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County mental health program making strides Thousands of contacts made in first years BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
When a man in a rural part of Arapahoe County called 911 for help during a mental health crisis, he
County clerks reassure voters while watching for cyberattacks Officials push back against fraud claims, stay alert BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
While local counties’ clerks and recorders say they are still taking steps to unravel false claims of widespread election fraud two years after the 2020 presidential election and ahead of the June primaries, they are also on the lookout for potential cyberattacks after warnings from President Joe Biden that such attacks are increasingly likely. “It’s definitely nerve-wracking, but something that we are SEE WATCHING, P10
asked for a sheriff’s deputy to take him to a facility that could treat his condition. But when the deputy patted the man down, he found the man had brass knuckles — a prohibited weapon — and the man received a ticket. The man, who has a wife and kids and had served in the military, was facing jail time. But the staff at the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office
reached out to the right officials and gave the man a referral to mental health services, and his criminal charge was eventually dismissed. “That was a really good story we recently had,” said Julie Jacobs, manager for the sheriff’s office’s Behavioral Health Response Program. Jacobs said the story is about an east Arapahoe County man, who spent about three months going
back and forth with the court system earlier this year. Deputies can’t ignore evidence of a crime, Jacobs said, but the mental health staff at the sheriff’s office tries to put the focus on getting help for people in mental health crisis instead of putting them on a path to jail. SEE STRIDES, P4
Rep. Jason Crow talks veterans’ health care, Russia, economy Boosting manufacturing amid supply chain issues is a priority BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Issues both local and global weighed on U.S. Rep. Jason Crow’s mind when he held an online and telephone town hall event to answer questions from the public. Those issues included his concerns with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, an act Crow called “illegal and just atrocious.” “One of the things we’ve seen with Putin’s (war) is how much we really rely on dictators and autocrats and strongmen around the world for our energy. It has to stop,” said Crow, who represents a large part of the south, east and north Denver metro area in Congress. He was proud to support a bill that prevents the United States from SEE CROW, P20
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When Russia started bombing his homeland, Taras Overchuk knew he had to do something — he just didn’t know what yet. “For me it was hard to sit and do nothing,” said Overchuk, who moved from Zhytomyr, Ukraine to the United States about 12 years ago. “So when it all started, I couldn’t find a place for myself. I, like, stopped sleeping … could not concentrate or focus on anything.” At his home in Highlands Ranch, Overchuk checked the news every hour. In addition to
feeling anguish for his country, Overchuk was worried for the safety of his family and friends still in Ukraine. “I tried to connect with my friends and see what we can do, like maybe bring some supplies … and start something, but at that time I couldn’t find anything that would calm me down,” Overchuk explained. “I can not sit here and I need to support my people and see it from inside, as well.” Within the span of two days, Overchuk decided to go back to Ukraine to help support his friends and family still there and find out ways to assist Ukraine’s army. On March 4, just a week after missiles first struck Kyiv, Overchuk flew to Poland where he bought a car to drive across the border into Ukraine. In March, Taras Overchuk SEE AID, P3
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traveled to Ukraine to support friends, family and the military. “So the plan was to buy a car in Poland, drive in, spend some time, donate the car, and return,” he said. “Visit my relatives, see what is [needed] the most, meet the military guys, meet the volunteers, make some connection[s] so when I return, we could be more efficient.” After purchasing a car, Overchuk loaded up some medical equipment, such as first-aid kids and other supplies he purchased in Poland and headed for Lviv, his first stop. When he arrived at the Poland/Ukraine border, there were crowds swarming in both directions. Overchuk waited for four hours in line to get to the border and another three hours at the actual border. “I actually was in the line somewhere around 11 a.m. in the morning, and then crossed the border and actually entered Ukraine somewhere around 2 a.m. at night,” he said. Overchuk also went through multiple military checkpoints on his way to Lviv and Kyiv, which were complicated to go through, he said. When approaching a checkpoint, “you need to switch off the [head]lights,” Overchuk said. “You need to switch on the lights in[side] your car so they see you from inside your car. And this is the way you approach otherwise they may actually consider you to be a threat.” The line of people trying to leave Ukraine, Overchuk said, went on for miles. “My impression was like thousands of people… trying to get outside of Ukraine. And it was like children, women mostly,” he recalled. “Seeing this flow of people is actually like… I couldn’t hold my tears actually. It was heartbreaking.” For Overchuk, experiencing his country like this was distressing. “At that moment,” he said, “it was a mix of, like, fear and anger and frustration as well… that this is all happening.” During his solo journey, Overchuk met volunteers in Lviv who told him what supplies they needed. He also met a military commander, he said, who Overchuk ended up donating his car to before departing Ukraine two weeks later. He also connected with at least a dozen friends and family members like his
cousins and brother, who currently resides in Vinnytsia, a city in central Ukraine. Driving through the country took even longer because many of the main roads were blocked off because of Russian forces, according to Overchuk. The drive from Lviv to Kyiv, he said, was the scariest part of his journey. “There might be an air strike. Sometimes the siren is going on and people are trying to hide,” he said. “Just to work out your fear to actually drive close to the frontline and while you’re driving, you’re getting closer and closer so you kind of feel this fear.” The only way for Overchuk to cope with this fear was to help the war efforts. Upon returning to Colorado, Overchuk and several other of his Ukrainian friends founded the Ukraine Aid Fund, a nonprofit organization that sends crucial supplies to civilians in Ukraine and its troops. Donors can choose three different ways to contribute to the cause from clothes to tactical supplies like body armor. So far, the organization has donated three cars and bulletproof vests. “It’s one of the things we can do here in America… is to get the message out that Ukraine requires help,” he said. “Who[ever] can donate, needs to donate. Who[ever] can influence the government, needs to influence the government to provide more support.” There’s a humanitarian crisis going on right now, Overchuk said. And in order to stop it, the war must be stopped. “And I don’t see any diplomatic decision right now,” he said. “Putin is not going to stop, unless he is stopped.” Overchuk, who moved to the United States for a better life for himself and his family, understands what could happen to his country if Putin wins the war. “You probably can see what is going on in Russia right now. The country, from my perspective, is going to the bottom of what society could be, where there is no freedom at all … no speech,” Overchuk said. “His goal is to eliminate Ukraine as a country … And nothing less than that is actually going to satisfy him.” This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonprofit public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online. Used by permission. For more, and to support Rocky Mountain PBS, visit rmpbs.org.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY C NVERSATIONS In May, our Conversations with a Commissioner events return to in-person gatherings! Learn more about our latest efforts to address homelessness and provide feedback to your district commissioner about all County business. Featuring special guest Kathy Smith, director of Arapahoe County Community Resources. All events are from 6:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m., and refreshments will be provided. Visit arapahoegov.com/townhall for full details. • Thursday, May 5, Carrie Warren-Gully (District 1), Malley Rec Center, Englewood • Wednesday, May 11, Jeff Baker (District 3), Byers American Legion Hall • Thursday, May 12, Bill Holen (District 5), Aurora Public Library, Central branch • Thursday, May 19, Nancy Sharpe (District 2), Greenwood Village City Hall • Thursday, May 26, Nancy Jackson (District 4), Mission Viejo Library, Aurora Upcoming Shred-a-thon benefits Metro Denver Crime Stoppers Safely get rid of your personal information, while also helping us catch bad guys! Your confidential information will be shredded for free by Shred It Iron Mountain which will ensure your documents are destroyed securely and your privacy is protected. Shred-a-thon will be on Sat. May 14, from 7 a.m.-12 p.m. at 13101 E. Broncos Parkway in Centennial. Learn more at arapahoesheriff.org
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‘If we can legally and ethically and morally keep them in the community to get the (mental health) services, that’s what we want to do.’
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That staff includes a team of mental health “coresponders” who react to 911 calls alongside deputies to handle mental healthrelated situations with the delicate nature they sometimes require. The sheriff’s office started its coresponder program in October 2019, and it has made thousands of contacts since then, according to the sheriff’s office. Coresponders will never ask deputies not to charge an individual with a crime when it goes against policies or state law, according to Ginger Delgado, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office. But not all crimes are “mandatory arrest” situations, Delgado said in a statement. A person can be “diverted” away from jail if a deputy determines that the person can be released with a court summons or pending charges, according to Delgado. “If we can legally and ethically and morally keep them in the community to get the (mental health) services, that’s what we want to do,” said Jacobs, who oversees the coresponder program. Coresponders are clinicians who have their own unmarked vehicles with a partition in the back so they can transport people to emergency rooms, crisis walk-in centers, or other treatment facilities — or they can provide transportation to other locations when appropriate,
Julie Jacobs, manager for the sheriff’s office Behavioral Health Response Program according to the sheriff’s office. That approach allows the team to avoid using ambulances, which would require a bill to families, Jacobs said. What’s more, the coresponders can handle situations without placing people in handcuffs. “We’ve been called out to some schools before as well. What’s better for a 15- (or) 16-year-old kid? To be put in handcuffs and put in a police vehicle?” Jacobs said, adding, “We’re not making them feel like they did something wrong.” Since the start of October 2019, the coresponder program has had nearly 4,200 contacts, according to the sheriff’s office. In 2021, just over 41% of all calls for service that a coresponder assisted with were not seen as mental health-related when the call was initially placed to 911 or a non-emergency line, according to Delgado’s statement. Examples of calls not related to mental health can include verbal
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disturbances, physical disturbances and trespassing, according to the office. Coresponders can respond to any type of call except death investigations or other violent crimes where an arrest is mandatory and a “significant criminal investigation” is needed, Delgado’s statement said. The types of crime for which the coresponder team is not allowed to “divert” people include domestic violence charges and other crimes of violence, according to the office. But even if an arrest is required, the coresponder can still provide information — such as whether the person may be at risk for suicide or whether they need medications — to the county jail’s medical staff, according to Jacobs. People who have contact with the program who are not arrested may be treated on scene if they do not request to be taken to a mental health treatment facility for a voluntary assessment — or if they do not meet criteria for what’s called an “M1 hold,” according to the office. Under Colorado law, when a person appears to be an imminent danger to others or to themselves due to a mental health disorder, the person can be taken into custody and placed in a mental health treatment facility for an up to 72hour treatment and evaluation. Whether that “M1,” or mental health, hold takes 72 hours is up to the physician in charge — it could take five hours, Jacobs said, depending on the situation. In 2021, the sheriff’s office wrote roughly 500 mental health holds, according to Jacobs. In 2020, the number was about the same. But the rate at which the office authorized mental health holds in those years was different. In 2020, the number of overall mental health contacts coresponders were involved with was 1,645. And that was when the team was operating with, at the most, three coresponders, Jacobs said. In 2021, the number of contacts was much higher: about 2,400 mental health contacts. So proportionally, the office wrote less holds in 2021 than in the prior year, a change that goes toward one of the goals of the coresponder program, Jacobs said. “We want to make sure we’re providing the most appropriate level of care. An emergency room at a hospital” might not be best, Jacobs said. The program tries to take people to “designated mental health facilities” if possible, and it can be beneficial if the program
can get people to go to a walk-in center, she added. Out of the nearly 4,200 calls since the program began, there were only 88 individuals arrested on scene for warrants and new charges, according to the office. But it’s important to note that the coresponder program’s implementation came shortly before the coronavirus pandemic reached Colorado, a change that resulted in the county needing to modify the requirements for who is placed in jail, along with courts changing procedures, Delgado’s statement said. “Many charges that a person — mentally ill or not — would generally be arrested and detained on prior to COVID-19 were released on a summons,” Delgado’s statement said. The most recent change to the jail acceptance policy was March 11 this year. On that date, the sheriff’s office lowered the jail placement criteria so that crimes that result in $1,000 bonds and above would place a suspect in jail, according to Carl Anderson, an administrative manager with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office. Allowing for more suspects to be put in jail is a reaction to the spread of COVID and COVID-related hospitalizations having recently come down at the time, according to Anderson. (In late April, Colorado Community Media asked the sheriff’s office how many of the nearly 4,200 coresponder-involved calls resulted in writing someone a ticket for an alleged law violation. The office’s records unit said it was still working on the question as of May 2.) When a coresponder is unavailable to respond to a call, deputies can fill out a referral form for mental health staff to later follow up with the person who needed help. At the start of the coresponder program, the sheriff’s office contracted with AllHealth Network and was assigned one part-time clinician, or coresponder, until a contract was signed in January 2020. AllHealth Network is a nonprofit mental health organization that provides counseling, psychiatry, crisis services, substance use treatment, and other services and has locations in Littleton and elsewhere in the south Denver metro area. The program had three coresponders and one case manager starting at that time, Jacobs said. In January 2021, AllHealth Network and the sheriff’s office decided against resigning a contract, and with the support of the Centennial City Council and Arapahoe County Commissioners, the sheriff’s office brought the program “in house,” according to the sheriff’s office. Three of the current coresponders are former AllHealth employees who chose to come over and work for the program “in house” — meaning they’re now employed by the sheriff’s office — and the sheriff’s office hired its other two current coresponders in October through an external job posting, Jacobs said.
