle’s home-based child care program a couple years ago, he knew two English words: “OK” and “hi.” Although he was shy, he started making big strides with English after about six months.

But his English still needs work and Spasova said she doesn’t feel confident enough to do it on her own.

“His head is jumbled. He will speak half a sentence in English and half a sentence in Bulgarian,” Spasova said. “It’s impera-

tive for him to go to preschool so he can go to kindergarten next year and he will actually know some English.”

Kristian’s first day of universal preschool at Doolittle’s home was Monday. He’s among five children there who are participating in the state-funded program this year and one of two with a state-recognized risk factor.

Doolittle said the other family whose child has a risk factor opted for half-day preschool, but not Kristian’s family.

“That language obstacle is still humongous,” she said. “Him being here more hours is a huge benefit to him.”

Most of the 4-year-olds who have a single risk factor — and won’t qualify for 30 free hours of preschool a week — come from families considered low-income.

Michelle Dalbotten, who heads Step by Step, a Northglenn child care center, said some of her families fall into that category and recently found out their kids will only get 15 tuition-free hours a week.

“That’s where they may feel duped,” she said.

Under the universal preschool program, families qualify as low-income if they make less than 270% of the federal poverty level — about $81,000 for a family of four. That threshold means there’s nothing distinguishing very low-income families from families on the cusp of

middle income.

Odean, from the Department of Early Childhood, said officials first need to see which preschoolers show up this fall, and then can use that data to make tweaks for next year.

She said the state officials could consider lowering the income threshold or establishing multiple tiers within the low-income category.

Melissa Mares, director of early childhood initiatives for the Colorado Children’s Campaign, said she’s hopeful that low-income families who aren’t offered full-day preschool through the universal program, may be able to use state child care subsidies or other funding sources to get the extra hours they need.

The subsidy application is separate from the universal preschool application this year, but the state plans to combine them in the future, she noted.

“What we’re hearing from families is they want it to be easy,” she said.

But Heather O’Hayre, Larimer County’s director of human services, worries that the subsidy program can’t compensate for the shortfall in the universal preschool budget — especially once federal COVID stimulus money runs out in 2024. Already, there’s only enough money to provide child care subsidies to about 10% of eligible children, she said.

Coffman gave $10K to Aurora ‘strong mayor’ ballot proposal, while $144K came from Colorado Springs GOP dark money PAC

The first details about who’s paying for Mayor Mike Coffman’s ballot proposal to change the form of Aurora government revealed that funds are coming from Coffman and an established Colorado Springs Republican dark money group.

Also, city lawmakers gave tentative approval Monday to a resolution staunchly opposing the proposed change in city government. At the same time, outside opponents have filed a lawsuit against the proposal.

Campaign documents filed with the Aurora City Clerk Aug. 7 show that the Term Limits and Empowering the Mayor for a Better Aurora campaign committee — formerly the Term Limits for a Better Aurora committee — has raised $154,100 toward petitioning the measure onto the November ballot.

For months, details about who was behind the effort and who was funding it were not made public as backers listed on city campaign documents refused to offer any details. Coffman admitted two weeks ago to 9News reporter Marshall Zelinger during a TV interview that he initiated the proposal and was behind its push to make it to the November ballot.

Coffman declined at the time to detail his financial involvement in hiring lawyers, petition canvassers or others to garner about 12,000 valid voter signatures needed to force the question of a strong-mayor onto the ballot.

According to city campaign finance documents filed Aug. 7, Coffman donated $10,000 to the campaign on July 25, 2023.

The dark money Super PAC Colorado Dawn contributed $100 on June 12, according to campaign records. The Colorado Springs dark money group donated $144,000 in “in-kind” services to the project on May 20, 2023, including funding for the paid-petition drive.

No other donors were listed, and Coffman’s committee currently has $2,579 on hand.

Colorado Dawn is based in Colorado Springs and does not list donors. Expenditures for Coffman’s proposal, or any expenditures, do not appear on Secretary of State TRACER records as of Aug. 8.

Colorado Dawn was created by anonymous donors in 2022, spending about $2 million on a variety of GOP-backed candidates and causes, including the unsuccessful effort to recall state Sen. Kevin Priola when he switched parties from GOP to Democrat last year.

Neither Coffman nor political consultant Tyler Sandberg, previously tabbed as a spokesperson for the group, returned messages seeking comment on this and other news about the ballot question.

Opponents of the pending ballot initiative last week filed a lawsuit against three Aurora residents who

were asked by Coffman to sign paperwork initiating the proposal.

The lawsuit, filed Aug. 5 in Arapahoe County District Court, claims that the ballot initiative violates state and city election laws because of unclear and misleading ballot and petition language.

It asks the court to force proponents to rewrite much of the proposal title and summary. If opponents prevail, the ballot proposal may go forward, but only using new language for the title and the summary.

As written, the measure seeks to scrap Aurora’s council-manager form of government and instead change it to a so-called “strong-mayor” system. Although many of the details are unclear, if voters passed the measure, the victor of this fall’s election would assume the new, empowered position in January.

The lawsuit was filed by Colorado attorney Mark Grueskin on behalf of a sole listed plaintiff, Charlie Richardson.

On July 25, petition sponsors were told they had collected 12,198 valid signatures out of a total of 20,409 signatures submitted to the clerk’s office, according to a city news release, 181 signatures above the required minimum.

Richardson, a vocal opponent of the amendment, who previously served as an Aurora City Council member as well as the city attorney and city manager, said the lawsuit was being funded by a “broad-based group” that includes members of the business community as well as more than 100 individual donors.

The lawsuit names Elizabeth Hamilton, Paul Mitchell and Garrett Walls, each of whom signed the original petition in May to start the initiative process for the bill.

Each of the signatories has said they were asked by Coffman to sign the original, activating the petition. Coffman would not publicly admit he was the originator of the proposal until two weeks ago, after the clerk tentatively approved the measure for the November ballot.

“I believe, prospectively, that the residents of Aurora would be better served by reducing the term limits for our city’s elected officials to eight years instead of 12,” Coffman said at the time.

“I also believe that the city of Aurora has dramatically changed, and it’s time for our structure of government to change with it. Aurora is no longer a sleepy suburb, but it’s now the 51st-largest city in the United States with the urban challenges of race, poverty and crime that are better suited for a mayor/council form of government where the mayor, who is directly accountable to the people, is responsible for the operations of the government to include everything from the conduct of our police officers to providing the leadership necessary to achieve an aspirational vision for our city.”

Neither Hamilton nor Walls returned messages seeking comment about the lawsuit.

Suzanne Taheri, a lawyer involved in the effort who submitted the proposal to the clerk’s office on behalf of Walls, said in a statement that supporters believed the title of the item was “properly set in

the discretion of the clerk,” but said they would have preferred the city use language lifted from the petition itself

“With respect to payment of legal fees, we have not determined yet if we will intervene as parties to the matter,” she said in response to the question of whether sponsors of the amendment would pay the legal fees of petition representatives. “Under the statute, the City is required to file an answer on behalf of the clerk and proponents.”

The Richardson lawsuit claims that the strong-mayor proposal violates parts of the state and city

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election law requiring the ballot title and summary of the measure to accurately reflect the contents of the ordinance.

From the time the measure was first offered to voters by paid petition canvassers, some signers have complained that canvassers misrepresented the measure, telling them it pertained primarily or exclusively to increasing city council term limitations.

The lawsuit points out that the measure mostly focuses on creating a new type of “strong-mayor” government; increasing the salary of the office; detailing powers assigned to the mayor, removed from the city council; and terminating the current city-manager system.

“The Title and Submission Clause are deficient in that they are misleading and fail to inform voters of several central features of the Proposed Charter Amendment,” the lawsuit reads.

The lawsuit asks that original petitioners resubmit the query with an alternative ballot title and summary.

On Aug. 7, city council members gave tentative approval to two bills during a study session, both of which addressed the measure.

Coffman’s proposal has drawn unusual bipartisan criticism from across the city council and the region, in large part because it was unclear who was behind the measure.

But organized opposition appears to be as unclear as the mea-

sure’s backers.

Richardson said Aug. 7 that the opposition group would not commit to sharing donor information beyond what was required by the city clerk’s office. He described the move as justified, unlike Coffman’s choice to withhold the fact of his own involvement in the strong-mayor campaign.

Richardson said donors were justifiably afraid of retaliation in the event that Coffman wins his re-election bid and is granted new powers by voters.

“If this passes, and you’re on the wrong side of the mayor, you’re not even toast, you’re a burnt crumb in terms of ever doing anything in the city of Aurora,” Richardson said.

“There is a tremendous fear of retaliation among these individuals. Therefore, I cannot commit to revealing who these people are, because they have a very legitimate concern.”

He invited anyone with questions about the opposition campaign to contact them at AuroraProtest@ gmail.com.

Opponents of the measure last week sent a team of about six analysts to the city clerk’s office in what they say is an effort to remove at least enough valid signatures from the petitions submitted to sink the initiative.

One measure given first approval during the Aug. 7 city council study session would outright oppose the measure, insisting that it was presented to voters by paid petition gatherers who “utilized deceptive

practices to obtain signatures from the public.”

The proposed opposition resolution, sponsored by Councilmember and mayoral candidate Juan Marcano, offers a bevy of arguments against the controversial measure.

The second measure given a tentative OK would ensure future ballot initiatives be held to the same socalled “single-subject” requirements as state initiatives, referenda and city ordinances.

Critics of Coffman’s measure say it violates the so-called single-subject requirement by combining enhanced term limits with the power of the mayor and structure of city government in the same measure.

As introduced to the public in May, the measure and campaign behind it were called Term Limits for Better Aurora. Critics say the measure addresses relatively little regarding city council term limits and focuses on the role and powers of the mayor.

The name of the campaign was apparently changed in late July, and the group is now called Term Limits and Empowering the Mayor for a Better Aurora.

While supporters of so-called “strong-mayor” governments generally argue that folding the responsibilities of a city manager and mayor into a single position encourages leaner, more efficient city governments, a bipartisan group of lawmakers from across the region and on city council has been vocal in its opposition to the proposal, describ-

ing it as an attempt by Coffman to singularly direct the city.

“Citizens in Aurora, local business leaders and elected officials from both sides of the aisle are ready to fight Coffman’s power grab at every step, including by challenging the petition process which, we are strongly convinced, did not submit enough legal signatures,” Richardson said on July 27.

“Many signers were misled to believe this was a term limits measure for city council, when in truth all the other language is an elaborate misdirection so that Mike Coffman can populate city government with some of the political friends he has accumulated over his 40 years in politics.”

Voters who believe their signatures were solicited improperly have until 5 p.m. Aug. 14 to submit a written protest to the clerk’s office.

A copy of any protest will be sent to the petition representatives, and a hearing will be scheduled between 10 and 20 days after the protest is mailed. Hearings will be open to the public, and the clerk will make her decision no later than 10 days after the end of the hearing, according to city clerk officials.

The city said in its press release that the “burden of proof is on the protestants to prove that the petition is insufficient.”

A protest form is available at auroragov.org/2023Elections and can be emailed to Aurora.Elections@auroragov.org or else mailed physically or dropped off in person at the City

Clerk’s Office, First Floor, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, Aurora, CO, 80012.

City spokesman Ryan Luby said the date when the clerk’s office makes its final determination of sufficiency would depend on the outcome of protests and any litigation that could arise from the process.

— Sentinel reporter Max Levy and Sentinel staff writers

Robin Niceta extradited from New Mexico to face charges for faking brain cancer

Robin Niceta, a former social worker accused of targeting an Aurora city lawmaker with a phony child abuse tip, has been extradited from New Mexico to Colorado to face charges for lying about having brain cancer to avoid prosecution, according to law enforcement.

The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Twitter post August 7, that Niceta was picked up from the Sandoval County Jail in Bernalillo, New Mexico on Aug. 4.

She posted a $10,000 cash-surety bond and was released from the Arapahoe County Detention Facility on Aug. 5. Niceta has been charged with attempting to influence a public servant, plus nine other charges including forgery and tampering with evidence.

Niceta’s next court appearance is scheduled to take place Aug. 18.

