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An edition of the Littleton Independent A publication of

VOLUME 20 | ISSUE 7

District’s leader to retire

Siegfried cites desire to prioritize family in decision to leave schools post

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It’s called the Melvin-Lewis Cemetery, a former part of a small community called Melvin that once sat near the Cherry Creek watercourse.

John and Emma Lewis, who once owned a farm in the area, purchased the land that included the cemetery in 1883, according to the Cherry Creek Valley Historical Society.

“Most residents were forced

The superintendent of one of the largest school districts in the state will retire at the end of this school year, a letter to the community announced on Jan. 22.

“It has been an honor to serve the CCSD staff, students and community over the last three decades,” Scott Siegfried, head of the Cherry Creek School District, wrote in the message. “I never saw myself serving in the role of superintendent Siegfried for an extended time.

However, I would be disingenuous if I didn’t say that the last year has had an impact on myself and my family.”

Siegfried helmed the district of roughly 55,000 students during what may turn out to have been the worst of the coronavirus pandemic in Colorado, overseeing an abrupt shift to online classes last spring along with other metro Denver school district leaders. The Cherry Creek district returned to in-person learning in the fall semester only to revert back to online-only classes, along with other metro school districts, as COVID-19 cases mounted.

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The Melvin-Lewis Cemetery, a former part of a small community called Melvin that once sat near the Cherry Creek watercourse, PHOTOS BY ELLIS ARNOLD sits in the Pioneer Hills shopping center just off Parker Road in Aurora, near Centennial.

Cemetery a historic landmark in shopping center Melvin-Lewis Cemetery a part of bygone community near Cherry Creek

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A plaque near the gates recognizing Melvin-Lewis Cemetery’s historic landmark designation from the City of Aurora.

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At the Pioneer Hills shopping center just off Parker Road, visitors can find the typical features of a suburban retail destination: a Bed Bath & Beyond, a PetSmart, a handful of chain restaurants.

But right between the Chick-fil-A and another retail building — near the middle of the parking lot — there’s a cemetery.

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In mid-December, businesses across Colorado saw state officials throw them what appeared to be an extra lifeline with the arrival of the “5-Star” program to allow them to operate with expanded capacity if they followed stepped-up COVID-19 safety protocols.

More than a month later, in some counties, that extra boost hasn’t materialized. And higher capacity for 5-star businesses may not arrive for weeks, one local public health leader for Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties says.

Gov. Jared Polis’ unexpected announcement in late December that all of Colorado’s “level red” counties would move to level orange restrictions rendered the 5-Star program temporarily irrelevant, causing confusion for business owners and local governments.

The 5-Star program allows qualifying businesses to follow restrictions that are one level less severe than they otherwise would need to based on their county’s level on Colorado’s color-coded COVID-19 “dial.” Before Polis’ announcement, businesses in red counties expected to get the OK to operate at the looser orange restrictions by earning 5-Star certification, which involves following strict coronavirus-prevention protocols.

Polis’ move of red counties down to orange sparked the possibility that 5-Star-qualified businesses could now operate at even morerelaxed level yellow rules, but that proved to be out of reach for most places across the state.

“I think it was very confusing and especially for counties that had received the approval for the 5-Star certification program or counties that were preparing to apply,” said Jennifer Ludwig, deputy director of Tri-County Health Department. “It really put us in this strange space.”

The state’s COVID-19 dial is the set of restrictions counties must follow based on local virus spread.

Level red, a relatively new addition that took effect Nov. 20 in metro Denver and other areas of the state, banned private gatherings and indoor dining at restaurants, and tightened capacity limits at some types of businesses. Red is the second-highest level next to purple, a stay-at-home order. Eventually, more than half the state’s 64 counties operated in level red.

Amid pushback from some counties and businesses against the level red restrictions, the state rolled out its 5-Star State Certification Program, modeled after a sys-

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ORANGE AND YELLOW The following are some of the capacity changes businesses in level orange could see with a move to the less-restrictive level yellow by qualifying for Colorado’s 5-Star program in counties with mild enough virus trends, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. For a complete list, go to covid19.colorado.gov/data/ covid-19-dial-dashboard and click “level restrictions” below the map.

When capacity limits are expressed as both a percentage and a total number of people, businesses must use whichever number is fewer, according to the state’s website.

• Restaurants: Changes from 25% capacity or 50 people to 50% capacity or 50 people, whichever is less.

• Offices: Changes from a 25% capacity limit to a 50% limit. Remote work is “strongly encouraged” under both the orange and yellow levels.

• Gyms/fitness centers: Changes from 25% capacity or 50 people indoors to 50% capacity or 50 people, whichever is less.

• Indoor unseated events and entertainment: Changes from 25% capacity or 50 people to 50% capacity or 50 people, whichever is less.

The differences between levels become more pronounced as counties, or 5-Star businesses, move further down the dial to levels blue and green. tem Mesa County had “pioneered and has successfully run since the summer,” according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

The first step to increased business capacity under the program was for counties to apply for approval from the state public-health department. After that, businesses in approved counties still must apply for certification and have their buildings inspected — and generally must follow requirements such as daily symptom checks for employees, recording customers’ names and contact information to support contact-tracing, and opening windows to maximize airflow, among others.

Amid the scramble for some local governments and businesses to apply, the blanket move to level orange came as an abrupt reshuffling of the process.

Some thought: “`Businesses were opened (further) in level orange, so what’s the benefit of 5-star?’ It caused a lot of confusion,” Ludwig said. “I do think people felt that, ‘Why are we going to have the dial if we’re not going to follow it?’”

The COVID-19 dial public health order — the document that outlines how the dial works — does give the state public-health department flexibility in choosing to change a county’s level, Ludwig noted. A county’s level usually depends on local rates of new cases, how many COVID-19 tests come back positive and the trend in hospitalizations.

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But “CDPHE reserves the right to move counties one or more levels more quickly as circumstances warrant,” one part of the public health order says.

Getting to level yellow Citing improving virus trends, Polis on Dec. 30 announced he told the state public-health department to move counties from red to orange effective Jan. 4 even though many didn’t meet requirements for the orange level according to the dial system.

Starting just before that announcement and continuing after it, the state saw a spike in the rate of daily new COVID-19 cases.

Asked whether the recent uptick was due to holiday gatherings or the move to level orange, Ludwig said “it was probably a combination,” noting that “we had Christmas and New Year’s and restaurants opening back up for dine-in.”

The State Joint Information Center, which takes questions for the state public-health department, said there “isn’t any evidence at this time that moving counties from red to orange contributed to any significant increases.”

The tide may be changing again: Since Jan. 9, the seven-day average case count has trended downward, the Joint Information Center said on Jan. 20.

