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Despite fewer reported cases, COVID up in sewage tests Signs indicate more virus prevalence, but vaccinated people may not know they’re infected A conceptual rendering shows how one part of the redevelopment at The Streets at SouthGlenn could look. This is a Gaylord Street view from the Commons Park area of SouthGlenn looking north.

that would, among other changes, increase the number of allowed apartments by several hundred units at The Streets at SouthGlenn. Property developers pushed the plan in an attempt to breathe more life into the outdoor mall

Testing of wastewater at the Englewood-Littleton sewage plant is finding record-high signs of COVID prevalence in the south metro populace, while the number of people receiving positive COVID tests has dropped — a situation that may show vaccinated people are not getting sick enough to feel the need to test, a Colorado researcher says. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, South Platte Renew, a wastewater treatment plant in Englewood that is the third largest in Colorado, has been on the front lines of helping health officials make sense of the state of the virus. The plant collects daily samples of sewage produced by about 300,000 people, according to Pieter Van Ry, the site’s director, covering populations in Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson counties. Samples are sent to various labs both in-state and outside Colorado that test for the virus’s genome, an indicator of how prevalent COVID may be in a given community. In recent weeks, tests have shown higher amounts of COVID being detected in South Platte’s wastewater than at any other point of the pandemic. But reported cases for the area are down by about half their

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This conceptual rendering depicts how one part of the redevelopment at The Streets at SouthGlenn could look. This is a view IMAGES VIA CITY OF CENTENNIAL WEBSITE from the corner of Race Street and Easter Avenue.

Centennial council OKs SouthGlenn redevelopment Plan to add apartments, business on Macy’s, Sears sites BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After nearly three years, one of the most prominent and contentious civic issues in Centennial has

been decided with the city council’s approval of a plan to dramatically reshape Centennial’s flagship shopping center. The council voted on Dec. 13 to green-light a redevelopment plan

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The buildings of 701 and 799 off East Hampden Avenue will be connected with a grand COURTESY OF SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER entryway as part of Swedish Medical’s new cancer pavillion.

Swedish unveils plans for cancer center $25M project seeks to centralize services by end of 2022 BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Swedish Medical Center, a 408bed acute care hospital in Englewood, announced plans to build a

new cancer treatment center intended to open by the end of 2022. The hospital has been doing preconstruction work since April, according to hospital spokesperson Alyssa Parker, with construction expected to begin in January. “This effort brings together all of the components we have already built in our fight against cancer into a singular, dedicated SEE SWEDISH, P3

Along with space for services and treatment, the new center will offer redesigned COURTESY OF SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER landscaping and outdoor spaces.

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space,” said Ryan Tobin, president and chief executive officer of Swedish Medical Center, in a news release. The new facility, dubbed a “cancer pavilion,” is set to centralize the various oncology services of the hospital’s Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute by connecting two of its East Hampden Avenue medical office buildings. The project is estimated to cost $25 million, with the hospital securing funding from various partners including HCA Healthcare and Sarah Cannon as well as from its facility operating budget, according to Parker. The new space will house oncology physician offices and comprehensive patient support services as well as a new grand entryway,

redesigned landscaping and outdoor spaces for patients. “In addition to making care more convenient, we want to make our space healing,” Tobin said in his statement. “We understand that cancer treatment can be stressful and frightening. We are taking every possible measure to create a peaceful, serene environment for our patients.” The hospital serves about 2,000 cancer patients each year, according to Parker, with Sarah Cannon providing services since 2012. Parker, in an email to Colorado Community Media, said the new space could allow the hospital to care for even more patients. “While some of the project involves reconfiguring existing services, we expect the streamlined approach to enrich the patient experience, enhance provider satisfaction, and ultimately expand the number of patients for which we can provide care,” she said.

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Holiday happenings coming to Centennial area Chances remain for carriage rides, ice skating and more activities BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The end of 2021 draws near, but Centennial-area residents can still catch holiday events in their home city and a short drive away. Here’s a look at some events to enjoy through late December and beyond. Horse-pulled rides The Streets at SouthGlenn outdoor mall in west Centennial offers “free Clydesdale carriage rides” on Fridays and Saturdays in December, according to the mall’s website. No reservations are required, and rides are given on a first-come, firstserved basis. The remaining hours for the rides are 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Dec. 17 and Dec. 31, and noon to 3 p.m. Dec. 18. SouthGlenn sits at Arapahoe Road and University Boulevard. Holiday nature walks South Platte Park naturalists will lead 90-minute small-group hikes for those ages 6 and up on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. The walks are “a great way to start a new tradition, learn something new and explore our beautiful environment,” the South Suburban Parks and Rec-

reation district’s website says. South Platte Park sits in south Littleton at 3000 W. Carson Drive, north of Mineral Avenue and west of Santa Fe Drive. The registration website says to dress for the weather forecast. The “easy hike” is about 1.5 miles. Children under 16 must be accompanied by a registered adult, and the registration website asks that people not bring their pets. The fee is $10. The public can register at tinyurl.com/NatureWalkRegister. Santa Claus history Ever wondered about the history of Santa Claus? You’re not alone. “You may know that our modernday Santa Claus had his start as St. Nicholas, but what happened on the journey to make us think of a ‘jolly old elf,’ rather than a pious Christian bishop?” says an event description on the City of Centennial’s website. “Where, exactly, did Santa Claus come from, and why does his popularity remain so high in modern American popular culture?” A free online event called “The History and Folklore of Santa Claus” will be hosted by the Arapahoe Libraries district and co-sponsored by the City of Centennial. It runs from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 20. Registration for the event closes 30 minutes before the scheduled start time. Attendees will receive an email with instructions on how to access this event shortly before it

In a 2019 photo, families and friends go for a spin at the seasonal ice-skating rink at FILE PHOTO The Streets at SouthGlenn in Centennial.

east of the E-470 toll highway off of begins. Smoky Hill Road. The event will be hosted through the Zoom videoconferencing platHours are 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays form with closed captioning providthrough Thursdays, 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. ed. A Zoom account is not required Fridays, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturdays, to attend. and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays. Hours If you register fewer than 24 hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on all school before the event, check your confirholidays, the website says. mation email for the Zoom link. The The public can buy tickets at public can register at tinyurl.com/ tinyurl.com/SouthlandsSkating. For Food Trucks SantaHistoryEvent. group rates and reservations, the Pumpkin Painting Contest public can call 303-928-7536 or email Skating in east Centennial area southlands@icerinkevents.com. The Streets at SouthGlenn’s events Ice skaters need to wear socks, website doesn’t list ice skating and bringing your own ice skates is Fallthis and Halloween Activities year, but the Southlands outdoor allowed, but using personal skates Product Demos mall just outside of east Centennial will not be discounted, according to offers daily ice skating “all winter a frequently-asked-questions page. long,” its website says. The skating rink has no storage Admission costs $12 at The Pond available; you are responsible for Ice Rink at Southlands, located just your belongings, the page says.

