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Cherry Creek Schools returns to full in-person learning April 5 EVENT
lls Village second grade classes will celebrate our nation’s heroes by ng “We Honor You - A Salute to America’s Soldiers and Veterans” by John .
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younger. Today, he said, “Updated research shows it is now applicable to those 14 and younger.” Strategies that will remain in place through the end of the
During the meeting, school board president Karen Fisher announced that the consultants retained by the board to assist with the process of replacing retiring Superinten-
Education announced that the to full-time dents willdistrict wave will flagsreturn outside the school to welcome America’s heroes to in-person learning at all its s Day breakfast followed schools on April 5. by two patriotic assemblies, featuring musical Superintendent Scottguests Sieg- and an update on the school’s efforts to nces, recognition of honored fried said, “Since July 2020, he Vet Puppy For Life program. RSVP to 720-554-5180. our stated goal has been clear, to have students in-person to the greatest extent poseek Highsible.” School host nation’s heroes at the CCHS football playoff Hewill noted thatour while in and the school Nov. 15.4,066 Eachpeople veteran one guest receive free admission, reserved district have been quarantined a pizza party at half time and recognition during the pre-game and half time since early January 2021 es. RSVPdue toto720-554-2393. possible exposure to COVID-19, only 17 of those people (0.42%) tested positive while they were ese schools and for demonstrating quarantined, This schedule shows how the last eight weeks of school will look. ow otherthat schools in intra-school transmisdent Siegfried had held nutions, thus it makes sense to thousands of students from school year include univerlebrating, visit: sion is extremely small. He merous ZOOM meetings with remain in a hybrid model (for every feeder area have been sal mask wearing, increased noted that CCSD used the ls.org. two weeks after spring break) full in-person, five-days per ventilation, outdoor classes as parents and other community community incidence rate of stakeholders. They reported so that people can test, and week since August 2020,” appropriate, surface cleaning the virus as its metric until that 80% of the participants in potential cases can present with no significant problems. as needed, personal hygiene, educators were prioritized to eek Schools Community the stakeholder meetings supHe said that in July physical distancing to the receive the vaccine, king news and regular ported the priorities that had 2020, it was known greatest extent possible, and adding, “As of April ibe at: been put in place by Dr. Siegthat the risk of trans- quarantining when indicated 5, 2021, over 90% of ls.org/domain/2553. fried and they felt that “CCSD mission between (but not for anyone fully vacCCSD staff will have young children and cinated), along with maintain- is on the right track.” As a had the opportunity to result, the school board had from young children ing the ability for students, receive both doses of 4700 SOUTH YOSEMITE STREET decided to focus its search for and beGREENWOOD quarantined priorCOto80111 to adults was lower than the parents, and staff to be tested VILLAGE, the vaccine and have had 14 a new superintendent on interrisk of transmission between for COVID-19. additional days for full effica- implementing full in-person nal candidates. No informalearning.” He explained, “Im- adults and older children. Addressing the issue of cy,” hence that metric will no tion has been released about mediately following a break However, it was believed that those students/families who longer be applicable. when a new (that includes) increased trav- that finding applied primardo not wish CCSD’s spring break was superintenily to children aged 10 and to return from March 15-20. The return el is not the time to change dent will be to fully selected. in-person During learning, the the porsuperintention of the dent said, meeting “CCSD reserved for will provide addressing meaningful WE’RE HERE the board, a engagement parent of a opportuFOR THE ONES nities to fifth-grader students at ArrowBEHIND EVERY who choose head Elto complete – Superintendent ementary L I T T L E D E TA I L this year expressed Scott Siegfried remotely strong obso that they jections may continue to work through to what she felt was highly the essential content of the inappropriate content in her course.” He made it clear that child’s textbook on the sub“the intent of moving to full ject of slavery. The Villager in-person to end the year is reached out to the school not to increase the work load district for a response. They We’re proud to have helped over 5,000 for students. The amount of told us, “We are already in local businesses with the details of their PPP loans, and we’re ready to serve your homework should not be inthe process of reviewing one-of-a-kind business in 2021. Because creased. The goal of returning curriculum and instructional we’re not just a bank in Colorado, we’re is to provide an opportunity to materials to ensure they are Bank of Colorado. re-normalize, re-socialize, and aligned to our values of inclufind joy in being at school as sivity and racial and cultural we head into the summer and equity. Teachers are getting APPLY FOR A PPP LOAN BY MARCH 31ST prepare for the fall semester.” ongoing training and support www.BankofColorado.com/ppp When school board Memabout state standards and ber Angela Garland asked how to apply them through a if prom dresses might be in culturally responsive lens. In students’ near future, Dr. this instance, the lesson and Siegfried said, “We’re not content standards were not quite at the point that we can appropriately taught. We have Open to new and current Bank of Colorado customers. have dances,” but that each addressed the matter through All loans must meet SBA guidelines for approval. high school would have fitting the personnel process.” See website for full details. celebratory activities for its Fmiklin.villager@gmail. graduating seniors. com
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Arapahoe County Sheriff reports on successful co-responder program BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENTAL REPORTER
At the March 1 meeting of the Centennial City Council, Arapahoe County Sheriff Tyler Brown and Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) Bureau Chief Glenn Thompson presented an update on the ACSO Behavioral Health Response Program throughout Arapahoe County and specifically in the City of Centennial since ACSO provides the city’s police services. The Behavioral Health Response Program is the county’s co-responder program in which mental health counselors respond with law enforcement on calls for service that involve mental health issues. Brown pointed out the importance of the program because Arapahoe County, including Centennial, is in “one of the busiest judicial districts in the state” and “we need to make sure we’re getting people the appropriate resources (so we can keep) them out of our overworked judicial system.” He added that, “mental health services are something that we are passionate about inside the sheriff’s office” for citizens, as well as our own personnel. The co-responder program was proposed in Arapahoe County in 2018 and approved and included in the 2019 budget. The program was organized during 2019 to include a program manager in the sheriff’s office, two vehicles for co-responders so that they could respond as needed across the service area and did not have to ride along with law enforcement on non-mental health calls, contract mental health counselor services from All Health Network, office space, and equipment. The total cost of the program was $673,526, split between Arapahoe County and Centennial. All the arrangements were finalized late in 2019 including a signed contract with All Health Network, whose portion of the total budget was $484,681. During 2020, there were 1,645 calls to the sheriff’s office countywide that were deemed to be mental health calls. Of that total, 72% drew an on-site co-responder as a primary referral and 36% were followed up as secondary referrals. Chief Thompson’s reported that 41% of all mental health calls would have gone unidentified if not for the co-responder program. Additionally, the chief estimated that having the co-responder program saved more than 233 hours in law enforcement officers’ time during 2020. Of all the mental health calls received in Arapahoe County, 897, or 55%, came
Tyler S. Brown was elected Arapahoe County Sheriff in November 2018.
from the City of Centennial, which Chief Thompson said was consistent with the city’s portion of law enforcement calls overall. The breakdown of mental health calls from Centennial that resulted in a primary response from a co-responder was 74%, while 26% were followed up as sec-
The chief estimated that 179 hours of law enforcement personnel time was saved by the program in Centennial alone in 2020.
Glenn Thompson is Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office Bureau Chief for Public Safety.
ondary referrals. The chief estimated that 179 hours of law enforcement personnel time was saved by the program in Centennial alone in 2020. In both Centennial and Arapahoe County overall, the number of calls designated as mental health calls and the percentage of those calls that
were responded to by a co-responder increased dramatically over time last year as the program ramped up. In the county, 33% of mental health calls were handled by a co-responder in the first quarter of the year, compared to 87% in the fourth quarter. Similarly, there were 95 calls deemed to
be for mental health issues in the first three months of the year in Centennial and 37% of those resulted in a response from a co-responder, compared to 345 calls deemed to be for mental health reasons in the final three months of the year, 85% of which resulted in a co-responder getting involved. Chief Thompson explained that if a call comes in to ACSO that is deemed to be a mental health call and there is not a co-responder available at that exact time, those calls are followed up as a secondary referral. Using a chart of program metrics for mental health calls in Centennial during 2020, Chief Thompson showed that the use of a co-responder, which was a more appropriate response to a mental health crisis, resulted in much Continued on page 7
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The Villager
Socialism knocking at the door
I’m growing weary of the nitpicking of our literature, history, customs, and attempting to rewrite the birth of this great nation. There was slavery thousands of years ago. Conquering armies would capture slaves and ancient civilization like the Romans and Egyptians had thousands of slave laborers. Slavery was a business in later centuries and tribal leaders in Africa would sell captives to slave traders. These same slaves ended up in the Western hemisphere where they worked hard for landowners, especially southern tobacco and cotton farmers. President Lincoln fought a civil war that freed the slaves. My newspaper friends down south to this day say, “We should have freed the slaves and then fired on Ft. Sumner.” The war wasn’t only about slavery,
but about agricultural interests versus the industrial north. Southern farmers needed manual labor and there was a vast shortage of labor. The Irish arrived in great numbers starting in the 1840s from the food famine that swept Ireland while the British watched. It is said that the potato arrival eventually saved the Irish washing ashore from the Spanish Armada that was defeated by the British navy on the English coastline. If anyone deserves reparation, it should be the American Indians who had this land taken away from them and ultimately placed on isolated reservations. The gold rush was the last straw for the Indians as fast hordes of miners migrated westward seeking gold and stayed to farm and ranch. The early mineral wealth-built Denver and Colorado Springs.
The many Indian names were bestowed to honor the bravery of the Indians who fought to save their lands as their food chain of buffalo were slaughtered to feed railroad crews and for hides. The history of America is what it was; a vast country rich in resources, and thinly populated by tribal Indians. History recognizes these conflicts and records them honestly. Many of America’s founding fathers owned slaves and we might surmise treated them well. Today, there seems to be a guilt complex blaming white present-day Americans for past atrocities. History is being rewritten, names changed, statues destroyed, and books banned. Will Cheyenne, Wyoming need a name change? When do we rename Arapahoe road? Dr. Seuss is about the last straw with banning of his books. What comes next? The Bible? Tear down the Wash-
ington monuments? I’ve had enough of this cancer culture thinking. We must stand up, speak up to maintain literacy, law and order, honest elections, and balanced budgets. We need strong leadership of smart people. Economic disparity is a real challenge for America and COVID has pushed America deep into socialistic thought and action. The government choosing what are essential workers and what business firms can stay open must cease. That is flagrant socialistic ideology done under an urgent pandemic threat but going beyond the free enterprise principles that has led America to great prosperity. The government has vital functions to perform and has done the right thing in protecting the nation’s health, but states have gone too far in selective mandates and need to slow the great society concept. Socialism is government control, and it seems to have arrived.
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Kudos to the weather forecasters, they were right about the snowfall. It came late Sunday morning, and it has delivered snow to save our watersheds. It was so deep late Sunday afternoon I had to shovel a trail through the drifts in my front yard. Shades of living in faraway Craig and Steamboat Springs where the snow would reach great depths. One of my early chores when we moved into town for school from the ranch was to shovel the walks of the Congregational Church. I wasn’t paid but did it primarily because my mother told me to do it. The minister, Rev. Best was too old to shovel snow, so it was my good deed for the ultimate score keeper upstairs. *** I usually write this column over the weekend but slacked off a bit watching the Players Golf event at the Sawgrass course at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. While the blizzard here raged the golfers were toughing it out on a tough course laden with sand traps and water hazards. Being in Florida, there were fans on the course wearing masks. I was cheering for J. Lockwood, but J. Thomas was able to win
by one stroke. It was one of the best golf events in recent memory. I’m wondering when Tiger Woods will reappear. *** Before the storm we loaded up on bread, milk, hamburger, soup ingredients and some pastries. The impending storm seemed to cast a pall over the weekend as we awaited the storm. Sunday night the storm is abating and leaving some havoc behind along with the needed moisture. I’m feeling sorry for the ranchers in Eastern Colorado who have been hit with the snow and the wind. It is calving time on the plains and this has been a deadly storm. I’ve written about snowstorms on the ranch in Craig where we had a team of horses and sled to haul hay to the livestock in deep snow. The pair of huge “percheron” horses named “Wally” and “Dolly” would break the trail and the cattle would follow the sled breaking down the snow and devouring the hay. Snowstorms and blizzards are always a danger that ranchers face caring for livestock. While the governor has called for a meatless day March 20, the livestock industry is urging consumers to support the beef industry
on that day. While Gov. Polis has been working hard to combat COVID he strayed on his dietary advice. *** While driving around last week I passed a string of school buses and it suddenly struck me how wonderful it was to see those school buses on the road again. It appears that public schools are re-opening and kids and teachers will resume classroom education. It would make sense to have a full school year to catch up on lost school days. The Cherry Creek School District has selected a new Superintendent from within the system and we think we know who that person is, but we’ll wait for the formal announcement. A fine selection, and someone well versed in the “Blue Ribbon” school district. *** I listened to President Biden’s speech last week and thought that he delivered a good message on fighting COVID. He delivered an even better speech in the rose garden a day later on his $1.9 trillion bill that he signed into law. I can remember President Trump campaigning in 2016 stating that America was on the brink of a financial debt crisis with debts from the Obama and Bush administrations and others. Trump’s budget years
were loaded with spending and now with COVID we’ve not only fallen off the cliff we’re in the ravine far below. Trump favored the larger amounts of family assistance before he left office and Biden pulled the strings and got the bill passed and signed. Checks are in the mail. My guess is that sooner, rather than later, the economy is going to recover, and we’ll have some boom years ahead with rising inflation. The government has been able to borrow and print money at historic low rates. This debt can be reduced by inflated dollars paying back the cheaper bills. It is going to take some luck and time. *** We have entered a new era of economics and government controls. As a free enterprise country, it behooves citizens to support local business and reward entrepreneurship. The crisis at the border is because these Latin American refugees want to live and work in the land of the free and the home of the brave. They seek the opportunity that we all enjoy as legal residents. They have walked thousands of miles to become Americans. Think about it. We should all be thankful to live in America. ***
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Reverend Martin Niemoller “In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time there was no one left to speak for me!”
