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VOLUME 21 | ISSUE 36

Fentanyl: A growing crisis regionally, nationally Law enforcement, others grapple with solutions

BY ROBERT TANN AND MCKENNA HARFORD RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM, MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

From his vantage point as a toxicologist in the emergency departments of UCHealth’s Highlands

Ranch and Anschutz locations, Dr. Kennon Heard said fentanyl is easily the most common drug involved in the overdoses he treats.

“This is going to be on par with seeing a stroke or a heart attack,” Heard said, estimating overdoses are treated multiple times a week, if not daily. “It’s that common of an event.”

Heard sees both people with substance use disorder and, more

frequently, people who are occasional users and often think they are taking a drug other than fentanyl.

“The change is probably that we’re seeing a significant number of people … who get something they think is a pharmaceutical product,” he said.

Fentanyl’s presence in Denver’s south metro region, and Colorado, has continued to increase over the past five years — but the num-

bers have skyrocketed since 2020, when the drug overtook methamphetamine as the leading killer in Colorado, according to data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE).

The growing ubiquity of fentanyl in the drug market is also reflected in the increase of overdose deaths in the south metro area from 2015 to 2021, CDPHE data shows.

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Ten years after theater shooting, community gathers for midnight vigil

Lawmakers, activist and survivor talk gun reform

7/20 Memorial Foundation hosts special event

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Ten years ago, on July 20, 2012, Stephen Barton and two friends attended a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” at a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora and became survivors of a mass shooting that resulted in 12 deaths and 70 injured.

At the end of last year, Barton, who lives in New York, was contacted by Heather Dearman to inform him that the 7/20 Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit where she serves as CEO, would be hosting a series of events in light of the 10th year passing since the shooting.

“I’m not local to here, and so a little less, like, connected to the local network of survivors and family members. So, I’m really glad that she did reach out,” Barton said.

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Gun deaths and gun sales continue to increase

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

People waiting for the midnight vigil to begin at the Aurora Water-wise Garden. The vigil, held July 20, recognized those impacted by the Aurora theater shooting that hapPHOTOS BY TAYLER SHAW pened 10 years ago.

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In recognition of 10 years passing since the Aurora theater shooting, Congressman Jason Crow, state Rep. Tom Sullivan, a survivor of the theater shooting and a gun reform activist discussed the need for change during a July 19 virtual conference.

Twelve people were killed and 70 others were injured in the Aurora movie theater shooting on July 20, 2012. One of the victims was Sullivan’s son, Alex, who had attended the movie with some friends to

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Heidi Ganahl selects Danny Moore as her running mate Navy veteran Moore is a Centennial resident, entrepreneur

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Republican gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl on Monday announced Danny Moore as her running mate, a Navy veteran and entrepreneur who stoked controversy last year when he was removed as head of Colorado’s Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission over his social media posts about the 2020 presidential election.

“Danny is a wonderful addition to our winning team,” Ganahl said in a written statement. “We share a common vision to lower Colorado’s soaring cost of living, gas prices (and) crime rates.”

Moore, who is Black, lives in Centennial and is a retired Navy master chief. He is the president and owner of DeNOVO Solutions, a technology firm catering to the military, and president of Thornberry Consulting, which works with the Department of Defense.

“As a retired Navy Veteran and a successful small business entrepreneur with nearly 40 years of leadership experience, I will be missionfocused and deliver what is best for Colorado,” Moore said in a written

statement.

In Colorado, gubernatorial candidates select who they want to be their lieutenant governor. Democratic Gov. Jared Polis is running with Dianne Moore Primavera, a former state representative who currently serves as his No. 2.

Lieutenant governor is a mostly ceremonial position in Colorado, though the person appointed to the job often takes on one or two major agenda items. Primavera, for instance, also leads the Polis administration’s efforts to reduce health care costs.

In April 2021, Moore was removed as chair of the Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission in a unanimous vote by his fellow commissioners after 9News reported that he had made Facebook posts questioning the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

According to 9News, Moore made the false claim that President Joe Biden won in 2020 because Democrats stole the contest from Donald Trump. Moore also referred to COVID-19 on social media as the “Chinese virus.”

The Gazette also scoured Moore’s social media posts, finding that in the first months of the pandemic he referred to CNN as the “Chineses [sic] News Network” and that he accused the news outlet of “lying to the American people and endan-

gering the lives of American’s [sic] and those of the world.”

Moore was unanimously removed as chair after he rebuffed requests from fellow commissioners to step down voluntarily. He was randomly selected as a member of the 12-member redistricting panel after applying for the unpaid job.

In June 2021, Moore, in an interview with Jon Caldara of the Independence Institute, said that there are “tremendous questions around the election” when asked whether Trump was the rightful winner in 2020 and whether the contest was stolen.

“To be put down and criticized for simply asking the question, that is un-American,” he said.

In a statement to The Sun, Ganahl’s campaign brushed off the 2021 controversy.

“Heidi and Danny are united in their commitment and focus on winning this November,” said Lexi Swearingen, a spokeswoman for Ganahl. “They agree Joe Biden is our president and Jared Polis is our governor and that we need to do everything we can to change that this November and in 2024. Election integrity is paramount and we must work to restore voter confidence.”

Ganahl refused, until recently, to directly answer whether the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump, only answering the question for months by saying that Joe Biden is the president.

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fraud that would have flipped the election,” she told The Colorado Sun and CBS4 in a June interview.

Ganahl initially said she was going to announce her running mate earlier this month, and Colorado Politics reported that Las Animas County Commissioner Felix Lopez would be her pick. However, the Colorado Politics story was later retracted and Lopez told 9News that conversations about being Ganahl’s running mate were still ongoing.

Ganahl faces an uphill battle in trying to unseat Polis in November.

Polis polls well among Colorado voters and is a deep-pocketed, selffunding candidate. He has already spent more than $5 million of his own money on his 2022 reelection bid after dropping more than $23 million to win his first term in 2018.

Ganahl, by comparison, had less than $50,000 in her campaign’s bank account on June 22.

Ganahl loaned her campaign $100,000 on July 1, bringing her personal investment in her campaign to $500,000.

History Colorado is inviting the community to celebrate our state’s 146th birthday with a free, family-friendly event on Aug. 1.

The celebration will highlight the things that make Colorado, Colorado — including the animals, experiences, cultures, items and history, states a news release.

Colorado Day takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the History Colorado Center, 1200 N. Broadway in Denver.

At the Colorado History Center, attendees will get to explore the museum’s four floors of exhibits, including “Colorado Stories,” “Denver A-Z,” “Living West” and “Rainbows & Revolutions.” More information on these exhibits can be found on History Colorado’s website.

Special events, interactive exhibits and additional entertainment for Colorado Day includes gold panning, face painting, arts and crafts, popcorn and snow cones, chalk artists, an alpaca petting zoo and mini-horses, appearances by mascots of Colorado’s pro sports teams, Tahitian dance performances, bullwhip cracking and trick roping dem-

onstrations, and musical guests including taiko drummers, Flint Datino and Brothers of Brass.

History Colorado is a nonprofit that got its start 143 years ago.

Today, it operates 11 museums and historic sites throughout the state, a free public research center, the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation and the History Colorado State Historical Fund. To learn more about History Colorado, visit historycolorado.org.

Parking for the History Colorado Center is available at meters along Broadway, and in the Art Garage, 1268 Lincoln St.; and the Cultural Center Complex Garage, 65 W. 12th Ave. Several RTD transit routes also serve the museum.

History Colorado Center’s Colorado Day celebration is free to attend, but registration is required.

To RSVP, visit tinyurl.com/ColoradoDay. The nearby Center for Colorado Women’s History, 1310 Bannock St., which is a History Colorado museum within a historic house, is also offering free admission on Colorado Day. To learn more about this museum, visit historycolorado.org/center-coloradowomens-history.

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More money flows in for creation of homeless navigation center

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More than $100,000 has been recently awarded to an Arapahoe County nonprofit seeking to support the creation of a navigation center to centralize resources for people experiencing homelessness in the region.

Chaired by former Littleton mayor Susan Thornton, the South Metro Community Foundation announced recently it has received $50,000 from the Daniels Fund — a philanthropic foundation in Denver — as well as $50,000 from Centura Health and $5,000 from the Littleton Rotary Foundation.

It also received $1,500 from the Rotary Club of Englewood and $2,500 from Sheridan Rising Together for Equity.

That is in addition to $300,000 approved by Arapahoe County commissioners in March to be used for the navigation center over the next three years. The county had previously approved $10,000 for the s project. In total, more than $400,000 has been allocated to the project.

The money secured so far could be enough to hire two full-time center employees by the end of this year or early next, Thornton said, though that is still contingent on funding.

“Our goal has been to raise enough staffing for the first three years, so we’re getting close,” Thornton said, adding that staff costs are estimated to be about $220,000 for the center’s first year with a 10% increase over the next two years to account for inflation.

The project is a part of a multipronged effort from a task force of leaders in Littleton, Englewood and Sheridan who, last summer, launched the Tri-Cities Homeless

Action Plan to help get more people housed.

It comes as the Denver metro area faces a rise in homeless numbers, with a 2021 study by the Metro Denver Homelessness Initiative showing the number of unhoused people in the region climbed by 15% between 2018 and 2020.

The navigation center is intended to connect people with various existing resources — such as healthcare, job training, food assistance and addiction recovery — to stabilize their journey out of homelessness.

“Often times people experiencing homelessness need some additional support to navigate the services available to them,” said Mike Sandgren, tri-cities homelessness services coordinator for Arapahoe County.

Sandgren, who previously headed Change the Trend — a regional network of nonprofits, churches, schools and agencies working on homelessness solutions — began work as homelessness coordinator July 5.

He will be paid $110,000 per year for at least three years — a cost that will be shared between Littleton, Englewood and Sheridan — to implement the task force’s action plan.

Sandgren said task force leaders are hoping for an eventual physical space for the center, but initial outreach could still begin once staff is brought on.

