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Meth exposure poses low risk to public Health o cials say

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

With the list of Colorado libraries that temporarily closed due to methamphetamine contamination at three locations, some residents asked: What’s the health risk of people who were recently in these spaces?

In late December, Boulder Public Library became the rst to temporarily close after testing found levels of meth in its restroom exhaust vents. Later, several areas of the Boulder RTD station closed due to contamination as well.

Racial

Black Coloradans often face barriers in homeownership

the applicants visited properties, landlords denied their applications. is happened over and over again.

BY NINA JOSS AND HALEY LENA NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM; HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A few years ago, Aurora Warms the Night, an Aurora-based nonpro t serving people who need housing, ran into a challenge when assisting its Black clients in applying for apartments. When

So the team decided to take a di erent approach, sending in White volunteers to check out the apartments rst.

“I would send one of our employees or people that were White to look at the apartment — to get the pricing, get everything, to make sure everything was available,” said Brian Arnold, who was executive director of the group at

the time ve years ago. “After that, we did the application online and sent it in without them being able to see the person.”

Once the application got approved, the team at Aurora Warms the Night would let the real estate agents see the client was Black. Arnold said this process worked almost every time and became the organization’s own way of making a dent in the discrimination that people of color may face, but nd

On Jan. 11, the Englewood Public Library and portions of the Englewood Civic Center temporarily closed after test results found meth contamination.

Most recently, Littleton’s Bemis Public Library temporarily closed Jan. 18 after testing found elevated levels of meth contamination in several bathrooms.

Meth is a highly addictive stimulant drug that is commonly either ingested, smoked or injected, said Eric Hill, an emergency medicine physician and the EMS medical director for the Medical Center of Aurora.

However, experts say the risk that secondary meth contamination in public spaces poses to the public is fairly low.

“We don’t have any data to say that there’s a high public health risk from

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Police search for man in string of bank robberies

$2,000 reward o ered

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Several metro Denver law enforcement agencies are seeking help identifying a suspect who they believe robbed four banks earlier this month.

e morning of Jan. 9, a suspect robbed the Chase Bank at 7605 W. 88th Ave. in Westminster. e fol-

lowing morning, the same person is suspected of robbing three more banks, including the First Bank at 8901 E. Hampden Ave. in Denver and US Bank at 8441 W. Bowles Ave. and First Bank at 6701 S. Wadsworth Blvd. in unincorporated Je erson County.

An FBI crime alert  described the suspect as a white male in his 20s between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-10 tall. He has a slender build, dark hair, brown eyes, “stubble” facial hair and black eyeglasses with a thick frame,

according to the alert.

e suspect approached the teller, made a verbal demand for money, threatened the teller and then ed the bank, the alert said.

e suspect did not display a weapon, according to a Facebook post from the Je erson County Sheri ’s O ce.

Images of the suspect show him wearing di erent baseball caps and jackets or hoodies during robberies.  e FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Metro Denver

Crime Stoppers are working with local police agencies on the case. e FBI is involved because the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which insures deposits, is considered a victim, said FBI Denver spokesperson Vikki Migoya.

Anyone with information on the suspect is encouraged to call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at (720) 913-7867, 24-hour anonymous tip line. Callers could earn up to $2,000 for information that helps solve the crimes.

Expanded preschool program received 12,000 applications

BY ERICA BREUNLIN THE COLORADO SUN

Close to 12,000 applicants signed up for the state’s expanded preschool program Tuesday, the rst day parents could enroll their child ahead of the program’s start this fall.

e number of applications is a promising sign for the new program and is prompting state o cials to rethink the number of children who will enroll.

“We’re pleasantly surprised,” said Lisa Roy, executive director of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood. “It exceeded our expectations for the rst day. We think it’s an excellent indicator of family interest” in the state’s expanded preschool program, known as “universal preschool.”

e department originally projected about 30,000 kids would opt into the state program during its rst year, about half the number of kids who will be eligible, Chalkbeat Colorado rst reported. State o cials largely based that estimate on enrollment numbers across the country and from the Denver preschool program, Roy said.

“Colorado is giving us an indicator that our initial projections are lower

than what the uptake will be,” she said. “And that’s exciting. We have the funding. We need to make sure that … by the fall we have the seats available, and based on the provider uptake, we look like we’re in really great shape.”

So far, 1,477 child care providers have submitted forms to o er services through the preschool program, with another nearly 1,000 forms that providers have started but not yet submitted, according to the department. Based on the number of providers who plan to participate in the program, 60,000 slots are available for kids, nearly double the department’s initial expectation, said Melissa Mares, director of early childhood initiatives for the Colorado Children’s Campaign.

e rst round of applications for families closes Feb. 14, but the expanded preschool program is not rst come, rst served. Instead, the department will evaluate all families’ applications at the same time and use an analytics system that will consider a variety of factors when matching families to preschool settings — including home-based, center-based and school-based programs. ose factors include transportation, whether families want a full day of preschool and whether a

No evidence of rat poisoning at Taco Bell

Investigation ongoing

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After an initial investigation into whether Taco Bell employees put rat poison in food given to a customer, the Arapahoe County Sheri ’s O ce said it has found no evidence that employees did so.

In a Jan. 20 news release, the sheri ’s o ce said on Jan. 15 at approximately 1 p.m., deputies responded to a “report of a disturbance” at the Taco Bell located at 16700 E. Smoky Hill Road.

Deputies found a verbal altercation had occurred between Taco Bell employees and a customer in the drive-through after the customer, who had ordered several soft tacos and a soda, was told the soda dispenser was not working, according to the release.

e customer, a male, reportedly became angry and requested a burrito to replace the soda. e employees initially told him they could not do that exchange, but he “continued to argue with sta until he was given a burrito in place of the drink,” the sheri ’s o ce said in the release. Deputies found no criminal activity had occurred, per the release.

Later that day at approximately 7:50 p.m., deputies were dispatched to an area hospital after receiving a report that a male patient was admitted to the hospital and told sta he ate food that had rat poison in it,

according to the release.

Deputies spoke with the patient and found it was the same customer from the Taco Bell incident earlier that day.

e customer reportedly told deputies he ate his tacos around 7 p.m. and he “immediately felt a burning in his mouth and began to vomit,” according to the release. He then called 911 and was taken to the hospital.

According to the release, while at the hospital, deputies saw the taco he took a bite out of and “saw a greenish-gray substance in the taco,” the sheri ’s o ce said in the release. Lab tests con rmed rat poison was in the taco.

e customer gave deputies consent to enter his home and retrieve the remaining food as evidence, and Taco Bell was immediately closed as investigators went to the restaurant to process the scene, per the release.

e sheri ’s o ce said Taco Bell “was very helpful during the investigation and turned over all videos from inside the building.”

Investigators went through video footage of the Taco Bell and found no evidence that the employees were responsible for placing the rat poison in the food given to the customer, according to the release.

Investigators have also been struggling to reach the customer.

e sheri ’s o ce said investigators have been trying to contact the customer via phone but have not been able to speak with him, and when they went to his home on Jan.

19, there was no answer.

“Although there is no evidence that the employees at Taco Bell put the rat poison in the food, investigators can not account for how it got in the food,” the sheri ’s o ce said in the release. “If the customer has any

information that can help with the investigation into how the poison could have gotten into the food, we request he contacts the Sheri ’s Ofce.”

e case remains an open and active investigation.

one time within the first year of the term.

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Centennial honors Chief Thompson

Retires after years

After 34 years of service, Glenn ompson, Chief of the Public Safety Bureau for Arapahoe County Sheri ’s O ce, is retiring.

Centennial City Council took a moment during its Jan. 10 council meeting to pay tribute to ompson, who had been the city’s liaison for the sheri ’s o ce since 2014.

“I, personally, have had the opportunity to work with Chief ompson for a long time,” Mayor Stephanie Piko said. “It has always been a privilege to work with you, sir, and I appreciate everything that you have done.”

Piko presented to ompson a framed picture that said “Gone Fishing” with signed thank-you notes from council members, as well as a wrapped shing pole. “ ank you all so much,” ompson said. “You all have been a pleasure to work with.”

ompson’s law enforcement journey dates back to 1982, when he was 14 years old, according to the sheri ’s o ce January newsletter.

A freshman at Douglas County High School at the time, he joined the Explorer program at the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, which is an educational program for young people who want to learn more about a career in law en-

forcement.

ompson realized he wanted to become a police o cer after going on ride-alongs with his sister, who was a police o cer with the University of Colorado Boulder Police Department, according to the newsletter.

He graduated from the police academy in 1990 and began rising through the ranks, eventually becoming a lieutenant in 2007. By 2012, he was appointed captain.

In 2014, David Walcher, the Arapahoe County Sheri at the time, ap-

pointed ompson to Bureau Chief of the Public Safety Bureau, putting ompson in charge of more than 300 employees.

ompson was also responsible for managing the contract for law enforcement services for the City of Centennial — a contract worth $33 million, according to the newsletter.

Piko described ompson as reliable, forthcoming and committed to the partnership between the city and the sheri ’s o ce.

During his career, ompson also helped develop the co-responder

program, implement a new Special Response Team to assist in getting rearms and drugs o the streets, expand the School Resource O cer Unit, and launch the Uni ed Metropolitan Forensic Crime Laboratory, per the newsletter.

“Your dedication — not only to the City of Centennial, but to the entire community — is apparent in every action that you take,” Piko said. “You support us, you support the citizens. And so, we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you.”

Centennial City Council members recognized Bureau Chief Glenn Thompson during the Jan. 10 city council meeting. PHOTO BY TAYLER SHAW

Lawmakers want to eliminate all carbon emissions by 2050

Tax incentives on table

BY MICHAEL BOOTH AND JESSE PAUL COLORADO SUN

One of the boldest climate change and air pollution bills set for debate in the legislature this year would attempt to eliminate all of Colorado’s carbon emissions by 2050, set tough interim goals for greenhouse gas reduction, and try again for a 30% tax credit for clean electric lawn and garden equipment.

Denver Democratic Sen. Chris Hansen is sponsoring Senate Bill 16, which would also direct the state pension fund to use its shareholder rights to push climate change measures, o cially classify sewageto-heat exchanges as clean energy sources and speed up improvement of transmission lines to boost renewable energy production.

It’s unclear how much support Hansen’s bill will receive from the Polis administration, which at times has been reluctant to add new air pollution provisions a ecting private business beyond those under consideration by the Air Quality Control Commission. “ e governor will review bills as they move through the process,” Polis spokesman Conor Cahill said.

e governor has veto power over bills his administration does not like, but the veto is rarely used. Power dynamics at the Capitol will be tested, with relatively liberal Democrats holding even larger majorities to

bling down on climate goals they say most Coloradans already support.

“It’s a really important bill,” said Heidi Leathwood, climate policy analyst for 350 Colorado.

Directives to the Public Employees Retirement Association “start the conversation on the state not sinking more of people’s retirement money into fossil fuel projects — invest-

recommendations.

With state o cials acknowledging in late 2022 they were not on schedule to meet 2025 greenhouse gas reductions of 26%, delineating new intermediate targets before 2050 is “the best way to ensure we get there,” she said.

“We’re falling behind when it comes to meeting our current goals.

We need more investment,” Hansen said. e federal In ation Reduction Act puts real money behind changes

spectrum,” he said. “So I think we really need state policy that’s going to accelerate and take advantage of that federal action.”

Hansen is one of dozens of candidates who have declared themselves for Denver’s spring mayoral race.

Lynn Granger, Midwest and

At the 2023 Legislative Breakfast, state Sen. Faith Winter calls for more public transportation access as air pollution climbs.

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Mountain West region director for the American Petroleum Institute, said the trade group is “generally supportive” of many elements of the bill, including a provision giving the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission authority to regulate injection wells for carbon sequestration. API said it is concerned, however, about one measure “which appears to compel PERA to divest from its energy investments.”

“Colorado remains an irreplaceable foundation of American energy security, and we are con dent that the nal iteration of this e ort can coexist with that reality,” Granger said.

Hansen’s Senate Bill 16 is co-sponsored by Democratic Reps. Karen McCormick, Longmont, and Emily Sirota, Denver.

Some key measures of the multifaceted bill:

• Sets new greenhouse gas reduction goals of 65% from 2005 benchmark levels by 2035, 80% by 2040, 90% by 2045 and 100% in 2050. e state’s current greenhouse gas reduction targets from a 2019 law are set at 26% in 2025, 50% by 2030, and 90% by 2050.

• Requires the PERA board by June 1, 2024, to adopt proxy voting procedures that “ensure that the board’s voting decisions align with, and are supportive of, the statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.”

• Adds wastewater thermal energy to the de nition of “clean heat resource.” Wastewater pipes can transfer their heat to clean water pipes that circulate to heat or cool ambient air in nearby buildings. A utility could include wastewater energy in its clean heat plan led with the Public Utilities Commission. Gives the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission authority over injection wells used for seques-

tration of greenhouse gasses, in part to give state authorities “primacy” over federal rules for the Safe Drinking Water Act.

• Requires local governments to expedite review of land use applications involving the renovation, rebuilding or reconditioning transmission lines.

• Beginning in 2024, insurance companies doing business in Colorado with more than $100 million of activity must participate in and complete a national “Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey.”

• Creates a 30% tax credit for qualifying clean electric lawn and garden equipment like mowers, trimmers, and leaf or snow blowers.

e retailer would be able to claim the credit and take the amount o the price at the point of sale.

With Colorado “o the track” of its greenhouse gas reduction goals, the bill could help in “clarifying the scope and pace the state must achieve,” said Michael Hiatt, deputy managing attorney for Earthjustice’s Rocky Mountain o ce.

“But to actually achieve these goals, Colorado must accelerate its actions on climate and fully utilize the new federal funding that will make it even more a ordable for Coloradans to drive electric vehicles, install rooftop solar and energy e ciency measures, and stop burning fossil gas in their homes,” he said.

Jeremy Nichols, director of the climate and energy program for WildEarth Guardians, said “It’s encouraging to see legislative interest in reinforcing the need for major greenhouse gas reductions over the coming decades.”

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County proposes to allow accessory dwelling units

Feedback sought

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

By the summer of 2023, residents of unincorporated Arapahoe County could have a new housing option right in their backyards.

e county is proposing new zoning regulations that would allow accessory dwelling units, also known as ADUs, in unincorporated areas. ADUs are secondary, smaller living units that can be added to, created within or built adjacent to a single-family home, according to the county’s website.

After a 2021 survey to gauge community support for ADUs and several 2022 study sessions on the topic, the county developed draft regulations for the land development code adjustments. Until Feb. 1, the county is requesting public feedback on these proposed regulations through a survey on their website.

“It speaks to the county wanting to have one way to help address both the a ordability and the availability of housing,” said Project Specialist Gretchen Ricehill about the new regulations.

Adams, Elbert, Je erson and Larimer counties and Aurora, Englewood, Littleton and Sheridan all have regulations that allow ADUs within their jurisdictions, according to Arapahoe County’s website.

also in large lot residential areas of the county,” she said. “ ey are also allowed by what’s called special exception, meaning that if somebody wants to have a mother-in-law unit and they meet the zoning district requirements, then they have to go to a public hearing before the

owner, according to the county’s land development code.

“It’s di cult because that wouldn’t include a caregiver that’s not related,” Ricehill said. “And it wouldn’t include maybe an uncle.”

Proposed ADU regulations

Ricehill said the proposed regulations would expand ADU options past the mother-in-law unit rules, allowing units to be lived in by caregivers, friends or leased out to tenants. In addition, the new regulations would allow ADUs in more areas of the county.

If the new regulations are approved, both attached and detached ADUs would be permitted in all agricultural and most residential zoning districts on lots of at least 5,000 square feet, according to the county’s website. In urban areas, detached ADUs would have to be in the rear or side yard, behind the principal dwelling.

Property owners who wish at add an ADU will have to apply for a building permit to ensure the proposed unit meets regulations and speci c requirements of re districts, water and sanitation districts and utility providers, Ricehill said.

Perspectives

District 3 Commissioner Je Baker said his constituents in the eastern, more rural part of Arapahoe County have expressed strong interest in ADUs.

“( ose constituents live) usually on larger acreage, anywhere from two and a half acres to 90 acres or more,” he said. “When you have that large of a property, the accessory dwelling units seem to make a lot of sense out there.”

In his eyes, allowing ADUs would be a step towards more a ordable housing.

“Hopefully, these ADUs will be a ordable -- anything that’s a ordable is greatly appreciated,” he said. “It won’t solve everything all at once, but it’s one step in the route

to having more a ordable housing.” District 1 Commissioner Carrie

continually looking at its land use codes to make sure they promote a ordable and attainable housing.

sioners want to promote ADUs as a possible start to addressing a ordable housing but also recognize the need to make sure the ADUs t in the character of the neighborhood and are safe dwellings for the occupant,” she wrote in an email statement.

She added that the county continues to look at local and regional approaches to address the housing needs of the Arapahoe County community.

Ricehill said she has received some informal feedback from community residents in opposition to allowing ADUs. e main concern she has heard is that ADUs would increase density in the urban areas of the county.

But she thinks it would bene t the county to adopt the new regulations.

“It helps people address their needs,” she said. “Creating… an independent living space for a family member, aging parents, caregiver or just providing that extra income through rent. But it’s not going to be the only the only avenue that the county is going to use to address the a ordability and availability issues. It’s just one.”

Process

When the public comment period concludes on Feb. 1, Ricehill and her team will present the feedback at a Board of County Commissioners study session on Feb. 21. ey will revise the regulations as needed and then will begin the public hearing process with the planning commission and the Board of County Commissioners.

Ricehill encouraged people to take the survey to help the county with the process.

“ e comments that we receive really help us formulate the regulations,” she said. “We would like to regulations to work for everybody.” e survey is available at http://s. alchemer.com/s3/ADU-2023-Questions.

An Arapahoe County building at 1690 W. Littleton Boulevard.

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Economic pessimism persists among businesses

BY SARAH MULHOLLAND COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

Colorado’s business leaders are stuck in a glum mood about the economy’s prospects for the year ahead.