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Quilters are in their element at Wooden Spools Englewood craft store has vigorous online presence too BY RACHEL LORENZ RLORENZ@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Wooden Spools in Englewood has more than a few friends. With more than 3,600 followers on Facebook and roughly 6,000 folks receiving its biweekly newsletter, the reach of the 12-year-old craft store extends well beyond the Denver metro area. “We do have customers all over the country and even internationally,” owner Vicki Skigen told Colorado Community Media. The newsletter is the store’s main form of advertising, Skigen said. It lets people know what classes and events are coming up as well as the theme of the current sale. In addition to its brick-and-mortar store, Wooden Spools has an online store. While its presence on the internet has been around almost as long as its presence near South Broadway and Yale Avenue, the mandatory closure of stores at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic gave Wooden Spools the opportunity to up its game. At that time, it put nearly all of its inventory on the website, Skigen said.
Wooden Spools buys and sells quilting fabric at its store on Broadway in Englewood. PHOTOS COURTESY OF WOODEN SPOOLS
Even the fabric the business buys from individuals to sell to customers is available in the web store. Wooden Spools calls this “revived” fabric, and Skigen said it’s the foundation of the store’s business model. The concept was sparked in 2010 by a conversation Skigen had with other quilters about their stashes — that is, their personal collection of quilting fabric acquired over years of pursuing the hobby. Quilters, Skigen said, often purchase more beautiful material than they end up using. “We had this idea years ago: What if we bought that fabric?” Skigen said. According to the website, 80% of the fabric Wooden Spools sells comes
from other quilters. Skigen purchases like-new, quilt-shop quality cloth by the pound from individuals and then sells it at a reduced rate in the store. Fabric that would sell for $13 per yard at regular quilting shops, for example, goes for $6 a yard at Wooden Spools, Skigen said. In addition to fabric and other supplies for quilting, Wooden Spools also carries yarn. Many quilters also knit or crochet, Skigen said, and they’re often interested in exploring something new. Wooden Spools has a calendar full of classes and events. When the store was closed early in the pandemic, it offered its classes over Zoom. The convenience of virtual learning
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resonated with some customers, so Wooden Spools now offers a hybrid class model for some classes. Students can learn at the store or follow along virtually from home. Skigen said it’s particularly popular for knitting classes. Events and classes are an important part of the business, she said. People always want to learn new skills. Plus the events foster a sense of community. Folks enjoy “hanging out with friends doing the same thing,” she said. Skigen describes Wooden Spools’ business model as one that feels good on many levels. The lower price point is great for new quilters who don’t want to make a large investment in a hobby they’re just getting started with. Other shoppers like to indulge in the more expensive hand-dyed material the store carries after saving money on the revived merchandise, Skigen said. And for quilters that have a basement full of fabric, it’s nice to be able to get a few dollars for the pieces they’re no longer interested in. “It’s kind of a happy, good-for-everybody sort of model that has been successful.” IF YOU GO Wooden Spools is at 2805 S. Broadway Ave. in Englewood. It’s open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday.
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t’s the time of year where mothers get pampered and praised for the hard, often unseen work that they do. They get breakfast in bed, massages, thank you cards galore and oodles and oodles of flowers and chocolates. Except, most Mother’s Days don’t exactly go that way. It is actually a day of mourning for many people. Some have fertility issues and this day reminds them that they are still not a mom. Some have yet to find a partner to make that dream happen. Though there are ways to become a mother for those who are single have fertility challenges, many can’t afford it. Some had to become mothers too early. Some people never knew their mom. Some were abandoned by their mothers. Some are under the care of an abusive mother. Many people’s mothers have passed on. The list goes on. I don’t fall into any of the above categories, and I am
grateful for it. But I often remember this day being a day of disappointment. Sometimes growing up, my mom didn’t react the way I expected to the things I did for her on that day. I often felt anxiety around Stacey Carruth the issue of “did I do enough?” Church sermons that put mothers on a pedestal rarely sat right with me. I would often hear men talk about how their mother or their wife did so many things for them, that they don’t do enough back, and they’re grateful for it. Was I really supposed to clean up after everyone and be their executive secretary with a smile on my face to earn my Mother’s Day? When I became a mom, I was often disappointed at what my husband didn’t do. No matter how hard I worked to make Father’s Day amazing for him or gave him ideas for what he should do for me, I was always disappointed. I had a friend talk about how sweet it was for her kids to make her breakfast in bed
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and shower her with presents when she woke up. But was disappointed that afterward, she got out of bed and had a demolished kitchen and huge wrapping paper mess to clean up before lunch, which she was going to make. Everyone in all of these situations was doing their best to show love to the person they love, so why all of this disappointment? After many years of thinking on this, a little voice inside me finally surfaced that said, It doesn’t have to be this way! Which led me to reframe this special day in 3 ways: 1. It’s the other 364 days How a mom feels on Mother’s Day is a reflection of how she is treated throughout the entire year. If she’s ignored and under-appreciated 364 days out of the year, no number of flowers, chocolates or foot rubs will make that day special for her. If I am unsatisfied with how Mother’s Day goes with my mom, I need to re-evaluate my side of my relationship with her throughout the entire year, not just on one day.
2. It’s not about YOU Mother’s Day is a day for each person to honor and show gratitude to their mother. When did mothers get the idea that it was our day? As a mother, I have the same responsibility as I did before I became a mother — to honor and show respect to my mother. In my view, Mother’s Day is still not about me. My children, partner and I have a job on this day and it involves three entirely different people. It is incredibly freeing to allow them to figure out how to do their jobs while I am still figuring out how to do mine. 3. Being a doormat is a personal problem If I, myself, feel like a doormat on Mother’s Day or any other day of the year, then I need to evaluate how I let my family treat me all year. Last Christmas, I was worried that everyone would have fun during the break except me, who would be stuck decorating, shopping, cooking and cleaning up after everyone. We sat down for our weekly family council and I SEE MUSING, P7
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expressed my fear. The kids were surprised that I actually didn’t like being in the kitchen so often (what!?!?!). Then everyone came up with something they would do to make sure I had more time to play, including a reminder sign on the kitchen counter that read, “Free Mom from the Kitchen!” It might seem awkward teaching those we love how to treat us. If they loved us, they should know, right? Nope. Just like we need to teach our children how to speak our native language, parents have to teach them how to speak their love language. It doesn’t mean we’re loved any less, it just means we’re
still moms and they’re still our children. Though if your partner still struggles with this, that is a discussion for another time. In conclusion: Happy Mother’s Day to all of us, for we all have mothers. I hope it is a wonderful time of reflection and gratitude for the amazing women who have done for us what we could not do for ourselves. No matter what your experience was in being mothered, I am certain that she did the best she could with the resources and knowledge given to her. I am certain that she has and always will love you with her whole soul … independent of her ability or inability to express it. Stacey Carruth is a parent with four children in Arapahoe County.
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Miss Colorado competition to stay in Parker The event is a feeder for Miss America BY ELLLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
After three years of holding its event in Parker, the Miss Colorado competition plans to make the town a permanent home for Memorial Day weekends. The organization, which is a feeder for the Miss America competition, held their event at Parker’s PACE Center in 2019 and 2021 and is set to do so again this year. The Parker Chamber of Commerce initiated the agreement after hearing interest in the idea from the organization. “It’s just an easy economic development win because it brings attention to Parker that week every year,” said T.J. Sullivan, president and CEO of the chamber. While there is only a contract in progress for this year’s event, the organization’s “intention is to keep it in Parker,” said Mette Castor, co-executive director of Miss Colorado. PACE Center rates for rentals show the contract will bring in about $11,000 in revenue for the center. The event center can seat up to 500 people per day of the
event. “Hopefully it’s financially beneficial to the town and businesses,” Castor said. The contest also incorporates the Miss Colorado’s Outstanding Teen competition during the same weekend. The teen competition is for girls ages 13 to 17 and the Miss Colorado event is for 18- to 26-year-olds. Both competitions include private interviews with the panel of judges, a talent portion, on stage questions and evening wear. The adult contest also includes a 60-second presentation on a social impact initiative. “It’s not just a beauty pageant,” Castor said. “Or just a bunch of pretty girls. That’s really not what it is.” This year’s winner of the Miss Colorado competition will receive a $10,000 cash scholarship. The winner of the teen contest will receive $2,500 in cash and several options for scholarships, such as a full ride to the University of Alabama. The organization hopes in future years to offer scholarships to local universities. “These are really smart women who have identified this as a path to reach their goals,” Castor said. As part of the deal, the Miss Colorado Scholarship Organization has joined the Parker chamber as a member. The chamber
‘For us we want it to be more of a partnership and feeling of community.’ Mette Castor, co-executive director of Miss Colorado
will be the “Local Host Sponsor” for the event. Miss Colorado became interested in continuing their relationship with the PACE Center and the town after having a positive experience there during past events. “They were so accommodating and patient and so great to work with,” Castor said of the PACE Center. “It felt more like they were going to be partners in making our show successful, not just there to do a job.” The organization also hopes to create a relationship between residents of Parker and the competition. “For us we want it to be more of a partnership and feeling of community,” she said.
