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NEW LIGHT SHED ON MURDER Affidavit lays out case against alleged shooter of Andrew Graham

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

More than a decade after the body of a 23-year-old Centennial man was found early one morning in a suburban neighborhood, with a single bullet wound to the back, authorities have arrested a man they allege was the shooter.

And, unlike other suspects in the killing, whose cases were long kept out of public view, the case against the alleged shooter is proceeding publicly. Those details provide a closer look at a murder that had been shrouded in mystery for years.

Andrew Graham, a University of Colorado graduate who was headed to grad school, was found shot dead at about 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 6, 2009, in the front yard of a home in the Willow Creek neighborhood of Centennial near East County Line Road and South Yosemite Street, an area that sees little violent crime.

A few hours earlier, just before midnight, video surveillance captured Graham riding an RTD light rail train and exiting at the station near Park Meadows mall in Lone Tree. Graham had been making living arrangements in Boulder that day and would often walk from the station to his parents’ house in nearby Willow Creek a couple miles away, his mother told Colorado Community Media at the time.

Statements to authorities from other suspects in the case going back to 2009 have pointed to Terrell O’Neil Jones as the shooter, according to a March 10 affidavit that an Arapahoe County Sheriff ’s Office investigator submitted to request a warrant for his arrest.

Jones was arrested that day, KCNCCBS4 reported.

Jones has repeatedly denied to inves-

tigators that he was involved in Graham’s death.

But four other suspects who admitted to being at the crime scene that night told investigators that Jones shot Graham, the affidavit said. They all described a plot to rob Graham, whom they saw as “a white male who might have money,” the affidavit says. Jones and three other suspects are AfricanAmerican. One suspect, Joseph Martin, is listed as American Indian on the state Department of Corrections website.

Andrew Graham, a 23-year-old who was planning to start graduate school soon, was found dead after being shot in November 2009 in Centennial.

COURTESY PHOTO Jones “pulled out a pistol and tried to rob the guy but the guy wouldn’t let him so Terrell Jones shot him,” investigators quoted one of the co-suspects as saying in the affidavit.

A 2016 Arapahoe County grand jury in the case of Graham’s death indicted Clarissa Jae Lockhart, Allen Deshawn Ford, Kendall Adam Austin and Martin.

The four were arrested in January 2017 in connection with Graham’s death.

That came after a previous grand jury called in 2011 stated that it lacked

enough evidence to recommend trial of any suspects in the case after about 18 months that saw testimony from 63 witnesses and more than 100 exhibits of evidence, including photos, transcripts and recordings.

Of those four suspects, three agreed to testify regarding Graham’s death and pleaded guilty to related charges, while the fourth had charges against him dismissed, according to the affidavit.

String of Denver crimes Ford, Lockhart and Austin had been linked to a string of racemotivated robberies and assaults in downtown Denver in 2009, according to the affidavit and court proceedings in the Graham case. Suspects in that rash of crimes told police they targeted white males because they assumed they had money and wouldn’t fight back or present a threat.

Lockhart and Austin pleaded guilty to attempted robbery in September 2009 incidents, and Ford pleaded guilty to a bias-motivated crime involving “bodily injury” and pleaded guilty to assault in August 2009 incidents, according to online court records.

Neil Silver, a defense attorney for one of the defendants, has said in court that prosecutors opted for charges in the Graham case under an organized-crime law for some of the defendants based on suspicion of involvement in black-youth gangs targeting white people.

Cases against the four suspects other than Jones were suppressed until recently, meaning no documents in the cases were available to the public. For all four, the prosecution requested the case files be made public on March 12, and Judge Michael Spear ordered the files unsuppressed April 14.

Because Jones’ case was not brought by a grand jury, documents in his case weren’t suppressed.

SEE MURDER, P4

WILL FLIGHT PLAN FLY?

Centennial Airport, Arapahoe County call for a review P2

WHAT’S ALLOWED?

Staying home now a guideline, not a rule P6

MEALS FOR MEDICS

Service club delivers meals to ‘bunch of heroes’ P14

THE BOTTOM LINE PERIODICAL

“Everything in life is different after an event like this. Nothing is as easy as it was before.”

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Centennial Airport refiles legal action against FAA Case joined by 3 counties, Greenwood Village over Denver Metroplex project

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Just before the federal government implemented a plan in March to reroute airplane traffic in the Denver metro area, Centennial Airport and local governments filed legal action asking a court to review a study of the plan’s potential impact on noise and the environment.

The Federal Aviation Administration’s plan to optimize arrival and departure at local airports is called the Denver Metroplex project, and it includes Denver International Airport, Centennial Airport and some others.

An FAA environmental-assessment study looked at impacts the project could have on noise, air quality, wildlife, and historic and cultural resources.

It said the proposed change in flight paths is expected to have “no significant impacts” on those aspects of the project’s area, including metro Denver and the Greeley area.

The FAA released an official final word — a “finding of no significant impact” and “record of decision” — which enabled the agency to move forward with the Metroplex project.

The decision was announced Jan. 24.

The finding means the FAA determined that a further review, called an environmental impact statement, isn’t necessary before the plan is put into action, according to the FAA’s website.

Despite the court challenge, the project went into effect as scheduled on March 26, according to Centennial Airport, after nearly four years since the FAA put the plan in motion. But local officials in the south Denver metro area and beyond are hoping to pump the brakes.

Centennial Airport; the boards of commissioners of Arapahoe, Douglas and Gilpin counties; and the City of Greenwood Village filed legal action in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in

COVID-19 WEIGHS ON CASE By the time the Denver Metroplex project went into effect on March 26, the coronavirus pandemic had altered the commercial and the general aviation landscape, said Robert Olislagers, executive director of Centennial Airport.

The COVID-19 crisis caused massive reductions in flights by as much as 90%, Olislagers said. That made it impossible to assess the impact of the project’s new flight paths.

“The coronavirus basically upended that for the time being since there will be no good baseline comparison at this time between pre- and post-Metroplex implementation impacts,” Olislagers said.

When “we see a return to normal, those impacts will become much clearer, and the expectation is that any relevant evidence will be presented in court.”

March, a few days before the plan’s implementation date. It’s the latest outcry in years of complaints local officials have raised about the plan.

The legal action seeks to address whether “the FAA’s finding of no significant impact in its environmental assessment was arbitrary and capricious” and whether the agency’s process violated federal environmental policy, according to an April 23 filing in the case.

It also asks the court for review of the FAA’s determination that an environmental impact statement isn’t needed.

While the plan would directly impact only a handful of airports, potential effects could be felt in an area that includes all, or portions of, 31 counties in Colorado — although the FAA’s analysis indicates only a few dozen people would experience notable noise increases, located in unincorporated Jefferson County and unincorporated Elbert County.

Conflicting accounts “The FAA’s environmental review for the project indicates some people will experience slight noise decreases, some will see no changes and some will experience small noise increases,” the FAA said in a news release.

Centennial Airport has argued at length that the FAA didn’t consider the impact of flight that occurs below

Planes stand at Centennial Airport in May 2019.

3,000 feet above ground, and that leaves unclear how much communities could be affected by the planned changes.

Littleton, Centennial, Cherry Hills Village, Lone Tree, Castle Rock and other nearby cities could experience effects, but it’s unknown how much, Robert Olislagers, executive director of Centennial Airport, has said.

“As has been stated before, the FAA completely ignores impacts below 3,000 (feet above ground), which makes any noise modeling deeply flawed,” the airport wrote in a Dec. 18 letter to the FAA. That means the final part of flight wasn’t adequately analyzed by the agency, the airport argued in a separate letter to the FAA. But Kenitzer, the FAA spokesman, said in December that noise modeling was done in the environmental assessment for the portion of flight that occurs below 3,000 feet above ground for all proposed paths in the Metroplex plan, and said that includes the final portion of flight.

It remains unclear what explains the discrepancy between the airport’s and FAA’s statements.

“We respectfully disagree with the FAA,” Olislagers said in January. The airport intends to address the point in court, according to Deborah Grigsby Smith, airport spokeswoman.

Gilpin criticism A filing in the case argues the FAA’s movement of a flight path south at the

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request of a Boulder County citizen increased negative impacts on Gilpin County and was arbitrary and capricious.

The case also argues the FAA failed to involve Gilpin County, including the county’s board of commissioners, its Historic Preservation Advisory Commission and its citizens, in outreach about the plan. It also said the FAA failed to include county officials and the county’s historic preservation body in consultation required under the National Historic Preservation Act. The action is a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, filed March 20 by the Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority — the government body that oversees the airport — and Greenwood Village, Gilpin County and Mountain Aviation Inc., a charter and owner-operated aircraft services company headquartered at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in the Broomfield area.

Arapahoe and Douglas counties filed a separate petition for review March 23, and the two petitions were consolidated into one case.

Initially, Centennial Airport had filed a petition for review June 19 but later withdrew its case because the filing was premature, and the court formally dismissed the case Aug. 16.

The new petition bears no difference from the airport’s side of the case, according to Deborah Grigsby Smith, airport spokeswoman.

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Legislator: Stay-at-home order should end in Arapahoe County Extension spurred by higher infection rates, health department tells Champion

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

State Rep. Richard Champion, R-Columbine Valley, became the latest Colorado politician to demand the lifting of a public health order, writing to Tri-County Health Department’s executive director Dr. John Douglas on April 27 to call for allowing Arapahoe County to join Douglas County in an exemption from an extended stay-atChampion home order.

The health department, however, said the order was extended because of Arapahoe County’s higher rates of COVID-19 infection.

Champion represents House District 38, which includes Littleton, western Centennial, Bow Mar and Columbine Valley. Champion, the former mayor of Columbine Valley, was appointed to the seat by a GOP vacancy committee in February after Rep. Susan Beckman stepped down to take a federal post.

“It’s now beginning to look like the ‘cure’ (quarantine) has proven to be worse than the illness itself on numerous levels,” Champion wrote, saying mental and physical health issues are on the rise, and saying extended lockdowns promote “civil disobedience and disregard for law and order.”

Gov. Jared Polis lifted a statewide stay-at-home order on April 27, switching to an order called “safer at home” — similar to the stricter order, though allowing businesses to reopen under stringent guidelines.

Tri-County Health Department, which covers Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties, re-enacted its own stay-at-home order, extended until May 8. After pushback from Douglas County commissioners, who said the county has seen far lower rates of COVID-19 than Arapahoe and Adams counties, the department allowed Douglas County to be exempted from the extended order.

In an email sent late on April 28, Douglas said Champion’s letter was in keeping with emails from others in Tri-County Health’s coverage area, but added “we hear from just as many who share that they and others

they know are afraid to go back to work because they don’t want to get exposed to the virus and are thus urging us to continue these orders for an even longer period of time.”

Douglas said the department decided to extend the order in Arapahoe and Adams counties because they had a higher rate of infection relative to Douglas County.

As of April 29, Arapahoe County had 2,342 known cases of COVID-19 and 123 deaths, according to Tri-County Health data — the second-highest number of cases in Colorado, behind only Denver County. Arapahoe County has the seventh-highest per capita case rate in Colorado, according to the state health department.

Douglas County as of April 29 had 521 cases and 23 deaths, according to Tri-County Health, the 25th-highest per capita rate in the state. Adams County had seen 1,499 cases and 43 deaths.

Douglas said Tri-County Health’s decision to extend Arapahoe and Adams counties’ stay-at-home was “to provide a slightly longer period of stricter social distancing to help reduce ongoing transmission and to increase levels of testing and contact notification.”

Champion wrote that he has spoken to business owners and employees eager to return to work, and called the economic fallout of the lockdowns “unwarranted.”

Champion said other countries that have merely enacted public health advisories rather than lockdowns are thriving, and called dire predictions of high death tolls “off base” and “unsubstantiated.”

He added that by now, Coloradans have learned how to protect their health, and said high-risk groups like “the metabolically challenged with preexisting illnesses such as diabetes and hypertension” know they should practice social distancing and self-isolation.

“People are smart — give them some modicum of credit, and stop playing Big Brother,” Champion wrote. “It’s time to let free people show how they can fight infection and produce the wealth that is essential to good health — and get back to work!”

Douglas wrote back, “You are correct that relying on our residents to make smart choices over the duration of the pandemic will be key to our getting through it with as little loss of life and economic impact as possible, and I am hopeful that with better public health tools more available, our community will be in a place to make their choices even more effective.”

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MURDER FROM PAGE 1

Grand juries are sometimes used to decide if authorities have enough evidence to charge a suspect.

Jones was charged with firstdegree murder after deliberation and firstdegree felony murder, according to court records. He had a status conference hearing scheduled April 30, but it was rescheduled to June 10 amid delays Jones due to COVID-19 precautions, according to the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

Jones’ arrest affidavit filled in blanks that had persisted for years in the account of what happened to Graham on Nov. 5, 2009. Here’s a look at the events, according to the March 10 affidavit.

Graham got a ride from his father to the light rail station near Dry Creek Road and Interstate 25 in the afternoon. According to his father, Graham planned to ride the train to downtown Denver and transfer to a bus to Boulder to meet with a former roommate to discuss living with him again.

After eating with his then-current roommates at a Boulder restaurant, Graham got dropped off at a nearby park-and-ride location to catch a bus to Denver.

