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Whelan happy to have been part of ‘Centennial way’ Former District 4 councilmember looks back on tenure

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Charles “C.J.” Whelan served four years as a Centennial city councilmember from District 4, elected in 2013 and concluding his term on Jan. 8. Whelan, a telecommunications entrepreneur and business owner, has lived in what’s now Centennial for more than 30 years. He ran unsuccessfully to be Centennial’s mayor Nov. 7 and thus was not able to run for re-election in his council seat. He’s a former mayor pro tem and former president of the Cunningham Fire Protection District.

Here are his reflections on his time on the Centennial City Council.

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What do you feel is your best accomplishment in your time on city council?

I am proud of my efforts in redoing our logo with the Branding Committee, founding the “Medians” Committee and working to finally see the widening of East Quincy Avenue — but by far and away, I know that my most lasting accomplishment will be my work chairing the Centennial FiberWorks Commission. The fiber-optic network we are installing is infrastructure that will positively change the dynamics of our city for decades to come.

What’s a story about a citizen you met or interacted with that touched you?

Too many to count. What has always been most satisfying is when a constituent contacts you extremely angry about some problem, and you’re able to see a positive outcome to it. I remember one district meeting where a couple in District 4 give

me a real earful about how bad the roads in their neighborhood were.

I connected to them to our public works department, and sure enough, there was work that was overdue, and in a relatively short period of time, we were able to significantly improve the situation.

Whelan What did you learn about your city during your tenure that you might not have known before?

The “Centennial way” of doing things really is unique in municipal government, and it is better, much better.

What was your most challenging moment? What do you think is the biggest upcoming challenge for the next council?

The initiative in 2016 into 2017 to repeal the changes that city council attempted to enact for design standards along East Arapahoe Road.

Council and staff put an enormous amount of time into that effort over many years involving a lot of constituencies, and I still firmly believe what we attempted to enact was clearly in the best interests of Centennial. However, a great deal of misinformation undid it all. We are sadly in a time where trust in government is nearly nonexistent, and disinformation can often rule the day. What to ultimately do with the Arapahoe Road corridor is still a major challenge facing our city.

What would you like to say to your constituents?

Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to represent you. It has been a privilege and an honor. I know it can be difficult to keep up with all that city council does, and much of it can be esoteric. However, local government touches our lives every day, and the only way to keep Centennial great is to pay attention to it, stay involved and hold leaders accountable.

Hope to still see you around!

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Arts writer for Colorado Community Media, longtime Littleton resident About me I was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1930. My mother was an art teacher and my dad taught economics. We moved to Pittsburgh, and my dad taught at the university there for the rest of his career.

There was a lot of art in our lives.

My mother would take me to museums, and my dad would bring me books.

I met Jack Ellingboe in college, and we were married right after I graduated. I worked in a library until our son John was born. In 1956 we moved to Littleton so Jack could work at Marathon Oil. Back then, we said they paid salaries in scenery — you could make more money elsewhere, but it was just so beautiful here.

Life in Littleton We bought a home in Aberdeen Village. The streets weren’t paved yet — Ridge Road and County Line were still dirt.

Jack served on city council, and we had four children together: John, Kirsten, Karen and Bruce. My life was pretty much feeding kids and schlepping them around. I still took time out to get a babysitter so I could go to the art museum, or I would take a class or something so I could talk to big people.

We opened a book store called Bookhouse in 1970. Jack and I divorced in 1981, and I had to close the bookstore in 1986 because the big box stores were carrying the new best sellers for what I was paying wholesale.

My friend Gretchen Peacock invited me to work at her new newspaper, the Littleton Times. I was like the office manager, but I started writing about the arts too. Sometimes we were up until 3 in the morning doing pasteup. The Healeys bought the paper in the early 1990s, and folded it into the Littleton Independent.

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DAVID GILBERT Encouraging the arts Watching Littleton get more creative and encouraging the arts was what fired me up and still does.

I remember suggesting to city council that we spend 1 percent of the budget on art, like Denver does, and they were absolutely horrified.

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Family is important to me, and so is making art accessible to as many people as possible. I feel my mission in writing stories isn’t to slam something, but to get people off their sofas to go see it.

Littleton has changed so much, but I’ve been involved in much of it.

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I hope I’m remembered as someone who encouraged people to participate in what pleases them. Getting involved in your community makes a huge difference in how your life proceeds.

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Gadget would ease phone use for outdoor enthusiasts Highlands Ranch man seeks funds for product to go mainstream

Gadgettronix president Anthony Dobaj sits in his Highlands Ranch home office wearing the Gestr on his left wrist. In the works since 2012, the black gadget allows him to control his music and other smartphone features with a tap of a finger or wave of a hand.

BY ALEX DEWIND ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

When he is cruising through the Backcountry Wilderness Area on his mountain bike, Anthony Dobaj prefers to listen to music. But in the past, he found it difficult to pull his iPhone out of his pocket and change the song while also maneuvering his bike.

“I’ve been thinking about this for a long time because it is a pain point for me,” said Dobaj, president of Gadgettronix, a start-up tech company based in Denver that specializes in wearable technologies. “I just kept waiting for a satisfactory solution to present itself but it never did.”

In 2012, he visualized a solution that would eventually be coined Gestr. The small circular black device allows users to interact with their smartphones with a tap or swipe of a finger.

Dobaj, sitting in his home that conveniently backs up to the Backcountry in Highlands Ranch, slips a magnetic ring on his finger and effortlessly swipes across the gadget. The music on his iPhone gets louder. He swipes a different direction and the song changes.

He taps the gadget once and the music shuts off. He puts a ski glove on and

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“It needs refinement,” he said, “but it’s a game changer.”

To make the concept a reality, Dobaj partnered with Allegro Micro, a supplier of sensor technology based in Massachusetts, and three students from the computer science department of Oregon State University, where Dobaj received a degree in electrical engineering.

Last summer, Benjamin Brewster, who runs the capstone project course for Oregon State University’s online computer science program, picked

students who were familiar with the hardware and software used in Gestr, he said.

In 27 weeks, the students developed a pilot of the gadget using a sensor developed by Allegro Micro. Gestures made with a magnetic ring activate the sensor, which hooks into a smartphone’s Bluetooth — similar to how a Fitbit or Apple Watch connects to a smartphone. Still underway, an app will allow users to assign functions to each gesture, such as swiping up for a phone call.

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Before Gestr goes mainstream, Dobaj and his team need to raise between $150,000 and $200,000 to polish the design — which will use a smaller internal sensor —pass regulatory standards and produce the product for retail. Dobaj plans to raise funds by participating in events geared to start-ups and creating a crowdfunding campaign in the upcoming weeks on Indiegogo, a website that allows users to seek funds for ideas, charities or startup companies. He hopes to see his product available on Amazon by the end of the ski season, he said.

A product developer by trade, Dobaj considers himself an innovator.

“Creativity is the key,” he said.

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Breaking down the 2018 Centennial budget Roads, sidewalks set for updates; traffic, fiber-optic cable to see improvements

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

An uptick in money flowing into the city government and yet another year of Centennial remaining debt-free helped set the stage for a number of visible improvements to the city that residents will soon start to see, according to Centennial’s 2018 budget.

Construction is the name of the game for the city upgrades, with work set for the city’s fiber-optic network, new sidewalks in some areas, extension of the north-south Lone Tree Creek Trail and some muchneeded signs along East Arapahoe Road that will tell drivers and pedestrians they’re in Centennial.

Here’s a look at the highlights.

Basics: Spending and revenues up Revenue, or the money the city takes in, is estimated at about $89 million for 2018, up about $6.7 million from the 2017 adopted budget.

That increase is thanks in part to higher-than-estimated flows of sales and use tax revenue and increases in the city’s property values. The 2018

budget, adopted by city council on Nov. 6, includes about $92 million in spending, about $6.1 million higher than 2017’s adopted budget.

Centennial will keep about $27 million in its general fund balance, which is the amount of money the city has saved up. That’s roughly $4 million more than last year.

‘Fiber’ for healthy traffic Construction on the city’s muchdiscussed fiber-optic network — dozens of miles of underground cables to enhance internet capabilities and improve city services — is expected to wrap up in 2018, covered by money carried over from 2017. One use of that network — linking it to traffic signals to make lights more responsive to traffic patterns — gets backed by $1 million in the 2018 budget.

“We’re hoping that in 2018, parts of it will be operational,” said Doug Farmen, finance director for the City of Centennial. “The goal is to have a lot of it done” this year.

The uses of the fiber network for traffic purposes, referred to as the Intelligent Transportation Systems, will include enabling Centennial and surrounding cities to coordinate during accidents and adjust signals, said Allison Wittern, spokeswoman for the city.

On the road With the Interstate 25 and East

Arapahoe Road update mostly complete, drivers will see construction farther inland in Centennial: workers will widen East County Line Road from South Broadway to South University Boulevard, and the budget also provides money for a traffic signal at South Yosemite Street and East Mineral Avenue.

Centennial plans to look at installing traffic lights at more intersections in the future.

More than $1 million will go to new sidewalks — the city will decide early this year which areas are priorities — and the budget provides for more crack-sealing for streets, building on progress in past years.

Of course, parks and trails Talk of funding in Centennial wouldn’t be complete without a round for its parks and trails. The 2018 budget includes funding for maintenance of the Parker Jordan Centennial Open Space, Centennial Center Park and other parks and spaces.

About $2.6 million goes toward construction on the Lone Tree Creek Trail, which, when finished, will stretch from East Broncos Parkway near Centennial Airport all the way to Cherry Creek State Park. It will pass Centennial Center Park along the way and link up with several other trails at its north end. The money will fund phase two of the

construction, which includes a path from East Caley Avenue to the state park.

Also included is funding for the design of the East West Trail, a gargantuan path that’s expected to stretch from E-470 and East Arapahoe Road all the way to South Broadway in the northwest corner of the city.

Welcome to the city The city plans to add more signage to indicate to people they’re in Centennial, as other cities in the Denver metro area have built in the past. Such signs would sit on East Arapahoe Road in several spots, as well as at East Smoky Hill and Orchard roads in the northeast part of the city, where Aurora and unincorporated Arapahoe County occupy nearby space.