More than half of respondents to the Leeds Business Con dence index think the U.S. will enter a recession in the rst half of 2023. e index is a quarterly survey of business leaders that is conducted by economists at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business. In ation and rising interest rates are the leading concerns of those surveyed.

e economic forecast feels dim even though the job market is solid — the state’s unemployment rate is 3.5% — and other indicators, such as gross domestic product, are stronger

than had been anticipated a year ago. e state’s business leaders appear to be looking at their own internal numbers and seeing a slowdown, however, even if the broader data isn’t showing it yet, said Richard Wobbekind, senior economist and faculty director of CU’s business research division.

“ ere just continues to be, I think, just too much uncertainty,” Wobbekind said during a conference call with reporters Wednesday.

Respondents are feeling pessimistic about nearly all the indicators included in the index, such as sales, pro ts, hiring and capital expenditures. Indeed, more than half had a negative sales outlook for the rst quarter of 2023.

“So de nitely, in terms of sales, not pretty,” Wobbekind said. “Businesses are looking at the environment that chain problems that have wreaked havoc on U.S. businesses and con-

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The business district of downtown Denver rises above surrounding areas. Business leaders are generally sour about the near-term economic future. PHOTO BY HAVEY PRODUCTIONS

secondary meth exposure from a public space … those aren’t typically presenting to emergency departments,” Hill said, noting people may feel some symptoms but usually not severe enough that they go to the emergency room.

Physical symptoms of meth can include increased heart rate, eye irritation if there is chemical exposure in the air and a slight cough, Hill said. Psychological impacts may include paranoia, having an out-of-body experience and hallucinations.

Meth exposure could also cause increased jitteriness, irritability, fatigue, moodiness, a skin rash from irritation or trouble sleeping, said Karin Pacheco, an allergist in the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at National Jewish Health.

“But people don’t spend that much time in a bathroom,” she said. “So your actual exposure would be fairly low.”

Pacheco said the body breaks down methamphetamine quickly, so even if symptoms were to arise due to secondhand exposure, they would likely reside in one or two hours.

According to Boulder County’s website, there is a low probability of secondary exposure to methcontaminated surfaces causing someone to experience symptoms, “especially in relation to exposure in a public setting.”

Arapahoe County Public Health also said health risks to the general public are considered low.

roughout his 10 years of working in the Denver area, Hill has never seen a patient have a large symptomatic exposure from secondary meth exposure.

“ ey may get a little bit,” he said, explaining a person may feel some symptoms if someone was smoking meth near them. “But as far as causing, like, acute psychosis and that kind of stu , that’s extremely uncommon.”

Contamination in restrooms and vents

When it comes to meth contamination that has been detected in the exhaust vents and restrooms of libraries, Hill thinks the health risk is low.

“I seriously doubt someone would be symptomatic related to exhaust vent residue in an exhaust vent. It certainly means that, yes, there was methamphetamine smoked in there, but I think the public health risk is fairly low on that,” he said. “I’ve never seen one (patient), where they were just in a public bathroom, get exposure (and) having true symptoms from that.”

Pacheco agreed that the con-

tamination in air vents is likely from people smoking it, as it would be unlikely for someone to have time to cook meth in a public restroom.

Mark Stephenson, a retired hazardous materials emergency response team chief at Aurora Fire Rescue, added that surface contamination could arise from methamphetamine sitting or spilling on a surface.

Pacheco said a person would probably be more likely to get secondhand exposure from touching a surface than from breathing the air in a contaminated restroom. If meth has been smoked in a space, the aerosols can settle on surfaces.

Hill explained that if there was a large amount of methamphetamine contamination on a surface and a person was to touch their hands to the surface and then eat something, they might get symptomatic from that.

“You could get some secondary effects from that,” Hill said. “I wouldn’t expect it to be a long-term issue for someone unless they’re really frequently exposed to it, over and over and over again, like if they’re living at an apartment with someone who’s using it.

Pacheco pointed out that children might touch many surfaces in a public bathroom, putting them at a greater risk. In addition, the same dose would a ect a child more than an adult because of their size.

the city in the last week or two, so I don’t think it’s a … new thing that we’re seeing.”

He noted he hasn’t seen an uptick in meth recently, though it is “a huge problem.”

“It’s one of the highest used illicit drugs we have in the metro area. I see it several times a day, methamphetamine psychosis,” Hill said.

Pacheco agreed that the new ndings represent the high levels of meth use in society, which she said has been an ongoing problem for years.

“It’s like many things: if you don’t know what to look for, it isn’t there,” she said. “And then if you start to look for it, suddenly it’s everywhere. But I don’t think this is a di erence in use, right? It’s a di erence in detection.”

Now what?

Regarding the ongoing conversation on how to best mitigate meth usage in public spaces and prevent a public space that’s been cleaned from getting contaminated again, Hill said he’s unsure of how to safely do that.

“I don’t know of anybody that has any kind of, like a smoke detector for meth or if someone’s smoking it then it alerts the crew or something — I’ve never seen anything like that, so I don’t know how you protect your space,” Hill said.

When asked if he has an opinion on whether public spaces and libraries should be doing regular testing for meth contamination, Hill said he doesn’t have enough information to draw an opinion about the risk.

He thinks routine screenings and cleanings of public spaces would be worthwhile if public health experts determined there was a signi cant risk of secondary contamination to the public.

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When it comes to meth contamination being airborne due to someone smoking it nearby, a person would have to be really close to that location within a relatively close time to when the smoking occurred in order to inhale it and have symptoms from that, Hill explained.

“If you’re in a bathroom where you’re in there for a few minutes, the odds are much less,” he said of developing symptoms. “Not to say you couldn’t get any — if you touched some and you ingested it, yes, you could get it, but certainly the odds are less.”

If a person does start feeling symptoms, they can always be evaluated for it, Hill said.

“Even if you don’t seek medical care and you feel a little o or your heart (is) beating a little harder … most times, that does just go away by itself,” Hill said. “Methamphetamine, there is no antidote for that. It’s just a matter of waiting it out.”

“I think it’s certainly ne to clean the space, but as far as a routine method to say that we should always endorse a policy where we’re going to routinely screen these places and decontaminate them — I don’t know if that would be impactful to the public health of the community to do such a thing,” Hill said.

Pacheco, on the other hand, thinks routine testing would be a good step for public spaces because contamination can cause short term impacts to people’s health, even if it’s not very likely.

She also said measuring contamination levels would give “an indirect measure of how these spaces are being used” and could be a deterrent for people who are using the spaces for drug use.

But beyond the minor public health concerns, Pacheco sees the recent contamination levels as a sign of a larger problem. She noted that, while drug use is very common and addiction can touch anyone, there is a tie between drug addiction and people who are facing homelessness.

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Although recent test results show methamphetamine contamination in public spaces, Hill said he doesn’t think it’s a new occurrence.

“I would expect that this has been an ongoing thing for a while. I think we’re just now looking at it,” he said. “I’m not aware of some kind of massive rash of secondary meth exposures presented to ERs all around

In order to address problems related to addiction, she said we must also address housing, education, wages and more.

“If you want to x a problem, you have to understand why it’s happening,” she said.

“ e people smoking meth… they’re not from another planet,” she said. “And I think we have to have some empathy for them. Which is not to say to permit it, but to understand that it’s a bigger problem that the whole society has to solve.”

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Methamphetamine contamination found in Bemis Public Library

Third library tests positive

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e Bemis Public Library closed Jan. 18 after test results indicated elevated levels of methamphetamine contamination in several bathrooms.

A city statement, released after business hours on Jan. 18, did not say how long the library will be closed.

Recent ndings of methamphetamine contamination at libraries in Englewood and Boulder, as well as the Englewood Civic Center, led the City of Littleton to perform testing out of “out of an abundance of caution,” according to the statement from the city.

e test ndings indicated contamination in the main oor women’s and men’s bathroom exhaust fans and in the lower-level family bathroom, according to the city’s statement.

State board of health regulations mandate cleanup e orts if methamphetamine contamination levels exceed 0.5 micrograms/100 cm2 According to Littleton spokesperson Kelli Narde, test results from the exhaust fan of the main oor women’s restroom showed 5.1 micrograms/100 cm2. In the lower level unisex bathroom, results showed 2.2 micrograms/100 cm2

Meth contamination levels in the main oor men’s restroom exhaust fan were more than 30 times the state’s threshold, at 15.4 micrograms/100 cm2, according to Narde.

“Our next step is going to be testing the remainder of the building because the testing that we did was really near the bathrooms and in the bathrooms,” Narde said. “ en we’ll know how much cleanup work needs to be done.”

According to Narde, contracters performed the testing on Jan. 13 and the city received results on Jan.

18. She said she does not know how long the next round of testing will take, how long remediation e orts will take or how long the library will be closed overall.

“Our facilities team is heading up that work with several subcontractors,” she said. “I think, you know, part of the challenge right now is being able to get the contractors on a quick timeline that we’re hoping to achieve.”

Narde said there was no prior evidence of drug use in the library and the city does not know when the contamination occurred. ey conducted the testing to be proactive after methamphetamine contamination was found at other libraries.

“It’s unlike in other situations where they noticed a lot of illegal use of drugs inside the building,” she said. “Our sta hadn’t seen any of that and we have very strict policies about smoking, vaping, use of illegal drugs in the building. And we have a really strong reporting system and we just haven’t seen anything like that.”

At the Jan. 17 Littleton City Council meeting, City Manager Jim Becklenberg said the city contracted for testing services late in the previous week, due to the proximity of the Englewood library and the contamination found there.

“ e safety of our employees and library patrons is our rst priority,” Becklenberg said in the city’s Jan. 18 statement. “According to our partners at Arapahoe County Public Health, health risks to the public are considered low but we want to make sure our building is as safe as can be before we reopen it.”

Narde said city sta is discussing whether or not they might also test the Littleton Museum for contamination.

e city is working with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Arapahoe County Public Health and testing and cleaning experts as they work to remediate the situation.

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School closures coming as enrollment dips again

drop in public school enrollment, with the state recording close to 5% fewer students this past fall than the year before.

BY ERICA BREUNLIN COLORADO SUN

Enrollment in Colorado public schools took another dip this school year, setting up reduced funding for districts across the state and raising the threat of further school closures.

e problems — which many districts have seen coming — stem from years of declining birth rates that have driven down the per-pupil funding districts rely on as fewer students enrolled in schools.

e state saw a 0.37% decrease in enrollment last fall compared with 2021 as total enrollment decreased by 3,253 to 883,264 students, according to data released Wednesday by the Colorado Department of Education. e drop adds to waning enrollment since 2020, when the state recorded a decline of nearly 30,000 students — the rst enrollment downturn in more than 30 years. Last year, Colorado counted about 1,200 fewer K-12 students, but the state also saw an uptick in preschool and kindergarten enrollments.

Declines this year, captured in the state’s annual October count, affected more than half of the state’s 178 school districts. Ninety-four districts along with seven Boards of Cooperative Educational Services, which provide resources and support to multiple districts that cannot a ord them on their own, are facing enrollment drops this school year. ey include six of Colorado’s 10 largest districts: Denver Public Schools, Je co Public Schools, Douglas County School District, Cherry Creek School District, Adams 12 Five Star Schools and Boulder Valley School District. Meanwhile, 85 districts and BOCES have seen their enrollment increase, according to CDE’s data, including Aurora Public Schools, St. Vrain Valley School District, Poudre School District and Academy

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“We have such a diversity in school districts that there’s not a one-size sort of environment or experience among school districts,” said Jennifer Okes, chief operating o cer of the state education department.

e sharpest enrollment declines hit kindergarten and middle schools. Colorado tallied 4,506 fewer middle schoolers this year than last year, a decrease of more than 2%, according to state data.

e number of kindergarteners in the state dropped by 2,373 kids, nearly 4% — evidence pointing to the toll that fewer births are taking on schools, said Brian Eschbacher, a Denver-based independent education consultant who previously served as executive director of planning and enrollment for Denver Public Schools.

e school system is the rst institution to feel the ripple e ects of fewer children being born, Eschbacher said.

Considering lower birth rates stretching back to 2017, he said, “it is likely that kindergarten enrollment will continue to decline, which will then put additional pressure on the overall K-12 system in future years as fewer students are entering and matriculating through schools.”

Colorado’s declining birth rate — which attened in 2022 — is “hands down” shaping enrollment drops, said state demographer Elizabeth Garner.

About 62,400 Colorado kids were born in 2022, slightly up from 61,976 births in 2021. e birth rate, however, has remained at, Garner said, even as the state has continued to see an increase in women of childbearing age.

e state hit its peak with births in 2007, when 70,777 children were born, and Garner predicts the state’s birth rate could rebound but not until 2034 at the earliest.

“I think this decade we will see a slowdown in enrollment in almost every area,” she said. “After this decade, we may start to see an increase.”

Eschbacher anticipates that the declines in student enrollment across the state could lead to more school closures — similar to recent decisions in Je co Public Schools to close 16 elementary schools at the end of the school year.

“Districts are going to have to analyze how changing enrollment patterns combined with changing funding structures from the federal and state level may impact the number of schools and programs that they are able to o er in the future,” he said.

e rst step districts must take as they grapple with lower student counts: “understanding the new normal for what enrollment might look like in their area,” Eschbacher said.

Districts also must collaborate with their communities to grasp what fewer students will mean for their schools and the kinds of adjustments they need to make.

“We need to acknowledge that these dynamics are bigger than COVID,” he said, “and we need to start having tough conversations with our communities about it.”

Enrollment also fell among white students and students of color, families opting to home-school their children and students pursuing online learning. e state reported the biggest change among white students, with schools educating 7,673 fewer white students this school year than in 2021. American Indian or Alaska native students experienced the largest percentage

Meanwhile, the number of students engaged in homeschooling decreased by more than 1,800 from last year — down to 8,674 kids total, according to state gures. About 30,800 students enrolled in online educational programs this school year, close to 600 students less than the prior year.

‘We knew this was coming’ Denver Public Schools — Colorado’s largest school district — shrunk by just over 1,000 students this school year, dropping to an enrollment of 87,864 students in preschool through 12th grade, state data shows.

e district’s projections anticipated the decline, so it wasn’t a surprise to DPS, said Liz Mendez, executive director of enrollment and campus planning for the district.

“We knew this was coming, and it has been for the last six years,” Mendez said.

Kindergarten enrollment has consistently dwindled in DPS, she added, with the district hitting its peak enrollment in preschool through 12th grade in 2019. Since then, enrollment has continued to decline.

“It is not due to the pandemic,” Mendez said. “ e pandemic accelerated our declines for a year, but we have been seeing elementary school totals decline since 2014.”

at was the district’s peak year for elementary school enrollment, which has dropped steadily in the years since, she said. As smaller kindergarten classes moved through the school system, they began to hit middle school in 2020. DPS recorded its largest enrollment for middle school students in 2019, and enrollment began to wane afterward.

Mendez anticipates that the enrollment dips will continue in the foreseeable future, with a variety of factors in uencing student counts besides lower birth rates. She pointed to changing demographics, with more young couples and young, single people moving into Denver, pricing families out. Meanwhile, the housing market is also in uencing enrollment gures as more people, including retirees, are remaining in their homes and “aging in place.” Whereas older residents might traditionally consider downsizing, the mortgage rate and availability of homes deters them from moving, so they stay put.

e changes to DPS enrollment will likely trigger some adjustments to sta ng — both at individual schools and the district’s central ofce, which already eliminated dozens of positions last year, Chalkbeat Colorado reported.

e district’s budget and school budgets will also be a ected by the decrease in students, she noted, while schools may have to re-evaluate the number and kinds of extracurriculars and programs they can o er for students.

“It is probably mostly at the individual school level where schools

Colorado’s declining birth rates lead to lower funding from state

Students in the Cherry Creek School District show o their sensory hallway. Colorado’s birth rates have declined, and school closures around the state could be on the horizon.

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Housing in-depth

In recent weeks, Colorado Community Media unveiled the long-time-coming series – Long Way Home. roughout most of 2022, all our reporters from all regions worked on developing an in-depth look at the housing crisis.

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is look took us to people in focus groups, interviews, research and a lot of eye-opening discoveries. It is something I am proud to have been a part of given what we can share with the public in terms of how the housing issues we are seeing now were not developed in one year.

In fact, these issues we are seeing are decades in the making. We broke down the people a ected by the growing crisis. e single mom is struggling to pay rent. e homeless man who ran into some bad luck and just can’t get back on his feet. Black families are treated di erently in applications for rent and mortgage. ese articles that are running over four weeks mean a lot to our reporters because as our teams continued working and getting educated, they truly began to understand that a crisis doesn’t develop overnight and xing the problems will not happen soon. When our Baby Boomers cannot sell their home and move to smaller living quarters – there is a problem. Why? Because those homes they would vacate would be useful to growing families – a supply issue becomes prominent.

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Pricing is another issue. When a home my family purchased eight years ago has doubled in value – It’s not as great as it sounds. You see, the problem is, if I had to buy the same home today – I couldn’t a ord it. at means I also cannot sell in this market. I cannot sell it because I may make money on my house but it would have to be applied to another ridiculously-priced house somewhere else. Can’t do it. Can’t a ord it.

ese problems point to supply problems too. When no one is selling – there is nothing for others to buy.

en, you keep digging. You learn that rst-time homes are so overpriced that couples can’t a ord to move up in the world. ey have to keep renting or living with parents. is is going to lead to bigger problems in the future if solutions are not created.

One of the parts of the series, in a story that comes out this week, that intrigued me most is how the growing housing crisis impacts the American dream. Sure the American dream of owning a home and building a family is somewhat of a cliché, but it is one we’ve had for a long time.

When families no longer believe they will ever have enough money to own a home. When families can’t get ahead in this country no matter how successful they are – the American dream cannot survive.

Instead, they rede ne and reestablish what the American dream is. Wil that help or hurt our economy? Will a lack of families moving into our communities cause schools to close at higher rates?

When local communities are making it nearly impossible for our working-class citizens to get a home and live comfortably – they will leave. at means employee shortages and more problems in the future.

e problem with the ongoing housing crisis is it will and does touch all levels of our lives and ignoring it or hoping the market will just correct on its own is never going to happen.