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C-470 trail gets bridge crossing at Acres Green Drive in Lone Tree BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Plans to construct a missing pedestrian and bicycle bridge along the C-470 Trail over the Acres Green Drive intersection to address safety and traffic concerns is moving forward. Lone Tree City Council approved resolutions regarding funding for the project and an intergovernmental agreement with the Colorado Department of Transportation for bridge maintenance at its regular meeting April 19. With the approvals, a construction contract will go to bid in May or June. Currently the trail is an at-grade crossing with Acres Green Drive. “When (CDOT) reconstructed C-470, the section west of (Interstate 25), they grade-separated several of the trail crossings throughout the area, but for some reason, the intersection at Acres Green wasn’t included,” Lone Tree Director of Public Works and Mobility Justin Schmitz said. Due to visibility and safety concerns for trail users and drivers, changing the at-grade crossing is a priority for the city, Schmitz said. “There’s been a lot of concern over
‘There’s been a lot of concern over the years about the ability to see oncoming traffic. A lot of people are excited about this project going in.’ Justin Schmitz, Lone Tree Director of Public Works and Mobility The City of Lone Tree has started the process to construct a pedestrian and bicycle
the years about the ability to see oncoming traffic,” he said. “A lot of people are excited about this project going in.” Douglas County is also in the process of building a similar pedestrian and bicycle bridge on the C-470 trail at the Yosemite intersection, which is expected to be finished in November.
Having spent $375,000 last year on design, the construction budget is $4 million. Lone Tree and Douglas County will each contribute $1 million, and CDOT will provide the rest. Schmitz said construction should start in the fall and will take about a year.Following completion of the bridge, CDOT will be responsible
for maintaining it, though the city will still maintain the spur trails and streetscapes and handle grafitti removal. Additionally, Lone Tree is spending roughly $900,000 to install a traffic signal at the intersection of Acres Green Drive and Parkway Drive in conjunction with the bridge project.
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starting to get used to,” Adams County Clerk and Recorder Josh Zygielbaum said. “It’s the world we live in now, and we do everything we can to protect the system and to protect ourselves and our workers and our voters.” The cybersecurity threat level is similar to past elections, or the worst-case scenarios election offices have prepared for, metro area clerks said. “There is no question right now, every agency is indicating that the risk of Russian initiated cyber security threats has increased,” Jefferson County Clerk and Recorder George Stern said. But Stern said “long before we had internal threats to our elections,” cybersecurity and the security of election from foreign interference “has been top of mind,” Stern said. Regular probes from countries including Russia, Iran, North Korea and others are directed toward state and local election offices, looking for vulnerability in the system. Clerks said their offices partner with homeland security, the FBI, and state and local departments to monitor cyberthreats. “If something viable looks as if it’s surfacing, we are notified about it and we can respond,” Zygielbaum said. “We employ the most modern protection from a technology standpoint that there is out there.” Staff go through cybersecurity training “every single election” regardless of how many times they have received it, Stern said. That helps staff recognize what attacks might look like. All equipment requires two-factor verification, and there is a paper trail for each ballot. “That can prove accurate results, and a successful election,” Stern said. Douglas County Clerk and Recorder Merlin Klotz declined to speak for this story. Klotz is one of several public officials who sued the secretary of state because of a software update the state conducted on county election equipment. The suit seeks to see if the update deleted any data, a claim the secretary of state’s office refuted in
County clerks are on the lookout for potential cyberattacks after warnings from PresiSHUTTERSTOCK dent Joe Biden that such attacks are increasingly likely.
a motion to dismiss the suit. Boosting transparency The Adams, Arapahoe and Jefferson County clerks said while they are working to mend relationships with voters who doubt election security, they emphatically believe those individuals are a small minority of the electorate. “We still receive plenty of emails from people who believe the Big Lie,” Zygielbaum said. Clerks said they receive form letters, copied-and-pasted arguments from people who appear to be local residents but also people outside their county borders. “Just perpetuating the false narratives that the elections were fraudulent,” Zygielbaum said. The letters come in waves. A spate of several in one day, followed by a lull. “It’s important for our staff, for election judges, and for voters,” Stern said, “to understand that we are discussing conspiracy theories here and that the vast, vast majority of people in Colorado understand our elections are secure.” Arapahoe County Clerk and Re-
corder Joan Lopez emphasized the election system is not connected to the internet, and that she believes voters trust their local elections system. “We have gone above and beyond to make sure that they are informed,” Lopez said. Lopez estimated that people who doubt election security account for about 1% of Colorado’s population. That doesn’t mean offices have eased efforts to boost faith in U.S. elections. County clerks’ offices have expanded or created additional designated webpages to educate people about the life of a ballot and how local elections function. As “forensic audit” became a buzzword last year, Lopez said, the office tried to assuage people’s concerns by encouraging them to see the see the process firsthand. “I’m telling you, once somebody goes through a tour, they really go ‘Wow, I can’t believe all you guys do,’” Lopez said. When Stern encounters people who doubt election security, he says “I invite them in.”
“What I find is that they are convinced that something is wrong because they heard it from someone who said something about a report that had some data from somewhere,” Stern said. During elections, the office offers “a tour of every single aspect of it while it’s happening,” Stern said. “I personally lead them. We invite anyone in who wants to see the process up close,” Stern said. Zygielbaum stresses that election equipment watching is conducted by bipartisan teams. Audits are performed during elections to ensure accuracy. They also host tours for anyone who wants one. “We stick to the facts, and hopefully the truth will prevail,” Zygielbaum said. Physical safety Domestic threats toward election staff’s safety, stoked by conspiracies about a stolen election, have simmered down, clerks said, and numerous election related bills were introduced during the 2022 Colorado legislative session. “We have heard from cowardly people sitting behind their computer screens over the course of the last year who are threating election workers — Colorado residents with families and kids — because of something they heard about election integrity and have no proof of,” Stern said. “It’s sick. It’s oftentimes illegal and we are always reporting it to law enforcement agencies, but it just needs to stop.” Stern said his staff is as politically diverse as the bipartisan election judging teams who work during an election. “They are Republicans, they are Democrats, they are unaffiliated members, and they are getting threats in equal numbers,” he said. “It is hard on morale. It is hard for us to get good applicants to want to be in this space.” Stern said he could not confidently say if turnover in his office is attributable to threats, but that the majority of his office is committed to the job despite sometimes facing an intimidating climate. “The more they hear from cowards, the more they want to stick with this work so that we aren’t letting the cowards win,” he said. “We hear the noise,” Stern said, adding he staunchly believes SEE WATCHING, P11
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Attempt to stop water speculation is circling the drain Colorado lawmakers don’t have appetite for hurting farmers’ ability to sell BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN
A move to dry up water speculation once and for all in Colorado ended at the legislature despite intense supply pressures from drought and water developers, as lawmakers said they’re loath to hurt farmers’ ability to sell their most valuable asset. The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee tabled the anti-speculation bill after first accepting an amendment to turn it
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a blow to the biggest property right that state farmers and ranchers possess. The biggest issue for farmers right now, they said, is competing with wealthy cities for a limited water supply. “We don’t see speculation,” said Joe Frank, director of the Lower South Platte Water Conservancy District in northeastern Colorado. “Instead we see pressure from municipal providers buying up agricultural supply for future dryups.” Colorado already has anti-speculation laws that require people to put their water rights to “beneficial use,” such as irrigating a farm, delivering tap water for a city, or releasing more water into rivers for recreation. Water courts require those filing
for a new use of a water right to show they have a customer for the new beneficial use. But there’s not a clear agreement on when legal brokering looks more like a speculative transaction. State water experts say unanswered questions include how long a water buyer has to use the right before selling it to another party without the deal being considered an illegal flip. There is also no clear consequence if a buyer later changes the use of the water that they expressed when acquiring the water right. The bill backed by Coram and Sen. Kerry Donovan, a Vail Democrat, aimed to target situations
offices, filming voters who came to drop off their ballot. One of them openly carried a firearm. “He was very hostile any time somebody approached him and said what are you doing,” Lopez said of her staff’s attempts to speak with the men. “Every voter that came in had to pass this gentleman,” she said. With no laws prohibiting his conduct, staff’s hands were tied, Lopez said. House Bill 22-1086, signed into law on March 30, now prevents someone from openly carrying a firearm within any polling location or
within 100 feet of a ballot drop box while an election is underway. The Adams County Clerk and Recorder’s Office is undergoing construction to heighten security. Until now people seeking services from elections staff had to go inside the election office. Now the county is installing window desks similar to what people might see at the DMV, Zygielbaum said. Closer to Election Day, Zygielbaum will wear a bulletproof vest. His election staff also underwent active shooter training. “That was a direct response to 2020,” he said.
Zygielbaum said he expects active shooter training to become an annual practice in collaboration with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office. He called the process eye-opening for his office. Most his employees have been in elections for most their career. “This is something that is new to all of us. We used to be able to go to work and run elections under the assumption that we would all go home at the end of the day. And that’s changed,” he said. “Something that is supposed to be the foundation for our American institution is under attack.”
