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A look at what city has in store Jones District, ‘intelligent’ traffic, city’s branding efforts to push forward

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Autopsy photos of 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan. A veteran law enforcement officer falling apart on the stand as he described cradling Veronica while rushing her away from the Aurora theater shooting scene.

Later in his terms, walking two schools frozen in a moment of terror — backpacks strewn about, overturned desks, burn marks on the walls — after gunmen opened fire on their classmates.

Brauchler’s hands-on management of big cases, along with his overall approach to criminal justice in a diverse, politically divided district also forged reputations.

Some of the most prominent projects in Centennial saw developments in 2020, and more changes — reshaping part of the Interstate 25 corridor and tackling traffic congestion — may take hold in 2021.

Those come in the form of possible construction at the longplanned Jones District development in central Centennial and the city’s own effort to complete a traffic-signal adjustment system.

The start of 2021 sees Centennial still waiting to see what the next move is for developers at The Streets at SouthGlenn outdoor mall, where redevelopment plans have inched along for nearly two years in the public eye.

Deeper than those changes is an ongoing push for the city — now coming up on its 20th anniversary — to better brand itself and grasp a clearer identity.

“We identify ourself as a city of neighborhoods, and we want to spend more time listening to the neighborhoods and how they

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Former 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler, who was term-limited, has left office after eight years in the job.

PHOTOS BY JESSICA GIBBS

Brauchler closes out tenure as DA For eight years, he helmed state’s largest district to praise, criticism

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Former DA George Brauchler packs up his office roughly one week before leaving office.

His time helming Colorado’s largest judicial district began and ended with shootings that horrified the nation.

Cases like those — the 2012 Aurora theater shooting and the STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting of 2019 — left former 18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler with memories that haunt him.

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County accepting relief applications for small businesses State funds originally intended for minority owners change eligibility

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Arapahoe County announced in early January that small businesses affected by the pandemic can apply to receive “direct relief payments” as part of a relief program approved by the state Legislature last month.

The state’s program, part of a package of 10 bills generally aimed at helping Colorado’s economic recovery amid the pandemic, provided $37 million

in relief to small businesses with revenue of less than $2.5 million, $7.5 million to arts and cultural organizations, and $4 million to minority-owned businesses. Those measures came via state Senate Bill 20B-001.

Arapahoe County applied for part of that relief funding and was allocated $4 million, according to a Jan. 14 letter to the county from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs. Eligible businesses can apply for funding until Jan. 31, a county news release said.

Funds will be allocated to restaurants, bars, caterers, movie theaters, gyms and recreation centers that meet specific eligibility requirements, according to the county news release.

The program includes the fol-

lowing guidelines: • Businesses that previously received 2020 federal CARES Act funding are not eligible.

• The maximum amount of funding a business can receive is $7,000. If application demand is greater than the funding received, the county will prioritize funding for eligible small businesses with receipts of less than $500,000, followed by those with receipts between $500,000 and $1 million.

Small businesses should prepare to apply by reviewing the sample application and all program requirements at arapahoegov.com/ SBRF. The requirements specify that businesses who apply for the more general small-business funding “cannot also receive funding from

(the) ‘Arts Relief Program’ or the ‘Minority Owned Business Relief Program’ established by (Senate Bill) 20B-001.”

Minority business program modified

In light of a court challenge preventing the release of at least some of the state’s funds, the state Legislature retooled the minorityowned business relief program.

The new bill instead targets “disproportionately impacted business,” a term that in the bill means a business that has been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and meets any of the following criteria: • Has five or fewer employees, including the business owner; SEE COUNTY, P5

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For LPS, transition presents challenges Littleton Public Schools facing uncertainty amid vaccine delays, growing quarantines

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Eliot Ewy was getting pretty tired of online school.

After Littleton Public Schools returned to all-online instruction in November, the 7-year-old firstgrader at Centennial Elementary spent the tail end of fall semester staring at a laptop on school days.

The district had begun the fall semester on hybrid schedules for middle and high school students — meaning they were only in classrooms two days a week, with the other three online — and with normal five-day weeks for elementary students.

Sharing a house with two parents working from home, two older brothers also in online school, and five pets felt stifling. Gym class over Zoom, consisting of tossing balled-up socks around the room, was pretty boring.

In the afternoons, Ewy would wander the neighborhood, looking for someone to play with. There weren’t many.

“After the COVID, can we have a party with everyone we know?” she would ask her parents. “After the COVID, can we have a sleepover that lasts for two weeks?”

When she returned to Ms. Taft’s classroom on Jan. 5, joining more than 5,000 LPS elementary school students returning for full-day inperson learning five days a week for the first time since November, she was thrilled.

“I missed seeing my friends and the teacher actually alive,” Ewy said. “Online school was terrible.

I do miss being in pajamas all day, though.”

The transition still presents some challenges. She’s glad to be back in gym class, though running while wearing a face mask gets old.

Sometimes she forgets to sit on the assigned spots far from her friends in the cafeteria.

“Corona is still here and I have to be careful,” she said. “But it feels so good to be back. Actually, it feels great.”

As classes resume, so do quarantines

As elementary classrooms across the district fill back up, children, parents and teachers say they’re excited to resume not just academic instruction but the work of socializing the next generation.

Current plans call for middle and high school students to come back for hybrid learning — that’s three days a week online and two days in classrooms — on a phased-in schedule in coming weeks.

But warning signs loom. Just a

week into the semester, positive cases among staff and students were triggering more quarantines of exposed staff and students, as they did before schools shut down last fall.

Jan. 8: two staff and 22 students at East Elementary quarantined.

Jan. 11: two staff and 20 students at Field Elementary. Jan. 14: three staff and 25 students at Field, again. Later the same day: three staff and 116 students at Franklin Elementary.

“It doesn’t bode well,” said Superintendent Brian Ewert. “If we keep seeing a quarantine a day, this will get pretty tricky. We just don’t have the substitute teachers to cover this. There will be a point the system collapses. If we have to close schools again, we will, but we’re not there yet. Any day kids are in schools is a good day.”

The district’s shutdown last fall was driven not by a fear of virus spread within schools, Ewert said, but an inability to keep classrooms properly staffed in the face of evergrowing quarantine lists.

“We continue to assert that schools are safe,” Ewert said. “But that’s only if we keep them safe.

Elementary schools are smaller, and the kids are easier to keep in cohorts. If we crammed 2,000 kids back in Arapahoe High School, it would be far harder to control spread.”

Just under 600 elementary school students remain in TOPS, an allonline alternative to in-person learning, according to district figures.

Shot in the dark

Meanwhile, administrators and teachers are frustrated at an 11th-hour reshuffling of the state’s COVID vaccine priority list that pushed teachers farther down the line.

After initially announcing teachers would be in the earlier rounds of vaccinations, Gov. Jared Polis announced in the final days of 2020 they would be pushed back behind everyone age 70 and older.

“I get the need to vaccinate the elderly, because that’s where most of the deaths are coming from, but I really don’t understand why we can’t be taking care of them and teachers at the same time,” said LPS school board President Jack Reutzel. “If the point is to protect the most vulnerable and get the economy going again, that can’t happen until we can get kids back in school and keep them there.

That means vaccinating teachers.”

The vaccination schedule was not a significant factor in the decision to reopen schools, Reutzel said.

“We thought the vaccine was coming at some point, but we didn’t know when,” he said. “But we have a huge need to get kids back in schools. They collaborate and communicate better. Their SEE LPS, P5

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‘Being in education is about relationships’ Smoky Hill leader awarded as Colorado High School Principal of the Year

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Principal Chuck Puga keeps up a consistent presence in Smoky Hill High School’s classrooms and hallways, making sure not to fall out of touch with what everyday life is like for his students.

“I’m always around,” Puga says.

And sometimes, he brings his dog along.

“The great thing about Mr. Puga is, no matter what classes you’re taking or how involved you are — it doesn’t matter if you’re valedictorian or if the first time you interact with something at Smoky is graduation — he makes himself available to students,” said Manar Jeelani, student body vice president at Smoky Hill.