New crime lab Centennial will devote a few hundred thousand dollars to the Arapahoe County Sheriff ’s Office — which provides the city’s law-enforcement services — toward, in part, a new investigations vehicle and new crime lab services. Aurora and Arapahoe and Douglas counties will pay about $70 million over 20 years to maintain and operate the facility, which will sit near E-470 and South Peoria Street after construction ends near SEE BUDGET, P15

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Traffic, housing costs, retirement funds take spotlight Colorado lawmakers to tackle PERA, other hot-button issues in 2018 session

‘I will not allow the retirees — their lives and their well-being — to become a political football.’

Crisanta Duran, House speaker

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Democrats recently remarked that Colorado has “no shortage of unmet needs” — a comment that elicited a sardonic tone from Colorado House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, R-Castle Rock — and the 2018 legislative session, with its kickoff Jan. 10, is shaping up to bear out that claim.

Which needs it will meet is a different story.

Neville Lawmakers will be pressed to find solutions for a state with a ballooning population clogging roads, an underfunded retirement-fund program and Duran housing costs through the roof.

With roughly $300 million projected in previously unforeseen revenues — a prediction that may double — the state has a small bit of Zenzinger breathing room to signal where its priorities lie.

Among other issues lawmakers have discussed in the weeks leading up to the regular session — the fourmonth part of the year when legislators pass bills — healthcare costs have already risen as a key debate to watch for in 2018.

Amid elections, this year will offer no easy waters for bipartisanship — all 65 seats in the state House are up for election, as are 17 of the 35 state Senate seats, plus statewide races including the governor’s post. Here’s what both parties had to say about the flash-point issues this session.

‘Walking the walk’ Colorado landed itself in a $9 billion hole as of 2016, according to state projections of transportation-spending needs through 2025. Interstates 70 and 25 are in need of updates in several parts of the state,

State House Speaker Crisanta Duran, left, sits alongside state Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, D-Denver, Jan. 4. Duran, D-Denver, and Guzman spoke about upcoming legislative issues at the Business Legislative Preview event hosted by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, the Colorado Competitive Council and the Denver Business Journal in downtown Denver.

ELLIS ARNOLD to say nothing of smaller roadways.

“We talk the talk — we have to walk the walk,” Neville said at the Business Legislative Preview event hosted by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Colorado Competitive Council Jan. 4 in downtown Denver. He took cynical aim at the Democrats’ “unmet needs” comment from a Jan. 2 news release.

“They say we have unmet needs — well, isn’t transportation an unmet need?” Neville said. “I think it is.”

The Democrats did mention transportation as a priority, though, and state House Speaker Crisanta Duran, D-Denver, supported an unsuccessful bill last year to increase sales and use taxes by 0.62 percentage point to raise more than $375 million per year for transportation projects.

“To be politically honest,” Neville said, “the citizens won’t pass a tax increase.”

Senate President Kevin Grantham, R-Cañon City, supported that bill along with Duran.

Echoing Neville, Senate Majority Leader Chris Holbert, R-Parker, said $300 million in upcoming revenue would be appropriate to add for roadand-bridge projects. Asking voters to approve bond spending would be another opportunity, Holbert added.

With Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper willing to spend some of the added $286 million in projected revenue over the current and next fiscal year — a stronger-than-expected economy raised expectations, and the recent federal tax bill could raise more another $300 million on top of that in Colorado in the next fiscal year

alone, state data said — the chances for some amount of transportation increase look safe.

The Colorado Department of Transportation garnered about a $1.4 billion budget in general for 2017, and lawmakers last session added nearly $2 billion for transportation projects specifically in coming years.

Unhappy with gentrifying Colorado has to figure out how not to push out residents who have grown up here, said Duran, who referenced an Ink! Coffee location that displayed a sidewalk sign that read, “Happily Gentrifying the Neighborhood Since 2014.”

The advertisement became national news as salt in an open wound of changing demographics in metro Denver neighborhoods — it drew protests and an apology letter to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock in November, the Associated Press reported — and politicians like Duran are still pushing for more affordable housing.

State Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, D-Arvada, is introducing a bill to “expand attainable housing programs,” Gidfar said.

Chances for such a bill passing are by no means certain, though — last year’s House Bill 17-1309 was projected to provide the state with $7.6 billion in fiscal year 2018-19 to fund affordable housing efforts, and it failed in the Republican-controlled Senate.

Republicans, for their part, say that more opportunities for first-time homebuyers could come if lawmakers changed state law that makes

suing builders too easy. Entire multi-family developments can be pulled into one lawsuit that might only involve one or a few homes in it, Holbert said.

Condominiums and townhomes “are cost-prohibitive to build in Colorado” due to current law, Holbert said. “Last session, we passed House Bill 17-1272, which provided some relief,” he said, but “that bill was a first down, not a touchdown,” and we “should work toward limiting lawsuit abuse.”

State Sen. Jack Tate, RCentennial, said he’ll push for renewal and expansion of affordable housing-tax credits that incentivize private development of lower-income housing.

Finding affordable housing is an issue for middle-class residents, too, said state Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Lakewood — and that includes teachers.

“Our education committee is looking at dealing with our teacher shortage,” Pettersen said. “Our teachers aren’t able to (continue to) live in communities they live in on their salary.”

What to do with PERA? The Public Employees’ Retirement Association, Colorado’s public-pension system, is more than $30 billion underfunded, and that’s varying degrees of alarming depending on who’s talking.

The shortage “jeopardize(s) retirement security for many thousands of Coloradans as well as the fiscal health of the state,” Tate said. “To keep our promises to retirees as well as current workers, comprehensive pension plan reform is essential.”

The program manages about $44 billion for more than 560,000 current and former public employees — teachers, police, and other local- and state-government employees.

It’s a math problem, not a partisan issue, Tate said — but party leadership differed.

“It needs to be solvent,” Neville said. There “has to be structural reform.”

On the other hand, state Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, D-Denver, said the program is not on the verge of bankruptcy, adding, “I’m not sure we have to do (reform) this year.”

Some conservative critics argue that PERA should transition from its current structure as a defined-benefits plan — in which the employer guarantees a specific retirement amount and bears the risk of promising the investment will be available — to a defined-contributions plan, like a 401(k), in which the employee chooses to fund the plan, which takes the risk off the employer, or in this case, the government.

“I will not allow the retirees — their lives and their well being — to become a political football,” Duran said, advocating for a solution “where we don’t balance all of PERA on the backs of teachers and employees who have spent all their lives giving back to the state.”

Democrats want to keep the defined-benefits system, Guzman said Jan. 4 alongside Duran.

Hickenlooper recently proposed capping the annual cost-of-living increase to the retirement benefits as part of a solution.

Health-care issues Lawmakers dealt in less specifics when discussing health care at the Jan. 4 event.

Some areas of rural Colorado only have one health-insurance provider, Grantham said, and Neville suggested moving into a “free market-based system” to address rising costs and lack of competition.

Democrats plan to push for a “public option” provider, which would essentially allow all Coloradans the ability to buy into Medicaid, Guzman said. That would improve access and also lower costs, she said.

Duran said Democrats want to tackle issues of transparency and costs related to health care, but when a moderator asked what those issues specifically were, Duran said Democrats are “still working on

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‘It’s up to us to remember him and to be like him’ Family and colleagues tell of slain deputy’s humanity, zest for life at funeral service

BY ALEX DEWIND ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Zackari Parrish was the type of deputy who would shield a child’s eyes if a parent were being handcuffed. He took the lead in organizing a fundraiser for a colleague’s wife who was battling cancer.

He pulled over a man who was down on his luck and gave him money so that his family could spend the night in a hotel.

“That was Zack,” Parrish explained Castle Rock Police Chief Jack Cauley at the funeral service for Parrish, a Douglas County deputy who was killed in the line of duty on New Year’s Eve. “As we march forward to serve together, Zack will give us the strength to do the best we possibly can.”

If there was ever a time to witness the brotherhood among law enforcement officers, it was the morning of Jan. 5 at Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch, where Parrish’s funeral service was held.

Hundreds of men and women wearing crisp black and blue uniforms with shiny gold badges assembled at the church to honor and remember the life of one of their own.

Parrish, 29, was responding to a domestic dispute at the Copper Canyon Apartments, 3380 E. County Line Road, in Highlands Ranch, the morning of Dec. 31 when he was shot and killed by Matthew Riehl. Four other law enforcement officers were wounded in what Douglas County Sheriff

Roxine Davis holds her daughter, Brooklynn, as Deputy Zackari Parrish’s funeral procession passes in Highlands Ranch. “When something like this happens far away, it’s easier to disconnect,” Davis said. “When it’s just down the street, the emotion is just so intense.”

DAVID GILBERT Law enforcement officers lead a ceremony to close the funeral of fallen Douglas County Deputy Zackari Parrish.

The service was held at Cherry Hills Community Church, 3900 Grace Blvd., on Jan. 5.

Tony Spurlock called “an ambush-type of attack.” Two civilians, who were not in the apartment, sustained nonlife-threatening injuries.

Law enforcement agencies from across the country — as close as Arapahoe County and as far as Oregon — attended the funeral. Dozens of cop cars filled the parking lot of the church, where two fire trucks hoisted a large American flag into the air.

Bagpipes preceded the delivery of Parish’s casket, which was draped by the American flag. Men in uniform

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Salute’s sounds, silence echo amid heartbreak “Do you know where the pipers are tuning?”

“The hearse is going to be right here.”

“We are saluting with the casket.”

“Pre-SENT arms.”

In the morning chill of Jan. 5, in the sprawling parking lot of Cherry Hills Community Church, preparations for Douglas County Sheriff Deputy Zackari Parrish’s final goodbye are underway.

Small American flags line the church entrance. A large flag, held aloft by two fire truck ladders, waves overhead in the breeze. Honor Guard members Ann Macari from various law enforcement Healey agencies, in black and blue dress uniforms, form a corridor under the entrance breezeway. And the bagpipers rush to rehearse just one more time.

“This is what we do,” Thomas Rogers says.

“Unfortunately,” Mike DeBoer adds, “we practice

all year for these events, to make sure we’re sharp and we sound good.”

The firefighters, both from South Metro Fire Rescue, are part of the Colorado Emerald Society, a bagpipe and drum band of police, firefighters and emergency medical responders who play to honor officers killed in the line of duty.

“It’s hard, it’s sad, we never want to do this,” Rogers says. “But it’s an honor to do it, to do this for Deputy Parrish and his family.”

••••• Parrish, 29, a father of two young daughters, died New Year’s Eve morning, killed while responding to a domestic disturbance by a man that law enforcement suggests was mentally ill and who was later killed by a SWAT team.