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threatening people are a fringe minority in the state and are not representative of Colorado voters. “Someone threatening your life resonates a lot more loudly than the five people who told you you’re doing a good job,” he said. Lopez watched with relief as the Vote Without Fear Act was passed by the state legislature. In the November 2020 election, two men came to the ballot box at county
into a between-sessions study of the problem. Technically, the measure could be revived, but the bill’s sponsors say the issue is over for this year. As the headwaters of the most important rivers in the West, serving tens of millions of people Colorado “is the prime target” for water speculators, said sponsor Sen. Don Coram, R-Montrose. “There is a real danger of those billion-dollar funds coming in and taking possession of that water,” Coram told the committee last week. Lawmakers and water conservation district representatives who work with farmers countered that water courts already prevent outright speculation, and that making sale of water rights harder would be
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any years ago, there was a video out, I believe it was produced by Hungry Man Dinners. And the title was the NFL’s Hungriest Men. One of the featured athletes was my favorite player that I had the opportunity and blessing to watch play the game, Walter Payton. Although I was a Minnesota Vikings fan and he was a Chicago Bear, meaning we were rivals, he was just too good and a very special man and player. Walter could run around a defender, juking his way down the field. Walter could also run through and over a defender regardless of size, he was fast, strong, and elusive. His nickname was “Sweetness.” So well deserved as it was truly sweet to watch him play. He was also a very caring man, but that was not how he earned the nickname sweetness. The story is that during a college football practice he eluded a would-be tackler and yelled back at him, “Sweetness is your weakness.” In the video I am referring to, they captured a part of Walter’s workout routine, running hills. If any of you reading this remember your high school or college playing days, you remember we ran hills and we ran bleachers. The agony was dreaded, but the payoff worth every step up the hill or stairs. Here is Walter Payton, recognized as the greatest or one of the greatest to ever play the game. How did he get there? He climbed hills. Right now, we are all climbing hills and we either recognize it and climb no matter how tired we are, or we give up, letting the hill win. If we give in, just
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like the “house” always wins in a casino, the hill will always win too. And I know for some of us, the hill seems more like a mountain than it does a hill. And as we look ahead at what seems like a mountain instead of a hill, this could mean that we see ourselves in a valley, and we can easMichael Norton ily become discouraged. When I have been there myself, I lean into this quote by Fred Smith, “The fruit we grow in the valleys of despair is the food we will eat on the mountaintop.” In the past two columns I shared how changing our thoughts and/or our actions will change the outcome of anything we are endeavoring to do. And sometimes, no matter how positive we keep our thoughts, or the effort or actions we apply, there are times when we need to tap into those extra reserves of positivity and effort to reach the outcome we desire most, so we climb the hill. Whatever our hill is, our faith, our family, our friends, our fitness or health, or our finances, we must keep climbing. We can climb harder to grow deeper in faith. We can climb with more commitment to our family and friends. We can climb farther when it comes to our fitness and health. And when it comes to our finances we can climb with greater
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Urge action on mental health May is Mental Health Awareness Month. As a volunteer and advocate with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, this month I am asking everyone to join us and demand #MoreForMentalHealth. I currently work as a Colorado Certified Peer and Family Specialist at Colorado Crisis Services/Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners. We are going to be answering calls from 988 on top of our regular calls. It is important to me to have higher funding for Mental Health services to keep psychiatric hospitals, treatment centers, and hot lines/ warm lines as available and very important options for those struggling with mental health. As a Peer Specialist, I have my own lived experiences in mental health including hospitalizations, suicide attempts, therapy, IOP/PHP programs, and psychiatric medication needs. I truly believe there is not enough funding for these needs leading to more people struggling with mental health to complete suicide. I am doing more by calling on my legislators at the federal and state levels to support legislation that will fund the implementation of 988 and the suicide and mental health crisis system across our nation, particularly for those in underserved communities. Currently, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available at 1-800-273-8255 and de-escalates the crises of tens of thousands of callers each day. On July 16, those in distress and those that support them will be able to reach the Lifeline through a simple 3-digit number: 988. By making the Lifeline more accessible through this shorter number, calls, texts, and chats to the Lifeline’s network of crisis call centers are expected to increase. It is vital that the federal government work with states to ensure callers in distress will have: 1) someone to call, 2) someone to come help, and 3) somewhere safe to go. We must act now to secure funding to equip call centers and community crisis response services throughout the country with the staff and
resources to respond to everyone in crisis. Join me this month in urging our federal and state public officials to do #MoreForMentalHealth. You can start by visiting moreformentalhealth.org. Together, we can help #StopSuicide. Ann Marie Ward Englewood
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in savings and spending; create a savings plan, set a budget, stick to that budget, and maybe read one of Dave Ramsey’s books starting with “Total Money Makeover.” What’s your hill? I know that whatever it is, you have the climb within you. As always, I would love to hear your story at mnorton@ xinnix.com. And when we remember that we can climb our way to achieving our goals and dreams, it really will be a better than good year.
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discretion in our savings and spending. Climbing the hills and going deeper in faith; get back into regularly attending church, participate in a Bible study or devotional group. Climbing with more commitment to our family and friends; make it a point to check in more often and be intentional about spending time together. Climbing the hill to achieve greater health and fitness; walk, get to the gym, make better eating, drinking, and sleeping decisions. Climbing the hill financially with greater discretion
Honor our teachers There is a special teacher retiring this month. For 23 years she has faithfully showed up to teach grade school art and then high school ceramics. This included seven years at Roxborough Elementary School and 16 years at ThunderRidge High School in Highlands Ranch. She experienced many things. Some horrific, some sublime. Through it all, she has fulfilled her contract with adults and students with remarkable strength and conviction. Some highlights for me include daily sharing by her of how she made a difference in the lives of her students. You see, observing a child “getting it” for the first time is shown all over their faces that light up and their eyes open wide in recognition. She delighted in her seminar with which she mentored students throughout their four-year high school career. This culminates in her personally handing each seminar student their diplomas during their graduation ceremony. Mission accomplished. She planned her retirement to coincide with just such a graduation of the most recent four-year seminar. 2022 is that year. Her retirement has been long planned. Her retirement is well deserved. Evidence of the impact she has had on students involves seeing them in tears upon learning of her retirement. Don’t go, they say. Her reply is “it is simply time.” God bless her for a career of outstanding teaching in the midst of two periods of school district political upheaval and an unexpected global pandemic. The latter necessitated pivoting to online teaching of ceramics by creating an entirely new curriculum matching the remote teaching reality. It is important
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to note that traditional pottery with real clay is simply impossible to do online. This special teacher is my beloved wife Cathy. She is special to me and evidently special to dozens of students that seek her out as they grow into adults. Please join me in honoring all teachers for they see a hopeful future in the eyes of the young. Steve Ormiston Highlands Ranch Kluth is focused on safety I was reading and comparing the websites for the current Douglas County sheriff’s candidates and the message of one candidate really stood out Holly Kluth’s. Her vision for the sheriff’s department is straightforward. Holly Kluth is laser focused on public safety for both citizens and our youth, the wellbeing and preparedness of the sheriff’s deputies and staff, true fiscal responsibility (not just “cutting budgets”), and protection of all our rights as citizens. Kluth’s credentials are truly admirable: she has served the sheriff’s office for over 30 years
and has been instrumental in making Douglas County the great (and safe) place to live, work and play we all enjoy today. No other candidate can say that. I encourage people to review Holly’s impressive background and leadership vision for themselves on her web page. In following this race for Douglas County sheriff, I have spoken with or heard other candidates speak. Holly Kluth does not have that politician “vibe” that others do. She is focused on the needs of our county and has the direct experience in policing, community involvement, and agency collaboration to keep Douglas County the safe and thriving community we know. The real decision for this sheriff’s race will be made on June 28, primary Election Day. Please do not wait for the November general election, we need to ensure this outstanding candidate wins the primary election. I will entrust Douglas County to Holly Kluth’s proven servant leadership with my vote on June 28. Jan Cook Roxborough
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A timeline of Colorado Parks & Wildlife history BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
While Colorado is now iconic for its natural beauty and wild-
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LIFE life, about 150 years ago, the state’s ecological resources had a rather bleak outlook. Overhunting was devastating local deer, elk, pronghorn, bison, bear and bird populations; and water pollution was hurting the state’s fish and other species. Wanting to preserve Colora-
do’s natural resources, the state government passed wildlife protection laws and later founded a department of game and fish. The agency now named Colorado Parks & Wildlife celebrated its 125th anniversary on April 16. Since their founding, the state’s parks and wildlife divi-
sions have opened 42 state parks and hundreds of other wildlife areas, and helped save several iconic species native to Colorado. While CPW has plenty of ongoing projects and long-term goals, its 125 years of environmental conservation and wildlife protection is a history worth celebrating:
1897
Colorado Governor Alva Adams signs House Bill 129, thereby creating the Department of Forestry, Game and Fish. The agency is charged with propagating and distributing game fish, promoting timber culture and passing and enforcing game and fish laws. The total annual budget is $10,500. The forestry portion is eventually dropped to become the Department of Game and Fish.
1903
Colorado issued its first hunting and outfitting licenses: $25 nonresident general license; $1/day bird license ($2 first day); and $1 resident license.
1913
With the deer population dropping quickly, the state passes legislation to protect buck deer until 1918.
1916
Colorado imports 50 elk from Wyoming, which were released in Idaho Springs and Pueblo County’s Greenhorn Mountains, to reestablish the state’s dwindling herds. In the early 1900s, only 40,000 elk remained in North America, mostly because of unregulated market hunting. After decades of conservation efforts, Colorado is now home to approximately 280,000, which is the largest population in the world.
A black-phase Abert’s squirrel sits in a tree in Evergreen in March 2022. COURTESY OF ALLAN CASEY
1940
During this decade, the wildlife agency conducts the first bighorn sheep transplants between Georgetown and Silver Plume. As of 2022, the Georgetown herd is the third-largest in the state. The agency later completes more than 100 bighorn sheep transplants, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s. After decades of conservation efforts, Colorado has an estimated population of 7,000 bighorn sheep.
1949
The first Colorado State Parks feasibility study suggests establishing Roxborough as one of the first state parks. However, Roxborough wasn’t established as a state park until 1975.
1959
The governor signs a 25-year lease with the Army Corps of Engineers for the Cherry Creek Recreation Area. The new state park welcomes its first official visitor on June 17, and 168,700 people visited it in its first year. SEE TIMELINE, P15
Two bighorn sheep rams nuzzle while trekking through Waterton Canyon in COURTESY OF KARI DOUGLASS April 2018.
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1960
The state purchases 200 acres in Gilpin County, which later becomes the nucleus for Golden Gate Canyon State Park.
1961
The Colorado General Assembly passes legislation designating the bighorn sheep as the state animal.
1963
The Colorado State Parks and Recreation Department merges with the Game and Fish Department to form the Colorado Game, Fish and Parks Department.
1965
Bears are declared a game animal in Colorado.
1970
Legislature passes mandatory hunter education and blaze orange requirements for big-game hunters.
1972
Senate Bill 42 separates the Game, Fish and Parks Department into the Division of Wildlife and the Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation within the Department of Natural Resources.
1972
Colorado legally defines wildlife as “wild vertebrates, mollusks and crustaceans.” Nearly 800 species came under the classification of wildlife.
1975
Chatfield State Park is established.
1977
After the state acquired a recreational lease for Barr Lake two years earlier, the new state park opens to the public.
1978
Biologists and wildlife officers transplant 24 moose from Utah and Wyoming to Colorado’s North Park region near Walden. Over the next three decades, the state releases more than 200 additional moose from Wyoming and Utah across the state. Today, Colorado is home to more than 2,400 moose and boasts one of the fastest-growing moose populations in the lower 48 states.
1978
After Eldorado Canyon’s owner threatened to sell the area for a rock quarry, public outcry prompts the state to buy the canyon and create Eldorado Canyon State Park.
1980
The Colorado Division of Wildlife director encourages hunters to clean up their own sport and, in the 1980-81 budget request, asks for funding to start a new program called Operation Game Thief to help crack down on poaching.
1982 The Colorado General Assembly approves a new lottery program with certain proceeds to benefit state and local park systems.
1990
Barr Lake State Park keeps with a national tradition of sponsoring a New Year’s morning First Hike around the park. Hearty hikers took part in the guided walk along the lakeside despite the cold temperatures and falling snow. FILE PHOTO BY JOHN CARR
A $5 Colorado waterfowl stamp is required to hunt.
1992
Colorado voters approve the passage of Amendment 8, the Great Outdoors Colorado Amendment. This directs all state lottery proceeds to parks, open space and wildlife.
1994
The greenback cutthroat trout is named Colorado’s state fish.
2011
Colorado State Parks merges with the Colorado Division of Wildlife to form Colorado Parks & Wildlife. The Parks and Wildlife Commission is also established.
A researcher releases a bald eagle with GPS tracking as part of Colorado Parks & Wildlife’s new study on eagle COURTESY PHOTO populations along Colorado’s Front Range.
2013
Staunton State Park opens to the public. The park, which is in Park and Jefferson counties, was built from a parcel first donated in 1986 by Frances Hornbrook Staunton. Subsequent parcels were acquired in the late 1990s and early 2000s. CPW purchased the final parcel in 2006 to reach the current park’s 3,828-acre land base.