Jeelani and Elishevlyne Eliason, student body president, were among those who assembled on Jan. 14 to congratulate Puga for winning the 2020 Colorado High School Principal of the Year award. The award was announced last May, but COVID-19 concerns prevented an award presentation, so school officials surprised Puga with a celebration eight months later.

“I had no idea that this was going to happen today,” said Puga, who

Smoky Hill High School Principal Chuck Puga smiled and posed for photos on Jan. 14 during a surprise celebration to commemorate his winning of the 2020 Colorado High School Principal of the Year award. He held up the commemorative clear tablet in front of a PHOTOS BY ELLIS ARNOLD small crowd at the high school.

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part of his 26 years with Douglas County School District. All told, this is his 32nd year in public education.

Integral to his leadership style is being accessible, a trait that “builds trust in what we do,” Puga said.

His advice for those who hope to become school leaders: “Work on building relationships first because when you do that, you can work together to reach goals on both sides,” Puga said. “Being a teacher, being in education, is about relationships.”

Lately, Puga is especially proud of how his school is working toward greater equity, trying to provide opportunities “for every kid.”

“We’re trying to understand who’s in our building” and understand their background and diversity, Puga said. “Whether it be academically, athletically (or) social-emotionally.”

But his favorite part of life at Smoky is simple: “We have a great community, a close community, great kids,” Puga said.

He lamented that students’ positive endeavors go “underreported” because they aren’t as eye-catching as when something goes wrong, he said.

“It’s amazing the things that kids do that they don’t get recognized for,” Puga added.

From her position in student government, Eliason has seen a disconnect between school administration and the student body, but Puga helps bridge that gap, Eliason said, adding that students at Smoky don’t have to fear backlash about proposing ideas or speaking out about issues.

At some schools, administration can seem like a “mythical” creature — distant and difficult to work with, Jeelani said.

But Puga “stands with the people rather than above them,” Jeelani added. “He’s so kind and empathetic.”

“You have to be there to under-

Smoky Hill High Principal Chuck Puga holds up the 2020 Colorado High School Principal of the Year award, presented by the Colorado Association of School Executives. The award was announced last May, but due to COVID-19 concerns, officials did not hold an award presentation at the time.

Principal Chuck Puga poses with the 2020 Colorado High School Principal of the Year award, flanked by Manar Jeelani, Smoky Hill High’s student body vice president, on left, and Elishevlyne Eliason, Smoky Hill’s student body president.

stand — and once you do, there’s no going back,” Eliason said. “I can’t imagine being at any other school.”

The Colorado Association of School Executives presented Puga with the Principal of the Year award. The association provides networking opportunities and advocacy regarding public education, among other services.

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mental health is better. I’m confident it was the right decision.”

Time will tell whether the district can stick to the schedule to bring the upper grades back. As of press time, middle school students were scheduled to return to hybrid learning in mid-January, with high schoolers following in late January. A tentative return to full-week, full-day instruction for all students is planned for April.

“We’re at a tipping point already,” Reutzel said. “We have enough substitutes for now, but what about when we bring back the higher grades?”

There are improvements over last fall.

The district recently opened a COVID testing site adjacent to Littleton High School, operated by COVID Check Colorado, which is available at no charge to teachers, students, and the community at large. District officials are rolling out district-wide saliva tests that can provide results in 8-10 hours.

‘The younger they are, the worse it is’

Teachers are generally pleased with the decision to return to classrooms, said Amanda Crosby, head of the teachers’ union.

“I’m hearing positive things,” she said. “Teachers are pretty frustrated with the governor on the vaccines thing, but we really appreciate everything the district has done to get us rolling.”

Some teachers, including those who work closely with students with special needs, have been able to get vaccinated, she said.

Returning to in-person learning is an

important step for student success, she said, and critical for the youngest learners.

“As bad as we all want to be back inperson, the younger kids need prioritizing,” she said. “At sixth grade and up, they can take more responsibility for their own learning. Kindergartners and first-graders can’t do it on their own.

It’s not good for any kid to be online all day, but the younger they are, the worse it is.”

‘They need to speak up’

In-person learning means the world to the littlest learners, said Joan Bast, a kindergarten teacher at Sandburg Elementary.

“Online learning was pretty hard on them,” Bast said. “They need to speak up, and they have a tough time with that on a screen.”

Online school was particularly tough on parents and families, Bast said.

“Kindergartners are not independent,” she said. “Posting assignments for them means it’s an assignment for their parents, many of whom are trying to do their own jobs. For my kids in day cares, what they could do on their end was dependent on when their caregivers could get to them.”

Bast said she is keenly aware that the district may have to return to online learning, or that her students may end up back in quarantine. But for now, she’s enjoying the time she has with them.

“I’ve always loved my job, but this year brought a new appreciation,” she said. “The world of grown-ups is so hard right now, but these kids are so innocent and sweet and joyful and just glad to be with their friends. Kids are the best.”

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• Is a minority-owned business; • Is located in an “economically distressed area,” a government term explained in the bill; • The business owner lives in an economically distressed area; • The business owner has low or moderate income, as determined by the Colorado Office of Economic Development; • The business owner has low or moderate personal wealth, based on household net worth as determined by the office; • Or the business owner has had “diminished opportunities to access capital or credit.”

The state House on Jan. 15 passed the revision, state Senate Bill 21-001, by a vote of 47-16, according to a news release by House Democrats. Read the bill at leg.colorado. gov/bills/sb21-001.

For minority-owned businesses, accumulating capital, purchasing property and starting a business have “always been” more difficult due to the long-lasting impacts of discriminatory systems that are “only exacerbated by the pandemic,” the news release from House Democrats argued.

“These disparities are the result of generations of discrimination through laws and practices that restrict employment and housing opportunities and limit access to loans and banking, practices which continue today,” the release continued.

The Legislature approved the relief package of 10 bills on Dec. 2 at the end of a three-day special session that Gov. Jared Polis called amid continued stalls in Congress of further relief.

In addition to the usual, 120-day regular legislative session — the part of the year in winter and spring when state lawmakers pass bills — the state Legislature can also conduct business in special sessions such as the one seen last month.

The governor can call a special session or the Legislature can call itself into special session as provided for in the Colorado Constitution, according to a fact sheet from the Legislature’s Office of Legislative Legal Services.

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perceive the city they’re residing in,” said Matt Sturgeon, Centennial’s city manager.

Sturgeon talked to Colorado Community Media about what 2020 brought the city and what’s on the horizon in 2021. Here are some of the highlights.

SouthGlenn timeline still obscure

After a March 2019 meeting kicked off the publicly watched process to redevelop The Streets at SouthGlenn, possible changes at Centennial’s flagship shopping development have been closely followed by area residents.

One of the two main companies involved — Alberta Development Partners — said developers may submit a formal proposal to the city sometime around the start of fall, but months have passed with no submittal.

Developers “haven’t told us when they plan to submit,” Sturgeon said. “Honestly, we don’t know what the COVID (pandemic) has done to their project timelines.

Both parties are probably trying to figure out what the environment looks like based on the pandemic and economy.”

The Sears property that closed near the end of 2018 at SouthGlenn is owned by Northwood Investors, which wants to add apartments there. Alberta wants to put in apartments and office space, and possibly retail and entertainment

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Felsburg, Holt and Ullevig, an engineering and planning firm, collected new traffic counts for the SouthGlenn area, the firm wrote in a March 2020 letter, but it did not recommend revisions to its earlier traffic analysis. Residents have voiced concerns about the potential for more traffic around the mall.

After the public reviews the developers’ proposal, it still must undergo scrutiny from the Centennial Planning and Zoning Commission, a body of citizens who make development recommendations to city council.

Then it faces a city council vote, an event still likely months away.

Jones to see construction

A mammoth development that may take as long as 20 more years to reach completion may soon see its status as a mostly vacant field start to change this year.