Five days later, hundreds of men and women in blue from throughout the state and as far away as New York, Illinois and Oregon convened at the Highlands Ranch church to bid farewell to Parrish and take care of his family in a carefully choreographed

and synchronized ceremony suffused with reverence for the deputy and the job he did — of serving the community, of instilling order when needed, of protecting it at all costs.

“When one of us falls, we all try to rise up and support our fallen’s family members,” Sgt. Jeremiah Carrigan explained quietly before the service, white gloves tucked into the belt of his dress uniform.

“His loss isn’t just felt by the local community — it’s statewide, nationwide.”

Carrigan knows firsthand about that loss — and support.

His brother, Nate Carrigan, was the Park County deputy killed in February 2016 during an attempted eviction. He still can’t talk about it without pausing, drawing breath, composing himself.

He is a member of his Front Range police department’s Honor Guard, which means he attends the funeral services of those killed in the line of duty.

He does it without hesitation.

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Crowds assemble to ‘give honor for what he gave us’

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Members of the public began dotting Grace Boulevard — which was the final leg of the funeral procession route for Deputy Zackari Parrish — well before 9 a.m. on Jan. 5.

Three of those crowd members in Highlands Ranch were 11-year-old Aiden Case, 12-year-old Ben Katanic and his 9-year-old brother, Blake.

The boys — congregation members at Cherry Hills Community Church and students at Cherry Hills Christian School — remembered Parrish as one of the officers who provided security for the school.

“He gave kids high-fives and he was a nice guy,” said Case, a sixth-grader at the school.

“He would ask us how we were doing.”

Blake Katanic, a thirdgrader, remembered Parrish handing out police stickers to him and other students and joining them at their lunch table, where he spent time getting to know them. The boys said they wanted to attend the procession to thank Parrish for his service.

“I think mostly to give honor,” Case said, “for what he gave us.”

LeAnn Katanic, 45, Ben and Blake’s mother, said she felt it was important for the Castle Rock family to participate because her children were connected to Parrish.

Case’s mother, 40-year-old Shara Case, of Castle Pines, said she and her son wanted to help commemorate Parrish

Gavin Talbot, left, and Kole Bale watch as Deputy Zackari Parrish’s funeral procession passes.

PHOTOS BY DAVID GILBERT

Sloane Cape, left, and Jessica Santos wait for Deputy Zackari Parrish’s funeral procession to pass. “This really hits home for me,” Cape said. “My dad’s a police officer in Aurora. I worry about him but I’m so thankful for what he does.” because they viewed him as part of their community.

“Just honoring someone who gave his time to us. This

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carried it into the church with family members in tow. With every step forward, ceremonial guards lining the walkway gave a slow and synchronized salute.

“I’ve been to 20 or 25 of these,” said Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas, a former Colorado State Patrol major. “They get sadder every time.”

An estimated 5,000 people were seated in the church. A blue hue filled the auditorium and on the stage, spotlights illuminated blown-up photos of Parrish, his wife Gracie and their two young daughters.

Through tears, Gracie Parrish promised to raise her daughters in “a home that bleeds blue.” She read aloud a letter that she wrote to Parrish — whom she called her soulmate, hero and best friend. In the past, she would often write him letters of encouragement and emails filled with dreams

is our community. This is our home, our church and our school. He was a part of that,” she said.

and words of affirmations, she said.

“This is a letter that I never thought I’d write,” Gracie Parrish said as she wept. “It’s a letter that I hope my girls can read one day and know every ounce of love I have for their daddy.”

Parrish was born in Nashville, Tennessee, said his father Zackari Parrish II, who described his son to the auditorium filled with officers and family members. As a child, he loved water sprinklers. He could make everyone laugh.

He played baseball until he bought a guitar and started writing music.

And he loved his role as a police officer. Parrish had been with the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office for seven months and had previously served more than two years with the Castle Rock Police Department.

The most important part of Parrish’s life, his father said, was his faith.

“He enjoyed life,” Parrish II said.

“And the reason he enjoyed life is because he had Jesus in his heart.”

Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock took the stage to commend Parrish for his service as a deputy.

Shanah Windey-Bale, 51, a saleswoman from Highlands Ranch, said she also attended with her 9-year-old twin sons, Kiefer and Kole, to show support.

“It’s hard to put into words,” she said when asked what it means for the community to lose an officer in the line of duty. “His sacrifice is our sacrifice, so we owe it to him to pay our respects…When it happens in your backyard it becomes personal.”

Windey-Bale and her family live near the sheriff ’s office substation in Highlands Ranch, where a vehicle covered in flowers and gifts is set up as a memorial for Parrish.

She described the scene as “very emotional.”

An image taken from the program of the funeral service for Douglas County Deputy Zackari Parrish, who was killed in the line of duty on Jan. 5. Shown are Parrish, his wife Gracie and their two daughters.

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When he listened to Parrish’s body camera audio from the Dec. 31 shooting, Spurlock said Parrish “never once used a foul word, raised his voice or used a derogatory term.”

“It’s a very quiet, grieving area,” she said. “To see the vehicle with all of the cards and the flowers and all the notes, it’s beyond words.”

Farther down the procession route, crowds gathered at each corner of the intersection of Grace Boulevard and Wildcat Reserve Parkway.

Parents held their children bundled in blankets, many waved flags of various sizes or held posters, and law enforcement working the area stood with arms and hands folded in front of them.

There, Shane Callahan, an investment adviser from Highlands Ranch, observed the procession with his 6-year-old daughter Carley and 4-year-old son Gavin.

Callahan, who is related to a police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, said law enforcement is “underappreciated” and in need of the community support at this time.

When the procession approached the intersection, the crowd fell nearly silent and Callahan, 43, called each of his children to attention. Carley, sitting atop her turquoise bike in a pink stocking cap, rolled to the street front and waved a flag as Parrish’s hearse drove by.

Callahan picked up Gavin and held him over the crowd so he could see the scene.

“They don’t understand everything,” Callahan said.

“They don’t need to know everything. They need to know it’s important to come together as a community.”

Instead, he pleaded with the suspect, begging, “Let me help you,” said Spurlock.

“I’ve never heard a more calm voice in a call like that,” he said.

“It’s up to us to remember him and to be like him.”

Spurlock honored Parrish with a medal of valor for his courage and bravery. And a position on the Douglas County Regional SWAT team will forever be held by Parrish, he said.

As the service came to a close, a muffled radio call played throughout the church. The voice on the other end repeatedly called out Parrish’s radio number: 1721.

“Deputy Zackari Parrish,” the voice said, “may you rest in peace knowing that your strength lives on in your wife, your legacy will be carried out through your daughters, and that your honor will continue on with all of us.

“1721, you are clear for end of watch. Thank you for your service and rest easy, sir, we have the watch from here.”

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January 12, 2018

Motorcade fuels community support for deputy’s family, law enforcement Douglas County deputies escort the family of Deputy Zackari Parrish along Lincoln Avenue.

BY ELLIS ARNOLD AND TABATHA DEANS STEWART STAFF WRITERS

Hundreds, maybe thousands, of people lined the route of Deputy Zackari Parrish’s funeral procession in Douglas County as a motorcade comprising vehicles from upward of 50 law enforcement agencies made its way from Castle Rock to Highlands Ranch.

The Jan. 5 motorcade exited I-25 at Lincoln Avenue about 9 a.m., then headed west down Lincoln, to University Boulevard, then to Wildcat Reserve Parkway, winding its way to Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch, where services were held for the slain deputy at 11 a.m.

Parrish, 29, was shot to death in a Highlands Ranch apartment the morning of Dec. 31 in what Sheriff Tony Spurlock called an “ambush-type of attack.” He was a husband and a father of two small children. In the New Year’s Eve shooting, four other law enforcement officers were injured, as were two civilians.

The suspect, Matthew Riehl, 37, was killed by a regional SWAT team after a roughly two-hour standoff. No motive has been released for the attack, which resulted after officers responded to the Copper Canyon Apartments on the report of a domestic disturbance.

On Jan. 5, personnel from Colorado law enforcement agencies — including Lakewood, Englewood, Boulder and Basalt — turned out for the procession, as did officers from several nearby Western states, including Utah, Idaho, Nebraska, Montana and Wyoming. Officers of the U.S. Forest Service and Federal Protective Service of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security also drove vehicles.

Some of the people in the crowds that lined the procession route shared what the morning meant to them.

The Woolverton family, including children Evan, Ava, and Kael, watched the procession near the intersection of Yosemite Street and Lincoln Avenue and proudly held a flag in support of law enforcement family — their father is a Douglas County deputy. The children said they wanted to be there for all families.

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“This is my opportunity to give back some of that support that was shown to my family,” he said, “to show this profession is a brotherhood, a family.”

Pamela Rath understands that sentiment, too. The Trinidad resident is married to a Colorado state trooper, who is also an Honor Guard member.

They drove 3 1/2 hours to be there for Parrish’s service, the fifth or sixth service for fallen officers they have attended in the past year-and-a-half.

“As a wife, it’s scary,” she

PHOTOS BY TABATHA STEWART

Student Emma Dreiling, 15, and her sisters held signs for officers reading “Thank you for your service” and “We are sorry for your loss.” The family lives in Denver, and their mother is a retired Denver police officer. The girls know all too well how lucky they are to have both parents come home at night.

Retirees Jesse and Sunny Cheek, of Lone Tree, braved the cold and carried hand-made signs that read “Bless you” on one side and “Thank you” on the other. They held the first sign up for Parrish’s family, the second for law enforcement.

“It was the least we could do,” Jesse said.

What some others had to say: • “It’s been an emotional day for me — my brother passed away from brain cancer two years ago. It’s different, but … he was the Sheridan County sheriff in Montana.”

— Wil Ulrickson, 49, Lone Tree resident, employee at Douglas County School District • “I have a 2-year-old, and I get a lump in my throat thinking about him not seeing his father again (like Parrish’s children).”

said of the law enforcement profession. “But there is no better place for him to be. It’s a calling, not a job.”

••••• 9:11 a.m.

The bagpipers file to the bottom of the driveway. Honor Guard members ready to attention. Quiet descends on the crowd waiting at the church entrance, the only sounds a plane flying overhead, a bird chirping. The sun strains to shine through the clouds.

9:22 a.m.

“Five minutes, five minutes.”

The bagpipes’ lament drifts through the air as the band

Emma Dreiling, 15, left and her sisters came out to honor Deputy Zackari Parrish along Lincoln Avenue. Their mother is a retired Denver police officer.

— John Ray, 32, Jefferson county resident, city carrier assistant for the U.S. Postal Service • “I’ve driven in (processions) before.