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A July 24 grand jury indictment describes how Niceta’s story of languishing with brain cancer unraveled under scrutiny as investigators tracked the online presence of New Mexico Oncology Associates, an apparently fictitious medical practice, back to Niceta and her mother.

Niceta faces a bevy of new charges, including multiple counts of forgery, attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy, tampering with physical evidence and criminal impersonation. Her mother, Janice Dudley, also faces charges of forgery, evidence tampering and conspiracy.

Lawyers representing Niceta withdrew from the case in May when claims about her health were initially called into question. Her current attorney, Frank Moya, said he would wait to comment on the specific allegations but criticized authorities’ decision to arrest Niceta in New Mexico instead of arranging with Moya for her surrender as “justice by ambush.”

Last year, Niceta was criminally charged after she allegedly called in a fake child abuse tip to the county child services agency where she worked. The target of the tip was Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky, who had criticized former police Chief Vanessa Wilson, on a talk radio show. Wilson and Niceta were had a romantic relationship at the time, which ended about the same time.

As legal proceedings against Niceta moved forward this year,

Niceta tried to claim through her lawyers that she was suffering from glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, and was too sick to travel to Colorado from New Mexico, where her parents live. She also claims to have suffered long-term harm from an assault that she says took place in her home in 2021.

Niceta’s lawyers shared images with prosecutors that they said were scans of a tumor in Niceta’s brain, along with reports signed by “C. Marquez M.D.” of New Mexico Oncology and a letter purporting to be from California-based cancer treatment center City of Hope.

In March, Niceta’s lawyers asked that Niceta be evaluated to determine whether she was mentally competent to stand trial, filing the same medical records in the Arapahoe County District Court.

The reports, signed by Marquez, included the observation that Niceta was “disoriented, unable to communicate and suffering from cognitive impairment” during office visits, according to the indictment. Niceta’s medical records also included statements from her mother describing Niceta’s purported poor health.

Daniel Cohen — a chief deputy district attorney from Denver and the special prosecutor in Niceta’s original criminal case — called the phone number included in the medical records for New Mexico Oncology and spoke with a man who identified himself as Marquez and vouched for the legitimacy of the scans of Niceta’s brain.

But when Cohen tried to use pub-

lic databases to identify a “C. Marquez” licensed to practice medicine in New Mexico, he came up empty-handed.

He showed Niceta’s medical records to Corral Steffey, a doctor at Denver Health Medical Center, who pointed out that the records “contained numerous typos and improp-

erly used various medical terms.”

Steffey also raised concerns about the brain scan images being a forgery due to their similarity with other publicly-available images found online, adding that the tumor “did not appear to be medically legitimate, due to the unlikely size, shape, and area of effect of the claimed glio-

blastoma.”

As Cohen continued to scrutinize the records submitted by Niceta, he found more irregularities pertaining to Marquez and New Mexico Oncology.

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Janice Wentworth Noll

April 6, 1978 - July 7, 2023

Janice Colleen Wentworth Noll, 45, of Aurora, Colorado passed away on July 7, 2023. She was born on April 6, 1978, in Livingston, Montana to Judith “Judy” Irish Wentworth and Gordon Wentworth. Janice lived a life filled with adventure, compassion, and an unwavering commitment to personal growth.

Janice’s dedication to learning was remarkable. After graduating high school, she went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and two master’s degrees in educational leadership and mathematics. Throughout her educational journey, she maintained a perfect academic record.

Janice was a driven and dedicated educator with 23 years of experience teaching algebra to middle and high school students. She began her career at Sheridan Junior High School in Wyoming. Next she taught in Vernal Texas where she was voted teacher of the year.

In Aurora, Colorado’s Cherry Creek School District, Janice taught at Prairie Middle School and Infinity Middle School. In these roles, she mentored student teachers and organized the staff’s annual Toys for Tots drive. She also played a pivotal role in developing and administrating Infinity. She took great pride in her work and loved to recount the triumphs and tribulations of being a middle school math teacher. She brought joy and enthusiasm into the classroom, making learning a fun and engaging experience for all. Her impact extended beyond the curriculum, as she offered her students guidance and encouraged them to reach their full potential.

Beyond her professional achievements, Janice embraced an active and adventurous lifestyle and motivated others to do the same. She was always up for a challenge, even enjoying hikes in the thinner air of Colorado’s many 14ers. She shared her love for athletics with her former husband, Jeff Noll, and they embarked on multi-day biking excursions.

Janice’s faith was an integral part of her life. Her relationship with Jesus was her foundation and she demonstrated her spiritual commitment through baptism in her early 20s. She remained active in her church and regularly engaged in Bible studies with her friends. Her beliefs were evident in her interactions with others. She freely offered kindness, mercy, and encouragement to those around her.

Her family lovingly remembers her as a bright and fun spirit. She had sparkling blue eyes, an infectious laugh, positive energy, and a delightful ability to make the most of any occasion. We love you, Janice. Until we meet again.

Janice is survived by her father Gordon Wentworth of Lewistown, MT; sisters Shawna (Ron) Egli of New Salem, ND, and Lewanna (Greg) Joest of Lewistown, MT; her nieces and nephews; and her dogs Chuli and Ring. Janice is predeceased by her mother Judy Irish Wentworth, grandparents Alden and Anna “Billy” Irish along with Leo and Lila Wentworth, her horse Blaze, and her dogs Shadow and Rusty.

A celebration of life for Janice will be held on Sunday August 27, at 9 am near the west parking lot of Mt. Falcon, look for the sunflower picnic tables. Location: Mount Falcon, 21074 Mount Falcon Road, Indian Hills, CO 80454.

Full obituary can be read at: http://bitly.ws/RgiM

The Facebook page for New Mexico Oncology had been created in January 2023, the same month Niceta submitted images of her brain scans to prosecutors, but showed no activity after January. The website for New Mexico Oncology was created the same month and did not include any information about employees or staff.

On May 18, a grand jury empowered Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Johnnie Turnidge to investigate the validity of Niceta’s claims about her illness.

Information subpoenaed from Facebook, GoDaddy and Google revealed that New Mexico Oncology’s online presence was associated with “Carey Marquez,” “Courtney Marquez” and “C Marquez,” as well as a particular IP address, a series of numbers used to uniquely identify computers connected to the Internet.

Finally, when Turnidge subpoenaed internet service provider Cable One for information about the associated IP address, he learned it was registered to Niceta and associated with her and her mother.

He was later able to link the phone number Cohen had called to a credit card registered to Niceta’s mother and used by Niceta. Law enforcement also determined that the physical address of New Mexico Oncology was invalid and that no one named Carey Marquez was licensed to practice oncology in the United States. Representatives from City of Hope told investigators that the organization had not corresponded with Niceta.

The indictment also describes inconsistencies in Niceta’s account of her illness and losing her ability to communicate. While Niceta’s medical records indicate she became nonverbal in January 2022, Turnidge said he personally spoke with Niceta in May 2022 and that she “had

no difficulty at all communicating … during the course of a lengthy police interview.”

Turnidge said he also saw Niceta speak with a judge and enter and exit the courthouse without physical assistance during her appearance on May 15 of this year, despite the fact that Dudley said, among other things, that Niceta was physically incapacitated.

As Niceta tried to convince others of her illness, according to the indictment, her mother gave statements to news media about her daughter’s condition, telling the Sentinel in the spring that her daughter had “a huge tumor on the right side of her head,” which she described as glioblastoma.

Dudley also wrote in an April email that Niceta was “experiencing significant medical issues that have worsened since August 2021 after having experienced a brutal assault in her home and she is in need of specialized medical care.”

“This case has presented barriers to her getting this care and sadly, she is now at a point where she cannot accept any sort of plea or find resolution regardless of innocence to obtain this treatment,” Dudley wrote.

Jurinsky said on July 21 that she doubted Niceta’s claims of poor health as soon as they were made public and described feeling vindicated by the information in the indictment.

“They created a fake hospital, for starters. Then they created a fake phone number for the fake hospital, a fake doctor to answer the fake phone number for the fake hospital, a fake Facebook page for the fake doctor for the fake hospital… I don’t even know what to say,” Jurinsky said. “I’m just on pins and needles with this woman. I’m always like, what’s next? You know? What’s next?”

— MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer

Aurora state Rep. Michaelson Jenet seeks state Senate seat after Moreno steps down

Adams County state House Rep. Dafna Michaelson Jenet announced today her intention to seek the Senate District 21 seat vacated by Dominic Moreno, leaving for a position in the Denver Mayor’s office.

“I want to continue my work in the Legislature to make sure that Colorado’s kids are protected, make sure that our communities of color receive the equitable investments that they have historically been denied, and to make sure Colorado continues to expand our renewable energy infrastructure to help fight climate change,” Michaelson Jenet said in a statement.

A Democrat, Michaelson Jenet has held the House District 32 seat for seven years. That seat was in House District 30 before redistricting took place last year.

She currently is chairperson of the House serves on the House Public and Behavioral Health Care and

Human Services Committee and sits on the House Education and Legislative Audit committees.

Moreno announced he would accept a position in newly elected Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s administration as deputy chief of staff. He leaves the state Senate as assistant majority leader, the number two position in the Democrat-controlled house. Moreno’s departure from the state Senate was first reported by the Denver Post

Michaelson Jenet has been endorsed for the seat by Moreno, Attorney General Phil Weiser, congressional representatives Brittany Pettersen and Jason Crow, state Rep. David Ortiz and “many additional legislators and community members.”

Adams County Democratic Party officials were not immediately available for comment about other contenders and the timeline for the vacancy committee.

If selected, Michaelson Jenet’s move to the state Senate would created a House seat opening in a district that represents northwest Aurora and southern Commerce City.

— Sentinel Staff

COPS AND COURTS

Police identify suspect in Aurora cold-case double homicide from 2007

Police stumbled on a grisly scene while completing a welfare check at the Aurora apartment of Juan Ayala-Medina and Ignacio Zamudio-Estrada in 2007.

The two lay dead, having sustained severe head injuries. Their roommate, Alejandro Garcia-Loya, was nowhere to be found.

Sixteen years later, prosecutors with the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office say fingerprints found at the crime scene have been matched to Garcia-Loya, who they believe fled to Mexico after the killings. A warrant was issued this week for the arrest of Garcia-Loya, now charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

“Just because a case goes cold, does not mean it is forgotten,” said Aurora police Sgt. Chris Cruser in a news release from the DA’s office. “Our detectives are always looking for new leads, evidence and information to solve cases. This is just one example of their efforts and dedication.”

Garcia-Loya was at large as of Thursday afternoon. The DA’s office did not say where it believed he could be.

In 2007, Aurora police were contacted by members of Zamudio-Estrada’s family, who said they had not heard from Ignacio for several days, and that multiple phone calls to him had gone unanswered.

On July 16, 2007, an Aurora officer arrived at Zamudio-Estrada’s shared apartment in the 200 block of South Jasper Circle and entered through an unlocked door. The officer recognized the smell of decomposing flesh, and police found the

bodies of Zamudio-Estrada and Ayala-Medina.

Detectives searched the apartment and found a utility bill in the name of Garcia-Loya, who was unrelated to the two victims but lived in the apartment. They also found a fake social security card for “Alejandro Garcia.”

The Colorado Bureau of Investigations found DNA from a single individual on a spoon and Mountain Dew container in Garcia-Loya’s room, along with fingerprints that could not be matched to any person. In the same bedroom, police found a Walmart receipt for the soda and a youth baseball bat that could not be located.

After several years, the Department of Homeland Security reported that the five unidentified fingerprints matched the prints of Garcia-Loya collected from the homicide scene.

Aurora police detective Jason McDonald reviewed the cold case in April and concluded the victims’ third roommate, who also fled to Mexico, was Garcia-Loya.

“As time passes, cases can become tougher to solve,” Deputy District Attorney Grant Grosgebauer said in his office’s news release. “No matter how much time passes, our Cold Case Unit is solely focused on holding offenders accountable and ensuring victims get justice.”

