Englewood school board member’s next court appearance set for May 21
BY ELISABETH SLAY ESLAY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COMEnglewood Board of Education member Davon Williams’ arraignment for a 2019 felony charge of car theft has been postponed for a nal time.
Adams County Dis-
May 21 in Division G.
Pugh said if a resolution is not met on May 21, then the case will go to trial.
Williams is represented by attorney Michael McCullough. e 2019 car-theft allegation against Williams led to the issuance of an arrest warrant in 2020. e Glendale Police Department con rmed that Williams turned himself in to their agency for the outstanding warrant on Nov. 6 of last year.
Meg Froelich, who represents Englewood in the Colorado House, told the Englewood Herald in December that she believes a felony conviction while in o ce could result in Williams’ removal from the Englewood school board.
“Currently the law states in C.R.S. 22-31-129: ‘A school director o ce shall be deemed to be vacant upon the occurrence of any one of the following events prior to the expiration of the term of o ce:… (e) if the person who was duly elected or ap-
pointed is found guilty of a felony,”’ Froelich said.
Matt Cook, director of public policy and advocacy for the Colorado Association of School Boards, said in an email April 9 that the statue continues to state what the proceedings of removal would look like.
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e statute then states ‘at the next board of education meeting immediately following the occurrence of any condition speci ed in subsection (1) of this section, the board of education of the district shall adopt a resolution declaring a vacancy in the school director o ce, and the board of education of the school district in which the vacancy occurs shall appoint a person to ll the vacancy within sixty days after the vacancy has occurred,” Cook said. “‘If the appointment is not made by the board within the sixtyday period, the president of the board shall forthwith appoint a person to ll the vacancy. e appointment shall be evidenced by an appropriate entry in the minutes of the meeting and
the board shall cause a certi cate of appointment to be delivered to the person so appointed. A duplicate of each certi cate of appointment shall be forwarded to the department of education.”’
e April court appearance happened weeks after a reimbursement dispute between Williams and other members of board and after the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s O ce found no crime had been committed in an investigation regarding a criminal complaint Williams’ led against Englewood City Attorney Tamara Niles and City Manager Shawn Lewis in February.
Williams ran unopposed for the board in November. His candidacy and membership on the board became controversial after the Englewood Herald revealed in October that Williams had two previous felony convictions, a nding of bad faith in a civil lawsuit, an outstanding arrest warrant and an ongoing felony car theft case.
Habitats created for various types of animals line the walls. Unique plants from all over the world grow in a greenhouse. is is the humancreated and cared-for world of the Sustainable Agriculture and Green Energies Pathway classroom in Englewood.
e program, known as SAGE, is where students at Colorado’s Finest High School of Choice learn about
Educator and leader of the Sustainable Agriculture and Green Energies (SAGE) Pathway at Colorado’s Finest High School of Choice Scott Wallace educates students on plants in one of his science classes on March 26.
The number of sellers opting to sell without a listing agent was surprisingly low even before the NAR settlement, which will have the effect of cutting in half the commission charged by listing agents thanks to the removal of a co-op commission for buyers’ agents, .
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) has reported that only 7% of homes sold during 2023 were sold without the services of a listing agent. Another 4% of sellers began without an agent but ultimately changed their minds and decided to hire a listing agent.
mission cannot include the offer of compensation to a buyer’s agent, so listing commissions will henceforth be 2.5% to 2.8%, seriously reducing the appeal of trying to sell one’s house without professional assistance.
The main argument for going FSBO (for-sale-by-owner) has been to avoid paying the typical 5 to 6 percent listing commission. But that commission included the 2.5 to 3 percent commission shared with the agent representing the buyer. Under the NAR settlement (if approved by the courts), the listing com-
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In my real estate classes as a new agent at Coldwell Banker back in 2002, it was drummed into us that “listors last,” so we should focus on working with sellers instead of buyers. The NAR settlement has struck a serious blow to anyone who specializes in working with buyers.
In light of this, NAR is offering its Realtor members a free “Accredited Buyer’s Representative” (ABR) course, and, even though Golden Real Estate specializes in working with sellers, all of us have signed up for this course so we can receive the advice which it will offer when representing buyers in the changed landscape of real estate transactions.
Of course, I will share with you what I learn from that course, which I’m taking on June 17th. Hopefully, the court will have confirmed or rejected the NAR settlement by then, so we’ll know for sure what lies ahead.
As I wrote last week, the inevitable
I can’t take credit for this idea. Last year Pro Builder magazine had an article in its May/June issue about new ideas in kitchen design, and one in particular caught my attention: adding a “back/ messy” kitchen.
Nowadays, especially with open floor plans, the kitchen has become a center of entertaining. Guests gather around the host or hostess as they prepare and deliver various courses of food.
A back kitchen allows for dirty dishes to be out of sight immediately. This keeps the kitchen area clean and attractive — and quiet — throughout the evening. There could even be a second dishwasher in the back kitchen.
The back kitchen could also be where prepared courses are staged for bringing out during the party. Think of it as a “butler’s pantry” that is off the kitchen instead of between the kitchen and the dining room.
Most people nowadays have both a walk-in pantry and what’s being called a “Costco closet” for those bulk purchases so many of us are making these days. A larger pantry big enough to satisfy both needs could be attached to the back kitchen instead of the main kitchen, cleaning and simplifying the main kitchen design.
Another feature which makes a lot of sense is to have seating on two sides
(adjoining, not opposite) of the kitchen island instead of just one. This facilitates guests talking to each other, while still including whoever is at work on the business side of the island.
Open floor plans typically show the kitchen open to the family room, but not the formal dining room. How about an Lshaped open floor plan in which the dining room is open to the kitchen on the side, with the family room open to it at a 90degree angle?
Here’s a floor plan from Pro Builder showing this concept, in which ‘A’ is the island with 2-sided seating, ‘B’ is the pantry/Costco closet, ‘C’ is the back kitchen, and ‘D’ is a barn door for closing off the back kitchen/pantry.
effect of the NAR settlement will be that many or even most buyers will call listing agents directly instead of hiring an agent to represent them as a buyer. Only time will tell how that process will shake out.
If I worked solely as a buyer’s agent, I would be very nervous about what the future holds for me.
Buyer agents will still be able to earn a commission by selling new homes. Because the new home market is so competitive, builders are unlikely to reduce the commissions they currently offer to agents. Most builders, I have found, offer a 3% commission to agents who bring them a buyer, although that commission is applied to the base price,
not to the price after adding upgrades of flooring, appliances, counters, etc.
The challenge for real estate agents has always been getting buyers to call them before registering at a builder’s sales office, because most builders will not pay agents who did not register along with their buyer. We tell buyers to visit as many new home communities as they wish but not give their names until they are serious and want us to represent them. Then we can go with them on a return visit where they and we register together. That way, the buyer has the advantage of professional representation, and we are compensated for being their agent.
This column and the ’Back Kitchen’ article appeared in last Thursday’s Denver Post.
For most of 2023, the number of closed transactions fell while the number of active listings surged until some of them either expired or were taken off the market for the holidays. Starting in January there was a marked increase in sales, combined with more sellers putting their homes on the market.
The charts at right are from Denver’s MLS and cover the 15-month period from January 2023 through March 2024 for REcolorado listings only, limited to a 20mile radius of downtown Denver.
The second chart shows how sharply the median days a listing was active on the MLS rose through most of last year, peaking at over 30 days in January but plummeting, just like last year, in February and March. Meanwhile, the median sold price, which had been slumping slightly during the last half of 2023, turned sharply upward in January, February and March.
From studying current MLS data, this trend is continuing in April.
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Parents concerned about treatment of non-verbal autistic children on school bus
BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COMParents called for the resignation of Littleton Public Schools Superintendent Todd Lambert during a heated public comment period in the wake of allegations that a district paraprofessional physically assaulted students with disabilities on bus rides.
Over a dozen speakers criticized the district for what they said were failures to prevent months of abuse to non-verbal children with autism.
Jess Vestal accused the district of failing to intervene to help her son as he was assaulted on a school bus.
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ese children, who cannot speak, were strapped in … and tortured for months,” she said. “Had anybody taken a day, an hour, 40 minutes to just check in, you could have stopped this.”
Vestal’s son appears in video footage on March 18, in which it appears paraprofessional Kiarra Jones, 29,
strikes him repeatedly on a school bus ride. Jones is accused by police of harming multiple students on a moving school bus in recent months. She faces a felony charge of assault crimes against an at-risk person in the third degree in one incident. e Englewood Police Department, the charging agency, said it is investigating further to identify any and all victims and crimes.