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Opinion
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OPINION
Rush Limbaugh’s diagnosis BY ROBERT WALLACE MEYER
Lung Cancer. Stage four. Shattering news it is for millions of his fans. We listen with interest to his indepth analysis of news and events. Raucous? Pompous? Sometimes, but importantly he got it right. The very thought that his great voice is stilled, is chilling indeed. May this modern-day “Lion in Winter” be long remembered. A friendly oncologist mentioned there are two kinds of this cancer, one is treatable. The other is largely not. We all hoped for the best—but there must have been a reason for President Trump to literally move heaven and earth to present Rush with his Medal of Freedom at the last State of the Union speech. There seems scarcely a household in our nation that has not been struck directly or indirectly by the scourge of cancer. Personal stories abound, yet this one hits us especially hard. Rush seems largely
immune to the stuff that affects most Americans…. until now. What ever shall we do? “Thoughts and prayers” are well and good, but is there something else? I think so. Edie Marks, beloved wife of Mort (The fellow who used to write in this space.) is a leader of the Cancer League of Colorado. These nice ladies raise money for cancer research, charging nothing for their efforts. Therefore, all of our donations go to the bottom line. Better still, they leverage our dollars with matching grants so the impact is multiplied. Their efforts have resulted in a teaching chair at our University of Colorado Medical School. Bravo! So, If you liked Rush and don’t like cancer— please write them a check. If you don’t like Rush and don’t like cancer—write a check. It may result in discoveries that will help you or a loved one. If enough of us whisper a little prayer and write a little check, we may yet beat cancer.
The environmental impacts of COVID Early in the COVID pandemic, environmentalists were cheering over fewer people driving due to closed business and schools, along with stayat-home orders in many states. Daily global carbon emissions dropped 17 percent last April. I remember driving to or from work at that time and noticing there was less traffic than on an early Sunday morning. But I knew it would not last forever. Now that we are close to a year into COVID, the environmentalists are surprisingly quiet about another form of pollution, disposable masks. Masks have had their own waxing and waning popularity over the past year. Last March, the World Health Organization and Dr Anthony Fauci told us masks were not necessary for individuals, “unless they are sick with COVID or caring for someone who is sick.” Yet here we are wearing one or more masks anytime we are out in public. Some individuals, for inexplicable reasons, wear a mask when driving alone in their car. Where is the “follow the science” on masks demonstrating they provide meaningful protection to the wearer, or those in the vicinity, from catching COVID? A properly fitted N95 mask,
worn by healthcare workers caring for COVID patients, does provide good protection, but what about the cheap surgical masks BY BRIAN C. with the elastic ear JOONDEPH loops? Wear one while walking in the perfume section at the department store. If you can smell the perfume, you can also smell the virus. If masks work as advertised, they are capturing virus on either side of the mask, yet they are tossed in the trash or just dropped wherever. COVID can persist on inanimate surfaces for up to nine days, but masks are treated as normal trash, not biomedical waste. The masks are made from plastic, a fossil fuel-based product that the current administration ironically wants to ban. What about mask waste, independent of being a biohazard? The UK alone will generate, in one year, mask waste equivalent to over five Eiffel Towers. Add in the rest of the world and it could be an Eiffel Tower of masks every day. Another UK analysis calculated that single use masks, made from multiple layers of plastic, if worn by every person in the UK for a single day, “Would create 66,000 tons of contaminated plastic waste and create ten times more climate change impact than
using reusable masks.” Masks take 450 years to biodegrade. How many will end up in oceans and landfills, contaminating water and food chains with micro-plastics? Will sea animals become entangled in elastic mask straps as they are with plastic sixpack rings? The United Nations warns, “It can be expected that around 75 per cent of the used masks, as well as other pandemic-related waste, will end up in landfills, or floating in the seas.” Sea birds and other aquatic life can become tangled in the elastic mask straps. Animals may ingest the masks or microplastics, harming the animals or contaminating the food chain. Surgical gloves, now worn by far more people than surgeons, are another fossil-fuel based COVID product, also taking hundreds of years to break down, releasing microplastics into the environment. As we are told to mask up indefinitely, despite 3 vaccines in use presently, why are the Al Gore’s, John Kerry’s, and Greta Thunberg’s of the world not screaming about the environmental effects of masks and other dubious COVID mandates? Their silence is deafening. Brian C Joondeph, MD, is a physician and writer. He is on sabbatical from social media.
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BY LISA J. SHULTZ
his Air and Space Museum is located at 7711 E. Academy Blvd. at the former Lowry Air Force Base in Denver. During its operation (1937-1994), the base graduated 1.1 million enlisted members and officers strengthening the country’s war efforts and also added to Denver and Colorado’s economy as one of its largest employers. Hangar 1 has been transformed into a museum of 50 aircraft, memorabilia, archives, and a research library. When Lowry AFB’s operations closed in 1994, volunteers desired to preserve the rich history of its operations and aviation history. Today, you have an opportunity to see those preservation efforts. My dad was a World War II veteran in the Navy. I have heard more about naval history and visited my father’s battleship the USS Missouri, which has become a museum in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. As I wandered the impressive collection of aircraft in the hangar, I grew my appreciation for this part of the armed forces of our country. I have read books that featured the B-52 Stratofortress bomber and the B-1A Lancer but seeing them with my own eyes brought the stories more to life. The museum has a second campus, Exploration of Flight, located at the Centennial Airport. Enjoy the Air and Space’s focus on history and heritage of aviation or Exploration of Flight’s focus on future aviation. Tickets range from $8-15. Reservations required at wingsmuseum.org. Lisa J. Shultz is a Denver native. She loves to inspire exploration of the city’s treasures in her book Essential Denver. She features the Wings Over the Rockies on page 87! Find out more about her and her book on her website LisaJShultz. com or call her at 303881-9338.
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St. Mary’s Academy Middle School Team wins World Affairs Challenge Locally-sourced powered soap ingredients and integrated dispensing system for school in Malawi, Africa addresses United Nation Sustainable Goal #6 Water and Sanitation Although handwashing with soap is vital in the fight against infectious diseases, including COVID-19, billions of people around the world do not have access to a place to do it, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). A team of problem-solvers from St. Mary’s Academy’s Middle School is on the case, and their project gained them first place in the World Affair Challenge on Saturday, March 6. Aaniva Heidt, Annabelle Good, and Lauren Anderson created a solution to a sanitation challenge at Malama Primary School in Malawi, Africa, inventing a system to dispense powdered soap made from local resources and integrated with a water system installed by a community partner they identified at Freshwater Project International. Their project also includes awareness education and a fundraising walk on World Water Day, March 22 to expand their efforts. “We pieced it together bit by bit until it became the reality that it is,” said team member Aaniva Heidt. “This particular set of girls is very eloquent, can make a logical argument, and, as evidenced by their project, they’re not afraid to step out as leaders in their community,” said Hope Mukai, Program
Director of the World Affairs Challenge, who noted that the students independently reached out to Freshwater Project International and formed a strong partnership with co-founder Heidi Rickels and their work to bring fresh water to people in villages, schools and health centers in Malawi. Beyond their practical solution developed over a two month research study, the youths were recognized for the
strong performance on a global awareness quiz, their formal presentation, their collaborative skills with other students on event day, and the strength of their partnership and collaboration with their community partner at Freshwater Project International. Thirty-three teams representing ten schools advanced to the final round this year in the challenge, which is approaching its 30th anniversary. Five teams from St. Mary’s Academy were in the finals, presenting solutions like community refrigerators in food deserts, water filtration for Uganda, food backpacks for a local school, and using plants to take toxicity out of polluted soil. The virtual format necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic allowed for broader participation by international partners. During the day’s event, judges from Nigeria, Costa Rica, and
North America observed as mixed school groups worked through a brand new challenge. “I found that I had to talk with people that I didn’t know and be civil and agree to disagree,” said Annabelle. “It was a good learning experience.” St. Mary’s Academy facilitates the World Affairs Challenge program for all eighth grade students through their Community Action Team service learning structure and supported by their social studies and language arts teachers. Joe Riehl, Social Studies Teacher, is the program sponsor. St. Mary’s Academy is Denver’s premier Independent, Catholic, Co-Ed Pre-K to Grade 8 and All-Girls High School, founded in 1864 by the Sisters of Loretto. Based in Cherry Hills Village, St. Mary’s Academy fosters excellence in each child through academic achievement, spiritual development, and service. The Loretto School Values of faith, community, justice, and respect provide the foundation for students to be powerful agents of change. The World Affairs Challenge (WAC) was created by the Center for Teaching International Relations (CTIR) in 1992 as part of what is now the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. It started as a community outreach program to educate students and teachers about global issues. In 2010, CTIR became an independent 501(c)3 organization.
South Suburban seeks public input on future Lone Tree regional park South Suburban, in cooperation with the City of Lone Tree, is seeking public input for a new future regional park in RidgeGate’s Southwest Village. The new neighborhood and park will be located east of I-25 and south of RidgeGate Parkway in the City of Lone Tree. “This Regional Park has been envisioned as an essential element of a complete community dating back to RidgeGate’s annexation into Lone Tree in 2000,” said Keith Simon, Executive Vice President for Coventry Development Corporation. “As the RidgeGate community on the east side of I-25 begins to take shape with residents starting in 2022, this park will provide an important recreation and placemaking role.” Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the public input process will be conducted entirely online. Videos and documents are available to educate and inform the public about the future project. Residents are encouraged to submit ideas about what features and amenities should be included in the 80-acre regional park. “Listening and learning from our residents allows us to deliver better projects,” said Lone Tree Mayor Jackie Millet. “This community engagement effort, led by our
great partner and recreation provider South Suburban, will elevate the development of Lone Tree’s centerpiece park.” In the coming years, the Southwest Village will be home to approximately 1,900 new homes, a variety of commercial spaces, in addition to the regional park, three neighborhood parks, and 236 additional acres of protected open space. While this project is still years away, it’s important to start the planning work so that the park can best integrate with the incoming Southwest Village development and give future residents an idea of what will be in the park. Doing the planning work now will also allow the park to better integrate with a drainage project already in the planning stages along Happy Canyon Creek, which runs through the future park. “South Suburban looks forward to creating more recreation opportunities in the City of Lone Tree,” said South Suburban Executive Director Rob Hanna. “The 80-acre regional park will be the cornerstone of the new development and we will work diligently to meet the wants and needs of the community.” To learn more and fill out the survey, visit ssprd.org/ public-input.
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more successful dispositions of cases. During the year, 54% of mental health calls were resolved at the scene by the co-responder and no formal action was taken. In 27% of the cases, either the co-responder or the officer determined it was necessary that the individual receive an involuntary mental examination, while 5% of cases resulted in voluntary mental health treatment. Another 12% of the calls were resolved at the scene with no formal action taken whatsoever. Only 1% of the calls received during the year involving a mental health crisis resulted in an officer making an arrest. Chief Thompson and Sheriff Brown told the Centennial City Council that All Health Network did not renew their contract for 2021, but that ACSO believed it could continue providing the co-responder service by hiring three of the licensed clinicians with whom it has had good
experience, as departmental employees. Keeping the entire operation within the department, including case management with medical oversight, could be done at the same cost as what was being paid to All Health Network as an outside contractor. Mayor Stephanie Piko responded to the presentation, “Congratulations on standing up an excellent program for the citizens of Centennial and for the county. In such a short period of time, it’s had an incredible impact on the community and it makes sense to me that there would be a lot of synergy in having those people in-house because the teams work together. They get to know each other and that’s really important. I agree it’s probably the right direction for you guys to go.” Councilmembers Marlo Alston, Tammy Maurer, Kathy Turley, and Richard Holt complimented Sheriff Brown and Chief Thompson on the program. Fmiklin.villager@gmail. com
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Enjoy a fashion preview, silent auction, signature baskets and Jewels for Hope fundraiser for Children’s Diabetes Foundation in the comfort of your own home Remember when there were several fashion shows in Denver? Remember when many of us would celebrate the entire day - driven by limousine to an elegant luncheon and fashion production? The Guild of the Children’s Diabetes Foundation (CDF) still keeps that tradition alive, even during Covid, with Spring Brass Ring. Normally, Spring Brass Ring, would feature a runway fashion show that has boasted many famous designers, after the luncheon. Lourdes On Chavez ThursCouture day, begins with April 8, sketches, 2021 be- of course ginning at 6:00 p.m. MDT, Spring Brass Ring, still a signature event of CDF will be virtual - featuring a fashion show of the children with type 1 diabetes - called Advocates who will be sporting luxury acces-
sories from Dan Sharp. In addition guests will have a fashion preview filmed on location in Dan’s Rodeo Drive-style store in Cherry Creek North of featured designer Lourdes Chavez. For daytime or evening, Lourdes is an incredible designer, securing luxurious European fabrics (and designing some of her own) that enhance multiple figure types in many age groups. When I first met her nearly ten years ago, I likened her talent to that of Carolina Herrera. During Covid, the fashion industry was hit hard. Retailers struggled and designers went out of business. But, not Lourdes Chavez! She continued designing and traveled across the U.S. safely presenting trunk shows to dress her loyal clients who still wanted to look their best. Some “grand” clients order their entire wardrobes from Lourdes. Dan Sharp has an eye for style. He is a designer himself and has his visions for outerwear created in Italy - bringing high fashion to Denver. He Photo by Tommy Collier Fur and vintage jewelry by Dan Sharp
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hand selects vintage Chanel jewelry and other famous names while in Paris and Milan. Twice a year, he brings in Lourdes Chavez and her current (usually 90-piece) collection to his elegant, yet cozy boutique for orders that can be customized.