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Trial date set in Franktown double homicide Another pre-trial hearing scheduled in September

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A nine-day trial is scheduled in the double homicide case that rocked a rural town in Douglas County earlier this year.

The trial for Casey Devol, 30, who has been charged with killing his sister and her boyfriend, is set to begin January 23.

The victims, Jessica Mitchell, 32, and Bryan Todd Gray, 34, were discovered Feb. 8 in a garage ad-

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health services, permanent housing or other shelter.”

A physical space could cost about $212,000 per year to run, according to budget documents provided by Thornton, though task force leaders are also looking into securing donated space.

Thornton has made clear that the center is not intended to be a shelter, something that has elicited strong rebuke in south metro communities according to some area leaders.

jacent to a house they lived in on Russellville Road.

Both sides of the courtroom were full with family members and loved ones of the victims and Devol’s Friday as Judge Patricia Herron addressed the court.

While Ara Ohanian — a public defender representing Devol — requested the hearing be postponed, Herron said she wished to schedule a trial. Herron added that often, the first trial date has to be pushed back.

“The calendar, as you know from COVID, is a mess,” she said.

“And it doesn’t seem to be getting any better.”

The court also set another hear-

ing for Sept. 23 at 3 p.m. where Devol may enter a plea of not guilty.

The case brought an outpouring of comments from community members, many of whom knew the victims and Devol for years.

An affidavit from the case revealed that someone who worked with Gray discovered him and Mitchell inside the garage at about 1:30 p.m. Feb. 8. Mitchell appeared to have been shot in the stomach and had a “pry bar” on top of her. Gray was found with a plate of food on him “as if he was getting ready to eat.” He appeared to have been shot in the head.

Investigators reported the rear

door was left open and the residence appeared ransacked, according to the affidavit. No clear motive has been identified in the case.

Security footage shows a man entering the garage “carrying multiple handguns and a long gun.”

After receiving a tip from a family friend, investigators matched Devol’s driver’s license photo with the security footage from the night of the murders.

His vehicle, which investigators called an “exact match” for one at the scene, was also scanned by a traffic camera in Castle Rock at about 7 a.m. Feb. 7.

Littleton Police Commander Hal Mandler, speaking with the Colorado Sun, said “the community would reject” any efforts to build a permanent shelter.

“Everyone wants to help homeless people but not right next to them,” Mandler said.

In a previous interview with Colorado Community Media, Samma Fox, Littleton’s assistant to the city manager, said city staff has heard “‘if you build it, they will come’ a number of times,” from residents.

“But (the homeless) already here, and we’re really working with our partners to provide resources consistently. The reality

is we do have homeless populations in our community,” Fox said.

In Englewood, police Sgt. Reid McGrath said his department last year received 1,362 homelessrelated calls, the vast majority of which had to do with seeing “unwanted homeless people.”

But as yearly temperatures in the metro area swing from high heat waves to frigid colds, having shelter can be the difference between life and death for those living on the streets.

Arapahoe County data shows that between January 2020 and January 2021, 17 people experiencing homelessness in the county

died on the street from natural causes, 22 from drug overdose and four from hypothermia.

Sheridan City Manager Devin Granberry said he hopes to see some form of a shelter alongside the center in the future.

“The answer is housing, the answer is putting a roof over somebody’s head,” Granberry said.

Thornton said the recent round of fundraising makes her hopeful that a navigation center will soon be able to do just that.

“It says that they believe in what we’re doing and it’s going to get people into secure housing and off the street,” Thornton said.

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Metro Denver’s homeless population on the rise

BY TATIANA FLOWERS THE COLORADO SUN

The number of people experiencing homelessness was up 12.8% in 2022 compared to 2020, before the pandemic, according to preliminary data from the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative pointin-time survey.

The annual count, which captures homelessness in the sevencounty metro Denver region, showed there was an increase in homelessness of 784 people.

In January 2020, the last time a comprehensive count was conducted, there were 6,104 people counted who were homeless in metro Denver. This year, 6,888 people were counted, according to the first phase of data.

“We are awaiting HUD’s verification of the region’s demographic data before releasing further information, but for planning purposes, it is important to share the overall sheltered and unsheltered count for the region,” Jamie Rife, executive director of the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative, said in a statement.

MDHI will release a second phase of data once the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s verification process is completed later this summer, she said.

On Jan. 24, teams spread out across the region to count people

Tents and other materials sit at a homeless encampment in an open field March 1 near PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD the Aurora-Centennial border.

living in shelters and outdoors.

Leaders in the metro area did not conduct a count of people living outside in 2021 because of COVID-19 concerns.

The number of people living in shelters remained fairly consistent between 2020 and 2022, at 4,534 in 2020 and 4,815 in 2022, a 6% increase.

The number of people considered “unsheltered” also increased regionally. This year 2,073 people were sleeping outdoors, up from 1,561 in 2020, a 32.8% increase.

“The Point-in-Time is a snap-

shot of homelessness on a single night with numerous variables such as weather, count participation, volunteer engagement and a variety of other factors,” Rife said. “While this count can help us understand homelessness on a single night, getting to a place where we have comprehensive, real-time data regionally is the ultimate goal.”

The metro Denver region has made significant strides in decreasing its reliance on the onenight count, Rife said in a public statement. Instead, human service

providers and municipal leaders are working to improve participation with the region’s Homeless Management Information System to make daily homelessness data more accessible.

Outreach teams across the seven-county metro Denver area increasingly used the information system in 2022 to gain a more accurate real-time understanding of those living outdoors. The system also helped outreach teams better connect clients to human services and housing, Rife said.

While teams across the metro Denver area were able to locate and count 6,888 people on that single night this year in late January, the information system allowed them to estimate that the number of unhoused people is close to 31,000 throughout the course of the year, Rife said.

“This data highlights the dynamic nature of homelessness and the importance of real-time data to allow the region to coordinate effectively and allocate resources efficiently,” she said.

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In 2021, Arapahoe County reported 101 fentanyl-specific overdoses, which make up 56% of all reported overdoses that year. That number is a sharp increase from 2020 when there were 69 fentanyl overdoses, accounting for nearly 47% of all overdose deaths, though fentanyl was still the leading drug for overdoses that year.

Douglas County saw its biggest spike in fentanyl overdoses in 2020, with nine fentanyl overdose deaths that accounted for 18% of all overdoses that year. Numbers in 2021 were similar with seven fentanyl overdoses, making up 16% of overdoses.

It’s left law enforcement and harm reduction advocates at odds over how best to respond to a mounting crisis that took the lives of more than 900 Coloradans last year. And the state’s new law, the Fentanyl Accountability And Prevention Act — which went into effect July 1 — is set to once again test the theories of criminalization versus risk mitigation for drug users.

A growing emergency For area police, the crisis is daily.

“I would say that fentanyl overdoses have exploded,” Englewood Police Sgt. Brian Cousineau said.

“If not daily, every other day we’re dealing with something related to an overdose.”

A synthetic opioid, fentanyl is said to be 50 to 100 times more potent than heroin or morphine, according to the CDC, with a potentially lethal dose being about 2 to 3 milligrams. Part of what has made the substance such a threat is its presence in nearly every opioid available on the black market.

“It’s everywhere,” said Cousineau, who said fentanyl is frequently found in “blues,” slang for drugs such as Valium and Xanax, which are typically used to treat anxiety, insomnia, and seizures.

But fentanyl has also made its way into heroin, meth, cocaine and MDMA — more commonly known as molly. Since fentanyl’s presence has cast such a wide net — from black market prescription drugs to popular recreational substances — and because of how cheap it is to mass produce, law enforcement is seeing the drug threaten a spectrum of people who are young and old, regular and irregular users.

Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said a majority of overdoses police are responding to involve fentanyl mixed with another drug, such as cocaine.

“Douglas County is an uppermiddle-class community and we’re seeing it in that community, finding people in their homes,” Spurlock said. “It’s not the image people conjure up when you think of a drug abuser.”

Data provided in April show narcotics and drug violations were up 28% over last year in Douglas County, Spurlock said.

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trict based in Arapahoe County, said the time is now to impose harsher punishments on dealers of fentanyl — and other potential fentanyl-carrying drugs — in a bid to curb overdoses.

“Our approach is to go after the dealers and suppliers and hold them accountable,” Kellner said, adding that his office is pursuing “significant prison sentences” for producers and sellers of the drug.

Kellner recently touted what his office called a large-scale drug bust in May that led to the seizure of 200,000 fentanyl pills along with 9.4 pounds of heroin, a kilogram of cocaine and four guns. It also resulted in the indictment of eight people believed to be involved with drug trafficking, Kellner said.

That announcement was joined by one from Brian Besser, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Denver Field Division, who said his office had aided in the “largest fentanyl seizure on any U.S. highway,” when state patrol officers found 114 pounds of fentanyl powder in the back of a vehicle on Interstate 70 traveling toward Denver.

But the seizure, which took place in June, failed to produce law enforcement with its greater goal: the suppliers.

After initially agreeing to lead DEA agents to supposed kingpins in South Bend, Indiana, the driver evaded authorities and escaped, a detail Besser did not mention during a July 6 press conference detailing the bust. It only came to light after a story from the Denver Gazette, which obtained the driver’s arrest warrant.

The vast majority of prosecution has instead fallen on low-level dealers and users.

Need for harm reduction The criminalization of fentanyl, and all drugs, has only led to worse overdose outcomes, said Lisa Raville, executive director for the Harm Reduction Action

‘Douglas County is an upper-middle-class community and we’re seeing it in that community, finding people in their homes.

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“We’ve never been able to arrest our way out of drug use … all it’s done is put us in the overdose crisis that we’re in as well as led to unsafe drug supplies,” Raville said.

The action center, based in Denver, works with drug users to reduce their overdose chances and make drug use safer. The nonprofit organization’s multi-pronged approach includes providing clean syringes for safe injection, supplying users with drug and HIV testing, getting users access to life-saving naloxone and engaging in community outreach and education.

The center sees about 75 to 125 people per day, according to Raville, with about 12,000 people who’ve signed up for its services over the past 10 years.