At about 11:40 p.m., video surveillance captured Graham riding the light rail and exiting at the station near Park Meadows mall in Lone Tree, near Centennial. Nearby parking lot surveillance footage shows him walking west through the lot and down County Line Road until he was out of sight on the recordings. He walked with a satchel that authorities later found. A police dog later tracked Graham’s path a short distance into the Willow Creek neighborhood nearby, north of County Line, the affidavit said.

Implicating Jones As for Jones’ alleged role, his four co-suspects spoke with Arapahoe sheriff ’s deputies, a Denver police detective and an 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office investigator, and in grand jury testimony, and had this to say, according to the March 10 affidavit: • Martin said in the 2016 grand jury proceedings that he went to the area of Park Meadows with Ford, Lockhart, Austin and Jones to rob someone since there were too many police on the 16th Street Mall.

• Martin told authorities in 2017 he was with Ford, Jones, Lockhart and Austin when they approached Graham to rob him. He said they saw he had a bag and thought he might have a laptop. Martin said that Jones shot Graham and then took the bag, according to the affidavit.

• Ford told authorities in 2015 that

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• Ford and Jones pulled the satchel he, Lockhart, Jones and Martin were from Graham, and it was later present during the homicide. Ford thrown out the window of the sussaid they followed Graham, asked pects’ car, Martin told authorities, as him for money, somebody hit him relayed in the affidavit. and then Jones shot him, the affidaGraham’s body was found about a vit said. block south of some of his belong• Lockhart told authorities that ings. Credit she was with cards and a cell Ford and Jones phone were near Park found in his Meadows mall satchel there, and approached according to Graham, and authorities. His Jones shot him, money was still according to the in his wallet affidavit. It said when his body that in 2015, she was discovered. said Ford called His glasses lay a out to Graham, few steps away Graham began from him, and to run and they his hat lay a chased him, and Jones shot him.

Cyndi Gelston Graham, short distance away.

• Austin testimother of Andrew Graham fied in the 2011 Physical evidence grand jury that lacking Ford told him Jones — who that he, Lockapparently first spoke to authorihart and Jones were in Centennial ties in 2010 — has acknowledged to and Jones pulled out a pistol and investigators that he knew the cotried to rob Graham, but Graham defendants but has denied involvewouldn’t let Jones, so Jones shot ment in Graham’s death on multiple him, the affidavit said. Austin later occasions. said he ran into the others near Park Jones said Ford was his best friend Meadows mall after he took the light but that they had a falling out recentrail there with his cousin.

‘It’s been so long that it’s still hard to believe it has actually happened. ... I’m just taking it one day at a time.’

REMEMBERING ANDREW GRAHAM Andrew Graham, a Cherry Creek High School graduate, is remembered as a compassionate young man with a knack for helping strangers.

At a taekwondo competition at 8 years old, when Graham won a first-place medal, he instead gave it to his opponent, whom Graham felt was the true winner because his skills were sharper and Graham had won on a technicality, Cyndi Gelston Graham, his mother, said during a recent court hearing.

The night Graham died, he had stopped to buy sandwiches to share with a homeless man — something he did often, his friends told his mother.

At the time, he was a recent University of Colorado graduate who planned to pursue graduate studies in math and civil engineering.

“Usually, in a group, if there’s a bad apple, everyone’s brought down to their level,” Gelston Graham said in 2018. “Andrew brought everybody up.”

On the news that a suspected shooter — Terrell O’Neil Jones — now has been arrested in her son’s death, Gelston Graham told Colorado Community Media that “it’s been a long time coming.”

“It’s been so long that it’s still hard to believe it has actually happened,” she said.

Given the time it took for other defendants’ cases to arrive at outcomes, it will likely take years for a result in Jones’ case too, Gelston Graham said.

“I’m just taking it one day at a time,” she said. ly. He also said Lockhart “doesn’t like him,” the affidavit says.

Jones has several criminal convictions resulting from guilty pleas since 2013, according to the affidavit. They include possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, distributing a drug, theft of between $750 and $2,000, possession of a defaced firearm and possession of a Schedule 1 controlled substance, a classification that includes hard drugs.

Despite the years it took to arrest Jones, the affidavit does not mention any physical evidence that points to any of the defendants.

In 2009, Graham’s satchel was submitted for testing, and DNA profiles were found on the handle, the flaps and the shoulder strap, all of which contain a mixture of DNA. Authorities said they also found a DNA mixture on the pocket of Graham’s jeans.

Authorities took swabs from the five defendants, and all were excluded as potential contributors to the DNA mixture found on Graham’s satchel as well as on his clothes.

Numerous other suspects were investigated, and their potential involvement could not be corroborated.

Authorities completed numerous forensic tests on the evidence between 2009 and 2017, and there was no conclusive forensic testing that led to Jones or any other suspect.

Graham was killed by a single bullet wound to his back, and no bullet, bullet fragment or shell casing was located.

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May 7, 2020

Anchor stores open first at Park Meadows Meanwhile, mall’s inside corridors remain closed

BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Park Meadows stores are opening on an individual basis as the mall awaits the go-ahead from the health department to open its interior corridors once again.

Mall stores with exterior entrances, like Dick’s Sporting Goods, Dillard’s, Macy’s, Nordstrom and the Vistas area, are eligible to open first, said Park Meadows officials.

Dick’s was the first to open May 1.

Dillard’s reopened May 5 and Macy’s is scheduled to open May 11.

“A lot of businesses are taking this very seriously and a lot are preparing their own stores for gradual reopening,” said Whitney Miller, director of the mall’s business improvement district.

Masks to help protect against COVID-19 transmission are a requirement for Park Meadows shoppers, Miller said. Individual stores are responsible for enforcing social distancing, personal protective equipment and capacity requirements.

As for Park Meadows’ interior, the mall in Lone Tree is not classified as a retail business in the eyes of the Tri-County Health Department. Park

Jane and Jerry Greenwald, of Castle Rock, shop at Dick’s Sporting Goods May 2.

Meadows instead is considered an entertainment center, and therefore cannot allow customers inside the dining hall and interior corridors.

But individual stores are considered retail and can open under certain conditions, such as keeping people 6 feet apart and allowing half as many

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customers as their capacity allows.

Dick’s Sporting Goods had few people trickling in and around the entrance on May 1. Some poked their heads in the door, wondering if they were even allowed in, despite the sign above the entrance that read “Now Open” in bold, red letters.

“It feels weird walking in a store for the first time (since the coronavirus struck). It’s strange,” said Jerry Greenwald, who went shopping with his wife, Jane, on May 2.

Meanwhile, the mall has stepped up its cleaning and disinfecting efforts, Miller said. Soft-cushioned seating has been temporarily removed. The dining hall closed its seating, though restaurants can still sell take-out.

As the larger retail stores ease into reopening their sales floors, interior stores are preparing to provide curbside pick-up. A makeshift curbside pick-up lane is set up by the dining hall.

Dick’s has been providing curbside pick-up for several weeks. Customers wait outside the store, place a request on the phone or online and wait for an employee inside the store to get the items and bring them to the car. That option is still available for customers.

The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing public health orders have caused some permanent changes to the mall, Miller said. For one thing, staff are far more conscious of disinfecting high-touch areas. Also, the mall may create a more permanent system for curbside pick-up, particularly for businesses that already offer those services, like Macy’s and Dick’s, and restaurants at the mall.

There is no date for when the mall corridors will open, Miller said.

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Colorado’s ‘safer at home’ order: What’s allowed, what’s open?

New COVID-19 restrictions see many businesses reopening

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Coloradans dodged the possibility of a second extension of the statewide stay-at-home order, but the new set of rules that went into effect April 27 may strike people as even more confusing.

The main difference is that staying home is now a guideline, not a requirement.

But it’s not an invitation to go back to “the way we lived our lives in January or February,” Gov. Jared Polis said at an April 22 news conference. He implored Coloradans to limit social interactions as much as possible, although seeing friends in person is allowed under the new order.

Colorado’s new safer-at-home order encourages people only to leave home for “necessary activities” that generally mirror what the stay-at-home order allowed: shopping for groceries, exercising outdoors, taking care of family members and other essentials.

Past that, the new order allows a long list of businesses and even hands-on college and trade classes to open, while still limiting Coloradans’ social gatherings. The order also

A woman wears a mask while she walks her dog along the Clear Creek trail in Golden. urges wearing non-medical masks or face coverings when in public.

Certain parts of the state — including much of the Denver metro area other than Douglas County — may be under slightly different rules.

Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver and Jefferson counties extended the stay-at-home order to

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May 8. Aside from any other local restrictions, though, they’ll be under the state’s new safer-at-home rules after that.

The new order is set to run through May 26, but it likely will see an extension, though possibly with some changes.

Here’s a look at what’s allowed and not allowed under the new rules.

Still ‘necessary’ Under the new order, Coloradans still are encouraged to stay home except for necessities — the same ones the stay-at-home order listed — such as shopping for groceries or seeking medical care. Caring for a family member or pet in another household, or for livestock at a location other than a person’s home, are other examples.

That includes taking care of other “vulnerable” people, which in this part of the order isn’t limited to older adults, or people with disabilities or serious health conditions.

Young people who have disabilities or other needs may need support, too, Mike Willis, director of the state Emergency Operations Center, has said.

Other essential actions include obtaining medication or medical supplies, collecting supplies needed to work from home, working in allowed industries, or walking, biking, or other outdoor activity. People must remain at least 6 feet apart from others.

New guidelines Travel for recreation should be limited to a person’s own community, such as their county of residence, or traveling no more than about 10 miles.

The new order urges Coloradans to wear non-medical cloth face coverings over the nose and mouth when in public.

Back on April 17, Polis announced an executive order requiring workers in critical businesses to wear face coverings when in close proximity

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with others. That includes workers in grocery stores, banks, homeless shelters, nursing homes and other care facilities, and many more industries.

What’s still banned, still closed The new order allows socializing but limits all public and private gatherings to no more than 10 people, except for the purposes of necessary activities. Gatherings of members living in the same residence aren’t prohibited.

The following businesses that shuttered under a March public health order remain closed: • Restaurants, bars and clubs (delivery and take-out still available); • Movie and performance theaters, opera houses, and concert and music halls; • Casinos, horse tracks and off-track betting facilities; • Gyms, except that indoor personal training or classes are allowed for up to four people unless participants live in the same household, and those from different households cannot share equipment.

A gradual reopening of restaurants by mid-May is the goal, Polis has said.

The state will work toward a gradual reopening of bars as well.

Retail, services, tech programs “Noncritical” retail stores that shuttered under the stay-at-home order could re-open as of May 1, including those that sell clothing, cellphones, appliances, vape and tobacco products, sporting equipment, crafts, fabrics and more.

Critical and noncritical retail must take safety measures, such as providing face coverings and gloves to all employees whenever possible, holding dedicated hours for at-risk customers, and offering hand sanitizer and wipes at entrances as much as possible.

As of April 27, noncritical retail could start curbside delivery.

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home order urges staying home except to seek medical care — just like the stay-at-home order did. “Vulnerable individuals” in the new order include adults 65 and older, people with serious underlying health conditions, and those deemed to be at high risk by a health care provider. Pregnant women also are considered vulnerable.

Those groups cannot be compelled to work for any business or government function during the pandemic emergency, the order says. People who are sick must stay home except to seek medical care and must not go to work.

Employers must provide work accommodations for vulnerable individuals, prioritizing working from home.

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Also as of May 1, personal services — which also closed under a March public health order — could reopen.

They include, but are not limited to, dog grooming, body art, hair and nail salons, and massage therapists.

The services only may be performed with 10 or fewer people in a location or up to 50% occupancy for the location, whichever is less — for example, five hairstylists serving five customers.

Employees and customers must wear cloth face coverings or medicalgrade masks at all times. Only services that can be performed without customers removing their masks are permitted.

Regarding education beyond high school, the order also allows programs that cannot be conducted remotely, due to the equipment they require, to be held in person on a limited basis.

That includes technical and vocational programs.

Offices, real estate, health As of May 4, noncritical office businesses could re-open with up to 50% of their employees for in-person work.

They must take many precautions, including minimizing in-person meetings, maintaining 6-foot distancing and allowing working from home to the greatest extent possible.

Real estate home showings can resume with cleaning and disinfection between each showing, but open

houses may not be held.

As with the stay-at-home order, critical businesses — which had already been allowed to operate — must still adopt work-from-home policies for operations that can be done remotely, and use other strategies, such as staggered schedules or redesigning workplaces, to create more distance between workers.

Nonemergency — or “elective” —

health and dental services resumed April 27 based on an executive order by the governor. “Elective” means a surgery or procedure can be delayed for a minimum of three months without undue risk to health, according to the order.

Guidelines, protections for vulnerable For those at high risk of severe illness from COVID-19, the safer-at-

New safety practices Generally, businesses allowed to reopen must take many precautions to prevent spreading COVID-19.

Broadly, those include: • Maintaining 6-foot separation between employees; • Disinfecting all high touch areas (“high touch” is a term for things people touch often, such as rails or tables); • Avoiding gatherings (meetings, waiting rooms and so on) of more than 10 people; • Conducting daily temperature checks and monitoring symptoms in employees. A sample monitoring form is located at tinyurl.com/ybrbwmk5.