But the recent upward turn in data put the benefit of 5-star certification further out of reach for many counties. Although the state manually moved counties to level orange, counties still must meet the orange requirements in earnest before 5-star certified businesses can operate one level lower — at level yellow — according to the state public-health department.

Counties should meet the orange marks for local rates of new cases, also known as a county’s “incidence rate,” which is measured over two-week periods. They also need to meet thresholds for percent of COVID-19 tests come back positive and the trend in hospitalizations. Incidence rate and the test-positivity rate should be sustained for seven consecutive days, according to the Joint Information Center.

For orange counties hoping for business activity at yellow restrictions, that means tamping incidence rates down to 350 new virus cases or fewer per 100,000 people.

In Douglas County as of Dec. 30, that rate was still too high at 398, but with cases and hospitalizations appearing to improve, the county was expected at the time to hit the mark within roughly a week.

Trends took a different turn. As of Jan. 19, Douglas County’s rate sat at 436, according to Tri-County data. Arapahoe posted a 491, and Adams sat at 492.

Jefferson County sat at 383 and Denver at 448, according to the state’s website.

And although nearly all of Colorado is operating in level orange, the majority of counties

— including Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Jefferson and Denver — still sat in red territory based on incidence rate. As of noon Jan. 20, Broomfield and Elbert counties’ 5-star businesses were operating in yellow restrictions, according to the Joint Information Center.

Those appeared to be the only such counties, according to Colorado’s COVID-19 website.

But Tri-County Health’s area — Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas — is on the right track, Ludwig said.

Asked when 5-Star-certified businesses will have low enough metrics get to operate at yellow, Ludwig said, “I think we’re several weeks away,” adding that TriCounty’s area may hit the mark sooner if residents adhere to coronavirus precautions well enough.

“Since (early January), all three of our counties have been coming down at a really great pace,” Ludwig said. She added: “We did not have as big of a post-holiday spike as expected.”

The Tri-County area saw “a huge decline” in the number of businesses applying for 5-Star certification after counties were moved to level orange, Ludwig said, but the area has since seen a “slow and steady” trickle of applications.

Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, Jefferson, Broomfield and Denver were among the counties approved for the 5-Star program, but Adams was not, as of Jan. 20.

Revert to red may be unlikely Although many counties still show level-red virus trends based on incidence rate, health officials appear unlikely to move counties back to red restrictions unless the trends take a severe turn.

“I think it would have to get significantly worse,” Ludwig said. “And if numbers started to increase at a dramatic pace in which we were very nervous or we started seeing hospitalizations increasing to a point of not having ICU (intensive-care unit) capacity, I think the state health department would be having conversations about what needs to take place.”

Asked about possibly moving metro Denver counties or others back to red, the Joint Information Center said: “We need to find the delicate balance between protecting public health and doing what we can to provide much-needed economic relief — we know that economic hardships also cause poorer health outcomes. We will work closely with local public health agencies and will make decisions based on what best protects public health.”

Asked whether the dial system’s benchmarks for incidence rate should be changed and whether the levels don’t accurately reflect what restrictions ought to be, the center’s statement said: “Throughout the pandemic, we have updated policies based on new information and data available to us. Counties were moved from red to orange to provide much-needed economic relief and because we believed we could do so while also protecting public health. If we see a significant increase or decrease in disease transmission, hospitalizations and positivity rates, we will evaluate next steps.”

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Doxxing by Parker man caused fear for woman, family State health employee shares her experience after alarming social media post

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Sarah Tuneberg, whose home address was shared online, poses for a portrait on her PHOTO BY ELLIOTT WENZLER front porch.

All it took was the ring of a doorbell for Sarah Tuneberg’s 10-yearold son to burst into tears.

The tension in the Denver home had already felt palpable as Tuneberg was grappling with how to keep her family safe. And now, an Amazon package delivery had sent her child into a panic.

“Are they here?” the boy asked through tears. “Whoever posted your name on the internet?”

It was more than her name that was posted online, however. Tuneberg’s address, along with a note encouraging people to “let them know how you feel” was posted to Facebook by a Parker man Dec. 28.

She had been doxxed.

As a special senior adviser for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s COVID-19 response, Tuneberg had been identified by the man as someone “putting thousands out of work,” and “killing businesses.”

“We’ll see how strong they are at their homes,” wrote Mark Hall, a 2020 Parker Town Council candidate and a co-chair of the Parker Republicans.

What followed for the mother of three were calls with the state’s homeland security department, increased police patrols by her home, tears, confusion and an internet binge on the rumors about her that were now spreading like wildfire.

‘I burst into tears’ Earlier in the day Dec. 28, before she became aware of the doxxing, Tuneberg had sent an email to her colleague letting him know she would be taking 24 hours off to rest and reflect. She was brought on board by Gov. Jared Polis in March to fight the pandemic and expand community testing for the virus.

She’d been working an average of 12- to 14-hour days for months and felt like she was accomplishing some of the best work of her career.

Less than a minute after sending that email, her colleague called her with the news that her name and address had been posted online and that people were being encouraged to come protest at her home.

“I was just like ‘what?’” she said in an interview with Colorado Community Media. “It was so terrifying, I won’t lie. I was so caught off guard and shaken ... I burst into tears.”

Things moved quickly after that.

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Local residents react to Biden inauguration Inauguration day appeared calm, quiet in Centennial

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In the days before inauguration day, the country saw worries that widespread unrest would mark the day Joe Biden was set to become president.

In Centennial, the day appeared to go off without a hitch: Joggers, children and other pedestrians could be seen on sidewalks, and neighborhood parkgoers appeared to be relaxing.

A roughly four-hour drive around Centennial’s major roads — from the east end of the city to the west — showed no signs of protests or other unrest in the morning and afternoon on Jan. 20.

Colorado Community Media stopped to ask residents in the suburbs about their thoughts about the presidential transition on inauguration day. Here are some responses.

• Kristen Fatta, 27, of Parker, who was out to eat at Cornerstar Shopping Center in the east Centennial area: I’m watching for how (Biden) handles other-country affairs. I know (the U.S. brokered peace deals) in the Middle East — we’ll see if that holds.

I’m also looking to see on COVID

Dominic Cain, 20, left, and Haley Leigvold, 21, sit at The Streets at SouthGlenn on inauguration day, Jan. 20.

how that will be handled.

For me being a woman, (Kamala Harris’ vice presidency) has little to no effect on me. Her policies affect me as a gun owner.

I am proud we are seeing that progression in the world — I want to see if we see a woman president in our lifetime.

• Larry Wysocki, 67, of Denver, who sat at a picnic table at Arapahoe Road Trailhead near Jordan Road:

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Biden’s got his hands full because part of the Democrats are reasonable, and the other part are nutballs.

Taxes are going to go up, and we’re going to waste a lot of money.

The important thing Donald Trump did, for all his obnoxiousness, is call China out … on trade, intellectual property theft. We should keep the pressure up on China.