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Collecting African art a passion for retired teacher ‘It’s time for other people to be able to enjoy this’ BY KYLE COOKE AND BRIAN WILLIE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

One of the country’s most extraordinary private art collections is hidden in plain sight. Nearly every square inch of Paul Hamilton’s home in Denver’s Whittier neighborhood is occupied by a piece of African art. Hamilton, 80, has carved out just enough space to walk around his home. When he eats a meal, he has to free up some space on his table. The bathroom is the only room in Hamilton’s house without something from his collection. With more than 1,200 pieces, Hamilton owns one of the largest private collections of African art in the entire country. “As a teacher, you don’t make a lot of money,” said Hamilton, a retired teacher who spent 40 plus years working for Denver Public Schools and Jefferson County Public Schools. “But I’m not one who spends money on cars and clothes and that type of thing. My money went that way. My house has been my bank.” Born in Pueblo, Hamilton moved to Denver in 1959. In addition to his career as an educator, he served the Five Points neighborhood as a Colorado state representative from 1969 to 1973.

VIDEO ONLINE To watch a Rocky Mountain PBS video of this story, go online to tinyurl.com/ RMPBSAfricanArt. He didn’t start collecting art until the 1980s. Hamilton’s personal museum is his way of correcting and knocking down the myths he heard growing up that “Africa was bad and didn’t have any contributions.” He even wrote a book about it: “African Peoples’ Contributions to World Civilizations: Shattering the Myths.” “It’s a redemption,” he said of his book and collection. “It tells us that African people are fantastic people, because everybody’s ancestors ... came from Africa.” Hamilton believes not enough people know about African art and culture, despite world-renowned painters like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and others relying on African art for inspiration. Hamilton is an important figure in his community. In 2016, he partnered with local artists Thomas “Detour” Evans and Ancestry.com to create “They Still Live,” an exhibit that combined photography, African art and ancestry. When Rocky Mountain PBS spoke to Detour in October about the muralist’s new piece at the intersection of Colfax Avenue and Race Street, he said his next mural on that same wall would be of Hamilton.

Paul Hamilton of Denver owns one of the country’s largest private collections of AfriPHOTO BY BRIAN WILLIE / ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS can art.

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and residential complex, but it met opposition for years from some area residents. Mayor Stephanie Piko and the other councilmembers on Dec. 7 expressed general support for the redevelopment plan, but in the end, one councilmember objected to the proposal when the final vote was taken. “I do agree that this will benefit Centennial as a whole,” Councilmember Christine Sweetland said during the Dec. 13 meeting, where she also noted her concerns about the plan’s impact on the residents she serves. She represents a part of west Centennial on the city council. She added: “I don’t feel this (plan) will provide enough mitigation for the increased traffic in the area, so I will be voting no.” The final vote was 8-1. Area residents have largely voiced concerns about the potential for more traffic around the outdoor mall, located at East Arapahoe Road and South University Boulevard, a major intersection in the south metro area. They also have objected to the possibility of new apartment buildings across the street from the less-densely-developed neighborhood nearby. Retail revolution Developers want to revitalize the outdoor mall, which has fought recent vacancies and is facing the expectation that its Macy’s store will soon close. The Macy’s lease expires in March 2022, according to Donald Provost, founding principal with Alberta Development Partners, which controls most of The Streets at SouthGlenn. The Sears store at the opposite end of the SouthGlenn complex closed near the end of 2018. “The reality is, these once-iconic brands continue to struggle and have to reinvent themselves” due to the “changing consumer behavior we’re all familiar with,” Provost said during a Dec. 6 council meeting about the redevelopment plan. The city council has heard information about what a city staff report called the “retail revolution” — a series of consumer behavior and technological shifts, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, that are “profoundly affecting the retail industry and every retail center,” a Dec. 6 city staff report said. “Closed big box retailers, such as grocery stores and department stores, are often the most visible impact,” the report said. Because the developers want to change the mix of types of properties allowed at SouthGlenn, their plans needed the city’s approval. The Streets at SouthGlenn is one of the top sources of sales-tax revenue for the city compared to other shopping centers, but it hasn’t been performing as well as it used to. City officials and the developers’ team have pointed to SouthGlenn’s impact on tax revenue in Centennial. The SouthGlenn site already includes apartments, but “additional residential units will help provide a critical mass of patrons to existing businesses within the neighborhood, creating a more stable tax base from which to derive public

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services,” an earlier city staff report said. Piko, the mayor, underscored the fact that a bump in business at SouthGlenn would not only produce more sales-tax revenue but also that “we need to invest in our schools — we need to invest in our fire district.” Those entities pull funding at least partly from property-tax revenue. “All of those things will benefit,” Piko said, referring to hopes for an increase in property values that the SouthGlenn redevelopment could cause, as opposed to a potential decrease that could occur if the mall continues down its current path. Council cites public’s voice Before voting to approve the plan, several city councilmembers

pointed to the public’s influence on shaping some parts of what the redevelopment will look like. “For the citizens, you can look at this project and see that your input made a difference,” Councilmember Mike Sutherland said during the Dec. 13 meeting. “Your input made a difference on the number of residential units that are planned for the entire development. Those numbers decreased dramatically from the first proposal we saw.” In 2019 or late 2018, the developers’ original proposal to build 1,600 additional residential units, such as apartments, according to city staff. Now, the plan envisions up to 911 new units to get to the proposed new limit of 1,125 units. Sutherland felt the “thriving and vibrant” nature of the SouthGlenn

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unruly gathering that underscored the continued frustration some residents feel toward the project. In all, Alberta and the other developer — Northwood Investors, which owns the former Sears property — say they held more than 35 meetings with area residents. That included three large-group meetings, 14 or more individual meetings with residents, and 18 small-group meetings, according to the Dec. 6 city council meeting. A public-comment forum that was hosted on the city’s “Have Your Say” webpage between July 23 and Aug. 13 saw 372 total comments, and a second public-comment forum between Oct. 28 and Nov. 28 saw 79 total comments, according to a city staff report. The Centennial Council of Neighborhoods — also called CenCON, a coalition of homeowners’ associations and similar neighborhood groups — thanked the developers for some compromises. “CenCON wants to thank and applaud both Northwood (Investors) and Alberta (Development) Partners for the opportunity to sit down (and) address all concerns — not only with CenCON but also with the Southglenn neighborhood group,” CenCON wrote in an Aug. 13 letter to the city. “During our discussions our ideas were seriously considered and the compromise that was reached is one that CenCON can fully support.” CenCON listed “areas of compromise” in the plan including: • A tiered “step-back” in building heights with lower heights at the perimeter. (A stepback is a minimum distance that the upper floors of a building must be recessed, or stepped back, from the front of the building. It was referred to as a “a wedding-cake approach” by the developers’ team.) The step-back in height approach resulted in fewer units, according to CenCON’s letter. • Cuts into the building along Easter Avenue “provide little courtyards and space for tenants.” • A small park bordering Easter Avenue was included. • Proposed landscaping along Easter Avenue and Race Street will “soften” the buildings as it matures, the letter says. Affordable housing not part of plan Some comments the public sent to the city at its at southglenn@centennialco.gov email address asked for the plan to include affordable housing units. The developers’ Sept. 17 responses to comments, given through a company called Farnsworth Group, made clear that desires for affordable housing likely wouldn’t move forward. “In most cases, the inclusion of affordable housing at a project like the Streets at SouthGlenn requires subsidies or other government involvement which the applicants are not contemplating at this point,” read the letter from Brad Nelson, an architectural manager. Out of the existing housing at SouthGlenn, 12 of the 214 units are former retail storefronts that were converted to townhomes. The