2021
Colorado Parks & Wildlife begins a fouryear study of the Front Range’s bald eagle population. The agency has record of more than 90 breeding pairs between Denver and Wyoming. This is an immense population growth since the late 1970s, when there were only three nests in Colorado.
2021
Colorado Parks & Wildlife acquires and establishes the Pals Family State Wildlife area between Empire and Georgetown. After the property owners proposed turning the area into a quarry, local partners partnered with CPW to preserve the land and protect the local bighorn sheep.
Sky Miller, 3, of Broomfield, checks her line during Northglenn’s 29th annual Fishing Derby at E.B. Rains Jr. Park in FILE PHOTO June 2017.
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lein-air painter Cheryl St. John was juror for the next exhibit at Stanton Gallery in Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., downtown Littleton. It will be called “Celebrations” and will run May 17 through July 10. There will be a reception on June 3 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and during productions. (Will restate how great original art is for a gift as we approach graduation and wedding season!) Englewood Arts Presents Concert May 7 at 2 p.m. in Hampden Hall, 1000 Englewood Parkway. Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat; Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in Bflat. Yi-Zhzao and Dimitri Pogorelov, violins; Sofia Basile, viola; Chloe Hong, cello; Hsiao-Ling Lin, piano. Tickets, englewoodarts.org. Noir The authors of the new book “Denver Noir,” will speak for the Arapahoe Libraries’ “Night of Noir” on May 12 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Embassy Suites, 10250 E. Costilla Ave., Centennial. Editor Cynthia Swanson will interview contributors Peter Heller, Maiew Acevedo and Erika T. Wurth. There will be time for audience questions and author book signing. Other contributing authors, who will be available to sign books: D.L. Cordero, Francelia Belton, Manuel Ramos, Twanna LaTrice Hill and David Heska Wanbli Weiden, who lives in our south area. Reserve a seat: 303-LIBRARY or visit arapahoelibraries.org. Call for Artists Colorado Mosaic Artists and Foothills Art Center in Golden will host a national show, “Mosaics 2022: As Seen through New Eyes” from July 30 through Oct. 2 at Foothills. Entries will be through CaFE — callforentry.org — and must be received by June 1. Yulia Hanansen, internationally known mosaicist and printmaker, will co-judge entries with Foothills Curator Eriq Hochulu. Arapahoe Community College The Colorado Gallery of the Arts,
in the Annex at Arapahoe Community College Littleton, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, will host a student showcase and portfolio review for students in Multimedia, Graphic Design and Commercial Photography through May Gallery hours: 9 Sonya Ellingboe 30. a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Thursday. In other ACC news, a release party and readings will celebrate the release of the 57th volume of Progenitor, a student-produced annual literary and art publication. Writers’ work was recorded by Charles Haarhue’s Music Audio Technology students and they will be featured on a website that professor John Hall’s Multimedia and Graphic Design students created: new this year. Hall’s students created “Postcard Anthology” last semester and it was so successful that it is repeated with photos from Brad Bartholomew’s Commercial Photography students; stories from Creative Writing and Composition students, assembled by Hall’s Multimedia and Graphic Design students into “Postcard Anthology.” Introduced at a May 3 reading.
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Littleton Symphony The Littleton Symphony Orchestra will present concerts at 7:30 p.m. on May 18 and 20 at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5895 S. Datura St, Littleton. Guest conductor is Katherine Sailer and the program includes: Claude Debussy, “Petite Suite”; Erik Satie, “Gymnopedies 1 and 3”; Camille Saint-Saens, “Piano Concerto No. 21”; Igor Stravinski: “Infernal Dance, Berceuse and Final from the Firebird Suite 1919.” Pianist David Korevaar will perform the concerto. The orchestra’s news release says masks and proof of vaccination will be required. Tickets: $25, adults; $22, seniors; $5, 22 and under. Must be purchased in advance — none will be sold at the door. littletonsymphony.org; info@ littletonsymphony.org or leave message at 303-933-6824.
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field.” Some of the highlights from this year’s event include: Changing the Narrative: Focus on Indigenous Representation in Clarke Reader Television on May 6 Jennifer Loren (director of the Cherokee Nation Film Office & Original Content.), Stacey Rice (casting director), and Sierra Teller Ornelas (co-creator/showrunner of “Rutherford Falls”) discuss modern Native American representation. Centerpiece Benefit Red Rocks Event on May 8 One of the highlights of the festival every year, this Red Rocks concert will feature comedian and latenight host Amber Ruffin and a performance by Lake Street Dive. Live read of “Mount Wilson” on May 9 Directed by Amanda Berg Wilson and written by Misty Brawner, Betsy Leighton, W.A.W. Parker and Rosanne Welch, this live reading features cast members Denzel Whitaker, Tara Westwood and more. And while these marquee events are exciting, it’s important to remember SeriesFest is a great opportunity to experience up-and-coming talent in events like the Independent Pilot Competition and Collegiate Spotlight. “The success of shows like `Squid Game’ are opening up people’s mindset and we’re seeing an interesting in content from all over the
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Gardening season grows on you Plant lovers welcome May as Western weather warms BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Many readers have flats of plants started or seeds planted in your yards by now, but others may still be in planning mode. Since I’ve joined the ranks of apartment dwellers, I’m limited to a bunch of big pots on my balcony (finally, it’s May and one can plant!). But, throughout the year, I am so interested in gardens at my children’s homes and those of former neighbors — and in what’s available and suggested for our Western gardens — will try to pass on a few thoughts ... First good idea is from the latest Sunset magazine, in a story about a DIY raised bed, which has directions and a picture of a watering hole for bees that I really loved. They suggest a glazed rectangular plant saucer (or one could use a brownie baking pan) filled with a layer of marbles, river rock or glass pebbles and water plus a sprinkle of mineral or sea salt, which will serve as an attractant. Rinse and replace water every few days to avoid mosquito larvae. In our arid country, bees will really appreciate a drink and if this is in your garden, they’ll tend to those pollination jobs at the same time! A visit to Hudson Gardens this week meant a happy hour or so among flowering shrubs and lots of big trees, filled with birds of all sorts. (It’s open daily and admission is free at 6115 Santa Fe Drive in Littleton.) I picked up a free copy of Colorado Gardener, which had suggestions from Fort Collins nurseryman Scott Skogerboe on trees to plant in the Front Range, including the hardy Arizona cypress, the Caddo maple from Oklahoma and the hardy chokecherry, “Sucker
Punch,” which doesn’t sucker and supports wildlife, he said. He is also enthusiastic about a Gambel oak from New Mexico called “Gila Monster,” as well as the hackberry and a number of others. Aim to attract pollinators of all sorts with flowering plants chosen to bloom through the summer as well as vegetables, herbs and small fruits. Longterm planning will include trees as well. Yes, some caterpillars may appear here, but they attract birds to your garden too. Baby birds eat an astonishing number of caterpillars brought to the nest by parents and the parents eat even more of them! A natural garden, designed with native plants plus some decorative flowering plants from the local nursery, will attract an assortment of pollinators, including many you may not have noticed before if gardening is a new adventure. In addition to the expected honeybees and butterflies, there are tiny little native bees that live underground and a variety of moths as well as the beautiful painted lady butterflies a bit later in the season. Just standing or sitting in one spot for a stretch to see how many different visitors a newly opened rose will attract is entertaining to some of us! And/or, a morning walk, coffee in hand, among garden plants to see what’s sprouted, which new flowers may have opened (or faded and need pinching off) will mean a happy start for the day. Depend on your local nursery to supply healthy plants, even though they may cost a bit more than at the grocery store. Get acquainted with Plant Select varieties, if you can locate them. They are developed in Colorado at CSU Fort Collins and Denver Botanic Gardens, are especially hardy in our high, dry climate and are really worth seeking out. See plantselect.org. Enjoy the summer ...
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purchasing Russian oil, he said. On April 8, President Joe Biden signed the Ending Importation of Russian Oil Act, a law that prohibits the importation of energy products from the Russian Federation, along with another law that suspends normal trade relations with the Russian Federation, according to a White House news release. During Crow’s April 25 town hall, the House member also discussed efforts to bolster U.S. manufacturing, fill health-care staff shortages for veterans and address concerns about anti-Asian racism. Crow represents Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, an area shaped like a backwards C, whose largest city is Aurora. The district also includes south metro suburbs such as Centennial, Littleton and Highlands Ranch, and to the north, Brighton and part of Thornton. Here’s a look at what Crow, a Democrat of Centennial, said during the event and what bills he has been supporting. Make it in America One of the biggest problems the nation is facing regarding inflation is a “workforce short-
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age,” but supply chain issues also play a role, Crow said. Microchips — a part used in making many types of electronic devices — are a product that the U.S. relies on Asia to provide, and a slowdown in production has caused economic problems, Crow said. Some lawmakers want to “bring back manufacturing to the United States” with a proposal called the America COMPETES Act of 2022, Crow said. Referred to in full as the Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing Pre-Eminence in Technology and Economic Strength Act, the proposal aims to make new investments to accelerate U.S. production of semiconductor chips and “strengthen the supply chain to make more goods in America,” according to a summary provided by a spokesperson for Crow. The bill would “re-onshore that manufacturing,” Crow said. While it wouldn’t literally remove manufacturing jobs from other countries and replace them with jobs in the U.S., it would encourage more job creation in American manufacturing, according to Kaylin Dines, a spokesperson for Crow. Taking care of veterans A member of the public asked Crow during the town hall
about the health care system under the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, known as the VA. “As a veteran myself, this is something that I take very personally,” Crow said. He added: “One of the biggest issues right now with the VA is the lack of staff within the VA health care system.” In May 2021, Crow was one of the members of Congress who introduced bipartisan legislation — the Veterans Improved Access to Care Act — to address hiring shortages in the VA, according to a news release. The bill “would create pilot programs around the country to cut the red tape and speed up the hiring and onboarding of medical professionals,” Crow said during the town hall. Economic opportunities Another question centered on what a caller described as an economic gap experienced by minority-owned businesses. Crow was among a bipartisan group of congressmembers in December 2020 who introduced the Next Generation Entrepreneur Corps Act, a proposal to spur new business and job creation in “underserved communities,” according to a news release. The bill aims to identify talented entrepreneurs through a national competition and directly support the creation of more than 320 new businesses each year, the release on Crow’s website said. “There’s nothing that will make our economy healthier, frankly, than making sure we’re growing small businesses but doing it in an equitable way and making sure everyone in our community can access that,” Crow said during the town hall. Hate against Asian Americans A caller told Crow about an instance of anti-Asian racism
they experienced at a grocery store and how it affected them. Crow pointed to an “anti-Asian hate surge” that the House member said stems from “irresponsible and hateful rhetoric” surrounding the origins of COVID-19. Crow expressed support for a bill signed by Biden to attempt to address the issue of hate crimes. “You can always count on me to stand up against hateful rhetoric,” Crow said. Following overwhelming support from both chambers of Congress, Biden signed legislation in response to hate crimes that have occurred during the coronavirus pandemic — with emphasis on violence against Asian Americans, according to a National Public Radio story in May 2021. The legislation — the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act — aims to make the reporting of hate crimes more accessible at the local and state levels by boosting public outreach and ensuring reporting resources are available online in multiple languages, according to NPR’s story. The act also directs the Department of Justice to designate a person to expedite the review of hate crimes related to COVID-19 and authorizes grants to state and local governments to conduct crimereduction programs to prevent and respond to hate crimes, NPR reported. An organization named Stop AAPI Hate has said it recorded 6,603 reports of hate incidents from March 2020 to March 2021, according to a summary report by the organization. “AAPI” is a term for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Of the selected couple dozen incidents for which Stop AAPI Hate included quotes in the summary report from people who experienced the incidents, several of them allegedly were related to mentions of COVID.