To reserve your virtual seat to Spring Brass Ring and for more information, register online at: ChildrensDiabetes Foundation.org or Miriam at 303.628.5115. Scottie Iverson has had a passion for fashion since elementary school when she began collabo-
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Frame De Art celebrates 30 years of business in the Denver Metro area On Tuesday, March 30, Frame de Art will celebrate 30 years of continuous business in the Denver Metropolitan Area. The event was rescheduled from March 15 due to the weather. The “COVIDfriendly” celebration will be masked and socially distanced. It includes a visit from Bright Side Coffee Co., providing one free-of-charge beverage to each patron who stops by from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Founded in 1991 by owner Brian Hart, the frame shop located at 3065 S. Broadway in Englewood has been providing exceptional customer service, great value and quality framing products to the Denver Metro Area for three decades. “Serving the community that has served Frame de Art over the past three decades is a
true honor,” said Hart. “Never could I have imagined the success that the shop has had over the past thirty years but more importantly seeing the delight that preserving our customers keepsakes provides and giving back to the community that has kept Frame de Art relevant for 30 years has truly been the biggest reward to being in business for this many years.” This statement is evidenced by Hart’s generous contributions to local charities over 30 years. Monetary donations, items and time have generously been given to nonprofits such as Denver7 Every Day Hero, Alzheimer’s Foundation, Global Down Syndrome, The Children’s Hospital Colorado, Project Recycle, Ride the Rockies, Cherry Creek
Arts Festival, Bike Denver, and the Denver Chalk Art Festival. Frame de Art specializes in framing art, photography, sports
memorabilia and other custom framing needs. Key clients include the Denver Broncos, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rockies,
Colorado State University, University of Denver, University of Colorado, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper and Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock.
The City of Centennial launches open finance portal improving access to financial data The City of Centennial has launched a new Open Finance Portal, which provides the public a clear view into complex financial information. Open Finance is a financial transparency portal – part of Centennial’s commitment to the City’s Strategic Goal of Fiscal Sustainability by openly displaying the City’s accountability for taxpayer resources. The City’s Open Finance Portal enters the community’s toolkit as a solution for expanded access and a transparent view of the City’s financial data. “The City of Centennial has always prided itself on being fiscally responsible to our citizens and this portal gives access to the City’s expenditures and revenues in real time. The site is user friendly and includes interactive charts, graphs and tables that illustrate the City’s budget
and how funds are allocated,” says Centennial Mayor Stephanie Piko. “This tool helps to build the City’s accountability and transparency for taxpayer resources that are being utilized to accomplish projects within their community.” By providing greater access to financial information, the
City opens its doors (virtually) by making public information as accessible as possible, allowing for increased accountability for taxpayer resources that accomplish projects within their community. Drawing from the City’s Financial Management system, the Open Finance Portal includes the following: Expanded interactive access to the City’s finances
Large, comprehensive data sets covering revenue, expenses, and vendor payments User-friendly visualizations of the City’s financial data In addition to financial access, the Open Finance Portal provides a complete picture of the City’s adopted budget and a preview of anticipated neighborhood and infrastructure projects. The City Budget serves as a communications and operations guide for the City by detailing strategic projects, service levels, and programs that fulfill the policy direction of the City Council and this unique tool helps integrate residents with the City, fostering a sense of civic agency, and leading to a community-driven approach to local government. For more information about Centennial’s Open Finance Portal, please visit centennial co.gov/openfinance.
Buy a Box of Joy for Hometown Heroes Every donation of Girl Scout Cookies supports girls’ success Girl Scouts of Colorado is excited to offer a new opportunity for Coloradans to honor hometown heroes in their community while supporting Girl Scouts in Focus on Abilities, a multi-intensive program for Girl Scouts with learning, behavioral, mental, and physical disabilities led by GSCO Outreach staff. Between now and the end of the Girl Scout Cookie Program on March 21, 2021, you can go to the Girl Scouts of Colorado website and purchase packages of cookies to be donated
to educators, first responders, health care workers, food banks, and military personnel. After the Cookie Program ends, Girl Scouts of Colorado will deliver a mix of Girl Scout Cookies to these hometown heroes on your behalf. “It really is a win-winwin! With your support, Girl Scouts can fund their next adventure and we’ll deliver the cookies to hometown heroes
to enjoy the sweet taste of ‘normal’ everyone is craving right now!” said Leanna Clark, Girl Scouts of Colorado chief executive officer. Girl Scouts in the Focus on Abilities program are children with multiple disabilities who have used the money raised through the Cookie Program to fund field trips and other experiences, like adaptive horseback riding. The K-12 special needs Girl Scout group at Fletcher Miller School in Lakewood has participated in the cookie program for 20 years using some of their proceeds to fund adaptive equipment for the classroom.
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now gradually rising from 66 to 67. Even if you were to take a smaller benefit by claiming earlier, your kids will still get half of BY JIM MILLER your full-retirement age amount. To qualify, your daughter – whether she’s biological, adopted or a stepdaughter – Dear Viagra, must be unmarried and under It’s true. If you’re age 62 age 18. Kids that are over 18 or older and are still raising but still in high school, can young children, there’s a Socollect too until they graduate cial Security benefit strategy or turn 19, whichever comes that can put some extra monfirst. (Other rules apply to ey in your family coffers. kids that are disabled.) Here’s how it works. When But that’s not all. you file for Social Security Because one of your chilretirement benefits, your midren is only 14, your wife (if nor children can get money you’re married) can collect on your work record equaling Social Security benefits on half of what you would reyour work record too, and it ceive at full retirement age, doesn’t matter if she’s just 40 Dear Savvy Senior, I’ve been told that my two children, ages 14 and 16, may be eligible for Social Security when I file for my retirement benefits. Is this true? What can you tell me? Viagra Daddy
years old. The minimum age requirements to collect retirement benefits (62) or survivor benefits (60) does not apply when it comes to collecting benefits as the caregiver of a young child. The spouse’s benefit, which is also worth up to half of your benefit, will stop when your daughter turns 16. But note that there are limits to the amount of money that can be paid to a family. The Social Security “family maximum payment” is determined by a complex formula and can range from 150 to 180 percent of your full retirement benefit amount. If the total exceeds that, each person’s benefit, except yours, is cut proportionately until it equals the maximum. Here’s an example of how
Don’t let the old man in
At the end of the movie, The Mule, starring Clint Eastwood, there was a short clip of a song sang by the country star Toby Keith. The words of the song gripped my heart and I wondered about how this song
came to be. It turns out that Toby Keith, is good friends with Clint Eastwood. The two friends were sharing a golf cart at a charity golf tournament in Pebble Beach, California. Eastwood had just starred and
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directed the film entitled, The Mule, based on a true story of a WWII veteran in his 80’s who takes a job as a courier for a Mexican drug cartel. While golfing with Keith, Eastwood mentioned that he would be starting on a new movie in two days which also happened to be Eastward’s 88th birthday. Impressed by Eastwood’s stamina and relentless supply of energy, Keith asked how he keeps going. Eastwood replied, I get up every morning determined not to let the old man in. Keith was so struck by this response, he penned a song by that name, “Don’t Let the Old Man In” How can we not let the old man in? After reading dozens of ar-
that’s figured. Let’s say, for example, that your full retirement age benefit is $2,400 per month. That would make your family maximum benefit (according to the Social Security formula at SSA.gov/oact/ cola/familymax.html) roughly $4,200 per month. Subtract your $2,400 benefit from the $4,200 family maximum benefit, which leaves $1,800. That’s the monthly amount that can be split between your two children – $900 each. If your wife wants in on it too, the individual checks are smaller, at $600 a piece, but the family amount is the same. You should also know that minor children can collect up to half of a disabled parent’s Social Security disability benefit. And if the parent dies,
ticles on aging gracefully, the first and most important thing is to stay passionate about life, to practice gratitude and to have a positive attitude. Of course, we must take care of our bodies by exercising regularly, getting enough sleep, hydrating, staying away from alcohol and other substances, reducing stress, asking for what you need, hanging out with people you love and who love you. Meaningful relationships and a strong social network is essential! Accept that aging is inevitable and part of the life cycle. We must make the best of it, even embrace it as an intentional choice. Find what brings you joy and do it every day. Stay curious and learn new things, go on adventures, find new hobbies, listen to music, find the sacred
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they will get a survivor’s benefit, which is up to 75 percent of the deceased parent’s basic Social Security benefit. To learn more, see the SSA publication (No. 05-10085) “Benefits for Children” at SSA.gov/pubs/EN-05-10085. pdf.
One Caveat
Social Security benefits for your kids may not be available before full retirement age if you are still working. In 2021, you will lose $1 in benefits for every $2 earned over $18,960, except in the year you reach full retirement age. In that case, the earnings limit is $50,520, with $1 in benefits withheld for every $3 earned over the limit. If you lose your benefits, your dependents also lose theirs. You can recoup those payments later, but your kids can’t.
in the simple. Volunteer, serve others. Stay in the present with hope for a meaningful future. Do something positive for your legacy and the world. Know the incredible and awesome power of one. A phrase I have on my computer reads, “I cannot do everything, but I can do something.” Find that something and do it with passion and gusto. Dance. Smile. Sing (even if you cannot carry a tune) as it is good for the soul. Get regular medical, dental and eye check-ups. Greet each day with wonder. Search for your happy place with reckless abandon. Not letting the old man (or woman) in is more about living in joy, being healthy and helpful than keeping wrinkles away. I am determined not to let the old woman in by finding my joy, staying in the sacred, loving well and living in overwhelming gratitude. joneen@my relationshipcenter.org
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BY DONALD PETERSON Dear Readers, What does the Family and Medical Leave Act provide? The Family and Medical Leave Act was enacted in 1993 to require covered employers to provide employees with job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons. The FMLA requires that covered employers communicate the law’s protections to eligible employees, both by posting a notice and providing a written notice directly to employees. For an employee to have protection under the FMLA, three items are required. An employee must: (1) have worked for the employer for at least 12 months; (2) have worked at least 1,250 hours in the past 12 months preceding the start of leave; and (3) be
employed at a worksite where the employer has least 50 employees within 75 miles. There are specific reasons that an employee can use job-protected leave under the FMLA: • The birth of a son or daughter, or a placement of a son or daughter with the employee for adoption or foster care, and to bond with the newborn or newly placed child; • To care for a spouse, son, daughter, or parent who has a serious health condition, including incapacity due to pregnancy and for prenatal medical care; • For a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the essential functions of his or her job, including incapacity due to pregnancy and for prenatal care; or • For any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that a spouse, son, daughter or parent is a military member on covered active duty or call to covered active duty status. Under certain circumstances, an employee is entitled to take FMLA leave on an intermittent or reduced-schedule basis. In addition to providing eligible employees an entitlement to leave, the FMLA requires that employers maintain employees’ health bene-
fits during leave and restore employees to their same or equivalent job after leave. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Colorado Civil Rights Division do not have jurisdiction over claims under the Family and Medical Leave Act, so there is no requirement that you file a Charge of Discrimination to exhaust administrative remedies in order to pursue a claim under the FMLA. Instead, there is a two-year statute of limitations to file a lawsuit against the employer. It is always best to consult with a private attorney regarding your specific situation, including pursuit of a claim under the FMLA. What are the four key medical/estate plan documents you need now? Many of my clients have asked what are the critical documents needed, particularly in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. Simply being married does not give you the legal right to gain access to your spouse’s medical records or make medical decisions on your spouse’s behalf, even in an emergency. To avoid this problem and to help others care for you and to achieve your overall estate planning goals, the following documents create an effective medical/estate plan package:
1. Healthcare Power of Attorney; 2. General Financial Power of Attorney; 3. Advanced Directive for Medical/Surgical Treatment (“Living Will”); and 4. Will (or a Will with a Trust). Careful medical/estate planning should include preparation and signing of these documents, to accomplish your goals and protect you, both during your lifetime, and at the time of passing. The Power of Attorney documents allow you to designate those agents whom you authorize to help you on your behalf during your lifetime, and the Will/Trust documents allow you to nominate others to help with your estate after your passing, as well as to
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drez who has a track record of proven leadership in getting things done for Northwest Aurora,” said former Ward I City Council Member Nadine Caldwell. For further information on the Bill Gondrez campaign for Aurora City Council go to https://strongertogetheraurora. com/ Contact information: Bill Gondrez, 1758 Havana Street, Aurora, CO 80010 303-343-0367 william.gondrez@gmail.com
Army Vet announces run for city council
Retired U.S. Army veteran Bill Gondrez announced that he is a candidate for Aurora City Council in Ward I, which encompasses all Northwest Aurora. Gondrez retired from the U.S. Army after serving 21 years of active duty. In 1992, Gondrez moved his family to Aurora for the last assignment of his career at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora where he retired in 1994. He’s now an educator with Aurora Public School system working as a classroom teacher. “I’m honored to be encouraged by so many of my neighbors to run for the Aurora City Council. The hardworking families of Northwest Aurora know how dedicated I am to making a difference for everyone who lives here,” said Gondrez Gondrez believes that he can make a difference as a member of the Aurora City Council because of the leadership skills that he developed as a career soldier, his experiences as a classroom teacher, and because of the leadership that he’s already demonstrated by bringing the residents of Northwest Aurora together to solve problems. “I’m running for the Aurora City Council because the residents of Northwest Aurora deserve to live without the constant fear of being a victim of a crime, they deserve to have an economic devel-
opment plan that brings jobs that pay a living wage to our area, and they deserve an affordable housing strategy that meets the needs of all of our residents,” said Gondrez. Gondrez is credited by the City of Aurora for having developed the “Great Aurora Cleanup Initiative” where he recruited volunteers called “Block Meisters” who committed to cleaning up their block and two other blocks A
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Business leaders ask legislators to keep Colorado competitive BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENTAL REPORTER
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presentation called the “$1.8 billion press conference” on March 9, featuring leaders from the Greenwood Village-based Common Sense Institute (CSI) and the chambers of commerce of Colorado, metro Denver, Colorado Springs, and Grand Junction, delivered a strong message to the general assembly that small businesses struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic should not be saddled with new laws, taxes, or rules and regulations that increase their financial burden. Loren Furman, senior vice president of state and federal relations, Colorado Chamber of Commerce, introduced the program with the message, “Colorado has hit an all-time low as one of the worst states for unemployment. We are now at 8.5% (it was 2.5% at the end of 2019). That’s the fourth highest rate in the nation behind Hawaii, California, and Nevada.” Kristin Strohm is president and CEO of CSI, “a non-partisan free enterprise research organization dedicated to the protection and promotion of Colorado’s economy,” created ten years ago by local business and community leaders after the great recession. She shared findings from a research study by CSI that found, “Colorado has been overwhelmed by an onslaught of new taxes, fees, and regulations on business over the last three years.” In addition to new legislation that the general assembly might pass in 2021, potential future costs to small business that worry business leaders were reported to emanate primarily from the paid family leave program approved by Colorado voters 58% to 42% in November 2020, and potential increased unemployment insurance tax premiums facing the state’s businesses to backfill payouts during the pandemic, including fraudulent claims. According to CSI, those premiums “are projected to increase by over $500 million, or 84% within the next two years.” CSI has estimated the cost of the paid family leave program in FY2023 as $48.6 million to the state for administrative program costs and $1.3 billion to the private sector in payroll taxes, with $570 million coming from employers and $725 million from their employees.