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The proposal to redevelop The Streets at SouthGlenn came with a companion study on the impact the redevelopment would have on traffic at intersections around the outdoor mall — including on major streets such as Arapahoe Road and University Boulevard. During public meetings in November and December about the now-approved redevelopment plan, several area residents raised complaints about how accurate they felt the traffic study was. Perhaps the biggest concern among them: the idea that data on traffic related to the former Sears land at SouthGlenn was improperly processed, throwing off the estimate of how much traffic would be added by the redevelopment. The proposed redevelopment as a whole is expected to generate about 6,100 new vehicle trips per day, according to the study. The traffic study appears to reach that conclusion partly by subtracting roughly 3,100 daily vehicle trips based on the idea that the redevelopment will remove the existing Sears building, according to page 27 of the study. But because Sears closed near the end of 2018, the traffic study’s counts of existing traffic — which were used to help estimate what future traffic after the redevelopment would look like — appear to have partly, if not mostly, already accounted for the loss of Searsdriven traffic at SouthGlenn. The number of vehicle trips that the traffic study assumes would be removed by the demolishing of Sears was estimated using traffic generation rates from the Trip Generation Manual from the Institute of Transportation Engineers from 2017. That’s a manual that provides standard estimates of car trips based on a destination business’ square footage. Using rates from that manual, the traffic study also estimates that the new development on the Sears land would add roughly 6,700 daily trips. In other words, the traffic study assumes that demolishing the vacant Sears would remove nearly half as much traffic as the upcoming new residential and retail buildings could add — 3,100 trips removed compared to 6,700 trips added. The Centennial Citizen asked officials with the redevelopment project — from Alberta Development Partners, Northwood Investors, and engineering firm Felsburg, Holt and Ullevig, which remaining 202 units are within the Portola at SouthGlenn apartment building. Rental prices for the new housing in the redevelopment will be determined when the units “come online,” Provost said, and likely, they will be higher than the current rents in the Portola, he added. A one-bedroom unit at the Portola currently costs a monthly rent starting at $1,824 to $2,424 depending on the type of unit, according to the

wrote the traffic study — why the study assumed that the demolishing of the vacant Sears would reduce traffic by such a large number. In a statement, the group responded: “A number of the traffic data collection efforts were conducted when the Sears building was hosting a retail tenant. Since the most conservative numbers from the multiple traffic counts taken were used in our analysis, the baseline data does not assume that the building is empty.” Sears traffic impact unclear Traffic counts along Easter Avenue were taken in December 2018 for an earlier evaluation of the Sears redevelopment plan, according to the study. Those 2018 counts included the intersections at York Street (the “Mall Driveway”), Gaylord Street and Vine Street. Upon the inclusion of the plan for redevelopment of Macy’s within the project’s scope, counts were taken at the remaining intersections along Race Street, Arapahoe Road and University Boulevard. The second set of counts was completed in July 2019. Two supplemental counts were conducted once schools opened in August 2019. Additional “AM peak hour” counts were taken in February 2020, the study says. The Citizen asked the group whether the December 2018 traffic counts along Easter Avenue were taken before the Sears permanently closed. The Citizen also asked whether the August 2019 traffic counts occurred when Spirit Halloween, or another Halloweenthemed retailer, was doing business in the former Sears space. The group did not respond to those questions by press time Dec. 14. According to Anna Bunce, the City of Centennial’s traffic engineer, analyzing the traffic study isn’t as simple as looking at when the Sears had closed. Traffic calculations follow a certain methodology, according to the city. Since a change in land use — generally changing from retail to residential — is what was proposed, the original possible use has to be shown as a subtraction, or reduction, and the proposed use has to be shown as an addition, or increase, Bunce said. “The net (increase) is the result of what the reference standard manual indicates could be anticipated, as a standard projection,” Bunce said. Other than the “unit quantity” — which appeared to mean Portola’s website. For Alberta’s part of the planned redevelopment, the company is exploring both for-rent and for-sale housing, according to Provost. “It remains to be seen whether we execute for-sale product,” Provost said during a Nov. 9 meeting of the city Planning and Zoning Commission. “But we are looking at it, and we’re exploring at-grade townhomes as well as stacked flats, stacked apartments, similar to Portola.”

amount of space at the property — and other than the fact that the study reflects a change in land use, “nothing about these (data) tables is site specific or meant to represent the actual condition” at SouthGlenn, Bunce added. The developers’ team didn’t identify when exactly Sears closed. However, it would be unclear how much Sears traffic would have contributed to the traffic counts even if the data had been collected before Sears closed, Bunce said. “If actual … turning-movement count data collection had been conducted prior to the Sears closing, it is unclear as to how much the Sears would have been actively contributing to the background (existing traffic) condition within what timeframe prior to the store closing, given Sears’ financial picture for some time leading up to the closure,” Bunce said. She added: “It is also unclear what contribution the Macy’s — or any other specific single use internal to the site — is actually making to any of that data.” Bunce continued: “I recognize that some of this may seem odd to folks who aren’t in the (traffic engineering) practice, but I do not have any outstanding concerns regarding the (traffic study) and its conformance to and satisfaction of those items required by the city’s Roadway Design and Construction Standards.” Along Arapahoe Road, Race Street, University Boulevard and Easter Avenue — which form SouthGlenn’s perimeter — most of the changes in traffic volume caused by the redevelopment in the morning and afternoon would be less than a 10% increase and “do not represent significant changes to traffic flow,” according to the study. But traffic changes along Race Street would be “significant,” the study notes. The increase would range from 37% to 49% depending on the time of day and whether looking at short- or long-term effects. “This reflects the fact that Race Street has the lowest levels of background (existing) traffic of the surrounding roadways, so volume changes are more pronounced,” the study says. For a look at what the traffic study said about “cut-through” traffic in neighborhoods, see the “traffic numbers” section of the Citizen’s previous story at tinyurl. com/SouthGlennTrafficLook.

Traffic concerns continue Echoing concerns expressed by other area residents in recent years, Sue Carlton-Smith, who said she lives in the nearby Cherry Knolls neighborhood, voiced fears about added traffic during a December meeting. “The traffic now is nuts going through Cherry Knolls,” CarltonSmith said during the Dec. 6 council SEE SOUTHGLENN, P22

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’m not exactly sure what you’re supposed to do when you retire. I hear that often it involves hikes and beers with friends and reading the great books FROM and binge-watching THE EDITOR Marvel movies. Those all sound rewarding. But I’m not sure that’s going to hold me for long. So for now at least, I’m staying away from using the word “retire” in referring to what’s Mark Harden happening to me this week. I’ll just call it a transition from one state of being to another. After Dec.16, I am stepping down as editor of Colorado Community Media, the publisher of 24 weekly newspapers, of which this is one, across eight counties. I’m a lucky guy to have been working full time for newspapers for almost all of the last 40 years. Every stop on my professional train ride has been fulfilling and, for the most part, big fun. And I feel like I’ve played a small role in a great endeavor serving a vital public need: Providing honest news and information.

