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LPS opens search for new board member With Carrie Warren-Gully leaving for county post, officials say replacement should rise above politics

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

at Holly Creek Retirement Community in Centennial, was confident that nursing home types of settings would be among the first in line for the vaccine in Colorado, but he wasn’t so sure that other kinds of senior facilities, such as assisted living, would also be included.

“So we’re thrilled,” said Miller, whose location offers a range of living arrangements for seniors.

The great majority of Holly Creek residents are excited about the vaccine’s arrival, and those who are hesitant seem to come

As Carrie Warren-Gully leaves the Littleton Public Schools Board of Education for her new role as a county commissioner, district officials say her replacement should be someone who is ready to leave political agendas at the door and tackle the tough issues facing Warren-Gully schools.

Warren-Gully is scheduled to be sworn in as an Arapahoe County commissioner on Jan. 11. She tendered her resignation from the LPS school board in December, leaving a vacancy on the five-member board.

The board officially announced the beginning of its search for her replacement in a special meeting on Jan. 6.

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A worker helps a man during an event to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to staff and residents on Jan. 6 at Holly Creek Senior COURTESY PHOTOS Retirement Community.

Seniors, care workers receive vaccine Centennial facilities are among locations where shots are underway

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A woman at Holly Creek holds up a sign that says she’s getting the vaccine for “all God’s people — everyone on earth!”

Residents and staff members lined up to receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at three metro Denver senior-living facilities operated by Christian Living Communities, including two in Centennial, in early January.

Chris Miller, executive director

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Confusion defines process as seniors wait for vaccines Metro residents 70-plus will have more access in coming weeks; teachers must wait

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As Colorado continued the early stages of its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Gov. Jared Polis announced that people 70 and older would soon be eligible for vaccination in certain areas.

The No. 1 question during a Tri-County Health Department town hall roughly a week later: How will those 70-plus-year-olds actually get it?

“We understand that it’s frustrating that ‘eligible’ has not Douglas yet equaled ‘access,’” Kaitlin Wolff, Tri-County Health’s COVID-19 vaccine coordinator, told callers during an online and telephone town hall event Jan. 7, where local officials took questions from callers.

As of that night, it appeared that residents age 70 and older in Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties — and possibly nearby areas — didn’t all have an immediate avenue to vaccination as shipments of COVID-19 vaccines from the federal government remained small, Wolff said.

“Our clinics are unable to provide vaccines to community members who are 70 or older right now,” said the website for Tri-County Health, which covers Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas.

The governor announced that, starting Dec. 30, people 70 and older are eligible for the vaccine.

But whether they can access it depends on vaccine availability.

Some hospitals and other health care providers in the Tri-County jurisdiction have begun “phase 1B vaccinations” — a stage that includes people 70 and older but also some health care workers, first responders and “essential” workers — but not every provider has moved into that phase, according to Tri-County’s website.

“Since limited amounts of the vaccine come in weekly, and even smaller amounts are distributed throughout the state, not every provider has all the vaccine needed to vaccinate everyone 70 and older,” the website said as of Jan. 7.

The earlier phase 1A started in mid-December and includes the highest-risk health care workers, and staff and residents at longterm care facilities — places such as nursing homes and other care locations.

Once areas have taken care of those with higher priority, they can move on to Coloradans 70 and older.

Those people should expect that “more and more places will start offering” the vaccine, Wolff said. Hos-

FOR HELP WITH FINDING VACCINE ACCESS The state’s COVID-19 website lists information to help Coloradans 70 and older access the coronavirus vaccine through different health care providers.

It includes the UCHealth, Denver Health, Centura Health, Banner Health, Kaiser Permanente, HealthONE and SCL Health systems, among others.

For more information, see the website at covid19.colorado.gov/for-coloradans/ vaccine/vaccine-for-coloradans.

Local updates on vaccine availability in Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties are also available at Tri-County Health Department’s website at tchd.org/866/ COVID-19-Vaccines.

By phone, for more information on the vaccine, Coloradans can contact the Colorado Health Emergency Line for the Public, or “COHELP,” at 303-389-1687 or 877-462-2911. Hours are 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Answers are available in multiple languages. pitals and federally qualified health centers are among the places where those Coloradans could receive the vaccine, she added.

“We expect all our hospital partners in our three counties and the metro area — or most of them — should be opening clinics for 70plus” residents, Wolff said, adding that scheduling will likely look different in different places. “But the role of state health department and Tri-County will be to (show) that

information.”

That information was to appear on both the state and Tri-County’s websites, and staff were pulling that information together “right now,” Wolff continued.

A caller who identified herself as a 91-year-old mother asked if the public needs to register online, noting that she and other seniors may have trouble signing up on the internet.

Many health care systems, such as Centura Health and UCHealth, have information displayed on the state’s COVID-19 website, noted John Douglas, head of Tri-County.

Scheduling appointments may require computer access, he noted.

“For our seniors who aren’t so computer (savvy), we’re working with the state health department on how we reach out to those people,” Douglas said. He added: “We want to make sure they don’t get left out.”

Who’s up next?

In early December, the state listed that the highest-risk health care workers and individuals, and then moderate-risk health care workers and first responders — phases 1A and 1B — were to have access to the vaccine this winter, according to Colorado’s COVID-19 website.

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Gas station shooting suspect set for preliminary hearing Samuel Birch, 31, due in court on suspicion of robbery and fatal shooting

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Samuel Birch, the man the Arapahoe County Sheriff ’s Office identified as the suspect in a fatal shooting of a gas station clerk in a robbery the night of Nov. 26, is set for a preliminary hearing Jan. 19.

In a preliminary hearing, a court decides whether there is enough evidence to take the case to trial — it doesn’t decide whether a suspect is guilty.

Birch was being held in the Arapahoe County jail on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery of a business with a gun, according to the sheriff ’s office website.

After previously refraining from releasing the identity or photograph of the suspect, the sheriff ’s office identified Birch, 31, as the man who allegedly walked into the convenience store at 8263 S. Quebec St., Centennial — near East County Line Road, just north of Highlands Ranch — and “asked for cigarettes then asked for everything,” according to a sheriff ’s office tweet.

Investigators received numerous tips related to the identity of the suspect and were able to obtain warrants and arrest Birch on Dec. 11, according to the sheriff ’s office.

Birch is also believed to be connected to the robbery at another gas station in Centennial on East Arapahoe Road on Nov. 26, an incident where the suspect fired a single round into the ceiling, according to the sheriff ’s office.

At the first shooting, on Quebec Street, surveillance video shows that the suspect and the clerk spoke for a short time, according to the sheriff ’s office. The suspect then pointed a handgun at the clerk, who put cigarettes and money from the cash register in a shopping bag, according to the sheriff ’s office. When the clerk handed the suspect the bag, the suspect shot him. The suspect then left the store. Authorities received a call about the shooting

TO SUPPORT THE VICTIM’S FAMILY The victim of the shooting was identified as Mauricio Omar Perez, 24. A GoFundMe page for Perez’s family had raised $15,030 as of Jan. 10.

The family “had to front his funeral costs and everything associated with the loss of a family member,” according to the page.

Perez “was a valued employee, and if you feel so moved, the family would greatly appreciate your contribution,” said the message on the page, which was organized by Michael Hudgins. According to the page, Hudgins appears to be the store manager of the Circle K gas station where Perez worked.

“As the store manager, I will see to it that this fund is given directly to the family. Or, if you live nearby, stop in and we are taking cash donations,” the message on the page said.

To donate, visit gofundme.com/f/inmemory-of-mauricio-perez. at 6:47 p.m.

The clerk died after sustaining a gunshot wound to the left abdomen. He was identified as Mauricio Omar Perez, 24, according to the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office.

No other employees or customers were in the store at the time of the shooting on Quebec Street, said Deputy John Bartmann, a spokesman for the sheriff ’s office.

But citizens later came in, found the clerk and called 911.

Deputies searched the area with the assistance of the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office and the Lone Tree Police Department, according to the news release.

The second gas station in Centennial that was robbed on that same day sits on East Arapahoe Road near South Havana Street, according to a sheriff ’s office news release on Nov. 30.

At about 4:30 p.m., a male entered the Conoco gas station at 10210 E. Arapahoe Road in central Centennial and pointed a handgun at the clerk, according to the sheriff ’s office. The clerk gave the suspect the cash drawer, and then the suspect fired a single round into the ceiling, the release said.