I don’t mind (Harris) — I just think she’s a little too radical for

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me. She may be tempered by circumstance.

• Dominic Cain, 20, and Haley Leigvold, 21, who sat at The Streets at SouthGlenn: Cain: I don’t believe it’ll make a difference for me personally … taxes will increase. My reaction (to Harris) is we’re making history.

Leigvold: It’s making history, and I feel like it’ll be like she’ll be a great role model for young females in the world.

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Parry’s Pizzeria opens in Sheridan’s River Point shopping center Growing pizza chain based in Colorado offers slew of craft beers

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Parry’s Pizzeria & Taphouse opened its newest location at Sheridan’s River Point shopping center on Jan. 18, part of a wave of openings for the Coloradobased chain.

The New York-style pizza place is taking Old Chicago’s former spot between Sportsman’s Warehouse and Burlington in the sprawling shopping center just west of Santa Fe Drive and south of Highway 285.

Beyond pizzeria staples like calzones and Buffalo wings, Parry’s also features items like Italian nachos, king-size pretzels — and a mighty craft beer selection, with 60 drafts on tap.

Thanks to a pre-approval into Arapahoe County’s 5-Star indoor dining program, Parry’s is already well-positioned on COVID protocols, said Nate Lyon, the chain’s spokesperson.

“That means daily temperature checks for the staff, and high-end air filtration” inside the restaurant, Lyon said.

The Sheridan location is the chain’s fourth opening since COVID began, Lyon said, an anomaly in a time that has seen more restaurant closings than openings.

“We’ve been pretty fortunate,” he said. “Pizza translates to takeout better than seafood or steaks, and we’ve done pretty well.”

Parry’s opened its first location near Parker in 2007 and now includes 11 Colorado locations, with more in Texas and the Carolinas.

Originally slated to open in November, the Sheridan location’s grand opening had to be pushed back to January after a fresh round of state-level COVID restrictions shut down indoor dining again.

“It was a bummer to push back the start date for all the great people we hired, but fortunately most of them stuck it out and waited for us,” said Carrie Shaw, the Sheridan location’s general manager. Shaw previously managed a Parry’s location in Greenwood Village. “I’m a mom, and my staff feel like

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The pizzeria’s grand opening bash made a nice birthday dinner for Lisa Sullivan, who was splitting an appetizer platter with her friend and fellow Swedish Medical Center nurse Nancy Panger.

“It’s nice to sit inside and eat at a real restaurant again,” Sullivan said. “Who doesn’t love deep-fried pickles for their birthday?”

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The Cherry Creek district covers parts of Centennial, Cherry Hills Village, Englewood, Greenwood Village, Aurora, Foxfield and unincorporated Arapahoe County.

Siegfried landed his first student teaching job at Eaglecrest High School in 1995, kicking off a career in the Cherry Creek district that would span multiple schools and various administrative positions at the district level, according to a district news release. Siegfried was chosen as superintendent by the Cherry Creek school board in 2018.

In his retirement message, Siegfried recalled reflecting with his family over the holidays about his goals and priorities and about “the right moves for our family.”

“As a father, I have always taught

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Security and Emergency Management. They guided her through a flurry of protective steps they recommend when things like this are done to people.

Close the blinds. Take everything off your porch. Lock your doors.

Lock your windows.

All of these measures were being taken because of the actions of a complete stranger in another town.

“I’ve never met Mark Hall in my life. I’ve never heard of him,”

January 28, 2021J my own kids to do what they love, and when they no longer find joy in their job, to do something else — a lesson I learned from someone important in my professional career,” Siegfried wrote. “It is time for me to prioritize my family and to create the opportunity for someone else to bring their joy and passion to this role.”

He nodded to the “fortitude and resilience that our Cherry Creek Schools community has modeled throughout this pandemic,” calling it a “heavy year, marked by tragedy and unimaginable challenges but also by acts of courage and a collective determination to rise to this moment.”

The Cherry Creek school board, in a statement released the same day, thanked Siegfried for his “courageous leadership and tireless dedication during this pandemic.”

“While we wish that he could stay on in the role to continue leading

our district, we also honor and respect his decision to prioritize his family,” the statement read.

The board was to “immediately begin to develop a fair and informed process for selecting the next superintendent,” the statement continued.

Siegfried led the district through a handful of recent years that saw student suicide deaths in the south Denver metro area — including in Cherry Creek district — draw public concern. Siegfried took pride in what he called the district’s “deep, longstanding commitment to mental health.”

“We can evidence that by the number of employees in place.

We have a full-time nurse in every building — we’re the only district in Colorado that can say that. And that’s in addition to counselors,” Siegfried told Colorado Community Media in 2019.

Amid suicide deaths in the district

that year, the district added two new directors of mental health and took other actions aimed at preventing suicide and raising awareness about mental health.

Siegfried supported a shift away from pushing for every student to attend college, prioritizing “career preparedness and success as a goal,” Siegfried told CCM in 2019. The Cherry Creek Innovation Campus, the district’s new facility for career-technical learning, opened in August 2019.

“We have to meet students where they are,” Siegfried said at the time.

“I’m proud of that shift we have made in the past few years.”

In his retirement announcement, Siegfried expressed gratitude for his time in the district.

“I will always care deeply for this organization,” Siegfried wrote. “I am thankful for everything it has given me and I am also excited for a new chapter in my life.”

Tuneberg said.

A Facebook group called “Revolt Against Shutdowns, Big Box Holidays,” was created Dec. 28. Hall posted in the group that he would, every day, be posting “the name and address of unelected, non-law enforcement officers who think they can flex muscles in businesses.”

“If they want a war, we can give them that,” he wrote.

Hall said he wasn’t advocating for violence, but asked people to show up to the employees’ homes with air horns, honking and signs.

After he posted the addresses of Tuneberg and another CDPHE employee, Hall received comments of

encouragement.

“Take the gloves off. This is a bare knuckle war,” one commenter wrote. “Forget the rule book. Jungle rules apply now.”

To this comment, Hall responded “I agree … it will probably come to that.”

Others, however, were furious.

Guided to the post by a 9News story about the doxxing, some commenters criticized the post and Hall.

The next day, Hall took down the post and apologized, saying: “People and small businesses right now are very passionate and concerned about what’s happening with continued shutdowns, and the actions I took were an attempt to express my frustration.”

But by then, Tuneberg’s address had been seen and shared countless times. As far as she knows, no one showed up to protest, but the fear that someone could tuck the information away to use later has already been planted in her mind.

“To be threatened in your home when it’s the only place you can go right now, it was really intense,” Tuneberg said.

Tuneberg, who has called the posting of her address “cowardly,” said it’s ridiculous for Hall to say he wasn’t calling for violence while posting her address and using words like “war” and “revolution.”

Hall declined requests to be interviewed for this story.