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Remy Nguyen of Chaparral delivers one of her fast serves during an April 27 match against Mountain Vista’s Lauren Hayes.
Mountain Vista junior Lauren Hayes hits a forehand return on April 27 in a match against Chaparral freshman Remy Nguyen. Hayes won the Continental League’s No. 1 PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON singles title with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 win over Nguyen.
Vista’s Hayes wins singles title in league tennis Junior says dad helps her maintain focus BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Maybe it was her improved mental attitude or possibly the popcorn but Mountain Vista’s Lauren Hayes stormed back to win the Continental League tennis tournament’s No. 1 singles title on April 27. Hayes won her 10th straight match this season with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 win over fast-serving Chaparral freshman Remy Nguyen in the league’s title match. “I started off a little rusty but I learned how to get her serve back and my mental game got a lot better in the second set,” said Hayes.
Nguyen was ahead 4-3 in the first set when rain delayed the match for a hour. The Wolverine went on to win the first set after the delay and held a 3-0 lead in the second when Hayes rallied. “I went into the school during the break, chilled and ate some popcorn,” said Hayes. The Vista junior who talked with her dad during court changes broke Nguyen’s serve six times the rest of the match and won four straight games to take the second set. She held service in the 10th game of the third to capture the match. “I said if I was going to lose, lose the way you want to lose, fighting hard and not just giving up,” she said. “I bent my knees a lot to return her serve and I started placing first serves a lot better than I did in the first set. “I have a problem getting
down on myself so I talk to my dad and he pumps me up and helps my mindset.” Hayes’ younger sister, freshman Marian, won the No. 2 league singles title with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Heritage’s Charlotte Buckner. Mountain Vista captured the team title with 49 points, with Heritage coming in second with 40 points. Lauren Hayes feels she will be ready for post-season matches after she lost in the first round of last year’s state tournament. “I’ve improved over last year,” she said. “I have got more offensive and not relying on my defensive shots.” Regional state qualifying tournaments must be completed by May 7. Two players or doubles teams from each regional event will advance to the state tourna-
ment. The 5A state tournament is set for May 12-14 at the Gates Tennis Center in Denver. Defending state champion Cherry Creek will host the Region 1 regional tournament on May 4-5. Castle View will be in the tournament. Legend will be in the Region 4 tourney on May 4-5 at North Lake Tennis Park. Mountain Vista will host the Region 5 regional on May 4. Valor Christian and Chaparral will play in the Region 6 tournament hosted by Valor Christian and Highlands Ranch on May 4. Rock Canyon and Douglas County will compete in the Region 7 meet on May 4-5 at the Apex Tennis Center. On May 4 Heritage will host the Region 8 tourney at the Ken Caryl Ranch House.
Pondo tops Legend in miserable day on diamond Cold wind chills teams as Mustangs take 9-5 victory BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Dylan Carey donned the robe that the Ponderosa Mustangs’ baseball team gives to the most
valuable player of the game. Carey was wearing the robe after the Mustangs’ 9-5 win over Legend on April 29 at the Titans’ diamond. It was a miserable day for baseball with the temperature around 53 degrees and a cold wind gusting to around 30 miles per hour blowing from left field toright field.
“It wasn’t bad at all,” joked Pondo coach Bob Maloney. “If we had lost, I would have said it was awful. It was very hard for our outfielders and it was tough to play with these conditions.” Carey echoed the thoughts of his coach. “It was pretty cold and windy,” he said. “My lips are destroyed from the wind. I keep on licking
them but there are super dry. That’s baseball in Colorado.” Carey, a senior shortstop who is committed to play at Nebraska, had a good day despite the conditions. He had a sacrifice fly, a double and triple and wound up with five runs batted in. He also made SEE LEGEND, P23
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Ponderosa starting pitcher Gabe Jacobs allowed one hit and one run in four innings of work against Legend on April 29.
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a diving catch to prevent a hit in the sixth inning and closed out the game on the mound in the seventh, allowing a hit but striking out two batters. Tyler Smith also had two hits, a triple and solo home run for Pondo and starting pitcher Gabe Jacobs allowed one hit and one run in four innings of work. Cam Cartwright had two hits for Legend. “I was just trying to help the team as much as possible,” said Carey. “The first at-bat I was pulling the ball (to the left) and I had to hit the ball to the right side. “We’re finally starting to hit a groove. We started out a little slow but we’ve finally hit our groove and figured out a few things and I’m proud of the guys.” Ponderosa, the defending Class 4A state champions, improved to 11-6 overall and 3-3 in the Continental League against 5A schools. Legend slipped to 3-3 in the league and 10-6 overall.
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Pondo was ranked fourth in theClass 4A CHSAANow.com poll and Legend was ninth in the 5A rankings “We’re not the same team as last year but as far as where we can be, we have aspirations to win again,” said Maloney. “Our guys are competing. Two of our best hitters have been out the past week and we find ways to win. Our pitching as been excellent. Gabe Jacobs and Tyler Smith have been unbelievable for us. The whole has been a team concept. Everybody contributes. We haven’t hit our peak yet, I don’t think. but we’re going in the right direction.” Maloney emphasized that playing in the Continental League helps when it comes to 4A playoff time. “I’ve been here eight years,” he added. “We might go 3-7 in league but playing those 10 league games and this isn’t a disservice to other 4A schools but when we get into the 4A playoffs we’re not going to see a team that is better than we see in the Continental League. “We might get beat up at times but we’ll take that because it makes us better.”
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Accounting Assistant and Legal Advertising Specialist Colorado Community Media is hiring a detail-oriented administrative specialist to assist in posting receivables and to schedule legal notices. The job would be full time in our business office reporting to the Business Manager.
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Special Education Teacher for a significant needs program located at the Strasburg Elementary School. Current Colorado Special Education Teacher license required. BA salary range $34,650-$40,950 & MA salary range $39,900$46,200, based on experience. May be eligible for Sign On Bonus! Excellent benefits. Collaborative work environment with lots of free continuing education opportunities available. May be eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness. Questions contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext. 101 or tracyg@ecboces. org. Please complete a Certified application located at the bottom of the “Jobs” page on ecboces.org or email tracyg@ecboces.org. Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Teacher of the Visually Impaired/ Orientation and Mobility Specialist East Central BOCES is seeking a Part-Time (3.5 days/wk) Teacher of the Visually Impaired/Orientation and Mobility Specialist for the 202223 school year. This position requires working with multiple administrative units including East Central BOCES, Ft. Morgan, Santa Fe Trails BOCES, South East BOCES, North East BOCES and Sterling. Option to work 1 day a week for East Central BOCES only, if preferred. Requires Colorado Teaching License with an endorsement in Visual Impairment and Orientation and Mobility Specialist. Responsibilities include completing assessments, providing direct and indirect service & attending IEP meetings as needed. Opportunity for some services to be provided remotely. Salary: 3.5 days/wk-$31,018-$38,505, 1 day/wk $8,120-$10,080. Excellent Benefits including mileage reimbursement or use of a car. May be eligible for loan forgiveness and sign on bonus. To apply please complete a Certified Application, located on our website at ecboces.org under “Jobs” at the bottom of the page. Once completed, application can be sent to Tracy at tracyg@ecboces.org,. Questions contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext. 101. EOE
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Job responsibilities include: • Post payments in our ad management software (will train in Account Scout). Create and maintain daily files. •Assist customers with questions on their balances and/or payments. •Take in orders for legal notices to publish in our weekly publications. Format and schedule orders properly for production and record-keeping purposes using ad management software. •Flow ad files onto pages for insertion into weekly publications using design software (will train in InDesign) •Proof pages to ensure accuracy •Act as customer service representative for both AR and legal notice publishing process Preferred skills: •Experience in accounts receivable preferable •Superior attention to detail •Ability to build and maintain solid customer relationships with professionalism and speed •Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs Once the candidate is fully trained this job can be performed part in-office (in Englewood) and part remote. Starting pay $14.50-$16.50/hour.
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Special Education Paraprofessionals Full & Part-Time Special Education Paraprofessionals needed for our West Area Center-based Learning Program located in Strasburg. Competitive pay and benefits including individual health insurance . $13-$17 per hour depending on experience. May be eligible for Sign On Bonus! To apply for this position, please complete the Classified Application for Employment available for download on the ecboces.org website under “Jobs” or contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext. 101. Please fax completed application to 719-771-4001 or email it to tracyg@ ecboces.org Equal Opportunity Employer
Registered Occupational Therapist Full-Time and part-time Registered Occupational Therapist. OTR must have, or be eligible for appropriate Colorado licensure. Provide Pre-12 intervention, assessment, direct & indirect services just east of Denver on I-70, Bennett, Strasburg Byers & Kiowa areas. Support from an experienced COTA is available. Full Time Salary range for OTD: $49,350-$60,550. Part-Time Salary prorated based on the number of days employed. Excellent benefits. Access to a company vehicle or mileage reimbursement. May be eligible for a loan forgiveness program and signing bonus. To apply for this position, please complete the Certified Application for Employment available on the East Central BOCES website www. ecboces.org under “Jobs”. EOE Questions contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext. 101 or email tracyg@ ecboces.org
Full-Time Early Childhood Special Education Teacher and Child Find Coordinator For East Central BOCES for the 2022-2023 school year. Complete assessment & provide direct and indirect services with preschool children in rural school settings. Requires a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Special Education. Can be hired with a Bachelor’s Degree in a Related Field if willing to enter into a Master’s degree program in Early Childhood Special Education upon hire. Salary Range BA-$34,650 to $42,350 and MA $39,900-$47,600 dependent on experience. Excellent benefits, including full health benefits, and use of a car or mileage reimbursement. May be eligible for loan forgiveness. Financial support may be available through grants if required to enroll in a Master’s degree program. Questions contact Tracy (719) 775-2342 ext. 101. To apply for this position, please complete the Certified Application for Employment available on the East Central BOCES website ecboces. org under “Jobs”.