Investigators encouraged anyone with information about his whereabouts to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

— MAX LEVY, Sentinel Colorado Staff Writer

Colorado fugitive who was captured in Florida was leading a posh lifestyle and flaunting his wealth

A career fraudster who escaped from a federal prison in Colorado nearly five years ago was captured this week while moving into a $1.5 million house near the ocean on Florida’s Gold Coast, federal officials said Aug. 4.

Federal marshals arrested Alan Todd May, 58, at the house in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday while movers unloaded a U-Haul truck. He was wearing a Rolex watch at the time of the arrest, and drove a high-end Mercedes, according to investigators who had been surveilling him.

It was an anonymous tipster who led authorities to May — who was living under the name “Jacob Turner” — after spotting a published photo of him at a posh fundraiser. The photo, which showed him wearing a pink shirt, pink blazer and pink-tinted glasses, was published on the website of the Palm Beach Daily News.

This fugitive wasn’t exactly keeping a low profile.

May “was living a lavish lifestyle where he was flaunting his wealth in high society down in south Florida,” Katrina Crouse, chief deputy U.S. marshal for Colorado, said in a phone interview Friday.

May — who has a string of convictions going back to 1983 for bad

checks, credit card abuse, theft and fraud — was in custody in Florida awaiting extradition to Colorado. An email was sent to his federal public defender seeking comment.

The U.S. Marshals Service had been looking for May since December 2018, when he allegedly stole a U.S. Bureau of Prisons truck and escaped from a federal lockup in Englewood, Colorado. At the time, he was serving a 20-year prison sentence for mail fraud over a $7 million Ponzi scheme in which prosecutors said he used the proceeds for “extravagant personal expenses,” including houses, cars and plane tickets.

While in federal custody, May managed to steal another $700,000 by filing fraudulent documents and pilfering unclaimed oil and gas royalties that were owed to several companies, according to a June 2022 indictment charging him with mail and wire fraud.

By then, May had already been on the loose for 3 1/2 years, and the trail to catch him had long since gone cold.

He is one of dozens of people who’ve escaped from federal prisons in the U.S. over the last few years. The federal Bureau of Prisons has struggled with security at federal prisons across the country, with some prisons having such lax security that doors are left unlocked, security cameras are broken and officials sometimes don’t notice an inmate is missing for hours.

May himself had a head start of 24 to 48 hours before the U.S. Marshals Service was put on the case, giving him a clear advantage, Crouse said.

After May was indicted in the oiland-gas scheme last year, the marshals service renewed its push to find him, asking for the public’s help and posting a $5,000 reward. Tips then came in from California, Wisconsin, Michigan, Texas and Florida.

Investigators’ big break came on July 25, when the tipster recognized May in the newspaper photo and alerted the marshals. May had attended a fundraiser for a Palm Beach area suicide hotline group, posing for one of hundreds of photos taken at the event.

Investigators tracked May to a penthouse apartment in Palm Beach. On Tuesday, they followed May’s partner in a U-Haul moving truck from Palm Beach almost 50 miles (80 kilometers) to the couple’s new address in Fort Lauderdale, where May was arrested without incident.

“I’d like to recognize and thank the anonymous tipster for the information they provided that directly led to the arrest of this unorthodox fugitive,” District of Colorado U.S. Marshal Kirk Taylor said in a written statement.

With May finally back in custody, investigators have turned their attention to whether he had help. They are looking into the source of his apparent riches, and whether he victimized anyone else while on the run.

“This guy is very, very good at fooling people,” Crouse said. “So how he was living high on the hog, we’re not 100% sure yet.”

A message was left for the sui-

cide hotline group seeking information about May’s attendance at the fundraiser. The man who was pictured with May in the photo declined comment Friday when reached by The Associated Press.

A LinkedIn page associated with May said that “Jacob Turner” — his alias — was a “certified mediator” in Palm Beach. May, it turned out, had completed a class on mediation while in prison.

“You can’t make this stuff up,” Crouse said.

— MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press

SUMMER ISN’T OVER YET

Last-minute great reads to round out your novel summer

THERE’S STILL TIME. IF YOU’VE BURNED THROUGH YOUR EARLY READING LIST, OR IF WHAT LOOKED GOOD EARLIER LOOKS LIKE COLD-WINTER NIGHT MATERIAL IN A FEW MONTHS,

HERE ARE SOME LAST-MINUTE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WHAT’S LEFT OF THE LONG SUMMER DAYS

Genevieve Gornichec spins a fun yarn with ‘The Weaver and the Witch Queen’

They say your second book is the hardest one to write, but Genevieve Gornichec — leaning on her Norse mythology love yet again as with debut “The Witch’s Heart” — performs a magic hat trick with her sophomore novel.

Historical fantasy “The Weaver and the Witch Queen” finds its footing immediately as tween friends Gunnhild and less well-off sisters Oddny and Signy reunite for a special celebration on their Norwegian fjord, only to be horribly separated by a seeress foretelling that one of them will destroy the other two’s lives without naming the culprit.

As a result, ambitious Gunnhild runs into the night with the witch in order to get away from her cruel mother and forge her own destiny, while the sisters stay at their father’s’ farm with no prospects, until a decade later a violent raid tears them apart as well.

The now young women’s journeys come together once again as cross paths with the charismatic if unwieldy Prince Eirik whose destiny also seems to be entangled in the strange vague prophecy that put the girls on their catastrophic path.

Gornichec is adept at mapping her characters’ emotional whereabouts and finding their propulsion points to the next disaster or solution. Their charm is in their flaws and their determination to achieve their goals, which is mostly saving Signy from a life of slavery but also finding their own place in the world in a time when women were largely relegated to the house.

Is this a romance? Yes and no. Is it a womance? Yes and no. is it a classic enemies-to-lovers story? Yep. The ingredients are there for a heroine’s journey and the result is a delicious Christmas pudding — crunchy, sweet, rich and a little bit hot once you set it on fire.

the whole damn country is in,” pegging the time frame to the late 2000s. The upstate town of North Bath, New York, has been annexed by its well-to-do neighbor, Schuyler Springs. We’re treated to an opening chapter that fast forwards through the lives of a few key characters and by page 19, the hero of books one and two, Donald “Sully” Sullivan, is dead. His son, Peter, finds him “sitting on the bench outside, studying the racing form. Or that’s what he’d apparently been doing when his heart quit.”

Luck, then, and why some people have it and others don’t, endures as a favorite Russo theme. Peter wears the hero’s cape in this novel, whose main events take place about a decade after Sully’s death. He has inherited both his father’s and mother’s houses and is fixing up the former in the hopes of selling it for a big profit and leaving town. Fate, of course, has other plans. When one of Peter’s estranged sons shows up in North Bath, Peter is forced to consider just how much his life is starting to mirror his father’s.

Fans of the previous two novels will enjoy reconnecting with familiar characters, from Ruth and her daughter Janay and granddaughter Tina, to Doug Raymer, no longer North Bath’s police chief (because, no more North Bath) and he-hopes-still-his-girlfriend Charice (now the police chief of Schuyler Springs). Add in Charice’s brother, Jerome, back in town after years away in North Carolina but with the same OCD affliction, and “hapless” Rub Squeers, just starting to get over the death of his wife, Bootsie, and still not over the loss of his best friend Sully, plus a dozen or so others, and you’ve got a sprawling cast, indeed.

more about the man’s circumstances and been able to help.

In Russo’s world, these characters certainly would have tried. Plenty of them get a measure of life or career satisfaction by the novel’s end, guided by one of Sully’s endearing rules: “Do something. If that doesn’t work, do something else.”

ber 2020 when the couple got the grim news until Joan Washington, dialect coach to the stars extraordinaire, died in September 2021.

—ROBMERRILL, AssociatedPressWriter

Richard E. Grant’s emotional roller coaster memoir, ‘A Pocketful of Happiness’

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Still foolin’ — Richard Russo revisits upstate New York in third novel

Richard Russo is back with the third book in his “Fool” series, and while it feels climactic, the author hasn’t formally said if it officially ends the trilogy he began in 1993 with “Nobody’s Fool” and revisited more than two decades later in “Everybody’s Fool” (2016).

“Somebody’s Fool” jumps ahead almost 15 years from the end of the second novel. There is an early reference to “the recession

But while Sully is missed as a physical presence in the book, he’s never far from anyone’s mind. “Dead wasn’t the same as gone,” writes Russo. In fact, a search of the PDF provided by the publisher yields 260 uses of the name Sully in the 458-page novel. Peter, of course, is always thinking about his father, and everyone else is always thinking about the similarities between Peter and his father, or their own memories of Sully.

The “Fool” books nail that small town vibe, where everybody thinks they know everybody’s else’s business, and more importantly, cares about what happens to their neighbors. If it all feels a little quaint in America circa 2023, that’s part of the charm. And it’s what sets in motion a chunk of the plot when an unidentified body is found hanging in the abandoned Sans Souci hotel. The mystery of the man’s identity threads throughout the book and when the case is finally solved, there’s a sense that the tragedy might have been avoidable if neighbors had just known

The title of Richard E. Grant’s memoir, “A Pocketful of Happiness,” is both misleading and utterly truthful. On the one hand, the book is full of charming anecdotes which are indicative of the Swaziland-born, British actor’s sunny disposition, but, on the other, it charts the grim journey of losing his wife of 35 years to lung cancer in the span of 10 months.

As iconic director Eileen Fisher asks Grant — in one of the book’s anecdotes — Why would anyone write their memoir in the day and age of the internet? — he finds a cogent answer in his own. The book is not so much a memoir as it is the anatomy of a love story and partnership. The 10 chapters are each based on a month starting with Decem-

The most career-related information is given to his awards campaign experience on “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” a film that earned him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor in 2019 (he lost to Mahershala Ali), while the most personal is reserved to his unabashed obsession with Barbra Streisand. The actor’s lifelong habit of keeping a journal comes in handy to his retelling, especially for the minutiae of Joan’s decline and the emotional turmoil engulfing the couple and their stalwart daughter, Oilly. The kind friends who look after them he names (shoutout to cooking goddess Nigella Lawson, who sent them many a dish, Gabriel Byrne, Rupert Everett and King Charles III who visited Joan’s bedside). The ones who seem too uncomfortable to interact with them, he silently curses but keeps anonymous. It’s hard to imagine Grant with any negative emotion but his grief and load is palpable throughout.

He doesn’t dwell much on his childhood in Africa, but touches lightly on his familial traumas; so lightly, one would be forgiven for not registering it. He also misses on expanding on his lifelong love of scents and the creation of his perfume line. He keeps it

Global Fest 2023 at Aurora Municipal Center

scene & herd

24th Annual Peach Festival in Old Town Lafayette

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Aug. 19 and 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Aug. 20 at 3403 Brighton Blvd. Denver, CO 80216. Visit www.rockymountainrecordshow.com for more information.

A music fan and collector’s dream is coming to fruition at The Brighton, in the Rocky Mountain Record Show. Top vinyl sellers from all over the country will be offering their goods to like-minded music fans, which if this describes you will guarantee a weekend you’ll not want to miss.

Pop Up Shop at Stanley Marketplace

1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Aug. 20 at 2501 Dallas St., Aurora, CO 80010. Visit http://alturl.com/fufn6 for more information.

11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Aug. 19 at 15151 E. Alameda Pkwy., Aurora, CO 80012. Visit https://www.visitaurora. com/events/global-fest/ for more information.

We’ve got a pop up shop, people. The Hangar at Stanley Marketplace is playing host to an opportunity to host local small businesses sell their wares, goods and tasty snacks.

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Aug. 19 at 311 S. Public Rd. Lafayette, CO, 80026. Visit http://alturl.com/5wjna for more information.

It’s no secret that the Palisade Peaches are pretty well renowned, and for good reason. They’re simply delicious. The town of Lafayette has been given due recognition to the delicious stone fruit for going on 24 years.

More than 30,000 pounds of peaches will be available in three locations along Public Road. There will also be food vendors, makers showcasing their crafts and some of the best artists from along the Front Range and other western states. There will be 600-plus pans of peach pies and cobblers available for purchase, as well as obvious single servings.

So, ya know, if you like peaches and cobblers and small Colorado towns, maybe think about penning this in your calendar.