‘An internet hole’ The day of rest and relaxation that Tuneberg had planned for suddenly looked very different.

“I’m embarrassed to admit, I fell into an internet hole,” she said.

She went through the “explosion” of messages she was receiving on Twitter and Facebook. She read through comments from people saying she was part of a great conspiracy to depopulate the planet, enslave society and collect people’s DNA through COVID-19 testing. The world sort of fell away, she said.

She explained to her kids what was happening, and took it as an opportunity to talk about how words and actions have consequences, even when you can’t see them, she said.

“I didn’t run for office. I really am just trying to do my best work and it feels so strange to be identified as someone who is worthy of that level of vitriol,” she said.

She has tried to get in touch with Hall — who as of Jan. 18 hadn’t responded or contacted her directly, she said — to let him know the impact of this event on her life, she said.

“I’d like to tell him who I am and what it was like to be on the other end of that and what it was like for my kids,” she said. “I’m just trying really hard in a global pandemic and you, without knowing me … decided I’m an enemy and deserving of incredible consequence in my life.”

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Faith leaders discuss ‘opening people’s eyes’ to racism Colorado voices join national race conversation from varied religious views

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Across the country, demonstrations over the past several months buoyed up a conversation about race and unequal treatment that protesters say still runs rampant in the lives of people of color.

A pertinent question for a nation of many faiths: Where does religion fit into the conversation?

Five Colorado religious leaders gathered in a virtual live talk on Jan. 17, discussing everything from the Black Lives Matter movement to Asian Americans experiencing discrimination because of COVID-19 to how to faith leaders can wade into the challenging space of addressing racism.

“For Buddhists, one of the most important things is to look at the self,” said Rev. Diana Thompson, a Kaikyoshi minister at the TriState/Denver Buddhist Temple.

If you’ve been called racist, “you need to just sit and listen — you need to be with them, you need to understand the perspective that they’re coming from,” Thompson said.

“We see self-reflection as the beginning of our social engagement,”

Thompson said. The talk was put on by the nonprofit Colorado Humanities.

Worshipers should ask: “Where did we come from, or how did we come together?” said Kamel Elwazeir, president of the Islamic Society of Colorado Springs.

“If we can agree that the creator created us from clay, from dirt, and that we all belong to Adam, then we are all connected, and there is no” difference between one another, Elwazeir said. “It is considered a sin in Islam and talk down to (someone) or look down on him because of skin color.”

Rev. Joan Bell-Haynes, executive regional minister of the Central Rocky Mountain Region of the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, brought up her organization’s effort to “eradicate racism within each (part) of our church.”

“Our concern is based in our theology that all people are created in God’s image, and that is the image of humanity, not one race or another,” Bell-Haynes said.

The local faith leaders touched upon the Black Lives Matter movement, which opposes “statesanctioned violence” against Black people, along with “anti-Black racism,” according to its website.

Adrian Miller, executive director of the Colorado Council of Churches — an organization that aims to work “together for justice” in the Christian community — referred to the “All lives matter” response to

the Black Lives Matter movement.

“When you say, ‘Save the whales, nobody says ‘all fish matter,’” Miller said.

When some began attributing COVID-19 to Chinese people, Thompson said a member of her temple was called a “COVID (expletive)” at a grocery store. Thompson also lamented former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric regarding the coronavirus but argued that conversations about social issues shouldn’t break down by party affiliation.

She knew of older generations who refused on principle to vote Democratic because it was a Democrat who put Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II, Thompson said. But some in the Asian community said Trump’s presidential race was the first time they had voted Democratic since the 1940s, she added.

“We can’t say that just because you are this political affiliation, you’re a piece of junk because things are far more complicated than that,” Thompson said.

How to lead faith congregations in conversations about race also came up in the discussion. BellHaynes asks those in the faith community to inquire about what racism looks like in their own community context.

“Some of them may say, ‘I don’t have experience with racism.’ Well then … who are the people being marginalized?” Bell-Haynes said.

Worshipers should be helping others “to open their eyes that there are people in our own communities that are being treated inferiorly.”

Colorado Humanities, a nonprofit, provides educational programs about topics such as history, literature and religion, according to its website.

The discussion was the third event in the nonprofit’s “Changing the Legacy of Race and Ethnicity: Conversations for One America” series aimed at driving a discussion about the legacy of race in America.

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Six of one, half a dozen of the other, if that’s OK

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’m sorry.

I’m sorry for what I would say on Twitter if I were on Twitter.

The same goes for Facebook and Instagram and any others I don’t QUIET know about.

DESPERATION Sooner or later, everyone on Twitter apologizes for something. I know I wouldn’t be any different.

I’d say something that was “tone deaf.” (I see the words “tone deaf ” Craig Marshall a lot.)

Smith At first, I’d try to defend what I said, then I’d make up an excuse for what I said.

Then I’d apologize.

It would go something like this: “I want to apologize to the State of Texas and all Texans. What I said about Texas and Texans was tone deaf. I know that now.

“This will not define me. However, I don’t know what will, and

maybe this will define me.”

Perhaps there are plenty of good reasons to have a Twitter account, and they offset all of the negativity I keep reading about.

If I did have an account, I know just what I’d do. I would be up in the middle of the night tweeting exactly what I thought of musicals. “Hamilton.” “Cats.” “Mamma Mia.” For or against? Little Miss beauty pageants, the NRA, the Second Amendment, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, peanut butter, Scientology, chocolate chip ice cream, Quentin Tarantino, motivational speakers, televangelists, situation comedies, Comic Con, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, the Easter Bunny.

My mailbox would explode, implode, spit and fume.

Last week I had a nightmare like no other: I was a contented Douglas County high school art teacher but the principal, Mr. Kafka, decided it was my turn to teach a new course.

“American Patriotism.”

I begged and pleaded: “No, not me. Not now.”

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new hair shirt hanging in the closet.

If anyone thinks “We’re all in this together,” they haven’t been paying attention.

Not wanting to stoke further divisions among the citizenry, I am going to try to sit on the fence for a while. Travel the road’s middle. Try to appeal to every man, woman and child. It can be done.

“Offend no one,” will be my motto, my newest tattoo.

I will greet everyone with a smile.

But how will they know I’m smiling behind a mask?

Good question.

The chances of a makeover are practically nil. I have been disputatious since I was a child; unlike my sister, who never complained about our mother’s spaghetti sauce.

Elbert Hubbard said, “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.”

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Hope and encouragement, love and forgiveness

Champion’s story plausible

The letter from Susan Thornton published in the Jan. 21 issue deserves some response. She was appalled that the Champions only saw extremely polite demonstrators at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and did not observe violence and destruction. The Champions were part of the 95+% of the protesters who were not breaking into the Capitol to destroy and steal, but instead were peaceful.