Additional requirements for specific industries are located in the appendices to the order at tinyurl.com/ ybl42bvg.

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STEM SCHOOL TRAGEDY: ONE YEAR LATER

For grieving parents, ‘everything in life is different’ One year later, Kendrick Castillo’s parents urge community to remember STEM

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

By April 24, John Castillo had begun struggling to sleep. May 7 was approaching — the day he and his wife, Maria, lost their only child. With each passing day, anxiety built up a little more.

“I didn’t know what my emotional realm would be,” he said by Zoom interview that afternoon.

John began thinking about his son, 18-year-old Kendrick, more and more as the one-year mark of Kendrick’s death drew near.

Kendrick was fatally shot May 7, 2019 while he and fellow students Brendan Bialy and Josh Jones rushed a student who is set to face trial for his alleged role in the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch last year.

A second shooter pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing. Eight students were injured in the attack.

Kendrick, Brendan and Josh are credited with saving lives that day.

Kendrick is remembered as a hero.

One year later, John and Maria tearfully reflected on a tumultuous 12 months. John hopes his words will help people and keep Kendrick’s memory alive.

As time goes on, he fears people’s memories of his son will fade. Or, that they will think less often of STEM, particularly now as a global pandemic consumes the world’s attention.

That’s why he still tells his story, difficult as it is.

“Everywhere you turn, everything in life is different after an event like this. Nothing is as easy as it was before,” John said.

‘One of a kind’ On April 30, John and Maria sat in front of Kendrick’s grave, as they do every afternoon. The couple has not missed a day visiting Kendrick since his death. The only exceptions were a couple out-of-state trips for speaking engagements. For those, Maria packed pictures of Kendrick to take along.

When they returned, they drove straight from the airport to see Kendrick, as they put it.

Maria gently tended to the roses by his headstone and straightened little gifts left for him. A small cow, for Kendrick’s favorite, Chick-fil-A, where he loved to eat with friends. A columbine flower left by a survivor of the Columbine High School mass shooting. Tools from technology students Kendrick mentored.

May 7, then one week away, now had John reflecting on the days leading up to the shooting. If he could have known what his son would face that day, maybe he could have helped.

John and Maria Castillo sit beside the grave of their son, Kendrick, who was shot and killed during the STEM School shooting a year ago. They are reflected on the polished surface of another nearby headstone.

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A number of items at Kendrick Castillo’s grave honor things he loved — a small cow to remember his times eating Chick-fil-A with friends, a columbine flower left by a Columbine survivor, tools from technology students he mentored and more.

He could have kept him home from school, he thought.

The Castillos quietly looked at Kendrick’s grave as the sun hung over Douglas County’s foothills, shining across Kendrick’s headstone. Birds sang nearby, bringing a lighter mood to the scene. The soothing sound of running water from nearby fountains filtered around them.

Sometimes, deer gather by the cemetery and eye them, John said. The deer enjoy munching on roses they bring Kendrick, particularly in the winter. John and Maria come back to find only stems, he said, chuckling.

The botanical-gardens cemetery in Douglas County where Kendrick rests, Seven Stones, focuses on healing through nature, director of customer care Becky Holm said. She quickly be-

came friends of the Castillos, having seen them nearly every day this past year. The couple brought “a sense of peace to the gardens,” she said.

Sometimes John and Maria see someone they know at the cemetery, which is near Chatfield State Park.

Other times people recognize them while visiting. Either way, the Castillos are open with everyone, she said.

“Last week another family lost their son too young to cancer, and they prayed with them after the service,” Holm said. “That’s a very common occurrence, that the Castillos will pray with other families that have just lost their loved ones, and it’s very welcome all around.”

Not far from Kendrick’s grave is the resting place of Zackari Parrish, the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office

deputy fatally shot on Dec. 31, 2017, while trying to assist a mentally ill man from Highlands Ranch. The Castillos’ victim’s advocate was a friend of Parrish, John said, who told them about Seven Stones.

Holm said it did not take the Castillos long to find the perfect spot for Kendrick — right next to a trio of column sculptures made of Colorado basalt. The memorial reminded John and Maria of their family of three.

Being in Kendrick’s presence while surrounded by nature is comforting, John said. The shift to springtime brought an added sense of peace as the world came to life. Plants began to grow. He liked listening to the birds chirp.

When people get too busy, they do not always notice the changing of the seasons, John said. Going to Seven Stones gave him a renewed appreciation for that. Maria thinks Seven Stones is less scary than other cemeteries, John said as she smiled.

John remembers Kendrick as a calming presence in his life.

Kendrick never hated or got angry, he said. If John got upset at a driver on the road, Kendrick was the one to talk him down. When Kendrick was a child, he once put himself in timeout after his parents scolded him.

Kendrick was not afraid to show his faith. He quietly prayed over a Taco Bell meal when eating out, and never did it so people would see him, John said. That was “just his demeanor. He was brave that way.”

Kendrick loved the outdoors, space and robotics. He set goals and worked toward them. When friends fought, he tried to bring them together. He stood up for what was right, and ultimately died living by that standard, John said.

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“He truly was one of a kind,” John said.

Pain persists amid new crisis The family’s grief and anxiety has been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. John, a diabetic, is at risk for the pneumonia-like disease that is more lethal for people with underlying conditions.

The pandemic also prompted many governments, including Colorado, to ban gatherings and issue a stay-at-home order that recently expired in Douglas County, creating more challenges in the Castillos’ grief process.

“The support that we probably normally would have isn’t there right now. That’s been a very difficult thing,” John said when the order was in place. “There is a big distraction.

We know that they’re concerned for their families.”

COVID-19 spurred a painful drawing out of the open case against the older suspect, who pleaded not guilty in January. The suspect’s trial was rescheduled from May to September.

The second teenager is scheduled to be sentenced in May, but it’s possible the pandemic will delay that hearing as well.

John worries trial jurors will feel

Kendrick Castillo is shown before his last prom at STEM School.

COURTESY PHOTO uncomfortable serving during the pandemic and won’t focus.

“It’s been difficult. The COVID-19 situation has thrown an interesting twist on a lot of things that we just, I guess, never thought of before,” John said. “From a survivor standpoint, it does play heavy on our minds, what justice will look like going forward with this new twist of a pandemic.”

COVID-19 also ruined original plans to honor Kendrick on May 7.

John wanted to hold a candlelight vigil to speak about his faith and the

Among the gifts John and Maria bring Kendrick is a small Bronco figurine from John, and a small Jeep, like the one Kendrick drove.

JESSICA GIBBS importance of family values. The pandemic rendered that impossible.

Instead, he and Maria will have a small gathering of friends and family at Seven Stones with a prayer service and bagpipes.

When there, he and Maria read kind notes left at Kendrick’s grave by friends. That uplifts them. They think of his friends around the one-year mark, too.

“It also hurts our hearts that they’re suffering the loss that we are. They are suffering the pain as well,” John said. “We think and wonder about those kids every day and how they are making it through.”

Being tested John and Maria thought seriously about moving closer to Kendrick.

There are too many memories in their Denver home, he said, which sits 17 miles from Seven Stones. The couple looked at some properties before COVID-19 geared up and made selling their home, in their view, impossible.

For now, they are working on home improvement projects to make their property more sellable.

The pandemic changed their work plans, too.

Maria, a chef, and John, an engineer in the hotel industry, are both on sabbatical and have been since May 7, 2019. John expected his employer to reevaluate his work status in June or July before COVID-19 hit but doubts he can return to work under the pandemic.

The couple’s grief symptoms worsened as they weathered both crises.

After losing their son, John and Maria battled sleep deprivation. During the pandemic that grew worse. They stay up, restless, until 12:30 a.m., 1 a.m., 2 a.m., and wake up by 4:30 or 5 a.m.

Each morning John puts on coffee.

They drink their cups next to a wall covered in photos of Kendrick — prom photos, senior photos and one signed by his senior class — while thinking about ways to occupy their time. John does yardwork, waters plants and grows vegetables.

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STEM SCHOOL TRAGEDY: ONE YEAR LATER

STEM FROM PAGE 9

John and Maria typically visit Kendrick in the afternoons. On especially hard days, the Castillos skip coffee at home, grab a Starbucks and drive to Seven Stones, where they sit in the gardens. They often return again on those days to spend more time with him.

An added challenge during the pandemic was losing the ability to leave the house. Like most people, John said, the couple is limiting time away from home, only getting groceries every three to four weeks.

They mostly leave to fuel their vehicle at Costco so they can go to and from the cemetery, which feels safe because they are often alone there.

Before COVID, John spent time at the state Capitol, but work under the dome came to “a screeching halt.”

“I will say that it doesn’t matter what we’re involved in,” John said.

“There always comes a point at the end of the day when we’re having dinner. There is just a calm, empty time where we eat, we think about Kendrick, and it’s difficult, extremely difficult, for about an hour.”

This experience has tested them in many ways they didn’t expect, John said.

Significantly, it tested their faith.

The couple wanted 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler to pursue the death penalty in the older

John and Maria drive 17 miles from their home in Denver to the Seven Stones Cemetery in Douglas County.

PHOTOS BY JESSICA GIBBS suspect’s case, but they are devout Catholics and John knows capital punishment is against their doctrine, he said.

Brauchler announced through court documents filed in March he would not seek the death penalty, noting jurors would have to consider the 19-year-old suspect’s age and lack of serious prior offenses.

John said at the time he believes justice for Kendrick means the suspect giving up his life. John hopes people will not judge him and Maria for their

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stance on the death penalty. No one could understand unless also in their place, he said.

“It pits our loss against our spiritual beliefs,” John said.

The experience also sharpened his views on the importance of strong family systems, and the need to be informed community members. He urged people to understand local laws and get involved in shaping policy.

If people want to support survivors of mass violence, they should pay attention to how the criminal justice system works, he said. He stressed victim impact statements in the STEM case will have influence years into the future if the convicted shooter seeks parole.

John is eager for solutions to school safety and believes it starts with strong families. Court hearings revealed the younger suspect grew up amid abuse and neglect, and is accused of masterminding the shooting, then coercing the older suspect into aiding him.

Washington Post reporter Robert Klemko tweeted that March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002. John called that profound.

“I thought, how ironic,” he said. “Is this what it takes to end the cycle of terror and violence that takes place in our schools?”

Crushing clarity Talking about Kendrick often overwhelms Maria.

For most the past year, she let John take the lead during news interviews at court hearings and serve as their spokesman in other situations. She’s never far from John’s side, though, usually listening with a tear-stricken face and quiet sobs.

When she does speak, Maria moves people deeply. She left a packed courtroom weeping in November 2019 after she testified during a hearing that decided the 16-year-old suspect would be tried as an adult, not a juvenile, if his case had progressed to trial.

Kendrick, she said, was her life.

As John spoke on April 24, Maria sat nearby listening and overcome with emotion. She later wrote her thoughts down in an email, describing the past year as a personal hell. She is angry and

John prayed over his son, Kendrick, for several minutes on April 30 as he and wife, Maria, visited Kendrick at his gravesite. in pain. She usually stays home, sometimes sitting at her computer searching for answers and information.

“Even going to church is extremely difficult, seeing other families together,” she said, “and mine is not complete anymore.”

Maria misses Kendrick’s hugs, “his beautiful smile,” his jokes and everything they used to do together, all stolen “by one evil day.” She would trade places with him if she could. Kendrick had too much to live for, she said.

“He was not only my only child, he was my best friend, my life, everything that we did was for him and with him,” Maria said.

John said time failed to lessen their pain.

“I wish I could say that things have gotten better, or seem like we have, but honestly, it doesn’t feel much different than this time last year. I guess the only difference is there’s a sense of clarity now,” John said.

That clarity makes the grief stronger. For months after the tragedy, John and Maria felt a sense of denial. They lived in a fog. Now, the shock and disbelief of Kendrick’s death is worn off.

His loss feels more real.

“I never knew a person could be in shock for many months,” John said.

‘A really bad nightmare’ The Castillos frequently close down Seven Stones.

Holm, the director of customer care, doesn’t mind if they come in late at night, such as after a long court hearing, or leave after she does. John and Maria fasten the gate when they leave and make sure the grounds are locked up.

“They can come and go as they please, whatever they need,” Holm said. “They’re family. There’s no other way to describe it. We’re sad that they have to be there, but we love having them.”

John said Holm is special. He and Maria will keep seeing her around as they visit Kendrick, taking each day as it comes.

“It seems like just a really bad nightmare that you’re never going to wake up from,” he said. “We made it through one year. What’s the next year going to be like?”

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STEM SCHOOL TRAGEDY: ONE YEAR LATER

A year toward recovery complicated by virus STEM School Highlands Ranch weathers back-to-back crises

ABOUT THE REPORTER Jessica Gibbs, a Colorado Community Media reporter since 2016, was part of the CCM team that covered the 2019 STEM School Highlands Ranch tragedy. That coverage recently received first place for breaking-news reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists in its four-state Top of the Rockies awards.

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

For Penny Eucker, executive director of STEM School Highlands Ranch, one of the more challenging aspects of preparing for May 7 was finding the right words for that day.

“We really don’t have a word in the English language to use for a tragedy’s coming around,” she said.