The clerk was not injured and the suspect left southbound on foot from the area.

Birch’s preliminary hearing is set for 1:30 p.m. Jan. 19 in Arapahoe County District Court.

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BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Cherry Creek School District returned to an in-person learning schedule for all grades on Jan. 11, with elementary students attending five days a week while middle and high school students attend on alternating days.

Because Mondays are online-class days for all middle and high school students, those who chose in-person learning in grades six through 12 returned to classrooms Jan. 12 and Jan. 13 according to which cohort the students are in.

The decision to resume in-person learning was confirmed a week earlier, after several weeks of declining rates of new coronavirus cases in Arapahoe County. The district moved forward with a plan it announced in December for reopening in-person classes in spring semester.

But district Superintendent Scott Siegfried, in a Jan. 4 letter to the community, still repeated what has become a common refrain among local school district officials.

“The lower our incidence rates, the easier it will be for us to operate schools during this time and keep schools open for students who choose in-person learning,” Siegfried wrote. A county’s “incidence rate” is a measure of its new COVID-19 cases over time.

If Arapahoe County’s incidence rate in a two-week period was greater than 500 per 100,000 people

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on Jan. 4, the Cherry Creek district was to communicate a decision as to whether all schools would open for in-person learning; or elementary schools would open in-person, and middle and high schools would remain online until a later time; or all students would remain 100% online.

When making decisions, Siegfried planned to consider the county’s incidence rate as well as the trend or direction in which cases are moving.

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The district this school year has operated on a “blended” plan for grades six through 12 that puts half of students in school Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with the other half attending Thursday and Friday.

Families had the option to put their students in the district’s online program. As of July 29, more than 9,400 students had registered for fully online school.

Now, middle and high school students are expected to follow a revised model that provides more time with teachers, according to Siegfried’s Dec. 15 letter. For four days per week, half of students who choose in-person classes will attend school — as they did last semester — and those students will also have one day of online classes per week, according to the district’s plan for spring semester.

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In the Jan. 4 letter, the district confirmed it would move forward with its plan to start the semester remotely on Jan. 6, with in-person classes resuming Jan. 11. In early January, Arapahoe County’s daily rate of new cases continued to show a general decline that began several weeks prior.

But a few days later, the trend appeared to be reversing amid what may shape up as a post-holiday spike in cases, according to statewide and Tri-County Health Department data.

Arapahoe County’s incidence rate had already ticked up to 512 as of Jan. 8.

The overall trend is not clear yet, Tri-County Health chief John Douglas said during a Jan. 7 virtual town hall event. Tri-County Health covers Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties.

The numbers look much better than they did around Thanksgiving, but “we are not out of the woods by any means,” Douglas said.

500-700 new cases per 100,000 people in a county, Littleton Public Schools Superintendent Brian Ewert said in a Dec. 15 online news conference with other metro-area school superintendents. That was a reference to data from the Metro Denver Partnership for Health, an organization led by the six public health agencies serving the seven-county metro area.

When cases become widespread enough, staffing and numbers of substitute teachers begin to become the weak link in keeping schools running in-person due to mounting quarantines, the metro-area superintendents said.

Since Aug. 14, more than 3,900 students were told to quarantine, according to a report for a Dec. 14 Cherry Creek school board meeting.

That represents about 7% of the district’s roughly 55,000 students. In that same time, 553 staff members — about 6% of the district’s 9,000 staff — were told to quarantine.

As the rate of new cases continued on a steep climb in Arapahoe, the district moved all students who attended in-person classes to online schooling in November.

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Martial arts instructor suspected of sexual assault on child

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office has arrested a Centennial man on suspicion of two counts of sexual assault on a child with a pattern of abuse, according to a news release from the sheriff ’s

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age 18-64 without high-risk health conditions — in the summer. That’s phase 3.

Colorado’s recent update to the timeline expanded the list of those eligible in phase 1B, adding people 70 and older and certain frontline “essential” workers. Those now include health care workers with less direct contact with COVID-19 patients, first responders and correctional employees along with workers in education, food and agriculture, manufacturing, public transit, grocery stores, direct care providers for Coloradans experiencing homelessness and other professions.

“We utilized our first doses at the end of December for our highestrisk health care workers,” Wolff said. She added: “We are finishing up that group of people and moving on to other health care workers who are less high-risk and other

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Charles Niemi, 65, was the child’s martial arts instructor at Spirit Warrior Martial Arts, 4151 E. County Line Road, Centennial, at the time of the alleged assault, according to

first responders.”

Amid calls from school district leaders to prioritize school staff for vaccinations, the state’s move of teachers and others who work in education to phase 1B came as welcome news in that industry. But several weeks may still pass before the vaccine generally reaches school staff.

Taken together, all the timeline changes may place education workers in line for late winter or spring — a spot that likely comes too late to affect in-person learning for the spring semester.

“I’m hearing we’re not going to have our vaccine until after everyone 70-plus, so that’s looking like March,” a teacher said during the telephone town hall.

Wolff said she thinks March is a good estimate for when teachers will have access. In an interview by phone Jan. 8, she emphasized that that is subject to change, though.

“It’s hard for everyone to feel like they’re not first, but that’s the order Colorado has established for the mo-

the release. The suspected crime took place away from the martial arts studio, at a location in Douglas County, according to a sheriff ’s office spokeswoman.

Niemi was arrested Dec. 31 and was later released after posting bond, set at $20,000, on Jan. 4.

“It is believed that Niemi... may

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ment,” Wolff said during the town hall, noting that the order is based on “a lot of ethical and medical considerations.”

Lower-risk health care workers

A group that does have a clear path to the vaccine currently is health care workers who have less direct risk of contracting COVID-19.

have additional victims,” according to the release.

The sheriff ’s office is asking anyone with information regarding the case or who may know a potential victim to contact Detective Ducat at 303-814-7179.

Niemi’s next court hearing is Feb. 5.

Questions from a caller who owns a clinic for chiropractic care and massage therapy, and from a caller who works at a dental office, sought to determine how employees in those kinds of settings could access the vaccine.

For such medical providers who have not been connected to a source for vaccination, Tri-County Health is “actively taking requests,” Wolff said.

She advised such medical workers to determine a contact at their companies who can call Tri-County and provide information on which employees should get vaccinated. TriCounty is working to match medical providers to people who will administer the vaccine for their workers, Wolff said. The department plans to follow up within weeks, she added.

She and Douglas emphasized the haphazard nature of rolling out a vaccine quickly amid a pandemic.

“The analogy of the year, as Dr. Douglas says, is we are constantly building an airplane as we’re flying it,” Wolff said.

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‘This was a domestic terrorist threat’

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Jason Crow’s concern grew into shock as he realized there was no way out.

The U.S. representative for parts of the south, east and north Denver metro area was holed up in the House chamber along with two dozen other House members as a mob railing against the November presidential election results surrounded the room lawmakers were hiding in at the U.S. Crow Capitol on Jan. 6.

“I made a decision to call my wife and tell her I loved her,” said Crow, a Democrat from Aurora, who at that moment was “prepared to fight.”

Crow, a former Army Ranger who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, helped check the locks in the room as authorities barricaded doors with furniture.

The situation was direr than it may have seemed even from his vantage point: Long guns, Molotov cocktails, explosive devices and zip ties were recovered amid the chaotic scene, “which suggests a greater disaster was narrowly averted,” according to a summary of a conversation between Crow and Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy released

by Crow’s office Jan. 10.

After about a half hour of being trapped amid the chaos, a SWAT

team arrived to clear the area, and Crow was able to exit the chamber around 2:15 p.m., he said.

At least 25 domestic terrorism cases had been opened as a result of the attack on the Capitol, according to the Army secretary’s conversation with Crow.

The crowds “broke windows and doors, ransacked offices, threatened the safety of (Congress) members and staff, and ultimately gained unfettered control of the Senate floor,” said a letter Crow and more than 100 other Congressmembers sent to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. “After seizing control of the Capitol, the terrorists were able to maintain control for hours before exiting at their own accord.”

The chaos at the Capitol broke out during the debate in Congress over whether to certify the Electoral College results that showed Joe Biden won the presidency. Crow had come to observe the debate and hoped to speak later in the day.