The 42-acre swath of land on East Mineral Avenue just north of IKEA is expected to largely consist of office buildings, which could be up to 15 stories high along Interstate 25. But hotel, residential and retail spaces also are part of the vision.

Plans were initially submitted to the city in March 2013. The development’s first effort, The Glenn apartments, started leasing at the end of February 2018.

A company called Brue Baukol is selling pieces of land to other entities, acting as what’s called the “master developer,” Sturgeon

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said. The plan for how the street grid will look was approved in past couple months.

City staff have been working with Brue Baukol to identify “smart city” infrastructure opportunities for the project, making sure it’s positioned for emerging technology such as electric-vehicle charging stations and fiber-optic cable. That’s a technology that provides easy access to broadband infrastructure, Sturgeon said — in other words, faster internet service.

Projects coming soon at The Jones District include two apartment sites. One is the Embrey Multi-Family parcel of 304 units, according to Allison Wittern, city spokeswoman. Plans could see final approval in the first quarter of 2021, with construction later this year. Also on the way is another Embrey Multi-Family parcel of 305 units, anticipated for the same time frame.

‘Intelligent’ traffic system

Centennial’s Intelligent Transportation System will ultimately be a far-reaching network of traffic sensors to adjust the timing of traffic lights more accurately based on traffic levels.

The old method of timing is based on traffic studies that log rush hour in morning and evening, lunchtime traffic and so on, Sturgeon said.

“That’s where the frustration is.

You might be on road on a holiday or a Monday, and you’ll have to wait,” regardless of what actual traffic levels are, Sturgeon said.

Implementation of the ITS master plan began in 2017. City staff are now in the “final push” after spending 2020 and 2019 installing hardware out in the field, Sturgeon said. That includes the sensors and the fiber-optic cable connections.

Centennial’s task is now to “simply put, light it up in 2021,” Sturgeon said.

The pilot — or starter — piece of the effort was known as “Project Mercury,” a collaboration between Centennial, Lone Tree and Greenwood Village on South Yosemite Street. Sensors have gathered data on Yosemite all the way from Lincoln to Belleview avenues. The three cities finished the installation of new “smart” traffic signals along Yosemite in 2020.

Now, traffic lights on Centennial’s major corridors will soon see the predictive technology. The majority of traffic signals will be connected to the ITS, Wittern said.

How residents ‘perceive the city’

As part of Centennial’s conscious effort to strengthen citizens’ feelings of city identity — and to let drivers know they’re in Centennial, given the city’s snaking borders — plans to add “city identity signage” continue in 2021.

Near the end of 2018, the city put up a “monument” sign on Yosemite Street south of Arapahoe Road, and it also installed two “banner” signs along Smoky Hill Road.

Other than putting up signs, the city is brainstorming other ways to project or solidify an image, Sturgeon said.

“Are there other things we should be doing that we’re not that we don’t fully understand?” Sturgeon said.

The city’s celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2021 “has given new energy to that conversation,” Sturgeon added.

“We’re going to be reaching out more to our neighborhoods and having dialog with our residents about how they perceive the city they live in and things (we) should be thinking about,” Sturgeon said.

Centennial man found dead after search Brian Patterson appeared to have gone missing in Rampart Range area

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The body of a man identified as Brian Patterson of Centennial, whose vehicle was found in a recreational area of Douglas County, was located during a search by multiple agencies, the Douglas County Sheriff ’s Office announced on Jan. 17.

“No foul play is suspected. We appreciate the hard work of all the agencies and search-and-rescue teams involved,” the sheriff ’s office said in a Jan. 17 tweet.

The Douglas County volunteer search-and-rescue team was looking in the Rampart Range area — west of Castle Rock — for Patterson on Jan. 16, according to

a tweet from the organization. Patterson was last seen Jan. 12.

Patterson “told a neighbor he was going ATV riding in the mountains, never showed up for work on the 14th. Our deputies conducted a welfare check but did not notice foul play,” the Arapahoe County Sheriff ’s Office tweeted Jan. 16.

A vehicle believed to be Patterson’s was located at the Dakan off-highway vehicle trailhead on Jan. 15, according to a Douglas search-and-rescue team tweet.

Patterson was reportedly driving a 2011 green Polaris 500 all-terrain vehicle, according to the tweet.

Patterson’s body was found Jan. 16. It was not clear exactly where Patterson’s body was located.

Douglas County sheriff ’s spokespersons did not immediately respond for comment Jan. 17.

The Douglas County Coroner’s Office identified the body, according to a Douglas sheriff ’s office tweet.

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Pet adoption?

I don’t have the facts in front of me about calories and alcohol, just the assumption that both are true.

There are facts, however, that show Craig Marshall pet adoption in the Smith past year was not only way up but highly competitive.

Adoption agencies all over the country are experiencing something unique: They’re running out of pets; some have seen double the requests for dogs since the pandemic came along.

This is good news, but it comes with some bad news and an advisory (from me).

According to the Better Busi-

ness Bureau, “The number of complaints about fraudulent and nonexistent breeders has never been higher.”

At times, humans are an industriously evil lot.

If there’s a market value in deception, mankind will find it.

Dogs, cats, birds, fish, and even ferrets are “going like hotcakes,” said one operator of an animal shelter in Maryland.

Why? I don’t have room to go through all of the reasons why Harry enhances my life and makes it worth waking up every morning and chewing (as Emo Phillips said) through the leather straps.

Today, 35.7 million Americans live alone. When quarantined, that’s a lot of solitary souls trying to make the best of it — psychologically.

I can’t think of anything better than spending the day with Harry.

I’d take him over Audrey Hepburn.

And that would have been true before “social distancing.”

On January 6, like everyone else, I watched the horrific events unfold in Washington, D.C., glued to the

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Given the large number of reports and identifications of law enforcement officers who traveled to D.C. and participated in the seditious assault upon the Capitol, shouldn’t all law enforcement agencies in Colorado provide an accounting to the public of their personnel (to include volunteers, e.g. community service volunteers and reserve officers) on that day to provide assurance that none traveled to D.C. to participate in the terrorist assault on our nation’s Capitol?

And given the extensive national effort by thousands of Trump supporters that was put into the lawlessness in D.C., and the significant amount of chatter on web pages and social media, shouldn’t all Colorado law enforcement agencies put the FBI’s dedicated tip line for the Capitol Hill assault on their website homepages so that citizens can provide any information that they might have regarding the terrorists that participated in, or aided and abetted, one of the worst crimes in American history?

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screen and mesmerized, revolted, saddened and disgusted.

Harry?

Harry came to me with a leash in his mouth.

Three of my friends adopted cats last year and they weren’t random acts: Each had owned cats in the past.

The advisory I mentioned is just this: Pets, especially dogs, require time, money, and commitment — and respect.

Harry’s annual Wellness Exam is coming up. He’s on a prescription diet. His teeth have to be cleaned.

Dog ownership isn’t what it once was.

The American Pet Products Association estimated we spent $99 billion on pet industry expenditures in 2020.

Some of that might include stupid hats and costumes, but the majority went to food, training, and medical care.

Although Hexe, my boyhood dachshund, was loved, she was treated very differently than I treat Harry. Dogs were, well, dogs back then. Now they are important mem-

bers of the family.

In the absence of a family, Harry is my son. His well-being is my well-being.

Experts warn that “adoptions should not be spontaneous,” but there probably were a few of those.

Research beforehand helps. There are sites (adoptapet.com, for example) that will help you determine which (breed) dog is best for you.

As great as dachshunds are, they’re not for everyone. Some of you may remember Smitty. He was adopted, at the age of 5, from the great, no-kill MaxFund Shelter in Denver.

I was his third owner. It’s my understanding he may have nipped a child who was playing too aggressively with Smitty when he was a puppy.

Please: Do your homework.

Mark Twain said, “The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.”

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

The grand illusion in the land of confusion

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usic just seems to have a way of connecting us with feelings of inspiration, motivation, adventure, romance, sorrow, and love. We WINNING can remember WORDS where we were the first time we heard those songs, and the people or person that we were with, and how we experienced the music.