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And not to fret if you like all mediums of recorded media — there will be more than just vinyl available. Plus, a bevy of memorabilia including posters and other merch.

There will be vinyl-only DJ’s spinning wax while you dig through the crates looking for that long wanted grail.

Along with food trucks there will be a full bar to give you the liquid courage you need to drop hundreds on that rare pressing.

Exploring Colfax with Jonny Barber at the Aurora History Museum

There are more than 160 languages spoken by the residents of our great city of Aurora. To celebrate and recognize the varying cultures our city so proudly boasts, Global Fest returns for another year.

As one of the most diverse cities in the United States, the city puts on this annual event to recognize the cultures and communities that call the city home. The event will feature live music, fashion shows, dance performances, a parade of nations, an international marketplace and of course a melange of food and drinks to enjoy as you take in the festive celebration.

This event is for all ages, but no dogs are allowed. Neither are open-carry firearms, alcohol, illegal substances or unauthorized sound amplification devices, aka speakers.

You’ll not want to miss this annual event as you are guaranteed to leave full of food and knowledge of the multitude of cultures we so proudly host here in our humble city of near 400,000.

Stanley Summer Series at Stanley Marketplace

Clothing boutiques, dog treat bakers, candle makers and more will be set up in the hangar Aug. 20 of our favorite east metro marketplace.

If you happen to have a bit of craftiness that you want to offer and sell through participating, you can find the contact info in the link provided above.

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4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Aug. 17 at 7070 E. Lowry Blvd., Denver, CO 80230. Visit http://alturl. com/7s3w9 for more information.

Tis the season for outdoor markets, and Denver Beer Co. has been hosting a monthly bazaar at their Lowry location all summer.

The final one of the season is Aug. 17 and the event is free to attend. They’ll be offering happy hour pricing during the first hour, BOGO coupons when you register and bottomless Aperol Spritz’s for $20 during the first hour as well.

After you catch a nice buzz, meander through the booths of the 60-plus local vendors who will be offering their goods, as well as sampling street food from the food trucks that will be stationed outside. Oh, did we mention live music? No? Live music.

10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Aug. 12 at 15051 E. Alameda Pkwy. Aurora, CO 80012. Visit http://alturl.com/ i9uvd for more information.

It isn’t often that a street commands the level of respect as much as Colfax Ave. It’s storied, to say the least, and for a litany of reasons.

This hack can’t think of any other person that knows as much about Highway 40 as Jonny Barber. He is afterall the curator of the Colfax Museum.

Barber will be discussing the history of the avenue, as well as the reputation it carries and the steps he’s done to preserve it.

This is very much worth attending if you’ve got even the slightest bit of curiosity about this very wellknown thoroughfare.

1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Aug. 13 at 2501 Dallas St. Aurora, CO 80010. Visit http://alturl.com/owfwh for more information.

We might have found your Sunday plans for you. Well, the second Sunday of the month anyways. Stanley Marketplace is bringing in live music and performers as well as their best vendor friends for a fun afternoon, chock full of entertainment, eating and shopping.

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

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

12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Aug. 13 at 2801 Tower Rd., Aurora, CO 80011. Visit http://alturl.com/j6pj2 for more information.

Calling all wannabe tailors and seamstresses. Dry Dock Brewing is playing host to Marma Designs and Sewing School, which will be teaching a fundamentals sewing class, where attendees will learn the basic setup of the traditional sewing machine, teach you how to sew a small bag and go through any troubleshooting issues that may arise throughout.

The cost of the class is $50, but that includes all materials, and if you don’t have a sewing machine and want to see if the trade piques any interest, machines will be offered to rent during the class for an additional $10. A complete sewing kit is not necessary to bring, but a pair of scissors never hurts.

The class is for adults only as well, so leave the kiddies at home for this one. We all know it’s a great Colorado pastime to bring minors to breweries, so you’ll need to resist that urge.

Pets

Robo-Litter Boxes

A GAME-CHANGER IN PET CARE AND HYGIENE

BY REE

More than 63% of Americans have cats who are entirely indoors so litter boxes are a must, and with the extensive range of choices on the market, it can be challenging to know which one to choose.

Should you grab a standard plastic tray and a suitable litter, or will investing in an automated self-scooping box be more advantageous? While the appeal of a robotic box that requires less attention and offers the promise of less odor may be tempting, the price tag might put you off. At the same time, it might seem like an expensive and frivolous accessory, but robotic cat litter boxes offer more benefits for cat owners than they may realize.

Safety and Health

Robotic litter boxes automate the cleaning process, minimizing the need for manual poop scooping and reducing direct contact with cat waste. This feature helps lower the risk of spreading pathogens, such as toxoplasmosis parasites which can be transmitted via contact with feces. It can be harmful to pregnant women and those with reduced immune systems.

Regarding your cat’s health, many robotic litter boxes feature enclosed chambers, preventing litter tracking and accidental spills, which could otherwise lead to in-

gestion, minimizing health hazards. It will also save cleanup from litter being tracked through your flooring.

Environmentally Friendly and Cost Effective

These smart boxes utilize sensors and automation to detect usage and cleaning as needed. This efficient approach reduces litter consumption, which is better for the environment. Some robotic litter boxes even use washable granules or reusable litter pellets, eliminating the need for disposable clay or clumping litter and reducing landfill waste.

The initial investment may save you not only time and unpleasant smells but money on cat litter in the long term. Some automated systems, such as the Whisker’s Litter-Robot 4, feature a sensor that detects cat movement and rotates to sift waste into a separate drawer. Whereas the Cat Genie A.I. connects to your laundry or bathroom outlet, eliminating the need for manual scooping by flushing waste. This system has the added benefit of using washable granules, which means that in a one-cat household, you only need to replace them every six months.

Robotic litter boxes are designed to be durable and long-lasting, reducing the need for frequent replacements, which can save money in the long run.

Health Monitoring

Many automated devices can monitor your pet’s bathroom habits — how regularly they’re going and if their habits have drastically changed. An excellent robotic unit can recommend settings that will optimize the unit’s performance. However, it also has the added benefit of alerting you to changes in your cat’s litter habits which could save dollars on vet bills and your kitty’s life if you can detect a condition early enough.

Cat Acclimatization

Besides the cost, cat owners face one issue: whether their cat will adapt to this new style of litter box. Several factors can put felines off, including entering the box, which can be higher from the ground than a standard tray, and dealing with the noise created by the automation process.

The good news is that both the Cat Genie A.I and the Whisker’s Litter-Robot 4 have a 90-day guarantee. So if your new companion can’t adjust, you can return the box and get your money back. These two units are the most popular on the market today.

Most systems offer tips on how to get your kitty acclimatized to their new box and report a 90% success rate.

Robotic Litter Box Comparisons

The Cat Genie A.I. starts at $499 and requires access to a power outlet, a drain, and a faucet. You can easily attach it to your laundry facilities or the toilet faucet via a t-adapter. They have simple-to-follow videos on their website. The replacement washable granules cost $24.95 and only need to be replaced every six months — more frequently if more than one cat uses the unit.

The Whisker’s Litter-Robot 4 can be set up in any room of the house as long as it’s near a power outlet. Its base price is $699, and you can use your choice of litter. You must still remove and empty the waste tray at least once weekly for a onecat household; therefore, you would spend more money on litter than with the Cat Genie, but still less than a standard litter tray. This unit has been updated, so the motor isn’t as noisy as previous models.

One of the cheaper options in the robotic market is the PetSafe ScoopFree which utilizes disposable litter trays with pre-portioned crystal litter, effectively absorbing moisture and controlling odors. It’s priced at $169, and the litter trays can last weeks. Three disposable trays will set you back $64.95, and replacement crystal litter will cost $24.95.

While a significant investment, automatic litter boxes offer several benefits to cat owners and cats. An automatic litter box can improve the life and even the long-term health of your kitty and make your life easier.

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Something for everyone

Global Fest celebrates the city’s diversity for a day, which residents bask in all year

August 19, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Over the past several decades, the world has come to Aurora, and next weekend, the city will bring that diversity to the world during its annual Global Fest celebration.

This year, the city will celebrate a decade since the launch of Global Fest. The family-friendly, daytime festival showcases cultures from around the world, including music and dance on two stages, food trucks, an international marketplace, the Parade of Nations, a fashion show, art displays and more.

Often ranked as the most diverse city in Colorado, Aurora owes its unique cultural identity to the tens of thousands of immigrants who call the community home. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about one in five residents was born outside of the country, hailing mostly from Mexico and Ethiopia. More than 40% of Aurora Public Schools students speak a language other than English at home.

Since the mid-20th-century, Aurora has also emerged as a center of Colorado’s Black community, driven by the local availability of reasonably-priced housing and good schools.

Ricardo Gambetta-Alvarado, director of the city’s Office of International and Immigrant Affairs, said one of the reasons most commonly mentioned by newcomers for moving to Aurora is the city’s reputation as an inclusive and welcoming place. For the past several years, Aurora officials have tabbed the city a “minority-majority” community, where the total population of minority groups is larger than the white, non-Hispanic or Latino population.

“They feel like they belong here,” he said. “And for us, Global Fest is the most important activity of the year, because it’s an opportunity for members from different groups and communities to celebrate that diversity together as a city.”

Gambetta-Alvarado said the crowd for Global Fest had grown from a few hundred people in the first year to several thousand last year, and the city expects attendance will continue to climb.

The event will open with a Parade of Nations procession patterned off of the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games, where representatives from countries around the world show off their nations’ flags. Some countries — including the Marshall Islands, Ukraine, Morocco and Belize — will be sending representatives to the parade for the first time.

Models will show off handmade traditional outfits representing cultures from several continents at the event’s fashion show. Organizers say the event will have more food trucks than any previous year. Performances ranging from lucha libre wrestling, to Swiss alphorn playing, to traditional Ethiopian dance will take place across the festival’s two stages.

Global Fest is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the Great Lawn of City Hall.

The festival is part of a month of recognition for Aurora’s international community put on by the city, which will also be hosting a state diversity conference on the 16th and a naturalization ceremony on the 31st, both at City Hall.

From Denver’s suburb to No. 52

Incorporated as the Town of Fletcher in 1891, Aurora grew modestly until the 1940s, around the same time that the U.S. military expanded its presence by upgrading the Fitzsimons Army Hospital and establishing military airfields at Lowry and Buckley.

“That really started to bring in people from all over the world,” said Scott Williams, director of the Aurora History Museum. He said many military veterans would choose to settle down with their families in developments such as Hoffman Heights starting in the 1950s.

A 2021 report by the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, which described the city as a “diverse enclave

segregated from the larger Denver metro area,” credited Aurora’s military tradition with laying the groundwork for diversity in the city.

“Like other U.S. cities with long military histories, Aurora has benefited from integrated housing on base, secure employment and private housing incentives,” the authors wrote.

“Military perquisites may undermine the persistent discrimination seen across the U.S. in housing and employment, and in Aurora, the influence is significant. Almost 10% of Aurora’s population are military veterans.”

The city’s population grew explosively through the 1980s, at one point making Aurora the fastest-growing city in the U.S., according to the report’s authors. They point out that, during that time, the 1968 Fair Housing Act also began to be enforced, targeting discriminatory housing policies such as redlining.

The authors conclude the legislation may have made the suburbs of Aurora more appealing to Black Denverites over time, noting that the Black demographic was the only racial group to shrink while Denver’s population grew between 2000

and 2010. At the same time, Aurora welcomed close to 14,000 new Black residents, making Aurora’s population less white than other cities in the metro area.

The U.S. Census Bureau tabs Aurora as the 52nd-largest city by population, according to 2022 data. In terms of geographic area, it’s No. 2 in Colorado, larger than Denver and about the same size as Colorado Springs.

State Sen. Rhonda Fields bought her home in Aurora more than 30 years ago.

The Black legislator, whose district includes East Colfax Avenue and Aurora’s densely-developed border with Denver, said that, by the 1980s, Aurora was embracing its identity as a community with a spectrum of languages and cultures. Aurora Public Schools officials say families in the district speak about 160 different languages at home.

