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Caraveo wins close race in Colorado’s new 8th District Thornton

Caraveo, who works as a pediatrician, will be the first Latina to represent Colorado in Congress. The 8th District’s population is nearly 39% Latino.

Voters lean toward yes to 27J tax increase

Would be first mill levy override since 2000

BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Voters appear to be supporting a property tax increase for Adams County 27J School District at the polls.

Voters are being asked to approve an increase of eight mills to provide for school safety, retention of teachers. The district includes Brighton, Thornton and Commerce City.

As of 1:30 p.m. Nov. 9, the district received 19,073 yes votes compared to 14,923 no votes.

The district made a strong push to convince voters to approve the tax increase. In Commerce City, the city council voted to lower the municipal tax rate to support the school district. Voters have not approved a mill levy override for the school district since 2000.

The tax increase is expected to cost is less than $1 a day on a house with an assessed value of $500,000. If voters turn down the override, the district said it would have cut middle and high school sports programs, though no specifics are available. Extracurricular programs across the district would also be cut, as would school bus

Coloradans vote to cut income taxes, limit liquor chains

BY MARK HARDEN ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Coloradans gave themselves a tax break in the Nov. 8 election, while also blocking a proposal to let liquor-store operators add more locations.

BY JESSE PAUL AND SANDRA FISH THE COLORADO SUN

Democrat Yadira Caraveo will be the first representative in Washington from Colorado’s new 8th Congressional District after she beat Republican state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer in a very close race.

Caraveo, a state representative, was leading Kirkmeyer, a state senator, by less than 1 percentage point and fewer than 500 votes when Kirkmeyer conceded Wednesday night at about 6 p.m.”While this is not the outcome we hoped for, I am proud of our team and our campaign,” Kirkmeyer

Voters also agreed to raise taxes on high-income Coloradans to support free school meals, refused to relax rules for charity bingo games and raffles, and expanded property tax exemptions for the surviving spouses of fallen military service members.

By nearly a 2-1 margin, Colorado voters approved Proposition 121, reducing

the state income tax rate from 4.55% to 4.4%. The measure is projected to reduce state tax revenue by $412.6 million, a cut of about 2.4% to the state’s general fund, while saving the average Colorado taxpayer $119 in fiscal-year 2023-24.

And nearly two-thirds of voters opposed Proposition 124, which would have let retail liquor chains grow from a limit of three stores statewide now to a maximum of eight, and then to 13 in 2027, 20 in 2032 and an unlimited number in 2037. Under existing law, liquor

Bonnie Azevedo puts her paper ballot in the sealed ballot bag at the Nov. at the Adams County Building in Brighton. BELEN WARD

pediatrician first Latina to represent Colorado in Congress

A free mobile library brings literacy to kids

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Melissa Rippy, the owner of Allstate Insurance, opened another page in her life with Elsie, the free mobile library.

The goal is to help low-income children by offering them free books.

“It’s another way to serve the community. I loved the adventure of reading as a kid and Elsie’s primary focus is to serve low-income neighborhoods and bring books to families that maybe we can’t get to libraries,” Rippy said.

Rippy purchased, Elsie a 1966 Canned Ham-Lit camper, last October, to convert to a free mobile library. Elsie got her name from the camper’s first owner who named it after his grandma. The second owner converted Elsie into a bookstore.

“When I bought Elsie, I decided not to change the name, so she became Elsie, the little free mobile library”, Rippy said.

Rippy’s business purchased the camper with all the accessories that came with it. Within the last year, she raised money through the community to a decorative vehicle wrap around the outside of the camper, which cost $4,000.

“In exchange for a donation, we put their logo on the trailer. The books are received through donations,” she said.

Last week Elsie parked at Hughes Station on the main street. The kids came out to the little mobile library to get books. A little boy came in and asked if he could keep a book.

“I said, buddy, you can take as many books as possible — fill up your backpack. It’s moments like

this; I love to see the smiles on their faces,” Rippy said.

Elsie is scheduled to visit CASA in Broomfield and Rippy is organizing other events on her Elsie’s calendar.

When Elsie is not traveling, she’s parked at the Brighton Pavilions at Pavilions Place, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday throughout the winter. Sometimes she opens on the weekend.

“Melissa Rippy has always been a great supporter of the community. There is nothing that 27J likes better than literacy, and she’s bringing literacy to the people. We couldn’t be prouder of a free bookmobile, basically given those kids books for free, and we just love it, “ said Tom Green, 27j Board of Education Director.

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Fentanyl possession nets DOC term for 35-year-old

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BRIGHTON – A 35-year-old man drew a 12-year sentence in the Department of Corrections after pleading guilty plea of the distribution of a controlled substance – in this case, it was fentanyl.

Adalberto Rohas entered his plea in September.

The incident happened in early

April. A press statement from the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said an Adams County sheriff’s deputy tried to stop a car that had an improper license plate. Rojas was the driver and didn’t stop. After a pursuit, Rojas crashed his car after encountering stop sticks and fled on foot. Another deputy arrested Rojas.

The statement said deputies recovered a fanny pack containing $1,100 in cash, five bags of methamphetamine (125 grams), cocaine and 22 bags of fentanyl that contained almost 1,300 pills. The statement also said a deputy saw Rojas toss a bag – while he was running – that contained a stolen .22-caliber handgun.

“Fentanyl is having a devastat-

ing impact on our community because of dealers like this defendant,” said District Attorney Brian Mason in the statement.

“I hope this conviction and sentence sends a message to all other drug dealers. We’re coming after you, and the penalty will be severe. Those who are distributing this poison deserve to spend time behind bars.”

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Melissa Rippy, with the community members outside Elsie, celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Identical twins Eleanor and Amelia Smith are in the mobile library looking for books.

Green leading in Brighton City Council race

BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Tom Green is poised to add Brighton City Councilor to his resume, according to early tallies of votes on Election Day.

Green is facing retired legal secretary Marisa Nickerson and insurance producer Sherri Pollack in a bid for the vacant Ward 1 seat.

In unofficial results, Green has 1,515 votes. That’s 52% of total votes.

Nickerson had 771 votes and Pollack 646 votes as of 12 p.m. Nov. 9. Ballots continue to be tallied.

Green would replace former Councilor Tim Watts, who resigned May 20. Watts was elected in 2020 as one of two representatives from Brighton’s Ward. That term is set to expire in 2023, meaning Tuesday’s winner Green will need to run for the seat again in a year.

Green said he is likely to do that and he is eager to work with the

Operation Freebird returns to Adams County

Free birds won’t be o ered but certificates for free turkeys will

BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Operation Freebird, Adams County’s free Thanksgiving food giveaway, will return this year with plenty of Thanksgiving trimmings but one big difference: There won’t be any turkeys at the event.

other Brighton councilors.

“I want to work hard with the other members to get my issues across,” Green said Tuesday.

Those issues include supporting the Brighton police, helping to fix traffic issues and doing everything they can to improve the quality of life in the city, he said.

Green is a member of the 27J School Board of Directors and chair of the Adams County Board of Adjustment. In his campaign

profile, Green said he hopes to see more retail and dining opportunities in Brighton and would promote development.

“We can bring better-paying, quality jobs to Brighton, residents will not have to hit the highway every morning to reach their employer,” he wrote. “A commute just down the street is much better than an hour every day in traffic driving to work.”

Exit fee calculations in place for United Power’s split with Tri-State

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BRIGHTON – Brighton’s energy co-op, United Power, filed a pair of exit-fee calculators as part of its response to a decision from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

A press statement said the calculators can help the commission and others to evaluate the impact of the co-op’s proposed balance sheet and modifications to the balance sheet that the commission proposed and that Administrative Law Judge Renee Terry approved.

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“Instead, we are going to be giving away a free certificate that anyone can take to a location that sells Butterball turkeys and get a free turkey there,” said Deputy Sherri Cole with the Adams County Sheriff’s office. “Logistically, for the last two years, it’s cost us more than it should have to keep the birds cold and fresh. So we are going with the certificates that people can redeem literally anywhere that sells Butterball turkeys. We hope we can use the savings to help even more people.”

The event is being held this year at 10 a.m. Nov. 19 at Mountain States Toyota, 201 W. 70th Ave. in Denver. There is no registration needed, so residents just need to show up and collect their food and their Butterball turkey certificate.

Operation Freebird is an annual event designed to provide all the makings for a Thanksgiving meal, from the bird to the rolls to the cranberries to the pie. No profits or income are generated by this event. The sheriff’s office, the Adams County Sheriff’s Foundation and more than 200 local non-profit agencies and other community partners

Like last year, community groups and agencies will be on hand Nov. 19 for Operation Freebird, o ering advice and some goodies.

also help provide a range of services to the needy in the North Metropolitan area.

Cole said the county is prepared to give Thanksgiving meals to 2,500 families. Multiple service agencies will also be available for dental screenings, flu shots, housing and food assistance, veterans services, and mental health resources. Sheriff’s Deputies will also be on hand, with opportunities to meet the county’s K9 officers and their handlers and the county SWAT Team and Bomb Squad.

The tool lets the 42 utility members to assess exit fees from Tri-State Generation and Transmission. One set of fees, modeled on the commission’s adopted calculations, allows each member to enter their desired departure date and to select exit options

“We appreciate the hard work by FERC staff in propos-

ing solutions for departure from our power supplier that are in most respects aligned with what United Power has consistently advocated as a fair outcome,” said Mark A. Gabriel, president and CEO of United Power, in the statement. “By following United Power’s balance sheet approach, everyone can calculate their actual cost to depart. This is critical for future planning for our current power supplier and its utility members. Though the initial decision modifications present implementation questions and other obstacles that we challenge in our exceptions brief, we believe the decision’s principles chart a course toward members’ fair transition to competitive supply and open access.”

United Power indicated its departure from Tri-State, effective May 1, 2024.

services. The district also said class sizes could increase next year.

Board member Tom Green said he thinks the district’s message sunk in.

“27J has just been woefully

underfunded for 20 years,” Green said. “Other schools around us are spending hundreds, even thousands per student but we’ve been locked in at $41 per student for more than 20 years. I think that fact resonated, plus I think the community supports our teachers and wants to see our career technical schools fully staffed. We just want to give our kids a good future.”

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Claps claims win as Adams County Sheri

chains will be allowed a four-store maximum in 2027 but not more.

The Colorado Licensed Beverage Association, representing independent liquor stores,had saidProp

124 would let big chains drive its members out of business.

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Gene Claps will be Adams County’s next sheriff.

Claps, the Brighton Democrat, claimed a 9,871 vote win over Republican Michael McIntosh in the county’s general election Nov. 8, after two days of counting.

Claps had 84,209 votes to McIntosh’s 74,338.

Claps led polling from the minute the first initial results were released on Nov. 8 but declined to declare himself the winner until Adams County’s County Clerk and Recorder and finished counting and released the final – but still unofficial – results.