A staunch supporter for harm reduction policies and practices, Raville said she is discouraged with the direction law enforcement has taken toward fentanyl, which she feels has been spurred by the state’s new law.

“We feel that the messaging in law enforcement has actually gone backward,” Raville said.

Along with more emphasis on law enforcement-led investigations into opioid use and deaths, the

law will also require emergency medical providers, coroners and law enforcement officials to participate in a state wide program to map overdose deaths. Raville fears this could dissuade more people from calling 911 for help with an overdose as it will likely attract more police attention.

“We can’t count on the fact that law enforcement won’t come,” Raville said.

But perhaps the most consequential decision by Colorado lawmakers was to drop the amount needed to charge a felony for fentanyl from 4 grams to 1.

That’s the equivalent of about 10 pills, according to Englewood Sgt. Cousineau. Raville said the law now puts many of her clients at major legal risk as most carry between five and 20 pills on them at a time.

Instead of pursuing criminal charges, Raville said the key to combating the fentanyl crisis is providing more resources to drug users, from testing to a safe supply of drugs.

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during the pandemic and recently opened a brick and mortar location in Castle Rock to offer the area’s first community recovery center.

“I want all options to recovery to be in one space to allow people to figure out what’s best for them and recover,” Garcia said of Hard Beauty’s mission.

The impetus for Garcia to offer peer recovery services came from her own experiences trying to get sober, she said. Garcia found few resources outside of Alcoholics Anonymous and Celebrate Recovery groups, which didn’t work for her. Ultimately, she found help at Parker’s Valley Hope, a residential treatment center.

“It just felt like we could do better and actually I knew we could better,” she said. “I want to open up the space and discussion of recovery to make it big. Especially in high affluence areas.”

Hard Beauty is also working to obtain housing to help provide sober living and recovery support past the initial rehab period.

“Even if the cops can get you to jail or treatment, if you want to live in a sober environment, there’s no supportive housing in Douglas County,” she said. “You need long-term support for longterm change.”

The state-wide law does make some inroads for harm reduction policies, with $19.7 million for a bulk purchase of naloxone (a common brand of which is Narcan), $10 million for treatment centers and $600,000 for fentanyl testing strips.

But lawmakers should go further, said Raville, and allow for safe injection and smoking sites for drug users where they can be aided by trained medical staff to avoid an overdose.

“We need to be innovative and we need to be using evidencebased solutions,” Raville said, adding that such a proposal has been piloted in other countries and has helped drive down overdose rates.

Looking for solutions Police in the south metro area said while they’re obligated to enforce the laws around fentanyl they also see the benefit, and need, for harm reduction approaches.

“My job isn’t to judge how the person got into the position that they are in, my job is to get them care,” Littleton Police Sgt. Brant Dimoeck said. “The average person that we talk to … they’re not bad people. They have an addiction. They have an issue.”

Sheriff Spurlock said he agrees with the importance of addiction treatment as a tool, noting there are few resources available in jails for people with substance use issues. Drug rehab programs are a possibility, but medicatedassisted treatment, one of the more successful recovery tools, is typically not offered.

“Our jail is not designed for that,” Spurlock said.

Increasing treatment facilities would benefit law enforcement,

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not only by alleviating burdens on jails, but also by helping to prevent crime, Spurlock said.

However, Spurlock still thinks law enforcement has an important role when it comes to responding to drugs in the community.

In Spurlock’s experience, there is significant overlap between people arrested for drug violations and people arrested for property crimes.

“If you have significant and adequate facilities for treatment, you will reduce crime,” he said.

“But it’s also important to remember there are individuals out committing multiple crimes so that they can feed their habit and they have to pay for that behavior.”

When responding to someone who may be overdosing, police said medical attention takes priority.

Naloxone, which is a quick-acting antidote for overdoses, is used frequently to revive individuals, police said. Spurlock estimates Douglas County officers are having to use naloxone on a weekly basis.

Arrests are typically not made during these encounters, according to Englewood Sgt. Cousineau, so long as the individual overdosing has no more than a “personal use amount,” which is 1 gram of fentanyl — about 10 pills. The drug is usually confiscated and destroyed, Cousineau said.

“Part of it is compassion, we don’t want to put criminal charges on somebody who is in a state of distress,” he said.

Arrests can follow when an individual is found with more than one gram as well as when someone experiencing an overdose also commits other crimes in the process, such as causing a car accident, according to Cousineau.

But officers said they alone can’t always respond adequately to a situation. It’s why departments across the region, including Englewood, Littleton and Douglas County, have turned to

‘Our approach is to go after the dealers and suppliers and hold them accountable.’

John Kellner, district attorney co-responder programs to link police with trained clinicians when responding to certain calls, such as mental health concerns and drug use.

Officers said those trained professionals are able to better connect to, and build trust with, certain individuals in distress better than police can. Co-responders are also able to connect individuals with resources instead of jails, something DA Kellner said his office has also pursued.

The DA’s diversion program allows some people charged with drug possession to funnel into rehabilitation treatments that — if deemed successful — could see their cases dismissed or significantly reduced.

“This is not the justice system of the ‘80s and ‘90s,” Kellner said.

“It’s an all-above approach that’s going to solve this problem.”

According to 18th Judicial District spokesperson Eric Ross, 104 cases have been referred to the program, with 28 successfully completed, Ross said data on “failures versus those that are still in process,” is not available.

However, that option remains limited because of the lack of programs or facilities in the region offering addiction services.

Spurlock said Douglas County is reliant on partnerships with treatment programs or facilities in Denver.

But, for Raville, believing that law enforcement will be enough to wean the majority of individu-

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“People have been using drugs forever and ever and people will continue using drugs forever and ever,” Raville said.

Instead, Raville wants to see more honest conversation and education around drug use and how to be safe. She believes broad legalization, such as what has been done in Portland, Oregon, will create a safer supply for hard drugs that fentanyl will not be able to permeate.

“We have a safe supply in the United States right now, it’s called alcohol,” Raville said. “The United States has never done a good job of talking about drug use.”

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midnight July 20, 2022, at Aurora Water-wise Garden, located at 15151 E. Alameda Parkway, for a vigil.

Dearman was the first to present, welcoming people to the 10th annual midnight vigil and reflecting on the night that changed so many lives.

“Just after midnight on July 20, 2012, the city of Aurora, my hometown, was struck by tragedy when a gunman entered the Century 16 theater with ill intent.

“Seventy people were injured, including my cousin, Ashley, who was shot and paralyzed and also miscarried. Her 6-year-old daughter, Veronica, was with her that night and was also shot,” Dearman said.

“Sadly, Veronica succumbed to her injuries along with 11 other moviegoers whose lives were tragically cut short.”

Visiting the memorial: ‘A place of peace, hope and resilience’ For the first time, the vigil included a walkthrough tour of the 12 stones placed throughout the garden, the location of the memorial, that are dedicated to those killed in the shooting.

Fairy lights decorated the garden and a violinist performed as Dearman walked to each stone and shared information about the victims. Attendees followed behind her, many carrying small electric candles with them.

“We’ve never taken people through the tour of each stone before, so we didn’t know how that would work,” Dearman said after the vigil. “But, I think it was beautiful.”

In addition to the stones, a main feature of the memorial is the sculpture, “Ascentiate,” which features a sculpture of 83 cranes. Tiina Marie Coon, a member of the board of directors for 7/20 Memorial Foundation and mother of a theater survivor, said there are 70 white cranes to represent those who were injured, as well as 13 clear and silver cranes to represent the souls of lost loved ones, including Ashley Moser’s unborn child.

“All of the cranes are flying from all different directions. This represents the people in the theater that came from all over the world, in all walks of life,” Coon said. “It is where they meet in the center and rise together — that’s the ascentiate.”

The motivation behind the cranes

Community members gather shortly after midnight on July 20 near the memorial at Aurora Water-wise Garden for the victims of the Aurora theater shooting, which happened PHOTOS BY TAYLER SHAW July 20, 2012.

Additional candles were placed on the memorial stone for Veronica Moser-Sullivan, a 6-year-old who died in the Aurora theater shooting, in recognition of other children who have died in mass shootings, such as the Sandy Hook victims, Heather Dearman said.

Before the midnight vigil officially began on July 20, many people gathered behind the 12 crosses that recognize those killed in the Aurora theater shooting 10 years ago.

was the action of genuine kindness, she said. Following the shooting, a young boy named Nate Williams coordinated with his community to send 1,000 cranes to Aurora with messages of compassion.

“As a board, we have always felt that we wanted a non-memorial, memorial — a place of peace, hope and resilience. A place to rise above your tragedies. A place where all of the community can come and heal,” Coon said.

Throughout the night, people cried, laughed, prayed and embraced one another. Others visited the 12 white crosses placed along the sidewalk at the entrance of the vigil.

These crosses were made following the shooting and placed across the street of the movie theater as a temporary memorial, said Jansen Young, the chief operating officer of the 7/20 Memorial Foundation. Young is a survivor of the theater shooting.

Her boyfriend, Jonathan Blunk, was killed that night.

“We now place the crosses here every year. These crosses still provide a memorial and a marker for the lives lost. They are not just names on a cross. They are individuals. They are our loved ones,” Young said.

For Dearman, one of the standout moments from the vigil was the procession of first responders, called the “Hero’s Procession.” Attendees gathered and applauded on the curb of the street as first responders passed by in their vehicles.

Viki Snyder was among those clapping during the procession. Her daughter, Heather, was in the theater and was shot three times.

“We lost her five years later,” Snyder said. She said her daughter’s death wasn’t a direct result of the shooting. “She couldn’t get her head back together.”

Snyder said her daughter was smiling all the time and was everybody’s friend. “She was an amazing person,” she said.

Stephen Barton, a survivor of the shooting, reflects on that night Stephen Barton had been traveling across the country with a friend for about six weeks when they stopped in Aurora to stay with another friend who offered to host them overnight on July 19, 2012.

