Brighton Standard Blade 062923

Adams County hosts Tiny Home Festival

Colorado taxpayers should see hefty refund checks

Good news on revenues means more money coming back to residents

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado taxpayers will be sent even larger refund checks next year than expected after state tax revenues nished the scal year much higher than budget analysts for the legislature and in the governor’s o ce predicted.

e state may now have to refund nearly $1 billion more than originally expected, nonpartisan Legislative Council Sta and the governor’s O ce of State Planning and Budgeting told state lawmakers in June, increasing refund checks by hundreds of dollars per person.

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The sixth annual Tiny Home Festival returned to Riverdale Park on June 24 and 25, showcasing some big ideas with small footprints.

The park was busy, with many people lining up to see each one

of a kind of custom-built home. Each tiny house ranged from 400 square to larger, with amenities like full-size washers, dryers, and kitchen appliances.

Legislators approved the Colorado Tiny House Bill, House Bill 22-1242, that creates construction standards for theand , makes the event more timely

than ever.

“This new legislation will make tiny home living in Colorado a more viable option,” said Art Laubach, Colorado Tiny House Festival organizer. “The legislation will protect consumers setting standards for

Exactly how large those Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights refund checks will be remains in ux, in part because the number will be determined by whether voters pass Proposition HH in November, a 10-year property tax relief plan from Democrats in the General Assembly and Gov. Jared Polis.

e legislature passed a bill in the nal three days of its 2023 lawmaking term, which ended May 8, that would make the refund check amounts the same for everyone if voters pass Proposition HH.

This tiny home is built by the Adams 12 high school students in the construction pathway program. They donate the houses to Access Housing, which we are a nonprofit dedicated to helping homeless youth and families transition out of homelessness.

PHOTO BY BELEN WARD

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BRIEFS

Farm to Market tickets on sale

Tickets for Farm to Table, a fundraising event for the Platte Valley Medical Foundation scheduled for Aug. 17 or on sale now.

e Foundation’s biennial fundraising campaign will bene t women’s health services to help women connect with the care they need throughout their adult years and to support area women who do not always prioritize their own health needs. e foundation hopes to raise $500,000 in the campaign cycle. ey conduct multiple fundraising e orts annually with Farm to Table as the largest event.

Farm to Table will be at 6 p.m. Aug. 17 on the hospital campus. Platte Valley Medical Center’s Chef Mike Anderson uses produce donated by area farmers to create a gourmet meal for about 450 guests.

e event garners so much support that it often sells out long before the date. is year, Muñoz reserved a block of tickets that are available to the public for $75 each. ey are available at https://ftt2023.cbo.io.

Brighton residents encouraged to take community survey

e City of Brighton is launching e National Community Survey (NCS) through Polco NRC (National Research Center) to get resident input on a wide range of community issues ranging from crime and safety and employment opportunities to overall quality of life. An estimated 3,000 households in Brighon should begin receiving surveys

in the mail asking them to participate, and their responses will be weighted and analyzed for the survey results. Following the distribution of the mailed surveys, an online version of the same survey will be available for the rest of the community to complete in late July. More information will be sent out on the online survey when it becomes open. All residents will be able to complete the online survey by visiting www. brightonco.gov/survey.

e City of Brighton last worked with Polco to conduct a community survey in 2021. e National Community Survey allows Brighton to compare results and benchmark residents’ opinions against other communities across the country. e survey will include questions about quality of life, important characteristics of community, services provided by the City, and priorities for the future.

e survey will be available online in English and Spanish. Responses will remain anonymous and personal information will be securely stored on Polco. Once results are in, they will be analyzed by Polco, then presented to City Council.

Residents with questions about the survey may contact the City of Brighton by email at communications@brightonco.gov.

GOCO $350K grant goes to the High Line Canal preservation work

E orts to protect the High Line Canal as a regional open space picked up a $350,000 grant from Great Outdoors

Brighton Adventist Academy • BAA

Colorado.

e grant is part of GOCO’s Land Acquisition program, which supports urban and rural landscape, waterway, and habitat protection priorities and improves access to the outdoors.

High Line Canal is a 71-mile, 860-acre corridor provides valuable recreation access for the Denver-metro region. It winds through some of its most diverse communities, connecting neighbors to schools, community centers, and more than 8,000 acres of parks and open spaces. e canal spans communities in Denver, Douglas, Adams, and Arapahoe Counties, passing through a diversity of Front Range ecosystems along the way.

e High Line Canal is in a time of transition as its owner, Denver Water, reduces its reliance on the Canal for irrigation delivery. e High Line Canal Conservancy is planning for its future as a recreational, ecological, historical, and stormwater resource.

A Stroll in the Garden for CASA

e Court Appointed Special Advocate program, or CASA, for the 11th Judicial District is promoting one of its major fundraisers now scheduled for September.

CASA is inviting supporters to come enjoy a Stroll in the Garden at this year’s Indulge for CASA Gala from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sept. 13 at Denver’s Balistreri Vineyards, 1946 E 66th Ave. is Garden Party will be full of delicious food and drinks, fantastic auction prizes, exciting entertainment, and more! Indulge for CASA is presented by the Kenneth & Myra Monfort Charitable Foundation.

CASA’s mission is to provide courtappointed volunteer advocacy for children and youth from the child welfare system so every child can be safe, have a permanent home, and have the opportunity to thrive.

Annual Stars & Stripes Event to Feature Singer Thomas Mac

e annual pre-Independence Day celebration at Riverdale Regional Park is back! Mark your calendars for the third of July celebration. Ward Electric presents a free evening in the park with country singer, omas Mac, and a festive display of reworks.

fessional chefs over a six-week course and earn certi cations and up to $400 per month. Work Options also o ers food truck internships.

In addition to the training program, Work Options provides the Human Services Center 11860 Pecos St., Westminster, with a full menu of breakfast and lunch options including breakfast burritos, pastries, burgers, pizza, daily specials, and more in the Mountain View Café. e café is located on the third oor of HSC.

Learn more about the program at workoptions.org.

City calls for artists for Eye 4 Art 2023 Summer Showcase

e City of Brighton Eye for Art program announces a call for artists for the 2023 Summer Showcase. is exhibit is a three-month showcase from July 17 - October 13 at Brighton City Hall, located at 500 S. 4th Avenue.

e Summer Showcase is an opentheme show and a great time to display your art. Artwork may include, but is not limited to, oil, acrylic, watercolors, graphite drawings, photography, fused glass, pottery, computer painting, mixed media, jewelry, glass and sculptures.

e deadline to submit artwork for consideration is June 26. Please submit using this form.

To learn more about this show or the program, visit the Eye for Art page or contact David Gallegos, Arts and Culture Coordinator, at dgallegos@ brightonco.gov or 303-655-2176.

Block Party trailers return

Unincorporated Adams County residents can apply and reserve a complimentary Block Party trailer for their next event.

e Block Party Trailer is intended to build and strengthen neighborhoods in Adams County. e program is administered by the Neighborhood Services division in the Community Safety and Well-Being Department on a rst come, rst served basis.

For more information, go to https:// adcogov.org/block-party, call 720 5236465 or email blockparty@adcogov.org

ARTfest at The Armory seeking artists for summer art show

Brighton Adventist Academy connects students with classroom learning, character development, and essential life skills in a Christian environment that delivers academic excellence.

Preschool, PreKindergarten, Kindergarten, 1-8, and 9-10.

Monday-Thursday 8:00-4:00 (All grades)

Food and beverage vendors will begin serving at 4 p.m. Enjoy live music followed by the 9:30 p.m. reworks show.

For the safety and comfort of your pets and all event attendees, please keep your furry friends at home for the Stars & Stripes event. Visitors are kindly reminded that most reworks are illegal in Adams County; please leave reworks of any type to our professionals.

For more event information and Park Rules, visit riverdaleregionalpark.org or call 303 637-8000.

Work Options FREE Culinary Training Program

e Adams County Human Services Department is partnering with local nonpro t Work Options to provide a free culinary training program for residents.

Program participants train with pro-

ARTfest, the City of Brighton’s community art show, will be through Aug. 29 at the Armory Performing Arts Center (300 Strong St.).

e entry fee is $5 per person for two entries, with cash or check payable to BCAC (Brighton Cultural Arts Commission) due at drop-o . Entries will be accepted on a rst-come, rst-served basis until the show is full. Each artist will be limited to two pieces.

e show is sponsored by the Brighton Cultural Arts Commission and the Armory Performing Arts Center. Partial funding is provided by the Scienti c and Cultural Facilities District.

For details on framing and mounting requirements and for other information, contact Sandie Mackenzie at 303-659-5440 or David Gallegos at 303655-2176. To con rm Armory viewing hours, please call 303-655-2026.

Solar manufacturer announces plans for Brighton

Joint venture to bring 900 jobs, $250 million investment to city

Brighton will be home to a solar manufacturing facility along Interstate 76, the Polis administration announced June 22.

e Colorado O ce of Economic Development and International Trade announced today that VSK Energy Inc. will expand into Brighton, bringing as many as 900 new jobs to the area.

e company plans to move into the 76 Commerce Center, row of warehouses along Interstate 76 just north of Brighton’s 160th Avenue in 2024. e company would share the lot with autonomous warehouse equipment manufacturer Outrider.

VSK Energy Inc., a U.S.-based joint venture between several international solar manufacturers, announced plans to invest $250 million to develop an American solar photovoltaic module manufacturing facility projected to create over 900 net new jobs.