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Sell the sizzle and buy the sizzle

WINNING

Recently I went back and reread the book “Sizzlemanship” by Elmer Wheeler. Elmer Wheeler is credited with being one of the original pioneers of sales skills training and motivation industry. It’s classic stu and de nitely worth the read. e point, as you can guess by the title, is to sell what your product or service does, not what it is, meaning sell the sizzle and not the steak.

In today’s world we think about the sizzle as the KPIs, Key Performance Indicators, or the results that the company or the person purchasing the product or service might experience. For businesses and sellers, it’s making sure that we are focusing on that old radio station that buyers tune into, WIIFM, standing for “What’s in it for me.” Making sure that we know exactly how our product or service will contribute to the achievement of their goals and success.

Elmer Wheeler was way ahead of his time as we think about how business owners, entrepreneurs and salespeople think and sell. When we put the customer’s interests and results ahead of corporate pro t or commission checks, we will undoubtedly sell more of our products and services. Changing the station from WIIFM to tuning into

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WIIFT, “What’s in it for them.”

Now, walk with me through the transition from sales to our everyday lives. How many times are we trying to sell someone on an idea, or to help out, volunteer, join an organization, or anything else where we are seeking to have our family or friends get involved with something or buy into our idea? Most times we focus on the help we need instead of what they might be able to experience by participating. If you have ever been in the role of a leader in any not-for-pro t organization, committee, or other function at your children’s school or at the house of worship that you attend, you probably know exactly what I am talking about.

Companies looking to get better in any area of business might consider thinking about the sizzle as looking at increasing revenues or increasing their average sales price. Maybe they are focused on improving margins, win/loss ratios, or sales behaviors. ey may look to expand through upselling and gaining more market share. Or they may be interested in reducing sales cycle time or customer attrition.

But we as individuals also have values and things that we might consider our sizzle when deciding what is in it for us, or why we may choose to get involved. When we are thinking

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Housing options for older adults

ing is an option that appeals to many for various reasons.

LIVING AND AGING WELL

New housing opportunities planned for older adults, reverse mortgages, and other housing strategies will be discussed at the Seniors’ Council of Douglas County meeting on ursday, March 2 from 10-11:30 a.m. Artie Lehl, deputy director of the Douglas County Housing Partnership, will talk about these important topics. Older adults as well as the general public are invited to this free presentation at the Philip S. Miller Building, 100 ird Street, Castle Rock.

New housing as well as established older adult housing will be described by Lehl, whose organization is located in Lone Tree. Senior hous-

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about getting better in an area of our lives we may look at increasing prosperity, strength, or endurance. We may have a desire to improve our health, happiness, or relationships. What gets us excited may be our pursuit of expanding our knowledge, our network, or our security as we think about retirement. And maybe for some of us it’s about reducing or eliminating something in our life such as dropping weight, easing our stress, or getting rid of bad habits.

We don’t buy a gym membership, treadmill, Peloton, Tonal or home

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Don’t buy oil-gas hype

Oil and gas propaganda has convinced Coloradans that it makes up an immense amount of Colorado’s economy. Just a few weeks ago, a news article reported that oil and gas supports 300,000 jobs, when as the Colorado Fiscal Institute (CFI) report shows, the true number of oil and gas employees is around 20,000.

e Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) has approved drilling permits for over 5,600 new wells since Governor Polis was elected in 2018 and over 4,500 new wells since SB-19-181 passed. e Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) told me they are not authorized to deny a permit approved by the COGCC, so the CDPHE cannot do anything to protect public health.

e governor thinks the state is making a great deal of money from O&G. It is costing his taxpayers billions of dollars in healthcare for those impacted by the toxins, to

Information on how to obtain in-depth, free, one-on-one counseling will be presented. ere are options available to older adults to help obtain suitable housing Lehl will provide an overview of reverse mortgage lending including the pros and cons of using this type of loan. Reverse mortgages can be used to create additional retirement funds and to eliminate mortgage payments.

Some older adults wish to age in place and some want to explore a di erent lifestyle, whether in a ordable senior housing or a multigen-

gym equipment because of what it is or the brand, we make that investment because we have a desire to look di erent and feel di erent, the sizzle. We don’t give of our time to support a charity because we feel a sense of obligation or we have to, we give of our time because we realize that as much as we give, we receive tenfold in return from a sense of grati cation as we see the results of our e orts in the smiles of those who we help, and that’s our sizzle. Whether you run a business, lead a sales team, are a salesperson yourself, or if you are part of a not-forpro t organization, a committee, or in some way tasked with seeking volunteers, remember to sell the sizzle and not the steak.

erational community. It is good to have options! e Douglas County Housing Partnership (DCHP), a multijurisdictional housing authority, was formed in 2003 as a cooperative e ort between businesses and local and county government. e DCHP operates with nancial support from the jurisdictions of the City of Lone Tree, the Town of Castle Rock, the Town of Parker, the City of Castle Pines, and Douglas County as a political subdivision and public corporation of the State of Colorado. Information is available at https:// douglascountyhousingpartnership. org.

This column is hosted by the Senior’ Council of Douglas County. The

When you are making the decision to buy something or get involved in supporting a great cause, do you make the purchase or decision on what it is or on how it can impact you personally? I would love to hear your sizzle story at gotonorton@gmail. com, and when we can remember to tune into WIIFT, it really will be a bet-

group’s motto is Living Well/Aging Well. Meetings are generally the first Thursday of the month at various locations in Douglas County and are open to the public at no charge. Is there a topic you’d like addressed in the future? Please get in touch. Seniors’ Council invites older adults to get involved and to keep learning.

For more information and program updates, visit www.douglas. co.us/community-services, email DCSeniorLife@douglas.co.us, or call 303-663-7681. Some meetings are available virtually. Please check the website for current information and links. You may request our electronic newsletter First Friday Update by email. Connect on Facebook at facebook.com/MyDougCoSeniorLife.

ter than good life.

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plug and cap the abandoned wells, in road damage from the big trucks, in fresh water used for fracking, not to mention the cost to clean up leaks. Additionally our air quality has an “F” rating from the American Lung Association and “severe” nonattainment by the EPA. Many of the new wells will impact the nonattainment area of northeastern Colorado.

Look at what is happening in California with the atmospheric rivers or Alabama with the tornadoes. Pakistan is still ooded from last summer’s oods. Much of Africa is su ering deserti cation resulting in an inability to grow crops. Twentytwo million people have been displaced by climate chaos compared to 6 million people displaced by war. Insurance is starting to deny coverage for these “natural disasters.” Will the fossil fuel industries pay for the damage their product is causing?

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Janet M. (Spa ord) Mahoney, 83, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend, passed away peacefully December 15, 2022. She was born May 16, 1939, in East Chicago, Indiana, to Joseph and Zorka (Krivokucha) Csicsko, of Gary, Indiana.

Janet was a graduate of Bishop Knoll High School in Hammond, Indiana, St. Joseph’s College / St. Mary Mercy Nursing School in Gary, Indiana, Arapahoe Community College in Littleton, Colorado, and Regis University in Denver, Colorado. She served as a nurse for over 30 years in a variety of capacities at Swedish Hospital, Porter Adventist Hospital, Craig Rehabilitation Hospital, Mt Airy Psychiatric Hospital, and Fort Logan Adolescent Psychiatric Unit. She also worked outside of nursing for 16 years in Human Resources, Payroll, Publishing, and Bene ts Administration.

Janet married Walter Fredrick “Fred” Spa ord, October 22, 1960, and they had ve sons, Walter, William, Michael, John, and Brian Spa ord. She taught them to be honest, hard-working, kind, moral and to avoid smoking, drugs and peer pressure. She loved being a grandmother and would often encourage her sons to go away for a weekend so she could babysit her grandchildren. She lived in various states but spent most of

her life in Littleton, Colorado where she loved visiting local parks to celebrate special events - Stern Park, deKoevend Park, and Ketring Parks were favorites. She also made sure her boys learned swimming at Franklin Pool, checked out books at Bemis Library, and learned history through the Littleton Historical Museum.

Janet was preceded in death by her parents, and brother John F. Csicsko MD, her second husband Leo J. Smith, her third husband Bob Mahoney, numerous aunts and uncles and other dear family members.

She is survived by her rst husband, Fred, her sons and their wives, sister Carole (& John) Kibler, sister-in-law Barbara Csicsko, her Aunt Margaret, her Uncle George, other cousins, nieces and nephews, and her beloved “Grandma’s darlings” - Joshua, Nathaniel (Anna), Luke (Grace), Elena, Lillie, Nicholas, Benjamin (Catherine), Isabel, Amanda, Ian, Christopher, and Olivia Spa ord.

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The Long Way Home

The changing American dream and the obstacles some people face

BY MICHAEL DE YOANNA COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

e rst week of Colorado Community Media’s Long Way Home series focused on what many experts say is a housing crisis across the metro area. In short, housing is increasingly una ordable and inaccessible for Coloradans. Week two of our four-week series turns to how those issues look through the lens of race and younger residents, some whose experience of the American dream is changing..

Reporters Nina Joss and Haley Lena delve into the realities faced by would-be Black homeowners and others who nd skin color can be a factor in achieving their long-term dreams. .

Joss and Lena break down how the system can sometimes work against Black applicants. ey also uncover possible solutions, including an initiative from Realtors to provide training that averts subtle biases in the buying process.

Meanwhile, reporter Ellis Arnold asks a di cult question about metro area suburbs: why are they so White? ere’s no single answer, but some neighborhood covenants from a few decades ago

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di cult to prove.

Because many of the individuals served by the group were facing homelessness and unemployment, Arnold acknowledged that these factors could have played a role in their initial application rejections. However, when they conducted the blind application process with the same nancial information, the applications were approved. For Arnold, this con rmed race was a barrier.

“ e racism is just so out there,” he said. “It was easy to realize it.”

Arnold’s group did not le any complaints because their main priority was getting their clients housed, and they found a way to do that. Colorado Community Media reached out to Aurora Warms the Night to see if this is still a strategy but did not get a response.

But once a Black client successfully got on a lease, Arnold said even more challenges ensued if they were looking to someday own a home.

“How do we get them from renting into homeownership?” he said. “ ose barriers seem to be some of the biggest.”

For decades, homeownership rates for Black people have lagged far behind those for White people. Census data released last month shows just how wide that gap is. More than seven in 10 White Coloradans and a little more than half of Latino residents own their homes, according to the 2021 ve-year American Community Survey. Only 42% of Black Coloradans own their homes.

Although Latino homebuyers in Colorado face many of the same barriers as Black homebuyers, their rates of homeownership have grown in recent years. For Black Coloradans, on the other hand, the

prove, in writing, that race was sometimes a factor in creating our communities.

Accessibility to housing isn’t only an issue of race. It’s an issue of income, as well. Many Coloradans simply can’t a ord to apply for a home, and some of them are rede ning their idea of the American dream as a result. Reporter Christy Steadman digs into this issue. When affordability, accessibility and fairness play a role, families are shifting away from the old dream in which people started a family and bought a home.

When rising home prices and in ation makes that next to impossible for many Coloradans, the American dream may shift from the idea that owning a home is the true measure of success. Still, across generations, many hold out hopes for homeownership.

Statistics, data and experts may have great information on how the market works, but it’s the people living through the crisis who matter the most.

To read all the parts of our Long Way Home series, visit https://coloradocommunitymedia. com/longwayhome/index.html.

numbers have remained stubbornly low. ese trends hold across the metro area, with Adams, Je erson, Arapahoe and Douglas counties all showing higher rates of homeownership in White communities than in those of color. e reasons for this gap are myriad, but over time, Black Coloradans have generally had less opportunity to build home equity and wealth to pass from one generation to the next. ese barriers mean many metro Denver communities lack racial and ethnic diversity. rough training and other measures, many are now trying to reverse this situation and improve access to housing for all.

A denied opportunity to build generational wealth

In 2021, eo E.J. Wilson and his wife started looking to buy a home in Aurora. Wilson is a Black college lecturer and non ction television host.

Like many Coloradans regardless of color, Wilson and his wife did not have enough money for a down payment in today’s expensive housing market, even though they both make a good living. In Arapahoe County, the median sale price of a singlefamily home increased by $180,000 over the past ve years, according to the Colorado Association of Realtors. In other metro Denver areas, the numbers have skyrocketed even more drastically.

While many White Americans may have bene ted from the e orts of their ancestors, particularly through inheritances, Wilson says many Black people, including him, were denied that possibility. In his eyes, that’s part of why homeownership has been so elusive.

“In what some of my elders have called the ‘illusion of inclusion,’ income is used as a metric to say that things are getting better for Black people,” Wilson said.

But, he pointed out, income is di erent from wealth. For generations, “White America was building wealth, assets and the skill set and personnel to

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manage that wealth,” he said.

Wilson’s older family members, on the other hand, were not o ered the same opportunities, he said.

Wilson’s grandfather was in the Army Air Forces during World War II, a Tuskegee airman, one of a pioneering group of Black military aviators. When he returned to New York City after the war, he did not receive federally backed home loans like his White counterparts did.

“ ey basically shoveled these White vets from World War II into programs that gave them college money and programs that gave them homes in the suburbs,” Wilson said. “Imagine if my grandpa would have got the property that he would have got had he been White in New York City. How much

Theo E.J. Wilson holds a hat from the collection his grandfather, who was a Tuskegee airman in World War II, gave him.

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A New Vision

American dream changing for some Coloradans

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Amber Carlson is a Colorado native. She loves the Denver area for all its amenities — from outdoor recreation to the arts-and-culture scene. But with so many other people moving to the region because they also love those things, Carlson would consider moving away.

“I don’t blame people for wanting to live here,” she said. “It’s got a lot going on.”

Carlson doesn’t want to uproot from Colorado, but if she did, it would be because of the region’s skyrocketing cost of living.

“It’s di cult when you’ve lived here your whole life and it has become hard to stay,” she said.

Carlson is in her 30s. She went to Denver’s George Washington High School and is currently in graduate school at the University of ColoradoBoulder. She lives with her partner in a house in Wheat Ridge that he owns, a situation she feels fortunate to have. Otherwise, Carlson said, she is not sure if she would be able to a ord a rental on her own.

Her experience leaves her with questions about the idea of the American dream — owning a home. It is, for many, a dream of a single-

family home on a private plot of land in the suburbs, maybe with a picket fence and tire swing hanging from a lofty tree.

But younger people are changing their perceptions about what the American dream should be. Driving that change is the increasingly una ordable nature of housing,

One of the reasons that University of Denver student Caitlyn Aldersea doesn’t envision herself ever becoming a homeowner is because she wants to be able to travel. Here, she is pictured during her spring 2022 travels to Budapest, Hungary. She has also spent time studying abroad in Amman, Jordan, and the UK.

according to a few surveys, including one by Bankrate last year. It found that two-thirds of respondents cite a ordability as a major hurdle to homeownership. eir pinch points included everything from salaries that didn’t keep up to a lack of ability to save for down payments to high mortgage rates.

A Look at the Suburbs

‘The American dream has decreased in relevance’

James Truslow Adams, a writer and historian, is credited with coining the term “the American dream” in 1931 — early in the Great Depression — in his book, “ e Epic of America.”

“ e American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement,” Adams wrote. “It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.”

Carlson re ects on all of that. She said that people began to conceptualize how to get their American dream — go to college, get a good job and buy a home — in the postWorld War II era.

“ ere was this idea that you could have all of this,” Carlson said.

More Americans these days, she said, are de ning success on their own terms. More folks might see homeownership as a relic, even something that holds them back in life, rather than necessary for all of their needs and desires.

“Buying a home is probably

Map experts

dig for roots of racial separation in metro Denver

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In 1967, Black Americans were mired in “the long, hot summer.” Frustrations over poverty, unemployment, discrimination and myriad other issues spilled into the streets, leading to clashes with police and arrests in many places, including Denver. e widespread tensions over race left President Lyndon B. Johnson searching for answers.

So, he issued an executive order for a report that would detail what caused the chaos. He wanted it to answer a crucial question: How can the country prevent more unrest in the future?

When the report arrived seven months later, it laid out hundreds of pages of analysis and recommendations for improving race relations in America.

But its message was best summed up in a sentence:

“To continue present policies is to make permanent the division of our country into two societies: one, largely Negro and poor, located in

A part of a map that shows housing areas where racially restrictive covenants were located in Je erson County. This part of the map includes part of Lakewood, Wheat Ridge and Golden. Red areas had the covenants, green areas did not and yellow areas were unclear. See the full map at tinyurl.com/Je coRacialCovenants.

the central cities: the other, predominantly White and a uent, located in the suburbs and in outlying areas.”

In other words, the issue of where people can live was at the heart of the report. It all ties into the American dream, the idea of a family owning a home, building wealth as that home increases in value over time and being able to live in whatever neighborhood a family can a ord without fear of discrimination.

Yet more than half a century later, that divide between Black and White residents continues to complicate the dream in many parts of America, including the suburban towns and cities that surround Denver.  e divide is less stark and less known than it was in 1967, but its legacy is still alive in the metro area, where the Black population tends to live in Denver or Aurora, numbering in the tens of thousands in each city.

Elsewhere, Black residents number in the hundreds or just a few thousand while White residents make up strong majorities. White residents are 78% of the population in Arvada and 1% are Black. White residents are 80% of the population in Littleton and 2% are Black. White residents are 82% of the population in Castle Rock and less than 1% are Black.

Amber Carlson, a graduate student at the University of Colorado-Boulder, is pictured in front of her partner’s home in Wheat Ridge. Because her partner owns the home, Carlson is able to a ord rent in the metro area as she completes her studies.

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So, why do the metro area’s communities look the way they do? The answer isn’t completely clear, but two map experts have delved into local property records, uncovering data that could help start to answer that question.

They’re trying to discover what many have either forgotten or swept under the rug about parts of the metro area — or simply never knew. They’re digging in at the neighborhood level, looking for words in property documents — called “racially restrictive covenants” — that excluded people from housing by race. They’re looking to discern the legacies that still echo in communities today.

Christopher Thiry, a map librarian at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, is one of the diggers. Discovering the covenants in Jefferson County shocked him.