President Donald Trump encouraged his Twitter and Facebook followers to attend a Jan. 6 rally — minutes before crowds stormed the Capitol, Trump continued to argue for overturning the election in front of the crowd in a speech laced with conspiracy theories, the Associated Press reported.

Following the president’s remarks, the mob outside of the White House moved to the Capitol Complex and joined with protesters outside of the Capitol, and shortly after, the mob

moved on the Capitol building and congressional office buildings, the letter to the Government Accountability Office said.

The president and allies had filed 62 lawsuits in state and federal courts seeking to overturn election results in states the president lost, USA Today reported as of Jan. 6.

Out of those, 61 had failed, according to Marc Elias, a Democratic election lawyer who is tracking the outcomes, USA Today cited.

Then-Attorney General William Barr declared that the U.S. Justice Department had uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the election, the AP reported Dec. 1.

Crow expressed concern about the beliefs that whipped up crowds that attacked the Capitol, nodding to the fracturing of common acceptance of information across political lines.

“I think we’re not dealing with a political movement — this was a domestic terrorist threat,” Crow said, adding that he believes the threat will continue. “Many of these people have become radicalized.

They exist in an (alternate) factual universe.

“We have a very difficult challenge” ahead as the Biden administration unfolds, Crow said.

Crow on Jan. 11 voiced support for removing Trump from office, either by impeachment or by another constitutional method of halting Trump’s term.

“The president is a dangerous person — extremely unstable — and so long as he’s in the White House the next 10 days, he’s a danger to the American people and our national security,” Crow said. “My hope would be that the vice president and the Cabinet would invoke the 25th amendment to remove him from office, although I’m not holding my breath.”

The Cabinet includes the heads of major federal agencies, such as the Department of Justice and Department of Defense.

The 25th Amendment allows for the vice president and a majority of the president’s Cabinet to declare a president unfit for office. The vice president then becomes acting president. In that case, the issue could ultimately be decided by Congress.

Separate from that process, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Democrat of Denver, and others introduced legislation on Jan. 11 to impeach the president for a second time, accusing him of “inciting an insurrection” at the Capitol, according to a news release.

“I think we need to move forward with impeachment,” Crow said, while noting that he doesn’t believe the Senate would be able to move forward with an impeachment trial in such a short time.

Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, which Crow represents, includes Aurora, Centennial, Littleton, Highlands Ranch, Brighton, part of Thornton and nearby areas.

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State Rep. Champion recounts ‘extremely polite’ D.C. protests Outgoing lawmaker was in Washington to show his objection to the electoral system

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After mobs of President Trump supporters stormed the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, forcing the evacuation of both houses of Congress, outgoing Colorado state Rep. Richard Champion, RColumbine Valley, who attended the protest but remained outside the Capitol, called the event “extremely polite.”

Champion — who Champion until Jan. 13 represented Littleton, Columbine Valley, part of Centennial and nearby areas in the state House — said he flew to Washington, D.C., with his wife, Trish, to attend the “Stop The Steal” protest to object to what he called a “broken judicial and electoral system.”

Champion called the event that culminated in the storming of the House and Senate chambers “very peaceful.”

“It was very well organized and without mayhem or anything else,” Champion said by phone from a hotel room near the Capitol in the evening hours after the riot. “Apparently a couple young folks got into the Capitol, which we never saw.”

Both houses of Congress were evacuated in the middle of deliberations over the certification of the Electoral College vote that found Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election. Photos from U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, D-Aurora, show Capitol police with their guns drawn as the mob breached the chamber.

Champion said he didn’t know the identity of those who stormed the Capitol.

“I have no idea who they were supporting,” Champion said. “My

A photo provided by Colorado State Rep. Richard Champion shows protesters on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. A pro-Trump mob stormed the halls of Congress on Jan. 6 durCOURTESY PHOTO ing a joint session to certify the Electoral College vote.

understanding is one of them had a hammer and sickle tattoo.”

Photos show many members of the crowd wearing “Make America Great Again” hats and waving Trump flags.

In a followup email, Champion’s wife blamed the storming of the Capitol on “Antifa,” citing a YouTube video purporting to show leftist antagonists among the mob.

Champion called the evacuation of Capitol overblown.

“I don’t think anyone was in danger,” he said. “There was nothing I saw that warranted that kind of response.”

Inside the Capitol, one woman protester was shot while climbing through a broken window during the storming of the building and later died, according to news reports.

Three others taking part in the protest died during the siege: one man of a heart attack, another of a stroke, and a woman was apparently crushed by the crowd. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was alleg-

edly beaten with a fire extinguisher before dying later in a hospital. No arrests had been made in Sicknick’s death as of Jan. 9.

Champion said he and his wife were at the protest for roughly four hours, and spent time on both the east and west sides of the Capitol.

“We saw a lot of praying, a lot of chanting, the singing of ‘The StarSpangled Banner’ and the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance,” Champion said. “The people have the right to protest. Capitol police were very competent. People were thanking them for being there.”

Asked if he supports President Trump’s call from July that protesters who damage federal property should face 10 years in prison, Champion said, “Absolutely.”

Champion said the real outrage was that he saw only two portable toilets provided for the protest despite the throngs of protesters, blaming the number on Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser.

“It was flat-out wrong,” Champion

said of the number of portable toilets. “The mayor, that’s what they do. That’s how they try to show us what they think of us.”

Champion said the event paled in comparison to protests in Denver over the summer that left the Colorado State Capitol vandalized.

“This is nothing like what they did in Denver ... They were completely rude, and they destroyed property,” Champion said. “This group today, if they saw trash on the ground, they’d pick it up.”

Champion said he believed the November presidential election was “not fair” and questioned the results.

“I don’t think it was fair or reasonable or right,” he said.

Trump and his supporters have lost more than 60 lawsuits against elements of the presidential election in numerous swing states, in courts ranging from state and appellate courts to the Supreme Court.

“I’m just talking about the presidential election,” Champion said.

“I don’t want to have sour grapes with my opponent.”

Champion, the former mayor of Columbine Valley who was selected by a GOP vacancy committee to the House District 38 seat in January 2020, lost his bid for election to a full term to Democrat David Ortiz in November. Ortiz was sworn in Jan. 13.

Champion said when Joe Biden is sworn in as president, “he will be my president. It’s the same way I felt about Barack Obama. Too bad it wasn’t the same way for Democrats when Donald Trump was elected.

People want Republicans to be magnanimous about Biden, but they sure weren’t when Trump won.”

Champion said he paid for every element of his trip to Washington, from the plane tickets to the hotel room and transportation.

“No one, I repeat, no one, including the Republican Party, aided my trip to Washington in any way, shape or form,” he said.

Champion said he planned to fly home the next day, and had not encountered anyone else from Colorado while in Washington.

U.S. senators, representatives tell of ‘anarchy,’ ‘attempted coup’ STAFF REPORT

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate took to social media to share their experiences from the Capitol in Washington, D.C., amid protests and violence on Jan. 6.

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, via Twitter

• “President Trump instigated a violent attack on our Capitol.

He is a danger to our country. He should be impeached and DeGette removed from office immediately.”

• “We have been evacuated from the House chamber and moved to a safe location. This isn’t a protest.

This is an attempted coup. I never

thought we’d see such anarchy spurred by our own president.”

U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, D-Aurora, via Twitter

• “We have stopped the coup attempt and will be returning to the Capitol today to finish the business of the people. We will never back down, we will return.”

• “I was trapped in the House Chamber with a few members for a little while as protestors tried to ram down the doors. We didn’t know how we were gonna get out, but Capitol Police were able to clear a route and get us out. We’re all now being protected in a secure location.”

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, R-Windsor, via Twitter

• “My staff and I are safe, please continue to pray for our nation. The

events unfolding at the Capitol are outrageous. We will not tolerate anarchy in this country.”

• “This is not a protest, this is anarchy. This needs to stop, it’s unAmerican.”

are in a safe location. Thank you to all of our brave law enforcement officials for working so hard to protect the Capitol complex. Keep the faith.”

U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Arvada, via Twitter

“I am safe and my staff is safe. We are currently in a secure lockdown.

Today’s attack on the Capitol and our democracy is dangerous and unacceptable.”

“I’m safe, but I’m filled w/sadness & anger as we witness these protests. It’s the result of a fever that has been building for weeks, months & years, and which has only been further incited by President Trump.

Today is a point of inflection & reflection, & we need to say enough.”