Brittany Yarbrough, said at the school board meeting, held on April 12, that her son came home with injuries after riding the bus, asked why the district hadn’t monitored security camera footage from the bus for safety and compliance.
“If you had, you would have seen multiple safety violations,” she said. “You would have seen the brutal assault on a little boy. You would have seen the numerous accounts of abuse. But you didn’t.”
After many parents spoke, Lambert attempted to respond.
“We’re shocked, saddened and angry at what happened — that any student would su er on any of our buses,” he said. “ is is not consistent with the actions of the over 2,000 (district) sta members that serve and love our students every day. ere are no words to describe the gravity of what has happened, and we want
to acknowledge you and let you know that we heard you.”
As he was speaking, a mass of audience members cried out “Liar” and “Shame on you” and walked out of the meeting.
In a letter sent to some district families on April 11, Lambert said the district is deeply sorry and devastated by the incident.
“You trust us with the well-being and care of your children, and due to one individual, that trust has been strained, and maybe even lost,” he wrote. “We understand and acknowledge that.”
Jones, an employee of Littleton Public Schools, worked on the bus that transported children to e Joshua School, an independent organization, contracted by school districts, that serves students with autism and developmental disabilities.
Rathod | Mohamedbhai LLC, a law rm representing several families, said the district “failed to give credible suspicion of abuse the attention it required” after parents raised concerns about the welfare of their children.
e Joshua School, in a statement, said its sta requested a district review of bus video footage in January and was “assured by (the district) that nothing out of the ordinary had occurred.”
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Yarbrough said at the meeting that her son, Hunter, came home with unexplained injuries, including bruises, scratches, a bleeding ear and a broken toe.
“I know that there was a monster on that bus — and at least one other adult, as well as multiple cameras,” she said.
Vestal, whose son, Dax, appeared in the video, told the board that she has seen changes in his behavior that she believes are due to trauma from the abuse.
“We tried to go out to eat, and Dax was too afraid to sit down in the booth because it too closely resembled a school bus seat,” she said. “I hope you see my son’s terrified face every single night before bed, looking around for help, trying to unbuckle himself to get away from the hell that you called ‘Route L76.’”
Many parents felt the district was “tone-deaf” during the meeting and criticized board members and the superintendent for their jovial demeanor in unrelated early meeting business, saying it was out of step with the sadness and seriousness of the criminal case.
For instance, board President Angela Christensen highlighted the district’s participation in a national school board conference.
“Littleton continues to shine at the state level and the national level,” Christensen said
e statement was met by disbelieving laughter from a handful of members of the audience. Jessica McBride, a mother who said her son, Andrew, was harmed, was offended by the board’s behavior.
“I am, for one, deeply o ended and disappointed by your lack of compassion in making us sit through a recount of all the good work that you’ve done for all of your students,” she said. “Please tell me, what good did you do in the last few weeks for Dax Vestal? What good did you do for my student?”
Blake McBride, Andrew’s father, said he was disgusted with how the district has handled the tragedy.
“ e runaround I have received from your superintendent is telling as to how this district runs itself,” he said. “I am calling for Todd Lambert’s resignation and the resignation of (the) transportation director.”
As McBride spoke, Christensen interrupted him to remind him of a policy she had referenced before the start of public comment, which prohibits speakers from making personal complaints against district personnel.
“Well, that’s silly because your district has hurt my kid,” Blake McBride responded. “Where’s my protections? You guys get protections, but I don’t? … Stop sitting here behind your ‘policies’ and your ‘privacy acts’ — whatever it is, it’s all BS anyways. Pat yourselves on the back somewhere else, because it’s
not accepted here.”
Tucker Yabrough, 9, the younger brother of Hunter, said he no longer trusts the district leadership to make decisions for kids.
“My parents taught me that we should do everything we can to protect people who can’t protect themselves,” he said. “I’m only nine and I can do that. Why can’t you? … Why didn’t you do more to keep my brother safe?”
Speakers asked for policy changes that would require regular and thorough auditing of bus video footage. ey also requested more training for sta working with special needs students, more unscheduled oversight of sta , additional mandatory reporting training for transportation sta and training on evaluating and responding to parent or sta concerns.
“We shouldn’t be relying on parents who are not present on the bus, or students — many of which have known communication dif-
culties — to catch and report the abuse,” one speaker said. “For those that have the privilege of not knowing this, communication devices like the one my son uses don’t have an icon on them for, ‘My para abuses me on the bus.’”
Some speakers also advocated for action on a state level, highlighting similar instances of abuse across the state.
Lambert declined to respond to further questions from the Littleton Independent, citing his desire to not jeopardize the ongoing criminal investigation.
Parents said they are going to continue pushing for change.
“Our children are non-verbal, but let me tell you — their moms are not,” Vestal, the mother of the boy in the video, said. “Our kids are safe because we did something. We pushed and we never stopped advocating, and this is just the beginning.”
Jones has a preliminary hearing scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on May 5.
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sustainability, the science of plants, proper care of animals and more.
Scott Wallace, the leader of the SAGE Pathway, helped start the program eight years ago, part of his 32year career at Englewood Schools.
Wallace said his experience in the summers, working in landscaping for 31 years, led to his selection as the SAGE educator.
“ e SAGE Pathway is part of the natural resources pathway for the state agriculture program and in my instance what I do is I teach kids plant science, horticulture, landscaping and I teach them about erection,” Wallace said.
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Wallace said the pathway is an important program for students because it teaches them useful skills such as working with soil and building things.
Additionally, Wallace said he is teaching his students important methods of sustainability such as water preservation, pollination gardening and alternative planting options.
“In my students’ lifetime they’re going to have to make a choice of whether they want a lawn or do they want a shower,” Wallace said. “So, making sure they have choices when it gets to that point.”
Wallace said over the years many of his students have taken what he has taught them and gone on to start their own landscaping businesses, furthered their education in agriculture or go into environmental engineering.
SAGE student and 17-year-old Randal Coyle started taking classes this year and really enjoys the hands-on learning of the program.
“I really love animals and I really love plants and I really love being around them,” Coyle said. “I feel like I can’t really remember stu just from watching videos or reading articles and it’s really helpful to my personal education to be able to actually see stu in action like with the plants growing and everything.”
Plants and animals are a big part of Coyle’s life who also hopes to be a large animal veterinarian after high school.
Coyle feels the program is important because it creates pathways students might not know they can take.
“I feel like it really opens up a lot of opportunities for kids who wouldn’t even think that they would want a
Maren Bangs, a 15-year-old Colorado’s Finest High School of Choice and SAGE Pathway student, observes one of various plants in the program’s greenhouse on March 26.
career in agriculture or to do with plants and animals because they just don’t know what it’s like,” Coyle said.
When he rst began the SAGE program, Wallace said he initially focused on animals to attract students. However, over the years he has focused more on plant education with some education on proper care and maintenance for certain animals.
“ e kids actually are learning to really love and to understand all the nuances of how cool plants are,” Coyle said.
Maren Bangs, a 15-year-old SAGE student, said she initially joined the program for the credits but her interest for the subject evolved.
“ e science that we’re doing now, the agriculture, we can apply more to real world stu and how to gure things out and learn more about plants and how we can help our environment,” Bangs said.
Bangs said while she won’t necessarily go into agriculture, she feels this program has in uenced how she will treat the environment going forward.
“It’s helped me to understand things I can do to help our environment and to live in a more sustainable way,” Bangs said.
Wallace hopes to evolve the program and o er more speci c landscaping classes for students to earn certi cations in addition to the sciences.
For more about the SAGE Pathway visit cfhsc.englewoodschools.net/ programs/sage.
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Starting in June, hundreds of thousands of low-income Colorado families will get $120 per child to pay for groceries during summer break. e program, called Summer EBT, aims to help parents of children who attend preschool through 12th grade in public schools pay for food when free school meals are unavailable or harder to access. State o cials expect families of more than 300,000 children to bene t.
A Colorado law passed during a special legislative session in November enabled the state to join the new program, which is mostly funded by the federal government with a small contribution from the state. Nearly three dozen states are o ering the program this year.
In recent years, Colorado has taken several steps to reduce the number of children who go hungry in the state. Starting this school year, the vast majority of Colorado students can get free school meals regardless of family income because of a universal meal program approved by voters in 2022. A program similar to Summer EBT was in place during the pandemic, but it expired last summer.