“Colorado is one of the top states in the country for solar production so this expansion in Brighton will help build upon our plans to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2040, create more than 900 new good-paying jobs for Coloradans and contribute

to our state’s thriving economy,” said Gov. Jared Polis said in a written statement. “More and more companies are ocking to Colorado because we are the best place to live and do business so we are thrilled to welcome VSK to Colorado.”

VSK is a majority U.S.-owned and operated joint venture between solar energy providers, India-based Vikram Solar, private equity rm Phalanx Impact Partners, and investment and development rm Das & Co. which has expertise in the solar industry in the United States, India and emerging markets. Colorado and the Polis Administration have a shared interest with India to foster sustainable energy solutions. Governor Polis conducted his rst o cial trade and investment mission to India in 2019, which included a focus on renewable energy and clean technologies.

“ e passage of the In ation Reduction Act was a landmark moment for the clean energy future of the United States,” said Sriram Das, Co-Chairman of VSK Energy. “ e Biden Administration and Congress have called for immediate action and, through our partnership in VSK, we are taking a decisive step towards achieving solar technology self-su ciency, fortifying America’s energy security, and propelling largescale solar deployment. I am also particularly proud to bring together leaders from both the United States and India to make this investment and commitment to America’s clean energy future.”

e jobs at the Brighton factory will

include engineers, technical operators, manufacturing laborers, and administrative sta , with an average salary of more than $70,000. is is more than 105% of the average annual wage of Adams County. VSK Energy expects the facility to open in 2024 with an initial capacity of 2 Gigawatts (GW) in solar PV modules and planned expansion of up to 4 GW.

“ e City of Brighton and Brighton Economic Development Corporation are excited to welcome VSK Energy Inc. (VSK), to Brighton as one of our top employers,” said Robin Martinez, President & CEO of the Brighton Economic Development Corporation. “Brighton is a prime location for CleanTech companies to locate and grow with the vast number of resources available and we welcome VSK to our community.”

Brighton Mayor Greg Mills said the jobs and the investment are welcome.

“We do want to have people be able to live in Brighton but to be able to work in Brighton as well,” Mills said. “So this works with everything we are trying to do here.”

But Mills said he’s waiting to the see the details before he gets too excited.

e Brighton factory will be located at the recently completed 76 Commerce Center, which is owned by Mortenson Properties and Hyde Development. A leading solar engineering, procurement, construction, and commercial contracting rm, Mortenson will oversee the engineer-

ing and construction of the Brighton Factory as well as a second facility planned for the Southern U.S. Colorado’s central location within the U.S. along with Brighton’s accessibility to Denver International Airport and several interstate highways will be key in supporting VSK’s growth, along with the availability of a modernized facility that meets production needs. e state’s top workforce also played an important role in the decision.

“Cleantech in Colorado contributes $4.6 billion per year to the state’s economy and employs over 62,000 Colorado workers. By establishing a new solar manufacturing facility in Brighton, VSK will grow this important employment sector and help further Colorado’s commitment to grow clean energy technologies,” said Eve Lieberman, Executive Director of OEDIT.

“We are thrilled VSK has selected Adams County as their new U.S. base and extend a warm welcome as they join our vibrant community,” said Adams County Commission Chairman Steve O’Dorisio. “We are con dent that the company will greatly bene t from our exceptional local talent pool, while our robust transportation infrastructure will e ortlessly connect them with both domestic and international markets. With VSK’s arrival, Adams County’s renewable sector, encompassing wind, solar, and battery technology, continues to ourish, making it the ideal hub for innovation and sustainable growth.”

Battery maker Amprius details Brighton factory plans

Company touts safety as they prepare for city, state reviews

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

Amprius Technologies, the Fremont, Calif.-based lithium-ion battery manufacturer that plans

to occupy an empty warehouse in Brighton, has already talked about how much they plan to invest in the community and how many jobs they plan to bring.

But one question they’ve been answering lately is how safe their operation will be. Company CEO Kang Sun said he wants to assure Brighton the factory will be safe.

“ is is a highly regulated industry and we cannot a ord to make any error,” Sun said. “One big error and

our company will be gone. So we are taking this very, very seriously for our employees, our labor groups and our neighbors.”

e company announced in March its intention to occupy the empty former Sears/KMart distribution center on Bromley Lane, setting up their new lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in the 775,000-square-foot building. eir rst phase would create 332 net new jobs in Brighton with an average annual wage of $68,516.

Amprius plans to invest $190 million, including a $50 million cost-sharing grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s O ce of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains.

Andrew Huie, Amprius’ vice president of infrastructure, said the company still needs zoning approval from the City of Brighton and permits from the Colorado Department of

TINY HOMES

tiny home building and manufacturing in Colorado.”

Laubach said since the Colorado Tiny House Bill passed, it will be better next year now that they are opening up the building code, the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). It’s an organization that handles standards.

“The building code has been approved as part of the new bill, which was in effect beginning of July. Next year, the ASTM code we hope it will be approved nationally”, Laubach said.

“So if you wanted to build a tiny home, let’s say in Missouri and you want to bring it to Colorado, then you would be able to get the inspection done. Its would be more viable.”

“The legislation will also provide a path for counties to recognize tiny homes as permanent dwellings and open up financing opportunities,” Laubach continued.

There are several places where tiny home living is already legal in Colorado, including El Paso County, Park County, Durango, Leadville, Lyons, and Woodland Park.

Many people lined up to see this 34-foot two-bedroom tiny home built by Indigo River.

This mobile camper was built by Bean Trailers. It has a queen-size bed, cabinetry, drawer space, and cubby storage space with additional amenities. BELEN WARD

This tiny home was a showstopper built by Kingdom Tiny Homes with two separate units with a deck.

PHOTOS BY BELEN WARD

The Veteran Community Project builds this tiny home. They build tiny homes for homeless, at-risk veterans. They are building 26 tiny homes in Longmont.

Public Health and Environment. ey plan to submit their applications to the state this fall, with tentative zoning reviews with the Brighton Planning Commission in July and the City Council in August. ey’d hope to be operating by the beginning of 2024.

Moving into an already-existing building is a bonus for the company.

“We’ve already con rmed there is enough electricity for the rst phase of our project and we will be building out the interior space of the structure,” Huie said. “Most of the construction we need to do will be inside the building.”

Understanding the process e facility would be located at 18875 Bromley Lane, just 600 feet south of Brighton’s Mt. Princeton St. and homes in the surrounding Brighton Crossings neighborhood and due north of Brighton’s water treatment plant. Neighbors have made their fears of res and pollution clear at Brighton City Council meetings.

Huie said company o cials have met with neighbors and other concerned Brighton residents since they announced their plans in March. ey’ve hosted two neigh-

borhood meetings at the Brighton Armory and have met one-on-one with several neighbors, Huie said, and more meetings are scheduled.

“One of the reasons why people are nervous is that they don’t understand the process and our business, so that’s why we are doing community outreach,” Huie said. “We want to educate them on what we are doing and how we are mitigating the concerns they bring to the table.”

Lithium-ion batteries have been the news lately, with res in batterypowered E-bikes and cars, but Kang said most of the danger comes from mishandling and overcharging by users. He notes that his factory would not manufacture charged batteries, but empty batteries waiting for users to charge them.

“In the res, you’ll see that the battery quality is one factor and battery misuse is another,” Kang said. “ ey can be overcharged or dam-

aged, like when a car crashes. But Amprius has passed U.S. military speci cations. We are very safe. And I have not heard of a re inside a battery factory in four years. I have never heard of a battery factory re.”

Even so, the warehouse’s interior space would be divided into smaller, re-resistant rooms for making and storing the empty batteries and the factory will have a state-of-theart re suppression system.

“So we will have many engineering controls in place to help manage risks,” Huie said. “We will have four-hour-rated rewalls down to one-hour-rated walls all separating the di erent hazard classi cations. We have high-tech re suppression and re detection systems as well. We will be coordinating all of this with Brighton’s Fire Department so they understand what have at the facility, the hazards as well as the suppression systems.”

Kang said he expects the company’s initial customers will be the aviation industry, providing rechargeable battery power for military pseudo-satellites and high-altitude unmanned aircraft. He also sees a market for his batteries in Electric Vertical Take-o and Landing aircraft. Someday, as soon as 2025 he said, it will be possible to take an electrically powered air taxi from Denver International Airport to downtown Denver. He wants his company’s batteries to power those vehicles.

Amprius, a maker of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and aircraft, hope to open their large factory in Brighton in 2024. They plan to take over the vacant former Sears/KMart distribution warehouse on Bromley Lane.

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REFUND

They were originally expected to be about $650 for single filers and roughly $1,300 for joint filers, but could now be roughly $850 for single filers and $1,700 for joint filers.

Last year, Colorado taxpayers received TABOR refund checks of $750 or $1,500 to account for surplus collected in the 2021-22 fiscal year, which ended June 30, 2022.

If Proposition HH fails, the refund checks would be tied to income levels. Under the default refund system — called the sixtier sales tax refund mechanism — people who make more money get bigger refund checks based on which of six income tiers they fall into.

People in the lowest tier, who make up to $50,000 a year, were expected to receive refund checks of $454 for single filers or $908 for joint filers. For those in the highest tier, who make $279,001 or more, the checks were expected to be $1,434 for single filers and $2,688 for joint filers.