“We offered, to her, to take her to the movies to thank her for hosting us,” Barton said.

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and investing $250 million in funding for community-based violence prevention initiatives, according to a news release from Crow’s office.

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celebrate his 27th birthday.

“Tomorrow would be the day my son, Alex, would be turning 37,” Sullivan said. “This is a tough day.

Knew it was coming — I hope that all of the other survivors and victims have the ability to get through the day. We’re all in this together.”

Sullivan, a Centennial resident and Democrat who represents Colorado House District 37, said while his daughter, wife and mom would be at the midnight vigil held July 20 in honor of those impacted by the shooting, he would be at home, babysitting his granddaughter, Molly, who will never get to meet her uncle.

“I’ll probably be telling her some stories about him as we set through the night,” he said.

Survivor recounts her experience, voices support for gun reform A survivor of the theater shooting, Jenalise Long, recounted her experience, saying it feels like the shooting happened just yesterday.

“My heart stays with the victims and families, as I know it really never does get easier. The day of the shooting [replays] in my head quite frequently, almost daily,” Long said.

Long was in the Air Force at the time and had been stationed in Colorado for just a few months, she said.

New friends invited her to go to see “The Dark Knight Rises” in the Aurora Century 16 theater, a lastminute decision. They were sitting

Twelve crosses were placed on the ground at a midnight vigil on July 20, recognizing PHOTO BY TAYLER SHAW the 12 people killed in the Aurora theater shooting 10 years prior.

in the fifth row of the theater.

Shortly after the movie began, Long said she saw a man walk in the emergency exit door. He was covered in what she later found out was tactical gear.

“I didn’t think anything of it until something flew over my head.

I recognized the smell from basic training — it was tear gas,” Long said. “We dropped to the ground and heard gunfire. We crawled out of the theater and were only not undercover for a couple of seconds. Our lastminute seating and decision making and military training is what saved our lives.”

Long now works with the Aurora Veterans Affairs Commission, the

nonprofit Pull Your Heart Out and the nonprofit Colorado ResilientLife Center.

She is an advocate for gun reform and called the recently passed Bipartisan Safer Communities Act pivotal. She said it identifies the largest concerns of many veterans: the accessibility of mental health resources and implementing more enhanced review processes for gun procurement.

In June, President Biden signed the bill into law, making it the first major federal gun safety legislation passed in about 30 years. Some of its provisions include expanding mental health services, enhancing background checks for people under 21

As gun deaths have increased since 2012, Crow calls the bill’s passage a ‘first step’ Crow, a Centennial resident and Colorado Democrat who represents Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, was among those who voted in support of the bill. He said early on, he dedicated his time in Congress to address gun violence through advocating for efforts like assault weapons bans, red flag laws and background checks.

“I learned in the Army, many years ago, that there are rights in America, but rights come with responsibilities,” Crow said. “And we, unfortunately, for far too long, have failed in upholding those responsibilities to each other to keep each other safe, to keep each other free from fear.”

The Colorado Sun reported that gun deaths, the rates of gun deaths and gun sales in Colorado have increased since 2012.

Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also shows that in 2020, firearm-related injuries became the leading cause of death among those aged 1 to 19, according to The New England Journal of Medicine. Previously, motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause.

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Both Barton and the friend they were visiting were shot. The third friend was thankfully not shot, and all three survived, he said.

“I was shot with a shotgun,” Barton said. “And so, basically, my upper torso and my neck and face received like two dozen pieces of metal, about.”

He said the pieces of metal narrowly missed his internal organs and arteries, and he was bleeding heavily. Police did not wait for an ambulance and directly transported him to the hospital, where he was taken to surgery.

“I was just very fortunate, and I really credit them for the great job that they did that night,” Barton said about the police.

Barton still has some pieces of metal in his body today, but other than some nerve damage in his left arm and scar tissue, he mostly doesn’t have lingering injuries. His friend who was shot has also made a really good recovery, he said.

The midnight vigil was the first time that Barton visited the memorial. He said it was hard to put into words how it felt to be at the vigil, because in some ways, it feels like what happened was in the distant past and had happened to another person.

Barton said the atmosphere casted his mind back to that “really dark and difficult time” and also showed how people have grown since then, which he said is something to cel-

The crane sculpture, “Ascentiate,” features 83 cranes. The 70 white cranes represent those injured in the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, said Tiina Marie Coon, a member of the board of directors for 7/20 Memorial Foundation and mother of a theater survivor, on July PHOTOS BY TAYLER SHAW 20.

People applauded as the ambulance and police cars drove by as part of the “Hero’s Procession” on July 20.

ebrate.

Some good things came out of that night for Barton, he said. For example, he started a job advocating for stronger gun laws, and it was through that job that he befriended someone who later introduced him to his wife, Sarah, in 2016.

“It’s just a mix of many different feelings,” Barton said. “Because it could have just so easily gone in a different way. And being, you know, standing here and hearing the stories and seeing the crosses really drives that home.”

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more severe and that he had a strong support system. At the same time, both Barton and his wife expressed frustration about how mass shootings continue to be an issue in the U.S. “I think that back then, in the immediate aftermath, I had more of a hope that things could change.

And the last few months have kind of driven home how much work still has to be done,” he said. “And it really doesn’t feel like we’re improving or making this problem any better.”

Sarah Barton said it was wonderful to see the community gather and interact with one another during the

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Colorado have also followed since 2012, including the 2015 Colorado Springs shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic, the 2019 STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting, the 2021 Boulder King Soopers shooting and the 2021 Colorado Springs shooting at the Canterbury Mobile Home Park. In 2013, two people died after a shooting at Arapahoe High School in Centennial.

“I have the terrible duty of recognizing and mourning with our community over too many terrible anniversaries. Our community has borne its disproportionate burden of gun violence,” Crow said. “We live in a community that’s been scarred and traumatized on a massive scale.”

Jayla Hemphill, who represents both Colorado and Pennsylvania on the National Advisory Board for Students Demand Action, a national initiative of young activists advocating for gun reform, said the legislation is incredibly important.

“Alongside the right to live is the right to bear arms — a right that should also be upheld. We can protect that right and we can protect people, and that is unmistakably what this legislation acts to do,” Hemphill said.

Crow said this legislation is the first step, not the last, and there is much more to be done.

To continue passing gun reform legislation, Hemphill said, “It’s the power of the vote that moves us forward and really propels this message

vigil, but that it’s hard to be optimistic because “these things shouldn’t happen in the first place.”

Although he doesn’t live in Colorado, Barton wanted to come and attend the vigil because he thinks there is something powerful in the act of remembering, and he has a soft spot in his heart for Colorado.

After walking through the memorial, he said it’s clear how much thought went into creating it, and that it’s inspiring to see so many people at the vigil who have been bonded through what happened.

“There’s no minimizing how unjust and senseless something like this is,” Barton said, calling the shooting horribly tragic. “But, I’m really glad that they’re keeping, sort of, this memory alive. And the memorial is really a beautiful physical tribute — physical manifestation — of that.”

that we’re trying to convey.”

Sullivan agreed, saying a person like himself would not have gotten elected 10 years ago.

“It was your votes that got me elected twice. That beat back a recall against me,” Sullivan said. “So, your votes are working. Continue to vote and let your representatives know what you want them to do, by calling them, emailing them, texting them — whatever it takes.”

In his time in office, Sullivan has helped lead gun reform efforts such as sponsoring the 2019 Extreme Risk Protection Orders bill, also referred to as “red flag laws,” and the 2021 bill that established the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. He plans to continue gun reform work in the next legislative session.

“Here in the state of Colorado, we had legislation that didn’t get introduced, to raise the minimum age of the purchase of assault-style weapons from 18 to 21. The plan is for us to bring that forward,” Sullivan said.

The recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, were both committed by 18-year-olds.

Crow concluded the conference by thanking Sullivan, Long and Hemphill for their leadership efforts and sharing their stories.

“This is a tragic anniversary, and we will continue to push hard on this to make sure that the losses of our loved ones…are not in vain, and that we prevent other people from having to go through the same,” Crow said.

Those interested in finding out who their elected officials are and how to contact them can do so by visiting the website myreps.datamade.us/.

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The Englewood Police Department said July 18 that no kidnapping occurred after a resident said she saw a woman in a car who may have been in danger July 12.

“It is believed that the female and the driver of the vehicle knew each other, and therefore it was not a random incident.

There is no known threat to the community in relation to this,” said Investigator Scot Allen.

The response came after Englewood resident Heather Martin said she saw a woman who appeared to be trapped in a car near Eastman Avenue and Grant Street on the morning of July 12.

Martin said she was in her car at the corner of East Eastman and South Grant at 11:55 a.m. when she saw the vehicle — a four-door sedan — driving east on Eastman.

“I immediately was concerned,” Martin said. “It was really crazily violently swerving back and forth.”

Martin said she began to pull over to the side of the road and, just before the car passed her, she saw its driver’s side back door “fly open.”

As the car passed, Martin said she saw a woman in the back kicking her legs with her hands crossed above her head, as if she were bound.

“She was kicking her feet really

violently like she was trying to drop out of the car,” Martin said.

Martin said the woman screamed for help twice with “every ounce of breath that she had.”

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Lone Tree council supports RTD’s August zero fare program Members want to increase promotion

“Programs to Reduce Ozone Through Increased Transit,” which passed in May. The bill created an ozone season transit grant program, that is funded at $28 million, in the Colorado Energy Office. The office can provide grants of up to $3 million to transit associations and $11 million to the RTD each year. The program is set to repeal July 1, 2024.

RTD can use the grant funding to replace farebox revenue, to pay for other program expenses and to cover up to 80% of the costs of providing at least 30 days of free transit on all RTD services, according to the bill.

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Lone Tree City Council unanimously approved a resolution in support of zero fare transit in August for the Regional Transportation District (RTD) during its July 19 meeting, and city staff and council members spoke about the need to get the word out to residents.

“This is a really exciting program. It’s something that I hope we can communicate out and really start to see a lot of this transit use come back, and I know this resolution was something of interest,” said Justin Schmitz, the director of public works and mobility who presented the resolution.