Loren Furman is senior vice president of state and federal relations at the Colorado Chamber of Commerce.
Kristin Strohm is president and CEO of Common Sense Institute.
Kelly Brough is president and CEO of Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce.
Dave Davia is CEO of the 200-member Rocky Mountain Mechanical Contractors Association
Diane Schwenke is president and CEO of the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce.
Rachel Beck is Vice President, Government Affairs at Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce & EDC
Before the pandemic struck, Strohm said, “Colorado stood out for having a strong economy and offering a desirable lifestyle… attracting new businesses and an educated workforce.” She pointed to its rating by U.S. News and World Report (USNWR) as having the #1 business climate in the nation at the end of 2019, noting that USNWR has lowered Colorado from 28th to 41st in its opportunity ranking and 29th to 45th in its fiscal stability ranking. She added that our state had been “downgraded in overall ranking as well.” Later in the presentation, Ed Sealover, senior reporter at the Denver Business Journal, pointed out that the latest information from USNWR indicates, “We have fallen…to number two, behind Utah…We’re still being looked at as one of the top two economies in the country by a source that you have repeatedly cited for saying that we were number one.” Strohm explained that actions taken in 2020 likely “haven’t caught up to take effect,” and that costs are coming in 2022 and 2023 from measures passed recently that have not yet been implemented. Kelly Brough, president and CEO of the Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce (MDCC), agreed, emphasizing that, “Paid family leave
is a $1.3 billion (cost) and it hasn’t hit us yet…Looking into the future, we probably can’t sustain our position as being this competitive… What we look at is, who’s employed? We have a lot of Coloradans who are desperate to get back to work.” Tony Gagliardi, director of the Colorado office of the National Federation of Independent Businesses, said, “The more we have to deal with regulations from the legislature, the harder it is for small businesses to survive. Anytime there is a new regulation, accounting fees and legal fees increase because small businesses don’t have the luxury of having in-house counsel. We implore the legislature to think about what the impact of what you’re going to do before you do it.” Dave Davia, CEO of the Rocky Mountain Mechanical Contractors Association and a CSI board member said, “Our state is at risk. Our economy is at risk. Our focus needs to be to return to prosperity. In 2020, the state collected more than $588 million in unemployment (insurance tax) premiums. Construction contributes 6% to the state’s GDP, yet we contribute 14% of the state’s unemployment (tax premiums). In 2021….construction unemployment taxes will increase from about $80 million (to), in 2026, more than $184 million…brought
to us by Senate Bill 207 of 2020.” That law increased the calculation of the wage amounts on which Colorado employers must pay into the unemployment compensation fund, starting this year. Rachel Beck, vice president of government affairs for the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Commissioner, said, “68% of our members have less than 25 employees…Many are running very tight profit margins and labor is their largest line item… When margins disappear, they have to cut hours or jobs… The decisions we make now will set our course… whether we are going to adopt policies that create an environment for swift recovery or we further bog down our unemployment rates...Our asks to legislators is…. Do not stifle a thriving economy….Let businesses… innovate and grow so that they can put people back to work.” Diane Schwenke, president and CEO of the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce, said, “Our chamber has been polling our small businesses; 40% have reported losses of 50% of their income. More than half didn’t have more than 2 months of financial reserves.” Her message to legislators was, “Please first do no more harm. Contemplate helping our small businesses recover.”
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“The more we have to deal with regulations from the legislature, the harder it is for small businesses to survive. Anytime there is a new regulation, accounting fees and legal fees increase because small businesses don’t have the luxury of having in-house counsel. We implore the legislature to think about what the impact of what you’re going to do before you do it.” – Tony Gagliardi, director of the Colorado office of the National Federation of Independent Businesses Brough said that the Metro Denver Chamber has 3,000 members with about 400,000 employees and 95% of its membership is small business. “All are concerned about how to keep their people on the payroll. Many economists are not predicting a full recovery for two years. What hurts an employer hurts their employees. There is no government program that serves a family better than giving a family member a good job.” Fmiklin.villager@gmail. com
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Voters have little trust in the news media or their government BY FREDA MIKLIN STAFF WRITER
It is a well-known psychological phenomenon that if one hears something frequently, they are likely to believe it, whether or not it is true. Dr. Sander van der Linden, professor in social psychology in society at the University of Cambridge and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Environmental Psychology has said, “The brain mistakes familiarity for truth.” Government, long viewed as sometimes inept but generally benign, lost much of its luster when Ronald Reagan, a much beloved U.S. president said, on August 12, 1986, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” The recent years of political divisiveness across our country make it hardly a surprise that Magellan Strategies’ recent scientifically-based online survey of 769 Colorado voters found that when it came to the federal government, only 13% of survey respondents overall had a great deal or a lot of trust “in its ability to solve problems and address America’s most important issues today.” Still, 45% said they had at least a little bit or a moderate amount of trust in the federal government. When the results are viewed by age, only 12 among the 69 youngest voters surveyed had a moderate amount of trust in the federal government; the other 57 had little or none. Even among our most “experienced” citizens, aged 75 and up, only 21% said they had a lot of trust in our government. The numbers were better when state government was substituted for federal government in the question, with the highest level of approval coming from the 56 to 74-year-olds, possibly related to the overall positive view of the state’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic that we saw in the first part of Magellan’s survey results (Villager Newspaper March 4, 2021). To the question, “How much trust do you have in the national media to report news and information in an unbiased and objective manner?” only 15% of Colorado voters said they had a great deal or a lot of trust in the national media (the number for local media was a little higher at 20%). But when the answer to that question was broken down by the political views of those surveyed, 91% of all Republican voters and 95% of Trump voters chose the option, “No trust at all.” Minority respondents were only a little more trusting of
had a negative view of socialism, that number dropped to only 44% among all those aged 18 to 39, climbing all the way up to 68% of those 56 to 74 years of age and to 82% of those over age 75. Former President Trump often equated the Democratic party with socialism in his public statements. Reflecting the well-recognized divide in our politics combined with the aforementioned psychological impact of repetition, it is unsurprising that 97% of respondents who self-identified David Flaherty is the CEO as having voted for the former and founder of Magellan president, viewed socialism Strategies, a public opinion unfavorably, compared to survey research firm based in only 26% of self-identified Louisville. supporters of President Biden. Asked their opinion about the media, with 56% of black stock markets, survey responvoters and 51% of Hispanics dents’ favorable replies were choosing the “No trust at all” option to the question. Among directly related to their inDemocratic respondents, 28% come level. Said another way, expressed a great deal or a lot they were more likely to view stock markets favorably if of trust in the national media, they had sufficient disposable and a full 60% expressed at income to invest least a moderate in them. Only amount of trust. Magellan of those surMagellan also Strategies’ 36% veyed in the lowchecked in on recent est identified invoters’ views on traditional scientifically- come range (un$30,000 per American values based online der year) said they like democracy, which 82% survey of 769 viewed the markets favorably, of respondents Colorado while 74% of viewed favorably or very favorably, voters found those who earn no surprise there. that when over $150,000 posiWhen asked it came to responded tively on the subabout capitalism, the federal ject of the stock Republicans responded most government, markets. Magellan also favorably (77%). only 13% asked voters More unaffiliatabout whether ed voters had a of survey media positive view of respondents social companies like capitalism (61%) overall had Facebook and than did Democrats (46%). a great deal Twitter had “grown too powCapitalism got a or a lot of thumbs-up from erful and need the majority in more governtrust “in its every age group ability to solve ment regulation Magellan surand oversight.” problems veyed except the A full 70% of youngest voters and address all respondents aged 18 to 23, party, America’s across many of whom gender, educamost probably haven’t tion, and ethnic had the chance to important background try it out yet. agreed with issues today.” that statement. When most Americans of Although many a certain age hear the term people objected to what they socialism, they harken back viewed as censorship, one to Communist Russia and Republican lady in her late a more daunting version of 60s reserved her criticism for Communist China than the the ease with which people one we see today. For many could be rude and disrewho were born later, socialspectful in the social media ism connotes something enspace. She said, “Free speech tirely different---a potentially amendment has been greatly reasonable approach to adabused and people have no dress the vast income inequal- regard for respect for others ity in the United States today and their opinions with hurtful and ugly comments! People that has resulted in terms like food insecurity and child pov- do not want accountability personally and verbal abuse erty becoming a regular part has been taken to a whole new of our vernacular. Thus it is level!” unsurprising that Magellan Fmiklin.villager@gmail. found that although 57% of com survey respondents overall
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Coloradans are once again shown to be highly educated BY FREDA MIKLIN STAFF WRITER
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recently released study by Wallet Hub, a personal-finance website that studies multiple demographics ranked Colorado second to only Massachusetts for having the highest percentage of residents with at least a bachelor’s degree. Colorado was first in the category of highest percentage of associate’s degree holders or college-experienced adults, beating out our neighbor and usual competitor, Utah. The study also asked educational experts from around the country questions about the connection between education and the economy. Patrick Akos, Ph.D., pro-
fessor in the School of Education at the University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill said, “All of the data about jobs and forecasts for the shifting nature of the world of work would indeed suggest that higher education will become an even more valuable asset in the future. However, I do think there is a place for career and technical education that may come from a 2-year degree - fulfilling jobs in industries (e.g., plumbing) that have declining numbers. So, it will take a collection of higher education, technical training, economic business incentives, recruitment strategies, social policy, and more for states to thrive economically. It seems common sense that better education would equate to a more robust workforce - so educational policy plays an
important role as well. “ To the question of what extent states should consider education policy as part of a broader economic development strategy, Elizabeth Gil, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership, Administration and Policy at Fordham University Graduate School of Education said, “Education policy is definitely a part of a broader economic development strategy. Students attending institutions within a state may be more likely to stay in-state if there are opportunities for them beyond their time at school. Employed residents add to state economies through paying taxes and local spending. Research has also shown higher education rates are related to positive health outcomes and lower crime rates, so ed-
Iconic Colorado contest: Winning art and their creators revealed
Most artists can’t say their work is in wallets and purses throughout the state, but photographers Matt Nunez and Gabriel Dupon won’t have that problem when the new Colorado driver license rolls out in Fall 2021. Nunez and Dupon won the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles’ (DMV) Iconic Colorado contest to redesign the State’s identification credentials after 55,760 votes were tallied on Feb. 5. Nunez and Dupon will receive a $500 grant each, courtesy of Colorado Creative Industries, a division of Colorado’s Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT), which partnered with the DMV to help promote the contest.
Front Design
Nunez placed first with his Mount Sneffels entry, which received 26,520 votes or 47.56% of the total. The second place design of the Maroon Bells garnered 21,124 votes or 37.88% of the total. The Black Canyon entry placed third with 8,116 votes for 14.56% of the total votes. Nunez was the lone finalist selected through two rounds of blind voting that saw his three colorful images vie for the Iconic Colorado crown. Nunez is a fifth-generation Coloradan from Colorado Springs, currently liv-
Douglas County. Nunez was raised in a military family, spending his childhood abroad and across the U.S., before returning to Colorado after college. He has taken photos since high school and quickly took up landscape photography as his focus after spending summers in the Centennial State while in college. Nunez works full time as an economic development professional for the city of Glenwood Springs, and is passionate about building more vibrant Colorado communities while showcasing them through photographs in his free time. Matt's This photo is of Mount Sneffels, which is work can be found on Facebook, Instagram in the San Juan Mountain Range and Twitter. west of Ouray and north of Telluride. Mount Sneffels is also on Colorado’s current driver licenses and identification cards, and is definitely Iconic.
ing and working in Glenwood Springs. He is proud to come from a long line of family members in military and government service, including his late grandfather, Joe Nunez, who came to Colorado as a child and served in the State legislature representing
Back Design
In a tight race, Dupon placed first with his Sprague Lake entry, which received 19,989 votes or 35.85% of the total. The second place design of the Shrine Ridge Trail by Fred Lord netted 18,694 votes or 33.53% of the total. Jenn Cunningham’s painting of the Bison on the Plains placed third
ucation policies that promote higher levels of education benefit the state in multiple ways.” Asked, “Are highly educated states better able to withstand economic shocks?” a very relevant question in today’s economy in Colorado, Marcus Lee Johnson, Ph.D., Co-Director, Coordinator, and Associate Professor of Developmental and Learning Sciences at the University of Cincinnati said, “Yes, highly educated states are better able to withstand economic shocks. Highly educated states will have larger percentages of people who are cognitively flexible enough to adapt to economic changes. In the last century, the United States has moved away from the need for a “physical labor” force to a country that
utilizes and expects a “cognitively skilled” workforce. And higher education tends to be the most prominent and visible engine that develops and inspires a more cognitively skilled workforce. While I will express that a highly educated state does not guarantee protection from economic shocks, intellectually diverse populations are more flexible to adapt and better equipped to handle change. A highly educated state can more readily adapt to the next dot-com boom, green technology boom, smart technology boom, or social network boom, as they would have a population with the cognitive capacities to absorb the “shock,” than a state with a less flexible population.” Fmiklin.villager@gmail. com
with 17,077 votes for 30.63% of Contest info the total votes.More than 55,000 More than 400 entries were Coloradans voiced their choice submitted by over 100 talented for the State’s upcoming Driver Coloradans, including finalists License design in the Iconic Matt Nunez, Fred Lord, Jenn CunColorado ningham contest, and Gabriel and now Dupon. it’s time to The Iconic reveal the Colorado winning contest art and the launched Coloradans Aug. 17 who crewith the ated them. goal of Dupon is transforma Coloraing Colorado native do’s driver who loves licenses into to be crethe most ative and beautiful in make the the world unknown and closed into exwith 407 traordinary. submissions One way (280 fronthe does side entries, this is by 127 backtaking picside entries) tures of the from 119 beauty that This photo is of scenic Sprague Lake in entrants. the Rocky Mountain National Park near surrounds Estes Park. Sprague Lake is renowned Three finalhim and ists were for its fishing, making it most definitely being able Iconic. selected by to inspire a committee others with his work. Currentthat included motor vehicle adly, Dupon runs a photography ministrators, artists and Gov. Polis. business focusing on portrait and with a final, public vote on the top event photography. Other than three designs. Coloradans should photography, Dupon enjoys advisit dmv.colorado.gov/iconic-colventuring, alpine skiing, cycling, orado for more information. New rock climbing and being creative identification credentials are exin any way possible. pected to launch in the fall of 2021.