Unless he had a TV or other media device at hand, how was he supposed to observe what the violent mob was doing? Unless one was intermixed with what I believe were Antifa types who were bent on destruction, how could one see what they were doing?

Our Colorado Congressional representatives were inside the Capitol and it is understandable that they were fearful. And as Ms. Thornton implies, the entire world saw violent, destructive, and dangerous mobs overwhelming the police. But if one was a part of the thousands and thousands who were not violent and destructive, but were peaceful, and were not close to the violent mob, I can easily understand Mr. Champion’s perspective as he saw it at the time. I, for one, thank him for his accurate observations and applaud him for being a commendable representative of our community on that tragic day.

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In the first place, I don’t know how to tweet. The word itself isn’t fit for a Runyonesque character like I am.

“Harry, I’m going upstairs to tweet,” would worry the dog.

Not everyone, as we know, apologizes for what they express on Twitter. Some of us never apologize.

Maybe you have noticed? People are far more likely to complain now than they once were. And to complain aggressively.

Some things trigger all of us.

Race and abortion, for examples.

Some things trigger select groups or individuals. Perfume in elevators and gum chewing.

If the whole perfume industry went away, I wouldn’t mind.

Wait. Maybe I should reword that.

Think twice: Do you really want to smell like your off-aunt’s funeral?

See what I mean? I am governed by black coffee and an unnecessary need to engage in pedantic faultfinding.

I’m working on it. There’s a brand

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ecently I was asked about some of the best advice I have received over my career. As I considered my response, I thought about some of the great business minds and strategists who provided guidWINNING ance. I paused for WORDS a moment before answering the question. I wanted to make sure that my answer would reflect how I chose to live my life.

The answer I gave was this, “The best advice Michael Norton I have received is to provide hope and encouragement to all and to offer unconditional love and forgiveness to everyone.” This was a business interview, and I could tell that the gentleman who asked the question was caught off guard.

My instinct was right because he tried to clarify that his question was more about business advice and not personal advice.

Pausing one more time, I

thought about the response I had provided, “Provide others with hope and encouragement and live with unconditional love and forgiveness.” There was a pause on his end, so I asked if I could clarify what I meant and why I believe it was still the best advice I had ever been given personally, professionally, and spiritually. His response came quickly, “Yes, please connect the dots for me.”

Beginning with hope and encouragement I shared that early in my career I was fortunate enough to have worked in a culture of hope and encouragement. From the CEO on down, including my manager, all worked with the spirit of lifting each other up. There was hardly any turnover on the team. And since we know that people don’t leave jobs, they leave their bosses, this was so unique that I knew that I wanted to emulate it in my own career and in my life.

Wondering if it was the right approach for the company, the answer is yes, they were successfully acquired.

The attitude of gratitude was

abundant. And as I received promotions, I was then responsible for the productivity and care of those on my team. Rule #1 for me was a commitment to creating a culture and environment based on the foundation of hope and encouragement. If that did not fit with anyone on the team, they were encouraged and free to find success elsewhere.

“OK, this makes sense in that context. But I’m curious, tell me about love and forgiveness in the workplace,” the gentleman continued.

“Let’s not forget that we are talking about unconditional love and unconditional forgiveness that succeeds at home and at work.” That’s important because oftentimes we try and place rules around both. As we discussed love, I wanted to make sure that he understood that I was not speaking of romantic love, I was speaking about a different kind of love. A love based on appreciation, respect, honor, and a willingness to come alongside each other in the good

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Is unity possible? What we need to do first

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e’ve been hearing a lot about “unity” in the last few weeks. Our new president and other elected officials on both sides of the aisle have been calling for it (after many months spent sowing campaign divisiveGUEST ness). While the rioters were at the COLUMN doorstep of our nation’s Capitol, some congressional members were asking for “unity” while spewing inflammatory and false assertions on the floor. From other perspectives, Linda Newell some claim calls for unity cannot be trusted. What can we make of all this and how can we heal and move forward as a nation?

Unfortunately, amidst the bubbles of social media algorithms, campaigns, and disparate neighborhoods, we have created caricature perceptions of each other;

demonized labels, and categories of “the other” that have proven to be divisive and even dangerous.

Sure, we could keep on living this way, and maybe we will for a while. But if we don’t get on board with the action of unity, our democratic republic might not survive. If we cannot acknowledge each other’s basic humanity, with all our fears, misunderstandings, and disagreements, how can we ever become one undivided nation? And even if we want to truly unify, how do we do that in our fractured state of the union?

In chaplaincy, we learn how to “sit with” the pain of our patients; not to try to solve their problems, pass over the grief or fear, or tell them that everything will be all right. Rather, we sit and be with them in their reflection, just as it is, no matter how hard or awkward it may be or potentially painful. Sometimes, a loved one won’t get better or even survive.

Other times, our fears we cling to are worse than allowing the

healing to occur. Yet, how can they make meaning out of what is happening? How can they learn from this moment?

Perhaps this practice can help us all in achieving unity in our country. Maybe we just need to first sit with our own grief, fears, and emotions no matter what they might look like or how painful it might be. It is only with the acknowledgment of the pain that we can truly begin to heal or change. A physician needs to diagnose an illness in order to prescribe a treatment. First comes the acknowledgment of what is happening in the body. Only then can we figure out what to do for the mending.

Some of us are feeling grief about our candidate losing, or realizing that we were not told the truth or that pent-up anger can turn into danger. Others are feeling afraid that we’re losing the very foundation of our democracy.

Yet others still are sad that we’ve never actually had a just nation and afraid we won’t be able to

build one that is. No matter what we’re grieving or feeling, first, we need to acknowledge that we’re all feeling something. If we can’t even acknowledge our own feelings, how will we ever recognize and work with each other’s? Without empathy for each other, unity is impossible.

The wise Dr. Thomas Moore said that through the dark night of the soul, there is rebirth; an opportunity for growth. Honoring our grief and acknowledging our emotions may just help us transcend to a higher state of being together in this imperfect but courageous union in which we live.

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times, wins, losses, and family emergencies. The kind of love that team members always knew they could count on. A “family first” approach, whether it was the team’s personal family or the family culture we created on our team.

Unconditional forgiveness works the same way. I have found that most errors made in business never torpedo a company. Giving team members permission to fail.

Unconditional forgiveness is not a “get out of jail free” card. If the mistake crossed the line and hurt the company or the team, a client, or partner significantly enough, there would be consequences.

Remembering all the times I had failed and was given grace, given

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unconditional forgiveness, even if I lost an account or an opportunity. My leadership team always made sure that I was OK first, and then worked with me to identify what went wrong and what I could do better next time. It was not only their advice, they demonstrated it each day.

How about you? What’s the best advice you have received personally or professionally? I would love to hear all about it at mnorton@tramazing.com and when we can live and work with the spirit of hope and encouragement and unconditional love and forgiveness, it really will be a better than good year.