What is ‘Zero Fare for Better Air’ and how is it funded?

For the month of August, residents do not have to pay fares to ride the RTD as part of the statewide initiative, “Zero Fare for Better Air,” that aims to reduce ground level ozone by increasing use of public transit, according to RTD’s website.

The initiative was made possible through Senate Bill 22-180,

RTD buses at a stop in the northwest Denver metro area in February. RTD’s buses and PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD rail lines run near many notable destinations in the Denver suburbs.

Ozone concerns persist in Colorado A goal of the grant program is for the RTD and transit associations to provide free transit services for at least 30 days during ozone season in an effort to reduce the level of ozone pollution in Colorado. Ozone season runs from June 1 through August 31 each year, as defined in the bill.

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“D” for particle pollution.

On July 22, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Regional Air Quality Council issued an “Ozone Action Day Alert” for the Front Range Urban Corridor from Douglas County north to Larimer and Weld counties, including the Denver to Boulder area, Fort Collins and Greeley, according to the department’s website. Hot and stagnant conditions allowed ozone concentrations to reach levels that are unhealthy for sensitive groups, according to the website.

According to the Colorado Energy Office’s website, “Reducing vehicle traffic by encouraging the use of public transit is one key strategy to help reduce ozoneforming emissions and ground level ozone during the summer months.”

However, transit ridership has yet to return to its pre-pandemic levels. “Encouraging more people to ride transit is one essential strategy to achieve reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution,” the office’s website stated.

Lone Tree council discusses getting word out about the program “Obviously, there’s a lot of great goals here. Some of the big ones that they talked about in the com-

munity is this will allow people to save money, improve air quality, and most importantly, save money on gas, which I think we’d all like to do right now,” Schmitz said.

Councilmember Marissa Harmon said she wants to make sure the city is advertising the program to residents as much as possible.

Mayor Jackie Millet agreed, saying, “It is an important issue, and I’m going to challenge all of us to do something on transit.”

Millet said a challenge could be taking public transit to Greenwood Village for lunch, prompting some at the meeting to laugh.

Laughter from council members and others in the room continued as she said she thinks the City of Lone Tree should challenge the City of Greenwood Village to do an exchange program and see how many people they can get on the light rail to visit the other city for lunch.

Millet also said she shared information about the program with a number of the city’s large employers, such as at Sky Ridge Medical Center and Kiewit.

“Any creative way that any of you in this room, in any capacity that you serve this region, because we all are servants of this region — getting this word out and through your various channels would be greatly appreciated,” Millet said.

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ne of the things I love about being an editor is going to meetings, forums, focus groups and awards banquets. I get to meet a lot of different people and listen to a lot of opinions, discussions and topics.

Recently, in a roundtable discussion, a group of us talked about housing affordability. In that discusFROM THE sion, we talked about how our workforce is being pushed out of the housing market EDITOR completely. Of course, in asking why — some of the answers that sadly are reality — worries me.

When I say workforce, I am talking about our teachers, our police officers, our firefighters, our government employees and those who make our everyday lives possible. However, somehow, society has decided they are also the people we do not Thelma Grimes want as our neighbors. We have communities saying: Come here and work and teach our children, protect us, take care of our needs — but do not live here.

The problem with this mentality is the valued workforce is going to move on. We are going to get fewer of them in our communities as they move to states and towns where people want them. That is our loss.

My son’s kindergarten teacher, a 20-year educator and an awesome person, said she grew up in a house behind the school she currently teaches. However, on her salary, she couldn’t afford to live there now. Is that really the kind of world we want?

The idea that renters bring down our communities is also just nonsense. To afford to live in most of the housing communities in Douglas County and most of Arapahoe County — the rent costs are more than my mortgage. We have great neighbors who rent. We had horrible neighbors, who fortunately moved away, who owned their home.

Perception is everything these days and I am having a hard time understanding the belief some have about affordable housing creating a community nuisance.

Having loud groups fight every time a developer or elected body tries to bring more affordable options into a community has to change. That change has to come from those casting the votes. At some point, our elected officials have to take a stand and say a strong, steady workforce is what is needed to keep an economy on track. They have to start voting and finding solutions that help working families survive.

This trickles down to those young adults just entering the workforce as well. In listening to a 20-year-old out of college, he said he is living with his dad and there is no way he could afford to live in Douglas County where he grew up. There are no options for him.

That means our young, educated workforce will seek employment elsewhere and another state’s gain is going to be our loss. It is a loss we might now feel now but we will in the future.

For those fighting the affordable housing concept — go back to your younger days when you were trying to find your footing in this world. Would you have been as successful in a market like we have today? How would you have gotten your first apartment? Paid for your first home?

We need to create growth and opportunity for all levels of society and not just a select few who think they deserve the best houses, best views and best of everything without giving up something in return.

Thelma Grime is the south metro editor for Colorado Community Media.`

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orking with Zig Ziglar was truly a blessing in so many ways. Whenever he would meet someone in the afternoon or evening, he would greet them with a big smile and an enthusiastic and cheerful, “Good WINNING morning.” The person on the WORDS receiving end would almost always reply with, “Good morning to you too.” And then would catch themselves saying, “But it’s not morning.” And Zig would reply with a question, “Well then why did you say good morning?” And the person would say, “Because you said good Michael Norton morning.”

That’s where the teaching would begin as Zig would remind the person that we get back what we put out, giving the person an aha moment. We know that when trying something like this, that it all comes down to the delivery. And Zig was so easygoing and good hearted that no one ever took offense to his mini lessons of life.

Another story he would share from the stage is this one. A woman and her 6-year-old son were at home one day. The family lived on a mountain range and overlooked a valley.

One day the young boy was getting into some

mischief as young boys tend to do, and his mother disciplined him and withheld his afternoon snack until he would apologize. The boy ran out of the house slamming the door behind him yelling, “I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.” And as he did a young boy’s voice echoed from the valley saying, “I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.”

Terrified, the boy ran back into his house and into his mother’s arms crying. He told her that there was a boy in the valley yelling that he hates me. The mom knowing full well it was the echo encouraged her son to go back outside and shout, “I love you, I love you, I love you,” and see what happens.

The boy did as instructed, and the voice was heard echoing in return, “I love you, I love you, I love you.”

We really do get back what we give out.

Even a smile. Keeping with my Zig Ziglar theme, Zig would always encourage people by saying, “If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.”

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Parker may need to raise taxes or slash services in next decade As build-out nears, revenues projected to decline

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Over the next 10 years, the Town of Parker may need to either reduce its services or raise taxes, according to a presentation given to the town council July 18.

That’s in part because as the town nears build-out, revenue growth is projected to slow significantly, said Mary Lou Brown, finance director for the town.

“We need to really have some serious conversations about tax increases or material new revenue sources, probably within the next couple of years,” she said.

The current projections show the town’s cash flow balance dipping low and in some cases going negative between now and 2032.

“The projected general fund cash balance is inadequate beginning in 2030 and the recreation fund balance is inadequate in 2031,” according to the presentation. “The parks and recreations and public improvement funds have years where the cash balance dips too low.”

Some of the factors beyond build out that are impacting the town’s financial state are inflation, the possibility for recession, staff growth to keep up with an increasing population and aging infrastructure.

The town expects to see declines in revenue growth from building permits, property taxes, sales tax, use tax and excise tax.

The town’s sales tax is forecasted to grow at a rate of 8% in 2023, 7% in 2024 and 5% from 2025 to 2032, according to the presentation. The excise tax revenue is expected to grow until 2026 then remain flat.

The use tax is projected to decline.

Mayor Jeff Toborg told the town

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we say. If we say good morning at 5:00 at night, they may respond by saying good morning back. We must remember that what we are yelling from the mountaintop or by email, text, or social media, that we will also get back what we put out. So why not put out more loving kindness, and reasonableness?

In 1914 during World War I, the Americans, French and Germans, put aside their war for a short time to meet on the battlefield to celebrate Christmas, exchanging gifts, food and stories. This was a world war, and yet they found common ground. After a heavily contested boxing match or UFC bout, the fighters do their best to win, but when the fight is over, they meet in the middle and hug or acknowledge the other out

Parker Mayor Jeff Toborg delivers the State of the Town address May 12 at the PACE PHOTO BY ELLIOTT WENZLER Center.

council in April that he plans to lead a citizen’s initiative to repeal the portion of sales tax that comes from purchases of food from home consumption, also known as the grocery tax. Town council members stated they had not approved such a measure and legal staff recommended Toborg make clear he’s not speaking on behalf of council when he supports the measure.

Following the finance presentation, Toborg confirmed his citizen group is still working to put the repeal question on the ballot.

To address the coming decreases in funds, the town can either grow taxes, or reduce or cut some of their services. Brown also suggested the town could offset declines in the recreation fund by raising the charges for such services.

The public improvement fund will have “too low” of a cash balance between 2024 and 2027, according to the presentation. That department is expecting $199 mil-

of respect. It happens in other sports too. When the game is over, regardless of who won or lost, you can see players who just spent 60 minutes in battle, kneeling in prayer, or talking to each other and smiling. Maybe they played in college or met while they were on the same team at some point. But once the battle is over, they come together in such a great way.

How about you? Are you greeting and treating people with kindness and respect? Are you sharing your smile with someone who doesn’t have one? I would love to hear you story at mnorton@xinnix.com, and when we find a way to come together to create a better world, it really will a better than good life.

Michael Norton is the grateful president of XINNIX, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

lion in expenditures over the next 10 years.

Some of those projects and their projected costs include: • Dransfeldt Road extension, south of Twenty Mile Road: $21.4 million • Lincoln Avenue widening between Keystone Boulevard and Parker Road, $18.8 million • Crowfoot Valley Road widening from Stroh Road to town limits, $14.7 million • Chambers Road widening at Stroh Road and Crowfoot Valley Road, $11.2 million • Stroh Road widening between J Morgan Boulevard and Motsenbocker Road, $10.3 million • Jordan Road and Lincoln Avenue improvements, $6.9 million • J Morgan Boulevard extension to Reata, $6.8 million Brown added that everything within the town’s budget is connected and small changes such as staff raises could have a big impact.