U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Lafayette, via Twitter

“My staff and I are safe — we were evacuated from the House floor, and

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Denver, via Twitter

U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Denver, via Twitter

“My staff and I are safe and in a secure lockdown. Grateful to Capitol Police for their work to protect us.

It’s a sad day for our country, but our democracy is stronger than the dangerous attack on the Capitol today.”

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Apparently this road was paved with good intentions

arry and I went for a Sunday drive.

Only I made a big mistake.

I forgot to put the “Sunday Drive” sign in the window that lets everyone know we’re on the road QUIET for leisure, not for DESPERATION the rat race.

I apologized to the dog and told him to fasten his seat belt.

Sure enough, before I could get to the corner we were followed too closely by someone who Craig Marshall was in a hurry.

Smith Undoubtedly in a hurry to get somewhere and start tweeting and texting.

The Bangles and I used to look forward to Sundays.

The Bangles, an all-woman group, considered Sunday their “fun day.” (“Manic Monday” was written

by Prince. Prince had a crush on

Bangles lead singer Susanna Hoffs.

Who didn’t? However, the song was originally intended for another group. For some reason, “Manic Monday” was credited to Prince’s pseudonym: “Christopher.”)

Sundays will never be the same.

Not the way they were. At least not here in the city.

Maybe on the eastern plains, Sundays are slower than the rest of the week.

Not around here.

I drive the limit, maybe five over.

It’s not enough. I’m holding everyone up.

“Get out of the way, you plodder, you slowcoach, you malingerer.

Your mother was a hamster.”

Maybe I don’t have the right kind of vehicle. All I have now is this station wagon. No one respects station wagons.

Station wagons plod because they’re family cars and dad doesn’t want to endanger his wife and kids.

Except I don’t have a wife and kids; I have large paintings that need to be moved from place to

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but (spoiler alert) manages to outsmart the trucker.

The beautifully choreographed final scene, when the truck in flames goes off a cliff, features the exasperated groans not of the truck driver but of the truck.

I’m not an advocate of road rage.

It’s tempting, but you never know who is in the car behind you.

It might be Satan and Satan might be having a particularly bad day.

As cars pass us, the drivers usually look at me with disdain and generally with sneers.

When I was a kid, the Smiths often went for a Sunday afternoon drive. We were a one-car family and it — most often a Ford — was used primarily for commuting and errands, but not for leisure.

Perhaps the answer is to take an afternoon drive in the middle of the night.

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Capitol riot was un-American

As a Littleton councilmember I swore to follow the Constitution and the law. At council meetings I pledge allegiance to our Republic. I take these commitments absolutely seriously, and I believe that means condemning as reprehensible the raid on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Like so many people in our city, our nation, and all around the world, I watched it all unfold on live TV. I was stunned. I still can’t express how furious and sad I feel.

Some rioters carried “We the People” flags.

Ironically, they disregarded that one of the fundamental purposes written into the Constitution is to “insure domestic Tranquility.” Five people are dead, including Capitol Policeman Brian Sicknick, tragically killed, his department said, after “physically engaging” the mob.

My sincere sympathies go out to his loved ones.

Rioters also violently halted public congressional debate, again throwing aside the Constitution and bedrock democratic procedure.

Article I gives legislative authority to the Senate and House, and very obviously not to mobs. The First Amendment, likewise, protects peaceful assembly, not chaos. The Constitution makes mayhem deeply un-American.

The Capitol raid tried to harm our shared Republic and undermine the rule of law. That is beyond unacceptable, and there should be no partisanship in totally denouncing it in the strongest possible terms. I hope we can take our shared anguish and in time channel it into something positive through a renewed insistence that we are American, and that America is a nation of laws. The mob is anti-American.

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place.

But the perception is the same: You can and should tailgate a station wagon.

What I’d like to have is an AstonMartin DB5 that spews oil and carpet tacks.

Harry and I were tailgated five times between home and Elizabeth where I thought we’d be rid of the problem.

Surely in Elizabeth on a Sunday the roads are benign. I was wrong.

A red pickup honked at us.

“Move it on over, you bootless fustilarian.”

Steven Spielberg’s first film was a dandy titled “Duel.” It starred Dennis Weaver as a businessman who is driving his Plymouth Valiant in Southern California on the way to see a client.

Weaver’s antagonist is the unseen driver of an old Peterbilt 281 that chases him up and down the remote highway.

There’s very little dialogue and none between Weaver and his adversary.

Weaver looks like he’s done for

D

o you remember that old saying, “Never judge a book by its cover?” Well, if you are like me, and if you don’t mind admitting just how many times that you made the WINNING big mistake WORDS of rushing to judgment too soon, we can probably agree that we may have made some poor decisions along the way because we judged Michael Norton someone or something prematurely.

We form opinions based on the way someone looks, the car they drive, the career they have chosen, the house of worship they attend, the friends they keep, and the posts they place on social media. We judge others who drive too fast or too slowly, use their blinker to make a turn that is so far away, or they don’t use a blink-

er at all. Seems like lately, and all too often, we have become the judge and the jury.

My Uncle Harry used to say something to me each time we talked. He would say, “Now Michael, just remember that there is never anything so good that it can’t get better.

And there isn’t anything so bad that it can’t get worse.” I must have been a little hard of hearing because as an eternal optimist I only paid attention to the first sentence, “There is never anything so good that it can’t get better.” And I have found that to be one of the character traits of many successful people who have endured hardships, survived bad economies, and found opportunity in the middle of crises.

“Did you ever notice that some people go around looking for the bad like there is some kind of reward for it?” - Zig Ziglar If we look for the bad, we will find it for sure. If we look for the good, we will find that as well. And as Andrew Carnegie said, “Sometimes

you have to move a ton of dirt to find an ounce of gold.”

You see, we are only two weeks into the new year, and many of us have already judged or decided what the book on 2021 will be about. If we are determined that it will be good or better than good, that is awesome. If some of us have already given up and can’t see anything but trouble ahead, my encouragement would be not to rush to judgment so quickly.

What if we look at the upcoming year as a 365-page book with a prologue, 12 chapters, and an epilogue. The prologue might be the year that we just left behind, but it could also be the fantastic years that preceded 2020. And if we jumped ahead and were able to read what happens next in 2022, we might be able to feel like we are on solid footing or at least see the light at the end of the tunnel.

As much as the prologue or forward of a book sets

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VACCINE FROM PAGE 1

A woman receives the COVID-19 vaccine Jan. 6 at Holly Creek Senior Retirement Community, where staff and residents got their first shots in the COURTESY PHOTOS effort to combat the coronavirus.

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available at LittletonPublicSchools. net, are due by Feb. 5. The board plans to interview candidates at its Feb. 11 meeting, and make a decision at its Feb. 25 meeting. By law, the new board member must be sworn in no later than March 7.

The new board member won’t have long to settle in before they have to make the decision whether to run in the November election to keep the seat.

Superintendent Brian Ewert said Warren-Gully will leave big shoes to fill.

“She’s been in the district so long as a parent and advocate,” Ewert said. “We’re so thankful we’ve had such a solid, graceful, communicative board member. She took a common-sense approach to governing, and always made sure to listen to all sides of issues.”

Ewert said he thinks her replacement should be someone invested in the district, and not beholden to an ideology.

“You’ve got to be an advocate for students, but teachers and staff too,” he said. “These are nonpartisan positions. It’s not about being a Democrat or Republican, but taking

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the stage and the epilogue lets us know what happens afterward, it’s really the story that compels us to want to read and keep reading.

Perhaps we received books as a gift this season, maybe we already had a stack of books waiting to be read. And I’ll bet that we just can’t wait to get into the stories, characters, adventures, romances, dramas, or comedies of each one.

So, let’s not rush to judgment about what may or may not happen this year. Let’s not judge this book by its cover just yet, instead maybe we can get into the story, get into

around with more education, said Miller, who along with his staff “tries to dispel myths.”

To those who are uncertain about getting the vaccine, Miller suggests they “learn more about what went into the process of producing the vaccine.”

He also recalls “vaccines we got since we were kids — we didn’t think a second thought about them,” Miller said.

Miller emphasized that residents aren’t just sitting in their rooms despite the pandemic dragging on. The culture at Holly Creek is still vibrant — the in-house,

a look at each issue that comes forward, analyzing it, being humble enough to get good input, and remembering that we’re here for the kids.”

The new board member should appreciate the complexity of a school district, he said.