Colorado families are eligible for Summer EBT cards if they receive public bene ts such as SNAP, Med-
The Summer EBT program will provide thousands of low-income Colorado families with grocery cards preloaded with $120 per school-age child.
icaid, or Colorado Works, or if their children qualify for free or reducedprice school meals.
Most families will automatically receive a letter in May for each child eligible for Summer EBT, with preloaded cards arriving in the mail shortly after. To access the money on the card, families must set up a personal identi cation number. ey can do this by calling 888-328-2656, entering the card number, and following the prompts.
Families who believe their child is eligible for Summer EBT, but who didn’t receive an eligibility letter can contact the Summer EBT Support Center at 800-536-5298 (text 720741-0550) or email cdhs_sebt_supportcenter@state.co.us.
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In the early 1990s, Littleton residents celebrated their local hospital’s anniversaries with bed races in the streets of their city.
While the races are consigned to history, AdventHealth Littleton continues to mark the occasion. This year, it celebrated its 35th year of serving the south metro region, and people gathered to share stories, food and memories.
The hospital, formerly called Littleton Adventist Hospital, opened its doors in April 1989. It is one of five Colorado hospitals in AdventHealth, a Seventhday Adventist non-profit health care system headquartered in Florida.
AdventHealth and health care company CommonSpirit Health, which were in a partnership under the name Centura Health for
almost 30 years, split in 2023 to manage hospitals separately.
AdventHealth Littleton — which is a Level II trauma center and regional referral center — offers services including cardiovascular care, neuroscience, urology, orthopedics, cancer care and emergency services, President and CEO Rick Dodds said.
Starting out with 82 beds in 1989, the hospital now has 231 beds and has about 9,000 admissions per year, said Communications Manager Robin Clutters.
Dodds said being a onestop health care solution for local patients is important to the hospital.
“As we grow, we are committed to having those growth areas focused on keeping patients local, right here in Littleton,” he said.
The hospital is in the process of developing a new
heart and vascular tower, which will expand its current services to include a new cardiac diagnostics department, new operating rooms and more.
Dodds said the hospital’s culture is something to celebrate, saying it focuses on leadership development and mentorship. He also said he is proud that the hospital’s Medical Executive Committee is majority female, which he said is unique in the industry.
In the past 35 years, the hospital’s staff has grown from 450 providers to more than 1,500, and Dodds said it is likely to keep growing in the coming years.
“As the hospital expands into more acute areas, that only benefits Littleton as more people come on board,” he said. “(It) brings more jobs to Littleton and it brings more development to the Littleton community.”
Mayor Kyle Schlachter said the hospital is the city’s largest employer and he is grateful that it partners with the city, by sponsoring the annual Littleton Twilight Criterium bicycle race and the Littleton Calendar and Annual Report.
“I am happy and proud to be able to claim AdventHealth has a big part of the Littleton community and I’d like to wish you all a happy 35th birthday and look forward to another 35 years,” he said.
Looking forward, Dodds said the next 35 years in health care will focus more on consumers and ease of access, and AdventHealth Littleton will be a part of it.
“We will be bringing that ease of access — not only through technology, but also through a pervasive focus and an unrelenting focus on our patients, and on our community and on our consumers,” he said.
Police are asking for anyone with information about the vehicle pictured above to call them at 303-794-1551. COURTESY IMAGE
Littleton police are investigating the death of an 18-year-old who was shot last week near an apartment complex across from Promise Park. e victim is David Moore, and a member of his family posted on Facebook that they are working with police. e family is also planning a memorial service and plans to share more details soon.
Police responded to calls of shots red near 293 W. Powers Place around 8:17 p.m. April 4. ere they found Moore su ering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. O cials attempted lifesaving measures, and Moore was transported to a local hospital, but pronounced dead.
e coroner, according to documents, has classi ed the death as a homicide. Police are looking for a dark-colored Acura TL sedan between 2009 and 2014 model years that they suspect could be connected to the incident.
Police spokesperson Sheera Poelman said the investigations division has been working “around the clock” since the shooting occurred to learn more.
Poelman encouraged people to share any information related to the incident with the police, even if they think it may not be helpful. She said the department has solved crimes from very small tips in the past.
Police ask anyone with information regarding the incident to call LPD at 303-794-1551 or Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.
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In the middle of a nothing-inparticular phone call, my dad in Indiana suddenly asked me: “Where is Columbine High School?”
“Four or ve miles southwest of here — why?” I said from our westfacing back porch in Denver’s south suburbs on a beautiful spring day in 1999.
My hyperactive dad, who had been watching a cable news channel while we talked, replied: “Somebody is shooting kids there.”
Within seconds, two air ambulance helicopters thundered low and fast directly over our house and streaked southwest.
I was a copy editor at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and as I watched the helicopters race toward Columbine, I knew that I should expect to be called in early for my night shift at the newspaper. I wanted to see our young sons before getting ready for work, so I got o the phone and trotted the block and a half to their elementary school.
In those pre-smartphone, lesswired days, the sta at our sons’ school didn’t yet know about the attack a few miles away. I walked past the open door of the teachers’ lounge, where a teacher I liked was
nishing his lunch break.
Most theaters take a similar approach to their seasons – it’s a blend of musicals and stage plays that usually run for about a month each. But at Littleton’s Town Hall Arts Center, they wanted to try something di erent.
Matthew Kepler, programming director, thought a wider audience could be reached by removing one of the six musical titles that make up their season and adding limited engagement productions that were more nuanced and intimate.
“What brings you here?” he asked. When I told him the little I knew about what was happening at Columbine, he responded, “ at will de nitely be on Channel 9 tonight.”
Word of the attack reached the school administrators about that same moment, and a lockout began. I was a familiar volunteer at the school, and I was allowed to stop by our sons’ classrooms to see them for a few minutes before I returned home to prepare for work.
I wanted to listen to breaking news about Columbine while getting ready for work, so instead of showering, I lled the bathtub and placed a radio on the bathroom oor so I could hear updates. I was sitting in the tub when the Je erson County sheri con rmed that several kids had been murdered, and I broke into a series of uncontrollable sobs.
Work that rst night was frantic, with uid news stories changing as reporters and editors tried to distill
reliable information from the deluge of impressions, sights and interviews, plus the gut-punching images from our photographers. e ensuing nights at the newspaper were a slog through the bad nondream of Columbine, including a night when I worked the “makeup” editing shift in the composing room, making sure through multiple editions that yearbook photos of the children who had been killed were paired with the right captions: Cassie Bernall is the girl with the wide smile and hair parted on the side; Corey DePooter is the boy with the pronounced straight eyebrows; Rachel Scott is the girl who looks like my sister as a kid ... at was the night I ate a mayonnaise-heavy sandwich that had sat atop my warm computer terminal for hours before I was able to take a break, and the resulting case of brutal food poisoning felt bizarrely welcome because I needed so badly to puke my guts out.
All that was 25 years ago. Now, low- ying helicopters still ash me right back to the moment just after my dad told me about the attack in progress. ese days, I still can’t talk about the Columbine attack for more than a few seconds before my voice breaks. Our little
suburb has its markers of the tragedy — the trauma center where the most grievously wounded children were own, the pawnshop where a paralyzed girl’s mother asked to see a revolver and then hurriedly inserted a bullet that she used to kill herself at the counter — and I see those places many times each week and remember.
But I got o light. I got o easy. I’m an outgoing person who is always getting to know more people, and here in Denver’s south suburbs, that means I’ve gotten to know many people who were hit intimately by the Columbine attack, people who were there, people who helped save terribly wounded children, people who tried to save children who died, people who lost dear ones, people whose dear ones survived but were damaged in ways that can’t be undone. Every year I know more people with lifetime memberships in that undesired club.
People I trust tell me good things have been forged from the pain of that horrible day. I want to believe they’re right.
Scott Gilbert is an editor in our newsroom who worked for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver at the time of the Columbine attack.
“I wanted the opportunity to produce titles that were powerful pieces of theatre, intrigued our current au-
dience, appealed to audiences who didn’t view our typical o erings as interesting, and really spoke about the human condition, speci cally through the lens of the arts and how the arts a ect our humanity,” wrote Kepler in an email interview. “ ese productions aim to provoke deeper emotions, prompt critical thinking from alternate perspectives, and foster engagement with diverse
communities that audience members may not typically encounter or understand.”
e latest entry in this series is “Red,” written by John Logan and directed by Kepler. It runs at the theater, 2450 Main St. in Littleton, from ursday, April 25 through Sunday, May 5. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. ursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday and Saturday, May 4.
e show is about Latvian-American abstract painter Mark Rothko (Andrew Uhlenhopp) and his young, new assistant Ken (Josue Miranda). At the time of the show, Rothko is at the height of his powers
but struggling with his latest commission – a series that will be showcased in New York’s brand-new Four Seasons restaurant.