“There is no decision that we make that is a standalone decision,” she said. “Everything impacts something else in one way or another.”

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Get out and about at Hudson Gardens

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lowers are blooming around Hudson Gardens, 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive in Littleton, and trails invite strolling.

Admission is free. Added attraction: at 11 a.m. to noon on July 30 and 31 will be “Father Featherbottom’s Fairy Tales.” On the grass — bring a blanket to sit on. Finnian and Florian of Audacious Theatre will have puppets to help with storytelling. Tickets needed. They seem to range from free to $5, $10 or $15, or they’ll pass a hat, they say. See audacioustheatre.com.

Contact: Ren Manley, 720-445-5242.

Bird walks are also scheduled at Hudson Gardens. Or just wander in and enjoy Evelyn and King Hudson’s gift to us all.

Depot Art Gallery The All Colorado Show will be exhibited through Aug. 27 at the Depot Gallery, 2069 W. Powers Ave., Littleton. Open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays. Free admission.

See depotartgallery.org.

Town Hall Arts Center The Stanton Gallery at Littleton’s Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., holds its Wild West exhibit through Sept. 11. Open during box office hours or view online: depotartgallery.org. Paintings, mixed media and photography.

Mosaics “Mosaics 2022: As Seen Through New Eyes” is presented by Foot-

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hills Art Center in Golden, in cooperation with the Colorado Mosaic Artists, through Oct. 2. Juried by Yulia Hanansen and Foothills curator Eriq Hochuli. Admission free. Foothills Art Center: 809 15th St., Golden. 303-279-3922, foothillsartcenter. org.

Curious Theatre Incoming artistic director is Jada Suzanne Dixon, who worked with outgoing Producing Artistic Director Chip Walton to curate a 25th Anniversary Season, based on the question: “What does it mean to be an American? Watch for: “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” “Amerikin,” “Franklinland,” “Alma” and “On the Exhale.” Single tickets on sale Aug. 1. Curious is at 1030 Acoma St., Denver 303-623-0524.

Tickets: $32-$53. curioustheatre.org.

Comedy “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m in Therapy!” featuring Peter J. Fogel will play Aug. 3 to 21 at the Lakewood Cultural Center, 480 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Plays 7:30 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday; 2 p.m. Thursday, Saturday, Sunday. Tickets $45-$65: PlayHouseInfo.com, 303-987-7845 or in person.

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Douglas County Libraries “Hansel and Gretel: Gingerbread Cottage,” a benefit for Douglas County Library Foundation, will happen from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 27 at Lone Tree Library, which will become a fabled forest. Entertainment, food, drinks, dance. Bring little ones in costume. (You can dress up too!)

Tickets: $50, adults; $25, child. dcl. org.

DMNS The Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, will feature “60 Minutes in Space” at 7 p.m. August 31 in

the Ricketson Auditorium. Also on Aug. 31, time to be announced: Scientists in action, live from the International Space Station. Check for more information at the DMNS. dmns.org.

Performance Now Performance Now Theatre Company announces its new season: “A Grand Night for Singing,” Sept.

9-25; “Little Women,” Jan. 6-22, 2023; “Carousel,” March 17-April 2; “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” June 10-16. All performances at Lakewood Cultural Center, 480 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. performancenow.org.

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Notable building marks 150 years Former general store goes back to early days of metro area

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On July 30, Historic Littleton Inc. invites interested folks to join the organization at 2 p.m. in celebrating the 150th anniversary of the J.D. Hill General Store at 5728/5738 S. Rapp Street (just east of the Bowles Avenue and Santa Fe Drive intersection). A brief walking tour along South Rapp Street will follow, introducing other important nearby buildings as well, including the Richard Little House and the Columbine Mill.

HLI member Rebecca Kast writes: “Picture the J.D. Hill building with horses tied up to the posts ... This was the economic center of the little hamlet of Littleton. The mill was here, a hotel, the church and a schoolhouse were built nearby. With the road to Santa Fe right in front, it was a convenient stop for travelers. The J.D. Hill Store was Littleton’s first general store and post office. This is a two-story, wood clapboard building with three chimneys of corbeled brick. It has been remodeled extensively. The social activities of Littleton revolved around

The J.D. Hill General Store building at Rapp Street and Alamo Avenue is marking its 150th anniversary.

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J.D. Hill was born in Massachusetts and arrived in Denver in 1866. He cut hay along the South Platte River and worked at assorted odd jobs. He arrived in Littleton in 1870 and worked at the Rough and Ready Flourmill. In 1872 he built a large two-story white frame building and stocked hay, coal, groceries and dry goods. It was also the first post office and both Richard Little and Hill served as postmaster ...

The building also served as meeting place for Catholic, Methodist and Christian Science churches and the Odd Fellows Lodge. The town was incorporated in 1890 and Hill served on the first city council, and again in 1895-1896. The building served as a town hall until 1920 when the Italianate building on Main Street was completed.

The first drugstore was on the present site of the Masonic Hall, operated by Hill’s brother, Oscar.

Hill married Inez Berry in 1876 and they had one daughter, Eva. In 1884, with J.S. Morse, Hill built the Littleton Creamery next to the general store on Alamo Street and his first home was on the north side of Main Street, near the present location of Bradford

Auto Body. The creamery was part of a larger facility and by 1888, it was processing milk from 1,000 dairy cows, belonging to farmers who brought their milk into Littleton. By 1902, the creamery building was used as Littleton’s first high school and by 1908 the Christ Scientist Church used the building for religious services.

Hill was also one of the organizers of the First National Bank in Littleton, which closed during the Depression.

For a time, the building served as residences and it’s not certain when the front porch was added.

The Littleton Flower Shop and Pongo Lifestyles fill the Hill Building’s storefronts today. The florist has been in Littleton at other locations for many years. Pongo means orangutan, according to assistant manager Anne Kiley, who said the store carries clothing, accessories, jewelry, gifts, shoes, pet items and more. The owner is Ronna Phillips, who is active in supporting rainforest projects and volunteers with the apes at the Denver Zoo. To join the celebration and walk, find a parking place in the neighborhood and appear at the former J.D. Hill General Store at 2 p.m. (Note: Historic Littleton Inc. welcomes new members.)

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A look at the statewide gun regulations adopted after Aurora theater shooting No fewer than 10 statewide changes to gun policy have been adopted

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

The 2012 Aurora theater shooting, which left 12 people dead and 70 others injured, prompted Colorado Democrats to immediately begin pursuing tighter regulations on firearms.

Since the attack 10 years ago Wednesday, no fewer than 10 statewide changes to gun policy have been adopted, making Colorado one of the nation’s most progressive states when it comes to firearm regulations.

Here’s a detailed look at how Colorado’s gun policies have changed over the past 10 years: A 15-round gun magazine limit Three big gun regulation changes were made during Colorado’s 2013 legislative session, the first lawmaking term after the Aurora theater shooting.

The most controversial of the three was a bill imposing a 15-round limit on gun magazines.

The gunman in the theater shooting used a semi-automatic, AR-15style rifle with a 100-round drum attached. The gun jammed, preventing him from inflicting more carnage, but the circumstances of the shooting led state lawmakers to take a hard look at magazines and whether they should be regulated.

Opponents of the law have filed lawsuits trying to overturn it, arguing that the policy is unconstitutional, but have been unsuccessful.

Several states have passed similar magazine limitations since.

A 9News investigation in 2019 found that some Colorado gun stores were still selling magazines with a capacity greater than 15 rounds despite the 2013 law.

Universal background checks The other major regulation adopted during the 2013 legislative ses-

Ten years after the Aurora theater shooting, Colorado has passed some legislation to SHUTTERSTOCK enforce stricter gun laws.

sion was a bill requiring universal background checks for gun purchases and transfers in Colorado.

There are some exceptions, including when the gun is being transferred as a gift or loan between family members, or the firearm is being transferred temporarily for use at a shooting range or for hunting.

Violators of the background check requirement could be charged with a Class 1 misdemeanor and be barred from possessing a gun for two years.

A third bill passed in 2013 requires the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to recoup the costs of completing a background check.

Red flag law The passage of the 2013 gun laws resulted in political backlash for Colorado Democrats.

Two Democratic state senators, including the Senate president, were recalled as a result and a third resigned to avoid being recalled.

Democrats then lost their majority in the Senate in the 2014 elections and didn’t win it back until the 2018 elections.

During the period when Republicans controlled the state Senate, consequential gun legislation in Colorado did not pass.

When Democrats regained control of the legislature in 2019, they used their new majority to pass a so-called red flag gun bill, which lets judges order the temporary seizure of firearms from people deemed a significant risk to themselves or others. People subject to an extremerisk protection order are also temporarily barred from purchasing guns.

Here’s how the law works: Law enforcement or someone close to a gun owner petitions a judge to have that person’s firearms temporarily seized through the civil court system. If the order is granted, the judge must rule within 14 days whether to extend the seizure period and prevent the person from purchasing more guns for up to 364 days.

The policy has been used dozens of times in Colorado to temporarily seize guns from people.

Republicans again initiated recalls after the 2019 legislative session, in large part because of the red flag law, but all of those efforts were unsuccessful, empowering Democrats to keep pushing on gun regulations.

Safe storage No new gun regulations were passed in 2020 by the Colorado legislature, which had its hands full

trying to respond to COVID-19.

In 2021, however, Democrats began pursuing new gun control measures with an eye toward preventing suicides and accidental gun deaths.

One of those was a bill that passed and was signed into law requiring Coloradans who own guns to store their weapons in a gun safe or with a trigger or cable lock when the owner knows or should reasonably know that a “juvenile or a resident who is ineligible to possess a firearm can gain access to the firearm.”

The guns don’t have to be stored in a safe or with a trigger or cable lock if the owner is carrying the weapon or if they place it in a “secure container which a reasonable person would believe to be secure.” Antique firearms are also exempt from the law.