The improved economic outlook would mean larger refunds for people in every tier, though people in the top tier would benefit most.

People in the lowest tier would now receive refund checks of $587 for single filers or $1,174 for joint filers. For those in the highest tier, the checks would now be $1,854 for single filers and $3,708 for joint filers.

The refund amounts are determined by how much money the state government collects above the TABOR cap on government growth and spending. The cap is calculated by annual growth in population and inflation.

Colorado taxpayers will get their refund checks next year after they file their taxes.

Nonpartisan Legislative Council Staff now expects the TABOR cap to be exceeded in the current 2022-23 fiscal year, which ends June 30, by $3.31 billion — an increase of roughly $600 million over what they projected in March.

The governor’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting now expects the TABOR cap to be exceeded in the current fiscal year by $3.527 billion — an increase of about $870 million over what they projected in March.

Greg Sobetski, the chief economist for Legislative Council Staff, called the increases a “significant upward revision.”

Both LCS and OSPB said betterthan-expected corporate income tax revenue was a large driver of the improvements.

The updates were presented to the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee, which received its quarterly economic and tax revenue forecasts from LCS and OSPB. While the end of the fiscal year is fast approaching, it will be months before the state knows exactly how much money it collected over the TABOR cap.

Legislative Council Staff and the governor’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting forecasts state government to collect tax revenue in excess of the TABOR cap through at least the 2024-25 fiscal year, which ends June 30, 2025.

Emily Dohrman, an economist with Legislative Council Staff, said the risk of recession has also decreased.

“The economy is still showing positive growth, but slower growth than what we saw through most of 2022,” she told the JBC. “Our forecast is anticipating that growth will continue to slow through the end of 2023 but then return to a more moderate pace of growth in 2024 and 2025.”

She said there’s still a risk of an economic downturn, but that risk is lower than it was in March.

Polis touted the forecasts presented to the JBC. He said Colorado’s economy remains strong and that it’s evidence the state “continues to be the best place to live, work and do business.”

The next quarterly tax revenue and economic forecasts will be presented to the JBC in September. The panel in November will begin drafting the state’s 2024-25 fiscal year budget, which takes effect on July 1, 2024.

The full legislature will vote on the spending plan after it reconvenes in January.

This story via The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver that covers the state. For more, visit www.ColoradoSun.com. The Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, which owns Colorado Community Media.

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The interior of the Colorado Capitol.

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Judge rejects e ort to block 10-year property tax relief plan

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

An e ort by conservative scal activists and GOP-led counties to block a 10-year property tax plan formed by Gov. Jared Polis and Democrats in the legislature from going before voters in November was denied on June 9 by a Denver judge.

Denver District Court Judge David H. Goldberg found that he didn’t have jurisdiction to consider the case. But he also rejected arguments that Proposition HH violates requirements in the state constitution that ballot measures deal with a single subject and have clear titles.

e plainti s in the lawsuit, led in May, included Advance Colorado, a conservative political nonpro t, and more than a dozen Colorado counties controlled by Republicans. Several GOP county commissioners and Republican current and former politicians also signed onto the legal action.

“Prop. HH undoubtedly violates the single-subject and clear-title provisions in our constitution,” Michael Fields, who leads Advance Colorado, said in a written statement Friday. “We plan to appeal this decision.”

e appeal will go directly to the Colorado Supreme Court.

Polis’ o ce said the governor “appreciates the court’s ruling to allow the voters the opportunity to enact Proposition HH as passed by the legislature.” Senate President Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder, celebrated the ruling.

“I am pleased that the court today agrees that voters should have their say,” Fenberg said in a written statement.

Sen.Chris Hansen, a Denver Democrat and an architect of the proposal, calling the ruling “clear and decisive.”

Proposition HH was placed on the November ballot through a bill passed by the legislature in May. It’s meant to respond to massive increases in Coloradans’ property tax bills starting next year caused by a sharp spike in property values. e median increase in home values across the state in May when county assessors determined property values was 40% since June 2020, the last time assessors determined property values.

Here’s how it would work for residential property: e residential assessment rate would be reduced to 6.7% from 6.765% in 2023, for taxes owed in 2024, and to 6.7% from 6.976% for taxes owed in 2025. e 6.7% rate would remain unchanged through the 2032 tax year, for taxes owed in 2033.

• In addition to the assessment rate cuts, residen-

tial property owners would get to exempt the rst $50,000 of their home’s value from taxation for the 2023 tax year, a $10,000 increase made through an amendment adopted Monday. Residential property owners would then get to exempt $40,000 of their homes’ values from taxation for the 2024 tax year.

e break would persist until the 2032 tax year, except for people’s second or subsequent singlefamily homes, like rental or vacation properties, which would stop being subject to that bene t in the 2025 tax year.

Here’s how it works for commercial property:

• For commercial properties, the assessment rate would be reduced to 27.85% through 2026, down from 29%. e state would be required to evaluate economic conditions to determine if the rate reduction should continue. If the rate reductions persist, the commercial assessment rate would be reduced to 27.65% in 2027, 26.9% in 2029 and 25.9% starting in 2031.

• For agricultural properties and properties used for renewable energy, the assessment rate would be reduced to 26.4% from 29% through the 2032 tax year. For properties that fall under both classi cations, such as those used for agrivoltaics, the rate would be cut to 21.9%.

How are property taxes calculated?

Property taxes are determined by how much your county assessor values your property, what the state’s property assessment rate is and what your local mill-levy rate is.

A mill is a $1 payment on every $1,000 of assessed value.

SHUTTERSTOCK

Do not enter the comfort zone

She was very comfortable running 5K and 10K races, and usually placed well. She often thought about stretching herself to run a half marathon and then one day, a full marathon. As her dreams about training harder and running longer races took shape, she found herself returning to her comfortable training regime and settled once again for training to run in those 5K and 10K

en one day, she decided to go for it. She made a commitment to break free from her comfort zone and train harder and run farther. She woke up earlier and each day that she ran, she pushed herself just a little bit farther until she could comfortably nish a half marathon. And after that, she left that comfort zone and began training even harder to compete in a full marathon, and last year successfully ran in the NYC Marathon.

When asked if she had plans on returning to her former routines of running in shorter races and giving up the long runs, her response was that she would never allow herself to enter the comfort zone ever again. In her mind she created an image of a “Do Not Enter” sign followed by “ e Comfort Zone.”

For many of us we have reached some type of pinnacle or achieved a sought-after goal only to nd ourselves slowly backsliding and reentering our former comfort zone. We reach a certain level of success and then allow ourselves to get comfortable there instead of wondering what we could do if we pressed ourselves a little harder, taking a new or di erent path, and maybe even taking a little risk. It’s like breaking free from one comfort zone only to enter another comfort zone.

If we are on a path of personal or professional growth, we might all do well to have that same mental image top of mind, “Do Not Enter e Comfort Zone.” Whether it’s a physical achievement we are seeking, a business breakthrough, quitting a bad habit, starting a new and positive habit, or maybe setting our sights on breaking the company sales records, once we break free from what has been holding us back, leaving our comfort zone, we need to commit to never going back or settling ever again. Here is something to watch out for, it’s called the neutral zone. It’s that place where we have decided to break free from our comfort zone but haven’t taken any action yet. Something is still holding us back. Maybe we haven’t fully committed to where it is that we want to go. Maybe we have some head trash that’s getting in our way. Whatever it is, it has

us stuck in the neutral zone. How do we get unstuck? We take the rst step in the pursuit of our new goals and dreams. We don’t have to go beyond that, we are not going to go from running a 10K to running a marathon, but we are going to take the rst step and maybe run an extra half mile, and then each day slowly build to our ultimate goal.

Taking that rst step does something psychologically that gets us moving in the right direction. For some of us, we get caught up in all the rest of the steps and it paralyzes us to the point where we do not take any step at all. A comfort zone surrounded by a neutral zone creates a do-nothing zone. And as it has been said before, if we aren’t moving forward, we are more than likely moving backward. Zig Ziglar said it this way, “People who never take step one,

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can never possibly take step two.”

How about you, are there a rst step that you need to take? Is there a personal or professional goal or dream that you have had on your heart for a while? If so, have you asked yourself what is holding you back? As always, I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can break free from our comfort zone, leave the neutral zone behind, and commit to never entering that comfort zone again, it really will be a better than good life.

Michael Norton is an author, a personal and professional coach, consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator of individuals and businesses, working with organizations and associations across multiple industries.

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Property taxes in Colorado are calculated by multiplying the statewide assessment rate by the value of a property — sometimes referred to as a market value — as determined by a county assessor. at number is then multiplied by the local mill levy rate.

(A mill is a $1 payment on every $1,000 of assessed value. So in order to gure out what your tax bill is you should multiply your mill levy rate by 0.001 and then multiply that number by the product of multiplying your property’s value by the statewide assessment rate. at’s how much you owe.)

So someone who owns a home valued at $600,000 and assessed at a 6.765% statewide residential assessment rate in a place where the mill levy rate is 75 would owe $3,044.25 in taxes each year. e formula to get to that number looks like this:

$600,000 x 0.06765 x (75 x 0.001) = $3,044.25.

e proposal would also prevent many local taxing districts from increasing property taxes above the rate of in ation, though school districts would be exempt and local governments could override the cap after giving notice to property owners.