“ roughout the narrative, Rothko and Ken engage in conversations about the essence of artistic creation and its connection to the human experience,” Kepler wrote. “Moreover, the play delves into generational tensions, exempli ed by the decline of Rothko’s Abstract Expressionist movement in the face of the rising popularity of Ken’s generation’s Pop Art movement. Rothko and Ken deliberate on themes such
Appreciate the good work ank you for your story about Sonya Ellingboe. She has been a real treasure to the Littleton and Englewood area and did a wonderful job with the Herald paper for many years. ank you Sonya for all the hard work.
Elisabeth Slay wrote a very interesting article about our old-
as the commercialization of visual art and its impact on the artist’s spiritual expression.”
“Red” is the perfect show for the Town Hall’s limited engagement approach, because it tells the story of a massively important creative person and highlights the importance of art in daily life. Plus, it’s just a very well-told story.
“In this modern day of technological distractions, there really is something so pure and precious about having actors bear their soul in front of you. If you open yourself up to it, it truly is a moving experience,” Kepler explained. “I hope they engage intellectually with what they see and allow it to open a dialogue. You don’t have to be an artist to dig into these questions. Our interests and passions and hobbies are a part of our human expression and all play into the ideas that are confronted in the play.”
For information and tickets, visit https://townhallartscenter.org/.
Abigail Osborn Brings Intimate Performance to Northglenn
ere’s a reason music from the bedroom pop movement has become so popular in the last several years. ere’s an intimacy and relatability to the sounds these artists create, especially when paired with the fact that they are composing and writing everything themselves (often in, you guessed it, their rooms). One such artist is Abigail Osborn, who was born and raised in the Denver area and now lives in Los Angeles.
Osborn will be performing at the In the Studio, 1 E. Memorial Parkway in Northglenn, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 19. Get tickets at https://northglennarts.org/.
est continuous running business in Englewood: Sam Hill’s Barber Shop. Fascinating story!
And Casey Cheatum wrote a really interesting article featuring some of the most important parts of Englewood. Good job Casey!
Doug Cohn Englewood
Walker Fine Art Strips the Creative Process Down
“Stripped,” the latest exhibition at the Walker Fine Art gallery, 300 W. 11th Ave., No. A, in Denver, explores the act of “reducing, distilling, tearing, removing and shredding,” as part of the creative process and what can be made because of these actions.
e show features the works of eresa Clowes, Doug Haeussner, Lee Heekin, Sandra Klein, Morgan Robinson and Zelda Zinn, and will be on display through Saturday, May 11. e artists work in a variety of mediums, including photography, mixed media, collage and steel, and provide a stirring window into the power of transformation.
More information can be found at www.walker neart.com/ stripped.
Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Bluebird Music Festival at Macky Auditorium
I’d be hard-pressed to think of a better way to welcome the warm seasons of the year than with the beautiful folk music you’ll nd at the annual Bluebird Music Festival. is year’s festival features Gregory Alan Isakov, Je Tweedy (of Wilco), Joy Oladokun, Langhorne Slim, Andy Shauf and many more.
is year’s Bluebird Music Festival runs on Saturday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21, at Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St. in Boulder. e festival bene ts the Future Arts Foundation, which aims to improve communities through arts, music and environmental programs.
Find all the details and tickets at www.bluebirdmusicfestival.org.
Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke.Reader@hotmail.com.
Jill Jeanine (Muhvich) Oltmann
September 20, 1944 - March 15, 2024
Jill Jeanine Oltmann, age 79, passed away peacefully on March 15, 2024 in Grand Junction. Born in Denver, she grew up in rural Colorado on the Eastern Plains. In 1964 she married Major William Cole McConnell IV. Bill, a highly decorated member of the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets), served two tours in Vietnam before he was killed in
Littleton High School as a secretary in the Principal’s o ce.
In 1985, Jill married Leon Kent Oltmann of LKO Out tters. In 1990 they retired to Gunnison. Following Leon’s death in 2012, Jill moved to the Grand Junction area.
In 1971, Jill married Larry Alan Nelson, a teacher and coach at Arapahoe High School in Littleton. Jill worked for many years at
Jill is survived by Jodi McConnell (daughter), Robin Shallow (daughter), and Judy Hedwall (sister). Jill is preceded in death by Leon Oltmann (husband); Larry Nelson (son); and Jackie Pulliam (sister).
25 years later, the tragedy is a study of recovery, resilience and triumph
BY MICHAEL DE YOANNA EDITOR IN CHIEF
Twenty- ve years have passed since that April day that etched sorrow into the hearts of Columbine High School. Two armed students took the lives of 12 of their peers and a cherished teacher and then their own lives. e reverberations of that tragic day have rippled through the years, leaving a sad narrative of killers and victims often repeated in the mainstream media.
But what that narrative misses is Columbine’s story of recovery, resilience and triumph.
It is in the school’s very fabric, where the emphasis is that every individual, from the principal to the rst-day freshman, matters.
As Columbine sophomore Madison Price told us, “It’s just the kind of thing that you can feel.”
It’s kind of a soft nding for a newsroom that spent months parsing through stories of grief and perseverance in our interviews with survivors, past and present school o cials, teachers, security experts
and even media critics.
Our newsroom sought the answer to a simple question: How has the 1999 Columbine shooting changed the school over the years — and everything else?
On one hand, nothing has changed. Gun violence is rampant in the United States. Take, for instance, the stunning tally of deaths and injuries provided by the Atlas of American Gun Violence, tracking incidents across the country down to the neighborhood level. Such an atlas is only necessary because of the almost-daily barrage of headlines chronicling shootings. Yet some are so large and horri c that everyone knows them by name, like Sandy Hook, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas.
e specter of violence is woven into the lives of children in schools at an early age.
And schools across the country have increased security measures in the years since the Columbine shooting, which took the lives of students Cassie Bernall, Steven Curnow, Corey DePooter, Kelly
Fleming, Matthew Kechter, Daniel Mauser, Daniel Rohrbough,Rachel Scott, Isaiah Shoels, John Tomlin, Lauren Townsend and Kyle Velasquez, and teacher William “Dave” Sanders.
e Je erson County School District, which oversees the high school, points to classroom doors that lock from the inside. ere are single-point entry systems at schools that ensure students, sta and visitors pass through controlled checkpoints. Add to that security cameras, once a rarity, metal detectors and scanners.
Much of the changes are meant to ferret out people carrying guns. Yet our reporting did not take us to the raging debates over guns, like whether background checks are enough or if teachers should be armed.
Instead, we explored how chaos among rescuers during the Columbine incident led to improved coordination today, working to bridge gaps to make all schools safer.
And we looked at the media’s role during and after the shooting. One harsh takeaway from University of
Our series will run this week and next week.
This week, we focus on the stories of those closest to Columbine High School — the survivors and students and teachers. Next week, our series will look at how security has changed and the lessons learned from how the media covered events.
To read our entire series, go to www.ColoradoCommunityMedia .com.
Colorado Boulder professor Elizabeth Skewes was that news coverage of shootings can desensitize Americans and even be harmful to survivors. Knowing that helps explain the goals of Je erson County schools at the district’s recent media day for press organizations looking to report on the 25th anniversary of the tragedy.
Reporters who went to that event heard many of the same things we learned in our reporting, which often involved initially-reluctant sources opening up to trust our reporters and editors with their stories. ey wanted us, and our readers, to know that the shooting doesn’t de ne Columbine. Instead, what de nes it is a kind of indomitable spirit that emerged and evolved with intentionality since 1999. It plays out for many every April 20, the anniversary of the shooting, in the school’s Day of Service, now in its eighth year.
“We have turned that day into something so positive,” teacher Mandy Cooke told us. “And that is what I am most proud of — is making sure that our current students know how to be better humans in the world, instead of this awful, tragic thing that happened to us.”
And Cooke knows. She was a student at the school in 1999 and is among three survivors we interviewed who returned to the school to help it turn the page of the adversity to a brighter chapter.
In the days following the shooting at Columbine High School, its principal, Frank DeAngelis, started leaving his shoes untied.
e loss of his students and a teacher, who was also a friend, left him feeling he had no control over his life.