“That blew me away that this rural county at the time would have them,” Thiry said. “As I tell people, ‘Yeah, the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama, sure. But Jefferson County? Come on.’”

‘Only persons of the Caucasian race’ Thiry, a longtime resident of Golden, took inspiration from the “Mapping Prejudice” project, an effort at the University of Minnesota to identify and map racial covenants.

He jumped into his work after the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. The mapping is a tedious task of sifting through mostly mundane, uncontroversial rules, like how many feet a house must sit away from the road or bans on billboards in front of homes.

Thiry has examined about 1,000 Jefferson County documents and found nearly 200 had some kind of race-based stipulation. He looked at documents from the 1860s to 1950, though most of them were from the 1910s to 1950.

Specifically, he has pored over “plats,” or plans for new neighborhoods. The plat for one neighborhood — Cole Village, located along Colfax Avenue near Kipling Street in what’s now Lakewood — had this to say:

“Only persons of the Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building or any lot. This covenant shall not prevent use or occupancy by domestic servants of a different race.”

The document was registered with the county in 1945. That type of racebased language is now unenforceable but remains on official plats, property deeds and other documents, according to Thiry.

It wasn’t just developers who pushed such language, Thiry said.

Local elected and appointed officials of the government of Jefferson County signed the documents, Thiry added.

He singled out some other examples:

• “Ownership in this subdivision shall be restricted to members of the Caucasian race,” says a planning document for Sunshine Park in Golden at Sunshine and High parkways, dated 1944.

• “Stipulate that no lot at any time shall be occupied or owned by any person or persons not of the Cauca-

sian races. However, this provision shall not prohibit the employment of persons of other races by the occupants,” says the plan for Green Acres along 6th Avenue in what’s now Lakewood, dated 1939.

• “No (area) shall at any time be occupied or owned by any person or persons of other than the Caucasian race, however, this shall not prohibit the employment of persons of other races on the premises by the occupants,” says the plan for Happy Valley Acres in the Golden area at South Golden Road and Orion Street, dated 1939.

• “The said (land) shall (be) used for no other purpose than for the building and maintaining thereon and the occupancy thereof of private residences by Caucasians, and the erection of necessary outbuildings,” says a planning document for part of the Indian Hills area, dated 1923.

Thiry has used his findings to make a map of the parts of Jefferson County where race-based rules were baked into the original plans of the housing developments.

Many are concentrated in what are now the Wheat Ridge and Lakewood areas, with a handful dotting the Golden and Arvada region. Others sit in the Evergreen and Indian Hills areas.

It’s not yet a complete picture. Thiry is wary that he may have missed pieces. Though the map is a work in progress, it already has him wondering how the covenants still influence lives today.

Beyond that, what can be done to right past wrongs.

His work has made one measurable impact. It has inspired the work of another mapper, Craig Haggit, a map librarian at Denver Public Library.

Haggit, who is looking into where racist restrictions lurked in the paperwork for housing in Denver, also wants to shed light on “the way forward” for communities.

“I feel like we can’t know where we’re going until we know where we’ve been and how we got there,” Haggit said. “Otherwise, you’re just (in) the dark.”

It could take years to look through all the documents. But so far, Haggit’s work has revealed racial restrictions in Denver that targeted people in “a mix” of ways.

“Sometimes, it’s excluding ‘Negro’ or ‘Asian’ or ‘Mongoloid’ or whatever terms they used. And sometimes it just says only White people” can live in a certain house, Haggit said.

His team at first zeroed in on the 1930s because the Ku Klux Klan was so active in the 1920s in the metro area. Since he’s in the early stages of the research, Haggit is unsure which neighborhoods were home to large concentrations of racially restricted housing.

One clue could be redlining, a term that refers to marking areas red on color-coded federal maps in the 1930s, reflecting the practice of restricting access to home loans in certain areas, partly based on race. That disparity stood in the way of homeownership for majority-Black areas and other groups in urban cities.

Though he doesn’t know yet, Haggit expects that the neighborhoods that were not redlined — the ones deemed higher class — would have the restrictive deeds because they were trying to keep certain people

out.

In Denver, redlining zeroed in on predominantly Black neighborhoods, but it also covered neighborhoods where other ethnic or religious groups were present, according to the Denver redline map as displayed by the “Mapping Inequality” project from the University of Richmond and other university teams.

Denver’s redlined areas at the time included some western parts of the city and areas that surrounded downtown. But the map also redlined a small part of Aurora along Colfax Avenue — and parts of west and central Englewood. (A sliver of Jefferson County in the Edgewater area landed on the map too, though it was rated slightly higher in yellow.)

The map reflected the view that people of certain backgrounds negatively affected the values of homes.

In Englewood, for example, an “encroachment of Negroes” in an area near what appear to be railroad tracks was listed under “detrimental influences” in comments that accompany the map.

And for the Five Points area near downtown Denver, comments mention “Negroes, Mexicans and a transient class of workers.”

Just to the east, comments called the neighborhoods “a better Negro section of Denver” and “one of the best colored districts in the United States.”

“Were it not for the heavy colored population much of it could be rated” higher, the comments say, appearing to use the term “colored” to refer to residents who were not White.

Effects linger ‘to this day’

Though the picture isn’t entirely clear yet, what experts already know suggests that policies that deepened racial disparities influenced the makeup of today’s suburbs.

One driver of suburban growth that was especially visible was the American GI Bill — or the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 — that provided World War II veterans funding for college tuition and lowinterest mortgages. But not everyone reaped the same rewards because of the covenants that the mappers at the local libraries are looking into, along with unequal access to GI Bill benefits for White veterans compared with Black veterans.

The disparities played into how largely White the demographics in the suburbs turned out to be, said Christy Rogers, a teaching assistant professor in the program for environmental design at the University of Colorado Boulder.

“That has consequences for intergenerational wealth,” Rogers said.

In other words, though the descendants of White military veterans saw their homes rise in value over the decades, essentially becoming investments, many Black families encountered barriers and that had a ripple effect as they could not pass down as much wealth to their children and grandchildren.

Rogers, who is White, knows this firsthand.

“My dad got the GI Bill, and he went to college and bought a house,” Rogers said. “So, our family could draw on our home value to send me to college.”

It took decades for federal law-

makers to ban the practice of racially restrictive covenants. They were banned in the months after the “long, hot summer” of 1967 — through the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which bars discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, color, national origin, religion or sex. The act also prohibited redlining.

What’s left today is a puzzle in places like Jefferson County, made even harder to discern after booming growth since the mid-1900s. It is difficult to tell how much past covenants shaped the suburbs, said Thiry, the Colorado School of Mines librarian.

“With that said, you cannot discard the fact that these covenants did exist,” Thiry said.

The prevailing attitudes of racism at the time still may have made Black families feel unwelcome in certain neighborhoods, Thiry said.

There is evidence that the researchers are onto something. In Minnesota, researchers looking into Minneapolis and its suburbs discovered a “bonus value” persists today among White homeowners who benefited from restrictive covenants.

“We document that houses that were covenanted have on average 3.4% higher present-day house values compared to houses that were not covenanted,” according to a 2021 University of Minnesota study entitled, “Long Shadow of Racial Discrimination: Evidence from Housing Racial Covenants.” “We also find that census blocks with a larger share of covenanted lots have smaller Black population and lower Black homeownership rates.”

The study also noted, “the racial makeup of neighborhoods determined in preceding decades persisted, where the region was highly segregated with White families primarily residing in suburban areas and Black families within select neighborhoods (in) parts of Minneapolis.”

“This segregation has continued for more than fifty years, suggesting the highly long-lasting effect that covenants had on the racial distribution of the region,” according to the study.

Rogers at CU added that moving to the suburbs could be more difficult for residents in redlined areas who may not have the money to move.

“Redlined areas to this day (sometimes) have lower appraisal values compared to a house across the street that’s not in a redlined area,” Rogers said.

The path forward

Many Denver-area suburbs have large White majorities today. About 20 cities, towns or rural counties have a larger proportion of White residents than the national rate and the Colorado rate — many by a large margin, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

In Cherry Hills Village, a wealthy suburb that borders Denver, the number of Black Americans amounts to 0% of the population. Just a few miles away, the population is 17% Black and 44% White in Aurora, one of Denver’s most diverse suburbs.

Aurora is an exception, not the rule. Many of Denver’s other older suburbs are much less diverse.

Several Adams County cities have large Latino populations, but even though they’re suburban, the cities still tend to have lower-income neighborhoods closer to Denver and more expensive housing farther north.

Still, the suburbs don’t entirely look like they used to, according to Yonah Freemark, senior research associate at the nonpro t Urban Institute, based in Washington, D.C.

“Overall, the suburban parts of the nation have transformed dramatically and have become more diverse over time,” Freemark said.

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would that be worth today?”

Many Black veterans faced issues using the programs o ered by the GI Bill. ey often could not access banks for home loans, were excluded from certain neighborhoods and faced segregationist policies. Instead of a home in the suburbs, and despite his service to his country, Wilson’s grandfather wound up in low-income housing. ere, he raised Wilson’s father, who was not able to attend college.

“ e only physical thing that I have from (my grandfather) besides his DNA is a collection of hats … that shouldn’t have been the case,” Wilson said. “I should have more from him than his name, his genes and some hats.”

In that era, federal authorities also made color-coded maps that re ected the practice of restricting access to home loans in certain areas, largely based on race. is practice is known as “redlining.” People of color were also excluded from obtaining housing through “racially restrictive covenants,” or text written into property records that was used to prevent people of certain races from purchasing certain homes.

Some exclusionary policies, which have been documented in the Denver area, left a toll that’s evident in communities of color today.

Family wealth is a good measure of that. In 2019, the median White family in the country had about $184,000 in wealth compared to just $38,000 and $23,000 for the median Hispanic and Black families, respectively. at’s according to data from the Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances. ese numbers speak to the notion of generational wealth. Generational wealth is anything of nancial value that is passed from one generation to another — including money, property, investments, valuable heirlooms or businesses.

“ ink about the wealth that was created during (the ‘40s and ‘50s) that White families have been able to leverage generation after generation, either to send their kids to college, to be able to start a business, to writing a check for their loved ones to be able to have money for (a) down payment in order to buy their own home and continue that generational wealth transfer,” said Aisha Weeks, managing director at the Dear eld Fund for Black Wealth, a Denver area group that emphasizes homeownership. “ at wasn’t available in mass for Black and African

at’s in terms of age, ethnicity and race, and income, Freemark added.

In the future, some suburbs will likely undergo a “steady transformation” toward increased mobility, such as having more public transportation, Freemark said. Other changes could include more e orts to get people walking and biking, with the transition of suburban storefronts and strip malls into more walkable neighborhoods, he added. e path forward for the suburbs may involve a continued increase in diversity of residents, Freemark said. But that depends on whether states and the federal government will expand support and requirements related to a ordable housing, Freemark said.

“We’re going to need signi cant public investment and changes to public law to support those outcomes,” Freemark said. “Otherwise, little is going to change.” e a ordability issue transcends race, with many people simply priced out of the housing market and those who are in it struggling to a ord what they need for their families. In 2010, the median singlefamily home price in metro Denver was about $200,000. It was roughly triple that as of 2022.

Coupled with a ordability is an availability issue that local rules play a role in exacerbating. Large-lot zoning — planning for houses to be built on large portions of land — is one major issue. In other words, there are too many large homes be-

ing built and too few starter homes, leaving prospective rst-time homebuyers with few options, perhaps even relegated forever to renting.

“If you have a very expensive largelot neighborhood, you don’t get young families,” Rogers said. “You don’t want your community to box out young families or new Americans. Or, you end up with, in a sense, a retirement community, and there’s nothing wrong with a retirement community, but you don’t want your entire community (to be that). You want kids to be in your schools.” e long-term trend of rising housing prices plays a role, too, as wages fail to keep pace with housing costs. at “has the potential to continue to widen inequality and even perhaps embed it,” Rogers said.

ing infrastructure, housing practices and community practices.

Stepter and his wife, Gabrielle, both of whom are Black, have been renting in Aurora but have recently been looking to purchase a home.

“We thought we would be pretty solid in that regard and we both make a decent amount of money,” Stepter said. “We thought we would be able to start looking, even in this market, to try and nd an equitable home that ts our budget.”

Stepter, who also works as a healthcare administrator, and his wife, who works for a technology company, said they are trying to gure out how to pay o their student debt so they can get a home loan within the next couple of years.

American families.”

A family’s primary residence is typically their most valuable asset, according to the National Association of Realtors.

It’s not just the monetary value of a house and property that adds to wealth. ere are tax bene ts for homeowners and people can borrow against a home’s equity to start a business or to help with unexpected bills. Homeownership also provides stable housing, which has been shown to positively impact health and educational achievement. ese factors can, in turn, improve a person’s economic prosperity.

Trying to change the equation

e Dear eld Fund for Black Wealth o ers down-payment assistance loans with no interest and no monthly payments up to $40,000 or 15% of the purchase price for Black homebuyers.

“We acknowledge that there’s a generational wealth gap, and so Dear eld Fund is walking alongside our clients and borrowers to say, ‘We will provide that down-payment assistance,’’’ Weeks said.

is program helped Wilson and his wife buy their home in Aurora.

In addition, the fund also o ers advice and education on how to build wealth.

“We know that there are so many pitfalls and just things that, as a community, we have not learned at the dinner table like our counterparts,” Weeks said. “ ere’s a lot of power in the knowledge information transfer that happens within other communities that we need to make sure that families are understanding.”

at issue of being at the proverbial dinner table comes up a lot for communities of color. Without an example to follow, some rst-time homebuyers

don’t know where to begin. According to Alma Vigil, a local loan o cer assistant, families who do not own homes often do not pass along information about how to own and maintain a home.

To address this challenge, the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority o ers homebuyer education programs to teach Coloradans nancial skills and the steps to homeownership. ese classes are o ered in English and Spanish in an e ort to remedy language barriers, which can add challenges for potential homebuyers who do not speak English.

“ ere’s very (few) Spanish speaking loan o cers,” said Vigil, who is Hispanic and speaks Spanish herself. “ ere are some that claim to speak Spanish, but they’re not very uent. So it becomes a huge problem, especially with lack of understanding.”

In order to close the gaps, some lenders across the metro Denver area provide services in Spanish. A list of Spanish-speaking lenders can be found on the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority’s website.

e issue isn’t just one faced by Hispanic and Latino communities. A report by the National Coalition for Asian Paci c American Community Development found language barriers are also often a challenge for members of the Asian American community when pursuing homeownership. In addition to conversations with lenders, real estate paperwork and documents rarely come in languages other than English.

Debt-to-income ratio

Over the last couple of years, Brandon Stepter, a community consultant, has been working in Broom eld. In an e ort to bring more people of color into the community, Stepter looks at hous-

“I think right now what we’re seeing is a lot of younger African Americans who are in copious amounts of student debt and that has been preventing them from owning a home,” Stepter said.

Debt-to-income ratio is often a signi cant barrier for Black people who are looking to buy a home because that number is assessed when underwriters are deciding whether or not to give a mortgage, according to Jice Johnson, founder of the Black Business Initiative.

e Black Business Initiative is a Denver-based organization that focuses on economic equity in the Black community.

“In America, you are encouraged to graduate high school and go to college,” Johnson said. “Typically speaking, because you don’t have access, when you go to college you’re not going to pay for college outright. Instead, you’re going to get a student loan … So it increases the debt side of your ratio by a lot, oftentimes preventing you from purchasing a home.”

Black college graduates tend to owe thousands of dollars more in student debt, on average, than their White peers. According to a 2016 report from the Brookings Institution, the amount can exceed $7,000 at the date of graduation.

Black and Hispanic workers also tend to be paid less than their White counterparts, according to many studies on the subject. In 2020, Black workers in Colorado earned 74% and Latino workers in Colorado earned 71% of the hourly earnings of White workers, according to numbers from the 2020 veyear American Community Survey.

“So you go to school, you get the degree, which is what you’re supposed to do to get the high-paying job,” Johnson said. “Now you come out and you have

Figure shows median family net worth by race. The “other” category contains Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, American Indian or Alaska Native, and multi-race households. CREDIT: FEDERAL RESERVE SURVEY OF CONSUMER FINANCES; 2019

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debt and also your income isn’t as high as it should be. So, your entire debt-to-income ratio doesn’t allow for you to purchase a home.”

Discrimination

In a national statistical analysis of more than 2 million conventional mortgage applications for home purchases, a data-based news publication called e Markup found that lenders were 40% more likely to turn down Latino applicants for loans, 50% more likely to deny Asian/Paci c Islander applicants, 70% more likely to deny Native American applicants and 80% more likely to reject Black applicants compared with similar White applicants.

Even for families of color that may not struggle immediately with wealth and knowledge disparities, discrimination persists in the housing market. People of color are often treated di erently in appraisals, lending practices and neighborhood options.

Stories about what that looks like in the Denver area abound. Johnson of the Black Business Initiative lived in Westminster before moving to Aurora. When she was staging her home to sell, her real estate agent gave her some advice.

“It was encouraged for me to make sure I had no family photos up,” she said.

Meanwhile, she visited homes for sale that had photos of White families.

Johnson said it was good business advice. Her Black Realtor, Delroy Gill, understood the landscape and was looking out for her.

“ at’s my Realtor trying to get me top dollar,” she said. “ e question is, why would (leaving) my photos prevent me from getting top dollar?”

Gill said the practice of taking down photos removes potential hurdles that could occur for his clients. For Black clients, race is sadly one of those hurdles that could a ect how appraisers, inspectors and potential homebuyers view the home, he said. “We do know racism is a real thing,” he said. “And it exists in every facet of life. So therefore, when you are faced with the unknown, it’s better to make the adjustments based on how society is versus taking the risk of creating more damage on Black wealth by them receiving less

funds for their homes.”

e advice Gill gave Johnson was not unique. Paige Omohundro, business development manager at the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority said her team heard similar stories in recent focus groups with real estate agents, nonpro ts, lenders, housing advocates and people trying to achieve homeownership in Black and African American communities. She said these stories were shared by members of Hispanic and Latino communities as well.