Claps maintained an 8,979 vote lead into Nov. 10. The Adams County Clerk and Recorder’s office said there were still 21,000 ballots waiting to be counted as of Nov. 9.

“I think we are still too soon,” Claps said on Nov. 10. “I wish I was that confident, but with 21,000 votes still out there, he could still pick up a win. But a friend of mine, who has a Ph.D. in statistics, said that if I can get 30% of the remaining votes, I should still be able to win.”

That final unofficial count came just before 6 p.m. Nov. 10. In a text message, Claps said a phone call concession from McIntosh came shortly after that.

Claps did say he was feeling pretty good after watching ballot totals come in all night on election night. He hosted a watch party at his Brighton home.

“I think we’ve done well,” Claps said Tuesday night. “We did an outstanding job campaigning but I know there are still enough votes out there, so I’ll wait to be sure.”

McIntosh could not be reached for comment.

Next up, the County Clerk and Recorder’s office is scheduled to perform an audit of the election results Nov. 19. Depending on that audit, the Clerk should certify the ballot by Nov. 23.

Claps worked under McIntosh, leaving after his successor Rick Riegenborn was elected sheriff in 2018. Claps went on to defeat Reigenborn in the 2022 Democratic primary last spring, setting the table for the current race.

Claps said he’s worked under four administrations in the Adams County Sheriff’s Office during his tenure there. He initially joined the department in 1995 and left in 2019. He started his campaign for the job in 2020.

“I still talked to people in the department every day,” Claps said. “I’m still involved. I continue to talk to and work with the people District Attorney’s office.”

But Claps said he thinks it was his commitment to going door-todoor in the county that helped his campaign.

“I talked to the public,” he said. “That’s what this has all been about, reaching out to the community so we can be successful together.”

That’s driven his agenda should his apparent win Tuesday become official. He promised to be responsive to residents and work with community members and community groups to settle crime problems, whether that’s speeding cars or car thefts.

“We have some parts of the community that say they have not seen a cop in their area in three years,” Claps said. “So, we need to address that. I need to work on recruiting officers, getting them in the right positions to serve the agency.”

He said he does not think there are many structural things that need to be changed in the department.

“The big thing is, we need to address all that’s gone on in the past four years and bring some solidarity back to the sheriff’s office and get it back out and working with the community.”

And Claps said he doesn’t see himself live streaming car chases or signing television deals like his predecessor should he win.

“If I go on TV, it’ll be for public announcements or public safety reasons,” Claps said. “There are enough issues with law enforcement across the country, I don’t want to fuel that. I want to do more to build some respect.”

Jazz Singh, owner of Pecos Liquors, is a well-known liquor store owner in Westminster. PHOTO BY LUKE ZARZECKI

Democrat Gene Claps, left, claimed a win Republican Mike McIntosh, right, in the polls Nov. 8. McIntosh was Adams County’s sheri until he was ousted in 2018.

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For State Reps, City Councils were proving grounds

Former city councilors repping North Metro districts in legislature

BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Former Northglenn and Westminster city councilors are headed back to the state Capitol for the upcoming legislative session.

Kyle Mullica, Shannon Bird and Jenny Willford won races, respectively, for Senate District 24 and House Districts 29 and 34.

Mullica served on Northglenn’s City Council from 2013 to 2017. Willford has been on Northglenn’s council since 2017 and will resign.

Bird served on Westminster’s city council from 2015 to 2019.

“(Being) a city council member gave me relationships with not only all of the people who make our city work, but also all community stakeholders,” Bird said.

All three are Democrats, though Bird and Willford said their experi-

ences at the city level helped them pay attention to solutions to problems and tune out “partisan bickering.”

Both said they value hearing opposing sides before making final decisions.

“On city council, it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat, a Republican, unaffiliated, a constitutionalist, Green Party, Libertarian,” Willford said. “What matters is that we are making people’s lives better, finding solutions to problems, and we’re implementing policy.”

Bird plans to reach across the aisle in the legislature when the session begins in January.

“We live in a state with a diversity of opinion, diversity of ideas, and when you’re willing to come together with people who might see a path forward a little bit differently and learn from them, in some cases, I think it dials down the animosity and ultimately leads to a much better solution,” she said.

Mullica was unavailable for an interview due to a stomach bug.

In the past, Bird hosted town halls with subject matter experts and resi-

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dents regarding issues facing her constituents. A productive dialogue between them helped gauge a better understanding of different topics.

“Being able to engage people in those deeper conversations brings people along and helps constituents actually be part of making necessary change,” she said. “I can cast votes at the Capitol, but fundamentally, we don’t make real change unless the public understands and supports what we’re doing.”

Willford wants the same.

“I don’t want to just talk at people doing town halls,. I want to hear what’s working, what’s not working, what they’re excited about, what they need, what their hopes and dreams are,” she said.

She also listed her phone number and email on her website for residents to contact her and would like residents to come to the Capital and observe the process.

On the issues

For the 2023 session, Bird’s priorities are housing, crime and education.

She said Colorado needs more

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housing and the state is lacking in supply. To accomplish that, she wants to fix the rules so developers can build more housing stock that’s affordable to rent or buy.

Balancing that with available resources like water is important, she said.

She also wants to make education a priority investment in the state. She was glad to see the governor’s budget prioritizing K-12 public education.

Additionally, she plans to work with the Attorney General’s Office to increase penalties for motor vehicle theft. Specifically, making it a felony to steal any car, not just cars above $2,000.

“$2,000 or less, you’re only charged with a misdemeanor and what’s so problematic about that is most people have $2,000 really means there is no ability to mitigate the damage if they’re a victim of theft,” she said.

Willford said she will stay consistent with what she talked about on the campaign trail, which are lowering the cost of living, education, improving air quality and helping seniors.

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What parents should know about RSV

As RSV cases continue to spike across parts of the U.S. — with some areas nearing seasonal peak levels — those typical “bugs” your child brings home may have you feeling on edge. With so much swirling around these days, it can be difficult to know what’s behind a constant cough, especially if your child is very young. RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, can include symptoms similar to a common cold. However, the virus can develop into something more serious. RSV can infect people of all ages but is most severe for older adults and young children.

Usually almost every child under the age of 2 has been exposed to RSV, but due to all the pandemic response over the last few years, kids have not been exposed as much to RSV. That is one of the reasons why we are seeing such a spike this year, as well as RSV in children older than 2.

Symptoms

RSV symptoms may vary and typically begin four to six days after infection. The most common symptoms might include:

Runny nose

Low appetite Coughing

Sneezing

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Fever

Wheezing

For young infants with RSV, they might be irritable, sluggish or find it harder to breathe.

Your pediatrician will be able to figure out whether it’s a common cold, COVID-19 or RSV, if you have concerns about symptoms your child is showing. They might perform tests, like chest X-rays, to see if pneumonia has developed.

When should you call a doctor?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes an increase in RSV-associated emergency room visits. However, most cases will go away on its own in a week or two. Symptoms are typically at their worst on days three to five of infection. Only 3% of children with RSV will require a hospital stay.

If symptoms become severe, contact your pediatrician right away. This may include:

Symptoms of bronchiolitis

Symptoms of dehydration (only one wet diaper in 8 hours or more)

Difficulty breathing

Gray or blue lips, tongue or skin

A significant decrease in activity or alertness

Even though RSV is common, and it might seem difficult to figure out how severe it will become, there are some risk factors parents should be aware of.

Children who are born premature or are 6 months old or younger are most at-risk for RSV complications. Children with chronic heart or lung disease, or a weaker immune system, can also be susceptible to RSV.

Treatment

There’s currently no vaccine to prevent RSV and no specific treatment for the infection. As stated, most cases will resolve on their own. However, there are a few things you can do to help relieve the symptoms:

Manage pain and fever with overthe-counter medications (consult your pediatrician for guidance and never give aspirin to children)

Drink plenty of fluids

Nasal saline to help with breathing

Cool-mist humidifier to help break up mucus

Talk to your health care provider before you give any over-the-counter cold medicine to your child.

How it spreads

RSV is typically spread through coughs and sneezes, but

can spread when someone touches a surface that has the virus on it and then touches their face, before washing their hands.

The following tips may help reduce your family’s risk:

Cover your coughs and sneezes with a tissue or your arm, not your hands.

Avoid close contact with others, especially those who are sick.

Wash your hands frequently.

Don’t touch your eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.

Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces at home.

If you’re sick, stay home.

The best way to avoid transmission of RSV is what we have been doing very well over the last few years: Scrupulous hand hygiene with washing our hands frequently with soap and water, and cleaning the surfaces small hands get to, like doorknobs and handles. Also, wear a mask if you have any respiratory symptoms.

With the knowledge of what RSV may look like — and how it is different from other viruses — you’ll be able to take steps to keep your child as healthy as possible all year round.

For more information, visit the CDC website.

Dr. Matthew Husa is the chief medical officer of UnitedHealthcare of Colorado & Wyoming.

Outnumbered but never out of the game

They were a new and small startup consulting company. Having barely opened the doors of the business, they identified an opportunity where their specialized expertise could help find and deliver the solutions that a very large corporate prospect was looking for. Although they were new and small, their reputation in the industry was solid, and they were invited to compete for the business.

Three other organizations were also invited in to vie for the opportunity to possibly provide services to the prospective client. All three were well-established consulting companies and were coming to the table with decades of experience and proven track records of success. There was not much risk in choosing any of these three companies.

As the vetting process went on, the founders of the tiny startup

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still believed that they could absolutely provide the highest levels of service for the prospective client and were already starting to assemble a bench of potential independent contractors they would need should they be awarded the business. They discussed the competition every week as the process went on, and they knew they were outnumbered and maybe even seen as outmatched because of the strong reputations of the three competitors.

Outnumbered and maybe outmatched, yet they were never out of the game.

When the prospect had made the announcement that they had narrowed the field down to two,

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the small startup was not shocked to find themselves in the final two. They truly believed that they could provide the client with exceptional service and work with them to deliver the desired results. Their final competitor was shocked that the prospect had selected the startup, and they became overconfident that they would win. This was a mistake.

In the final discovery, due diligence and sales presentations, the team from the startup showed up better prepared and presented comprehensive performance solutions that included a practical and tactical plan that made sense. The larger, more established, and wellknown and respected consulting company came in with overengineered and complicated plans, and plans that included very little in the way of tactical execution.

At the end of the process the prospective client awarded the busi-

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ness to the new and small startup because they felt like they had demonstrated that they had the client’s best interest at heart. Although they were new and small, they trusted them enough to assemble a team that could meet all expectations and deliverables. Outnumbered, perceived to be outmatched, but never out of the game.

When the executive team of this startup shared their reasons from why and how they won, I was so fired up and happy for them. I mean who doesn’t love a great underdog victory story? It had me reflecting on some of the situations where I found myself in the underdog’s seat, and where I may have lost a little bit of confidence myself.