To account for the cuts, the legislature is planning to spend $200 million to repay local governments, including schools, for the additional revenue they would have collected.

e plan also calls for using about $250 million of the $2.7 billion Colorado is projected to collect in the current scal year, which ends June 30, above the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights cap on government growth and spending, to further account for local districts’ revenue reduction.

What is TABOR?

e Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR, is a 1992 constitutional amendment that requires voter

approval for all tax increases in Colorado. It also caps government growth and spending, mandating that tax revenue collected in excess of the cap be refunded to taxpayers.

e cap is calculated using in ation and population rates.

Additionally, voters would be asked in November to increase the TABOR cap, which is calculated based on annual growth in population and in ation, by an extra 1%. (Any money collected over the cap has to be refunded.)

e change would reduce or eliminate the amount of money available for refunds in years in which the cap is exceeded. e change could mean voters won’t get billions in refunds over the next decade.

Finally, Proposition HH would set aside about $20 million each year for a state renter relief program — a late addition to the measure aimed at acknowledging the proposal mostly bene ts property owners.

If voters approve Proposition HH, that would trigger a change to how

the state will distribute more than $2 billion in TABOR refunds next year.

e money would be refunded through at-rate checks of roughly $650 or $1,300, depending on whether someone is a single or joint tax ler, as opposed to a system where the refund amounts are tied to which of six income tiers taxpayers fall into, with higher earners getting larger refunds and lower earners receiving less.

Advance Colorado, which is a dark money group, has already launched an ad campaign opposing Proposition HH. e Sun refers to political nonpro ts that don’t disclose their donors as dark money groups.

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DOMINGUEZ

Leonard Dominguez

August 28, 1958 - June 9, 2023

Leonard Dominguez 64, passed away peacefully June 9th. Leonard was born to Manuel Pacheco Dominguez and Mary Reynaga on August 28th 1958. Leonard grew up in Fort Lupton, attended Fort Lupton high school and went on to learn several di erent trades.

In 1999 he married Grace Adams in New Zealand. Leonard enjoyed spending time reading the Bible and volunteering at several ministries with Mark Roggerman. Leonard

also enjoyed time he spent in New Zealand with Grace, Esther and her family. Leonard is survived by one daughter Esther (22) and grandson Israel (4) and one on the way, his brother Robert (Sharon) Dominguez and many nephews and nieces. Leonard is preceded in death by his wife Grace, mom and dad Mary and Manuel Dominguez, and brothers Manuel Dominguez, Jimmy Dominguez, John Dominguez and sister Rosalie Roggerman. Services will be determined at a later date.

KILDAL Phyllis Lee (Thyfault) Kildal

February 1, 1957 - January 29, 2023

Phyllis Lee ( yfault) Kildal, age 65, passed away on January 29,2023, at her home in Mesa, Arizona, after a 14-year struggle with ovarian cancer.

A mass will be held at St. Augustine Church, 178 South 6th Avenue, Brighton, CO on Friday June 30th at 11:00 a.m., rosary at 10:30 a.m.

A Celebration of Phyllis’s life will be held at the Elks Lodge, 101 North Main Street, Brighton, CO on Friday June 30th at 1:30 p.m.

e family asks that all owers and notes be sent to Amy Frazier-Gibson at 219 Poplar Street, Lochbuie, CO 80603.

HOWELL

Shawn Renne (Hagens) Howell

May 24, 1969 - May 16, 2023

Shawn was born in Denver, Colorado to Clearance & Mine Havens . She married Her best Friend ,David Howell III.

She worked in Denver , CO working as Vice President Of Operations at

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Westerra Credit Union. She Loved spending days with her son & puppy buddy Shawn is survived by her son, David Howell. She is preceded in death by b her sister, Donna Atkinson.

Helen “Gayle” Ehler

September 3, 1934 - June 5, 2023

Helen “Gayle” Ehler was born on September 3, 1934, to Homer & Chessie Callaway as the youngest of three children, after Charles & Carolyn. She grew up in Marlow, OK, graduated from Marlow High School, then attended the Oklahoma College for Women for one year. She transferred to Oklahoma University, where she joined the Delta Gamma Sorority & graduated with a BA in Education in 1957. Her rst teaching position was at Brighton High School in Brighton, CO, where she met John Ehler, a local wheat farmer & cattle rancher. ey married on July 5, 1958. Gayle continued to teach, while John farmed, until the birth of their son Alan, & later daughter Deborah. In that season, she provided bookkeeping for Ehler Farms, served on the Brighton School Board, sang in the choir, taught classes, & served as a deacon at First United Presbyterian Church. e couple also discovered their passion for world traveling & saw many places during their 63

years of marriage. Gayle returned to teaching junior high English in the late 1970’s, then students in the Adams County juvenile delinquency system for a decade. John & Gayle sold the farm in 1999, and moved to Wenatchee, WA, to be closer to their children & grandchildren. Beginning in 2003, the couple wintered in Palm Desert, CA, but in 2018, the couple moved to Lake Las Vegas, NV. She passed into the arms of her Savior Jesus Christ on Sunday, June 4, 2023, while still in their home with the Love of her Life. Gayle always freely share her Faith, wit & beautiful smile. She is survived by her husband, John Ehler; children: Alan Ehler & Deborah Strahm; beloved children-in-law: Keira Ehler & Todd Strahm; grandchildren: Hannah & Stephen Ehler, Luke & Jake Strahm. A Graveside Service will be held on July 5, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., Elmwood Cemetery in Brighton, CO. RSVP Reception Following - share memories - deborahstrahm@yahoo.com.

BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The brain is overrated, according to Kadam Lucy James at the Kadampa Meditation Center.

“Have you ever felt peaceful in your head?” she asked.

She put her hands over her heart and said that’s where the mind is, adding that while the brain has conceptual reality, the mind exists in the heart, where we feel peace, love, joy and wisdom.

“If we can get into our heart, we automatically start to feel more peaceful,” she said.

James is temporarily living in Arvada and teaches meditation at the Kadampa Meditation Center. She started practicing about 41 years ago after she saw a “very peaceful person” in college.

“He was a student meditating on the end of his bed and I asked him what he was doing, because this was back in 1981, and meditation, no one had heard of back then,” she said.

Ever since, she’s been practicing and has taught all around the world, including England, San Francisco, New York City and now Denver. She hopes to one day achieve enlightenment, or in nite happiness and peace.

It takes a lot of hard work, but she said it’s the only thing where the more she does it, the happier she is.

It’s because, with meditation, the mind becomes naturally peaceful. Each person has a natural source of peace and happiness inside them, she said, and instead of seeking it elsewhere — relationships, ful lling jobs or material things — it’s already inside the body waiting to

be found.

e evidence lies in the random moments of peace and happiness everyone feels. It could be a torrential downpour and the mind is peaceful, settled and calm.

“What those moments show is that our mind is ne. And then what unsettles the mind is actually all our uncontrolled thinking,” she said.

Coming from the teachings of the Buddha, she compared the mind to a vast ocean. e waves are turbulent while below them is a vast, in nite, calm place. Waves of anxiety and negative emotions distort the brain but below those waves rests an incredible sanity.

“When our mind is settled, when we can let go of our troubled thoughts, and our turbulent thoughts, uncontrolled thoughts, then we naturally feel good. We naturally feel peaceful and we start to get a sense of our potential and who we really are, which is this person who has limitless potential, limitless happiness,” James said.

e rst step to unlocking that potential and happiness is to breathe.

Focus on the nostrils

Carol O’Dowd, a Trauma and Transition Psychotherapist and Spiritual Counselor assists her clients by meeting them where they are and o ering them acceptance through breathing.

“If you focus on your breath, you cannot simultaneously focus on all your internal dialogue. It cannot be done. e human brain is not wired that way,” O’Dowd said.

It creates a space between the thoughts. e stress and anxiety stored in the body don’t go away, but the practice of noticing the emotions and putting them on pause to breathe helps

calm the body down.

Breathing is a function of the body that automatically happens all the time. Focusing on that breath, O’Dowd compared it to a spectrum. What happens when the body stops breathing — death — is one end and the other is when the body pays attention to the breath — peace.

“It can be as simple as just experiencing that ow of air, and in and out of your nostrils. If you can place your attention there, that’s giving yourself a mini vacation,” she said.

O’Dowd encourages her clients to practice treating uncontrolled thoughts like a salesperson trying to sell them. Instead of buying, make them sit in the corner and return to them in 20 minutes after taking time to check in with the body.

It can also let go of stress. Pain, like what the ngers feel after working at a computer all day, can be a physical manifestation of stress. Holding on to that stress can lead to other health conditions.

“It’s not rocket science,” she said.

Escape to reality

James said achieving enlightenment is extremely di cult, and while the teachings she studied laid out di erent steps and pathways, she simpli ed it down to three. e rst is focusing on the breath to relax. e second is identifying delusions.

A delusion can be jealousy, greed, competitiveness or other unpleasant thoughts. Most of the time, those thoughts aren’t controlled by the mind and enter the brain randomly. It’s the root

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of many problems, she said, and they destroy happiness.

“It’s completely unnecessary. Which is the whole purpose of meditation, to show us how unnecessary it is,” she said. “We’ve been so busy trying to control everything outside of us.”

She compared it to anger with someone else. It may last for a few days and then one day, those angry feelings leave.

“If you can do that deliberately (getting rid of negative feelings), which we can, then you can see we stopped the grasping or stopped the delusions, we just experience deeper and deeper levels of happiness,” she said.