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small desk, an antique typewriter and some space on Denver’s 16th Street Mall are the tools Colorado native Devan Kingsford needs to arouse some pretty strong emotions.

With a few taps on the Remington mobile’s keys, he creates unique poetry on demand for strangers passing by.

“I love doing this. I have an English degree, so I’m probably going to end up teaching at some point,” said Kingsford. “But for now, I’m fine just writing poetry for strangers.”

Up the street, Peter Olschner and Kyle Lang are two young street musicians performing soulful jazz tunes and trying to preserve downtown Denver’s rich history of street music.

“We don’t have a band name because we just started jamming together,” said Olschner. “We both love playing music with other people.”

It was a cold January day on the mall and it was bare with masked people enjoying entertainment, restaurants and shopping to escape COVID quarantines. COVID-19 has presented some challenges, especially for performers and musicians. The pandemic took away Lang’s job, sending him to the streets to play.

“I used to teach percussion in public schools around Colorado and after the pandemic shut down extracurricular activities, I was kinda lost for a bit,” he said. “It’s been great getting back into it, though.”

Olschner said the pandemic had a positive impact on playing his music because he was able to still earn an income.

“I would not have discovered my love for busking if I had a traditional gig opportunity. I’ve been able to continue to be a performer despite the situation surrounding the pandemic,” he said.

As for Kingsford, the typewriter poet, the pandemic moved him away from his favorite spot in Larimer Square, but it has not slowed him down. He is still able to find locations to set up his typewriter.

“There was more walking space and, luckily, we have the 16th Street Mall, which is a pedestrian mall which gives you a lot more space. Without that extra space, I probably would not have been able to work. Also, it would not be at a safe distance,” said Kingsford.

Shouting on the street corners

Kingsford is a native of Colorado and received an English degree from Metropolitan State University of Denver. He has been

Ivory Sykes, aka Vio the Violinist, of Aurora performs near Welton Street on the 16th Street Mall in Denver on Jan. 16.

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Devan Kingsford creating a poems for strangers on the mall.

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creating poetry for strangers for more than seven years on the streets of Denver and at special events. He does not charge for his poetry but accepts donations.

Kingsford started working as a poet at the Art Walk on Santa Fe Drive in Denver, standing on the street corner with a book of his own poems in his hand, shouting his creations to strangers.

He did that until a woman warned him that he should stop.

“You are gonna get yourself killed — there’s one thing people hate worse than poetry, is when it’s screamed at them by a stranger,” said Kingsford.

Kyle Lang was inspired to play drums as an outlet to express himself.

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She suggested that he get a typewriter to choose a topic and write for strangers.

“I started doing that and never looked back. It’s incredible,” he said.

Crying and hugging

Kingsford’s poetry has touched many hearts with his words, none more than his own — sometimes in ways he has a hard time describing.

“You know, I can’t even imagine as a poet, I should have had a word for it,” said Kingsford.

A few years ago a woman approached him and asked for a

poem.

“She was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and she had six months to live. She wanted me to write her a poem that made her not afraid of death,” said Kingsford. “I wrote her poem. Then we cried together and hugged, and then she left.”

Have Remington, will travel

Why did Kingsford choose an antique Remington typewriter to create his poems?

“I own about 11 typewriters.

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Conigliaro did not have other information to offer about the cemetery’s history, she said.

O’Hara guesses the original developer bought the land from the University of Colorado or that it became city land after about 1983, but he couldn’t say for sure. He didn’t know whether the university bought the land from the Lewis family.

The shopping center’s buildings were constructed in 2002, according to county records.

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to move when the Cherry Creek Dam was built,” the society’s website says. “This burial ground fell into disuse and was abandoned.”

Decades later, suburban sprawl crept right up to the cemetery, which ended up preserved as part of the shopping center. It’s not known for sure who was buried there — or even how many people once were, according to the historical society.

“We have more questions than answers,” said Garry O’Hara, the society’s president.

Although the cemetery, which previously sat amid an open field, was a “prime candidate to be bulldozed over 20 or 30 years ago,” O’Hara said, it now holds a historical landmark designation from the City of Aurora, the city in which the shopping center is located.

Here’s a look at what’s known about the cemetery, which sits just outside of Centennial near Chambers Road.

Historic resting place Arriving in 1859, the Melvin family’s settlement in the area “proved invaluable to fellow westward travelers” and eventually grew into the Melvin community, according to historical information from the City of Aurora.

Travelers were buried at the cemetery, likely beginning with the Melvins’ arrival, according to the city. The Lewis family purchased the cemetery from the Melvin family.

John and Jane Melvin had built a ranch in the area in the 1860s, according to the historical society. The Melvin place soon became known as 12 Mile House, a station along Cherry Creek.

The “mile houses” sat every two to three miles along the Cherokee/ Smoky Hill wagon trails from Kansas, named based on their distance to the intersection of Colfax Avenue and North Broadway in Denver, according to Arapahoe County’s website. Out of the original six mile houses, only 17 Mile House and Four Mile House exist in their entirety today, the website says. The buildings also included Seven Mile House, Nine Mile House and 20 Mile House, according to the National Register of Historic Places.

At mile houses, travelers could get a meal, spend the night, rest their

What appear to be cross-shaped memorials sit near a chain-link fence Jan. 14 inside PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD Melvin-Lewis Cemetery.

animals and have minor repairs made to coaches or wagons, according to the county’s website.

In addition to travelers, the remains of individuals who donated their bodies to medical research were also buried at the cemetery from 1957 to 1986, according to Aurora’s website.

In 1957, the property that included the cemetery was acquired by the University of Colorado, and it was used for research from that point, O’Hara said.

“Over time, the cemetery became abandoned and vandalized,” O’Hara said. Among the only remains left are cremated remains of around 1,600 people who donated their bodies to science after death, now interred in a chain-link fence enclosure in the middle of the cemetery, O’Hara said.

‘Valiant’ fight Before the shopping center arrived, “nothing at all” sat near the cemetery, O’Hara said.

“The only thing that was there is the caretaker’s house for the University of Colorado and a few sticks in the ground where graves were supposed to be,” O’Hara said.

The shopping center’s development didn’t happen without a fight — O’Hara and others felt the development would be “an eyesore” and produce too much noise, O’Hara said.

Clarice Crowle, one of the founders of the historical society, helped lead a letter-writing campaign to

the local governing body at the time — likely the Aurora City Council, O’Hara recalled.

“She had our friends in the newspaper offices write stories about that and put the Melvin-Lewis Cemetery in headlines so that people would notice it,” O’Hara said. “And it was a losing cause, but it was very valiantly done by members of our group and others.”

O’Hara isn’t sure whether the developer planned to preserve the cemetery at first, he said. But ultimately, the developer agreed to build a wall around the cemetery, along with a “beautiful gate,” O’Hara said.