“People would say, ‘Tie your shoe!’ and I said, ‘ at’s the only thing I have control over,’” he said. But piece by piece, and with the help of his community, DeAngelis started his journey toward healing. It was just like tying his shoes, one lace over the other.
He still thinks of the tragedy every day — reciting the names of the victims who were killed before he gets out of bed. But his journey to heal hasn’t been lonely. In the years following the tragedy, he has leaned on his community and channeled his energy to help others — and still does, even in retirement.
DeAngelis started working at Columbine in 1979, right after he graduated from college. Before he became the principal, DeAngelis had been a history teacher, football coach and baseball coach there.
He worked closely with students, and enjoyed that his role gave him the chance to get to know so many of them — in the cafeteria, on their sports teams and on the stage.
On the day of the shooting, like so many others, he said, his life changed forever.
After the tragedy, he led the school until every student in the area who was in class on April 20, 1999 — down to the preschoolers — graduated.
“Because they were impacted by it,” he said. “Even though they were not there, they saw everything.”
His leadership in those years is a common theme among students and sta connected to the school. ey say DeAngelis helped the community to heal, and they call his leadership a model for how to live. ey consider him a bedrock for the community and say he brought people together in the wake of tragedy.
One Je erson County School District sta member said the community would not have recovered without DeAngelis — and that his impact goes far beyond Columbine.
We found a community guided by those who became united in shared pain with a erce determination to heal.
In that regard, no name came up more often than former Princi-
pal Frank DeAngelis, who led the school, its sta and generations of students out of the shadows of tragedy.
“People said that Columbine really needed me — I needed them,” he said.
For many, he is a beacon of hope, even in his retirement, as he aids others a ected by similar hardships.
Now, as it has been for decades,
Columbine is just another high school. People look forward to football games. ey’re studying for tests. Students are discovering who they are and who they might be when they become adults.
To Cris Welsh, a student at the time of the shooting who is now a teacher at Columbine, it’s all very ordinary, except for one thing.
“We exist to extend the notion that
one can recover,” he said. “ at the awful things that happened to us are outside of our control, but how we respond to those awful things is totally within our control.”
Columbine is a symbol of hope, he said, not only to itself but well beyond.
“If you are determined to overcome the things that happen to you, you can do it,” he said.
On a mild Monday afternoon, Mandy Cooke was walking on a path near the high school where she teaches social studies. Nearby, a few students were warming up for track and eld practice. e team’s coach spotted his colleague and shouted, “ ere’s Mrs. Cooke!” and the students waved.
It was like any high school in America. e school’s colors — navy and white — accented the track as teens ran, stretched and laughed. Behind them, the word “Rebels” was painted on a shed near the eld. A coach blew a whistle and the kids came into a huddle, as others walked through the nearby parking lot with backpacks on.
But unlike other high schools in America, this scene happened close to a memorial with the names of 12 students and a teacher who were killed in a mass shooting on April 20, 1999.
Cooke sometimes gets concerned reactions when she tells people she works at Columbine High School.
“I still have teacher friends who are like, ‘I don’t know how you walk into that building,’” Cooke said.
She probably gets asked this question more than some other teachers, as Cooke is a survivor of the shooting. She was a sophomore at Columbine in 1999.
Twenty- ve years later, she works alongside several other survivors, hoping to support and care for students in the same way teachers and sta supported and cared for them in the wake of the tragedy.
Cooke works with friends she grew up with, including fellow teacher Cris Welsh and Noel Sudano, a school counselor.
Cooke and Welsh went to preschool together, and Cooke took piano lessons from Sudano’s
mom. ey all attended Dutch Creek Elementary School and then graduated together from Columbine in 2001. All three now live in the same neighborhood, where they are raising their own kids.
A similar call led them all back to their high school.
For Welsh, who teaches social studies, there was no other choice.
“I wanted to be there for my students in the same way that teachers had been there for me — I wanted to kind of pay that forward,” Welsh said.
In a time of “total, complete chaos,” he said, the teachers at Columbine represented stability. He drew a lot of strength from his relationships with his teachers in the months and years that followed the tragedy.
“ ey had gone through exactly what we had gone through,” he said. “ ey showed us kindness,
and consideration and compassion at a moment where so much of that seemed to be lacking in the world … I think, in each of us, there was a desire to extend that to another generation in what, regrettably, seems like an increasingly unstable world.”
Sudano said the adults at school were willing to show students their humanity, which was healing for her. One teacher, who was usually rather intimidating, gave her a hug a few days after the shooting.
“I just remember thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, this helps me understand the magnitude of what we went through,’” she said. “And, it also helped me feel that safety of like — even this authority gure, we’re all in the same situation, and we can all depend on each other.”
ese connections, the trio said, were a critical part of the healing journey for not just them, but
many of the Columbine survivors.
“Our generation grew up where we could only process through genuine communication with each other,” Welsh said. “And I think it made a big di erence.”
He said he wonders if social media — with its inherent social pressures and opportunities for criticism and damaging words — has prevented some victims of school shootings from processing their experiences e ectively.
“I would not want to have posted my opinions and ideas and emotions online for the world to see” after the shooting, he said. “I wanted friends, not the world.”
Because of the closeness and familiarity of being among people who understood what she had gone through, Cooke said she remembers never wanting to leave the Littleton area after she graduated.
“I was so comfortable because we bonded and came together, and I knew I was protected there,” she said. “And then, I knew going to school in Fort Collins, I wasn’t.”
Cooke started college at Colorado State University. She said the rst page of her psychology textbook was about the Columbine shooting.
“Going out of that bubble was very di cult for me,” she said.
Sudano had a similar experience as an undergraduate student at DePauw University in Indiana, where she learned “very quickly how just saying the word ‘Columbine’ triggered all sorts of reactions.”
Cooke, Welsh and Sudano said the students who attend Columbine are generally aware of the history, but mostly don’t think about it unless adults mention it. For them, Columbine is just their school. Going there is “not something that seems abnormal to
them until people around them tell them that it is abnormal,” Sudano said.
“I think their rst thought is not the shooting,” Welsh said. “ eir rst thought is, you know, the history test that I just made them take.”
So, for all three, working at Columbine is not strange. In the decades since the tragedy, they have come to know it as a tight-knit, service-oriented — and otherwise completely regular — high school.
“It was a high school, it always has been,” Welsh said. “If there is any special nature to Columbine, it has been the family or community atmosphere that we have created. It’s been the desire to aid and support and service others. If there is a di erence between us and other high schools, that’s it.”
Welsh said Columbine has been portrayed in many negative ways by the media. He, Cooke and Sudano said they want people to see Columbine as a wonderful place instead of the site of a national tragedy.
e Columbine community re-
members and honors the victims, but they do it in a way that is forward-thinking and hopeful, they said.
Sudano said she wants people to know that Columbine is “a school that’s thriving.” e employees say they don’t let the shooting de ne their experience there.
“It is such a hub in our community for everybody, kids and adults,” Cooke said. “( ey) go to basketball games, go to football games. It’s just such a rallying point for me, that I don’t think of the shooting every single day.”
“We have a job to do,” Welsh added. “I can’t be thinking about my students and getting ready for the AP test or whatever it is we’re focused on at the moment if I’m constantly obsessing about the past. I’m not saying it’s not there, to a certain extent, but you don’t walk in and immediately have ashbacks to April 20.”
Cooke said the employees are in a place where they are ready to never forget, but still move on with their lives. She is a mother and wants to spend her time and
energy focusing on her kids.
“I’m in a really good place in my life,” she said. “I don’t want to be sad.”
Her kids — who are in fth and seventh grade — look forward to going to Columbine someday.
It’s a place where students study for history tests and do chemistry experiments. ey laugh in the hallways and are late to class. Students change in the locker rooms for practice after school and look forward to things like football games and prom.
Columbine is like any high school in America, only it is stronger than it was before 1999. To Welsh, the school is a symbol of hope.
“We exist to extend the notion that one can recover,” he said. “ at the awful things that happened to us are outside of our control, but how we respond to those awful things is totally within our control … If you are determined to overcome the things that happen to you, you can do it. ere are people out there who have done it, and you need to look to them.”
In her home in Parker, Cindy Woodman gazed at trinkets that people sent to her daughter, Crystal Woodman Miller, following the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School. On the walls and a large wooden bookshelf — surrounding the ornaments, small sculptures and decorative boxes — paintings showcase columbine owers.
When Cindy looks at the knick knacks in her “Columbine Room,” named for both her favorite ora and the high school, they sometimes remind her of the day that would change their lives forever.