Violators of the law could be charged with a Class 2 misdemeanor offense. People charged with the crime can argue that the gun wasn’t safely stored because a juvenile needed to gain access to the weapon for self-defense or to defend livestock.

The law also requires licensed gun dealers to provide a trigger or cable lock with each firearm they sell or transfer, except when it comes to the sale or transfer of antique firearms.

They also must post a conspicuous safe-storage notice developed by the state’s health department in their shop.

To meet the notice requirement, gun shops may also post a sign saying: “UNLAWFUL STORAGE OF A FIREARM MAY RESULT IN IMPRISONMENT OR FINE.” A licensed gun dealer who does not provide a locking device or post the required notice could be charged with an unclassified misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $500.

Lost and stolen firearms Also in 2021 lawmakers passed Senate Bill 78, which requires gun owners to report a lost or stolen firearm to law enforcement within five days of realizing the weapon is missing.

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by a $25 fine. A second or subsequent infraction is an unclassified misdemeanor punishable by a maximum fine of $500.

Ensuring domestic abusers turn over their guns A third measure passed in 2021 — House Bill 1255 — requires people who are subject to a restraining order because of domestic abuse to submit to a judge, within seven business days, an affidavit including a list of the type and number of firearms they own, as well as the location of those weapons.

The legislation is aimed at ensuring those charged with or convicted of domestic abuse relinquish their firearms as required.

Eliminating the local preemption The March 2021 massacre of 10 people at a King Soopers in Boulder prompted Democrats in the legislature to pursue additional gun control measures in the middle of the 2021 lawmaking term.

Arguably the most impactful piece of legislation was Senate Bill 256, which will allow local governments, public higher education institutions and special districts to enact gun policies that are stronger than what’s written in state law.

The bill rolled back a 2003 preemption measure in Colorado. The

2003 preemption policy led a judge to toss out Boulder’s municipal assault-weapons ban days before the King Soopers shooting.

Closing the Charleston loophole, temporarily preventing people convicted of certain misdemeanors from purchasing guns The second most consequential measure passed after the King Soopers shooting was House Bill 1298, which temporarily prohibits people convicted of certain misdemeanors from purchasing a gun.

It also closes the so-called Charleston loophole by requiring gun dealers to complete a background check on a gun buyer before transferring a weapon.

While Colorado has universal background checks, federal law allows guns to be transferred to buyers after three business days if the background check hasn’t been completed. The gap in law is called the Charleston loophole because the gunman who killed nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 was able to purchase a firearm despite being prohibited to do so because his background check wasn’t completed within three days.

Meanwhile, people convicted of the following misdemeanors are prohibited from purchasing weapons within five years of their conviction: • third-degree assault • a bias-motivated crime • child abuse • a crime against an at-risk person • cruelty to animals

• harassment • possession of an illegal weapon • sexual assault • unlawful sexual contact • unlawfully providing a firearm other than a handgun to a juvenile • violation of a protection order The misdemeanor provision was driven by the fact that the Boulder shooter had been convicted of third-degree assault a few years before the shooting.

Openly carrying guns at polling places is prohibited In 2022, Colorado lawmakers passed House Bill 1086, which makes it illegal to openly carry a gun within a polling location or within 100 feet of a ballot drop box while voting is happening.

The measure also makes it illegal to openly carry a firearm inside or within 100 feet of a central counting facility during any election administration activity.

What other states have that Colorado doesn’t Despite all of the gun regulation changes in Colorado over the past decade, there are a number of policies that have been adopted in other states that haven’t been repeated in Colorado.

“Colorado has taken tremendous strides towards gun safety in recent years,” said Allison Anderman, senior counsel and director of local policy for the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which is named for former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, the Arizona Democrat wounded in a gun attack. “But there is much more to

be done.”

Colorado has not enacted a state ban on assault or assault-style weapons, as seven other states — including California and New York — and Washington, D.C., have.

Some states also have waiting periods between when someone purchases a firearm and when they can access it.

Finally, some states, including Florida, have raised the age at which someone can purchase a gun to 21. In Colorado, you must be 21 to purchase a handgun, but you can purchase a rifle or shotgun by 18.

There have been discussions at the Colorado Capitol in recent years about enacting an assaultstyle weapons ban, implementing a gun-purchase waiting period and raising the age at which people can purchase a firearm.

While those policies haven’t been adopted on the state level, some municipalities in Boulder County have recently passed them in light of the 2003 preemption law being overturned. And the Denver City Council earlier his year banned the concealed carrying of guns in all city buildings and parks.

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

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Newcomers make tracks in mountain bike racing Former triathlete wins women’s Silver Rush 50-mile race in Leadville

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Hannah Reese and Paola Larson are both considered newcomers to mountain bike racing and both are doing well.

Reese, a 31-year-old from the Littleton area who is a former triathlete and cross country runner, won the women’s Silver Rush 50-mile mountain bike race in Leadville on July 10 with a time of 4:54.01.

Larson, 41, captured the 15-mile women’s race in Leadville and the Castle Rock resident fashioned a winning time of 1:21.50 in the July 10 affair. Anabella Palmer, 21, also of the Littleton area, was second.

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Paola Larson of Castle Rock was first in the women’s Silver Rush 15-mile mountain bike COURTESY PHOTOS race in Leadville.

Riders in the 50-mile women’s race climbed about 8,000 feet in elevation and it was a first for Reese, who rode a mountain bike for the first time last December.

“I’m pretty competitive,” said Reese, who tore both her hamstrings during triathlon training. “So I went back to cycling, started doing more cross training. My brother Caleb is a professional mountain biker and said I should get into mountain biking.”

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Hannah Reese of Littleton knows a lot about endurance and won the women’s Silver Rush 50-mile mountain bike race on July10 in Leadville.

November last year and then I got to ride in December and of course it snowed. Then I started riding more in April.

I’ve done three races so far.”

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Reese plans to enter the Leadville Trail 100 MTB race which is scheduled for Aug. 13.

“That will also be a big learning experience,” she said. “The Silver Rush was fun. For me mountain bike race is for two things. I really enjoy getting into that zone especially when I’m climbing.

And then coming down you want to push the gas but you have timber and rocks and that’s kinda a thrill itself.”

Larson also is entered into the Leadville 100 and has improved in the two years she had been mountain bike racing.

“I love a new challenge,” said Larson. “What is the next challenge I can do and what is the next thing that I can maybe challenge myself to do?

“Last year I did the (Silver Rush) 50. I was obviously very new at it. I probably did all the wrong things you could do. I was a very slow racer but I did it.

“I was very anxious to see what I could do on that little bit of the course. I know 7.5 miles out and back is a shorter version of the Silver Rush. I felt really strong, I felt a huge difference from last year. I was pretty happy with the way I rode.”

The Leadville 100 is yet another challenge for Larson.

“I’ve never done 100 miles on a bike, any kind of a bike, so this is definitely the next challenge,” she admitted.

“My biggest thing to improve right now is going downhill. I’ve got to overcome that fear. Sometime I prefer the suffering of going uphill. You really have to be focused coming downhill.

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The Littleton Police Department said Tuesday it has arrested two suspects believed to be involved with a July 15 shooting that left a 28-year-old dead.

Darla Rodriguez, 29, and Adam Vilders, 37, were arrested July 22.

They were booked into an Arapahoe County jail on second-degree murder charges.

On July 15, Littleton police responded to a call in the 2700 block of West Riverwalk Circle at around 3:20 a.m. and found a man, later identified as Luke Scott Clayton by the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office, who had been shot in the chest.

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The incident marks the latest in a series of recent shootings and gun-related crime in Littleton and nearby Englewood.

Englewood police are currently investigating a shooting that occurred early Monday morning in the 4900 block of South Lipan Drive.

Two adults were reportedly shot and both survived, police said.

On July 4, Englewood police responded to a shooting in a home in the 3600 block of South Sherman Street that resulted in the death of a 21-year-old.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0229-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On April 26, 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) Sandra N. Winne and Terry Winne Original Beneficiary(ies) U.S. Bank N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt U.S. Bank National Association Date of Deed of Trust October 07, 2014 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust October 10, 2014 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D4095276 Original Principal Amount $117,012.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $103,389.31 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, BLOCK 5, SOUTHGLENN NINTH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7380 S Wellington St, 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, 08/24/2022, 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: 6/30/2022 Last Publication: 7/28/2022 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;

On May 13, 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) TONYA M TUCKER Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR FBC MORTGAGE, LLC DBA HOME LOANS TODAY Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COMMUNITY LOAN SERVICING, LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Date of Deed of Trust August 28, 2017 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 01, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D7100533 Original Principal Amount $340,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $332,698.27 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 3, BLOCK 4, SOUTHGLENN EIGHTH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 7462 S MARION ST, 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, 09/07/2022, 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: 7/14/2022 Last Publication: 8/11/2022 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: 05/13/2022 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:

DATE: 04/26/2022 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

Britney D. Beall-Eder #34935 Jonathan A. Goodman, Esq. #15015 Karen J. Radakovich, Esq. #11649 Frascona Joiner Goodman and Greenstein PC 4750 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305-5500 (303) 494-3000 Attorney File # 7192-14940

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.

Amanda Ferguson #44893 Heather Deere #28597 Toni M. Owan #30580 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO11542

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

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. 0258-2022 First Publication: 7/14/2022 Last Publication: 8/11/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0247-2022

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

Legal Notice NO. 0229-2022 First Publication: 6/30/2022 Last Publication: 7/28/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

On May 3, 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.

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0258-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

Original Grantor(s) RLC-1 GREENWOOD VILLAGE, LLC, A COLORADO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Original Beneficiary(ies) DTC HOTEL, LLC, A COLORADO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

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Current Holder of Evidence of Debt DTC HOTEL, LLC, A COLORADO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Date of Deed of Trust April 17, 2015 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust April 17, 2015 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D5038312 Original Principal Amount $11,500,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $11,317,574.97

D8046667 Original Principal Amount $152,623.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $125,997.09

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.