“It was always a community that celebrated the difference of culture, from food, to art and entertainment, and in its schools,” she said. “I remember when my kids were going to school how they provided interpreters for the parents who couldn’t speak English. And that’s the first time I realized that Aurora had really

LEFT: Jose Hernandez stands for a portrait Aug. 4, at El Coco Pirata in Aurora. Hernandez will be performing at this years Global Fest and regularly performs at El Coco Pirata.

BELOW: Scenes from the 6th Annual Global Fest, Aug. 17, 2018.

Photo by PHILIP B. POSTON/ Sentinel Colorado

BY MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer

grown so much.”

Scott said the city was acknowledging its reputation for diversity by the 1980s and shared a newspaper clipping from 1986 describing the city as a “cosmos” and “melting pot.”

Gambetta-Alvarado said the first Global Fest event was held in 2013 and grew out of conversations between city officials and community leaders about how best to deliver programs to new immigrants.

“They agreed that it was time for the city to work with community leaders to try to create a special event where actually everybody was welcome, and it wasn’t just for immigrants and refugees,” he

said.

The Office of International and Immigrant Affairs was established soon after the inauguration of Global Fest to coordinate the city and public’s efforts to integrate immigrants into the community, Gambetta-Alvarado said.

The long and sometimes arduous road to Aurora

Today, city spokesman Michael Brannen and Gambetta-Alvarado say the city aspires for Global Fest to be Aurora’s “signature” event and a showcase for diverse talent in the Aurora area.

One of the Global Fest performers,

José Hernandez — known as “La Gatita” to fans of his heartfelt, original guitar music influenced by the Norteña style of northern Mexico — moved to Aurora to work in construction and entertain local restaurant patrons in 2002.

Hernandez received his nickname from his mother and first began singing and playing guitar in his home state of Chihuahua. Although his father played music, Hernandez said he taught himself to play as a child. When he came to Aurora, Hernandez said he started building relationships with local restaurant owners.

“I like to talk to everybody and make friends,” he said. “My success with all of the restaurant owners in the area is that I use two magic words: ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’”

Eventually, one of those owners suggested he audition for this year’s EstrellaTV’s “Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento” show. Hernandez went on to win the show’s grand prize of $100,000 in June with an original song honoring his late mother.

Hernandez’s newfound success has given the 62-year-old the chance to take a break from construction and focus for the first time on recording music.

When asked about the city’s reputation for diversity, Hernandez said he enjoyed living in Aurora because of how inviting and receptive to his music the community had been since he moved two decades ago.

“It’s not necessarily the ethnicity of the people, but the people are very friendly, regardless of their ethnicity,” he said. “That is, for me, the most important part.”

Samuel Gebremichael, the executive director of Colorado Ethiopian Commu-

nity and a community organizer in Aurora, described his group’s mission as not only sharing Ethiopian culture with the rest of Aurora but also promoting respect and friendship among the dozens of ethnic groups that call his East African country home.

“We feel like the music is a common ground to hold all ethnicities together and show that we all need to respect and embrace each other,” he said.

Gebremichael was born and raised in Addis Ababa. He came to the U.S. and Aurora about 15 years ago, fleeing political instability and violence.

In Colorado, his work focuses on promoting the cultural traditions of Ethiopia’s numerous minorities — groups like the Amharic, Tigrayan, Somali, Oromo, Gurage and Afar, whose cultures Gebremichael said will be represented at the Aug. 19 musical and dance performance.

“We try to accommodate everyone together, just like we are one community,” he said. “Culture, music, sport or even festivals bring everybody together.”

Some performers are coming from elsewhere in Colorado to represent immigrant communities, like Mihail Codrescu, whose Romanian folk dance group, Hora Romaneasca, practices in Boulder County.

Codrescu decided to leave Romania in 1982 during the communist administration of Nicolae Ceaușescu when Codrescu was a young adult.

“There were two ways out of the country,” he said. “One was to swim across the Danube. But I wasn’t a good swimmer, so that was out. The other was to find a job which would give me a passport. And so I

THIS PAGE: Scenes from the 6th Annual Global Fest, Aug. 17, 2018.

Photos by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado

found a job in foreign trade.”

On one work trip within the Eastern Bloc, Codrescu was able to take a train to Vienna and later reach Germany, where he eventually secured a plane ticket to New York City. He said the Romanian government harassed his parents after he left the country, and a court sentenced him to prison in absentia for leaving with his passport.

After his defection from Romania, Codrescu said he was initially hesitant to speak Romanian or acknowledge his background in public, worried that the Romanian authorities would track him down in the U.S.

That changed after he got involved with a church group in Boulder that hosted annual Romanian dinners, where he said he recognized an interest among Americans in all things Romanian.

“I was honestly afraid that the secret police would come and get me, and put me in jail in Romania,” he said. “For years, when I heard Romanian, I would want to just disappear. And suddenly I came to Boulder and everybody was interested to know more about it.”

Codrescu said Hora Romaneasca started when a group of women associated with the Romanian American Freedom Alliance performed a dance for a member of the Romanian royal family in the 1990s.

Hora Romaneasca has since entertained Global Fest attendees multiple times, as members perform traditional folk dances in authentic, traditional Romanian costumes, some of which are more than 100 years old, according to Codrescu.

“We always are happy to participate in the celebration of not just Romanian cul-

tures, but other cultures as well,” he said.

“It’s so nice to see different costumes and try to figure out if they are similar, or very different, and why, and how they are adapted to different climates. At least to us, it’s very interesting.”

When asked what has made Aurora such an appealing place to settle for new arrivals to the U.S., many described Aurora’s reputation for being more affordable than Denver. As housing prices climb across the metro area, some questioned whether Aurora’s identity is coming under threat.

From the metro area’s affordable community to, not

Late last year, Aurora’s City Council debated the topic of gentrification along the historically working-class East Colfax corridor, when neighbors objected to a proposed townhome development near Colfax and Yosemite Street, saying it would lead to current residents being priced out of their homes. A majority of council members voted to uphold the Planning & Zoning Commission’s approval of the project.

Brannen said at the end of last month that the city estimates it needs at least 7,500 more units of affordable housing to meet the current demand.

“We have to manage growth so that we’re not displacing people who have found this area as an affordable place to live,” Fields said. “We’re seeing our neighborhoods change in some ways for the good, but we also need to be mindful of how it impacts the charm of north Aurora.”

Harry Budisidharta, in-house legal counsel for Aurora Mental Health & Re-

covery, said that as housing becomes less affordable, organizations like the Asian Pacific Development Center are seeing more immigrants and refugees moving and being resettled out-of-state.

“I think it is probably one of the biggest threats to our community,” he said.

Fields said she believes building walkable, accessible neighborhoods with essential services located close by was part of continuing the work of making Aurora more inclusive.

Budisidharta said he believed steps taken by the city itself — like establishing the Office of International and Immigrant Affairs and creating an Immigrant and Refugee Commission — have gone a long way toward making people feel welcome in the city.

For the performers of Global Fest,

the event is as much about representing countries of origin as representing the place that made the unique fusion of cultures possible.

“I represent Mexico, and Chihuahua, and Aurora,” Hernandez said.

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Millennia of meow

CATS FIRST FINAGLED THEIR WAY INTO HUMAN HEARTS AND HOMES THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO – HERE’S HOW

BY JONATHAN LOSOS, Associated Press

Afew years ago, I had the opportunity to go on safari in southern Africa. One of the greatest thrills was going out at night looking for predators on the prowl: lions, leopards, hyenas.

As we drove through the darkness, though, our spotlight occasionally lit up a smaller hunter – a slender, tawny feline, faintly spotted or striped. The glare would catch the small cat for a moment before it darted back into the shadows.

Based on its size and appearance, I initially presumed it was someone’s pet inexplicably out in the bush. But further scrutiny revealed distinctive features: legs slightly longer than those of most domestic cats, and a striking black-tipped tail. Still, if you saw one from your kitchen window, your first thought would be “Look at that beautiful cat in the backyard,” not “How’d that African wildcat get to New Jersey?”

As an evolutionary biologist, I’ve spent my career studying how species adapt to their environment. My research has been reptile-focused, investigating the workings of natural selection on lizards.

Yet, I’ve always loved and been fascinated by felines, ever since we adopted a shelter cat when I was 5 years old. And the more I’ve thought about those African wildcats, the more I’ve marveled at their evolutionary success. The species’ claim to fame is simple: The African wildcat is the ancestor of our beloved household pets. And despite changing very little, their descendants have become among the world’s two most popular companion animals. (Numbers are fuzzy, but the global population of cats and dogs approaches a billion for each.)

Clearly, the few evolutionary changes the domestic cat has made have been the right ones to wangle their way into people’s hearts and homes. How did they do it? I explored this question in my book “The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa.”

Why the African wildcat?

Big cats – like lions, tigers and pumas –are the attention-grabbing celebrities of the feline world. But of the 41 species of wild felines, the vast majority are about the size of a housecat. Few people have heard of the black-footed cat or the Borneo bay cat, much less the kodkod, oncilla or marbled cat. Clearly, the little-cat side of the feline family needs a better PR agent.

In theory, any of these species could have been the progenitor of the domestic cat, but recent DNA studies demonstrate unequivocally that today’s housecats arose from the African wildcat – specifically, the North African subspecies, Felis silvestris lybica.

Given the profusion of little pusses, why was the North African wildcat the one to give rise to our household companions?

In short, it was the right species in the right place at the right time. Civilization began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, when people first settled into villages and started growing food.

This area – spanning parts of modern-day Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Iran and more – is home to numerous small cats, including the caracal, serval, jungle cat and sand cat. But of these, the African wildcat is the one that to this day enters villages and

can be found around humans.

African wildcats are among the friendliest of feline species; raised gently, they can make affectionate companions. In contrast, despite the most tender attention, their close relative the European wildcat grows up to be hellaciously mean.

Given these tendencies, it’s easy to envision what likely happened. People settled down and started raising crops, storing the excess for lean times. These granaries led to rodent population explosions. Some African wildcats – those with the least fear of humans – took advantage of this bounty and started hanging around. People saw the benefit of their presence and treated the cats kindly, perhaps giving them shelter or food. The boldest cats entered huts and perhaps allowed themselves to be petted – kittens are adorable! – and, voilà, the domestic cat was born.

Where exactly domestication occurred – if it was a single place and not simultaneously throughout the entire region – is unclear. But tomb paintings and sculptures show that by 3,500 years ago, domestic cats lived in Egypt. Genetic analysis – including DNA from Egyptian cat mummies – and archaeological data chart the feline diaspora. They moved northward through Europe (and ultimately to North America), south deeper into Africa and eastward to Asia. Ancient DNA even demonstrates that Vikings played a role in spreading felines far and wide.

What cat traits did domestication emphasize?

Domestic cats possess many colors, patterns and hair textures not seen in wildcats. Some cat breeds have distinctive physical features, like munchkins’ short legs, Sia-

meses’ elongated faces or Persians’ lack of muzzle.

Yet many domestics appear basically indistinguishable from wildcats. In fact, only 13 genes have been changed by natural selection during the domestication process. By contrast, almost three times as many genes changed during the descent of dogs from wolves.

There are only two ways to indisputably identify a wildcat. You can measure the size of its brain – housecats, like other domestic animals, have evolved reductions in the parts of the brain associated with aggression, fear and overall reactivity. Or you can measure the length of its intestines – longer in domestic cats to digest vegetable-based food provided by or scavenged from humans.

The most significant evolutionary changes during cat domestication involve their behavior. The common view that domestic cats are aloof loners couldn’t be further from the truth. When lots of domestic cats live together – in places where humans provide copious amounts of food – they form social groups very similar to lion prides. Composed of related females, these cats are very friendly – grooming, playing with and lying on top of each other, nursing each other’s kittens, even serving as midwives during birth.

To signal friendly intentions, an approaching cat raises its tail straight up, a trait shared with lions and no other feline species. As anyone who has lived with a cat knows, they use this “I want to be friends” message toward people as well, indicating that they include us in their social circle.