Michael Norton Dating myself here as I share that I am a little stuck in the ‘70s and early ‘80s when it comes to my preferred genre of music. My playlists for working out, walking, or skiing are a collection of my favorite songs from that era.

This week, as I was listening to one of my playlists, I found the irony and prophetic wisdom in a couple of the songs that made it into my mix. The

first was Styx, “The Grand Illusion,” and the song that followed was Genesis, “Land of Confusion.” I asked myself: “Irony or prophecy?”

Styx’s “The Grand Illusion” lyrics caught my attention: “Welcome to the grand illusion, come on in and see what’s happening, pay the price, get your ticket for the show.”

It made me think of everything that has been going on in our country. The points of view, posts, political speeches, censorship and what the news covers and does not cover.

And just how serious of a situation we are in no matter what side we fall out on. And in the situations that we are finding ourselves in could well be described as the grand illusion that appears in our news and social media each day. Are we believing in the magic of the spin doctors on all sides and at every level, so much so, that we cannot determine what is real?

Genesis’ “The Land of Con-

fusion.” This was a unique political song for Genesis.

It refers to the thinking of world leaders at the time, specifically the United States and Russia. And on the heels of the Styx song mentioned above, “The Land of Confusion” filled my ears and my heart with the recognizable beat and lyrics. And as the song played, as loud as I could get it to play, I found myself anticipating and waiting for a particular part of the song, “There’s too many men, too many people, making too many problems, and not much love to go-’round, can’t you see this is the land of confusion.” Could it be any more spot-on today, especially considering that it was released in 1986? We need more love to go-’round.

As we all come to the same conclusion that it is an illusion and it is confusion, we will find ourselves thinking, “Now what?” For those of us

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New year, new possibilities

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new year is upon us and 2020 is but a bad memory.

It is important though, to learn what we can from the events of last year, to better prepare for any opportunities in 2021 FINANCIAL and beyond.

STRATEGIES It is hard to believe that a pandemic that hit the United States early last year will still be with us in full force a year later. This is a good example of what it feels like to plan for the unPatricia Kummer known, and why it is so important to do so.

Last year was riddled with many issues: economies shutting down, overrun hospitals, businesses closing, job loss, social unrest and political turmoil, just to name a few.

And many of these issues played out in the stock market, causing a significant correction, bear market and unprecedented recovery. These are all virtually impossible to plan for. Therefore, every plan should have flexibility for the unknowns

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terrorism. This division has been demonstrated heavily by news coverage, social media, and other forms of communication. I am writing to give my perspective on the issue.

My stance on the topic at hand became apparent when I was able to compare and contrast the events of the Black Lives Matter protests this summer and the protests that took place recently at the Capitol.

The difference that proved vital for me in these two events of protest were the motives that fueled the actions of the demonstrations.

The Black Lives Matter protests were carried out by a heavily marginalized group and those who

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not caught up in the mania that is taking place, we wonder how we should respond, what can we do, how do we live, work, and play amidst the illusion and confusion?

Here is the answer, just as we have seen magic shows and magicians live or on television, and then we get to see the hacks from behind the scenes, we are entertained for sure, but we accept it at face value.

It is magic. So, when we think of the grand illusion let’s look for the hack and the reality. Not trusting those who are trying to convince us through emotion but looking through the illusion and confusion by using our good judgment and common sense to draw our own conclusions.

One last song lyric from a tune

you cannot predict. Even for those who thought they could predict how the market would behave in these situations, many were wrong, and missed out on the strongest recovery in history.¹ Let’s look at the lessons learned here so we can be better stewards of our resources going forward.

• Trying to time the market almost never works. Remember the old adage, it is time in the market, not timing the market that brings the best results. March 2020 was a perfect example. Although we had a significant and quick decline, we had an equally significant and fast recovery.

• Emergency reserves are crucial at all times. The unemployment rate skyrocketed on a moment’s notice. Businesses were closing all year long, and the decline in the services sector was virtually impossible to predict. Having cash emergency reserves for at least six months’ living expenses may have been the difference in keeping your house, car and investments intact.

• Diversification is essential. Most investors wanted more cash and bonds in March but then drastically

concurred with their message. The chant for equality, “Black Lives Matter,” rang through the heads of Americans as we saw countless valiant efforts of underrepresented citizens fight for their voice and reject the unethical murders of those in their community. These protests led to the destruction of property and violence as many asked, “how can we harness the attention of those fit to incite change?”

In juxtaposition, the protesters at the Capitol brought violence and damage to our nation’s home.

Their reasoning was disrupting our nation’s democratic processes, under the guidance of the country’s leading firebrand, provoking and encouraging this ill-conceived behavior along the way.

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by the Moody Blues, “Late Lament.” Consistent with using good judgment and common sense, we remember the lyric in this Moody Blues’ classic, “But we decide which is right, and which is an illusion.”

How about you? Are there songs that remind you of certain times in your life? Do those songs resonate with you today based on the world we are living in? There are so many great classics from yesteryear that are just so relevant today and I would love to hear your favorites at mnorton@tramazing. com. And when we can work our way through the grand illusion and the land of confusion, 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.

wished they had more equities the rest of the year. This teaches us that proper diversification, based on your time frame, risk tolerance and income needs, is crucial all year long. When you have the right mix of conservative and growth investments, you can take distributions from the lower-risk assets and let the growth assets compound for longer periods of time, potentially helping offset future inflation.

• Don’t let emotions or politics drive your investment decisions.

Many investors and advisors alike thought the stock market would be negative in 2020. This concern started off with impeachment news without much concern (at that time) that we couldn’t avoid the pandemic quickly. Also trying to guess how an election year would affect the stock market can be a hopeless task. Many learned that lesson in 2016 as well.

• Bad times can create opportunity. Warren Buffett put it best when he said, “Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” Don’t underestimate innovation during difficult times.

There are many other reasons to be prepared and prudent, but the

main message is to build a flexible financial plan. Start with the basics, such as emergency reserves and proper portfolio design. Don’t get caught up in the hype, which you can now see was not beneficial during 2020.

Start the new year with goals to keep your plan current, review your portfolio, plan for taxes, update your estate plan and prepare for the unexpected. We believe these simple steps can better position you to handle future unknowns.

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Green chile is region’s signature food, with no shortage of controversy

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atch, Pueblo, Anaheim or an upstart from Greeley — Coloradans have differences of opinion on who grows green chiles best. But when it comes to the state’s love for the spicy fruit (yes, fruit), there’s not much debate to be found.

What you can find, almost everywhere, are green chile burgers, green chile burritos, green chiles in chocolate and wine. There’s green chile salsa, green chile sausages, chips with green chile and lime. But according to Eddie V., (last name withheld) originally from Pueblo, but calling Denver home for decades, for the true connoisseur, a bowl of green chile with a side of warm flour tortillas is all you’ll ever need.

New Mexico, let’s face it, is the 800-pound gorilla in the green chile game, with the tiny village of Hatch creating a smoky mystique from coast to coast. But Colorado has been making a respectable showing with the Mirasol, or Mosco chile, aka the Pueblo chile, grown in, you guessed it, Pueblo.

To say green chiles are popular in the city of Pueblo would be a notable understatement. Home to the Chile and Frijoles Festival, and perennial but friendly foe of the folks down in Hatch, the Southern Colorado city can claim serious chile cred. But about four hours north and a little bit east, Greeley is trying to get a piece of the action.

“My mother grew up on a farm, and wanted a produce stand when she was a child, and her dad said no. Then, when she got married, she still wanted one, and my father said no. When he died, she told my brother she wanted one, and he asked me what we should do, and I said: ‘Build her a produce stand!” said Tigges Farm’s Kathy Rickart.

Rickart comes from a Greeley family farm that goes back three generations. Pumpkins are the big cash crop at Tigges Farm, but if she has her way, Northern Colorado will, some day, compete with Pueblo for green chile glory — maybe even with Hatch. Rickart, with a background in 4-H education, developed her love of the green chile while spending seven years living and working in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Her brother, Kenneth Tigges, was running the family farm at that point — growing chiles without much local demand, when a neighbor told him he needed to start roasting them onsite, which was a game-changer.