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5A girls swimming: Cherry Creek wins 27th state championship BY PAUL SORIANO CHSAANOW
Cherry Creek, the winningest girls swim program in Colorado history, added another team title to its collection at the 5A swimming and diving state championships at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center Thursday night. The Bruins ended Fairview High School’s two-year reign as state champ as they won the meet by a score of 430-392 over the Knights. Regis Jesuit finished third overall with 298 points. It is Cherry Creek’s 27th state crown in girls swimming and diving, and its first since the 2010 season capped a run of sixstraight championship results. “These last 10 years we’ve had our share of ups and downs, mostly down,” said Cherry Creek head coach Eric Craven, now in his 30th year. “This year we got it done, and it sure is nice to be back on top.” The Bruins finished second to Fairview last season (382.5-342), a result that stuck with Cherry Creek all year. “Last year the girls were kind of hoping and wishing they could win state,” Craven added. “We had the athletes. Finishing second last year gnawed on them a little bit. This year, they just had that look in their eyes that said “We’re going to win it.” For senior Jenna Smith, Thursday’s win was especially sweet. “Last year we came really, really close, and it was pretty heartbreaking for all of us,” she said. “We were really proud of our team last year, but it was hard to get that second place. Just going into this season, even though it was a lot different than past seasons, we were like: “It’s time for the Lady Bruins to take the win!”
“We pulled together all season long and we trained so hard. I have never seen this team work so hard,” Smith added. “I don’t really have words for how happy I am right now. This is absolutely incredible, especially being my senior year. We’ve set a standard for years to come, and so I think there will be a lot more state championships in our future.” For junior Elizabeth Brock, winning the state championship is “kind of a surreal moment. A lot of us were expecting this to happen, but we didn’t realize the enormity of it until it happened.” “This win means more than anything, especially this year,” she added. “I’m going to look back on this when I am an adult and be so happy that we did it, and that I spent time with people that are hilarious and work hard and make me feel good.” While Cherry Creek dominated the team competition, a trio of swimmers — Lucy Bell of Fossil Ridge, Kathryn Shanley of Chatfield and Emma Weber of Regis Jesuit— each won two individual events during the meet. Bell, a junior, flew to an easy win in the 100 butterfly with a time of 52.50. It marked the first time since 2015 that someone without the last name Gillilan captured the state championship. Coleen Gillilan of Fossil Ridge won the title from 2016-
18. Her sister, Renee, earned state crowns for the SaberCats in 2019 and 2020. Fairview took the secondand third-place spots in the race thanks to Edith Simecek (53.87) and Jenna Reznicek (54.51). Bell rung up another state championship in the very next race as she defended her crown in the 100 freestyle with a time of 50.23. Lyndsey Wehr of Arapahoe finished in second place (51.03), followed closely by Ana Rojas of Doherty (51.11). Shanley, a senior, repeated as state champion in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:48.65. Karolina Bank, a junior from Fairview, finished second (1:49.93), followed by Brock of Cherry Creek (1:50.77). In the 500 freestyle, Shanley hit the repeat button once again. The 2020 champion lit the scoreboard with a time of 4:51.18. Brock finished second in 4:56.04, while Sabrina Rachjaibun, a sophomore from Legacy, took third place with a time of 5:02.94. Weber, a junior, earned a victory in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:01.71. Fossil Ridge’s Mahala Erlandson finished second (2:02.51) and Rachjaibun claimed the third spot (2:04.16) just ahead of Julianne Jones of Fairview (2:04.59).
Rotary Club of Centennial 5th phase of water filters sent to Puerto Rico families in need On Sunday, February 20th, the Rotary Club of Centennial’s members completed the first part of the fifth phase in their on-going water filter project to Moca and Aguada, Puerto Rico residents called WaterRico. This fifth WaterRico phase of 120 filters, in addition to targeting those below the poverty line, will help supply clean water to those most affected by the Covid-19 virus. Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria, compromising most of the island’s water supply, making it unhealthy for human consumption. Out of this tragedy of 2017, the Rotary Club of Centennial’s WaterRico project was born. The vision of the project
was to provide more than 1,000 in-home water filters, eliminating the need for islander’s on limited funds to purchase bottled water. The completion of this phase will bring the total to1,540 filters. The filter consists of two 5-gallon buckets, one on top of the other with a hollow nano tube filter in the middle. The project is overseen by Centennial Rotary Project Co-Directors, Marc Garfinkel and John Peterson. They are working in coordination with the Rotary Clubs of Moca and Aguada, Puerto Rico. The current Rotary WaterRicoProject phase is a two-part endeavor. The first part takes place in Centennial, Colo-
rado where members of the Centennial Rotary Club prepare buckets for assembly. The buckets are then shipped to Moca, Puerto Rico where the Moca and Aguada Rotary Clubs assemble the filters and distribute them to those in need. Additional funding support for Phase 5 came from the Denver S.E. Rotary Club and Rotary District 5450. The WaterRico project has been shown to have another positive impact other than providing clean water to island residents. It has also reduced plastic waste due to the filter-recipients no longer needing to purchase plastic bottled water. For more information and pictures go to: WaterRico.com.
Weber then blew away the field in the 100 breaststroke to win her second state title in the event. Her time of 59.93 set a new state record, eclipsing the mark of 1:00.22 set by Zoe Bartel of Fossil Ridge in 2017. Weber was a freshman at Fairview in 2019 when she captured the title for the first time with a time of 1:02.04. Dahlia Allen, a junior from Lewis-Palmer High School, began the day by winning the state championship in 1-meter diving with a score of 503.10. Isabel Gregersen of Ralston Valley, last year’s champion, finished second (485.45), while Catherine Rodocker of Eaglecrest finished third (469.20). Fossil Ridge captured the first swim event of the day, the
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Arapahoe County Open Spaces virtual town hall to discuss County’s Master Plan
Arapahoe County invites the public to attend a virtual town hall on Thursday, March 25 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the future of the Arapahoe County Open Spaces program. The County has drafted an updated Master Plan, which includes a vision for the future of the County’s open spaces, parks, trails, and heritage areas and offers recommendations to continue providing quality spaces for residents to enjoy. The virtual town hall will highlight community input received to date and share the proposed plan priorities, objectives and recommendations for the next decade and beyond. The updated plan will be
completed by summer 2021 and serve as a blueprint for the program’s future through 2031. This work is especially timely given the County’s rapid population growth and development; careful planning is essential to prepare for the challenges and opportunities
that lie ahead. The work also dovetails with the County’s mission to enhance high quality of life for all residents. Draft plan recommendations include: • Providing equitable access to nature • Maintaining ecosystem health and resilience • Supporting a sustainable system through proactive programming, operations, and maintenance • Aligning plans and policies to maximize the impact of Open Spaces • Ensuring the future of the Open Spaces system Interested residents can call into the town hall on
March 25 at 6:30 p.m. by dialing 1-855-436-3656, or by visiting www.arapahoegov. com/townhall. The draft plan will be posted online at www.arapahoe gov.com/osmasterplan on March 23, for a 21-day public
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This book was written by David Grann and published in 2017. It is a true-life murder mystery and soon to be motion picture to be released later this year, directed by Martin Scorsese. If you like to read books before they become movies, this is your chance. In the 1920’s, the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma became rich due to oil being discovered beneath their land. Then the members of this nation began to be killed off one by one. I learned so much about the Osage murders and the beginning of the FBI. I knew nothing of that history before I read the book. The ruthlessness of those consumed with greed to get their hands on the Indian’s head rights and money is incomprehensible to me. Most murderers were never convicted and probably every Osage family lost
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This science fiction book was published in 2019 by Blake Crouch, an author with ties to Colorado. The plot focuses on a NYC cop, Barry Sutton, who begins to investigate a phenomenon called False Memory Syndrome where people are driven mad by memories of a life they never lived. The story becomes intertwined with neuroscientist Helena Smith, who created technology to preserve memories. This book was a thriller of the mind. Time warps and constant suspense and reality shifts were abundant. Although I clearly knew the events weren’t possible in real life, I felt prompted to ponder whether going back in time to re-do something was worth it. But alas, that is not what life is all about. We can’t avoid pain because it is part of the human condition. I liked this quote by the author towards the end of the book, “Life with a cheat code isn’t life. Our existence isn’t something to be
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or the past few days my daughter has been relaxing, enjoying herself, and not thinking about school. Hopefully many kids in the area on spring break have been able to do the same. From holidays and spring break to winter vacation and summertime, kids and teachers need breaks to comfortably step back and decompress from the pressures of school. As a teacher I’ve always believed break means break, and it’s been my practice to complete units and assessments before we leave, sending kids off with no homework during the break. I’ve never understood teachers who assign a bucket-load of work over long breaks that is turned in on the first day back. Who’d want something like that? The last thing I’m looking for after Thanksgiving weekend or Spring Break is for a hundred research papers to start grading. Ick. When we return to school, I want everyone rested and ready to start fresh. Fortunately, several years ago the district where I work and my daughter attends school established the practice that teachers not assign homework over extended breaks. Other schools and districts are
coming in line with this belief, though the practices of math packets and summer reading persist during the break between school years. The jury is still out and divided over those traditions. The special value of a break also applies to the most beloved yet unplanned time off, the snow day. Everyone knows
the special joy of waking up to learn they can just roll over and go back to sleep courtesy of Mother Nature. Snow days are for hot chocolate and shoveling, for warm pastries and sledding. Yet in the era of remote learning, some schools are cancelling the cancelling. Kyle Clark of 9News has been quite vocal on his belief that the unique gift of a snow day should remain sacred. He urges everyone to “Make Snow Days Snow Days Again.” Denver recently reversed its decision to hold remote learning on snow
days, and the Cherry Creek District changed its mind twice about eliminating snow days for the students at Elevation, the district’s all-online school. Taking a break particularly applies to the summer, and it’s on my mind as some education advocates recommend increased summer school to mitigate lost class time of the past year. While the option should certainly be available, especially for students at greater risk for learning loss, it should by no means be mandatory. Regardless of the pandemic, I’m concerned by the trend of students taking summer classes to “get ahead.” It happens mostly at private tutoring businesses but is becoming common in school districts and online programs as well. It’s unfortunate, unnecessary, and rather irresponsible to reduce thirty-six weeks of learning to six weeks of intensive work. I look with suspicion upon a society putting such unnecessary pressure on young people. They need a break; they need a summer. Summer vacation is for sleeping late and days at the pool, overnight camps and part-time jobs, lazy afternoons and carefree evenings. It’s
It’s time to stop infringing upon vacation and understand break means break. As education evolves, certain traditions remain. Taking a break should be one of them.
time for youth sports and arts programs and extended family trips. Many educators and researchers attest to the value of summer for a different kind of learning that’s every bit as valuable as the academic experience of solving math problems, conducting science labs, and writing five-paragraph essays. Summer programs teach teamwork and collaboration; they provide creative opportunities for self-directed learning and discovery. Summers are filled with learning and should not be spent in school. And despite the persistent myth, summer vacation was not established so kids could work in the fields. Anyone who knows farming and history also knows extra work on a farm is needed in the spring for planting and the fall for harvesting. That’s when rural schools had breaks. Historically, summer vacation was a city invention created by middle and upper class families who fled hot crowded cities of New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago and retreated to the Catskills or the Dells. With the kids gone, schools closed. It’s time to stop infringing upon vacation and understand break means break. As education evolves, certain traditions remain. Taking a break should be one of them.