It’s always sad, always scary. It makes you apprecicate your family, appreciate every day. You have to have tough conversations with your family. But I wanted them to see the support from the community, too. It’s

escorts the hearse up to the church entryway.

Deputies and family members carry a coffin draped in the American flag through the phalanx of Honor Guard members, followed by Parrish’s wife, Gracie, escorted by two officers. Arms slowly rise in salute as the casket passes by.

The men and women there to honor Parrish then fall into a line so long that it takes 1 1/2 hours for them to all get inside.

The patches on their sleeves show they have come from near and far: Golden. Thornton. Chicago. City of New York. Loveland. Sterling.

Arapahoe County. Jefferson

not just negative.”

— Dana Gerber, 37, Westminster resident, Arvada Police Department officer • “My son’s dad is a deputy, and we came here to show our support for all law enforcement officers, It’s sad, just sad.”

— Rachel Sears, 33, Castle Rock resident

County. Portland. Adams County. Aspen. Northglenn.

Summit County. Denver. Westminster. Larimer County. The U.S. Forest Service. Boulder.

Mesa County. More.

A few feet away, Highlands Ranch resident Miguel Gutierrez, 52, sits quietly on the back corner of a fire rescue truck, a small American flag in one hand, a coffee thermos in the other.

“I cannot go inside — the fellow officers get to be first,” Gutierrez says. So he is praying, for Parrish and his family, for Parrish’s law enforcement brethren.

“I have so much respect for the officers,” says Gutierrez, a Mexican immigrant who

became a U.S. citizen 15 years ago and who felt he had to be present to honor them all.

“They protect my family. They risk their lives.”

He shakes his head, his voice trails off, as he talks of the aching sorrow left behind for Gracie Parrish and her two young daughters.

“It just breaks my heart.”

It breaks all of our hearts.

Reporter Alex DeWind contributed to this story.

Ann Macari Healey writes about people, places and issues of everyday life. An awardwinning columnist, she can be reached at ahealey@coloradocommunitymedia or 303-5664100.

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Deputies wanted to put mental-health hold on suspect In video, Parrish is heard speaking to gunman prior to shooting

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Caution tape blocks the entrance Jan. 1 to the apartment building in Highlands Ranch where the man who shot five law enforcement officers and two civilians lived.

The suspect, Matthew Riehl, was shot and killed after a nearly two-hour standoff at Copper Canyon Apartments.

ALEX DEWIND

Details of killer’s past point to recent spiral Matthew Riehl reportedly struggled with mental health conditions before shooting of deputy

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The man who killed a deputy and injured four officers and two civilians on New Year’s Eve in Highlands Ranch had a history with law enforcement in Colorado and Wyoming, was estranged from his family and reportedly was living with mental health issues.

Matthew Riehl, 37, was killed in a Dec. 31 shootout with authorities.

Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said Riehl used a rifle to fire at least 100 rounds at officers during a two-hour standoff before a regional SWAT Riehl team killed the suspect.

Deputy Zackari Parrish, 29, a husband and father of two, died in the early morning incident.

It remains unclear why Riehl began shooting at officers, but details of his past continued to emerge in the days after the New Year’s Eve incident.

Riehl was well-known to law enforcement in both Wyoming and Colorado.

The University of Wyoming police department began investigating Riehl after he made a series of “alarming” social media posts concerning the university’s law school and its professors, university spokes-

man Chad Baldwin said. The school increased security, warned students, staff and faculty and contacted the police department in Lone Tree — where Riehl lived after leaving Wyoming — about Riehl’s behavior.

Lone Tree incidents The Lone Tree Police Department released a timeline on Jan. 2 outlining the agency’s interactions with him.

Lone Tree police first encountered Riehl when responding to a family disturbance in June 2016, when Riehl was in an altercation with his father.

The family did not press charges.

In another incident, Riehl was issued a citation for careless driving for a traffic accident he was involved in on Feb. 18, 2017.

On June 8 of last year, police conducted a welfare check on Riehl at the request of his mother, who had concerns about his mental health.

Officers spoke with Riehl for nearly 15 minutes through a closed door because he would not let them in.

Riehl stated he was not a danger to himself or others. Police provided mental health service information to Riehl and his family, but the family declined services, the department said.

Police conducted another welfare check in August after Riehl reported his mother and brother had formed a suicide pact. Police determined that information was not true.

On Nov. 10, a Lone Tree police officer issued Riehl a speeding ticket, which resulted in a court summons.

Later that month, Riehl began sharing social media posts and YouTube videos about the traffic stop, alleging SEE SPIRAL, P26

Douglas County deputies were attempting to place the man who killed Deputy Zackari Parrish on a mental health hold while he reportedly was going through a “manic episode,” according to a newly released video from the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Parrish Office.

The agency released a video statement on Jan. 8, which includes audio recordings and excerpts from body camera footage of the Dec. 31 incident in which the suspect, 37-year-old Matthew Riehl, opened fire on authorities.

It unveils new details about the shooting that left Parrish dead and four officers and two civilians injured. Riehl was shot to death by a regional SWAT team before the incident concluded after about two hours.

The wounded officers were Deputy Michael Doyle, 28; Deputy Taylor Davis, 30; Deputy Jeffrey Pelle, 32; and Tom O’Donnell, a Castle Rock police officer. Each was released from local hospitals by the night of Jan. 1, except for Pelle, who was expected to make a full recovery.

The video, narrated by Sheriff Tony Spurlock, shows the deputies responding twice to Riehl’s Highlands Ranch apartment before the shooting took place — first on noise complaints and again on reports of a domestic disturbance.

“There’s a lot of information out there. I would like for you to hear from me about what happened,” Spurlock says in the first few minutes of the YouTube video.

The video does not include any audio or clear video of Riehl, but does show deputies interacting with him both through closed doors and face-toface.

The body camera footage begins by showing deputies approaching Riehl’s apartment at the Copper Canyon complex. Officers were first called to the apartment at 3 a.m. on a noise complaint, Spurlock said. They did not find evidence of a crime at the time, but are heard discussing Riehl’s emotional state.

“I’m going to try and figure out how to calm him down,” a deputy is heard saying.

The next clip shows a deputy speaking to a shadowy figure, presumably Riehl, sitting on the stairwell leading to Riehl’s apartment, whom the officer addressed as “Matt.” The individual’s face is completely silhouetted.

“We’re here because we want to make sure you’re OK,” the deputy says. “Do me a favor though, Matt.

THE VIDEO To see the edited bodycam video, go to https://youtu.be/ULrHAlZxKaA?t=4s Viewer discretion is advised.

Next time, if you ever call us, try not to scream.”

Then at 5:17 a.m., officers responded again to Riehl’s residence on a domestic disturbance call, which they identified as a mental health call after arriving, Spurlock said.

“It’s Deputy Parrish, Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office. Hey Matt, it’s Zack,” says Parrish after deputies knock on Riehl’s door.

The video explains officers spent several minutes trying to assist Riehl before Parrish made the call to detain Riehl on an “M-1.”

An “M-1” is a mental-health hold approved by the Colorado Department of Human Services that officials, including law enforcement, can use when “an individual’s behavior is so risky that they need to be held in a hospital against their will,” according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

“He’s going through a manic episode,” Parrish says in the recording while a man’s frantic voice can be heard in the background. “We’re going to take him.”

Between 5:35 a.m. and 5:57 a.m. deputies worked on a plan to provide medical and mental health aid to Riehl, Spurlock said.

“At 5:57, this is what took place,” Spurlock said. The video then cuts to audio of gunfire and multiple people yelling.

“Back up, back up, back up, back up, back up,” a man is heard yelling over other voices and gunshots.

Spurlock explains as Riehl opened fire at the deputies, Parrish was shot and fell in a doorway, where he remained until the incident concluded at about 7:30.

Davis went out a window “head first” and deputies Doyle and Pelle were hit “immediately,” but were able to leave the apartment through the front door. This is when the mental health call evolved into a crime, and Riehl became a suspect, Spurlock said.

“They made an attempt to get back in but the volley of gunfire was too much,” Spurlock said of Doyle and Pelle before the video shows the two deputies running from the apartment.

“I’m shot in the chest,” one deputy says after lying on the ground between neighboring apartment buildings.

“I’m shot in the arm and the leg,” says the other while assisting his colleague on the ground. He’s heard telling another individual that Davis is still inside.

A gunshot then rings out in the background.

“He’s shooting out the window,” a deputy says.

The deputies then run to another location where another gunshot pierces SEE SUSPECT, P22

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VOICES Amid gun glut, ‘This is Colorado’ says too much and too little

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ouglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said, “This is Colorado. Everybody has a gun.”

Seven words that create a mural.

Should they be added to our license plates and the signs that welcome motorists entering the state?

You could hear it on the trains at the airport.

I would prefer almost anything else, but maybe Spurlock nailed it in the sad aftermath of the horrific, sad and depressing incident at the Copper Canyon Apartments in Highlands Ranch on Dec. 31.

One news agency reported, “Another mass shooting in Colorado.”

Of course, everybody doesn’t have a gun. I

don’t.

We all make choices. I make my own, and generally I am the odd man out. I am neither better or smarter. I just don’t want a gun in the house.

That old Second Amendment doesn’t keep me feeling safe and warm at night. Luck does.

Bullets came through a common wall at Copper Canyon, and wounded neighbors who were minding their own business.

“He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

I hear that over and over.

Jennifer and I talked about the shooting and about the sheriff.

The national spotlight was turned on and it was aimed at him.

t He did a commendable job of sorting s through the known facts, acknowledging all of t the fallen officers, while showing both objec- r a tivity and compassion. t And in the middle of it, he said, “This is s Colorado,” and the rest. c The reality is more guns than people.

Someone else, maybe my next-door neigh- t bors, make up for me. My arsenal is made up g of words. t I wish Spurlock could have said, “This is s Colorado. Everybody has a dictionary.”

Or, “This is Colorado. Everybody owns an c i original work of art.”

I am not living in a dream world. I am trying n i t SEE SMITH, P14

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hroughout the year the community is always so responsive to this column, and I really do appreciate you all so much and I am also grateful for all of the emails and questions that come in each week. As I have shared before, many of those emails and questions become the inspiration for this column, so thank you all and please keep those emails

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t and questions coming. v One of the questions that comes in frequently, especially around this time of year as people prepare to make changes or improve personally or professionally, is this: “I am looking to possibly make some changes and take my company to the next level. What is the best investment I can make to SEE NORTON, P13

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Leave the internet alone Congressman Coffman’s letter to the FCC requesting a delay of the rollback of Obama FCC regulations on the internet is not serious policy. His request was designed as a PR tool to garner support from left-wing activists who see the rollback as an “end of days” for “progressive” activism.