Identifying delusions is the rst part of the equation. e other half is universal love and caring about others. It comes from understanding everyone wants to be happy, and that there isn’t much di erence between people.

It can be a city councilor running for o ce, understanding their opponent wants the same things, but sees di erent ideas on how to move forward. ey aren’t always bad people.

Realizing that leads to the next step: wisdom. at takes understanding reality. It means turning away from the anxiety, sadness and other negative emotions and escaping to the reality within the body that possesses in nite happiness and peace.

“We can train in wisdom. Understanding that things are not as real as they appear,” James said.

Community staple Universal Music says goodbye

Northglenn-Thornton music store was instrumental for generations

BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Back in 1960, Jim and Millie Patterson had the mission to put as many instruments in children’s hands and give as many music lessons as they could.

So they opened up a music store. ey started out successfully in Denver and eventually moved up to Northglenn. After 63 years, a move to ornton, and thousands of students, including more than 120 foster children later, Universal Music will play their last note on July 15.

“You’re 90 years old, that’s why we’re quitting,” Millie said to Jim jokingly. “We want to keep going.”

For Jim and Millie, their whole lives revolve around music. In fact, they met through music. Jim was in the Air Force band, and his bandmate introduced him to Millie, who at the time was in the Denver University summer orchestra. e two hit it o and the next 68 years are history.

“I wouldn’t have Jim without music,” said Millie.

E AGLE VIEW A DULT C ENTER

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Eagle View Adult Center Update

June 28 – July 5, 2023

Eagle View Adult Center is open Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Call 303-655-2075 for more information. e July & Aug Newsletter is available.

Registration for July and Aug programs is open to the public on Wed. July 5.

Eagle View Adult Center will be closed Tues. July 4.

Spellbinders Storytelling

Julie and Jim are coming back for another fun- lled storytelling event. Free, but please register.

1:15 p.m. urs. June 29. Deadline: Tues. June 27

Ice Cream Social

You’ll make your own ice cream sundae and then listen to some favorite tunes sung by Bobbie Bell.

1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Fri. June 30. $4. Deadline: urs. June 29

Feathered Friends: Bald Eagle

Join Anne Price from the Raptor Education Foundation. Your fee supports the Foundation in caring for injured birds.

2:30 p.m. urs. July 6. $5. Deadline: Wed. July 5

Movie: e War with Grandpa

Grandchildren are welcome for this movie. Peter and his grandpa used to be very close, but when Grandpa Jack moves in, Peter is forced to give up his most prized possession: his bedroom. Rated PG. Free, but please register. 1:30 p.m. Fri. July 7. Deadline: urs. July 6

Legacy

Part of the music in uence comes from Millie’s mother who insisted all her children take music lessons despite raising ve children on only $60 a week. Millie, 86, still plays in the Je Co Symphony and Jim, 90, still plays the drums.

“It’s in our blood,” said Jamie Brown, their daughter.

Jim and Millie’s two children are also musicians. Jamie plays the ute, and oboe and sings while Gary plays the drums. eir children and their grandchildren all play instruments, too.

Before kids, they decided to open up the store as a young duo when Jim was playing percussion professionally and both thought they could teach music to get by. At that time, it was an accordion studio.

“In the 1950s, 1960s, the accordion was really big,” Jim said.

As Rock and Roll grew in popularity and interest in the accordion waned, they started to sell guitars, along with other instruments.

During their rst year at the Northglenn Garland Shopping Center, Millie said they had enough money to go for one year and pay the rent.

“ at was the plan, we could make it for one year. en we started making money,” she said.  ey made money in their rst month, and the store took o from there.

During the couple’s time owning the store, Millie was in charge of bookkeeping and the rentals. at’s what kept them going. Students from the surrounding school districts would come to the store to

rent their instruments.

ough that was when elementary schools had music. A big hit to their business, as well as the music community, was when the Adams 12 school district cut out music, said Jim. ey continued to receive a lot of business from the kids playing but there was more competition.

World changes, music remains ey emphasized how important music is. Millie said that every professional person she’s met has had music in their life, whether it was a semester of clarinet or years of piano. In schools, music speaks to some students who may not be good at math, science, English or sports.

“ e world changes, but music is still important,” said Jim. “Music is a feeling that no one can take away.” e store competed against music stores in the area, but lately most competition comes from the Internet. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they couldn’t sell guitars so buyers went to Amazon and other online retailers.

Despite the competition, they prevailed. Everything they knew about running a business came from “ guring it out.” Neither had college degrees in business or a background in it.

As a way to thank their past customers, they are selling instruments to former renters at a lower price.

“ ey might owe $800 and we’ll let them have it for $200,” Jim Patterson said.

ey noted many families have been coming in to say goodbye. It’s a community staple and generational store, with Millie and Jim teaching music to their neighbors’ children, and their children, and their children.

Some of the students they taught years ago came in wanting an instrument for their grandchildren.

“We really belong to the community,” Millie said.

After 63 years, Jim and Millie Patterson will close their community-loved music store, Universal Music.

PHOTO BY LUKE ZARZECKI

All sales are final at Universal Music which will close on July 15. PHOTO BY LUKE ZARZECKI

Thu 6/29

Mon 7/03

4th of July BBQ @ 4:30pm

Veteran's Memorial Park, 6015 Forest Dr., Commerce City. 303-289-3760

Toad the Wet Sprocket @ 7:30pm

Arvada Center Outdoor Amphitheater, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada

Tue 7/04

Those Crazy Nights: Brighton CO 4th of July Celebration @ 4pm

Eric Golden @ 6pm

Odde's Music Grill, 9975 Wadsworth Pkwy, Westminster

Phat Daddy @ 8pm Brewski's Pub and Grill, 2100 E 104th Ave, Thornton

Sat 7/01

Carmichael Park, 650 E Southern St, Brighton

Thu 7/06

Jacob Larson Band Funk & Soul: Jacob Larson Band LIVE - Twist & Shout Concert Series @ 7pm

Harley Brown Amphitheater, Thornton

Fri 6/30

Eric Golden @ 7pm

Vfw Post 7945, 10217 Quivas St, Thornton

Colorado Rockies vs. Detroit Tigers @ 7:10pm / $35-$300

Coors Field, 2001 Blake St., Denver

Sun 7/02

Colorado Rapids vs Portland Timbers

@ 7:30pm / $25-$999

DICK'S Sporting Goods Park, 6000 Victory Way, Commerce City

Wed 7/05

Giant chess - it’s your move @ 2pm

Anythink Brighton, 327 East Bridge Street, Brighton. rbowman @anythinklibraries.org, 303-4053230

Reverse Mortgage Myths (7/6) @ 4pm

Eagle Pointe Recreation Center, 6060 E. Parkway Dr., Commerce City. 303-2893760

Longmont Humane Society Bene�t @ Summit Tacos with Jack Campbell & Friends @ 6pm Summit Tacos, 237 Collyer St, Longmont

Amazing Athletes @ 7pm

Jul 6th - Jul 27th

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

Joan Jett & Blackhearts @ 7:30pm Ball Arena, 1000 Chopper Cir, Denver

Colorado Rockies vs. Detroit Tigers @ 6:10pm / $33-$300

Coors Field, 2001 Blake St., Den‐ver

The Annual Stars & Stripes 5K Run/Walk @ 7:30am / $20-$30

Riverdale Regional Park, 9755 Henderson Road, Brighton

Hula Hooping 101 @ 1pm

Anythink Huron Street, 9417 Huron Street, Thornton. swhitelonis@any thinklibraries.org, 303-452-7534

Anavrin's Day @ Hoffbrau on Thursday! @ 9pm Hoffbrau, 9110 Wadsworth Pkwy, Westminster

of thousands of dollars in security upgrades at no cost from a company that has donated similar systems to rural schools around the state.

Convergint, an international company that designs, installs and services electronic security systems, donated its services as part of an annual social responsibility day, where its 9,200 employees participate in a day of service in their respective communities. e e ort brought $3 million in equipment and labor to schools and security upgrades to 32 schools in three states, including Colorado.

Convergint Director of Business

Development Stephen Fisher said the security portion of the annual program is called STEP Up. It is an initiative to help strengthen school security as part of the company’s

and who has no agenda other than to create a safe environment for teachers and students and people on campus.”

e company installs and services electronic security, cybersecurity, re and life safety, building automation and audio-visual systems.

e backdrop to such upgrades are concerns about security across the county, especially amid ongoing incidents, including shootings at schools. According to a survey done by the Institute of Education Sciences, an independent, nonpartisan statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education, around 58% of elementary schools reported at least one instance of violent crime in the 2019-20 academic year, the most recent data available. And, 45% reported at least once instance of

parents during an incident. According to the IES survey, 41% of elementary schools have buttons or alarms that directly connect to local law enforcement agencies in the event of an incident. And 70% of elementary schools have systems that automatically notify parents of school-wide emergencies.

Schools apply each year for Convergint’s STEP Up for Schools program, which may include free interior and exterior security system installations, upgrades and assessments. To date, 71 schools across the country have received security donations from the initiative. Convergint has provided the service for several other schools across Colorado, including the Park County School District, Clear Creek School District and Bennett School District.

safety equipment. ey company also did some sprucing up with paint on June 9.

Ward Principal Robert JurhsSavage said the work done by Convergint was welcome news. He’s looking forward to learning about the new security system.

“I’d love to come in and check out how it works,” Jurhs-Savage said.