In 2008, Rickart’s mother passed away. At that time, Rickart, her sister, Gale, and her brother officially

Tommyknockers Green Chile Lager at a PHOTO BY BOB WOOLEY Lakewood retailer.

An employee working the Santiago’s take-out window smiles for the camera at the PHOTO BY BOB WOOLEY company’s Brighton location.

took over the farm. They planted 5,000 chile plants that year. They’ve since quadrupled that number, and Rickart has sought out every bit of knowledge about green chiles she can find. Last year, even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which she said gave them their share of difficulties, her farm sold out of chiles, Sahuaro by name, completely. The season is shorter up north than in the warmer climes of New Mexico, so don’t dawdle if you aim to try a Greeley chile in the fall.

“As soon as we get the hard freezes, it puts an end to the season,” Rickart said. “Mother Nature rules, from beginning to end.”

The fabled Santiago’s

Carmen Morales knows a few things about green chile, and green chiles. Morales founded Santiago’s.

Her mother’s green chile recipe put the restaurant on the metro area’s culinary map 30 years ago. Now, with more than 28 locations, Santiago’s is virtually synonymous with breakfast burritos. But the green chile, she said, still reigns supreme.

Morales’ parents were originally from New Mexico, where she said her mom learned to cook.

“My dad had to have green chile at every meal or he would refuse to

eat,” she said. “To him, it wasn’t really a meal without it.”

So, her mom would make it from scratch every day. Morales said that scratch kitchen tradition continues to this day at every Santiago’s location. And when you see the numbers — the sheer volume of product they’re creating — it puts into perspective, what a massive undertaking it is.

“One year we purchased 1.8 million pounds of green chiles,” Morales said, “and sold 1.36 million gallons of green chile.”

Santiago’s gets all of those green chiles from Salem, New Mexico, not the storied Hatch. Morales says the farm they buy from is the only one they’ve found capable of producing what her restaurants need.

Santiago’s celebrated the 30th anniversary of their flagship location in Brighton earlier this month.

On the topic of things that are wildly popular in this state, Tommyknocker has been brewing craft beer in Idaho Springs for 26 years.

Brewmaster Steve Indrehus has been there the entire time, creating beer with hints of chocolate, pumpkin and citrus, but a mainstay, and the No. 2 seller in the lineup, is their Green Chile Lager. Other breweries make chile brews too, but Indrehus

Kathy Rickart, Kenneth Tigges and Gale Loeffler of Tigges Farm in Greeley.

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thinks drinkability is what sets Tommyknocker’s apart from the rest.

“A lot of the others are really hot and in the novelty category,” he said.

“Ours has green chile flavor and warmth, but it’s drinkable. We want people to drink one and want another, not get burned up by too much spice, too much alcohol — everything comes together to make a really nice balanced beer.”

Indrehus said it takes about 100 pounds of chiles — a blend of mild and hot Anaheims — to make every batch of lager.

Scented, not spicy

Beer’s not your bag? Green chile lovers who prefer a touch of the grape, rejoice.

Lescombes Vineyard has you covered. The New Mexico winery has been making Hatch Green Chile Wine since the late 1980s. Sandra Pacheco, national sales director at Lescombes, said the wine isn’t spicy.

“It’s more in the bouquet,” she said. “You’re getting the heat from the aroma, like the essence of a roasted chile, in the nose of the wine.”

Several stores in the metro area stock Hatch Green Chile Wine, if you’re so inclined.

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‘Apron Chronicles’ exhibit coming to end of journey

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istory Colorado at 1200 Broadway in Denver is a wonderful spot for family (or individual) visits on a winter — or actually, any — day. Exhibits take you back to the state’s years-ago history as well as slices of life today, SONYA’S or perhaps just yesterSAMPLER day. “Apron Chronicles,” which runs Jan. 23 to May 9 this year, is subtitled “A Patchwork of American RecolSonya Ellingboe lections” (prompted by aprons), and the traveling show is ending a 16-year journey across the nation.

It includes photographs, personal narratives and of course, fabric examples.

Open Monday-Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Members free, other admissions costs vary. 303-447-8679, historycolorado.org.

online checkout to receive free admission. Reserve in advance: admission by phone and web orders only, 303-832-8576 or www.kirklandmuseum.org.

Book club

We learned of the House Museum Book Club. Join the Molly Brown House and the Center for Colorado Women’s History (Evans House) in a collaborative book club. Free, meets on a Sunday in the even-numbered months of 2021, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. See History Colorado (www.historycolorado.org/house-museumbook-club) for titles, starting Feb. 7 with “Sweet Freedom’s Plains” by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore.

Call for artists

The Denver Art Museum has put out a call for artists’ proposals for a large-scale mural for reopening of the reimagined Martin Building and Sie Welcome Center.

It will tell a story of the Denver metro area’s vibrant art scene, be about 12 X 28 feet and welcome visitors ... Budgeted at $10,000 plus supplemental materials budget. Additional support for installation provided by the museum. Deadline is Feb. 12 at 11:59 p.m. Zoom session

JCC interactive lecture

Ada Florence Ashford, 95, is shown in her kitchen wearing the apron she put on first thing each morning in this 2004 photo by Kristina Loggia, part of the “Apron Chronicles” exhibit opening Jan. 23 at HisCOURTESY PHOTO tory Colorado.

Jan. 27 at 5:30 p.m. See RFP on the DAM website, www. denverartmuseum.org.

Piano recital

Pianist David Korevaar will perform a solo recital at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 26 at University of Colorado’s Grusin Hall. The program is called “Variations Fantastiques,” a journey through keyboard music from the Italian Renaissance to the Harlem Renaissance, with works by

Frescobaldi, C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, Clara and Robert Schumann and Margaret Bonds. It will be streamed live by cupresents.org. Pay as you can.

Kirkland Museum

Kirkland Museum in downtown Denver offers members free access to the Clyfford Still Museum across Bannock Street from Jan. 15 to 31. Use discount code BANNOCK during

JCC Mizel Arts and Cultural Center at 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver, continues events with a social justice theme.

Next: On March 24 at 7 p.m., African-American Jewish food historian and James Beard-winning author Michael Twitty will host an interactive lecture in advance of Passover about the shared narratives of diaspora and exodus between African-American and Jewish communities.

Opera competition

On March 20, the Denver Lyric Opera Guild will hold the 2021 final competition for young opera singers.

Details on the live-streamed afternoon competition will be coming up on the guild’s website at www.denverlyricoperaguild.org/2021-competition.

Virtual play gives every seat a good view ‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder’ will be streamed online

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As lights go up, young Monty D’Ysquith (Matt LaFontaine) has a visitor, a washerwoman — friend to his late mother — who informs him that he is ninth in line among the D’Ysquith heirs to the earldom of Highhurst, due to his mother’s romantic encounter with a Spanish musician and her subsequent disowning by the snooty family.

Hmmm....!

Aaron Szindler appears as the D’Ysquith Family — an especially

cleverly written part of the script — one needs to pay attention! Sibella is played by Jennasea Pearce, Phoebe by Mica DominguezRobinson, Miss Shingle by veteran actress LuAnn Buckstein, and Willa Bograd plays Miss Barley and other assorted characters.

Monty is in jail, writing his memoirs, and we begin to learn of his ascent to that earldom ...

He was in love with haughty Miss Sibella Hallward, who has rejected him, due to his humble station in life ... A plot develops in his mind ... what if he were the earl??? (Eight people would have to die first.)

That’s the story that launches “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder,” a musical written by Robert L. Freedman, with book and lyrics

by Stephen Lutvak, based on a

novel by Roy Horniman.

Matthew Kepler directs this funny musical for Town Hall Arts Center in Littleton, and tickets are on sale for a pair of online performances, streamed to your homes at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 and 30. See Town Hall’s website for connection to tickets. ($15 and up — pay what you can. TownHallArtsCenter.org.)