Visa U.S.A. Inc. A Visa Inc. company, currently has openings in our Highlands Ranch, CO location for: - Managers (REF46879B): Manage the Platform Services development team. Be responsible and accountable for the design, development, and support of multiple applications across several hardware platforms. Contribute to the software development process. Up to 50% travel required to various, unanticipated sites across the United States. Staff SW Engineers (REF45425W):Design, develop,document and implement new functionality, as well as build enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software developing unit-tests and oversee execution. Develop unit-tests and oversee execution. To apply, please reference Job#s above when mailing resume to: LJ, Visa Inc., MS: M1-12 SW, 900 Metro Center Blvd., Foster City, CA 94404. EOE
Night Time Inspection Tech / Part-Time Position inspects all exterior lighting for retail and commercial properties documenting all outages. • Drive Company vehicle to specific locations and indicate all outages on provided site map •This position is part-time - (3) nights per week averaging 25-30 hours •Night Shift Flexible Schedule - Great second job •Must have clean driving record and must pass drug screening test. Contact info: Jobs@ coloradolighting.com
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School Psychologist or Intern East Central BOCES is seeking a Full-Time School Psychologist or Intern to join our dynamic, multidisciplinary team of professionals for the 2022-23 school year. Educational Specialist (Ed.S.), Colorado certified. Provide PreK-12 intervention including assessment, development of IEP’s & consultation services. Competitive salaries: ED.S $51,450-60,900 & Intern $47,600$52,400, both commensurate upon experience. excellent benefits including dental, vision, and medical insurance. May be eligible for Sign On Bonus! May also be eligible for loan forgiveness. Flexible schedule. Use of a car or mileage reimbursement. Questions contact Tracy (719) 775-2342, ext. 101. To apply for this position, please complete the Certified Application for Employment available on the East Central BOCES website www. ecboces.org under “Jobs”. EOE Speech-Language Pathologist or SLPA Positions Full-Time & Part-Time Open to School Internships. Able to provide supervision for CFY hours. Join our dynamic, multidisciplinary team of professionals for the 2022-23 school year. Administer assessments, provide direct, indirect & consultation services for students PreK-12th grades. Competitive salaries: SLP - $44,100-$56,000 & SLPA- $36,050- $44,450, both commensurate upon experience. May be eligible for a Sign On Bonus! May also be eligible for loan forgiveness. Excellent benefits, including full health benefits & mileage reimbursement. Flexible schedule. Questions contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext. 101. To apply for this position, please complete the Certified Application for Employment available on the East Central BOCES website www.ecboces.org under “Jobs”. EOE Visa Technology & Operations LLC. Visa Technology & Operations LLC, a Visa Inc. company, currently has openings in our Highlands Ranch, CO location for: Cybersecurity Engineers (REF46797T): Execute Cybersecurity Identity and Access Management (IAM) activities for Visa Data Processing Services (DPS), which are subject to regulatory requirements. Provide security related access management support for a world class IBM Mainframe zOS operating system. Sr. Systems Administrator (REF46956B) Supporting critical applications and ensure the stability of services by performing dedicated maintenance activities. Work on automation activities, performing root cause analysis (RCA) and remediation. Sr. SW Engineers (REF46776C): Architects, designs, builds, develops, tests, and/or implements software applications. Conduct business and technical analysis, code reviews, and unit testing. Implement, and produce technical documentation of solutions for new development, system enhancements, and production support. To apply, please reference Job#s above when mailing resume to: LJ, Visa Inc., MS: M1-12 SW, 900 Metro Center Blvd., Foster City, CA 94404. EOE
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Wildlife Property Seasonal Colorado Parks and Wildlife is hiring a temporary employee to work at Mt. Evans State Wildlife Area. The position will start June 1 and remain through September. Job duties include property management such as weed spraying, fence building and repair, planting food plots, timber management, and trail maintenance; equipment maintenance; building maintenance, including cleaning restrooms weekly. Applicants must be able to apply herbicide, perform physical labor, and have a valid driver’s license. Experience with the job duties and with agricultural type equipment is beneficial but not required. The work week is somewhat flexible and offers 32-40 hours per week. Please send a resume or inquiries to Will Spence, Wildlife Technician, by May 6, 2022. Contact info: Will Spence, Wildlife Technician. will.spence@state.co.us
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CASTLE PINES METROPOLITAN DISTRICT – SUMMER SEASONAL POSITIONS AVAILABLE Seasonal Groundskeeping Jobs Enjoy working outside in beautiful surroundings? Castle Pines Metro District is looking for positive, motivated, team-oriented people for its Landscape Maintenance Team for the summer (May-August). Duties include mowing, trimming, planting, miscellaneous jobs, and repairs. Hours: 7 a.m. – 4 p.m., Monday – Friday; Salary Range $14.85 - $17.44 per hour, depending on experience. Requirements: 17 years old, clean MVR, dependable, clean/neat appearance.
Garage and Estate Sales Garage Sales Save the Date! Gigantic Garage Sale in the Pradera Golf Community Subdivision Friday & Saturday, May 20th and 21st 8am-4pm Numerous homeowners in the Pradera community will be participating in this event Major cross streets into Pradera are Bayou Gulch and Parker Road, Parker 80134 Call Dotson Skaggs, Kentwood Company, 303-909-9350 for more information. MULTI - NEIGHBORHOOD GARAGE SALE 140+ HOMES! May 6th & 7th Centennial: E Arapahoe & S Colorado Blvd CHERRY KNOLLS, THE KNOLLS & TIFFANY Maps Available
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COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0033-2022
Public Trustees
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0020-2022
On February 11, 2022, 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.
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 1, 2022, 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) SUNIL STEPHEN AND KRISHNA PRIYADARSHINI SUNIL Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING LLC Date of Deed of Trust July 30, 2012 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust August 09, 2012 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D2087946 Original Principal Amount $326,335.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $270,831.73 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 10, BLOCK 1, WILLOW CREEK FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 7855 SOUTH TRENTON ST, CENTENNIAL, CO 80112-3318. 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, 06/01/2022, 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: 4/7/2022 Last Publication: 5/5/2022 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: 02/01/2022 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Anna Johnston #51978 Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Randall Chin #31149 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000009390543 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. 0020-2022 First Publication: 4/7/2022 Last Publication: 5/5/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent
Original Grantor(s) JANE M. ROGERS Original Beneficiary(ies) FINANCIAL FREEDOM SENIOR FUNDING CORPORATION, A SUBSIDIARY OF INDYMAC BANK, F.S.B. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT SERIES I TRUST Date of Deed of Trust March 17, 2005 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 28, 2005 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B5043431 Original Principal Amount $252,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $170,966.73 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 40, BLOCK 2, WOLHURST LANDING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7141 S. BRYANT STREET, LITTLETON, CO 80120. 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, 06/15/2022, 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: 4/21/2022 Last Publication: 5/19/2022 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: 02/11/2022 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-21-896138-LL 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. 0033-2022 First Publication: 4/21/2022 Last Publication: 5/19/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0053-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
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On February 25, 2022, 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) MICHAEL J OCCHIONERO AND GRETCHEN D OCCHIONERO Original Beneficiary(ies) WELLS FARGO HOME MORTGAGE, INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust March 14, 2003 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 18, 2003 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B3058437 Original Principal Amount $260,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $156,728.20 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof. THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 4, BLOCK 9, ABERDEEN VILLAGE, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 6037 SOUTH LAKEVIEW STREET, LITTLETON, CO 80120. 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, 06/29/2022, 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: 5/5/2022 Last Publication: 6/2/2022 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: 02/25/2022 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: Alison L Berry #34531 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 David R. Doughty #40042 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 22-026330 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. 0053-2022 First Publication: 5/5/2022 Last Publication: 6/2/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0054-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 25, 2022, 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) MARY E. SKINNER Original Beneficiary(ies)
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN ADVISORS GROUP, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Date of Deed of Trust July 10, 2017 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust July 20, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D7081961 Original Principal Amount $489,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $177,051.77
County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust August 12, 2020 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) E0103293 Original Principal Amount $609,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $251,765.14
Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.
LOT 2, BLOCK 19, NOB HILL-SECOND FILING PURSUANT TO AFFIDAVIT OF SCRIVENER'S ERROR RECORDED ON 08/14/2020 AT RECEPTION NO. E0104548 TO CORRECT LEGAL DESCRIPTION.
LOT 85, BLOCK 14, BRISTOL COVE SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 6, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7709 S COVE CIRCLE, CENTENNIAL, CO 80122. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/29/2022, 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: 5/5/2022 Last Publication: 6/2/2022 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: 02/25/2022 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: Alison L Berry #34531 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 David R. Doughty #40042 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 22-026314
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.
ALL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE AND STATE OF COLORADO, TO WIT:
Also known by street and number as: 6912 S Dexter Street, Centennial, CO 80122. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: C.R.S.§ 38-35-109(5) LEGAL DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN CORRECTED BY SCRIVENER'S AFFIDAVIT RECORDED ON 08/14/2020 AT RECEPTION NO. E0104548 IN THE RECORDS OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/15/2022, 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: 4/21/2022 Last Publication: 5/19/2022 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: 02/11/2022 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:
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
Alison L Berry #34531 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 David R. Doughty #40042 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 22-026265 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.
Legal Notice NO. 0054-2022 First Publication: 5/5/2022 Last Publication: 6/2/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent
©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015
COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0030-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 11, 2022, 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) James A Lillie Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR NATIONWIDE EQUITIES CORP., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Date of Deed of Trust July 23, 2020
Legal Notice NO. 0030-2022 First Publication: 4/21/2022 Last Publication: 5/19/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0057-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 25, 2022, 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) Anita B. Matthews and Neil Thomas Matthews Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.,
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Public Notices as nominee for Mortgageit, Inc., Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust September 18, 2006 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 26, 2006 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B6137999 Original Principal Amount $213,750.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $195,350.03
FIRST LIEN.
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 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.
THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 1, BLOCK 32, NOB HILL FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 7302 South Albion Street, Centennial, CO 80122. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/29/2022, 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: 5/5/2022 Last Publication: 6/2/2022 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: 02/25/2022 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-22-899435-LL 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. 0057-2022 First Publication: 5/5/2022 Last Publication: 6/2/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0058-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 25, 2022, 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) Michael Stephen Landry and Stacy Davis Landry Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Stearns Lending, LLC successors and assigns. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust January 23, 2015 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 29, 2015 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D5009278 Original Principal Amount $210,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $137,362.43 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
LOT 2, BLOCK 10, A RESUBDIVISION OF BLOCK 8, 9, 10, 11, AND 12, CHERRY CREEK VILLAGE, THIRD FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO
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.
Also known by street and number as: 4970 South Elmira Street, Greenwood Village, CO 80111.
First Publication: 4/28/2022 Last Publication: 5/26/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent
THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
NOTICE OF SALE
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/29/2022, 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: 5/5/2022 Last Publication: 6/2/2022 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: 02/25/2022 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-22-898154-LL 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. 0058-2022 First Publication: 5/5/2022 Last Publication: 6/2/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0036-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 18, 2022, 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) DOUGLAS S. WIDLUND AND KATHERINE S. WIDLUND Original Beneficiary(ies) JEFFCO SCHOOLS CREDIT UNION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt WESTERRA CREDIT UNION Date of Deed of Trust June 15, 2004 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 18, 2004 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B4110276 Original Principal Amount $161,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $59,702.61 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 6, BLOCK 11, HERITAGE GREENS, 7TH FILING COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 5256 E. MINERAL CIRCLE, CENTENNIAL, CO 80122. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.