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TREASURER NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to JOSEPH E TURECEK, JOSEPH K. TURECEK TRUST, KATHERINE J. PHELPS, TRUSTEE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 3rd day of November, 2016, A.D., the then County Treasurer of the County of Arapahoe, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13 LLC, the following described real estate situate in the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, to-wit: LOT 3 BLK 2 JOSEPH K TURECEK TRUST FLG NO 1 aka UNKNOWN and said County Treasurer issued a Certificate of Purchase therefore to FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13 LLC; Whereas, the said FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13 LLC did, on the 30th day of December 2020 duly assigned the certificate of the sale of the tax lien on the property as aforesaid, and all its rights, title, and interest in said property, to BLUE SPRUCE SERVICING COMPANY LLC. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent general taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2015;
That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of JOSEPH E TURECEK for said year 2015; That said BLUE SPRUCE SERVICING COMPANY LLC, on the 30th day of December, 2020, the present holder of said Certificate, who has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said BLUE SPRUCE SERVICING COMPANY LLC, on or about the 7th day of July, 2021, A.D., unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 5th day of March, 2021, A.D. Sue Sandstrom Treasurer Arapahoe County Published in The Villager First Publication: March 11, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Legal # 10153 ___________________________ NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to MICHAEL E. BEAUDET, WILEY C. PRICE, THOMAS J. WITTMAN FAMILY ESTATE LLC, STAMP HOUSE HOLDINGS, LLC You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 5th day of November, 2015, A.D., the then County Treasurer of the County of Arapahoe, in the State of Colorado,
sold at public tax lien sale to CONNIE HANSEN, the following described real estate situate in the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, to-wit: LOT 1 BLK 18 TOWN OF SHERIDAN aka 3400 S CANOSA CT and said County Treasurer issued a Certificate of Purchase therefore to CONNIE HANSEN; That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent general taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2014; That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of MICHAEL E. BEAUDET AND WILEY C. PRICE for said year 2014; That said CONNIE HANSEN, on the 4th day of February, 2021, the present holder of said Certificate, who has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said CONNIE HANSEN, on or about the 7th day of July, 2021, A.D., unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 5th day of March, 2021, A.D. Sue Sandstrom Treasurer Arapahoe County Published in The Villager First Publication: March 11, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Legal # 10154 ___________________________ NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot
or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to JUSTIN PENG, HUA NIEN PENG, WILLIAN PENG, OIWAH PANG FUNG, OI W FUNG, OI WAH PANG FUNG, FUNG OIWAH PANG, DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY, INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, STATE OF COLORADO, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, JIM BLACK CONSTRUCTION INC, SUNBURST HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION INC. You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 3rd day of November, 2016, A.D., the then County Treasurer of the County of Arapahoe, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13 LLC, the following described real estate situate in the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, to-wit: LOT 81 BLK 2 SUNBURST aka 16316 E RICE PL A and said County Treasurer issued a Certificate of Purchase therefore to FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13 LLC; Whereas, the said FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13 LLC did, on the 30th day of December 2020 duly assigned the certificate of the sale of the tax lien on the property as aforesaid, and all its rights, title, and interest in said property, to BLUE SPRUCE SERVICING COMPANY LLC. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent general taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2015; That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of HUA NIEN PENG for said year 2015; That said BLUE SPRUCE SERVICING COMPANY LLC, on the 30th day of December, 2020, the present holder of said
Certificate, who has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said BLUE SPRUCE SERVICING COMPANY LLC, on or about the 7th day of July, 2021, A.D., unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 5th day of March, 2021, A.D. Sue Sandstrom Treasurer Arapahoe County Published in The Villager First Publication: March 11, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Legal # 10155 ___________________________ NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to LAUREN A SHERWOOD, CENTENNIAL CROSSING CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 3rd day of November, 2016, A.D., the then County Treasurer of the County of Arapahoe, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13 LLC, the following described real estate situate in the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, to-wit:
CENTENNIAL CROSSING CONDOS FORMERLY SPENCER’S LANDING CONDOMINIUMS aka 4691 S DECATUR ST 215 and said County Treasurer issued a Certificate of Purchase therefore to FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13 LLC; Whereas, the said FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13 LLC did, on the 30th day of December 2020 duly assigned the certificate of the sale of the tax lien on the property as aforesaid, and all its rights, title, and interest in said property, to BLUE SPRUCE SERVICING COMPANY LLC. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent general taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2015; That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of LAUREN A SHERWOOD for said year 2015; That said BLUE SPRUCE SERVICING COMPANY LLC, on the 30th day of December, 2020, the present holder of said Certificate, who has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said BLUE SPRUCE SERVICING COMPANY LLC, on or about the 7th day of July, 2021, A.D., unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 5th day of March, 2021, A.D. Sue Sandstrom Treasurer Arapahoe County Published in The Villager First Publication: March 11, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Legal # 10162 ___________________________
UNIT 215 BLDG 300 AS PER CONDO DECLARATION RECORDED IN B4596 P505
ARAPAHOE COUNTY CLERK & RECORDER ARAPAHOE COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PROPOSED BUDGET AMENDMENTS AND RESERVE AMOUNTS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on, Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 9:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the calendar of the Board of County Commissioners permits, in the East Hearing Room of the County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County will meet to consider the following proposed budget amendments (NOTE: Due to the ongoing COVID19 emergency the hearing may be conducted through remote access – please check the March 23, 2021 public meeting agenda at https:// www.arapahoegov.com/AgendaCenter/Board-of-County-Commissioners-1 for specific information on how to attend and participate. The agenda will typically be posted by the Friday afternoon preceding the hearing): RESOLUTION A: WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners adopted the 2021 Annual Budget pursuant to State Statute; and WHEREAS, the Board may authorize a department or elected office to use an unspent portion of the prior year’s appropriation during the subsequent year for the originally intended purpose, and the most common circumstances include funds that were encumbered but not yet spent, the remaining funds for ongoing projects, and the year-end fund balances of certain funds; and WHEREAS, the requests to use unspent funds from the prior fiscal year during the current fiscal year have been reviewed by the Finance Department; and WHEREAS, since appropriation authority expires at the end of each fiscal year, the Board-approved funds must be appropriated again for the subsequent fiscal year so they may be expended; and
e. f. g. h. i.
Finance................................................................................... 77,100 Human Resources………………………………………............ 33,905 Information Technology............................................................. 7,060 Public Works and Development............................................ 720,992 Sheriff’s Office................................................................... 1,205,360
necessary expenditures, including accrued vacation and sick leave; and
2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
Social Services................................................................... $213,005 Electronic Filing Technology Fund......................................... 606,233 Cash in Lieu Fund.............................................................. 1,424,536 Conservation Trust Fund.................................................... 1,594,649 Communication Network Replacement Fund........................ 162,870 Sheriff’s Commissary Fund................................................ 1,146,234 Forfeited Property Fund........................................................ 100,928 Open Space Sales and Use Tax Fund............................ 42,726,843 Building Maintenance Fund................................................... 267,607 Arapahoe County Fair Fund.................................................... 50,591 Capital Expenditure Fund.................................................. 5,681,512 Infrastructure Fund.......................................................... 24,969,918 Central Services Fund....................................................... 4,894,209 Self-Insurance Liability Fund…………………...…..……...200,000 Self-Insurance Dental Fund………………………………….18,144
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County to designate the following fund balance reserve amounts for 2021:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County to amend the adopted 2021 Annual Budget as follows: 17. The Public Works & Development Department is requesting to recognize $19,104,563 and appropriate $17,859,857 in the Infrastructure Fund for project reimbursements from various sources during 2021 to include funding for the Iliff Avenue Corridor and Quincy/Gun Club interchange projects; and 18. The Human Services Department is requesting to recognize $833,827 and appropriate $1,042,284 in the Social Services Fund and increase the headcount by 22.00 FTE for the Child and Adult Protection Division for additional caseworkers.
WHEREAS, it is the request of the Finance Department, in conjunction with the individual operating departments and elected offices, to reappropriate the funds in accordance with the Arapahoe County Financial Policy 3.4, which also specifies that this reappropriation process be completed each year; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Budget Officer shall file a certified copy of this Resolution with the Division of Local Government and with the affected spending agencies.
WHEREAS, this matter has been published pursuant to Section 29-1109, C.R.S., as required by law.
WHEREAS, Arapahoe County Financial Policy 2.1, approved on October 25, 2016, specifies that the Board of County Commissioners will annually designate from the specific fund’s unappropriated fund balance a working capital reserve equal to one-sixth of the current year’s initial adopted operating budget for the Road and Bridge Fund and the Arapahoe Law Enforcement Authority Fund, and an amount equal to one-sixth of the County’s contribution to the Social Services Fund; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County to amend the adopted 2021 Annual Budget and to transfer a total of $86,554,523 from the unappropriated balance of the following funds: 1.
General Fund - $2,497,244 as follows:
a. b. c. d.
Administrative Services....................................................... $291,195 Clerk & Recorder’s Office.......... ………………………………...71,127 Communications & Administrative Services............................ 54,000 Facilities and Fleet Management........................................... 36,505
RESOLUTION B:
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners has determined that the General Fund working capital reserve shall be eleven percent (11.0 percent) of the operating expenses within the current year’s initial adopted budget; and WHEREAS, these fund balance reserves will be adequate to fund
WHEREAS, these reserves will be adequate to comply with, and shall include, the fund balance reserve amounts required by Article X, Section 20, of the State Constitution.
1. General Fund Working Capital Reserve..........................................................$22,428,687 2. Road and Bridge Fund Working Capital Reserve............................................................$2,692,446 3. Social Services Fund Working Capital Reserve............................................................$2,302,481 4. Arapahoe Law Enforcement Authority Fund Working Capital Reserve............................................................$1,539,092 Published in The Villager Published: March 18, 2021 Legal # 10176 ___________________________
HOUSING ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO PUBLIC NOTICE & OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Arapahoe County, Housing and Community Development Services staff will complete a business meeting (formerly a public hearing) with the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC), regarding the County’s plan to utilize CDBG-CV and HOME funds to address community needs related to COVID-19. The BOCC business meeting will be held electronically on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 9:30 pm, or shortly thereafter. Interested parties can participate in the meeting remotely and provide public comment by calling 1-855-436-3656
and pressing *3 to be entered in the queue for general or item specific comment. The meeting will also be streamed live on https:// arapahoe.legistar.com/Calendar. aspx If you need special accommodations or translation services to participate in public meetings or submit comments, or if you would like to request related documents in a language other than English, please contact Jeremy Fink (jfink@arapahoegov.com, or 303 738-8062 or TDD 303 738-8033) at least 48 hours prior to the start of the meeting to ensure we can accommodate your request. Published in The Villager Published: March 18, 2021 Legal # 10175 ___________________________
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COURTS DISTRICT COURT ARAPAHOE COUNTY COLORADO Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac Street, #100 Centennial, CO 80112 Plaintiff: SUNBURST HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado non-profit corporation; Defendants: MATTHEW POSET; GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC.; ARAPAHOE COUNTY TREASURER; UNKNOWN TENANT(S) IN POSSESSION. Attorneys for Plaintiff: THE DUPONT LAW FIRM, LLC Stephane R. Dupont, #39425 Address: PO Box 1073 Castle Rock, CO 80104 Phone Number: (720) 644-6115 Case Number: 2021CV30183 Div.:Ctrm.: SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: Matthew Poset You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the Complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an Answer or other response. You are required to file your Answer within 35 days after the service of this Summons upon you. Service of the Summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the Complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court. If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the Complaint without further notice. This is an action for judicial foreclosure of an association assessment lien pursuant to C.R.S. 38-33.3316, in and to real property situated in Arapahoe County, Colorado, more particularly described on Exhibit A, attached hereto and by this reference made a part hereof. Dated: February 9, 2021 THE DUPONT LAW FIRM, LLC By: *s/ Stephane R. Dupont Stephane R. Dupont Published in The Villager First Publication: Last Publication: This Summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(h), Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure Exhibit A Lot 6, Block 1, Sunburst Subdivision, Filing No. 2, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. Also known as: 16150 East Radcliff Place, Aurora, CO 80015 Published in The Villager First Publication: February 18, 2021 Last Publication: March 18, 2021 Legal # 10141 ___________________________ DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO 7325 South Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112 (303) 649-6355 Telephone PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, Petitioner, IN THE INTEREST OF: KHARMA HONORE, and NIARA CONNORS, Children, concerning CHRISTINA CORDOVA, CHRISTOPHER HONORE, and DEANTWAN CONNORS, Respondents. Jordan Lewis, Esq., Reg. #50198 Assistant County Attorney Attorney for Petitioner 14980 East Alameda Drive Aurora, CO 80012 Tel: 303-636-1883 Fax: (303) 636-1889 Case No: 20JV598 Division: 14 NOTICE OF ADJUDICATORY HEARING AND DEFAULT JUDGMENT PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that an Adjudicatory Hearing regarding RESPONDENT FATHER, CHRISTOPHER HONORE is set for April 9, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. in Division 14 at the Arapahoe County District Court, 7325 South Potomac Street, Centennial, Colorado 80112. You have the right to be represented by an attorney during these proceedings; if you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you. In the event you fail to appear for said hearing at the date and time indicated, the Petitioner, the People of the State of Colorado, will request that the Court enter a default judgment against you and adjudicate the