“I don’t want to use the word ‘anniversary.’ I don’t want to use the word ‘commemorate.’ We don’t want to use a word that has any hint of celebration. We just use ‘one-year mark,’ because there isn’t a word that’s appropriate.”

On May 7, 2019, a shooting left eight STEM students injured and 18-yearold senior Kendrick Castillo dead.

The behavioral health disaster response team at AllHealth Network immediately activated. A crisis center opened the following morning. Disaster response evolved into the longerterm effort of disaster recovery.

That summer, the school started discussing how best to address the one-year mark once it came about.

Knowing how each person will react on that date is impossible, Eucker said. With 1,800 students and 2,800 parents, the school had to prepare for vastly diverse reactions to trauma.

That sentiment was echoed among numerous school and mental health leaders who shepherded STEM’s recovery this past year. Grief is as unique as the person. Managing disaster recovery is a day-by-day, person-byperson journey.

Then enter the COVID-19 pandemic, which shuttered schools across the state to in-person learning. Suddenly, the STEM community was weathering two school years in a row disrupted by crisis.

“Nothing prepares you for a tragedy of this magnitude,” Eucker said. “We had trained extensively for emergencies, for lockdowns, but just like a global pandemic, nothing prepares you for the magnitude of events that are unthinkable.”

‘The year of firsts’ Hannah Reese, STEM’s recovery coordinator, spent this school year connecting students with care and coordinating mental health education.

“Often we refer to the first year as the year of firsts, and for everyone, you have to get through the first day of school, and the first winter break,” Reese said.

Marina Altmann Godoy, 13, decided before COVID-19 she would not go to school on May 7. The seventh grader now attends Cresthill Middle School in Highlands Ranch but was a STEM School student last year.

Her plan was to get away from the

students ease back into the year. The school reconfigured classrooms in a different orientation and redecorated.

The school also reconfigured classrooms 107 and 109, the scene of the shooting. Walls came down. Access to those rooms changed. Every room in the area now has a different number.

The numbers 107 and 109 no longer exist.

STEM School Highlands Ranch is weathering back-to-back crises, between last year’s shooting and this year’s global pandemic.

JESSICA GIBBS scenery of school and grab doughnuts with family on the one-year date.

That’s what she did during the first lockdown drill this school year.

Marina was home sick during the second drill. By the third, she felt relieved. It went easier than expected.

Marina participated from a room without a speaker, so she did not have to hear announcements. That helped.

Still, she got frustrated seeing some students mess around during the exercise.

“It might be a day where it’s not a drill,” she said. “To them it’s probably like that same old drill that you do. To people like me, it’s like, oh yeah, we could be in danger.”

Evan Forster is a behavioral health clinician with AllHealth who embedded in STEM for the year. Many students transitioned back well, he said.

“But there were definitely kids that were more responsive to unexpected loud noises in the hallway happening and experiencing heightened anxiety related to being in different areas of the school,” he said. “Especially surrounding drills.”

To help, Forster scheduled student meetings during fire drills. When alarms sounded, he walked students through “grounding techniques,” like deep breathing and identifying the situation as a drill.

During lockdown drills, Forster sat in classrooms to be a reassuring presence. If students experienced “heightened emotions,” Forster reminded them it was practice and they were safe.

Eucker said STEM tried to alert parents about drills beforehand and immediately posted to social media when a drill was underway. Instead of the PA system blaring an alarm, staff spoke announcements in a calming voice.

“We are going to have a drill,” the announcements would say. “This is just a drill.”

STEM took numerous steps to help

A year of challenges Other obstacles arose as the community searched for answers following the tragedy.

Families including John and Maria Castillo, whose son, Kendrick, was fatally shot that day; and Brendan Bialy sued the school for injuries and wrongful death. Bialy rushed a gun-wielding student at the onset of the shooting with Kendrick and fellow student Josh Jones.

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On May 7, 2019, you answered the call when we needed you the most.

From all of us at STEM School Highlands Ranch, we Thank You for your commitment to serve, protect and care for others.

THANK YOU • Our Entire STEM School Highlands Ranch Community (current and former students, families and staff) • First Responders from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, Lone Tree Police Department, Littleton Police Department, Colorado State Patrol, National Parks Service Rangers, Parker Police Department, Centennial Police Department, Paramedics, South Metro Fire District Station 18, and so many more • Douglas County School District Security and Administrators • Doctors and nurses from Littleton Adventist and Children’s Hospital • Staff and volunteers from the Highlands Ranch Community Association • Members of the Highlands Ranch Community and surrounding areas • Businesses surrounding STEM School Highlands Ranch and in our community

We will forever be #STEMStrong together.

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The suits alleged STEM missed warning signs that the suspects could become violent and mishandled threats to STEM’s safety.

Kendrick’s mother, Maria, said by email she spends hours researching the school. The family’s suit remains open.

“I have discovered many things that we did not know about the school where our precious child, Kendrick, was murdered,” she said. “I did my job as a mother, unfortunately, I trusted the wrong people with everything I had.”

COVID-19 has also drawn out the two ensuing criminal cases involving the shooting suspects.

The younger attacker, Alec McKinney, pleaded guilty in February and awaits a sentencing hearing scheduled this month. The hearing could be delayed. The older suspect, Devon Erickson, was supposed to begin trial this month after pleading not guilty in January. That was pushed back to September.

A term-limited 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler wanted nothing more than to finish both cases before he leaves office this year, he said.

Victims need closure, and the criminal cases are the last formal reminder of the tragedy, he said, except only for the civil suits. Brauchler is not sure he can deliver that amid the pandemic.

COVID-19 further creates uncer-

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MORE ONLINE STEM Center for Strength, a new facility providing support for the STEM School community, has opened virtually amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit coloradocommunitymedia.com. tainty around holding court hearings.

Large gatherings are banned. Will people be forced to view hearings remotely? How does that affect transparency? Brauchler is waiting for answers to those questions and more.

“As we approach May the 7th, I really thought we’d be in a different position,” Brauchler said. “I’ve never seen anything like this before.”

‘STEM is trying its best’ Throughout this experience, Reese focused on the unity she sees among STEM’s children, their empathy for one another and is “continuously astounded” by how quickly the community can rally together.

Forster hoped the community would find creative ways to connect during the isolation of COVID-19.

“We were definitely anticipating being able to be together in person as we approached this one-year mark,” Reese said.

While the pandemic forces isolation on the community as a whole — through stay-at-home orders and the banning of gatherings — there have been positives, Lakshmi Ganapaneni said.

The 14-year-old sophomore at STEM said COVID-19 brought her family closer. They see each other more, and she was grateful to be home with them

John and Maria Castillo stand among students, teachers and community members of STEM school Highlands Ranch during Run For the Fallen on Sept. 15. Many in the crowd raised a closed fist after an attendee shouted a common saying following the shooting: “STEM strong.”

ELLIOTT WENZLER as the one-year mark approached. She planned to spend time that day with her brother doing arts and crafts.

“I don’t know how exactly I’m going to react on the day,” she said on May 1.

“I’m basically helping myself by helping others.”

Ganapaneni serves on the advisory board for the new STEM Center for Strength. The center was supposed to open in March but is operating virtually during COVID-19. It provides mental health resources for anyone who needs support because of the incident, like counseling and therapy groups.

That work has been good for her, she said.

“STEM is trying its best. We are all trying to reach out to everybody who is being affected,” she said. “Everybody was hit.”

Ganapaneni was in the high school section of STEM as the shooting unfolded in the middle school. She did not know how to react, she said, but she remembers her first thought was her then 7-year-old brother, a secondgrade STEM student at the time.

“More than myself I was worried about him,” she said. “Am I going to see him or not the next minute?”

Her brother now attends a different school. Ganapaneni still attends STEM. She never considered switching schools. She believes the incident was beyond STEM’s control. Ganapaneni is doing well this year, she said, but she knows not everyone can say the same.

Eucker, the STEM School’s executive director, said for some staff and students, returning to STEM was too painful.

Last year the school employed 163 people, of which 53 left. A spokeswoman said that is not an unusual amount of turnover for STEM in a given year, and the school did not ask departing staff if the shooting influenced their decision to leave.

The employees did fill out a standard exit survey. Nearly half said they decided not to return, 11 left teaching, 11 left for what they considered better offers, five moved out of the region and five said they were dissatisfied with the school. The spokeswoman said she did not have a breakdown of turnover by position type.

Eucker noticed “quite a bit of turnover” at the elementary school level,

which she thinks was because elementary teachers have high empathy.

Enrollment dropped from 1,844 students in the 2018-19 school year to 1,749 in the 2019-20 school year.

Nara Altmann, Marina’s mother, said she moved Marina to a different school mostly for concern about STEM’s rigorous academics.

She worries too much focus on grades can hinder students. Through research and word of mouth, she heard Cresthill excels at fostering development of the whole child, she said, including social-emotional learning.

Marina felt apprehensive about leaving STEM but both she and Nara said the move to Cresthill turned out to be the right choice.

For many, returning to STEM was the right choice, Eucker said. It meant being with people who endured what they endured. STEM represented to them a shared experience and people who understood the significance of May 7 firsthand.

“That was something that I didn’t really think about until so many had voiced that sentiment, even at the very young ages,” Eucker said.

‘A day of strength’ If there is one thing Ganapaneni wants the community to know, it’s that “STEM is still a great school, and we’ve always been a great school.”

STEM planned to complete service projects on May 7 in an effort called “STEMShares,” but again had to pivot plans during COVID-19. Families are now encouraged to do good acts — donating to a food bank, helping a neighbor — at the family level instead of the classroom level, Eucker said.

“My personal hope is that we can redefine this from a day of fear to a day of strength,” Eucker said.

Nara listened to her daughter reflect on the tragedy — for the first time to someone outside the family — with a patient smile on April 28.

For Marina, May 7 taught her a tragic lesson that helped her walk into the COVID-19 crisis with confidence.

She more fully understands people can reach rock bottom, she said, but still move forward.

“Everyone is going to fall down and crumble under pressure,” Marina said, “but then you build yourself up.”

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Food drive helps feed seniors, but need isn’t going away LDS church donates food to St. Mary Parish and Nourish Meals on Wheels

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Lots of bellies will be filled after a king-size food drive rounded up $20,000 in non-perishable food for a pair of Littleton charities.

A group of six metro-area congregations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints collected several carloads of food in mid-April. On April 27, parishioners donated the haul to the St. Mary Parish Pantry, a west Littleton food bank, and Nourish Meals on Wheels, which provides meals to homebound seniors and people with disabilities.

“Our church teaches a strong work ethic, and taking care of our communities,” said Doug Robinson, the director of public affairs for the group of churches. “Right now, what our community needs is food.”

The donations were welcome news to Diane McClymonds, the executive director of Meals on Wheels. The group has seen need climb since the COVID-19 shutdowns began, driven in part by seniors and immunocompromised people who may have ventured out occasionally for groceries or res-

Doug Robinson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints unloads food donations for Nourish Meals on Wheels on April 27. The church collected about $20,000 worth of food for local nonprofits.

DAVID GILBERT taurant meals, but are now completely homebound.

The group saw a 9% jump in clients

in March — about the normal growth for a year — and is now topping 500 meals a day, McClymonds said.

Meanwhile, the group has reduced delivery days from five days a week to just Monday, Wednesday and Friday, to help reduce possible virus exposure to volunteer drivers, many of whom are elderly themselves.

Drivers now drop off a hot meal for the day, and a frozen meal for the next — and a bag of groceries every Wednesday.

“We’re trying to help keep folks out of grocery stores,” McClymonds said.

One of the harder parts of the pandemic is that drivers can’t visit with clients anymore. Instead, Meals on Wheels switched to calling clients to see how they’re doing.

“Our clients are pragmatic,” McClymonds said. “They don’t like to complain or be a bother. But we know they get lonely.”

Some volunteers have been bringing cards and letters to clients, and McClymonds said more are always welcome.

Only a quarter of clients are able to pay the full $5 cost of a meal, and more than half cannot pay anything, meaning the group is reliant on community donations to keep seniors fed with healthy food.

Thankfully, donations have been strong, McClymonds said, but they’ll need to stay strong as the pandemic drags on.

“It’s been humbling and heartwarming to see people recognizing the need among our seniors,” she said. “We feel really blessed.”

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Centennial service club delivers meals to ‘bunch of heroes’ Rotary members provide lunch to Centennial Medical Plaza amid pandemic

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A local service organization found a way to give back to medical personnel on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis: keep them fed.

For overworked health care staff at facilities such as Centennial Medical Plaza, eating can be the last thing on their minds. That’s where the Rotary Club of Centennial came in.

“I must admit that I was not expecting the level of overwhelming gratitude displayed by the staff,” said Trip Butler, a 60-year-old Rotary club member. “In the grand scheme, this was a small gesture, but it meant so much to this small bunch of heroes.”

Although Centennial Medical Plaza doesn’t include a hospital itself — it features a full-service emergency room — it still has seen many patients a day with COVID-19, along with its typical flow of daily emergency cases.

Rotary club members put their heads together to take a small load off health care workers’ backs with its “Meals for Medics” program, the club announced in a news release.

Centennial Medical Plaza staff stand with Rotary Club of Centennial member Jay Zheng, right, owner of Volcano Asian Cuisine, where the meals were prepared.