Evolution of a master manipulator

Household cats are quite vocal to their

human companions, using different meows to communicate different messages. Unlike the tail-up display, however, this is not an example of their treating us as part of their clan. Quite the contrary, cats rarely meow to one another.

The sound of these meows has evolved during domestication to more effectively communicate with us. Listeners rate the wildcat’s call as more urgent and demanding (“Mee-O-O-O-O-O-W!”) compared with the domestic cat’s more pleasing (“MEE-ow”). Scientists suggest that these shorter, higher-pitched sounds are more pleasing to our auditory system, perhaps because young humans have high-pitched voices, and domestic cats have evolved accordingly to curry human favor.

Cats similarly manipulate people with their purrs. When they want something –picture a cat rubbing against your legs in the kitchen while you open a can of wet food – they purr extra loudly. And this purr is not the agreeable thrumming of a content cat, but an insistent chainsaw br-rr-oom demanding attention.

Scientists digitally compared the spectral qualities of the two types of purrs and discovered that the major difference is that the insistent purr includes a component very similar to the sound of a human baby crying. People, of course, are innately attuned to this sound, and cats have evolved to take advantage of this sensitivity to get our attention.

Of course, that won’t surprise anyone who’s lived with a cat. Although cats are very trainable – they’re very food motivated – cats usually train us more than we train them. As the old saw goes, “Dogs have owners, cats have staff.”

A neighborhood cat seeks relief in the shade on the porch of the home of Ben Gallegos in the Globeville neighborhood as the daytime high temperature soars toward triple digits Thursday, July 27, 2023, in north Denver. AP Photo/David Zalubowski

Preps

Practices and a small bit of competition —in boys golf — is underway for the fall prep sports season, which is set to open even before some schools even have their first day of class.

Here is a brief look at the details of each of the fall prep sports seasons and some of the key storylines or changes around Aurora:

Fall speed ahead

FOOTBALL

BY COURTNEY OAKES Sports Editor

The sport with the latest regular season start of any of the fall season, as kickoff on the opening contests is allowed Aug. 24, while the regular season concludes on Oct. 28 and 24 teams qualify for the postseason in Class 4A and 5A. For the first time, state championships in the largest classifications will be decided at Canvas Stadium on the campus of Colorado State University. Gateway (Rashad Mason) has the lone new coach for the upcoming season among Aurora programs. Last season, Eaglecrest, Grandview and Regis Jesuit qualified for the postseason, and the Wolves and Raiders both lost in the quarterfinals.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL

Oct. 21, when the 32-team postseason fields (16 in 2A) will be determined. Championship games will return to Weidner Field in Colorado Springs, scheduled for Nov. 11 after neutral site semifinals on Nov. 8. In a rule change, regular season overtime has been eliminated. Several Aurora programs have new coaches in Aurora Central (Rudy Villalobos), Eaglecrest (Dorgham Alkabi, formerly of Aurora Central), Hinkley (Mimi Holt), Overland (Mazen Kayali) and Smoky Hill (O’Neil Brown). Last season, the Lotus School For Excellence finished as the 2A runner-up for the second straight season, while Cherokee Trail went the farthest of Aurora’s 5A qualifiers (which also included Grandview, Overland, Rangeview and Regis Jesuit) as the Cougars lost to Denver East in the quarterfinals.

SOFTBALL

all classifications Oct. 28 at the Norris Penrose Events Center in Colorado Springs. Cherokee Trail has a new girls coach in Tristam Winship. Last season, Cherokee Trail, Grandview and Regis Jesuit qualified as teams for the Class 5A boys state race with the Cougars placing sixth, the Wolves 13th and Raiders 17th, while Cherokee Trail and Regis Jesuit made it on the girls side and placed 16th and 17th, respectively.

BOYS TENNIS

The boys tennis season begins on Aug. 10 and matches get played into late September. In its second season, the dual tournament used to determine state champion begins Sept. 27 and concludes Oct. 17 at City Park in Denver. That’s after the Class 5A individual state tournament at the same venue Oct. 12-14. Grandview and Regis Jesuit made last season’s dual state tournament and the Raiders went to the semifinals before they were eliminated.

Excited to be back: The energy of the fall prep sports season — like this displayed by the Cherokee Trail girls volleyball team last season at its Class 5A regional tournament — is back as double-digit sports get underway for the 2023 season.Photo by

The first serve of regular season competition in the sport is allowed to fly on Aug. 17, with play set to continue through Oct. 28 with regionals set to follow by Nov. 4 for those teams that qualify. As usual (in non-pandemic times), the state championships will be decided at the Denver Coliseum, with play set for Nov. 9-11. Cherokee Trail (Neal Finch) and Gateway (Tiana Cannon) welcome new coaches. Last season, Grandview and Cherokee Trail qualified for the double-elimination state tournament and the Wolves advanced to the semifinals before they were knocked out.

BOYS SOCCER

Play on the pitch in the regular season is allowed to begin Aug. 17 and continue through

The softball diamond is eligible for first contests on Aug. 10, which begins a regular season that runs through Oct. 7, which is then followed by regional play Oct. 13-14 and state tournaments Oct. 20-21 at their longtime site, the Aurora Sports Park. Not many fundamental changes have been made, although players now may wear jewelry that is not a distraction or pose a threat to safety and regional tournaments may not be held at the Aurora Sports Park as they have been in past years to eliminate any advantage. Softball returns to Regis Jesuit after a year absence with Tyler Robbins at the helm, while Aurora Central and Gateway have the other new coaches among local programs in Donald Gomez and Nicholas Dixon, respectively. Last season, Grandview and Cherokee Trail made it to the state tournament and the Wolves were stopped in the quarterfinals.

CROSS COUNTRY

The cross country season leaves the starting line on Aug. 17 for regular meets and it will start out in style for Aurora teams as that is the day of the Aurora City Championship meet. Following the conclusion of the regular season, regional meets finish Oct. 21 ahead of the state meets in

FIELD HOCKEY

The field hockey season gets underway Aug. 17 with an end day of Oct. 19 for the regular season. The 16-team playoff field begins play Oct. 23 with semifinals on Oct. 30 and championship game Nov. 1 at venue to be determined. Last season, Regis Jesuit made the state championship game for a third straight season and Smoky Hill also made the postseason.

GYMNASTICS

The gymnastics season begins with first meets on Aug. 17 and progresses to regional competition Oct. 26-28. The Class 5A/4A state meets again at Thornton High School Nov. 2-4. Last season, the Overland co-op — tied for fourth in 5A and had five individual event finalists.

BOYS GOLF

The regular season is already underway and concludes ahead of regional play, which must be finished between Sept.18-23. State tournaments this season are Collindale G.C. for Class 5A and The Bridges in Montrose for 4A. Last season, Eaglecrest and Regis Jesuit qualified as a team and took fifth and 15th, respectively.

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Preps

BOYS

GOLF

Sisneros helps Cougars to close second place at Cherry Creek Invite

A Centennial League preview of sorts took place Aug. 7 at the Cherry Creek Invitational, which mixed together a large amount of teams from multiple classifications at Broken Tee G.C. in the first competition of the season for most.

Centennial League programs — which will get together Aug. 10 at Meadow Hills G.C. for the league opener — combine to take the first eight spots in the 22-team field and featured a battle at the top that was decided by a single stroke.

Cherokee Trail had one of the day’s top performers in sophomore Dalton Sisneros, who fired a 1-overpar 73 to finish in a tie for first place, with sophomore Brayden Forte just a stroke back in a tie for third, but coach Jason Leclaire’s Cougars came up just one stroke shy of Cherry Creek in the team standings.

Eaglecrest — which played without one of its returning state qualifiers, Noah Bennett — finished in a tie for fifth place, five strokes behind Mullen for fourth. The top performance for coach Stan Adams’ Raptors came from sophomore Gregory White, who tied with Forte for third place with a 74.

There was a logjam in the middle of the standings and Grandview ended up just three strokes behind Eaglecrest, but landed in eighth place. Junior Andrew Sinar’s 77 paced coach Kurtis Bailey’s Wolves, while senior Michael Rosman — a returning state qualifier — shot 80 to tie for 26th.

Smoky Hill also competed and coach Danny Hudson’s team finished in 19th place with freshman Reece Nuwash and junior Conner Daniel within a stroke of each other in 62nd and 66th, respectively.

BOYS GOLF

Thornton-led Raiders tie for 2nd in Continental League opener

The Regis Jesuit boys golf team got off to a strong start in Continental League play as it tied for second place in the first league gathering Aug. 3 at King’s Deer G.C.

Junior Roland Thornton made five birdies on his way to an evenpar 71 that put him alone in third place, five strokes behind runaway leader Gavin Amella of Castle View, who shot 66. Thornton went to 2-over after two holes, but played 2-under over the next 16 holes to finish even. He was joined in the top 10 by junior Sam Walker, whose 76 tied him for ninth.

A different set of players represented Regis Jesuit at the DPS Invitational Aug. 7 at Kennedy Golf Course and tied for sixth as a team.

Junior Will Kellogg paced the Raiders with a score of plus-5 76, which put him a tie for seventh place.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Betts earns selection to UA Next Elite 24 game

Sienna Betts was an unstoppable force in the winter season as she helped the Grandview girls basketball team capture the the Class 5A state championship.

The junior-to-be hasn’t slowed a bit since the start of the summer and is lighting up the charts on the national level. Already considered somewhere in the top handful of prospects in the nation for the Class of 2025, the

6-foot-4 Betts has elevated her game in the club season.

She averaged nearly a double-double (9.9 points, 11.3 rebounds) and was the Most Valuable Player of the all-Colorado Hardwood Elite team that won the 17U national championship of the 3Stripes Select Basketball Girls Circuit in late July.

Betts — who is uncommitted, but has double-digit offers from major Division I programs, including UCLA, where her sister, Lauren plays — is the only Colorado player to be invited to the UA Next Elite 24 game scheduled

Sisneros watches his tee shot on Hole No. 2 at Broken Tee G.C. during the Cherry Creek Invitational on Aug. 7 LEFT:

Eaglecrest sophomore Gregory White watches his long putt travel on the green of Hole No. 3 at Broken Tee G.C. during the Cherry Creek Invitational. The putt ended up in the cup. ABOVE: Regis Jesuit’s Roland Thornton shot an even-par 71 to finish third in the first Continental League boys golf tournament of the season. (Photos by Courtney Oakes/Sentinel Colorado)

for Aug. 12 in Atlanta. Betts is on Team Ascent for the game, which is scheduled for 4 p.m. and will be broadcast on ESPNU. The Elite 24 game features a mix of players from the Classes of 2024, 2025 and 2026, with some committed to the likes of Connecticut, North Carolina, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio State and Georgia Tech. Betts’ Ascent Team will be coached by Ty Young, who played 12 WNBA seasons. In the winter, Betts will have a chance to lead Grandview on its quest for a third 5A state championship in as many seasons.

WEEK AHEAD

The week ahead in Aurora prep sports

THURSDAY, AUG. 10: The boys golf season continues with the majority of Aurora teams in action with many of them (Cherokee Trail, Eaglecrest, Grandview and Smoky Hill) set for the Centennial League tournament at Meadow Hills G.C. that begins at 11:30 a.m. Vista PEAK is set for the first City League tournament of the season at 11:50 a.m. at City Park G.C. in Denver, while Regis Jesuit plays in the second Continental League tournament of the season, which is slated for 12:30 p.m. at Broken Tee G.C. ...FRIDAY, AUG. 11: The Vista PEAK softball team opens its season at home with a 4 p.m. first pitch scheduled for a contest against Battle Mountain. ...MONDAY, AUG.

14: The Aurora Central boys soccer team kicks off its season against visiting Cherry Creek in a 4 p.m. home contest, while Hinkley takes the pitch at Aurora Public Schools Stadium at 6 p.m. to face Adams City. ...Centennial League boys golfers return to action in another league tournament scheduled for noon at South Suburban G.C. ...TUESDAY, AUG. 15: The first pitch of the regular season for the Smoky Hill softball team is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. when the Buffaloes play host to Fossil Ridge. Aurora Central also has a home contest with first pitch vs. Rocky Mountain Prep SMART set for 4 p.m. ...The Vista PEAK boys tennis team welcomes Northglenn for a 4 p.m. non-league dual match. ...WEDNESDAY, AUG.