Actually, I first exited this job last fall – I called it “semi-retiring” at the time — as I approached 65. I settled into freelance writing and reporting for various outlets along with contract editing for The Colorado Sun. Then, early this year, The Sun became co-owner of Colorado Community Media as a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy. Not long after that, Larry Ryckman, editor and co-founder of The Sun, asked if I would step back in for a few months while the hunt was underway for a new CCM publisher and permanent editor. I’m grateful to Larry for the chance to work once again with our talented and enthusiastic crew of journalists. I’m also thankful that our new owners hired Linda Shapley, my former Denver Post colleague, as our publisher. She has worked tirelessly to bolster our business and to steer our company toward quality journalism and community service. And come January, my role as CCM editor will be filled by Lisa Schlichtman, a veteran Colorado editor and a resourceful newsroom leader. I wish her great success. The talented Thelma Grimes, who has been helping us cover Douglas County communities, has already as-

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here was no one else in the hotel gym that morning. The music playing in her earbuds was upbeat, fast-paced and loud. Almost loud WINNING enough to drown out her heavy WORDS breathing as she neared the end of a high-intensity workout. There was no one else around, she was spent, and she could have easily ended her workout Michael Norton in that moment without anyone else knowing it. But she would know it, and that’s all that mattered. Not only did she complete her last few sets, but she also added another minute of cardio and one extra set of push-ups, BAAM. The workday was coming to an end. It had been a brutal day of calling prospects and customers. He was coming up on the end of his sales year and he needed at least three more sales to reach his annual

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ing to quit their part-time jobs. Over coffee the next morning they rallied and encouraged one another to make it through one more week. They did, and then one more week, and then the final week too, BAAM. So, what is this whole BAAM thing anyway. BAAM stands for “Block and a Mailbox.” When the great motivational speaker Zig Ziglar set a goal to get into better shape, he needed to start running. The first day he ran only a block. The second day, he ran a block and a mailbox. The third day he ran a block and two mailboxes. Each day he just went a little further than he did the day before. Each day he gave just a little more, worked a little harder, and didn’t give in. That became one of the hallmarks of his life, BAAM. Known as one of the greatest motivational speakers and encouragers in the last century, not only did Ziglar follow his own BAAM guidance in everything that he did, but he also taught all of us who studied his works and heard him speak how to do the same thing. Do

a little more, reach a little higher, go further than you think you can, live more, love harder, laugh often, and learn as much as we possibly can. To this day, when I feel like I have had enough or reached my limit, I ask myself if I can get to the next “mailbox” in front of me, and I BAAM it. It has been a tiring past 21 months. There is so much going on and on many different fronts. Until now, it could have been easy to fall into the trap of giving up and giving in. But now we know better, and you may love me or hate me for this, because now all we have to do is look at what is just a little further ahead of us and go for it. I would love to hear your BAAM story at mnorton@tramazing.com, and when we do just a little bit more to reach our goals and dreams, it really will be a better than good year. Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

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record peak from last winter. The reason has to do with the difference in how the wastewater and clinical tests are conducted. “We use wastewater surveillance to supplement our human clinical testing,” said Rachel Jervis, an epidemiologist at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. “It’s really complementary information to give us more data about COVID in a particular community.” About 50% of people who catch COVID will “shed (the) COVID virus in their stool,” regardless if they have symptoms, according to Jervis, meaning it can be an early indicator for how much the virus is spreading in an area. But unlike a clinical test such as a nasal swab or saliva sample, wastewater testing can’t show how many people are currently infected. “We’re really just looking at the volume of the genetic material of COVID,” Jervis said. “We’re not able to link it to an individual person and so we can’t use it to align the case data.” Some of South Platte’s waste samples find their way to Carol Wilusz, a professor and researcher at Colorado State University, whose lab has been testing wastewater for COVID twice a week since August 2020. Wilusz and her team begin by filtering the sample in order to isolate the viral material before extracting its RNA data. Then, through an enzymatic process, they are able to turn the RNA into DNA. After this, they test the DNA using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect the virus’s genetic material and how much of it there is. This produces a copy number, similar to a viral load, that can be used to gauge how present COVID is in the wastewater. The data is then sent to CDPHE and, along with data from other labs and testing facilities, is published on their dashboard. An advantage of wastewater testing, Wilusz said, is that it is involuntary as opposed to clinical testing, which may show a skewed picture based on who is choosing, and not choosing, to get tested. “Testing of wastewater is completely unbiased, it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican or rich or poor,” she said. “Regardless of who or where you are, you’re getting tested in an unbiased fashion.” Since the end of October, viral

A clarifier at South Platte begins the process of separating solids from the wastewater.

copies in wastewater collected by South Platte have hovered at around 300,000 per liter, shooting past last winter’s COVID peak, when copies per liter were 263,000. This comes as clinical cases from tests in the area have sharply decreased to well under 100,000 per day, a case count comparable to summer 2020. Wilusz said it appears that COVID is more prevalent in the area than it was last year but thanks to climbing vaccination rates and the return of masking policies, fewer people may be getting sick and feeling the need to test. Still, Jervis, the epidemiologist at CDPHE, urged more people to get tested routinely and said clinical testing remains a crucial tool in the fight against COVID. “While we use wastewater data to understand trends, wastewater data can’t be used for any individual to make behavioral choices,” she said. “And so the only way to know whether you could have COVID and could be exposing your family and friends is if you get tested.” Go to tinyurl.com/cdphedata and scroll down to select “South Platte” to view data on wastewater and clinical tests on CDPHE’s dashboard.

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The New York Broadway costume shop Parsons-Meares, Ltd. paid special attention to the details in the new Colorado Ballet “Nutcracker” costumes they made, like these compass buttons that are sewn on the vest of the Drosselmeyer character.

A new military hat rests on storage bins that contain elements of “Nutcracker” costumes in the costume department at the Colorado Ballet Academy building in Denver on Nov. 16.

Colorado Ballet wardrobe manager Shirin Lankarani hangs part of a brand new costume at the Colorado Ballet Academy building in Denver on Nov. 16, where work was underway on the wardrobe for the 2021 production of “The PHOTOS BY KATHRYN SCOTT Nutcracker.”

The pandemic posed both a challenge and an opportunity BY MARK JAFFE SPECIAL TO THE COLORADO SUN

When Holly Hynes, the internationally renowned costume designer, sat in the Ellie Caulkins Opera House watching the Colorado Ballet’s “Nutcracker” she thought that it looked “pretty gorgeous” – then she got a closer look at the wardrobe backstage. The 33-year-old costumes – hand-me-downs from the San Francisco Ballet – were definitely showing their age. “They were worn … patched,” Hynes said. “The capes were so heavy.” It was time for new “Nutcracker” duds and Hynes, who has created tutus and tights for the New York City Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, London’s Royal Ballet and La Scala in Milan, was commissioned to design them. It was part of a $1.5 million revamp of the company’s production with all new sets and 177 new costumes. But not long after Hynes saw “The Nutcracker” in Denver, the plans were almost upended, as were so many things, by the pandemic. As theaters closed and new productions were postponed, all the shops that depend on supporting plays and dance saw their work evaporate. “I had 17 projects that came to a screeching halt,” Hynes said. “It was great that the Colorado Ballet decided to go ahead. It made a huge difference to 18 shops in this project. Many of them would have folded if they hadn’t had the Colorado Ballet.”