child(ren) dependent and neglected in accordance with the Colorado Children’s Code. Due to COVID 19, the Arapahoe County District Court is holding hearings via Cisco WebEx Meetings to allow for audiovisual and/or audio participation. Participants may use any computer, tablet or smart phone equipped with a camera and microphone for audiovisual participation. Parties should use the following link: •https://judicial.webex.com/meet/ bonnie.mclean •Enter your name and email address (so we know who you are). You will then be in the virtual courtroom. •Select your audio setting. If the audio on your computer or tablet does not work, please use the alternate audio option of calling in to the number below. If you do not have a device that will support a video connection, you may still participate by audio only by calling 720-650-7664. When prompted enter code 925 850 797. If you elect to appear in person, you must be at the Courthouse a half hour before the hearing is scheduled to begin. Dated this 10th day of March 2021. Jordan Lewis, Reg. #50198 Assistant County Attorney Attorney for Petitioner 14980 E. Alameda Drive Aurora, CO 80012 303-636-1883 303-636-1889 FAX Published in The Villager Published: March 18, 2021 Legal # 10177 ___________________________ DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112 PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, Petitioner, IN THE INTEREST OF: ELI BLACKHAWK and PEYTON BLACKHAWK, Children, and concerning TAMMY TRUJILLO, VINCENT BLACKHAWK, JR. and JOHN DOE, Respondents, and concerning, MATTHEW LITTLE, Special Respondent. Linda Arnold, Reg. No. 16764 Office of the Arapahoe County Attorney Attorney for the People Arapahoe County Department of Human Services 14980 East Alameda Drive Aurora, CO 80012 Tel: 303-636-1882 Fax: 303-636-1889 NOTICE OF ADJUDICATORY COURT TRIAL AND DEFAULT JUDGMENT AS TO RESPONDENT JOHN DOE Case No: 20JV222 Division: 23 To The Respondents: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that an Adjudicatory Court Trial regarding JOHN DOE is set for April 9, 2021 at the hour of 10:45 a.m. in Division 23, at the Arapahoe County District Court, 7305 South Potomac Street, Centennial, Colorado 80112. Due to COVID 19, the Arapahoe County District Court is holding hearings via Cisco WebEx Meetings to allow for audiovisual and/or audio participation. Participants may use any computer, tablet or smart phone equipped with a camera and microphone for audiovisual participation. Parties should use the following link: •https://judicial.webex.com/meet/ beth.dumler •Enter your name and email address (so we know who you are). You will then be in the virtual courtroom. •Select your audio setting. If the audio on your computer or tablet does not work, please use the alternate audio option of calling in to the number below. If you do not have a device that will support a video connection, you may still participate by audio only by calling 720-650-7664. When prompted enter code 926 041 808 #. You have the right to be represented by an attorney during these proceedings; if you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you. In the event you fail to appear for said hearing at the date and time indicated, the Petitioner will request that the Court enter a default judgment against you and adjudicate the child(ren), dependent and neglected in accordance with the Colorado Children’s Code. /s/ Linda Arnold Linda Arnold, Reg. No. 16764 Senior Assistant County Attorney
Published in The Villager Published: March 18, 2021 Legal # 10178 ___________________________ DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112 PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, Petitioner, IN THE INTEREST OF: FAITHFUL CALDWELL Child, and concerning TIFFANI WILLIAMS AND JOHN DOE, Respondents, and concerning MARVINCENT WILLIAMS, Special Respondent. Linda Arnold, Reg. No. 16764 Office of the Arapahoe County Attorney Attorney for the People 14980 East Alameda Drive Aurora, CO 80012 larnold@arapahoegov.com Tel: 303-636-1882 Fax: 303-636-1889 NOTICE OF ADJUDICATORY COURT TRIAL Case No: 21JV108 Division: 23 TO THE RESPONDENTS: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that an Adjudicatory Court Trial regarding JOHN DOE is set for April 9, 2021 at the hour of 11:15 a.m. in Division 23, at the Arapahoe County District Court, 7305 South Potomac Street, Centennial, Colorado 80112. Due to COVID 19, the Arapahoe County District Court is holding hearings via Cisco WebEx Meetings to allow for audiovisual and/or audio participation. Participants may use any computer, tablet or smart phone equipped with a camera and microphone for audiovisual participation. Parties should use the following link: •https://judicial.webex.com/meet/ beth.dumler •Enter your name and email address (so we know who you are). You will then be in the virtual courtroom. •Select your audio setting. If the audio on your computer or tablet does not work, please use the alternate audio option of calling in to the number below. If you do not have a device that will support a video connection, you may still participate by audio only by calling 720-650-7664. When prompted enter code 926 041 808 #. You have the right to be represented by an attorney during these proceedings; if you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you. In the event you fail to appear for said hearing at the date and time indicated, the Petitioner will request that the Court enter a default judgment against you and adjudicate the child(ren), dependent and neglected in accordance with the Colorado Children’s Code. /s/ Linda Arnold Linda Arnold, Reg. No. 16764 Senior Assistant County Attorney Published in The Villager Published: March 18, 2021 Legal # 10179 ___________________________ DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112 PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO In the Interest of: SAINT DUNSON, LUCAS DUNSON JEWETT, AND SELEAN DUNSON JEWETT, Child, and concerning BRENDA DUNSON, DARIAN JEWETT, AND CHRISTIAN DIORLOVETT AKA CHRISTIAN DIORLOVETT FIERCE AKA CHRISTIAN DIOR-LOVETT FEARS, Respondents. Kristi Erickson, Reg. #50739 Assistant County Attorney 14980 E. Alameda Drive Aurora, CO 80012 303-752-8989 (F) 303-636-1889 NOTICE OF ADJUDICATORY HEARING AND DEFAULT JUDGMENT SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 29, 2021 AT 11:30 AM IN DIV. 22
hoe County District Court, 7305 South Potomac Street, Centennial, Colorado 80112. You have the right to be represented by an attorney during these proceedings; if you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you. In the event you fail to appear for said hearing at the date and time indicated, the Petitioner will request that the Court enter a default judgment against you and adjudicate the child(ren), dependent and neglected in accordance with the Colorado Children’s Code. Due to COVID 19, the Arapahoe County District Court is holding hearings by WebEx. Should you choose to appear by phone or video, please use the following WebEx Case Management Order instructions: AUDIOVISUAL HEARING EXPECTATIONS AND GENERAL GUIDANCE The court will use Cisco WebEx Meetings to allow for audiovisual and/or audio participation. Participants may use any computer, tablet or smart phone equipped with a camera and microphone for audiovisual participation. Parties should use the following link: • https://judicial.webex.com/meet/ natalie.chase • Enter your name and email address (so we know who you are). You will then be in the virtual courtroom. • Select your audio setting. If the audio on your computer or tablet does not work, please use the alternate audio option of calling in to the number below. If you do not have a device that will support a video connection, you may still participate by audio only by calling 720-650-7664 OR 1-415655-0001. When prompted enter code 926 560 922. YOU ARE FURTHER COMMANDED to appear before the Court at said time and place, either in person or by phone. If you elect to appear in person, you must be at the Courthouse a half hour before the hearing is scheduled to begin. Date: March 11, 2021 Kristi Erickson, Reg. #50739 Assistant County Attorney Published in The Villager Published: March 18, 2021 Legal # 10180 ___________________________ DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE STATE OF COLORADO 7325 So. Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112 (303) 649-6355 Telephone PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO In the Interest of: SAINT DUNSON, LUCAS DUNSON JEWETT, AND SELEAN DUNSON JEWETT, Child, and concerning BRENDA DUNSON, DARIAN JEWETT, AND CHRISTIAN DIORLOVETT AKA CHRISTIAN DIORLOVETT FIERCE AKA CHRISTIAN DIOR-LOVETT FEARS, Respondents. Kristi Erickson, Reg. #50739 Assistant County Attorney Attorney for Petitioner 14980 East Alameda Drive Aurora, CO 80012 Tel: (303) 752-8989 Fax: (303) 636-1889 Case No. 20JV349 Division 22 NOTICE OF PATERNITY HEARING SET FOR MARCH 29, 2021 AT 11:30 AM IN DIV. 22 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the above captioned matter has been set for a PATERNITY HEARING CONCERNING CHRISTIAN DIORLOVETT AKA CHRISTIAN DIORLOVETT FIERCE AKA CHRISTIAN DIOR-LOVETT FEARS AS TO MINOR CHILD, SAINT DUNSON on March 29, 2021, at the hour of 11:30 a.m., in Division 22, at the Arapahoe County Justice Center, 7325 South Potomac Street, Centennial, Colorado 80112. The Court requests that you to be at the Courthouse a half hour before the hearing is scheduled to begin, in order for you to discuss the case with an attorney and/or caseworker, if you wish to do so. Due to COVID 19, the Arapahoe County District Court is holding hearings by WebEx. Should you choose to appear by phone or video, please use the following WebEx Case Management Order instructions:
To The Respondents:
AUDIOVISUAL HEARING EXPECTATIONS AND GENERAL GUIDANCE The court will use Cisco WebEx Meetings to allow for audiovisual and/or audio participation. Participants may use any computer, tablet or smart phone equipped with a camera and microphone for audiovisual participation. Parties should use the following link:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that an Adjudicatory Hearing regarding CHRISTIAN DIOR-LOVETT AKA CHRISTIAN DIOR-LOVETT FIERCE AKA CHRISTION DIORLOVETT FEARS is set for March 29, 2021, at the hour of 11:30 a.m., in Division 22, at the Arapa-
• https://judicial.webex.com/meet/ natalie.chase • Enter your name and email address (so we know who you are). You will then be in the virtual courtroom. • Select your audio setting. If the audio on your computer or tablet
Case No: 20JV349 Division: 22
does not work, please use the alternate audio option of calling in to the number below. If you do not have a device that will support a video connection, you may still participate by audio only by calling 720-650-7664 OR 1-415655-0001. When prompted enter code 926 560 922. YOU ARE FURTHER COMMANDED to appear before the Court at said time and place, either in person or by phone. If you elect to appear in person, you must be at the Courthouse a half hour before the hearing is scheduled to begin. Date : 03/11/2021 Kristi Erickson, Reg. #50739 Assistant County Attorney Published in The Villager Published: March 18, 2021 Legal # 10181 ___________________________ DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE STATE OF COLORADO 7325 South Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112 (303) 649-6355 Telephone PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, Petitioner, In the Interest of: NIKA SEVASTYUK Children, And concerning: Respondents. ANASTAZYA SEVASTYUK AND ULYAN SEVASTYUK Heather L. Tomka, Esq. #50963 Assistant County Attorney Attorney for the People 14980 East Alameda Drive Aurora, CO 80012 Tel: 303.636.1895 NOTICE OF ADJUDICATORY HEARING AND DEFAULT JUDGMENT Case No: 20JV612 Division: 22 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that an Adjudicatory Hearing and Default Judgement regarding Respondent Father, Ulyan Sevastyuk, and Respondent Mother, Anastazya Sevastyuk, is set for March 22, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. in Division 22 at the Arapahoe County District Court, 7325 South Potomac Street, Centennial, Colorado 80112. You have the right to be represented by an attorney during these proceedings; if you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you. In the event you fail to appear for said hearing at the date and time indicated, the Petitioner, the People of the State of Colorado, will request that the Court enter a default judgment against you and adjudicate the child dependent and neglected in accordance with the Colorado Children’s Code. Date: February 23, 2021 Heather L. Tomka, Esq. #50963 Assistant County Attorney Attorney for the People 14980 East Alameda Drive Aurora, CO 80012 Tel: 303.636.1895 Published in The Villager Published: March 18, 2021 Legal # 10182 ___________________________
CHERRY HILLS VILLAGE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given of a public hearing before the City Council of Cherry Hills Village, Colorado (“City”), at 6:30 p.m. on April 6, 2021, via videoconference in accordance with the City Council Policy for Electronic Participation, for the purpose of considering adoption of Council Bill 3, Series 2021 repealing and re-enacting Article I of Chapter 8 of the Cherry Hills Village Municipal Code entitled Model Traffic Code concerning Vehicles and Traffic, adopting by reference the 2020 edition of the Model Traffic Code for Colorado, with certain amendments, and adopting penalties for violations thereof (the “ordinance”). A copy of the 2020 edition of the Model Traffic Code is on file at the office of the City Clerk and may be inspected during regular business hours. If the ordinance is enacted, the Model Traffic Code will not be published in full, but three (3) copies will be kept on file. The 2020 edition of the Model Traffic Code is published by the Colorado Department of Transportation, Traffic Engineering and Safety Branch, 2829 West Howard Place, Denver, CO 80204. The subject matter of the Model Traffic Code relates primarily to Comprehensive Traffic Control Regulations for the City. The purpose of the Ordinance is to provide a system of Traffic Regulations Consistent with State Law and generally conforming to similar regulations throughout the State and the Nation. Published in The Villager Published: March 18, 2021 Legal # 10183 ___________________________
FOXFIELD Town of Foxfield Ordinance 2021-01 The Town of Foxfield at the Regular Board Meeting on March 4 , 2021 passed the following ordinance: Ordinance 2021-01, A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 16-6-10 OF THE FOXFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE TO CLARIFY THE DEFINITION OF ACCESSORY STRUCTURE To request a copy of the above ordinance in its entirety, please contact: Randi Gallivan, Town Clerk PO Box 461450 Foxfield, CO 80046 clerk@townoffoxfield.com (303) 680-1544 Published in The Villager Published: March 18, 2021 Legal # 10184 ___________________________
GREENWOOD VILLAGE BID INFORMATION ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that the City of Greenwood Village, Colorado (the “City”) will receive bids by electronic submission through BidNet® on the Rocky Mountain Bid System on the Greenwood Village website at www.greenwoodvillage. com/bids. Bids must be submitted by 4:00 p.m., March 25th 2021 for: 2021 Noise Wall Structural Repairs Project The plans and specifications for the 2021 Noise Wall Structural Repairs Project are available electronically via the Rocky Mountain EPurchasing System on the City of Greenwood Village website, www. greenwoodvillage.com/bids. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids, and to make final determination in the event of duplications. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for opening thereof. Preference is hereby given to materials, supplies, and provisions produced, manufactured, or grown in Colorado, quality being equal to articles offered by competitors outside of the State. Colorado labor shall be employed to perform the work for which bids are requested herein to the extent of not less than eighty percent (80%) of each type or class of labor in the several classifications of skilled and common labor employed on such work, pursuant to C.R.S. § 8-17-101. The City requires a certified or cashier’s check, or a corporate surety bond in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total bid amount before the City can accept or consider any bid for any bids greater than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00). The bid and the deposit shall be filed with the Public Works Department, securely sealed and endorsed on the outside with a brief statement as to the nature of the item or work for which the bid is provided. Upon a bid award, such bond shall be returned to the unsuccessful bidder(s). In the case of the successful bidder, the bid bond will be returned upon receipt of the required payment and performance bonds, each in the full amount of the contract price. Such bonds will be retained by the City until the two year (2) warranty period has expired. An electronic bid opening will occur at 4:01 p.m., March 25th, 2021. Any questions regarding the project should be directed to Bill Behre at (720) 749-8155 or bbehre@ greenwoodvillage.com. /s/ Jeremy Hanak Director of Public Works Published in The Villager First Publication: March 11, 2021 Last Publication: March 18, 2021 Legal # 10169 ___________________________ For Sale The City of Greenwood Village Parks, Trails and Recreation Division One (1) gaming case for computer Six (6) GB computer part Four (4) bolt cutters One (1) box of Matchbox cars One (1) package of tools/flashlight Three (3) DeWalt drills (one is a DCK280C2) One (1) ratchet kit One (1) sander Three (3) crowbars One (1) black backpack One (1) headphones One (1) DeWalt angle grinder in box One (1) lot miscellaneous tools Five (5) door hinges Eight (8) packs of corner braces Five (5) screen door sliders Twenty-two (22) packs of lightbulbs Twelve (12) electrical related items Two (2) garage door openers, two (2) outlets, ten (10) fuses Two (2) clamps Six (6) packs of screws Four (4) paint brushes
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722 Individuals, Business & Organizations awarded $7.4 million through the Colorado Arts Relief Grant services in 2019. This figure represents 4% of all goods and services sold within the state, more than mining or transportation. “Colorado’s arts, culture and entertainment industries play a critical role in our economy and are essential to our recovery and resiliency,” said Colorado Creative Industries Director Margaret Hunt. “The Colorado Arts Relief program offers direct funding to the individuals, businesses and organizations most severely impacted by COVID-19 capacity restrictions.” “I want to thank the members of the Colorado Legislature for appropriating these critical funds to provide relief to arts, culture, film, and entertainment enterprises during this challenging economic time,” said Tim Schultz, Colorado Creative Industries Council chair. “The Council and staff, along with community volunteers, reviewed over 2500 applications from across Colorado to ensure those organizations and individuals that suffered the greatest loss received state support." The COVID-19 Relief Program for Arts, Cultural and Entertainment Artists, Crew Members and Organizations
(Colorado Arts Relief Grant) was enacted by Senate Bill 20B-001. This initiative directed up to $7.5 million for relief payments to eligible artists, crew members and organizations. Funding through this bill was distributed through two separate grant applications: 1) Colorado Arts Relief—Business and Organization and, 2) Colorado Arts Relief—Individuals. The grants were administered by Colorado Creative Industries in partnership with Redline. The Colorado Arts Relief Fund for individuals awarded $1.365 million to 599 Individuals in 41 counties in Colorado. Grants to individuals were one-time flat amounts up to $2,500.The Colorado Arts Relief Fund for businesses and organizations general operating support grants totaling $5,985,500 to 123 arts, culture, and entertainment organizations in 33 counties across Colorado. Award amounts were based on organizational budget size and percent income loss between 2019 and 2020. A complete list of Colorado Arts Relief Fund - Organizations and Businesses grant recipients is available online at: https://oedit.colorado.gov/colorado-arts-relief-grant
Change in rural Colorado conversation: loving our land
sector. After the panelists present, the conversation opens to questions and comments from our live audience. To learn more or register, visit coloradohumanities.org. or call 303-894-7951. The first panel in this series explored the public health crisis and shifting demographics in rural Colorado with Dr. Stephan Weiler, Elizabeth Garner, Kat Papenbrock, Dr. Michael Seman, and Greg Thomason discussing the challenges in economic innovation faced by rural Coloradans during the COVID era. Moderated by Dr. Dawn Thilmany, this community conversation recording is available to view on Colorado Humanities’ YouTube and Facebook accounts.