Gill said that because of his precautions, discrimination rarely impacts his clients’ sales. One time, however, the preparation was not enough.

A couple of years ago, Gill was working with an interracial couple to sell their home in Parker. When the appraiser arrived, the Black husband was leaving the property.

“I own investment properties in the area, so I know the area very well,” Gill said. “And I used to live in the neighborhood. So the value that we gave to the house was very appropriate — and the appraisal came in $100,000 less (than our value).”

According to Gill, the buyers, who were White, decided to pay the extra $100,000 out of pocket because they knew the original asking price was fair.

“ e agent and the buyers thought that the price was reasonable and that the appraiser made a big mistake,” Gill said. “We tried to dispute the appraisal and failed. He said he’s not going to change it.”

Gill said the homebuyers noted that the low appraisal was probably due to racial discrimination.

According to a 2021 study by Freddie Mac, a government-sponsored mortgage-buying company, this experience was not rare. Black and Latino mortgage applicants get lower appraisal values than the contract price more often than White applicants, according to the study.

e study found that, based on over 12 million appraisals from Jan. 1, 2016 to Dec. 31, 2020, 8.6% of Black applicants receive an appraisal value lower than contract price, compared to 6.5% of White applicants. In the study, Freddie Mac said it would be valuable to conduct further research to understand why this gap exists.

In a report by the National Fair Housing Alliance, however, personal stories like that of Gill’s clients make the case that the appraisal gap comes from racial or ethnic discrim-

ination.

One of these stories, originally reported by the Washington Post, was about a mixed-race couple in Denver. An appraiser greeted by the White wife valued the house at $550,000, whereas one greeted by the Black husband valued it at $405,000. e lower value appraisal report explicitly compared the home to others in a nearby predominantly Black neighborhood, even though that’s not where the house was located.

Since 1968, housing discrimination based on race has been illegal under the Fair Housing Act. Nine years before that federal law was signed, Colorado was the rst state to pass its own fair housing laws, according to the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority.

Although it is illegal, discrimination in housing based on race or color still happens, according to the Department of Justice. e department has led cases related to lending discrimination, including a 2012 Wells Fargo case in which the bank was forced to pay a settlement for its pattern of discrimination against quali ed Black and African American and Hispanic and Latino borrowers.

ere are e orts to change the process. According to the Urban Institute, a nonpro t research organization, 89% of all property appraisers and assessors are White while only 2 percent are Black and 5 percent are Hispanic. Addressing the lack of diversity in the profession could improve outcomes for Black and Hispanic communities, the organization said.

e Appraiser Diversity Initiative, a program led by mortgage-buying companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and civil rights organization the National Urban League, is teaching new potential appraisers with a diversity of identities in an e ort to close this gap.

Approaching inclusion in real estate from a wider perspective, a program through the Urban Land Institute Colorado works to train women and people of color in development. is program, called the Real Estate Diversity Initiative, aims to create urban landscapes that serve diverse communities.

“I think trust in community-building is key,” Executive Director Rodney Milton said. “When developers build projects, they need community support because they’re shaping the community. And who better to

be equipped to strengthen a community, to build it out, to revitalize it, then the folks who are from that community?”

Welcome to Fairhaven

Housing is a source of discrimination complaints. e Colorado Civil Rights Commission Annual report found that 14% of complaints were claims about housing issues.

Chantal Sundberg, a Black Realtor who works in the metro Denver area, said she has not witnessed or experienced discrimination in her work with her clients, most of whom are Black.

“Everyone is treated equal, whether it’s borrowing or buying homes,” she said.

Sundberg witnessed the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when hundreds of thousands of members of a minority ethnic group called the Tutsi were murdered by members of the Hutu ethnic majority. In her eyes, although it might be important to talk about topics of racial discrimination, focusing on them too much can have unintended consequences.

“When we emphasize them so much, it creates more division rather than unity,” she said.

Still, discrimination is an ongoing concern for the National Association of Realtors and Brokers. Sundberg said Realtors are trained to address discrimination issues.

And to Gill, the Realtor who helped Johnson sell her home, the association’s training is not enough to help all real estate agents.

“Race is a part of it, but it’s not the in-depth, you know, ‘how to understand if you’re being a racist or not,’” he said.

To address such concerns, the association released an immersive online simulation in 2020 that aims to train agents to recognize and avoid acting on their own biases.

e program is part of the association’s Fair Housing Act Plan, which leaders created to emphasize accountability and culture change. e training is meant to make housing more accessible and a ordable to people of color.

A White Colorado Community Media reporter went through the online simulation, which takes place in a ctional town called Fairhaven. e simulation puts a person in the shoes of potential homebuyers who are experiencing discrimination.

One scenario is based on a federal

Napoleon with a twist at Buntport

Th e Death of Napoleon”

plays through Feb. 18 at Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver and is the 51st original play written by this clever crew. “Loosely based” on historical facts, they claim ... Set on the island of St. Helena, where Napoleon was exiled, the former emperor “argues with insects and 12-year-old girls, making unreasonable demands of his personal chef and refusing to put his teeter-totter to good use.” Tickets are (name your own price). Mask-wearing is requested. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and Monday, Feb. 13; 3 p.m. Sundays Feb. 5 and 12. 720-946-1388, buntport.com.

Watercolor instruction

Watercolor Workshop is presented by the Heritage Fine Arts Guild from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Feb. 13. The instructor will be Patricia Barr Clarke, who paints with vivid colors in an Impressionistic manner. The workshop will be held at Littleton First Presbyterian Church, 1609 W. Littleton Blvd. Cost: $35 for Heritage Fine Arts Guild members and $50 for non-members. Space will accommodate 20 students. heritage-guild.com.

SONYA’S SAMPLER

Philip Glass Ensemble

The Philip Glass Ensemble performs at 7:30 p.m. Feb 9 at the Newman Center, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver. Performance of Glass’ “Music in Eight Parts,” which was thought to be lost, along with selections from “Glassworks,” “The Photographer” and “Einstein on the Beach.” 303-871-7720, newmancenterpresents.com.

Good and evil

“acts of faith” by David Yee, directed by Pesha Rudnick, plays through Feb. 5 at the Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora. Betty Hart plays Faith in this story about good and evil. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. AuroraFoxArtsCenter.org, 303-739-1970.

Regional premiere

Curious Theatre presents the regional premiere of “Alma” by Benjamin Benne, directed by Denise Yvette Serna, through Feb. 18. Developed at Denver Center The-

atre Company’s New Plays Summit in 2020. Laura Chavez plays Alma and Iliana Lucero Barron plays Angel. Curious is at 1080 Acoma St., Denver. 303-623-0524, curioustheatre.org.

Used book sale

Used book sale at Smoky Hill Library, 5430 S. Biscay Circle, Centennial: Jan. 26 to 29.

LPS Art Show

The annual Littleton Public Schools Art Show is at Colorado Gallery of the Arts at Arapahoe Community College, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Hours: Monday to Friday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursdays until 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, noon to 3 p.m. The gallery is on the northeast side of the building, in the Annex.

Colorado Wind Ensemble

The Colorado Wind Ensemble celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2023 and will feature music from the 2000s with guest conductorlaureate Dr. Matthew Roeder at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 11 at the King Center, Auraria Campus, 855 Lawrence St., Denver. Complimentary parking in the 7th Street Garage, 777 Lawrence Way — enter from 7th and Lawrence. Parking validation tickets will be available at the box

office for this location only.

Quilt exhibit

Reminder: “Wild!” Studio Arts Quilt Associates exhibit at Curtis Center for the Arts, 2349 E. Orchard Road in Greenwood Village. Spring Awakening Arts Camp on Jan. 31. 303-797-1779.

Musical in Golden

Playing at Miners Alley, 1224 Washington, Golden: “The Great Trailer Park Musical,” through March 5. Also: Children’s Theater: “Mother Goose,” written and directed by Kate Poling, Feb. 4-March 4. 303-935-3044, minersalley.com.

Historic treaty

New exhibit at History Colorado, 1200 N. Broadway, Denver: the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo will arrive on Feb. 2, the 175th anniversary of its signing, and will be displayed in the “Borderlands of Colorado” exhibit until May 22, when it will be returned to Washington, D.C.. Signed on Feb. 2, 1848, it ended the MexicanAmerican War and set the stage for western expansion of the U.S. by shifting the political border south from the Arkansas River to the Rio Grande and west to the Pacific Coast.

COMING ATTRACTIONS

Even though many of us see the Denver skyline daily, there are all kinds of new perspectives and little touches that we may never notice. But the Y/ OUR Denver 2022 photography ex, the fth annual collaboration between Denver Architecture Foundation and Colorado Photographic Arts Center, aims to provide viewers the chance to get a new look on architecture and design around the state.

e digital exhibition is online through Feb. 28, and features the winning photographs from the Doors Open Denver photography competition, which o ered artists a larger group of subjects than ever before.

“ is year, we opened up the photo contest and exhibition to images of Colorado architecture, not just Denver architecture,” wrote Pauline Marie Herrera, president and CEO of the Denver Architecture Foundation, in an email interview. “I’ve enjoyed seeing the striking photos of architectural sites from around our state.”

According to provided information, participating photographers of all skill levels were invited to nd and photograph their favorite architectural spaces in Denver and

throughout the state. All forms of architectural imagery were eligible: black and white, color, exterior, interior and detail images.

“It’s interesting to see the types of architecture that makes up the di erent neighborhoods and houses and just how varied our architecture is,” said Samantha Johnston, executive director and curator of CPAC and juror for the competition. “It’s so exciting for me to see how photographers capture spaces we think about all the time.”

Of the 233 entries, Johnston selected 30 nalist images, including the following for four winners:

Best in Show: “Justice Center Dome” by Ernie Leyba

Best Exterior: “Breaking a Bridge” by Mark Stein

Best Interior: “Williams Tower” by Lauren Sherman-Boemker

Best Detail: “Camou age” by Carol Mikesh

“I hope people who see the exhibit come away with an appreciation of Denver’s (and Colorado’s) architecture and a desire to explore it,” Herrera wrote. “I also hope they understand what it means to our quality of life and its importance to our future.”

Since she has served as juror for the last ve years, Johnston has learned that seeing the many wonderful photographs people submit can make any day out in Denver a kind of adventure — one that more people can participate in.

“When you walk around the city, you can look up and say, ‘Oh, that’s

where they took that shot,’” she said. “It gives people an appreciation for things they maybe haven’t seen and an appreciation for the city changing.”

See the photographs in the exhibition at https://denverarchitecture. org.

The hills are alive at PACE with ‘Sound of Music’

Even if you don’t like musicals, there are some that have just been so thoroughly embraced by the culture that you can’t get away from them. “ e Sound of Music” might be at the very top of that list - it’s immortal. For longtime fans and newbies, the Parker Arts, Culture, and Events (PACE) Center has brought the story of Maria Augusta Trapp and the von Trapp family to the stage this winter.

e musical runs at PACE, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., through Feb. 4. e nal collaboration between Rogers and Hammerstein, come see classics like “My Favorite ings” and “Sixteen Going on Seventeen.” For information and tickets, visit parkerarts.org/event/the-sound-ofmusic/.

LSO hosts annual family concert

“Babar the Elephant” is one of the stories that really connected with me when I was growing up. Originally by Jean de Brunho , the popular 1938 children’s book is based on a story that his wife Cecille told to their children. French composer Francis Poulenc wrote a musi-

cal composition that follows Babar as he moves to the city and all the adventures he has in his new home.

For the Lakewood Symphony Orchestra’s annual family concert, the group will perform Poulenc’s music at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway. As is tradition, conductor Matthew Switzer will begin by teaching the children a bit about the world of music.

Get tickets for this great concert at www.lakewoodsymphony.org.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Sun June at Why Bonnie at the Hi-Dive

You gotta love some indie rock this time of year - albums that are drenched in guitar reverb and swirling vocals can just wrap you up during the cold winter months. Two wonderful examples of what the genre can be are both from Austin, Texas: Sun June and Why Bonnie. Sun June’s 2021 album, “Somewhere,” and Why Bonnie’s 2022 release, “90 In November,” both were among my favorite releases of their respective years and really hit their target vibes.

Both bands will be stopping by the Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway in Denver, along with Porlolo at 9 p.m. Jan. 28. e Hi-Dive is a great venue for this kind of music, so take the opportunity to send o January and get tickets at https://hi-dive.com/.

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court case, Clinton-Brown v. Hardick. In 2020, Todd Brown and Ebony Clinton-Brown led a suit against Helene L. and John Hardick alleging violations of the Fair Housing Act and Rhode Island law.  e case claims the Hardicks noticed Clinton-Brown’s rst name and asked their real estate agent if Ebony was Black. When they learned she was, the Hardicks refused to sell their property and the agent withdrew the listing upon the Hardicks’ request, ceasing communication.

roughout the simulation, agents attempt to theoretically sell four homes within six months while coming across day-to-day happenings including the views of colleagues and encounter issues like language barriers. e

simulator provides for moments of re ection in the sales process. At the end of the training, agents are given feedback.

According to Alexia Smokler of the National Association of Realtors, the organization decided to pursue the simulator after a Newsday investigation revealed alleged housing discrimination on Long Island, New York.

“We wanted to show how discrimination plays out in real life scenarios and so we drew on real fair housing cases and frequently asked questions from our members to create these simulated scenarios so they could see how discrimination looks,” Smokler said.

Scenarios in the simulation are based on true stories. ey include testimonials to show discrimination from the perspective of race, disability and LGBTQ+ identities.

“We’ve had people tell us watching these videos — they’re very

emotional videos — that they are in tears, that they’re angry, that they’re going to stand up for their clients and also we’ve had folks say ‘I wasn’t aware of these sorts of things are going on’ and ‘this has really opened my eyes,’” Smokler said.

Brian Arnold, who used to work with clients at Aurora Warms the Night, said training like Fairhaven could help combat discrimination. But he noted that since the Fairhaven simulation is not a mandatory step in real estate agent licensing, it is challenging to ensure people who need the training actually do it.

“For your … real estate agents that are doing well, that are maybe using discriminatory practices, how are you going to get those people to use it?” Arnold said. “Unless it’s a mandatory (program) ... then it’s just a nice program that’s out there that could help.”

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Musical

‘In the Trenches’ looks at parenting

Nathan Petit as the kids, Anne Terze-Schwarz as the Single Friend, Scott Radban as Todd, Fletcher Kim and Sophia Dotson as swings for the children, and Bridget Burke and Josh Lostrobe as Mom and Dad swings.

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Kristina and Graham Fuller rst presented their new musical, “In the Trenches: A Parenting Musical” as part of the fall JAAMM Festival at the Mizel Arts and Cultural Center in Denver — directed by Robert Michael Sanders, who leads the sta at Town Hall Arts Center.

e Fullers grew up in Boulder, attended CU and sang together in an a capella group there, but didn’t date until they both moved to the East Coast for graduate school, according to a story in Colorado Parent magazine.

Happily, the new work is open at Littleton’s Town Hall Arts Center through Jan. 29, so a south audience can enjoy it.

It was workshopped at New York’s venue Feinstein’s 54 Below and will appear at Town Hall through Jan. 29.

e notice we received says it is for adults, so wait for another production to bring the kids.

(Several are scheduled.)

In addition to the Fullers, the cast includes Vidushi Goyal and

By day, Graham Fuller is a practicing attorney and Kristina teaches voice and theater workshops and master classes via her home studio. She majored in performance skills in voice at CU and attended graduate school at NYU.

e couple decided to write their own show, related to their life today, with a variety of songs and stories inspired by their current lives, which include children Daniel and Sophia ...

It was rst co-produced by CenterStage, Louisville, in 2019.

ey wrote skillfully enough to win journalist John Moore’s “True West” Award for 2022.

Pianist/Music Director Dan Graeber heads a small band, including Jon Cullison, bass; Braxton “BK” Hahn, drums; Russ Collison, guitar and a tba percussionist.

Remaining performance dates: Jan 26, 27, 28: 7:30 p.m.; Jan 29: 2 p.m.

Town Hall’s box o ce is open Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and during performances. 303-794-2787, ext. 5. townhallartscenter.org.

Graham and Kristina Fuller perform a concert version of their play “In the Trenches: A Parenting Musical” last July in New York’s 54 Below.

PHOTO BY ALEXANDER RIVERO PHOTOGRAPHY

examines the dynamics of a young family

Hershberger, Terry dazzle in Rock Canyon victory

Junior-senior mates combine for 46 points in Jaguars win

coach Kent Grams said of why his squad is executing at such a high level so far this season. “ at’s what I think our team is very good at — we’re unsel sh and we play together as a team. It might be your night one night, but it’s going to be someone else’s night the next.”

Against Douglas County, it was Hershberger and Terry’s night.

At one point early in the second quarter, Hershberger

netted a trio of 3-pointers over a span of 1 minute, 29 seconds to give Rock Canyon (14-1, 2-0) a 32-22 lead.

at was the moment in the game when the Jaguars really started to catch re and take control.

In the closing minutes of the previous quarter, Terry connected on three triples over a 3:04 span. His trey at the buzzer, which made the

score 19-18 in Rock Canyon’s favor, gave his team the lead for good.

When the dust had settled on the hyperpaced, pointsthick contest, Terry and Hershberger had combined for nine 3-pointers — ve from Terry and four from Hershberger.

“My team found me when I was open,” said Hershberger, who will take his talents

to Upper Iowa University, the state’s only Division II university, next season. “It’s not just me making shots, it’s them nding me when I’m open. It’s a team e ort.”

Added Terry: “ ese guys set me up tonight. I couldn’t do it without them. We love to make plays for each other. ‘We over me.’ at’s what we always say.”

Grams’ “be unsel sh and

play together” message is clearly getting through to his players.

While Hershberger and Terry were the headliners, senior Aidan Peck also did plenty of damage against Douglas County (6-8, 0-1). e 6-foot-7 guard’s dunk midway through the third quarter extended the Jaguars’ lead to 56-39. en, with the game already in hand for Rock Canyon late in the fourth quarter, Peck put an exclamation point on the win with another slam.

Peck nished with 17 points — 13 of his points came in the second half — for the Jaguars.