In life, there are times where we all get to feeling a bit outnumbered and outmatched, so much so that we become uninspired or demo-

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tivated, believing we may have already lost. When this happens it can set us back or even completely derail us from completing something or competing for something that we were once very passion-

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ate about. What we should always remember is that it doesn’t matter if they seem bigger, better, faster or stronger than we are. No, what matters is how we show up and the size of our heart, passion and desire to win.

The small consulting company beat the Goliaths they faced because they were better prepared, brought specific expertise and were

never intimidated by their competition. They never let themselves feel like they were out of the game. How about you? Are there times where you feel overwhelmed, outnumbered and outmatched? Do you keep yourself in the right head space when it comes to staying in the game? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can show up prepared

A cold, clear day greeted Northglenn’s annual Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 11, a new tradition at the Veterans Plaza outside of the city’s recreation center. Veterans from Northglenn’s American Legion Post 22 provided the honor guard and taps and City Councilor Richard Kondo offered his thoughts.

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June 11, 1933 - November 8, 2022

Cecil was born in Hamilton, Missouri on June 11,1933 to Myrtle and Frank Bell. e family moved to Colorado in the spring of 1936 due to his father’s health. ey lived on a farm west of Platteville with his grandparents. In 1942 they moved to a small farm north of Hudson, Colorado. Cecil went to school at Keenesburg and graduated in 1951. He was drafted into the army in July,1953. He trained as a communication chief and was sent to Korea in December. He served there until he was discharged in June, 1955.

He married Shirley Gabel on January 21, 1956. Four children were born to this couple who were married for 66 years. eresa Tucker (Tim) of Smiths Falls, Canada, Mark of Fort Lupton, Kristine Gronquist (Bob) of Greely and Maureen Medved (Tim) of Littleton. Cecil had three grandchildren Jeremiah Tucker (Oui) of Longmont, Nicholas Medved (Krysta) of Parker, Abigail Medved of Littleton and one great granddaughter Lily Tucker of Longmont.

Cecil and Shirley bought their farm in 1965 and operated a dairy until 1983 then sold the dairy and raised registered Gelbviech bulls until Cecil retired in 2003. Cecil served on the District 8 school board for 12 years. He enjoyed going to Blackhawk, playing computer games, doing jigsaw puzzles and watching the Broncos, Rockies and Nugget games.

He was preceded in death by his parents, sisters baby Elizabeth, Doris and Dorothy and his brother Jim. He is survived by his wife Shirley, 3 brothers Don (Norma) of Brighton,

Germany, 1 sister Charlotte Smith (Don) of Idaho and many nieces and nephews.

A Celebration of Life for Cecil will be held on Friday, November 18th, 2:00 PM at Tabor-Rice Funeral Home, 75 S 13th Avenue,

Special thanks to the people of TRU CommunityCare Hospice who took such good care of Cecil in his last days.

On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, Billie Constance Landeck, loving wife and mother of two sons, passed away at the age of 78. Connie was born on February 11, 1944 in Chicago and grew up in Madison, Wisconsin.

Connie had a passion for life, the 1950s, and “Days of Our Lives” and it was a rare occasion when she wasn’t in an upbeat mood. She was

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a devoted wife and a ercely loyal mother who always put her sons’ needs before her own. Connie was preceded in death by son Jay Landeck. She is survived by husband James, son Lewis, brother David, and cousin Lavonne. A funeral service will be held at Tabor Funeral Home in Brighton, Colorado at 11 a.m. with viewing beginning at 10 a.m.

Arnea Roland Flaharty

September 16, 1938 - November 2, 2022

Born September 16, 1938 in Denver, 84 years old died November 2, 2022 in Brighton CO.

Married to Avis L. Elliott November 8, 1997.

Arnea joined the Navy December 1960 to December 1964.

He was an antique dealer for 40 years. He enjoyed traveling from state to state doing antique shows and meeting new friends. He also did jewelry repair.

Survived by his wife sister in law, brother in law, 3 step children, 8 step grandchildren, 5

great step grandchildren and 2 great great step grandchildren, 3 nieces and nephew and cousins.

He is preceded in death by his mother and father, one brother and one great nephew.

He was a member of Elmwood Baptist Church in Brighton. e service will be held there on Saturday November 19th at noon.

He died from agent orange exposure when he was in Vietnam.

He will be missed by family and many friends.

Honor guard from American Legion Post #22 fire a volley during a 21-gun salute at Northglenn’s annual Veterans Day observance on November 11. PHOTOS BY STEFAN BRODSKY

U.S. Navy Retired Captain Richard Kondo, a Northglenn City Councilman, delivers remarks during the city’s annual Veterans Day ceremonies.

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Flobots

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Stories come to life in Augmented Reality

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Man vs. Food (11/17)

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Teens: Colorado Eagles Game

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Bison Ridge Recreation Center, 13905 E. 112th Avenue, Commerce City. 303-2893760

Many Mountains Live at The Post LoHi

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Breakfast Burrito Bingo 11/18

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Phat Daddy

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38th Annual Brighton Turkey Trot

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Denver Broncos vs. Las Vegas Raiders

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Empower Field At Mile High, 1701 Bryant St., Denver Shook Twins

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Dharma Farm, Longmont

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Big Head Todd and The Monsters: 18th Annual Last Waltz Revisited @ 7pm

Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St, Denver

A-Mac & The Height

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The Oriental Theater, 4335 W 44th Ave, Denver

Operation Freebird

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Mountain States Toyota, 201 West 70th Avenue, Denver. community connections@adcogov.org, 303654-1850

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Denver Nuggets vs. Detroit Pistons

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Wrestling: Prairie View’s Vigil eyes three-peat

BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

DENVER – Prairie View’s Ane’e Vigil has two state wrestling titles to his credit. By the last week in February, he’d love to have a third.

But he also said he has some things to do before the state meet begins.

“I want people to think I don’t need to work on things,” he said during the Colorado High School Activities Association’s media day for winter sports Nov. 8 at Empower Field. “But from the college level, I need to work on a lot of things. That’s where I want my wrestling to be at.”

Part of that process includes what he called “chain wrestling.”

“I want to be able to go from one move to another move to another move,” Vigil said. “A lot of highschool kids will shoot a shot, and then they pause. College kids will go for a shot, then another shot. It’s just constant movement.”

Another piece is more domination from the top position. Vigil spent a lot of time last year in the top position.

“I was so good on my feet,” Vigil said. “I was able to take the kids down. But I’m not really turning anyone from on top. I’m just taking them down and letting them up. I’m never satisfi ed. You can’t ever get satisfi ed. Not yet.”

PVHS begins the season at 7 p.m. Nov. 30, when the ThunderHawks host Legacy High School. As for Vigil, the idea of winning a third state title in as many years isn’t far from his mind.

“All the time. That’s always on my mind,” he said. “I’m missing out on some high-school things. But at the same time, my coaches and my parents tell me it’s always going to be there, the stuff out of wrestling. It’s never going to go anywhere. Moments like this? That could slip out of my hands by making the wrong decision.”

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Despite some first-quarter excitement, Legacy High School fell to

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24. The Lightning ended their season with a 9-3 overall record but were undefeated in league play.

Legacy junior Ky Studebaker returns the opening kicko 99 yards for a touchdown in the Nov. 10 CHSAA 5A playo game against Pine Creek at District 20 Stadium in Colorado Springs. The Eagles dashed the Lightning’s playo hopes, however, 30-24.

Pine Creek running back Jonathan Coar splits a pair of Legacy defenders en route to a first-quarter touchdown, during a CHSAA 5A playo game at District 20 Stadium in Colorado Springs. The Eagles dashed the Lightning’s playo run, 30-24.

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Traditionally, playing with food has a bad reputation, but the rising popularity of charcuterie boards is changing that by encouraging diners to get creative with endless mix-and-match options.

Part art project, part meal prep, charcuterie is typically a combination of cheeses, meats and crackers or bread, arranged on a shared plate, Chad Halbrook, general manager for Postino Winecafe on Broadway in Denver, said.

However, the growing love for charcuterie has also led to an expanded take on the term, with all sorts of spins offering a variety of finger foods and pairings, he noted.

Halbrook said charcuterie gained a lot of fans during the pandemic when restaurants were reduced to take-out and more people were cooking at home because it’s an option that’s quick, versatile and requires few kitchen skills.

“People wanted to spice up what they were snacking on at home, make it look good and not necessarily spend a lot of time cooking,” Halbrook said.

He said that charcuterie’s popularity also spikes during the holiday season for those same reasons.

“When we dine with friends, it’s a communal experience and there’s something that brings people together in conversation over a charcuterie board as opposed to individual entrees,” he said.

The demand for charcuterie resulted in the option popping up on restaurant menus all over the area, including several at Postino’s, as well as spawning classes on building boards and whole businesses dedicated to selling premade charcuterie for those not inclined to make their own.

Postino Winecafe, which has four locations in Denver and Highlands Ranch, o ers a variety of board appetizers that can be ordered for take out. Chad Halbrook, assistant manager for the Postino on Broadway, said the communal nature of charcuterie makes it a common choice for groups and parties.

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Charcuterie is a popular choice for holiday events because it can be a quick and versatile option for any size group, whether as an appetizer or meal, Melissa Clement said.

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In Castle Rock, one such business is Farmgirl Foods, a market that features local products, including charcuterie, and offers DIY classes. Owner Melissa Clement said she thinks the charcuterie boards and classes are so popular because it’s a fun and social activity, whether you’re making a spread or just eating it.

“People will get so excited when they learn how to make a prosciutto rose or taste something, whether it’s a combination of flavors or one particular product, that opens up their palate,” she said.

When Clement is putting together her charcuterie, she typically starts with opposing textures and flavors, like a savory creamy brie and candied walnuts. She likes to include a hard cheese, a soft cheese and a crumbly cheese alongside some dried or smoked meats, like salami, prosciutto or chorizo, as well as crackers, bread and toppings.

Toppings can range from fruits, veggies, nuts or chocolate to spreads like honey, jam, hummus or mustard, she said.

“You want all the flavors to play with each other,” Clement said. “I always like to do something smoky or spicy together with something sweet.”

Halbrook also noted that swapping out meat for more cheese or adding more alternative options

makes charcuterie easy to alter for a variety of diets and allergies. Similarly, Halbrook suggested making seasonal changes, such as adding in herbs, cranberries and oranges for winter spreads.

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and cheese,” he said. “You

do all sorts of things to please every person attending your holiday event or party. You can do veggie board for your vegan friends,

which allows you to really splash more color on the board.”

Both Halbrook and Clement recommend splurging on the cheese, since it’s the star of the spread, but noted charcuterie doesn’t have to be pricey. Clement suggests cutting down on the accouterments or using what’s already on hand.

For proportions, Clement said she plans around two ounces of each cheese and meat per person if serving as an appetizer, or up to 6 ounces of each food per person if it’s the main meal.

Halbrook added there’s no harm in starting with smaller amounts.

“There’s no shame in refilling or having a backup item,” he said.