Fisher said the company typically selects schools from less populated, more rural districts. But a lack of funding also plays a factor in the company’s selection process.

“We’re looking for school districts that might not have the funding, the capital or the expertise to be able to do what we do,” Fisher said. “We just wanted to shorten the process for the people that don’t even have those resources.”

Volunteers with Convergint pose outside of Ward S. Kemp Elementary School in Commerce City.

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The potentially everlasting life of a bottle on a Colorado journey

BY JAMIE SUDLER H20 RADIO

Bottles of beer from local breweries pack the cold cases of liquor stores across Denver. But what happens to the glass bottles after customers enjoy their liquid contents? e city of Denver is encouraging residents to put them in purple recycling bins at no cost—underscoring that suggestion by starting a new program to charge for solid waste—i.e. trash—destined for land lls.

Beer bottles, along with yogurt containers, cardboard, cans, and other recyclable items, go into one bin, called single stream, which is picked up by a large white truck and taken to a massive sorting facility in southeast Denver.

Once there, as Vanessa Lacayo, spokesperson the city’s Department of Transportation and Instructure explains, trucks are weighed and then empty their loads in barns that correspond with the contents including stalls for garbage, recycling, and compost.

e goal is to reduce the waste that’s diverted to land lls, according to Nina Waysdorf, the Waste Diversion and Recycling Manager for the city. She said that about 75 percent of the city’s residential waste stream could either be recycled or composted, but only about 25 percent is currently diverted. “A huge gap” that she says is calculated by audits they perform in which they pick apart the trash and measure what is not being recycled.

Lacayo adds that glass is highly recyclable and can be turned into new bottles and jars over and over again.

According to the Glass Packaging Institute, glass is 100 percent recyclable and can be reused endlessly without loss in quality or purity. But across the nation, people recycle only about onethird of all glass they could.

Chemical & Engineering News reports that some European countries recycle more than 90 percent of their glass.

e materials that Denverites put in their purple recycle bins, including beer bottles, are taken from one of barns at the city’s collection center by a trailer truck to a materials recovery facility, or MRF, in north Denver, about eight miles away. At the MRF, which is a Canadian company called GFL, the materials are sorted into di erent groups—glass, plastic, aluminum, and paper.

e journey of the glass bottle continues after being sorted from other recyclables at GFL. It then gets taken to a company called Glass to Glass, in Broom eld, Colorado, where all nonglass materials, like metals, labels and adhesives are removed. is facility is owned by O-I, a global manufacturer of bottles. Robert Hippert, the Sustainability Strategy Leader for the company, said that they receive MRF material streams from several di erent facilities in the greater Denver area. e glass is sorted by color—amber, green, and clear. en Glass to Glass produces what’s called “cullet,” small pieces of recycled glass that can be heated and made into new bottles. ose cullet pellets could either go to a facility that serves Molson-Coors in Golden or to an O-I bottle manufacturing plant in Windsor, Colorado, about 50 miles north of Denver.

e Windsor plant is a massive and noisy place humming with activity. Walking through it requires safety glasses, steel-toe shoe covers, and ear plugs. e cullet from Denver is brought in by railcar at the east end of the facility, but Hippert says it’s not enough to meet the needs of the plant, so they have to use raw materials, soda ash, limestone, sand, and a little bit of alumina that are also brought in by train.

e materials are then conveyed inside the plant where two immense and very hot furnaces melt them into molten glass that ows into basins where it will eventually be molded into bottles. Bottles whirl through the plant on belts and ramps at a dizzying speed with incredible precision as computers track their progress, beginning as what looks like hot lava poured into molds to nished bottles that are cooled and then inspected. Freshly made bottles are then bundled up to go to Budweiser, Left Hand, and New Belgium, among other Colorado brewers, and they also ship bottles out of state. e plant runs around the clock, making about 3.5 million bottles a day.

Hippert said that using recycled material from old beer bottles saves energy, and a typical rule of thumb is that for every ten percent increase in cullet used in their batch formula, they can save about 2.5 percent energy. He also noted that by adding recycled content, they reduce the total amount of carbon dioxide emissions. e energy savings could be much higher, and if it were up to Hippert, they would have a whole lot more cullet used at the Windsor facility.

eir goal at O-I is to try to run on 50 percent recycled content in the bottles they produce. But given low recycling rates in Colorado, they have to import glass cullet from recycled bottles from other states as far away as Oregon, which has had a bottle bill for over 50 years that pays a fee to customers to return their bottles.

So why doesn’t Colorado recycle well? Liz Chapman is the Executive Director of Recycle Colorado, the largest nonpro t in the state dedicated to education about and lobbying for recycling. She said that more than half of the glass that is taken o the shelf and could be recycled is thrown into land lls in Colorado. Chapman

says Coloradans only recycle about 16 percent in total of what could be recycled—about half the national average. Many bottles end up in land lls because some places in the state don’t have adequate recycling options.

Chapman is quick to add that the bulk of the glass that’s not being recycled is not coming from residences but from many bars and restaurants that don’t have the time, space, or nances to recycle. However, there are some bars and restaurants that take sustainability seriously and train their sta .

Chapman said that there are places in the state unlike Denver that do not have the infrastructure to recycle anything including beer bottles. at contrasts with the fact, she says, that the state has a glass remanufacturing facility with the potential to create jobs and supply it with the recycled glass it needs.

e recycling landscape is changing in the state after the legislature passed the Producer Responsibility Program for Statewide Recycling act last year. e bill imposes charges on rms that make bottles, cans, paper packaging, and food utensils to fund recycling around Colorado. e program is getting established by rst performing a needs assessment and hopes are it will be fully implemented in about three years.

Additionally, in the November 2022 election, Denver voters approved a measure that requires restaurants, ofce buildings, and apartments to o er recycling. at could mean any beer bottle has a chance for an everlasting life.

is H2O Radio story via e Associated Press’ Storyshare, of which Colorado Community Media is a member. It was originally produced as part of a series on zero waste by KGNU Community Radio in Boulder.

Leave deer alone in fawning season, wildlife o cials say

Parks and Wildlife, some people see these fawns alone and attempt to help them by moving them, a critical error that has irreversible consequences for the young deer.

fawns are not easily rehabilitated, and the only way to avoid this risk of safety or separation is to leave them alone..

BY SHEA VANCE SVANCE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As the weather warms, locals and tourists alike ock to Colorado’s state parks, some hoping to catch a glimpse of the abundance of wildlife.

At the same time, fawning season — the time between May and June during which female deer give birth — is currently in full swing.

Although it is a beautiful time of year to observe fawns and other wildlife at a distance, recent human interference with babies in the south metro area, more so than in years past, is posing a serious threat to the young animal families.

When a doe gives birth to — or drops — her fawn, she leaves the newborn alone for a few days to collect food. e mother knows the fawn does not yet have a scent, protecting it from predators for a short period in its infancy.

According to Kara Van Hoose, public information o cer for the northeast branch of Colorado

“ e fawns are by themselves for up to two days at a time, and people see these fawns by themselves in the wild and think they’re abandoned or orphaned, and will try to move the fawns themselves, or feed them,” Van Hoose said.

“ ey have really good intentions, but it’s actually very harmful to the baby deer.”

A fawn’s main protection from predators is its lack of scent, so when a person touches the animal, or even comes too close to one, it transfers a scent that can leave it vulnerable to other animals, Van Hoose said.

When a fawn is moved from the location where its mother left it, they have a very small chance of ever being safely reunited, Van Hoose added.

Additionally, Van Hoose said a fawn is very unlikely to move when approached, and some people take this as a green light to pick one up or get too close.

“ ere really aren’t any good solutions once the fawn has been picked up,” Van Hoose said.

Unlike other animals, deer and

Colorado Parks and Wildlife, as well as the Colorado State Patrol, has been receiving a high volume of calls this year, with a noticeable spike in early June. Callers either have questions regarding the issue, or in the worst case, have already picked up a fawn and are asking about how to proceed, according to Van Hoose.

Van Hoose said the policy for response to these inquiries is education rst, the necessity for greater public awareness.  is year, Van Hoose said some problem areas have been in Castle Rock, Parker, Elbert County, Elizabeth, and surrounding areas.

“Mostly it’s about spreading the word to people who don’t know or people who think that they are helping by moving deer to another location,” Van Hoose said.

Although fawning season is nearly over, the issue has persisted through the years, and it appears to be escalating. Van Hoose is not quite sure of the reason for the increased number of calls this year, positing a spike in new uninformed residents or a more fruitful fawning season as possible explanations.

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Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO

ADAMS COUNTY COMBINED COURT

Court Address: 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, CO 80601

CONSOLIDATED NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

– ALLOCATION OF PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Notice is hereby given that in the following proceedings filed in the Court under the Uniform Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Court has found that due diligence has been used to obtain personal service of process within the State of Colorado or that efforts to obtain the same would have been to no avail.

Pursuant to C.R.S. 14-10-107(4)(a), one publication of the following shall be published once during the month of June 2023. A copy of the Petition and Summons may be obtained from the Clerk of the Combined Court. Default judgment may be entered against you if you fail to appear or file a response within 35 days of this publication.