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Although many of life’s usual occurrences have been suspended during these turbulent times, babies are still being born and moms still want to breastfeed. However, because it is difficult to meet with a lactation specialist in person, some new mothers may not be getting the breastfeeding support they need.

Mothers’ Milk Bank Baby Café now offers a virtual way by which new moms can get free breastfeeding guidance from a lactation specialist using remote video technology. Moms can also share their experiences and hear from others in similar situations. This virtual community provides support and encouragement during a time a woman may be discouraged and alone.

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VOICES

This seems like dreams and weird extremes ickens memorably began “A Tale of Two Cities” with a perfect description of 2020, especially the first twelve

words.

It sums up, at least in my lifetime, the current world, where extraordinarily good people QUIET are doing extraordinarily good things, DESPERATION and where extraordinarily bad people are doing extraordinarily bad things.

It seems where there are challenges and tragedies and vulnerabilities, some of us crawl out from the Grimpen Mire, Craig Marshall look around, and seize the opportunity Smith to take advantage of the situation.

I am old enough to know it comes as no surprise.

Ask Sartre.

I am one of the lucky ones. Retired,

a safe home to live in, sufficient paper products, and an enviable roommate.

My roommate has no idea what is going on. That helps.

Not much has changed around here.

We just go on fewer car trips.

When was the last time you filled your car’s gas tank?

Half the news is heartwarming and the other half is inconceivable.

Conspiracy theorists blame a U.S. Army reservist and mother of two for starting the pandemic. The false claims about her are spreading like the virus itself.

Lewis Carroll said, “What I tell you three times is true.”

Is there anything worse than being wrongly accused?

I was blamed for things I didn’t do when I was a kid. My sister was an angel and could do no wrong. But if she did, she cruised, because little Craig was seen as an impish lad, more capable of spilling the milk.

Alfred Hitchcock understood the effect false accusations have on someone: therefore, his films often featured

someone trying to prove his or her innocence.

Best: “North by Northwest,” but also “The 39 Steps,” “The Wrong Man,” “Strangers on a Train,” and “Saboteur.”

I anticipate a 21st-century retelling of “The Grapes of Wrath.” Small business owners who have lost everything and have to find something else to do with their lives.

There will be documentaries and coffee-table books filled with haunting photographs.

And there will be humor. There already has been.

(Some of it, unfortunately, has been unintentional. Take your pick.)

The mystery, of course, is not knowing when it will be safe again to move around and commingle like always.

Some are ready to resume now.

Maybe you have noticed the protests and rallies.

A woman in my birth state held up a sign that conjoined the governor’s name with Adolf Hitler’s.

Hand-lettered words beyond compre-

hension provided the woman with her legacy. No apology accepted.

Television commercials are outdoing themselves with soothing words instead of self-promotions. Nice, isn’t it, not to have someone blasting deep dish car and truck discounts at you?

I look forward to the day when I can go back to doing what I do best: namely, find fault in irrelevancies such as the broken English the newest National Football League millionaires gargled and tweeted when they were drafted.

And Christmas music in November.

And sitting on an airplane next to someone who talks too much. Won’t it feel good to sit on an airplane again?

ESPN and others have been showing replays of football, basketball and baseball games. Stadiums are filled with people. It looks very normal. And it looks very strange.

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident.

He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

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ots of conversations going on these days are about unlocking or unleashing our potential.

There are so many podcasts, webinars, columns, and blogs speaking to the need for us to focus on our mindset so that we can keep our heads and attitude in a good place right now. As a matter of fact, I am one WINNING of those voices and WORDS faces on those podcasts and webinars and authoring many of those columns and blogs, just like this one.

Kindness is a mindset or attitude, but it is also an emotion and an action.

How awesome would Michael Norton it be if we could unleash our human potential and also unleash our kindness at the same time? Powerful. During this time, we are seeing so many examples of kindness being lived out. After last week’s column where I shared the story of

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When we live with the attitude or mindset of kindness it means we are actively thinking about ways that we can show kindness, and our kindness radar is always on. When we live with kindness in our hearts, we get to experience firsthand the emotions that are stirred as acts of kindness play out in front of us. I don’t know about you, but it brings absolute joy to my heart when I see kindness in action. And when we live with the attitude of kindness and with the emotion of kindness it’s impossible not to demonstrate kindness in everything we do and in everything we say.

My brother-in-law Dylan is a perfect example of this. He and my sister-inlaw Caroline have this awesome dog, Ziggy. As Dylan was walking Ziggy the other day, there was a woman in their neighborhood walking her dog.

She was using one of those retractable leashes and as her dog maxed out the length of the leash, the leash snapped and recoiled all the way back into the handle. As the woman tried to gain control of her dog, she realized that the leash had broken. As she was still quite far from her home, she became a little distressed. Dylan quickly came up with a solution. Since he was close to his own home, he offered the woman his leash so that she could get her dog home. He unleashed his kindness. Hence the origin of this week’s column. Thanks Dylan.

Kindness costs us nothing, but it returns to us everything.

That old saying, “No good deed goes unpunished,” is absolutely a falsehood. Some may say that they attempted to do something nice for others or show kindness in some way only to be on the receiving end of anger or hurtful words. I do know how that feels, it feels like a gut punch, it is awful. However, when I look back at what I might have done with the attitude, emotion, and act of kindness to help someone else, I let that sink in

and remember that I can’t control how others react, I can only control how I choose to respond. Unleashing kindness is never a bad thing. As a matter of fact, it is one of the greatest things we can do for each other.

“Do things for other people, not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.” - Harold S. Kushner So how about you? Are you seeing amazing acts of kindness in your home, neighborhood, and on your virtual meetings? Are you living with the attitude and emotion of kindness that puts your kindness muscles to work? I’ll bet you are, and I would love to hear your kindness story at mnorton@tramazing.com. And when we all learn how to unlock our human potential and at the same time unleash our kindness, it really will be a better than good week.

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Colorado community colleges rise during challenging time

ave any of us ever seen anything like this before?

Shuttered and locked businesses. Stay-at-home orders.

School-aged children underfoot as we struggle to adapt to remote work and “self-isolating.” Millions suddenly out of work and a stalled economy.

The impacts of the COVID-19 epidemic are overwhelming, inescapable and unprecedented, at least in our lifeGUEST times. It is enough — more than enough COLUMN — to make us feel lost and, worse, hopeless.

How we choose to respond to the current crisis will define our future, and the good news is that Colorado has always been resilient.

We have suffered Joe Garcia through floods, fires and blizzards, and we have learned that we are adaptable, that we will - pitch in to help our neighbor, and that we can still find groceries and toilet paper if we look hard enough.

For most of us, there is a sense of optimism that we will soon emerge, if not unscathed from the crisis, at least with most of our institutions and systems intact.

While COVID-19 may have brought much of our country to a standstill, we know we need to keep moving, and it is our educational institutions that can fuel our recovery. In fact, almost all of those institutions are still functioning and still fulfilling their missions.

While our students are no longer on our campuses and in our residence

halls, what we are doing now at the Colorado Community College System hasn’t stopped and hasn’t changed.

Through our 13 colleges and 40 locations, we still offer more than 5,000 courses and 2,000 degree and certificate programs, serving more than 125,000 college students. The south metro Denver region is served by Arapahoe Community College.

In the midst of this pandemic, we are still open for business and almost all of our students are continuing their education this semester, although most of them are doing so through online or remote instruction.

None of this is new to us. We have been delivering academic as well as career and technical education courses online for decades and we are good at it. Our students earn meaningful degrees and credentials that enable them to directly enter the workforce or transfer their credits to four-year colleges and universities in Colorado and beyond.

Our low-tuition, flexible schedules, online courses, and student supportive services make it possible even for those who are working and raising families, or who face other obstacles to traditional college life.

Many of our students come from vulnerable populations that are taking the hardest hits right now. Parents, employees, mid-career changers, the recently unemployed, and those for whom high school is a distant memory, can find a place and a program for them. They need an education now, more than ever, because we know that even as our economy recovers, it will look very different than it did before.

During the last decade in which we

clawed our way out of the Great Recession, individuals with college certificates or degrees filled virtually all of the millions of new jobs created. Left behind were those whose ambitions ended with the completion of a high school diploma.

College matters, and college includes everything from the traditional liberal arts leading to a four-year degree to programs of study that may take only one or two years to complete.

Our academic programs lead to guaranteed transfer to dozens of outstanding universities where you can complete your bachelor’s degree, and more. Our shorter certificate and associate degree programs lead to satisfying careers in fields as diverse as medicine, law enforcement, firefighting, construction, transportation, the trades, and too many others to list here.

Employers know the value of the

well-educated employee, and they know our colleges and our programs make their employees even more productive and valuable.

Now is the time to look to your local community college and to discover the vast range of courses, programs, certificates and degrees that you can complete while studying from home, and at very low cost.

Now is the time to pursue that new degree or course that will improve your life, your income, and your future. Turn the crisis of the moment into the opportunity of your lifetime.

Colorado’s community colleges stand ready to help and we are committed to your success.

You need an education, and Colorado needs you, now more than ever.

Joe Garcia is chancellor of the Colorado Community College System, the state’s largest system of higher education and workforce development.

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The Colorado Emerald Society Pipe and Drum Band, which includes 75 first responders throughout Colorado, began playing bagpipes at sunset every night as part of an international movement.

Locally, it’s called Pipers for Sundown Solidarity.

Dave Carrigan, of South Metro Fire Rescue, plays his Great Highland bagpipe every evening as the sun sets in solidarity with pipers around the globe in a movement to spread hope.

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lone in a field at the edge of the Cottonwood subdivision in Parker, firefighter Dave Carrigan stood tall and stiff as he played his bagpipes.

The sun started to set April 22 at about 7:46 p.m. As sunlight disappeared, Carrigan’s few regular fans gathered to hear him play. A handful of neighbors ventured to the slight overlook at the foot of Carrigan’s driveway. Some driving by on Parker Road across the field to the east pulled off, listening to the notes slice through the droning of passing cars.

Carrigan, a firefighter for South Metro Fire Rescue for 29 years, has marched out to the field bordering his house every evening since March 29, three days after the stay-at-home order began, to play traditional marches and songs until the sun sets.

“It’s to show solidarity not only for everybody who’s fighting the disease, but all our brothers and sisters, firefighters, police officers, paramedics. … They’re kind of taking a beating out there,” Carrigan said. “It’s to show we’re all in this together and we have each other’s back.”

Carrigan is one of many first responders regionwide playing bagpipes at dusk to inspire hope amid the stayat-home orders and COVID-19 crisis.

First responders throughout Colorado are participating in Pipers

Dave Carrigan has played his bagpipes at dusk every night since the start of the stayat-home orders in Colorado. “It’s to show we’re all in this together and we have each other’s back,” he said. for Sundown Solidarity, a movement organized by the Colorado Emerald Society Pipes and Drums Band, a bagpipe band made up of 75 firefighters and police officers throughout the state.

Thousands of pipers play songs from their respective homes at the same time each night as the sun sets in an ongoing effort to encourage strength and resolve in the community.

‘Next phases of normalcy’ Mike West, fire chief for Front

Range Fire Rescue, is the Pipe Major for the Colorado Emerald Society. He helped start the pipe band at South Metro Fire in 2002. He resigned from South Metro in June 2019. Front Range Fire covers Johnstown, Milliken, Larimer and Weld counties.

“Our guys and gals are working every day at their police stations and precincts and firehouses dealing with the pandemic face-to-face,” West said.

“It was a great way to wind down from the day spread a little hope to the neighbors and make sure they still know we’re still out there fighting the

good fight every day.”

Carrigan does not always deck himself out in his kilt and uniform. He said he plays because it brings a smile to his neighbor’s faces and connects people when they’re more isolated than ever.

Pipers in the group play every day and play whatever they want, except on Sundays, when the group collectively decides on a single song to play at the same time together.

The Colorado Emerald Society announced on its Facebook page April 24 that members would stop playing bagpipes nightly beginning May 3.

Pipers still play on Sundays “until the state moves to the next phases of normalcy,” the post reads.

“We can’t express our gratitude enough for your cheers, posts, shares and love. When we get through these social distancing steps and back to holding events, we’re looking forward to seeing you all at a big celebration,” the post reads.

West said the Colorado Emerald Society plans on holding a celebration to make up for losing the St. Patrick’s Day parade.

‘A droning feeling’ The movement, which started shortly after the stay-at-home order began, is steeped in tradition.

Soldiers began marching to the sound of bagpipes in Scotland in the 1400s. The instrument is used often as a morale booster for the military.

South Metro Fire Rescue and Castle Rock Fire and Rescue Department each have Pipe and Drum bands.

Carrigan has been playing pipes for about 11 years, around the time South Metro Rescue’s pipe and drum band started.

West, who has been playing bagpipes on and off for 30 years, noted the way the vibrations from the drones blaring from the player’s shoulder hits you.

“It runs through you,” West said.

“A lot of people, prior to this, the only time they hear bagpipes is at a funeral, so they associate that droning note with an emotional event. … To me, it’s that kind of droning feeling. It kind of gets down to your soul sometimes.”