The clever commoner visits the family castle meeting the current Earl, Reverend Lord Lord Adelbert D’Ysquith, and gets a rundown on the family, including talks with the ancestors on the wall! (My favorite part!) The current earl is rude and chases him out.

Monty gets a job in the family banking business and begins to plot.

Starting with the elderly Reverend Lord Ezekial D’Ysquith, fam-

ily members begin to disappear in fairly ingenious — and individual ways ... a song and hilarious miniplot accompanies each departure.

Lady Hyacinth D’Ysquith is a bit of a challenge, until Monty sends her to visit a cannibal tribe ... Beekeeper Lord Henry is scented with lavender and stung to death.

Monty continues to pursue the now-married Sibella and other family members meet carefully planned fates.

Act Two begins with “Why are All the D’Yquiths Dying?” and proceeds with an encore of “Poison in my Pocket ...”

We, of course, wish we could enjoy this in one of Town Hall’s cozy theater seats, but This sounds like a better than usual way to spend a Friday or Saturday night to me ...

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BRAUCHLER FROM PAGE 1

Brauchler, a Republican, is a lawand-order man, skilled prosecutor, trusted friend, and some believe, destined for higher office. To others, he’s a punitive district attorney, partisan politician, and blind to racial disparities in criminal justice.

Arapahoe County Democrats “are happy to see George Brauchler go,” party chair Kristin Mallory said.

“He definitely doesn’t represent Arapahoe County,” she said.

Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock, a Republican, hopes this is far from the last Colorado has seen of Brauchler.

“I’d like to see that guy as my congressman,” Spurlock said.

Brauchler’s successor, John Kellner, asked him to stay on as special prosecutor for the upcoming STEM School shooting trial. He’ll continue serving part-time on the case, but as of Jan. 12 his eight years as district attorney are over.

One week before leaving office, the term-limited DA stood surrounded by years’ worth of files making their way into moving boxes. Brauchler has packed up and left. Where he’s going remains to be seen.

Big cases, diverse district

State Rep. Tom Sullivan came to know Brauchler in 2012 as the recently elected district attorney took on prosecuting the Aurora theater shooter. Sullivan’s son Alex died on his 27th birthday in the rampage that left 11 more dead.

January 21, 2021J Former District Attorney George Brauchler will stay on with the 18th Judicial District part-time to help finish the STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting case.

PHOTO BY JESSICA GIBBS

For more than three years, Sullivan’s family worked closely with Brauchler while the case raged on. Since then Sullivan said he’s stepped back to look at the bigger picture of Brauchler’s career.

“He’s pretty much shown that he is a party-over-person legislator of the people,” Sullivan said.

Sullivan, a Democrat, went on from the shooting to flip House District 37 in 2018 and today represents portions of Centennial and unincorporated Arapahoe County.

The two men found themselves at political odds numerous times since, Sullivan said. Sullivan ran for office intent on addressing gun violence and took note when Brauchler advocated against gun control measures he pursued, Sullivan said.

They found some common ground when lawmakers repealed Colorado’s death penalty in 2020.

Brauchler, a Parker resident, has been a staunch supporter of capital

punishment, calling it a critical tool for holding the “worst of the worst” accountable. He still thinks the repeal should have been sent to a vote of the people rather than decided at the Capitol.

“They were gutless,” Brauchler said.

Sullivan had pleaded with his fellow lawmakers to keep capital punishment on the books.

Despite their shared support on the issue, Brauchler’s unsuccessful pursuit of it in the Aurora theater shooting case remains a point of contention for Sullivan, who is convinced the sole dissenting juror’s mind was made up “on Day 1.” He faults Brauchler’s team for not detecting that.

“They didn’t get the death penalty qualified jury on the case. I mean, it’s as simple as that,” Sullivan said.

That gun violence bookended Brauchler’s tenure — beginning with Aurora, ending with STEM School,

and the 2013 Arapahoe High School shooting in-between — is not lost on Sullivan.

The legislator wants a proactive approach to preventing gun violence, he said, but says Brauchler would rather “throw the book at them” once someone commits gun violence.

“He certainly hasn’t made us any safer. He certainly hasn’t done anything to stop that from happening in our community,” Sullivan said.

Brauchler has been asked why his community and surrounding areas have been hit with multiple cases of horrific gun violence. After eight years, the question still confounds him.

His community is filled with good people, he said, adding “I don’t think we are doing anything wrong.”

“I don’t know,” he said. “I truly don’t know. I want to say it’s a function of coincidence.”

‘What he’s built for’

Kellner, also a Republican, said the 18th has taken measures to curb gun violence, like through its “robust juvenile diversion program” that helps reduce recidivism rates and monitoring illegal gun sales.

The new district attorney first met Brauchler more than a decade ago at a military training course. When Brauchler asked him to join the 18th in 2012 and help start up a cold case unit, Kellner said “it was a no brainer.”

As a boss, Brauchler didn’t micromanage his staff, Kellner said.

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deputies free to make decisions “that we thought were best for our community.”

Kellner said some of his predecessor’s successes were building out problem-solving courts and launching a veteran treatment court, ventures he expected some district attorneys might pass up.

“He was willing to take those chances,” Kellner said.

Kellner also credited Brauchler as one of the people who influenced what his approach will be to highprofile cases.

“When there is something so impactful in the community, it’s up to the district attorney to be heavily involved and that often means trying the case,” Kellner said.

Working in the courtroom’s trenches also gives district attorneys crucial insight to advise prosecutors on hard cases, Kellner said.

Mallory, the Arapahoe County Democrats chair, said Brauchler missed the mark on some cases that gained widespread attention.

The district attorney’s office announced in January that Aurora police officers who handcuffed a Black family, including young children, at gunpoint after mistaking their vehicle as stolen will not face charges.

“We know JD 18 has refused to prosecute the cops in Aurora who put Black children face-down on hot pavement,” she said. “I think that reflects a failure.”

The office’s report on the incident described the officers’ actions as intolerable and in need of further investigation but not criminal.

Mallory believes Brauchler lacks “a full understanding of how white supremacy plays a role in our criminal justice system.”

Brauchler better represented the district’s other three counties, all Republican strongholds, Mallory said, while Arapahoe County is a working-class community. It’s diverse in terms of culture, religion and race, she said. Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties make up the remainder of the district.

Being “tough on crime” is also expensive, she said, as is pursuing the death penalty. In that regard, Brauchler was not financially responsible “or even a conservative DA for us,” she said.

In a word, she describes his approach to being district attorney as “punitive.” People in Arapahoe County need restorative justice that focuses on “root cause of crime,” she said.

Brauchler has been critical of rehabilitation programs but refutes any notion he’s against them.

“You’re talking also to the district attorney of an office that has the largest, most successful juvenile diversion program in the country,” he said. “You’re not talking to someone who is opposed to meaningful paths away from incarceration.”

He said “an increasingly progressive and forgiveness first” state Legislature is taking tools away from law enforcement and making rehabilitation programs too lenient.

Brauchler said the justice system must have predictable and meaningful sentences for offenders, and before that, communities that take responsibility for socioeconomic conditions leading people to crime.

Spurlock hopes Brauchler reaches Congress. He also hopes Brauchler becomes district attorney of the 23rd Judicial District, which will be Colorado’s newest in decades when Douglas, Lincoln and Elbert counties break off from the 18th in 2024.

“That’s what he’s built for,” Spurlock said.

He has made many after-hours call to Brauchler when crisis struck.

The district attorney stood by him as a guide and personal friend during the most traumatic moments for Spurlock since he became sheriff, Spurlock said.

When a gunman opened fire on several of his deputies, killing Deputy Zackari Parrish on New Year’s Eve in 2017, Brauchler rushed to the scene, arriving shortly after law enforcement confirmed Parrish’s death.

“The emotion that was there in the parking lot, the sense of loss and grief,” Brauchler said.