As for styling the charcuterie in an Instagram-worthy way, Clement said she will start by laying out the bigger items so that she can design around them. One of her favorite tips is to top the board by sprinkling dried fruit or edible flowers on top.

Ultimately though, she said there are no set rules, and that’s what makes it fun.

“A lot of times I won’t do a flat board, I’ll do a tiered tray,” Clement said of the possibilities. “The No. 1 thing to remember is you can’t do it wrong, you really can’t.”

Still, for those that don’t want to spend the time to prep and build charcuterie, there are several businesses in the Denver metro area that offer pre-made charcuterie, including both Farmgirl Foods and Postino, which also has locations in Highlands Ranch, LoHi and at 9th and Colorado.

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Voters approve free school meals program

BY ERICA BREUNLIN THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado public school students will have access to free school meals after voters approved Proposition FF on Nov. 8, slashing tax breaks for households that earn more than $300,000 in federal adjusted gross income starting in tax year 2023 to help pay for a new school meals program.

The measure passed with more than 55% of voters approving it.

The success of the measure means that all kids in public schools, no matter their family’s income, will be able to eat free school breakfasts and lunches, reflecting the critical role schools play in helping students facing food insecurity. The state’s new school meals program — the Healthy School Meals for All program — will take the place of a federal initiative that provided free meals to all kids through the first two years of the pandemic.

“This is a win for our fight against childhood hunger,” said Ashley Wheeland, director of public policy for Hunger Free Colorado, a nonprofit that helps people struggling with hunger. “Many more children that need food will now have access to it with their learning, and this is something that we’ve needed for a long time.”

The demand for food assistance swelled during the pandemic, with 68,000 more Colorado kids participating in school lunch programs supported by federal funds, said Wheeland, whose organization has supported the ballot measure since it was first referred by Democrats in the Colorado legislature this year through the passage of House Bill 1414. This school year, with the federal initiative no longer in place, school meals are reaching fewer students, she said.

Proposition FF will limit the amount that households earning more than $300,000 can claim in state income tax deductions to cover many of the costs of the new school meals program. It will also require school meal providers to take advantage of federal reimbursements to help ease program costs for the state.

The restriction will impact a taxpayer’s standard deduction or itemized deductions, which include charitable contributions, state and local taxes and mortgage interest.

Taxpayers who make more than $300,000 will be able to deduct no more than $12,000 for single filers and no more than $16,000 for joint filers. Currently, taxpayers who earn more than $400,000 can claim a maximum of $60,000 in state income tax deductions for a joint filer and a maximum of $30,000 for a single filer, caps that were passed under House Bill 1311. Taxpayers whose income is between $300,000 and $400,000 are not limited in how much they can deduct from their state tax-

able income.

Proposition FF will increase income tax revenue in the state by an estimated $100.7 million during the first full year of the tax change, fiscal year 2023-24, which begins on July 1, 2023.

School meal providers will be reimbursed for providing meals to all kids, and any school meal provider can benefit, whether they serve one or more school districts or charter schools. Currently, 183 school meal providers serve kids throughout the state and cover the costs of providing free and reduced-price lunches with state and federal funds and by charging families whose income exceeds federal poverty levels.

Students might qualify for free or reduced-price meals, depending on their household income, but Colorado students who are eligible for reduced-price meals get free meals instead because the state funds their portion of the meal cost.

Denver resident Noah Hayden, 25, voted in favor of Proposition FF so that all students have enough to eat while trying to learn.

Hayden, an unaffiliated voter, teaches social studies at a charter school in Broomfield, and while most of his students come from families who can afford meals, he knows not all kids have the same resources.

“I just think it’s better that every kid is always ensured a lunch throughout the day,” Hayden said after voting at ReelWorks Denver Tuesday evening.

Joey Chester, 30, an unaffiliated voter from Westminster, came to the polls with at least one thing in mind: school lunches.

Chester, who grew up in Aurora, voted “yes” on Proposition FF. He said he sees hope in the proposition.

“When I grew up, my mom gave us 40 bucks a month for school lunches, and I got lazy and would just burn it out and then have to make my own lunch finally for the rest of the year. I knew kids that didn’t always get meals, and I know things have gotten worse,” Chester said.

He added: “I hope it’s going to pass and the people that it’s going to tax are not going to be whiny about it.”

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Caraveo’s win also gives Democrats a better chance at holding onto their slim majority in Congress.

“In many ways, the story of my family is the story of this district — my parents immigrated here to afford us a better life,” Caraveo said in a written statement Wednesday. “And because of their hard work, I was able to go to college, become a doctor and live my version of the American Dream. But for too many people in Colorado, that dream has slipped out of reach. Our district deserves a leader who will fight to restore access to the American Dream for working families — a leader who will not side with wealthy donors and special interests.”

She added: “It’s the honor of my lifetime to receive this vote of confidence to serve working families from Greeley to Commerce City in Washington, D.C. I look forward to doing the hard work to fight for working families across every part of the 8th Congressional District.”

Coloradoreceived an eighth congressional districtafter the 2020 U.S. census due to the state’s population growth. The tossup district, which stretches from Denver’s northeast suburbs into Greeley, was drawn as part of last year’s once-in-a-decade redistricting process.

It had a slight Democratic advantage, according to a nonpartisan legislative staff analysis of election results in the district from 2016 to 2020. But most national prognosticators considered

the district fully up for grabs, if not slightly leaning toward Republicans.

Kirkmeyer benefited from national GOP help, while Caraveo’s campaign —which was always trailing in polling— was mostly left to fend for itself.

Kirkmeyer got help from the National Republican Congressional Committee to pay for more than $1.7 million in TV advertising starting in September. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee didn’t begin assisting Caraveo with TV advertising until mid-October.

Republican groups spent $10.2 million to support Kirkmeyer, compared with only $6.4 million for Democratic groups.

But Caraveo’s campaign raised more money than Kirkmeyer’s, outspending her rival $2.6 million to $1.2 million through Oct. 19, according to federal campaign finance records analyzed by

The Colorado Sun.

Caraveo and her campaign aimed to attract the support of working-class families like the one she grew up in. She said she originally ran for the state House after hearing parents’ concerns about the high costs of health care and their concerns about getting a good education for their children. Her support of abortion rights also played a significant role in her congressional bid.

“My message is that I come from (the) community,” she told reporters on Tuesday afternoon, before voting ended. “For me, it was about building on all of those experiences that I had taking care of them in my clinic and that I grew up with, seeing my parents have to have conversations around the kitchen room table about what we could afford to do.”

Caraveo said her campaign knocked on 295,000 doors, made 225,000 phone

calls and sent over 340,000 text messages to voters. Getting out Latino voters in the district was especially important to Caraveo.

“As somebody who speaks Spanish, I’ve really been concentrating my efforts in the Spanish-speaking areas of the community,” Caraveo said on Tuesday. “In Commerce City, and then Greeley in particular.”

Kirkmeyer’s loss is another disappointment for Republicans,who suffered major defeats on Election Day. The Colorado GOP felt Kirkmeyer, who focused her campaign on inflation and crime, was likely to be a bright spot on an otherwise disappointing election night.’

Instead, Kirkmeyer’s loss adds to the nightmare that has been 2022 for the state’s Republicans. Kirkmeyer’s campaign said it conceded despite the narrow margin in the race because it felt it no longer had a path to victory.

Kirkmeyer, who lives in Brighton, still has two years left in her current four-year state Senate term.

Caraveo thanked the community in her victory statement.

“Together, we will fight to lower costs, make prescription drugs more affordable, make childcare and family leave more accessible, and fight for every person in America to, once again, have reproductive rights restored to them,” she wrote.

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Colorado is second state to legalize ‘magic mushrooms’

Measure passed by thin margin

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

Ten years after legalizing the use and sale of marijuana, Colorado became only the second state in the U.S. to legalize the use of psilocybin mushrooms.

The ballot measure, Proposition 122, squeaked across the finish line as ballots were tallied the day after Election Day, receiving 51% of the vote.

Proponents called it a “truly historic moment.”

“Colorado voters saw the benefit of regulated access to natural medicines, including psilocybin, so people with PTSD, terminal illness, depression, anxiety and other mental health issues can heal,” coproponents, Kevin Matthews and Veronica Lightening Horse Perez said in emailed statement Wednesday evening.

Natural Medicine Colorado, which got Proposition 122 on the ballot, spent nearly $4.5 million to promote the measure. In contrast, the primary opposition, Protect Colorado’s Kids, raised about $51,000.

The measure will allow people 21 and older to grow and share psychedelic mushrooms, as well

as create state-regulated centers where people could make appointments to consume psilocybin, the hallucination-inducing compound derived from psychedelic mushrooms. It calls for licensed “healing centers” to give clients mushrooms in a supervised setting, but — unlike marijuana — does not include an option for retail sales.

Once again, Colorado passed a drug measure that’s illegal under federal law. Psychedelic mushrooms became illegal in the U.S. in 1970 under the Controlled Substances Act. Even with Proposition 122’s passage, psilocybin remains federally classified as a Schedule 1 controlled substance, like heroin, for which there is no current medical use.

Colorado became the first to legalize marijuana a decade ago, and is second only to Oregon in legalizing psilocybin.

Luke Niforatos, chairman of Protect Colorado’s Kids, said he was concerned as a parent and for Colorado’s public health.

“We now need to have a very frank and public conversation about who is in charge of medicine,” he said. “This is now the second time our state has rejected the FDA process.”

Niforatos, who is also executive vice president of the Foundation for Drug Policy Solutions, said Colorado has allowed “billionaires, startups and entrepreneurs” to

take control of medicine in this state instead of “scientists, medical doctors and the FDA.”

Niforatos said that if opponents of the measure had been able to raise enough money to educate the public about the dangers of allowing the use of drugs with no regulated dosage amounts or prescriptions, Proposition 122 would have failed.

“We can’t compete with $4 million from out of state,” he said, adding that proponents of the measure and the psilocybin industry will benefit from its passage while his side had no payoff to entice bigmoney donors.

He’s also concerned that the opening of psychedelic healing centers and advertising of the drugs in cities across Colorado will normalize drug use among young people, leading to more teens using psilocybin. There is no opt-out provision in Prop 122 for cities and counties that do not want psychedelic healing centers, although cities and counties could enact rules about where the centers could open and their hours of operation.

Proposition 122 also will allow facilities to expand to three plant-based psychedelics in 2026. Those are ibogaine, from the root bark of an iboga tree; mescaline, which is from cacti; and dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, a natural compound found in plants and animals. Mental health centers and

substance abuse treatment clinics also could seek licenses to offer psychedelic treatment.

The natural medicines, used to treat anxiety and depression, are obtained now through friends who grow them or from underground “trip guides” who sit with clients during a psychedelic experience, then help them process afterward.

Three years ago, Denver residents voted to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms, making possession a low priority for law enforcement.