“These are incredibly complex systems and budgets we’re dealing with,” Ewert said. “We’re responsible for taxpayer dollars from the local, state and federal level. It would help if it’s someone involved through groups like (parent-teacher organizations) or district committees.”

The new board member will have weighty issues to deal with: how the district recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and how to deal with the impacts of declining student enrollment — which could mean school consolidation or staff layoffs.

School board President Jack Reutzel echoed Ewert, saying boards that get bogged down by political agendas don’t get much done.

“You need a broader perspective than that,” Reutzel said. “A school board just deals with too many things to have someone waving one flag or another all the time. Personal issues, too — you need to leave what’s happening with your child or your home school at the door.”

Reutzel, like Ewert, said Warren-

our story, because as it turns out, we will be the main character.

How about you? Have you read the inside flap and back cover and determined that you already know how the story will unfold?

Or are you willing to be an active participant, determined to enjoy each page and chapter as we go through these next 12 months? I really would love to hear your story at mnorton@tramazing.com, and when we settle in with our book and our own story of life, it really will be a better than good year.

Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

resident-run radio station, Holly Creek Radio, is still going strong, Miller said. Events and dining still liven up the scene when it’s allowed and safe.

“We still have a lot of life happening here,” Miller said.

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Those three locations saw clinics to administer

Gully’s replacement will have to hit the ground running, and should be someone who is already familiar with the intricacies of issues like school finance.

A leader in Christian Living Communities, the organization that oversees Holly Creek Senior Retirement Community, holds up a sign that says he’s getting the vaccine for “our residents.”

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“It’s not always an easy job,” Reutzel said, “but we’ve got smart people in our community, and I’m expecting a great group of candidates.”

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Some people like to use trekking poles when they go snowshoeing.

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Snowshoeing is inexpensive option for socially distanced outdoor activity

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ith health officials continuing to encourage outdoor activities amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there’s one affordable winter activity that’s getting folks outside, active and socially distanced: snowshoeing.

The sport, essentially the winter version of hiking, is a great way to enjoy being outside in the winter without having to empty one’s pockets to buy ski or snowboard gear and pricey lift tickets, said Frank Bulkley, owner of Eskimo Ski Shop in Centennial.

“If you want to get outside and get some fresh air, it’s a great way to do it. It doesn’t have to be a 10-mile hike either,” he said. “It’s a simple way to get out there and do something different in the snow.”

The only things needed to start snowshoeing are waterproof boots, waterproof layers like a jacket and pants and of course, the snowshoes, which can be rented for under $20 per day.

While hiking boots and shoe spikes can perform well when a trail is packed down with snow or a bit icy, snowshoes really thrive in snow about a foot or more deep, Bulkley said.

Jake Thomas, manager at Mountainside Gear Rental in Golden, says the best way for beginners to try out snowshoeing is to head to familiar territory. “(Go) somewhere you’ve already been, somewhere you’re comfortable with going that’s not super remote,” he said. “Maybe somewhere you hike in the summer.”

It’s also best to go with a buddy and remain within cell service, he said.

A pair of snowshoers trek on Mount Sniktau near Loveland Pass.

“Any precautions you would take while hiking, you should take while on snowshoes,” Bulkley said.

That includes carrying a headlight, being ready for weather changes, bringing plenty of water and snacks and knowing how to react if confronted by wildlife. Those snowshoeing off trails or in the backcountry also need to be aware of avalanche precautions.

Many hiking websites, such as AllTrails.com, will have comments from recent hikers on snow conditions for specific areas or trails.

Thomas likes to recommend Golden Gate State Park, St. Mary’s Glacier

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and trails around Nederland to those interested in snowshoeing.

How they work

Snowshoeing is largely intuitive.

The shoes snap on and off easily and are lightweight enough to carry in a backpack until needed.

“They’ve come a long way from the big clunky ones that looked like tennis rackets on your feet,” Thomas said.

Snowshoes vary in size based on a person’s weight and the snow conditions. They work by distributing the wearer’s weight across the surface of the snow, preventing the person

from sinking more than a couple inches.

“As long as you’re fit and able to push yourself a little and try something new, it’s really for everyone,” Thomas said. “It is a little more physically demanding than hiking.”

Thomas likes to bring trekking poles when he goes out. They aren’t essential, but they can help with balance, he said.

“In the wintertime, when everything is covered in snow, things are much more serene and quiet. You get to be more in touch with what’s going on around you,” he said. “It’s viewing the world in a different lens. Looking around and seeing untouched snow all around you is a really cool thing.”

Crescent Moon Snowshoes, based in Englewood, also makes foam snowshoes, which are perfect for beginners, said Tanner Dunn, vice president of the company.

The shoes strap on and connect to the heel of the wearer’s shoes, unlike other snowshoes, Dunn said.

“You can give them to anyone, they’re so intuitive and easy to walk in,” he said.

Normally, the company offers direct sales and rentals of these shoes, but this year, their inventory has been depleted as a surge of buyers have appeared during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dunn said.

“It’s one of the few winter activities besides skiing,” Dunn said.

“Snowshoeing is easier to go and grab real quick.”

For Dunn, one major benefit of snowshoeing is how easy it is to feel like you’re the only person on a trail.

“It’s so quiet. I love hiking, too, but it’s really hard to find a trail that’s not packed — whereas snowshoeing, it’s just dead quiet. It really is different,” he said. “So many people hike but not that many snowshoe.”

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K-12 student art exhibit will go online this year

L

ittleton Public Schools 2021 Virtual District Art Show will be shown virtually Jan. 19 to May 31. Students continue to create both inside SONYA’S and outside the classroom, acSAMPLER cording to teacher Anna Spillen, who organizes these exhibits each year, usually in the Colorado Gallery for the Arts at Arapahoe Community College. When the show is active, see Sonya Ellingboe https://littletonpublicschools.net/ district/nr/lps-virtual-art-show.

Highlands Ranch celebrates 40 years

“Highlands Ranch History: Then and Now” will begin a celebration of the 40th year of this community on Zoom from 7-8 p.m. Jan. 18. Highlands Ranch Historical Society’s Nancy Liesenbigler will start what will be a series of programs: “Dino-

American collections in the new galleries designed for these works on the second level of the Hamilton Building beginning Feb. 7. About 85 works, including paintings and sculptures will include those by Monet, van Gogh, Degas, Morisot, Renoir and more ...

Libraries tout activities

Douglas County Libraries promote Spring Break Camps and more ... Check online at dcl.org or see your nearby library for details.

This ceramic artwork by Arapahoe High School senior Ona Melvin will be displayed in the Littleton Public Schools 2021 Virtual District Art Show. COURTESY PHOTO

saurs and Mammoths,” “European Influences and Early-settlement Influences,” “Prominent Early Residents” and more. Meeting ID is 832 4170 4124 (passcode 957432).

MCA Denver

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., is open every day except Monday. Tuesdays through Thursdays, noon to 7 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Purchase tickets in advance: mcadenver.org, 303-298-7554. Public parking garage nearby.

Wonderbound

Wonderbound Dance Company will present “Winterbound: A Discotheque Cabaret” at its new studios,

New galleries at DAM

Denver Art Museum will showcase its 19th-century European and

3824 Dahlia St., Denver, starting Jan. 21. See wonderbound.org or call for information: 303-292-4700. COVID safety guidelines observed. (Access to entrance and parking from Eudora Way.) Hudson Gardens

“Start Your Garden From Scratch” will be presented online by Hudson Gardens. See hudsongardens.org for information about this and other classes offered. In the meantime, enter free to stroll at 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Bulbs should begin pushing through in February.

Evergreens planted by King Hudson shelter walkers year-round. Birds hang out in those trees as well ...

‘Y/OUR Denver’

The Denver Architecture Foundation and the Colorado Photographic Arts Center usually offer a collaborative exhibit early in the year.

In 2021, you will want to find this always interesting collection of architectural photos online at denverarchitecture.org or cpacphoto.org.

Photographer takes wing with new focus Birds are subject of exhibit that will run through March

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLIONGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Photographer Carl Paulson is a Littleton Fine Arts Guild member who recently become a birder, which has led to new subjects for his camera, starting in his back yard and other nearby locations ...

He sent us “Whatcha Got There?”

— a photo of two young screech owls making noise about something — as an announcement of a Zoom program he was to present on Jan. 5 at Vita Littleton, my home — and I was hooked!