Congressman Coffman advocates for “light-touch regulations” so providers have “regulatory certainty.”

How is this in any way a conservative response? There is no such thing as “light-touch regulations”! Bureaucrats

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While it is admirable that Coffman called for a delay of the vote in December, which went through anyway, I hope the congressman comes to realize that all the arguments for the last few years that have tried to state net neutrality is an antiquated pariah, similar to the phone line system of 70 years ago, are specious at best.

That existing phone line system was fair and equitable for all. The rate of speed was the same for everyone, from individuals to corporations, as has been the internet ever since it was

made available for public use. Now, if that vote of the FCC remains unchanged, internet providers will charge whatever they want, and will be able to slow down, or speed up, for use of the internet.

Any websites you use, that is provided by a provider who may not like that website, will not only be able to slow it down, but could speed it up and charge for it — and guess who ultimately will pay for the increased cost? We will — the public.

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don’t stop with a touch, they want to feel, embrace and control. It is simply the nature of government that cannot be denied. The certainty that is best for providers is for the government to stay out of the business.

Congressman Coffman cautions us to beware of “unelected bureaucrats” in Washington, D.C. The real danger is elected bureaucrats who think they have some degree of expertise in regulating a technology that is in a stage of infancy. Congress has more important issues to deal with.

If consumers want an internet that is free, fair and open, then tell the Congressman — he is “always listening” — to leave the internet alone. No government regulation, no government tax.

Roger Edwards Highlands Ranch Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, 6th Congressional District

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What is it you really want to be, do, or have? An investment in ourselves is the ultimate productivity vehicle.

What does an investment in ourselves look like? Well it could be a gym membership or a membership in a massage program. Could be a personal coach — many times people think coaches are only for athletes or business people, but personal coaches are a great place to start. Enrolling in a seminar or training program. Time, an investment in time for ourselves to read, write, think, meditate, pray, or just walk. But scheduled and focused “me” time is essential to true growth.

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I have never been to Nucla, Colorado. I have been tempted because of its name. Take away the “N” and what do you have? My alma mater.

It has something else: a law that requires everyone in town to own a gun.

(Except for those who can’t afford them, conscientious objectors, felons, and those with mental or physical disabilities.)

Wouldn’t it be better if everyone in town were required to own a copy of Mozart’s “Jupiter Symphony”?

Save your exasperations with me over this. I’ve heard it.

“Freedom of ” and “freedom from” are two different things, and we have both in Colorado. For now.

I had a cap gun when I was a kid. I liked the smell after I shot a cap.

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Replica guns are sold, and they are supposed to have distinguishing orange tips. But they have been used during criminal activities. If you use a toy gun or a replica gun during a crime in Chicago, you are treated just like you would be if you had used a real gun.

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n any given sunny day in Colorado, take a trip down Olde Wadsworth Boulevard in Arvada, Washington

Avenue in Golden, or Main Street in Littleton, and the same thing can be seen.

A sight that hikers will run into on the trails in Lakewood’s Bear Creek Lake Park, Westminster’s Standley Lake, and Parker’s Cottonwood Community Park — dogs.

Dogs everywhere.

With all the outdoor activities, Colorado has been a very petfriendly place for years. But more and more, that friendliness is coming inside to businesses.

THE INCREASE IN PET SPENDING “Americans are spending more time than ever working and dogs can alleviate the stress associated with a busy lifestyle.

Dogs also help people get outside in the age of social media and online friendships. Dogs can act as icebreakers in social situations and even increase social circles and new friendships through meeting up at dog parks, dogfriendly restaurants, bars, or breweries, and by meeting and speaking to

neighbors during routine walks.

More pet owners consider their pet to be a member of the family — 95 percent, according to a study in 2015 by Harris Poll.

This is reflected in the massive boom in spending seen recently on veterinary care, food, pet services, pet supplies, and of course, traveling with pets.”

— Erin Ballinger, editor and pet-friendly travel expert at BringFido.com

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The Watering Bowl 5411 Leetsdale Drive, Denver 303-591-9069 www.denverwateringbowl.com

“Denver is a very dog-friendly city,” wrote Erin Ballinger, an editor and pet-friendly travel expert at BringFido, a dog travel directory website and app that provides unbiased reviews, detailed pet policy information and more to pet owners, in an email interview. “BringFido lists 76 hotels, 90 vacation rentals, 238 restaurants and bars, 12 dog parks, and several hiking trails and stores in the metro area that are dog-friendly.”

Since starting in 2005, BringFido also provides online reservations on thousands of bed & breakfasts, vacation rentals and campgrounds that welcome pets in 150 countries worldwide.

“More and more businesses are becoming dog-friendly and offer amenities for pets, like dog-friendly hotels, which offer amenities like treats, loaner dog beds, room service menus, dog-walking stations and bowls,” Ballinger said. “Restaurants and bars will have servers bring water bowls for dogs and some offer dog treats, a doggie menu, or dog beer like Bowser Beer.”

One example in Denver is The Watering Bowl, 5411 Leetsdale Drive, which blends together a bar/restaurant and dog park. It’s a 7,000-square-foot outdoor dog park that hosts dog birthday parties, “bark” mitzvahs, and even dog weddings, and serves green chili, pizza, craft beer and cider cocktails for their owners.

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Highlands Ranch prepares for another winter cultural series

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or many people, winter is a time to stay inside and burrow into one’s blanket and couch. But for those looking to share a love of the arts with fellow appreciators, the Highlands Ranch Community Association has COMING covered.

ATTRACTIONS you The 17th annual Winter Cultural Series kicks off tonight, Jan. 11, at 7 p.m. at Cherry Hills Community Church, 3900 Grace Blvd.

“We want to offer the same caliber of performances you’d find in downtown Denver,” said Amanda Arnce, comClarke Reader munity events manager with the community association. “But if you come to us, we get rid of the high cost and hassle of going downtown.”

The first show of this year’s season is the award-winning Lamont Jazz Orchestra, a premier large jazz ensemble, performing original music by students and faculty as well as the standard canon of modern jazz literature, followed by Ballet Ariel performing “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” an original ballet based on the short story in Rudyard Kipling’s classic “Jungle Book,” on Jan. 25. On Feb. 8, the Denver and District Pipe Band will be performing, along with Irish and Highlands Dancers.

“It’s a beautiful evening of music and dance,” Arnce said.

The final show of the season will be on Feb. 22, with Opera Colorado performing “Cinderella,” inspired by the traditional fairytale and Rossini’s take on the story.

“Our audiences love these seasons, and we’re always looking for new kinds off performers for them,” Arnce said. “Every show is a great night of music, and the chapel is a beautiful venue.”

Attendees are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance, and can do so by calling 303-471-8859 or www.HRCAonline.org/ tickets.

Magnolia blooms in winter Commerce City is getting a little more artsy with the grand opening celebration of the Magnolia Street Art Space, from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 12.

The new space is finished, and a pop-up exhibited called Emerge will be opening in the space to celebrate the achievement.

Emerge will display diverse work from more than 20 artists, and is being curated by former Ice Cube Gallery members Karen Roehl and Ron Gerbrandt. Some of the exhibited artists include Kevin Weckbach, Vanessa Garcia, Susie Hyer, SEE READER, P17

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and Josh Frye. There will also be food and music.

For more information, check out www.derbyartdistrict.com.

Visit Colony 933 Most people are familiar with the concept of mystery dinner theater, but Colony 933 creates a mystery dancetheater experience for audiences.

Colony 933 will be performing at Novo Coffee, 1700 E. 6th Ave., at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 11, Friday, Jan. 12, and Saturday, Jan. 13, and Thursday, Jan. 18, and Friday, Jan. 19.

Produced by Control Group Productions and directed by Kate Speer with a plot written by Frankie Toan, the show takes audiences to a post-apocalyptic world, where the sun hasn’t risen for years.

The performance is an immersive, interactive work where the audience uncovers the clues and decides the outcome.

For more information, and tickets, check out www.brownpapertickets. com/event/3183298?ref=349591.

Learning art with alcohol If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to discover a new hobby, why not try your hand at a little art? And fortunately, Golden’s Drink and Draw provides a little liquid courage for the hesitant.

Held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 909 11th Street, the event is the first in a series that examines the principles of design, including shape, form, texture, pattern, scale and bal-

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In Westminster’s Orchard outdoor shopping center, The Lazy Dog opened on Dec. 20 at 14618 Delaware St. The restaurant offers a unique take on Midwestern comfort food, as well as scratch cocktails. And for its 1,700-square-foot patio, which includes a fire pit, the restaurant offers a menu for dogs.

“When our founder, Chris Simms, first came up with the idea for this restaurant in a lodge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, a dog was sleeping by the fire,” said Rob Prowers, manager of the Orchard location.

“A lot of people consider their dog a member of the family, and they want to bring the dog with them when they go out.”

The Lazy Dog menu for pooches includes free bowls of water and a grilled hamburger patty or chicken breast with brown rice.

“People in Colorado love their dogs so much that we knew this concept would be successful here, and we are very excited to have the first

ance. Teacher Laura Herb will cover examples of architecture and fashion to give students a full understanding of, and an ability to properly use, this vocabulary.

The theme for the evening is line, and attendees will use ink and conte crayon to make their own version of a female figure by Honore’ Daumier.

And yes, there is a complimentary cocktail included in the evening.

For tickets, visit www.eventbrite. com/e/drink-and-draw-elementsand-principles-of-design-color-tickets-40787515557.

Clarke’s concert of the week - St. Vincent at the Fillmore Annie Clark, better known under her performing name, St. Vincent, is one of the most eclectically dynamic artists in modern music. You need only know that she made an album with the Talking Heads’ David Byrne to get a sense of the approach she takes to music.

In 2017, she released “Masseducation,” which was one of her most critically acclaimed albums, and highlighted her electronic-influenced side. But she can still wring tears out of listeners like nobody’s business, as she shows on “New York.”

And so, fans of one of our generation’s best musicians shouldn’t miss St. Vincent at the Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., beginning at 8 p.m. on Jan. 15.

Go to www.livenation.com/venues/14664/fillmore-auditorium-denver to get your tickets.

Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. A community editor with Colorado Community Media, he can be reached creader@ coloradocommunitymedia.com.