With the passage of Proposition 122, Gov. Jared Polis has until Jan. 31 to appoint 15 members to the National Medicine Advisory Board, which will report to the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies.

The board’s first recommendations are due by Sept. 30, and regulated access to psilocybin would become available in late 2024. Then by June 2026, the state Department of Regulatory Agencies could expand access to the three other plant-based psychedelics.

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Conservative voices at Adams County polls

GOP voters questioned have varying views on candidates, liquor in stores

BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Brad Belford, a Westminster resident and registered Republican, said he voted Democrat down the line — besides for Secretary of State candidate Pam Anderson.

Belford said he thinks the Republican party is out of touch with conservatives and wishes he saw more independent candidates on

the ballot.

One issue he pointed to was abortion. He said if Republicans are against social welfare programs, then their stance on abortion should be pro-choice.

“I don’t think the current agenda really addresses the main conservative tenants that I personally believe in,” he said.

As well, he thinks opposing renewable energy is anti-capitalism.

“I think if we’re being realistic with ourselves in terms of what’s important to a conservative argument, we would be sort of proprivate capital markets and a big tenet of capitalism is competition,” he said. “I think we should be

welcoming competition from other renewable energy sources so that we can start to diversify our energy supply.”

Concerns about election fraud also influenced him to go Democrat. He said he saw many candidates questioning the results of general elections without providing evidence.

For Congressional District 8, he was disappointed in both candidates but ultimately voted for Yadira Caraveo, a Democrat.

Sam and Sandy Pratt, Northglenn residents, identified themselves as “staunch Republicans” and voted “right” up and down the ballot. Both voted for Republican Baraba-

ra Kirkmeyer in the CD8 race based on her values, such as being prochoice and lowering taxes.

They also voted no on allowing more liquor licenses for stores.

“I don’t even like going to the grocery store seeing all the beer,” Sandy Pratt said. “We love Jesus.”

Kevin Headrick, an unaffiliated voter from Westminster, voted Republican this time around for more balance of power. Inflation and the economy proved to be the main reasons for his vote.

He voted against the liquor store licensing expansion.

“We have a friend who owns a liquor store and it would impact him,” he said.

Republicans have to wait for 2026 for shot at power

of state candidate Pam Anderson, treasurer candidate Lang Sias and John Kellner, who ran for attorney general.

BY JESSE PAUL, DELANEY NELSON AND SANDRA FISH THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado Republicans were shellacked Tuesday night, which means, starting next year, the GOP will no longer have any statewide elected officials. And the party will have to wait until 2026 before they get a chance to change that.

That’s because there are no statewide offices up for reelection in 2024.

Additionally, the GOP was on track Wednesday morning to fall even further into the minority in the Colorado Senate — so far so that they won’t realistically have a shot at taking back the chamber in 2024. A Republican majority in the Colorado House is also largely seen as out of reach for the foreseeable future.

Democrats have never held this level of sustained power at the state or congressional levels in Colorado.

“It’s just super depressing if you’re a Republican,” said George Brauchler, a conservative talk radio host who ran unsuccessfully for attorney general in 2018. He called his party’s 2022 losses “epic.”

Brauchler spoke to The Sun on Tuesday night at the Colorado GOP’s watch party at the DoubleTree Hotel in Greenwood Village, which was perhaps the saddest place in the state. It was not even 10 p.m. when the ballroom had almost fully cleared out, following concession speeches from U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea, secretary

A band played Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” to an audience of mostly reporters busy digesting the GOP’s stunning defeats.

“The outcome is a tough pill to swallow,” O’Dea said in his concession speech to a hushed crowd at about 8:30 p.m., when early returns showed him trailing Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet by 18 percentage points. “But that’s life in the big city.”

O’Dea, a first-time candidate and Denver construction company owner, ran as a moderate in the hopes of winning over voters in a state moving increasingly toward Democrats. It didn’t work — in a big way. (O’Dea was trailing Bennet by 12 percentage points on Wednesday morning.)

Heidi Ganahl, a University of Colorado regent who was the only statewide elected Republican, lost her bid Tuesday to unseat Democratic Gov. Jared Polis. The contest was called by Fox News, playing in the DoubleTree ballroom, minutes after the polls closed. Ganahl was trailing Polis by 18 percentage points on Wednesday morning.

Former state Sen. Greg Brophy, an Eastern Plains Republican, was predicting a good night for Republicans heading into Election Day. On Wednesday morning he was in disbelief.

“I’m blown away,” he said. “In shock.”

Kristi Burton Brown, chairwoman of the Colorado GOP, said Tuesday’s results show where Colorado “really is” politically

“and whether or not Colorado has become a state more like Washington or California.”

Republicans, she said, will now have to focus district by district on legislative races and on local elections — school board, mayoral and city council contests, for example — until they get another shot at statewide office. U.S. House races, which are decided every two years, will also be a major focus for the party.

“If it’s district by district,” she said, “we’ll go fight district by district.”

Burton Brown said the GOP’s next big focus will be in Aurora, where they hope to keep a Republican in the mayor’s office in Mike Coffman and a GOP majority on the City Council. (Aurora’s municipal races are technically nonpartisan.)

And then there’s the 2024 presidential race. But no Republican presidential candidate has won in Colorado since George W. Bush in 2004.

In the Colorado Senate, where Republicans hoped to win a majority and be able to stop Democratic Gov. Jared Polis’ agenda, the GOP needed to win six of seven competitive races this year to secure the gavel. On Wednesday morning they were losing in all seven races.

While Republicans were hoping to ultimately win in a few of the seven districts once the vote count is complete, the party was bracing for the reality that they may fail in all of the races.

If Democrats ultimately prevail in the seven competitive contests, the party’s majority will expand to 23-12 from 21-14. There are only

two Democratic seats the party is at a real risk of losing in 2024, which means their future majority doesn’t appear in doubt until at least 2027.

Republicans may have lost seats in the House his year, as well, where they were already outnumbered by Democrats 41-24.

“We as a party have self-imploded in Colorado,” Ben Engen, a Republican political consultant and data analyst, said Nov. 9.

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun. com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

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Children facing early, intense respiratory virus season

Health o cials concerned

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

An alarming number of Colorado children with the respiratory virus called RSV are filling emergency rooms and intensive care beds as the state experiences an “early and intense” start to the flu season, state health officials and Children’s Hospital Colorado warned.

“It’s truly like nothing we’ve ever seen before at Children’s Hospital Colorado,” said Dr. Kevin Carney, a pediatric emergency physician and Children’s associate chief medical officer.

The hospital’s in-patient and ICU beds across the state are operating at or above maximum capacity, and emergency room and urgent care visits for respiratory illness are 30% higher than the busiest days of a normal flu season, which typically runs January through March.

Children’s is now postponing surgeries and other procedures in order to have the staff and space to treat children with RSV, the flu and COVID-19, he said.

Statewide, there’s a shortage of available pediatric intensive care beds, according to state health department officials who joined Children’s Hospital for a news conference. The number of available pediatric beds has hovered between zero and 5 the last several weeks, instead of the typi-

cal average of 22 open beds.

Children’s Hospital and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment held the news conference to warn parents and urge vaccinations after watching levels, especially for RSV, spike in recent weeks.

“What’s different this year is how early and severe this reference respiratory season has been for the children in our community,” Carney said. “Our emergency departments are seeing a record volume of patients.”

While RSV, which stands for respiratory syncytial virus, causes mild symptoms in most people, it can cause severe illness or even death in young children and older adults. Of the 554 people who have been hospitalized in the Denver area in the last few weeks, 95% were children. Health officials have counted 144 outbreaks statewide at schools and child care centers.

Infants and children under age 2 are most at risk for dangerous cases of RSV, as are people over age 65 or with lung issues. Colorado is seeing “unprecedented levels” of RSV transmission, said state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy.

She asked people to get vaccinated, both for the flu and COVID-19, and to stay home if they are sick, even with mild symptoms.

“A mild infection in me or you can translate to a life-threatening infection to a young child or an older adult,” she said.

The flu, COVID and RSV are all different illnesses, but it’s possibly for people to have more than one at the same time. The symptoms of RSV are runny nose, decrease in appetite, coughing, sneezing, fever and wheezing, which can make it difficult for parents to tell the difference between RSV, the flu and COVID.

The COVID-19 pandemic “disrupted” regular patterns for the respiratory virus season, pushing it back to early fall rather than winter. While the reasons aren’t entirely understood, it’s partly due to the health precautions taken during the pandemic —including isolation and masks — that also suppressed transmission of other respiratory illnesses, Herlihy said.

Health officials are seeing RSV spread during the summer and increase in the fall, and last year, saw an uptick in flu transmission late into the spring — both unusual timelines, she said.

“We really don’t fully understand, but it’s very clear that the pandemic has been disruptive to how these viruses are spread and when they’re spread,” Herlihy said.

Hospitalization numbers for influenza are still lower than typical peak levels, but they are higher at this point in the season than the most severe flu season on record in Colorado, which was in 2017-18, she said. Health officials said they are unsure when the illness might peak.

The number of doses of influenza vaccine given this year in Colorado are on par with 2021, but lower than 2020 levels, said Scott Bookman, director of public health response for the state health department.

“So we do have an opportunity here to increase our influenza vaccination rates as we head into this flu season,” he said.

Children’s Hospital officials encouraged parents to first check with their pediatrician if they are unsure whether their child needs to go to the emergency room. The state health department, meanwhile, is spreading word about the uptick in RSV and flu to schools, preschools and child care facilities.

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

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How to cover the state with super-fast internet

BY TAMARA CHUNG THE COLORADO SUN

An ambitious new plan by the state of Colorado seeks to end the state’s digital divide once and for all — and to do so using fiber, the gold standard for the fastest internet connections.

Just ask Brandy Reitter, who became the executive director of the Colorado Broadband Office in February. She took the gig because she wanted to do impactful work “that was well funded” so she could actually fix the problem. Now she’s leading the state’s plan to use $1 billion in federal money to improve internet service, not just to help those with no internet access, but those with subpar service. Unless Colorado households have a fiber connection, they are underserved or not served.

The Federal Communication Commission defines adequate speeds as 25 megabits per second down and 3 mbps up? That’s not good enough, Reitter says.

“So 25/3 is what we’re classifying as not served. And anything that’s under 100/20 is underserved,” Reitter said. “Do people feel like 25/3 is being served? It depends on your situation but I’ve heard from a lot of people that that’s not the case.”

She’s in the slow boat herself, though it sped up after a public-private effort to run fiber connecting Western Slope communities brought faster service closer to her home in Eagle. But not completely. She’s now on fixed wireless technology, which means an antenna on a facility miles away beams internet wirelessly to the antenna at her house. Distance, bad weather and other potential interference degrades speed. If she had a fiber-optic cable connecting her house to the internet source, data speeds would reach 1 gigabit per second in either direction, or 1,000 megabits.