Colorado Creative Industries (CCI) announced Feb. 8 that 722 grantees have been awarded $7.4 million in COVID-19 economic relief funding through the Colorado Arts Relief Fund. This fund was made possible by the Colorado legislature during the Colorado special session in December 2020. As COVID-19 continues to impact Colorado, arts and culture organizations are witnessing dramatic, unprecedented losses in employment and revenue. Colorado’s largest and fastest growing creative industries, including music, theater, dance, and visual arts, have been among the hardest hit by the impacts of COVID-19. Estimates are that between April and July 2020, creative industries as a whole lost 59.6K jobs and $2.6B. The estimated losses contracted the region’s creative economy by 31% in terms of employment and 8% in annual sales revenue. Prior to the pandemic, arts, culture and entertainment played a key role in Colorado’s economy with higher than average industry growth in all regions of the state from 2010-2019. Creative Industries generated $31.6 billion in sales of goods and
Colorado Humanities, located in Greenwood Village and the Regional Economic Development Institute at Colorado State University offer a series of free, online conversations about the challenges and opportunities facing rural Colorado. ‘Loving Our Land,’ the second event in the series, will focus on natural resource assets, water headlands, and conservation efforts. Join us on March 23 from 6 to 8 p.m. MT to hear from featured panelists Sonja Chavez from the Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District, Heather Knight from the Center for
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Collaborative Conservation, Wade Shelton from the Trust for Public Lands, and Mike Lester from the Colorado State Forest Service. Moderated by Dr. Dawn Thilmany, this community conversation will share the successes and challenges of Colorado's programs to protect our natural resources. In short presentations, panelists will talk about how their organizations invest in the water, lands, and forests of the state and will lead a conversation about key trends they believe will guide policy and programs in the Colorado natural resource
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One (1) truck bet net One (1) Kobalt axe, blue One (1) currency counter One (1) Milwaukee transfer pump One (1) Milwaukee impact driver One (1) Black & Decker cordless drill One (1) dead blow hammer One (1) Hyper Tough socket set One (1) Hyper Tough carving kit Two (2) rigid pipe wrenches One (1) pair LED fog lamps One (1) General deburring kit One (1) JSC pressure gauge One (1) Lenox tubing cutter kit One (1) adjustable wrench Two (2) dummy lever sets One (1) entry set One (1) box large switch plates Six (6) Stihl backpack blowers Five (5) Honda line trimmers Three (3) Stihl handheld blowers Two (2) Stihl chainsaws Two (2) Honda two-stroke snowblowers One (1) Kubota with straight plow, rotary broom, set of broom brushes and six (6) 78” plow cutting edges One (1) LumoPro 1200-watt portable work light with case One (1) 8-foot tall metal shelving unit Items will be auctioned on March 30, 2021 through Roller Auctioneers at 7500 York Street, Denver, CO 80229. Please direct auction queries to 303-289-1600 or view online at: www.rollerauction.com. If you have any equipment questions, please contact Julie Liggett, Administrative Supervisor at 303-486-5750 or at jliggett@ greenwoodvillage.com. You may
Denver Film Receives $20,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Denver Film, the membership-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofit cultural institution that produces film events throughout the year, including the award-winning Denver Film Festival and the popular, summertime series Film on the Rocks, has been awarded a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in support of the 44th edition of the Denver Film Festival scheduled for later this year. The NEA grant, which Denver Film last received in 2014, will help support Festival programming, as well as the comprehensive event structures that support the annual Festival including virtual platforms, virtual reality experiences,
community events and Festival logistics based on health and safety protocols due to COVID restrictions. “We’re honored to have been selected by NEA as a recipient of this year’s Grants for Arts Projects,” said Denver Film CEO James Mejia. “Obviously, in a year like we’ve just had, every dollar, every bit of support is being maximized to ensure that we can continue to deliver the creative, entertaining and thought-provoking films, documentaries, community discussions and so much more that we have become synonymous for in this community. We’re eager to put these specific funds to work as we curate the 44th Denver Film Festival later this year.”
Nomination period opens for 2021 General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award
Space Foundation, a 501(c) (3) global space advocate for nearly 40 years, announced that it is now accepting nominations for its highest honor, the General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award. Awarded in honor of Space Foundation’s late, longtime chairman, Gen. James E. Hill, USAF (Ret.), the accolade recognizes outstanding individuals who have distinguished themselves through lifetime contributions of 20 years or more to humankind through exploration, development and use of space, or through use of space technology, information or resources in academic, cultural, industrial or other pursuits of broad benefit to humanity. Nominations must be received between March 1 and April 30, 2021, via standard mail or email. Any person may nominate a candidate for the award, with the exception that
also contact Debbie Armstrong, at 303-486-5759 or at darmstrong@ greenwoodvillage.com. Published in The Villager Published: March 18, 2021 Legal # 10185 ___________________________ CITY OF GREENWOOD VILLAGE PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Greenwood Village City Council will hold a public hearing on Monday, April 5, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. at Greenwood Village City Hall, 6060 South Quebec Street, Greenwood Village, Colorado concerning Ordinance 03-21: An Ordinance Amending Chapter 18 of the Greenwood Village Municipal Code to Adopt the 2018 Editions of the International Residential Code for One-And Two-Family Dwellings and the International Fire Code. All interested parties are invited to attend and be heard. Copies of the ordinance being considered, and codes being adopted will be on file in the office of the City Clerk and will be open for inspection. You may also access the codes online using the following link: https://codes. iccsafe.org/search/?category[]=ICodes&page=1 BY ORDER OF THE GREENWOOD VILLAGE CITY COUNCIL /s/Susan M. Ortiz, MMC, City Clerk
individuals may not nominate themselves. Nominees and their contributions must be judged to be of the highest caliber and of national or international significance by the Board of Directors of Space Foundation. The award will be presented in August 2021, at Space Foundation’s 36th Space Symposium at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Space Foundation’s mission is to be the preeminent advocate and gateway for lifelong education, trusted information, and seamless collaboration for all people and organizations engaging in space exploration and space-inspired industries that drive the global space ecosystem. A nomination must be submitted in the form of a letter by standard mail or via email, not to exceed two pages in length. Detailed questions may be directed to rcooper@spacefoundation.org
Published in The Villager First Publication: March 18, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Legal # 10186 ___________________________
SPECIAL DISTRICTS NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE is hereby given that the Holly Hills Water and Sanitation District (“District”) of Arapahoe and Denver Counties, State of Colorado, will make final payment at the offices of Special District Management Services, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado 80228, on Monday, April 5, 2021, at the hour of 9:00 a.m. to JBS Pipeline Contractors, for all work done by said Contractor for a sewer construction project performed within the District and commonly known as the South Holly Place Sanitary Sewer Improvements Project. Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such contractors or their subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the
prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractors or their subcontractors, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim, to the District, whose address is c/o Steve Beck, Special District Management Services, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado 80228 on or before the date and time hereinabove shown. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release the District, its Board of Directors, officers, agents, and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim. All of the above is pursuant to §3826-107, C.R.S. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS HOLLY HILLS WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT By: /s/ Thomas E. Thomasson President Published in The Villager First Publication: March 18, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Legal # 10187 ___________________________
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Trego of the indigenous Otomi community of San Pablito Pahuatlan, Mexico it weaves together photography and thanatology into a stunningly wise and compassionate presentation. General Admission $8. 12:00 pm – 9:00 pm. 861 Santa Fe Drive. For information call 303-571-4401.
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March 20. Live-streaming of annual competition finals that will result in $35,000 being awarded to the Top 15 performers. 1:00 – 5:00 pm. Watch for free. For performance schedules and to register go to Denverlyricoperaguild. org/2021-competition.
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown Live Production March 19 – April 18. The Town Hall Arts Center is presenting the first live musical since last year at its historic Littleton theater bringing the beloved “Peanuts” comic to life in a classic musical. New safety protocols and precautions will be in place. Evening performances begin at 7:30 pm and matinees at 2:00 pm. 2450 W. Main Street, Littleton. For tickets go to boxoffice@townhallartscenter.org or call 303-794-2787.
Borderlands of Southern Colorado
Presented in English and Spanish this stunning exhibit explores the shifting geopolitical history of southern Colorado. In 1848 when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo moved a portion of the US – Mexico border from the Arkansas River – which flows through the middle of Colorado – down to the Rio Grande, an international border crossed over the people in this region changing their lives forever. Daily 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. 1200 Broadway, Denver. Non-member tickets : Adults $14, Seniors $12, Students $10. For tickets go online to estore.historycolorado.org. No tickets available on site. For information call 303-447-8679.
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Colorado Women’s Alliance A Conversation about Covid-19 Vaccines
March 19. Trying to decide whether to get a Covid-19 vaccination? Join us for a free online event. Ask questions of our expert panelists including Dana Malick, DVP of PhRMA, Colorado State Senator Rhonda Fields, Dr. Oswaldo Grenardo of Centura Health with Moderator Libby Szabo. 1:00 pm. Register at Eventbrite or contact Joni Inman at joni@coloradowomensalliance.org.
Greater Englewood Chamber Virtual Coffee Network
Museo De Las Americas Testigos/Witnesses Exhibit Now through March 20. This timely exhibit is about Life, Death, Culture and Time. Born out of a friendship that developed between artist Gaal D. Cohen and artisan Genaro Fuentes
March 19. If you want to expand your networking, grab a cup of coffee and join us as we explore the challenges of working remotely and ideas for dealing
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March 25. In early 2020, Open Spaces staff began the yearlong process of updating our decade-old master plan. Join us as we present the master plan for public input. 6:30 – 7:30 pm. To participate go to arapahoegov.com/townhall or call in at 855-436-3656.
March 2 – 30. Noted artists continue to create illuminating works that light up the Clocktower on the 16th Street Mall at Arapahoe Street Tuesdays through Sundays after sunset. The March exhibits are devoted to the Month of Photography featuring the works of a global community of visual storytellers from a diverse range of communities across six continents.
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Denver Botanic Gardens
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Introduces Keli
our clients can focus on other things. I recently unpacked a client in their new home, and they planned to have custom closets installed. Midway through our work, they canceled the installation and saved nearly $60,000 because they were so pleased with our work, as well as the function and beauty we created with the closets they already had.
What is your background?
Before I started organizing, I served as a school and district administrator for 15 years and studied Montessori. I have a blended family with 4 kids, all teenagers and young adults now. These roles as parent, home manager, school leader and Montessori training have shaped my organizing career in many ways.
What area of the home do most people call for?
How did you get started?
While reading a book about blind spots in our lives, I realized that at my very core I am an organizer! That was my strength in education where I organized curriculum, processes and departments. I know how difficult it can be to manage a career and a home, so I chose to use my knowledge and skills to help others create a home they love and feel relaxed in every day. I joined NAPO (National Association of Productivity and Organizing) and have obtained certifications in Residential Organizing, Productivity and Life Transitions.
What makes a good organizer?
A good organizer starts with your vision and creates order that is meaningful and effective for the style of the client. They will ask the right questions and pay attention to every little detail. And, of course, a good organizer is bonded and insured, discreet and confidential. Good organizers never share photos of their projects without the consent of the client.
Where do you first start when organizing a home?
I start by asking questions and creating a shared vision for the space. Once I understand the intended use and the level of detail desired, my team and I can make the magic happen whether its a kitchen, craft room, closet or the entire home.
Keli Jakel - Owner/Pro Organizer
How long does the process take?
A whole home unpack is typically complete in 3-5 days whereas a kitchen is typically completed in one or two sessions. Some clients have us on retainer to return weekly/monthly for maintenance or decluttering sessions.
What do you feel about minimalism?
People often worry that I will force them to become minimalists. But being organized is not about getting rid of everything! Being organized is about efficiency, stress reduction, saving time and money, and improving your quality of life.
How should someone feel when their home is organized?
When your home is organized it is the best of both worlds — optimal productivity eloquently interwoven with peaceful escape to relax and recharge.
What are the benefits of hiring me/my company?
We offer full service organizing, which means we take care of all the details with minimal time or energy from you. We make the decision process as easy and quick as possible so that
Usually clients call for help with their home office, kitchen, master closet or storage area. Many clients start with one area and are so happy with the results that we end up organizing the entire home.
What other services do you offer?
-Unpacking -Downsizing -Inventories -Shopping -Decorating/putting away decorations We unpack and offer other services for people going through life transitions such as a move, divorce, illness or a new job. It’s my mission to mitigate the disruption these events cause and create order and peace for people experiencing them. We can inventory a space and provide a shopping list for what’s missing. Some clients even have us do the shopping!
What makes you different?
My background in Montessori and my intuition shape my strategy. I take pride in meeting clients where they are and creating customized systems and structures for their success. A client once told me that my “secret sauce” is that I see things that most people don’t. I like to think that I simply help my clients see the details and options they didn’t originally see.
Start the organizing process with Keli!
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