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The band plays on: Music school adapts to online lessons Do Re Mi Lessons says video tutorials are anything but virtual

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Don’t stop the music. While some businesses struggle through the COVID-19 pandemic, Dean Hirschfield’s music school is learning to adapt.

Hirschfield and his wife Desiree opened Do Re Mi Lessons in Littleton three years ago, offering a wide range of one-on-one music lessons on numerous instruments.

When Gov. Jared Polis’ stay-athome order shut down their studio, the Hirschfields went online.

“We don’t like to say they’re ‘virtual’ meetings,” Hirschfield said.

“That makes it sound like they’re fake. These are real lessons, just online.”

There are advantages to the new paradigm: Hirschfield, a percussion teacher, was able for the first time to see some of his students’ home drum kits, and offered pointers on how to optimize the sound of their setups.

The school’s 15 teachers are all on board. One of the tricky parts is

Desiree Hirschfield, co-owner of Do Re Mi Lessons, teaches a violin lesson via video conference.

COURTESY PHOTO learning to use audio tools to hear notes clearly over videoconferencing software.

A few students have dropped out, but others have signed up.

“Music families are super sup-

portive,” Hirschfield said. “It’s a good escape from the craziness, and it gives people a sense of normalcy.

Through all of this, you’ve still got your 30 minutes on Monday to practice the French horn. It’s calming

Keep your fingers crossed and your eyes open

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e will assume, optimistically, that summer drama classes and performances for kids will happen, because registration has been ongoing. Some organizations are not on a regular track due to the current otherworldly, ongoing upset, so one will have to keep searching the internet … Also, classes in visual arts, crafts and more are scheduled as of this writing …

Plans underway SONYA’S We communicated with Town SAMPLER Hall Arts Center education director Robert Michael Sanders at the Littleton venue, and he says classes for “Kokonut Island,” “Shrek” and “Performing the Song” are “moving forward” and may still have some available space. Each involves classes and a performance.

Townhallartscenter.com. s Sonya Ellingboe Town Hall possibility Also re: Town Hall Arts Center — we are told that they still hope to present “Almost Heaven,” the John Denver musical program, if only … Stay tuned if you have tickets — or if not… “We are following state mandates and applying a powerful disinfectant, Perisept 62 …”

Happenings in Parker Parker Performing Arts, PACE Center, has

a full schedule of classes and performances, geared to different age groups. See Parkerarts. org. Look also for visual arts offerings here …

Check into Englewood Englewood Parks and Recreation offered a strong summer drama program and production in past years. I am not finding a listing yet, but assume this will again be offered when the world starts up again …

Wonderbound Dance Company Wonderbound Dance Company has been offering “Dance Along,” a series of dance classes, at wonderbound.com.

Writing class Local Theater Company offers a class for adults: “Writing for Stage and Screen” offered on Zoom, May 7, 14, 21, 28 — Thursdays at 6-7 p.m. $125. (Two scholarships available.) See localtheaterco.org.

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and centering.”

Some of the school’s teachers are on hard times. All are professional musicians, and all have lost gigs as venues have shut down. The steady revenue of teaching at Do Re Mi is helping soften the blow, Hirschfield said.

Online lessons can be draining, especially when dealing with laggy internet connections, technical difficulties, or students whose home practice spaces aren’t as conducive to concentration as the studio. But the enthusiasm of students helps make up for it.

Hirschfield said it’s too soon to say when the studio will be open for in-person lessons again, but it could be a while until everyone is comfortable being in enclosed spaces.

“Even if they lift the restrictions, we suspect people will filter back in,” Hirschfield said.

So far, Hirschfield said he doesn’t think he’ll need to apply for federal small business relief. He’s worried about school band program fundraisers, so the school will donate $20 from every new student’s fees to their school’s music program.

“It’s inspiring how much our community of students and families value their lessons,” Hirschfield said. “We mean so much to each other, and we’re going to stick it out and be here for each other.”

Colorado Renaissance Festival delayed

BY MARK HARDEN MHARDEN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Colorado Renaissance Festival — a popular summer attraction that draws throngs to south Douglas County — has been postponed for several weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic and will now start Aug. 1, organizers said.

The festival in Larkspur, midway between Denver and Colorado Springs west of Interstate 25, had been scheduled to open its 43rd anniversary season on June 13.

“Due to the current health concerns and taking into consideration the safety of our patrons and Renaissance community the Colorado Renaissance Festival will be postponing its 2020 opening day,” says a notice on the festival’s website.

“The new dates will be Saturday August 1st, 2020 for 8 weekends with a closing day of Sunday, September 20th, 2020. Dates will be posted publicly on both our website and announced through our social media outlets,” the notice says. “Please stay safe during these unsettling times and we look forward to seeing everyone soon!”

The festival, set in a faux-16th century Tudor village, celebrates Renaissance culture with a bawdy mix of shows and music, jousting matches, animals, costumed characters, games, food and drinks. It’s one of dozens of similarly themed events staged across the country each summer.

The festival typically draws about 200,000 attendees during its run, The Gazette of Colorado Springs reports.

The announcement comes as “stay at home” orders are being gradually relaxed across Douglas County and most other parts of Colorado, but people are still being urged to practice social distancing and to avoid crowds larger than 10 people to help contain the spread of COVID-19.

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Area leaders urge census participation Effort to get accurate count adapts to pandemic effects

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As Jefferson County Commissioner Casey Tighe watched people stay at home and socially distance amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he couldn’t help but see their efforts as an act of patriotism.

There’s another way people can help their country during the crisis, he said, and that’s by completing the 2020 census, which launched as communities across the nation ramped up public health measures in connection with the pandemic response.

“Ask your family, your friends: ‘Have you filled out the census?’” Tighe said.

While the census may not be top of mind for people amid the pandemic, as they worry about economic hardships and their health, local nonprofit and elected leaders are urging residents to use the extra time at home to partake in the “the gold standard” of data collection.

Gillian Winbourn is program director for Together We Count, a statewide nonprofit aiming to ensure historically undercounted people are represented in the 2020 census. Participation, particularly now, is paramount, she said.

“This is a way to help Colorado rebuild and make sure that it can get

Site coordinator Kate Skarbek briefs volunteers at the Everyone Counts magnet event Jan. 28 at Westminster’s Irving Street Swim and Fitness Centers. The event provided a hot meal, showers, haircuts, medical gear and supplies for the homeless and encouraged them to take part in a national homeless census and local survey.

SCOTT TAYLOR its fair share of support continuing for the next 10 years,” Winbourn said.

“I think in a time like now, we can see how much we rely on services and the government services.”

Together We Count started in 2017 and will operate only for the duration of the 2020 census effort. The organization already expected challenges to the 2020 census because of distrust in government and the possibility that

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Before COVID-19 hit, the U.S. Census Bureau was already gearing up for people to respond online, by phone and by mail — for the first time in census history.

Together We Count focuses on reaching populations like renters, immigrants, refugees and people with low literacy — all demographics the census bureau defines as hard to count, Winbourn said. The nonprofit also adds older adults to that list and stresses that young children count.

“We knew that it was going to be a more challenging time,” she said.

“Particularly with COVID, it’s really affected the timeline.”

Gillian noted the census opened on March 12, shortly before social distancing measures took off.

Local governments and nonprofits had to scrap many of their traditional outreach methods to promote the census because of COVID-19, like providing education at community events and meetings. Many said they are now relying more heavily on social media to get the word out.

The U.S. Census Bureau adjusted its 2020 census operational timeline in response to the pandemic. Field activities are not likely to resume until June 1. The current deadline to respond is Aug. 14, said spokeswoman Laurie Cipriano.

As of May 3, 59.9% of Colorado households had responded to the census online, by mail or by phone, and the rate for Arapahoe County was 66.7%. The national self-response rate was 56.6%.

Within Colorado, two counties — Douglas and Jefferson — had the best response rates as of May 3, at 72.2% and 71.8% respectively. Commissioners for each county said they are competitive and shooting for that No. 1 slot.

“If you’re at home and you have access to computer and internet, you probably have some time to do it. It’s a way to break up your day,” Tighe said.

But there’s much more at stake than

bragging rights, the commissioners stressed, as the census will determine how much federal funding is funneled down to local communities.

“There is so much that is based on getting an accurate count. We need to have a complete count and that means 100%,” said Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas.

Thomas, Tighe and Winbourn listed a slew of services impacted by the census.

Funding health-care clinics, Medicare and Medicaid, highways and transportation, disaster relief, educational programs, fire departments and human services are just some of the community services that rely on census data.

The data also informs the business community, such as helping grocery stores decide where to open locations, Winbourn said.

There’s also the issue of representation in Washington.

Since 1790, the census has determined the number of seats a state receives in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“There’s a lot of speculation that the state of Colorado is going to get an additional congressional district,” Thomas said.

Tighe said an accurate census count translates to an appropriate level of representation in Congress for the state and creates “a fair playing field around the country” if the nationwide count is accurate.

Under the adjusted census timeline, bureau experts will assess and deliver each state’s population total, which determines its number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, to the president by April 30, 2021.

The president delivers apportionment counts to congress within 14 days. Redistricting counts are then to be delivered to states by July 31, 2021.

Completing the census takes minutes, Thomas said, estimating she finished in less than five minutes.

“It’s really straightforward,” she said. “There’s no trick questions. It’s easy to answer.”

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Paying back first responders with popcorn Cornzapoppin of Highlands Ranch treats frontline teams

BY MARK HARDEN MHARDEN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A Highlands Ranch purveyor of gourmet popcorn is sharing kernels of kindness with those on the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus.

Cornzapoppin, at 9555 S. University Boulevard, has been delivering hundreds of bags of its popcorn -- it boasts more than 40 flavors available at any one time -- to local hospitals, fire stations and the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Highlands Ranch substations.

Since the drive began in mid-April, Cornzapoppin has delivered “well over $3,000 worth of product,” proprietor Rich Van Hersett estimates.

Popcorn has been delivered to a different location each weekday: South Metro Fire Stations 17 and 18 in Highlands Ranch on Mondays and Thursdays respectively, UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital on Tuesdays, Littleton Adventist Hospital on Wednesdays and the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office’s Highlands Ranch substation on Fridays.

The program dovetails with a business shift forced by the COVID-19 crisis for the family-owned business, founded in 2003.

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Cornzapoppin of Highlands Ranch donated 29 bags of popcorn to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office’s Highlands Ranch substation on May 1, and Servpro of Englewood/East Littleton donated another 40 bags.

COURTESY OF CORNZAPOPPIN The usual five to 10 deliveries a week has risen to 40 or more, as homebound customers stock up on movienight munchies, Van Hersett said.

“When you’re dealt lemons, you try to make lemonade,” he said.

Van Hersett’s customers often said they wanted to help first responders, he noted.

“This is really something that came from our customers,” he said. “We

Normally, “the backbone of our company is business-to-business sales” nationwide, Van Hersett said.

“The people we supply most are hotels, schools, churches, corporate folks, catering companies. But this kind of business has more or less dried up. So we have pivoted a bit to business-to-customer.”

That means more sales and deliveries to local, non-business customers.

were reciving calls or emails or Facebook posts from out customers, saying, ‘We love your popcorn; what can we do further to help?’ At that point we said, ‘Why don’t we do something for everyone?’”

So he decided to incorporate a donation program into the company’s ordering system. He told customers that if they used the promo code “RESPOND” when ordering, Cornzapoppin would donate a bag to first responders for each bag ordered.

Local affiliates of Servpro, a cleanup and restoration service, offered to help sponsor the program, and other businesses have inquired about helping out, Van Hersett said.

Cornzapoppin has long donated popcorn for various causes, Van Hersett said, including for after-prom parties (in the pre-COVID era) and as prizes in charity silent auctions.

While at press time the firstresponder program was set to expire May 8, it’s likely to continue, Van Hersett said.

Like most businesses, Cornzapoppin has taken a hit from the pandemic, but Van Hersett said he’s been heartened by his continued customer support.

“It’s been absolutely amazing to hear the outpouring of people who say, ‘We want you to thrive, we want you to do well, we want to spend our money with you,” he said. “It’s been nothing short of remarkable.”

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Senior soccer season slips away Kelsey Weiser deals with disappointment

Larry Lienemann, who died at 82, influenced young athletes at Heritage, Arapahoe

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

K

elsey Weiser’s senior soccer season at Heritage High School in Littleton was a big disappointment.

The season was canceled by the Colorado High School Activities Association because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Frustrating could describe it, but I think more disappointment,” said Weiser, who will going in the fall to the Leeds Business School at the University of Colorado. “I mean, I can’t be angry because this is a world pandemic. It’s just not affecting me but literally everyone.

“So disappointment would be a better word that describes it because it’s been something I’ve been looking forward to since freshman year — all the sports canceled but also prom, graduation, hanging out with my friends and that kind of thing.

Finally getting that closure and then not going to get your spring season was pretty sad, but I had a feeling that it was going to happen.”

Weiser, a center back on Heritage’s back line defense, led the team with six goals in nine games last season.

“The cross country coach should have given me a call because of how much running I’ve been doing,” she continued.

“That’s how I’ve been staying active. I’ve been trying to get in little runs, three miles or so every day. At this point I’m just hoping I will be able to go to school in the fall.”