“We like to work together,” Grams said. “We’re doing a good job of sharing the ball and making the right reads to put people in the right spots to be able to make plays.”

e Huskies weren’t without their bright spots. ey came into the night averaging 59 points a game, but thanks in large part to Anthony Nettles’ 26 points and Xander Baldessari’s 19, they bested their game average by 11 points. Gavin Dale scored six points for Douglas County, London Moore added ve, and Roman Saiz and Andrew Horwith each had four.

For Rock Canyon, Reid Finch scored six points, Hudson Ellwood and Kasen Lehman each had ve, and Nolan Kliewer had four.

Creek hockey coach confident in team

Bruins co-op squad ready to battle top 5A rivals

BY JIM BENTON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Cherry Creek hockey coach Je Mielnicki feels he has a team that can compete with other top Colorado Class 5A squads this season.

e Bruins, a co-op team with players attending Creek, Cherokee Trail, Grandview, Eaglecrest and Overland, defeated Fort Collins 4-3 on Jan. 21 in a Metro League game played at Family Sports Arena.

So far this season, it appears Valor Christian, Regis Jesuit, Monarch, Chaparral, defending state champion Denver East, Ralston Valley and Creek are the state’s top 5A teams.

“We match up with every

team,” said Mielnicki. “Each team has plus or minus 10%. I don’t see one team just steamrolling.

“Valor beats Monarch in overtime, Ralston Valley beat Valor early in the season, Monarch and Ralston Valley tie, we split with Ralston Valley. So you’ve seen a lot more of these type games. All the teams are going to be prepared for the playo s because they are playing meaningful, close games.”

Against Fort Collins, Creek took a 2-0 lead after the rst period with Dominic Suchkov, a junior who attends Cherry Creek, scoring both goals.

Fort Collins rallied and tied the game at 2-2 with a power play goal in the third period but Creek responded with two goals in a fourminute span.

Jackson O’Brien, a senior from Cherokee Trail, scored from the top of the right faceo circle and then Grand-

view junior William O’Grady made it 4-2 with a goal that o set a late Fort Collins goal.

“We did not have a good game (Jan. 20) against Ralston Valley (7-0 loss) but the lesson is ‘what are we going to do today,’” Mielnicki added. He said his team showed up almost two hours before the game to warm up: “ ey were focused and ready to go.

“ e sign of a good team, when you give up a two-goal lead, usually it becomes a one-goal de cit, and we found a way to get right back on top. We have been ranked anywhere from one to three. We’re 7-3 and playing well.”

Cherry Creek improved to 4-3 in the Metro Conference and played without starting goalie Ethan Barnard, who is sidelined with an injury. Mason Banks, a freshman from Cherry Creek High School, started for the Bruins.

“We started a freshman goalie, his rst start ever,”

explained Mielnicki. “Our senior goalie got injured. He’s going to be out for weeks. Mason Banks played really well considering it was a tight game and we needed the points. e young goalie got our hard hat award, which goes to the hardest worker.”

Fort Collins, another coop team that draws players from Fossil Ridge, Rocky Mountain, Fort Collins, Mountain View, Windsor, Loveland, Poudre, Berthoud, Roosevelt, Timnath and Severence high schools, is now 1-9 overall and 0-8 in the league.

Freshman Cherry Creek goalie Mason Banks waits for approaching players during the Jan. 21 game against Fort Collins. Banks, making his first varsity start, got a 4-3 win.

PHOTO BY JIM BENTON

Rock Canyon’s Aidan Peck slams home a dunk against Douglas County on Jan. 17. Peck finished with 17 points in the Jaguars’ 91-70 win over the Huskies.

PHOTO BY ALEX K.W. SCHULTZ

Rock

BY JIM BENTON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Mac Terry stepped back and won a boys basketball game for Rock Canyon.

Terry made a fall-away shot from inside the 3-point line to beat the buzzer and Regis Jesuit 59-57 in a Continental League game on Jan 20.

e game featured Rock Canyon, ranked third in the CHSAANow.com poll, against No. 8 Regis and drew a capacity crowd to the Guy Gibbs gym on the Regis campus. e outcome wasn’t decided until the nal seconds.

With the score tied at 57, there were two turnovers on charging calls in the 28 seconds, one on the Jaguars and one on Regis with 4.3 seconds remaining in regulation time.

Rock Canyon inbounded the ball, which ended up in Terry’s hands. He ended the game and sent Jaguar students racing onto the court.

“It was an amazing game and to make that shot in front of these amazing fans was great,” said Terry. “I wouldn’t say we practice that shot. I just stepped back, good luck, and I knocked it down.

“I was at the top of the rim, got cut o and just stepped back.”

Terry’s shot extended Rock Canyon’s winning streak to 13 straight and improved the Jaguars (15-1) record to 3-0 in the league. Regis is now 10-5 and 2-1.

Rock Canyon coach Kent Grams had a lot of options and not much time to set up a play for the nal shot.

“ ere’s a lot of guys you have to guard and pay attention to on our team,” said Grams. “Obviously Gavin (Hershberger) is probably the key, the guy that everybody is zeroing in on.

“Mac is strong and makes really good decisions and he has good touch. Gavin and all of our guys play one-on-one after practice and they always talk about how good Mac is on one-on-one situations. We put the ball in his hands and he made a heck of a shot.”

Rock Canyon had 10 point leads in the third quarter and led by nine points to start the fourth but the Raiders rallied.

“You have to give Regis credit, they are never going to go away,” said Grams. “Coach Shaw (Ken) does a great job of preparing them they are so disciplined. If you miss shots they

eight came in the second half. Peck also had six rebounds, four assists and ve blocked shots.

Terry, the 6-3 junior, nished with 15 points and left people talking about his nal second shot. Hershberger had 13 points.

Senior Tarea Fulcher of Regis took game scoring honors with 20 points. However, he missed a free throw to complete a three-point play, which

would have given the Raiders a onepoint lead with 28.8 seconds to play.

“ is win will de nitely help us,” said Terry. “We got the experience of being in this atmosphere with a big crowd, how to communicate and talk to each other more. Doing that will prepare us for the playo s.”

PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON

Rock Canyon’s Mac Terry hit a fall-away shot just before the final buzzer to give the Jaguars a 59-57 win over Regis Jesuit on Jan. 20.

Rock Canyon’s Gavin Hershberger (22) had 13 points in the Jaguars 59-57 win over Regis Jesuit on Jan. 20. Mac Terry hit the winning basket just before time ran out.

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something that some people want,” Carlson said. “But I don’t think everybody wants or needs to buy a home.”

Others are holding onto the old idea. Bankrate found that homeownership remains a persistent part of the American dream. Homeownership is the “most-mentioned milestone” for Americans 26 and older, but younger Americans see it as less important. Gen Z, aged 18-25, doesn’t rank it as the top accomplishment like older Americans tend to.

Gen Z member Caitlyn Aldersea, a student at the University of Denver, is representative of the changing attitude.

She remembers as a young child how the Great Recession that began in 2007 a ected her family.

“ e American dream today is much di erent than how my parents thought of it,” Aldersea said. “Today, it’s more based on what can be accomplished. It’s not shooting for the stars anymore.”

Aldersea’s personal de nition

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of the American dream includes a ful lling career, opportunities to be part of a community that one is able to give back to and the freedom to pursue personal interests. She believes housing should be attainable for everyone, but doesn’t think it de nes success or happiness.

Aldersea doesn’t envision ever becoming a homeowner. One reason is that she wants to be able to relocate as she pursues her career goals. Another is that she wants to travel and pay o student loans.

“I don’t think my wage or salary will ever help me a ord a house or mortgage,” Aldersea said. “A house would not be the only thing I’d have to focus on nancially.”

Time will tell whether homeownership will eventually become more important to younger Americans. According to Bankrate, the pull to own a home remains strong. Fifty-nine percent of Gen Z members want to own a home as a life goal, second only to having a successful career (60%).

For other generations, homeownership remains the top life goal and the likelihood of that increases with age. Eighty-seven percent of older adults, aged 68 and up, cite homeownership as integral to the American dream.

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NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS

CRS 38-38-111(2.5b)(3a,b,d)(5)

PUBLIC TRUSTEE SALE NO. 0320-2022

To: Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust or other person entitled.

You are advised that there are overbid funds due you. This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

Name of Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust

Dylan Dick Address of Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust 15700 E Jamison Dr Unit 1-305, Centennial, CO 80112

Recording Date of Deed of Trust October 22, 2020

Recording Information E0144226 Book: N/A Page:

Legal Description of Property

See Attached Legal Description

Street Address of Property 15700 E Jamison Dr Unit 1-305, Centennial, CO 80112

NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS

I sold at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on 10/26/22, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, to the highest and best bidder for cash, the real property described above. An overbid was realized from the sale and the funds must be claimed by the Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust or other persons entitled thereto within six months from the date of sale.

THE STATE OF COLORADO REQUIRES US TO NOTIFY YOU THAT YOUR PROPERTY MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE STATE TREASURER IF YOU DO NOT CONTACT US BEFORE 4/26/2023 as part of the "Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act", pursuant to Colorado law.

First Publication: 1/26/23

Last Publication: 2/23/23

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Date: 12/29/22

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

By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012

Legal Notice NO. 0320-2022

First Publication: 1/26/23

Last Publication: 2/23/23

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0540-2022

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

On October 21, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Sterling J Steed and Amber K Steed

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. ("MERS"), as beneficiary, as nominee for Paramount Residential Mortgage Group, Inc., Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt NewRez LLC, F/K/A New Penn Financial, LLC, D/B/A Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Date of Deed of Trust

September 09, 2016

County of Recording

Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

September 13, 2016

Recording Information

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

D6102260

Original Principal Amount $270,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $236,787.92

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 20, BLOCK 2, SOUTHGLENN NINTH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 7333 S Washington Circle, Centennial, CO 80122-1402.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/22/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law

First Publication: 12/29/2022

Last Publication: 1/26/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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

DATE: 10/21/2022

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

By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423

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

Attorney File # CO-22-945118-LL

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. 0540-2022

First Publication: 12/29/2022

Last Publication: 1/26/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0573-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 8, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original

Original Principal Amount $896,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $896,000.00

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO Also known by street and number as: 3190 WEST BOWLES AVENUE, LITTLETON, CO 80123.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

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

03/08/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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

DATE: 11/08/2022

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

By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Robert T. Cosgrove #12217 Burns, Wall and Mueller, P.C. 303 East 17th Avenue, #920, Denver, CO 80203-1299 (303) 830-7000 Attorney File # 3190 WEST BOWLES AVENUE

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

EXHIBIT “A” 0573-2022 Attached to and forming part of the Deed of Trust to Public Trustee, Security Agreement, Assignment of Leases and Rents and Financing Statement, dated March 8, 2022, from Cross Creek 3, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company as Grantor, to the Public Trustee of the County of Arapahoe, Colorado, for the use and benefit of Indicate Capital Fund 1 LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as Beneficiary. Description of Property: LOT 1, BLOCK 1, WATSON LANE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, ACCORDING TO THE CORRECTIVE PLAT RECORDED SEPTEMBER 5, 2002 AT RECEPTION NO. B2164681, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also Known As: 3190 West Bowles Avenue Littleton, CO 80123

Legal Notice NO. 0573-2022

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0590-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 22, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Randall M. Johnson

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. ("MERS") as nominee for Loan Simple, Inc., Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt NewRez LLC, F/K/A New Penn Financial, LLC, D/B/A Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Date of Deed of Trust March 25, 2015

County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust April 02, 2015

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D5032362

Original Principal Amount $155,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $134,581.56

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 1, BLOCK 8, SOUTHCREEK SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 15902 E Nichols Ave, Englewood, CO 80112.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale

as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/22/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/22/2022

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

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

Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423

Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755

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

Attorney File # CO-22-947588-LL

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. 0590-2022

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0554-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Julie Brown

Original Beneficiary(ies)

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust April 20, 2007

County of Recording

Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust April 23, 2007

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B7050779

Original Principal Amount $174,166.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $151,376.16

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOTS 13 AND 14, BLOCK 21, SHERIDAN SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 1810 W Girard Ave, Englewood, CO 80110.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/01/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by

law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/5/2023

Last Publication: 2/2/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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

DATE: 11/01/2022

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

By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Winecki #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592

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

Attorney File # 22-028628

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. 0554-2022

First Publication: 1/5/2023

Last Publication: 2/2/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0561-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 4, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Gregory J Hoffman, a married person and Louise B Hoffman, a married person

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. ("MERS") as nominee for Coldwell Banker Mortgage, Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt NewRez LLC, F/K/A New Penn Financial, LLC, D/B/A Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Date of Deed of Trust January 22, 2010

County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 25, 2010

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D0007694

Original Principal Amount $417,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $320,976.95

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 5, GREENWOOD HIGHLANDS FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 4 Windover Road, Greenwood Village, CO 80121.

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

If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: C.R.S.§ 38-35-109(5) LEGAL DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN CORRECTED BY SCRIVENER'S AFFIDAVIT RECORDED 09/28/2022 AT RECEPTION NO. E2098930 IN THE RECORDS OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/08/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the

indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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

DATE: 11/04/2022

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

By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Erin Croke #46557 Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423

Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755

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

Attorney File # CO-22-926956-LL

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. 0561-2022

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0577-2022

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

On November 8, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Jessica M. Lujan-Ladow AND Joseph N. Ladow

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Ent Federal Credit Union

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Ent Federal Credit Union Date of Deed of Trust December 17, 2015

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 22, 2015

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D5145653

Original Principal Amount $55,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $55,436.44

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

THE SOUTH 73.5 FEET OF THE NORTH 148.5 FEET OF THE EAST 125 FEET OF THE WEST 155 FEET OF THE EAST 300 FEET OF BLOCK 31, WINDERMERE - GALLUP'S SUBURBAN HOME SUBDIVISION , COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 5978 S. Louthan St, LITTLETON, CO 80120.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/08/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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

DATE: 11/08/2022

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

By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

Peter M. Susemihl

660 Southpointe Ct. Suite 210, Colorado Springs, CO 80906 (719) 579-6500

Attorney File # 5978 S LOUTHAN ST

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

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice No. 0577-2022

First Publication: 1/12/2023

Last Publication: 2/9/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

City and County

Public Notice

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE

On the 23rd of January 2023, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 05

INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ANDERSON

A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF SHERIDAN AND THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD FOR THE PROVISION OF SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM SERVICES.

Copies of the aforesaid council bill are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110 or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Legal Notice No. 301738

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

ARAPAHOE COUNTY NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

To whom it may concern: This notice is given with regard to items in the custody of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office that have been released for public auction. The Sheriff’s Office will release numerous items including but not limited to, bicycles, jewelry, audio/ visual equipment, automotive parts, tools, sports equipment (such as camping, rafting, skiing gear, etc.), household goods and other items of personal property to a private auction company identified as Roller Auction. These items will be released for on-line bidding on the last Tuesday of each month and the auction is open to the public.

If any citizen believes they have property in the possession of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office that can be identified, and for which they can show proof of ownership associated with a written report that has been filed with the Sheriff’s Office prior to this announcement, can contact the evidence section of the Sheriff’s Office.

Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board

Legal Notice No. Arap 1143

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Metropolitan Districts

Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR SOUTH SUBURBAN PARK AND RECREATION DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the South Suburban Park and Recreation District of Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson Counties, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a regular election will be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, two (2) directors will be elected to serve a four-year term.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms are available from Jennifer King, the Designated Election Official for the District, at 4810 E. County Line Road, Littleton, CO 80126. Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms must be filed with the Designated Election Official for the District at the above address not less than 67 days prior to the election (Friday, February 24, 2023).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots may be filed with the Designated Election Official of the District at the above address between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., until the close of business on the Tuesday immediately preceding the election (Tuesday, April 25, 2023). All absentee ballots must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 7:00 p.m. on Election Day.

SOUTH SUBURBAN PARK AND RECREATION DISTRICT

By: /s/Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 530955-60955

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Published in: Littleton Independent Centennial Citizen Lone

VINTAGE RESERVE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Vintage Reserve Metropolitan District of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a regular election will be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. at the Vintage Reserve Clubhouse 6646 South Depew Street. At that time, two (2) directors will be elected to serve a four-year term. The election proceedings on May 2, 2023 will take place only if at the close of business on February 28, 2023, there are more candidates than offices to be filled at the Election. Otherwise, affirmed nominations will fill the available Board seats.

For property owners in Vintage Reserve, SelfNomination and Acceptance forms are available from Crystal Schott, the Designated Election Official for the District, at 165 Union Boulevard, Suite 785, Lakewood, Colorado 80228, or cschott@ cogovlaw.com. Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms as well as general information about the Vintage Reserve Metropolitan District can be obtained from the district website: https://vintagemetro.specialdistrict.org. SelfNomination and Acceptance forms must be filed with the Designated Election Official for the District at the above email address not less than 67 days prior to the election (Friday, February 24, 2023 at 5:00 pm).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots may be filed with the Designated Election Official of the District at the above address during normal business hours, until the close of business on the Tuesday immediately preceding the election (Tuesday, April 25, 2023). All absentee ballots must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 7:00 p.m. on election day.

VINTAGE RESERVE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/ Crystal Schott Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 530965

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

A CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

§1-13.5-501, 1-13.5-1102(3), 32-1-905(2), C.R.S.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the electors of the Leawood Metropolitan Recreation and Park District of Jefferson County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on the 2nd day of May 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, two (2) directors will be elected to serve a 2-year term and 2 (two) directors will be elected to serve a 4-year term. Eligible electors of Leawood Metropolitan Recreation and Park District interested in serving on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District Designated Election Official (DEO): Debby Baker, Designated Election Official 6328 So. Harlan Way Littleton, CO 80123 303-903-3216 debbypb2021@gmail.com

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance is close of business on Friday, February 24, 2023.