The district attorney was outof-state when the STEM School shooting unfolded, but immediately boarded a plane home when Spurlock phoned with the news.

“He was not afraid to get out of bed in the middle of the night and come to a major scene and be there and provide guidance and support, and law enforcement loved him for that,” Spurlock said.

Brauchler put an emphasis on getting justice for victims, Spurlock

said, in the courtroom and in other stages of criminal justice as well.

Spurlock credited Brauchler as instrumental in opening the Unified Metropolitan Forensic Crime Laboratory in 2018, hailed as one solution to shortening evidence-processing backlogs at the state lab.

Brauchler was also guided by “what was just and right,” Spurlock said, and didn’t prosecute based on politics. He called Brauchler “one of the fairest guys that I had ever come across in the DA (role).”

“We never had the discussion of politics, of well, what is the political landscape of this if we do this or that,” Spurlock said.

‘Blink of an eye’

The district has had “more than its share of big cases,” Brauchler said. The work never feels done.

Leaving the job was surreal.

“You take for granted how that constant pressure and that constant vigilance to stay on top of cases,” he said, “makes the time go by in the blink of an eye.”

Brauchler, 51, says he doesn’t know what his next job will be. Staying on the STEM case, a “personal and professional” priority for him, made committing to a new role difficult.

He might join a law firm. Holding elected office still interests him too, although the political climate today feels “super negative and so, super tribal,” Brauchler said, and he’s keenly aware Colorado is less purple than it once was. For now, he’s weighing his options.

“I am just old enough now to recognize that my unbridled ambition,” he said, “needs to be tempered.”

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BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

There is to be a 2021 Colorado high school basketball season — although nothing is certain during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Basketball practices for boys and girls were to begin on Jan. 18 and competition had the go-ahead to start on Jan. 25, but the season will definitely look and be different.

The Colorado High School Activities Association gained a variance from the state and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to allow 24 total players on a team, plus coaches and trainers.

Modifications were announced for the upcoming season and masks must be worn by players during games. There will be a 14-game regular season in all classes. Postseason play in Class 3A will have a 24-team bracket, with 32-team brackets in Class 4A and 5A. Players will be limited to 76 total quarters in the season, exclusive of overtime and postseason games. There will be no

consolation games during the 2021 state tournaments, which are now scheduled for March 19-20.

League champions automatically qualify for postseason play, and the CHSAA Seeding Index will determine at-large qualifiers.

“I do think that most coaches are just thrilled for the kids that they will get to play,” said Rock Canyon girls coach Becky Mudd.

Boys coaches that responded to questions favored Valor Christian, ThunderRidge and Regis Jesuit as the top teams in the south metro area, which includes the Douglas County and Littleton public schools, some Cherry Creek schools, plus Valor Christian and Lutheran high schools.

Valor Christian has Amondo Miller, AJ Kula and DJ Burrage coming back off last year’s 20-6 team that made the CHSAA’s Final Four before the season was canceled because of COVID concerns.

ThunderRidge has good size with Zack Keller and Joey Bilello and depth and leadership from Nolan Marold and Garrett Arnold. Regis will once again be a tough squad to handle with the senior guidance of Ty Bergman, Mike Wolfe, Blakeley Stoughton and Alonzo Paul.

Cherry Creek, led by last season’s top 5A scorer in Julian Hammond and Myles Purchase, will be a boys

team to watch while Ben Bowen and Mountain Vista could have another strong team.

Lutheran will have one of the highly regarded boys teams in Class 3A. Grandview, Regis Jesuit, Valor Christian and Highlands Ranch are among the south metro area’s preseason most prominent girls teams.

The Grandview Wolves return 6-foot-7 Lauren Betts, last season’s leading 5A rebounder with a 11.2 average and who also scored 17.8 points per game, along with Addison O’Grady and Marya Hudgins to form a strong nucleus. Regis is led

by Avery Van Sickle, and the Raiders will be another team that will be feared. Valor has lost Reagan Beers to an ACL injury but Kindyll Wetta, Jenna Siebert, Haley Huard and Skyler Boylan will provide the Eagles with abundant talent to go far in the playoffs. Highlands Ranch will be without Taylor Ray, who is in a battle against cancer, but the Falcons return Payton Muma to help form the foundation for a competitive team.

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A list of some of the top south metro returning girls players includes Muma (Highlands Ranch), Van Sickle (Regis Jesuit), Wetta (Valor Christian), Siebert (Valor Christian), Betts (Grandview), Makena Vetter (Rock Canyon), Stephanie Schultz (Lutheran), O’Grady (Grandview), Liberty Line (Ponderosa), Trinity Grambush (Smoky Jill), Kacee Kyle (Cherry Creek), Avery Bang (Chaparral), Kinzie Whitehead (Legend), Boylan (Valor Christian), Hudgins (Grandview), Huard (Valor Christian), Jordan Johnson (Regis Jesuit), Abby Wrede (Cherry Creek), Sam Crispe (Arapahoe), Alex Pirog (Highlands Ranch), Samantha Jones (Regis Jesuit), Leaya McKinney (Castle View) and Payton Bang (Chaparral).

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Polis blasts lack of vaccine influx

BY SETH KLAMANN THE DENVER GAZETTE

Top federal officials, including Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump, “spoke out of turn” and lied to Colorado and other states about an incoming influx of vaccines that didn’t exist, Gov. Jared Polis said Jan. 15.

“I come before you extremely disappointed that we were lied to with plans of the administration to release reserve doses that were to be second doses of the vaccine,” Polis said.

“There is no influx of doses, contrary to a call we had with the vice president (and) the secretary of health three days ago where they informed us we would be getting additional quantity available to the state.”

Colorado had been scheduled to receive 210,000 doses the week of Jan. 18, the governor said, significantly more than the 79,000 doses that state is now planning to receive and the 70,000 doses that is typical.

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Polis said he found out about that “nonexistent” stockpile in a Jan. 15 call with Gen. Gustave Perna, who’s working on the federal distribution effort.

The 79,000-dose shipment the state is scheduled to receive the week of Jan. 18 is still a slight improvement from previous allocations, and Polis said he’s anticipating between 90,000 and 100,000 doses per week through the first three weeks of February.

He expressed hope the incoming administration will live up to its promise of 100 million doses distributed within Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0205-2020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 17, 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) JONPAUL ARAGON, PATRICIA J ARAGON Original Beneficiary(ies) COLORADO CREDIT UNION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO CREDIT UNION Date of Deed of Trust January 02, 2015 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 09, 2015 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D5002461 Original Principal Amount $27,599.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $25,873.07 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.

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.

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.

LOT 4, BLOCK 14, SOUTHGLENN, THIRD FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 2854 W. CENTENNIAL DR. UNIT F, LITTLETON, CO 80123.

Also known by street and number as: 6730 SOUTH DOWNING CIRCLE WEST, CENTENNIAL, CO 80122.

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

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, 03/17/2021, 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: 1/21/2021 Last Publication: 2/18/2021 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;

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

DATE: 11/17/2020 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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;

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

DATE: 11/06/2020 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

Harry L. Simon, P.C. #7942 Harry L. Simon, P.C. 10200 East Grand Avenue, Building B, Suite 120, Denver, CO 80231 (303) 758-6601 Attorney File # CCU v Aragon 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. 0205-2020 First Publication: 1/21/2021 Last Publication: 2/18/2021 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

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 EXHIBIT A LEGAL DESCRIPTION CONDOMINIUM UNIT F, THE STEEPLECHASE III CONDOMINIUMS,

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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 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: 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.

provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

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

0455-2019 EXHIBIT A LEGAL DESCRIPTION

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. 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: 5977 S WILLOW WAY, GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO 80111-5120.

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.

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

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

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.

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Bennet gets up-close look at Sandstone Ranch U.S. senator also filled in on I-25 Gap project’s progress during visit to county

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet spent a recent morning visiting Sandstone Ranch in southwest Douglas County and learning about the 18-mile stretch of I-25 known as the Gap that is under construction.