“I actually scored a bunch last year, which was super rewarding. I just wanted to do that again and end my high school career with a bang. My free kick game was on point last season. I scored five goals off free kicks.

COACH’S TAKE: ‘She has always been a leader on the team and a fierce competitor. She has always pushed herself to become a better player, which in turn pushes others to be better. She has a great sense of humor and positive attitude.

Kelsey has truly grown into a role model for younger athletes on and off the field.’

Kia Gudewicz, Heritage girls soccer coach

Longtime coach put ‘kids first’

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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Q&A with Weiser What is the hardest thing about missing your senior season?

The hardest part is missing the love of the game and not being able to do it because I’ve been a high level soccer player for my entire life. Missing out on that has been disappointing and difficult.

There’s nothing I can do about it. Just sitting at home wishing what could have been but not getting too dramatic over it.

What would have been your goals if you had played this season?

My goal would have been to bring my team to the playoffs. Last year in the playoffs we got knocked out in the first round. It was a super unfortunate game and I came out of it pretty frustrated, so my goal for this season would have been to try to make it to the playoffs and make it through a little farther than last year.

How does missing the season affect your college plans, if at all?

I already knew where I was going to go to college before the season started. I wasn’t planning on playing D-I soccer or anything like that. I might play club soccer when I get up there.

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The Littleton Public Schools district has lost an icon.

Larry Lienemann, a coaching icon at Heritage and Arapahoe high schools, passed away April 26 from complications from a March 2 surgery to remove a lump from his right lung. He was 82 years old and was married to his wife Lee Lienemann for 58 years.

Lienemann His son, Stuart, is the head track coach at Arapahoe where Larry has been an assistant for the past 17 seasons.

No memorial service is planned. Anyone wanting to honor Larry Lienemann with a donation in his name is encouraged by his family to consider the Bratten Disease Support and Research Association or BDSRA at the following link: https:bdsra. org/donate.

Larry Lienemann was known for his catchphrases like “hey stud” and “you’re awesome” and “tell your parents I said hi.” And it is hard to forget his most used comment: “Keep smiling.”

The former basketball player and graduate at Dakota Wesleyan University moved to Colorado in 1972 to open Heritage High School. He was the head cross country and track coach for the Eagles. He was also an assistant basketball and golf coach during his 29 years as a coach and teacher at Heritage. He was the key reason in turning the Liberty Bell cross country meet into one of the largest meets in the state each fall.

Lienemann, a 2004 inductee into the Colorado High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame, moved on to be an assistant track coach at Arapahoe under head coach and son Stuart.

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“My best memories come from our time coaching at Arapahoe when he was my assistant coach,” said Stuart Lienemann. “We were lucky enough to get to coach my two kids, son Austin (2015) and daughter Logan (2019).

We had eight straight years of three generations of Lienemanns walking the track together.”

Arapahoe Athletic Director Pat McCabe learned how popular Larry Lienemann was.

“Every time you would talk to somebody they would say: ‘How’s my good friend Larry Lienemann?’” recalled McCabe. “I am dumbfounded.

There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of folks who consider him a good friend.”

Littleton District Director of Secondary Education Clay Abla knew Larry Lienemann as a friend.

“I definitely knew Larry much more as a friend,” said Abla. “He’s one of those coaches that you really can’t quantify the impact on a countless number of kids he has impacted over his career. And anyplace I’ve been in my nine years, people knew who Larry was. I’ve never heard of anyone speak an unkind word except for respect for Larry. He always called me ‘boss’ but I think he called a lot of people ‘boss.’ … He was a standout coach around the state.”

Heritage Athletic Director Brock Becker always looked forward to running into Larry Lienemann.

“Larry was always welcoming and encouraging me when I came to LPS/Heritage,” said Becker. “He would always greet me with warmth and happiness when I would run into

him at track meets or out in the community. He was such a positive person to have around student athletes and coaches at both Heritage and Arapahoe. He will be missed dearly.”

Also sharing fond memories of Lienemann was Colorado High School Activities Association Commissioner Rhonda Blanford-Green, who was a CHSAA assistant and associate commissioner from 1996 to 2012.

Blanford-Green recalls one of her first meetings with Lienemann: “When I came to CHSAA my first year and I was in charge of the state track meet, you have this checklist of all the things you are supposed to have,” she said. “Larry said he would help me with the shot put and discus.

I forgot to bring the marking pen to mark a shot put or discus meet weigh. And he goes: ‘Do you have any fingernail polish in your car?’ I said ‘yes’ and he said ‘go get it.’ He used fingernail polish and we didn’t miss a beat. Hes was a mentor for me and a cheerleader for me in my professional growth with CHSAA.” Blanford-Green’s husband, John Green, is the former track coach and district athletic director for Cherry Creek Schools and he also knew Lienemann well.

“I spent a lot of time with Larry in a variety of meets,” Green said.

“With him it was always kids first and then coaches second. That’s the way it is supposed to be. Larry was always very fair and well respected for all the coaches so there was never any animosity.

“When Larry put on an event it was always for everybody, not onesided or he didn’t take advantage of anybody. In his early days at Heritage High School you could always identify him by a stocking cap and a lollipop in his mouth.”

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THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/17/2020, 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.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOTS 28 AND 29, BLOCK 3, HIGGNS SOUTH BROADWAY HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 21, 2016 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D6065072 Book: n/a Page: Original Principal Amount $321,077.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $302,368.97

below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

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Original Grantor(s) Sun Lee Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for United Wholesale Mortgage, Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt NewRez LLC, f/k/a New Penn Financial, LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Date of Deed of Trust September 17, 2018 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 20, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D8093648 Original Principal Amount $319,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $316,156.95

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PUBLIC NOTICES First Publication: 4/23/2020 Last Publication: 5/21/2020 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;

Also known by street and number as: 3587 SOUTH OGDEN STREET, 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, 07/01/2020, 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 Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 DATE: 02/19/2020 Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee

Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0087-2020

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 19, 2020, 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) Judy S Warren Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC Date of Deed of Trust July 18, 2018 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust July 23, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D8072196 Re-Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 13, 2018 Re-Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D8091334 Original Principal Amount $585,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $129,545.70

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 68, HANOVER PLACE SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 6344 S Harrison Court, Centennial, CO 80121.

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, 06/17/2020, 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: 4/23/2020 Last Publication: 5/21/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 02/19/2020 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: Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Alison L Berry #34531 David R. Doughty #40042

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

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Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Alison L Berry #34531 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Elizabeth S. Marcus #16092 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 7069990 Attorney File # 20-024023 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.: 0087-2020 First Publication: 4/23/2020 Last Publication: 5/21/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0124-2020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 3, 2020, 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) BRITTON INGRAHAM AND CAROLINE GAMBLE Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FIRST RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE NETWORK, INC D/B/A SUREPOINT LENDING Current Holder of Evidence of Debt WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, DOING BUSINESS AS CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR BCAT 2015-14BTT Date of Deed of Trust December 07, 2006 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 13, 2006 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B6174589 Original Principal Amount $179,400.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $140,825.97 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 28 AND 29, BLOCK 3, HIGGNS SOUTH BROADWAY HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 3587 SOUTH OGDEN STREET, 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, 07/01/2020, 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.

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 5 AND 6, BLOCK 7, WOLLENWEBER`S BROADWAY HEIGHTS SECOND ADDITION, THE WEST HALF OF BLOCK 7 AND THE EAST HALF OF BLOCK 8, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are legals@coloradocommunitymedia.com hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of Also known by street and number as:

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First Publication: 5/7/2020 Last Publication: 6/4/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 03/03/2020 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: Anna Johnston #51978 Monica Kadrmas #34904 Randall Chin #31149 Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Weldon Phillips #31827 Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Nichole Williams #49611 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000008845380 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.: 0124-2020 First Publication: 5/7/2020 Last Publication: 6/4/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0125-2020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 3, 2020, 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) Brianna Hartman and Zachary Hartman Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC Date of Deed of Trust June 20, 2016 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 21, 2016 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D6065072 Book: n/a Page: Original Principal Amount $321,077.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $302,368.97 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 5 AND 6, BLOCK 7, WOLLENWEBER`S BROADWAY HEIGHTS SECOND ADDITION, THE WEST HALF OF BLOCK 7 AND THE EAST HALF OF BLOCK 8, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 4320 S Galapago Street, 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

4320 S Galapago Street, Englewood, CO 80110.

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, 07/01/2020, 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: 5/7/2020 Last Publication: 6/4/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 03/03/2020 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 W Drake #43315 Scott D. Toebben #19011 Randall S. Miller & Associates PC 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710 Attorney File # 20CO00040-1 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO.: 0125-2020 First Publication: 5/7/2020 Last Publication: 6/4/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0066-2020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 7, 2020, 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) Sun Lee Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for United Wholesale Mortgage, Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt NewRez LLC, f/k/a New Penn Financial, LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Date of Deed of Trust September 17, 2018 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 20, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D8093648 Original Principal Amount $319,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $316,156.95 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 7, BLOCK 30, SOUTHGLENN-FIFTH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE,

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 7, BLOCK 30, SOUTHGLENN-FIFTH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7121 S Washington St, Centennial, CO 80122.

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, 06/10/2020, 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: 4/16/2020 Last Publication: 5/14/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 02/07/2020 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: Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755 Erin Croke #46557 Steven Bellanti #48306 Holly Shilliday #24423 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-19-875994-LL

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO.: 0066-2020 First Publication: 4/16/2020 Last Publication: 5/14/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0072-2020

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 11, 2020, 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) MAS CORP Original Beneficiary(ies) CIVIC FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL, INC Date of Deed of Trust January 31, 2019 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 05, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D9010149 Original Principal Amount $400,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $400,000.00

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Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 05, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D9010149 Original Principal Amount $400,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $400,000.00

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.

LOT 20 AND N 1/2 OF LOT 21, BLOCK 3, RESUBDIVISION OF LOTS 6 AND 7, KILLIE'S SUBDIVISION, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN: 1971-34-1-26-011 Also known by street and number as: 2880 South Lincoln Street, 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, 06/10/2020, 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: 4/16/2020 Last Publication: 5/14/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 02/11/2020 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:

April 29, 2011 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D1040589 Original Principal Amount $188,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $104,088.19

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. LOT 4, BLOCK 27, WALNUT HILLS - FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 6947 S Spruce Drive W, Centennial, CO 80112.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: C.R.S.§ 38-35-109(5) LEGAL DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN CORRECTED BY SCRIVENER'S AFFIDAVIT RECORDED 1/24/2020 AT RECEPTION NO. E0010462 IN THE RECORDS OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/17/2020, 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: 4/23/2020 Last Publication: 5/21/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 02/14/2020 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:

Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Alison L Berry #34531 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Elizabeth S. Marcus #16092 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 20-023915

Amanda Ferguson #44893 Heather Deere #28597 Toni M. Owan #30580 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO10011

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.

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.

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Legal Notice No.: 0082-2020 First Publication: 4/23/2020 Last Publication: 5/21/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0082-2020

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 14, 2020, 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) Steven Needler Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Provident Funding Associates, L.P. its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Provident Funding Associates, L.P. Date of Deed of Trust April 23, 2011 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust April 29, 2011 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D1040589 Original Principal Amount $188,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $104,088.19 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

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0112-2020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 26, 2020, 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) Scott A. Dressen Original Beneficiary(ies) Level 1 Mortgage Llc Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC Date of Deed of Trust July 11, 2007 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust July 13, 2007 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B7089911 Original Principal Amount $154,050.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $148,185.55 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.

Original Principal Amount $154,050.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $148,185.55 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.

Public Trustees

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. Lot 31 and 32, Block 19, Speer's Broadway Addition, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado Also known by street and number as: 2965 S Bannock 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, 06/24/2020, 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: 4/30/2020 Last Publication: 5/28/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 02/26/2020 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: Britney D. Beall-Eder #34935 Jonathan A. Goodman, Esq. #15015 Karen J. Radakovich, Esq. #11649 Frascona Joiner Goodman and Greenstein PC 4750 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 803055500 (303) 494-3000 Attorney File # 7192-14060 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.: 0112-2020 First Publication: 4/30/2020 Last Publication: 5/28/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0127-2020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 4, 2020, 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) Joy Shepard Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN ADVISORS GROUP, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt AMERICAN ADVISORS GROUP Date of Deed of Trust January 26, 2017 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 07, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D7015011 Original Principal Amount $678,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $248,104.00 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 27, BLOCK 1, THE HIGHLANDS 460 FIFTH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN: 2077-36-4-20-003 Also known by street and number as: 3140 E Phillips Drive, Centennial, CO 80122.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 27, BLOCK 1, THE HIGHLANDS 460 FIFTH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Public Trustees

APN: 2077-36-4-20-003 Also known by street and number as: 3140 E Phillips Drive, Centennial, CO 80122.

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, 07/01/2020, 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: 5/7/2020 Last Publication: 6/4/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 03/04/2020 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: Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Alison L Berry #34531 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Elizabeth S. Marcus #16092 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 20-024220 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.: 0127-2020 First Publication 5/7/2020 Last Publication 6/4/2020 Name of Publication Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0128-2020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 4, 2020, 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) Marlo Burton and William J. Burton Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as Beneficiary, as nominee for AmCap Mortgage, Ltd. DBA Gold Financial Services, its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Corp.