“I probably now get maybe 50 (megabits) down and 18 up, which is still what we would classify as un-

derserved,” said Reitter, previously the town manager of Eagle. “But before that, I was getting 12 down and like 1 up.”

Her office inside the Governor’s Office of Information Technology recently released the Colorado Broadband Roadmap report, which aims to get 99% of the state covered by 2027. This includes building training programs, providing tools for distance learning, and adding gigabit broadband to state parks, prisons and libraries.

The roadmap was done because of what appears to be the largest infusion of federal dollars for broadband ever. At minimum, there’s about $500 million available to Colorado. If targets are met, it could reach $900 million over five years. Include other federal grants, like the Federal Communication Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund or the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect program, and the state’s share is more than $1 billion.

“There’s trends in every small town and one of those trends has always been connectivity,” Reitter said. “It has been crippling at times from, from a quality of life perspective and public safety and just from pure economics and economic prosperity. When we don’t have good connectivity, it’s hard to attract people to towns. It’s just hard to function.

I’ve been in situations where the internet will go down for a whole day in the middle of the summer. And I know people are losing money.”

Reitter sat down with The Colorado Sun to explain what’s next and talk about the state’s roadmap.

Q: The state wants 99% broadband coverage by 2027. Urban areas are already at or near that rate. Rural coverage was estimated to be at 93% last year. Where are we exactly?

A: Those numbers are from the old way the state collected data.

That included asking internet service providers about their coverage. But not all would volunteer to share for competitive reasons resulting in incomplete data. The state also used federal broadband maps, which relied on census data. But the flawed

method counted an entire census block as being served even if only one household had service.

And that makes the numbers hard to nail down, Reitter said. “We’ve been using census block data and self-reported data for a number of years and it’s hard to capture everybody on a map.”

The current belief is that 166,000 Colorado households lack internet access of speeds of up to 100 down and 20 up. About 14% of the state’s urban and rural areas are considered unserved or underserved.

The office is following the FCC’s lead by using a vendor that develops deeper location-level data by analyzing “hundreds of data sources,” according to the FCC. That includes “address records, tax assessment records, imagery and building footprints, census data, land use records, parcel boundaries, and geospatial road and street data.”

“What’s the number? I can tell you the number today because it’s in the report,” she said. “But six to nine months from now, it’ll be different because we’ll have better insight into location level mapping.”

The FCC, by the way, has been working to update how it tracks broadband coverage and plans to

release the first draft of its new map in November.

Q: What funding did Colorado get and what’s the plan for getting to 99%?

A: In the past two years, Congress passed spending plans to provide up to $900 million in funding to Colorado to improve broadband access. These include:

• $400 million to $700 million — The Broadband, Equity, Access and Deployment Program (funded by the U.S. Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act, or IIJA)

• $21 million — Digital Equity Act (funding by IIJA)

• $5 million to $100 million — Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program, (funded by IIJA)

• $171 million — Capital Projects Fund (funded by American Rescue Plan Act)

• $75 million — State and Local Fiscal Recovery (via ARPA)

It’s those last rural households that are the most expensive to connect. The Broadband Office calls them “negative business” cases, because no for-profit company was ever tempted to cut through rocky,

Colorado has a plan to extend high-speed internet availability to nearly every corner of the state.

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mountainous terrain or to lay miles of cables just to add a new customer.

The state estimated that 20% of the most expensive areas to build will use up 67% of the capital investment — up to an estimated average cost of $134,000 for one location. And the way to attract companies to build out fiber is to provide more financial incentive.

“When we say targeting, it’s more about adjusting our sub sidies and our grant programs to support different areas with different business cases so invest ment does happen,” she said. “In the negative business case, the subsidies will be a little bit higher and the (local) grant matches might be lower.”

This is similar to how the state’s broadband subsidies work today. For-profit internet providers can apply for grants from the Colora do Broadband Fund but also must provide some funding themselves.

In September, $22.8 million was awarded to 15 projects, including a $1.3 million project from PC Telecorp to get gigabit internet to 55 households in a Yuma County farming community. About a quarter of the amount is coming from PC Telecorp.

The roadmap doesn’t spell out how the money will be split up

to provide household access or digital literacy programs or infra structure. But the report provides a timeline for the grant programs to be set up and awards made. The money must be pretty much used by 2026, according to the state.

Federal funding would help the Department of Local Affairs invest in “middle mile” infra structure. Without it, local inter net providers cannot connect to the internet backbones running nationwide. Additional access creates redundancy if the inter net is cut off on one end.

There are also plans to equip an chor institutions, such as librar ies, state parks and state prisons, with gigabit internet service. The idea is that better internet will help those communities connect to services like telemedicine, or work and educational opportuni ties.

Q: What about the digital divide within urban areas where gigabit service is available, but not affordable?

A: Many internet companies now offer lower-priced plans because of the Affordable Con nectivity Program, a federal program that started in January and provides $30 a month to lowincome households for broadband service. In order for any internet company to get funding from the state, they must offer ACP, Reitter said.

“The state funding it or setting up a separate program outside

the federal government, we’re not doing that. We’re supporting the efforts to promote the Afford able Connectivity Program,” she said. “And our numbers are on the rise.”

According to the latest fed eral data, about 167,220 Colorado households are enrolled in ACP. Based on a possible 761,000 house holds in the state that fall within income guidelines, that’s about 22% of eligible households, as of Oct. 24.

“Right now, it’s about physical access,” she said. “It’s really chal lenging for the government to get into the business of price control or market control.”

Q: Is there enough money to get Colorado to 99%? Who gets left out? Who is that 1%?

A: “Do we have enough funds? I believe so. We’re estimating it as anywhere from $400 million to $700 million as a state, but also in addition to what the state is re ceiving, there are so many other broadband programs out there, like ReConnect and (Rural Digital Opportunity Fund) awards, the Tribal connectivity grants.”

Fiber may not work in all cases and federal grants allow for alternatives, like fixed wireless service. But what Reitter’s not considering in the financial in vestment is satellite internet ser vice, like Starlink from SpaceX. While available to the farthest reaches of the state, it’s pricey,

at $110 a month, plus a one-time hardware cost of $599. It’s also not that fast. Speedtest site Ookla clocked Starlink’s speeds at up to 110 megabits but concluded the median U.S. speed was a mere 62 megabits.

“I think Starlink is absolutely a solution for those that are so remote that the reality of them getting any kind of internet any time soon from another carrier is going to be a challenge,” Reit ter said. “(But) satellite doesn’t really come into the decision making process because our cost thresholds are really based on the cost to construct the fiber.”She’s not counting on Starlink to get Colorado to 99%. But the federal funding should help build enough fiber access to help the state end the digital divide. At least for those who want it.

“The intent is universal cover age,” she said. “There’s always going to be that 1% that’s like, ‘I don’t need internet’ or ‘I don’t want internet’ or ‘I’m not con necting to the internet.’ But the folks that need it and want it, we’re covering all of you.”

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NOTICE OF VACANCY

Pursuant to Section 32-1-808(2)(a)(I), C.R.S., notice is hereby given that vacancies exist on the Boards of Directors of Altamira Metropolitan District Nos. 1-4. Any eligible elector of the Districts who is interested in appointment to the Boards of Directors may contact the Districts’ Attorney, Spencer Fane LLP, 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 2000, Denver, CO 80203, (303) 839-3800. The Boards of the Districts may fill said vacancy 10 days after the date hereof.

By: Russell W. Dykstra, Counsel for the District

Legal Notice No. BSB1959

First Publication: November 17, 2022

Last Publication: November 17, 2022

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON INCLUSION OF PROPERTY INTO ADAMS EAST METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there has been filed with the Board of Directors of Adams East Metropolitan District (the “District”), Brighton, Colorado, Adams County, a petition praying that certain property, which is described below, be included into the boundaries of the District. The owner of one hundred percent (100%) of the property identified in the petition has given its consent to the inclusion of the property into the District’s boundaries.

Pursuant to § 32-1-903 CRS, as amended, the Dis trict’s meetings may be conducted electronically, telephonically or by other virtual means. Accord ingly, notice is hereby given to all interested per sons that they shall appear at a public hearing at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83989598417 +16699006833, Meeting ID 839 8959 8417, at 11:30 AM, on Thursday November 22, 2022, and show cause in writing why the petition should not be granted. The Board of Directors of the District, in its own discretion, may continue the hearing to a subsequent meeting.

The petition for the inclusion of property was sub mitted by Flywheel Holdings, LLC, whose address is 8301 East Prentice Ave., Suite 120, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111. The property for which inclusion is sought is generally described as three parcels of land on the east side of North 50th Avenue between Cherry Blossom Drive and East 168th Avenue in Brighton, Colorado.

A full and complete legal description of the property petitioned for inclusion is on file at the Law Office of Michael E. Davis, LLC, 1151 Eagle Drive, Suite 366, Loveland, CO 80537, and is available for public inspection during regular business hours 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF ADAMS EAST METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: LAW OFFICE OF MICHAEL E. DAVIS, LLC Attorneys for the District

Legal Notice No. BSB1964

First Publication: November 17, 2022

Last Publication: November 17, 2022

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Public Notice

NOTICE OF VACANCY

Pursuant to Section 32-1-808(2)(a)(I), C.R.S., notice is hereby given that vacancies exist on the Boards of Directors of Silver Peaks Metropolitan District Nos. 1-4 and 6-7. Any eligible elector of the Districts who is interested in appointment to the Boards of Directors may contact the Districts’ Attorney, Spencer Fane LLP, 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 2000, Denver, CO 80203, (303) 839-3800.

The Boards of the Districts may fill said vacancy 10 days after the date hereof.

for the District

By: Russell W. Dykstra, Counsel

Legal Notice No. BSB1960

First Publication: November 17, 2022

Last Publication: November 17, 2022

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS ON EXCLUSION OF PROPERTY FROM SOUTH BEEBE DRAW METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there has been filed with the Board of Directors of South Beebe Draw Metropolitan District (the “District”), Adams County, two petitions praying that certain property, which is described below, be excluded from the boundaries of the District. One hundred percent (100%) of the owners of the properties identified in the petitions have given their consent to the exclu sion of the property from the District’s boundaries.

Pursuant to § 32-1-903 CRS, as amended, the District’s meetings may be conducted electroni

cally, telephonically or by other virtual means. Ac cordingly, notice is hereby given to all interested persons that they shall appear at public hearings at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83989598417 +16699006833, Meeting ID 839 8959 8417, at 11:30 AM, on Thursday November 22, 2022, and show cause in writing why the petitions should not be granted. The Board of Directors of the District, in its own discretion, may continue the hearings to subsequent meetings.

The name and address of the petitioners are Ron VonLembke Childrens Trust, whose address is 8301 East Prentice Ave., Suite 100, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111 and CAW Equities, LLC, whose address is 8301 East Prentice Ave., Suite 100, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111. The property for which exclusion is sought is generally described as two parcels of land in the west half of Section 27, Township 5 North, Range 63 West of the Sixth P.M., in Weld County, Colorado.