I’ve been interested for years, but had forgotten what a wide variety of birds inhabit nearby trees, fields and parks.

Colorado has about 400 different kinds of birds through the year, he said, including permanent and mi-

gratory (part-time) residents. (He’s shot images of about 110 so far.)

A collection of some of those images filled Paulson’s Zoom program and some are exhibited in the Creative Lounge and Lobby at Vita through March. The public is invited to walk through this exhibit between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Tuesday to Thursday. Ring at the front door.

Owls similar to the pictured screech owls have a nest nearby and residents hear them calling. Apartments in the building’s floor plan have bird names, which brought Paulson’s presentation even closer to home.

Near to his own home, he watched a woodpecker hollowing out the rotting stump of a newly felled tree, making more space for her brood, and he managed to identify a hummingbird flower favorite. He began to recognize bird calls, starting with “chicka-dee-dee-dee” and put his camera to work.

A handsome, though raucous,

IF YOU GO Vita is located at 2100 W. Littleton Blvd. Visitors to the bird photography exhibit are invited between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. starling, pictured at Barr Lake (a favorite Denver-area birding location), was followed by an early image of a tiny wren.

“As a new photographer, you don’t how special it is at first look,” he commented about this charming wee creature’s portrait.

“Oscar the Grouch” was the name for a noisy magpie, but Paulson also noted the iridescent glow in the bird’s wings.

At Reynold’s Landing, he recorded a great blue heron which had just speared a rainbow trout for lunch ...

And handsome Steller’s jays visited his back yard. “They aren’t supposed to be here.” (We have heard other accounts of migrants who were a bit off-course of late. Probably a common thing, but it seems

the world is off-course ...)

A bald eagle was pictured “enjoying the thermals”; a red-tailed hawk carried a rabbit home for offspring, and a red-naped sapsucker at Staunton State Park was enlarging a cavity for its babies.

Two black and white downy woodpeckers were “just outside my window,” Paulson said, and a stunning shot shows a golden eagle coming right at the camera, with a crawdad in its beak.

Cedar waxwings are a favorite subject, Paulson commented. “I have one snatching a mosquito right out of the air!”

A petite white-breasted nuthatch walked down a tree trunk upside down, as is its custom ...

And then there was a shot of a beaver swimming along happily, followed by a stunning image of a western tanager ... and a chipping sparrow with fledgling.

Seemed like “All’s right with the world” for a too-quickly-passed hour!

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Littleton Museum looks to future Despite layoffs and closures, one of city’s cultural gems works to keep shining

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Littleton Museum’s farms are fairly quiet these days.

On the 39-acre living history farms portraying life in pioneer-era Littleton, the blacksmith’s hammer seldom rings against an anvil.

Rarely does kindling crackle in the Bemis House’s iron stove. There’s no clopping of Clydesdales’ hooves on festival day hayrides.

Hit hard by COVID-era restrictions and budget cuts, the museum — one of the crown jewels of Littleton’s cultural offerings — begins 2021 denuded, but led by a determined, innovative staff dedicated to carrying on the mission of connecting people with the past — and building back stronger for the future.

When COVID struck last March, shuttering the museum to the public for four months, staff quickly turned their attention to online offerings.

“It’s amazing how quick you move when you have to,” said Tim Nimz, the museum’s director. “We had an art exhibit scheduled to open the week after we closed down. Two days after it was supposed to open, we had our first-ever virtual tour up online. We suddenly realized we may not know exactly what we’re doing, but it’s an opportunity to stretch our muscles.”

In the months that followed, several staff were furloughed as plunging local sales tax revenue hit city government.

Still, the museum produced a variety of online content, including how-to lessons from historical interpreters, virtual tours of art exhibits, and a popular video series called “Ask Farmer Steve.”

Clobbered by cuts

Despite the innovation, the ripple effects of COVID clobbered the museum.

By the end of the year, the museum was down seven employees. One historical interpreter was laid off, and another took early retirement, accounting for half of the paid interpretation staff. The curator of interpretation resigned. Layoffs and early retirement also took three front desk staff and a custodian.

From a height of 21 full-timeequivalent positions before the pandemic, the museum was left with 15 employees — too few to keep the farm buildings open to the public.

Hours of operation were cut from 47 a week to just 30 — so few that the museum’s accreditation through the American Alliance of Museums would have been threatened had the agency not adjusted their criteria for pandemic-battered institutions.

Visitation, which had climbed as high as 160,000 in recent years, plunged to around 25,000 in 2020 — and donations plunged with it.

Kelli Narde, left, and Tim Nimz stand outside the Littleton Museum’s Bemis House, which portrays life in 1890s Littleton. Narde, who heads the department that oversees the museum, and Nimz, the museum’s director, said while the museum has taken some PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT hard hits from the pandemic, they have high hopes for its future.

As of early January the sprawling main museum building — home to exhibits on Littleton history, two temporary exhibit galleries, a theater and multipurpose rooms — remains closed to the public.

Though the museum grounds remain open by appointment, the farm buildings are still locked.

The 2021 events season, including summer camps and concerts, is still yet to be determined.

There are bright spots: a donor who wished to remain anonymous gave more than $60,000 to the museum, and Nimz said the plan is to film a new introductory movie for visitors and overhaul the theater to be more accessible to people with disabilities Nimz is keeping his chin up.

“Yes, our ability to deliver service has been reduced, but that doesn’t reduce the quality of the service we provide,” he said. “We’re still an important place to help families rebalance their lives. There’s a hunger for places to go, for educational content, and we’re still providing that.”

Reshuffling the deck

Meanwhile, the museum’s place in the City of Littleton’s organizational structure has seen a reshuffling.

As layoffs and early retirements rippled through city government, leaving several departments without heads, City Manager Mark Relph reorganized the city’s organizational chart in late 2020.

Nimz, who for the past eight years had been the director of both the museum and Bemis Library, was reassigned to strictly oversee the museum — the job for which he was originally hired in 2002. Deputy library director Nancy Trimm was appointed to head the library.

Both the library and museum were placed under the purview of Kelli Narde, the city’s longtime communications director, whose title is now Director of Cultural and Media Services.

In its first 2021 meeting, city

council unanimously ratified a pair of resolutions reshuffling several boards overseen by the library and museum. The resolutions eliminated the library and museum boards, folding their duties into the Littleton Arts and Cultural Commission, which was expanded from nine members to 11.

Overall, Narde called the reshuffling a positive evolution.

“Communications, the library and museum are the most public-facing departments in the city,” she said.

“It just makes sense. We can coordinate and share resources on exhibits, events, marketing, video and all this digital programming we’re doing now.”

Narde said city leadership hopes and plans to rebuild the museum to full strength, but it will take time.

“With this level of staffing, the museum just can’t be open at the levels it was before, even once we get COVID under better control,” she said. “That said, the city didn’t finish 2020 in as bad of shape as we thought we might. It could’ve been worse.”

Build back better

Narde is working with Nimz and other officials to brainstorm new revenue streams to better support the museum.

One idea: an admission fee for non-residents.

“This is one of the only museums in our entire region that doesn’t charge for entry,” she said. “Residents should still get in free. The taxpayers of Littleton have paid for this facility and should get to use the heck out of it, but I think out-of-town visitors would tolerate a nominal fee. Frankly, I think a lot of people are surprised there’s no admission fee as-is.”

Another idea: more events.

“I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag yet,” she said, “but we’re talking about things more like art receptions.”

Though the idea has been floated

in years past, Narde said she did not foresee pushing for the museum grounds to be used as a large-scale wedding or event venue.

Supporting the museum has a larger purpose too, she said: it’s a linchpin of longer-term efforts to market Littleton as a regional tourist destination.

Although Visit Littleton, a pilot project to boost local tourism, is largely dormant in the COVID era, Narde said the museum could be a big draw.

“If you have to come to the Denver metro area, why not stay in Littleton? While you’re here, why not eat in our restaurants? Why not take your kids to our museum?”

Relph, the city manager, said Littleton is somewhat unique in still operating a city-run museum and a library that hasn’t been absorbed by a regional district.

“There’s a financial commitment there that’s pretty deep, but I don’t see us pursuing a separation from the city any time in the foreseeable future,” Relph said. “The connection to the community is just too close and too deep.”

Relph said he has been impressed by the new digital offerings from the library and museum.