Date of Deed of Trust December 22, 2017 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 29, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D7146309 Original Principal Amount $345,950.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $341,385.66 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 5, BLOCK 5, EUCLID HEIGHTS FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 6646 S. Apache Drive, Littleton, CO 80120.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt se-

COLORADO

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Also known by street and number as: 6646 S. Apache Drive, Littleton, CO 80120.

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, 07/01/2020, 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: 5/7/2020 Last Publication: 6/4/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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

DATE: 03/04/2020 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: Amanda Ferguson #44893 Heather Deere #28597 Toni M. Owan #30580 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # 81412

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.: 0128-2020 First Publication 5/7/2020 Last Publication 6/4/2020 Name of Publication Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0129-2020

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 4, 2020, 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) THOMAS COLLINS Original Beneficiary(ies) LONG BEACH MORTGAGE COMPANY Current Holder of Evidence of Debt DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, IN TRUST FOR REGISTERED HOLDERS OF LONG BEACH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-3, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-3 Date of Deed of Trust June 20, 2005 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 22, 2005 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B5091864 Original Principal Amount $320,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $330,616.97

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 26, BLOCK 6, HERITAGE PLACE FILING NO. 4, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7179 E HERITAGE PLACE, CENTENNIAL, CO 80111.

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, 07/01/2020, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the

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COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0065-2020

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

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Sterling Ranch opens new village for home sales THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0129-2020

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

On February 7, 2020, 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.

LOT 26, BLOCK 6, HERITAGE PLACE FILING NO. 4, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7179 E HERITAGE PLACE, CENTENNIAL, CO 80111.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE OF to eventually be DEED home TRUST.

Ascent Village will eventually have more than 1,500 homes

Original Grantor(s) 5455 Landmark Place 17, LLC Original Beneficiary(ies) Patch of Land Lending, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Victoria Capital Trust Date of Deed of Trust April 28, 2017 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust May 02, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D7049268 Original Principal Amount sors Mt. Carmel Veterans Service $552,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balancethe NationCenter, Arts in Society, $574,067.26

more than 30,000 people. The first homes broke NOTICE OF SALE ground in 2016 and the community The current holder of the Evidenceto of Debt is expected be built out over a 20secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, span.

Original Grantor(s) has filed Noticeyear of Election and Demand for sale THOMAS COLLINS as provided by law and inAscent said Deed of Trust.

The Village, which makes Original Beneficiary(ies) LONG BEACH MORTGAGE COMPANY THEREFORE,up Notice Is Hereby Given I will 584 acres, isthat planned to eventuCurrent Holder of Evidence of Debt at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, hold more

BY ELLIOTTTRUST WENZLER al Endowment for the Humanities, DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL 07/01/2020, atally The East Hearing Room,than County1,500 homes.

COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, IN TRUST FOR Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are The community will also include the EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM and Steamboat Creates.

REGISTERED HOLDERS OF LONG BEACH Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED first townhomes in Sterling • Expressive Writing MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-3, highest and best bidder for cash, the saidoffered real trust have been violated aswith follows:Cindy failure to OVERBID FUNDS property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, pay principal and interest when due together CRS 38-38-111(2.5b)(3a,b,d)(5) Ranch.

Skaggs Despite pan- heirs 3-4:30provided p.m. Sundays. and assigns therein, for the SERIES 2005-3 the ongoing COVID-19Grantor(s)' withis all from other payments for in the evidPUBLIC TRUSTEE SALE NO. 0458-2019 purpose the indebtedness provided in Date of DeedSterling of Trust ence of and debt secured by with the deed of trust and the community has the same demic, Ranch has opened a of payingWhile • Lunch Learn Cindy said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of June 20, 2005 other violations thereof.

To: Record Owner of the property as of the amenities as theofprimary neighbornew ofneighborhood, which now Trust, has plus attorneys' Skaggs is from noon to 1 p.m.

STAFF REPORT fees, the expenses sale County Recording recording of the Notice of Election and Demand and other items allowed by law, andProvidence will issue to Arapahoe THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A or Village, other person the entitled. You are advised that hood, called homes available for presale.

Wednesdays.

May 13 is Life Writthe purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as FIRST LIEN. Recording Date of Deed of Trust there are overbid funds due you. This Notice is provided by law.

June 22, 2005 architecture style and models will be The process of opening the comVeterans Writing Workshops ing for publication: personal essay given with regard to the following described UNIT 509, LANDMARK TOWERS CONDOMINRecording Information Deed of Trust and Notice of Election and unique. munityNo.has been unique, as theFirst Publication: offer a safe place for veterans, and memoir; May 20 5/7/2020 IUM, ACCORDING TO is THEFiction CONDOMINIUM (Reception and/or Book/Page No.) Demand: Publication: 6/4/2020 MAP THEREOF, ON MAY 5, 2008 B5091864 The new village will include pandemic pushed all permittingLastand their adult family members and Foundations forRECORDED publication: eleName of Publication: Littleton Independent AT RECEPTION NUMBER 88051568, AND Original Principal Amount Name of Record Owner as evidenced on the multiple small parks and a regional associated paperwork, normally caregivers to write and talk about mentsALL of AMENDMENTS the writing AND/OR craft; and SUPPLE$320,000.00 Notice of Election IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A MENTS THEREOF, IN THE RECORDS OF Outstanding Principal Balance and Demand or other person entitledtheir experiences. To help connect trail. completed in an office, into a virMay 27 is The Business of Writing LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTHE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORD$330,616.97 Richard A. King TICE OF INTENT CURE BY THOSE OF THE and COUNTY OF to ARAPAHOE, Address of Record Owner as evidenced on the with each other and con“A TO cultural trail is also planned tual setting, said Harold Smethills, veterans (who,ER where, how submitCOLPARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE ORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DEPursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are recorded will be president oftheSterling tinue providing these workshops, your SCRIBED writing).

EXTENDED; where local art exhibits IN THE LANDMARK TOWERS hereby notified that covenants ofRanch’s the deed of board instrument evidencing the owner's interest CONDOMINIUM trust have been violated as follows: COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION 7619the Vista Alta Rd NW, periodically staged along trail,” of directors.

Colorado Humanities is offering To register forDECLARATION ExpressiveRECORDED WritDATE: 03/04/2020 ON MAY 5, 2008 AT RECEPTION NUMBER failure to pay principal and interest when due toCRS §38-38-103 Albuquerque, NM 87114 according to a release from the com“It’s different because it’s all three types of online writing ing or Lunch and Learn, offered Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the 88051569, IN SAID RECORDS, AND ALL gether with all other payments provided for in FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0065-2020 Recording Date of Deed of Trust the evidence of debt secured by the deed of County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado AMENDMENTS AND/OR SUPPLEMENTS January 12, 2015 munity. remote,” said.thereof.

“It’s been a chalMay via the online trust and otherhe violations By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee THE R E O F , platform A N D S U B JDiscord, ECT TO THE Whom It .May Concern: This Notice is given Recording Information D5003182 workshopsToin AMENDED AND RESTATED DECLARATION with regard the following described of Recording Date Notice of Election The Writing Eleven homes in the village areof unlenge.” for to Publication and Deedemail Cindy Skaggs at cindy@ THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A The name, address, business telephone numOF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RETrust: and Demand September 03, 2019 construction, eight of themof Many Lunch & Learn workshops provide cskaggs.com FIRST LIEN.of the required steps for ber and barder registration number of with the STRICTIONS OF THE LANDMARK VILLAGE Recording Information attorney(s) representing the legal holderbeen of the sold, CENTER MASTER COMMUNITY RECORDED On February 7, 2020, the undersigned Public• Writing NoticeSmethills of Election and Demand D9089803 having already opening the community were indebtedness participants the opportunity to for Publication or to LOT 26, BLOCK 6, HERITAGE PLACE is: ON MARCH 26, 2008 AT RECEPTION NUMTrustee caused the Notice of Election and Legal Description of Property FILING NO. 4, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, 88035117, ALL AMENDMENTS Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described said. The first residents will be able completed through Douglas County, create, share and receive feedback share,BER with JorgeAND Arroyo and Juan STATE OF COLORADO. below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe Johnston #51978 AND/OR SUPPLEMENTS THEREOF, SEE ATTACHED EXHIBIT A to#34904 move in this summer, he said. which has all of its offices openAnna on their writing.

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To register for Writing for PubliJoseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 7179 E HERITAGE PLACE, Original Grantor(s) 5580 Lansing Way S, Englewood, CO 80111.

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5455 Landmark Place 17, LLC Also known by street and number as: ArRyan Bourgeois #51088 Original Beneficiary(ies) 5455 Landmark Place # Unit 509, Street Address of Property The homes will be priced similarly Smethills said. to reduce stress. royo at bdpaperworks@gmail.com.

Nichole Williams #49611 THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL Patch of Land Lending, LLC Greenwood Village, CO 80111.

5580 Lansing Way S, Barrett, Frappier Weisserman, LLP existing Englewood, OFSterling THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCurrent of Evidence of Debt CO 80111 to& the already property, with Ranch is a masterAll are led

by Holder veterans who are To learn more about the work1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, CUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF Victoria Capital Trust THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL prices ranging from about $400,000 to OVERBID planned community in northwest professional and all are shops, coloradohumanities.

Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 OFvisit THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY TRUST. Datewriters, of Deed of Trust NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED FUNDS Attorney File #more 00000008851800 ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED Aprilto 28,partners 2017 than $1 million.

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OF TRUST. OF SALE County of Recording I sold at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on 1/8/20,

On March 4, 2020, 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.

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.

Public Trustees

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 07/01/2020, 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: 5/7/2020 Last Publication: 6/4/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 03/04/2020 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: Anna Johnston #51978 Monica Kadrmas #34904 Randall Chin #31149 Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Weldon Phillips #31827 Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Nichole Williams #49611 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000008851800 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.: 0129-2020 First Publication: 5/7/2020 Last Publication: 6/4/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Public Trustees

Legal Notice NO.: 0129-2020 First Publication: 5/7/2020 Last Publication: 6/4/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS CRS 38-38-111(2.5b)(3a,b,d)(5) PUBLIC TRUSTEE SALE NO. 0458-2019 To: Record Owner of the property as of the recording of the Notice of Election and Demand or other person entitled. You are advised that there are overbid funds due you. This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust and Notice of Election and Demand: Name of Record Owner as evidenced on the Notice of Election and Demand or other person entitled Richard A. King Address of Record Owner as evidenced on the recorded instrument evidencing the owner's interest 7619 Vista Alta Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87114 Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 12, 2015 Recording Information D5003182 Recording Date of Notice of Election and Demand September 03, 2019 Recording Information of Notice of Election and Demand D9089803 Legal Description of Property SEE ATTACHED EXHIBIT A Also known by street and number as: 5580 Lansing Way S, Englewood, CO 80111.

Street Address of Property 5580 Lansing Way S, Englewood, CO 80111 NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS I sold at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on 1/8/20, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, to the highest and best bidder for cash, the real property described above. An overbid was realized from the sale and, unless the funds are claimed by the owner or other persons entitled thereto within six months from the date of sale, the funds due to you will be transferred to the general fund of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, or to the State Treasurer as part of the "Unclaimed Property Act", pursuant to Colorado law.

at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, to the highest and best bidder for cash, the real property described above. An overbid was realized from the sale and, unless the funds are claimed by the owner or other persons entitled thereto within six months from the date of sale, the funds due to you will be transferred to the general fund of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, or to the State Treasurer as part of the "Unclaimed Property Act", pursuant to Colorado law.

Public Trustees

First Publication: 4/9/20 Last Publication: 5/7/20 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent Date: 3/9/20 Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012 Public Notice NO.: 0458-2019 First Publication: 4/9/20 Last Publication: 5/7/20 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0065-2020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 7, 2020, 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) 5455 Landmark Place 17, LLC Original Beneficiary(ies) Patch of Land Lending, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Victoria Capital Trust Date of Deed of Trust April 28, 2017 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust May 02, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D7049268 Original Principal Amount $552,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $574,067.26 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of

Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust May 02, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D7049268 Original Principal Amount $552,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $574,067.26

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. UNIT 509, LANDMARK TOWERS CONDOMINIUM, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON MAY 5, 2008 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 88051568, AND ALL AMENDMENTS AND/OR SUPPLEMENTS THEREOF, IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE LANDMARK TOWERS CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION RECORDED ON MAY 5, 2008 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 88051569, IN SAID RECORDS, AND ALL AMENDMENTS AND/OR SUPPLEMENTS THEREOF, AND SUBJECT TO THE AMENDED AND RESTATED DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OF THE LANDMARK VILLAGE CENTER MASTER COMMUNITY RECORDED ON MARCH 26, 2008 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 88035117, AND ALL AMENDMENTS AND/OR SUPPLEMENTS THEREOF, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 5455 Landmark Place # Unit 509, Greenwood Village, CO 80111.

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, 06/10/2020, 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

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.

Public Trustees

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/10/2020, 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: 4/16/2020 Last Publication: 5/14/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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

DATE: 02/07/2020 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: Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755 Erin Croke #46557 Steven Bellanti #48306 Holly Shilliday #24423 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-18-843520-LL

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice No.: 0065-2020 First Publication: 4/16/2020 Last Publication: 5/14/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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