A member of the wardrobe staff, Kathy Scoggins, places finish touches on one of the new “Nutcracker” costumes inside the costume department at the Colorado Ballet Academy building in Denver on Nov. 16, 2021.

In effect, the Colorado Ballet created its own stimulus package for costume designers and makers in the depths of the pandemic. “We started talking to the shops in New York and here in Colorado and they were very anxious to do the work, because they had none,” Gil Boggs, the Colorado Ballet’s artistic director, said. “We got some benefit on price and we weren’t rushed.” And the shops poured more effort into the project, Hynes said. “The work that came out of them was three times what we would have gotten if they had other projects.”

One of the workshops that was thrown a lifeline was Parson-Meares, in Long Island City, New York. In its four decades, the shop has made the costumes for a legion of Broadway shows, including “Phantom of the Opera,” “The Lion King,” “Cats” and “Hamilton.” But in early 2020 it had no work and its 58 employees were furloughed. Then the Colorado Ballet came knocking. “The Colorado Ballet gave us work at a time when we would have had none,” said Sally Ann Parsons, owner of the workshop. The contract enabled Parsons to bring back 35 employees, split up into three shifts so there would never be too many people in the studio. Among the costumes Parsons-Meares was asked to make were the tutu for the Sugar Plum Fairy, the mice – very important in the “Nutcracker,” for those not versed in it – the toy soldiers and the jester-like polichinelles, who spill from under Mother Ginger’s huge skirt. Then the difficult part of crafting and fitting the costumes began. Normally the designer is very hands-on with the workshops and the ballet company and the costumes are fit to the dancers who will wear them. But now everyone was isolated. Hynes’ assistant drove into New York City and came back with loads of swatches and trim and over five days she selected the fabrics while sitting on her back porch. “There was a sense of urgency because we were worried whether we’d be able to get everything, whether there would be supplychain issues,” she said. Designs and cloth were distributed to the workshops and they began sewing. But the dancers who would be wearing them were back in Colorado. Measurements for each dancer had been sent along. “We did fittings on dancers we knew, or Holly knew” that were about the same size, Parsons said. Hynes borrowed neighborhood kids for the children’s costumes. Her assistant had a camera so she could view the fittings remotely. “Holly didn’t see costumes close up until last spring,” Parsons said. SEE NUTCRACKER, P15

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The Zoo Lights attraction at the Denver Zoo is among holiday lighting treats scattered throughout the Denver metro area. COURTESY OF DENVER ZOO

Holiday lights make holidays bright

amilies with kids can ooooh and aaahh over holiday lights, but so can older adults! Magic is in the air these days SONYA’S as one drives SAMPLER down Littleton’s Main Street or heads out to the Trail of Lights at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield Farms, 8500 W. Deer Creek Canyon Road, or drives north to Sonya Ellingboe see “Zoo Lights” at the Denver Zoo or “Blossoms of Light” at Denver Botanic Gardens, York Street. Or simply drive through the neighborhoods that outdo themselves. I thank all these sources this year in particular! Englewood Arts Presents The delightful Saturday afternoon concert series has resumed in Hampden Hall, 1000 Englewood Parkway. Englewood Arts Presents “Silver Ainomae and Friends” at 2 p.m. on Dec. 18. Tickets: adults/$30; seniors (60+) $25; students under 18/$10. Purchase at door a half-hour prior to the concert or online at englewoodarts. org or 303-806-8196.

NUTCRACKER FROM PAGE 14

And while the new costumes may not last another three decades, they were built to stand up to time. “The costumes in a ballet like ‘Nutcracker’ are used for years and years, so you need to think about how you can make them adjustable,” Parsons said. There is extra material in the side seams and extra material in the bodices. “Stretch is our friend so we want to incorporate it into jackets, bodices,” Hynes said. “The good thing about ‘The Nutcracker’ is that it fills the seats. The bad thing is it always needs to be continually upgraded and refurbished. It is never-ending.” Boggs wanted to keep the ballet in its Victorian setting, as it was in the original production – no modern adaptation, he said. “I am a little

Lone Tree Arts Center “Home for the Holidays” runs Dec. 16-23 at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Tickets cost $28-$42. 720-509-1000, LoneTreeArtsCenter.org. Also: limited availability for the “Doo Wop Project Christmas” on Dec. 28 at 7:30 p.m. Masks required. Performance Now “Nunsense” is scheduled by Highlands Ranch-based Performance Now Theatre Company from Jan. 7-23 at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Fridays 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays 2 and 7:30 p.m.; Sundays 2 p.m. 303-987-7845. Great Christmas gift idea, as are any theater or concert tickets here, at littleton Town Hall, at the Aurora Fox, Vintage Theatre, Denver Center for Performing Arts ... See lakewood. showare.com.

verCenter.org/CampChristmas, 303-893-4100. Stories on Stage “Making Merry” is the annual holiday event, playing Dec. 19 at the King Center, 855 Lawrence Way, Denver. In January “High School Confidential,” in collaboration with Buntport Theater, will play at Su Teatro Theater, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver on Jan 21. Single Tickets $22. 303-494-0523, storiesonstage.org. Gift idea here! Own an Original The 56th “Own an Original” exhibit continues at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton, through December. While you can’t take an item home until the exhibit is over, this is another spot to shop for gifts of art for a home or apartment ... Closed Mondays. Admission free.

Camp Christmas Installation artist Lonnie Hanzon has moved his unique “Camp Christmas” outside to Heritage Lakewood Belmar Park, 801 S. Yarrow St., Lakewood. Look for Pun Trees on the grounds, as well as sweet and savory snacks, hundreds of lights, Santa at times (check schedule-at times he’ll speak Spanish). Tickets: Adult $15; Youth 5-15, $10; 0-4 free. Den-

New Year’s Eve The Littleton Symphony Orchestra, littletonsymphony.org, and the Colorado Symphony, coloradosymphony.org, both offer New Year’s Eve Concerts this year, with the theme of “A Night in Vienna.” Another gift idea! While the COVID-19 pandemic continues, public events frequently are canceled or rescheduled. Check with organizers before you go.

anxious to see the audience’s reaction to changing something that was working well.” For Hynes the costumes are, in the spirit of ballet, an exercise of theme and variation. “The first act is a period piece and in the second act you can let your imagination go wild,” she said. “We try to carry something from the party scene that has stuck in Clara’s brain that carries over to the Land of Sweets,” Hynes said. One of those is her mother’s plum-colored dress transformed into the Sugar Plum Fairy’s tutu. Another is a fabric print on a couch in the party scene that becomes the massive tent-like dress of Mother Ginger in the second act. “I don’t know if the audience will catch it, but it is fun for us,” Hynes said. One ballet tradition is that the dancer who first dances in a costume has his or her name sewn

into it. When the Colorado Ballet would rent costumes from a big company, like American Ballet Theater, Ramos said he’d sometimes find the names of great dancers, like Mikhail Baryshnikov or Angel Corella, in his costume. “It is very rare to have a costume made on you,” Ramos said. “It is so special to have your name in a costume. We are the first.” Colorado Ballet’s “Nutcracker” runs through Dec. 24 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Performing Arts Complex. For information and tickets, visit coloradoballet.org/The-Nutcracker. You’ll also find special COVID safety rules. This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