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Those who prefer felines to dogs can visit to the Denver Cat Company, 3929 Tennyson St., which opened in 2014, making it the third cat café in the country, according to information from the business.

Denver Cat Company features adoptable cats from partner rescues, Life Is Better and PawsCo. There is a small entry fee to help pay for fostering the cat, and customers can expect to find around 15 cats at the cafe, all of whom are fully vetted and ready for adoption. As of November 2017, the cafe has facilitated the adoptions of more than 400 cats.

Customers can also purchase cat-themed gift items, Solar Roast coffee, a selection of teas and other drinks, and prepackaged snacks.

“The humanization of pets is a current trend and has been gaining momentum over the past decade and just continues to rise,” Ballinger said. “Since people are working so much, they want to spend their free time with their pets who may be cooped inside or left alone while they are working.”

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Centennial Jordyn Baker, of Centennial, received an Emporia Grant from Emporia State University.

Austin Michael Biggers, of Centennial, graduated in December from the University of Kansas with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies, with a business minor.

Samuel Gardinier, of Centennial, was named to the fall 2017 dean’s list at Maryville University. Gardinier is studying sport business management.

Justin Glotzbach, of Centennial, was named to the fall 2017 dean’s list at Belmont University.

Jennifer Marie Harris, of Centennial, graduated in December from the University of Kansas with a master’s degree in education.

Chelsea Duryea Hillman, of Centennial, graduated in December from the University of Kansas with a bachelor’s degree in accounting.

Kyle Lambert, of Centennial, was named to the fall 2017 dean’s list at Champlain College.

Brian Long, of Centennial, was named to the fall 2017 dean’s list at Columbia College, Denver campus.

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Sunil Pandey, of Centennial, was named to the fall 2017 dean’s list at Columbia College, Denver campus.

Charlene Reilly, of Centennial, graduated with an online bachelor’s degree in business administration from Grantham University.

Mary Satkowski, of Centennial, was named to the 2017 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete Team. Satkowski is a junior at the University of Saint Mary. She is a graduate of SkyView Academy, and is attending Saint Mary on an athletic scholarship. She is on the women’s soccer team.

Bishal Shrestha, of Centennial, was named to the fall 2017 dean’s list at Columbia College, Denver campus.

Matthew Wert, of Centennial, was named to the fall 2017 dean’s list at LeTourneau University. Wert is a junior majoring in mechanical engineering.

Greenwood Village Grace Ingebretsen, of Greenwood Village, was named to the fall 2017 dean’s list at Bucknell University.

Charles McDonald, of Greenwood Village, was named to the fall 2017 dean’s list at Belmont University.

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ittleton artist Sue Blosten opened an exhibit of her exuberant assemblages, “Reckless Abandon,” on Jan. 5 at Bricolage Gallery, 2870 Bluff St., Boulder (inside Art Parts). A logical outcome for the artist who loves to collect miscellaneous “stuff,” the art of assemblage can vary from wall pieces such as these to threedimensional works. Blosten’s show will be open Tuesdays to Saturdays through Feb. 9, from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. SONYA’S in this spot, which specializes in the bits and pieces an assemblage SAMPLER seeks to complete an artwork.

The boy who would not grow up …

“Peter and the Starcatcher,” a musical by Rick Elice and Wayne Barker, is based on the book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson.

It opens Jan. 12 at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St. in downtown Littleton, and runs through Sonya Ellingboe Feb. 4. Nick Sugar is director and choreographer and Donna Debreceni is music director in this tale of boys from Victorian England, shipped to a distant island ruled by evil King Zaroff. En route, they encounter pirate Black Stache … Performances: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets: $24-$44, townhallartscenter.org, 303-794-2787, ext. 213.

‘Intersecting Formations’ Opening Jan. 19 at Museum Outdoor Arts Indoor Gallery: “Intersecting Formations,” Twelve Collaborations by Craig Marshall Smith, while artistin-residence at MOA, with Amy Metier, Daniel House Kelley, Deborah Jang, Greg Watts, Gretchen Goetz, James Robie, Jan Stussy, Jennifer Meyerrose, John McEnroe, Mark Friday, Richard Diebenkorn

Aurora Fox “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” opens Jan. 19 at the Aurora Fox, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora. Aurorafox. org, 303-739-1970. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. The City of Aurora’s Library and Cultural Services Department announced that the Fox has a new executive producer, Helen R. Murray, who will be involved on a part-time basis as of Jan. 2 and full-time after July 9. She has been with the Hub in Fairfax, Virginia, and is an awardwinning playwright and actress.

“Crone of Cordoba” is an assemblage by Littleton artist Sue Blosten, created with meta, paint, ceramics, rattan, leather and fabric. It is in her exhibit, “Reckless Abandon” at Bricolage Gallery, inside Art Parts in Boulder.

PHOTO BY MICKIE LAMB. and Sharon Feder. He created diptychs, painted on same-sized wood panels, in collaboration with 10 artists and in honor of the late Stussy and Diebenkorn, under whom he studied at UCLA. The show will be in place through March 30. MOA is open Tuesdays through Fridays. 303-806-0444, moaonline.org.

New mystery Matthew Sullivan, a former Tattered Cover employee, has published a mystery, set in a bookstore resembling the Tattered Cover’s downtown Denver location. It’s named “Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore.” Sullivan will speak from 3:30 to 4:30

Lecture on history Next in the Tesoro Historic Lecture Series will be Michael Schaubs, whose topic is “Plains Indians Trade and What a 19th-Century Inventory Tells Us About It.” Times: Jan. 20, 4 p.m., Buck Recreation Center, 2004 W. Powers, Littleton (free); Jan. 21, 2 p.m., Denver Public Library, 10 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, fifth floor (free); Jan. 21, 6 p.m., The Fort Restaurant, 19192 Highway 8, Morrison ($68/$60). Reservations needed for all locations: call 303-839-1671.

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Buntport Buntport Theater’s talented crew will be featured at Stories on Stage on Jan. 13 in “The Penny Savers,” a performance about how we deal with money.

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 First United  Methodist Church 1200 South Street Castle Rock, CO 80104 303.688.3047 www.fumccr.org

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Sunday Services:  9:30am – Traditional

9:00am & 10:45am

 9:00am - Sunday School

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Trinity Lutheran Church & School

Sunday Worship 8:00 & 10:45 a.m.

Sunday School Bible Study 9:30am Trinity Lutheran School & ELC (Ages 3-5, Grades K-8)

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Sunday Services - 10 a.m.

Catholic Parish & School

Seven Sunday Masses Two Daily Masses Confessions Six Days a Week STM Catholic School Preschool – Grade 8

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Cimarron Middle School 12130 Canterberry Parkway Parker, CO 80138 www.CSLParker.org

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the air. For the next 90 minutes, Spurlock said, the suspect continued shooting and injured two civilians in adjacent apartments.

The next video clip shows an armed officer standing at the base of the stairwell to Riehl’s apartment, looking up, when there is an explosion of rapid gunfire.

“Parrish, can you hear me,” a man later yelled toward the apartment unit, to no response.

More explosions of gunfire followed. It is not clear where the gunfire

comes from.

At 7:30 a.m., Spurlock says, officers went into Riehl’s apartment in an effort to rescue Parrish.

Officers shot and killed Riehl in self-defense during that raid, Spurlock said, and also rescued the two injured civilians.

In a news conference the day of the shooting, Spurlock said doctors told him Parrish was shot multiple times and “had no ability” to survive his injuries.

A spokeswoman for the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office said several officers were placed on paid administrative leave following the incident.

Riehl also livestreamed a Periscope video of himself in the hours lead-

ing up to and including the shootout with law enforcement. The sheriff ’s office spokeswoman said the video was taken down at the request of the sheriff ’s office and is now evidence in the case.

“I’m very proud of the officers and the men and women that were on that call that night. They did exactly what they were trained to do. They provided aid, they provided service, they provided care and compassion and unfortunately it turned violent.

But I assure you,” Spurlock said in his closing remarks, “we are committed to do whatever we can to (address) the mental health issues in the county and whatever we can do anywhere in this state.”

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THINGS to DO

THEATER Matthew Brandt Show: 7-8 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 19 at Recreation Center at Southridge, 4800 McArthur Ranch Road, Highlands Ranch.

Go to http://www.hrcaonline. org/events. Classic magic and contemporary showpieces.

David Taylor Zikr Dance Ensemble Auditions: 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21 at Denver Ballet Theatre and Centerstage Starz studios, 8150 S. University Blvd., Suite 120, Centennial For ages 16 and older. Five-week course runs from May 14 to June 17. Go to www. zikrdance.com.

Peter and the Starcatcher: Friday, Jan. 12 to Sunday, Feb. 4 at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., Littleton. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Additional shows at 2 p.m. Jan. 27; 6:30 p.m. Jan. 21 and 12:30 p.m. Feb. 4.

Tickets: townhallartscenter.org/ starcatcher or at the box office.

Call 303-794-2787 ext. 5.

ART/CRAFTS

Lessons and Lemonade: 9:30-11 a.m. or 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13 (Rock Painting with Carm Fogt) at Hobby Lobby, Colo.

83 and Mainstreet in Parker. For ages 9-14. Registration required; go to www.parkerartistguild.com/ classes/youth. `Intersecting Formations’ Opening Reception: 6-9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19 at Museum of Outdoor Arts, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood. Exhibit on display through March 30; features 12 collaborations with painter Craig Marshall Smith. Go to http:// moaonline.org/ intersectingformations/ Teen Maker Night: Doctor Who: 5-6 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 19 at Castlewood Library, 6739 S. Uinta St., Centennial.

Teens: Join us to hang out, relax and get creative in the Makerspace. January’s theme is Dr. Who. Save your spot at arapahoelibraries.org.

Stories and Art Project with Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art: 10-11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 20 at Southglenn Library, 6972 S. Vine St., Centennial. Kids: It’s time to cultivate your inner Picasso with our friends from the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.

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this week’s TOP FIVE Caring for Caregivers: 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13 at the Parker Library, 20105 E. Mainstreet. Get important caregiver information on topics like burnout, support services, home vs. community living, coping with dementia, and hiring home care workers. For adults. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

Denver Brass: A Space Odyssey Concert: 2-4 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 14 at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Call 720-509-1000 or go to www.lonetreeartscenter.org for tickets.