A full and complete legal description of the property petitioned for exclusion is on file at the Law Office of Michael E. Davis, LLC, 1151 Eagle Drive, Suite 366, Loveland, Colorado, 80537, and is available for public inspection during regular business hours 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF SOUTH BEEBE DRAW METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: BRIGHTON CROSSING DISTRICT NO. 5 BRIGHTON CROSSING DISTRICT NO. 6 BRIGHTON CROSSING DISTRICT NO. 7 BRIGHTON CROSSING DISTRICT NO. 8

By: /s/ Jordan Wood, Administrator

Legal Notice No. BSB1928

First Publication: November 17, 2022

Last Publication: November 17, 2022 Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade Public Notice

NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2022 AMENDED BUDGETS AND THE 2023 BUDGETS

Original Lienee: Kenneth Allen Marus ka

Original Lienor: Lakeshore at Hunters Glen Homeowners Association, Inc. Current Holder of the evidence of debt: Lake shore at Hunters Glen Homeowners Association, Inc.

Date of Lien being foreclosed: February 23, 2021

Date of Recording of Lien being foreclosed: March 2, 2021

County of Recording: Adams Recording Information: 2021000024701

Original Principal Balance of the secured indebted ness: $4,365.00

Outstanding Principal Balance of the secured indebtedness as of the date hereof: $18,164.24

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DISTRICT COURT, ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, CO 80601 Case No. 2019cv30820

COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE, RIGHT TO CURE, AND RIGHT TO REDEEM Sale No. 2022005445

Amount of Judgment entered July 14, 2022: $16,340.45

Description of property to be foreclosed: Lot 120, Hunter’s Glen, Lakeshore Subdivision, Filing No. II, Amendment #1, recorded January 4, 1996 at Reception No. C0136141, County of Adams, State of Colorado.

Also known as: 1158 E. 130th Avenue, #C, Thornton, CO 80241.

OFFICE OF MICHAEL E. DAVIS, LLC Attorneys for the District Legal

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all interested parties that the necessity has arisen to amend the Sky Dance Metropolitan District Nos. 1-2 2022 Budgets and that proposed 2023 Budgets have been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Sky Dance Metropolitan District Nos. 1-2; and that copies of the proposed Amended 2022 Budgets and 2023 Budgets have been filed at the District’s offices, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado, where the same is open for public inspection; and that adoption of Resolu tions Amending the 2022 Budgets and Adopting the 2023 Budgets will be considered at a public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be held via Zoom, without any individuals (neither Board Representatives nor the general public) attending in person.

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Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the Resolutions to Amend the 2022 Budgets

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that amended 2022 and proposed 2023 budgets have been submit ted to Brighton Crossing Metropolitan District Operations Board. A copy of such proposed budgets has been filed at the offices of Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc., 550 West Eisenhower Blvd., Loveland, Colorado 80537, where the same is open for public inspection. The Board of Direc tors will consider the adoption of the proposed budgets of the Districts at a regular meeting of Brighton Crossing Metropolitan District Operations Board to be held via teleconference on Monday, December 5, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. Any interested elector of The Brighton Crossings Metropolitan District No. 4 may inspect the proposed budgets at the offices of Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc., 550 West Eisenhower Blvd., Loveland, CO 80537 and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: BRIGHTON CROSSING DISTRICT OPERA TIONS BOARD

By: /s/ Jordan Wood, Administrator

Legal Notice No. BSB1930

First Publication: November 17, 2022 Last Publication: November 17, 2022 Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade Public Notice

NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2022 AMENDED BUDGETS AND THE 2023 BUDGETS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that amended 2022 and proposed 2023 budgets have been submit ted to Brighton Crossing Metropolitan District No. 4. A copy of such proposed budgets has been filed at the offices of Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc., 550 West Eisenhower Blvd., Love land, Colorado 80537, where the same is open for public inspection. The Board of Directors will consider the adoption of the proposed budgets of the Districts at a regular meeting of Brighton Crossing Metropolitan District No. 4 to be held via teleconference on Monday, December 5, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. Any interested elector of The Brighton Crossings Metropolitan District No. 4 may inspect the proposed budgets at the offices of Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc., 550 West Eisenhower Blvd., Loveland, CO 80537 and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: BRIGHTON CROSSING DISTRICT NO. 4

By: /s/ Jordan Wood, Administrator

Legal Notice No. BSB1929

First Publication: November 17, 2022 Last Publication: November 17, 2022 Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Summons and Sheriff Sale

THE PROPERTY TO BE FORECLOSED AND DE SCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN.

THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The covenants of Plaintiff have been violated as follows: failure to make payments on said indebtedness when the same were due and owing.

NOTICE OF SALE

THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I will, at 9:00 o’clock A.M., on December 22, 2022, at Adams County Sheriff’s Office, located at Adams County Justice Center - Basement 1100 Judicial Center Dr. Brighton, CO 80601, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property described above, and all interest of said Grantor and the heirs and assigns of said Grantor, for the purpose of paying the judgment amount entered herein, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certifi cate of Purchase, all as provided by law. Bidders are required to have cash or certified funds to cover the highest bid by noon on the day of the sale. Certified funds are payable to the Adams County Sheriff’s Office.

First Publication: November 03, 2022

Last Publication: December 01, 2022

Name of Publication: Brighton Standard Blade

NOTICE OF RIGHTS

YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LI ABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO LAW AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF THE STATUTES WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS ARE AT TACHED HERETO.

A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE PURSUANT TO §38-38-104, C.R.S., SHALL BE FILED WITH THE OFFICER AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED.

Plaintiff: ALL PHASE RESTORATION, INC. v.

Defendants: CHRISTINE L. STRICKLETT; MARTY STRICK LETT; TOTAL CAR CARE, INC.; MAVIS B. HOTT MAN; PUBLIC TRUSTEE OF ADAMS COUNTY Regarding (legal description):

THE EAST 25 FEET OF LOTS 1, 2, 3, AND 4, AND THE NORTH 3 FEET OF THE EAST 25 FEET OF LOT 5; AND THE SOUTH 21.5 FEET OF THE EAST 3.6 FEET OF THE WEST 125 FEET OF LOT 4; AND THE NORTH 2.7 FEET OF THE EAST 3.6 FEET OF THE WEST 125 FEET OF LOT 5; ALL IN BLOCK 16, WALNUT GROVE ADDITION TO BRIGHTON, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known as: 348 Bridge Street, Brighton, Colorado 80601

Please take notice:

You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff’s Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Sheriff’s Department of the County of Adams, State of Colorado at 9:00 o’clock AM, on the 12th day of January 2023, at 1100 Judicial Center Drive, Brighton, Colorado, phone number 303-655-3272. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale.

Name of the holder of the evidence of debt: The mechanic’s lien is held by All Phase Restora tion, Inc.

Amount of the original principal balance of the secured indebtedness: Inapplicable because this is a foreclosure of mechanic’s lien, however, the amount of the mechanic’s lien is $85,378.41 plus interest at the rate of 18% after March 31, 2022.

Name, address, business telephone number, and bar registration number of the attorney for the holder of the evidence of debt: The attorneys for the holder of the mechanic’s lien, All Phase Restoration, Inc., are:

Elkus & Sisson, P.C.

Donald C. Sisson, #35825 Lucas Lorenz, #35739

7100 E. Belleview, Suite 101 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Phone: (303) 567-7981

dsisson@elkusandsisson.com llorenz@elkusandsisson.com

A notice of intent to cure filed pursuant to section 38-38-104 shall be filed with the officer at least fif teen calendar days prior to the first scheduled sale date or any date to which the sale is continued.

/s/Ann Finn Secretary

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 1100 Judicial Center Dr., Brighton, CO 80601

Plaintiff: LAKESHORE AT HUNTERS GLEN HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, a Colorado non-profit corporation,

Defendants: KENNETH ALLEN MARUSKA; SELECT PORTFOLIO SERVICING, INC; HUNT ERS GLEN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC.; DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY - INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; LISA CULPEPPER AS PUBLIC TRUSTEE FOR ADAMS COUNTY; LISA CULPEPPER AS TREASURER FOR ADAMS COUNTY; UNKNOWN TENANT(S) IN POSSESSION.

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

A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO §38-38-302, C.R.S., SHALL BE FILED WITH THE OFFICER NO LATER THAN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS AFTER THE SALE.

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

A notice of intent to redeem filed pursuant to sec tion 38-38-302 shall be filed with the officer no later than eight business days after the sale.

Date of sale determined pursuant to section 3838-108: January 12, 2023

Group,

West Eisenhower Blvd., Loveland, Colorado 80537,

inspection.

consider

the same is open for

Board of Directors

adoption of the proposed budgets

the Districts at a regular meeting of Brighton Crossing Metropolitan District Nos. 5-8 to be held via teleconference on Monday, December 5, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. Any interested elector of The Brighton Crossings Metropolitan District No. 5, Brighton Crossings Metropolitan District No. 5, Brighton Crossings Metropolitan District No. 6, Brighton Crossings Metropolitan District No. 7, Brighton Crossings Metropolitan District No. 8, may inspect the proposed budgets at the offices of Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc., 550 West Eisenhower Blvd., Loveland, CO 80537 and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget.

Attorneys for Plaintiff: WINZENBURG, LEFF, PURVIS & PAYNE, LLP Wendy E. Weigler #28419 Address: 8020 Shaffer Parkway, Suite 300 Littleton, CO 80127 Phone Number: (303) 863-1870 Case Number: 2022CV030011

SHERIFF’S COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE AND RIGHT TO CURE AND REDEEM

Under a Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure entered on July 14, 2022 in the above- captioned action, I am ordered to sell certain real property as follows:

IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIRE MENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN C.R.S. 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN C.R.S. 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL AT THE COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF LAW, RALPH L. CARR JUDICIAL BUILDING, 1300 BROADWAY, 10TH FLOOR, DENVER, CO 80203, 720-5086000; THE CFPB, HTTP://WWW.CONSUMERFINANCE.GOV/ COMPLAINT/; CFPB, PO BOX 2900, CLINTON IA 52733-2900 (855) 411-2372 OR BOTH, BUT THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS.

The name, address and telephone number of each of the attorneys representing the holder of the evidence of the debt is as follows: Wendy E. Weigler #28419 Winzenburg, Leff, Purvis & Payne, LLP 8020 Shaffer Parkway, Suite 300 Littleton, CO 80127 303-863-1870 THIS IS

Date: October 26, 2022.

Place of sale determined pursuant to section 38-38-110: 1100 Judicial Center Drive, Brighton, Colorado

THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

If the borrower believes that a lender or servicer has violated the requirements for a single point of contact in section 38-38-103.1 or the prohibition on dual tracking in section 38-38-103.2, the borrower may file a complaint with the Colorado Attorney General at the Colorado Department of Law, Ralph L. Carr Judicial Building, 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor, Denver, CO 80203, (720) 508-6000, https:// coag.gov/, or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, PO Box 27170, Washington, DC 20038, (855) 411-2372, http://www.consumerfinance.gov/ complaint/, or both, but the filing of a complaint will not stop the foreclosure process.