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‘We used to never have anything like this’ In Douglas County, signs of homelessness are on the rise

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Often, Dan Makelky, the human resources director for Douglas County, looks out his office window in Castle Rock and sees someone get released from the nearby county jail and wander down the road with nowhere to go. Central Castle Rock is outside the Regional Transportation District. Without public transportation connecting the town to other areas, some newly-released people can’t afford a taxi and don’t have anyone to call for a ride. “I wonder where they go, honestly, that’s the first thing,” Makelky said. “Or where they’re heading to.” Makelky and others, like county Sheriff Tony Spurlock, say this is just one of many factors that may contribute to what appears to be a growing number of people experiencing homelessness in the county. “What happens is, they have no place to go, so they just try to find a place to stay,” Spurlock told Colorado Community Media. Multiple law enforcement agencies, nonprofits and local governments across the county say they are seeing a surge in the number of unhoused people in the area. Reports from these agencies include new urban encampments, higher demands for services and — though it doesn’t always indicate homelessness — more panhandling. Castle Rock and Lone Tree are two of the main areas seeing these increases, local leaders say. But the reports have spanned the entire county, Makelky said. This year, the county formed a Homeless Initiative to research how many unhoused people are here and how they came to be in their situation -- and to formulate a plan to address it. Some in the county say the time is coming for additional local services to help people find shelter or food. Others say that will only invite more transient populations. Still others are considering sweeping camping

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bans and other regulations for these groups. In work sessions in October and December, Douglas County’s elected commissioners directed staff to begin considerations for a countywide camping-permit requirement and have said they’re not interested in creating homeless shelters for the community. Camping bans already exist in Parker and Lone Tree and at least one councilmember in Castle Pines — Roger Hudson — has said he wants to see one implemented there.

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Castle Rock’s town council also voted Nov. 16 to begin discussions on addressing local homelessness. Homelessness rising So far, much of the evidence around the growing number of unhoused people in Douglas County is anecdotal. Data from the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative shows a mostly small, steady count of these populations in the county from their local “point in time” survey. But that doesn’t align with what county entities watching homelessness are seeing. That’s why one of the first things the county’s new Homeless Initiative wants to do is improve the way they count the community. The initiative also wants to better define local homelessness and understand if it’s mostly people couch surfing, camping, sleeping in cars or something else. Many of the anecdotal reports of increased homelessness have come from law enforcement, including the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and the Lone Tree police. “I’ve been here 40 years, and we used to never have anything like this, and now we have it and it’s progressively getting more and more,” Spurlock said. This is in a county with the highest median household income in metro Denver -- $119,730 -- and the lowest percentage of people in poverty -- 2.7% -- according to U.S. Census Bureau data for 2019.

The county, like most of metro Denver, has also seen sharp increases in housing costs in recent years. Median home sales values jumped 25% over the year ending in October, according to real-estate tracking company Zillow. And average rents in the county were up 5.2% in the first three months of this year from late 2020, the largest quarterly rise since early 2019, according to county data. Local officials say they are still working to understand the causes of any rise in homelessness in the county but have not yet pointed to high housing costs as a factor. Kirk Wilson, Lone Tree’s chief of police, said his office is definitely seeing more calls related to people experiencing homelessness lately. County Commissioner Abe Laydon, who helps lead the county homeless initiative, first noticed the increase when he saw multiple “really significant encampments” in Lone Tree in 2020, he said. “It seemed like the more I shared this with other people in Highlands Ranch and Parker, they had similar stories of more and more folks and people experiencing homelessness and panhandling,” he said. The Douglas County School District’s total numbers of students experiencing homelessness has remained mostly steady and in some categories decreased. But the district has seen a continuous increase over the past decade in students in shelters, transitional housing or awaiting foster care, according to data from the Colorado Department of Education. In the 2010 to 2011 school year, there were 37 DCSD students in this

category. The school year that began in 2019 had 240. It’s not just Douglas County, though. the region as a whole is seeing “more people experiencing homelessness than ever before,” said Cathy Alderman, chief communications and public policy officer for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. A myriad of theories Representatives from multiple county entities, including the county government and law enforcement agencies, have said they believe the people experiencing homelessness in the community have traveled from both Denver and Colorado Springs. None so far has said they’ve seen people who once had a home in the county but recently became unhoused, but all possible reasons are still being researched. If so, why are more unhoused people migrating to Douglas County? Is it because, as some have suggested, they’re being pushed out of Denver and other areas by camping bans? Is it because of transportation challenges stemming from the jail and RTD? Among Douglas County’s leaders, there are a myriad of theories floating around as to why this increase is happening but not yet any agreedupon or verified explanations. In Lone Tree, law enforcement officials say they began to notice the uptick once several RTD light rail stations opened in 2019. “Especially in the last two years there’s been a very big uptick in transients,” said Officer Ricky Stegmaier with the Lone Tree police. “We ask how they got here and a majority of the time it’s light rail.”

Stegamier said his office uses the term “transient” to include more people than just those experiencing explicit homelessness. Wilson, the Lone Tree police chief, also said he thinks the increase in the north Douglas County city is due to people riding the train down from Denver. At the end of all light rail lines, including the Ridgegate station in Lone Tree, riders are required to exit the train while it’s turned around. RTD does allow folks who accidentally went too far on the line to get back on and ride to their intended exit, said Steve Martingano, deputy chief of the agency’s transit police. “Ridgegate has nothing there and I think that’s a little bit of the issue I think that we find,” Martingano said. “There’s nothing at that end of the line.” Martingano said that RTD doesn’t have a specific policy related to homelessness because as long as the person pays their fare, they are simply considered a customer. The agency is in the process of hiring a homeless outreach coordinator in an effort to address the growing issue, he said. Another theory for why people without a steady home may travel to Douglas County is that it may represent a safer environment than densely populated areas like Denver, said both Makelky and Stegmaier. County Commissioner George Teal suggested in one meeting on the topic that people who “choose to be homeless” come to Douglas County because the terrain and vegetation make it a “good place to hide.” SEE HOMELESS, P20

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Laydon, another commissioner, said he believes it’s because those panhandling are more successful in the county. “People in Douglas County are generous and kind and I think there’s an awareness of that,” he said. Makelky said sorting through all these ideas is an important part of what the new homeless initiative is hoping to do. “Everything right now is theory and anecdotes,” he said. “And that’s what we’re trying to get past.” What’s being done While county agencies may not agree on why the increase is happening, they do seem to agree on one thing: Douglas County does not have many resources available to help people in this situation. Some law enforcement agencies — such as Lone Tree — hand out pamphlets with lists of services to those experiencing homelessness, but virtually all the resources included are in Denver or other areas. Stegmaier said that’s because Douglas County doesn’t have a consistently open homeless shelter and has limited options for food banks.