“It’s really a fundamental part of doing my job,” Bennet said about of the Jan. 11 visit to the county.

Bennet — a Democrat who has represented Colorado in the Senate since 2009 — added that the idea for a recent conservation bill he introduced, called the Outdoor Restoration Force Act, came from a tour just like this.

“At Sandstone what stood out was the vision of Douglas County … to preserve that iconic open space so close to where so many people live,” Bennet said. “That’s a very, very rare thing to see in our country.”

Bennet was also briefed on construction progress for the portion of I-25 between Castle Rock and Monument. The Gap project was made possible in part by a $65 million infrastructure grant that he and

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Unlike the current vaccines, from Moderna and Pfizer, this latest inoculation is expected to be delivered in a single dose, instead of two.

If there’s a silver lining to the feds “lying” about Colorado’s allocation, it’s that the state had been planning “conservatively” based on its previous allocations, Polis said, so this

Sen. Michael Bennet, left, visited Douglas County Jan. 11 and learned about Sandstone PHOTO BY ELLIOTT WENZLER Ranch and the I-25 gap project.

former Sen. Cory Gardner helped secure in 2018.

“This is the result of a collaborative effort to fund this project,” he said. “It’s wonderful to have the chance to be on the ground and be briefed about how the implementation is actually going.”

Bennet learned that the project is, so far, ahead of schedule, with 6 miles completed and more than half of the paving finished.

“Everyone is focused on getting this thing done as fast as we possi-

bly can,” said Shoshana Lew, executive director of CDOT. Commissioners Lora Thomas and Abe Laydon, who accompanied the senator on his visits in the county, answered questions and added comments on the significance of the I-25 project.

Thomas, who was a state trooper from 1984 to 2003, used to patrol this section of interstate.

“In 1987 a state trooper was killed right at the county line … and I arrested the driver that killed him.

significant scale down won’t necessarily affect the state’s previously laid plans.

Still, had the state received that larger shipment, it would have allowed providers to inoculate roughly half of the state’s unvaccinated population of adults over the age of 69.

That, in turn, would’ve accelerated the state’s ability to get to those older than 64, whom Polis announced earlier this week will be next in line.

Before his news conference, the governor replied to a tweet from 9News reporter Chris Vanderveen.

Vanderveen had linked to a story from the Washington Post, which reported that despite promises that more doses would be shipped next week, there was no such reserve and that all states would be receiving their previously scheduled allotments.

Polis tweeted that he was “shocked” that the state had been “lied to.”

Polis and other officials in Colora-

And then just before this project started there were two more state troopers that were killed,” she said.

“When I became a commissioner this became my personal goal to get the funding to get this road done.”

She went on to explain 1A, the ballot item approved by voters in 2019 that allowed the county to move 0.18% of their 1% sales tax from the justice center to roads.

After the presentations, Bennet also spoke about the recent insurrection in Washington, D.C., where a pro-Trump mob occupied the U.S. Capitol for several hours.

“What we need to do in order to reject this is work together in a bipartisan way to be honest with the people we represent,” he said. “Even when that’s hard or we disagree.”

He added that he thinks it’s time for President Donald Trump to step down from office.

“I think that he is unfit for office and I just think we’d all be better off if he moved on,” he said.

Bennet added that he values his relationship with Douglas County, a conservative stronghold.

“I have treasured the working relationship that I’ve had with the Douglas County commissioners and the work we do together,” he said.

“The fact that I’m a Democrat and they’re Republicans isn’t particularly relevant.” do have said the state is ready to distribute more vaccines; the obstacle is the limited supply of the doses.

The governor said he understood why older Coloradans were clamoring to get the vaccine and frustrated by the wait times, but he said the state was receiving fewer than 80,000 doses a week currently and that there were 535,000 people in the current, 70-plus years old priority.

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Public Notices Legal Notice NO. 0455-2019 First Publication: 12/31/2020 Last Publication: 1/28/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

City and County PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 the Centennial City Council passed on first reading: ORDINANCE NO. 2021-O-01 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO, AMENDING PROVISIONS OF ARTICLES 1 AND 2 OF CHAPTER 2, AND SECTIONS 1-4-10, 7-750, 7-7-420, AND 10-9-20 OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING OPERATIONS OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL COURT The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk.

The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. The full text of the ordinance is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com.

By: Barbara Setterlind, MMC. City Clerk Legal Notice No. 524871-60140 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: January 21, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT 2020 Street Rehabilitation Program Project No. 18-03-01 Notice is hereby given, pursuant to Section 38-26107, C.R.S., that the City of Centennial, Colorado (the “City”) will make final payment at the hour of 10:00 a.m. on February 11, 2021 (the “Final Settlement Date”) to the following contractor: Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. 2710 Wycliff Road Raleigh, North Carolina 27607 (hereinafter, the “Contractor”) for and on account of all work completed by the Contractor on City Project No. 18-03-01, including for purposes of this Notice of Final Settlement on (the “Project”).

1. Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has an unpaid claim against the Project for and on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, or other supplies used or consumed by the Contractor or any subcontractor in or about the performance of said work, may at any time up to and including the Final Settlement Date, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim.

2. Any such claim(s) shall be filed with the City Clerk at 13133 East Arapahoe Road, Centennial, CO 80112 prior to the Final Settlement Date.

3. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement or claim prior to the Final Settlement Date will relieve the City from any and all liability for such claim.

Legal Notice No. 524873-60142 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: January 21, 2021

Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Centennial, Colorado will conduct a public hearing on Monday, February 1, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. regarding Ordinance 2021-O-01 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO, AMENDING PROVISIONS OF ARTICLES 1 AND 2 OF CHAPTER 2, AND SECTIONS 1-4-10, 7-7-50, 7-7-420, AND 10-9-20 OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING OPERATIONS OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL COURT. The public hearing will be held virtually, via the City’s website at: www.centennialco.gov.

Copies of Ordinance No. 2021-O-01 are available for inspection by the public on the City’s website: www.centennialco.gov. Interested parties may file written comments with the City Clerk, at: www.councilcomments@centennialco.gov or by recording a voice message via 303-325-8087. Any written comments received will be provided to City Council prior to the Public Hearing and made part of the record. Citizens wishing to speak during the Public Hearing, may access the virtual meeting via instructions published on the February 1, 2021 Agenda at: https://www.centennialco.gov/Government/Mayor-Council/City-Council-Meetings/ Agendas-Minutes. /s/Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 524870-60139 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: January 21, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Public Notice CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF CANCELATION 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 has canceled the public hearing on February 1, 2021 for “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”.

For questions please contact the City Clerk’s office at CityClerksOffice@centennialco.gov or 303-325-8000 Legal Notice No. 524869-60138 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: January 21, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continues to monitor and evaluate air traffic control procedures in the Denver metropolitan area. The FAA has identified ten flight procedures implemented on March 26, 2020, which require amendments to address inflight safety concerns and operational challenges with converging landing operations, and simultaneous runway operations. The FAA has

determined the proposed amendments to the ten flight procedures are considered an undertaking subject to review under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. § 470 et seq.) and its implementing regulations at 36 C.F.R. part 800. The FAA has determined that the proposed undertaking would not have the potential to introduce audible or visual elements that could diminish the integrity of an historic property. As a result of careful consideration of the potential effects of the proposed undertaking, the FAA proposes a finding of “no historic properties affected”.

The views of the public are essential to informed Federal decision making in the Section 106 process. The FAA has made available the letter of consultation with the Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation on the webpage: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/community_involvement/den-denver/. The FAA will accept public review and comment on its findings pursuant to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. As part of this review, a 30 day public comment period from January 18, 2021 through February 16, 2021 is available within which to submit comments. Written comments will be accepted by the FAA through February 16, 2021. The public is invited to submit comments via the Web comment form available on the webpage https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/community_involvement/den-denver/, or by mail at Federal Aviation Administration, Western Service Area - Operations Support Group, 2200 S. 216th Street, Des Moines, WA 98198 Legal Notice No. 524874-60144 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

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