“I couldn’t be more proud of how they have stepped up,” he said.

Will the city be able to bring the museum back to full strength?

“The short answer is yes,” Relph said. “The service might change in the long view. We’re trying to react to what the community wants and needs going forward. It may not look like it did a year ago. What can we do better? But that said, we definitely want that museum back at what we consider full service.”

Narde said she understands that the museum is an easy target for cuts in tough times.

“This isn’t law enforcement,” she said. “It’s not snow plowing. It’s not maintaining the sewers. But it’s at the heart of quality of life in Littleton. It will adapt. It will thrive.”

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Ponderosa seen as dominant as wrestling nears

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Ponderosa has been a dominant wrestling team in the south metro area and it seems like nothing will change this season.

The Mustangs have won 24 of the past 26 Continental League dual meet titles and have captured 10 Colorado state wrestling championships, with the last one coming in 2010.

Ponderosa gets the nod from most coaches as the best team in the southern section of the metro area for the seven-week boys season, which starts with practices on Jan. 18. Competition, under the new COVID-19 variances, can begin Jan. 25.

The Colorado High School Activities Association staff held a series of webinars on Jan. 3-5 for school administrators and coaches to provide specifics on Season B sports, which include boys and girls wrestling. All Season B sports will have informational sessions for athletic directors and coaches.

However, there will be no wrestling for Boulder County teams this season. On Jan. 6, Boulder County Heath announced that it will not allow wrestlers to compete in the St. Vrain Valley and Boulder Valley school districts.

If other school districts choose to follow the Boulder option, there is the possibility that wrestling could be moved to Season C or D later in the year.

The CHSAA on Jan. 7 released wrestling modifications after the webinars.

There will be a maximum of 20 dual meets during the season. There can be a maximum of eight teams at regular season tournaments. In the regional tournaments, a two-day, 16-wrestler

bracket will be employed. The first seven weight classes will compete on the first day and the next seven weight classes will wrestle on the second day. First and second place finishers will qualify for the state tournament.

At the state tournament, an eight-wrestler bracket will be used with full consolation in a one-day format. Team scores at both the regionals and state will score places 1-4.

All wrestlers must wear masks up until they put on ankle bands before a match. Referees can not touch wrestlers this season. Referees will raise their hand separately with the winner.

A total of 25 wrestlers per gym at one time, will be allowed. That will probably force boys wrestling, with 14 weight classes, to control the entry of wrestlers to keep numbers at proper levels.

Girls wrestling has just 10 weight classes, so full teams can be present.

If Season B does begin as planned, Pomona and Ponderosa will stand out.

Pomona, which has won four of the past five Class 5A state championships, is the team to beat once the state tournament rolls around. The Panthers return all but one wrestler off last season’s title team, but Ponderosa has enough talent in its ranks to contend at the state tournament, which is now scheduled for March 12-13.

“Ponderosa is stacked,” said Chaparral coach Andy Sistek.

The Mustangs have nine wrestlers scheduled to return who were state qualifiers last year. And transfers Randy Meyers and Jett Strickenberger, who were both Colorado state qualifiers in 2019 plus freshman Jacob Meyers, Randy’s younger brother, add strength to the Ponderosa team.

Tim Yount, one of the state’s top high school wrestling prognosticators and publisher of Colo-

rado’s On The Mat rankings, agrees that Pomona and Ponderosa appear to be the favorite teams.

Other south metro teams to watch include Douglas County with five returning state qualifiers back from the 2020 season plus Cherry Creek and ThunderRidge with three each.

Here are returning boys wrestlers who qualified for the 2020 state wrestling tournament.

Derek Glenn (Cherokee Trail), Nick Vicic (ThunderRidge), Chandler Roberts (Ponderosa), Kyler Pilgrim (ThunderRidge), Jacob Bostelman (Ponderosa), Justin Kelchen (Douglas County), Murphy Menke (Ponderosa), Carsen Trujillo (Arapahoe), Max Black (Douglas County), Sean Arnett (Grandview), Jaron Mahler (Ponderosa), Victor Madrid (Douglas County), Presley Pilgrim (ThunderRidge), Aidan Lenz (Ponderosa), Ivan Morris (Douglas County), Austin Luhring (Cherry Creek), Eli Hamilton (Valor Christian), Traevin Osborn, (Ponderosa), Sonny Quintana (Grandview), Karter Johnson (Ponderosa), Ian Sepan (Castle View), Hunter Gray-White (Cherry Creek), Matthew Soderborg (Cherry Creek), TJ LaFrancis (Arapahoe), Corbin Zimmer (Castle View), Blaine Kubasta (Ponderosa), Geoffrey Freeman (Chaparral), Kyle Hanson (Highlands Ranch), Levi Smith (Legend), Kaiden Parrish (Valor Christian), Luke Sandy (Legend), Kyle Maccagnan (Eaglecrest), Antonio Segura (Regis Jesuit), Tyler Doyle (ThunderRidge), Ryan Aguiar (Douglas County) , Jonah Robadue (Chaparral) and Sam Hart (Cherokee Trail).

This will be the first season for a sanctioned girls state wrestling tournament.

USA Wrestling has a list of the top girl wrestlers for the 2021 season and there are 11 Colorado girls ranked. One of those ranked girls is Emma Burk of Douglas County.

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Vectra Bank to build combined headquarters in metro area 127,000-square-foot building will stand nine stories tall in Belleview Station

BY DAVID MULLEN THE DENVER GAZETTE

Vectra Bank is confident in its business plan moving forward despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. To demonstrate that confidence to employees, partners and current customers, the bank celebrated a virtual groundbreaking ceremony recently for its new $65 million headquarters in southeast Denver.

“We know this has been a challenging time for many, and we’re confident and hopeful, in the future of Colorado and we look forward to celebrating the building process with our employees, our customers and community,” said Bruce Alexander, president and CEO of Vectra Bank.

The nine-story mixed-use building will enclose 127,000 square feet and will be located at Interstate 25 and East Belleview Avenue. It is scheduled to open in December 2022.

Four floors will be used for office space and parking, while one floor will be used for commercial retail and include a Vectra Bank branch, Alexander said.

The new project is part of the Belleview Station development that has led to two Fortune 500 companies, Western Union and Newmont Mining, to build corporate HQs in the area.

Currently Vectra Bank’s head-

quarters is spread across multiple buildings that house the offices for around 60 employees each, and can make day-to-day operations cumbersome.

The new location that overlooks the Belleview station light rail stop will bring all of the scattered employees from Vectra and its parent company, Zions Bancorp, together. More than 200 workers are expected to be there daily.

“The opportunity to put everyone together on one campus was something that was really appealing to us,” Alexander said. “Bringing everyone together in one place is really the value in this for us as it’ll create the opportunity to be more collaborative, more creative, more connected.”

Aside from the traditional office spaces, the new location is designed to have a 4,300-square-foot conference and training center, and meeting spaces that will encourage collaboration.

Asked why the bank decided to make this move during a time of economic instability and while many of its employees are working remotely. Alexander said the answer is quite simple.

“One, because we can have this campus. Two, because we’re consolidating an existing space, so we’ll be using less space considering all the space we’re leasing.

And three, it creates the opportunity for all of us to be together under one roof,” Alexander said.

Vectra Bank has assets of $3 billion and works mostly with businesses across its 35 branch locations in Colorado and Farmington, N.M. For more stories like this, subscribe at denvergazette.com

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COMBINED NOTICE - RESTART - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-109(2)(b)(II) FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0455-2019 Republished to restart foreclosure stayed by bankruptcy and reset sale date.

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 27, 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) CENTENNIAL HOTEL,LLC, A COLORADO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Original Beneficiary(ies) WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust April 30, 2013 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust May 02, 2013 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D3054750 Original Principal Amount $1,806,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $1,444,664.36 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. SEE LEGAL DESCRIPTION ATTACHED HERETO AS EXHIBIT "A" Also known by street and number as: 7770 S. PEORIA ST., ENGLEWOOD, CO 80112.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 02/24/2021, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 12/31/2020 Last Publication: 1/28/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/27/2020 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Drew P. Fein #48950 Rachel H Connor #50831 Neal K. Dunning #10181 Douglas W Brown #10429 Brown Dunning Walker Fein PC 2000 S. Colorado Blvd., Tower Two, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80222 (303) 329-3363 Attorney File # 3942-028 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 0455-2019 EXHIBIT A LEGAL DESCRIPTION The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, and is described as follows: A leasehold as created by that certain Second

Amended and Restated Ground Lease and Agreement dated January 25, 2010, as amended by First Amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Ground Lease and Agreement dated May 13, 2010, executed by Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority, “Authority”, and Centennial Hotel, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company, "Lessee", as referenced in document entitled ‘Memorandum and Notice of Second Amended and Restated Hotel Ground Lease and Agreement’ which was recorded January 27, 2010 under D0008428, for the term and upon and subject to all the provisions contained in said document and in said lease.