Meet the Author: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16 at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. Join award-winning journalist and author Helen Thorpe as she discusses her latest book “The Newcomers,” which follows the lives of 22 immigrant teenagers throughout the 2015-2016 school year as they land at South High School in Denver in a beginner level English language acquisition class.

Speaking no English, unfamiliar with American culture, the students face the enormous challenge of adapting to American life. Books available for purchase at the event.

Join us for a story and create a literature based project. Save your spot at arapahoelibraries.org.

Build a Catapult Challenge: 2-3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20 at Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly St., Centennial. Teens: Do you have what it takes to storm the castle?

Construct a catapult from scratch using everyday objects. Then, test it out against the competition.

Save your spot at arapahoelibraries.org.

MUSIC

Music with Monique: 4-5 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 18 at Englewood Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway.

Call 303-762-2560.

Native American Musical Storytelling: 4-5 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 18 at Smoky Hill Library, 5430 S. Biscay Circle, Centennial.

Storyteller and musician Richie Castro will bring Native American culture to life through his story about courage. A Native American warrior must overcome his fears to win the magic flute…will he succeed? Save your spot at arapahoelibraries.org.

FILM/MOVIES

Lifetree Café Discussion Group: 5-6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 15 (Care for Caregivers: Meeting the Unique Needs of Those Who Sacrifice for Others) at DAZBOG, 202 Wilcox

`Fool Us’ Winner Stuart MacDonald Show: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19 and Saturday, Jan. 20 at Theatre of Dreams, 735 Park St., Castle Rock. Call 303-660-6799 or go to http://Tickets.AmazingShows.com. “Fool Us” is a TV magic competition in which magicians perform in front of magician-comedian duo Penn & Teller. If Penn & Teller cannot figure out how a trick is done, the magician wins a five-star trip to Las Vegas to perform as the opening act in the duo’s famous show.

Music with a Mission Concert: Forte Handbell Quartet: 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19 at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, 8545 E. Dry Creek Road, Centennial. Nationally recognized, advanced handbell quartet marked by artistry, energy, and dedication to their craft. Will perform a wide variety of musical styles. Free admission. A “love offering” will be collected for Covenant Cupboard Food Pantry.

St., Castle Rock. Call 303-8140142. Go to LifetreeCafe.com.

Movie Matinee: `Dunkirk’: 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20 at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. Centered on the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II, Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, and France are trapped and surrounded by the German Army. The troops must fight a fierce battle to evacuate and survive. Enjoy free popcorn and lemonade at the film.

Native American Flute Performance: 1:30-2:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19 at Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly St., Centennial. Relax the senses with the soothing sounds of the Native American flute. Renowned musician and storyteller Eric Many Winds Herrera can’t wait to share the beauty of Native American culture through his live musical performance and stories.

Save your spot at arapahoelibraries.org.

READING/WRITING

Author Reading: 3:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 12 at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. “Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore” is set against the backdrop of the Tattered Cover bookstore, where the author worked for four years. Author Matthew Sullivan will read from his book and talk with guests.

Writer’s Retreat: Saturday, Jan. 13 and Sunday, Jan. 14 at the Englewood Civic Center, Community Room, 2nd Floor. Two-day, multi-session event features insight from award-winning authors and activities. For adults &

teens. Registration is required. Go to http://www.englewoodco.gov/ government/city-departments/ library/writersretreat.

Bottom of the Inkwell: Teen Writing Workshop: 3:30-5 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 14 at Smoky Hill Library, 5430 S. Biscay Circle, Centennial. Teens: Are you passionate about the written word? Do you have a story that is dying to be told? Get support and feedback on your writing and meet other writers. Bring copies of your work to read out loud, and we’ll offer up suggestions. Save your spot at arapahoelibraries.org.

Writers Group: 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 17 at Englewood Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway.

Writing discussion and practice with prompts and exercises.

All experience levels welcome.

For adults.

Call 303-7622560.

Malley Book Club: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 18 at Malley Senior Center Library. Read “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand,” by Helen Simonson.

EVENTS

Rebuilding When Your Relationship Ends Seminar: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11 at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch. First class in a

10-week seminar that promotes healing for those who are going through a divorce, or the ending of a love relationship. New participants may attend Jan. 18 or Jan. 25; after Jan. 25, class is closed to new participants. Offers education, support, and optional social activities. Complimentary child care provided with prior registration. Contact Beth Walker at 720-352-9915 or bethdwalker@ gmail.com for information and to register.

Jerry Barlow Concert: 2 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 13 at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. Guitarist Barlow’s musical repertoire is a synthesis of traditional music from the British Isles and his own original Celtic-inspired compositions. Call 303-795-3961.

Kids and Teens Chess: 1:30-3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 14 at Smoky Hill Library, 5430 S. Biscay Circle, Centennial. Kids and teens ages 5-17 are invited to play chess.

Bring your own chess set or use one from the library. All skill levels welcome. Save your spot at arapahoelibraries.org.

Conversations Over Coffee: 10:30 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Jan. 16 at Englewood Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway. If you’re experiencing homelessness or are interested in discussing social issues affecting our community, join us for a warm beverage and a donut. Call 303-762-2560.

Yikes! It’s the Yeti: 4-5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16 at Castlewood Library, 6739 S. Uinta St., Centennial. Call him the yeti, abominable snowman, metoh or kang-mi, it’s still a giant scary snow thing. Children ages 5-8 are invited to hear some yeti stories and make yeti craft or two. Save your spot at arapahoelibraries.org.

Smartphones, What’s the deal?

6:30-8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17 at Englewood Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway. Learn about the useful reasons to own a smartphone and some of the fun stuff too. No computer experience required. No registration required. Call 303-762-2560.

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LOCAL

January 12, 2018

SPORTS AN ICE FINISH

High school athletes take time to help team of fourth-grade girls

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Heritage’s Jakob Boos (22) skates past Jesse Kitty (8) of Mountain Vista in a Jan. 6 hockey game at South Suburban Ice Arena in Centennial. Heritage won 4-3 on Patrick Burke’s goal with 1:17 remaining in the third period.

JIM BENTON

BY THE NUMBERS

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Game losing streak dating Number of win Horizon back to last season snapped Percent of field goal attempts by the Heritage girls basket- made by the Cherry Creek girls ball team Jan. 4 with a 49-28 basketball team in a 77-40 win win over Thornton. over Cherokee Trail on Jan. 4.

29.1

Point scoring average in eight games by the Englewood girls basketball team.

85

Percent of free throws made by Cherry Creek senior Darius Price.

12.3

Rebounds per game

by Littleton’s Rebekah Sandstrom, which ranks her fourth in state 4A girls statistics.

Standout Performers The senior captain collected his second goal in the third period, which was the game-winner in a 3-2 hockey victory over Columbine on Jan. 5.

Jana Van gytenbeek, Cherry Creek

Kali March, Arapahoe

The sophomore had 32 points and 22 assists in Centennial League girls basketball wins over Cherokee Trail and Overland on Jan. 4 and 6.

The sophomore played a big role in the 66-58 girls basketball win over Mullen on Jan. 4 with 11 points, 10 assists and four steals.

Addison Perlmutter, Cherry Creek

Jason Levy, Littleton

Patrick Burke, Heritage

The sophomore had 452.12 points to finish first in the diving on Jan. 6 at the Mountain View Lady Lions girls swimming Invitational.

The 5-foot-9 senior guard scored 24 points in the 77-65 boys basketball loss to Standley Lake on Jan. 6.

Matt More, Heritage

The junior who attends Arapahoe scored the game winner with 1:17 to play to give the hockey team a 4-3 win over Mountain Vista on Jan. 6.

Colorado Community Media selects six athletes from area high schools each week as “Standout Performers.” Preference is given to athletes making their debut on the list. To nominate an athlete, contact Jim Benton by noon on Sunday at jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com

t’s easy to notice Makena Prey’s talents on the basketball court or the golf course.

However, the Golden High School senior has also been an influence in the classroom with a 4.66 weighed gradepoint average, and she is helping coach a fourth-grade girls basketball team.

Prey, Golden boys OVERTIME basketball standout Adam Thistlewood and Prey’s teammate Mia Johnson were asked by their calculus teacher Shannon Garvin if they would drop in once in a while to help coach her daughter’s team.

One practice session with the young team Jim Benton has led to many others whenever the schedules of the players allow.

It’s been enjoyable and a learning experience coaching the youngsters.

“We have fun with them when we go to the gym,” said Prey. “I’m definitely learning that the way you say things matters because it clicks differently with other kids. It has definitely made me more patient with players on my team because it is definitely going to click with them eventually, just not as fast as it does with me. Or just the opposite, it might not click with me as it does with some of the other girls on the team.

“We are just trying to get them to make layups and make the easy baskets because as fourth-graders they don’t score that much in their games. So every little bucket counts. We focus on making layups and ball handling.”

The fourth-grade girls are lucky to have two of the state’s best basketball players in Prey and Thistlewood tutoring them.

Prey, a 6-foot forward, led all Class 4A players in scoring with a 24.9 average after eight games, was sixth with 11.6 rebounds a game, and was the state leader with 76 field goals. She was shooting 67 percent from the floor. She was second with 45 made free throws while making 70 percent of her attempts.

Thistlewood, a 6-7 senior who has signed to play at Drake, was third in the state with a 23.6 scoring average and was first with 76 field goals. He has made 78 percent of his free throws, with his 46 put free throws ranking him second in the state.

“I like teaching the next generation how I was taught to play basketball,” Thistlewood said about coaching. “We definitely try to teach them the fundamentals. They have a bundle of energy.”

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20 at the Lone Tree Library, 10055 Library Way. Learn to line dance from a professional instructor. Refreshments provided. All ages.

Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

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Intro to Nonviolent Communication: 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20 at Englewood Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway. Based on the Non-Violent Communication work of Marshall Rosenberg and grounded in compassion and the universality of human needs, NVC helps transform patterns of communication that often lead to conflict or disconnection from ourselves and others. Please join for this free introductory class and discover the many ways compassionate communication can transform your life. Call 303-762-2560.

Lego Maniacs: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27 at Englewood Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway. For schoolaged children; parents welcome too. Call 303762-2560.

Open Play: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20 at Englewood Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway. Call 303-762-2560.

Art of Downsizing and Decluttering: 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 20 at the Lone Tree Library, 10055 Library Way. Learn creative ways to view your treasures and part with them. Adults. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

Country Line Dancing: 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan.

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Prey comes from an athletic, competitive family. Her father, Hank, played basketball at Colorado School of Mines. Older sister Sydney was a Golden standout who is now a freshman golfer and redshirt freshman basketball player at Colorado Mesa.