“Just to walk through there every single day is just a quick reminder, but it’s not that it puts me in pain or agony — it’s a happy reminder that I still have Crystal,” Cindy said.
Although the interview with Columbine survivor Crystal was conducted through FaceTime, her emotion was felt as she nodded in agreement with her mother and delved into the intricacies of how her life was in uenced after she went to school on April 20, 1999.
“I am so much of who I am today because of what I went through,” Crystal said. “ ough I am not de ned by Columbine, I am more of the woman, the mom, the wife, the friend, the philanthropist, the speaker, the author that I am today because of what happened that day.”
After the tragedy, Crystal had a decision to make: Fall apart or forge ahead. She chose the latter, and embarked on a journey that has spanned decades, where she helps the “survivors community.”
At the beginning of her journey, following the shooting, Crystal started sharing her story and eventually found her voice.
source for others,” Crystal said. “My work has been toward that e ort for almost 25 years, and so I want to continue to walk with this community and link arms with them and let them know that they’re not alone.”
Over the last several years, she’s been a speaker at schools and communities impacted by shootings. In addition, she’s assisted in opening a therapy retreat for survivors of mass shootings.
Additionally, Crystal has written three books: “Marked for Life,” which is about her journey, and two children’s books: “A Kids Book About School Shootings” and “A Kids Book About School Shootings: For Survivors.”
Her children’s books o er tools and advice for both students who survived a shooting or other trauma and parents and other adults to help them talk with children.
Crystal said among other things in her life, her experience at Columbine has impacted her perspective as a mother.
“Because of my perspective on life and how I view each day as a gift, I love being a mom and I love that I am given the opportunity in life to be able to raise and shape these young people to go far beyond anywhere I’ve been,” Crystal said.
As a mother, Crystal said she takes on the joy and responsibility to teach her children “what it looks like to live courageously in a crazy world.”
“I know what it’s like to have fear so rip your life that you can become paralyzed, and I want my kids to not have to walk through that,” Crystal said.
Crystal was thinking of her children and her perspective as a teenager in 1999 when writing her books. She wanted to re ect how she would address things with her children and how issues were addressed when she was younger.
“As school shootings and mass shootings became more commonplace, I saw myself really
starting to respond and just be there for others and to just be a re-
“We want to make sure kids are talking about the hard things and we’re giving them the language and the space to do so,” Crystal said. “We want to give them tools when they face their little fears and anxiety and we want to empower them to use their voice.”
Crystal said she has shared pieces of her story with her children and will continue to do so until they’re ready to hear it completely.
Cindy’s perspective
Cindy said the weeks and months following the shooting were hard for Crystal and their family, but over time, she saw Crystal overcome.
“I went through my tough times after that, but Crystal was always strong. She would amaze me,” Cindy said.
the screen, with tears in her eyes.
Like Crystal, Cindy said the Columbine shooting in uenced a lot of elements in her life.
“I am a di erent person today than I would’ve been had I not gone through that, and I think overall I am a better person because of that,” Cindy said. “I think one of the biggest things I mostly just learned is that I need to give myself grace.”
More to know
Crystal listened to Cindy’s words through Facetime during the interview happening at her home.
“I thank God that we still have her,” Cindy said while looking at her daughter, on the other side of
As a survivor of the Columbine shooting, Crystal said she has been “asked every question under the sun” about that day.
“I think the thing that I like to tell of (is) the hope and the goodness,” Crystal said. “I like to tell of the stories of resilience and the stories who’ve gone on to be impacted greatly, but have gone on to make an impact greatly.”
“He’s the reason today that schools all over this country are able to move forward after tragedy,” said John McDonald, who was the executive director of school safety for Je co Public Schools from 2008 to 2022.
DeAngelis recognizes that his community leaned on him for hope and survival, but said this relationship went two ways.
Crystal believes various elements have led to this point including families, culture, the media, guns and mental health.
“Just talking about one facet isn’t the end date of a much deeper, much greater conversation,” she said. “So, we really need to come to the table not screaming and yelling at each other because I think we’re closer on the issues than we are apart.”
For Crystal, it’s hard to visit communities and see that these tragedies keep happening.
“It’s so heartbreaking that this continues to be an epidemic that has swept the world,” Crystal said. “ at there’s countless … people who’ve had to now experience this — people who know the pain, who know the heartache.”
“People said that Columbine really needed me — I needed them,” he said. “If I would have gone somewhere else, I would always be concerned about them.”
Since retiring in 2014, DeAngelis has dedicated his life and career to helping others face tragedy in their own lives. He is a member of the Principal Recovery Network, a group of “current and former school leaders who have experi-
During her senior year, following the shooting, Crystal said she felt the community really come together.
Crystal now lives in Edmond, Oklahoma and she explained that the teachers, administrators and faculty of Columbine High School created a camaraderie and closeness that continues to reign in the hallways of the school today.
enced gun violence tragedies in their buildings” across the country.
“You can’t determine what happens to you, but you can determine your response,” DeAngelis said. “No one would ever wish that a Columbine (would) happen, but it did. And, so, how can I go out and help others?”
In the 25 years since the shooting at Columbine, mass shootings at schools have become tragically common.
DeAngelis has reached out to other school leaders in the wake of some of those tragedies, sharing advice on things that helped him — like going to counseling, nding a support system and taking care of one’s family and spouse.
umbine’ echoes in the halls of our school and in our hearts forever.”
Cindy said to this day, people will ask her how she and Crystal are doing and she’s grateful for the thoughtfulness of the community.
“ at just says how wonderful the community is,” Cindy said. “ at they still remember and they still have a heart for it all and still feel the pain and joy of it.”
“Our kids were on trajectory to go there,” Crystal said. “ ey were in the Columbine school district and there was a lot of pride even in my kids, sporting their Columbine sweatshirts and T-shirts, going to the football games and still showing up at Columbine because we love Columbine. ‘We are Col-
“I just talk about my journey and taking care of yourself,” he said. “(I talk) about where we were and lessons learned, but then also the recovery piece.”
Crystal said it’s important to remember that not all stories are “bright and cheery and happy.”
“ ere’s a lot of pain and people are still hurting deeply so we can’t forget those who are still thinking about it every single day,” Crystal said.
Crystal encourages people, especially in the Columbine community, to continue to reach out and support each other.
“Don’t do it alone, and know there are still people ghting on their behalf, love them and are here for them,” Crystal said. “We don’t forget the 13 beautiful lives that were lost. We don’t forget their families. We don’t forget to remember them because we carry them with us every single day. We carry their stories. We carry their legacies.”
the school for so many years, and what still drives his work in supporting and educating others today.
DeAngelis lives by his own advice. He still goes to counseling to take care of his well-being. Getting help and leaning on others are the main pieces of advice he gives to people recovering after tragedies.
“You’re not in the journey alone,” he said.
He said his remembrance of the 13 victims each morning helps drive him forward.
“ ey give me a reason to do what I’m doing,” he said.
He is also part of the Je Co/ DeAngelis Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting school and community safety. DeAngelis travels around the country, sharing wisdom with rst responders, administrators and students.
Part of the foundation, the Frank DeAngelis Center for Community Safety, trains law enforcement and school safety o cials to respond to emergencies in a real school environment. e center conducts about 200 training sessions a year, he said.
DeAngelis said his Catholic faith is a large part of what drives his work. He said there is no clear reason why his life was spared, but he believes God has a plan for it. at’s what drove him to stay at
He laments the world’s obsession with returning to the topic of the shooting at the school. DeAngelis said Columbine and the community that surrounds it, including its alumni, are focused on helping others, moving forward and working to make the world better.
Although he is not the principal anymore, DeAngelis is still intimately involved with the school and its community.
“I can assure you, 25 years later, our community is stronger than what it was,” he said. “Because that’s what happens when families go through troubled times or tragedy — they come together.”
In the late 1960s, a handful of artists in Littleton made a decision that would lay a foundation for the Littleton arts community for decades to come.
ey had been meeting in homes and other buildings for years to make art together, but when they learned the Santa Fe Depot, a train depot, was at risk of being destroyed after the train ceased its route through Littleton, the artists saw potential in it. ey created a plan to save the building and secured local funding to restore it.
Today, the Depot Art Gallery sits by the courthouse near downtown Littleton, moved just a couple of blocks north of the train depot’s original location. Now a Colorado Historic Landmark, the depot is full of paintings, sculptures, photographs and more.