Parcel One: Lease Parcel 34A, B, C, D, E, Z and Y described as follows: A tract of land in Section 36, Township 5 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the NE corner of said Section 36;Thence North 89 Degrees 50 Minutes 13 Seconds West, 2640.92 feet to the NW corner of the NE ¼ of Section 36; Thence North 89 Degrees 51 Minutes 31 Seconds West, 1320.09 feet to the NW corner of the E ½ of the NW ¼ of said Section 36; Thence South 00 Degrees 18 Minutes 09 Seconds West, 1452.33 feet to a point on the Westerly line of the E ½ of the NW ¼ of said Section 36, said point being the Point of Beginning; Thence South 00 Degrees 18 Minutes 09 Seconds West, 200.01 feet along said Westerly line to a point on the Southerly line of the N ½ of the N ½ of the SE ¼ of the NW ¼ of said Section 36, said point being 3051.13 feet South and 2133.79 feet left of Runway 16L centerline;Thence South 02 Degrees 02 Minutes 00 Seconds East, 356.12 feet to a point on the Northerly right-of-way line of East Control Tower Road, being 3407.25 feet South and 2133.79 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L; Thence South 87 Degrees 58 Minutes 00 Seconds West, 252.29 feet to a point on the Northerly right-of-way line of East Control Tower Road, and the Easterly right-of-way line of South Peoria Street being 3407.25 feet South and 1881.50 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L;Thence along a curve to the right having a central angle of 90 Degrees 00 Minutes 00 Seconds, a radius of 78.00 feet and an arc length of 122.52 feet, being 3329.25 feet South and 1803.50 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L along the Easterly right-of-way of South Peoria Street; Thence along a reverse curve to the left having a central angle of 55 Degrees 43 Minutes 29 Seconds, a radius of 158.50 feet and an arc length of 154.15 feet being 3198.28 feet South and 1734.26 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L along the Easterly right-of-way of South Peoria Street; Thence along a reverse curve to the right having a central angle of 55 Degrees 43 Minutes 29 Seconds, a radius of 75 feet and an arc length of 72.94 feet being 3136.30 feet South and 1701.50 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L along the Easterly rightof-way of South Peoria Street; Thence North 02 Degrees 02 Minutes 00 Seconds West, 285.01 feet to a point being 2851.29 feet South and 1701.5 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L along the Easterly right-of-way line of South Peoria Street; Thence North 87 Degrees 58 Minutes 00 Seconds East, 440.44 feet to the Point of Beginning, being 2851.29 feet South and 2141.94 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Parcel Two: A part of lease Parcel 34X described as follows A tract of land in Section 36, Township 5 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the NE corner of said section 36; Thence North 89 Degrees 50 Minutes 13 Seconds West, 2640.92 feet to the NW corner of the NE ¼ of said Section 36; Thence North 89 Degrees 51 Minutes 31 Seconds West 1320.09 feet to the NW ¼ of the E ½ of the NW ¼ of said Section 36; Thence South 00 Degrees 18 Minutes 09 Seconds West 1452.33 feet to a point on the Westerly line of the E ½ of the NW ¼ of said Section 36, said point being the point of beginning of Parcel 34B, and the True Point of Beginning of the within described parcel; Thence South 87 Degrees 58 Minutes 00 Seconds West 440.44 feet to a point being 2851.29 feet South and 1701.50 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L and the Easterly right-of-way of Peoria Street; Thence North 02 Degrees 02 Minutes 00 Seconds West, 110.00 feet to a point being 2741.29 feet South and 1701.50 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L and the Easterly right-of-way line of Peoria Street; Thence North 87 Degrees 58 Minutes 00 Seconds East, 135.00 feet to a point being 2741.29 feet South and 1836.50 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L; Thence South 46 Degrees 59 Minutes 13 Seconds East, 70.65 feet to a point being 2791.29 feet South and 1886.42 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L; Thence North 87 Degrees 58 Minutes 00 Seconds East 257.97 feet to a point being 2791.29 feet South and 2144.39 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L and on the Westerly line of the E ½ of the NW ¼ of said Section 36; Thence South 00 Degrees 18 Minutes 09 Seconds West, 60.05 feet to the Point of Beginning, being 2851.29 feet South and 2141.94 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Legal Notice NO. 0455-2019 First Publication: 12/31/2020 Last Publication: 1/28/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0201-2020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

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On October 23, 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) CHARLENE J. HADYNSKI Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt ABS Loan Trust VI Date of Deed of Trust May 21, 2007 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 11, 2007 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B7073821 Original Principal Amount $28,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $23,477.16 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 40, BLOCK 3, ROUNDTREE PHASE I DENVER TECHNICAL CENTER (AMENDED), ACCORDING TO THE MAP THEREOF FILED MAY 23, 1972 IN PLAT BOOK 22 AT PAGE 41 AND THE FIRST AMENDED DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS, AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED FEBRUARY 26, 1973 IN BOOK 2103 AT PAGE 599. COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 5977 S WILLOW WAY, GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO 80111-5120.

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 9/13/2017 AT RECEPTION NO. D7104308 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, 02/24/2021, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 12/31/2020 Last Publication: 1/28/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/23/2020 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Anna Johnston #51978 Randall Chin #31149 Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000008662926 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. 0201-2020 First Publication: 12/31/2020 Last Publication: 1/28/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE RESTART - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-109(2)(b)(II) FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0173-2020

Republished to restart foreclosure stayed by bankruptcy and reset sale date.

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 6, 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) DALE E. MCDONALD AND DARLENE S. MCDONALD Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AAAE FINANCIAL, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY AS TRUSTEE FOR INDYMAC INDX MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-AR6, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2006-AR6 Date of Deed of Trust February 16, 2006 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 23, 2006 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B6024113 Original Principal Amount $141,300.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $127,262.29 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION PURSUANT TO AFFIDAVIT OF SCRIVENER'S ERROR RECORDED ON 6/15/2020 AT RECEPTION NO. E0070479 TO CORRECT LEGAL DESCRIPTION. Also known by street and number as: 2854 W. CENTENNIAL DR. UNIT F, LITTLETON, CO 80123.

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 06/15/2020 AT RECEPTION NO. E0070479 IN THE RECORDS OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 03/10/2021, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 1/14/2021 Last Publication: 2/11/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 11/06/2020 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 David R. Doughty #40042 Alison L Berry #34531 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 19-022770 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 0173-2020

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CONDOMINIUM UNIT F, THE STEEPLECHASE III CONDOMINIUMS, TOGETHER WITH GARAGE NO. F, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 19, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. A8187114 IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR THE STEEPLECHASE III CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED ON MAY 28, 1997 AT RECEPTION NO. A7062094, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Legal Notice NO. 0173-2020 First Publication: 1/14/2021 Last Publication: 2/11/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

City and County Public Notice CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING RELATED TO THE ACQUISITION BY EMINENT DOMAIN OF A PERMANENT EASEMENT IN REAL PROPERTY

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Centennial will consider an ordinance entitled “AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO AUTHORIZING THE ACQUISITION BY EMINENT DOMAIN OF A PERMANENT EASEMENT IN REAL PROPERTY SITUATED IN ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTING A PORTION OF THE LONE TREE CREEK TRAIL PROJECT” City Council will consider the Ordinance (2021O-02) at a public hearing on February 1, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard.

The hearing will be held virtually in Centennial, Colorado at the above noted time and date. The public may access the live audio streaming of this meeting via the City’s website at: https://www. centennialco.gov/Government/Mayor-Council/ City-Council-Meetings/Agendas-Minutes

Further information concerning the proposed amendments may be obtained by calling the City of Centennial Community Development Department at 303-754-3308.

Legal Notice No. 524848 - 60136 First Publication: January 14, 2021 Last Publication: January 14, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

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