Legal Notice No. 530970 First Publication: January 26, 2023 Last Publication: January 26, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR SOUTH METRO FIRE RESCUE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the South Metro Fire Rescue Fire Protection District of Douglas and Arapahoe Counties, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a regular election will be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, Directors will be elected to Director District 1, Director District 3, Director District 4 and Director District 5 for four-year terms.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms may be downloaded from the District’s website (www. southmetro.org/649/SMFR-Board-of-DirectorElection Information) and are available from Barb Andrews, the Designated Election Official for the District, at the South Metro Fire Rescue Administrative Office, 9195 E. Mineral Avenue, Centennial, Colorado (Phone: 720-989-2292; email: deo@ southmetro.org). A map depicting the Director Districts may be viewed on the District’s website or may be obtained by contacting the Designated Election Official.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms must be filed with the Designated Election Official for the District at the above address not less than 67 days prior to the election (Friday, February 24, 2023).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots may be filed with the Designated Election Official of the District at the above address between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., until the close of business on the Tuesday immediately preceding the election (Tuesday, April 25, 2023). All absentee ballots must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 7:00 p.m. on election day.

SOUTH METRO FIRE RESCUE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

By /s/ Barb Andrews Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 530977

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR SOUTH-EAST ENGLEWOOD WATER DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the South-East Englewood Water District of Arapahoe County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a regular election will be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, two (2) directors will be elected to serve a four-year term.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms are available from Crystal Schott, the Designated Election Official for the District, at Collins Cole Flynn Winn & Ulmer, PLLC, 165 Union Boulevard, Suite 785, Lakewood, Colorado 80228; email: cschott@ cogovlaw.com. Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms must be filed with the Designated Election Official for the District at the above email address not less than 67 days prior to the election (Friday, February 24, 2023 at 5:00 pm).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots may be filed with the Designated Election Official of the District at the above address during normal business hours (8:00 am and 5:00 pm), until the close of business on the Tuesday immediately preceding the election (Tuesday, April 25, 2023). All absentee ballots must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 7:00 p.m. on election day.

SOUTH-EAST ENGLEWOOD WATER DISTRICT

By: /s/ Crystal Schott

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 530968

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR BOW MAR WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Bow Mar Water and Sanitation District of Arapahoe and Jefferson Counties, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a regular election will be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, three (3) directors will be elected to serve a four-year term.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms are available from Crystal Schott the Designated Election Official for the District, at Collins Cole Flynn Winn & Ulmer, PLLC, 165 Union Boulevard, Suite 785, Lakewood, Colorado 80228; email: cschott@ cogovlaw.com. Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms must be filed with the Designated Election Official for the District at the above email address not less than 67 days prior to the election (Friday, February 24, 2023 at 5:00 pm).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots may be filed with the Designated Election Official of the District at the above address during normal business hours (8:00 am and 5:00 pm), until the close of business on the Tuesday immediately preceding the election (Tuesday, April 25, 2023). All absentee ballots must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 7:00 p.m. on election day.

BOW MAR WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

By: /s/ Crystal Schott Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 530969

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR SHERIDAN SANITATION DISTRICT NO. 1

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Sheridan Sanitation District No. 1 of Arapahoe County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a regular election will be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, two (2) directors will be elected to serve a fouryear term and two (2) directors will be elected to serve a two-year term.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms are available from Crystal Schott, the Designated Election Official for the District, at 165 S. Union Blvd., Suite, 785, Lakewood, Colorado, or email: cschott@ cogovlaw.com.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms must be filed with the Designated Election Official for the District at the above email address not less than 67 days prior to the election (Friday, February 24, 2023 at 5:00 pm).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots may be filed with the Designated Election Official of the District at the above address during normal business hours 8:00 am and 5:00 pm), until the close of business on the Tuesday immediately preceding the election (Tuesday, April 25, 2023). All absentee ballots must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 7:00 p.m. on election day.

SANITATION DISTRICT NO. 1

SHERIDAN

By: /s/ Crystal Schott Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 530967

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Notice

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR POLO RESERVE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Polo Reserve Metropolitan District of Arapahoe County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a regular election will be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, two (2) directors will be elected to serve a fouryear term and one (1) director will be elected to serve a two-year term.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms are available from Crystal Schott, the Designated Election Official for the District, at Collins Cole Flynn Winn & Ulmer, PLLC, 165 Union Boulevard, Suite 785, Lakewood, Colorado 80228; email: cschott@ cogovlaw.com.

Self-Nomination and Acceptance forms must be filed with the Designated Election Official for the District at the above email address not less than 67 days prior to the election (Friday, February 24, 2023 at 5:00 pm).

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots may be filed with the Designated Election Official of the District at the above address during normal business hours (8:00 am and 5:00 pm), until the close of business on the Tuesday immediately preceding the election (Tuesday, April 25, 2023). All absentee ballots must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 7:00 p.m. on election day.

POLO RESERVE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/ Crystal Schott

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 530966

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Bids and Settlements

Public Notice

ARAPAHOE COUNTY NOTICE OF PARTIAL FINAL SETTLEMENT ARAPAHOE COUNTY PROJECT NO. ITB-20-25, 2020 STREET MILLING PROGRAM Project No. RB22-110

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County, Colorado shall make partial final settlement with Elite Surface Infrastructure, Inc. for its work completed for Arapahoe County. The work performed under this contract dated March 25th, 2020, and through Change Orders 1- 5, for the removal of the top 1”-3” of road surface with a milling machine (both full width and edge milling)

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 or any of its subcontractors or that has supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used by Elite Surface Infrastructure, Inc. or any of its subcontractors in or about the performance of the work done within unincorporated Arapahoe County, whose claim has not been paid by Elite Surface Infrastructure, Inc. or any of its subcontractors may file a claim with the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County, 5334 S. Prince St., Littleton, CO 80120, at any time up to and including February 25th, 2023.

This Notice is published in accordance with §3826-107, 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 to Elite Surface Infrastructure, Inc.

Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board

Legal Notice No. Arap 1144

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials,

hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other

used or consumed or any of its subcontractors or that has supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used by Vance Brothers, Inc. or any of its subcontractors in or about the performance of the work done within unincorporated Arapahoe County, whose claim has not been paid by Vance Brothers, Inc. or any of its subcontractors may file a claim with the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County, 5334 S. Prince St., Littleton, CO 80120, at any time up to and including February 25, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent Public

at various locations in unincorporated Arapahoe County.

Public Notices

This Notice is published in accordance with §3826-107, 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 to Vance Brothers, Inc.

Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board

Legal Notice No. Arap 1145

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

BID PACKAGES #01, 04, 05, 06, 12

CMGC ABATEMENT SERVICES at NEWTON MS, JR. STADIUM, HIGHLAND ES, LITTLE RAVEN ES, EPIC and ARAPAHOE HS

Notice is hereby given that Littleton Public Schools in the county of Arapahoe will on February 7, 2023 pay retainage and make final settlement with Earth Services and Abatement, Inc. for BID PACKAGES #01, 04, 05, 06, 12 CMGC Abatement Services at Newton MS, Jr. Stadium, Highland ES, Little Raven ES, EPIC and Arapahoe HS. Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, material, 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 therefore has not been paid, by the contractor or subcontractor, must file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim, which statement must be filed on or before January 30, 2023. Claims must be submitted to the Board of Education to Littleton Public Schools at the school district’s Property Management Department, 5776 S. Crocker Street, Littleton, CO. 80120 on or before February 7, 2023. Final Settlement will be made and verified 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: January 5, 2023

Legal Notice No. 530907

First Publication: January 5, 2023 Last Publication: January 26, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent Not consecutive publications

Public Notice

SOUTH ARAPAHOE SANITATION DISTRICT C/O KENNEDY JENKS CONSULTANTS

165 S. Union Blvd, Suite 570 Lakewood, CO 80228 Phone 303-985-3636 Fax 303-985-3800

INVITATION TO BID

Notice is hereby given that South Arapahoe Sanitation District will accept bid proposals for the 2023 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Project in Centennial. The project is located within the City of Centennial, Colorado and includes, but is not limited to:

Full length Cured-in-Place-Pipe (CIPP) lining for twelve (12) sanitary sewer lines.

Two (2) segments are 18” diameter, totaling 646 linear feet, three (3) segments are 21” diameter, totaling 755 linear, and seven (7) segments are 24” diameter, totaling 1,256 linear feet. Removal of 49 manhole steps, root removal in two existing manholes, and coordination with the Owner, all as described in the Contract Documents.

Competitive Bids will be accepted until 2:00 pm, Tuesday, February 14, 2023, at the office of Kennedy Jenks Consultants, 165 S. Union Blvd, Suite 570, Lakewood, Colorado 80228. Proposals shall be submitted in an envelope marked “SOUTH ARAPAHOE SANITATION DISTRICT: 2023 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM PROJECT”. An Electronic (PDF) Competitive Bid will also be accepted in lieu of a paper copy until 2:00 pm, Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Provide Electronic Competitive Bid to:

JenniferChipman@kennedyjenks.com

(ATTN: Jennifer Chipman). Any bids (electronic or paper copy) received after 2:00 pm shall not be accepted. An abstract of the amounts of the base Bids and alternates (if any) will be made available to the Bidders after the Bids have been opened. Bids may not be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days after said closing time.

Bid packages will be available electronically starting on January 19, 2023, at www.questcdn.com under Login for a $15.00 charge. The user will be directed to enter a project code of 8370480.

Contact QuestCDN.com at 952-233-1632 or info@questcdn.com for assistance in membership registration and downloading this digital project information. The Bidder to whom a contract is awarded will be required to furnish “Performance and Maintenance” and “Labor and Material Payment” bonds to the District. The “Performance and Maintenance” and “Labor and Material Payment” bonds shall be furnished in the amount of 100 percent of the contract, in conformity with the requirements of the Contract Documents.

The District reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, or to accept that proposal or combination of proposals, if any, which in its sole and absolute judgment, will under all circumstances best serve the District’s interest. No proposal will be accepted from any firm, person, or corporation, who is a defaulter as to surety or otherwise, or is deemed incompetent, irresponsible, or unreliable by the District Board of Directors.

No bids will be considered which are received after the time indicated above, and any bids so received after the scheduled closing time shall be returned to the bidder unopened.

Legal Notice No. 530959

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

ARAPAHOE COUNTY

NOTICE OF PARTIAL FINAL SETTLEMENT ARAPAHOE COUNTY CONTRACT

NO. RFP-22-14, 2022 CONCRETE

REPLACEMENT PROGRAM

Project No. RB22-200

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County, Colorado shall make partial final settlement with NORAA Concrete for its work completed for Arapahoe County. The work performed under this contract dated May 31 2022, and through Change Order 1, for the removal and replacement of cross pans, sidewalk, curb/gutter, and mountable median noses, and curb ramps within urbanized areas of unincorporated Arapahoe County.

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 or any of its subcontractors or that has supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used by NORAA Concrete or any of its subcontractors in or about the performance of the work done within unincorporated Arapahoe County, whose claim has not been paid by NORAA Concrete or any of its subcontractors may file a claim with the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County, 5334 S. Prince St., Littleton, CO 80120, at any time up to and including February 25, 2023.

This Notice is published in accordance with §3826-107, 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 to NORAA Concrete.

Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board

Legal Notice No. Arap 1142

First Publication: January 26, 2023 Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Public Notice

ARAPAHOE COUNTY

NOTICE OF PARTIAL FINAL SETTLEMENT ARAPAHOE COUNTY CONTRACT NO. ITB-19-50, 2019 CRACK SEALING PROGRAM Project No. RB22-075

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County, Colorado shall make partial final settlement with Vance Brothers, Inc. for its work completed for Arapahoe County. The work performed under this contract dated October 10, 2019 and Change Order No’s. 1 through 3, generally consists of a Crack Sealing Transverse and Longitudinal Cracks, ¼” to ¾” in width, on various roads in the unincorporated areas of Arapahoe County.

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 or any of its subcontractors or that has supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used by Vance Brothers, Inc. or any of its subcontractors in or about the performance of the work done within unincorporated Arapahoe County, whose claim has not been paid by Vance Brothers, Inc. or any of its subcontractors may file a claim with the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County, 5334 S. Prince St., Littleton, CO 80120, at any time up to and including February 17, 2023.

This Notice is published in accordance with §3826-107, 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 to Vance Brothers, Inc.

Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board

Legal Notice No. Arap 1142

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023 Publisher: Englewood

Edwin A. Olson IV

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. 38-33.3-316, 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: January 5, 2023

THE DUPONT LAW FIRM, LLC

By: *s/ Stephane R. Dupont Stephane R. Dupont

This Summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(h), Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure

Exhibit A Lot 21, Block 3, Sunburst Subdivision, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. Also known as: 15936 East Radcliff Place, #B Aurora, CO 80015

Legal Notice No. 530946 First Publication: January 19, 2023 Last Publication: February 2, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO Case No. 2022CV030739 Division: 15

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Plaintiff: SOMERSET VILLAGE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., THE, a Colorado nonprofit corporation v. Defendants: AMBROSIA MOLLET-GLENN; MIDFIRST BANK; THE OFFICE OF THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE

Regarding: Lot 20, Block 4, Somerset Village Subdivision, Filing No. 3, County of Arapahoe, Stale of Colorado Also known and numbered as: 1188 S Pitkin Way, 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 the Sheriff's Office of Arapahoe County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 23rd day of February 2023, at 13101 E. Broncos Pkwy, Centennial, CO 80112; phone number 720- 874-3845. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. 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 HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT TIME OF SALE. **

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY.

DATED in Colorado this 22nd day of November, 2022.

Tyler S. Brown Sheriff of Arapahoe County, Colorado By: Sgt. Trent Steffa Deputy Sheriff

ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF: ORTEN CAVANAGH HOLMES & HUNT, LLC 1445 Market Street, Suite 350 Denver, Co 80202

Legal Notice No. 530821

First Publication: December 29, 2022

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225, Englewood, Colorado, 80110

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Case No: 2022CV30672

NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Plaintiff: CHARLESTON PLACE ASSOCIATION, INC.

v.

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: 2022CV32127

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S):

Defendants: DONNA K MARSHALL; AMERICAN MORTGAGE NETWORK, INC.; WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; CITY OF AURORA, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; and SUE SANDSROM AS ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE

Regarding: Unit 11 Bldg 26 As Per Condominium Declaration Recorded In B2773 P196 Charleston Place Condos

Commonly known as 13996 E. Utah Circle, Aurora, CO 80012-5625

Under an AMENDED ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S SECOND MOTION FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT AGAINST DEFENDANT

K MARSHALL AND FOR DECREE OF FORECLOSURE entered on October 31, 2022, and an

DEFAULT JUDGMENT

DEFENDANT DONNA K MARSHALL entered on June 17, 2022, the undersigned is ordered to sell certain real property set forth and described above.

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice:

You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff’s sale of the above-referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Unit of the Sheriff’s Office of Arapahoe County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M. on the 23rd day of February 2023 at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, phone number 720-874-3845. At which sale, the above-described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. 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 HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT TIME OF SALE. **

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Judgment is in the amount of $16,790.21.

DATED November 22, 2022

Tyler S. Brown Sheriff of Arapahoe County, Colorado

By: Sgt. Trent Steffa , Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No. 530824

First Publication: December 29, 2022

Last Publication: January 26, 2023 Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225 Englewood, Colorado, 80110

Public Notice

ARAPAHOE COUNTY DISTRICT COURT, STATE OF COLORADO Address: 7325 Potomac St. Centennial, CO 80112

Case Number: 2022CV030884 Division: 14

ALT ASSETS, LLC, a Texas limited liability company, Plaintiff, v. ANDREW PARK, individually; COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY; SUE SANDSTROM, as the Arapahoe County Public Trustee; OCCUPANTS; and NAMU PARK, as Trustee under the provisions of a Trust Agreement dated January 1st of the year 2020 and known as the Namu Trust, Defendants.

Attorneys for Plaintiff: Brian T. Ray Christopher J. Conant Hatch Ray Olsen Conant LLC 730 Seventeenth Street, Suite 200 Denver, Colorado 80202 Phone Number: (303) 298-1800

Email Addresses: bray@hatchlawyers.com; cconant@hatchlawyers.com Atty. Reg. #s: 34914, 40269

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

TO: NAMU PARK, as Trustee under the provisions of a Trust Agreement dated January 1st of the year 2020 and known as the Namu Trust and any and all occupants.

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 or other response within 35 days after the service of this Summons upon you. Service of this 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 a judicial foreclosure action affecting real property commonly known as 13872 East Stanford Place, Aurora, CO 80015:

LOT 21, BLOCK 1, CHERRY CREEK POINTE SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Dated this 11th day of January, 2023.

HATCH RAY OLSEN CONANT LLC

By: s/ Brian T. Ray Brian T. Ray

Attorneys for Plaintiff

In accordance with C.R.C.P. 121 §1-26(7) a copy of this document with original/electronic signatures is being maintained by Hatch Ray Olsen Conant LLC and will be made available for inspection by other parties or the court upon request.

This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(g), C.R.C.P., as amended. This form should not be used where personal service is desired.

Legal Notice No. 530960

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO Case No.: 2022CV031183 Div: 15

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

PLAINTIFF: CHESAPEAKE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. v.

DEFENDANTS: JOSH LETZ; JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.; and ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE 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 Sheriff's Office of County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 16th day of March, 2023, at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112 phone number 720-874-3845. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. 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 HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT THE TIME OF SALE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Judgment is in the amount of $12,346.08.

This is to advise you that a Sheriff sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to Order for Default Judgment and Order and Decree for Judicial Foreclosure dated November 7, 2022, and C.R.S. §38-38-101 et seq. by CHESAPEAKE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., the holder and current owner of a lien recorded on February 3, 2021 at 221021678 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The foreclosure is based on a default under the Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions of Chesapeake Townhomes recorded at June 28, 2016 of the Reception #D6068747 records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The Declaration establishes a lien for the benefit of Chesapeake Homeowners Association, Inc. against real property legally described as follows:

Lot 105, Block 1, Olde Towne Subdivision Filing No. 2, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.;

Also known as: 11652 E Bayaud Drive, Aurora, CO 80012-1248.

The attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is: Kate M. Leason, Reg No. 41025, Altitude Community Law P.C., 555 Zang Street, Suite 100, Lakewood, Colorado 802281011, 303.432.9999.

DATED December 13, 2022.