LOTS 41 AND 42, BLOCK 21, JACKSON'S BROADWAY HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

LOT 3A, BLOCK 1, DAYS INN BUSINESS PARK1ST REPLAT COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 9231 E. ARAPAHOE RD., UNIT #U, GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO 80112.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 08/31/2022, 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: 7/7/2022 Last Publication: 8/4/2022 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: 05/03/2022 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 # 3573-001 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. 0247-2022 First Publication: 7/7/2022 Last Publication: 8/4/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0233-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On April 26, 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) SHARON L. JONES Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEM, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR LOANDEPOT.COM, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt MIDFIRST BANK Date of Deed of Trust May 03, 2018 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust May 14, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)

all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

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 10, A RESUBDIVISION OF BLOCK 8, 9,10,11, AND 12, CHERRY CREEK VILLAGE, THIRD FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 4970 SOUTH ELMIRA STREET, GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO 80111.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE

Also known by street and number as: 4125 S DELAWARE ST, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80110.

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, 08/24/2022, 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: 6/30/2022 Last Publication: 7/28/2022 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: 04/26/2022 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 N. April Norton #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 19-022976 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

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, 09/07/2022, 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: 7/14/2022 Last Publication: 8/11/2022 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: 05/06/2022 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: David C Walker #36551 Neal K. Dunning #10181 Douglas W Brown #10429 Rachel H Connor #50831 Drew P. Fein #48950 Brown Dunning Walker Fein PC 2000 S. Colorado Blvd., Tower Two, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80222 (303) 329-3363 Attorney File # 3942-055 B 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. 0251-2022 First Publication: 7/14/2022 Last Publication: 8/11/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0244-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

Legal Notice NO. 0233-2022 First Publication: 6/30/2022 Last Publication: 7/28/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0251-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On May 6, 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 S. LANDRY AND S TACY D. LANDRY, HUSBAND AND WIFE Original Beneficiary(ies) WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust June 26, 2017 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust August 03, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D7088274 Original Principal Amount $1,348,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $867,649.89

On May 3, 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) LESLIE J. MURRAY AND ELISE M. MURRAY Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN FINANCING CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust January 19, 2018 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 26, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D8008898 Original Principal Amount $323,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $309,374.75 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.

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOTS 9 AND 10, BLOCK 19, SPEERS BROADWAY ADDITION, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

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Littleton leaders see positive reception to lodging tax, charter amendment Council continues to mull ballot questions

BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A majority of likely voters surveyed in Littleton said they would support paying a new lodging tax, as well as giving the city more bidding power for projects, in the Nov. 8 election according to a survey from a city-hired consultant.

The findings, presented to city council during a study session July 19, come as Littleton’s leaders mull what questions should appear on November’s ballot, a decision that will be made in August.

The survey, conducted by Vitale and Associates — a Denver-based consulting firm — gauged the opinions of 302 registered voters in the city, ranging in age, gender, income and political affiliation.

Todd Vitale, principal and founder of Vitale and Associates, stressed that polling is just a “snapshot in time” and given the economic and social volatility of the country, sentiments could change.

“We have a lot of time between now and Election Day,” Vitale said.

Along with finding strong support for the potential ballot issues, the survey suggests that city leaders appear to be in good graces with residents.

According to the survey, 68% approve of the job the city’s

Two people vote in person at Arapahoe County’s Lima Plaza of offices on Election Day, FILE PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD Nov. 3, 2020.

government is doing, 14% disapprove and 17% did not answer.

A majority of respondents also support the direction of the city, with 52% saying the city is going in the right direction, 24% saying it is on the wrong track and 24% unsure.

Vitale said the high marks for city governance could mean a receptive voter base to new ballot questions, one of which would ask voters to increase city taxes for the second time in just over a year.

A 5% lodging tax for Littleton’s five hotels and two motels would be paid by patrons and could raise $1 million annually to be funneled into the city’s arts, culture and tourism programs.

Specifically, money would go toward upkeep of what staff have called “the big four” cultural centers — the Littleton Museum, Bemis Library, the Town Hall Arts Center and the Hudson Gardens & Event Center; grants for Littleton-based arts and culture groups, and funding for city marketing campaigns.

The consultant’s survey found that 64% would vote for a 5% lodging tax while 31% said they wouldn’t and 5% said they were undecided. It would be the second time the city asked voters to approve a lodging tax, the first being in 2013 when voters rejected a 3% tax by a near 2-to-1 margin.

A majority of council members

have expressed support for the lodging tax.

“I look at it as an investment in the city’s future going forward,” said Kelly Milliman, councilmember for Littleton’s District 4.

“Bringing these tourism dollars in order to invest back into the community to maintain these gems.”

A question on voters’ appetite for amending the city charter to allow the city to pay higher bids for capital projects showed a slightly smaller margin of support, but likely voters still said they would approve it.

Currently, Littleton is one of only four cities in Colorado that must accept the lowest bid price, without regard for quality, when purchasing supplies, equipment and other assets for needed city improvements.

The city is currently considering asking voters to move that provision to the city code where it can be amended by a council vote.

A majority of voters, 59%, said they would either support amending the charter or allowing the city to accept higher bids while keeping the provision in the code. A minority, 21%, were opposed and 20% were undecided.

Council supported moving forward with draft language for both the lodging tax and charter amendment as well as a question on a Downtown Development Authority, which did not appear in the survey results.

Those issues will have a second reading and public comment Aug. 16.

Public Notices Also known by street and number as: 2936 SOUTH CHEROKEE 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, 08/31/2022, 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: 7/7/2022 Last Publication: 8/4/2022 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: 05/03/2022 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 # 00000009487703 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. 0244-2022 First Publication: 7/7/2022 Last Publication: 8/4/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

City and County Public Notice CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL WILL CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO AMENDING CHAPTER 12 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE (LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE) CONCERNING FIBER OPTIC CONDUIT STANDARDS The City Council will consider the amendments at a public hearing on August 15, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard.

The public hearing will be held in City Council Chambers, Centennial Civic Center, 13133 E. Arapahoe Road, Centennial, CO 80112 at the above noted dates and times.

Copies of the draft regulations and other materials relating to the Fiber Optic Conduits standards to be considered by City Council are available by e-mailing centennialplanning@centennialco.gov, calling the City of Centennial Community Development Department at 303-754-3308, or by visiting the Centennial Civic Center, located at 13133 East Arapahoe Road, in Centennial, Colorado for public inspection prior to the Public Hearing.

Legal Notice No. 530491-60491 First Publication: July 28, 2022 Last Publication: July 28, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING AN APPLICATION FOR A BEER & WINE LICENSE AUGUST 11, 2022 Notice is hereby given that the Centennial Liquor Licensing Authority will conduct a public hearing on Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 10:00 a.m., via Virtual Meeting, to consider an application for a new B&W license for Mici010 LLC dba MICI Italian located at 2330 E. Arapahoe Rd. Suite 909, Centennial, CO 80122 The applicant is an LLC: Mici010 LLC 2373 Central Park Blvd. #107 Denver, CO 80238 Public comment will be heard at the virtual hearing or written communications regarding the issuance of this license may be submitted to the Liquor

License Administrator, via email at clovelace@ centennialco.gov by no later than August 11, 2022 at 9:00 a.m.

Legal Notice No. 530486-6086 First Publication: July 28, 2022 Last Publication: July 28, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING AN APPLICATION FOR A HOTEL & RESTURANT LICENSE AUGUST 11, 2022 Notice is hereby given that the Centennial Liquor Licensing Authority will conduct a public hearing on Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 10:00 a.m., via Virtual Meeting, to consider an application for a new H&R License for Dig In Inc. dba Dig In Eats at 8100 S. Quebec St. Suites B16 & B17. Centennial, CO 80112 The applicant is an Incorporation: Dig In Inc 8100 S. Quebec St. Suite B16 & B17 Centennial, CO 80112 Public comment will be heard at the virtual hearing or written communications regarding the issuance of this license may be submitted to the Liquor License Administrator, via email at clovelace@ centennialco.gov by no later than August 11, 2022 at 9:00 a.m.

Legal Notice No. 530485-6085 First Publication: July 28, 2022 Last Publication: July 28, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE

By order of Barbara Setterlind, City Clerk

By order of Barbara Setterlind, City Clerk

and the Centennial Citizen

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL WILL CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO AMENDING CHAPTER 12 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE (LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE) CONCERNING LIVE-WORK UNITS The City Council will consider the amendments at a public hearing on August 15, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. All interested persons will be given an opportunity to be heard.

The public hearing will be held in City Council Chambers, Centennial Civic Center, 13133 E. Arapahoe Road, Centennial, CO 80112 at the above noted dates and times.

Copies of the draft regulations and other materials to be considered by City Council are available by e-mailing centennialplanning@centennialco.gov, calling the City of Centennial Community Development Department at 303-754-3308, or by visiting the Centennial Civic Center, located at 13133 East Arapahoe Road, in Centennial, Colorado for public inspection prior to the Public Hearing.

Legal Notice No. 530498-60498 First Publication: July 28, 2022 Last Publication: July 28, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

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PRESENTS

Holiday Craft Show & Mini-Market Saturday Nov. 26

10am - 6pm

Sunday Nov. 27

10am - 2pm

Douglas County Fairgrounds 500 Fairgrounds Dv. Castle Rock, CO.

Come shop for unique gifts and special items during the Colorado Community Media Holiday Craft Show and Mini-Market; With more than 200 exhibitors filling the Douglas County Fairgrounds, this is the best place to find that special, personal gift for friends and family.

The show will feature handmade crafts in all areas from metal and leather, to flowers, baskets, ceramics, and so much more.

In it’s third year - expanding into two buildings.

In 2021, 3,000 customers attended

Admission is free to the public Interested in selling your handmade crafts?

Interested in hosting classes?

Contact Event Producer Thelma Grimes at tgrimes@coloradocommunitymedia.com All applications must be approved to participate