DATE: 02/18/2022 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: Douglas W Brown #10429 Rachel H Connor #50831 Drew P. Fein #48950 Neal K. Dunning #10181 Brown Dunning Walker Fein PC 2000 S. Colorado Blvd., Tower Two, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80222 (303) 329-3363 Attorney File # 3085-157 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. 0036-2022 First Publication: 4/28/2022 Last Publication: 5/26/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0064-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 1, 2022, 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) CHRISTOPHER D COOK Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR MID AMERICA MORTGAGE INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt THE MONEY SOURCE INC. Date of Deed of Trust January 15, 2013 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 24, 2013 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D3009952 Original Principal Amount $165,857.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $140,270.53 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 15, BLOCK 2, BOBAY HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 4821 SOUTH JASON STREET, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80110. 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, 06/29/2022, 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: 5/5/2022 Last Publication: 6/2/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent
NOTICE OF SALE
IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;
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.
DATE: 03/01/2022 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/22/2022, 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
The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 David R. Doughty #40042
NOTICE OF RESCHEDULED PUBLIC HEARING CASE NO GDP21-002, ARCADIA / GENERAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 22-026345 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. 0064-2022 First Publication: 5/5/2022 Last Publication: 6/2/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0038-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 18, 2022, 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) Brian D. Lenda AND Nancy J. Lenda Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN ADVISORS GROUP, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Date of Deed of Trust June 13, 2018 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 22, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D8060736 Original Principal Amount $630,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $103,205.77 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 5, HALLCRAFT'S WALNUT HILLS - FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN NUMBER: 2075-28-3-10-032 Also known by street and number as: 7185 S SYRACUSE CT., CENTENNIAL, CO 80112. THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE
THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/22/2022, 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: 4/28/2022 Last Publication: 5/26/2022 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: 02/18/2022 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: Alison L Berry #34531 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 David R. Doughty #40042 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 22-026208 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.
Legal Notice NO. 0038-2022 First Publication: 4/28/2022 Last Publication: 5/26/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent
City and County Public Notice ARAPAHOE COUNTY
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on May 24, 2022, at 9:30 A.M., or as soon thereafter as the calendar of the Arapahoe County Board of County Commission permits, a public hearing will be held; at which, all interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard concerning the abovedescribed GDP21-002, General Development Plan. This public hearing was rescheduled from May 10, 2022 to May 24, 2022. The May 10, 2022 date is canceled. The public hearing will be held at 5334 S Prince St., East Hearing Room, Littleton CO 80120, with the option to participate remotely. The agenda will typically be posted by the Friday afternoon preceding the hearing and can be viewed on our website at https://arapahoe.legistar.com/Calendar. You can also listen to, or speak at, the meeting by calling 1-855-436-3656. To join the speaking queue, press *3 on the telephone keypad. More information about this proposal is available at the offices of the Arapahoe County Public Works and Development Department, Planning Division, 6924 S Lima St., Centennial CO 80112 (please call ahead to schedule an appointment), by calling 720-874-6650, or by emailing planning@ arapahoegov.com during regular business hours (8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday). Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board Legal Notice No. Arap 1061 First Publication: May 5, 2022 Last Publication: May 5, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, May 2, 2022, the Centennial City Council approved the following ordinance on second and final reading: ORDINANCE NO. 2022-O-15 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO AMENDING SECTION 2-4-300 OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING THE COMPOSITION OF THE CENTENNIAL SENIOR COMMISSION 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 9 in favor and 0 against. (First published April 21, 2022)
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.
©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015
PROPOSAL: The applicant is seeking approval to rezone a 32.21 acre parcel from R-A PUD to Planned Unit Development (PUD). This PUD will consist of a mixed housing development containing 352 rental apartments and 168 for sale paired-homes. The apartments will be three-stories with a maximum height of 50 feet and the two-story paired-homes will have a maximum height of 30 feet. A five-acre public park is also proposed and will be located in the northern portion of the site and provide a buffer between the homes north of the property and the development.
By:Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 530281-60281 First Publication: May 5, 2022 Last Publication: May 5, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for the City of Centennial, Arapahoe County, Colorado, Case No. 21-08-1000P. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) solicits technical information or comments on proposed flood hazard determinations for the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community. These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway. The FIRM and, if applicable, the FIS report have been revised to reflect these flood hazard determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to adopt or show evidence of having in effect to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. For more information on the proposed flood hazard determinations and information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, please visit FEMA’s website at https://www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/BFE_Status/bfe_main.asp , or call the FEMA Mapping and Insurance eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877FEMA MAP (1-877-336-2627). Legal Notice No. 530265-60256 First Publication: May 5, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ARAPAHOE COUNTY COLORADO TAVERN NEW LIQUOR LICENSE In accordance with Colorado Revised Statutes, Shooters Bar & Grill LLC d/b/a Shooters Bar & Grill has requested the Arapahoe County Liquor Authority to grant a new Tavern Liquor License at 25 W. Highway 40, Byers, CO 80103. A public hearing will be held through remote participation
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Public Notices at the County Administration Building, 5334 S. Prince St., Littleton, CO 80120-1136, via telephone. Members of the public may participate telephonically by calling (719) 569-5048, and when prompted enter Phone Conference ID: 155 318 091# on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 2:00 P.M. or as soon thereafter as the calendar of the Liquor Authority permits. OFFICERS: RONNIE A. WILLIAMS, MEMBER, 64905 E. COUNTY ROAD 42, BYERS, CO 80103; TAMARA J. WILLIAMS, MEMBER, 64905 E. COUNTY ROAD 42, BYERS, CO 80103. The application and additional information are available in the County Attorney’s Office, County Administration Building, 5334 S. Prince St., Littleton, Colorado 80120-1136. Due to Covid-19 Restrictions, our office is closed to the public without an appointment. Please direct all inquiries by telephone to the Arapahoe County Liquor Licensing Authority at 303-795-4539. Petitions or Remonstrances may be filed at the County Attorney’s Office on or before the date of the hearing. BY ORDER OF THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY LIQUOR AUTHORITY Tiffeni Contiguglia, Clerk DATE OF APPLICATION: January 24, 2022 Legal Notice No. Arap 1060 First Publication: May 5, 2022 Last Publication: May 5, 2022 Publisher:Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen
Metropolitan Districts Public Notice NOTICE OF VACANCIES ON THE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS OF JONES METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Jones Metropolitan District Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (the “Districts”) of Arapahoe County, Colorado.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 32-1-808, C.R.S., that two vacancies currently exist on each of the boards of directors of the Districts. Any qualified, eligible elector of the Districts interested in filling such vacancies and serving on each of the boards of directors should file a Letter of Interest with the boards of directors of the Districts on or before the close of business on May 15, 2022, at the office of the Districts’ General Counsel. Forms of Letters of Interest are available and can be obtained from the Jones Metropolitan District Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, c/o Catherine Will at McGeady Becher P.C., 450 E. 17th Avenue, Suite 400, Denver, Colorado 80203, (303) 592 4380. JONES METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5 By: /s/ MCGEADY BECHER, P.C. Attorneys for the District Legal Notice No. 50282-60282 First Publication: May 5, 2022 Last Publication: May 5, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen
later than 2:00 p.m. local time on May 26, 2022. The County reserves the right to waive any or all informalities or irregularities and to reject any or all submittals. Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board Legal Notice No. Arap 1062 First Publication: May 5, 2022 Last Publication: May 5, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice ARAPAHOE COUNTY REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL RFP-22-20 ANNUAL BRIDGE DESIGN AND/OR BUILD PROGRAM PROJECT NUMBER RB22-025 Notice is hereby given that the Arapahoe County Purchasing Division will be accepting proposals for the design and/or build contract for the Arapahoe County annual bridge maintenance program.
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Design - Award to a primary contractor with the option award to a secondary contractor.
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Build - Award to a primary contractor with the option award to a secondary contractor.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL RFP-22-24 Regional Opioid Council Facilitation Services Notice is hereby given that the Arapahoe County Purchasing Division will be accepting proposals for a consultant to facilitate opioid abatement activities for the Arapahoe County Commissioners’ office. The Request for Proposal RFP-22-24, Regional Opioid Council Facilitation Services document can be obtained on www.bidnetdirect.com/colorado. Questions and electronic submissions will be accepted online via Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System at www. bidnetdirect.com/colorado. Submittals must be received electronically no
Prefer to award both design and build to same vendor. Subcontractors, and joint partnerships are acceptable. A recommended virtual pre solicitation meeting will be held on May 19, 2022, 2:00 p.m., local time. Additional information regarding the event is provided in the solicitation. Contractors are encouraged to attend this meeting to become familiar with the Specifications. The Request For Proposal (RFP-22-20) document can be obtained on www.bidnetdirect.com/colorado. Questions and electronic submissions will be accepted online via Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System (RMEPS), www.bidnetdirect.com/colorado. Submittals must be received, electronically, no later than 2:00 p.m. local time on June 02, 2022.
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The County reserves the right to waive any or all informalities or irregularities and to reject any or all submittals. Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board Legal Notice No. Arap 1064 First Publication: May 5, 2022 Last Publication: May 5, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
Public Notice ARAPAHOE COUNTY INVITATION FOR BID IFB-22-21 FURNACES AND SUPPLIES Notice is hereby given that the Arapahoe County Purchasing Division will be accepting bids for the purchase of furnaces and supplies for the Weatherization Program Division of the Arapahoe County Community Resources Department. The Invitation For Bid (IFB-22-21) document can be obtained on www.bidnetdirect.com/colorado. Questions and electronic submissions will be accepted online via Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System (RMEPS), www.bidnetdirect.com/colorado. Submittals must be received, electronically, no later than 2:00 p.m. local time on June 02, 2022. The County reserves the right to waive any or all informalities or irregularities and to reject any or all submittals. Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board Legal Notice No. Arap 1063 First Publication: May 5, 2022 Last Publication: May 5, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen
Public Notice DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for the City of Centennial, Arapahoe County, Colorado, Case No. 22-08-0055P. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) solicits technical information or comments on proposed flood hazard determinations for the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community. These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway. The FIRM and, if applicable, the FIS report have been revised to reflect these flood hazard determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to adopt or show evidence of having in effect to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. For more information on the proposed flood hazard determinations and information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, please visit FEMA’s website at https://www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/BFE_Status/bfe_main.asp , or call the FEMA Mapping and Insurance eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877FEMA MAP (1-877-336-2627). Legal Notice No. 530264-60264 First Publication: April 28, 2022 Last Publication: May 5, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen
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For teens, nothing serves up an addiction like flavored tobacco. Tobacco companies sell kid-friendly flavors, from Cherry Dynamite to Donut to Menthol. Over 2 million kids use e-cigarettes, and 85% use flavors. More than 1 in 4 Colorado high school students are hooked. We’re asking legislators to end the sale of flavored tobacco that the industry has used to addict our kids. Let’s put our kids’ health over Big Tobacco’s profits.
PROTECT OUR KIDS. END THE SALE OF ALL FLAVORED TOBACCO PRODUCTS.
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