December 16, 2021 While there is a shelter network of churches, it only operates in the winter and only allows women and children. He’s started to wonder if more services should be added, he said. “What’s the community going to look like if that’s here? And I can see why we’d be hesitant on that, but do we need that? And I’m starting to think we do,” he said. The county’s human resources department and other local nonprofits such as the Help and Hope Center, the Parker Task Force and SECOR Cares (SECOR stands for Southeast Community Outreach), also provide some services to vulnerable members of the community. In an Oct. 5 work session, the county commissioners directed staff to begin looking into a camping permit system in the county, which would require anyone seeking to sleep outdoors to first obtain a permit. Teal and Laydon both indicated they would be interested in such a measure, but the third commissioner, Lora Thomas, said she was opposed. “I would like to address homelessness as a choice in terms of our enforcement,” Teal said. Teal also said he’s interested in a resolution that would provide assistance “for those experiencing

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“I probably need to work on my compassion level,” Teal said, adding: “I have no interest in doing anything with county services that assists with a vagabond lifestyle, which I believe there is a prevalence of evidence that that’s what we’re seeing, it’s a vagabond lifestyle and I don’t think we should have any business facilitating that,” he said. He added that he would like to help those who are “willing to work their way back” or are just traveling through the county to get to their destination. “I’m hesitant to set up the refugee camps here in Douglas County under the idea that we can pay for it with our tax dollars,” Teal said. “I don’t have enough compassion in my model to see that as a viable use of public resources.” The county will also likely soon amend their ordinance banning panhandling because similar laws have not held up to constitutional scrutiny, said county attorney Lance Ingalls. The county currently is not enforcing that oridinance, he said. Some courts across the country have found that outright bans on panhandling violate First Amendment rights to free speech. Spurlock said he doesn’t view homelessness as a “law enforcement issue” and that he hopes the county will address it in a way that doesn’t involve passing more laws and ordinances to outlaw the behavior. “We can’t just lock homeless people up in the jail. It’s not against the law to be homeless,” he said. “It’s not a good idea to use that as your remedy because that’s costly in the long term.”

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was incorrect. She argued that traffic related to the former Sears land was improperly processed. Anna Bunce, the City of Centennial’s traffic engineer, said in a Dec. 13 statement to the Centennial Citizen that she does “not have any outstanding concerns” regarding the traffic study. For more details about the traffic issues, see the accompanying story. See a look at storm drainage issues in the SouthGlenn area in a sidebar online at tinyurl.com/ SouthGlennDrainage. This wouldn’t be the first time big changes have come to SouthGlenn. The Streets at SouthGlenn was originally the large, indoor Southglenn Mall built in the 1970s, and the Sears and Macy’s were components of that mall. Southglenn Mall closed in 2005, according to city staff. SouthGlenn’s outdoor shopping center layout replaced the former mall in 2009. The recently closed Sears building was built in 1974, according to Arapahoe County assessor’s records. The current Macy’s building was constructed in 1981, county records say. In November this year, the group of citizens who evaluate development proposals in Centennial unanimously recommended that the city council approve the plan to reshape SouthGlenn. Seven members of the Centennial Planning and Zoning Commission voted on Nov. 10 in favor of green-lighting the redevelopment plan.

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Cherry Creek and Highlands Ranch High locked up in a close girls basketball game for three quarters on Dec. 8 but then Emily Hovasse took charge for the Ranch Falcons. Hovasse, a 5-foot-7 senior, scored seven of the next 13 points for Highlands Ranch after Creek pulled to within a point at 47-46 with 5:06 remaining in the game. The Falcons, helped by Hovasse’s scoring, went on a 14-2 run and wound up winning the game, 6452, in the Falcons’ gym. “She is really stepping up this year,” Ranch coach Caryn Jarocki said about Hovasse. “She’s matured as a senior to become a go-to player and she can shoot the ball.” Both Highlands Ranch and Cherry Creek went 2-2 in an out-of-state tournament in La Jolla, California, so the Falcons improved to 3-2 and Creek fell to a 2-3 record. Hovasse hit for 15 points in the game, two points behind Ranch’s scoring leader Katie Johanning. Alex Pirog

added 10 points to the Falcons’ offense. Highlands Ranch had a bunch of turnovers, the same as Creek, but the Falcons shot the ball well in the second half and finished the game with five 3-point baskets plus two old-fashioned 3-point plays. The good shooting was evident in a couple of the Falcons’ runs. Ranch went on a 7-0 run early in the third quarter and finished the game by outscoring the Bruins 17-10. “We shot much better in the second half,” said Jarocki. “We’re definitely growing, trying to learn and get better. If we can just cut down some of our turnovers in the game. It’s a long season and you want to make progress as you go.” Freshman Tianna Chambers paced Creek with 16 points. “We ran out of gas and threw the ball away,” said Creek coach Clint Evans. “We couldn’t finish. Give Ranch credit, they played really well. We lost to a good team. They shot the ball really well, they couldn’t miss from three. “We’re mixing so many young kids with veterans and I think this team is just going to get better, better and better. I don’t think you’ll see the best from us until probably the playoffs.”

Cherry Creek’s Kinsey Christianson is surrounded by Highlands Ranch players during the Dec. 8 girls basketPHOTOS BY JIM BENTON ball game. Highlands Ranch pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 64-52 win.

Katie Johanning (3) of Highlands Ranch had 17 points to help the Falcons down Cherry Creek, 64-52, in a Dec. 8 girls basketball game.

Highlands Ranch senior Emily Hovasse looks to inbound a pass during the Dec. 8 game against Cherry Creek. Hovasse sparked a fourth quarter surge as the Falcons pulled away for a 64-52 win.

New coach thrilled with Castle View hockey win Highlands Ranch team handed 1st loss in 3 games BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Michael Dubus is the new ice hockey coach for the Castle View High co-op team and he couldn’t help but feel a little excited after the Sabercats notched a 4-3 win over Mountain View in a Dec. 10 game at the South Suburban Sports Complex. Dubus and assistant coaches Bryan Heft and Ryan Hubbart spent time on the bench at the conclusion of the Castle Rock school’s game congratulating each other. The win gave the Sabercats a 2-2 overall record and

2-0 in the 5A South League while Mountain Vista of Highlands Ranch lost for the first time in three games. A break-even overall record doesn’t sound like much to get excited over, but Castle View is a hockey program that has gone 12-38-3 over the past three seasons. “We obviously want to get better every single day but with the team we have I really don’t see a ceiling for us,” said Dubus. “I think we can go all the way. We have a long way to go but we’re making progress and that’s the goal. “We’ve spent some time in the fall and even at the beginning of this season being close and we finally got over the hump and got that big win we’ve been looking for.” Rock Canyon and Douglas County high schools also take part in the Castle View

Sabercats team. Castle View jumped to a 2-0 lead in the first period. Mason Hoff was credited with the first goal that Mountain Vista tried to clear out of the corner but it hit a player and went into the net. Brent Baugh got a power play tally to make it 2-0 but Jayen Juan’s power play tally for Vista made it a 2-1 game after the first period. The first of two goals by the Golden Eagle’ Kristopher Apple Duncan tied the team early in the second period, but Owen Dickinson poked the puck into the net from in front to push Castle View back in front. Jack Chandler put the Sabercats up 4-2 with a goal at the 52-second mark of the third period and Apple Duncan scored for Vista with 3:27 remaining in the game.