In its current show, the gallery celebrates 62 years of artists meeting together to create and the building’s role as a hub for Littleton artists.
e gallery is owned by the City of Littleton and managed by the Littleton Fine Arts Guild, a group that’s grown from its original 10 artists to over 60 members today. Artists are juried into the guild and volunteer
their time to run the gallery, which o ers a free space for Littleton community members to enjoy art.
At a recent reception, artists gathered to appreciate each other’s work and honor the building’s history and the guild’s legacy.
“( e original guild) was just people that wanted to paint — and the same spirit is alive today, of pursuing (art) and making it better,” said Peggy Dietz, who has been a part of the guild for over 20 years.
Beyond painters, the guild includes people who sculpt, make jewelry, photograph, draw and more. For many of them, being part of the group has helped them develop as an artist.
“I think being a part of something like this is so nice, to be able to share your art with other artists,” said Pat Foster, who joined the guild last year. “I think there’s a lot of good artists in here, so I think you learn from other artists.”
Others highlighted the importance of the friendships they’ve made through the guild.
“As you get older, it’s harder to make friends, so that’s really good,” said Ivy Delon, who has been in the guild for about seven years. “And they’re other artist friends — so, you know, you have your family, you have your yoga friends, and then you have your artist friends.”
During the event, guild members presented Sonya Ellingboe a commemorative award for her contributions to the arts community, long-
time guild membership and gallery support.
A former writer for the Littleton Independent, Ellingboe’s life has been distinguished by her involvement and leadership in many of the city’s important civic and arts institutions.
“All your writing about the guild and about the depot really kept us a oat,” Dietz said to Ellingboe at the event, thanking her for how she made artists feel when she wrote about their work.
When Ellingboe joined the guild, she had one child and another on the way.
“I was kind of con ned at home with little ankle-biters,” she said. “ is was just my savior — to be able to come talk to adults about painting for a day, every so often, and do some painting myself.”
When the guild started rehabilitat-
ing the building, Ellingboe said she remembers spending part of the day painting, and then the group would “come over and scrub for a while.” She said she also remembers waiting in line for the gallery’s rst-ever exhibit.
“It’s been kind of a standard in my life … since the mid-50s, and it’s been a big part of my life, so I’m glad to see you all supporting it,” she said. “ ose of you who are members — it’s great, stay with it.”
At 93, Ellingboe said she still enjoys watercolor painting. She encouraged the current members to continue embracing art in their lives. Beyond just making it, she encouraged them to support other artists.
“My message to you all is to go out and buy art,” Ellingboe said. “Don’t stay home watching TV.”
e gallery’s 62nd Anniversary Show, which includes 45 pieces of art from guild members, will be on display until May 18. e gallery is open from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. TuesdaysSundays.
It was another strong season for Englewood High School’s wrestlers, and for two young ladies on the team, it’s a historically successful
Sophomore Maile Manfre and senior Mieke Waanders both made history on the mat for the Englewood Pirates, becoming the rst girls in school history to qualify for state in wrestling under CHSAA’s newly sanctioned women’s division. e girls both competed in the state competition in February but
didn’t bring home any state titles this year. Still, their accomplishments are a monumental step in the future direction of the school’s wrestling program.
“It’s kind of unreal to think about,” Manfre said.
e two wrestlers each established qualifying for the state competition as an individual goal of theirs before the season, and it means a lot to them to have achieved the feat sideby-side.
“It feels really good, I’m glad Maile and I got to be there with me and that we got to do that together,” said Waanders.
Waanders’ journey on the wrestling mat was brief, yet rewarding. She didn’t take up wrestling until
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her junior year after being convinced by her softball teammates to try out for the team. It wasn’t easy in the beginning. She said her success wasn’t seamless.
“I started out and didn’t do very well. I lost every match,” Waanders said.
ings took o for Waanders once her hard work began resulting in match wins.
“Once I won a couple [of matches], I saw what hard work could get me, and I was kind of hooked on it and was determined to keep working hard,” she said.
Manfre, the younger but more experienced wrestler of the two, also had her ups and downs but always persevered stronger than she had before. Additionally, having two siblings involved with the program gives her the extra con dence to compete.
“My family gives me a lot of motivation to wrestle, and reminds me that I’m not just doing this for myself,” Manfre said.
Family and community are important cultural building blocks, and it’s a sentiment that Waanders was able to quickly identify upon joining the team.
“ ey’re a really tight-knit group of people,” Waanders said. “A lot of them have been wrestling together in a program with the same coaches since they were in elementary, and so I sort of hopped in on that and they were very welcoming. It just
Girls wrestling has only been a sanctioned CHSAA event since the 2021 season. As the state history books are gradually lled out for the sport over time, it’s exciting and important to the community of Englewood that Manfre and Waanders achieved this feat so early in the program’s history.
As Head Coach Trey Jackson explains, “ is year has been a fantastic building year, and I think we can get a lot more interest in the program moving forward because of the success the girls have had this year.”
Waanders is preparing to graduate in May and will attend Colorado Mesa University. She said she most
learned about herself while wrestling for the Englewood program.
“Wrestling made me more futurefocused and goal-oriented, and it kind of inspired me in and outside of wrestling,” Waanders said. “If I want something, I need to work hard and I can get there, but it’s always obtainable.”
Manfre on the other hand still has two full years ahead of her and is determined to continue her development on the mat.
She hopes that if she keeps her nose to the grindstone, she can add her name to the exclusive list of Englewood state champions. Jackson is con dent she can get there with
“I think with her level of experience and skillset, it’s not outside of the realm of possibilities that [Maile] places on the podium at state next year,” said Jackson.
As for the Englewood wrestling program, Jackson is excited to see what next year holds. He hopes Manfre and Waanders’ accomplishments for the team lead other young girls to the program.
“I hope their success will lead other girls to the program who might’ve formally thought that wrestling was a boys’ sport,” Jackson said. “ ere’s a lot of valuable life lessons that people can learn from wrestling, and I think Maile and Mieke’s success is going to be huge going forward.”
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By:Christina Lovelace, CMC Interim City ClerkLegal Notice No. Arap2008
First Publication: April 18, 2024
Last Publication: April 18, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent & Centennial Citizen
Public Notice
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for the City of Aurora and Unincorporated Areas of Arapahoe County, Colorado, Case No. 23-08-0403P. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) solicits technical information or comments on proposed flood hazard determinations for the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community. These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway. The FIRM and, if applicable, the FIS report have been revised to reflect these flood hazard determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to adopt or show evidence of having in effect to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. For more information on the proposed flood hazard determinations and information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, please visit FEMA’s website at https://www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/BFE_Status/bfe_main.asp , or call the FEMA Mapping and Insurance eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877-FEMA MAP (1-877-336-2627).
Legal Notice No. 532769
First Publication: April 11, 2024
Last Publication: April 18, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice
CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
NOTICE
80112 at the above noted date and time.
Further information concerning the proposed Ordinance may be obtained by e-mailing centennialplanning@centennialco.gov or calling the City of Centennial Community Development Department at 303-754-3308.
Legal Notice No. Arap2007 First Publication: April 18, 2024
By:Christina Lovelace, CMC Interim City ClerkFailure on the part of a claimant to file such statement prior to the final settlement date and time will relieve the City of Englewood from all and any liability of such claim as provided by law.
Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-26-107, the General Contractor, PG Arnold Construction, LLC. and all contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, vendors and manufacturers who have provided any materials or labor in connection with this construction project, are hereby notified that Final Settlement on this construction project is scheduled for April 29, 2024. Final settlement
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all interested parties that the necessity has arisen to amend the District’s 2023 Budget; that a copy of the proposed Amended 2023 Budget is on file in the offices of Collins Cole Flynn Winn & Ulmer, PLLC, 165 S. Union Blvd., Suite 785, Lakewood, Colorado, telephone number 303-218-7198, where the same is available for inspection by the public Monday through Friday during normal business hours, (i.e., 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.).
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Board of Directors of the Polo Reserve Metropolitan District, will consider the adoption of the proposed amendment of the 2023 Budget at a public hearing to be conducted during a regular meeting to be held at 4481 W. Caspian Circle, Littleton, Colorado 80128 on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 6:30 p.m.
Any interested elector of the Polo Reserve Metropolitan District may inspect the proposed 2023 Budget Amendment and file or register any objections or comments thereto at any time prior to the final adoption of the Budget.
Dated this 9th day of April, 2024.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County, Colorado shall make final settlement with Hyder Construction Inc. for its work completed for Arapahoe County on the project identified as Coroner’s Office Remodel. The work generally consisted of tenant finish services to include demo and remodel of interior office space. Final Settlement will be made on April 30, 2024.