16: The Eaglecrest softball team, which has a home game scheduled for 4 p.m. against ThunderRidge.

TOP: Cherokee Trail sophomore Dalton

Because the people must know

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0197-2023

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

On May 5, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Roy Hansen

Original Beneficiary(ies)

HOMEWARD RESIDENTIAL INC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION

Date of Deed of Trust

June 28, 2017

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

June 30, 2017

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

D7073518

Original Principal Amount

$250,799.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$226,400.43

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

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE

A FIRST LIEN.

SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION

LEGAL DESCRIPTION

LOT 2, BLOCK 1, HEATHER GARDENS

FILING NO. 15, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

PARCEL I:

AN UNDIVIDED 1/144TH INTEREST IN AND TO SAID LOT, SUBJECT TO EASEMENTS OF RECORD, INCLUDING SUCH EASEMENT AS MAY BE SENT OUT IN THE DECLARATION CONDOMINIUM OF HEATHER GARDENS AS FILED OF RECORD, EXCLUDING ANY INTEREST IN THE BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT SITUATE ON SAID LOT AND BLOCK ABOVE DESCRIBED IN WHICH APARTMENT AND TOWNHOUSE UNITS ARE SITUATE EXCEPT THE INTEREST IN THE APARTMENT BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT HEREIN CONVEYED.

PARCEL II:

ALL OF THAT SPACE OR AREA WHICH

LIES BETWEEN THE CEILING AND THE FLOOR, AND THE WALLS OF THE APARTMENT AT 14001 E. MARINA DR. #510 (FOR CONVENIENT REFERENCE, NUMBERED AS UNIT NO. 26628, IN BUILDING NO. 224), NOW OR HEREAFTER CONSTRUCTED ON SAID LOT, SAID BUILDING BEING LOCATED SUBSTANTIALLY AS SHOWN ON THE AREA PLAT PLAN THEREOF, FILED FOR RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, FIRST SUPPLEMENT RECORDED JUNE 24, 1980 UNDER RECEPTION NO. 1975927.

PARCEL III:

AN UNDIVIDED 1/72ND INTEREST IN AND TO THE BUILDING, EQUIPMENT THEREIN INSTALLED AND APPURTENANT THERETO WITHIN WHICH THE ABOVE DESCRIBED SPACE OR AREA IS LOCATED.

TOGETHER WITH:

(1) THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE PATIOS AND BALCONIES, AIR CONDITIONERS OR OTHER APPLIANCES WHICH PROJECT BEYOND THE SPACE OR AREA ABOVE DISCRIBED AND CONTIGUOUS THERETO.

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

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

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

(5) THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE AND OCCUPY PARKING STALL NO.

THE LOCATION OF THE ABOVE NUMBERED STALL.

A.P.N. : 1975-31-2-15-058

Also known by street and number as:

14001 E. Marina Dr 510, 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, 09/06/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/13/2023

Last Publication 8/10/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO

A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE

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

DATE: 05/05/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Winecki #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 23-029504

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. 0216-2023

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On May 12, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Zachariah C Abdelbaki and Nicole Abdelbaki

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Cherry Creek Mortgage CO., Inc., Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

US Bank Trust National Association, Not In Its Individual Capacity But Solely As Owner Trustee For VRMTG Asset Trust

Date of Deed of Trust

October 17, 2018

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

October 23, 2018

Recording Information (Reception No. and/

or Book/Page No.)

D8104722

Original Principal Amount

$265,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$268,867.90

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

Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 1, BLOCK 6, MESA FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 3553

South Jebel Cir, Aurora, CO 80013. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE

said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 09/13/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/20/2023

Last Publication 8/17/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado 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: 05/12/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755

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

Attorney File # CO-23-957481-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. 0195-2023

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

On May 5, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

PHUONG SMITH

Original Beneficiary(ies)

CALICO INVESTORS, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

CALICO INVESTORS, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

April 08, 2016

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 11, 2016

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

D6036044

Original Principal Amount

$265,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $265,000.00

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 7 & THE E 1/2 OF TRACT E ADJ SD LOT 7 ON THE W BLK6 SUMMER VALLEY SUB 3RD FLG Also known by street and number as: 18260 E. HAMPDEN 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, 09/06/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

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

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

DATE: 05/05/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Brian T. Ray #34914

Christopher J. Conant #40269

Robert W Hatch II #16888

Hatch Ray Olsen Conant LLC 730 Seventeenth Street, Suite 200, Denver, CO 80202 (303) 298-1800

Attorney File # 18260 E HAMPDEN

PLACE

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. 0198-2023

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

On May 5, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Antonio Gutierrez Lara

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

April 30, 2020

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

May 01, 2020

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

E0052076

Original Principal Amount

$309,294.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $294,666.49

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 15, BLOCK 14, BURNS AURORA, SECOND FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 796 Kenton 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, 09/06/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 23-029843

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. 0200-2023

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

On May 5, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Caroline Uko AND Idotenyin Etuk

Original Beneficiary(ies)

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

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

January 22, 2021 County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

January 26, 2021

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

E1013195

Original Principal Amount

$304,286.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$293,269.21

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 123, BLOCK 2, OLDE TOWNE SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 10 S Nome Street, F, Aurora, CO 80012.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 09/06/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/13/2023

Last Publication 8/10/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel

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

DATE: 05/05/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Winecki #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 23-029836

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Winecki #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

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

Public Trustee in and for the

County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755

McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112

(877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-23-952559-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. 0218-2023

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

On May 12, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Matthew Vanderslice

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for Reliance First Capital, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Reliance First Capital, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

July 01, 2021

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

July 08, 2021

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

E1108217 Book: n/a Page:

Original Principal Amount

$296,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$291,573.37

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 36, BLOCK 3, STONE RIDGE PARK

SUBDIVIION FILING NO. 10, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as:

18893 E Mexico Dr, 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, 09/13/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/20/2023

Last Publication 8/17/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colo-

rado

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: 05/12/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Alexis R. Abercrombie #56722

Scott D. Toebben #19011

Aricyn J. Dall #51467

David W Drake #43315

Randall S. Miller & Associates PC 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202

(720) 259-6710

Attorney File # 23CO00130-1

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

©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado

Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0220-2023

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

On May 16, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

ZACHARY A BALGE AND CAROLINA A BALGE

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS BENEFICIARY, AS NOMINEE FOR NBKC BANK, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt FLAGSTAR BANK NA

Date of Deed of Trust

July 23, 2020 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust

July 29, 2020

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

E0095258

Original Principal Amount $265,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance

$249,988.47 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 18, BLOCK 14, SADDLE ROCK RIDGE FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 5909

S VALDAI 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, 09/13/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/20/2023

Last Publication 8/17/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado

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: 05/16/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Jennifer C. Rogers #34682 IDEA Law Group 4100 E. Mississippi Ave., Ste. 420, Denver, CO 80246 (187) 73532146

Attorney File # 48075910

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. 0226-2023

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On May 16, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Erica D Dixon AND Jafari A Kitwana

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

AND FINANCE

Outstanding Principal Balance

$348,504.16

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 6, LYN KNOLL - THIRD FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

PARCEL ID NUMBER: 197312116024

Also known by street and number as: 387 Vaughn St, 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, 09/13/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/20/2023

Last Publication 8/17/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado

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: 05/16/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Winecki #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 23-029935

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. 0227-2023

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

On May 19, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Jose L. Martinez Jimenez

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 COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

November 27, 2019

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

December 03, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.)

D9131886

Original Principal Amount

$454,613.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$431,318.61

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 11, ADONEA SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 91 S Newbern Way, Aurora, CO 80018-1726. 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, 09/20/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/27/2023

Last Publication 8/24/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado

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: 05/19/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Winecki #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-026635

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. 0229-2023

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

On May 19, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Kari A. Flores

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Service Mortgage Corporation

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust

September 06, 2002

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

September 12, 2002

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

B2169811 Original Principal Amount

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 10, SEVEN LAKES SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 3215 South Danube Street, Aurora, CO 80013. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 09/20/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/27/2023

Last Publication 8/24/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado 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: 05/19/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755

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

Attorney File # CO-23-958824-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. 0232-2023

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

On May 19, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

MICHELE M. CORREA AND TIMOTHY CORREA

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRA-

TION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR Top Flite Financial, Inc., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS OF COLORADO, LLC, D.B.A MORTGAGE SOLUTIONS FINANCIAL

Date of Deed of Trust

February 25, 2021

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

March 11, 2021

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

E1041425

Original Principal Amount

$305,250.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$299,138.49

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 65, SMOKY HILL 400 FILING NO. 6, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

APN: 2073-16-1-18-014

Also known by street and number as: 5451 S VENTURA CT, 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, 09/20/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/27/2023

Last Publication 8/24/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado

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: 05/19/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Winecki #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 23-029922

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. 0233-2023

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

On May 23, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Jonathan Breeden

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., As Beneficiary, As Nominee for American Financing Corporation, its successors and assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Planet Home Lending, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

July 20, 2021

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

July 26, 2021

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

E1116916

Original Principal Amount

$559,675.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$551,654.65 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 make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereb

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE

A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 13, BLOCK 48, THE CONSERVA-

TORY SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 3081

S. Jericho 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, 09/20/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/27/2023

Last Publication 8/24/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado 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: 05/23/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

DEANNE R. STODDEN #33214

MESSNER REEVES LLP 1550 WEWATTA STREET, SUITE 710, DENVER, CO 80202 (303) 623-1800

Attorney File # 11070.0004

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. 0234-2023

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

On May 23, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Gary M. Gomez and Ann M. Gomez

Original Beneficiary(ies)

interest, together with other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 18, BLOCK 7, BEACON POINT SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 6401 S. Millbrook Way, Aurora, CO 80016. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 09/20/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 7/27/2023

Last Publication 8/24/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado

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: 05/23/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

DAVID C WALKER #36551

NEAL K. DUNNING #10181

DOUGLAS W BROWN #10429

DREW P FEIN #48950

BROWN DUNNING WALKER FEIN

DRUSCH PC 7995 E. PRENTICE AVE., SUITE 101-E, GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO 80111 (303) 329-3363

Attorney File # 3085-174

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. 0235-2023

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

On May 23, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Adam Neta

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR Plum Creek Funding, Inc., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

July 31, 2020 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 03, 2020

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

E0097726

August 18, 2020

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

E0106365

Re-Recording Date of Deed of Trust

Original Principal Amount

$407,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$383,294.87

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.

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 7/27/2023

Last

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: 05/23/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Winecki #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 23-029934

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. 0238-2023

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

On May 26, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

DEVAN GANZE AND SAMANTHA STILES

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR MIDWEST EQUITY MORTGAGE, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE

AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

December 10, 2019

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

December 11, 2019

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

D9135942

Original Principal Amount

$393,736.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$377,883.13

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: Borrower’s failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 72, BLOCK 1, FOX HILL FILING NO. 7, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN #: 207310114048

Also known by street and number as: 4499 S HALIFAX ST, 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.

the indebtedness is:

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Winecki #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 22-026761

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. 0240-2023

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

On May 26, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Daniel J Wensien

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Guild Mortgage Company, a California Corporation, Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Guild Mortgage Company LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

April 11, 2019

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 15, 2019

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

D9032102

Original Principal Amount

$315,185.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$295,759.89

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 11, BLOCK 3, SUMMER VALLEY SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 11 AMENDED, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 18115 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, 09/27/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 8/3/2023

Last Publication 8/31/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado

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: 05/26/2023

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

COMBINED NOTICEPUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0243-2023

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

On May 26, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

AUBREY WESLEY AND NORA WESLEY

Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR QUICKEN LOANS INC.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt ROCKET MORTGAGE, LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS, LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS INC.

Date of Deed of Trust

June 27, 2017

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

July 06, 2017

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

D7075747

Original Principal Amount

$215,400.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$220,161.27

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 4, BLOCK 18, AURORA HILLS FILING NO. 9, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 12506 E KENTUCKY PL, AURORA, CO 80012-3327.