Case Number Names of Parties

2023DR381 ESTEFANIA ALEXA MEDERO

BAHENA VS LUIS DIAZ

2023DR30276 SHEYLA MORAN VS LIZ

MAGALY FRANCIA LA TORRE

2023DR30360 MARIA JOSELIN REYES

AGUILAR VS NOE PONCE BEJARANO

ALANA PERCY Clerk of the Combined Court

Date: June 22, 2023

By: Madeline Scholl

Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. BSB2519

First Publication: June 29, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO

ADAMS COUNTY COMBINED COURT

Court Address: 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, CO 80601

CONSOLIDATED NOTICE OF PUBLICATION – INVALIDITY OF MARRIAGE

Notice is hereby given that in the following proceedings filed in the Court under the Uniform Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Court has found that due diligence has been used to obtain personal service of process within the State of Colorado or that efforts to obtain the same would have been to no avail.

Pursuant to C.R.S. 14-10-107(4)(a), one publication of the following shall be published once during the month of June 2023. A copy of the Petition and Summons may be obtained from the Clerk of the Combined Court. Default judgment may be entered against you if you fail to appear or file a response within 35 days of this publication.

Case Number Names of Parties

2022DR1171 LUCRETIA ANN RIOS VS JOE

ANTHONY RIOS

ALANA PERCY

Clerk of the Combined Court

Date: June 22, 2023

By: Madeline Scholl

Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. BSB2520

First Publication: June 29, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO

ADAMS COUNTY COMBINED COURT

303-566-4123

Court Address: 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, CO 80601

CONSOLIDATED NOTICE OF PUBLICATION – DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

Notice is hereby given that in the following proceedings filed in the Court under the Uniform Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Court has found that due diligence has been used to obtain personal service of process within the State of Colorado or that efforts to obtain the same would have been to no avail.

Pursuant to C.R.S. 14-10-107(4)(a), one publication of the following shall be published once during the month of June 2023. A copy of the Petition and Summons may be obtained from the Clerk of the Combined Court. Default judgment may be entered against you if you fail to appear or file a response within 35 days of this publication.

Case Number Names of Parties

2023DR30224 YENY GONALEZ BAJARANO VS SAUL FARIAS TORRES

2023DR467 DMETRI ARMONTEI MONROE VS EBONY LYNETTE MONROE

2023DR54 ERIKA ATAIDE VS DENNIS ALAIN ARMENTA GOMEZ

2023DR431 MARIA GUADALUPE MOSQUE-

DA TORRES VS JUAN ANGEL DURAN JR

ALANA PERCY Clerk of the Combined Court

Date: June 22, 2023

By: Madeline Scholl Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. BSB2518

First Publication: June 29, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade City of Brighton

Public Notice

ORDINANCE NO. 2426 INTRODUCED BY: Padilla

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BRIGHTON, COLORADO, AMENDING SECTIONS OF ARTICLE 3-8 OF THE BRIGHTON MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING CONTRACTS AND PURCHASES, ENACTING ARTICLE 3-9 REGARDING DISPOSITION OF CITY-OWNED PERSONAL PROPERTY, AMENDING SECTIONS OF ARTICLE 3-28 RE-

GARDING SALES TAX AND LICENSING, AND AMENDING SECTIONS OF ARTICLE 2-16 REGARDING ASSIGNMENT OF COSTS AND FEES LEVIED BY THE MUNICIPAL COURT INTRODUCED, PASSED ON FINAL READING AND ORDERED PUBLISHED BY TITLE ONLY THIS 20th DAY OF June 2023.

CITY OF BRIGHTON, COLORADO /s/ GREGORY MILLS, Mayor

ATTEST: /s/ NATALIE HOEL, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM: /s/ YASMINA GIBBONS, Deputy City Attorney

Published in the Brighton Standard Blade

Final Publication: June 29, 2023

A COMPLETE COPY OF THE ORDINANCE IS AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS AND ON THE CITY OF BRIGHTON WEBSITE.

Office on May 12, 2023. The applicant is a corporation with the following members listed: Crystal C. Maggelet, Director and 65.2% owner; Charles E. Maggelet, President; and David B. Hancock, Vice President. Any petitions or remonstrance letters pertaining to this application should be directed to the City Clerk’s Office. For additional information, please call (303) 655-2031.

Dated this 29th day of June, 2023.

/s/ Erin Kelm

Deputy City Clerk

Legal Notice No. BSB2517

First Publication: June 29, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Public Notice

ORDINANCE NO. 2425

INTRODUCED BY: Green

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BRIGHTON, COLORADO, APPROVING THE RIGHT-OF-WAY VACATION FOR AN APPROXIMATELY 0.224 ACRE PORTION OF RIGHT-OF-WAY GENERALLY LOCATED NORTH OF SUGARLOAF STREET, SOUTH OF BASELINE ROAD, EAST OF NORTH 60TH AVENUE, WEST OF THE INTERSECTION OF LOST LAKE STREET AND CORRAL STREET, SITUATED WITHIN THE RIDGELINE VISTA DEVELOPMENT, MORE PARTICULARLY LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 1 SOUTH, RANGE 66 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, CITY OF BRIGHTON, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO

PASSED ON SECOND AND FINAL READING AND ORDERED PUBLISHED BY TITLE ONLY THIS 20TH DAY OF JUNE 2023.

CITY OF BRIGHTON, COLORADO

/s/ GREGORY MILLS, Mayor

ATTEST:

/s/ NATALIE HOEL, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

/s/ YASMINA GIBBONS, Deputy City Attorney

Published in the Brighton Standard Blade

Final Publication: June 29, 2023

A COMPLETE COPY OF THE ORDINANCE IS AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS AND ON THE CITY OF BRIGHTON WEBSITE.

Legal Notice No. BSB2516

First Publication: June 29, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Bids and Settlements

Public Notice

NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Rocky Mountain Rail Park Metropolitan District of Adams County, Colorado, will make final payment at the offices of the District’s Accountant, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 111 S. Tejon Street, Suite 705, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, on or after July 10, 2023, to JHL Enterprises, Inc d/b/a JHL Constructors, Inc., 9100 E. Panorama Dr., Suite 300, Englewood, CO 80112, in connection with payment for all services rendered, materials furnished, and for all labor performed pursuant to AIA Document A141, Design-Build Amendment #2 – Task Order #6 dated July 21, 2022 entered into between JHL Constructors, Inc. and Rail Land Company LLC, for the Rocky Mountain Rail Park Project, all being within or adjacent to the boundaries of the District and in Adams County, Colorado. Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, provisions, or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or his subcontractor in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim therefore has not been paid by the contractor or the subcontractor, may file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim. Said verified statement must be filed with the Rocky Mountain Rail Park Metropolitan District c/o Carrie Bartow, District Accountant, at the above address and at or before the time and date hereinabove shown. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release said Rocky Mountain Rail Park Metropolitan District, its Board of Directors, officers, agents and employees, of and from

any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAIL PARK

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By:/s/ Russell Dykstra

Legal Counsel to the District

Legal Notice No. BSB2508

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Summons and Sheriff Sale

Public Notice District Court Adams County, Colorado Court Address: Adams County Justice Center 1100 Judicial Center Drive, Brighton, CO, 80601 (303) 659-1161

Plaintiff: SHAUN BERGMAN

v. Defendants: SUNBELT PORTFOLIOS, LLC; KNOX COURT TRUST; and TENANT(S)/ OCCUPANT(S) OF 9260 KNOX COURT TRUST

Case Number: 2023CV30099 Division/Courtroom C

Attorney for Plaintiff: ROCKY MOUNTAIN LITIGATOR, LTD. Charles S. Chapman, Jr., Reg. No. 40939 P.O. Box 5311, Greenwood Village, CO 80155 Phone Number: (303) 859-6515

E-mail: Steve@RockyMtnLtg.com

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: SUNBELT PORTFOLIOS, LLC; KNOX COURT TRUST; and TENANT(S)/OCCUPANT(S) of 9260 KNOX COURT TRUST

You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint [petition] filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within thirty-five (35) days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint [petition] in writing within thirty-five (35) days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint [petition] without further notice.

This is an in rem judicial foreclosure action, involving the Plaintiff, Shaun Bergman’s foreclosure of his judgment lien interest claimed under that Transcript of Judgment recorded under reception number 2022000037107 with the Adams County Clerk and Recorder on April 26, 2022 made against the real property and improvements legally described as SUBDIVISION: SUNSET RIDGE, FIRST FILING, BLOCK 7, LOT 5, COUNTY OF ADAMS, STATE OF COLORADO and commonly known by street name and number as 9260 Knox Court, Westminster, Adams County, Colorado, and which foreclosure and sale may affect your interest(s) to or any right to enjoyment or the possession, use, sale, transfer, ownership, proceeds of or other benefit or claim to the property.

Dated: June 5th, 2023

S/ Charles S. Chapman, Jr. Charles S. Chapman, Jr., Reg. No. 40939

Legal Notice No. BSB2383

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: July 13, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade Misc. Private Legals

PUBLIC NOTICE

Holcim - WCR, Inc., 1687 Cole Blvd, Suite 300, Golden, 80401, 303-980-8300, has filed an appli

The proposed date of commencement is September 1, 2023, and the proposed date of completion is February 28, 2025. The proposed future use of the land is water storage. Additional information and tentative decision date may be obtained from the Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety, 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver, Colorado 80203, (303) 866-3567, or at the Weld County Clerk to the Board’s office; 1150 O Street, Greeley, CO 80631, or the above-named applicant.

Comments must be in writing and must be received by the Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety by 4:00 p.m. on August 2, 2023.