Tyler S. Brown

Arapahoe County Sheriff

By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No. 530899

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023 Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225 Englewood, Colorado, 80110

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO Case No.: 2022CV031011 Div: 202 COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

PLAINTIFF: SABLE LANDING CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION v. DEFENDANTS: ROY M. TREGGIARI 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 the Sheriff's Office of Arapahoe County, Colorado at 10:00 O’clock A.M., on the 23rd day of March, 2023, at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, phone number 720-874-3845. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. 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 HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT THE TIME OF SALE.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Judgment is in the amount of $16,402.55.

This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to under Order for Default Judgment and Order and Decree for Judicial Foreclosure dated November 10, 2022 and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq. by Sable Landing Condominium Association the holder and current owner of a lien recorded on February 20, 2019 at Reception No. D9014549 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The foreclosure is based on a default under the Condominium Declaration for Sable Landing recorded on 10/18/1978 at 1903900, Book 3100 Page 471 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The Declaration establishes a lien for the benefit of Sable Landing Condominium Association against real property legal described as follows:

Condominium Unit 937, Condominium Building 9, Sable Landing, according to the Condominium Map for Sable Landing Subdivision Filing No. 1, Phase 5, recorded in Plat Book 48 at Page 35, and as defined in the Condominium Declaration recorded October 18, 1979 in Book 3100 at Page 471; and amendments and supplements thereto, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.;

And also known as: 14852 E. Kentucky Dr. #937, Aurora, CO 80012-1706.

DONNA

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S SECOND MOTION FOR

AGAINST

Public Notices

The attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is: Kate M. Leason, Reg No. 41025, Altitude Community Law P.C., 555 Zang Street, Suite 100, Lakewood, Colorado 802281011, 303.432.9999.

DATED: December 27, 2022.

Tyler S. Brown, Arapahoe County Sheriff

By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No. 530924

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225 Englewood, Colorado, 80110

Misc. Private Legals

Public Notice

Air Force Plant Peter J. Kiewit and Sons, Colorado

Second Five-Year Review for Air Force Plant Peter J. Kiewit and Sons

The U.S. Department of the Air Force is initiating the Second Five-Year Review of the environmental remedies implemented at Operable Units (OUs) 3, 4, and 5, at Air Force Plant Peter J. Kiewit and Sons (AFP PJKS), Colorado. AFP PJKS was placed on the National Priorities List in November 1989. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment provide regulatory oversight support concerning environmental cleanup measures.

Five-Year Reviews are required by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, and the National Contingency Plan or NCP. The purpose of a Five-Year Review is to evaluate the implementation and performance of a remedy to determine if the remedy is or will be protective of human health and the environment. Five-Year Reviews also identify issues discovered during the review, if any, and provide recommendations to address them. The Five-Year Review Report documents the methods used for the review, and the findings and conclusions based on a records review and a site inspection. The Second Five-Year Review includes evaluation of the following OUs:

OU 3 (Soil) consists of CSA-3. The 2013 Record of Decision selected restricted closure with LUCs and limited covers for CSA-3.

OU 4 (Groundwater) consists of SWMU 3. The 2013 Record of Decision selected in-situ bioremediation with restrictive notice as the remedy for OU 4. The 2019 ESD revised the remedy for OU 4 by eliminating remedial action objective #1, which stated, “Reduce the concentration of TCE contaminated groundwater in the down-gradient portion of the source areas at the transition points (where bedrock groundwater transitions to the alluvial system).”

OU 5 (Groundwater) consists of SWMUs 1 and 2. The 2013 Record of Decision selected in-situ bioremediation with restrictive notice as the remedy for OU 5. The 2019 ESD revised the remedy for OU 5 by eliminating remedial action objective #1, which stated, “Reduce the concentration of TCE contaminated groundwater in the down-gradient portion of the source areas at the transition points (where bedrock groundwater transitions to the alluvial system).”

The Second Five-Year Review Report is scheduled for completion by August 7, 2023. Upon completion of the Second Five-Year Review Report, a public notice will be published to announce its availability for public review online at the Air Force’s public administrative record website (https://ar.afcec-cloud.af.mil/Default.aspx) and at:

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South Denver, Colorado 80246

Please contact Sarah Lave at (719) 556-6665 or via email at sarah.lave.1@us.af.mil or Rob Stites at (303) 312-6658 or via email at stites.rob@epa. gov if you have any questions or comments about this AFP PJKS Five-Year Review.

Legal Notice No. 530979

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Notice to Creditors

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Linda Lou Spencer, a/k/a Linda L. Spencer, a/k/a Linda Spencer, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30003

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 May 19, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sherri L. Goudeau, Personal Representative c/o Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 530953

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Phillip Norman Dudley Sr., a/k/a Phillip N. Dudley Sr., a/k/a Phillip Dudley Sr., Deceased Case Number 22PR31282

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 May 19, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Edward Dudley, Personal Representative c/o Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 530948

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of JEAN L. KING, A/K/A JEAN LORRAINE KING, AND JEAN KING, Deceased Case Number: 23PR30002

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 May 25, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Joseph E. Childs, Personal Representative 18452 W. 58th Court Golden, CO 80403

Legal Notice No. 301734

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

District Court, Arapahoe County, Colorado 7325 South Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112

In the Matter of the Estate of: WENDY MARIE BROWN-KADELL

Attorney: Charles J. Vanstrom, Esq., Charles J. Vanstrom, P.C. P.O. Box 40216, Denver, Colorado 80204-2016 Phone Number: 303-404-3504

E-mail: charles@charlesjvanstrompc.com Case Number: 2022PR480 Division: 12

NOTICE OF HEARING WITHOUT APPEARANCE PURSUANT TO C.R.P.P. 24 ****** Attendance at this hearing is not required or expected. *******

To all interested persons: A hearing without appearance on Petition for Adjudication of Intestacy and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative is set at the following date, time, and location:

Date: Friday, February 10, 2023 Time: 8:00 a.m. Address: 7325 South Potomac Street, Centennial, Colorado 80112 *****

IMPORTANT NOTICE*****

Any interested person wishing to object to the requested action set forth in the attached motion/ petition and proposed order must file a written objection with the court on or before the hearing and must furnish a copy of the objection to the person requesting the court order. JDF 722 (Objection form) is available on the Colorado Judicial Branch website (www.courts.state.co.us). If no objection is filed, the court may take action on the motion/petition without further notice or hearing. If any objection is filed, the objecting party must, within 14 days after filing the objection, contact the court to set the objection for an appearance hearing. Failure to timely set the objection for an appearance hearing as required will result in further action as the court deems appropriate.

Legal Notice No. 301730

First Publication: January 12, 2023 Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of JOHN JOSEPH BRANSON IV, a/k/a JOHN J. BRANSON IV, a/k/a JOHN BRANSON IV, a/k/a JOHN JOSEPH BRANSON, a/k/a JOHN J. BRANSON, a/k/a JOHN BRANSON Deceased Case Number: 22PR385

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before May 14, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

/s/ Zachary F. Woodward Zachary F. Woodward, #48265 o/b/o Estate of John Joseph Branson IV 750 W. Hampden Ave. Ste 505 Englewood, CO 80110

Legal Notice No. 530944

First Publication: January 12, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of VIRGINIA REAMES LAWRENCE, a.k.a. VIRGINIA R. LAWRENCE, a.k.a. VIRGINIA LAWRENCE, Deceased Case Number 2022PR31440, Division CLX

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe County District Court, Centennial, Colorado, on or before May 19, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

BEVERLY LAWRENCE FENN

Personal Representative 6659 S. Oak Circle Littleton, Colorado 80127

Telephone: 303-619-4025

Legal Notice No. 530942

First Publication: January 12, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Janis K. Cox, a/k/a Janis Kaye Cox, a/k/a Janis Kay Cox, a/k/a Janis Cox, and Jan Cox, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 31404

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before May 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ronald W. Cox, Personal Representative 5167 S. Shalom Park Circle Aurora, CO 80015

Phone: 303-690-1658

E-mail: w9kfb1@mac.com

Legal Notice No. 530972

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 9, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Charles Rodric Willems, Deceased Case Number: 22PR597

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before May 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Tracy Whitehead, Personal Representative 6761 S Cherry St Centennial, Colorado 80122

Legal Notice No. 530973

First publication: January 26, 2023

Last publication: February 09, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Carrie Christine Andree, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR031415

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before May 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Alexandria Andree, Personal Representative 11813 W Yuma Street Avondale, AZ, 85323

Legal Notice No. 530975

First Publication: January 26, 2023 Last Publication: February 9, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of PAMELA JEANNE COMO, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31401

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before May 19, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael M. Como, Personal Representative 1591 South Spruce Street Denver, Colorado 80231

Legal Notice No. 530952

First Publication: January 19, 2023 Last Publication: February 2, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Solange M. Holmberg, A.K.A Solange Michele Holmberg, A.K.A Solange M. Petite Deceased Case Number: 22PR598

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before May 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Baysore & Christian Fiduciary Services, LLC, nominated

Personal Representative Karen Miller as Designated Representative 7000 E. Belleview Ave. Ste. 150 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 530974

First Publication: January 26, 2023 Last Publication: February 9, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of EDWARD E. KOONTZ, a/k/a EDWARD EARL KOONTZ, Deceased Case Number 2022PR31444

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before May 19, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeanette Goodwin Personal Representative P. O. Box 200850 Denver, CO 80220

Bette Heller, Esq. Attorney to the Personal Representative 19671 E. Euclid Dr., Centennial, CO 80016

Phone Number: 303-690-7092

E-mail: bhelleresq@comcast.net Atty. Reg. #: 10521

Legal Notice No. 301733

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

TO CREDITORS

NOTICE

Estate of SUZANNE M. KOONTZ, a/k/a SUZANNE MARIE KOONTZ, a/k/a SUZANNE M. MENKE, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31443

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before May 19, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeanette Goodwin Personal Representative P. O. Box 200850 Denver, CO 80220

Bette Heller, Esq. Attorney to the Personal Representative 19671 E. Euclid Dr., Centennial, CO 80016 Phone Number: 303-690-7092

E-mail: bhelleresq@comcast.net Atty. Reg. #: 10521

Legal Notice No. 301732

First Publication: January 19, 2023 Last Publication: February 2, 2023 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of RICHARD STOUT TOBIN, a/k/a RICHARD S. TOBIN, and RICHARD TOBIN, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31426

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before May 19, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

John D. Tobin, Personal Representative c/o David P. Reiter, Esq., 1660 S. Albion St., Suite 343, Denver, CO 80222

Legal Notice No.530956

First Publication: January 19, 2023 Last Publication: February 2, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of GABRIEL STUART KEITH, a/k/a GABRIEL S. KEITH, a/k/a GABRIEL KEITH, a/k/a GABE KEITH Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30053

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 May 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gabrielle L. Keith, Personal Representative c/o EIRICH LAW FIRM 10233 S. Parker Road, Suite 300 Parker, CO 80134

Legal Notice No. 530976

First Publication: January 26, 2023 Last Publication: February 9, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Lucille Susan Faist, a/k/a Lucille S. Faist, a/k/a Lucille Faist, Deceased Case No.: 2022PR31408

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or tothe District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado or on or before May 19, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Nicole D'Arpa, Attorney for Greta Morgan Personal Representative 1880 Office Club Pointe, Suite 201 Address Colorado Springs, CO 80920

Legal Notice No. 301736

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Roger D. Bell, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31421

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before May 19, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

David W. Bell, Personal Representative of the Estate of Roger D. Bell 1852 S. Ivanhoe Street Denver, CO 80224

Legal Notice No. 301731

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Name Changes

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on December 23, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Annabelle Fallas be changed to Anna Maria Fallas Case No.: 22 C 100642

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530951

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on December 16 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Mohammad Milhann Hazara be changed to Miles Milhann Case No.: 2022 C 100849

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530930

First Publication: January 12, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on December 28, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Jennifer Rammirez Garcia be changed to Jennifer Ramirez Garcia Case No.: 22 C 100888

By: Kim Bosell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530950

First Publication: January 19, 2023 Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on December 16, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court. The petition requests that the name of Emily Annichen Kassel be changed to Annichen Kassel Mitchell Case No.: 22 C 100855

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530935

First Publication: January 12, 2023 Last Publication: January 26, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on December 21, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Alyssa Taylor Allen be changed to Alyssa Taylor Caselli Case No.: 22C100861

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530934

First Publication: January 12, 2023

Last Publication: January 26, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on January 2, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Ali Abdullahi Abdi be changed to Mohamed Abdullahi Abdi Case No.: 22C100894

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530961

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on November 7, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Alycia Rene Curtis be changed to Alycia Rene Owens Case No.: 22C100758

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530949

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on December 15, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Kelsey Anne Cline be changed to Kelsey Anne Dietz-Gass Case No.: 22 C 100846

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Walk with a Doc brings physicians, patients together

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On Saturdays, doctors from South Denver Cardiology trade out their white coats for baseball hats, tshirts and sneakers.

ey meet up with patients and other community members in the northwest corner of the parking lot at the South Denver Heart Center in Littleton. en, together, they all go for a walk.

Since October 2018, South Den -

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are having to make adjustments as their enrollment declines because as we know, there are many schools in DPS that have struggled with signi cantly declining enrollment,” Mendez said.

ey include not just districtmanaged schools but also charter schools and innovation schools, which are district-operated schools that can skirt certain components of the tenure law and teachers union contract.

Other DPS schools aren’t feeling the blow of fewer students, Mendez added.

“ e declines are not hitting every school equally nor every region equally, so there are some schools that are not experiencing declining enrollment, particularly in areas

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program is listed as a family’s rst choice. When applying, parents and caregivers can select up to ve preschool programs, ranking their preferred programs starting with their top choice.

e application is available in English, Spanish and Arabic and takes no more than 15 minutes to complete, Mares said, adding that the state has created the application by asking, “how can we best take (the) burden o of families?”

All 4-year-olds in the state will be eligible for at least 15 hours of free preschool per week — close to a half day of care. Additionally, some

ver Cardiology has been holding these events through the national organization Walk with a Doc, which aims to inspire communities through movement and conversation with physician-led walking groups.

“You don’t have to be our patient; it’s open to everyone,” said cardiologist Ira Dauber, who started the South Denver Cardiology chapter after seeing the event hosted by a colleague at National Jewish Health in Denver. “We walk and we talk

where we’ve seen more housing development,” she said, citing Central Park and Green Valley Ranch.

State lawmakers will also have their own considerations to make in light of decreasing enrollment, said Tracie Rainey, executive director of the Colorado School Finance Project.

“ ey’re going to have to determine how they’re going to address the overall shortfall in funding for K-12 and determine. Do they want to increase investment in funding even during a time of declining enrollment?” Rainey said.

Much of the funding shortfall stems from the budget stabilization factor — a growing debt the state has owed to schools since the Great Recession hit in 2009. e total of that debt is more than $10 billion, Rainey said, and this school year alone, school funding was cut short by $321 million.

Paying down the budget stabiliza-

3-year-olds will qualify for 10 hours of free preschool per week, including those with a disability, from low-income families, facing housing insecurity, learning English or living in foster care.

e state’s newly expanded preschool program was made possible by Colorado taxpayers in 2020, when voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition EE, which raised taxes on cigarettes and other products containing nicotine partly to fund more preschool for Colorado kids.

Providing free hours of preschool to families has been a major goal of Gov. Jared Polis, who has championed early childhood education since he rst ran for governor. Polis touted the launch of the application window for expanded preschool during his State of the State address

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and we just sort of like to show everybody that exercise is good — we’ll tell you why. Exercise is easy — we’ll show you how. And exercise is safe at many levels of ability.”

Snacks, education and exercise e South Denver Cardiology walks take place the rst Saturday of every month from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Before the walk, sta members arrive to set up snacks, co ee, a sign-in table and a station for free blood pressure checks, according

tion factor won’t solve school funding de cits, she noted. To remain competitive with other states, pay teachers more and curb districts’ struggles to attract and retain teachers, lawmakers must pump more money into education so per-pupil funding in Colorado is closer to the national average, Rainey said.

“ ose issues don’t go away unless there’s sustainable new revenue that can go into the system,” she said.

Legislators could decide to keep all the money they’ve allocated into K-12 schools from last year’s budget and divert it to paying down the budget stabilization factor, Rainey said. In that case, districts facing declining enrollments would receive less per-pupil funding since much of their funding total is determined by the number of kids they educate. However, some of the funding loss would be o set by the state paying down the budget

Tuesday.

e program “will save families at least $6,000 a year and give every child the best possible start in life,” Polis said during his speech.

Department of Early Childhood spokesperson Hope Shuler noted that preschool applications swelled during and after Polis’ address. e department’s website encountered few technology challenges amid the urry of applications, running slowly the rst 15 minutes of the day but then resolved and managed the intake of applications, she said.

e department will likely launch a second round of applications for families and possibly a third, depending on the ow of applications.

If the majority of eligible children have applied by the end of the rst or second round, Roy said, “we’ll

to business development and marketing manager Randy Cupps.

After the walkers mingle and have some food, the physician leading the walk gives a short informal talk about a health topic.

People can sign up for upcoming walks with South Denver Cardiology at https://southdenver.com/ walk-with-a-doc/. Other metro Denver Walk with a Doc chapters include National Jewish Health and Dr. Kyle Knuppel at Blue Heron Park in Littleton.

stabilization factor and pouring more money into the K-12 system, she said.

In another scenario, lawmakers could pull back K-12 funding in light of enrollment being down, which would have a direct impact on districts, Rainey said.

A ve-year averaging provision, which calculates funding for a district based on average enrollment over ve years, would soften the nancial cuts.

“As long as they keep that veyear averaging in place,” Rainey said, “then districts know how to plan for that.”

is story is from e Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support e Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun. com. e Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

adapt as needed.”

Meanwhile, the department is also focused on establishing academic standards, assessments and curriculum support for all types of preschool providers, she noted, while also approving curriculum that some providers already use.

“We have a lot to do before fall,” Roy said, “but we plan on having many of the important areas that were identi ed by the statute in place before the summer comes.”

is story is from e Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support e Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com.

e Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 530964

Littleton Independent