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 Hyder Construction Inc. or any of its subcontractors, or that has supplied rental machinery, tools or equipment to the extent used by Hyder Construction Inc. or any of its subcontractors in or about the performance of the work done for the above-described project whose claim therefore has not been paid by Hyder Construction Inc. or any of its subcontractors may file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid with the Arapahoe County Attorney’s Office (on behalf of the Board of County Commissioners) at 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, CO 80120, at any time up to and including April 29, 2024.
This Notice is published in accordance with Section 38-26-107 of C.R.S., and all claims, if any, shall be filed in accordance with this statutory section. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement and/or claim prior to the aforementioned date for filing claims shall release Arapahoe County, its officers, agents and employees from any or all liability, claims, and suits for payment due from Hyder Construction Inc.
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WEST METRO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT
Legal Notice No. 532786 First Publication: April 11, 2024
Notice is hereby given that Littleton Public Schools in the county of Arapahoe will on May 21, 2024 pay retainage and make final settlement with FCI
NAMED ABOVE:
You are summoned and required to file with the Clerk of this Court an answer or other response to the attached Complaint within twenty-one (21) days after this summons is served on you in the State of Colorado, or within thirty-five (35) days after this summons is served on you outside the State of Colorado, or within sixty-three (63) days after this summons is served upon the United States or one of its agencies.
If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within the applicable time period, judgment by default may be entered against you by the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, without any further notice to you.
The following documents are also served with this Summons: Complaint in Foreclosure, Lis Pendens and District Civil Case Cover Sheet.
DATE: 01/17/24
TOBEY & JOHNSTON, P.C.
By:
This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4, C.R.C.P., as amended.
A copy of the Complaint must be served with this Summons. This form should not be used where service by publication is desired.
WARNING: A VALID SUMMONS MAY BE ISSUED BY A LAWYER AND IT NEED NOT CONTAIN A COURT CASE NUMBER, THE SIGNATURE OF A COURT OFFICER, OR A COURT SEAL. THE PLAINTIFF HAS 14 DAYS FROM THE DATE THIS SUMMONS WAS SERVED ON YOU TO FILE THE CASE WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTACTING THE COURT TO FIND OUT WHETHER THE CASE HAS BEEN FILED AND OBTAIN THE CASE NUMBER. IF THE PLAINTIFF FILES THE CASE WITHIN THIS TIME, THEN YOU MUST RESPOND AS EXPLAINED IN THIS SUMMONS. IF THE PLAINTIFF FILES MORE THAN 14 DAYS AFTER THE DATE THE SUMMONS WAS SERVED ON YOU, THE CASE MAY BE DISMISSED UPON MOTION AND YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO SEEK ATTORNEY’S FEES FROM THE PLAINITFF.
Regarding: Lot 2, Block 7, Copper Ridge Subdivision, Filing No. 1, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.
Also known and numbered as: 17277 E Ford Dr, Aurora CO 80017
TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS,
Please take notice:
You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff’s Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Unit of Sheriff’s Office of Arapahoe County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the
contract for the construction of the above-referenced project. Any person, co-partnership, an association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by the contractor identified above or any subcontractor thereof in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that has supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractor or subcontractor, may in accord with section 38-26-107 (1) C.R.S., file with the Director of Finance, City of Englewood, Colorado, a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim, which statement must be filed on or before April 30, 2024.
Claims must be submitted to Kevin Engels, Fi-
claims must be timely filed with Littleton Public Schools. Failure on the part of the claimant to file such statement prior to or on the established date will relieve the School District from any and all liability for such claim, Dated: April 18, 2024.
38-33.3-316 C.R.S., together with all other payments provided for in the Declaration or by Colorado Statute secured by the Assessment Lien.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN:
Condominium Unit 4 in Building 1 QUAIL RUN CONDOMINIUMS PHASE 1 according to the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions recorded November 3, 1983 in Book 4009 at Page 522 said Condominium is further depicted and described by the Condominiur map of Discovery at Quail Run Phase I recorded November 15, 1983 in Book 70 at Pages 4-9 in the records of the Clerk and Recorders office of Arapahoe County, State of Colorado.
ALSO KNOWN AND NUMBERED AS: 1100-D South Waco Street Aurora, Colorado 80017
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that at 10:00 o’clock A.M. on June 6, 2024, at the Office of the Arapahoe County Sheriff at 13101 E Broncos Pkwy Centennial, CO 80112, phone number 720-874-3845, the sheriff will sell to the highest and best bidder the real property described above, and the improvements thereon. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale.
**BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO BRING CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT TIME OF SALE**
The name, bar registration number, address, and telephone number of the attorney is: Richard W. Johnston, Reg. No. 19823, Tobey & Johnston, P.C., 56 Inverness Drive East., Suite 103, Englewood, CO 80112, and telephone number (303) 799-8600.
DATE: March 5, 2024 Tyler S. Brown, Sheriff Arapahoe County, Colorado By: Sgt. Trent Steffa Deputy Sheriff
take notice:
of you are hereby notified that a
**BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH
THIS MATTER coming on before the Court upon the motion of the Plaintiff styled “Motion for Revivor of Judgment,” and the Court having read said motion and now being duly apprised in the premises, NOW THEREFORE
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED the Clerk of this Court shall, and is ordered and directed to, issue to Defendant, KRISTOPHER JOSEPH MILANO, the “Notice to Show Cause Pursuant to CRCP 354(h)” requiring said Defendant to show cause within 14 (fourteen) days from the service of such Notice, pursuant to CRCP 354(h), if any he/she has, why the Judgment heretofore entered in this matter on May 7, 2018 shall not be revived with like force and effect.
WHEREAS, Plaintiff has moved this Court pursuant to CRCP 354(h) to revive the Judgment entered in the instant matter on, May 7, 2018 NOW THEREFORE
IT IS ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED, that Plaintiff, Autovest, L.L.C. , shall have and take of defendant KRISTOPHER JOSEPH MILANO Judgment in the instant matter on this date with like force and effect as on the date the Judgment was entered heretofore on May 7, 2018.
Defendant shall show cause within fourteen (14) days from the service of this “Notice to Show Cause Pursuant to CRCP 354(h)”, if any the Defendant has, why the Judgment heretofore entered should not be revived with like force and effect.
Attorney for Plaintiff
referenced property is to be conducted by the Sheriff’s Office of Arapahoe County, State of Colorado at 13101 E Broncos Pkwy, Centennial CO 80112 on the 6th day of June, 2024 at 10:00am. At which sale, the above-described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. All bidders will be required to have in their possession cash or certified funds at least equal to the amount of the judgment creditor’s bid. Please telephone 720-874-3845 two business days prior to the sale to ascertain the amount of this bid. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY.
To: John Doe
Re: Matter No. 24DR30496
Pursuant to C.R.C.P. 4(f), C.R.S. §14-10-105, and C.R.S. §14-10-123, you are hereby notified that the Petitioner,
the claims may be forever barred.
Leslie Kancir, Personal Representative c/o Solem, Woodward & McKinley, P.C. 750 W. Hampden Ave, Suite 505 Englewood, Colorado 80110
Legal Notice No. 532774
First Publication: April 11, 2024
Last Publication: April 25, 2024
Publisher: Littleton Independent
NOTICE
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before Monday, August 5, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.
Billy B. Peterson, Personal Representative 11 Camino de Brazos Santa Fe, NM 87540
Legal Notice No. 532756
Notice is given that on February 23, 2023, in the Circuit Court of Pennington County, South Dakota, Daniel Tetrault, whose address is 3977 Pintlar Avenue, Spearfish, SD 57783, was appointed as Personal Representative of the estate of the above-named decedent. A Motion for Determination of Heirs and Approval of Proposed Distributions in the above entitled matter has been filed and will be scheduled for a hearing at the Pennington County courthouse in Rapid City, South Dakota. All heirs, unknown heirs, and heirs named in any Will that is being, or has been, probated, or offered for informal or formal probate in the county, and all persons who have any interest in the above entitled matter who are either unknown or whose addresses are unknown are further notified that if you fail to file an objection to the Motion within thirty (30) days after the date of this publication, your objections may be barred. Objections may be filed with the personal representative or may be filed with the clerk of courts with a copy of the objection mailed to the personal representative.
Dated this 22nd day of March, 2024.
GUNDERSON, PALMER, NELSON & ASHMORE, LLP
By: /s/ Lisa K. Cagle Lisa
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