Younger sister Haley is a sophomore on the Demons’ girls basketball team.

“The competition kinda made me the player I am today since I was always having to go against my older sister who is very competitive,” said Prey.

“I was always trying to beat her in basketball, golf or school. We pushed to be the best. We do that with everything.”

That includes playing pickup games against boys at the recreation center.

“I’ve been doing that for a little less than a year now and at first nobody would want me to play because I’m a girl,” said Prey. “Once they found out I was actually pretty good they started to let me play more and I could beat some of them. Now I know most of them and they put me on a team when we play.”

Learn About Travel Options: 10 a.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 17 at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Learn about cheap travel options from an international travel expert. Ages 50-plus. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 orDCL.org.

Bound for South Korea Rosters for the United States men’s and women’s Olympic hockey teams were announced and two local players will be competing Feb. 9-25 in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Troy Terry, a 20-year-old University of Denver junior from Highlands Ranch, is the youngest player named to the men’s team. Green Mountain alumna and Lindenwood University graduate Nicole Hensley will be on the women’s team.

Terry scored four shootout goals in the semifinal and title games to help Team USA win the World Junior Championship last January.

Douglas County girls sports luncheon The Foundation for Douglas County Schools and Douglas County School District will hold their annual Girls and Women in Sports luncheon to honor select coaches, current and former athletes and other guests on Jan. 12 at Chaparral High School.

Each high school will select five girls and each middle school picks seven girls to be honored.

Jim Benton is a sports writer for Colorado Community Media. He has been covering sports in the Denver area since 1968. He can be reached at jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com

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Marriage, Separation and Divorce: 1-3 p.m. R Tuesday, Jan. 16 at Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Cen- fi English Conversation Circle: 10:30-11:30 tennial. Led by Carol Cooke Darrow, certified c C a.m. Saturday, Jan. 13 at Englewood Library, genealogist. Learn the types of records 1000 Englewood Parkway. Call 303-762available and how to search for them. Go to f B 2560. www.ColumbineGenealogy.com fi Steamworks: 2-3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13 at Editor’s note: Calendar submissions must be c the Lone Tree Library, 10055 Library Way. received by noon Wednesday for publicat Explore science, technology, engineering, tion the following week. Send listings to arts and math through hands-on activities. calendar@coloradocommunitymedia.com. h a c a TV station/news website Denver 7 t and reported on by several media outlets shows family and friends told n FROM PAGE 10 police Riehl suffered from post-trau- i c matic stress disorder, was bipolar and was off his medications. He was t the officer lied to him and conducted also estranged from family in recent T an “illegal” stop. The Lone Tree weeks and had mental breakdowns, a Police Department said his behavthe report said, although police did e ior “escalated to include harassing not find evidence Riehl had threat- s emails directly to LTPD police ofened violence toward others. ficers.” Because Riehl had moved to r Colorado Community Media Highlands Ranch by then, police conrequested the report but it was not a tacted the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office to investigate, according to the immediately made available. On Jan. l department’s timeline.

3, a spokesman for the university poOn Nov. 14, a detective with the lice department said the report has p University of Wyoming Police been placed under review — mean- t Department contacted Lone Tree ing some of the information in it police regarding their investigation could be redacted — while Colorado into Riehl’s comments toward the authorities continue to investigate university. the Dec. 31 shooting.

“Given that this remains an ongoMultiple media outlets, including ing investigation, additional details the Associated Press, have reported may not be available. However, on the contents of a Periscope video throughout this time period, LTDP shot by Riehl after news broke that has fully collaborated and cooperhe had livestreamed the New Year’s ated with DCSO, the University of Eve shooting. The video, showed in Wyoming Police Department and the part by local TV stations, appears to suspect’s family on each incident show Riehl making one of the two involving Riehl,” the timeline said.

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During the livestream, Riehl tells dispatch he’d been drinking, owned guns and was the victim of domestic assault during an argument with his roommate. He also claimed he’d purchased more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition. Media later reported on police records showing Riehl allegedly purchased 11 guns at a Laramie, Wyoming, gun shop several years ago.

Recent firearms training In recent months, Riehl sought firearm training with Kenaz Tactical Group, a shooting school based in Colorado Springs. In a news release from the business, owner Robert Butler said Riehl attended defensive firearms courses conducted by the company over the summer.

“Mr. Riehl’s demeanor during the training sessions was not alarming, he interacted well with other students and seemed proud of his military career. Mr. Riehl provided his own firearms during the training sessions,” the release said.

In speaking with Colorado Community Media, Butler said the company instructs a range of students, from civilians to first responders to military and other armed professionals.

The defensive firearms course Riehl attended covers the “legal, moral and ethical use of ” firearms specifically in self-defense, Butler said.

“We do talk about natural body responses to a threat,” he said. “We always encourage that fight is your last response.”

The company’s release said it is prepared to fully cooperate with authorities leading the investigation.

A former lawyer, veteran Sharon Wilkinson, executive director of the Wyoming State Bar, confirmed to Colorado Community Media that Riehl was a licensed attorney in the state from 2011 to October 2016, when he voluntarily withdrew his membership. Riehl did not give a specific reason for leaving the bar, she said.

“It’s not uncommon for attorneys to withdraw their membership in the month of October,” Wilkinson said.

Membership fees are payable on Oct. 1 and due by the end of November. Attorneys who have moved out of the jurisdiction frequently withdraw if they know they will not practice in the area again, she said. The organization was notified Riehl changed his address to Lone Tree in July 2015.

Before withdrawing, Riehl practiced law with MacPherson, Kelly & Thompson LLC., a firm in Rawlins, Wyoming.

A statement from the firm said Riehl was employed there from 2011-14 as an associate attorney.

“MacPherson, Kelly & Thompson, LLC has had no contact with Mr. Riehl, either socially or professionally, since he left the firm. MacPherson, Kelly & Thompson, LLC expresses its heartfelt condolences and deepest sympathies to the victims and their families,” the statement read.

Riehl also opened his own private practice in 2014, Wilkinson said. The organization did not receive any complaints about Riehl while he was a practicing attorney.

“That’s about all we know about him,” Wilkinson said.

Deidre Forster, a spokeswoman for the Wyoming National Guard, also confirmed Riehl entered the Army Reserve in 2003 and the Wyoming National Guard in 2006. He was deployed to Iraq for a year in 2009 and was honorably discharged in 2012.

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On October 16, 2017, 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.

Public Notices THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/14/2018, 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.

Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0563-2017

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 18, 2017, 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) FIKRET SELIMAGIC Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as nominee for SOUTHSTAR FUNDING, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. as successor in interest to all permitted successors and assigns of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as Trustee for MASTR Adjustable Rate Mortgages Trust 2005-1, Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2005-1 Date of Deed of Trust November 19, 2004 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 24, 2004 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B4204288 Original Principal Amount $112,800.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $102,806.67

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 35 & 36, BLOCK 1, TAYLOR'S ADDITION, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 3053 S GALAPAGO ST, 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, 02/14/2018, 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: 12/21/2017 Last Publication: 1/18/2018 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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First Publication: 12/21/2017 Last Publication: 1/18/2018 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; IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 10/18/2017 Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Monica Kadrmas #34904 Randall Chin #31149 Weldon Phillips #31827 Lauren Tew #45041 Nichole Williams #49611 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1199 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000007026529 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.: 0563-2017 First Publication: 12/21/2017 Last Publication: 1/18/2018 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0551-2017 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 16, 2017, 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) Deborah A. Diver Original Beneficiary(ies) America's Mortgage, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC Date of Deed of Trust September 08, 2006 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 12, 2006 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B6131652 Original Principal Amount $175,595.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $145,015.86

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with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

Original Grantor(s) Deborah A. Diver Original Beneficiary(ies) America's Mortgage, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC Date of Deed of Trust September 08, 2006 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 12, 2006 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B6131652 Original Principal Amount $175,595.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $145,015.86

Public Trustees

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. ALL OF LOT 9, EXCEPT THE EAST 2 FEET THEREOF, AND THE EAST 3 FEET OF LOT 10, BLOCK 4, KIMBLE-KROFT PARK, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 1230 East Bates Parkway, Englewood, CO 80113.

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, 02/07/2018, 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: 12/14/2017 Last Publication: 1/11/2018 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; IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov

CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov

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.

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THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 6, BLOCK 2, SOUTHCREEK SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

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Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov

Public Trustees

DATE: 10/16/2017 Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: David A. Shore #19973 Janice Hofmann Clark #7264 Martin H. Shore #1800 Stephen A Hall #38186 Hellerstein and Shore PC 5347 S. Valentia Way, Suite 100, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (303) 573-1080 Attorney File # 17-00319SH 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.: 0551-2017 First Publication: 12/14/2017 Last Publication: 1/11/2018 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0584-2017 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 27, 2017, 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) TIMOTHY A STEWART Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR STEARNS LENDING, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt STEARNS LENDING, LLC Date of Deed of Trust August 20, 2014 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust August 21, 2014 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D4077048 Original Principal Amount $189,504.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $180,724.37 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 6, BLOCK 2, SOUTHCREEK SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7891 SOUTH KALISPELL CIRCLE, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80112.

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

7891 SOUTH KALISPELL CIRCLE, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80112.

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

Public Trustees 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, 02/28/2018, 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: 1/4/2018 Last Publication: 2/1/2018 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;

IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov

DATE: 10/27/2017 Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Monica Kadrmas #34904 Randall Chin #31149 Weldon Phillips #31827 Lauren Tew #45041 Nichole Williams #49611 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1199 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000006968960

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.: 0584-2017 First Publication: 1/4/2018 Last Publication: 2/1/2018 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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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;

IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov

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.

ALL OF LOT 9, EXCEPT THE EAST 2 FEET THEREOF, AND THE EAST 3 FEET OF LOT 10, BLOCK 4, KIMBLE-KROFT PARK, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 1230 East Bates Parkway, Englewood, CO 80113.

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Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 10/18/2017

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

DATE: 10/16/2017 Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee

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

David A. Shore #19973 Janice Hofmann Clark #7264 Martin H. Shore #1800 Stephen A Hall #38186 Hellerstein and Shore PC 5347 S. Valentia Way, Suite 100, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (303) 573-1080 Attorney File # 17-00319SH 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.: 0551-2017 First Publication: 12/14/2017 Last Publication: 1/11/2018 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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, 02/28/2018, 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.

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First Publication: 1/4/2018 Last Publication: 2/1/2018 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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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;

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