This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceed ing has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to Court Order dated September 12, 2022, and C.R.S. 38-22-101 et seq. by All Phase Restoration, Inc., the holder and current owner of a lien recorded on March 8, 2019 at 2019000017040 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Adams, State of Colo rado. The foreclosure is based on a mechanic’s lien held by All Phase Restoration, Inc., pursuant to C.R.S. § 38-22-101 et seq. against real property

By: Richard A. Reigenborn Adams County Sheriff Adams County, Colorado

legally described as follows:

THE EAST 25 FEET OF LOTS 1, 2, 3, AND 4, AND THE NORTH 3 FEET OF THE EAST 25 FEET OF LOT 5; AND THE SOUTH 21.5 FEET OF THE EAST 3.6 FEET OF THE WEST 125 FEET OF LOT 4; AND THE NORTH 2.7 FEET OF THE EAST 3.6 FEET OF THE WEST 125 FEET OF LOT 5; ALL IN BLOCK 16, WALNUT GROVE ADDITION TO BRIGHTON, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known as: 348 Bridge Street, Brighton, Colorado 80601.

You may have an interest in the real property be ing affected or have certain rights or suffer certain liabilities or loss of your interest in the subject property as a result of said foreclosure. You may have the right to redeem the real property or you may have the right to cure a default under the instrument being foreclosed.

A notice of intent to cure filed pursuant to section 38-38-104 shall be filed with the officer at least fif teen calendar days prior to the first scheduled sale date or any date to which the sale is continued. A notice of intent to redeem filed pursuant to section 38-38-302 shall be filed with the officer no later than eight business days after the sale. 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.

A copy of sections 38-38-103, 38-37-108, 38-38104, 38-38-301, 38-38-302, 38-38-304, 38-38-305, and 38-38-306 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, as presently comprised, is included with this Com bined Notice (on the following pages) as required by law. However, your rights may be determined by previous statutes.

You are advised that the parties liable thereon, the owner of the property described above, or those with an interest in the subject property, may take appropriate and timely action under Colorado statutes, certain sections of which are attached hereto. In order to be entitled to take advantage of any rights provided for under Colorado law, you must strictly comply and adhere to the provisions of the law. Further, you are advised that the at tached Colorado statutes merely set forth the ap plicable portions of Colorado statutory law relating to curative and redemption rights; therefore, you should read and review all the applicable statutes and laws in order to determine which requisite procedures and provisions control your rights in the subject property.

All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 303-655-3272.

Dated: October 21, 2022

Legal Notice No. BSB1961

First Publication: November 17, 2022

Last Publication: December 15, 2022

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Katherine Marie Buchanan Personal Representative 17693 E Ohio Cir Aurora, CO 80017

Legal Notice No. BSB1965

First Publication: November 17, 2022

Last Publication: December 1, 2022

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of LINDA JO COREY, also known as LINDA J. COREY, also known as LINDA COREY, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30889

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 10, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Carrie Jo Kennedy Personal Representative 3319 S. Verbena Ct. Denver, CO 80231

Legal Notice No. BSB1942

First Publication: November 10, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of PAIGE A. CLYKER, aka PAIGE AMBERT CLYKER, aka PAIGE CLYKER, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30825

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Matthew P. Clyker

Personal Representative 21460 County Road 4 Hudson, CO 80642

Legal Notice No. BSB1962

First Publication: November 17, 2022 Last Publication: December 1, 2022

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of SHEILA KAY THOMPSON, a/k/a SHEILA K. THOMPSON, a/k/a SHEILA THOMPSON, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30885

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 10, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Angela Milholen

Personal Representative c/o Baker Law Group, LLC 8301 E. Prentice Avenue, Suite 405 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. BSB1943

First Publication: November 10, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Mack Gammon, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 314

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Maxine Moore

Personal Representative 509 Lee Street Hampton, VA 23669

Legal Notice No. BSB1957

First Publication: November 17, 2022 Last Publication: December 1, 2022

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of BONNIE JEAN SCHWARTZ a/k/a BONNIE SCHWARTZ a/k/a BONNIE J. SCHWARTZ a/k/a BONNIE JEAN ATTERBERRY, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30853

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 3, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Casey C. Breese, #51448 675 15th Street, Suite 2650 Denver, Colorado 80202

Legal Notice No. BSB1936

First Publication: November 3, 2022 Last Publication: November 17, 2022 Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of HUNTER SCOTT VENTURELLI a/k/a HUNTER S. VENTURELLI a/k/a HUNTER VENTURELLI, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30857

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 3, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

London Venturelli Personal Representative c/o Arlene Barringer, Esq. Glatstein & O’Brien, LLP 2696 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 350 Denver, Colorado 80222

Legal Notice No. BSB1927

First Publication: November 3, 2022 Last Publication: November 17, 2022 Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of James Robert Baralo, Jr. aka James R. Baralo, Jr. aka James Baralo, Jr. aka James Robert Baralo aka James R. Baralo aka James Baralo aka Jim Baralo, deceased Case Number: 2022PR030910

Children Services

(Adoption/Guardian/Other)

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO

Court Address: 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, CO 80601

Child: Prestige Fabrizio

Respondents: Bobbiejo Fabrizio, Julio Sandoval, John Doe Case Number: 2021 JV 259 Div: D Ctrm.:

Attorney or Party Without Attorney: Name: Megan Curtiss Address: 11860 Pecos St. Westminster, CO 80234 Phone Number: (720) 523-2950 Fax Number: (720)-523-2951 Atty. Reg. #: 34124

ORDER OF ADVISEMENT

NOTICE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPON DENTS: Bobbiejo Fabrizio, Julio Sandoval, John Doe

YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED that the Petitioner, has filed a Motion to Terminate the Parent-Child Legal Relationship which now exists between you and the above-named child;

YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISED that the Motion has been set for hearing in Division D of the District Court in and for the County of Adams, Adams County Justice Center, 1100 Judicial Center Drive, Brighton, Colorado, on the 2nd day of December, 2022, at the hour of 8:30 a.m., at which time the Petitioner must prove by clear and convincing evidence 1) It is in the best interests of the child, that the parent-child legal relationship which exists between you and the child be terminated and severed; 2) That the child was adjudicated dependent or neglected; 3) That an appropriate treatment plan has not reason ably been complied with by the parent or has not been successful; 4) That the parents are unfit; 5) That the conduct or condition of the parent or parents is unlikely to change within a reasonable time; OR 1) That the child have been abandoned by their parent or parents in that the parent or parents have surrendered physical custody for a period of six months and during this period have not manifested to the child, the court or to the person having physical custody a firm intention to assume or obtain physical custody or to make permanent legal arrangements for the care of the child and 2) That it is in the best interests of the child that the parent-child legal relationship which exists between the child and the respondents be terminated and severed.

The Court, before it can terminate the parent-child legal relationship, must find that a continuation of the relationship is likely to result in grave risk of death or serious injury to the child or that your conduct or condition as a parent renders you unable or unwilling to give the child reasonable parental care.

District Court Judge/Magistrate

Legal Notice No. BSB1968

First Publication: November 17, 2022

Last Publication: November 17, 2022

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO

Court Address: 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, CO 80601

Child: Solomon Trayvon Ishmael Jenkins Prince Williams

Respondents: Shamekka Jenkins Prince, John Doe

Special Respondent: Danielle Davis Case Number: 21JV203 Div: D Ctrm.:

ORDER OF ADVISEMENT

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPON

NOTICE

DENTS: Shamekka Jenkins Prince and John Doe

YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED that the Petitioner, has filed a Motion to Terminate the Parent-Child Legal Relationship which now exists between you and the above-named child;

YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISED that the Motion has been set for hearing in Division D of the District Court in and for the County of Adams, Adams County Justice Center, 1100 Judicial Center Drive, Brighton, Colorado, on the 25th day of , January 2023, at the hour of 9:30 am, at which time the Petitioner must prove by clear and convincing evidence 1) It is in the best interests of the child, that the parent-child legal relationship which exists between you and the child be terminated and severed; 2) That the child was adjudicated dependent or neglected; 3) That an appropriate treatment plan has not reasonably been complied with by the parent or has not been successful; 4) That the parents are unfit; 5) That the conduct or condition of the parent or parents is unlikely to change within a reasonable time; OR 1) That the child have been abandoned by their parent or parents in that the parent or parents have surren dered physical custody for a period of six months and during this period have not manifested to the child, the court or to the person having physical custody a firm intention to assume or obtain physi cal custody or to make permanent legal arrange ments for the care of the child and 2) That it is in the best interests of the child that the parent-child legal relationship which exists between the child and the respondents be terminated and severed.

The Court, before it can terminate the parent-child legal relationship, must find that a continuation of the relationship is likely to result in grave risk of death or serious injury to the child or that your conduct or condition as a parent renders you unable or unwilling to give the child reasonable parental care.

YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISED that you have the right to have legal counsel represent you in all matters connected with the Motion to Terminate the Parent-Child Legal Relationship.

If you cannot afford to pay the fees of legal coun sel, you are advised that the Court will appoint legal counsel to represent you at no cost to you upon your request and upon your showing of an inability to pay.

Legal Notice No. BSB1967

Estate of Reyes Montano, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30788

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 3, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ann Rodriguez

Personal Representative 8364 Charlotte Way Denver, CO 80221

Legal Notice No. BSB1931

First Publication: November 3, 2022

Last Publication: November 17, 2022

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before March 10, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Annette Baralo Personal Representative 3650 S Yosemite St STE 214 Denver, CO 80237

Legal Notice No. BSB1946

First publication: November 10, 2022 Last publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISED that you have the right to have legal counsel represent you in all matters connected with the Motion to Terminate the Parent-Child Legal Relationship. If you cannot afford to pay the fees of legal counsel, you are advised that the Court will appoint legal counsel to represent you at no cost to you upon your request and upon your showing of an inability to pay.

YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISED that a grandpar ent, aunt, uncle, brother or sister of the child must file a request for guardianship and legal custody of the child within twenty days of the filing of the motion to terminate parent/child legal relationship.

If you have any questions concerning the foregoing advisement, you should immediately contact either your legal counsel or the Court.

Done and signed this 8th day of November, 2022.

BY THE COURT:

If

YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISED that a grandpar ent, aunt, uncle, brother or sister of the child must file a request for guardianship and legal custody of the child within twenty days of the filing of the motion to terminate parent/child legal relationship.

have any questions concerning the foregoing advisement, you should immediately contact either your legal counsel or the Court. Done and signed this 6th day of November, 2022.

Richard A. Reigenborn, Sheriff Adams County Sheriff’s Office