Goalie Brayden Johnson (1) of Castle View stops a shot by Mountain Vista’s Jaden Montoya (11) during the Dec. 10 hockey game at the South Suburban Sports Complex. Johnson made 24 saves and PHOTO BY JIM BENTON the Sabercats won, 4-3.

Chandler had an assist to go along with his goal. Austin Hall and Zac Northrup also had assists for the Sabercats. Reid Watson and Mason Anderson each had two assists for Vista. “This was a building

block,” said Dubus. “It’s been the message that we can’t get too high or low. We just have to continue to get better every day. It is a long season even though it goes quick. We’ve just been trying to weather the storm.”

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What is not in question is Droney’s skill as a painter. In addition to this sunny Best of Show winner, she has a second painting in the show called “Where to Now on the Ponte Vecchio?” The tired man pictured is feeling the sort of visual and emotional overload that hits a first-time visitor to Florence, Italy — or some other multi-storied place in this world. Happy, stimulated and dealing with weary legs and a head overflowing with images. Sina March’s oil painting, “Bus Stop,” is the Second Place winner, and, by contrast, takes a visitor to a sunny corner across the street from a park or ball field in a town that could be nearby. We see a bench, street planting in blocky containers, leafy trees with sunlight filtering through ... calm and quiet. Lee Wasilik’s “Mr. Chaplin’s Closeup” won Third Place and the show offered a number of Honorable Mentions, some funded by artists’

vendors. Area teacher and painter Robert Gray’s “Downstream,” a flowing mountain brook one can almost hear, Suzanne Connors’ “The White Vase” and Aicha Jacob’s “Celebration!” are included, plus Vendor Awards. Guirys include: “Guanella Mist,” by Janice Wright; “Mingle,” by Bon Stahlin and Janet Ford’s humorous “The Hereford Family.” A Blick Vendor’s Award went to Barbara Williams for her acrylic painting, “Sunshine in the Garden,” and a Holbein Award was given to Celeste Hodges for her watercolor, “Daniels Park.” Colorado Gallery of the Arts is on the east side of ACC’s Littleton campus at Church Street and Santa Fe Drive in Littleton. Gallery hours: Monday-Wednesday: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Thursday: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Virtual exhibit through Jan. 31: tinyurl.com/ accshow2021.

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Parker’s Ice Trail in Discovery Park is back again this year with fire pits, hot chocolate and endless skating loops. Dozens of skaters stepped out onto the ice Dec. 6, some using plastic walker-like devices tfor assistance and others grabbing the railing. While some kids held hands with their parents as they tried out the ice for the first time, others ventured out on their own, darting through the trail. The ice trail is open daily with weekday hours from 5 to 9 p.m. On Saturday, the trail is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. On Sunday, the hours of operation are from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. For kids 10 and under, admission is $6. For those 11 and over, the fee is $8. Skate rentals are $4. The trail also offers multiple visit passes and group rates. From Dec. 17 to Jan. 3, the ice trail will have special holiday hours opening between 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The ice trail will remain open throughout the winter depending on weather, according to a town spokesperson. Other hours: - Christmas eve: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. - Christmas day: 3 to 7 p.m. - New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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Littleton house explosion, fire sends 6 to hospital BY MARK HARDEN MHARDEN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Six people were hospitalized in a Dec. 12 explosion and fire at a house in Littleton, South Metro Fire Rescue said. All six were reported to be in stable condition later that day. Officials later said there had been a gas leak at the home before the explosion. At 10:52 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 12, SMFR tweeted that it was en route to a house fire in the 5900 block of South Broadway, near East Orchard Road, with “smoke showing from the structure.” A few minutes later, the agency said the call “has been re-classified as a mass casualty incident due to multiple patients being treated on scene by South Metro personnel.” At 11:22 a.m., SMFR

tweeted that its medic units “transported a total of 6 people to the hospital. All are in stable condition. Firefighters located the fire in the basement of the home & are currently ventilating the structure.” “People inside the home reported an explosion before the fire started, knocking out windows from the home,” SMFR said. Fire crews continued to work at the scene into the afternoon. Investigators were “unable to confirm the exact ignition source, but they have confirmed there was a gas leak in the home prior to the explosion and fire,” SMFR tweeted at 3:17 p.m. Dec. 12. Xcel Energy later told news outlets that it had completed safety checks of its gas system in the area and found it to be “working as designed.”

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0063-2021 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 14, 2021, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records. Original Grantor(s) Zinat J. Stephen Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Finance of America Reverse LLC, its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Finance of America Reverse LLC Date of Deed of Trust December 29, 2017 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 23, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D8007181 Original Principal Amount $663,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $263,172.58 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 18, BLOCK 46, BROADWAY ESTATES, FILING NO. TWO, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 6643 S Downing Street, Centennial, CO 80121. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL

OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 01/12/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 11/18/2021 Last Publication: 12/16/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 09/14/2021 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Amanda Ferguson #44893 Heather Deere #28597 Toni M. Owan #30580 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO11089 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO. 0063-2021 First Publication: 11/18/2021 Last Publication: 12/16/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

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FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0068-2021 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 21, 2021, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records. Original Grantor(s) Shane Andersen and Dawnielle Andersen Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for United Wholesale Mortgage Current Holder of Evidence of Debt NewRez LLC, F/K/A New Penn Financial, LLC D/B/A Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Date of Deed of Trust May 24, 2019 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust May 29, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D9049898 Original Principal Amount $366,592.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $361,682.22 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 28, BLOCK 11, SOUTHCREEK SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 16216 E Otero Pl, Englewood, CO 80112. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday,

01/19/2022, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. First Publication: 11/25/2021 Last Publication: 12/23/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 09/21/2021 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Erin Croke #46557 Steven Bellanti #48306 Holly Shilliday #24423 Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-21-894229-LL

The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk and is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com. The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. by a vote of 8 in favor and 8 against. (First published November 18, 2021) By:Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 529868 - 61868 First Publication: December 16, 2021 Last Publication: December 16, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, December 13, 2021, the Centennial City Council approved the following ordinance on second and final reading:

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

ORDINANCE NO. 2021-O-22 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO APPROVING THE STREETS AT SOUTHGLENN MASTER DEVELOPMENT PLAN, EIGHTH AMENDMENT (PUD-21-00004) The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk and is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com. The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324.

Legal Notice NO. 0068-2021 First Publication: 11/25/2021 Last Publication: 12/23/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, December 13, 2021, the Centennial City Council approved the following ordinance on second and final reading: ORDINANCE NO. 2021-O-23

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO APPROVING THE AMENDED AND RESTATED MASTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT CONCERNING THE STREETS AT SOUTHGLENN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AND ESTABLISHING VESTED PROPERTY RIGHTS PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 68 OF TITLE 24, C.R.S., AS AMENDED, AND SECTION 12-14-606 OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE

Legal Notice No. 529867 - 61867 First Publication: December 16, 2021 Last Publication: December 16, 2021 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

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