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, 09/27/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 8/3/2023

Last Publication 8/31/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado 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: 05/26/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978

Randall M. Chin #31149

David W. Drake #43315

Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000009808148

November 19, 2015

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

November 25, 2015

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

D5135864

Original Principal Amount

$212,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$181,354.44

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 69, BLOCK 1, BEACON POINT SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 4, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 6757

S Old Hammer Ct, Aurora, CO 80016. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 09/20/2023, at The East

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 09/27/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 8/3/2023

Last Publication 8/31/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colo-

rado

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: 05/26/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755

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

Attorney File # CO-23-958034-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

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

SEPTEMBER 3, 1974 IN BOOK 2271 AT PAGE 256, AND THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR APPLE VALLEY EAST CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED APRIL 8, 1974 IN BOOK 2226 AT PAGE 205 , AND THE SUPPLEMENT THERETO RECORDED OCTOBER 7, 1974 IN BOOK 2280 AT PAGE 603 AND SECOND SUPPLEMENT RECORDED OCTOBER 31, 1974 IN BOOK 2286 AT PAGE 494, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 72-A Newark Street, Aurora, CO 80012. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 10/04/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 8/10/2023

Last Publication 9/7/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colo-

rado 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: 06/02/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755

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

Attorney File # CO-23-954024-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. 0258-2023

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

On June 2, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Kristen J. Tscharner

Original Beneficiary(ies)

CTX Mortgage Company

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Bank of America, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust

January 15, 1997

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

January 21, 1997

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

A7007121

Original Principal Amount

$48,387.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$35,741.08

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

SEE ATTACHED EXHIBIT A EXHIBIT A CONDOMINIUM UNIT NO. 202, BUILDING NO. 7, SUNFLOWER CONDOMINIUMS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECLARATION RECORDED MAY 18, 1981 IN BOOK 3415 AT PAGE 572, FIRST AMENDMENT TO CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR SUNFLOWER CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED JUNE 12, 1981 IN BOOK 3430 AT PAGE 288, FIRST SUPPLEMENT TO DECLARATION RECORDED AUGUST 10, 1981, IN BOOK 3467 AT PAGE 535, SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO DECLARATION RECORDED DECEMBER 31, 1981 IN BOOK 3555 AT PAGE 480, THIRD SUPPLEMENT TO DECLARATION RECORDED MARCH 29, 1982 IN BOOK 3599 AT PAGE 369, AND FIRST AMENDMENT TO FIRST SUPPLEMENT AND ANNEXATION AGREEMENT RECORDED

IN BOOK 3614 AT PAGE 151 THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED ON MAY 18, 1981 IN BOOK 50, AT PAGE 71, AND THE FIRST SUPPLEMENT TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED AUGUST

10, 1981, IN BOOK 52 AT PAGE 33 AND THE SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED DECEMBER 31, 1981 IN BOOK 54 AT PAGE 55, AND THE THIRD SUPPLEMENT TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED MARCH 29, 1982 IN BOOK 55 AT PAGE 50, OF THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY RECORDS, TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE FOLLOWING LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS: PARKING SPACE NO. 96 AND/OR GARAGE SPACE NO. NA, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 3464 South Eagle Street #202, 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, 10/04/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 8/10/2023

Last Publication 9/7/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colo-

rado

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: 06/02/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755

McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112

(877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-23-959375-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. 0260-2023

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

On June 6, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

MICHELLE D WEBB

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY

AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN DREAM

MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Truman 2021 SC9 Title Trust

Date of Deed of Trust

December 21, 2009

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

January 12, 2010

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

D0003375

Original Principal Amount

$116,800.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$112,584.58 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows:

Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 45, BLOCK 3, STONE RIDGE PARK SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 15631 EAST COLORADO AVENUE, AURORA, CO 80017. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

mand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 10/04/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 8/10/2023

Last Publication 9/7/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado 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: 06/06/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978

Randall M. Chin #31149

David W. Drake #43315

Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557

Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391

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

Attorney File # 00000009800400

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. 0261-2023

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

On June 6, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Kulmeyeh Y. Oday

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as nominee for Geneva

Financial, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Data Mortgage, Inc. dba, Essex Mortgage

Date of Deed of Trust

August 18, 2021

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 20, 2021

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

E1130458

Original Principal Amount

$515,490.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$510,003.96

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: Kulmeyeh Y. Oday, an unmarried man failed 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. Such failure constitutes a breach under the Note and Deed of Trust triggering the power of sale by the Public Trustee.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 41, BLOCK 54, CONSERVATORY SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 20209 E Doane Drive, Aurora, CO 80013.

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

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 10/04/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 8/10/2023

Last Publication 9/7/2023

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Marcello G. Rojas #46396

Susan Hendrick #33196

Nigel G Tibbles #43177

Sandra J. Nettleton #42411

THE SAYER LAW GROUP, P.C. 3600

South Beeler Street, Suite 330, Denver, CO 80237 (303) 353-2965

Attorney File # CO230042

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. 0262-2023

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

On June 6, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

CHRISTINA M MYRSIADES

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY

AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

MATRIX FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP

Date of Deed of Trust

May 01, 2020

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

May 21, 2020

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

E0060226

Original Principal Amount

$262,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$250,269.89

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

Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 31, BLOCK 3, BROOKVALE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 1457 S JASPER ST, 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, 10/04/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 8/10/2023

Last Publication 9/7/2023

Name of Publication Sentinel Colo-

rado

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: 06/06/2023

Michael Westerberg,

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

By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978

Randall M. Chin #31149

David W. Drake #43315

Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557

Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391

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

Attorney File # 00000009817255

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

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

As required by the Colorado Liquor Code, as amended, notice is hereby given that an application for a Hotel & Restaurant Liquor License has been received by the Local Licensing Authority for the granting of a license to sell fermented malt, vinous and spiritous liquors by the drink on premise. The application was filed on June 27th, 2023 by Kirin Inc dba Dating Yumy for a location at 12203 East Iliff Avenue, Suite D&F, Aurora, CO 80014. The corporate officer lives in Colorado.

A Public Hearing to consider the application has been scheduled to be held before the Local Licensing Authority on September 12th, 2023 at 9:15 a.m. The hearing will be held virtually. Please contact Lisa Keith at 303-739-7568 or lkeith@auroragov.org for meeting information.

Provided either the applicant or protestant(s) desire to use petitions to prove the needs of the neighborhood, and the desires of the inhabitants, the petitions may not be circulated before August 10th, 2023, and must be returned by 12:00 noon on September 2nd, 2023 for review and verification by the City of Aurora Liquor Licensing staff.

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

Lisa Keith Licensing Officer 303-739-7568

Publication: August 10, 2023 Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

As required by the Colorado Liquor Code, as amended, notice is hereby given that an application for a Hotel-Restaurant Liquor License has been received by the Local Licensing Authority for the granting of a license to sell at retail, malt, vinous and spiritous liquors for consumption on the premises only. Kiamook, Inc, dba Pearl of Siam for a location at 18660 E Hampden Ave, Aurora, CO 80013 filed the application on June 6, 2023. The Corporate officers reside in Colorado.

A Public Hearing to consider the application has been scheduled to be held virtually before the Local Licensing Authority on September 12, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. via Webex from the Aurora Municipal Center, 15151 East Alameda Parkway, 5th Floor, Tax and Licensing Office, Aurora, CO 80012.

Provided either the applicant or protestant(s) desire to use petitions to prove the needs of the neighborhood, and the desires of the inhabitants, the petitions may not be circulated before August 13, 2023 and must be returned by 12:00 noon on August 31, 2023, for review and verification by the City of Aurora Liquor Licensing staff.

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

Miranda Garcia Licensing Officer 303-739-7214

Publication: August 10, 2023

Sentinel

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Case Number(s): 2022-4057-00

Applicant: Tri Pointe Homes

Application Name: Murphy Creek PA 21 & 22

You are hereby notified that a public hearing will be held on Wednesday, August 23, 2023, 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 website (auroragov.org) for instructions on participation. The hearing will consider a request for approval of a Site Plan for 114 small lot single-family detached homes and 66 townhomes. An Adjustment is being requested for lot size.

Site Location: Southeast of Old Tom Morris Road and E Jewell Avenue

Site Size: 30.65 acres

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

/s/ Kadee Rodriguez City Clerk

Publication: August 10, 2023 Sentinel

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68) Drove 90 instead of 55

DOWN

1) The Caped Crusader

2) On terra firma

3) Traffic jams

4) Hems' partners

5) Overused theme

6) Make a meaningful connection

7) Slumbering

8) Utter a few choice words

9) Ordinal suffix

10) Shady retreat

11) Abalone eater 12) Hotel relative 13) Poor visibility cause 18) Skirt bottom 19) Expressive 24) Person in a cast 25) Is sick 26) Make a statement 28) Fish holder 30) Requirements 31) Nelson Mandela's org.

lean, meandering between years, his first and breakout role in “Withnail and I,” “Spice World,” “Girls,” “Star Wars” and “Loki.”

An endearing read, “A Pocketful of Happiness,” gets progressively harder to digest emotionally as the illness marches to its inevitable conclusion. But it’s worthwhile all the same.

—CRISTINAJALERU AssociatedPressWriter

True crime meets history in Sara DiVello’s 1920s murder mystery

‘Broadway Butterfly’

The unsolved murder of the beautiful Dot King captivated New York. But the hype around the case proved insufficient motivation to catch the killer. So what happened?

In “Broadway Butterfly,” a jazzy true crime historical thriller, author Sara DiVello unearths piles of evidence and presents them through witnesses, detectives and journalists in an attempt to find out what happened to the fast-living, generous and ambitious young woman whose life was suddenly and mysteriously snuffed out.

All third person limited, the chapters go around between reporter Julia Harpman, inspector John D. Coughlin, and Dot’s maid and confidant Ella Bradford. Each takes on their own lexicon for a personal feel of character — Julia is obsessed with reporting and the hustle of being a pioneer newspaperwoman, and sees herself as a righteous champion of women. Coughlin is a hardened policeman whose preconceived ideas of others are solidified, and he’s constantly surprised at “girls these days” living and traveling alone, and at Broadway women’s apparent lack of moral values. Ella came from the South and, while she sees more opportunity and less overt racist violence and segregation in New York, is well aware of the dangers she and her family face simply by her connection with a murdered white woman.

Then there’s Frances Stotesbury Mitchell, a high society woman with equally high connections getting ready to host the scandal-ridden

President Warren G. Harding in Palm Beach ahead of his renomination. For those not already familiar with the history, it’s not until about a third of the way through “Broadway Butterfly” that it becomes clear why her narrative is woven into the broader story at all. Then, it becomes integral.

Julia herself notes early on that people have a way of seeing themselves as a hero — a forecast of her own hubris. The Julia chapters always paint her as chasing justice, and she excuses occasional sensationalizing as necessary to keep the Dot King case on the front page, therefore making it more likely to get solved. “The singular life of a reporter” becomes her refrain. But time and again other characters read her words and reveal that, in practice, she isn’t the champion of women that her internal narrative makes her out to be.

So many things muddy the investigation: newbies on the force who make rookie mistakes, oldies who make assumptions, bad interrogation techniques, raw deals, classism, racism, sexism, and flatout corruption. DiVello captures it all, revelations unfolding one by one as tips roll in from sources and shady deals are made, replete with all the 1920 slang and swanky synonyms a person could hope for, and smoking everywhere all the time. The tone is precise and transportive.

DiVello also has some fun with it, like when the inspector pointedly tells Julia that this is a murder investigation, not a detective novel. At once a jab at the character’s lust for front-page space, it’s also a selfaware criticism of true crime and, therefore, the author herself. DiVello’s passion for the genre is evident both in the writing and by her role as creator and host of a mystery and thriller podcast.

The end result is a fascinating murder mystery packed with history. However, its repetitiveness presents a sticking point. While it underscores characters, it undermines the pacing. The book feels unnecessarily long. Still, “Broadway Butterfly” is an enjoyable read loaded with factoids I might never have been aware of otherwise.