“So we’re happy about that — they did what they promised,” O’Hara said.

The cemetery and much of the surrounding shopping center land are owned by a company called Collett, a real estate firm whose corporate office sits in North Carolina, according to county property records.

The company purchased the shopping center from “Site Centers/ DDR, who purchased it from the Greenberg group,” said Erik Christopher, managing principal with SRS Real Estate Partners. Collett is a client of SRS, Christopher said.

Greenberg was the original developer, he added.

“The preservation (of the cemetery) was part of the land-use protections that accompanied the shopping center acquisition,” said Bobbi Conigliaro, asset manager for Collett. “Although we do not have a right to change it, we are happy to

‘Place of honor’ O’Hara’s historical society isn’t sure when the first and last burials of remains that weren’t researchrelated took place at the cemetery.

“All we know is the first burial was possibly as early as 1860s, and the last was (likely) 1910,” O’Hara said.

At least some remains were exhumed and moved to Fairmount Cemetery in east Denver, O’Hara said.

The historical society doesn’t know for sure who was buried there, but it’s more certain about one person: Emmaretta Hawkey Lewis, likely interred there in the 1890s, according to the society.

“She died in the 1890s, possibly in childbirth,” O’Hara said. She was married to one of the Lewis men, he added.

“We don’t know who’s there still, we don’t know where if they were, we don’t know when they were placed there and when they (may have been) exhumed,” O’Hara said.

“I try to find out myself, but I run into brick walls.”

The structures that now lie in the cemetery are “bases,” on top of which would have gone the memorials of the buried. Generally, no full tombstones stand now, O’Hara said.

A small memorial in honor of those who donated their bodies to science has sat in the cemetery, and another memorial was made by the Cherry Creek Grange in 1961 in honor of the travelers buried there, O’Hara said. The grange was an organization that included farmers who traded ideas about agriculture, he added.

The cemetery was in bad shape before the shopping center development and the changes it brought, O’Hara said.

“It’s much better,” O’Hara said.

“It’s still not in the greatest shape, but it’s at least in a place of honor where it belongs.”

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Olschner 24, was born and raised in Arvada. He attended Pomona High School in Arvada, learning choir and musical theater.

Olschner went to Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and studied philosophy and music.

He has been playing guitar since he was 16 years old and mostly earns income full time as a street performer in Denver and Boulder — supplemented by walking his brother’s dog for extra income.

Kyle Lang, 21, was adopted from Korea and grew up in Westminster.

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Expressions and Guitar Hero Lang was inspired to play drums to express himself.

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Olschner was inspired to play guitar by a music computer game.

“I grew up playing the game Guitar Hero 3 and I loved the soundtrack so much,” Olschner said. “I realized that I could play the songs on a real guitar if I practiced enough. When I was a sophomore in high school, my friend sold me his acoustic guitar with a buzzy string for $20, and I haven’t looked back since.”

He’d like to open a private lesson studio teaching students music theory and guitar techniques.

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Mall music Olschner enjoys performing his music for people on the 16th Street Mall and the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. The practice has developed him into an experienced performer.

“The people are very generous with their tips when they are enjoying the music. I love making cash tips, because it allows me to pay for my rent and my groceries as I continue to develop my career as a professional musician,” said Olschner.

Lang enjoys playing at the mall for a variety of people.

“Music always brings people together... I love the crowd, and I love being able to share my craft with others,” Lang said.

Lang and Olschner’s plans are to play Sunday jazz night at Dazzle in downtown Denver. You can watch the Lang and Olschner on tiktok with username @cattrumpets.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE RESTART - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-109(2)(b)(II) FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0173-2020 Republished to restart foreclosure stayed by bankruptcy and reset sale date.

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On November 6, 2020, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

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

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

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: C.R.S.§ 38-35-109(5) LEGAL DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN CORRECTED BY SCRIVENER'S AFFIDAVIT RECORDED 06/15/2020 AT RECEPTION NO. E0070479 IN THE RECORDS OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

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

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

Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 19-022770 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 0173-2020 EXHIBIT A LEGAL DESCRIPTION CONDOMINIUM UNIT F, THE STEEPLECHASE III CONDOMINIUMS, TOGETHER WITH GARAGE NO. F, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 19, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. A8187114 IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR THE STEEPLECHASE III CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED ON MAY 28, 1997 AT RECEPTION NO. A7062094, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Legal Notice NO. 0173-2020 First Publication: 1/14/2021 Last Publication: 2/11/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent 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.

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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: 10/23/2020 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Anna Johnston #51978 Randall Chin #31149 Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000008662926 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO. 0201-2020 First Publication: 12/31/2020 Last Publication: 1/28/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - RESTART - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-109(2)(b)(II) FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 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

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

Drew P. Fein #48950 Rachel H Connor #50831 Neal K. Dunning #10181 Douglas W Brown #10429 Brown Dunning Walker Fein PC 2000 S. Colorado Blvd., Tower Two, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80222 (303) 329-3363 Attorney File # 3942-028 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 0455-2019 EXHIBIT A LEGAL DESCRIPTION The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, and is described as follows: A leasehold as created by that certain Second Amended and Restated Ground Lease and Agreement dated January 25, 2010, as amended by First Amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Ground Lease and Agreement dated May 13, 2010, executed by Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority, “Authority”, and Centennial Hotel, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company, "Lessee", as referenced in document entitled ‘Memorandum and Notice of Second Amended and Restated Hotel Ground Lease and Agreement’ which was recorded January 27, 2010 under D0008428, for the term and upon and subject to all the provisions contained in said document and in said lease.

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

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

Easterly right-of-way line of Peoria Street; Thence North 87 Degrees 58 Minutes 00 Seconds East, 135.00 feet to a point being 2741.29 feet South and 1836.50 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L; Thence South 46 Degrees 59 Minutes 13 Seconds East, 70.65 feet to a point being 2791.29 feet South and 1886.42 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L; Thence North 87 Degrees 58 Minutes 00 Seconds East 257.97 feet to a point being 2791.29 feet South and 2144.39 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L and on the Westerly line of the E ½ of the NW ¼ of said Section 36; Thence South 00 Degrees 18 Minutes 09 Seconds West, 60.05 feet to the Point of Beginning, being 2851.29 feet South and 2141.94 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Legal Notice NO. 0455-2019 First Publication: 12/31/2020 Last Publication: 1/28/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 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.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 4, BLOCK 14, SOUTHGLENN, THIRD FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. 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. 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; DATE: 11/17/2020 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: 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

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Hoping to make shopping small the next big thing Boutique curator mixes maker and mall culture to bring hipster cool to the suburbs

IF YOU GO… Makers Market, Southwest Plaza 8501 W. Bowles Ave., Littleton Makers Market, Park Meadows 8401 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone Tree

BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The economy has been battered almost everywhere by the COVID-19 crisis. Unemployment is high. Some retailers and restaurants have been shuttered.