Please note that under the provisions of C.R.S. 3432.5-101 et seq. Comments related to noise, truck traffic, hours of operation, visual impacts, effects on property values and other social or economic concerns are issues not subject to this Office’s jurisdiction. These subjects, and similar ones, are typically addressed by your local governments, rather than the Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety or the Mined Land Reclamation Board.

Legal Notice No. BSB2509

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 13, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Public Notice

STATE OF NEW MEXICO

COUNTY OF BERNALILLO

SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRlCT COURT

Brenda I Torres I

Petitioner vs. Juan Vargas Jr

Respondent NO. DM 2023001435

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION

STATE OF NEW MEXICO to the above-named Respondent (s), Greetings:

You are hereby notified that the above-named Petitioner has filed a civil action against you in the above entitled Court and cause, the general object thereof being: Disolution of Marriage

Unless you enter your appearance in said cause on of before the 31st day of July, 2023, a judgement by default will be entered against you.

Name and Address of Petitioner Brenda I Torres I 429 Espanola St. SE Apt 2 Albuquerque, NM 87108

WITNESS the Honorable JANE C. LEVY, District Judge of the Second Judicial District Court of the State of New Mexico, and the seal of the District Court of Bernalillo County, this 9th day of June, 2023

KATINA WATSON CLERK OF THE DITRICT COURT

By: Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. BSB2500

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ADAMS COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, Colorado 80601

Plaintiffs: ANDERS LINDGREN and MARET LINDGREN.

v.

Defendant: WADE S. DURBEN.

Case Number: 2023-CV-30620 Division A

Attorney Robert W. Smith, attorney for Plaintiffs 1777 South Harrison Street, Suite 1250 Denver, CO 80210

Phone Number: (720) 506-9218

Email: BobSmith@rwsmithlaw.com

FAX Number: (303) 355-6036 Atty. Reg. #: 9513

You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the Complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the Complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the Complaint without further notice.

This is an action to correct a special warranty deed transferring title to 13001 County Road A, Fort Morgan, CO 80701, where that deed has an error in the legal description and in one place misspells the grantor’s name.

Dated: June 5, 2023.

Legal Notice No. BSB2491

First Publication: June 15, 2023

Last Publication: July 13, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade Public Notice

ESTRAY: #1508: Six Mixed Black and Red Heifers, No Brand. Livestock must be claimed by legal owner within 10 days or will be sold by Colorado Brand Board. For information call 720-237-9698 or 303-869-9160.

Legal Notice No. BSB2523

First Publication: June 29, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Storage Liens/Vehicle Titles

Public Notice

Abandoned vehicle sale Tri-County Auto Recovery LLC 720 298 7466

1999 Ford F350. A86960

2001 Dodge Dakota 319158

2002 Honda Accord. 157063

2002 Cadillac Escalade. 110815

2003 Honda Accord 020410

2003 Dodge Ram 1500. 632851

2004 Volkswagen Jetta 008314

2005 Acura MDX 529087

2007 GMC Yukon 178548

2007 Ford Focus 276142

2008 Ford Fusion 109359

2008 Chrysler PT Cruiser 140659

Legal Notice No. BSB2522

First Publication: June 29, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Notice to Creditors

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of MAX RUSSELL MCILRATH, a/k/a MAX R. MCILRATH, a/k/a MAX MCILRATH, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 30453

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 October 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Craig Allen Mcllrath

Personal Representative

38 Mill Park Lane Marlton, NJ 08053

Legal Notice No. BSB2502

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Mariel D. France, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 30280

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 October 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Tanya Ruybal

Personal Representative 23602 E. 157th Ave. Brighton, CO 80603

Legal Notice No. BSB2510

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Gloria Delores Montoya, a.k.a. Gloria D. Montoya, a.k.a. Gloria Montoya, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 30436

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 October 30, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Susie Williams

Personal Representative 11642 Oswego Street Henderson, CO 80640

Legal Notice No. BSB2513

First Publication: June 29, 2023

Last Publication: July 13, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of STEPHEN MATTHEW HETZEL, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 30375

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 October 30, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Shandette Hetzel

Personal Representative Laura Moore, attorney for PR Warren, Carlson & Moore, LLP PO Box 610 Niwot, CO 80544-0610

Legal Notice No. BSB2512

First Publication: June 29, 2023

Last Publication: July 13, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Roderick Dee Baker

a/k/a Roderick D. Baker

a/k/a Roderick Baker

a/k/a Rod Baker, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 30464

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 October 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Brady, McFarland, & Lord, LLC

6870 W. 52nd Ave., Suite #103

Arvada, CO 80002

Legal Notice No. BSB2506

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Lisa Dawn Heinz, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 194

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 October 30, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Brian M Heinz

Personal Representative 718 S 2nd Ave

Brighton, CO 80601

Legal Notice No. BSB2503

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Name Changes

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on May 19, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Adams County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Yariel Xaiden Hernandez Gonzalez be changed to Yariel Pascual Gonzalez

Case No.: 23 C 300

By: Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. BSB2501

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on June 2, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Adams County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Michael Brandon Hurtado be changed to Michael Brandon Cardonne

Case No.: 23 C 0589

By: Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. BSB2511

First Publication: June 22, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Children Services

(Adoption/Guardian/Other)

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO

Court Address: 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, CO 80601

Children: Rhymer Bosco, Haavyn Bosco

Respondents: Paige Stewart, Anthony Bosco, John Doe

Special Respondents: Peter Stewart, Rebecca Stewart

Case Number: 22JV82

Div.: S Ctrm.:

Attorney or Party Without Attorney:

Name: Conor Hagerty

Address: 11860 Pecos St. Suite 3300 Westminster, CO 80234

Phone Number: (720) 523-2950

Fax Number: (720) 523-2951

Atty. Reg. #: 42629

AMENDED ORDER OF ADVISEMENT

NOTICE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPON-

DENTS: Paige Stewart, Anthony Bosco, 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 children;

YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISED that the Motion has been set for hearing in Division S of the District Court in and for the County of Adams, Adams County Justice Center, 1100 Judicial Center Drive, Brighton, Colorado, on the 24th day of July, 2023, at the hour of 9:30 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 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 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.

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 grandparent, 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 20th day of June, 2023.

BY THE COURT: District Court Judge/Magistrate

Legal Notice No. BSB2514

First Publication: June 29, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Public Notice

District Court

Colorado County: ADAMS COUNTY

Court Address: 1100 Judicial Center Dr., Brighton, CO 80601

Petitioner: Gladis Rodriguez

Respondent: Arturo Armando Nuñez Cano

Child: Arturo Angel Nuñez Cano

Case No. 2023 DR 30384

Division: K

SUMMONS - CUSTODY CASE

NOTICE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPON-

DENT: Arturo Armando Nuñez Cano

You are hereby notified that a verified Petition has been filed in the above named Court regarding the allocation of parental responsibilities concerning the above-named minor child.

You are further notified that you must file a written response to that Petition.

You are further notified that if you do not file a Response, the Court may decide the case without your input. You may not receive further notice about court filings and events. You are still required to obey any orders the Court issues.

AUTOMATIC COURT ORDERS (Temporary Injunction)

As soon as you receive this Summons, you must obey these orders:

1) Do not disturb the peace of the other parent or parties in this case.

2) Do not take the children in this case out of the state without permission from the Court and/or the other parent (or party).

3) Do not stop paying, cancel, or make any changes to health, homeowner’s, renter’s, automobile, or life insurance policies that cover the children or a party in this case or that name a child or a party as a beneficiary.

Exception: You may make changes to insurance coverage if you have written permission from the other parent or party or a court order, and you give at least 14 days’ Notice to the other party. C.R.S. §§ 14-10-107, 108.

You must obey these orders until this case is finalized, dismissed, or the Court changes these orders.

Note on Genetic Testing

You can request genetic testing. The Court will not hold this request against you when deciding the outcome of the case.

You must do testing and submit the results before the Court establishes who the parents are (parentage) and issues final orders. After that time, it may be too late to submit genetic testing evidence. The law that directs this process is C.R.S. § 14-10-124(1.5).

So Summoned.

Samuel T. Townsend, Petitioner’s Attorney

Date: May 4, 2023

Legal Notice No. BSB2484

First Publication: June 8, 2023

Last Publication: July 6, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade Public Notice STATE OF COLORADO IN THE DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF ADAMS Division D1 No. 23JV30081

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO IN THE INTEREST OF:

Cheyenne Selbe, Christopher Selbe-Fesler A Child(ren), and Concerning

Jamie Lorraine Rood, Gregory Fesler, John Doe

Respondents: S U M M O N S

To the parents, guardian, or other respondents named above, GREETINGS: John Doe

You are hereby notified that a verified petition has been filed in the above named Court in which it is represented to the Court that said child are alleged to be dependent and neglected; for the reasons set forth more fully in said petition, a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference for greater certainty.

You are further notified that the parent-child legal relationship may be terminated by this action, if prayed for in the petition.

You are further notified that the Court has set said petition for hearing on the 17th day of July, 2023 at the hour of 10:10 a.m. You are hereby notified to be and appear, at said time, before this Court located at the Adams County Justice Center, 1100 Judicial Center Drive, Brighton, CO 80601. Witness my hand and seal of said Court this 22nd day of June, 2023.

Alana Percy Clerk of the District Court

Legal Notice No. BSB2521

First Publication: June 29, 2023

Last Publication: June 29, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade ###

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