But for Karli Millspaugh, owner of the Makers Market stores in the Southwest Plaza and Park Meadows shopping malls, the shutdowns and cutbacks caused by the coronavirus pandemic were a challenge she chose to meet head-on.

“Here’s the interesting thing about me: I don’t take no for an answer very well,” Millspaugh said.

She said when the pandemic hit she didn’t have a website, infrastructure for shipping, or anything, really, to help her navigate the online sales that would be necessary to keep her businesses afloat. But with 150 merchant vendors with booths in her stores and 28 employees counting on her, she had to dive right in, making things happen fast.

The Makers Market stores, and her first retail venture, Curate, are concepts based on antique malls, but instead of buildings full of antiques and collectables, vendors sell artisan, handcrafted goods, with food, clothing, jewelry and everything inbetween creating a vibrant, eclectic mix of items to attract shoppers.

She said the concept is in line with the times, as social media and websites like Etsy spotlight shopping small and supporting independent craftspeople.

Millspaugh came to own the businesses through what the kids these days would call her side hustle.

“I actually started as a vendor myself, refinishing furniture and

Curate Mercantile 8242 S. University Blvd., Suite 150, Centennial

Makers Market in Southwest Plaza mall.

selling it at places like the Paris Street Market in Aspen Grove,” she said. “People starting asking about where my brick and mortar was, so I started researching places I could sell on a more regular basis.”

Millspaugh said she found a couple of small stores in Littleton that matched her concept, but neither were a great fit. She soon turned her attention to Unlisted Market in Littleton, got a booth, eventually offering the marketing and promotion skills she used in her full-time day job, to the owner. Before long, she became a partner in Unlisted, and in 2019 took over ownership, changing the location and the name, to what is now, Curate, located in Centennial.

The Makers Market stores had been running since 2015, and Millspaugh took ownership of them in January of 2020, bringing this story back to where it started.

March 16, 2020, is a date Millspaugh remembers well. That’s the day she had to close her stores due to the COVID-19 regulations affecting nonessential businesses. Curate was closed for nearly two months,

COURTESY OF KARLI MILLSPAUGH

the Park Meadows Makers Market location was shut down for about 10 weeks and her Southwest Plaza location wasn’t able to reopen for almost three months — an eternity in the life of a retail store.

But thanks to her ability to roll with the punches the virus threw at her small chain of stores, Millspaugh has been able to survive, and even thrive, in the current atmosphere. Launching a program called Curate Care Packages allowed her not only to keep her rent paid, but just as important to her, to extend a lifeline to her merchant vendors. The idea was simple — use her vendors’ merchandise to offer customers curated gift packages, with items specially chosen by Millspaugh. The care packages are offered at different price points and so far they’ve shipped more than 2,000 of them.

According to Millspaugh, the care packages and the Paycheck Protection Program loan she was able to get might have been the difference between riding out the storm and closing the doors on the business for

good. In fact, she said online sales of care packages have been so popular that she plans to keep offering them indefinitely. They may have even given some of her vendors a boost in income that’s allowing them to surpass pre-pandemic revenues.

She said approximately 10% of her vendors have struggled to keep going, even as she was able to offer free or discounted rent during the shutdowns. But overall, business is good and there’s a six- to 18-month wait list to get a vendor spot in one of her locations.

Millspaugh’s husband, Brent, has even left his former accounting career to help her run the businesses full-time. It’s been so busy she long ago had to give up on her furniturerefinishing biz.

“My talent and skill set were needed in other aspects, to help make this business thrive for all of our vendors,” she said.

As for the future, Millspaugh plans to continue honing her curating skills, which include placing the right vendor in the right location, when a rare opening comes up, opening workshops to help people find their inner-artisan and figuring out the right marketing magic to spread the word to shoppers who want to support small, locally owned businesses offering boutique products they won’t find anywhere else.

“I love looking for new ways to approach things,” she said. “One of the vendors said he admires my ability to try new things to see if one will stick. I just can’t wait for more of those moments.”

Public Notices Legal Notice NO. 0205-2020 First Publication: 1/21/2021 Last Publication: 2/18/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

City and County

the City of Centennial Community Development Department at 303-754-3308.

Legal Notice No. 524894-60144 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Public Notice

Public Notice

CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT

CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING AN APPLICATION FOR A RETAIL LIQUOR STORE FEBRUARY 4, 2021

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL WILL CONSIDER A RESOLUTION FOR A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR A 24-HOUR COMMERCIAL RETAIL USE (COND-20-00001).

A public hearing before the City Council will be held virtually, via the City’s website at: www. centennialco.gov on February 1, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. For this hearing, interested parties may file written comments with the City Clerk, at: cityclerks@centennialco.gov or via mail at: Attn: City Clerk, 13133 E. Arapahoe Rd., Centennial, CO 80112, received by 1:00 p.m. on February 1, 2021. Any written comments received will be given to Council Members and put into the record during the Public Hearing. 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/AgendasMinutes.

Further information concerning the proposed rezoning and site plan may be obtained by calling

Notice is hereby given that the Centennial Liquor Licensing Authority will conduct a public hearing on Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., via Virtual Meeting, to consider an application for a new Retail Liquor Store License for Taramarts & Gas Inc. dba Break Time, located at 15015 E. Hinsdale Drive Centennial, CO 80112 The applicant is an Incorporation: Taramarts & Gas, Inc. 5225 S. Walden Circle Centennial, CO 80015 Public comment will be heard at the virtual hearing or written communications regarding the issuance of this license may be submitted to the Liquor License Administrator, via email at ccooney@ centennialco.gov by no later than February 4, 2021 at 9:00 a.m.

By order of Barbara Setterlind, City Clerk January 21, 2021.

Legal Notice No. 524896-60146 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Bids and Settlements Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT City of Centennial Broncos Parkway Bridge Over Cherry Creek Bearing Pads Repair Project No. 20-05-01 Notice is hereby given, pursuant to Section 3826-107(1), C.R.S., that the City of Centennial, Colorado (the “City”) will make final payment at the hour of 10:00 a.m. on 2/26/2021 (the “Final Settlement Date”) to the following contractor: ABCO Contracting, Inc. (hereinafter, the “Contractor”), for and on account of all work completed by the Contractor on City Project No. 20-05-01 – Broncos Parkway Bridge over Cherry Creek Bearing Pads repair (the “Project”).

The Project was completed within the boundaries of the City, in Arapahoe County, Colorado at 13133 E. Arapahoe Road, Centennial, Colorado 80112.

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 the Project, 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 E. Arapahoe Road, Centennial, Colorado 80112 prior to the Final Settlement Date.

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

Legal Notice No. 524895-60145 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 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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